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THE DIALETTE
FEBRUARY 9, 1968
Students Become A Symbol Of Abuse
Since my last months strike a-
gainst the college management, very
little explanation has been offered
why certain conditions still plague
the students and cause so much un
necessary confusion. Could it be that
the management does not care enough
about the students to read their com
plaints? This is quickly recognized as
the most apparent reason and is even
amplified by a student who recently
summed up the situation as it ap
pears to him. “The Administration
will do its utmost to help us, but the
problem for them is to find the time.”
The college management has aided
tremendously in causing friction a-
mong the students and Administrat
ion. A Catholic student who sought
to find out why Catholics were being
charged to use school cars to go to
mass decided to leave the Business Of
fice while being offered a very poor
answer to his situation. The answer
was similar to:i If I had known what
you wanted, I wouldn’t have bothered
to see you. The Catholic apologized
for causing such a disturbance and
with good reason reckoned that Pres
byterianism was the only religion
given formal recognition in Mon
treat.
This past semester students have
continually expressed the ever-pop-
ular belief that many teachers are
grading unwisely in that it is neces
sary for a student to agree with a
teacher in order to receive a good
grade. (BROWN NOSE is the true ex
pression.) However false the afore
mentioned statement may seem to
some who are unwilling to admit that
the brownie point system does exist
in Montreat, there must be some ex
planation as to why capable students
are making disgusting grades.
It is not entirely fair to criticize
the teachers alone. The students did
do quite a job of displaying their
talents by breaking old records and
setting new ones. The freshman class,
with the aid of the brownie point
system, even though they were sup
posed to be better prepared than
previous classes, managed to get one-
third of its members on academic
probation. These statistics are shock
ing but show that the students are, to
a certain extent, abusing their own
status quo.
I hope that the above is not taken
in the attitude that I am waving my
flag for or against the Administrat
ion, the faculty or the students. I am
only stating complaints of all the
parties concerned. Anyone who agrees
or disagrees is invited to use
Dialette space to submit their evi
dence.
KEEP THE BALL ROLLING
This year the Student Govern
ment Association has overflowed the
cup with actions and proposals. The
year began with the introduction of
the Inter-Dorm Council. This has pro
ven effective and valuable. By this
act much strain has been taken from
the Honor Court which in effect, has
given the court the opportunity to
work with greater accuracy.
The new church-chapel honor sys
tem is presently being enforced on
what appears to be a trial basis.
Proposals for future action include
adding students to the Admissions
Committee, having every campus or
ganization to submit a constitution,
and allowing girls to wear slacks in
the cafeteria.
Students were also asked not to
break in the line in the cafeteria.
This has had tremendous effect and
our students have proved, contrary
to rumor, that students do possess re
spect for others as well as for them
selves.
How Dry I Am
Due to the failure of last year’s
drinking rule which would have per
mitted students to drink within a
three-mile radius of the campus, no
attempt has been made toward chang
ing the present fifty mile radius.
Some students feel by nature that
their spirits are free and that they
should be allowed to choose in what
way they wish to remain free. Others
feel as Milton who believed that it
was wrong for man to be tempted and
suffer a life time for a moment of
pleasure.
A Word Of Gratitude
The Dialette has thus far been
received very well by the students.
Since the beginning of the year it
has shown marked improvement and
is now seeking recognition by the
Associate Press Association and the
Intercollegiate Press Association.
The Dialette was offered a franchise
with the National Advertising Edu
cational Services. Subscription Service
has been started and a Circulation
Department of 600 copies is con
stantly being increased. Publication
has been on a monthly basis but this
semester we hope to make this a
bi-weekly publication.
As Editor of The Dialette I would
like to thank our staff and advisors
in aiding in these accomplishments.
To We Critics
Are we so petty, so self-centered
as to judge others in order to uphold
ourselves? All too easily we slip in
to the self-indulgent expression of
anger, when we must strike out
against others. How often must we
continue in order to satisfy our ego?
Because we are inadequate to our
selves, must we prove our inade
quacies to others? Only envy can be
the leader of greed and all its other
kin. And, in the end, what profits
have we reaped? Vengeance only
destroys the avenger for the offend
er has all too soon forgotten. To him
it is of little proportion. But the
avenger does not know the bound
aries of proportion.
Anger cannot express its fullest
wrath without destroying its maker.
It acts much as an atomic plant that
has lost control; particles striking,
continually striking, destroying much
around it; but at last it destroys it
self. As humans we are given the
right to fight, and the will to survive
the hells of life. It takes great cour
age to fight hell, but it is our right.
With God’s help we shall win many
battles.
Carl Sturgis
How To Be
Miserable
Some of you might have seen this
before, but for those who would
really like to know how to be miser
able, here it is again.
(1) Feel sorry for yourself. This
is the right place to start. It is almost
guaranteed to make you most popular.
(2) Worry about things that might
happen but probably won’t. Every
one always worries but you can al
ways look for more.
(3) Complain; this is dandy. Find
fault. You can find something wrong
with almost anything and everybody.
Some people cultivate it. There is
nothing that is right.
(4) Insist on having your own
way. Always demand your rights.
Never listen to the other side, refuse
to play, just quit.
(5) Be sarcastic. Ridicule some
one if you can, regardless of the
hurt.
(6) Be self centered. Only worry
about “me”. Others don’t count.
(7) Ignore spiritual resources.
Neglect your faith.
(8) Ignore your moral teachings.
Violate your own conscience. Always
down grade others’ character and re
putation.
O. K. There it is. Now if you
really want to be a “supercool” start
to work immediately on these eight
points and build yourself a comple
tely different character.
Stop Griping
Should students complain about
and scoff at Montreat when there is
a lack of a quest for knowledge, an
apathy, an intellectual stagnation,
fostered not by administration or
faculty, but by the students? Should
students complain of events being re
quired, or even of the quality of
speakers, when there is the ever
present chance of embarrassment at
a non-required function because of
the appearance of but a handful of
students? While the speakers at Mon
treat have often not been of the high
est caliber, little or no attempt has
been made by the student body to
come and assess the value of a speak
er, except at required functions.
Not a very good commentary on
Montreat students, or a very good
argument for abolishing required
chapel, is it? Have you ever heard
groans when a student dares to quote
Plato or pencils are thrown down in
annoyance when a student uses a voc
abulary higher than twelfth grade?
Not only is this a bad commentary,
but it is discouraging to those who
might wish to read Plato or cultivate
a college vocabulary. Perhaps the
students who carefully avoid un-re-
quired speakers and moan at the
mention of Plato and toss down pen
cils at the drop of a “ten-dollar”
WHERE ARE THOSE WHO
WERE GOING TO TURN THE
WORLD UPSIDE DOWN
In the life of each of us on this
earth-each human who is more than
a vegetable-there has been at least
one moment when we vowed to be
true to our finest instincts, forever.
For some it was a religious exper
ience; for others it was a deep pat
riotic feeling; for still others it was
simply a realization that to truly live
proudly with themselves they had to
be true to the best that was within
them. This moment may have been in
spired by a desire to help humanity
or by a desire to be oneself to the
fullest or by a desire to gain a glori
ous place in history. Whatever the
motivation, each of us has known a
glorious moment when we vowed to
be true to honor, no matter what the
cost, forever.
Honor is not something that is
ignored a lifetime, and then suddenly
upheld in a crisis. The person who
takes the honorable path in a maze
of beckoning, dishonorable paths-
whether he choose while a world
watches or only he is the man who
has chosen the honorable path all
along. He has not only chosen honor
in major areas, but in the seemingly
minor areas. He has told the truth
when it was most unadvantageous;
he has defended an opinion when it
cost to speak up; he has criticized but
also given an alternative.
Yes, each of us has known that
moment when we vowed to uphold
honor, no matter what and we have
seen that resolve slowly erode each
time we told a lie because it was
easier on us, or kept our beliefs to
ourselves because it was expedient,
or were against something simply to
tear it down. Now is the time to stop
the erosion and rebuild-to uphold
honor in our daily, undramatic lives-
else tomorrow our resolve to uphold
honor may have eroded to the point
of collapse, and we may have no
honor.
Who Wrote
95 Theses?
Faculty Or
Student?
Send Your Ideas
To The Dialette
word, should re-examine their moti
vations for coming to college, and
ask themselves if they know all they
wish to know. And they should stop
griping about required functions and
boring speakers and dull classes un
til they come up with some answers.
MONTREAT-ANDERSON COLLEGE, MONTREAT, N. C.
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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
CARL STURGIS
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