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Page Two THE HILLTOP, MARS HILL COLLEGE, MARS HILL, N. C. March 13,195 CThe Hilltop PLAIN LIVING AND HIGH THINKING Publisfwd by the Students of Mars Hill College Editor Relates Further Experiences In Russia Entered as second-class matter February 20, 1926, at the PostofFice at Mars Hill, North Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Published semi-monthly during the college year. Volume XXVIII March 13, 1954 Number 11 (Editors Note—The following are excerpts from two of a series of articles by Dean Schoelkopf, editor of the University of Minnesota Daily and one of seven American college editors just returned from a three-week tour of the Soviet Union. This is the second of two articles of the series, and is being published as the result of favorable comment from the student body on the preceding article.) AIoscow L niversity is the shiny new shovvplace of the Soviet educa- ■' tional system. The 32-storv skv- Editor-in-Chief Anne Thompson Associate Editor Mildred Scroggs Managing Editor Gladys Stamper Sports Editor Richard Young Exchange Editor Douglas Spencer Advertising Manager Janice Dennis Assistants in Advertising Betty Pearson - Pat Campbell Circulation Manager Calvin Metcalf Assistant in Circulation Don Payne Typists—Shirley Daniels, Phyllis Phillips, Jewel Worley, and Shirley Revan. CONTRIBUTORS Joyce Ellis, Dean Propst, David Stooke, Mouise Simpson, Sebelia Williams, Mary Seel, Shirley Sumner, Bert Adler, Mary Long, Mary Lou Becton, Carl Barker, Colleen Vann, Pat Thomas, Paul Johnson, Doris May, Shirley Bradley, and Bobbie Linville. What We Can’t Do With Your Names TIar.s Hill College students may think they have the ordinary run of the mill names but there are a few names which present un- journals. At Moscow 52 percent Brand New — And Ours Have you noticed what a beautiful building is going up next to Edna Moore? Remember when that spot was just a rather unsightly vacant lot? Makes a big difference, doesn’t it? There’s not much left to do now; the inside has to be finished and the grounds landscaped and seeded, and the job will be done. TIars Hill will be the proud possessor of one of the nicest looking churches we have seen in some time. We were standing on the street the other day, watching what little activity we could see from the outside and admiring the glint of the sun on the copper-sheathed tower, and we began thinking. The old Mars Hill Baptist Church has served long and faithfully, but it doesn’t look like much now, does it? The pews are scarred and splintered, the aisles are worn and pitted, the windows are full of vacant places. Signs of rough usage are evident, and because it is so obvious that others have used it harshly, we ourselves are not always inclined to show it the respect that should be shown to a building which houses our worship services. We get pretty careless when it comes to caring for church property. T'he new Mars Hill Baptist Church, however, is another proposition When we enter its doors for the first time, we shall be entering a building which hasn’t a mark on it, a spotless auditorium in which every pane of glass, every pew, every board down to the floor under our feet is brand new. How well it will look ten years from now is up to the people that use it, and we are going to be the first group to lay a hand on it af er its completion. We will set the precedent which the C-ll’s of next year, and in turn, those of the next year will follow, and so on down through the vears. It is up to us to see that the new church is treated with the respect and gentle handling which it deserves. usual possibilities. What if: Ward were a maple instead of a Burch. Janice were a doctor instead of a Dennis. Art were two instead of Fore. Page were nobility instead of Gentry. Faye were purple instead of Lavender. Heyward were less instead of Tloore. Anna Lynn were paid up in stead of Owen. Betty were a mackerel instead of a Pike. Jim were pans instead of Potts. Barbara were ugly instead of Priddy. Janet were odor instead of Scent. Jim were a potato instead of a Beane. Louise were checks instead of Cash. Mimi were awful instead of Devine. Fred were brittle instead of Crisp. Jackie were a shell instead of a Hull. Tommy were a stab instead of a Pearce. Almost Gone Between Booh BhAl “Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.’’ These sage words of Ben Franklin offer us a good motto to live by as students. Soon the mid-term reports will go home to parents. The grades themselves are being made right now. No one can be blamed—or praised—for grades except the individual. One cannot expect to make a good grade on a term paper which is hastily slammed together without any attempt at even the most elementar}' unity. Neither can one make a good grade on a trigonometry test with out first learning the rules. Too many times students are very proficient at finding excuses for wasting their time. Then when grades are published, they blame their instructors. This practice onD shows immaturity on the part of college students. When we come to Mars Hill, we accepted a responsibility both to the college and to ourselves. We owe the college the responsibil ity of keeping its academic rating among the highest. We owe ourselves the responsibility of developing into worthwhile citizens. At this very moment, let us resolve to make the best use of the time available to us. There is one method that helps one to make his time count. He should make a budget allowing sufficient time for all his activities. Then when the sheep are separated from the goats at grade time, he will be among the former. It is up to us. Are we interested? Do we -want life.? Or do we just “not have the time” to think about it. Thank You We notice with pride, and with a deep sense of thankful humility^, the response which the Mars Hill students are showing toward a num ber of worthwhile causes to which they have been asked to contribute. The hospital fund for Bill Lovorn, the Red Cross Drive, the Sunday- School drive for church furnishings, and others, have not been left begging. It is this spirit of kindness and co-operation which makes Mars Hill College a place long-remembered in the hearts of its alumni. What is God ? What proof is there of His existence? In his new est book. Why 1 Knotv There Is a God, Fulton Oursler say's: “To that question there are two an swers . . . the first is sheer reason, through the brain; the second is through personal experience.” Lanland say's: “I have swept the heavens with my telescope and have not found God.” Other scien tists testify: “We have examined the brain with our microscopes and have not found the soul.” Can anyone really know? Mr. Oursler answers on the grounds that “the supreme franchise of the human soul is that it can know God.” He states that materialists will deride pray^er as a superstitious practice or a psychological hoax— and yet it is the only way'^ to God. They want to “rewrite the uni versal law' to meet their own re quirements.” IVhy I K?iow There Is o God is a revelation of one man’s per sonal experience with the most ex citing mystery of life. al-| S Fellows; The Junior - Senior is [ways more hm with a date. Moke your plans early and I call a girl today. sell for about five cents. A typical Russian editor was I. M. Malutin, editor of the Baku, Azerbaijan, Worker. The Worker has a circulation of 90,000 and a staff of 60 persons. Editorials in the paper deal wdth “all questions of interest to the Soviet people,” Malutin told us. He said he determined the edi torial policy, and wdth the rest of the Soviet press is currently^ tn'ing to “educate” readers into a friend ly attitude tow'ard the United States. I would like to read the Amer ican papers,” he said, “but they reflect the USSR in unfriendly terms. We asked him how long it has been since he’s seen an American newspaper or magazine, and he said three y'ears. VFe asked him if their new'^s- paper ever disagreed with any gov ernment decision. They said they never do because they' trust their elected representatives to do the right thing. When w'e were visiting the dor mitory' rooms in Moscow Univers ity, we got our first good look at the one-knob radio set so common in Russia. There is no need for more than one control on the radio because there is only one station to listen to—Radio Moscow. Oth er cities have their own smaller stations but only' Radio Moscow is heard all over the Soviet Union. In some places, it is almost impos sible to get aw'ay' from its voice. TLe Casual Oljserveir scraper, situated in the Lenin hills just outside the city, w'as opened last fall. It w'as built at a time w'hen apartments and other new buildings w'ere badly needed. Classroom and lecture halls seemed adequate. 'Fhe library has individual study desks and a good supply of American technical of the students are w'ornen. There are 12 faculties or de partments at Moscow' University —mostly in the sciences. All cour ses run for five years, w'ith an ad ditional three years required for the first graduate degree. The Soviet students begin college with only 10 y'ears of previous school ing. Once admitted, almost all Russian students go on complete scholarships. In return, they must serve for three y'ears at whatever job the government assigns them. Emphasis On Research The emphasis on research goes back into the high schools, too. A Kiev middle school (high school) principal told us the compulsory course (for a tenth year student) consists of Algebra, geometry', trig onometry, chemistry, phy'sics, psy'- chology, astronomy, logic, a choice of foreign language, phy'sical cul ture, Russian, and Ukranian. Though compulsory for ten y'ears, education is not free during the last three. Tuition in Kiev is about $50 a year. Four-page new'spapers w'ith al most no advertising, no comic strips, and w'ith daily front page editorials are the rule in Russia. 1 hey are issued once a day, and It has been said that it is ui fortunate that death and taxes d not come in that order. The ma W'ho said this had undoubtedi never heard of burial tax. B should have know'ii that there a tax on practically everything. 1 it doesn’t have a tax on it, it probably illegal. Take a billfold, for instanc The price-tag on that little harK tooled job reads $5.00. By igno ing the student center for si weeks you can just manage it. ^ y'ou hand the salesgirl your la cent, only to hear her coo sw'ce ly, “That will be six dollat please. Luxury tax, you know.” But the one that hits hardf where it hurts most is . . . incofl tax. And since the fatal Ides ' March (March 15, to you) a only tw'O day's off, perhaps it w'oul be W'ell to take a closer look at tl distinctively American custom. Income tax is a sy'stem w'herel the government takes money fro the people and spends it to flf out w'hat the money they to( from the people last year w'as spd for. This is called a congressioo investigation, and is followed 1 an investigation of the investig tion, all of which takes a lot of t! monev. ed SCO SCO ■per w COl sta: poi Ui Cor ave pi a 241 goa left 14. tici I Of course y'ou don’t have to p' income tax. If you’d rather, can spend several years in the ca of the federal government, housi in a small, rather bare room w'i bars on the windows. Otherw'i^ you or whoever pays your grocC bill, must sit down with pencil af paper every March 15 and try make your rich LUicle Sam belR you are all virtual paupers. (It interesting to note that JuB Caesar w'as murdered on that da' probably by an irate taxpaver.) Children are good for very' things, but w'hen it comes to space on the tax form marked “P duction,” the more the merrier. 1 how'ever, you are one of those nO deductable types w'ho makes naff than $600 a year, you had befl stay out of sight when Dad sta wrestling w'ith that tax form. There is one other w'ay' oi) Move to Russia. The Russia have no income tax. No income- 26: 10-i rec( poii a ; yea gan I 235 47 He I boa hitt thn Lis I 37] 14 aver Poii 1 Poir tota goal II poir poir goal ■creel , J buci field -2 p V 3ge 4 f, acti( B oiie age. Last Of Laurel Gone To Press The 1954 Laurel has gone ^ press! The last picture and ^ final page of copy have been tuf ed over to the publishing comp^f and proofs are being received read daily. The finished annual expected to arrive sometime in e* ly May.. Much hard work has gone i’’ the composition of the Laid The co-editors. Bob Coley Skeeter McCauley, and the staff wish to express their appf^ ation for the kindness, patieJf' and understanding shown by * faculty and student body. Loudspeakers on every ner blare forth its progr the time it goes on the : 7 a. m., til it goes off p. m. and P'eb gam field his { gam. free ^ pc Jc aver play, goal; Poiri] R: m h aver; Tl 1433 ^ge. ■vvith i^iclu cmpt 1288 per g T Jc , of Hail,
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