Christmas Edition
Volume 1, Number 5
Montreat-Anderson College Student Newspaper
December 12, 197H
Smoking proposals
voted down in poll
of student opinion
RUTH GRAHAM AND ELLEN DEKROON (traveling com
panion to Corrie tenBoom) chat following chapel on Wed., Dec.
3. (Photo by Allan Jones)
Professional actor works
with “Odd Couple” cast
by R. B. WILKINS
Student Government
Editor
The Smoking Issue that
confronted the Montreat
Community for a time is
finally over. The Smoking
Study Committee recom
mended to the S.G.A. that a
referendum be taken by the
students.
Instead it was changed to a
student opinion which brought
protests from the Smoking
Committee. A decision at this
time has not been made on
what will be done about the
opinion.
The students voted down all
proposals except no smoking
in elevators and no smoking in
Gaither Lobbies. The elevator
issue was resolved via state
law.
On Friday, the Montreat-
Anderson Community met to
discuss this issue. Mrs.
Massey brought a lady from
the Lung Association who
discussed the evils of cigarette
smoking. There followed
some discussion.
One person said, “If I can
put up with 14 minutes of
cigarette smoke, I should be
able to talk to someone aboUi
Christ.”
Some students were very
critical of Mrs. Massey, while
others praised her.
The Faculty in a meeting
voted in the same question
naire overwhelmingly against
smoking. Miss Penny Nickel
brought it to the Faculty. The
Faculty results rather sur
prisingly showed a lot of
abstentions.
Wednesday night the S.G.A
with one person dissenting
voted to ask the Ad
ministration to ban smoking in
Gaither lx)bby. Now the
Smoking Issue is finally
resolved.
Chuck Crabtree, a
professional actor from
Lexington, Ky. who has made
numerous television ap
pearances and worked with a
number of touring companies,
will play a leading role in Neil
Simon’s “The Odd Couple,” a
Greybeard Players produc
tion to be performed Thur
sday, Friday and Saturday
nights.
The three-act comedy,
which has been adapted for
the screen and for television,
is about two divorced men
living together in a New York
apartment, who relive the
conflicts of their failed
marriages. C3iuck Crabtree
stars as the slob Oscar
Madison, a role he has played
in over 100 performances.
Lance Williams plays Oscar’s
nervous roommate, Felix
Ungar.
H. C. Farmer of Morehead
University in Kentucky will be
conducting final rehearsals of
the cast including Rob Carver
as Miffray, Hal Johnson as
Vinnie, Bill Morris as Speed,
Jay Graham as Roy, and
Joanne Colwell and Susan
White as Gwendolyn and
Cecily, the “Pidgeon sisters.”
The shows are scheduled for
8:00 on Dec. 11,12 and 13 at the
Greybeard Little Theater.
Tables seating four will
provide a cafe-style at
mosphere, and coffee, tea and
soft drinks will be served.
Admission is ! -50 for students.
Exam
Cram!
ODD COUPLE CAST: 1-r, Rob Carver, Hal Johnson (hidden).
Chuck Crabtree, Lance Williams, Bill Morris, and Jay
Graham. (Photo by Allan Jones)
Food committee progress
Boiled eggs won’t be among
the choices in the Howerton
breakfast buffet anymore.
This report comes from the
Food Committee officiated by
Paula Myers, vice-president
of the freshman class.
These six students volun
teers meet together and
decide what innovations are
needed in the menu, within the
dining hall’s budget.
They had suggested that
boiled eggs among other
things be offered for dining
variety.
“Hardly anybody made any
so there’s no use in serving
them,” says Paul Williams,
one Food Committee member.
One of the committee’s
latest missions was the in
stallment of the hot chocolate
machine.
Many students have
requested that peanut butter
and jelly be included in
Sunday night buffets, but the
committee discovered that it’s
impossible because of health
department rules.
Even though the Howerton
budget is being stretched, the
committee is planning a steak
dinner for the very near
future. Sometime in January
a foreign meal will be featured
and a salad bar is in the
making too.
by RHETT TABER ;
Student Concerns Editor
Two of the most obvious
signs of exams are, most of
Hthe professors are smiling,
and Mr. Hinkle’s is having a
sale on midnight oil. All
kidding aside because we all
know that professors don’t
smile and Mr. Hinkle’s never
has a sale on anything.
Exams are here though and
it’s time for serious studying.
If you are going to go to the
j library to study you might
better think again. It’s
usually too noisy!
When asked about the noise
J situation Mrs. Gilkerson had
(this to say: “The problem is
j distressing. The noise is being
j made by only a few students,
(jbut some of them are the
student leaders from the SGA
and the Hall Counselors.” The
problem it seems is that while
only a few people are making
the noise, that noise is keeping
the rest of the students from
studying.
With exams as close as they
are, it seems like the majority
of students at M-A C would
want to study. As Mrs.
Gilkerson pointed out, the
situation is distressing. The
staff of the library is there to
help the students and gets
bothered when those who are
in there to study can’t because
of the noise. The staff is
concerned about the problem
and wants to do something I
about it but doesn’t feel that
they should be disciplinarians.-
Because of the approach of
jfinal exams, the staff feels
'that measures to crack down
on the noise problem should be
used. In the past if you made
too much noise you were
a,sked to leave, but you could
come back. Now if you are
asked to leave twice, in order
to be allowed hack in you may
end up having to see Mrs.
Gilkerson.
Having spent close to an
hour talking to her for this
[article I can vouch for the fact
that although she is a pleasant
woman she can be very for
ceful when she believes in
something as she does this
noise problem. If you want to
make noise go see Mr. Massey
but please keep the noise down
,in the library.