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4 The Daily Tat Heel Wean sn.u :t ber 2 1977 Best seller list l PI - Publishers" Uekl) Best Sellers Fiction 1. ThcSilmarillion J.R.R. lolkicn 2. The Thorn Birds Colleen McCullough .V Illusions: The Adventures of. a Reluctant Messiah Richard Bach 4. Daniel Martin - John Fowles 5. The Honorable Schoolboy John le Carre 6. Delta of Venus Anais Nin 7. Dynasty Robert S. Flcgant B. The Crash OH9 Paul E. Frdman 9. The Second Deadly Sin Lawrence Sanders 10. Coma Robin Cook Non fiction 1. All Things Wise and Wonderful -James Herriot 2. Looking Out For No. I Robert Ringer 3. Book of l ists David Wallechinsky 4. The Dragons ,of t'den Carl Sagan 5. The Camera Never Blinks Dan Rather 6. Your Erroneous Zones Dr. Wayne W. Dyer 7. Vivien Leigh - Anne Edwards 8. The Path Between the Seas David McCullough 9. It Didn't Start With Watergate Victor Lasky lO.Six Men Alistair Cooke 'Always Next August' New book rural, fun Always Next August b I nomas Wallers is a refreshingly delightful juvenile tale about three Raleigh youngsters who spend their summer vacations with an uncle living so far back in the North Carolina mountains "that his neighbors piped the sunshine in and the moonshine out." (Moore Publishing Co. Durham. N.C. 1 66 pp. $6.95) In a time when so many adolescents, in both life and literature, are haying troubles with dope and sex and juvenile deliqucncy. it's very pleasant to find some who can actually have fun weeding the garden, making cucumber pickles, reading books, feeding the cattle and embarking on a summer-long treasure hunt that brings results. Walters grew up on a farm near Conctoe in Edgecombe County, got his A.B. degree from Carolina in I958 and then his Ph.D. from Duke. He is an associate professor ol English at North Carolina State University, has written several books and is active in the North Carolina Writers Conference. He even illustrates his own books; and Always Next August has some 30 or more black and white sketches ol the three children and their mountain adventures. One ol them was posed by his real-life wife. Linda, an expert photographer and his real-life Aunt Clemmie. who used to make him "scratch" lemon pies and feed him scuppernongs. So Walters knows a lot about rural North Carolina life and transfers it to his completely charming book. His fictional voungsters (Bob. Linda and Scott) are so natural and credible that they might be youi own children or your own brothers and sisteis. No matter how dull school might grow in the winter, these youngsters know that "always next August" they can lake oil to the Smokv Mountains and Carpenter's Knob and visit Lmlc Marsh and Aunt Clemmie neai the village ol Wrinkle Creek. books liy WALTER SPEARMAN Always Next August bv Thomas Walters PEACE CORPS It offers professional development and challenge. Rtqulrtmtnrt: must be a U.S. citizen although the minimum age it 18 years, very few applicants under 20 have the skills and experience necessary to qualify. must meet medical and legal criteria Training: lasts from 4 to 14 weeks, usually in the host country emphasizes language and cultural studies Compensation: monthly allowance for food, lodging, Incidentals medical care readjustment allowance of $125 per month, set aside in the U.S., usually payable at completion of service optional life insurance at minimum rate personal satisfaction and overseas career development NEEDED: People with experience or degrees in: Agriculturefarming Business Education, especially mathscience special education, Industrial arts Engineering, especially Civil Engineering Nutrition, Home Ec (Degree required) Health Professions Skilled Trades AutoDiesel Maintenance INTERVIEWS: PLACEMENT OFFICE, Oct 11, 12 INFORMATION: Student Union, Oct 11-13 I xtra vacation spice is added to then summers by their annual attempts to solve the mystery of the "family treasure" reportedly lelt by their great-grandfather belore he was killed in the Civil War. Clues were reputed to be found in the portrait of the great-grandfather painted by his wile. The picture included the old man's banjo, his watch, two strange-looking boxes and a scroll with mysterious words on it. The search for the treasure runs all through the book and provides supense from chapter to chapter. By stretching out his clues carefully Walters manages to get in a lot of writing about daily life in the mountains: drying apples, fishing, stringing red peppers, listening to tall mountain tales, attending a watermelon festival (where Linda won a gee haw whimmydiddle) and their friend Mr. Savage won a pig by climbing up a greased pole) and climbing nearby mountains. The youngsters meet some eccentric mountain characters, fuss and feud all loo naturally among themselves, help their uncle and aunt around the house and eat an enormous amount of good old mountain food. This illustration is from Always Next August, a new novel for young readers written and illustrated by North Carolina author Thomas Walters. Irish poet reads here today One of Ireland's most accomplished young poets. Eilean Ni Chuilleanain. will present a poetry reading today at 4 p.m. in 223 Greenlaw Hall. The event is sponsored by the Department ol English and the Graduate English Club. Born in Cork City in 1942. f ilean Ni Chuilleanain was educated at I'niversity College Cork and at Oxford. She is now a lecturer in Trinity College. Dublin, where she is at work on a series of poems about her native city. Ms. Chuilleanain has published Acts and Monuments with the Gallery Press in Dublin, winning the Patrick Kavanaugh Award for the volume in 1973. Her second book. Site of Ambush, further enhanced her reputation, earning for the Gallery Press the Irish Publishers Award in 1976. Her first American edition. The Second loyage, published by the Wake Forest University Press, contains selections from the two earlier collections as well as new material. Chuilleanain's poetry displays controlled feeling and unusual dreamlike imagery. According to Peter Fallon, editor of the Gallery Press, there is "a range of reference in Eilean Ni Chuilleanain's work that is possibly unique in Irish poetry and for which her poems are all the more accessible." She is f urt her noted as "a poet of remarkable power and technical skill." Polls show Honor Code not working Continued from page 1. attitudes as another reason the honor system is faltering. "I think that in the culture there is an overall change in moral standards. What was 50 years ago accepted as 'right' without question is quite open to questioning today. "What in sociological circles is known as 'middle class morality' has lost some of its strength and vigor, so that there is a lessening of commitment to the old time social mores." Another reason, says Cansler, is an increased pressure for good grades. "The pressure lor good grades to get into graduate school or professional school is exceedingly strong. If a student Texas Instruments INCORPORATED Tl Programmable 5859 Free Leisure Library Offer realizes that he, will not be able to get an A, they're entitled to get a little help. "What's happening is that this pressure is increasing the propensity to cheat." Student Body President Bill Moss sees the breakdown of the honor system as a result of less adherence among students to a "code of the South." "It's all tied up with a 'code of the South' type thing," Moss said. "Being a Southern gentleman was a high honor to be vigorously defended when the Honor Code was put into use." Moss says the Honor Code was based on a value system of white males 100 years ago. "But in the past few decades, campus population has ballooned from around 4.000 to over 20.000," Moss says. "There's a much greater variety of LSAT taught by practicing attorney original study materials small groups tap center summer & compact courses HI EDUCATIONAL CENTER Suite 102, Crost Bldg. 489-8720 2634 Chapel Hill Blvd. Durham students than there were during the white male early years of the Honor System. "There's been a sort of moral laxity during the past 10 or 15 years. The amount of adherence to this 'code of the South' has been greatly reduced." Both student and University officials agree that the circumstances surrounding the Honor Code are different than when it was formed. The surveys taken on student adherence to the Honor Code serve to confirm this belief. ' The COSC has prepared a series of proposals that are meant to alleviate the problems concerning the lack of adherence to the Honor Code. These proposals now are being considered by both the Campus Governing Council and the Faculty Council. If approved, the proposals will go into effect in the spring of I978. Next: The proposed changes in the Honor Code. BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW A representative of Boston University School of Law will be on cmpus to talk with prelaw students on Wednesday, October 19, 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Further information is available in the Office of Career Planning and Placement. Attorney for Miami killer seeks retrial MIAMI (UPI) Ronny Zamora's defense attorney filed a motion for a new trial Tuesday, claiming the 1 5-year-old youth was denied a fair trial because the judge refused to permit testimony on the genreal effect of television violence on children. Zamora was found guilty last I hursday of first degree murder, armed robbery, burglary and possession of a weapon lor the June4shootingdeathof his neighbor. Elinor Hart. I he nine-day trial received widespread attention because of the unusual plea that Zamora was insane at the time of the crime because of "prolonged and involuntary subliminal intoxication with television violence." It also was the first murder trial to receive gavel-to-gavel television and still-photo coverage as part of a year-long experiment ordered by the Florida Supreme Court. Zamora faces sentencing Nov. 7 by Circuit Judge Paul Baker. The state did not ask for the death penalty, but the youth could receive a maximum sentence of life imprisonment without parole for 25 years. Defense attorney Ellis Rubin's motion listed 1 2 rulings by Baker that he considered legal errors. But Rubin's main complaint focused on Baker's refusal to permit testimony concerning the effect of television violence on children in general. The attorney objected particularly to Baker prohibiting Dr. Margaret Thomas from testifying, and portions of planned testimony from Dr. Helen Ackerman. Both had been subpoenaed as experts on "television induced insanity." After the trial. Rubin said Dr. Thomas's testimony was "the heart of our case." Poetry wanted The National Poetry Press has announced that the closing date for the submission of manuscripts by undergraduates is Nov. 5. Any student attending college or junior college is eligible to submit his verse. There is no limitation as to form or theme, but shorter works are preferred because of space limitations. Each poem must be typed or printed on a separate sheet, and must bear the name, home address and college address of the student. Entrants should also submit the name of their English instructor. Manuscripts should be sent to the office of the press, Box 2 1 8, Agoura, Calif. 9 1 30 1. Arcade Amusement At Its Finest Pinball and Driving Games GOLD MINE 493-1807 SECOND LEVEL, SOUTH SQUARE, DURHAM 10 a.m. -9:30 p.m. Mon.-Sat. I I I Bring This Ad And r mmm mtSm'mmmmmm mmm' Texas Instruments ft ogrammable 5 S Texas Instruments Programmable 59 P "3,! TheTI Programmable 58and 59 fromTexas Instruments. 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