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By PROF. ROBERT G. MULDER
Some Thoughts At Random About Chapel
Common Sense Needed
■‘Common sense and good nature will do a lot to make
tlie pilgrimage of life not too difficult.” — W. Somerset
Maugham
During the last week over 12 cases have been in
vestigated and heard by various persons and com
mittees responsible for discipline in the college com
munity.
“Each case,” according to Clayton Lewis, Dean of
students, “centered around one element which con
tributed to the infraction. The students involved took
leave of their common sense — sound, ordinary, good
judgment.”
When can one rightfully take, without permission, the
property of another? When can one justify falsifying
information?
When do you think one or two citizens in the college
community have the right to impose fear and bodily
harm on one of lesser strength?
“Where can I find a man governed by reason instead
of habits and urges?” Kahlil Gibran.
Be A Friend
ON THE
In the midst of a dismal Friday afternoon I sat on the
back steps of my home staring into the rain and in
dulging in the luxury of just thinking. My mind churned
with thoughts of schoolwork, ideas and people.
Primarily, I was concerned with how they related to me
and my future.
Momentarily, I was distracted by the family cat’s
meowing as she rubbed against my legs. Almost in
stinctively, 1 placed this childhood acquaintance in my
lap. After a few more minutes of purring, she drifted off
to sleep.
Following several more minutes of cold rain, oozing
mud and grinding introspection, I became aware of a
stray dog who had wandered onto the steps and stood
beside me. Wagging his tail, he looked up at me as if
waiting for something.
“What on earth do you want?” was my first response.
Naturally, I did not receive a verbal reply. My attempts
to ignore the canine were of no avail. He still stood there
wagging his tail and looking at me expectantly.
Finally, in exasperation I reached over and patted
him on the head hoping he would go away. However, his
tail stopped wagging and he stood perfectly still.
Thereupon, I patted him again and again. After a few
minutes of this, he stretched out on the bricks. Laying
his head on my feet, the dog went to sleep.
It was then that I realized that the dog had come to me
for just a fraction of the love and attention I was
lavishing on the cat. I couldn’t help relating this to
human relationships. We often write people off our lists
for seemingly trivial reasons. They may be different
from us. Perhaps, they may simply be new acquain
tances and we’d prefer to stay in the same rut with our
current friends. Our reasons may range from pride to
timidity. Whatever the excuse offered, it is a cop out. We
rob outeelves and the people around us when we don’t
give them our love. Reach out today and let somebody
know you care. Be a friend.
—James Moore
This World
Have you ever stopped to sit and think
About the chain in which we all are linked
People of this world have not the time
To form prejudice in their minds
This world should be free of hate
Everything peaceful, in its own way
It seems to me know reason why
The worse the condition, the harder to try
To make this world what it was intended to be
; Everyman equal, and everyman free
Their is no color of the skin
The father who judges, looks within
Their is famine & war, all over the land
Little children are crying, with out-strectched hands
The rich are succeeding, the poor always needing
The wealthy is still winning, since the beginning
CHRISTIAN LIFE COMMISSION, SBC
ECONOMIC CRISIS— (Princeton, N. J.) Agallup poll
conducted during the period September 7-10 established
concern over high prices, or inflation, as the chief worry
of the American people. “Concern over economic
problems is greater today than at any other time since
the job-lean years of the late 1930’s when one-sixth of the
total working force was unemployed. Presently inflation
is also easily the top problem in each of the four major
regions of the country .... Inflation has important
political implications. In a recent gallup survey 46 per
cent of the public blamed the federal government for
inflation whereas 25 per cent placed the blame on labor
and 19 per cent on business .... Among those citing
inflation as the top problem, many single out food prices
specifically .... The last time economic worries
played as important a role in the thinking of Americans
as they do today was during the recession of 1958.”
(The Nashville Tennessean, September 27, 1973)
HIGH HOSPITAL COSTS — The cost of being sick —
never a bargain — is getting worse all the time — about
14 per cent worse each year, if you’re hospitalized. “In
1950, one could expect to spend just under 17 dollars for a
day in the hospital. By 1970, that cost had risen to an
incredible 81 dollars per day. Hospital administrators
claim that the rising costs are attributable to higher
hospital expenses like labor.” However, not many
nurses, practical nurses, orderlies, janitors or main
tenance personnel have seen their salaries increased 20
per cent per year.
(News and Views, Vol. 22, No. 30, October 12,1973)
World News In Brief
Baptist Reject Amendment
GREENSBORO (AP)—The Baptist State Convention narrowly
defeated an amendment last Wednesday that would have excluded
any churches that accepted transfer members from denominations
that do not require immersion.
Rejection of the amendment came on a vote of 1,248 for and
1,307 against. The convention adjourned moments after the voting.
It was the third year in a row that the baptism issue had come
before the convention, which received a committee report recently
showing that only 11 of its 3,452 churches do not require immersion
for transfers.
The Rev. M. 0. Owen, Jr., of Charlotte, first of several speakers
during a 75-minute debate, called for approval of the amendment
because the Bible “teaches nothing else but baptism by water.”
He said that he had heard there might be as many as 200 churches
who accepted non-immersed members but that only 11 admitted
it. Dr. Cecil Sherman of the First Baptist Church in Asheville
speaking against the proposal, said he believed it was “an indirect
way of getting at 11 churches.” “The local church interprets the
Bible. This convention is not the Vatican, tto,” he said.
Dr. Carl E. Bates of Charlotte, past president of the Southern
Baptist Convention, opposed the amendment because it “forces
me to choose one side or the other, to declare myself for or
against immersion. This is not a question with me and never has
been.”
WASHINGTON (AP)—Actor Chuck Connors says President
Nixon has urged him not to put off a visit to the Soviet Union at
the invitation of Soviet Party CHief Leonid Brezhnev.
And Connors said last week that he has decided to accept the
invitation extended by Brezhnev last summer at San Clemente, Cal.,
where the two exchanged bear hugs.
Connors said he paid a farewell call on Nixon Monday of last
week and said he had considered postponing the trip because there
was a film he could make.
But Connors said Nixon convinced him to go, saying that his
trip would be “a small indication that the detente was working.”
Connors said he planned to spend about 10 days in the Soviet Union
and will leave about November 28.
This world is a trip, I wish not to take
If I owned a ticket. I’d throw it away.
Alphonso Mitchell
VUOfNt ot CHOWAN fOlifCI
Editor Barbara Ann Putney
Associate Editor Beckie Workman
Bits of Life
, By MARY FISHER LEMONS
Guest Columnist
Through the air he fell,
parachute trailing limply behind
him. Roy Sandidge was killed
instantly as he hit the ground.
A senior religion and
philosophy major at St. Andrews
Presbyterian College, Roy had
parachuted from other planes at
Pope Air Force Base. Surely he
did not know this would be his
fatal jump.
An intelligent student, he had a
creative and razorsharp mind.
He would have been an asset to
any college campus. His sudden
death reminds us of several
things—things we should
remember more often . . . more
readily.
—We have no life without
death, no death without life. We
must be grateful for the part of
life we do share.
—Life is a mystery. Not one of
us has power to lengthen his life
indefinitely. Not one of us knows
when he will no longer exist in
this world.
—Our life is just a small part of
eternity. Man, a small but
significant part of a huge
fellowship—a fellowship that
could also be a brotherhood but
which is not.
—We live in a world in which
we cannot give up. Life is filled
with sorrow and pain. It holds
more than its share of mysteries
and unanswered questions, which
we must continue to investigate.
Roy Sandidge wanted a
meaningful life. He questioned
what he did not understand. Life
concerned him; and then, in a
most unexpecting moment, it was
snatched away.
He jumped from a plane and
pulled the parachute cord—an
act he had done many times. The
cord which heretofore had l>een
(Mily a routine part of his drop
from the plane to the ground now
quickly turned into a fatal act.
How many things we do every
day that we consider trivial . . .
and yet they can quickly become
more significant than we ever
supposed.
Chapel is about like the weather.
Wasn’t it Will Rogers who said:
“Everybody’s talking about the weather
but nobody’s doing anything about it.”?
For nine years I have played the
chapel organ, alternately with another
professor for seven of those years. While
I do not say this boastfully, I feel that I
do know something about the area of
Chowan life known as Chapel-assembly.
Not any of the complaints one hears
are new. The same old dissatisfactions
are aired year after year — Why do we
have to attend? How can they (meaning
the administration, I suppose) make us
attend church (meaning chapel)? Don’t
they know they can’t force religion down
someone’s throat.
These questions never change — at
least they haven’t in nine years. But
we’ve “come a long way, Baby!” When
I was a student here, it was an everyday
requirement. I simply can’t see now
why anyone would object so vehemently
to attending a short session once a week.
But even more than that, I can’t see
how students can be so disrespectful as
to do some of the things they do when we
have invited guest speakers on campus.
From my secluded nest beside the
organ, I am able to observe what goes
on in most of the auditorium while our
guests are speaking, and how they
continue is often a mystery to me.
General chatter is sprinkled around
the auditorium as plentifully as showers
in April. Homework assignments are
prepared seriously and letter reading
seems to be a chapel must. The singing
of the hymn is an ideal time, seemingly,
to laugh and exchange the latest gossip,
and to catch up on sleep is com
monplace.
Many times I have been embarrassed
for Dr. Taylor. As a part of his
responsibility to the college, he invites
guests to speak to our student body.
Thus, he has to sit, many times un
comfortably, behind the speaker who is
thrown before a captive audience where
only God knows what the reaction may
be at any given time.
I have a sure-cure for the problem,
but I’m certain this solution would be
ignored by the Powers. It seems that
chapel is here to stay, in spite of the
continued redeness of some of our
students and despite the humiliation
brought upon many of our outside
speakers.
We must, if we can, seek to improve
the attitude of our fellow-people who
attend. Perhaps an identification of the
problem presented and a recognition of
what constitutes common courtesy and
decency are two steps toward im
provement of an already embarrassing
situation.
God or Tyrants ?
/ • ByMIKEBOU
Nearly 300 years ago, the great
American William Penn wrote,
“Unless we are governed by God,
we will be ruled by tyrants.” His
counsel has never been forgotten
by either America’s leaders or
citizens, for faith in God has
remained our principal guiding
light and Democracy has
flourished.
Annually, Exchange Clubs
througl ut the United States and
fjjerto hico sponsor a November
observance they call “One Nation
Under God” Month. The
program’s purpose is to remind
us all of our rich spiritual
heritage and of our vital com
mitment to religious freedom.
The men and women who
settled the New World were a
strong, hardy lot motivated by a
tremendous spiritual zeal. Their
trust in God sustained them
through the strife of many crises
and with the passing of each,
Uiere emerged a nation more
confident and stronger than
before. These pioneers left a
Jerry Lee Lewis' Son Killed In Wreck
COCKRUM, Miss. (AP)—Jerry Lee Lewis, Jr., 19, oldest son of
the rock and roll singer, was killed in a traffic accident near this
tiny north Mississippi town.
Desoto County Sheriff’s officers said young Lewis was driving
a jeep that was towing a car when the two vehic' slammed into
a bridge Tuesday night. They said he died of a ' leck.
A spokesman for the family said the body v.-o iiown to Louisiana
early Wednesday aboard one of Lewis’ planes for funeral services.
Young Lewis was the second son of the en* ^o die at an
early age. Several years ago, a young son drowned in a swimming
pool. A spokesman said all of Lewis’ pending engagements have
been canceled.
permanent imprint upon the land
and their guiding influence
continues to govern the national
character and purpose.
Have we lost this spiritual zeal
which was so prevdent in our
forefathers? Some believe we
have but recent surveys show
church attendance in the United
States is on the rise and that it is
higher than in any other western
nation. Exchangites are proud of
this reassuring fact and seek to
encourage even more American
families to regularly attend
worship service. They firmly
believe the nation cannot afford
to forget its religious heritage,
but rather, each citizen must
periodically reaffirm the
proposition that we are “One
Nation Under God” and that this
republic is “indivisible, with
liberty and justice for all.”
November and especially
Thanksgiving Day is an ap
propriate time in which to take
stock of our spiritual resources,
strengthen our faith and strive to
live in greater harmony with
God.
So long as the surpassing
importance of religious faith in
America’s past, present and
future is sharply focused in our
minds, we can be assured
tyranny will never gain a foothold
in this great land that we call
home.
Public Affair
CHARLOTTE. N.C.(AP)-
Cameron Finance Corp., is
closing its Public Affairs Office
because it has become a luxury
the corporation can no longer
afford.
By MIKE BOULIA
Chairman,
Publicity Committee
Do you really care about what
goes on in this college? Some of
you have gripes concerning
different areas in the system. If
its the food, get behind ttie
cafeteria committee and support
your views. What about girls'
curfew, dorm visitation, or
anything else you would like to
see changed? j
DO something about it. If you
do not want to write an article
and have it put in the paper, there
will be a bulletin put out by ttte
publicity committee after
Thanksgiving. A suggestion box
will be placed in the cafeteria for
the students who care enough to
participate. Don't just sit there
and gripe, do something about it.
The following is the second in a
series of SGA Newsletters of
special entertainment in this
area:
November 21, Canned Heat,
Municipal Auditorium, Charlotte.
November 21, J. dels Band,
Cumberland County Auditorium,
Fayetteville.
November 22, Mandrill,
Greensboro Coliseum.
December 1, Steve Stills,
Cumberland County Auditorium,
Fayetteville.
December 2, Allman Brottiers
Band, William & Mary Coliseum.
December 9, Alice Cooper,
Greensboro Coliseum.
January 17, Bob Dylan and The
Band, Charlotte Coliseum.
January 24, Blood, Sweat and
Tears, Memorial Auditorium,
Raleigh.
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