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The Clarion
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THE CLARION
May 2, 1978
Best Of Luck
To The Class Of ’78
Hate Goes
Hand In Hand
With Love
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Do We Really Want To Leave?
Jon Young
I hate you, I hate this. I hate
that. I hate vegetables. I hate
math. I hate cats. I hate Bach. I
^ ,, hate Jimmy Carter. I hate rain. I
Cathy Varner Hemingway. I hate
Graduation is approaching and, as exams begin, Once we step down from the platform with diploma in teachers. I hate, hate, hate!
sophomore thoughts are turning to the problem of how hand, we are no longer part of Brevard College except as ^
best to spend the time between the end of exams and ^ ^ "^ost cases, it is used to
graduation. For many it is a trip to the beach, a trip
home — maybe with a friend, or any of a number of
possibilities. How many, though, have sat down and
really thought about what graduation means?
Teachers and friends congratulate us, buttheoccasion is “i hate...” Sometimes it is
sad. As we stand amidst the crowds of well-wishers and used as an oxymoron: Someone
good-bye sayers, we look around and realize that we are you love to hate. When a person
seeing people for the last time. Once we leave the becomes frightened, he says: “i
gymnasium, everyone will be in his own world as he when you do that. ’ Or it
„ j r IT iiT j can be used to describe any
We have seen many important happenings in world prepares to leave Brevard for a new life. We are ending number of things; hate letters
and American events. We have been witness to
revolution, evolution, scandal, the Panama Canal,
crashes and crises. We have seen the deaths of people
close to us and of those not so close. We have seen much,
but have we really seen what has happened to us at
Brevard?
We came here two years ago as wide-eyed , uncertain
freshmen. Many of us had never lived away from home,
and we were a little frightened of our new freedom and
independence. New roommates, registration, new
teachers and classes — all contributed toward making
us somewhat bewildered. Much of this was evident as
we walked into the cafeteria for the first time with
nervous smiles on our faces. The first day of classes was
a life that has become important to us. In a sense,
graduation is the death of our Brevard life.
and hate groups, for example.
Why does this one word have
such a loose meaning in today’s
society ? WE say this four-letter
word so much that it has lost its
true meaning , which is that of
"an intense hostility and aver-
Here we learned, here we grew, here we began to
understand the complexities of life and the world around
us. People have influenced us and our actions, people
have made deep impressions upon our lives — people sion,” as Webster’s New
that we will never forget. College has been a time of Collegiate Dictionary says. No
conflict and although we may have wished to escape appears to think anymore, it
time and time again, now that the time for our release ^odd seem. How can anyb^y
has come welookaroundanddon'twantto leave. “I am
a part of all that I have met” (Tennyson) and at later. “Hate” is picked up by
Brevard we have met many things and we have met small children almost as soon as
them unflinchingly in order to learn and grow from they learn to speak. And they say
them “Experience is the best teacher” and here we it once, and they cannot drop its
seen as an obstacle and we stayed close to the new haveexpeiencedmuch —here we have experienced life. ^ kut fty^ adults,
friends we had made. We gave each other much needed
support
The future is vague and uncertain, but the past is
clear and concrete. The time has come for us to release
the past and confront the future which we must meet as
Would it not be a beautiful
thing if, one day in the near
Our freshman year was one of learning — learning in had no meaning
class, learning to be responsible for ourselves, learning challenge ^Brevard College - with the m our vocabulary any longer. It
to be friends, learning to be ourselves. That was a ^ery determination to succeed,
important year in terms of growth and maturity. The Good-bye Brevard, and thank you.
next year, however, brought a new kind of growth.
Our sophomore year tended to be one of more active
involvement in the school, the community, and the
dorms. This was a year of social growth. We made new
friends and renewed oldaquaintances from the year
before. As we moved into the dorms, we noticed the
frightened looks of the freshmen and laughed until we
remembered that we had been the same way barely a
year ago. Our loud laughter and talk was heard
throughout the school as we met again. We had become
more outgoing and confident in ourselves. Many of us
did not realize at the time, that once the year was over,
we would not see many of our friends again. However,
now that graduation is in the near future, we being to see
what is happening.
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Thank You, Mrs, Martinson
follows, then, that the feeling of
hatred would vanish, also. And
then everything would be won
derfully fantastic...or would it?
Is “hate” perhaps a word to
describe and-or let out our
hostilities? Do we not, in fact,
need the word and the feeling
when problems arise? No one can
be totally happy all the time,
because life is full of both hap
piness and sadness. Perhaps love
and hate are indeed the great
equalizers. Could it be that no one
can have love without hate, and
hate without love? Do they not go
hand in hand?
I believe so. Sometimes it is
even fun to hate, as long as we
know what we are thinking and
feeling — as long as we know
how to control it. So just
remember, next time you have
an argument with someone very
close and your mouth goes out of
control, tell him-her “I may hate
you now, but I still love you.”
SUL Plans New Attack
Editor-in-Chief
Assistant Editor
Sports Editor
Feature Editor
Advertising Manager
Photographers
Sports Staff
News Staff
Features Staff
Advisor
Public Relations Direct™-
Cathy Varner
Linda Cain
Will Service
Luke Osteen
Mark Galloway
Scott Sheperd, Steve Gaul
Mark Galloway, Will Service
Steve Gaul, Donnae Johnson
Linda Cain, Luke Osteen, Jon Young
Rhuemma C. Miller
J ohn D. E versman
A meeting of the S.U.L. was
held at 9:00 p.m. on April 17.
which was called to present a
new plan of attack to try and
overcome the lack of attendance
and participation by the elected
representatives.
The old constitution was
dropped until a new one can be
written next year. Next year’s
constitution will be fitted to this
year’s adopted representative
structure. The new structure was
designed to get people involved.
Scott Shepherd
presi ent are usually people who having no requirement at all to
requiring a 2.5 for the president.
involved in their work, the S.U.L
has given them more voting
power. There will be more
representatives, from the dorms
and on-campus organizations.
Next year’s representatives
will have a minimum required
grade point average. For the
senators the mimimum will be a
2.0 and for tiie president a 2.3 will
be needed. Much debate went on
about the required
I believe very strongly that the
S.U.L. has moved in the right
direction by dropping the old
constitution. Somthing drastic
had to be done and I am glad to
see it.
I would like to give my thanks
to the few dedicated people who
held what was left of tiie S.U.L.
together and I give the best of
luck to those who have accepted