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PAGE 4, THE COUGAR CRY, NOV. 25, 1968 Scott and his late Student Revives Ancient Craft Lute making, an art almost forgotten today, is avidly pur sued by a few craftsmen. The lute, a stringed instrument dat ing from the Renassiance period in history, is the forerunner of the guitar. It exemplifies some of the techniques used in the guitar but differs in the basic con struction of paralleling phones and struting of the top braces. Lutes are usually made from a broad grain maple but can also be made from other resinate woods such as cherry or rose wood. The top is usually made from a close grain spruce, other parts like the neck and peg box may be made from mahogany. Approximately six months ago a student at Wilkes Community College, Scott Walsh, attained a set of lute plans which were drawn up in the 19th century by a German lute maker. He com mented on the amount of interest to be found in the fact that most of the lute making carried on today is done by 'German artists. The lute Scott is making is a seven course Baroque lute which has thirteen strings. His in strument is being made in his spare time and should be finished during the quarter break before winter quarter. Scott should be congratulated on his accomplishments in this almost forgotten art. So many of these ancient talents have died, not to be revived and are lost in the shuffle of time. It is a commendable fact that a college student takes the time to relive the past through this musical medium. The Audiovisual Rooms The Audiovisual rooms in our new buildings are still only little more than a hope. At present time these rooms, located in the bottom floors of Thompson and Hayes Halls, are mere holes in the walls. The floors, ceilings, and walls are unfinished, there are no overhead lights, electri cal outlets, heating, air condi tioning, doors, or furniture. When initial planning was tak ing place at WCC, no plans were made for the media aspect of education. Dr. Thompson, seeing the handwriting on the wall, asked for a change order in construc tion to excavate certain areas under the above mentioned halls. At present there are no funds to complete these areas, but this condition should be eliminated shortly. Located in Thompson Hall will be an electrified version of the Fundamental Learning Lab equipped with study carrels, pro jectors, audio devices, and at a later date, video devices. The second area will house a double Philosophy (Continued from Page Two) also does not exist, leaving this unfortunate somewhere in the foundation of his house. Now the fact being that neither his house nor its foundation really exist, he would now find himself fall ing through the earth and even tually out into the infinite realms of space. Now this does not really leave the follower of the ideal istic philosophy much to lean on . . .does it? A true philosophy should simply be something like the fol lowing: variety is the spice of life, the Golden Rule, Love thy neighbor, or even, to live is to dance. These short philosophies are truths that can be easily grasped—theories that actually mean something. Man tends to exist in a vastly confused state of being without all of these ri diculous philosophies to further dumbfound him. As another equally incredible point of view the philosophy of George Berkeley should be dis cussed. Mr. Berkeley believed that all reality is mental and that there simply is no independent ly existing, external, physical world. How can this possibly be a philosophy that any rationally sane man could follow? If all reality were purely mental a person would never have to leave his bed to enjoy all of the fruits of existence. Man could just sim ply lie in bed and mentally vis ualize and experience anything language lab and dial access in formation retrieval system that will feed audio programs to the entire campus. The large room in Hayes Hall is reserved for a large Audio visual Production Center. The center will house a film library, preview rooms, duplication fa- and everything that his personal character required. This would be a very wonderful way to exist, but that is the catch. A person would merely be existing not living. It is my own personal philo sophy that man should find his reason for existence in what ever way he wants without hav ing to penetrate some murky, searching “ism” to do so. It seems that a good enough reason for living would be the gentle ways of a man’s wife. The smiling faces of robust children or the welcoming warmth of a small cottage should be enough to satisfy any man. Man should not live for the sake of philo sophy or by the rule of a phil osophy. Man should be free to do whatever he likes, whenever he wants to do it and in any fash ion he deems fitting, just as long as he does not hurt any body. J.T.K. cilities, dark rooms, transpar ency production area, machine repair benches, and audio-video production studio. So, this winter when we go to our new buildings, don’t look for our Audiovisual rooms because they are still in the dark!
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