laid 1e/ped st for While ‘or the omen st and Bobby ? last Fountainhead Serving the East Carolina Community for over 50 years By DENNISC. LEONARD News Editor Se Te | Multipics Studios, who was woontracted last Spring by the }BUCCANEER, has recently irefused to honor its contract and has asked BUC Editor Monika Sutherland to neglect the Fall shooting schedule April the Publications Board received bids for por trait photography and they sided to sign a contract with Multi; of New Yor! said Sutherland. ‘‘ The contract was signed between myself and Michael Cantoni, a Multipics sales representative According to Sutherland the contract called for a photographer to come from INew York for five different sitting sessions free of charge © ECU students econdl y hey were to send photograph ers down > times to photo Oral anything BUC AANEER office requested free pf charae. they were to provide IAN WAY Lo DALAL aX ARTIST CONCEPT of expanded Ficklen Stadium -- A fund dr i presently underway for the expansion of Ficklen Stadium that will 300 rolls of film, and they were to offer a $2 rebate to the BUCCANEER for every senior photo taken When Sutherland contact- ed Multipics, she was told by the president of the firm that Cantoni was no longer with the company and that they could not the r Fal honor the contract in Mulitipics informed Suther 1 that the contract she signed was not a standard ontract and that it had not been approved by the presi dent of the n, thus voiding the contract alled the SGA and asked them what to do because there was no Pub Board SGA President Tim Sullivan was not in his office and talked to Treasurer Linda Thomason because she was on the Pub Board at the time the contract was approved Thomason got me an appointment with Blount, ive is BUC faces contract dilemma Crisp anda uranymyre, the newly retained SGA legal firm and William Grantmyre stated that there was a possibility of Suit | saw Sullivan later and he personally felt that the company had violated its con- tract and the decision to sue would be left up to me Sutherland then called Multipics while in Grant myre’s office and Grantmyre felt that the was bound to the contract The president of the photo company firm again said that there was no the fulfilled could be and that Cantoni made agreements that were not fe The com sman further noted him contract nay restated sible pany spoke that Cantoni represented president of the eit as tne vice the company instead of sales representative that he actually was According to Sutherland, there are three courses of action that the SGA can take increase the seating capacity from 16,000 to 35,000, fund raising VOL, 57 28 JULY NO. 66 1 9 76 against Multipics Studios The first course would be that the firm would have to come down to ECU and honor the ox Secondly the BUC- CANEER oould sue Multipics Studios for breach of contract mnitract Thirdly, Multipics could release the BUCCANEER from the contract and pay them $4,000 in damages which the BUCCANEER is due to the the phe going to contract ography suffer denial by firm | would prefer settlernent of the $4,000 damages cost because personally | do not want them to come down here to take photos because | doubt their ability to do quality work,’ said Sutherland What course of action Editor Sutherland and the SGA is going to take is still pending, but they do have the legal advantage of having a firm represent that course of action. being handled by Regional Development Institute. EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY GREENVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA 50H NR FE TNT RE ERS? BUCCANEER -- The ECU student yearbook is presenting facing a Photo dilemma due to contract disputes Special edition to appear Fall Quarter | be printed ¥ tior ¥ WS j yi x ay Fall Quarter dition students eshim« ve aS retur g pperciassmen, will find a guide to campus facili- 1 services. There wil section identif bus Greenv ie area The issue is designed as reference for ECU students this year thousand copies will DeNiro finds cinematic success in TAX! DRIVER By LARRY S. SLAUGHTER Staff Writer film by Martin Scorcese creenplay by Paul Schraeder Martin Scorcese’s dazzling id macabre Taxi Driver is uising into culture-starved reenville this week. This ark, brooding and sensually erwhelming film is a fine nematic accomplishment at no serious moviegoer ould forego - particularly in ght of the trash that has been Droding Greenville movie breens as of late. It is highly Obable that we will continue be plagued the remainder of @ summer by the likes of ch garbage as Lifeguard and awmps and will get but a few wtWerdue treats such as ‘Ciickoo's Nest and The Omen pven months after its release, | HBx/ Driver promises to as eMult the Pitt Theatre with a agree of sophistication un common to recent Greenville offc’ings. However, if you are one who attends films to be exclusively entertained by light-hearted fanfare, | would suggest that you avoid Taxi Driver like the plaque. About the juvenile pub- licity that has shrouded Taxi Driver: Yes, it does contain ‘one of the most violent scenes every filmed.’’ Yes, it is ‘shocking and terrifying!”’ Yes, ‘‘you will be shocked by what happens to the 12 year old girl and the taxi driver.’’ But anyone who attends Taxi Driver to exculsively fulfill these expectations will likely be blind or uninterested in Taxi Driver's immense artistic and sociological value Society rears its wounds when distri butors are coerced into parad- ing a serious artistic effort as an exclusive blood bath to attract its masses Driver is a colorful portrait of Taxi and mesmerizing a lonely existential man stranded and desperate for meaningful existence in the grime and neon of New York City. Robert DeNiro gives an Oscar-deserving performance as a cabbie who is so intensely infected with his own sense of alienation and disgust for the ‘scum on the streets’ that he continually ruminates about ‘cleaning this place up’’ DeNiro’s Travis Bickle, in typical Western world fashion, externalizes his own inner demons. onto the streets to depersonalize the human ‘‘garbage’’ that is ALWAYS floating in and out of his view And the garbage will not go away. ‘‘They come out every night,’’ writes Travis in his diary, ‘‘buggers, queens, pimps, dopers...sick. Venile Someday a real rain’ll and wash them all away Travis spends time in his dingy one room flat when he's not cruising around in his cab come His ills begin to trouble him to much that he can’s sleep at nights. He works double and triole shifts. He pops bennies. He stays wired. Then he chances upon a lovely blonde named Betsy and attempts to engulf her with his romantic idolization, while desperate to bring meaning into his little universe. Out of sheer inno cent ignorance, Travis courts Betsy to a porno movie. She interprets his choice of movies as a personal insult and flees Here, Travis’ last cord to objective reality is severed The schizophrenic fissure in Travis’ lonely soul deepens and the world falls prey to his messianic, grandiose mission Travis Bickle is At Large Robert DeNiro's per formance is so exact as the fragmented Travis Bickle that it will be a travesty if the Academy declines to award him. Soorcese frames the lean, angry youth in an erotic and omnipotent manner, height- ening the magnitude of sexual avarice that Travis do deeply experiences and so quickly denounces as characteristic of the New York sidewalks. Jodie Foster, who was last seen in 1974's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, gives a knockout performance as the 12 year old child-whore whom Travis at- tempts to rescue from the scum-laden streets. Cybill Shepherd pulls her career out of the muck with a convincing performance as Betsy. Al though Harvey Keitel's role as the pimp smacks of excess, his character remains amusingly engaging Scorcese has had previous successes with Mean Streets and Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. Although his films deal with urban American (Scorcese grew New York's Little Italy), filmic style is Soorcese has bril sores up in his peculiarly European liantly employed his operatic framework to fashion a night- marish and disquieting vision of our contemporary urban ills The director has copped a loaded arsenal of cinematic tricks from foreign pregursers and has fused them into a slick sensory statement. Special Photographer Steve Shapiro bathes our vision of New York In sewer steam that envelops Travis’ checkered cab like an omen from Hell; he blends dissolves and multiple ex posures to create a suspended urban environment of smooth, liquid neon. Shapiro's skills are instrumer al in, Taxi Driver's disturbing explor- ation of New York and the Travis Bickles in it. Further- more we see New York and its garbage like Travis Bickle sees it: fragmented, depersonal ized, frightening, surreal. Tt ominous nature of Schraeder’s nightmare story line has been See Taxi, page 3 ————— ee eee ee ae easier retseaaieieisicaisiisnsstaseaioshlsensthasieiesnedinesiainisetbenisdssnsinishssilsniisetlstsinianiibsiselidadiiiatibies + soa | FOUNTAINHEAD/VOL. 51, NO. 66/28 JULY 1976 Ficklen expansionists hit the money trail, again = Prevette alluded to the possibility of the come here for sports events and religious The pro-improvement for Ficklen Stadium people are on the move again, this time they are out to collect $2.5 million for the addition of 19,000 seats and improvement of the press box and playing field. Commentary The last time we heard from the ECU athletic supporters, the goal was better lights and their dictum was punctuated with dollar signs. That unsolicited capital improvement soaked $475,000 from student fees, causing each student’s assessment to increase $6 per quarter. This time the stadium people are taking a less ruthless approach and are attempting to raise the necessary capital from contributions only. As of this week the fund-raising drive is in the organizational stage being headed by John Prevette, an ECU graduate and former town planner at Beth. Prevette said that as of yet only $5,000 had been pledaed. that being given anonymously to get the drive organized. Actual solicitations will not begin until the drive’s Chairman Roddy Jones, and Vice-chairman, Chancellor Leo Jenkins name a local chairman. The fund raisers hope to collect $1 million from the Greenville area alone. With this mark reached they will then turn their attention to statewide and national solicitations, mostly of ECU alumni. expansion program beginning with only $1 million, without improvements. to the field and press box. Whatever the outcome of this drive, credit should be given to the proponents for going to the community for support instead of hanging JOHN PREVETTE-—Project Coereinater Indeed, the Greenville business community will reap the long range benefits of a bigger stadium, especially when large groups of outside people NEWS FLASH FLASHFLASHFLASH Last paper This is the last publication of Fountainhead for the sum- mer session. Look for the campus newspaper this September, beginning with the special orientation edition to be distributed registration fountainhead Editor-in-Chief--Jim Elliott Staff meeting There will be a Fountain- head staff meeting on Thurs- day, September 9 at 4:00 p.m. To those interested in working for Fountainhead this fall writers are needed, and other positions are available. Be there! Advertising Manager--Vicki Jones Business Manager--Teresa Whisenant Production Manager--Jimmy Williams News Edijtor--Dennis Leonard Assistant News Editor--Ray Brinn Trends Editor--Mike Boose Proofreader--Pam Diffee Layout--Cindy Broome Ad Layout-- Helen Moore Photographer--Russ Pogue Fountainhead is the student newspaper of East Carolina University sponsored by the Student Government Association of « ECU and appears each Tuesday and Thursday during the school year, weekly during the summer. Mailing address: Box 2516 ECU Station, Greenville, N.C. 27834 Editorial Offices: 758-6366, 750-6367, 758-6309 Subscriptions: $10 annually for non-students, $6.00 for alumni Applications Free flick The Student Union Coffee- house Committee is now ac- ting applications for the 77 school year. If interested y. May pick up an application in oom 235 (Student Union office) in Mendenhall Bahai Faith A discussion of the Bahai Faith, world’s fastest growing religion, will be held this evening at 7:00 p.m. in Room 238 Mendenhall Student Cent er. If you would like to hear more about this faith, attend this meeting at which a film called God Speaks Again will be shown. Ballots Absentee ballots for the August 17 North Carolina primary may be obtained through Wednesday, August 11, from a student's home county board of elections by writing or visiting his local board or having a close relative fill out the necessary application to receive a ballot. Also, students may want to visit their local boards of elections to fill out the appli- cation and vote at the same time before the August 11 deadline. All absentee ballots must be received by 6 p.m. Monday, August 16, to be counted The Student Union Films Committee, CINERGY, pre- sents on Monday, August 2, 1976, the film, Papillon, star- ring Dustin Hoffman and Steve McQueen in what some say to be one ‘‘ultimate adventure’’. Also hear the Mendenhollywood players! 8:00 Mendenhall Student Center Theatre. Free! Nylon Shirts 25% off Gotanche St. Short Sleeve 20% oft crusades which an expanded stadium could accomodate. For this reason we urge all those in the Greenville community, who favor improvements for the university, and those students who would the to see State play here to contribute to the rive. January, 1977, has been set as the target date for the collection of construction slated to begin after this year’s last home game if the drive goes as planned. With student support the drive could meet its deadlines | and the stadium addition could be a reality by | football season 1977. FAYE & CURT SMITH’S AMOCO CORNER OF 10th EVANS SUMMER SPECIAL TO STUDENTS & ECU EMPLOYEES OIL, FILTER & 10-30 O1L $8.95 LUBRICATION TUNE UP & ALL REPAIRS-GUARANTEED TIRES SPEED BALANCED — 756-3029 OA a a a a a ae A a a ee ee Ae a a a The Guitar Workshop Stringed Instrument Repair LL LL PA PS PPI TD ST, | I I | | | | | ; | I | | I | | | -Refinishing -Custom Work -Factory Parts -Accessories -Guitar, Banjo, Violin Lessons Open 10-1 & 2-5 Daily And By Ar ointment 758-1055 403A Evans Pocketbooks 50% off Downtown Greenville 1758-4354 the $2.5 million with | nas ennial F ing! Thi ibited ir ! Poop Ari The ‘‘Gr t to 1) Anyth mer ica her cre ‘ory of bi is © | eR RRS a eligious 1 could in the ements | The ‘‘Great American Bi- > would tennial Poop Art Show’ is to the ing! This week is the last to bring art to be ibited in the three week et date f 1 with j [Poo Poop Art is defined as: r’S last £ |1) Anything that was made With § merica or is about America adlines j her created by you or a lity by | ‘ory of both! 2) Anything that makes one think about America and in- spires humorous or clever revelations about what makes the U.S.A. tick, or what doesn’t! 3) Anything that is a symbol or cliche of the Ameri- can Dream; Apple pie, Hot dogs, Baseball, Chevrolet, Pink Flamingos, tacky wel- come mats, drinking cups, anything red, white and blue, photographs, paintings, junk, etc. etc.!!! This is not to laugh at TAXI Continued from page 1. ce intensified by Scorcese’s ex- pert integration of recurring circular motifs which mark Travis’ endless routes through the murky New York jungle. Most notable of these motifs is the film's sensual, sledgehammer jazz score. Bernard Werrmann’s pound- ing underscore pushes the film, at moments, to almost unbearable intensities. In con- trast, the fluid, old fashioned saxophone theme heightens parts of Taxi Driver to a lush, dreamy romanticism meshed in a dayglo haze. Herrmann’s excellent score is functionally important because it deepens America, but to make Ameri- ca laugh! All ‘‘art’’ must be delivered to Mendenhall Stu- dent Center Information Cent- er between 3:00 and 5:00 on Thursday, July 29 and Friday, July 30! Bring anything! Big Bicentennial prizes will be awarded to the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd best ‘‘Poop Art!’’ Bicentennial Poop Pai ty The ‘Great American Bi- centennial - Be an American Poop Art Party’ will explode into your life on Wednesday, August 4 at 8 p.m. in our empathy with Travis’ cerebral split between the gutter reality in which -he is forced to live and the ideal of meaning and romance to which he aspires. Taxi Driver does possess its seeming flaws. The vio- lence is hard-core. Characters are sometimes bent and stretched out of their own proportion, presenting a state of irritating ambiguities. Some speak lines peculiar to their roles. Scorcese twists action out of the film's largely realistic framework to achieve his spellbinding effects. He resolves the film with a very cynical and unlikely ending in bb to render his philosophi- SILK SCREENS unlimited located at Sportsworld, Open nightly for your custom designed T-shirts, 756-2233. @ ° THE : @ TREE HOUSE ° & RESTAURANT $ “THE TREE PEOPLE ARE 4 YOUR FRIENDS.” . WE HAVE THE BEST PIZZAS, HOT SUBS,® _ SALADS, & SPAGHETTI INTOWN— e ASK YOUR FRIENDS > TRY OUR FAMOUS PIZZA SPECIALS 8 : MON-—FRI_ 6;00 pm -8;30 pm g © WE NOW SERVE SEALTEST ICE CREAM. ¢ *| TAKE —OUT SERVICE AVAILABLE ®& e PHONE 752-7483 2 = 6666606066606 686€0608 090008686066 686 Mendenhall Gallery. The: evening’s celebration presents the Bicentennial Band with soloists Dana ‘*Poop’ Rich and Muriel ‘‘Poop’’ Flanagan. Also fea- tured is the Hobburk- Fundergood Internationally unclaimed motion picture, ‘America on no Parade’ in, Monocromaticolor and Poop- vision. An immense 200 candle birthday cake will be shared, with oodles of other refresh- ments and a Famous Person cal statement. Such afore- mentioned flaws all point to Taxi Driver's constant oscil- lation from surrealism to realism - a characteristic of the film which may leave some viewers stranded. Taxi Driver's sparse short- comings, however, are dwarf- ed into obscurity by Scorcese’s overshadowing brilliance. He has succeeded in painting an unforgettable portrait about the dark night of the Soul. Scorcese has lurched forth to stab the guts of the human condition, reminding us of the sad and perfunctory crevice into which so many modern commercial films have col- lapsed. FOUNTAINHEAD/VOL. 51, NO. 66/28 JULY 1976 3 ast week to enter Bicentennial ‘Poop’ art show will award the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place Poop Artists with rib- bons and prizes! 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Hunt, for governor. will speak at a campaign rally Thurs., August 12 on the ECU campus. such event planned prior to the August 17 primary, will also have entertainment, a $5-a- plate dinner and the candi- date’s speech. Coliseum — and Stadium, weather permitting. ally for Jim Hunt’’ Commit- for the past 31/2 years, is past president of the State Young Chapel Hill 4 FOUNTAINHEAD/VOL. 51, NO. 66/28 JULY 1976 aarti teen TTT TIT, Rally for Jim Hunt 7 accreng | Scheduled Aug. I2 Lieutenant Governor Jim Democratic candidate The Hunt rally, the last The event is scheduled for area between Minges Fickien organizing organization, Eastern North Carolina s chaired by Ed Warren unt, Lieutenant Governor nocratic Club. He earr elors degree in < jucation at N 4 masters degree in Dultural economics at The candidate also ved a law degree from the sity of North Carolina at unt, a native of Wilson, is ed to the forme: ard of Mingo, !owa, and MASTERCHARG & they have four children. 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