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PAGE 2 THE PILOT, GARDNER-WEBB COLLEGE, FEBRUARY 2, 1971 Editorial Mail Policies Stated A recently received letter to the editor which was unsigned except for the words “name witheld by request” suggests that the policies concerning editorial mail need to be restated. First, to be considered for publication every letter must bear the originator’s signature. This is necessary due to laws governing the printed word and libel. It is also necessary in evaluating the merit of the letter’s contents. Any letter which is received unsigned will be disposed of immediately, A signed duplicate of the anonymous letter would however be considered for use. Names will be witheld at the editor’s discretion only. The policy is to withhold the writer’s name if sufficient reason is srioiYn. If the editor decides that there is not sufficient reason for witholding the writer’s name, he will be notified of that decision. The letter bearing the writer’s name will not be printed without his consent. Letters to the editor are encouraged. They should be typed and double-spaced on one side of the paper. New Student Activism A Non-Violent Reform From SGA President News item; a wave of stu dent protest is sweeping over college campuses throughout the nation. Nothing new in that? Perhaps not. But what is news worthy is the nature of the new student activism. For it comes not from the radicals and revolu tionaries, but rather from the overwhelming majority of mo- According to a January Read er’s Digest article by Washing ton associate editor Eugene Methvin, non-violent students all across America are moving to “defuse the radical climate of hysteria and isolate the ex tremists.” And the outlook is promising. Methvin is the author also of “The Riot Mak ers,” a new book exploring the anatomy of rioting. To pursue their goals of peaceful reform and uninterr upted access to study, the new activists have been relying on three basic techniques: legal action, propaganda, and direct confrontations with the radical left. Here are examples cited by Methvin. LEGAL ACTION: When rad ical - instigated riots forced a National Guard occupation at Ohio State last year, nine stu dents won an injunction to protect their right to attend classes. At George Washing ton University, 16 students are pressing a damage suit to re cover tuition for four days of class time lost in a strike by radicals. University of New Hampshire students got a court order prohibiting use of stud- ent-activity taxes to pay speak ing fees to radicals who’d been convicted of inciting to riot. CLIMATE-CHANGING PRO PAGANDA; Students at Wis consin and Santa Barbara, a- mong other places, have lau nched anti-extremist news papers to compete with radical campus communications media. AT Wisconsin, the moderate weekly BADGER HERALD has actually outstripped the leftist DAILY CARDINAL in circu lation. Says Methvin, “Such ‘ free campus press’ operations have sprung up in at least 65 colleges and reach an estimated million students.” CONFRONTING THE LEFT: The radical-led student council at IjOS Angeles City College ordered the campus closed in a general strike last year. But 22-year-old law student Stephen Frank led ten other students in tearing down the barricades the radicals had erected. More over, Frank’s group launched a recall campaign and unseated the radical council leaders. Ac cording to one moderate leader, “Having to face other students denies extremists the opport unity to provoke police, and ex plodes the myth of student so lidarity that the radicals love to exploit.” On one campus after another, moderates are organizing to fight the extremists . One or ganization, “Voices in Vital America,” now has 3500 mem bers in 120 chapters, and is growing daily. “Free Campus” and “Open Campus” move ments are springing up in other colleges. And at New York’s Columbia University, one ofthe nation’s most battered schools a broad-based “Students for Columbia University” organi zation has successfully com- batted the left-wingStudentsfor a Democratic Society at every turn. vVhen radicals called fora strike to shut down the univer sity last spring, it drew barely three dozen supporters. While the tide has not yet turned, Methvin says, there is undeniable movement toward reform instead of revolution, dialogue in place of diatribe, and a return to studying in stead of shouting. Special Peace Corps Training Brockport, N.Y., Jan. 4,1971- The State University of New York, College at Brockport is looking for students who want to earn college credit while preparing to teach mathematics and science as Peace Corps volunteers in Latin America. Peace Corps and college off icials announced today that the unique Peace Corps College Degree program at Brockport will be extended with the ad mission of a fifth group of can didates in June, 1971. Applications must be made to the Peace Corps/College De gree Program; State Univer sity College at Brockport ; Brockport, New York 14420 by March 1. Gardner-Webb College The Pilot Editor Jeff Cranford Sports Editor Terry Knight Advisor Mr. Bill Boyd Photographers Ed Brown, Phil Swanson Art Reg Alexander STAFF Reg Alexander Carrol Garrett Mel McCurry Sue Austin Hank Harrison Lynda Mingoia Sylvia Bridges Samala High Ronnie Sams Patsy Bumgarner Robert Hunt Dawn Spainhour Dianne Copeland John Taylor Donna Turner Jerry Keller Box 289, Boiling Springs, N. C. Telephone 434-2211 I am sure that many stu dents are confused about alot of things on campus, I would like to explain a couple of things The most asked about activity on campus seems to be pop ular concerts. The groups of last semester were decided upon during the summer and the spring semester of last year, the reason is obvious, to ac quire groups you must look months ahead. Last semester many students took interest in aiding the Stu dent Affairs Office along with the Alpha Nu Omega in picking this semester’s groups. I feel that a certain elect group of students, should have the job of picking and booking the groups for the student body. If it were left up to a student body vote on every group, it would be rare to find a maj ority vote on one group. The committee should have only one job and that would be looking into the be st groups and reporting to the student body their budget and ideas. This should satisfy many stu dents and the entertainment will be enjoyed by all, next year, and in years to come. Many students wonder why we don’t have the really de manded big groups that the lar ger universities and colleges have. To answer the question is easy, to use an overused word, money is the answer. To give you an example, Chi cago, even with anothercollege helping by paying half would cost $17,000. Grand Funk would cost around $18,000. This is at this time, an impossible task for a college of Gardner-Webb’s size and budget. I do feel though that Gardner- Webb has had the best enter tainment for its budget of any college. Students should take into consideration that some colleges have entertainment only once a semester, if that Another question that has been in the minds of many stu dents since the beginning of last semester is when are we going to elect officers for the vacancies in the S.G.A., and what has the S.G.A. done about it. 1 can only tell you what I know, which I hope you can understand better than I have been able to. When Gardner-Webb became a four-year college it still ruled its student body under a junior college constitution which we now consider out of date. Ques tionnaires were sent to colleges all over the Eastern Seaboard by Mr. Tom Poston to find the weak and strong points in many different college constitutions. The facts were compiled and the drawing of our new constitution To the bsst of my knowledge this was completed in October and then began its process of going through channels to be revised and completely appro- Comic Books Take New Social Image Comic books are taking a new direction and becoming more contempox-ary and rele vant to the problems facing our current generation. Examples in recent issues show Super man as neurosis-ridden, Bat man becoming pollution cons cious and Green Arrow coping with bigotry and discrimination. This is a readical depart ure from the days when most comics heroes encountered monsters from outer space, super-villains and mad scient ists. I'he problems of today are civil rights, racism, pov erty and pollution from without; alienation and self-doubt from within, and the super-heroes are involved in all of these. Comics heroes’ entire life styles and thought processes are changing in this new era. Viewing the changes, one arti cle inanationalmagazine notes: “Superman, he of the imper vious ‘kishkas,’ finds himself in a slum where kids have fire hydrants instead of swimming pools and auto dumps instead of playgrounds. ‘Could you survive in this jungle without your super-powers?’ he’s asked by a black resident. Superman won ders, and so begin to develop a social conscience.” In another episode, “The Man of Steel” ponders on his exis tence. “I’m Superman. The wealth of the world is at my command. I have powers be yond the dreams of mere mor tals. Yes, I’m the man who has everything! But what wouldn’t I give to have a son like Dan!” So the pangs of alienation begin to set in. For Batman and Robin, there are changes, too. Batman has shuttered the Bat Cave and his suburban estate to move to the city to fight pollution, poverty and the people who profit by exploiting the poor and the weak. Robin is going to college where he soon will be involved in cam pus problems, civil rights and peaceful dissent. And the renovations go on. Green Arrow, “the technolog ical Robin Hood of the comic books," and Green Lantern , “the ray-alinger,” a s they are described in a recent arti cle on the comics revolution, were radicalized in an issue last spring when a black man familiar with their exploits on other planets in behalf of blue men, orange men and purple men, challenged, “I want to know why you never bothered to help black men!” Stunned and awakened, the green-clad duo take off in a dump truck on an Easy Rider-type tour of the country to deal with some of the moral issues facing this nation. And the list grows. Wonder Woman and Lois Lane have become involved with “wo men’s lib” in their own lives, and Superman’s pal, Jimmy Olsen, a cup reporter for 30 years, has battled slumbordsin Indicating that tl w ap- gle episode deviations from the norm, but new directions, Car mine Infantino, editorial direc tor of DC Comics, acknowledges the change and credits it to the grooving sophistication of the comics audience. Says Infantino; “The readers of comics have changed. Today youth has become too aware and too educated to be satis fied with a constant flow of escapism. Even as the largest publisher of comics, we real ize we must continue to pro gress in our books if we are to Terrain successful. The third week in February is now the earliest date that the new constitution can be studied and voted on by the students. It was decided not to hold elec tions until the constitution was activated and could go swiftly into effect. This year was the start of a foundation for the four-year Gardner-Webb. This constitu tion promises many new changes for students, but remember we the students through our voting power can also change this con stitution before its final app roval. I personally feel this new constitution will aid the stu dent with a stronger individual voice and student government. I just wish I could have given information concerning these things sooner, but it is hard to give information one does not have. 1 hope this has answered some questions. If you have other questions I will person ally try to answer them or find out. Gardner-Webb is making progress for the student but it cannot be an overnight change. We the student are starting the tradition of Gardner - We’ob College and that is something that will always be with us. I feel at the same time people must remember that we the future alumni also will be the future endowment of Gard ner V. ebb. I cannot promise immediate change, but I will do my best to make this a semester of understanding. Many of us will meet the world soon, a world that will listen to mature ideas and emotions if we are ready for it. My only question is, will we the graduates of Gardner-Webb be “Our audience demands more relevant material in comic books and we are giving it to them as Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, Wonder Woman and the others become involved in the very real problems of today’s world. If sales are the best testimonial to our doing our job, let the record show that DC sold over 40 percent of the 300 million comic books sold last year. “The success of our moder nization and relevancy program can also be judged by the great and continuing upsurge in inter est in our publications by college students, who are forming clubs and creating panels to discuss the growth and development of the form into a mirror of our times and an instrument for social progress. “And finally, the fact that various schools across the country are using our comics to help teach reading as well as other subjects, best illus trates that comics are growing New Hope For Drug Addicts Book’s Theme “Addiction in a broad si , by which I mean a harmful dependence on chemicals, is one of our most urgent contempor ary health problems. When this expendence is extensive enough to be uncontrolled, it can eventually destroy all other interests and activities — family, business, social, or community,” writes Dr. A, Gordon Bell in the preface of his new book ESCAPE FROM ADDICTION ( McGraw- Hill, $5.95). After 24 years of experience working with the problem of addiction. Dr. Bell is optimis tic. He states; “By callingthis book Escape from Addiction, I am trying to emphasize that there is hope for recovery and that the days of stigmaladen labels for chemical dependence of whatever kind are being left behind.” The author is the president of the Donwood Institute which operates a 50-bed hospital for addiction treatment, education, and research in Toronto, Can ada. Much of the material in this authritative, 224 -page book is based on the comprehen sive program of rehabilitation and treatment presently used by the institute. This provocative study pro vides full coverage on the eff ects of alcohol, as well as a review of the effects of nar cotics and other addicting drugs. It Investigates the clin ical and social problems of addiction, giving equal attention to the physical, mental, and social components. ESCAPE FROM ADDICTION will prove a valuable, thought-provoking aid for anyone concerned with the health and social questions resulting from the excessive or compulsive use of alcohol, to bacco, food and a wide assort ment of depressant and stimu lant drugs. Dr. R. Gordon Bell, in addi tion to being president of the Donwood Institute, is Special Lecturer to the Faculty of Medicine, University ofToron- to. He is a member of the Professional Advisory Board, Alcoholism and Drug Addiction Research Foundation of Tor onto. He also acts as consul tant to the Department of Cor rections for Ontario and to the American Association Against Addiction. He has been feat ured in four educational films on chemical addiction.
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