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Tfic S^tfida EDITORIALS 9{gte ^rom tfic !Aictheia T,ditor % 9^rkjBoCicfi, ‘Ei&tor-in-Cliief ‘WckoTm. to tfu. second edition of the ^theia zidth myseCf at the heCm (I hnozo it 5 a frightening thought but try to contain yoursetf). 'Being figurativeby in charge as I am, I get this space to convey my ozvn [ittbe rambCings. 'There fore, for the ne!(tfezv tveehs I xvdCtry to do the most zvith the beast amount and try to mahe it pbeasing. One thing that has Been Boring a hobe in the Bachicf my subconscious mind recentby is the concept of apathy. What's apathy? 'Wed, I'bbtry to ibbus- trate it zvith ajohe a friend of mine tobd me. It goes some thing bihe this: "'What's zvrong zvithAmerica today. Ignorance or Sipathy?" 'Ihe anszver: “I don't hnozo and I don't care." 9ba. bHa. 'Right. 'Webb, unfortunateby some peopbe zooubd, in abb-serious ness, give you that anszver. 9\(pzv I knozv that in a cobbege atmosphere that a bot of peopbe have a bot of hard cbasses tbiat tahf a bot cf time, and it's not my intention to throzv stones, bizfing in a gbass house as I do. I dofeebas though I shoiddcabb attention to the barge amount of apathy thatfbozus through fbontreat. If you boofiaround at ac tivities going on around cam pus and zvho is hebping zvith them, you zvdb Begin to notice that the same peopbe tend to pop up in abb situations. I don't thinh^it shoubd Be neces sary for everyone ebse to sit aroundzvatching ''DuchbTabes' tdb they feeb empathy for Scrooge Mc'Duch^ cdbthe zvhibe jockeying responsiBdity for other tasks onto peopbe zvho are already overburdened. 9{pzv I've done this to peopbe mysebf over time, so I 'mstibbnot trying to Be high and mighty. I have Become more azvare of this campus' bassitude since I de cided toget more invobvedzvith things. I'mnot trying toget every body irritated, although on cboserinspection,gettingpeopbe B.O. 'ed might Bee^tby zvhat 9dontreat needs. OnezvoubdBe surprised hozv active a person can get once you get a rise out of them. Berhaps everyone sfioubd have a bittbe irritant in tbtcir bives. 'Ihe Best e?campbe I coubdthinkjof zvhile staring at the semi-monochromatic zvabbs of the snack.Bar, zvould Be that of an oyster. If an oyster gets a piece of sand or some other Chris' Letter Dear Chris, I’ve been thinking a lot lately about my return to M- AC for Homecoming last month. Thanks again for let ting me stay with you. I’ve been looking through yearbooks and trying to understand what it was that felt so different about Mon treat. A lot of things have changed. Even in Black Mountain. There’s a Texaco station now, and both First Union and the Pizza Hut have relocated closer to the interstate. In Montreat, the Retreat Association has in troduced swans to Lake Susan. Changes every where. In this time, the college has taken on changes of its own. Has it changed for the better? We hope so. Is it still “Christ-Centered”? We pray so. But, still, somethingfeels different. Have the priori ties in students and teach ers changed as well? Mon treat has added the Busi- foreign object trapped zvithin itsshebb, the oysterzvUbBeginto coat the irritant untd it is smooth and comfortaBbe. Jls everyone knozvs, this is hozv a pearb is made. 9{pzv maybe if everybody started paying attention to things that irritated them, perhaps zve coubd alb start pbuckjng pearbs from our ozvn personabgrains of sand. Sogetupoffyourbazy Butts and bight a fire under neath them. -Lazy hands make a man poor. But ddigent hands Bring zveabth. Broverbs 10:4 ness and education majors, but are they still focusing on Bible and the Great Com mission? We used to com plain about all the Bible classes we had to take in Montreat-Anderson, but they changed us and how we thought about everything! Maybe I shouldn’t look back and compare the way it was with the way I perceive it now. It just doesn’t seem as unified. Are there still Christians on the campus and, if so, why aren’t they screaming? We used to have attitude checks and yell, “Praise the Lord!”, and mean just that. Now if someone yells, “Praise the Lord!” , people just laugh as though it was meant as a joke. Change is inevitable but any change needs to be God- constant. I remember when we both rededicated our lives to Christ in our dorm room that night. We were new people afterwards. We were so on fire and kept asking, “How can anyone not believe?”. Suddenly, we KNEW! 'There was unity and fellowship everywhere, it seemed. I really felt the presence of God. Now there are less familiar faces and faces that are less familiar as they once were and it saddens me but mostly I just pray for the school and its students, that they will feel like we did . No matter how many times you return to Mon treat after graduation, it will never be the same as you once knew it. If this is the best year you’ve had, enjoy it and, mostly, pay attention to it because it will be impor tant later. In Christ, David Dear David, I know. I feel it, too. -Chris P.S. Pray!
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