Newspapers / Mars Hill University Student … / May 9, 1959, edition 1 / Page 2
Part of Mars Hill University Student Newspaper / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
Pag* Two THE HILLTOP. MARS HILL COLLEGE, MARS HILL. N. C. Advanced Responsibility Qinl WU, Melodtf' The Student Council of the college is now in its third year of ex istence. Being quite a young organization, relatively speaking, the Student Council has shown great advancement from its founding, and more is promised. The powers of the Student Council lie between those of the House Councils and the Executive Committee, yet the powers and functions of both of the lower two bodies are being broadened as the members, students, are continually proving capable of handling the responsibility allotted to them. It is only as of this semester that the Student Council has had the authority to give permanent demerits, and with the coming of this authority the power to give temporary demerits has passed away with the replacement of such by a greater authority. Another change as of this semester is that types of cases formerly handled only by the Executive Committee are now being handled by Student Council. The cases referred to are more serious infractions, often involving “unwritten” law. Offenders had much rather be punished by a body of students rather than of faculty, for they usually feel that their position will be better understood by other students. From the opposite viewpoint, students on the Student Council realize that they must prove themselves capable of handling the responsibility allotted to them. The cloak of paternism that traditionally has pervaded Mars Hill campus is slowly being lightened by the rising to positions of respon sibility and leadership of students. This action, in itself, is an indication of the coming into the hands of students of greater burdens of con ducting campus affairs. Lack Of Enthusiasm Any institution of merit will necessarily have people who adhere^ to its precepts, or else it could not continue to exist as a worthy entity. This “principle” may also be viewed as applicable to an institution such as a college, particularly. Mars Hill College. Those of us who are students are often, and lamentably so, seemingly indifferent as to the record of achievements of those of our institution. This fault is exemplified in a lack of enough desirable school spirit. Could you, upon being asked, quote the won-lost record of the Mars Hill baseball team, or the results of the latest track, golf, or tennis competition ? This attitude is not only evident in athledc achievements, but in other fields of inter-collegiate endeavor and exhibition. A student is one who studies, and supposedly, learns. The learning process on the collegiate scene should be flavored with the activities that are offered by that particular college. Though one certainly can not participate in every activity, even as much as some may try, one should be a student of the affairs of his campus. Psychologists say that an athlete will be in a better frame of mind when he knows that he and his team are actively being supported by a group of fans. Several Mars Hill athletes in various fields have com plained that students don’t seem even to care about the success or failure of the athletic teams representing their college. This is evident to the athletes through the low level of attendance at athletic contests and the lack of enthusiasm in evidence at pep rallies. Campus conversa tion does not indicate a rabid loyalty on the part of students either. Students, you are all representatives of your college, and will con tinue to be as it becomes your alma mater. As representatives, do your best to perform the functions of such, and be informed about and loyal to your college. A Short Story by David Wood The whole town of Bear Lake agreed that Melody was a strange girl. Even though her parents, who were respected by every man and woman of the community, had tried to make her normal, she con tinued to amaze the townfolk with her actions. Heaven knows how her parents tried. They sent her off to Miss Pinkleton’s School for Young La dies, by far the best school in the state, but she daydreamed all through the winter and had ab solutely no respect for her devoted school teachers, who were, after all, only trying to make of her a young lady of the wealth and social position of her parents. But the very worst came with spring. Melody revolted, and in stead of going to her posture class, she would invariably go walking down by the lake, or along the path which led through the garden. Of course at the end of the se mester Miss Pinkleton just had to write Melody’s parents, regretting ‘that we cannot allow Melody to return to us next semester.” Mel ody’s mother thought it was quite an insult, and certainly a disgrace on the whole family, but Melody’s father was not at all surprised, and even seemed just a little pleased. Of course, instead of allowing Melody to stay home that summer, and further disgrace her family. Melody’s mother sent her to camp. She took very great care in select ing a camp which proudly adver tised their ability to handle prob lem children, for Melody’s moth er now realized that she was def initely a problem. But in less than two weeks. Melody returned, with a note from the Camp Director. “We have taken the liberty of pay ing your daughter’s train fare home. Her problem is beyond our help.” So Melody was left with the remainder of that summer to do as she pleased, and she pleased to walk through the beautiful Civic Gardens, which the people of Bear Lake had willingly dedicated to the nature lovers passing through their little town in hopes that while they were enjoying the Gar dens, they would eat in Bear Lake’s restaurants, and buy gas at their service stations, and in gen eral be a benefit to the town’s PLAIN LIVING AND HIGH THINKING Published by the Students of Mars Hill College (The Hilltop vIKg Second-Class mail privileges authorized at Mars Hill, N. C., February 20, 1926. Published semi-monthly during the college year. **PRESS^^ Volume XXXin May 9. 1959 Number 14 STAFF Editor-in-Chief Carpi Ann Lawton Associate Editor Claiborne Hopkins Sports Editor Ji'ri Taylor Girls Sports Mildred Ketner Advertising Manager Ronald Searcy Assistant Claude Royall Circulation Manager Janice Arnold Assistant Tom Gattis Adviser Miss Collie Garner CONTRIBUTORS Carol Lankford, Sybil Whisnant, Ron Denton, Linda Simmons, Tom Croom, Linda Sherwood, and Joan Blythe. economy. to And young Melody also pleased plant a small garden of her own in a little tract of dirt in the back yard, which her parents glad ly donated in hopes that it would keep her out of trouble. This seemed to be the very thing they had been searching for, because Melody fitted in perfectly among her flowers. Her flowing blonde hair shown brighter than the beautiful plants, and her cheeks seemed to take their color from the roses which grew at both sides of her garden. Her little thirteen-year-old body seemed to soak up every ray of sun, and she grew every hit as fast as her flowers. dead. In another week, the odor was almost unbearable and had even reached the house. When Melody was questioned, she knew nothing about it, or at least seemed not to. It was only two days later when Melody’s mother found the answer to the mystery. She was hastily finishing up the dishes which the maid had left in favor of bed-mak ing, when she glanced out the win dow and noticed a small dog ex perimentally poking a paw into Melody’s irises. She was about to walk out and shoo the dog away when she saw a small figure sneak out from be hind a bush and tiptoe up behind the dog. Before she could yell. Melody had brought an axe down hard on the little dog’s head, split ting it in two. “Oh, what to do, what to do.” thought Melody’s mother in the hour before Melody’s father had come home. Of course she had sent Melody to her room, but it was best for her father to punish her. Her father, upon learning of Melody’s strange actions, had only looked distressed and said, “We must find out whom the dog be longed to, and pay for it.” So Melody was left in her room that night, and no one called her for supper, nor did anyone bother to go up and talk to her until the next morning when Melody’s moth er called her for breakfast. When she didn’t receive an answer she went up to get Melody, with all sorts of severe discipline running through her mind, since Melody had made her wait for breakfast. She was very surprised to find Melody hanging from the hook on her closet door, with a beautiful rose clutched in her lifeless little hand. She ran downstairs scream ing to Melody’s father, but when she told him, he only sat down and looked rather pleased at being rid of such a problem. Libranj News The student Library assistant for April is Patricia Webster, a freshman from Bonlee, who works at the Reserve desk. She is con sidering Librarianship as a career. The library statistics for April was 12,389. Have you seen the display in the lobby this week? It is gifts by students and former students of Mars Hill. Do 5mu have some thing to add to this collection? We need curios, objects, books, pictures, miniatures, and other items of interest, from our country and from around the world. These last days of the school year are valuable! Your fellow- students will greatly appreciate your cooperation in the library — for many grades are at stake, prob ably yours. Everj'thing was perfect until one morning Melody’s mother found two dead birds in the back yard. Of course she thought noth ing of it until several days later when she discovered that the back yard did not smell at all like flowers, but rather like something By June McCoy Well, winter has finally its deep freeze and May with its beauty and excite® Have you noticed the j* of our girls on campus? a sneaking suspicion ,, not just the blossoming or love, but sunburn. T poor, miserable creatures vP( our sympathy: I think that I shall never sW Out in the sun for half a “^5^' Two hours is quite enough As anyone can plainly see. I thought there never found cou A time when down— I refused But the rays burst of the sun Upon the worst. place that hurst Tennyson Revision Dr. Pierce firmly told her omore English class that s agrees with Tennyson’s man s SI words that a young , “lightly turns to thoughts o,. in the spring.” She is ‘^^aw a bea that it should be "StronfH to thoughts of love.” Many of the lasses on r® are not so optimistic abn matter. One unlucky girl r® that she will be so old gets married, instead of tb i»i rice, the guests will thm'*' min pills. title Someone suggests a neW a temperance paper: “As so shall you reek.” Dr- offers this one; “I was a r i juice addict. Signed, Tar* bi biggest sports e off this afternoc 'osts the annual jbd field meet, eight teams co fence champion and enjoyable be high, for Ma bions do win, it ‘e formation of '0| one of those be 'y outstanding at leRae will boast who is a heav; 440 man, wh Mars Hill wi Or first place 1 pick for the fiv the 100 and true that Mars meets prior so fo V' the locals wir they should cop 0 Vault, shot pu ^ Up several poi: .'’'t expect it to I last note on th ?f the affair. If tl ®nday, grab the ; Ibu meet the co Welcome and i is the best WC Secret AmbitioB® to If you really want what is on your mind, course in psychology. Ono ^ of the class has already signs of a secret ambition bartender; another, a Verj" interesting! I® to 5l ''S sports in geni jrong possibility '"bships this spr Well, our ten I ^d it appears u dohnny Jordan, Spring for Cot Presenting an even mof* jj problem than poetry fact that everyone is fir'd' ^ summer clothes years ;l)i linksmen to fi Is should take ti aday. ,*'fack team has 1 "Wn streaks of ^ , .*^frent conferen T) is 4-5. Cat for her. It has been f'ber Paul'wHit sal® there are two hundred girls on campus — these af® figures, of course! Did you know that a law against excessive the streets in Helena, M { We certainly are glad * law didn’t apply to a ball game when a distufb^^ the bench caused so much the game almost stopped R eaier Sugge.sts Improvements this lack of nationalism to be a flag pole in front o' ^ Hall, from which a flaS ^ (lUsh. seen flying. Also, it gvC! 1 i0i A reader lately suggested that a sufficient spirit of nationalism is lacking on the Mars Hill cam pus. The question was proposed as to whether this is due to gen eral indifference on the part of students or to lack of action on the part of the administration. The most obvious evidence of tassy ‘bib: ers. Branch, the Tel ''terary society tioned that the national is never sung in chapel lege alma mater is sung only enough for a student that it exists. i® believed if the tou could been observed a ris'd»,(i) j ® , and national spirit. T^ 'n -gul_ar be a definite asset to tni^ If changes were made^ matters, it is yet one of tl Lions will d y\i at the track Murals ^ Clubs: 1959 mtramur bs gotten into floored the spring rainy we Yearns are ente 4J:bich is directec Fielding Bombers, .f^ish states tha be played if t
Mars Hill University Student Newspaper
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
May 9, 1959, edition 1
2
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75