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THE TWIG
Newspaper of the Students of Meredith College
VOLUME XLIX
MEREDITH COLLEGE,
RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA
OCTOBER 17, 1974
NUMBER 8
Hoyt Taylor explains the unique personality of the Belk Belt
in Thursday’s conveyor dedication.
Who^s Who names
twenty-two seniors
Twenty-two Meredith
seniors have been named to
“Who’s Who Among Students in
American Universities and
Colleges”.
They are Laura Ann Bailey,
Mary Brown, Virginia Clark,
Jackie Cullifer, Thesia Garner,
Sue Grant, Susan Hamlin, Mary
Beth Hardy, Norma Heath,
Jean Jackson, Gwen Fincher
Kincaid, Suzanne Martin, Cathy
McCaskill, Sherri McGee,
Linda McKinnish, Pogo
Pollock, Marlee Ray, Genie
Rogers, Claudia Denny Vur-
nakes, Patty Whisnant, Bar
bara Yates and Tricia Young.
These students will be
contacted by the Who’s Who
organization for biographical
information which will be
published in the bound copy of
“Who’s Who Among Students in
American Universities and
Colleges.”
Stringfellow sees decay
of legitimate authority
by Allyn Vogel
Students are nominated for
“Who’s Who” on the basis of
scholarship ability, par
ticipation and leadership in
academic and extracurricular
activities, citizenship, and
service to Meredith, and
potential for future
achievement.
A new nominating
procedure was employed by
Meredith this year. Last year
the senior class and the
department heads made
nominations which were ap
proved by the Student Life
Committee.
This year a list of eligible
seniors was sent to each faculty
member, and each member
indicated 22 nominations. A
student was considered eligible
if she had completed 90
semester hours and had at least
a 2.5 QPR. The 2.5 cutoff was
recommended by the senior
class.
Meredith’s third con
vocation program of the
semester hosted William
Stringfellow, an author, lawyer
and lay theologian. He was
sponsored by the Religion and
Philosophy departments of
Meredith and NCSU.
Stringfellow addressed
himself to the 13th chapter of
Saint Paul’s letter to the
Romans and to Revolations 13
in the program titled “Con
science and Obedience in
Church and State”. Both of
these passages deal with
government and the individual
conscience.
Stringfellow’s concern was
with defining the instances in
which political authority is not
legitimate, “ordained by God”.
He noted that even
traditional interpretations
suggest that Romans 13 and
other related passages demand
obedience only to political
authority which is exercised
responsibly.
“Tyrannies”, he noted as
an example of illegitimate
authority, “are not an ordained
government.”
In discussing the activities
of his friends, Daniel and
Phillip Berrigan, Stringfellow
noted that for them to have
surrendered to “illegitimate
authority’’ would seem to
condone it.
In a discussion in the
Student Center after his speech,
Stringfellow further em
phasized that “no victim” of a
government can regard that
administrations’ power as
legitimate. He cited as
examples of victims of the
American political system,
minorities and draft resisters.
The determination of
legitimacy, he said, is a
“matter of conscience”.
Stringfellow also sees
evidence of the problem of
“conscience and obedience” in
some of the issues confronting
today’s churches.
He observed that in
American politics the decay of
“power justly exercised” has
been foreshadowed in the U.S.
since World War II. An
authority’s legitimacy, he
stated, is determined by how
the power is established and
how it is used. The recent
disintegration of legitimate
authority he observed is
reflected in Ford’s pardon of
Nixon, in the issue of partial
amnesty for draft resistors, in
the “conversion of the police
into a military presence”, and
the “intimidation of the
media”.
America, he emphasized, is
suffering a “revolution” in the
“criminal uses of authority
under the aegis of the govern
ment.” Watergate he believes
could be paralleled to a “coup
de etat”.
For many he noted the state
is the “predatory monster” of
Revolations 13.
Even the most traditional
exegesis he stressed in con
clusion acts as a “stunning
rebuke’’ to improperly
executed authority and serve as
a “fearful and timeiy warning.”
Laura Ann Bailey
Mary Brown
Virginia Clark
Jackie Cullifer
Thesia Garner
Sue Grant
Susan Hamlin
Mary Beth Hardy
Norma Heath
Jean Jackson
Gwen F. Kincaid
Suzanne Martin Cathy McCaskill
Sherri McGee
Pogo Pollock
Marlee Ray
Genie Rogers
Claudia D. Vurnakes Patty Whisnant
Barbara Yates
Tricia Young