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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