Samford Crimson
Vol. 57, No. 16
Samford tnivmily, Birmingham, Alabama 35209
Friday. March 24. 1972
Junior class is ’72 Step-Sing winner
by Lois King
Capturing this year’s Step-Sing
Sweepstakes award was the Junior
class. Other winners include Chi
Omega, sorority division; Alpha
Phi Omega, organizational divi¬
sion and Pi Kappa Phi, fraternity
division.
Skipping rope in their blue and
red Jumpsuits and pinafores the
Chi Omegas transported the au¬
dience hack to childhood with
their theme ’To B#_ Child
Again’. Songs like M Woo’tGrow
Up’ and -Where Is the Wonder’
brought back nostalgic memories
of childhood to everyone in the
audience.
In their curly wigs and blue
and pink sailor outfits the Phi
Mus, first runner-up in the so¬
rority division, paid a tribute
to Shirley Temple. The cute lit¬
tle girl with the curly hair was
vividly remembered as they sang
’On the Good Ship LoUypop.’
The Alpha Delta PU took the
audience for a walk in the rain
with their theme -Singing in the
Rain.’ With their light-hearted
songs and red, yellow, and blue
raincoats the girls made even
rain seem pleasant.
With their ’Songs from Amer¬
ican Wars’ the Delta Zetas stir¬
red the audience with their pre¬
sentation of ‘Dixie’ and ‘Yankee
Doodle’.
The Kappa Deltas flew the au¬
dience to -Never, Never Land’
and enchanted them with their
display the frwita of uch hard work aa they
i Id the 1972 Step Sine competition. Pictured from left to right are; Don Campbell
Junior Class, Melinda Eubank; Chi Omega, Randy Richardson; Pi Kappa Phi, Doug Weeks; Alpha
Phi Omega and Arnold Mooney; Junior Class.
Cafeteria boycott planned,
canceled by student leaders
by Stephen Jerrell
Last week, large numbers of
students departed from tradi¬
tional channels of expression and
organized in a mass effort to
boycott Robert’s Cafeteria. Be¬
hind the scenes negotiations and
the inability to effectively com¬
municate with the student body
left many confused when, at the
last moment, student leaders
cancelled the scheduled protest.
Plans for the boycott grew out
of a small group of student lead¬
ers and rapidly expanded to in¬
clude student leadership campus¬
wide. The initial plan called
oo students to give up meals
oo Wednesday and Thursday,
March 15-16. Committees were
drawn up to publicize, provide
transportation for off-campus
meals, form hall groups to pre¬
pare food, and other elements
of a well planned boycott.
Boycott leaders drew up two
detailed lists providing both an
explanation for the necessity of
a boycott and specific goals they
hoped to acheive. Their goals,
or ’list fo specific complaints’
were:
1. Clean silver, trays, plates,
and glasses
2. Eliminate odors of pick-up
window
3. Hair nets and clean uniforms
to
г
servers
4. Clean up kitchen: no rats,
roaches, flies, etc.
5. Don't sweep while we eat
6. Varied menu planned and
4 supervised by a dietician
7. Clean, fresh food
8. Breakfast: eggs — scram¬
bled are hard or runny, boiled
are over- boiled, need over- light
fried eggs; don’t derve burned
bacon; cereal — variety daily and
more each day; waffels — pre¬
pare a few at a time so as to
be fresh; hash browns — more
and hot; orange Juice -- clean
it up and stir it up
9. Lunch and Dinner:
salads — fresher, larger ser¬
vings, and more fruit in fruit
salads; bread — fresh; dessert
— fresh meringues get hard after
oo day and cake gets hard; meats
— fresh, cooked, more variety;
vegetables -- little more variety
10. CO-OP
CLEAN UP and provide better
supply
To further explain the reason
for this type of action the boy¬
cott leaders issued a list of ar-
guements for supporting ABC
(All Boycott Cafeteria). These
were:
1. Despite repeated complaints
by students, little has been done
to make the cafeteria service
more sanitary, to provide a
varied menu, to serve better food
corresponding to the higher board
costs students pay.
2. Many people have been ill
in the last two weeks and this
outburst of sickness seems to
point to the food.
3. For the past several months
students with complaints concer¬
ning the cafeteria service have
continued on page 8
songs from Peter Pan.
The Zeta Tau Alphas took the
adults in the audience on a -Sen¬
timental Journey* with their wes¬
tern and early twenties medley.
Romantic visions of the old ri-
verboats were recalled as APO
sang “Old Man River’ and “The
Wide Missouri*. Everyone in the
aodience felt as if he were float¬
ing down the river, listening to
the swishing of the water around
the keel, and watching the huge
cotton bales being loaded onto
the boat.
’Saturday’s Heroes', better
known as the “S’ Club, presented
a series of songs on loyalty to
Samford. A special recognition
award waspresentedtothesemen
for their club’s contributions to
Samford’s Step-Sing program
through the years.
In the fraternity division Pi
Kappa Alpha presented a kalei¬
doscope of love with their songs
like “Theme from Love Story*,
“Strangers in the Night*, and
’The Shadow of Your Smile.’
’If I were a Rich Man’ and
other songs from FIDDLER ON
THE ROOF were presented by
the gaily costumed Sigma Nus.
Every coin has two sides as
was seen in Lambda Chi Alphas
presentation of “The Other Side
of Love". Songs like “Hurt So
Bad* and ’Fire and Rain’ gave
a vivid picture of what happens
when love leaves.
’Music through the Ages* was
portrayed by Pi Kappa Phi. Be¬
ginning with the earliest music
they proceeded through history
with Beethoven’sSymphonyNo.9,
Dvorak’s Symphony No. 5, and
closed on a modern note with “I’d
Like to Teach the WorldtoSing.’
In the class division the soph¬
omore class presented the “Age
of Chivalry’ with romantic songs
like ’If Ever I Would LeaveYoo*
and ’Camelot*.
The class dlvisioo was won by
the junior class with their tri¬
bute to the Carpenters and pre¬
sentation of songs like ‘We’ve
Only Just Begun’, ‘Close toYou’,
and ’For AU We Know’.
Judges tor this year’s Step-
Sing were Elwyn Rainer, Dir¬
ector of Music for the Southern
Baptist Convention; Phillip Al¬
ford, Director of the Children’s
theatre; and Kayron Scott, As¬
sistant Choral Conductor at the
University of Alabama.
A valuable contribution to Step-
Sing was also made by Mr. Cliff
Holman, comedian and emcee
tor both nights.
Friendly
foursome
awarded
The results of the 1972 Friend¬
liest elections were announced
at the Friday night performance
of Step-Sing.
Miss Debbie Fulton, a senior
from East Point, Georgia, was
voted Miss Friendliest. She is
an elementary education major.
Buddy Howorth, a senior biol¬
ogy major from Selma , was
elected Mr. Friendliest.
Miss Carolyn Green, professor
of history, was Judged Friend¬
liest female professor on
campus, and Dr. Mike Howell,
professor of biology, was chosen
as Friendliest male professor.
The winners were presented
with silver bowls by SGA presi¬
dent Ben Armlstead.
Parents visit campus
Approximately 300 parents at¬
tended the 1972 Parent’s Day
activities last weekend. SGA and
Administrative spokesmen a-
greed that that figure was prob¬
ably an under- estimation since
there was no way of counting
the number of parents who atten¬
ded Step-Sing.
A Saturday morning registra¬
tion and welcome session for
visiting parents featured an SGA
slide presentation of “The Stu¬
dents’ View of Samford.’
The SGA also recommended a
lunch novelty entitled 'Take a
Student Out to Lunch.’ Many par¬
ents did take their sons and
daughters out for luch, and visited
with them throughout the after¬
noon.
Open house was held in the
dorms until 5:00, and a parent-
faculty get-together in the cafe¬
teria finished off the weekend’s
activities.
Minister, professor are
scheduled as sneakers
Dr. Otis Brooks, pastor of Ves-
tavia Hills Baptist Church is the
Chapel speaker tor March 27.
He was pastor of a church in
Monroe, Louisiana before moving
to Birmingham in 1969. Dr.
Brooks graduated from Emory
University in Atlanta and has
attended the University of Glas¬
gow in Scotland, the Southern
Samford
Baptist Theological Seminary,
and Yale.
Dr. Karen Joines in the March
29 Chapel speaker. He is an
associate professor of religion
and philosophy at Samford. Dr.
Joines received a B.S. from Ten¬
nessee Wesleyan College and a
Th.D. from the Southern Baptist
Theological Smeninary.
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