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CLARION
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VOICE
Of BREVARD COLLEGE STUDENTS
Vnlume XXXVI
City Police
Foil Melee
On Campus
BREVARD COLLEGE, BREVARD, N. C., FEBRUARY 28, 1969
Number 19
Brevard police rfficers had
t/be summoned in the waning
Vos of Saturday Mght to
J^tder to the Brevard
?OTOwball fight involving
reSdents of all thr^ men’s
ionnitories resulted m sever^
jcts of vandanalism. The late
hour onslaught began as a
harmless escapade but ev^ved
into a holocaust of destruction.
Obscene taunts from dormitory
windows diverted the pow
bailers from human targets to
windows.
With the arrival of the po
lice and the threat of arrest,
the Melee was quickly controll
ed.
Damage from the snowball
fight has yet to be estimated,
but it may be considerable.
Concerned Students Activist
Movement Brews on Campus
Masquers Will
Hold Tryouts
Tryouts for the Brevard Col
lege Masquer presentation will
be held Monday and Tuesday
evening at 6:30 in the Barn
Theater. The play, a musical,
is ‘The Education of Hyman
Kaplan.”
There are fifteen speaking
roles in the play, nine male and
six female. Mres. Rhuemma
Miller, play director, stated
that all students are encourag
ed to try out for the play by
the Masquers as the cast will
not be limited only to Masquer
The Concerned Students Ac
tivist Movement (CSiAM) an
nounced in a meeting Friday,
February 21, the intentions and
spirit of the organization.
Because of anxiety over the
possibility of the college ad
ministration aborting the or
ganization, CSAM would like to
arrange meetings with admin
istrative otEfidals with the
idea of combining a “coordi
nated effort” to see the objec
tives of the organization real
ized.
“We certainly do not intend
to disrupt any of the college
policies,” commented one of the
executive board members, but
there are areas on student de
velopment that have been woe
fully lacking.
"Rather, it is our feeling that
as an organization independent
of the college, we can supple
ment the educational aims of
the institution by making Bre
vard students conscious of the
need to become activated in
areas of furthering world peace,
civil rights and social develop
ment of the deprived.”
In regard to civil rights,
CiSMA will work in cooperation
with the Inter - Church Coun
cil, headed by Father Keith
of the Episcopal Church in
Brevard. Of particular concern
in this area is the reported
segregationist policies erf the
high school and the racist at
titude of the town as a whole.”
The executive board members
of CSAM are planning to at
tend town government meetings
to promote better race rela
tions.
CSAM is also affering a tu
toring program for the depriv
ed Negro children of Brevard
and began operation Monday in
the Civic Center. About 15 tu
tors participated.
Concerning the Viet Nam
war, CSAM is not directly con
cerned with the war crimes of
either side or for that matter,
Viet Nam as a separate concern
itself. “We are against all war
and cannot justify the idea of
‘kill for peace’ under any dp-
cumstances,” said a board men»-
ber recently.
It is in the spirit outlined
above that CSAM hopes to con
tribute to the college itself and
to the town of Brevard. The
next meeting of CSAM will be
held today in the Student
Union. All interested student*
are invited to attend.
Evidence Is Presented By
U-M Of Communication Gap
Drama Club members.
The Masquer production last
semester, “The Rainmaker,”
won much acclaim and was
viewed at both performances
by a standing-room-only audi
ence.
WiU Soviet “Normalization”
Affect Universities?
(GPS)—In the early days of
last year it was the young
Czechs esipecially who caused
the “'Czechosolvakian question”
to burst upon the western
press. They were the crea
tors, or at least the promoters,
of the “new trend” for that
country of eastern Europe.
In August it was youth, work
ers and students together, who
opposed desperate scorn to the
Russian tanks invading the na
tional territory. At the start
of this year it is from them
again, the unyielding universi
ty students of Prague, that pro
test is heard — even if less
loud — against the directives
laid down for the government
and the Czechoslovakia party by
the Soviet occupiers.
Recent news gives some ex
amples. Halfway through Oc
tober teaching was resumed in
the Czechoslovakin universities;
the students at once organized-
with discretion - a check of
the entrances to all the facul
ties to prevent citizens from
other Warsaw Pact countries
ironi mixing with the students.
In the Faculty of Law (Pra-
^icka Fakulta), among the
1200 students enrolled in the
five - year course, support for
Duibcek was still very strong.
In November, when they were
forced to abandon a mass anti
soviet demonstration, the Pra
gue university students held a
“sit - in” lasting for several
days. This took place at the
same time as the work of the
Communist Party Central Com
mittee, which was to end with
acceptance of the course of ac
tion laid down by Moscow. On
the 16th of the month the uni
versities of Olomouc and Le-
berec were occupied, as well p
the Agricultural College in
Prague where 3,500 students
are enrolled.
There were continual meet
ings in the occupied faculties,
action committees and c(OT-
mittees for cooperation be
tween universities and fac
tories. This unrest seemed to
show that the policy of liberal
ization begun in January and
brusquely interrupted hy tne
Russian tanks was still alive
and kicking.
At a strictly university level
— which is all that is at pres
ent conceded to the combative
young Czechs - students an
professors have dravra up a
—Turn to Page Foui
Ann Arbor, Mich. (I.P.)
Parents of University of Mich
igan freshmen prefer stricter
rules about campus conduct—
perhaps more restrictions by
the University than they them
selves impose at home. In ad
dition, today’s parents make
little distinction between ex
pectations for sons and daugh
ters.
These are some of the con
clusions from a survey of par
ents of freshmen conducted by
the U-M Student Affairs Coun
seling Office. Parents were
asked to indicate the degree
of choice they permit their
children at home and which
they would like the Universi
ty to allow.
The survey dealt with such
matters as drinking, smoking,
dating, friendships, using a car,
entertaining the opposite sex,
and making educational and vo
cational choices.
Some 4,600 freshmen enter
ed the University last fall. Par
ents of about half of them
completed and returned the
anonymous questionnaire. They
rated each of the activities list
ed for their children at home
and on campus on a scale of
five ranging from “no choice”
to “completely free choice.
‘^On campus, parents indicat
ed a desire that their son or
daughter be permitted little or
no choice regarding the condi
tions for entertaining the oppo
site sex, including weekend
hours and use of the car,” the
report says.
Parents reported close con
trol at home over entertaining
the opposite sex, smoking, and
drinking. Slightly over half the
parents said they give their
children little or no choice re
garding entertainment the op
posite sex, and half reported
similar strict control over smok
ing and drinking. On matters
such as vocational and educa
tional choices or travel, par
ents said they exercised much
less control.
Although the conditions at
home and on campus are not
fully equivalent, parents ap
pear more protective of their
children on campus than they
were at home.
Of greater significance, the
Counseling Office report says,
is the apparent lack of com
munication that exists between
parents and their college - age
children. While University
students stress that they must
learn how to make responsible
choices as part of growing up,
parents are variable in allow
ing them this freedom.
‘Tarents doubtless recoignize
that their children must grow
up and assume responsibility
for their own actions, yet are
reluctant to have this freedom
of choice begin at the time of
entrance to the University. Ad
ministration and faculty, on
the other hand, accept the fact
that students are entering
adulthood and must be permit
ted — and aided — to accept
adult responsibility.
UMCOR Battles
Against Crises
In 1968. the United Methodist
Committee for Overseas Re
lief (UMCOR) answered emer
gency calls for help from 22
countries, and continues to re
spond to the “big three” dis
aster areas — Vietnam, Nige-
ria/Biafra and the Middle
East.
The Rev. Dr. J. Harry Haines,
New York, executive secretary
of UMCOR, told the Commit
tee’s annual meeting that the
22 emergency appeals were re
sponded to, either ecumenical
ly or unilaterally within 72-
84 hours after the appeal was
received.
The world’s three biggest
crises “continue with us in
1969,” Dr. Haines said. The
needs and UMCOR’s responses
were described;
Nigeria/Biafra: “1969 sees
no end to this senseless, bloody
conflict,” Dr. Haines said. “The
current death toll is in excess
of 8,000 a day, and the end is
not in sight. If the war can be
settled, its legacy in physical
damage to people, particularly
children who survive, will be
very great.”
A sister denomination, the
United Presbyterian Church in
the USA, received more than
$750,000 in a recent church*
wide offering.
Vietnam: In 1968, United
Methodists gave $134,0512 to re
lief and rehabilitation in the
wartorn country. This has
helped UMCOR to provide $150,-
000 of the $750,000 budget in
1968 of Vietnam Christian Ser
vice (VNCS), ecumenical re
lief agency, he said. Of 105
Vietnamese and 47 foreign
VNCS workers, 18 have been
provided through UMCOR.
The Middle East: In 1968,
United Methodists gave $6,373
for this troubled area and the
number of Arab refugees
UMCOR has been asked to re
settle increased in 1968, the
Committee was told. The grow
ing refugee caseload from the
Arab states reflects the politi
cal unrest. UMCOR is seeking
sponsorship by American local
churches to resettle 20 Arab
refugee families.
In his report. Dr. Haines said
fhat by the spring of 1970,
UMCOR will have exhausted
the $1,200,000 in its India Fam
ine Appeal Fund, which was
given by Methodists in 1966.