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PAGE TWO THE CLARION march 30. 1362 DO DOMINATED MALES NEED NEW AMENDMENT? The 66th Congress, back m 1920, passed the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote. The truth is, the girls didn’t need any special help; they were doing all right by themselves—and still are. In fact, 42 years later, the men are the ones who ought to be crying for special freedom-giving legisla tion. They are the ones in the inferior position. These dominated males usually come in three cat- egt)ries; husbands (dominated by wives) ; sons (domi nated by mothers) ; and daters (dominated by the girls they date). Females under the age of 13 are omitted since, they have not normally had their how- to-handle-a-male training yet. Husbands, of course, are in the greatest need of help. But since they have lived a set pattern for so long, thejr ar« usually beyond aid. And the son has only to cut the apron strings and run away to college to extricate himself, so we won’t concern ourselves with him. So the daters, then, are the ones that we will concentrate on, and, with the aid of the powers that be,^ maybe some day convince Congress that more legislation is needed. The male dater resembles a kind of serf from the feudal system of the Middle Ages, and the female a type of lord in a system that makes the middle age feudalism look like pure democracy. Under the present system of dating, girls seem to be supplied with a built-in helplessness—^a help lessness that closely links them to the blind man on the comer, who is working on his second million. On dates, a girl is at her helpless best—and it always gets results. There are some girls who can ontrebound Wilt Chamberlain, outshoot Bob Cousy, and probably give Floyd Patterson a pretty good tus sle; and yet, when they’re out with a male, these same girls have trouble finding the handle on a car door. This is not a condemnation of society, but just a record for the next 66th Congress to refer to when Tfxiaking its next legislation. Komment Your Social I Q? How Do You Rate Letters To The Editor Beauty vs Brains BEAR JOHN; The “age old” question of “Should a C average be required of all officers of organizations on campus, and for beauty queens” was the subject of debate in the English class on Monday night. The panel could not come to a decision on the issue. I could see why it would be necesary for an officer to maintain respectable grades. The time he spends on extra-curricular activities, even if they are supposedly essential to his development of character, should not ^sceed his academic capacity to obtain decent grades. What I cannot see is the requirement that beauty queens be required to have good grades too. It seems to me that there should be a definite distinction bet ween social functions and academic functions. All that is required of a beauty queen is that slie be beautiful. Most girls just aren’t endowed with beauty and with brains. If the queens were to represent Brevard at con ventions it would be a different matter. As it is, all that she has to do is walk down the aisle and be pre sented at the dance. Why does she have to be “intelli gent” for that? — Dottie Ballew The Clarion Staff Editor John Goins Associate Editor : Joyce West Business Manager Juanita McKee Feaiture Editor Brenda Britt Sports Editors Freddie McMahan, Gary Barney Photography Randy McKnight Photographer Gil Coan Advertising Managers Joel Stevenson, Burnitte Babb Cartoonist : Barrie Hancock Staff Writers Carol Hunt, Joyce Mabry, Dorothy Ballew, Lorraine Martin, Sonja Rey nolds, Gail Pilarski, Gene Beasley (AGP) — Do you belong? Do your classmates whisper about you? The following care fully prepared self - test from the Associated Collegiate Press will help you to deter mine exactly how you stand. 1) Should drinking be allow ed on campus? (A) No (B) Intemperance is immoral (C) Hie! 2) Why don’t you join the Parachute Club? (A) Scared (B) Frightened to death (C) Do all the jumping I want when the lunch bell rings, 3) Should more girls be per mitted to attend Brevard? (A) Yes (B) Definitely (C) Without a doubt, 4) Ai'e you afraid to speak your mind? (A) No (B) I’d rather not say. 5) Do you have difficulty with your English assignments? ’ (A) Yes (B) No (C) Si, Senor! 6) At which of the following collegiate sports are you most proficient? (A) Professor baiting (B) Class cutting (C) Coed chasing. 7) Which goal is closest to your own? (A) Dean’s list (B) Scholar ship (C) Parking place. 8) Can you spell the following sentence correctly? The sylogisms tatology co notes deduction. (A) Ciortanly (B) Do your own English, 9) Do your teachers like you better than they like your friends? (A) No (B) What friends, 10) Are you an active support er of sichool functions? (A) Yes (B) Sometimes (C) Functions? 11) What is your opinion of the tuition raise? (A) Good (B) Adject resigna tion (C) Censored, 13) What is your opinion of cafeteria coffee? (A) Quite good (B) Quite good sudless detergent, 14) Do you have any difficulty parking? (A) Yes (B) She’s broadmind- LORRAINE MARTIN What is the greatest attrac tion sprmg vacation has for you? Brenda Lindsay — I’m going to Florida, Diane Gannon — I refuse to answer on the grounds that it will incriminate me again, Theresa Foster — Rest! Sue Almarode — The Carolina Cup, Beaman Thomas — All the wild parties at Spring German’s in Chapel Hill. Linda Sheffield — Super. Eleanor Mefford — Tennes see. Eddie Wallace ter. Betsy McLain Earnest Riddle Faye Watford Joan Mather Life.” Mrs. Honeycutt pation of getting ting some spring done. Sonny Suggs — My little sis- — Food. — Sleep, — My nephew, — Army “Social — The antici- home and get- house-cleaning — Charlotte, By JOHN GOINS Everyone seems to be com plaining about the food in the cafeteria — maybe with good reason. While talking with Mrs Honeycutt, the college nurse however, she expounded the view that maybe we’re just “tired” of eating the same food every day she believes that our own tastes are at fault more than the food. Maybe our nurse is right, but if the same conditions prevail af ter we return from spring vaca tion — that is, if we continue to throw away more food than we jeat—^we will have a just cause !for complaint., and can expect something to be done to remedy the situation. Smoke bothering you? Maybe it’s because the fellows have dis covered the merits of smoking a pipe and have turned from “sucking the weed” to “pulling the stem.” The movement seem ed to originate in the basement of Green Hall (ask any nonsmok er from the basement what five or six pipes going-at one time smells like,) and has been grad ually spreading across the cam pus. Rumor has it that the “smell of rags burning” can even be detected late at night in the kails of Annabelle Jones. Of course, we don’t believe every thing we hear. Compliment from The Hilltop: In the last edition of The Hill top, the Mars Hill Newspaper, a columnist paid a compliment to' the Brevard Cheerleader’s uni forms, comparing the two school’s uniforms as “something new, something old,” It seems that the Baptists are crusading for new uniforms. Hope they get them. Twist around the clock: Dean Roberts hit upon a touchy sub ject in Lit class the other day when he began brow - beating the Twist. But I agree with him when he says that he prefers the slow, head-on shoulder, sweet- nothin^s-in-ear type of dance to the no-contact Twist. The End: Waiter: “How would you like your rice, madam?” Brevardette: “Thrown at me.” CHRISTIAN WITNESS ON CAMPUS There has been a change in the mood of the college student towards religion in the last few years. This change has greatly weakened the Christian organi zations on college ^ampuses. This change puts into radical question the traditional strategy of the denominational college Christian witness. For an unbiased summary of what is really wrong with the Christian organizations on col lege campuses today, I refer to a paniphlet entitled “The Chal lenge,” It does not refer specifi cally to the churches around our college or to the religious organizations on our campus. “The role of the church — It is not enough for the church to operaite religious centers around ed. 15) Are you a cute coed with a date problem? (A) No (B) Yes! (please notify author immediately). If you have bothered to take this test, take a secretive glance around; the odds are your class mates are whispering about yo;u:.. the prepiphery of the campus if it ignores the proper and ser ious work of the academic com munity. It is not enough for the church to offer its facilities as a refuge for harmless religiO'US activities . . . The college student rightly wonders why the church hesitates to participate in the life of the college community as a whole. “The students ako question the present strategy of the Chris tian organizations on campus- Burdened by increasing academ ic pressure and an abundance of other extra - curricular activities, the present student cares for supper meetings, retreats, and a plethora of committee busy - work. What he has a righit to expect of the Christian organizations, he does not often find: an honest and open pre sentation of the claims of Chris tian faith in the 20th century-^ and in 20th century language. Amen. A Thought To Remember: You get out of something just as much as you put into it. __ Bob Spencer
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