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29 Ways To Stay Active
In A GWC Leap Year
1. Send your Bio 102 professor on a free vacation to the
Mesozoic Era.
2. Ask Scott McBride for a date. (It IS leap year, ladies.)
3. CHIRP In And Save the GW Birds! Send all donations
to Box 555. Guaranteed! Your professors will never
know, but they’ll be glad you care about them!
4. Send your roomie’s satin & lace “Days of the Week”
underwear up the flagpole. (Don’t leave HIM your for
warding address.)
5. Have Ladies Night in Myers Dorm.
6. Have a GW Bake-Off. Give a prize for the dessert which
comes closest to imitating the cafeteria’s yummy crea
tions.
7. Invite Mohammed Ali to speak in Convocation (and
speak . . . and speak . . . and speak . . . and speak . . .)
8. Put pennies in the doornobs of topknottch administra
tion personnel.
9. Remember the professor(s) whose class(es) you flunked
last semester? Put marbles in her/her/their hubcaps.
10. Nominate your dorm maid for Spring Jubilee Queen.
11. Paint bulldog pawprints on the roof of Hamrick.
12. Count the number of cars going through the Boiling
Springs traffic light in 10 minutes.
13. Register for Cat Juggling 243.
14. Send sympathy cards to “Seniors” who’ll be here again
next year.
15. Suggest to the B.S. Police Department that they aren’t
ticketing enough GW students for going 45 V2 in a 45
mph zone.
16. Lutz Lovers: give a trophy to the hos mos with the
most-flowered “prize” on your next panty raid.
17. Repaint the Lindsay building bright fluorescent purple.
18. Take a FOCUS trip to the Atlantic Ocean.
19. Have yet to survive an Eastman test? “Nuke him til he
glows!”
20. Teach the Campus Minister how to lock his keys in the
trunk of the Datsun the morning he’s supposed to be
back at GW from a spring break trip to Georgia.
21. Give your roommate’s goldfish a bubble bath.
22. Senior Women: Help the OTHER girls on the hall make
rice bags for THEIR weddings.
23. Try to figure out why the Easter Bunny always brings
eggs.
24. See whose post office box spider can spin the most
webbs.
25. Hire a magician to coax heat from the dorm heaters.
26. Dig a tunnel from your dorm to the Quick Snak kitchen.
27. Put cotton in the drains of the bathroom. Walk around
in your swim suit with a smug look on your face.
28. Ambush the Coke machine man and use the “profit” for
a post-graduation beach trip.
29. Try to top this exciting list. Suggestions: Box 555.
Darn! I’m just getting over Spring break and now it’s time
for Easter break! ^
News Release!
Contributed By Jerry Potter
A rescue effort of Hercu
lean proportions went un
noticed by the major news
services on the Gardner-
Webb campus recently. Tor
rential rains from a strong
frontal passage forced thou
sands of living creatures to
flee their homes. These crea
tures—earthworms—would
have drowned had they re
mained in their terrestrial
surroundings.
But in fleeing from the
horrible possibility of a
watery grave these helpless
creatures faced other equal
ly dangerous foes. Many
were swept onto the con
crete and asphalt roads and
parking lots where they fac
ed a torturous death baking
in the sun, or being swept to
a watery grave in the college
sewer system.
Noticing their helpless
plight on the morning fol
lowing the storm, one un
named, modest benefactor
grabbed a styrofoam cup
and began single-handledly
rescuing thousands of these
drenched, lost creatures. Un
noticed by anyone except
hundreds of students and
one Academic Dean, this
selfless humanitarian per
sonally plucked these pitiful
refugees from their precar
ious plight. Facing the cruel
rigors of a fierce wind, the
undaunted hero just missed
death when a huge limb nar
rowly missed him after be
ing torn from a large tree,
falHng barely five hundred
feet away.
Asking no glory or re
ward, the humble rescuer
was content to know that al
though the feat went un
noticed by the major media,
the rescue effort would not
go unnoticed by the bass
and bream in his favorite
fishing pond.
Koinonia Farms:
An Experience In Community Lifestyle
Ask Renee Boughman, Beth Brittain, Debbie Drayer,
Richard McBride (and Scott, his son), Tammy Matney, Alan
Poole, or Phil Sheppard what they learned during Spring
Break, and they’ll probably begin with a description of their
experiences at a South-Georgia Christian farm-fellowship
which strives to improve the lives of Sumpter County and
Americus, GA residents by providing housing and labor.
Organized in 1942 by Clarence Jordan, a Southern Baptist
Seminary graduate-Greek scholar-peanut farmer-agricultu
ral expert-‘good ole boy’-‘gone radical’, Koinonia (the Greek
word meaning “community”, or “fellowship ) Farms was
host/home to eight members of the GW “community” for
five days.
The two history majors might talk about the early days of
the Farm, when racist attitudes threatened the purpose,
lives, property, and economic welfare of the group, which is
dedicated to fostering Christian growth between the mem
bers of the internal community and to providing an outreach
for the external community. Koinonia suffered from town,
county and state bureacratic persecution as well as consis
tent harrassment from the White Citizen’s League, the busi
nessmen who supported an economic boycott of the Farms,
and even more ironically, from churches in the area.
Then someone will begin to speak, as Florence Jordan
does (Florence is Clarence’s wife, who remained an active
and essential Partner after his death in 1969) about per
severance and a gentle spirit in the face of violence. One of
the precepts of Koinonia is a position of Biblically-based
non-violence, and the Partners live the life of pacifists. Steve
Clemens, a Partner, is the resident expert on nuclear power
and weapons. Asked to talk about the dilemma of weaponry,
Steve (and consequently some of the GW people) take a
scriptural commitment to non-armament seriously. Turning
the other cheek is alive at Kononia.
“Compassionate living” was demonstrated most vividly
in the life of Will Wittkamper, an 87-year-old man who talk
ed about the Sermon on the Mount. His function on the
Farms is seemingly paltry; he is in charge of the trash, but
his gentle spirit inspired the entire student group.
In one word summarizes the feeling of the Koinonia ex
perience, it is ‘overwhelming.’ The GW eight were involved
every night in late-night discussions stemming from the
Partners’ seminar topics and/or from theological questions
and issues raised within the group itself.
Koinonia is closely connected with various other com
munities and causes. The group was taken to “Habitat For
Humanity,” which is an organization in Augusta that ap
plies the same housing principles as Koinonia, on a world
wide scale. Also, Oakhurst Baptist Church, in Decatur, Ga.,
(headquarters for “Seeds” magazine) works very closely
with the community.
Anyone in the group will be willing to display his or her
bruises and rust-stained blue jeans, because the dignified
academians were called upon—in conjunction with com
munity work-duty policy—to clear the grounds of YEARS
of accumulated scrap metal; their effort netted Koinonia
close to 5 tons of re-sale value scrap “junk”. The more child
like (not child-ish) groupies will also describe with glee their
first-time experiences with cows, pigs, goats, and chickens.
Above all, the message that the successful Koinonia com
munity delivered to the Gardner-Webb community is this:
they can Uve Christ’s teachings in a hostile surrounding,
operate an agricultural achievement, run a pecan-peanut
business, and supply interest-free housing to Sumpter
County even while they can preserve God’s Kingdom on
earth so that they may be peacemakers and peace pre
servers.
BSU Summer Missions
BSU Summer Missions. This phrase can be seen in many
spots around Campus by those who take time to notice
posters advertising the money-raising projects of this com
mittee. Many students though, are unaware of exactly what
the summer missions program is all about or what the pro
ceeds from their projects go toward.
Kevin Rutledge, chairman of the Summer Missions Com
mittee, explained that the main effort of the committee is
“involvement of people in summer missions.” The commit
tee tries to make students aware of what summer missions
is all about and how they can become involved.
The money raised by the committee goes towards dif
ferent North Carolina programs for the deaf, handicapped
and juveniles. According to Kevin, quite a few projects have
been carried through successfully such as car washes and
most recently a student/faculty basketball game with a
Rock-A-Thon included.
Other projects coming up in the future that all are en
couraged to attend and support is a car wash April 12 and a
Christian concert. The Coffee-House type concert will be
held April 10 in the Bulldog Room and will be given by some
of our own Gardner-Webb talent. The Committee urges
everyone to come for a night of fun and entertainment.
So, next time you catch a glimpse of the phrase BSU Sum
mer Missions, stop, look, and find out what’s going on!