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PAGE 2. THE PILOT, GARDNER-WEBB COLLEGE, DECEMBER 15, 1970 Tuition Aid Possibility Of direct interest to every Gardner-Webb student is the poss ible initiation of a tuition equalization program between pri vate and public colleges and universities. Everyone is aware of the rising costs of education in private institutions such as ours. But are we aware of proposals to ease this trend? In a speech before the N.C. Legislative Study Commission on Student Financial Aid, Dr. Arthur Wenger, President of Atlantic Christian College, presented an outline of the exist ing problem and a possible cure. Among significant facts presented by Dr. Wenger was the estimate that only 35 per cent of N. C. students go on to coll ege, while the national average is 52 per cent. Another import ant factor cited is North Carolina’s low per family income rating. N. C. ranks 9th in the number of people in the 18 to 24 age group but 45th in the percentage of this group who attend college. The shift from private to public institutions was also point ed out as private schools had an overall drop in enrollment in 1969 while public school enrollment was up 5,000 students. By the fall of 1969, 64 per cent of students were in public schools and only 36 percent were in private institutions. The shift was attributed to increasing costs which have forced many students from considering private schools. The average cost in a private school is 1,312 while the aver age cost of tuition in a public school is only $365. In public institutions the student is paying only about 30 per cent of the tuition the rest being subsidized by the state while the students pays approximately 80 per cent of tuition costs in many pri vate institutions. Presently, private colleges have approximately 3,000 spaces which could be used without ex- Letters Dear Editor: As a former student of Gard ner Webb I would like to express my opinion concerning the tear ing down of the Opera House Theater. I was in the first dramatics class of Mr. C. Robert Jones at Gardner- Webb and a charter member of Delta Psi Omega, and I can tell you we all worked hard to prove ourselves and to lay a foundation for future dramatic students. Mr. Jones and that first class started with nothing and in four years that depart ment has grown and advanced to its present state. However, if the Opera House is done away with it will mean, to a point, that our work was in vain. The drama department is so vital and is still so young that this move will only prove to set it back. I’m sure all of the students from that first dra matics class to the present one feel as if they have helped to some way to create the Opera House and it will be the tearing down of much hard work and many dreams. Mrs. Dianne Davis ‘66-‘67 Friday, the 13th of November 1970 was a terribly tragic day for hundreds of thousands of people in East Pakistan. The catastrophic tidal wave and the murderous cyclone that ripped through 2848 square miles and 13 off shore islands left in their wake an unofficial staggering death toll of 300,000 men, wo men, and children. Massive relief efforts must be immediately forthcoming. CARE is on the scene in East Pakistan, and has been for the past ten years on a re gular basis. Food, shelter, clothing, and medicines are be ing furnished through CARE, but much more is needed. I earnestly solicit your co operation in making known to your student readers the need for funds to finance the major relief efforts that must be made in East Pakistan at the present time. Please help us to get this message to the students. Contributions may be sent to Pakistan Emergency Fund, CARE, Inc., 615 Forsyth Build- pansion of existing facilities. If the state does not make full use of these facilities it must, according to Dr. Wenger, face the additional costs of expand ing its present public facilities and meeting rising operations costs of the system. Confidence was expressed by Dr. Wenger that the assistance of students by the state through a tuition equalization plan can solve this problem of rising costs and at the same time save the taxpayers millions of dollars. In a nutshell a tuition sub sidy plan would allow a student to enroll in the school of his choice and receive a voucher for a set sum of money to be applied to his education expen ses. This grant would be to the individual not the institution. The Legislative Study Com mission on Student Financial Aid was created by the last General Assembly of the N.C. legislature to orlng recom mendations back to the Assembly which will convene in January. Every student’s personal in terests would be served by personal contact with your state legislators expressing your in terest and need for such a pro gram as has been discussed. One letter to your congressman or a personal visit i you great expense as you pur sue a college education at Gardner-Webb. New Magazine $1000 Contest A new magazine designed es pecially for the social-action oriented individual will begin publication in January, ‘ 71. SOL m, as its name implies, will be a world affairs publi cation with a heavy emphasis on social problems and their so lutions. To encourage reader partici pation, SOL m is holding a $1000 magazine contest with prizes in writing, poetry, art, photography, and humor. En tries from universitv students and faculty members are es pecially wanted. Contest rules may be obtained by writing: SOL m Contest, 1909 Green Street. Phila.. Penna. 19130. (jMjd I Vyv '‘'‘Mas Is Not Very Meaningful.. By Reg Alexander Well, at least to me. What is it anyway: Drunken celebration Cause that’s what happened last year? Gardner-Webb College PILOT Sports Editor ■ • Advisor Photographers . Reg Alexander Sue Austin Patsy Bumgarner Bobby Campbell Melanie Campbell STAFF Dianne Copeland Carrol Garrett Steve Gregory Hank Harrison Robert Hunt John Taylor Jeff Cranford Terry Knight Mro Bill Boyd . .Ed Brown, Phil Swanson ■ Reg Alexander Jerry Keller Mel McCurry Lynda Mingoia Ronnie Sams Dawn Spainhour Mas Parties Mas presents mas dinners mas shopping mas crowds mas hysteria The record was blaring mas music. Everyone talking’, laughin’, goodtimin’. “Hi Joe, ain’t seen ya since last mas.” “Hey, cool mas dress Mary— you always fit the season. Say, what kind of mas gift. . . you expectin’?” “No thanks, babe. I’m drivin’ tonight.” The stupid cat was freezing to death in the snow. It was too afraid of me to come in. I offered it bread, milk— Love, protection. But it had never seen me. . . It was too afraid to come in; Stupid cat! If only I could become a cat. . If I became Then it would listen. . . Then it would know I offer love, warmth. . . Then. . . That’s it! That’ s what mas is missing! We were too dumb for God So he became like us! It all falls in place now! Now there’s meaning! CHRIS Tmas. ing, Atlanta, Ga. 30303. We wish you and all your stu dent readers a very Happy Thanksgiving. Dear Editor: One of the serious problems in college and university life today is the lack of attention to the personality needs of the stu dents. Suicide is the second most common cause of death on the campus, topped only by automobile accidents; but those who have studied the subject believe that half of the latter are “concealed suicides”; thus suicide actually leads the list. Dr. Howard A. Rusk of the New York University Medical Center collected estimates that 90,000 students each year will threaten suicide, one in ten will make the attempt, and that there will be 1,000 actual deaths re sulting. Beyond this, he cal culates that among six million student, “some 600,000 have emotional problems for which they need professional assist ance.” The National Institute of Mental Health finds that “the factor of human isolation and withdrawal” appears to be cri tical; and the colleges recog nize the serious problem creat ed by these “loners” and are trying to provide help but ad mit (in hundreds of letters to us from deans) that they do not have adequate solutions. This waste of some of the nation’s first young people is intolerable. Since for every actual death, nearly a hundred have felt so desperate as to threaten it, much light could be thrown on the subject by learn ing what factors enabled the fortunate ones to work out of their difficulties and keepgoing. With the help of a friend who is vitally interested in this sub ject, the American Institute of Family Relations is carrying out a nationwide study of what is being done and what could and should be done. We need to hear from as many students and former students as poss ible who have faced such a crisis. What pulled them out of it? Was it aid furnished by the college or university? community organiza -- tion? or by a friend? or re ligion? or reading? Just how did they save themselves? We will not publish the names of any individuals or schools; the information will be handled statistically and anonymously. If you can call the attention of your readers to this study and ask for volunteers who will write their experiences to me (“personal”) at the above add ress, it may contribute toward saving valuable lives. We shall certainly be most grateful for any help you can give. Paul Popenoe, Sc. D. So Far So Good The Pentagon reports that marine life is alive and well at the ocean-bottom resting place of the LeBaron Russell Briggs which was sunk August 18 by the Navy with a cargo of deadly nerve gas aboard. Scientists who photographed the hulk of the Briggs the last week of October report that marine life is flourishing in the 16,000-foot depths. They report no evidence of dead or dying organisms and claim they saw fish swimming within 300 to 400 yards of the ship. Conservationists and others -including the government of Bermuda-had feared that tlie nerve gas might leak from its concrete conatiners and con taminate the surrounding ocean. The Pentagon reports that chemical tests and water samp les taken in the vicinity of the Briggs showed no evidence of nerve gas.
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