The Carolinian [January 22, 1976]

              The Carolinian
January 22, 1976 The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Volume LV Number 26
Combination Scholarship Program, 'Sneaky,' efficient
BY PAM PROUTY
Staff NrNM
The emphasis on campus leadership
and recruitment is still the major
thrust of the Competitive Scholarships
Program at UNC-G. But, with a recent
combination of its four scholarship
programs into one, the results have
been greater efficiency and a less
overworked staff.
"The combination is sneaky I guess,
but it worked," stated Eleanor Morris,
the director of Student Aid. Before
the combination last year there had
been four separate application forms
and committees, and three separate
interviews. Morris said that this was
"dickens on the staff and rough on
students too."
Now in its second year of
combination, the scholarships are
labeled by the Faculty, Student
Scholarship and Student Aid
Committee as a group whose criterium
is either academic talent, leadership, or
artistic ability in the Fine Arts.
Leadership and high academics were
also stressed by Dr. John P. Formby,
chairman of Economics at UNC-G and
new chairman of the committee.
"The facts are clear," stated
Formby, "In terms of academic
quality of the UNC-G student body,
the Competitive Scholarships are very
important." Formby explained that a
great number of the most outstanding
students are from this program. When
students experience the visitation
program given by the committee,
many are impressed and come to
UNC-G. Therefore a majority of these
exceptional students remain and will
"contribute a lot to the University,"
according to Formby.
The annual visitation of the senior
high school students for their required
interviews has been a "good recruiting
devise and a wonderful introduction to
the campus for these bright students,"
said Morris. Besides giving the regular
students a chance to know these
students, the visitors are left with a
"warmer" feeling for the campus. This
results from the low-key "blue-jean"
informality sought by the committee.
Starting March 20, the students are
given a dinner where they can meet
student leaders, majors in their fields
of study, and deans of their
departments. Afterwards, they are
"turned loose" to enjoy coffee houses
and movies provided by the
University. On Monday 22, the 15
minute interviews are held by the
committee, consisting of faculty and
students. The students may also go to
classes and meet the faculty.
"The best part of the whole thing,"
stated Morris, "is that these students
can come and have an opportunity
beyond the regular orientation of
other students." The committee has
sought feedback from last year's
freshmen. The majority response was
enthusiastic, but, as Morris stated,
some freshmen have thought the
process was "stacked." Winners were
felt to be influenced by the extra
hospitality during their visit. Morris
agreed that the committee did, "go all
out for them."
The scholarships themselves differ
from other university scholarships.
Instead of the $109,800 budget for
this year, the budget of other Student
Aid awards nears $100,500,000 in
loans and scholarships. These are given
on a regular basis for such as financial
needs. All four scholarships of the
Competitive Scholarships Program,
however, apply only te freshman
students. They last one year in length,
but are renewable for four years.
The funds are stopped for these
scholarships if academic standing
drops below a 2.5 grade point average
during the first year and a 3.0 average
the following three years. But the
majority of students in the program
have graduated magna cum laude for
outstanding achievements in art,
drama, or leadership, which is, "an
unbelievable thing," stated Morris.
The Competitive Scholarships
Program enrolled 146 students this
year from the annual 800 to 100
applicants.
The Katharine Smith Reynolds
Scholarships have the largest
enrollment of 98 students. These
scholarships guarantee a minimum of
$500, which is similar for the other
three programs. The Reynolds
Scholarships accept students with
good academic achievement,
leadership qualities, and motivation
towards a useful purpose in life.
Enrolling 28 students, the Alumni
Scholarships offer a maximum ot
$1,000 per year and requires good
academic standing, character,
leadership, financial need, and
demonstrated ambition.
For freshmen in art, drama, or
music, the Spencer Love Scholarships
in Fine Arts offers $500 per year.
Enrolling 16 students this year,
demostrated talent and potential for
development are considered.
In the Jefferson Standard
Scholarship, $1,000 is awarded per
year. Four students have received the
award based on academic
accomplishments, leadership, and
potential to complete educational
goals.
Political veteran calls Kissinger 'a disaster'
Senate ignores due-process
charge, fails to reconsider
After a motion by President Pro
Tern Renee Littleton in this week's
Senate meeting, the former Ad Hoc
committee forned to investigate the
Town Students' Association (TSA)
was dissolved. Sean O'Kane had set up
an executive committee near the end
of the last semester.
Bailey Senator Dave Rettig made
the motion to reconsider the
Recognition II classification of the
Forensic Association. Rettig stated
that "due process was not carried
out." He added that by earlier giving
the Forensic Association in a "stylistic
change" was meant to take away
recognition and funds. The motion to
reconsider failed.
Weil Senator Tammy Zucker made
the motion to reconsider classification
of the Iniernational Studies Club.
Zucker said that "a couple of
questions last week were unanswered
because representatives were not
here." Zucker also asked for speaking
privileges for International Studies
Club president Debbie Spears.
Spears stated that at the present
time the International Sludies Club is
sharing office space with the Outing
Club and that without funds "we have
no club." When questioned about the
use of the funds. Spears responded
thai they were "to pay expenses of
speakers that they want to hear."
When questioned if the club had any
academic affiliation, she said, "No."
Mary Foust Senator Debra Turner
said that the issue of changing the
recognition was "more complicated."
She said that this change, if made,
would open up the possibilities of
Recognitions I, II, or III for the club.
The matter was postponed until next
week.
TS Senator John Scotton and
Hinshaw Senator George Nyquist
proposed a resolution of sentiment to
condemn the imperialistic and
expansionist actions of the U.S.S.R.
and Cuba for their military
intervention. The Senate did not pass
the resolution. Many Senators
considered the resolution "too
idealistic" and others considered it
unfair to condemn those two countries
without condemning all of the other
countries involved.
SGA President Sean O'Kane gave
his State of the Campus address in
which he outlined his hopes of
betterment in the areas of town
students relationships, growing
enrollment, visitation policy, and
relations with the city of Greensboro.
Frances Watson and other
individuals who worked on the Woody
Allen Festival were given thanks and
congratulations on the job they did.
BY PAM BLACKBURN
Henry Hall Wilson, a political
veteran who spent several years as a
Congressional liason in the Kennedy
and Johnson White Houses, spoke
candidly about the Presidency and the
Congress, especially President Ford,
Tuesday afternoon when about 25
students and faculty gathered in the
Political Science symposium.
Wilson, a Monroe native who served
as president of the Chicago Board of
Trade, ran unsuccessfully for the
Democratic nomination to the U.S.
Senate here in 1974.
Of his years in the White House.
Wilson seemed proudest of the fact
that the vetoes of Presidents Kennedy
and Johnson were never overriden. Of
course, the Democrats were in control
of the Congress at the time. Wilson
talked to the Democratic leadership in
the process of getting Presidential
directives passed. He said, "I would
have done a lot more talking to
Republicans if they had been in
control."
President Ford, according to
Wilson, will run two campaigns this
year. One will be up until the
convention against Ronald Reagan
during which Ford will try to appeal
to the right. Wilson believes that
Ford's State of the Union address last
Monday night was indicative of this
strategy. The other campaign Ford will
run will be against the Democratic
nominee, and the President, in
Wilson's opinion, will try to move
more toward the middle and to the
left.
Wilson believes that the loss of faith
in politics and politicians on the part
of many Americans is unjustified,
despite the Watergate scandal. "I think
the caliber of the Congress is
improving all the time," said Wilson.
The speaker also noted the
contribution of Congressional leaders
by Southeastern states over the years.
He said that the reason for the
dominance of the Southern leaders
was not the seniority system as usually
cited. Wilson believes that Southerners
have always sent their best and
brightest young men to Congress. He
added, "The Southern Congressmen
can run rings around their
counterparts from other regions."
Wilson favors a system of four to
six regional primaries to select
candidates, but he believes that a
national primary would be "a pretty
messy business and pretty devisive."
He supports the national convention
system as it is now. He said of his own
Democratic party's convention
problems, "The quota thing was
overplayed in 1972."
He said that the new rules that
came out of the recent
"mini-convention" are better than the
previous rules. He added that
"national conventions are the best way
to iron out differences and come out
with a candidate."
Wilson had some rather harsh
criticism for President Ford and
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
Wilson said that Presidents have always
been the subjects of ridicule, but that
Ford has been peculiarly ridiculed
"because he is stupid."
Kissinger is "a disaster," according
to Wilson. He said that the Secretary
and President Nixon "are not entitled
for much credit for ending the (Viet
Nam) war." He also said that
Kissinger's effort in the Middle East
"has not kept us from being robbed by
OPEC."
Wilson said of the original idea of
the Founding Fathers to have the wise
men of each state come together to
decide the issues and pick the
President has one problem. "The
difficulty is where to find the wise
men." He jokingly remarked, "You
know they cancelled the Christmas
play at the White House because they
couldn't find any wise men."
The speaker's remedy for the
decline of the party system is to "get
good people to run for office and to
participate actively in the selection
and support of candidates."
Wilson is "happy to be a partisan
Democrat." He encouraged college
students who may be dismayed by
what they have seen in national
leadership to consider the career of
politics. He said that he had noticed in
this election year a lack of vision
among the many candidates. "Who
Staff photo by Tommy Millaii
Henry Hall Wilson
really looks Presidential?" he asked,
refering to the appearance of several of
the Democratic candidates last Sunday
on a news program. 'Divine decadence9 reigns in 'Cabaret,'
M.C. , Sally Bowles encore at UNC-G
UNC-G News Bureau-The master
of ceremonies once more will slither
across the stage, Sally Bowles again
will strut and belt out a song, and
"divine decadence" will reign Feb. 4-9
when the UNC-G Theatre presents
"Cabaret."
Folk festival comes to UNC-CH,
Mike Seegar and Martin Bogan star
(Chapel Hill,NC)-The UN( Wintei
Folk Festival, set foi Januaiy 22. 23.
and 24. will provide an unusual
opportunity for music lovers in the
area to heai and communicate with
some of the nation's best perloimeis
of traditional music. The long
week-end of conceits, woikshops.
films, and jam sessions will feature
music from the British countryside
and music halls. East coast blues from
Washington, D.C.. urban blues from
Chicago. French-American music from
south-western Louisana. and rural
stringband music from North Carolina,
l-esiivities begin with an infoimal
workshop concert on Thursday
evening in the Great Hall of (he
Student Union, and continue with
smallei specialized workshops,
contests, films, jam sessions during the
day on Friday and Satuiday.
Highlights of the festival will be the
main concerts in Memorial Hall on
Friday and Saturday nights.
Performers for the Friday and
Saturday night concerts were chosen
for their ability to present authentic
folk music as lively entertainment
which appeals to general audiences and
folk buffs alike. Many of these
performers such as Mike Seeger. who
will MC the concerts, have acquired a
measuie of national recognition.
Seegei. who has been a member of the
New Lost City Ramblers string band
since its inception in 1959. is a
biilliant performer on half-a-dozen
lolk instruments and is an accepted
authority on traditional American
music. In addition to his MCing duties.
Seeger will be performing as a soloist
and with Alice Gerrard and Hazel
Dickens. Gerrard and Dickens are
widely considered to be among the
best singing duos working today and
have just completed their fourth
album of country, bluegrass, and
traditional songs.
Martin Bogan and the Armstrongs
are a band of southern black string
musicians who migrated to the
Chicago area in the late thirties. Their
music is an incredible blend of
southern hoedown, early fourties
swing, funky blues, and forty years of
Tin Pan Alley. They've brought
audiences to their feet at folk festivals
cont. on Page 2, col. 3
In cooperation with the University
Concert and Lecture Series, the
award-winning musical will be the
UNC-G Theatre's first dinner theatre
production.
The audience in Elliott University
Center's Cone Ballroom, where the
play will be staged, will double as
diners in Berlin's Kit Kat Club, where
the action takes place.
A two-course meal catered by
Market Street West will be served.
Admission for the play and dinner will
by $9 ($5 for the meal). Adult tickets
for the performance only will be $4.
Students with ID can see the play for
free. Dinner will cost $4 for students.
The box office opens Feb. 2 for the
general public. For ticket information,
call 379-5546 between 1 pm and 5:30
pm daily.
Curtain time is 8:15 pm Feb. 4-7
and 9. A 2:15 pm matinee for UNC-G
students only will be held Sunday
Feb. 8.
"Cabaret," which captured awards
as both as Broadway play and an
acclaimed motion picture, is set in
Germany during 1929-30 just before
the Nazies came to power. The book
by Joe Masteroff is based on a play by
John Van Druten and stories by
Christopher Isherwood.
Music is by John Kander. Fed Ebb
penned thelyrics.
Directing "Cabaret" will be Mitchel
Somers, a graduate student in drama
from the Bronx, New York. Somers
has played in many of the UNC-G
Theatre productions over the last few
years, including the leading role of
Antipholus of Syracuse in last fall's
production of "The Boys of
Syracuse."
The set design will be by Ms. Sara
Ross Morgan of Weaverville. Don Hale
Mclntosh of Greensboro will do the
choreography.
Symposium will focus on Presidency
The second session in the Political
Science Symposium will feature Dr.
Thomas Cronin, political scientist and
author of 77ie State of the Presidency.
The session will be held in Joyner
Lounge. Elliott Hall at 3:30 p.m.
today.
Cronin served as a White House
Fellow and has been an adviser to
President Johnson, cabinet members,
congressional committees, and the
U.S. Civil Service Commission.
He is a visiting professor at Holy
Cross College and Brandeis University.
Cronin has co-authored a widely-used
text on American politics,
Government by the People.
Cronin's book on the Presidency
has garnered such reviews as one from
Senator Walter Mondal (Dem. Minn.),
who said, "Professor Cronin has
provided us with a crisp, original and
thought-provoking analysis of
Presidential powers, prerogatives and
possible reforms."
Cronin discusses in his book the
expanding bureaucracy surrounding
the Chief Executive, the change in the
Cabinet's role, the problems of the
Vice-presidency, and shifting loyalties
and bases of operation at the top levels
of the bureaucracy.
The speaker obtained his
undergraduate degree at Holy Cross,
his two master's degrees in education
and political science at Stanford
University, and a Ph.D in political
science from Stanford.
Cronin has also been associated
with the Brookings institution as a
research political scientist.
Stage manager will be Ms. Susan E.
Mickey of St an field, assisted by Ms.
Peggy Lynn Stallings of Granite Falls.
Nathan Ray Matthews of Newport
News, Va., will serve as musical
director.
In the key roles are Thomas A.
McClary, a graduate student from
Greensboro, as the "emcee" and Ms.
Chris Morris, a senior from Charlotte,
as Sallv Bowles.
Also having major parts in the play
are Paul Tauger of Bayside, N. Y., as
Gifford Bardshaw; Steve Martin of
Asheville as Ernst Ludwig; Ms. Betty
M. Ishee of Greensboro as Fraulein
Schneider; Ms. Martha Mitchell of
Thomasville as Fraulein Kost; and
Alexander Nazaruk of Freehold, N. J.,
as Herr Schultz.
Also acting in the play will be John
B. Cranford, III, Robin D. Robertson,
Gregory T. Little, Dale Glenn Stine,
David L. Whitmire, Ms. Nancy W.
Watkins, Ms. Jane C. Hardy, Ms. Jane
Moon, Ms. Karen S. Fogleman. Ms.
Nancy Farrar, Ms. Shaheen, and Barry
Page.
The Major Attractions
Committee of UNC-G announced
today that it will feature in
concert, The Outlaws and Kansas,
on Thursday, Febuary 12th at
8:00 pjn. According to MAC, the
tickets will go on sale January
30th.