It’s Up To You
The goal of each person should be to grow within
himself — to dvelop a deeper understanding of himself
and those around him. Your college years are an aid in
this process. One encounters people, more challenges
and more ideas.
In life one finds need to discuss his own feelings. To
grow, these feelings need to be genuine. They should not
be molded and expressed as one thinks others so desire.
They should not be hidden for fear of making the wrong
impressions. If they are truly your beliefs then you
should not be ashamed of them or embarrassed. The key
word of life is honesty.
Honesty to oneself builds honesty towards others.
Honesty in any relationship breeds understanding.
Honesty of our feelings introduces us to ourselves
introduces our true selves to the world.
Honesty is not always an easy thing. One fears
rejection and pain. But honesty dissolves deception thus
harvesting trust. What is more fulfilling than the feeling
of complete trust in your fellow man?
A discussion of differences always seems confusing
but you cannot expect your ideas to coincide with
everyone else’s. It is doubtful that you could ever find
one person who completely shares your ideas. It is
through these differences that we also learn and grow.
But before you can develop honest relationships,
before you can have the confidence to express your
feelings, you have to be honest with yourself. Question
yourself. Travel the paths of your mind. Pray for the
answers.
Honesty is God. Honesty is love. Honesty is under
standing. Honesty can not be practiced, it must be
found.
Mary Kay McKown
Small Cars and
Milk Bottles
By BRIGGS PETHAY
If there is an overused word in the English language, it’s
“ecology.” The word has anausiating ring to it, quite similar to
“garbage” and “filth”. But there is no use ignoring it, ’cause we’re
rapidly wasting the little bit of earth we have left.
The bislogy professors can lecture all night about phosphate
poisoning and biodegradable enzymes and limiting factors. But, if
people don’t attack the problem of waste, the teachers will be speaking
to corpses. Too many people want the advantages of a clean world
without the inconvenience.
Probably the most ironic thing I’ve ever seen is an ecology symbol
on an automobile. Another phase of irony is shown by these people
driving cars with huge engines, who complain about poor gas mileage
and the cost of fuel. A small car is half the price, half the expense and
much easier on the atmosphere.
A bicycle is better yet.No gas, little up keep, no parking problem
and low initial expense. What is a hundred compared to four
thousand? Walking won’t kill a person, and who can do without the
exercise? This old world looks pretty good if one has the chance to see
it a little at at a time.
I toured the grocery store (long ago when I could afford ham
burger). I was shocked at the over-packaging I saw. Drinks in non-
returnable cans and bottles, paper liners inside of boxes. Check this: it
takes 32 years for a plastic milk carton to decompose. Thirty-two
years of unsightly trash. That is why I don’t ask for a bag when I can
avoid it. 1 wish others did the same.
There are many ways to conserve energy and save the world from
waste. Cut off lights; walk, instead of drive; don't throw anything
away that still can be used; use bottles, not cans; use white paper, the
dye is not bio-degradable; simply do not waste anything. The world
can be a beautiful place again, but it will require effort.
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not necessarily those of the faculty or administration of ACC.
Commentary By Can-oii Aidndge
The second editorial. Please
do not expect me to tell you what
you should think about
Watergate. By now, I am sure
that the vast majority of the
intelligentsia in our country
have detected that the actual
tragedy of our nation’s executive
leadership, is not really
Watergate, which is only a
mirrored reflection of a most
lame excuse error, but its lack of
faith and trust in individual
liberty and in the freedom of
expression.
Last week’s paper hinted at an
air of optimism on the campus.
Quite possibly, this is true, but
optimism alone is not enough.
For optimism to bring about
practical results, it must be
viewed within the realm of
reality. Hopefully this year will
be better than the last. Also, last
week’s paper suggested that
many problems on this campus
were caused by the students,
themselves. Again, in some
areas this is ture, but this is by
far not the whole truth.
We here at ACC really do not
give a hoot about the Puritan
code of behavior. Students here
are not nearly so notoriously
straight-laced and decorous as
some people think. Maybe one
day the Wenger Administration
will realize this. As I have stated
before, in this age of higher
learning and rapid scial change,
there seems to be little room for
a college administration that
places its “public image” before
the needs of the students and its
traditional past before a “now”
ethic. The students and the
faculty are what make up the
spirit of the college. The ad
ministrative personnel should be
merely in a subordinate, or
subservient place on this
campus. Unfortunately,
especially for the students this is
not the case.
The Wenger Administration,
of course, will always have the
upper hand. The reason is
simply that the students have
been brainwashed into thinking
that they can not fight back at
the Wenger Administration.
It was just a few decades ago
For Dreams
She sings for dreams,
if you’ll pay them,
and she sleeps
For morning stars.
If you wake early
you can see her
in the sunrise
and she’ll sing
to you all day long.
Smile for her,
and wink your wishes,
she’ll send back
a warming glow.
At night
find the moon,
it’s in her eyes.
Pay her a dream
for a song.
Kim Taylor
that the student government was
orn. But the student government
never really grew up. Instead, it
became a vogue, a device to
make the students feel a part of
things. This is, of course, exactly
what the college administraton
wanted. The administration
made sure that relatively little
power went with the S.G.A. In
reality, the S.G.A. was never
really alive, it was born dead,
without any potential for growth.
The same stands today, the
student government is dead. It
does not have an issue. But then
even if ti did have one, it could
not get anything done.
The only way the student
government could ever hope to
exist, would be if it had a hell of a
lot of money, of its own, because,
on this campus, that is all that
matters. More money is always
My God
Without sounding like a
member of God Squad, trying to
save the whole world from going
to Hell with a Bible, a whip and a
chain — let me say I have deep
religious convictions.
I just wanted to say that. They
are not the kind of beliefs one
has to spend hours in the deep,
dark confines of old, lofty, scary
cathedrals to find. Instead, I’m
impressed with God when I’m
out in the country. The trees, the
rocks, the animals all tell me my
God is near. The sky is par-
ticulary uplifting. Even if it is
cloudy, the sky reminds me that
heaven is not really far away.
I’m not knocking church by
any means. Some of the fondest
memories I have occurred in a
church. Everyone needs to
worship with people of the same
hopes. I am saying that God can
be found anywhere, one only
needs to look.
God is not the strict
disciplinarian who kicks the
poor sinner for every mistake.
He is the kind, benevolent
creator who supplies every need.
Sure, God will someday judge,
but that is not the worry of a
faithful Christian.
How can a person be so blind
as not to see God in everything?
It is simple to se that no mortal
could have created a world.
Some people I know have
spent and will spend their whole
life trying to make another
dollar. They are too busy
working to see what God is of
fering. If one would just ask the
will of God, he could have a life
of peace and satisfaction, with
ever need provided.
I have felt the need to say
something to people about
“religion”. I doubt I’ll ever find
the words to fully describe my
feelings about God, but in a
nutshell this is today’s sermon.
If I’m not persecuted by the
Supreme Court, I’ll live to tell
more people about my beliefs.
needed - more contributions
more endowments, money
dollars, growth, power andstii
more funds. The most importam
person in the Wenger Ad
ministration’s eyes, is the
person who brings in the most
money. Myself, I am just a
single student, I am nothing to
this administration. Compared
to Mr. Thomas Hackney, I do not
exist. For he is almost a god
himself, if there is a god, that is.
The students here have been
displaced by the administration.
They are only interested in the
students for what can be gotten
from them. During the parent's
weekend and freshman orien
tation, the administration does
its best to “snow” the student's
parents on what a lovely school
this is. Notice how good the food
is in the cafeteria on these
“special days. ” But isn ’t that the
nature of our college ad
ministration these days.
In a recent issue of The Center
Magazine, the role of the college
administrators was seriously
questioned:
“The American universily,
like everything else in America,
has fallen into the hands of the
fixers, or administrators. Their
low statutory function in the
university is to minister to the
professional needs of their
professional betters, but this is
not what they do. In the private
schools they answer only to the
tradesmen who constitute the
board, in the public schools to
the tradesmen who constitute
the legislature. Both sets of
tradesmen reprobage education
as a profession and — observing
the clamor of the professors -
see it as a racket like their own
whose practitioners are often as
bg a buck as they can get for
making as little a bang as the
law requires.”
The society we live in today is
a revolutionary one. There is
nothing stable to cling to in our
fast moving, flux-filled
vironment. And yet, the Wenger
Administration still resides m
their isolated concrete and glass
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of what our society should be t
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times beyond belief.
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