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THE CLARION
APRIL 7, 1972 2
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I feel an obligation to the
Administration, faculty, and es
pecially to the students of Bre
vard College to explain the rea-
Beam panty raid thwarted'
On Thursday night, March 23, the residents of
East and West Beam again showed that they can
raise it as well as any dorm on campus.
The ©vents all started with the discovery, by an
innocent bystander that the "parlor door on the
East side had been inadevrtedly left open. Two men,
seeing a chance to use the phone for free, seized
the> opportunity and made their way down to the
deserted parlor. In a very short time, tho news had
traveled throughout the East side of the dorm and
25 or 30 more men soon made their way to the parlor.
After a few minutes of talking, one brave girl
was 'persuaded to come open the side door on the
West side. A few guys tried to organize a panty
raid, but before the leaders could round up some
more help, they were discovered and all the doors
and windows of the parlor were soon locked.
As we were all to find out, activities for the night
weren’t through yet. After everyone had settled
down and gone to bed, some of the girls decided to
retaliate and one of them pulled the fire alarm, there
by causing the men great distress, as well as dorm
directors.
After this it seemed that everything was going
to settle down and peace would reign again. This
unfortunately was not to be. At about 2:00 a.m.
the occupants of first floor on the East side were
, awakened by a string of firecrackers that was set
off in front of Mrs. Brackett’s door. After things
settled down everyone turned in for their 5 hours of
sleep.
This display of horseplay could be described
by many as immature activities >n the part of the
participants, but it can also be said that it came as
a result of the faulty scheduling of this year’s spring
break that caused great restlessness among many of
the students. D.B.
Our voting responsibility
Since the struggle for the 18-year-old vote has
ended with a victory, how many of us will take ad
vantage of this new privilege? A third of the eligi
ble 18 to 21 year-old voters had registered by th© end
of 1971. Civic groups have hopes set for a 60 per
cent registration by November.
If you have already registered you may be abl©
TO register other voters in some areas. If you haven’t
registered, now is the time to do it. In order to be
©XTOpted as equals in an adult society, the youth have
to be willing to except, and except maturely, respon-
many of us are unaware of it, the
established generation is waiting patiently in silence
1^ prove ourselves. November’s Presidential
^election is our chance. Register — and vote.
The CLARION
Brevard, N. C. 28712
Member of Associated Cbllegiate Press and Intercollegiate
Press. Three - time winner of ACP’s First - Qass Rating.
Published weekly during the college session, with the
exception of holidays and examination periods, by stud
ents of Brevard College. The opinions expressed in this
periodical are those of the editorial board and not neces
sarily those of the College.
Editor-in-Chief Pam Boyce
Advertising Donald Woods, Jill Wright
Reporters David Arledge, Judy Ashe, Frank
Blount, Dennis' Brown, Margaret Dees, Terri
Gatti, Jim Patterson, Dave Queen, Joan Swint,
Anne Tuttle, John Warlick, John Williams,
Mary Helen Huggins
Photographers Kent Deardorff, Robert Lowder
Advisor
Hugh Moran
Dear Editor:
I have a complaint to make.
Although it’s rather a small
and insignificant one, I think
there are a substantial number
of fellow - suffers to justify
this letter. We have a great
percentage of people on camp
us who derive pleasure from
smoking, and some who have an
absolute drive to pursue this
habit at all times of the day.
Regarding one area of the
campus, the cafeteria, no mat
ter how much pleasure a smok
er may get from his habit, his
neighbors may not always find
it so pleasant. I can testify that
there’s nothing more nauseat
ing than trying to eat while
your eyes, nose, and mouth are
constantly barraged with a
cloud of smoke coming from the
people sitting around you. That’s
enough to upset your whole res
piratory and digestive system
while eating, even if you smoke
on occasion yourself. The only
solution to the conflict between
eaters and smokers is a simple
matter of consideration for the
next person. While enjoying
your after - dinner cigarette,
smokers, how about refraining
from having another one, or bet
ter, moving to the next table if
you notice the person next to
you waving smoke from his face
with an expression of repulsion
or gagging from smoke inhala
tion.
While I’m complaining about
habits in the cafeteria, what
about the people who leave
their trays on the tables for the
cafeteria workers to carry
back? I’ve often wondered if
this is just absent - mindedness,
a protest against the food, or
(more likely) an act of lazi
ness and absolute inconsidera
tion. If the latter is true, what
kind of lazy loaf can not take
it upon himself to walk twenty
feet or less to carry his own
messed - up food and waste
to the place provided for it?
Certainly the cafeteria workers
(although they’re paid for their
job) will not enjoy picking up
their slop if they don’t have
the human decency to do it
themselves. Surely a mature, in
telligent person would be con
siderate and responsible enough
to dispose of his own waste ma
terial, since he expects rights
and privileges in return for his
responsibility as a student at
Brevard College.
Sincerely,
Lynn Taylor
Bridge boosts
bus fund
The Campus Ladies and So
cial Board will sponsor a bene
fit bridge on April 10th at 8:00
P. M. The money raised will
be applied toward the bus fund.
Prizes wiU be donated by
various persons on campus. The
prizes wiU consist of arts and
crafts, flowers, and someone
will go home with a beautiful
quilt made by the Campus
Ladies.
The admission for this event
will be $1.25 per person. Sixteen
tables will be set up in the ping-
pong room of the Student Union,
and will be filled by those who
arrive first.
sons for my resignation as edi
tor-in-chief of The Clarion.
If I were forced lo name one
single reason for my resigna
tion., I would have to say, “un
founded (in my opinion) cen
sorship.” However, this one
reason can be subdivided into
several incidents which led to
my resignation on March 14.
There exists little need to en
umerate these because they are
widely known by many.
As editor of The Clarion, my
main concern has been to pre
sent unbiased news coverage
(good or bad news) to the stud
ents. But I feel that an es
sential part of any newspaper
is the editorial page, where
opinions may be aired. A very
important part of this page is
the public forum, better known
as the Letters to the Editor
column. This column provides
for students to express their
own opinions so that the edi
tor’s opinions do not dominate
the editorial page. This is good,
and I feel that any censorship
of this column, except, of course,
in the case of libelous materials,
is a blow against the student
body, severely impairing their
or
rights of expression of opinion,
Considering myself a sort of
crusader for the student body
(and now, perhaps^ a semi-
martyr,) 1 could no longer a^
quiesce this practice, which I
felt to be detrimental to the
students, as well as to The
Clarion itself. The choice be
tween maintaining my job as
editor or maintaining the ethics
of good journalism emerged,
and I held the latter as the
more important. I always will
Suppression of the truth, even
if it hurts, is a crime against
any society — even a student
body. “Obviously, a man’s judg
ment cannot be better than the
information on which he has
based it. Give him the truth and
he may still go wrong when he
has the chance to be right, but
give him no news or present
him only with distorted and in
complete data, with ignorant,
sloppy or biased reporting, with
propaganda and deliberate false
hoods, and you destroy his whole
reasoning processes, and make
him something less than a
man.”
Sincerely,
Mike Jones
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
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AL0N6 TO TM6 AP
WHO mmiNGi
I Viewpoint I
% By - JOHN WARLICK J
Once upon a time a group of snails lived togeth
er in their little Utopian society. One day a very
strange event occured in their community, an ant
joined them. The snails accepted this ant from the
first, but one day the ant brought up a suggestion
that would or could improve th© society. The snails
immediately threw th© ant out for his off - center
views. The moral of this story is: Something that
will not be changed cannot be changed.
*****
Now that s'pring seems to be here for at le'ast
a couple of days, anyone interested in soccer should
make their appearance on the soccer field at 4:30
on weekdays. The practice is not very organized
but it will let everyone know exactly what to expeC"
next year.
My expert in his field was wrong about th© snoW. ,
Instead of 15 inches before Easter, Brevard had only
5. Stick to coaching!
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