PILOT
Gardner-Webb G)llege
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14,1977
BOILING SPRINGS, NORTH CAROLINA
It’s Exam Week and the Loonies Are Out
structors are straight-faced, exams. It does the heart
some even smiling, as they good to see students with
It’s that time of the like war games, but this is it.
semester again and don’t This is the BIG one! The evi-
you just love it. Up to this dence of preparations is ob- prick the students by slip- such sullen, somber faces i
point, the semester has been vious on campus as the in- ping in one final quiz before they ready themselves for
battle. Only the rookie fresh
man and the over-the-hill
seniors can be seen smiling
around campus.
Some of the students can
be seen venting their frus
trations about this
semester. Occasionally, the
excitement is just too much
for them. Just yesterday one
guy went tearing down the
hall screaming at the top of
his lungs. “Whoopee! I’m the
walking, talking personifica
tion of what men hide in cor
ners from. My father was a
tornado and my mother, the
ocean. So look out professor,
I am loosed upon campus
and I am in a state of excite
ment. Whoop! I’m brother
to every malady and death
walks at my side. So look
out! Whoopee! ” With that the
guy tore through the door
and ran screaming across
campus. There must be a full
moon for now for surely,
exam week can not be the
only cause for such insane
behavior.
The dorms are taking on a
strange appearance, remini-
cent of military barracks. I
I suppose that it’s fitting,
but some of the residents are
even stringing lights in cele
bration. Others, however,
are merely sitting in corners
and mumbling incoherently
about term papers, lack of
sleep, shot nerves and late
assignments. It seems that
it’s aU sadness or euphoria.
Congressman Broyhill Visit GWC
Our congressman, James
T. BroyhiU, who represents
N.C.’s 10th district, visited
Gardner Webb College Tues
day night, December 6,
1977. Congressman Broyhill
is now serving in his 7th
term as a member of the
U.S. House of Representa
tives. Since his election to
Congress in 1962, he has re
presented 18 of N.C.’s 100
counties.
Congressman BroyhiU has
been a member of the power
ful Interstate and Foreign
Commerce Committee of the
House of Representatives.
This committee has jurisdic
tion over such important
areas as regulation of inter
state commerce and com
munications, raUroads and
railroad labor securities and
exchanges, natural gas and
electric power, energy, con
sumer protection, and
health matters in general.
As a member of the Sub
committee on Energy and
Power, Congressman Broy
hill plays an important role
in the formulation of nation
al energy policy, including
laws concerning petroleum,
natural gas, and electric
power issues. He also serves
on the subcommittee on
Health and the Environ
ment and on the new House
Budget Committee. From
Lenoir, N.C., Broyhill
graduated from the Univer
sity of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill in 1950 with a
B.S. degree in business ad
ministration. In 1966, he
was awarded an honorary
Doctor of Law degree from
Catawba College. Prior to
his election to Congress,
Congressman Broyhill was
an executive with Broyhill
Furniture Industries,
Lenoir, North Carolina.
Henry Hayes, of Gardner-
Webb College’s Social
Science Club, contacted
Congressman Broyhill in
Washington, D.C., and ar
ranged the speaking engage
ment. During the opening
minutes of his speech. Con
gressman Broyhill spoke of
many different matters. He
mentioned that there has
been no improvement in the
unemployment situation,
which presently stands at
7%, most of which are young
people. Inflation is still ris
ing and the rate of capital in
vestment is low. “There is a
trade deficit as the dollar is
losing ground” in interna
tional markets. The low
stock market “indicates the
lack of confidence of the peo
ple to invest.” Congressman
Broyhill believes that the
solution to America’s prob
lems is “increased producti
vity.”
“If foreign products are
entering the U.S. faster than
we are exporting goods, we
need to produce more.” Con
gressman Broyhill asserts
and he does not think the
“make-work” operations by
the government would help.
What we do need, according
to Congressman Broyhill,
are jobs that are “more per
manent.” This would put
more savings in the people’s
banks and, along with a tax
cut “across the board,”
would eJlow the people more
money to invest. Compared
with the other nations of the
world in rate of investment,
the U.S. is last at 18%, while
Japan’s rate of investment
is 35%. As an example of
how a tax cut would aid the
economy. Congressman
Broyhill mentioned a similar
tax cut that President
Kennedy endorsed that
“boosted the economy,
created more jobs, and as a
result of the increased pro
ductivity, there were more
tax revenues.”
In answering, or talking
around, questions asked by
the students. Congressman
Broyhill somewhat vaguely
expressed his views on the
Panama Canal, the abortion
issue, the quota system, and
even his philosophy of
“limited government” that
would “rely more on state
and local government” The
Panama Canal, according to
Congressman Broyhill,
“should be a partnership”.
Psalm 31:9-31 — Adapted!
Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am in distress:
my eye is wasted from studying so late at night,
my soul and body also from eating in the school
cafeteria.
For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years
with sighing over these long reading assignments
my strength fails and my bones
waste away from a calcium deficiency.
I am the scorn of all my hallmates, a
honor to my roommate, an object of dread
to my professors; Those who see me on
campus flee from me.
I have passed out of mind because of too
many absences; I have become like
a broken Trans Am.
Yea, I hear the whispering of many on
the hall-the terror on every side-
as the dean and dorm mother scheme
together against me, as they plot to
expel me from Gardner-Webb!
Cheer up—the semester is nearly over!
—Dr. Alice Cullihan
Financial Aid For 1978-79
Good News! Application procedure for next year’s
financial aid (NDSL, SEOG, CWSP, BEOG, N.C.
SIG) has been simplified!
Only one form will need to be completed! $4.00 fee
(no increase) available January 9, 1978 in Financial
Aid Office, Room 109, CID Mrs. Marie Martin, Direc
tor. Deadline, April 1,1978.
Mrs. Martin indicates that this new form will simpli
fy the process of application and shorten the delay. All
Federal Aid for students, and many G.W.C. grants,
will be based on this form. Early application is advis-