piiRllSHED WEEKLY
ATLANTICCHRISTIAN COLLEGE APRILS, 1976 NUMB
Students Receive Severe Penalty
“I have siiorn upon the alter of (jod elernal hostility
of tyrdnny over the mind of man. ”
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Saturday afternoon
jale students in Hackney Hall
,ere discovered with two
•emaies in their room, several
taif-full beer cans in a bag and a
(ew empty cans scattered about
[lie room. They were charged
liiili possession of alcohol,
consumption of alcohol, and
having females in their room at
otlierthan visitation hours. They
»OT found guilty of the last two
counts. The evidence against
!iem appears very flimsy and
flfcumstantial. The evidence is:
A.) Several half-full beer cans
in a bag and several other
empties scattered around the
room.
B.) The two females
C.lTwo RA’s thought they saw
w of the young men following
ihe women into the dorm, but
could not make positive iden-
afication.
The beer cans being in a bag
would suggest that the cans were
Drought into the room to be
thrown away, although this is
®t an established fact. The two
tod been in their room only lo
mutes when they were con
fronted. That is very little time
to drink several beers. They
arrived in their room at 5:00 and
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at 5:10 were apprehended. The
two females testify they entered
the dorm on their own free will.
They were both ECU students,
and one girl’s brother lives in
Hackney. According to their
testimony, they were looking for
Darrell English and Mike Sellers before the news
him.
The penalty for these crimes
has been established as two
semesters suspension from
school for both. This will go on
their permanent records and
will be shown to prospective
employers as well as educa
tional institutions when
they consider them for a job or
acceptance to their schools. In
light of the extremely flimsey
evidence, this would seem to be
a rather harsh sentence. The
Reflections of Dr. Hamlin
fact is that they broke a school
rule, even though it is outdated,
and some punishment would be
in order However, suspension
for two semesters seems rather
harsh
But this is not all there is to the
case. In the recent past, there
have been several cases where
occupants of dorms have bt*en
caught with hard liquor in their
possession and have been caught
in the act of drinking it. These
have included resident
assistants, sorority members,
and other individuals. These
people got off with very slight
penalties, probation at the most.
In a standout case, a young man
did not even go before the
discipline committee. This
would seem to be a grave con
tradiction of justice.
Can it be that Uarreil and
Mike were singled out for some
reason? Maybe it was their
attitude at the hearing that had a
bearing on the verdict. Or
perhaps the Disciplinary Board
felt obligated to make an
example of the two, due to the
laxity shown in previous cases.
Maybe not. Still it remains
rather questionable that true
justice was served here.
The time tor the interview had
been set for 1:00 o’clock. The
reporter knocked on the door.
There was no sound. “Maybe he
forgot I was coming, or got busy
and couldn’t make it,” he
(bought. Just then there was a
rattle on the door handle and he
realized his fears had been
mjustified.The door opened and
the old man (Did I say old? This
certainly is a contra^ction, for
despite his physical age,hehas a
wisdom and vitality of spirit that
transcends age and youth.)
stood in front of him. He was
fail looking and thin, but there
*as energy in his voice.
"Come in, come in,” he said,
Hid told the reporter to have a
seat.
Dr. Hamlin, are you a
pacifist?” asked the reporter.
He replied that he was but that
tie didn’t like the word. It gave
tile impression of a weakling
*ho gives no resistance. Dr.
Hamlin and he believed in the
"super-resistance” — using
your head instead of your fist,
3nd looking and thinking ahead.
He said he had supported World
"^sr I, but only because he was
fcoledinto thinking it was a war
to end all wars. The old man
stated he had been misled by the
Machine propaganda that
operates to brainwash the minds
people during all wars.
Dr. Hamlin got up and went to
we closet. He opened the door
^dpulled out what looked like a
paper. He handed it to the
It was titled “A
™grimage In Ideas” and had
,1®' '*'ritten by the old man in
O. He told the student to read
^ section dealing with the
J®J«ction of warfare to see what
J <^hanged his views on war.
J man flipped open the
booklet (9 pages) to the
page and began to read.
It dealt with the false
propaganda the U. S. and her
allies had used in World War I to
fire up the people in favor of the
war. The paper cited the sinking
of the Lusitania for one example.
The U, S, had made it appear as
though the Germans had sunk
the passenger ship and killed
many innocent people, as well as
114 Americans, But the bill of
lading, not made public until
after the war, showed that it was
heavily laden with munitions of
war. The paper also noted that in
1916, when President Wilson was
up for re-election on the slogan
“He kept us out of war,” he held
a meeting with three southern
legislators and asked them to
support a move to enter the war.
They refused. The paper went on
to say that after the U, S, entered
the war, a propaganda program
was started under the ad
ministration of George Creel,
This organization published over
75,000,000 books and pamphlets,
used 75,000 speakers, and had a
daily newspaper circulation of
over 100,000. The U, S,
established propaganda offices
in every nation except Germany
and her allies. Creel, after the
war, was reported as saying
with the same propaganda
equipment, he could throw the
U, S, into a war with any country
in 90 days. The paper referred to
many other instances in other
wars which showed how each
nation uses propaganda to in
fluence its people in the desired
direction during times of war.
All this added weight to the old
man’s view on the War Machine,
and the reporter could not
believe such facts as these had
never been covered in any
history class he had been in.
Then he realized that the
propaganda brain-washing
doesn’t end with the event.
Then the old man, without a
trace of bitterness or malice,
said, “President Wilson was the
biggest, pious, most well
meaning liar in history.” The
young man laughed. But it was
an uneasy laugh, more in an
attempt to laugh away an un
pleasant fact one has just been
told, and wishes he hadn’t heard,
than at anything funny. The
reporter changed subjects.
“What is your relationship
with God,” he asked?
Immediately the old man
replied, God is a personal God,
he resolved, and could not be
defined, because the finite
cannot define the infinite. He
believed that there was
something divine in all men. He
gave a quote by George Fox of
the Quaker Church, “There is
that of God in all men, ’ ’ The sage
thought for a moment, and then
added that ail men’s thinking
should be anchored in religion.
The correspondent was sur
prised to find so many of the old
man’s thoughts were similar to
his own, “He’s just a romantic
like me,” he thought. Then he
noticed the eyes again. The
gleam was still there. During the
course of the interview, it had
grown dim at times, but each
time it had rushed back just as
bright and strong as ever before.
The reporter still could not
figure out what it was. He went
on to the next question.
“Dr. Hamlin, what do you see
in store for us in the future?”
“It's beyond me,” he said in a
voice more cynical than op
timistic, but in reality was
neither. “None knows that ex
cept God.” Now there was a
softness in his tone. He went on,
saying we should work for
disarmament and should stop
rattling our swords as many do
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things of the mind, then it is like a fountain, like a spring that is con
stantly giving fresh water,”
Jiddo Krishna murti
(Japanese I'hilosopher)