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l>ublished weekly by students attending Atlantic Christian
College, W ilson, N.C. 27893. The views expressed herein are
not necessarily those of the faculty or administration of ACC.
To The Editor
Settled, Yet Living
To The Student Body,
We, the people of Grace Baptist Church, need interested young
people to share our worship experiences. We are an established
church, but don’t let that scare you — we are striving to become an
important part of the community. And the community does not stop
with the permanent members of our own social class, it includes
college students, political free thinkers, rich people, poor people. In
short we want elements from each aspect of the community to share
with us, to learn with us, to teach us, to worship with us.
Why should you spend your time with us? Better yet, why shouldn’t
you? If you are here from a church at home, make us your temporary
home. If you don’t know God and Jesus, we challenge you to find out
what it is all about. If you have problems, talk them out with us, we are
human, too.
Don’t have a way to come? Well, be in front of Tweety’s at 9:30
Sunday morning and we’ll get you there and back.
Please come at least once, we feel you’ll be back. Ours is not a
stagnant church. If you feel the need to take part in the teaching,
speak up. If you have talent and want to share it through worship, say
so. After all, we all learn through experience with others. Don’t hold
back on something you have to share.
If you will give us a try, we are on the corner of Kincaid and Adams
Street, If you aren’t sure where that is, jsst get on Gold Street behind
the Student Center and go to the blinking caution light and turn right —
you’ve found us. Meet us at Tweety’s if you need a ride.
Charity In California
By ROGER K. BYNUM
The kidnapping of Patricia Hearst, February 4, 1974, by the Svmhin.
Liberation Army, is the first recent use of terrorism in the United StatP. ^
nolitical tactic. Since such incidents have become common in other
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world and this occurrence may be the harbmger of portentous events it i.
perative for the Christian ethicist to evaluate the morality of such actions
values seem to be juxtaposed. The end of social justice, an effective and ethi
means of attaining it, and a non-violent respect for humanity are Christ
principles that appear in tension in the Hearst case. Perhaps a continuing p?
phasis on Love, that once became an mcarnate Mediator, may help us mediat
this disparity and maintain intermediate goals in proper perspective.
The revolutionaries who hold Miss Hearst have accused her parents of
“crimes against the oppressed peoples of the world” and apparently feel theil
major offense is an accumulation of inordinate wealth through the capitalist
system at the expense of relative deprivation for thousands of others. In the
scathing denunciation against selfish materialism, numerous Hebrew and
Christian prophets, including Jesus, concur. One may remonstrate against so
harsh a criticism of an individual but to do so when the agrieved is as influential
as the Hearsts is to elect isolationism and totally shirk the Christian’s respon
sibility for affecting social conditions.
The revolutionary, due to real or imagined injustices, becomes obsessed with
the total justice of his cause. Sergei Nechayev was quoted by Newsweek
February 24, 1974, in this connection; “Whatever promotes the triumph of the
revolution is moral,” he said, “Our business is passionate, complete, ruthless
destruction.” The extreme demands of political and economic turbulence may
make a provisional morality attractive and one may be tempted to circumvent
the rules to achieve justice. However, the Christian gospel has consistently
maintained that so lofty a goal can not be attained by the wrath of man but only
by the grace of God. On one occasion when the apostles wanted to destroy an
inhospitable village, Jesus said, “ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of.”
Later Paul opposed the notion that one may do evil and have good come of it.
Had William Hearst, father of the hostage, been taken captive, our appraisal
of the matter might be quite different. Conditions may occur where revolution is
the only viable means of gaining freedom and opportunity. Instead the S..L.A,
action has degraded Patricia Hearst and her filial ties into an instrument of
terror. Detention and death may sometimes be justifable measures but not when
they are employed indiscriminately without regard to personal responsibility or
guilt.
Christianity has identified only One whose death could prove efficacious for
transgressors and that was not Patricia Hearst. The human condition can not be
elevated by contempt for human dignity and personal autonomy. Ultimately
greater debasement for all who voluntarily participzte in such a cimre must
result.
Friends,
The people of Grace
Baptist Church
We Are Not Alone
An Insult
to English
To all members of the English Department:
This block of Horizontal Prose, which is mine,
Is an insult to your integrity.
Do you think I care if you say I am no poet?
Do 1 care if I’m not adept at sonnet form?
And for your rhymed couplets I do not admire,
This work is your biography, a satire.
I see no point in tearing Shakespeare apart.
Who cares if the rival poet was W. H. or H. W.
I’m not Ben Johnson, I’ll not write an “apology”
In fact, rU write as I see fit, it’s mine
And I say what’s not in an anthology.
Take your writer out of context and time
No matter what, my couplets will not rhyme.
You call me a would-be poet,
I call you mired in a traditional muck.
I refuse to yield the individual to the group
And if sex makes the world go round, go
... replicate the species.
And as for your MA’s, AB’s, Ph.D’s, well
If I need a new alphabet. I’ll give a yell.
You say his style reflected the people.
Who knows, the people couldn’t read.
Talk about poetic justice, why
Some of that trash can’t be read.
Then you hand me a line about great literature.
So, you flunk me with an air of defiance
Next week I’ll slander the department of science.
Briggs Petway
We are not alone as college
students seeking liberalized
school rules but we are one of the
few students bodies fighting, or
should I say requesting, visita
tion privileges. About two weeks
ago this article appeared in the
Richmond Times-Dispatch
concerning two colleges in the
Richmond area: University of
Richmond, a Baptist college,
and Randolph-Macon, another
private school ....
“Some 250 Randolph-Macon
College students staged sleep-ins
at three women’s dormitories
last night following a meeting
with college President Luther W.
White in which he rejected
demands for liberalized
visitation rules at the Ashland
campus ... The students
presented White with a petition
passed by the Student Govern
ment Association and threat
ened not to give the
college financial aid when they
become alumni unless the dorm
rules were relaxed. The petition
was signed by 382of the college’s
830 students. About 200 of the
students are women.
At the 7 p.m. meeting in
Blackwell Auditorium, attended
by about 450 students, White
explained that after study he had
decided against extending
visition hours. Currently, men
and women may have visitors in
their dormitory rooms from
noon to 2 a.m. on Friday and
Satuday and from noon to
midnight on Sunday. The
students are asking for weekday
privileges ...
• About 11 p.m., a 175
students occupied the lobby of
the Mary Branch Dormitory and
75 went to the lobby of New
Dormctory. Later some students
left the two dormitories and
occupied Moreland Dormitory.
They took with them pillows.
sleeping bags and blankets, as
well as radios and television
sets. They were orderly
protesters.
Campus security officers
Thomas Cooley said his orders
were to leave the students alone
unless they damaged property.
Outside one dormitory, some
students had hung White in ef
figy. Shortly before midnight,
about 100 students marched to
WTiite’s home, where they stood
around talking. When White
didn’t come out to meet them,
they left.
“There’s nothing immoral in
our asking for these visitation
privileges,’ said Ed Nottingham,
a 22-year-old senior from Rich
mond who is chairman of the
visitation committee of the SGA.
‘What is boils down to is a
moral issue and the moral
convictions of one person, the
president. But men and women
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do associate without getting into
sex.’
Another protest leaders,
senior Reggie Barley, said the
students were not going to in
terrupt classes over the issue.
‘We’re here to get an education!
But we are trying to get a faculty
resolution for a day ofi to
protest.’
The Ashland college protest
over dorm rules is the second at
an area school within three days
On Monday, 400 University of
Richmond students inarched on
the home of President Bruce
Heilman, seeking relaxed
rules.”
Our trial visitation has ttius
far proved successful and there
have been no incidente ttiat
could cause its final rejection^
We have made peaceful
negotiations. Let us see where
we go from here.
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