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Ih Page Three, THE HILLTOP, Friday, September 14,1984 By DR. GEORGE PEERY Contributing Editorialist firming of a school year is usly inappropriate time to s Ige students to make any re than two weekends in ^ ' Roommates, classes, yoiwho are calling all the '> yfere to sit in the cafeteria t’^^num exposure (and when r heaven’s sake) are basic ^^EBesides, the first Tuesday ^ '3iber is light years away, len get ready to vote later, '^ell.. .no. Wrong! you have crawled out ^''^ler a very heavy rock or ^svfrom the historic “First loo iduate Student In Space” *18 lou probably have noticed oyoig strange about this fall. l*05ial politics are in the air. Election of 1984, more so )rit*j election in the last two liilasks Americans to choose candidates and parties St ttlosophies of government ;r markedly. Winners of this year’s contest cannot fail to have a greater impact on the future of the United States than those produced in elections wherein the choices were between Tweedledum and Tweedledee. Back in July and then again in August people with funny hats, gaudy badges, obscure banners, and passionate eyes took over nighttime television. Between 9 and 11 one found nothing but con ventions were on the networks. There they were: Democrats and Republicans alike, blathering into the mikes that network talking heads had thrust upon them. Orators, themselves symbols of all sorts (ethnic group, sex, income level, educational achievement, dietary and exercise persuasion), made impassioned pleas to those before them and to the millions they hoped were watching on the tube. Two weeks of that is difficult to miss. Whatever one can say about American politics today, sedate and sober they are not. Presiden tial politics, in many ways, is a grand show. The summer’s cir cuses got us primed for the barn storming of the fall. If you prefer more technological images, the media extravaganzas prepared us for the brain-numbing spots and 45-second news blurbs that we will see until the first week in November. Almost all of our Presidential elections have had bizarre and theatrical qualities to them. With the possible exception of the two associated with George Washington, few have escaped looking very weird to someone. Europeans who like to observe the American scene are completely baffled by the entire enterprise. Some Americans, obsessed with order and appropriate procedure, decry these deviations into banality and brouhaha. There is, however, a method in the madness. Quite simply. Presidential politics is about winning. Garner ing more votes than the other guy is the object. If kissing babies, shaking hands outside factory gates, flying to four cities in one day surrounded by a gaggle of media hacks, debating one’s oppo nent in a variety of ways generates those votes, then it must be judged worth the effort. Both parties yearn for the “youth vote,” but young people make the pursuit a crap shoot for each. For young and first-time voters the statistics are dismal. Since the adoption of the 26th Amendment to the Constitution that gave 18-year olds the right to vote, young voters have registered to vote and have voted less frequently than any other age group. Part of the problem is registra tion. Most states require voters to register a month or more before the election. Generally, it has to be done in person. In North Carolina, for example, in order to be eligible to vote this November, one must register by October 9th. Conve niently, this date coincides with MHC’s fall break. A second problem confronting students is the hassle of absentee voting. There are several forms to fill out, deadlines to meet, and notary publics that have to vouch for the process. Both of these impediments can be overcome if plans are made now. If you haven’t registered, get on the stick. If you haven’t made plans to vote absentee, do so. Write or call your County Board of Elections. Ask for information about registering and voting. If you want to register in Madison County, call the Marshall Office. Helpful notaries flourish here-on campus; try the financial aid or the business office — cooperative folks there take the pain out of absentee voting. No one is keeping students from being a part of this year’s big political show and very important craziness known as the election. But the initial steps have to be taken by the prospective voter. The 1984 election offers college students another transition out of adolescence. For most, this will be their first Presidential vote. Generally, adults recall with fond ness the first time they voted, when, and something about the circumstances of that vote. As with other “firsts”, however, oppor tunities for bungling abound. It is easier to get it wrong than to do it right. 1984 is too good to miss. abb any r.) viate lical equips., a college sophomore, ive saved $38 last month. ds.) ect o' e, "Rad he paid that much in ^^*"‘®is bank for overdrafts and rharges. He writes checks often uses an auto- is Her machine to withdraw jo^ss^ounts of money. time he writes a check or DOWimachine, he automatically mall service charge. Most ' ucheeilso charge a monthly iated ^ veler overdrafts. stt uncommon for college or Byrt to pay little attention to a1 7 movidies and other activities,” g®?^g^ert Harkness, Manager, at - soucia Bank and Trust in Mars f quan' agh checking accounts are t, most convenient way to noney, they must be used in order to be cost- rgan particularly to college on a limited budget. a" s said. do not routinely make up ■ficient funds on checking . When a check is return- ent tailer, the customer usual- returned check charge to moi" hant as well as a fee to the iac ners who maintain ap- ^ e minimum balances. War ofuse check writing and of automated teller ; and follow prudent planning can reduce or service charges, over- d returned checks. jazz “Business in college towns often charge high fees for returned checks - anywhere from S8 to $20. A habit of writing bad checks can result in a bad financial reputation and can make it more difficult to get checks cashed,” Harkness said. A Wachovia Personal Banker can explain which checking ac count option may be the most economical for college students. To open a checking account, most banks like Wachovia prefer a driver’s license for identification and a $1(X) minimum deposit. One type of no-service-charge checking, called Wachovia Free Way, requires a minimum of $400 in a Wachovia statement savings account. The account can be set up as an individual or joint account with parents or spouse. An interest rate of 5Vi percent is paid on the savings portion of the account. To avoid overdrafts, money can be automatically transferred from statement savings to the checking account at a charge of $1 per trans fer. To receive free checking students would still need to main tain the required minimum balance in savings despite any transfers to cover overdrafts. Also, any savings account that is tied to a checking account for overdraft protection earns 5 !4 percent interest. “Free way is a popular account with college students,” Harkness said. “It protects the student, whose expenses may vary from time to time, from service charges, and it is a good deterrent against using money they really want to save. Maintaining minimum balances may be difficult for college students, but with proper plann ing, service charges can be reduced or avoided. To keep charges to a minimum, Mr. Harkness suggests that students should: 1) Try to anticipate and limit the number of checks written. 2) Pay cash whenever possible, but don’t carry large amounts of cash. 3) Plan ahead and stick to a sim ple budget. This will not only make students aware of how they spend their money, it will make them more judicious in their spending. 4) Be careful to keep sufficient funds in their accounts. 5) If possible, open a joint ac count with parents, who can main tain the required minimum balances or help prevent over drafts. 6) Give parents a supply of deposit slips from their checking accounts, so that they can make deposits quickly and easily in any branch around the state. 7) Remember that a banking day is defined as the hours between 2 p.m. one day and 2 p.m. the next day. This will help avoid confusion and acidental overdrafts. Trans actions made after 2 p.m. will not be processed until the next day. 8) Balance their checkbooks against their monthly statements each month. If the checkbook doesn’t balance and the problem can’t be found, they can stop by their bank’s office. At Wachovia, CHPOSENDUR i FOR TWS mms- S'. BfL mswr” ? V.{ I II ■ms\ c( COMING TO MOORE AUDITORIUM WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19th, AT 8:00 P.M. a Personal Banker Secretary can help find the mistake quickly and can show the student how to stay in balance. Mr. Harkness also advises students to become acquainted with someone at the bank office on campus or nearby. “If a problem arises with an ac count, it helps to know someone,” Harkness said. “Establishing a relationship today will be beneficial in the future.” e on By REV. MARIE BEAN Contributing Editorialist i wonderful thing is true 5! The Bible contains jverbs and stories extol- dship. David said of his 5 with Jonathan, the son Saul, that it was better 1 a woman’s love, majoif us to place a high value nbinedjg and keeping friends. ; that i relationship should be ticipaty death or of short dura- mpactine reason or another, we ; as tree with Tennyson who transpupon the death of his iy prei. H. Hallam, “Tis better luseufloved and lost than never lat mbved at all!” ed to tnerally pity those who le thr^e without friends, and it Vatifor us to identify with bited. like the late millionaire really Joward Hughes, who is y to to have had no real ies sue all. an unfire the ingredients of true 1 be exb? : in coiuld have to begin with a h theffection we feel toward person. There must be some degree of mutuality, of com patibility, of disposition, of per sonality, and of interests. Being a friend calls for an invest ment of time and energy. Friend ship must be patiently nurtured and cultivated. Someone has said, “True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.” In this area, quality counts more than quantity. Friendship grows best in a climate of openness, trust and mutual self-communication. That makes us vulnerable, of course, and opens us up to the possibility of being hurt. And sometimes we might wish v/e could be a turtle for a while and crawl into a nice, safe shell. But crawling into shells, building walls, and wearing masks not only destroy meaningful rela tionships with other people, they also jeopardize our own well being. In fact, one psychologist (Sidney Jourard in The Transparent Self) believes^ that dis honesty in relating can even lead to the disintegration of one’s own personality. How do you feel when some body you thought was your friend turned out not to be your friend after all? Pretty rotten, I bet. We just somehow expect that a true friend will be loyal through thick and thin. Proverbs 17:17 says, “A friend loves at all times”; and Pro verbs 18:24 is more explicit: “There are friends who pretend to be friends, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.” In short, a true friend is there, in good times and bad, willing to engage in give-and-take for the sake of friendship. Notice that it’s give-and-take — a two-way street. Each person feels good enough about himself or her self to give others freedom to be themselves, too. There’s healthy “space in the togetherness.” There’s acceptance, and apprecia tion of the uniqueness of the other, and sharing each other’s joys and tears. And when the pain of mis understandings and anger and hurt come, there is the blessed gift of forgiveness. Finally, true friendship means not using another person for any selfish end of our own. You’ve heard it said before. I’m sure, that things are to be used, not people. In his poem The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran said of friendship. And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love... In fact, Jesus expressed that principle more strongly still when he said, “Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends” (John 15:13). We not only do not use our friends for selfish ends, we are willing, if need be, for our lives to be spent on their behalf. I have sometimes participated in an exercise — and perhaps you have, too — in which we were ask ed to compose our own epitaphs. I think I could be happy if mine should read: She was a good friend. Hypnotizing, magnetizing, mesmerizing, energizing, fascinating, captivating, exciting, amusing, entertaining, original TomDeLuca. Hypnosis that goes beyond entertainment and BSP, an original comic parody “One of the most requested acts on college campuses today.” —Newsweek
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