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THE PILOT
MARCH
GARDNER-WEBB PILOT
Member Intercollegiate Press
STAFF
Pete Banus Editor
Bob Workman Business Manager
Mr. Mosely Faculty Adviser
EDITORIAL STAFF
Wilma Gathings Associate Editor Wray Hill Sports Writer
Rachel Scroggs News Editor Ernie Diaz Reporter
Richard Yearwood Feature Editor Jean McCrae Reporter
Doug Fitzpatrick Art Editor Adrian Littlejohn Reporter
Martha Brooks Literary Editor Bob Morrow Reporter
Jean McSwain Club Editor Bill Wallace Reporter
Darrell Wilson Sp. Feature Editor Gwen Wright Reporter
Andy Saris Sports Editor Doris Vance Reporter
Charles McManus Humor Editor Jo Wright Reporter
Wayne Sorrells Religious Editor Charles Rich Reporter
Sam O’Neill Feature Writer Paul Eller Reporter
Keith Snyder Feature Writer Eloise Bumgarner Reporter
David McHam Feature Writer Pat Smith Reporter
Bill Byrd Feature Writer Ann Scott Reporter
Gleim Henson Feature Writer Don Sturkey Photographer
BUSINESS STAFF
Betty Ledford Asst. Business Manager
Joanne Rhinehardt i Circulation Manager
Harvey Cannon Asst. Circulation Manager
Today's Look By Our President
DR. p. L. ELLIOTT
The trend in higher education in America is placing the
emphasis more and more on the community college. The
idea of the community college sprang up largely in Cali
fornia and Texas. Most of such colleges there are vocation
al. They have had phenominal growth. The largest of these,
Long Beach City College, has more than forty thousand stu
dents, more than twenty-four thousand being adults. One
with more than eleven thousand students is entirely adult.
North Carolina is now considering the building of a sys
tem of state supported community Junior Colleges. The
movement is significant.
The basic requirements for a community to be permitted
to secure such a state supported school are as follows:
1. The community must take the initiative.
2. It must show ability and willingness to provide a suit
able plant.
3. It must show that it can produce a student body of 300,
which will require 750 high school graduates per year
within twenty-five miles of the school.
4. The financial requirements will be to provide $175 per
year for each student.
5. The state will provide out of state tax an additional
$175 per student.
6. Each student will provide $50.00.
This calculation is on the basis of the 1950 dollar value.
This means that $400 per student is estimated to be neces
sary to operate such a college. It is interesting to note that
$400 from taxes is appropriated to Chapel Hill for each stu
dent. State College receives $450 per student. It will be in
teresting to note that Gardner-Webb asks in contributions
less than $100 per student to carry on its program; and
Gardner-Webb students stand as high in the institutions to
which they transfer, as a rule, as they stood at Gardner-
Webb.
What's Our Future?
By David Austin
Will the death of Josef Stalin change our way of living?
As we enter tomorrow can we foresee our destiny ? We Ameri
cans cannot have an exact fore-knowledge of our future but
we do know that it will depend largely upon the road taken at
this point by our great ally and enemy. Communist Russia,
who now is suffering the drastic loss of probably the great
est dictator ever known.
The Road to Peace would be most relished by the majori
ty of people, but has not Communism become so deeply root
ed in the heart of this vast empire that it would be absolute
ly impossible to take from Russia this “Beloved Socialistic
Utopia” without completely demolishing its central govern
ment. Have not the big men of Russia become too greedy
to allow anyone, even their own people, to tread upon their
government of a few people, by a few people and for the Rus
sian people?
Has the death of Josef Stalin been a benefit to the world
or is the Soviet Union’s new Premier, Gorgi M. Malenkov,
a man with an exact character of his predecessor? Speaking
at the funeral of Josef Stalin, Malenkov said that the Soviet
Union wanted to collaborate with the Western World but
would keep their armed forces strong. He told thousands
assembled for the last rites for the Soviet leader:
“Our sacred duty is to strengthen by every means the
Soviet Armed Forces. We must keep them in the state of
fighting preparedness for crushing rebuff to any attack of
the enemy.”
Malenkov also paid tribute to the Communists of North
Korea.
What is America’s next move? Definitely, our own armed
forces will have to be strengthened if we continue to fight
this cold war, taking condemnation and ridicule from the rest
of the world. Nevertheless, we will not cease to let other
countries borrow our desperately needed capital, and at the
same time drain our economy dry because of our extensive
gifts of arms, clothes, foodstuffs, and machinery.
Shall we Americans stand back and let any foreign coun
try methodically insecure our future or shall we avoid this
turmoil by maintaining our status as a leading world power?
Attention All Freshmen!
The annual Freshman-Sophomore Banquet at which the
sophomores are honored is only four weeks away, and a lot of
us still haven’t pid our two dollars. The tickets for the ban
quet will be available just after the return from spring holi
days and everyone should try to have his money in by the
end of that week, if possible. We would like to add that if you
are not planning to attend, in which case you will still be re
quired to pay, please don’t pick up a ticket, for that would
only mean an added expense.
The class has sponsored two basketball games and two
skating parties and several more projects are being planned
for the remainder of the year in the hope that a refund can
be made to every person. However, a refund is not certain
by any means, and would have to come at the last of the
school year, if at all, so let’s all try to get the money in on
time so that we may entertain the Sophomores in a regal
manner.
The committee on finances will be in charge of receiving
your money, and either Lela Burgin, Margaret Clary, Ronald
Henry, Wayne Edwards, or Richard Yearwood will be‘more
than happy to help you in this matter.