Page Two
T'w as A Barn Burner It Was!
The trem endous election day turn o u t was an appropriate cli­
m ax to an enervating, intriguing, and emotional campaign which
contained everything except a charge of rape and a suicide a t­
tem pt. Congratuations are due the victorious Action P arty and the
gallant but defeated S tudent P arty.
The Action P arty, which was initially inaugurated during the
freshm en elections by some inexperienced but enterprising poli­
ticos, Patricia Washington, Charles Miller, and a few others, and
a veteran political w arrior Joseph Chea Sampson, became the fo­
cal point for a sociological mass m ovem ent ra th e r th an a political
party. The Action M ovement came to represent the collective
animosities of the students tow ard the dullness, the insipidity, and
th e lethargic n atu re of N orth Carolina College.
The Action P arty was blessed in quantity w ith the necessary
elem ent for a successful mass m ovem ent—the fanatic. Floyd Hayes
is fanatical in his propensity for oral argument. William Bowser
is fanatical in his proclivity for physical activity. Samuel Thomas,
who some m istakenly regard as being the most radical of all,
is fanatical in his desire for accomplishment.
The Student P arty, which did not shift into high gear until
th e dwindling days of the campaign, was prim arily composed of
introverted, scholarly-inclined studentS. Raymond P erry did a tre ­
m endous job in turnin g w hat m ight easily have been a runaw ay
into a close contest on the strength of his personality alone. Charles
Howard, who m ight be described as a political comer, helped to
verify the tim e tested axiom: the freshm an class can m ake you or
b re a k you. T he fire that w as eventually lit under the Student
P a rty w as kindled by Charles Daye, the dean of this college’s po­
liticians and the founder of the Student Party.
H istory students w ere given an unparalleled opportunity to
m atch the present campus politicians w ith the politicians of past
eras. Sam uel Thomas and William Bowser are sim iliar to Woodrow
Wilson and Col. Edw ard House in the m anner of their relation­
ship. Raymond P erry and Charles Daye, rem iniscent of Richard
Nixon and Dwight Eisenhower in some respects, are closer to W il­
liam M cKinely and M ark Hanna although Daye is president and
H anna never attained that title. Floyd Hayes is just as efferve­
scent as H ubert H um phrey ever was, and Charles Howard, al­
though not possessing William M iller’s caustic tongue, was his
equal in popular appeal.
Action caucuses took on the flavor of a revival m eeting
a t a country church. The exciting and electrical atm osphere was
a sight never beheld before on this campus. Although the party was
elaborately organized, the m ajor decision’s em anated from a tight
clique composed of Thomas, Hayes, Bowser, Winston Kennedy,
Lionel Stevens, and a few others to a lesser extent.
When Joseph Sampson dram atically announced his w ithdraw al
from the Action P a rty in an acrimonious letter to the student body,
this act provided a vulnerable chink in Action P a rty ’s arm or had
the S tudent P a rty capitalized on it. The Action P a rty ’s reply was
even m ore acrimonious than Sam pson’s letter. It appeared th a t the
stage was being set for an old fashion political braw l w hen the en­
tire m atter fizzled out due to a belated, ineffective, letter of poetry
and prose designed “to castigate those who w ould dare tread upon
the good character of Joseph Sampson.” In view of the lost oppor­
tunity, chalk up a plus for the Action P arty.
The S tudent P arty booth, located in such an advantageous
spot as the Freshm an bowl, m ade the originator of the idea appear
to be a genius and also m ade Action’s headquarters on the third
floor of the A dm inistration Building almost obsolete. The progres­
sive jazz flowing from the booth caught m any an ear and vastly
increased the partak ers of the Student P arty m em bership cards.
Give the Student P arty a plus.
“M eet the Candidates,” a Monday m orning forum program ,
provided the first and only face to face confrontation of the m ajor
candidates. Raymond P e rry easily out shown Sam uel Thomas as
a public speaker; however, it wotild have been a b etter m atch if
a debate had ensued. This would have been a plus for the Student
b u t the only people present w ere party stalw arts who had already
decided how they w ere going to vote. Thus, it ended up a draw .
Action P a rty ’s rally and dance held on the day before elections
was an interesting affair. There is some uncertainty as to the nu m ­
ber of votes the free punch brought to the p arty as there is equal
uncertainty as to the effect of the Student P arty bulletins distri­
buted at the close of the rally. A psychological plus aw arded to
th e Action P arty.
The Bulletins circulated by both parties w ere virtually in­
effective for two reasons. The first is th a t the compaign did not
hinge upon issues, and secondly, both parties proposed similar p la t­
form s such as m ake p art of the old cafeteria a Student Union B uild­
ing (Student P arty ). And m ake all the cafeteria a student union
building (Action P arty ). Action P a rty ’s bulletins w ere often ab ­
strusely dull and unattractive (single spaced) while the Student
P a rty ’ countdowns, m ore attractive and readable, never reached
th e blast off point. Since reading the bulletins was not compulsory,
give both parties a plus.
A fter the freshm an vote has been tabulated, Floyd Hayes surpris­
ingly had an 80 vote lead over Charles Howard, who subsequent­
ly cut the lead to th irty votes in th e sophomore class balloting (his
class), b u t this was as close as he came to victory. The junior class
n o t only killed Charles Howard b u t also Raymond P e rry who had
m anaged to stay sightly ahead of Sam uel Thomas. In sum m ary the
ju nior class adm inistered the coup de grace to the ambitions of the
th e Student P arty.
Sam uel Thomas has a dem anding job aw aiting him as P resi­
dent of the Student G overnm ent Association. Floyd Hayes has a
com parable task in th a t he is responsible for m aking the defunct
Student Congress reasonably efficacious. The outgoing adm inistra­
tion w as one of the most capable ever to reign at N orth Carolina
College. President Charles Daye did a notable job along w ith the
invaluable assistance of Vice President Raym ond P erry. The ac­
complishments of this adm inistration w ere second to none; to sur­
pass this record is the Campus Echo’s charge to the new Student
G overnm ent Association President Sfemuel V. Thomas.
Wednesday, May 18, 1966
THE CAMPUS ECHO
Roving Reporter
By Quentine D. Finch
Question: Is pre - registration
necessary?
Oiivear Fox; junior m ajoring
ing in hisitory from Brooklyn:
“No, because at the present the
adm inistration doesn’t have the
actual schedule of classes th at
w ill be in effect next fall; there­
fore, you have to change your
whole program when you get
back next semester. As a re ­
sult, pre-registration is a waste
of tim e.”
Cherry Vann; m ajoring in
sociology from Gates: “No, p re­
registration is not necessary be­
cause it usually happens th at
you do not get the courses you
want; therefore, it is a waste of
tim e.”
McKenton McCIamb; junior
m ajoring in accounting from
Smithfield: “Yes, it gives the ad­
m inistration the opportunity to
find out how m any people are
registered in certain courses. It
also gives the student an idea
as to the hours and courses he
will be taking before his actual
registration. So, in cases w here
changes have to be made, he
can m ake them before or at re ­
gistration instead of g o i n g
through the drop-and-add pro­
cedure.”
M arjorie Brame; sophomore
m ajoring in business education
from Henderson: “No, not re al­
ly. The m ajority of the tim e you
cannot get into the courses for
which you pre-registered. You
know w hat courses you should
tak e or w ill have to take, so
w hy not get them when you re ­
gister, as pre-registration is
usually done over at reg istra­
tion. It seems to me th at either
registration or pre-registration
could be elim inated.”
Frances Hairston, freshm an
m ajoring in m ath from Lexing­
ton: “No, because w h at’s the
need? We have to register again
before the sem ester begins even
though w e pre-registered. I
thin k th at it’s a waste of time.
However, if it w ere perfected,
then it would be a good thing.”
Oliver Fox; junior m ajoring
in biology from Richmond:
“Yes, pre-registration is neces­
sary. The adm inistration has to
have a general idea of the num ­
ber of students expected in the
forthcom ing sem ester so th a t
they can plan their budget, the
final schedule of classes, and
the num ber of instructors need­
ed in order to operate. I think it
would be impossible to operate
the school efficiently if the ad­
m inistration doesn’t know how
m any students it w ill have the
forthcom ing sem ester.”
Rose M illner; junior m ajoring
in health education form M arttinsville: Yes, because it eli­
m inates a lot of tim e for the
students and teachers during
regular registration.”
Andrew McKay; junior m a­
joring in sociology form R al­
eigh: “No, because some of the
instructors, classes, and class
tim e are “arranged” and not
know n at the tim e of pre-registration; therefore, you have
(See Roving Reporter, Page 6)
Letter To Editor
"WORDS, WORDS," MR. FEREBEE
Before I attem pt to respect­
fully assail your defense of
G reek-letter
organizations,
I
wish to establish th a t I am not a
“G reek” and I am fully content
w ith my chosen status as a non­
affiliate. I w ill nevertheless con­
cede th at a t one tim e I did ex­
plore the utility and advisability
of joining a fraternity. A fter
assidious scrutiny I acknow ­
ledged m y interest and m y sys­
tem of values w ere incom patible
w ith the “G reek way.” How­
ever, I harbor no malevolence
tow ard an individual m erely be­
cause he is a Greek; nor on the
other hand, do I consider G reek
m em bership a consequential a t­
tainm ent. Thus your letter u n ­
conscionably extolling Greekletter organizations does pro­
voke my attention, Mr. Ferebee.
Indeed, com m endation is in
order concerning the passionate
exercise in verbosity you so
m agnanim ously donated to the
proceding edition of the Campus
Echo in defense of the Greeks.
Such asinine assum ption and
obfuscations of reason should
not be denied laudatory com­
ment.
Undoubtedly Miss M ary Jane
G ladsberry’s criticism of Greekletter organizations did not
abound in depth and m aturity.
In fact, it left m uch to be de­
sired. Your letter, Mr. Ferebee,
contrastingly provided an abun­
dance of com m entary and sus­
ceptible subject m atter.
Now let us exam ine the creditability of your inform ation. You
consumed one seven and a half
inch paragraph acknowledging
students who are m em bers of
campus organizations and coin­
cidentally happen to be G reek
affiliates such as the editor of
the Echo and the Chief Justice
a n d A ttorney-G eneral of the
Student Court. The correlation
is not clear Mr. Ferebee. C er­
tainly you are not so naive as
to infer that Mr. Faison’s inde­
fatigable sem antical efferves­
cence is attributable to his
G reek m em bership. O r th at
Miss
L everette’s and Mr.
Nance’s judicial acum en is
“G reek” in origin. If, however,
you are pursuing this u n fortu­
nate mode of reasoning it is then
only rational to assume th at the
student, also a Greek, who was
accorded two weeks of “leisure”
from this institution earlier this
sem ester for the possession and
ostentatious use of a firem an in
the dorm itory can trace the
origin of his “Jesse Jam es com­
plex” to his G reek m embership.
I tru st th at you now better ap­
preciate the inadequacy of your
inference.
F urtherm ore, Mr. Ferebee,
you have yet to establish the re ­
lationship betw een the selec­
tion and subsequent service of
these students in campus affairs
and their G reek affiliation.
These people w ere selected for
th eir ability, not their affilia­
tion and it behooves you not to
confuse the two unless you can
irrefutably sustain th a t G reek
CamP»s@Echo
Member
ASSO C IATED C OLLEGIATE PRESS
press
E ditor-in-chief _______________________________ W. Mack Faison
Business M a n a g e r --------------L arry Wilson
F eature E d i t o r _________________________________C hristyal Brown
Sports E d i t o r _________________________________ __ J ^ e s Evans
M a k e -u p -E d ito r----------------------------------------------------- Faye_W ynn
Executive S e c r e ta r y ------------Norm a Brow n
Circulation M a n a g e r---------------------------------------------------------- Polly
Advertising M a n a g e r -------------------------------------- Ronald E. Jones
_______________ —_
Jam es Newton
Columnist
___________ B ertha Avery, W illiam Cheeks, Charles
Stokes, Sam uel Thomas, P a t Washington.
. , „
R e p o r te r s __________________B renda H art, Quentm e Finch, Grova
Bridges, Jo h n Geoffrey, B renda Peterson, D arid Nevrton, Betsy
W ashingtdn, B arbara Av«ry, Sabena Self, Jennifer Thompson.
Advisor _________________________________________ Jea n N orris
affiliation is the prerequisite to
ability. As for your reference
to the eradication of apathy, I
am certain we w ould both be
forced to concede th a t for the
queens of the sophomore, junior,
and senior classes th e personal
honor and distinction of being
selected as a queen has infinite­
ly m ore significance for them
than any altruistic “eradication
of student apathy.”
Of course, Mr. Ferebee, being
a “loyal G reek” I am certain
th at you know th at the first
G reek-letter organization, P h i
Beta Kappa, was founded at
William and M ary College in
1776. Today, however, it is a
purely honorary fratern ity. You
are also aw are th a t K appa Alpha
founded a t Union College in
Schenectady, New Y ork in 1825
is the oldest social fratern ity in
continuous existence. E ither of
these was understandably found­
ed w ell before the so-called Ne­
gro G reek-letter organizations
w ere created. Incidentally, in
your reasons for the form ation
of Negro fraternities you failed
to include the im m easurably im ­
portan t fact th a t th eir white
fraternities would not adm it Ne­
groes. Phi Beta Kappa, Kappa
A lpha and other fraternities
w ere created originally to p ro ­
vide relief from dreary, rigid
curriculum s. Though you m ay
be reluctant to adm it it, this
was also a m ajor factor in the
form ation of Negro fraternities.
So now, Mr. Ferebee, it is
logical th at you probably w ant
to know the relevance of these
facts. Thus I will elucidate. You
fervently im ply th at the PanHellenic w orld makes a vital
(See Words, Words, Page 4)
Twenty W ords Heard
Al Awards Event
Fellow Collegians:
Did you hear the speech th at
Mr. Phillip Geary gave Friday,
May 6 at the Awards Day P ro ­
gram? Do you know w hat the
platform guests who presented
the aw ards had to say? In the
first place, if you were not p re ­
sent, you did not intend to hear
it anyway. In the second place,
those of us who w ere there
could not understand the b u rr
th at the sound waves transm it­
ted to our ears. It w as ra th e r
disappointing to w atch the
speaker’s gestures and wonder
w hat he was saying. It was very
em barrassing to w alk out be­
fore the end of the program be­
cause of the boredom. I counted
approxim ately tw enty words
th at I w as able to understand
during the two hours th a t I re­
m ained present.
It w as also reported th a t the
people on the platform could
not understand w hat w as being
said either—they too, got a
burr. How h u rt Mr. G eary m ust
have been w hen he realized he
had been “talking to him self,”
and
how
em barrassing for
N orth Carolina C o 11 e g e—a
state supported school!
Most of th e students w ere
able to determ ine (w ith the aid
of th e ir program s) w hen they
w ere supposed to stand in re ­
cognition of the aw ards they
w ere
to
receive—truthfully,
th a t vras about all th ey w ere
able to “guess” accurately.
The acoustics in McDougald
Gym nasium
are
extrem ely
poor. This is disgusting and untolerable. Som ething should be
done. . . som ething m ust be
done!
Has the adm inistration asked
th e state for funds to install a
b etter m icrophonic system? Has
th e adm inistration tried to fit
(See Tw enty Words, Page 4)