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1 Black [Needs Sli essed in at jM eredith Interview The Marshall's in Ahilene," in Harry, Godfather, Others What can the lilack student at Meredith find to relate with? Sur prisingly little, as discovered in an interview with litjuilla Minga, a sophomore chemistry major at Meredith. At a time when Black history and culture is such a con troversial topic, the only Black studies course at Meredith h;is been the breshman colloguium ol Negro Poetry. Although the hiring ol a Iflack faeulty member would in volve increased costs, many ot the students would be interested in see ing this happen. The ''Beehive" has just recently begun carrying Black make-up. fWen the library laeks any of the popular B!;ick magazines. Bus service for church is provided for the large predominately white churches in Raleigh, but the Black student desiring to attend a Black church in Raleigh is presented with a transportation problem, according to Fquilla. Changes are slowly being made to benefit the Black student. Dr. Crook is currently working on the structure ol a Bhick cultures course to be open for all students. Plans arc under consideration for bus ser vice next year to several of the Black churches here in Raleigh. I'he Admissions Office has plans to take a Black student along on some of their College Day rccuiting trips, rhis is in hopes of encourag ing more Black students to attend Meredith. When questioned as to why a Black student would want to stay at Meredith, Equilla stated that there are three main reasons to remain, p'irst that other students might feel that a Black student left because she could not stand the pressures of Meredith, that the “best way to combat white supremacy is to put yourself in the middle of a white situation," and lastly, to contribute new opinions and ways of thought to Meredith College. The exchange between White and Black students is an education process that is valuble not only while at Meredith, but also in the working world after graduation. What's Happening With Grades? // March iihids arc too irild to hear— Let liea & Rachel tame your hair! Free pagette haircut with set & shampoo by Cathy Ferrell & Terry Fleming Mon.-Tues.-Wed. “College grades are rising steadi ly and perhaps at an accelera ting rate on campuses across the country, although teachers and pro fessors do not agree on the reasons why." This observation was made by a college officitil in the March 13, 1972 edition of The News and i)hserver. In the study of colleges and uni versities including the University of Wisconsin, Northwestern Universi ty, and Harvaid, the over-all un dergraduate quality-point average rose from 2.4 in I960 to 2.56 in 1969. Southern institutes of higher learning showed a slower rate of rising grades than any other block of the nation. If students are not getting any smarter, what is happening? Any or none of the following theories may be true. P'irst, perhaps college stu dents are bect)ming more serious about their studies. Or. teachers may no longer have such strict stan dards which they require their stu dents to meet. The use of Pass-Fail grading eliminates some low grades trom a students's average. Perhaps, even, some young professors are giving better grades to defy the system of measuring the scholarship ot stu dents. Neither North Carolina State nor Meredith College had this type of grade information in their tiles. Tilley Service Held Memorial services for Dr. Ethel lillcy, 78, professor emeritus, who died March 4, were held on Sun day, March 19, in Jones Auditori um. Dr. Tilley served as chairman of the Department of Psychology and Philosophy until her retirement in 1967. She joined the faculty as an associate philosophy professor in 1951. She was a member of the Wake County Phi Beta Kappa Associa tion and was listed in “Who’s Who in America" and “Who’s Who in Education.” Dr. Tilley also wrote for the “Upper Room,’’ “Guide- post,” and two national Methodist publications. Tennis Matches Held Students and faculty members will combine to participate in a doubles tennis tournament which begins on April 5. Matches will continue through April 21. The team of Coch ran and Whitehurst drew the bye and will meet the winning team of the match between Alien-Carter and Thomson-O'Ecary. All matches are open to public viewing. Specta tors will be welcomed. It’s a hoary cinematic tradition. The marshall is delivering a criminal to the jail at Abilene and there’s no one around to put down Jed Grimes and his bully boys. So John Wayne-or-whoever constitutes him self “The Law” in these parts, methodically cuts down Jed’s boys from sundry rooftops and, finally, rubs out Jed himself in a dramatic showdown in front of the saloon as the sheriff rides into town. The idea was that the frontier environment was so wild as to license a certain amount of flouting of the law in the name of justice. Mr. Wayne was forced to take the law into his own hands because Sheriff Cooper couldn’t. I must have cheered through a hundred Satur day afternoons like that. Now, it is certainly true that life may, on occasion, confront us with situations where the legal niceties must be ignored in order for justice to be .secured. But the motion pic tures of recent years have progres sively enlarged for us the sphere in which the law may be bypassed and the citizen may seek his justice through extra-legal means. So far has the ethical situation been muddied that a common cutthroat need only wear the uniform of an army lieutenant in order to find thousands of champions of his mis deeds. 1 have particularly in mind two recent motion pictures; “The God father” and “Dirty Harry.” Both are great action films and the former beautifully acted and directed as well. But both present us with situations where the marshall is out of town, so to speak, and someone must do his work for him. In “The Godfather,” the Siclian vendetta is coupled with trans parent corruption of the metropoli tan police to produce a situation in which the law is virtually meaning less, We stamp and applaud as crooked old Richard Conti is rid dled into confetti and the Las 'Vegas gambling man takes a slug through the right eye. How else is justice to be done? The marshall is in Abilene. In “Dirty Harry” it is the crimi nal-coddling courts and preciously fastidious police who create the situation. Clint Eastwood satisfies the demands of justice by killing the heavy and then emphasizes his contempt for the law by tossing his badge into the same pond with the bloody corpse. He might as well be standing in a gook hamlet playing his tommygun across the naked bellies of ignorant peasants. He’s in a moral no-man’s-land that legiti mizes any sort of barbarity. “The Dirty Dozen” was a film of a few years back that cast a group of American murderers and rapists in a situation where they were licensed to kill several scores of women at a dance. The legiti macy of the act derived from the fact that there was a war on and that the women were wives and girlfriends of German officers who were also being killed. That the vic tims were trapped and unarmed was incidental. They were, after all. Rotten Kraut Scum by accident of birth and the marshall was in Abi lene for the duration. The James Bond films and Mike Hammer novels, among others, pro vide endless variations on this theme. But “Godfather and Har ry” take us even further along the road to ethical anarchy than previ ous efforts. They are not set in the West of a hundred years ago or in wartime Germany. They both un fold in a modern urban America where police cars cruise the streets and the courts open promptly at 9 a.m. Even under these conditions, it seems, the marshall may still be away in Abilene. So how are you and I to conduct ourselves? The cops are on the take and the judges don’t know a rapist from a missionary nun. It ap parently behooves us all to seek our justice in the ranks of the vigilante squads. Surely there must be some sanc tuary between the conflicting fana ticisms of those who admonish us to support our local police drunk or sober and those who imply that every slant-eyed coolie is a po tential Red and better of dead. “Godfather” and “Dirty Harry,” I believe, lean too far toward the cheering prospect that justice is ob tainable without law. It is true, of course, that law and order can pre vail without affording justice. But only the society that strives to achieve both order and justice is likely to experience either for very long. Hollywood needs to give more thought and footage to the prob lems of establishing a just order and less to how things are managed while the marshall is in Abilene. —Tom Parramore SENIOR ART EXHIBIT Miss Libby S. Knott and Miss Nancy M. Lie.sfeld are now present- ins their Senior Exhibition in the Joyner Art Gallery. Tlie exhibit will continue throush April 5. FOR BEAUTIFUL HANDLOOM HANDMADE DRESSES, AND INDIAN JEWELRY STEP THROUGH THE (WESTERN LANES BOWLING ALLEY BUILDING) 2518 HILLSBOROUGH ST. Skinnq ribbed4opS , . *10 Lo\ji ride. dordlLLrou '^'e.e.rib
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