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Page 2 THE TIMBER CRUISER Official Newspaper of the Journallsm Class of Alpena Community College Publ.ished Monthly - September through June at 666 Johnson Street, Alpena, Michigan Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Don Gillard Associate Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ........... • • • . Jim Glenni!! Editorial Advisor , .. . ........ . .............. . ... · .. George Holmes News Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dave Melville and Jere Doyle Feature Editor ..•................................ • . • Soni Conklin Sports Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dave McNeil! Sports Reporters .... Jay Robarge, Jim Chabot, Don Sautter, Amos Perry Copy Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ed Hechlik and Al Nuechterlein Advertising . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Al Nuechterlein and Ray Moore Circulation Managers . . . . . . . . . Mary J. Jacques, Mike Lund, Ed Hechlik Photographer ............................ . ......... Wayne Somers Faculty Moderator, M. D. Orr Suggested Solutions STUDENT COUNCIL . ,' Any student council reif1oots the studenlt body w\hiicfu it represenits. An apaibhebi.c student body resuJl.itJs in an aipathetic council. . Granted, oUT council doesn'rt; accqmplish much, bUlt do many Jumor Co-Hege Councils? W1tJh mtore student suppont, however, it could become more 1:lhan just a homecoming committee. · For ins.tance, the councrn coullid set up and 0vgianize a dance schedule ait the beginning of eacll yem.-. 'J.111is would elliminaite both the "?o dance" problem and the 10-day aipprovail problem. It could awro be their duty_ to apprehend parking violators by advancing a iiine syisl;em or something si.miltar. Let tJhe council be in cha['ge of keeping the lounge respeo~bly -elean and dooling wi:th the offendern Wlho "iiorget" to discard their traish. Why not let responsiible council memberis (and aren't they all) patrol ~e 1l!ibrary everui.ngs - and if i.t is ever open on week ends - thm; taking pressm-e off the facw~ty. . . Amy one or all of these basks wol.llld result in a more actJive council with closer student corubact. * * PARKING ' Human bein,gs have an innate respect f.or that which has anothei;'s nwne upon tt. To iiaci'1iiuate solution of the muoh~elebrated parking pro blem at ACC, Why not block of a predetermined number of parking spaces iin fhait part of the oV!al nem-est the school and imprint, eiitlher on the . <mrbs or on smahl sig:ms erected fo:r tJhiat purpose 1!he names of the teach- ers \.no are to use them, mu{?Jh as has been done for the DireotJor's park- ing space? How oflten, aiiter all, does Dean Van Lare fd.nd hi:s own space _ .._....,,,.--,...-a -S'!Judent'.s car? ~ttie facu1t,y- memb.ei:,s m:e;,due. the same consideration. Visitors' spaces, tlhen, mighlt be reduced to iiive or less in number, marked off as the otlhem and the remainder of the oval space left to students. F'or these wsivors' spaces, the fines would be maximum. F'l.ttlbher, ma,y we suggest that steps be taken immeili,ately towards the paving and blocking out of Besser Parking Lot, which in 1t6 present staite is inadeql.l181te to properly suppont th<is year's student load, much less nert year's expected increase - tlhls cannot be denied by anyone who bas b:Mled its disorganization. * * * * * ACTIVITY FEE ! Hiave you seen your acvi.wty fee Wely? We lf'ven't. Since Sepbemiber, in fact, it has become quite apparent that we never were meant to get our 15 bucks' wor:t!h. Aside from the compuJsor,y "fun for cfuildren" assemblies discussed in the piece following filllis, most of the iiund has been filched for a select group of "JAW.CS"*. · *JAWC - Juniior .Afhletics Worshli.per',s Commiittee. Of course, some thowghtful person somewhere along tlhe line includ- ed SIX sport's for our four hundred sports to choose fr,om. But they did not rea!rize fur some reason, tha,t most of our activity fund comes from women and 90Lb weaklings, neitrher of Wlhwh is lrikely to make the varsity. · We would hiastilly e9bimaite tihe maximum percenmage of students de- .living antv mela'SU.re of use from their fee at ¼ of the student body. So while the baseball team spenit the spring in "Ole Kaintuck", Mbie Zink's :freshman astronomy team had to postpone its tni.p to Mt. Palomao:. Prob- ably the sehool board want.s to wait untiil they can send them to the moOlll. W!hile our mlQney is being invested in sweatpants and ·golf balls, ev- .eryone, including the socia!J.minded "JAW.CS", g,ripes about the state of ithe geneml dance program. Eliminaition of just one eiatm "JAWC" activ- ity would probably leave enough money to run scheduled dances for a year. And if any "JAWC"minded administraibion members yell too loudly, we can give eacll activity card holder three credits in ball room dancing. ScraitClhlng one more of the •~big" sports would make funds aviaUable iflo someone clse who needs them badly - US! We would like -to bring you more reading matel'ial, and fewer adverlti.sements, but it is impossible when we need the rev-enue to stay in business. And we don't llhink you OR !lihe staff will miss the monitih-old spol1ts stories. Th.ere is only one way -to bring act:i:w.ty fund spending a little closer lto reakty. Wrilte to Student Council, w:rtl,te to us, and write to ALL levels Qf adminastraltlion. Gropes are needed, y,es. But not oasuaLly. * * * * * CONVOCATIONS Everyone has at least two things to say about our convocaltion series. "We paid tor it; Willy should we be forced to attend?" And, "Jt sliinks." Both statements carry considerable merit. The administmti.ve decision to make aN. AOC convooalflions compulsory is as ludicrous as it is serious. Like a nu~ber of other fucebs of ACC en- See SOLUTIONS, Page 4 THE TIMBER-CRUISER Letter to The Editor At :the ,appearance of tJhe last is- sue of the TiiMBER-CRUISER, we, the undersi.,gned, voiced once more the oft-repeaited compLaints ,against :the content and .general plan cxf ,this paper. The editors ·thereThpon re- ii.ssued .the ,aiJso oft-repeated chal- lenge: "If you don',t Hike this .paper, why don't you pu,t dJt out your- selves?" "Why not," we ,thought--iand •ac- cepted ,the c,haNenge. Our biggest complamt was .the parking problem solt111Ji.on offered li.n wa•st monJjJh'.s ed- itorial. This piece of •wn1ting- whlicll., we admit, was excellent s1a,pstick humor-was, we felrt, very p00111ly pliaeed iir1 the oruy ed!i-torial column. It was from rth.is point that we proceeded on our ,improvement project, of which you may find ex- amples .throughout itJhis month's paper. Our aim !ha:s not ·been to compete wi,th tJhe Untl.versi.ty of Micfuigan's DAILY or THE NEW YORK TIMES, ,buit merely to ex- pfoi.,t ,the advantages of a .smaH school's paper. The closing sentence of Dean Van Lare's column presented to us anOlt'her challenge. This wail, we fe1t, was not to be ii.gnored." .... is there a way Ibo encourage more stu- dents to f.eel ,personaHy responsible for the weliiare ,of ,the college?" ... were his exact words. A :morning in tJhe lounge should be ,sufficient .to prove that ACC students are in- terested- who ,gripes more than a college student iir1 ,tlhe -rooming? Again may we quote Dean Van Lare: "Student.is who don'.t gripe aren',t normal." If nothing else, we of ACC are normal. As. evidence (!f our _own normalcy and interest dn college •aff.airs, we presented, in the column ,to the left of the lettell', solurt;,ions to fue problems whdc!h now pI,a1gue and have plagued all year, the halls of our inst,i,tup.on. We do not 1profess .omniscience, but we do held.eve .in tJhe ,praclii.cality of these suggestions, and in the impavbance of their very appearance. ]t is our 'hope fill.at students, facuwty, -and admin- Mration alike ,will ,give careful considera1Ji.on to our ·conrt:ributions. Dii&sentors ,are encom-aged to ,set down their cases on paper •and turn •them over to Ed!i,tor Gillard, w'ho has ,promised cooperation in this matter .. Before we are hung in effigy- or ortherwme~we would •like to istate. tJhat ,the accomplishment of thiis project has iafforded us more hours of enjoymenrt; ,than of hard work. Our dealings wri.tJh-and oppo- s1tion tO-'Staff membern of the TIMiBE-R-CRUISER, have been a pleasure. Thank you. I. Alstrom, L. Krull Pickett's Pharmacy PRESCRIIPTIONS Lloyd Pickett, B.S. E•L 6-1635 ·. ~pena, Michigan Thursday, April 19, 1962 Smoking a Drag at A.C.C. Smoking may cause lung cancer, but before the year is over, ACC is liable to cause several nicotine fits. The Victor- ian conservati.sm which has us nicotine addicts running to the water closet (and we DO mean CLOSET) to get off a few hurried puffs on a fag is rank ridicmlousness. A year ago an undergrad named Oliver, aged 22, was calmly bicycling along Second Avenue when hauled over by police and informed that he was breaking the curfew. The parallel i~ excellent. In a society whkh begs us to behave as young adults, it is only logical that we be treated as same. This is a stale cry, voiced too often i'n high school publications. But in this case we are being treated as high school students, s0 - touch (e). A quick comparison with other JC's shows that their student bodies .are allowed to smolke in either the lounge or the cafeteria, in our case, one and the same. Nowhere do they have to c:r:aim into a space fit for a half-doe:en smokers to calm their frazzled nerves. The epitome of the tobacco-comedy, however, lies in the smoking policies forced on instructors. Is someone afraid that the sight of a college instructor smoking will set a bad example for our studepts? 011 is \soni~p:pe/ afrafd that the' sight of a puffoig student body wm be >a lbiad influence on our faculty? We extend our symP.;athies to our 1nstructors who are told they are not old enouth to have an ash tl'.'lay on their desks. • ·, Dean's Column 11 YOUR RECORD An increasingly larige amount of my time and aloo the time of the faculty is being u11:Jilized completin;g . recommenda1Ji.oms fur former gradu- aites and studerubs. The other day when there were sevrail fomns .on my dest ait one time, it occurred to me that it is only fai,r •to alel't you as present stu- dents, to the im- pol'bance of your record at A:lpena Oommunilty Col- ltege_.both your aeademic record and personal at- tributes. When you complete work ait Dean any coliege or Van :Lare university, you establish a basis for recommenda- tion. There is very little yiou can do in lalter life ht does n:ot, in one way or another reliate to your col:lege record. We are asked :fur an evaluation ,of former students by colleges and universities, anmed services, busi- ness (I have one on my desk right now from North Ameni.can Aviation C001porartion), civilian governmentaiJ. a:gencie.c; - federal, state, and lo· cal (I recently CJQmpleted two for the Detroit P()ll!i.ce Department) - industries, and professional associa- tions, suclh as those representing acco_untancy, law, and medicine. Sometimes inquiries are made askmg about studenlts who were here many years ago. Invariabiy, they want to know whet!her or not the man is "re.spon- silble." They wanit to know about 'cooperation', 'abti.tude', 1general oonduct' and 'attendance'. A faculty members was just in, and when I mentioned wlha:t I MIS writing, said, --~---· -·---- "Aibove .aH ¢lse, mention •theimpor: tance of rei,ponsibility." He had just completed recommend~tions for two former col:leg,gues. He sai.d that the main questions asked, had to do w.ith responsibilli:ty. · ·Perhaps you w.i.U pardon a refers ·ence to a pe~onal eicperience. I tfurink · 1t will iillustrate the point I wi~h to make. 'Dhd,s last weekend I spent some time wilth a consuitant. Among other -thingl'!j, he mentioned thait he had discussed his coming vi.sit to Afpena Oommuntl.ty ·College w.ith the presidenit of one of thA coll~es wrom whicfu I received a degree. The conlSUltanrt; told me that the president of my co:Iilege gavf': me ca good send-off~ i eliiev.e he used , among other things, the words 'sound' and 'level headed.' The president of t!he college was an instructor when I was in college. I believe I took a two-hour litera- .ture course from him. We got a- long. Now he is president of the col!Iege and aliso chairman of a commission that can have a power- ful influence on the recogntl.,tion of .A:Lpena Communiiity Col'lege. He (See DEAN, Page 4) Tubby's Restaurant ALPENA Everycme Advertises Good Food WE SERVE IT! THE PHOTO CENTER Now In Our New .Location 129 W. Chisholm Open 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.