THE PILOT , Page 2
From
Your
Editors
Deborah Cravey & Melissa Brown
Wouldn’t you know it. We
wait and wait for the end of
the semester and then, sooner
than one can say "financial
aid," we’re squealin’ the
brakes trying to slow it all
down. In fact, it is quickly
becoming that time of year
when more and more students
appear to be growing bald from
pulling out their hair. As
term paper due dates loom
hungrily overhead, the time
has come to pay for all those
little procrastination-
vacations (or in your case,
perhaps that one big, 1-o-n-g
one?) and break the seals on
some of those overpriced
textbooks.
As if the ticking of the
scholastic clock isn’t enough
to make any self-respecting
Gardner-Webbster positively
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Editorial
To the Editor,
It irritates me to no end
to walk into the bottom of
C.I.D. and see mail strewn all
over the floor. Whenever stu
dents get political mail or
campus handouts, the first
thing they do is drop it on
the floor and keep walking.
How can we even consider our
selves adults when we behave
like kindergardeners? We com
plain about not getting a
night study hall in the C.I.D.
or not getting a break room in
the library. At first, I was
inclined to complain with my
fellow students. But when I
walk into a sea of mail on the
floor of C.I.D., I have to
agree with the administrators.
We don’t deserve these privi
leges if we cannot behave our
selves. Is it too much trouble
to walk a few feet to the
trash can and throw away any
thing you don’t want? Grow up
people! If we clean up our
act, maybe we can get the ad
ministrators on our side and
get some of the things we
want!
Kim Harris
Editorial
To the Editor,
The SGA officers at
Gardner-Webb are dissatisfied
with the way the problem of a
co-ed study hall for after li
brary hours has been handled.
Students at Gardner-Webb
have no place to go after li
brary hours to study in a co
ed situation. To solve that
problem, students started to
migrate to the Arby’s in Shel
by, which is open 24 hours a
day. Since that practice has
started, Arby’s is frequently
flooded with so many students
during exam week that the
restaurant is crowded and
quite loud. In addition, the
management at Arby’s has com
plained several times that the
students leave the restaurant
in a mess after they are fin
ished studying. This led to
the management to revoke the
student discount at Arby’s.
To combat this problem,
the SGA officers suggested
that there be a place on cam
pus where students could go to
study after library hours. One
suggestion made was to leave
the bottom of the C.I.D. buil
ding open until 2:00 a.m.,
with tables set up in the
Bulldog room on which to stu
dy.
Unfortunately, this idea
was shot down because of the
lack of supervision available
to watch over the studying
students. Members of the ad
ministration are afraid that
some of the students will
vandalize the video and vend-
ding machines. One administra
tor has said that the matter
is "being looked into."
Jennifer Richards
Give a hoot.
Don’t pollute.
Forest Service, U.S.D.A. S
Editorial
Rock the Flock ’88 was
Saturday, April 16th in the
Spangler Stadium. The event
was billed as an outdoor jam
featuring local as well as
regional contemporary Chris
tian bands in a benefit per
formance. It was, indeed, a
very enjoyable afternoon of
contemporary Christian enter
tainment, but underneath that
it turned out to be filled
with repetitious and sometimes
boring testimonials. It is my
opinion that the music itself
was witness enough for God; so
why was it necessary to have
ten to fifteen minutes of
preaching in between each
song. Contemporary Christian
music is a ministry within it
self; therefore, there is no
need for redundant, pity
laden testimonials to explain
the spiritual significance of
each song. Please, give the
audience some credit for their
intelligence. In the future, I
would suggest to the hierarchy
of such matters inform the
bands of this fact. This would
allow the bands to do more of
what they came to do- play mu
sic .
Flounder Fish Man
Discrimination
At GWC
By James Rowe
The female students of
Gardner-Webb College were
floored by yet another new and
what they feel, totally ludi
crous rule.
The new rule states that
female students can only be
allowed in the lobbies of male
dormitories between the hours
of 8:00 and 11:00 p.m.
"The whole issue boils
down to a question of fair
ness," said one female stu
dent, who wishes to remain
anonymous. "I feel that if we,
the female students, must mon
itor our lobbies 6 of the 12
hours they are open, then the
same should apply to male
dorms. It is a part of our
work study and should be trea
ted as such."
The ladies have also ex
pressed that 3 hours is no
thing for four male RA’s to
work as compared to 6 hours
for four female RA’s. "Their
lobby hours should also amount
to 6 hours a day in all fair
ness of earning their work
study pay, and fairness to the
female students."