Page 2, THE PILOT, Gardner-Webb College, April 27, 1972
Campus Code Questioned
Building “quality Christian students who think for themselves” is
the stated purpose of Gardner-Webb College. Students are urged to
think and reason in classroom situations but are not allowed to think
for themselves outside of their classes. The most controversial example
concerns “hair” and the campus code. Male students are told at what
length to keep their hair. Is the whole matter of hair so important that
students should go before the student court? Is hair length coherent to
the develppment of quality students?
Any college is defeating itself when it restricts its students on
trivial matters. The most important consideration is to develop well-
rounded students. Hair length really is incidential but the restrictions
effect campus life and actually hinder the student. Students should be
able to think for themselves not only in classroom but in the applica
tion of book learning and common sense to all life situations. No one
pan grow if they are told to be a thinking individual one time and an
obeying silent puppet the next time.
S.A.H.
Pilot Tribute
The PILOT staff has many people to thank this year for their
cooperation and assistance in the printing of the paper. It hasn’t been
easy trying to state the facts clearly or even finding the facts. It also
hasn’t been easy representing the students and being the voice of G-W,
if this was at all accomplished. But to make a long “hard luck story’’
short, we tried.
We only want to put credit where credit is due. And indeed we
owe much to our “silent” staff member and able advisor, Mr. Bill Boyd.
Mr. Boyd has been quite a busy man this year, as he has been Public
Relations Director, Sports Information Director, campaign helper, and
last but not least PILOT and ANCHOR advisor, about four jobs in
one. Mr. Boyd has been much help to us, because he gave us help when
he thought we needed it, but only gave us advise when it was asked
for. We respect him most because he treated us as mature adults, able
to make big decisions for ourselves. He never checked on us or looked
over our shoulders. He expected us to do the job and left us with it.
This is not to say he didn't help us, because we went to him many
times for advise, always knowing he would tell us just what he thought,
on. the level. But the final say on what to print in this newspaper was
left up to the staff alone. He truly taught us how to be “quality Chris
tian students who should think for themselves.”
For his guidance, trust, assurance, and friendship, we thank Mr.
Boyd.
—The PILOT staff
For What
It’s Worth
$8,000 has been spent in build
ing new sidewalks around campus.
Now let’s use the walks and save
the flowers and lawn.
Workers on campus are trying
to beautify the area and it is dis
couraging when people tramp over
the planted flowers. Mrs. More-
head, campus gardner, has been
working for four years at Gardner-
Webb planting annual flowers,
pruning, spraying, and planting
the flower beds. She is working
to beautify the campus and as she
says: “I plant my buds and wait a
whole year for them to bloom and
then someone picks them all.”
' Let’s give the flowers a chance.
Flower children, appreciate the
flowers, but leave them for every
one to enjoy. Most important of
all let’s try to use the walks and
not trample through the flower
beds killing the flowers and mak
ing paths in the lawn.
Senate Absentees
April 11, 1972
Bob Decker
Tom King
Terry Knight
Sam Madison
Brad McBride
Judy Smith
Call Meeting: April 17, 1972
Jim Aaron ' Joe Bennet
Dicky Brown Brad McBride
Daryl Corley Judy Smith
Hal Davis
Tom King
Terry Knight
In My Opinion ...
GRADUATION SPEAKERS
Graduation is, needless to say,
an important tim'e in Ihe life of a
student. It is the beginning of a
career, where a student stands on
the threshold of life, so to speak.
Society has recognized the impor
tance of this and the importance
of a religious aspect in this time
of life. Therefore, a time is set
aside for a religious message at
graduation—a Baccalaureate ser
mon. Gardner-Webb has observed
this in years past and this year
graduates are to hear Rev. Ernest
C. Upchurch at Baccalaureate.
This is well and good, for a Bac
calaureate has its place in grad-
students are to
1 the graduation
xercises as well
IS Baccalaureate. There are other
ispects of life, such as politics,
ocial problems, etc., which should
be included in a graduation speech
by a qualified speaker in such an
area. Even though this is a Bap
tist college we still need speakers
mencement, for example, a seiia-
This incidence points up the
need of a committee composed of
administration, faculty, and stu
dents to select a graduation speak
er that is well known and influen
tial. Though perhaps the speakers
are not the major concern of the
graduates, they are an important
part in a day that will be long
remembered.
It is hoped that in the future
we can have a well known speak
er, 'who the students know, se
lected by more than one person.
Work on next year’s exercises
should begin now.
The Pilot
Editor Kathy Daves
Assistant Editor Samala High
Sports Editor Richard Granger
Assistant Sports Editor Carrol Garrett
Phot^apher Garry Cloer
Staff Patsy Bumgarner, Mike Darby, Becky
Henley, Johnny Hoey, Bill Kelley,
Vi^anda McClure, Burt Skinner,
John Fowler, Donna Turner
Advisor Mr. Bill Boyd
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The opinions expressed hi this newspaper an not necessarily
those of the faculty, administration, or student body.
There’s a game being played at
Gardner-Webb. Players are the
students vs. the administration and
the score is 0 to 0. Until the rules
are changed the score will never
The name of the game is
“Where’s the Snake?” When Adam
and Eve transgressed, Adam blam
ed it on Eve, Eve blamed it on
Snake and Snake accepted his po
sition as source of the First Cause.
It’s a common enough game. We
play it all over the world and we
play it every day.
Never harmless, at a college this
game is deadly. Once the snake
bites and the, venoni enters the
bloodsteram the outcome is cer
tain death—an intellectual death.
The venom is attitude, the blood
stream is apathy—the victims are
the players. The serum? An honest
appraisal of our principles.
Firsc, a lash at the Administra
tion players. Bluejeans have been
banned for all girls at Gardner-
Webb. Why? Can any sound rea
son for this decision be given?
Evidently, clothes are extremely
important to our administration.
Charles A. Reich, in his book
The Greening of America speaks
of clothes this way: “The new
clothes express profound democra
tic values. There are no distinc
tions of wealth or status, no eli-
tion; people confront one another
shorn of these distinctions . . .
the new clothes make it possible
for people to be as direct, honest,
and natural with each other as
possible, giyen other barriers. To
the extent that clothes can do it,
people have the opportunity to
meet one another as real, total per
sons, mind, face, and body, not
defended or'walled off by any bar
riers or certifications.”
Again I ask—why are the cloth
es we wear so important? Isn’t it
ironic that some of the most sin
cere Christians today, the "Jesus
Freaks,” wouldn’t be allowed on
our campus because of the clothes
One of the objectives of Gard-
ner-Webb College is to maintain
a Christian atmosphere. Notice I
said “maintain.” You do not
“build” anything through manda
tory means. Compulsory chapel at
tendance has succeeded in destroy
ing the receptiveness of mind of a
large number of students who,
otherwise might have benefited
from the chapel programs and
speakers.
Why is chapel mandatory? Does
a full house of unwilling attenders
gladden the hearts of the Chris
tians there? Does it really fool
some people? Or does it merely
placate? Some drastic revamping
of thinking is in order. Compul
sory exposure to something does
not lead to believers. This is a
psychological truth known to
many but which escapes the “pow
ers that be” at this college.
As I said, this game has two
teams of players. The students re
main. The student’s game plan
consists of at least two major
plays; one, never take the true stu
dent seriously, and two, a total
disregard for college property.
Firstly, there is among many
students the idea that if one is
truly interested in a course for
what he can learn and not for the
hours of credit it will give him,
then he is a little weird. Weird
because he thinks.
In her book Atlas Shrugged,
Ayn Rand, gives a succinct dis-
cription of non-thinking this way:
“Thinking is man’s only basic vir
tue, from which all the others pro
ceed. And his basic vice, the
source of all his evils, is that name
less act which all of you practice,
but struggle never to admit; the
act of blanking out, the willful
suspension of one’s consciousness,
the refusal to think—not blind
ness, but the refusal to see; not
ignorance, but the refusal to know.
It is the act of unfocusing your
mind and inducing an inner fog
to escape the responsibility of
judgment. .
Why is it so bad to think? Is
the mind something to be ashamed
of?
Play number two goes from the
Intellectual to the physical plan.
The feeling here is that if yo|n
can’t do anything else, you can al
ways destroy something. Witness
the wrecking of the chairs and
tables in 'the CID snack bar. That
is one of the nicest places we have
yet students — a small pro
ion—are tearing it apart. It is
hard to find a table that doesn’t
rock, a chair that isn’t broken.
The carpet is full of cigarette
burns, even though there are ash
trays and plenty of half filled
cups in arm’s reach, to place the
butts in.
Take a close look at your
lounge. Replacing destroyed furni
ture and carpet doesn’t do a thing
to bring the tuition down. Peer
influence can work for you here.
You can refuse to be victims to
the childish behavior of a few of
your classmates.
Shame is an effective deterrent
with children — perhaps it is in
Order here.
Students—0, Administration—0.
The end of the game approaches.
What happens now? Nothing.
Nothing until both teams join in
a rational endeavor to find that
Students and faculty alike must
define their objectives, realize
their values, and live their prin
ciples. Priorities must be set and
no pseudo-obstacles allowed to in
terfere with their attainment. '
A game between students and
administration never has a winner
and a loser. Both teams win or
both teams lose. In a winning
game, both teams leave the playing
field hand in hand.
—Gary Boyles, 72