HI helped ist for While 'or the o men st and Bobby 7 last Fountainhead Serving the East Carolina Community for over 50 years EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY GREENVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA VOL. 51, NO. 66 28 JUL Y 1976 m mu mmm BUC faces contract dilemma By DENNISC. LEONARD News Editor Multiples Studios, who was contracted last Spring by the BUCCANEER, has recently refused to honor its contract and has asked BUC Editor Monika Sutherland to neglect the Fall shooting schedule. "In April the Publications Board received bids for por- trait photography and they decided to sign a contract with Multiples of New York said Sutherland. "Thecontract was signed between myself and Michael Cantoni, a Multiples sales representative According to Sutherland the contract called for a photographer to come from New York for five different sitting sessions free of charge 0 ECU students, secondly hey were to send photograph- s down five times to photo- raph anything the BUC- ANEER office requested free f charae. thev were to provide 300 rolls of film, and they were to offer a $2 rebate to the BUCCANEER fa 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 honor the contract in the Fall. M ultipics informed Suther- land that the contract she signed was not a standard contract and that it had not been approved by the presi- dent of the firm, thus voiding the contract. "I called the SGA and asked them what to do because there was no Pub Board. SGA President Tim Sullivan was not in his office and I 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, Crisp ana uranyrnyre, the newly retained SGA legal firm and William Grantmyre stated that there was a possibility of suit. "I saw Sullivan later and he personally felt that the company had violated its con- tract and the decision to sue would be left up tome Sutherland then called Multipics while in Grant- myre' s office and Grantmyre felt that the photo company was bound to the contract. The president of the firm again said that there was no way the contract could be fulfilled and restated that Cantoni made agreements that were not feasible. The com- pany spokesman further noted that Cantoni represented him- self as the vice-president of the compaiy instead of the sales representative that he actually was. According to Sutherland, there are three courses of action that the SGA can take against Multiples Studios. The first course would be that the firm would have to come down to ECU and honor the contract. Secondly, the BUC- CANEER could sue Multipics Studios fa breach of contract. Thirdly, Multipics could release the BUCCANEER from the contract and pay them $4,000 in damages which the BUCCANEER is going to suffer due to the contract denial by the photography firm. "I would prefer settlement of the $4,000 damages cost because personally I do not want them to come down here to take photos because I 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 advantage of having a legal firm represent that course of action. �buccaneer C W to At St ueoonqo. BUCCA NEER - The ECU student yearbook is presenting facing a photo dilemma due to contract disputes. Special edition to appear Fall Quarter RTIST CONCEPT of expanded Ficklen Stadium - A fund drive is resently underway for the expansion of Ficklen Stadium that will increase the seating capacity from 16,000 to 35,000, fund raising being handled by Regional Development Institute. Fountainhead will publish a special aientatioi editioi to be distributed on registration day Fall Quarter. In this editiai students, freshmen as well as returning upperclassmen, will find a handy guide to campus facili- ties and services. There will also be a section identifying various businesses in the Greenville area. The issue is designed as reference fa ECU students this year. Ten thousand copies will be printed. eNiro finds cinematic success in TAXI DRIVER � I By LARRY S. SLAUGHTER Staff Writer film by Martin Scorcese reenplay by Paul Schraeder Martin Scacese's dazzling macabre Taxi Driver is jising into culture-starved feeenville this week. This fk, brooding and sensually rwhelming film is a fine jmatic accomplishment it no serious moviegoer jld faegr particularly in jit of the trash that has been foding Greenville movie reensasof late. It is highly able that we will continue 1 plagued the remainder of summer by the likes of i garbage as Lifeguard and iwmpsand will get but a few Irerdue treats such as jckoo's Nest and The Omen. en months after its release, hxi Driver promises to as- kult the Pitt Theatre with a jree of sophistication un- �MMWMM common to recent Greenville off ;ngs. However, if you are one who attends films to be exclusively entertained by light-hearted fanfare, I would suggest that you avoid Taxi Driver like the Dlaaue. 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 a 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 effat as an exclusive blood bath to attract its masses. Taxi Driver is a colafui and mesmerizing portrait of mmmmtmmmmmmmmmm a lonely existential man stranded and desperate fa meaningful existence in the grime and neon of New Yak City. Robert DeNiro gives an Oscar-deserving perfamance as a cabbie who is so intensely infected with his own sense of alienation and disgust fa the "scum ai the streets" that he continually ruminates about "cleaning this place up DeNiro's Travis Bickle, in typical Western wald fashiai, 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, doperssick. Venile. Someday a real rain'II cone and wash them all away Travis spends time in his dingy oie rccm flat when he's not auising around in his cab. � mi ' i iim His ills begin to trouble him to much that he can's sleep at nights. He waks double and triDle shifts. He poos 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 sheor inno- cent ignaance, Travis courts Betsy to a pano movie. She interprets his choice of movies as a personal insult and flees. Here, Travis' last cad to objective reality is severed. The schizophrenic fissure in Travis' lonely soul deepens and the wald falls prey to his messianic, grandiose mission. Travis Bickle is At Large. Robert DeNiro's per- famance is so exact as the fragmented Travis Bickle that it will be a travesty if the Academy declines to award him. Scacese 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 Yak sidewalks. JaJie Foster, who was last seen in 1974' s A lice Doesn' t Live Here Anymore, gives a knockout perfamance as the 12 year old child-whae 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. Scacese has had previous successes with Mean Streets and Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. Although his films deal with urban American saes (Scacese grew up in New Yak's Little Italy), his filmic style is peculiarly European. Scacese has bril- liantly employed his operatic framewak to fashion a night- marish and disquieting vision of our contempaary urban ills. The directa has copped a loaded arsenal of cinematic tricks from faeign precursers and has fused them into a slick sensory statement. Special Phaographer Steve Shapiro bathes our vision of New Yak in sewer steam that envelops Travis' checkered cab like an omen from Hell; he blends dissolves and multiple ex- posures to aeate a suspended urban environment of smooth, liquid neon. Shapiro's skills are instrumc al in, Taxi Driver's disturbing explor- ation of New Yak and the Travis Bickles in it. Further- mae we see New' Yak and its garbage like Travis Bickle sees it: fragmented, depersonal- ized, frightening, surreal. The ominous nature of Schraeder's nightmare stay line has been See Taxi, page 3. ������� 2 FOUNTAINHEADVOL 51, NO. 6628 JULY 1976 mm m mmmm m Ficklen expansionists hit the money trail, again 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 Dledaed, 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 oollect $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. Prevette alluded to the possibility of the 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 students by their heels to get needed change. The "Gr itennial F ning! Thi to Ited ir JOHN PREVETTE-Project Coordinator Indeed, the Greenville business community will reap the long range benefits of a bigger stadium, especially when large groups of outside people come here for sports events and religious ausades which an expanded stadium could l.35 accomodate. For this reason we urge all those in the Greenville community, who favor improvements fa the university, and those students who would like to see State play here to contribute to the drive. January, 1977, has been set as the target date . fa the collection of the $2.5 million with i construction slated to begin after this year's last home game if the drive goes as planned. With I student suppat 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 A ECU EMPLOYEES OIL, FILTER 10-30 OIL $8.95 LUBRICATION TUNE UP A ALL REPAIRS-GUARANTEED TIRES SPEED BALANCED 756-3029 newsFL r L Ab Last paper Staff meeting Applications Free flick 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 day. 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! fountainhead Editor-in-Chief-Jim Elliott Advertising Manager-Vicki Jones Business Manager-Teresa Whisenant Production Manager-Jimmy Williams News Editor-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, 751-6367, 758-6309 Subscriptions: $10 annually for non-students, $6.00 for alumni The Student Union Coffee- house Committee is now ac- ting applications fa the 77 school year. If interested y may pick up an application in Hoom 235 (Student Union offioe) 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. inRoom 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. The Student Union Films Committee, CINERGY, pre- sents on Monday, Augus 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! The Guitar Workshop Stringed Instrument Repair -Refinishing -Custom Work -Factory Parts -Accessories -Guitar, Banjo, Violin Lessons Open 10 - 1 & 2 - 5 Daily And By Ar oointment 758-1055 403A Evans 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. SALE Nylon Shirts 25 off Shorts 20 off Jewelry 50 off T-shirts 50 off Short Sleeve 20 off mmsmm0m Jeans 20 off Belts 50 off Pocketbooks 50 off Cotanche St. Downtown Greenville 758-4354 it c m� m linmim MMMM K V in eligious i could in the ements ) would to the et date , i with r's last . . With I adlines lity by I FOUNTAINHEADVOL 51, NO. 6628 JULY 1976 3 II'WH llil 'MHII mmm mnw Last week to enter Bicentennial 'Poop' art show i The "Great American Bi- rtennial Poop Art Show is ning! This week is the last inos to bring art to be libited in the three week w! Poop Art is defined as: 1) Anything that was made Vmericaor is about America ether created by you or a lory 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 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 Amorican Poop Art Party" will explode into your life on Wednesday, August 4 at 8 p.m. in 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( Monocromatioola and Poop- vision. An immense 200 .candle birthday cake will be shared, with oodles of other refresh- ments and a Famous Person will award the 1 st, 2nd and 3rd place Poop Artists with rib- bons and prizes! A multifaoeted, Bicenten- nial Bonanza awaits everyone. It's all FREE except one thing - Everyone must dress up in red, white and blue in some normal or aeative fashion. Come be a part Be an American The show erf Poop Art will remain on exhibition until August 19, 1976 when the Pooped Out Student Union Art Exhibition Committee (ILLUMINA) will call it quits (question about the show?? call 758-6611 ext 213.) t;f ������ ����������� TAXI Continued from page 1. 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 Herrmann'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 exoellent score is functionally important because it deepens our empathy with Travis' cerebral split between the gutter reality in which he is foroed 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. Soorcese 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 order to render his philosophi- Lk scpeens unlimited T-shirt Shop located at Sportsworld, Open nightly for your custom designed T-shirts, 756-2233. � t THE TREE HOUSE RESTAURANT "THE TREE PEOPLE ARE YOUR FRIENDS WE HAVE THE BEST PIZZAS, HOT SUBS SALADS& SPAGHETTI IN TOWN- ASK YOUR FRIENDS TRY OUR FAMOUS PIZZA SPECIALS MON-FRI 6;00 pm -8;30 pm WE NOW SERVE SEALTEST ICE CREAM. TAKE -OUT SERVICE AVAILABLE PHONE 752-7483 cal statement. Such afore- mentioned flaws all point to Taxi Driver's oonstant 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 brillianoe. He has succeeded in painting an unforgettable portrait about the dark night of the Soul. Sooroese has lurched forth to stab the guts of the human oondition, reminding us of the sad and perfunctory crevice into which so many modern commercial films have col- lapsed. SHIRTS AND �f SUMMER SALE ON GIRL'S TOPS AND SHIRTS FOR GUYS Vfe PRICE �PONCHOS NDIAN WEAR COSTE STYLES? � LA � SUBLOSTATIC PRINTS � ALL S.O.B. JEANS 9.00 Downt�gn on Evans St. Mall ; UBE COUPON SALE 50' T-SHIRTS 50 50 1 T-SHIRTS 50� 50COFF ON ALL T-SHIRTS WITH THIS COUPON UNIVERSITY BOOK EXCHANGE COTANCHE ST. DOWNTOWN GREENVILLE mm mum mm wmm mm mmm mmm mmmm mm mmm mil in in � i i 4 FOUNTAINHF.ADVOL 51, NO. 6628 JULY 1976 m mm ijWMlliKIMWarf Rally for Jim Hunt Scheduled Aug. 12 wmmmmm mm CLASSIFIEDS Lieutenant Governor Jim Hunt, Democratic candidate for governor, will speak at a campaign rally Thurs August 12 on the ECU campus. The Hunt rally, the last such event planned prior to the August 17 primary, will also have entertainment, a $5-a- plate dinner and the candi- date's speech. The event is scheduled fa the area between Minges Coliseum and Ficklen Stadium, weather permitting. The organizing organization, the "Eastern North Carolina Rally for Jim Hunt" Commit- tee, is chaired by Ed Warren. Hunt, Lieutenant Governor for the past 3112 years, is past president of the State Young Democratic Club. He earned a , bachelors degree in agricul- tural education at N.C. State and a masters degree in agricultural economics at State. The candidate also earned a law degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Hunt, a native of Wilson, is married to the former Carolyn Leonard of Mingo, Iowa, and they have four children. HELP WANTED: Fountain- head is seeking students to work on the paper beginning this Fall Quarter. Positions open include: circulation man- ager and assistants, advertis- ing manager, salespersons and layout help. Apply at the Fountainhead office any Wed- nesday between 2 and 3 p.m. or leave name and phone numbers at Mendenhall room 222. BOOK TRADER located corner of Evans and Eleventh Sts. Trade your paperback books. Buy used paperbacks also oomic books. Open Tuesday- Saturday. Hours9.O0-400. HELP WANTED in dining room and kitchen at the Modern Yacht Club in Wash- ington, N.C. Phone 946-1514 between 9.00-5.00. MARLENA PARKER has finally consented to release her famed beauty diet to college students only. Look and feel like the models do. Guaranteed ten pounds in two weeks. Send one dollar for oomplete diet. An additional dollar fa seven recipes. Send to Marlena Parker's School of Beauty, 10203 Santa Monica Blvd Beverly Hills, Ca. 90067. DO YOU NEED SOM E PLACE DIFFERENT TO GO? ENJOY YOUR LEISURE TIME AT THE SUNSET 119 E. 5th ST. GOOD QUALITY Alverez guitar 6 months old. Hardly used. Cost $150.00. Sell fa $75.00. Call 752-3414 after 6O0p.m. 'H CHARCOAL patraits by Jack Brendle. 752-4272. RAZZ JAZZ RECORDS Georgetown shoppes, Greenville $6.98 L�8t albums jM qq SAVE $-80 to 1-00 on your new music I Cut-out records $2.49-up JAZZ' the best selection in Eastern North Carolina - $2.99 - up We also have magazines discount priced, plus pipes, bongs, & many other head items Papers - $.30 &Un& Apache silversmith is in RAZZ JAZZ every Wed. thru Sat. with a turquoise & silver jewelry show JIM HUNT, candidate for governor, will speak at 7 l n. 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