ALETHEIA
Volume XXVI, Number 12
Montreat-Anderson College
January 20, 1993
Chris Blair
Returns To
M-AC for
Coffeehouse
by Jamie King
On Friday, January 22nd at
8pm, The McGregor Coffeehouse
will present Chris Blair. Blair is
an acoustic folk guitarist who
fringes on both a rock and an is
land sound.
At the coffeehouse, Blair
plans to play a variety of music,
composed mostly of originals, al
though he will play some tunes
from other artists. Blair's music is
all "wholesome" and a lot of his
music is not overtly Christian.
Blair believes in a "quality con
trol" on music, but realizes the
music does not need to possess the
words "God" or "Jesus" to be
Christian.
In Blair's history with music,
Montreal plays a big part. He
'began-coming tcrMontrcatr in-5th
grade for the Montreat Music Con
ference and continued for about
ten years. He then went to St.
Petersburg College and after a se
mester abroad in London, England,
Blair changed his major from
Chemistry to Music Design and
Performance. He credits his radi
cal change in major to "seeing so
many kinds of people making a
living in all kinds of ways."
In 1977, he returned to Mon-
A Time of IVansition
Clinton Presidency Brings Feelings of Skepticism to M-AC
By Eric Bush
Change, Bill Clinton said re
peatedly during his long trek to the
White House, does not come eas
ily. It will take courage, their own
courage, for Americans to choose a
new course. Now that they have
made that choice, it is Clinton's turn
to be courageous, as he becomes
our 42nd president at noon today.
Indeed, the consensus among
the politically astute is that the new
president must quickly claim a ra
tionale for his election beyond the
rejection of George Bush. He must
convincingly show Americans why
they were right to elect him, and
now, unlike on the campaign trail,
rhetoric alone will not be suffi
cient. It is widely agreed that Clin
ton won due to shrewd campaign
ing and an emphasis on the right
issues. He must now bring the
treat as a year-round resident. Ap-
—proximatcly“six-ycars-agOrhe-boilt—
his own house primarily with his
own two hands. His downstairs is
devoted to music and music-related
motifs.
For approximately the last five
years Blair has played at least once
a year at the college for different
functions and reasons. This year he
is keeping that precedent by play
ing both Friday night and by play
ing a coffeehouse in either March
or April with the band, "Toll-free."
Senior Rebecca Bush Spends Challenging Semester in Costa Rica
by Kenneth Graham
same savvy and focus to the White
House, lest he be labeled as just
another "flash over substance"
president.
Although President Clinton is
anxious to launch his domestic
agenda, the most prominent national
interest of the moment is once again
Saddam Hussein, who continues to
violate U.N. sanctions. After
George Bush, in cooperation with
France and Great Britain, ordered
air strikes on Iraqi military targets
last week, Clinton said that he
strongly backed the action and sig
naled that he will order more at
tacks once in office if Hussein vio
lates U.N. sanctions again. Ameri
cans do not seem sold on this, as a
recent USA Today poll showed that
41% worry that the President-elect
will not be tough enough on
Hussein. While Clinton has sup
ported the decision of Bush and
-essentially vowed to continue his
policy, he also has said, "It cannot
distract us from the urgent domes
tic mission and it will not."
Considering that Clinton was
soundly defeated by Bush in a M-
AC poll last October, campus wide
reaction to President-elect Clinton
is largely skeptical. Karen Camp
bell said, "My biggest problem with
him is that he lacks the experience
needed to run this country." This is
a common worry about Clinton,
and another was raised by Brian
Morrison, who said, "He probably
has as much drive as any president
we've ever had, but my real worry is
foreign policy." Mark Keels, a Re
publican, sees it differently. He
said, "I'm just tired of people com
plaining about Clinton being
elected. Now, if people really want
to do something about it, they should
find an interest group or their con
gressman. Complaining alone does
nothing." Nevertheless, there are
those who are highly optimistic
about the Clinton presidency, like
Heather Jamerson, who said, "Be
cause of his genuine interest in put
ting an end to racism, discrimina
tion, and other types of oppression.
Bill Clinton is a visionary of social
reform."
As fate would have it, Jamerson,
along with fellow student Heather
Ferguson andM-ACpsychology pro
fessor-Tisa-Lewis, met Mr. Clinton
and his family in a chance meeting at
Hilton Head Island, SC over Christ
mas break. Lewis had the opportu
nity to speak with the President-elect
foraboutfive minutes, and said, "What
impressed me was that he was so
approachable, personable, and inter
ested.” In addition, Lewis is attending
today's inauguration along with M-
AC students Justin Ramb, Kenneth
Graham, and Jonathan Woody.
Not many of us can find
Costa Rica on a map, however
Montreat-Anderson College senior
Rebecca Bush can point it out eas
ily. Bush recently returned from
spending a semester in Costa Rica
with thirty-one other college stu
dents from diverse Christian col
leges. After studying abroad in
Costa Rica, Bush is more fluent in
Spanish and can share more Span
ish Culture with us.
Bush stayed with a Costa Rica
family that consisted of a mother
and four grown and five younger
children. Their father died fifteen
years ago. While in Costa Rica,
Bush had the opportunity to travel
throughout Central America.
While visiting Nicaragua and Gua
temala for eleven weeks she had
the opportunity to help with under
privileged kids and do service
projects.
When I asked Bush to de
scribe a normal day, she responded
with "there really isn't a typical day."
Although there may not have been a
normal day, she did describe a day
as "getting up at five-thirty, eating
breakfast and then traveling to
school." Whileatschool, Bush stud
ied in a three-hour class that fo
cused on current political events,
religion, economics and the Span
ish language. Bush also partici
pated in a service project where she
worked with a government
children's home and lived with one
of the employees. When asked if
this was a challenge, Rebecca re
sponded, "It was really tough see
ing those kids. It was really hard."
Bush spent eight hours changing
diapers, disciplining, and ultimately
taking on the parental characteris
tics that most lacked.
The program is sponsored
through the American Christian Col
lege Coalition and Latin American
semester was six thousand dollars.
Bush also emphasized that it
was a growing time for her and
when
asked
what she
learned
most she
replied,
"Learn
ing to see
peoplefor
who they
are and
not to
judge a
book by
their
Rebecca Bush and her Costa Rican house-mother "
Anyone interested in partici
pating in this program should fill
out an application which can be
obtained from Dr. King or Dr.
Brunson.
Studies Program. Bushemphasized
that this program was not a missions
trip. Bush says "It was veiy aca-
d e m i c a 11 y
challenging."
Becoming
more fluent in
the Spanish
language was
one of the
main reasons
for her trip.
In the
program you
are given the
opportunity
todiscoveron
first hand the
life-styles of
the Latin American culture. Along
with being able to study the Spanish
language you also have the oppor
tunity to travel and earn up to six
teen hours of college credit. The
cost of the program for the spring