PAGE TWO
THE CLARION
November 8
1963
Guest Editorials
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Making Of A Nation
Our freedom in America is a priceless possession
which the majority of its citizens take for granted.
Pride for America seems to be superficial to these
people. Although Americans are immensely con
cerned and disturbed with the Vietnam war — but
what about our own homeland?
Men make the supreme sacrifice to protect fr^-
dom and aspirations of freedom in foreign countries
while there is fighting on the home front. With riote
and protests, young people are destroying the possi
bility of becoming future leaders.
They want to try something new, like smoking
pot and taking LSD. Needless to say, this is slowly
killing more young Americans than any war. The
Soviet Union doesn’t need any nuclear weapons.
America will destroy itself in time.
But time is precious and running out.
To make use of our time could result in greater
assets.
Why is all the violence and vulgarity necessary
in America and in its educational institutions? To
day, we seem uninterested in standards. Instead we
worry about unimportant things.
in our own “intellectual community,” why the
issue of dress rules and other seemingly trivial things?
Why can’t we worry about the attitudes of our
fellow student? Cleanliness, for example, is import
ant for our nation. What kind of pride does it take
to throw trash on the campus or crush a cigarette on
the Classroom Building floor?
Admit it. America is a beautiful country. It
should not be abused by true Americans.
What about freedom?
When you cannot walk down the streets in your
own town and be safe, is this freedom?
If we can improve our school and country, then
perhaps American conformity will prevail. Perhaps
America can be m.ade a better place in which to live
and receive an education.
If you love America, if you are an American, why
not try a little harder to improve it.
Think about the other fellow.
Before judging a person by his appearance, first
take a good look at yourself.
And see what kind of American vou are.
THE HUSTLER
Westminster High School
(Slightly altered)
(S. C.)
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Sherry Baldwin Feature Editor
Bob Williamson Science Editor
Ronnie Smith, Larry Nelson Sports Editors
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Rory Blake, John Copes van Hasselt Photographers
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Soc. Class Hears
Miss Ellsivorth
On October 30, Sociology 21
students were privileged to hear
Miss Christina Ellsworth speak
on her experiences as a social
worker in Chicago and Wilming
ton, Deleware.
In the summer of 1986, Miss
Ellsworth worked in the slum
district of Chicago’s infamous
Cook County at the Beacon
Neighborhood House. Here she
came in daily contact with the
Negro population of that area.
Although her work was cut
short because of the violent
race riots of that summer, she
described her stay as most val
uable. Her firs't - hand observa
tions presented the students
with an inside view into the life
of the urban Negro ghetto in
this country.
Miss Ellsworth told the stud
ents that few of the children
she taught came from normal
homes with normal family rela
tionships. Bu/t she also describ
ed the toughness of the chil
dren and their ability to make
the best of life, “They are fight
ers,” she said. “They are like
nuts. You have to crack the
shell to get to the meat.”
The next summer Miss Ells
worth worked in Wilmington,
Delaware, with Negro children
from middle - class families.
Describing the differences be
tween these children and the
children of Chicago’s East Side,
Miss Ellsworth told how the ajt-
Plans For Sims Student
Center Progressing
Preliminary planning for the
Sims Studenit Center is con-
I tinuing in the College Develop-
I ment Committee, chairman iMrs.
i Grace i\Iunro announced Tues-
! day.
■ The Committee, which was
I formed by the late President of
I Brevard College, E. K. MoLar-
I ty, Jr., during the lasit six years
has offered advice to the Col
lege administration and board
of trustees concerning needs of
the campus.
The Brj'an Moore Science
Building, Boshamer Gymnasium,
Lena Sue Beam Dormitory,
Grier Beam Administraition
Building, A G. Myers Dining
Hall and James Addison Jones
titudes of the parents were re
flected in the children. In Dela
ware she was welcomed into
the homes of the children, but
in Chicago where tensions ran
high, the parents were often un
friendly or even hostUe.
To illustrate her talk, Miss
Ellsworth used pictures and
newspaper clippings of her two
summers’ work.
Since Mrs. Harris’s classes
are studying minority groups at
the present time, everyone
seemed to find Miss Ellsworth’s
talk an interesting and valuable
insight into their studies.
THE SEVENTH SEAL
To Be Shown In Gym
As part of the Featival of!
Contemporarv Arts, the motion
picture THE SEVENTH SEAL
will be presented in Boshamer
Gj-mnasium, November 9, at 8:15
p.m. and November 10, at 7:30
p. m. The movie, made in 1956,
has twice captured the Inter
national Jur>’ Award ait the Can
nes Film Festival.
THE SEVENTH SEAL is one
of the acknowledged movie mas
terpieces of the Swedish direc
tor, Ingmar Bergman. Having
achieved instant acclai mand
box office success in the art
film theaters of the United
States, Bergman became the
movie director to watch.
The film title comes from
the opening of the seventh and
last seal in ithe Book of Revela
tion in the New Testament. The
film itself is set in the Middle
Ages during a seige of the
black plague. Returning from
the Crusades, a disillusioned
knight searches for God and the
meaning of life and death. In
his search, he plays chess with
Death, who is stereoitj'ped with
a white face and a black cloak.
The character takes under his
protection a squire, a troupe of
traveling players and a deaf
and dimib girl. Death leads
away most of these characters in
a literal and macabre Dance of
Death at the film’s conclusion.
Basically, the film explores
man’s doubts, his alienation, and
his salvation,
Bergman said of his SEVEN
TH SEAL, “'My intention has
been to paint in the raw way as
the medievail Church painters,
with the same objective inter
est, with the same tenderness
and joy.”
ATTENTION
FRESHMEN!!
Second semester Freshmen who have completed
and passed English 11 are qualified to take Journal
ism. Freshmen who take this course learn the basic
fundamentals of newspaper work and also help with
the publication of the CLARION, the weekly voice of
Brevard College. For more infonnation, con
tact Mrs. Sigmon of the English Department.
Library have been constructed
in the current building prosram
“The student center is one
of the College’s most prresing
needs,” Mrs. Muoro said. “We
lack adequaite space for recrea
tional activities, tihe college
store, post office, and student
government and publications of
fices. With the addition of the
Sims Student Cenlter, many of
our current problems will be
solved.”
The building will recognize
the labor of Allen Sims, Chair
man of the Board of Trastees
in behalf of the college. Under
his leadership the development
program has been brought to
its present level.
“We have discovered,” Mrs,
Munro added, “that many stud
ent centers are planned by fat
ulty and administration without
much consideration of student
needs. We are hoping to avoid
that danger by inviting stud
ents to express their views in
the planning of the building.
“Requests have already gone
to the SGA for student partici
pation in a visit to the new stud
ent union at Western Carolina
University at Cullowhee,” she
added.
Several other recently built
facilities will be visited during
the winter months
(Contributed by Louis Miles,
EC Faculty)
Library Adds
Science Materials
Brevard’s able library has
been keeping the shelves fill
ed with contemporary literature
for the science minded students.
Each year the library buys new
books that apply to all the vari
ous departments and this year
has been especially beneficial
to the Science departmeot.
Perhaps the best addition to
the library in respect to the
sciences is the last two volumes
of the American Men of Science
series. This is a reference series
consisting of eight volumes and
covering every imaginable
scientific subject. Prior to fall
of 1968 the library had the
first six volumes which only
covered the physical and biolo
gical sciences but the two new
volumes -are concerned with the
social and behavioral sciences.
Thus, term paper topics in any
of the sciences can be readily
discovered in this complete ref
erence series.
There 'have also been a num
ber of good, contemporary boofa
on scientific material roade
available. Scientists Who WorK
with Cameras by Poole
Poole; and Battimo and
Thermodynamics: An
tion offer physics students go^
source material. Zoology stu
ents may find stimulating
havioral information on The
sects by Lujiham Also, a very
contemiporary work,
Concepts of Science by Grayson
and Smith offers a knowledge m
all the sciences. ,
Thujs, B.C.’s library provides
an able means of
scientific knowledge to any
desire it. The future Eins eiM
at Brevard should have no
ble building a scientific Wck-
ground for their future discov
eries.