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L’^TT^R FRO!'' THR RDHOR
Ona night ei littlj oT..r c. ago,
Mac Holt and I r:at dcTm and ’Troto thj
r;folution of th; Social ^tanda.rda Com-
inltto'j on room d .conationa.
JcEt Mac a nd I,
No critic ion of th . -tlur m..mb -ra of
th.; Committ j ir intend .d. It tog a bad
night: a compulrory Rn^li-h 1 ^ctur.., mrth
lab to b.j attjndjd, ^tc,
Thj point i.o that two pjopl^^ no mat —
t.jr hoiy hard thjjr try, cannot hop, to
• inbody th'..; thought e of 330 othjro in an"'''—
thing th.pr writ.;,
Th,- PGA L;giElrturo baa b.,n rtudj^ing
our r;Eolution for a y; , IIop.^fullv, it a
momborE ^^rill mak, a final decision in
Monday night’a 7 p.m. mooting in Hooro
C,-nt^r.
If wou ar.j T/illing to truct a p; rt of
your futur,- at Montrjat-^'ndorcon to Mac
and rnj, don't bother to com.. If you
aron't, if ^ron wmt to mak, th. logir-
latorc awar. of your vi,w£, com,- ..arly
and bj p r -par ;d to ctatj ^rour position.
If •''•ou ar, willing to pr;G,nt"thj ad
ministration of T'ontr..at-And.,..-rcon Collog,-
with thj sorry Ep,ctaclo -?f th, final
decision on a matt,-r of such importanc,-
b,-ing mad. by a m,r.j handful of rtud.nts,
don't botb,r to com.. If i.-ou ar.n't, if
vou b.li.y. that a -’how of Tmity end num
bers bv students i.- crucial at this junc
ture, com.,-, and brinp- oth.r peopl, with
you.
I wrot'.; ab-ut "A Crucial Tear" on this
pag,' tvro w ,ks ago. I b.li.v, that '-'pn-
da V night's m.;.;tina: is an ,s0',-nti-1
1 ir at st.p, if i-r.) ar. to .piyj this .rr
an^'- m. .aning.
Rat th. bock.'' arid,, l.aye th. dorm,
bring y^'i.’r dat,.
Bo th . ro.
'MT^TIN
■STi^.FF
Frank Austin—Rditor-in-C)iiof
Richard Lsnco—Cultural editor
Gono Hines—Montr,ct ’^ditor
A] Coitn.r—National/lnternaticnal editor
Fat ButT,r—Busin,ss I-ynag.r
Jan,t Cbono—Fa culty idvisor
NIGeRI.A'TeiiTH
On 1 October, All swell I'uzan, Rdwin
Udogu, and oev.ra 1 million other p.oplo
c lobratod a colloctivo birthday: Nig.eria
had boon an indopondont nation for t .n
years.
Through th,- grcsciousno ss of D,-a.n Don
ald k'itcholl and oth.r members of the
rdmini strut ion, w,- ayer . privileged to
join in the celobra'.tion. Not, perhaps
v.dth th,- intensity of f . eling experi
enced bjr A11e’.t,11, edwin, and oth,r
Nigerians; bivb w, could participate in
our ovm vmy, nonetheless.
The cake, the s-ong, and the congratu-
lE'.tions which follow .d ayerj truly human
gestur.;s. Thess enriched our lives and,
more important, made things a little
brighter for two m,n fa long way from homo.
AUSTIN AND STAFF
AN eDITORIAL ANALYSIS
There are ma.ny cliches aahout the "nova
age," and th, relationship it has to ed
ucation. The fact remains, however, tha.t
a skill must be obtained (whether one a-
gr.es philosophicallv or not) in order to
Secure an economically satisfactorp)' job.
buny stud,nts at Montreat-''nderson Col-
I'.ge have cr,-at,d an atmosphere not con
ducive to education. Social life and the
m.'intaih-ence of sophomoric privileges
often ceom- to be the 1,-ading cone rns
on campus. Th, sch'^ol itself r.mains an
intellectual vacuum. One realizes that
all rentreat-Anderson students do not
have, the capacity to attain scholastic