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a editorial page Page T«o the CLARION APRIL 29, 1966 u ■; And Now, Everyone's Treading Lightly Till The Year's Over There has been something subtlely wrong here, something abnormally out of balanc^^^^ ttie'campus of blirtL oveSil attitude of the have been sullen, destructive, rebellious, “d gene allv angry — at nothing perceiptable, at ’ all rules The feeling emerged finally as an unreasoning hatred of the college J gj g trying to do, as shown by number of derogatory signs, ^alls worse, which are seen scrawled on d^ks, on wails, on bulletin boards ... and other placej Some ^ them were there last year, true, but most of them are comments made by this year’s they made vocal comments,^ too, usually ^ msgust^ “It figures,” when news arrived of sonie admmistra tive action. It would be easy to pass off this resent ment of Brevard, this creeping hatred, as merely a by-product of spring restlessness. It would be eas^, but not accurate, for this attitude since the first of year, and probably before that, ^o one can pinpoint the exact cause, perhaps the admin istration has been at fault, perhaps the students. l:'er- haps it began with several controversial college-stu- dent clashes which occurred last year and were car ried over through this year’s Soiphomore Class to in fect the entire student body. But the feeling, no mat ter what the cause, has been definitely present. Vio lent hatred of a social system may be used two ways. First, it jnaybe expended in negativism and useless defiance, in the destroying of college property and the breaking of petty rules. Or, second, it can pro vide the will, the powerful motivation needed, to br ing about changes in a system which is hateful to those who exist under it. The students of Brevard College have a choice: either to work to alter the system which they find so unendurable or to destroy the system—and themselves. Think About What? Just in case someone read the editorial, “Think Before You Vote”, in last week’s CLARION, this is to say that before you can think about the candidates, you must have a few. It is simply outrageous that for several of the school offices only one person is running. The candi dates, we grant you, are capable students, yet there are many more who are also capable. When things don’t suit us next year, we’ll prob ably blame our officers, as is usual. But who is real ly to blame? Not the officers, who are doing their best. It is our fault entirely. Anyone can start a pe^ tition for a candidate — all that is necessary is the fifty names. We must either be willing to back our school by getting candidates for the offices, several candidates, or silently accept all “our” officers do next year because we are too lazy to work just a little bit. Make Grades, Not War p.ss-Fail Sysi™ 7the°UnWeS5yat California, Berke- ,e„ lfu^>de7.S with a PO^^-ra.e tjfslrr, outside his maj« «»ich he receives ”'’‘‘Th“d"e°a®be‘‘htnd this kind of Pass-fa« ™“rse^‘! that students who ordmari ^ wou n sacrificing SSfp„tfwoS\e°^f"w?/tfX so without risk Sf lowering their averages. .wering their averages ^^king grades in- New draft procedures are making creasingly important, Herald, Western of the grading editorial. Students can do well, thereby narrowing and limiting ‘^‘'“ThrHeSd* coSed: In order *> “courag^ “'h'’r^e?Sfy'fshiTdrco”nlSd'"‘we^ould sSSeS, however, removing the grade point require ment, because students with B av^ages are relative Iv safe in taking hard courses. The system in that case would only protect those who don’t need the ^^°^^The Selective Service system should not be al lowed to force students into narrow valleys of edu cation by putting a premium on the taking ot easy courses and limiting students to their fields of spec ialization. But since the draft system cannot be changed, to help the universities attain their goals, the universities should help themselves by initiating some form of non-graded classes. SGA Reports The SGA has moved that in the future, SGA members will not be required to attend House Council in their individual dorms, but may attend the meet ings of the Councils at their own discretion. SGA members, how ever, will still be empowered to give demerits and act as proc tors. Brevard Choir Goes On Tour SGA, along with the Christian Councii, hopes to sponsor a breakfast in Pisgah Forest for graduating Sophomores on the Saturday before graduation. The number of demerits awarded for breaking in line has been raised to 2 for girls and 10 for boys, effective from now till the end of school. The procedure of “saving places in line” is no longer to be allowed. The Brevard College Choir went on their Spring tour Sun day, April 24. The choir sang several selections in a morning service at Biltmore Methodist Church in Asheville. The church provided dinner after which the choir members were taken along the Blue Ridge Parkway toward Mt. Mitchell. The bus stopped at Craggy Gardens, and the har dier members (those who weren't wearing heels) climbed to the peak. Bob Pickens announces with pride that the rest of the candy has finally been returned to Chi cago. Dr. McLarty and the newly- elected SGA mem'bers are in vited to the SGA meeting to be held May 4. Sunday evening the choir and Madirigal Singers performed at Grace Methodist Church, also in Asheville. The church MYT provided supper, and the choir was privileged to hear Dr. Mark Depp (last year’s religious em- hasis speaker and this year’s baccalaureate preacher), who was beginning a revival at Grace Church. Nelson Adams is direc tor of the choir, and Jackie Howie is organist. One Shrill, Small Voice BY: PAUL ALLEN Meanwhile, back in the . . . The ants were planning their spring-time attack on Tay. lor students . . . The plumbers had fixed the hot water heat ers; to keep the water at 32 degrees ... and all the doon got broken. Students hung towels on their door, to see what other students would vwite on them. Some sold their souls for enough money to exist the rest of the semester ... No one made noise , . , The radiators ran fullWast in 80 degree weather. Privacy took a holiday. During campusment the stu dents washed the floors ... sex was not discussed . . . “Double Shot” became the official fresh man class song . . . “The Bal lad of the Green Beret” was ban ned as too gross . . . Midnight cil was burned to no avail, A student was buried when he opened his closet door Mas sive prostration paralyzed the campus with the coming of warm weather . . . Draft deferment was the main topic of conver sation in boy’s dorms . , . Girls as usual, discussed boys. Mosquitoes, gnats, and chig- gers—they came, they saw, they conquered . . . FEAR; some ev en started studying for semes ters. 4-F was the hero of the day. Cleanliness is next to godli ness; rooms became the devil's lair . . . Spring-time rains looked no different than winter rains . Book-.burnings were plan ned . . . Students planned the end of scholastic drudgery, and the start of summer-job drud gery. Object — earn enough money to start scholastic drud gery again in the fall . . . Screams of the homework- plagued echoed the halls late at night . . . Charlie’s finally col lected what was owed him in food debts; this is what is known as starvation wages . . . With weeping and wailins and gnashing of teeth, with the spector of creeping poverty star ing in the windows, with work piled high, tests up-eoming, clothes lost, and sanity fleeini, the students wait. Two more weeks! The Clarion EDITORS Diane Warman and Jenny Munro BUS. MANAGER jim Reeves STAFF Elaine Mason, Jeanette Baldwin, Judy Caldwell NEWS EDITOR Gail Drake REPORTERS Madeline Wynecoop, Virginia Lynch Monica Driscoll FEATURE EDITOR Pauj Allen REPORTERS Irvin Prescott, Judy Sigmon SPORTS EDITIOR jiiYi Case ASSISTANT Johnny Gossett PHOTOGRAPHER Wayne Gaver ADVISOR Ena Kate Sigmon The Student Government As sociation has donated one hun dred dollars to the Brevard Save- A-Child Campaign. Student Government will shortly begin appropriating funds left over in the various club treasuries to go into the Activity Fund. Clubs are advis ed to tag all funds which they do not wish to go into the gen eral fund. School Children To Visit College New Courses Duke (Continued from Page One) who acted as ladies in waiting and crownbearer.” Lynn completed her statement with, “There were more people than we expected. Everything went off smoothly as planned, due to all the people who help ed and especially due to the work of all of the various Com mittees.” On Saturday afternoon the Y.E,S. tutoring program will cul minate with a picnic here on the campus for the tutors and tutees. The purpose of the get-togeth er is to bring the children that the students in the Y.E.S. pro gram have been tutoring to the campus to see how a college stu dent lives and the environment in whkh he survives day by day. The children will be able to see a home baseball game and will have the use of the swim ming pool. They may also watch the students in the pro grams of Activity Day, slated for tomorrow. (Continued from Page On*) j added to the list of courses av^ | able. This will be an elective, which may be required at a sef ior college. This course has M added at the request of D “ i students and faculty and include basic work added a request of both students faculty and will include work in business subjects- The addition of German 31® 32 to the language div/sio" . enable students to continue study of German /wo y ^ if entering at the ' level. The courses will be a , vey of German literature j early writers to the very j These changes better^^jjjf Brevard subjects to rence to a senior coll g . is the goal of the majanty the students on campus.
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