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Page Two THE TWIG February 13» 1964 We Will Be No More Where are wc, the youth of America, going? Where will we take our country? All civilizations up to this era have flourished, some longer than others, and then declined. Is America now in a period of decline? There are many signs which might indicate that a decline is more real than many o£ us may wish to admit. An exceUcnt example might be the recent failure of the United States in the Olympics, held in Austria. Our great nation, having recently experienced a period of emphasis on physical fitness under the direction of the late President John F. Kennedy, suffered a crushing defeat ia Austria and ended up in ei^th place in the games. Another example of American loss of power on the international scene can be seen in our recent failures in the United Nations. At the close of World War II, the United States was the leading power in this organiza tion. Today we arc fast becoming a secondary leader. The vote that we could once count on has dwindled to the point that there are barely half of the members of this world organization behind us on many major issues. Not only are we loosing in the international race, we are loosing out at home also. We are loosing out intellectually. If one scrutinizes the American educational system as a whole, one can see that training the mind to perform any intellectual task set before it has taken a backseat to training the person for a technical skill. The emphasis on science means that thousands of robots are graduated each year. Thousands who can build a bridge, a new weapon with which to destroy the world, a rocket ship which may reach the moon before one that Russia builds, but only a few hundred who can think and dream. This does not imply that we need to become a ra:ce of dreamers, but certainly the idealist and the intel- l^tual have a: place in society. There must be some imagination in order to keep a country going. We the American youth lack imagination. We lack the imagination to entertain ourselves and therefore must be constantly entertained. The recent fad sweeping the country at the present time is ‘The Beatles,” tnonth they will be replaced by some other fad. Progress and change can be g(^d, but we have made them a gospel which is threatening to enslave us ini chains as strong as if we were bound by inertia to constancy. American youth are moving faster and faster each year, caught up in a wind of change—or rushing to God knows where. To our perdition? Perhaps. Unless we catch something of the glimmer of hope that the American Negro has recently caught in his fight for freedom,, unless we as the chil dren of a gilded age discover something to preserve that age there can be no America for the future. There can only be a mob as there was in ancient Rome crying for “bread and circuses.” And then the barbarians will replace us, assimulate us, and we will be no more A. F. N. The System Many students were made keenly aware of the eflfect of the revised room check system this week as points were accumulated by students for untidmess in any of the nine areas listed on the Point System blank. Not many of us like the idea of having our rooms checked at undesignated Umes, nor do we like to be told to clean house. Yet, actual evidence re veals that this matter cannot be left to the discretion of individuak because we are too apt to “leave it as is”—for months. Consequently, the check exists as a measure to right irresponsibility. The immedi^ate effect of the revised check system on students meant complamts for some, resolutions for others, and a good room-cleaning for the majority of us who wish to avoid a twenty-five point total. M. K. P. MEMBER Associated Collegiate Press editorul staff Managing Editor i:;::;::;; ca^Andrewi Copy Editors—Nicky Childrey, Penny Pittard, Nancy Ford, Nancy Arm strong. Karen Raines, Carolyn Norwood, Betty Godwin Nell Cox, Janie Lrnst, Wadad Fayed, Polly Finan, Bonnie Fisher Franccs Garretl, Betty Garvey. Betty Hartley, Nileen Hunt. Fran Johnson, Sue Kelly Madelyn Langdon, Pris Macomber, Blue McKethan, Anne Pepper Poole, Dolly Smith, Gail Stevenson, Donna Vierson, Betty Webb BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager. nj-ng Rowers Advertising Manager. Sue AnL Circulation Manager. :.z::;z:sSn^ Chief Typist Elmv Mnrks Typists—Rita Goodwin, Jan Miller, Cathy Ussery, Betty" Bass, Sandra Morgan, Judy Strickland , iv.i« Advertising Staff — Brenda Smith, Brenda Williams, Nancy Rawlinson, Nancy S. Buffalo, Laurie Cress, Linda Simmons Faculty Sponsor. lois Frazier ?=l^ber II, 1923. at post office ai Rqlelgh. 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Subscription Rates: $2.95 per year Letters to Editor Editor’s Note: The En^ish department received the following letter from Kappie Weed, a 1963 graduate of Meredith, who is now serving in the Peace Corps in India. January 23, 1964 Dear Everyone, I was especially excited to find from Miss Knight’s letter that little Suthi Joseph is in Madras! I plan to spend part of my May vacation in that city, which happens to be only about 500 miles down the coast from Visakhapatnam. I’m looking for ward to meeting the'little boy. I mentioned that I’m finding it difficult to justify by name my month’s vacation from December 24 to January 21. But officially it was all perfectly legal. Indian schools close three times during the year instead pf only once for three months. October gave us two glori ous weeks in Hyderabad; Decem ber sent us to Delhi, Nainital, and Calcutta; and May 1 through June 16 will (hopefully) see us in Madras and the hill stations (cooling areas) thereabouts. But let me tell you a little about my December through January holi day. We first had a three-day jaunt with the American Cal-Tex people here, during which they cli maxed an exciting visit with an eight een-pound U. S. turkey. After leaving there, we journeyed to Hyderabad, where we joined forces with the remainder of our group -and all traveled together to Delhi for a three day seminar, which ended on the first of January, Then we were on our own! Margery and r drew together all our forces and talked three Indian boys, whom we knew in Visakhapatnam and who were visiting in Delhi, into taking a whole carload of us to Agra to see the Taj Mahal. We left on the sec ond. On the way, we saw a num^r of interesting sights, including a fa mous tomb built to Akbar, one of the old Mogul rulers of India. Then, finally, we arrived at the Taj. I had heard so many people say that it was a let-down that I was almost expecting one. We drove up to a huge red building, called the gate way to the Taj. The building has a gigantic stone wall jutting out from Its sides and, I think, completely encircling the front area of the erounds of the Taj. Protection for I the back area of the Taj is taken care of by a lovely lake or river. I’m not sure which. At any rate, we walked through the gateway, and there — like a spectacular star on a moonless night — was the Taj Mahal. I cannot describe it ^rther! That was in the afternoon. That night w;e went back in an attempt to see it in the moonlight. Unfor tunately, the gates were locked, but we made a huge fuss outside the squares of darkness that resembled windows, until, finally, the gateman — with a bribe — let us in. Again I cannot describe it, except to say that never in my life has anything I have seen given me such a feel ing. On the fifth I left Delhi and made a trip to Nainital, a hill station about 200 miles above Delhi. It was very lovely ■— a resort-looking town situ ated right in the Himalayas. It is built around a lovely lake, on which we took romantic boat rides and dreamed of Scandinavia. And then came the big thrill: we arrived in Calcutta on January 10, just in time for the Hindu- Moslem riots over the rape of the lock in Kashmir. I - won’t try to describe the city itself except to say it was exactl;^ as I expected — six to seven million people crammed into a small area, where the only consistent law is the law of the jungle. We made our beds in a small, dirty room (fiinds were limited) in a building that didn’t even have a name and was located in the center of one of the most trouble-placed spots. On the night that we arrived a man was stab^d not fifty yards from our room. Cur few was announced all over the city for three of the four days we were in Calcutta, but yours truly was too excited and curious to stay in hiding, so I went out often — alone, since my companions were much less curious and much more fright ened. I could never tell all that I saw. There fires all over the city; mobs were killing people every where; riots were too big and power ful to be stopped. Finally, the army came in, and on the last night I was there, I witnessed one man with a hole in his chest being dragged out of the_ darkness by two police men, one fire that took twelve hours to completely destroy a whole city block, huge truckloads of armed soldiers whizzing around corners and through alleys, and 100,000 panic- stricken, homeless faces awaiting (Continued on page 4) Mood/s Moods By SUE ELLEN MOODY Chapel time,^ and the usual blah by BSU girls about Christianity, and of course, money. They are al ways asking for money! Why can’t they just get it from the school funds, like the AA or SGA? Why do they always collect? Now they have really got themselves in a jam. The BSU wants to send a girl to Korea. The BSU has promised to contribute $1,200 towards the proj ect. Guess where the money is sup posed to come from! You and me buddy, are the chief victims in this “drive for goodness.” Why should we contribute from our allowances for another Meredith girl to get an expense free vacation to Korea! No, Korea isn’t fabulous, but let me re mind you that Hong Kong is just across the water! Why should we support L I S T- E N, a typical BSU project? There is no pat Mswer to this question. LISTEN was started because students were aware of the suffer ing of other peoples, or at least they were aware of it ten years ago. More recently, however, the Peace Corps and foreign aid have taken the bur den of aiding the less fortunate. There is no real need for a project such as L I S T E N to minister to the less fortunate. The facilities, of L I S T E N are so limited that it is like a drop in the bucket. It would be better to stop such an uninfluential project. Or would it? This writer is no great advocator of missions, but there seems to be a need for missions in a world such as ours. We mean the slender, well- dressed, college-educated world of self-satisfied “Good people.” We need missions in Meredith’s compla* cent campus more than in Korea. Perhaps we should change the whole goal of L I S T E N. It would be more beneficial, apparently, if we made our aim to awaken stu dents, making them once more aware of the needy of the world. At present the needy, however, seem to be right here! If we could make ourselves aware of our compla cency and realize our need for com passion, we could then aid others out of our love for others. We need to get that beam out of our own eye before we can get the grain out of our brother’s. Can the BSU sacrifice towards the need for love among ourselves first, so that we might then love and sacrifice for others? Three Students Make Trip to Union Seminary On the weekend of February 7-9, a group of Meredith students, es corted by a Southeastern Seminary student, traveled to Union Theologi cal Seminary in New York. These students attended a conference en titled “Christian Vocation for Wom en.” This group consisting of Nicky Childrey, Phoebe Lassiter, Anne Pepper Poole from Meredith and Cliff Clarke from Southeastern joined students and adult leaders from the eastern half of the United States in a weekend slated with forms of fel lowship ranging from theological discussions to singing Negro spiri tuals. Friday night, the assembled group listened to Helen Irvine who spoke about the world of drama, art, the ology, and literature as being a world of fragmentation, non-communica- tion, and de-humanization. Follow ing Mrs. Irvine, Dr. Lehmann, a faculty member at Union, spoke on the Biblical passage “Seek ye first the Kingdom of God.” The main emphasis of his speech was that man should focus on Christ and thereby his field or vocation would be broadened. Saturday the group toured New (Continued on page 6)
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