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PAGE TWO the clarion October 18. iggj EDITORIAL COMMENTS ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ About Those Cuts... Students, have you missed more than one chap el? You’re going to lose quality points if you have. Contrary to a rumor that has been going around campus, quality points are still deducted for absences from chapel regardless of your scholastic average. This doesn’t seem quite fair, does it? Chapel carries no credit, it is not transferable to other col leges ; in fact it has little value except as a “sacri fice” to our religious patrons. Why then should our failure to attend cost us something that is of value to our college career? Is the God of Moses still so jeal ous that he must wreak a terrible vengeance on the unfaithful? Other methods of punishment have been sug gested to the Presidential Council for those who are negligent in their Wednesday religious obligation. They could be campused, or have class cuts subtract ed, or be required to participate in a chapel service, or be 'put in stocks or pillories, or maybe they should just outright be burned at the stake. Let’s not beat around the bush, at least. Let’s get those heretics! Stone the blasphemers! But let’s not take their QP’s. Scholastics have nothing to do with chapel. Why is there such a need to force chapel atten dance, anyway? Aren’t the students at this Chris tian college really Christians? Are they just playing along with the church for its money? Yawns are so prevalent in those services that it is obvious that our student body i? something less than a band of religious zealots. Not many people here care to go to church on Wednesday. They would probably be more prone to attend something interesting. If we had programs in a somewhat more intellectual vein, something that would raise questions instead of giv ing dead admonitions, then perhaps attendance would be no problem. It isn’t necessary to discard religion, but let’s at least talk about it. In this age, discussion and reason will get more converts than persecution and threats. As Lenny Bruce observed, “More and more peo- 'ple are drifting away from the church and going back to God.” Is it possible that a religiously affili ated college does not seek to find God? Or has the search stopped in Dunham Auditorium. cjCetter ^lie (^dih Dear Editor, We, the youith of today, have more and perhaps do more with ■whait we have than the youth of any other age. The scienitific wise men have oome to offer at our feet tihe gifts of aitomic power, mechaniizaition, and time- saving appliances. With these we must mold our own world. Our goals will be high; they have to be so that the world will progress. Aim low? No! We are forced to achieve with adults whisper- inig in our ears: “Get to college, get grades, be a leader, be the best.” The hiigh school diploma of yesterday has become the college diploma of today. Col lege entraince standards are being raised every year. More of today’s youith are beitter ed ucated at a youmiger age than ever before. Reiligious affilia tions are ait an all time percen tile high, evidence that today’s youth have found FAITH and reailize wihere they are going. We have one blight in our exisitence, the comfortable su burban idyll set uip by the gen eration before us — the piro- ducts of post - war prosperity, the nouveau ridh. We’ve had enough of this split level men tality. We want to be individu als. We’ve grown up in a sta tus - seeking existence. We have Wallace Paces Third Party Movement Of* Address: The Student Body Dear Students, On O'ctober 12, 1&42, Colum bus handed Isabella a whole new world over which to reign. On October 12, 1968, you gave me sovereign rights to a whole lilttle world I love very much! The difference between “us queens” is that I have the most thouightful, generous, and gen- erailly wonderful ‘^subjects” in any land. As you would say: “You are the most.” Thank you for one of the greatest surprises and one of the happiesit experiences of my life. (Mrs.) Peg McLanty Regina Not since the Progressive Party of the 1924 Presidenltiiail election has America witnessed a third party as successiful as the one being conducted by George Wallace today. Beginning with the modest suppO'i^t of only a few sitates, at ithis writing he is on the bal lots of nearly all fifty and pol ling 15 million (20%) of the national vote. In what has become known as “The speech” he includes all of the themes of his campaign; de-(cenltraliziation of government, criticism of the oourte, an end to the isuibversive “Communiste, anarchists and hippies,” and most emphatically, law and order. Wallace has capitalized on the grow'iag fears of his “lit tle people” over crime and cor ruption, and his momentum has vet to level off. In his been forced to grow up much too soon. We’ve got mascara on our lollipops. We’ve had enough of the country club, the red M.G. and the colonial ranch. We Wiant to make something of ourselves by using the talents that God gave us. We do not want to be hemmed in by the hypocrisy of the suiburbs. Who paints the picture of the low-aimiinig teenager? The press and T.V. dilsplay the medi- core family situaition comedies with “Quentin Quarterback” perennially surrounded by beau- Helen Furr Fund Established A nev/ finianciai loan for pros pective music majors was set up this pasit Saturday fa honor of Mrs. Helen Fiitrr, fo^rmer sec retary at Brevard College in the Music Department. The loan was organized and sponsored by apiproxim,aitely 20 1968 graduates of Brevard College who ma jored in music. According to Mr. Nelson Adamis, Head of the Music Department, the students rais ed the money themselves, and the whole idea was conceived and supported by the former BC students. The situdents presented a check for $100 to the depart ment Saturday. The loan is to become an annual presentation. rhetoric he reflects and en- stills a bitter mood that reaches almost fanatical propoirtions. At each rally, the threat of violence between heckleirs and supporters prevades the atmos phere; indeed, scuffles have be come ineviiitabile olcicurrences. Regardlesis of the outcome of this election, Wallace will pos sess influeinice in Congress. That he already has exhibited this strengith is evident in the re cent declaration oif the Repub lican House Leader, Rep. Gerald Fo^rd, stating that other House Republicans will niot lose their seniority if local demands make it necessary for »them to sup port Wallace rather than Nix on. Because of his finanoial as well as popular support, it has been forecast that the Wal lace movement will not fade cut in the years to come. To the contrary, it will oontinue to exert a force on politics that will have to be bairgained wdth. The resulting effect this could have on the people is anything but optimistic. But Wallace himself is only incidental to the real cause of apprehension; instead, it is remarkable that he is repre- sentiag the views of millions of Americans. Are You Important Students everywhere There are millioinis of them with more coming all the time’ As itihe student and world ponl ulation explode, individual seem to become less and Ip® significant. In a few weeks America will go to the polls. What differ ence can a situdenit’s support for a candidaite make? Let history speak for itself. In 1945 Oliver Cromwell was named Lord Protector of Great Britain by the House of Com- moesi. The wte was 91 to 90 In 1800 Thomas Jetfferson was eleated President of the United States by the House of Repre sentatives after he and Aaron Burr had received an idenitical number o-f votes in the electoral college. The majority he re ceived in Congress was one vote. In 1839 Marcus Morton, can didaite for Governor of Mas sachusetts, needed 51,034 votes to defeat the rival candidate, Edward Everett. He received exactly that number. In 1867 an effort was made in the United States Senate to impeach President Andrew Johnson. When the Senate vote was taken, the motion to eon- ■'/'ict received 35 favorable votes, and 19 against. The motion lost beicause it fell short of the re quired two-'thirds majority by one vote. In 1867 Rutherford B. Hayes was elected IQith President of of the United States over Sam uel J. Tilden after a balloting dispute. The electoral college vote was 185 to 184. The elec toral commission which settled the dispute decided in favor of the Hayes electors by a vote of 8 to 7 on key issues. In 1941 a bill to extend mili tary conscription for the dura tion of the national eimergency passed the United States House of Representatives by a vote of 203 to 202. Less than three mionthis later Pearl Harbor was bomibed. One student’s support and vote for one candidate ca® make the difference. (This article was _ adapted from the November issue w Billy Graham’s monthly puMi- cation. Decision.) tiful girls of the “Carlene Cheer leader” type, wiho are constant ly on the telephone for hours on end. Believe it or not, we are not all characters out of Where the Boys Are. We are individ uals, each with a talent, each with a goal. The studenits of today feel a —Turn to Page Four The CLARION The VOICE of Brevard College Wayne Morton Editor-in-Chief Ronnie H. Smith Associate Editor Dorothy Bangs Business Editor Bruce Armes News Editor Sherry Baldwin Feature ^ Bob Williamson Science Editor Ronnie Smith, Larry Nelson Sports Edi or Teresa Lax, Bill Rankin, Monte Sharpe Columniste Kickey Nichols, Tony Gavlin .V Jimmy Thames, Robbie Tillotson Cartoon's Rory Blake, John Copes van Hasselt photograp 6 (Brevard College Public Relations) . Mrs. Ena Kate Sigmon Published weekly during the college session, exception of holidays and examination periods, jj ents of Brevard College. 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