THE
CLARION
THE
VOICE
Of BREVARD COLLEGE STUDENTS
Volume XXXVI
BREVARD COLLEGE, BREVARD, N. C., MARCH 14, 1969
Number 21
Committees Are
Preparing Reports
Next week at a faculty meet
ing the proposed acade'inic at-
tendance policy and the propos-
ed cultural attendance policy
will be presented to the fac-
"^The academic attendance com
mittee, formed by the presi
dential council, and headed by
Hr. John Setzer, is the sister
committee to the Social AJctivi-
ties Committee headed by Mr.
David Holcombe.
At a student assembly on
March 25, these two committees
will make known to the stud
ent !body the two above poli
cies-
Social committee will discuss
and answer any questions.
Neither the academic attendance
committee nor the social be
havior will submit a written
copy of their policy prior to the
25.
Religious Week Speaker
Leaves College Thinking
BY MONTE SHARPE
“Here is where the Methodist
Church is going to have to be
realistic,” commented the mid
dle - aged man with the ath
letic build and a slightly re
ceding hairline. “We must ac
cept the fact that in today’s
society, our people are going
to drink and that to continue
to preach aibstinence, it seems
to me, is just not facing the sit
uation realistically.”
The speaker was Rev. Rob
ert T. Young, the guest sipeak-
er for the Tenth Plyler Religi
ous Emphasis Week which was
concluded this past Thursday
morning. Mr. Young is the pas
tor for the Boone United Meth
odist Church and an alumnus
of both the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill and
Duke University.
Mr. Young held services this
week, beginning with Chapel
Sunday night and having one
one - hour service Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday, be
fore concluding with the Com
munion Service Thursday morn
ing.
A Better Approach
"A better approach,” contin
ued the visiting preacher on
discussing the drinking prob
lem, “would be to deal more
with temperance than to con-
“0/ie Great Hour Of Sharing”
Will Aid World Need
World needs are staggering.
Reliable sources tell us that
there are more than 2 million
refugees in Vietnam. There are
more than a thousand children
a month being orphaned be
cause of the war in Vietnam.
Reputable figures coming to
us out of the Nigeria/Biafra
conflict indicate that currently
at least a million are starving,
and more than 10,000 are dy
ing daily. In 1968 the Christian
Church’s response to tl^ese two
situations alone proved once
more to the world that we are
concerned for the plight of
people.
In the past 12 months Ameri
can churches (through UMCOR
and Church World Service)
have shipped millions of pounds
of food, medical supplies and
blankets to Biafra. The total
material value and cash contri
buted for this one project ex
ceeded ^,230,000.
Through your gift to the One
great Hour of Sharing you will
help to make possible continu
ed refugee relief in Vietnam,
Biafra, the Middle East, and
wherever an emergency over
seas situation may develop. The
United Methodist Church joins
fflore than 30 other denomina
tions in supporting the One
Great Hour of Sharing offering,
tionsmm
In addition to the portion
that goes to the United Metho-
flist Committee for Overseas
Relief, we also provide Cru
sade Scholarships. In its twen-
y • fifth year, this program as
sists graduate students to con-
jiiue training, looking toward
, ^ assuming positions of
adership. The program pro-
■ es assistance for students
om the U, S. who are
®ers of minority
ueservj
'^ing young
mem-
groups, as
adults from
other lands.
More than 1,540 graduate
students have been assisted in
the 25 year history of this pro
gram. Most of these students
are already at work in their
homeland in positions of lead
ership. They are at work, not
only in the church, but in ev
ery constructive occupation
imaginable.
In addition to overseas re
lief and Crusade Scholarships,
the One Great Hour of Sharing
offering gives support to a
ministry to servicemen in the
Far East. Servicemen’s centers
have been established in Korea,
Japan, Hong, Kong, and Bank-
kok. Here our service person
nel learn more about the cul
ture of people in the lands
where they are stationed and
have a chance to meet other
Christian young men and wo
men for social activities.
Unusiual church extension
projects are also helped by the
One Great Hour of Sharing of
fering. Through the National
Division of the Board of Mis
sions, aid will be given this year
to the First United Methodist
Church of Juneau, Alaska, the
Levittown Church in Levit-
town, Puerto Rico, and the
Keolumana United Methodist
Church in Kailua, Hawaii. Each
of these congregations faces an
unusual opportunity. Our as
sistance will measurably in
crease their ability to minister
in their communities.
These are the interests which
the United Methodist Church
supports through the One Great
Hour of Sharing. Most local
churches observe the One Great
Hour of Sharing on Mar. 16.
On circuits and in other special
situations any Sunday may he
selected. Materials have been
mailed to pastors from the Di
vision of Interpretation, Pro-”
gram Council of the United
Methodist Church, 1200 Davis
St., Evanston, 111. 60201. Any
person wishing more informa
tion may write directly to the
Division of Interpretation.
Negro Methodist
Schools Are
Under Study
NASHVHJjE — In a prelim
inary report to the United Meth
odist Board of Education here,
Dr. Daniel C. Thompson, auth
or, lecturer, and professor of
sociology at Dillard University,
outlined the scope of a 15-
month study he is directing to
determine the future role of
12 predominantly . Negro col
leges related to the denomina
tion.
The study, which began in
September, has been made pos
sible by a $68,500 grant from
the Ford Foundation to the Di
vision of Higher Education in
the Board of Education of The
United Methodist Church. Dr.
Thompson said there are two
basic questions being consider
ed: ‘"What will be the role of
Negro colleges in the future?”
and, “To what extent should
The United Methodist Church
share in the support of these
colleges?”
tinue to say abstinence is
only alternative.
the
‘'Look at what Methodists do
in the suburban and urban
Methodist Churches. A good
two - thirds of the church mem
bers drink. If this is what they
do, then what can the Church
do to help them with this part
of their life?” asked Mr. Young.
The question was put to Mr.
Young as to what he felt oi
a man who thought the belief
in God was too idealistic, yet
who also felt a need to love his
neighbor, as Jesus did. Rev.
Young answered that as long aa
a person lived and showed the
kind of love Christians do in
Christ, then it did not matter
what he thought of the Church.
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Afro-American Studies
Are Established At Yale
ATTENTION SOPHOMORES
If your name was mis-
pelled on the list of candi
dates for graduafiop, please
rontRct Mrs. Roy immediate
ly. The names arp identical
to those that will be print
ed on the diplomas.
New Haven, Conn. — (1-P-)
For the first time, a new cur
riculum at Yale has been de
veloped not by the faculty alone
but jointly with students. The
Yale faculty voted recently to
establish a new program in
Afro - American Studies. Ef
fective next September Yale
students will be able to major
NBC Will Begin
Series April 6
A plan to help build the will
of citizens to reverse the trend
of a widening gap between the
rich and the poor of the world
has been announced in the
creation of four special NBC
News programs on the weekly
rrontiers of Faith series, start
ing Easter Sunday, April 6
(check local listings for exact
time. Titled “The Challenge of
a Closer Moon”, the four half-
hours will tackle the depriva
tions, hungers and pressures of
poverty that can effect changes
to benefit, if men will.
The series is being prepared
by the Broadcasting & Film
Commission of the National
Council of Churches. Doris Ann,
manager of religious program
ming for NBC News, is execu
tive producer.
Aided and informed by the
four TV programs, Americans
of faith and good will are going
to explore that pale moon of
poverty, satellite of the planet
called wealth. Agencies of the
National Council of Churches
and other grou-p.s — with the
announcement of 'the TV series
—are urging people in every
community where it can be
seen to organize convenient
groups to view the series and
to follow . up with study, dis-
cussio’i ?nd action.
A World Development Dis
cussion/Study Helps Leaflet is
available free by writing to
'iii.san Pax, ''^roadca'itiiifr &
Film Cr'mmisfion, 4T5 River-
.'■ii^e D”ivc — Room 852, New
York, N, y. ■'C0?7.
erFtroosiemkoR r
in this field during their four
undergraduate years.
The planning committee con
sisted of four professors and
four students - the latter aU
members of the Black Student
Alliance at Yale.
Although many colleges, in
cluding Yale, have been offer
ing individual courses in Afro-
American studies, the new Yale
program is the first of a major
university that makes this sub
ject a field of study leading to
the B.A. degree.
The committee anticipated
the objections of some scholars
that Afro-American courses are
being proposed for political and
not intellectual reasons. Robert
A. Dahl, Sterling Professor of
Political Science, who was com
mittee chairman, emphasized
that the strongly stated desire
for the program among some
Yale students "should hardly
be considered a disadvantage,
much less a disqualification.”
However, he said, “the only
valid justification of the pro
posed program, and the only
advanced by those of us who
propose this major, is that It
fulfills legitimate educational
needs at Yale and meets the
standards we expect in all
our majors.”
The program, he pointed out,
is designed to meet the needs
of white students as well as
black. “It is hard to say which
is the more appalling,” he said,
“the ignorance of whites about
black people or the igorance
of Afro - Americans about their
own experience.”
Charles H. Taylor, Provost of
Yale, emphasized that “The
Black students’ recommenda
tion of a major in Afro-Ameri
can studies has been especial
ly persuasive on two counts:
“First, they have insisted
from the beginning that it is
educationally essential for all
students in Yale College to be
able to enlarge their under
standing of the Black experi
ence;
“Second, they have insisted
that the major be intellectual-
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