E. C NEWS
vol. 1
LIBERATED PRESS
ELON COLLEGE Monday, January 27, 19G9
No. 9
■A SPECIAL
Student
As Nigger |
(The following is a reprint from the Daily Bruin Spectra,
April 4,1967. This is the first of three installments of Student :5:j:
as Nigger which Veritas will print.)
Students are niggers. When you get that straight, our schools S;!;
begin to make sense. It’s more important, though, to understand :S;:
why they’re niggers. If we follow that question seriously enough, xix
it will lead us past the zone of academic bullshit, where dedi- ivx
cated teachers pass their knowledge on to a new generation, S:;:
and into the nitty-gritty of human needs and hang-ups. And from;:-:::;
k: there, we can go on to consider whether it might ever be possi- ::;:v
ble for students to come up from slavery,
First, let’s see what’s happening now. Let’s look at the role:!:::-:
students play in what we like to call education. x':;;:
At Cal State L.A., where I teach, the students have separate tv:;:
and unequal dining facilities. If I take them into the faculty din-
mg room, my colleagues get uncomfortable, as though there were:®
a bad smell. If I eat in the student cafeteria, I become known as
the educational equivalent of a niggerlover. In at least one
building, there are even rest rooms which students may not use. w
At Cal State, also, there is an unwritten law barring student- VS
faculty love-making. Fortunately, this anti-miscegenation law,
like its Southern counterpart, is not 100 per cent effective
Students at Cal State are politically disenfranchised. They are
in an academic Lowndes County. Most of them can vote in na-
::xtional elections--their average age is about 26--but they have
no voice in the decisions which affect their academic lives. The
■■■■■students are, it is true, allowed to have a toy government of
■:•:•:■ their own. It is a government run for the most part by Uncle
Toms and concerned principally with trivia. The faculty and
administrators decide what courses will t>e offered; the students
' get to choose their own Homecoming Queen. Occasionally,
when student leaders get uppity and rebellious, they’re either
Ignored, put off with trivial concessions, or maneuvered ex
pertly out of position.
A student at Cal State is expected to know his place. He calls
a faculty member “Sir” or “Doctor” or “Professor”--andhe
■Xy smiles and shuffles some as he stands outside the professor’s
office waiting for permission to enter. The faculty tell him what
courses to take (in my department, English, even electives
■ have to l)e approved by a faculty member); they tell him what to
read, what to write, and frequently, where to set the margins on.
his typewriter. They tell him what’s true and what isn’t. Some
teachers insist that they encourage dissent but they’re almost
always jiving and every student knows it. Tell the man what he
wants to hear or he’ll fail your ass out of the course.
When a teacher says “jump,” students jump, I know of one.....
professor who refused to take up class time for exams and re
quired students to show up for tests at 6:30 in the morning
And they did, by God! Another, at exam time, provides answer
cards to be filled out- - each one enclosed in a paper bag with a
hole cut in the top to see through. Students stick their writing
hands in the bags while taking the test. The teacher isn’t a
provo; ‘J wish he were. He does it to prevent cheating. Another.....
W-: colleagiie once caught a student reading during one of his lec-
v.;.-. tures tuuJ threw her book against the wall. Still another lectures
his students into stupor and then screams at them in a rage.....
when they fall asleep.
Just last week, during the first meeting of a class, one girl....,
got Up to leave after about ten minutes had gone by. The teacher
rushed over, grabbed her by the arm, saying, “This class is.....
NOT dismissed!” and led her back to her seat. On the same....,
xx. day, another teacher began to informing his class that he does
filt Iflce beards, mustaches, long hair on boys, or capri pants^
and will not tolerate any of that in his class. The class......
Jv; ^9^ntally, consisted mostly of high school teachers. .y.
;::::::;;;:::;:;|::(See NUMBER 1 Pa^
Forum Presents Fine Films
Forbidden Games directed by
Rene Clement was presented on
Jan. 21 by the Liberal Arts For-
This movie is the -winner of
the grand prize at the Venice
Film Festival and U.S. Academy
It is an unforgettable film
ibout World War 11 for a discrim
inating adult audience.
Game of Love, directed by
Box Tops Booked For Captain Elon Weekend
The well known group. The
Box Tops, have been booked for
a concert Friday night at 9 o’clock
on Feb. 14. The concert, which
will be held in the Elon College
Memorial Gymnasium, will be
free to all Elon students and their
dates. An admission fee of $2.50
will be charged to the general
public.
The Box Tops first “made it
big” in the erttertainment field
with their international 4 million
seller “The Letter” which was
the number one record of 1967.
They followed this hit with other
well kno'wn tunes such as “Neon
Rainbow,” “Cry Like A Baby",
and “Choo, Choo Train.” Now
they have out “Sweet Cream La
dies” which is already 64th on the
national charts after only 4 weeks.
The Box Tops have also pro
duced 3 albums: “The Letter,”
“Cry Like A Baby”, and “Super
Hits” which is number 62 on the
top L. P. charts after six weeks.
Movie Coming Chftpcl IsSUC RftlSGcJ
To Elon
The very funny and very popu-
lar Flim Flam Man will be shown
at Elon in Whitley Auditorium on
Sunday, March 23, at 8 p.m. The
film, sponsored by the S.G.A.,
has a noted cast including George
C. Scott, Henry Morgan, andSlim
Pickens.
The story, which takes place
somewhere in North Carolina, is
a hilarious satire on its environ
ment. The author of the novel The
Flim Flam Man is Professor Guy
Owens who once taught at Elon.
Admission is free to all Elon
students and their dates.
A timely resolution on Chapel
was briefly introduced to the
Coffee House
Schedule
Mr. Vic Rola, director of the
S. G. A. coffee house, “Cat’s
Love,” announced Monday that the
coffee house will be open at least
five times during the Winter term.
The dates are Wednesday, Jan.
22, Friday the 24th, Saturday the
25th, Friday the 31st, and Tues
day, Feb. the 4th. Opening time
will be 8:30 except for the 31st,
On that night it will open immed
iately after the Play, Live enter
tainment is tentatively set for the
24th and the 4th.
S.G.A. Budget Raised
Claude Autant-Lara who also di
rected Red and Black, will l)e
presented on Jan. 28. This film
based on a novel by Collette fo
cuses on adolescent love of a 16
year old boy and a 15 year old
girl whose families share a sum
mer home on a French coast. It
a prize winning bittersweet
study with depth and gravity.
A Bill to adjust the S.G.A.
budget for the winter and spring
terms was presented in Senate
Wednesday night. Some changes
are of particular importance.
Under entertainment the original
allotment for Spring Weekend
concert of $4000 was changed to
$7,500 in order to allow for a
genuinely great concert. The
funds were available mainly be
cause of the money saved from
Homecoming.
External affairs, Awards, and
"Veritas” were changed accord
ing to more accurate estimates
of expenses for the remainder
of the year. The $1000 allotment
for a Fine Arts Festival was
eliminated as a check into the
program signaled a number of
possible difficulties which made
a good Arts Festival impractical.
The Pep Committee allotment
was increased by $200 to allow
for more buses to the away bas
ketball games. The $500 budget
ed to the Religious Life Com
mittee was cut to $200 because
of programming difficulties.
The big revision was the ad
dition of a $3500 allocation to
the new campus radio station.
As research has picked up, the
indications are strong that a
station can be operated soon
this year. The S. G. A. President
feels that the money should be
there if it is (as hoped) possible
to have a station this year.
Student Senate this past Wednes
day night for its later considera
tion, Noel Allen, S.G.A. Presi
dent and author of the resolution
stated that although the resolu
tion would not be formally pre
sented to the Senate until the next
regular meeting of February 12,
it is necessary to bring the issue
to the fore so that plenty of time
would be available for research
and discussion. The lesolution’s
eventual purpose will be to gauge
where the Senate, as the repre
sentative body for the students,
stands on this vital issue and how
they interpret the results of a
ge leral poll to be taken soon by
the S.G.A. in cooperation with
the administration. He further
stated that from the general poll’s
results and the Senate decision
he would know what c^yrse to
pursue if action is necessary.
The general poll is being word
ed now. Care yill be taken to
make it as o^eptive Jjbssible
so that its rteults will be con
sidered valid by aU aracerned.
The poll must ie ac^rhinistered
prior to the next regijar Senate
meeting, its results will be care
fully considered by the Senate
before final action is taken.
The resolution reads as fol
lows: “The Student Senate rec
ommends that required chapels
and/or chapel point systems
should be discontinued.” The res
olution will be subject to amend
ment or defeat depending largely
on the results of the polls. How.
ever, Allen feels the Senate needs
to project the general studen
consensus in some form of offi.
cial stand - pro or con,
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