Page 2, THE PILOT, Thursday, March 1,1973
Biggest Mistake Of All
I'm writing this in response to the recent World Premiere
of Johnny Cash’s “Gospel Road.”
A few dedicated students participated directly in a very
significant way. They cooperated and worked very dili
gently to help make the Premiere a success, mainly in the
hope of strengthening the financial aid program here at
GW. These students gave up the most part of two days to
travel back and forth to» Charlotte purposely to give other
individuals the opportunity of furthering their education. I
would also like to personally commend them very gratefully
for the efforts they put forth. I would also like to thank Mr.
Tom Poston for the remarkable job he did once again in
most tactfully helping the students. I feel a lot of the credit
belongs to him.
AU this discussion leads to a special point that I would
like to make. I feel we were done an injustice the night of the
Premiere. We were directly involved in many facets of the
affair, especially ushering people to their seats. We were go
ing very smoothly until we realized that there was some
duplication of reserved tickets. It has to be admitted that it
is hard to seat two people in the same seat especially when
each person had paid $25.00 per reserved seat. I feel positive
that this problem should never have arisen. What should
we, the students, have done? It is easy to see who received
the critical remarks and dirty looks.
I’m regretful that this happened, but I think more needs
to be done, especially for those who received the criticism
and verbal abuse. As of this time nothing has been said or
done to take the burden of the mistake off the shoulders of
those who were not responsible. Is it so hard to admit to the
student body that a mistake was made, and that it was not
their fault?
Students did their best to cooperate, but being
condemned for something undeserving was in my opinion,
“the biggest mistake of the night. ’ ’
Steve Riddle
SGA President
★★★★★★★
SENATE ABSENTEES
Tuesday, Feb. 13,1973
Jese Erwin Julia Walker, excused
Lil Kwetowski, excused Lanita Wright, excused
Brooks Walker, excused
THE PILOT
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Physical Ekiucation
Annual Conference
Leslie Costner, Gary Ogle,
Larry Lawhorn and Dr. Rob
ert Blackburn represented
Gardner-Webb at the 39th
Webb students had also at
tended the state conference
early December.
According to Lawhorn the
Annual Convention of the convention served to i
Southern District of the Am
erican Association
struct the students con
cerning the new trends in
p'^sejo+-.
Health, Physical Education physical education, health.
and Recreation.
and safety. “The conference
The meeting was held in was good job preparation
Jackson, Mississippi, Feb- and also helped us to de-
ruary 22-25. There were thir- velop a professional atti-
teen states represented at tude.”
the annual A. A. H. P. E. R.
conference.
Larry Lawhorn stated
that the three Gardner-
Dr. Blackbiu-n served as
chairman of the health re
search section at the meet-
IN MY OPINION..
EXPRESSION OF
APPRECIATION
Editor:
Working with students at Gard
ner-Webb College is a real chal
lenge, especially when responsi
bilities of my office involve our con
tact with the general public. The
students who worked with me as
ushers at the World Premiere of
“Gospel Road” are shining exam
ples of the maturity, tactfulness
and initiative of some outstanding
students at Gardner-Webb.
Let me salute the following
students for their time and help
with our part in the World Pre
miere: Steve Riddle, J. C. Cole,
Linda Stine, Lynn Cornwell, Deb
bie Boyd, Marcia Leazer, Donna
Turner, Ken Jarvis, Bill Cooley and
Bruce Scott.
Also a word of thanks to all the
students who worked with me and
helped to make the Earl Scruggs
Revue one of the most successful
concerts that we have had. The
crowd was one of the largest and
the group was one of the mOst well
received.
As Director of Student Ac
tivities I would like to express my
deep appreciation to all students
here at Gardner-Webb and for all
their willingness to cooperate in all
situations.
Thank You
Tom Poston
STUDENTS FORGOTTEN?
Editor:
During this school year, student
government has come a long way
and much has been accomplished
under the dedicated leadership of
our student officers and the expert
guidance of Mr. Tom Poston.
During the summer of 1972,
President Steve Riddle formulated
the philosophy of “contact,
communication and cooperation”
to guide the student government.
This philosophy has proven to be
effective and efficient, but all factions
of the college family must be in
volved. In my opinion, many mem
bers of the administration have not
only ignored this philosophy but
refused to become involved by ig
noring student needs, desires and
In most institutions, the stu
dents are the most important
members of the college family. Is
this true at Gardner-Webb College?
Are students here “allowed and en
couraged” to think for
themselves? Do we follow the
Christian philosophy of “looking
inward to the heart and not to the
outward appearance”?
Why do we eagerly provide “red
carpet” treatment to men (such as
Johnny Cash and Earl Scruggs)
who would not even be tolerated
here as students because of their
hair lengths? Could this treatment
be for reasons other than mere
“recognition to great r
Theti
le that we all ej
amine our works, motives and
goals. These impressions and
questions may belong to only
myself, or they may be shared by a
great many students. Although
this is another question, we do need
answers for aU of these questions.
Thank you,
Frank Page
CAMPUS QUEENS
Editor:
After reading the editorials on the
eciitorial page of tlie February 15,
issue of the PILOT, I must agree
with you. The authors of the
articles back their opinions con
cerning the number of campus
queens.
However, Queens are elected on
campus to represent the student
body on Homecoming, Spring Jubi
lee and various other important
days and events. But these are the
only times that they are ever seen
as Queens — when they are
crowned.
I do not feel it is important or
even vital to have so many queens.
I feel that we should only have it
narrowed to two. The first one be
ing Miss Gardner-Webb to repre
sent GWC at events such as the
Johnny Cash Premiere or at
concerts to welcome groups and at
any special events on campus or
We now have five queen posi
tions — Homecoming, Holiday
Tournament, Sweetheart, Spring
Jubilee, and Miss ANCHOR These
have all been filled by beautiful
women this year, but what have
they done besides be crowned.
They are nominated by the student
body or different clubs and organi
zations, but what do they do?
Fancy dinners for them to be
crowned and the presentation to the
student body of the candidates and
then all the glamour is over. It
only lasts for a day or night and is
then forgotten. How many of us
could name the queens of this past
year?
This is why it is important that
we the students consider the elec
tion of only one young lady to rep
resent Gardner-Webb. Let her be
entitled to honor and represent
GWC at all the important festi-
This has been an important issue
at GWC. Maybe through the
efforts of the PILOT and the action
of our Student Government a new
procedure can be adopted in the fu-
THE PRIEST’S WIFE
“The Priest’s Wife” will be shown Thursday, March 22. This concludes
the movie entertainment for March. A Laurel and Hardy Festival is plan
ned for April 3,4,5.