November?, 1968
THE TWIG
Page Three
Alumna Challenges the "Comfortable"
By BROOKS McGIRT
All Meredith Students look for
ward to the day when they will
receive that little piece of sheepskin
and march away from the stage,
graduated at last.
Most of these students also look
forward to returning to Meredith as
observers and viewing the college
scene from the outside this time.
Indeed, many do return — as
casual visitors or as teachers. But
it is only rarely that a Meredith
graduate is invited to return to her
alma mater in the role of a dis
tinguished lecturer and authority.
Yet return in this role is exactly
what Dr. Phyllis Trible has done,
speaking during the School of
Christian Studies on the Elijah Nar
ratives. A Meredith graduate. Dr.
Trible has since attended Union
Theological Seminary and Columbia
University and traveled to the Far
East for further study in her chosen
field, religion. Dr. Trible has definite
ideas about what her years here have
meant to her since.
“Meredith exposed me to many
areas of life,” she says, “ — social
concerns, artistic expressions —
and these things have continued to
be of concern to me.” What does
she remember most of about those
years of initial exposure at school
here? “Hard work that made
sense,” she declares and explains
her statement saying, “Some of the
academic requirements were de
manding in quality and quantity.
The effect was a discipline of the
person.”
In fact, it is this discipline that
Dr. Trible accounts for the ability
“to control material, organize it,
and understand it.” Besides, she
adds on the really practical level,
“Because I had learned to write
compositions, graduate school was
not so difficult in that area.”
But most of all, she says she has
benefited most from her under
graduate years at Meredith in “the
discipline of work and in the ex
citing ideas” she received.
Now, as a returning alumna, Dr.
Trible refuses to categorize or even
elaborate on the changes at
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Meredith she sees since her days
as a student here. “I’m quite sure
it's not standing still,” she says.
“Not to change is to die. But I am
not as much aware of internal
changes — and this is a period of
transition — a crucial time for the
school.”
Dr. Trible presents a challenge
to her alma mater as she says,
“Meredith has a unique oppor
tunity to do creative things.” And
for the student who professes her
self to be dissatisfied with Mere
dith education, she offers the
further challenge, “If you reaWy
mean it, you can do something
about it.” She cites student activi
ties at other area institutions di
rected toward improvement of
education and adds, “I think stu
dents have a right to shape their
education and a responsibility to
let their views be known and enter
into dialogue with faculty and ad
ministration.”
She continues, “I get the feeling
that students at both Wake Forest
and Meredith are very ‘comforta
ble.’ They haven’t been exposed
to suffering — their horizons are
rather limited.” A college educa
tion, she concludes, “Should expose
them to this — make them uncom
fortable.”
T«U.
McGill Views Interruptions
As Dynamic Forces in Life
By NANCE RUMLEY
If the feature department of our
Twig seems overly preoccupied
with the Meredith School of Chris
tian Studies this issue, it is because
some truly fantastic, insightful
things were said in the lectures of
Drs. Trible, McGill, and Boozer
during their visits. And not all of
these insights were of the “over-
our-heads” variety, (which, by the
way, is the great thing about insight
in general; anyone can play). Take,
for instance. Dr. Arthur McGill’s
Wednesday morning lecture: it was
full of flashes. And, as student at
tendance was so low for this talk.
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publication of one particular point
that broke up the scholarly assem
bly seems in order.
The light bulb came on when
Dr. McGill stated, in his wonderfully
blunt way, that the dally life of
modern man is keyed to one thing
— interruptions! We are bom
barded constantly by suddenly
blaring radios, pre-set alarm clocks,
lines to stand in, etc. Try to talk on
the phone and it’s busy. Go to
watch television and you are inter
rupted by a commercial. Go to a
movie and you have to stand in
line.
College students know exactly
what Dr. McGill means. Get all
prepared to study and you have a
sudden, unexpected guest in the
dean of students’ office. Try to
sleep and your roommate comes in
all excited to tell the latest. Hop in
the tub to soak, bath oil and all,
and you have a phone call. Try to
get to your class at State and the
stoplights catch you. These aren’t
isolated incidents; they happen
continually.
Dr. McGill reminds us that ac
cording to psychologists, if an ani
mal is subjected to constant inter
ruption of its’ actions, it goes be-
serk, insane, becomes violent. The
implications for human society are
unmistakable. Man’s chief goal
seems to be the avoidance of inter
ruption and the reparation of
damages incurred in the “rat race.”
We have created a maze for our
selves that requires constant ac
tivity but enforces full stops at
every attempt to reach the goal.
This phenomenon is peculiar to
Western Society. We seem bent on
shattering our own nervous systems
by our learned motives of achieve
ment and acquisitiveness. Head
aches, depressions, neuroses are the
results. Why the amount of aspirin
consumed on our campus would
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