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Page Two, THE HILLTOP, Oct. 31, 198Q_ Editorials „ „„ YOU’VE GOT TO BE KIDDING! Ron Johnson Assistant Editor Well we're all back from FaU Break, but are we all ready tor the old grind? 1 cer tainly hope so, 'cause ir's going to be all np-hill from It’s the middle of the semester, time once again for a fit of the Haltway 1 Doubts-and-Fears ” Why are all you people busting your humps to get throug co - Sc? Is .“tr th" money? Nowadays a good craftsman makes more than erlduates Do you want to teach? Think back on your own high school days. Did vour teachers as a rule, seem happy, contented, inspired? Or are you m college for ihe same reason that water flows downhill? Are you just following the path of least resistance‘s Well don’t worry if you are. That’s as good a reason as ai^. Did you know that the average person doesn’t make a final decision about a career until they are IfP It’s true, just ask the people down at the Councehng Center. But here are L you 18-22 year-olds, blithely deciding what you are going to do for the rest S your lives The rest of your lives! I still don’t know whether to erivy or pity yom What cXe good at is changing your values. You can pick up alse standards so easlli he of college life. A friend of mine recently de-pledged a fraterni- r (No names, please). Not because he didn’t believe in what *e fraternity stood for but because he had a non-fraternity-connected personal dispute with one of t members of the frat - who would have blacklisted him, both verbally and bt^rally . o ^ouTse sle Brotherhood. My friend’s primary mistake was not reahzmg that Greek-letter organizations, for all their high-flown ideals, are made up of people, Wstie whdeXg about college. We’re all still human, no matter how much we lei hi many sports we play, or how many little green alligators we have on our clothing Going to college doesn’t guarantee us a happy life, or make any bet ter than anyone else. What college basically does do is keep us out of circulation lo g enough to totally alienate us towards living in the real world, unless we re very carefu °'rbl't“ntw, someone is saying, so righteously, "If he doesn't like it here why doesn’t he leave? Right? cont. from Historian. The North Carolina Epsilon Chapter of Alpha Chi, founded in 1922 and in stalled at Mars Hill in 1971, represents the highest academic honor on the Mars Hill campus. Membership is awarded to regular students of junior or senior status who have a quality point ratio of at least 3.5 and who are in the top five percent of their class. The official sponsor of the North Carolina Epsilon Chapter of Alpha Chi at Mars Hill is Miss Winona Bierbaum, who serves along with two other faculty sponsors who are elected by the Alpha Chi members, this year Mrs. Betty Hughes and Dr. Jim Lenburg. Alpha Chi is a coeducational society whose purpose is to promote academic excellence and exemplary character among college and university student and to honor those achieving sud distinction. This year, the National Council Alpha Chi will choose possibly thr members to be awarded the H Benedict Fellowship for graduate stui during 1980-81 and possibly th members to be awarded the Alfred Nolle Scholarship for undergradu study, also for 1980-81. This is just o of the benefits that are made possible the members of Alpha Chi, along wi other more practical ones like positive influence it has on a job resu or a graduate school application. Since 1969, Alpha Chi has enjoy' remarkable growth. Today it has 1 chapters in 40 states, and more th 90,000 active members on its rolls. THE WORLD IS YOUR HOME, TOO A GUEST EDITORIAL BY ANDREW YOUNG Resident Vassa l^twhenhe said, “C ' ihe beginning,” f in Ibid were t ^ separated from 1 ’ deal with life as ■ember of the serfc '■^ed to many rules - j ^'distance, every ni; I am always amazed at the real power college students have at their commana.i^igjjj how much of it goes unused - wasted. OW mucu U1 IL guva U1.UV.N.V. . , , • • 1 • “ That is a shame. Because student power could provide that critical margin, tn^|mored, some tra measure of push needed to channel our national policies, our energies anOeaty^g^^ rrincrimisness into new ways of meeting the very pressing needs of the peop e o tfs , were terri Tm filled with Lid lllCd^Ulv WA ^ J C nlLf lllOtj til consciousness into new ways of meeting the very pressing needs of the people oitfs j were terri world. of oria. • • u e' method of No, I am not talking about the street demonstrations and the sit-ins that wer Dui{j ’ another decade. I am talking about the power you have - collectivly - as 6 witching hour (as oi aiiuuici X V ..... I hour (as voters, and shapers of opinion, and about the power you have as individuals to llej jjj Howe\ around the me tore concerned ktacies, set up by live. I am told'd „ ^ \ things happen on your own. I am told that the current generation of college students is more their own welfare than with making this planet a better place to live, i am supposedly, gu I k—IV But I don’t believe it. I suspect that today’s college students are simply not aw s dreaded Resident ■ — -M- -fm—I ^ "W T J ^ J 1^ what is going on in the world. , u -n . fun and pai I U K I I m/ I I I IH Take the issue of world hunger. Think of thousands of people who will not h%y I n Pj T V-F MJJ til tomorrow morning because they can’t get enough to eat. Now what can yo^nst them” battle 1QO non nf»nn1e tnnk Dart in I think it is really simple for a campus hunger committee to establish a jd hetw,— *' Don’t tempt me. Keith Flynn HILLTOP Reporter As of late, I have been greatly en couraged by the majority of Americans trying to revive the time-worn axiom, ‘‘Be patriotic.” In the past year, Americans and American values have been threatened by more challenges than at any time in the past decade, and yet instead of diminishing American spirit, these challenges have tempered American resolve. Americans seem to have banded together and have decided to rise from the apathetic doldrums which so encompassed the U.S. public in the 1970’s. Aside from the general opin ion I have heard and seen, the death of this apathy can now be seen in the obituary of concrete statistics. Voter turnout in Presidential primaries and caucuses is greater than at any time since 1960, when 62.8% of the voting public took to the polls. Public participation in the Maine Democratic caucuses in creased almost fivefold over 1976, an in credible jump of 390%, and, in Ver mont, primary voter numbers increased 43 percent. Yet this larger interest has not only taken place in the Democratic party. Republican National Chairman Bill Brock noted that this year’s GOP primary attracted nearly 400,0(X) votes. while only 190,000 people took part in 1976. It appears from the nature of these statistics that the ‘‘my vote doesn’t count” syndrome may at long last be fading. When an American casts his vote he is, in essence defending the democratic process. The meaning of patriotism is simple; it means watching out for yourself by watching out for your country and by staking your voice in who should lead it. By protecting the vital interests of our great nation as a whole, and choosing the leaders who will represent this protection, we protect and defend the interests and security of every American individual. As citizens of a democracy, it is our duty and our responsibility to cast our vote and de fend our right to our precious freedom of choice. Abraham Lincoln once said, ‘‘To sin by silence when they should pro test makes cowards of men.” It is not the dignitary, but the common American who is charged with the defense of liberty, and he can defend on ly by exercising his right to vote and by vocally defending his choice. Our freedom to vote can transform an America uncertain of its present into an America unsurpassed with enthusiasm for the future and insuring that certain future with a simple choice at the ballot box. registration booth where students pay their tuition and begin to talk about ^J^^j^orities. It blem - raise political consciousness. The problem with young people, and I the serfs this from my own family, is that they all register to vote back home and then all^^Jnly called 'een the ser was fi The C until the last minute to write home for absentee ballots. You ve got to get pe PSics» originated. I register on their campuses. I think this would revolutionize American politics, a situation i If you have, for example, 55 thousand students on a campus like Ohio State, s thg thousand at Michigan State, and they are registered, every candidate coming to every other serf, states would come through the campuses because there are so many votes there, jtadg at that point you get to ask the candidate about what he or she is going to do y around, one was world hunger. Then the candidate goes to another campus and gets the same ^ ^ tion. That starts people in public life thinking, coming up with policies to c f. things, to get action. gain a gr Let me talk for a moment about the other kind ot . . j ^ to gam a gr power, the power studenB as individuals. You have a decision to make: whether to use the knowledge a 1 j perience you are gaining to help only yourself or to share the fruits of your edu Ised, many Peace Corps, some ou inousauu pcupic, maur — served as Peace Corps volunteers helping people in the developing world themselves to a better life. The Peace Corps is celebrating its 20th Aniversary^ still going strong, still attracting bright people who want to enrich their lives by ing others. ' The nice thing about VISTA and Peace Corps is that they work. They get As an individual volunteer, you may even change world history, AS an lliuiviuuai VUlUlll-VVA, jrvyw . change the lives of the people you come in contact with. When you add up all t -j - touched by all the volunteers, think of the difference it makes. , Dti The problems of this world are not going to go away overnight. A better w built just like a house, brick-by-brick, piece by piece. Yes, college students will make a difference in how well, we, as a world comid meet the challenges of this decade. Mr. Young is a former United States ambassador to the United Nations
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