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THE CLARION
Febru ary 28, 19®
EDITORIAL
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A Sad Situation
This year at Brevard College has been and is a
year of transition. Many changes are taking place
in our sampus operation. Students have, by show
ing their maturity and willingness to cooperate, gain
ed respect and responsibility toward making Bre
vard a more liberal institution. This year could be
one of the most productive in the school’s history,
simply because some students have the interest and
initiative to try to accomplish something.
On the other hand, this year could turn out to
be on eof the most destructive in Brevard’s history,
simply because some students feel a need to show
their immaturity. Unrest and general disa'pproval
of some of Brevard’s regulations. These students
seem to be looking for reform, but not through co
operation. They don’t want to be ruled by any form
>f administration. They want liberal rules, which
to them means no rules at all. The sad thing is that
these “children” could ruin through their immaturi
ty and stupidit ywhat interested students are try
ing to gain through cooperation and compromise.
Saturday night’s escapde, the most recent epi
sode of stuipidity, was one of destructive vandalism
and deliberate infractions on college policy ! Win
dows were broken in several dormitories resulting
from the snowball fight that got so out of control
that Brevard city policemen had to be summoned to
restore order! Damage to college property was eon-
isiderable. This isn’t the only incident of Cupidity,
however. Someone else has slashed Taylor Hall fur
niture with a knife. Taylor Hall’s director has had
two windshields malicously shattered in her car.
Furniture has been stolen from Taylor’s lobby. There
has been also countless other such acts of deliberate
destruction on campus.
Some students are ready to protest, riot, or dem
onstrate at the drop of a hat and will even throw
their own down to have something to gripe about.
It makes me wonder what some people are here for.
To get an education? To learn to become an inte
gral part of society? I shudder to think that tomor
row’s world depends on someone low enough to com
mit vandalism to protest against established, rea
sonable policies.
Brevard College is a unique institution. Grant
ed, it isn’t prfect, but students are admitted here
who would find it impossible to receive a quality ed
ucation elsewhere. Brevard makes it possible for
any student, who shows promise, the opportunity of
obtaining an education. Financial situations are of
little importance in the admission procedures of Bre
vard students. So how do some people respond to
the vote of trust placed in them by Brevard? They
break windows, shatter windshields, steal, and yell
their fool heads off about the unfairness of Brevard
College!
Uncle Sam could use some destruction experts
in Viet Nam!
I sure hope he gets them!
Ronnie D. Smith
The CLARION
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A Time
To Praise
By • Kenny Eaton
Every once in a while a per
son comes along and does some
thing that is hard work, cour
ageous, and unseKish. And
sometimes this person gets
absolutely no recognition. I
witnessed such a happening on
February 20. This is the way
it happened,
A bus was being taken to the
Gardner - Weibb igame, and
much work had gone into the
preparation for the trip. The
bus had mechanical problems
in route to the game. During
the game, certain people worked
very hard to get the bus re
paired. Approximately an hour
after the game was over, the
bus was finally fixed.
So that’s the story. Doesn’t
sound like anything special,
does it? But let’s look into it a
little deeper. Gaines Bowers
worked very hard preparing
for the bus trip, working on the
reservation of tickets and many
other things. We were dis
cussing about how much work
there was in getting up such a
trip, but I rememlber especially
one statement he made. “It’ll
all be worth it when I get to
see that game.” Gaines never
did get to see it however. He
worked all during the game
and an hour afterwards to get
the bus fixed. And he did, along
with the help of other unsel
fish individuals.
And you know what that
The
RANKIN FILE
BY BILL RANKIN
How about this? I’m not griping this week. In
fact, I feel very optimistic about Brevard for a
change.
Even that sounds good. Brevard For A Change
Have you noticed all of the new things that are hap
pening? The formation of the Concerned Student
Activist Movement, an organization whose purpose
is to inform and stimulate the students, was certain
ly something new for us. If the formation of this
grou:p was “out of line” as some seem to think it
was also a step out of the rut of student non-involve-
ment.
A similar innnovation is the founding of The
Concern, a student newspaper. Competition for the
Clarion (the other student newspaper).
There are “peaceniks” walking around hand
ing out leaflets on peace, and “Veterans” putting up
posters of the opposite view.
There are even “Commie - hunters” stalking the
camipus.
Less spectacular, "perhaps, but just as indicative
of the new interest in chanige is the work of the two
committees set up by the Premdential Council to in
vestigate and receive rules on social behavior and
absences ^ and penaiities.
So, Brevard is sprouting wings (lift wing and
right wing?). I wonder how far the bird will fly?
This is a question the bird’s new head might
like to ponder.
crazy guy told me at 1:00 p. m.
in the morning when we final
ly got back to the college? He
said,” I’m glad that the rest
of the students got to see the
game and could enjoy it.”
What a guy! I think we could
use a few more like him.
I take that back. We need a
lot more.
‘‘The Economics Of
Social Disorder”
This is the first in a series
of articles to appear in the
weeks to follow outlining top
ics and speech excerpts pre
sented and dealt with at the
United States Student Press
Association conference held in
Washington, D. €., February
13 - 16. The theme of the con
ference was “The Economics
of Social Disorder” and featur
ed such speakers as Muham
mad Ali, Walter Reuther, Ralph
Nader, Roy Innis and others.
The conference was attended by
Wayne Morton and Ronnie H.
Smith of the CLARION and Bill
Payton and John Lum of the
Student Government Associa
tion.
It is hoped that the students,
ifaculty, administrators, andl
trustees of Brevard College will
be attentive to these articles,
written with the intention of
informing those who do not
know exactly what is going on
in America today as pictured
at the conference.
Michael Zweig, instructor of
leconomics at The State Univer
sity of New York at Stony
Brook and former Students for
a Democratic Society leader at
the University of Michigan, was
introduced as one of the key
note speakers in the Shoreham
Hotel'the evening of February
13. A buckskin and suede clad,
beared man of twenty - nine
approached the rostrum, his
hair swaying from side to side
and bouncing on his shoulders
before about 900 students, net
work cameras, and newspaper
men from the Washington area.
“Good evening ladies and
gentlemen,” be began. “Would
you believe that this world is
ed up?” His interroga
tive statement shocked the as
sembly.
“We are going to spend the
next several days looking in a
more or less concentrated way
at ‘The Economics of Social
Disorder.’ ”
Zweig’s approach was defi
nitely blunt and unceremoni
ous, unique in overture. Many
students (at least fifty) walk
ed out. Others pulled a pen
from a pocket or purse and be
gan taking notes.
He continued.
“Work is done in terms of
‘society’ imposing burdens on
people, ‘the economy’ acting
sluggishly or smartly, ‘history’
sweeping up from behind, some-
who beating us from the bush
and controlling , our options,
in league with ‘culture’; and
everything hopefully works out
in ‘the national interest.’ Now
really. ‘Society’ does not exist
as a functioning entity. “The
economy’ is an utter fabrica
tion. ‘Historical forces’ are
illusory, except insofar as peo
ple behave or believe in a way
now because they themselves
rememlber or have learned
something about the past.”
Zweig stopped momentarily
rulbbed his bearded chin,
scratched into his long hair,
and continued.
“The country is coming apart
domestically, and wars of liib-
eration and oppression are be
ing fought around the world.
because people h,ave deeply
conflicting interests and can’t
live together any more.”
The speaker continued in say
ing that the people in conflict
are real and demand the at
tention of everyone. He point
ed to the campus struggles at
San Francisco and Columbia
and to the fact that the stud
ents weise asking: “In whose in
terests shall the university op
erate?” And, as Zweig illustrat
ed, they had not received a
reasonable answer.
‘Teople have now caught on
that the draft system is not
in their interests, that the
war in Viet Nam is not in their
interests,” Zweig stated as he
attempted to explain that such
a problem of “in whose inter
ests” is not restricted to the
campuses.
At this point, Zweig had on
ly about three - fourths of
his original audience while
atoout twenty students were in
terrupting his address almost
at the conclusion of eacn
thought he was attempting to
convey.
‘‘Okay, since you are still
here/’ he interjected, "take
this and get out of here.”
“Exposing the interests 0^
erating in America is a hig^
ly political act, however ^
jective” the inquiry may be-
Freqviently powerful poilitica
or economic people act to sm^
the investigation and pu®sn
the investigator. But if ^
want to understand
as one part of Noam
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