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THE CLARION
November 1, iggg
LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR
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to cope with problems and to
work wiith other people. Do you
question this? Think about it
honestly. It’s up to each indi
vidual student to decide, not
the mass.
Kenny Eaton
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Dear Editor:
On Octo(ber 29, 1968, I walk
ed through the aassroom Biuild-
Ing and stopped to get a drink
of water. As I was waiting in
line, I noticed a sign on the
■wall stating:
“Have you heard a'bouit the
new doll named, Dean Burgess?
Wind her up and she makes a
new rule and laughs!”
I was startled a;t first, almost
amused; but I suddenly became
disigusted with myself when I
saw kids going by joking and
laughing about it. I walked out
and went to my dorm, thinking
about how big a stupid jerk 1
had been for not taking the
sij’n down. The truth is that I
was plain scared. I was scared
of what the students would say.
A mean feeling of hate beat
within me, a self-hate because
T had been gutless. I tried to
rationalize — but I coudn’t, for
inside me I knew the truth. So
I went back and tore down the
poster.
SGA Proposes Changes
So you’re askinig — why did
I do "a dumb thing like tihat?
And I couldn’t give the exact
reason — at least not right
after I took the poster down.
But slowly it came to me. Dean
Burgess is a very real human
being; she is no robot, oonstant-
]v thinking up bad things to do
to the students. I know she has
her faults — but if you haven’t
any, then you must be a deity.
I know she has made mistakes,
and I know also that the stud
ents have the privilege to ques
tion and argue her rulings. But
T know also that she has her
pride, as does anyone, and she
has feeMnigs, as does anyone.
I am 'vholeheantedly in favor
■of the proposals sent to the
Presiden-tjaJ Coundl. I think
they are iust and state the
-general feeling of the students
and I l:elie-e ‘h?+ *hp ma'n basis
for the pj’oro'sa’j; can be stat
ed in one word, MATURITY
We want the chance to be able
to make our own decisions, arj]
to a certain degree, we must
have the chance. But this ma
turity is not jusit a decision
making 'thing. It is the ability
Dear Ed'itor:
It looks as if the SGA is pick
ing on the administration again.
Now they want everything!
They’re asking for reasonable
drinking rules, a sane classcut
system, voluntary chapel, abol
ishment of assinine dress rule.‘-.
They even want to relea^ fte
female students from their im-
prisoniment. What is wrong
with these agitators? They are
trying to force thelir ideas on
people who don’t want to hear
about it.
The proposals that these so
called leaders have made would
give each student the responsi
bility for himself. This may be
fine for people, but others do
not want to have to make their
own decisions for themselves.
They would rather have right
?nd wrong (or a fascimile
bhereoif) spelled out for them.
After all, these rules were
made to help us, to protect us.
It is much easier to aocept the
'visidom of others than to lues-
tion it.
Some students on this campus
have the audacity to ^esum i’
that they can run their own
lives and from their own stan
dards and morals. Such people
are dangerous to a Christian in-
sitibution. How are Christians
going to help people who don’t
need any help? Our mommies
and daddies didn’t send us to
school to be exposed to the
cruel, nasty old world. We
need to be sheltered so that
we can grow up big and strong.
(Who needs to think anyway?)
If the Presidential Council
accepts these proposals, tney
will be throwiog a lot of in
nocent people into a “sink or
sw'im” situation. Only the best
would survive. This is definite
ly not a Christian attitude to
Bill Rankin
The Student Government As
sociation respectfully su'bmits
bhe following proposals whi^
represent those problems of
greatest concern to the student
body. Each pix>blem has been
stated after muich thought and
discussion. We thank the Presi
dential Council for their willing
ness to help US' and hope that
this will be the first step in
better communications between
the administration, faculty, and
students.
We realize that all of our
proposals will not be changed
by the Council, butt we hope that
you will be able bo clarify those
which you feel have value.
The following is a list of the
main problems on campus which
have brought the most student
unrest, * 1
sive absencess from chap
el, as.semblies. and lyceums.
3 Suspension .‘^ould not be
given because of a loss of
four quality points due
to absences from these
functions and classes.
!l
The CLARION
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DRINKING RULE
The students aigree that due
to the Methodist stand on
drinking that drir&iiig cannot
be tolerated on campus, but
the students also feel thast drink
ing off campus should be left
to their own discretion, realiz
ing the fact that they may not
come back to the campus in any
degree of intoxication.
We are sure that the Admin
istration and Faculty realize that
this is a morale problem on
campus, not only because it
forces abstinence, but because
it creates hpyocrisy. (It is no
secret to anyone on campus that
well over one-half of the stud-
edt body indulges.) This hj^-
crisy is poisoning the relation
ship between administrators,
faculty, and students on cam
pus. (Students are afraid to ex
press themselves freely to ad
ministrators, faculty and their
friends for fear of endangering
their status and the status of
others.)
When we came to Brevard,
we did not come under the as
sumption that the Methodist
stand om drinking would be im
posed upon us off campus. In
essence the Methodist Church
is aiding as a tyrannical fafter
in making our moral decisions
for us in regard to drinking off-
campus.
We realize that students are
the legal responsibility of the
college at any time that they
are not under the juriMiction
of their parents. We wish to
point out that legal responsibil
ity should be confined to legal
matters and that a vast majori
ty of the student body are al
lowed to drink according to the
laws of North Carolina.
DEDUCTION OF QUALITY
POINTS
The students feel, along with
a numiber of faouJity members,
that the deduction of quaility
points is an unfair means of
punishment.
The students should not be
penalized by deduioting quality
points for excess absences from
chapel, classes, lyceums, and
assemblies. Since quality points
are not given for these func
tions (except classes), the stud
ents’ hard earned quaility points
should not be deducted for fail
ure to attend.
Our recommendations for
changing this policy are these:
1. These functions should be
on a voluntary basis. A
student who desires to at
tend these functions shows
an interest and will prob
ably benefit from them.
2. Campusm.ent, instead of
quality point deduction
s'hould be given for exces-
SHORTS RULE
The students feel that in or
der to engage in the academic
and social life of a college com
munity in a manner that re
flects the maturity and respon
sibility demanded by suich pur
suits, that they must be af
forded the freedom of e3q)res-
sion necessary for their self-
resipect and meaningful develop
ment through individual de
cision. Therefore, the S.G.A. re
spectfully requests the removal
of the condescending and be
littling code of dress now be
ing imposed upon the Brevard
student body and that it be re
placed by a policy whiA rec
ognizes the student’s ability to
make choices with regard _ to
dress. This would be in keeping
with that level of maiturity
which the college rightfully
might expect of any person
old enough to work, raise a
family, and die in his nation’s
armed services.
The following is a list of prob
lems which are considered by
many as trivial. But to the
students, these problems cause
unnecessary hardship and are
insulting to their degree of ma
turity.
vised. Our recommendation,
are these:
1. Studenits should be able
to take as many cuts as
does not exceed the twen-
ty percent lunit of class
tendance as set forth t>y
the Southern Association
of Colleges. This would in.
elude missing class for any
reason (such as college ac
tivities, illness, etc.)
2. The number of cuts should
be determined by each pro
fessor for his own class.
3. There should be an in.
crease of one class cut for
each student regardless of
academic average. This
would eliminate the double
cut sysitem which is in ef
fect before and after holi
days. (The double out sys
tem restricts some stud
ents from leaving early
and sometimes not being
able to get home at all.)
.. The Student Government As
sociation is asking the Adminis
tration to look at the student
body as mixture, capable situd-
ents and citizens. We realize
that there are those students
who are not mature and need
help; but in helping these peo
ple, which are a minority on our
campus, ' they should not in
fringe or ignore the maturity
of the majority which can be
trusted.
Ootoher 28, 1968
1. The new shorts ruling in
cluding the revisions made
by the Residence Council
last month.
2. The divisions and restric
tions placed on main cam
pus and back campus.
3. Girls being confined to
their rooms one - half hour
after closing hours and be
ing disciplined for not fol
lowing the rule.
4. The needless red tape in
obtaining permission to
leave the campus over
night. At the beginning of
the year, parents filled out
a blank permission form
which stated the conditions
under which their daugh
ter could leave campus.
Why then is there a neces
sity to have additional
permission to leave. As
the system stands now, a
girl must get as invitation
from the place she is go
ing to, get a signed letter
from her parenits saying
that she may go there; she
must sign out with her hall
pr-oators on a green card,
and still she musit sign a
white card which is sent
to her parents telling them
where she went.
5. Students do not see why
they must pay one dollar
for an additional meal
ticket after the first one
is lost. If anything, the
price for a new one should
be lowered.
6. Students cannot understand
the five - dollar automobile
registration fee which is
supposed to be spent on
maintaining and fixing the
parking facilities. If the
money is used for this pur
pose, why do administra
tors, faculty and students
have to drive on the pot-
holed roads of the campus?
REVISIONS TO THE
CUT SYSTEM
The students feel that the
present cut system should be re-
STUDiNTS...
May I express my appreciation
to the men from Green who led
the drive to reopen the Stud
ent Center. Order is possible
without freedom, but freedom
is never possible without some
semblance of order. Freedo-m
demands that we respect the
rights of others.
To paraphrase Shakespeare,
“He who steals my purse steals
trash . . . but he who fildies
from me my right to use the
Tornado room robs me of that
which not enriches him and
makes me poor indeed.’’
Thank you for accepting tins
responsibility of those who deny
freedom to others but want it
only for themselves.
Dean Whicker
and salutations in
Moral Decay
AtBC?
“Now you Pharisees ctoM
the outside of the cup and *
the dish, but inside you J
full of extortion and wide
ness. You fods! Did not J
who made the outside ^
the inside? But give fw g
those things wfhich are
and behold, everything is
for you. T>i„rispes'
“But woe to you Phar _
for you tithe mint and me
every herb, and ne®
tice and the love of (W,
you ought to have ^
out neglecting ,ove
to you
the best seat in the^s^
j you 31®
like graves which are no
places. Woe to you! for yW
like graves which
and men walk f 3^
out knowing it.
The drinking rule
is not causing as ®
to the one^^wto