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Page Two THE HILLTOP. MARS HILL COLLEGE, MARS HILL. N. C. April 7, 19S! April 7. 1 Exodus Just Around The Next Corner Hardly four million seconds are left until the exodus of Mars Hill students for “greener pas tures.” These four million seconds cover a span of 69,000 minutes, 1,152 hours, or 48 days. To make these statistics sound less burdensome, may be it would be wiser to consider that since the beginning of tliis collegiate year, we have tra versed through 18,316,800 seconds, 305,280 min utes, 5,088 hours, 212 days, 7 months. If this still sounds like vacation is an eternity away, con sider that Mars Hill has been in existence for 3,- 336,336,000 seconds, 55,605,600 minutes, 926,760 hours. j .yri Actually, 48 days is not really too bad. For the average student this will include but 20 tests, 864 more classes, 288 hours sleep. With a little luck this may also include 110 meals. If the aver age student takes 20 minutes to eat, and it takes 7 seconds for each bite of food to reach the stom ach, we have but 19,800 more bites of food. True, this sounds like every Mars Hill student spends most of his time eating, but we realists realize the absurdity of this, don’t we? With the end of die school year so fast ap proaching we would like to take this opportunity to make a few prophecies: Next year forsees an increased enrollment of 200 students with more girls and less boys. Also on the probable agenda is more pizza for dinner and an increase in the price of the juke box from a nickle to a dime. Within the next five years Mars Hill will have upwards of 1,500 students, smoking for girls, an improved athletic field, service fraternities. In ten years the outlook calls for a bowling alley, new dorms and a new gymnasium (which is more of a necessity than a probability), a radio station, off-campus dancing, and a doubling of the pres ent enrollment. In the far-off future it ajjpears Mars Hill Col lege will be Mars Hill University, with greater social freedoms, more liberal principles, and a member of the Big Ten. These prophecies are not out-of-bounds, since we have the money, the ability, the background, the room for expansion, and the materials to do it with. All we will need is a leader. —WNW About Auto Brakes True or false? 1. Your emergency brake is quite as effective as your floor brake? 2. The linings on all your brakes usually wear out at the same time? 3. If your brakes fail, pumping the pedal will never do any good? All these statements are falsel But, unfortunately, many drivers are unaware of their misconception about brakes, and still more don’t have proper braking habits. How about you? Published by the Students of Mars Hill College TKe Hilltop Box 486-T. Mars HilL N. C. Second-Class postage paid at Mars Hill, N. C. Published semi-monthly during the college year. Volume XXXVI April 7. 1962 Number 12 STAFF Editor ’N Chief Walt Whittaker Advertising Gary Murdock, Franklin Calhoun Circulation Ken Hunneycut, Roy Bower News Editor Jon Rountree Editorial Page Dick Ergenbrlght Feature Editor Mary Horton Sports Editor John Baskin Reporters Marietta Atkins, Janice Eiland, Mimi Jones, Mary Sue Mclntire, John Grier, Cynthia Vann, Jerry Grant, Thelma Taylor, Audrey Bunce, Tina Stokes, Nancy Hannah, John Reagan, Jacquie Moore Proofreaders Pat Phelps, Darinda Camp Typist Jo Wells Faculty Advisor Walter Smith tjttLE man on CAMPUS m)). — CHfM lAB J ? O, J?-/Z "—Themuvs r ims —why;lm?uo ic^a he, WA6 5EK10LI6 AKXlT THAT ^LLV CCMCOC^OdJ' JdettenA ^0- Cdiio^.... I would like to cross a few points with Mr. Whittaker con cerning some points in his edi torial, “Lines Cross Eventually.” There may be a transition in Russia towards capitalism, but it far from “obvious” to the Russian citizen. State-manufactured goods f"om shoes to TV sets are shoddy work. Russian consumer demand is consequently supplied better by the “Chastniki” than it is by state stores. “Chastniki,” a group de voted to obtaining high quality Czech shoes, Polish men’s wear, Chinese silk, and all other avail able foreign items, is implemented by flourishing spectacular’s activi ties that involve almost any group from Soviet sailors to high party officials — anyone who can pick up salable items (even American dollars) on his little visit overseas. However, all these activities are illegal. The individual speculator does not flourish — far from it! Laws harshly consider all such private enterprises illegal. True paternalism, or socialism, is like creeping itch — but, oddly enough, the good paternalistic doc tor cures you by passing even more rules and regulations limiting the legal definition of itch. When the itch persists illegally, it is dis missed with great brevity and with one grand cure: don’t scratch. “A dictatorial president” . . . “a three-man elected consulate” . .. such proposals are doubtless highly idealistic, but they would never solve the problem of those dirty, ol’ mean, ol’ nasty politics. Poli tics, by its very nature essentnially a compromise between polar diver gent zealots — a compromise that generally promotes a certain sta bility for the mass, incidentally— would not be purged of its grime by placing absolute power in the hands of a few. Politicians have never been especially doted for Godly qualities in sufficient quan tity for such a Godly assumption of rule over the lives of men. No, under such a system, the self-interests of the few would in crease as their powers increased. Nor would abuse of the common people decrease as the number of those self-interested leaders de creased — rather, the contrary. Regime after regime would topple j^aper cjCament Getting this paper out is no picnic. If we print jokes people say we are silly; If we don’t they say we are too serious. If we stick close to the office all day. We ought to be around hunting material. If we go out and hustle, We ought to be on the job in the office. If we don’t print contributions We don’t appreciate them; And if we do print them the paper is sometimes filled with them. If we edit the other fellow’s write up we’re too critical; If we don’t we’re asleep. If we clip things from other papers We are too lazy to write them ourselves. If we don’t we are stuck on our own stuff. Now, like as not, some guy will say We swiped this from some other paper. WE DID!!! Dominated Males Cafe Need Amendment WitI Reprint from Brevard College Clarion By The 66th Congress, back in 1920, passed tb' Shennanc 29th Amendment, which gave women the rigb “ddge is a to vote. The truth is, the girls didn’t need ao' b)one in ^ special help; they were doing all right by theJ^ ^ ^liree-dim selves — and still are. ‘^ars In fact, 42 years later, the men are the on® Hunter^ th who ought to be cr^'ing for special freedom-gj' ^ finely ch ing legislation. They are the ones in the i" In Mrs j ferior position. form the bi These dominated males usually come in th:^ ^nd categories: husbands (dominated by wives); Pebbles gro, (dominated by mothers); and daters (dominate' besijg ^ by the girls they date). Females under the age®' trees rooted 1.3 are omitted since they have not normally Mory their how-to-handle-a-male training yet. "olof Husbands, of course, are in the greatest net' made of s^ri of help. But since they have lived a set patted at he^ for so long, they are usually beyond aid. A®' ^ the son has only to cut the apron strings a®' blej^ stones' run away to college to extricate himself, so ber hands* w'on’t concern ourselves with him. ,, 'links, j-q’ So the daters, then, are the ones that we "'aterf’alig°^| concentrate on, and, with the aid of the pot^®' ^nd ’ that be, maybe some day convince Congress th’ more legislation is needed. p Wor The male dater resembles a kind of serf f®®’! - • the feudal system of the Middle Ages, and tf; IS e female a type of lord in a system that makes t® d th jop middle age feudalism look like pure democracf' glue Pecorc just n sketcl Under the present system of dating, girls sei-, ■ ■ ri-' ‘ 't Witl as the leaders fought among them selves, while treachery and intrigue grew vicious as lean and hungry tigers and corruption paraded blat ant before the helpless bowed. No, politics was born amoral, and there are those of us who love it — love it with all our ink- stained hands, our own lily-white aspirations, and our half-wary, half-trusting souls. We will keep it in our hands, and not relinquish it into the hands of the faithless few, thank you. Concerning federal price limits on private industry — well, as the old saying goes, you can’t fight an octopus with an octopus. All you get is one big tangle. As for newspapers tendency to play up failures more than accom plishments, it is their own respon sibility to ignore failures. They do, however, .spotlight notable ac complishments when these occur. How about Glenn’s flight? In the meantime — oh, what fun it is to hear Liz and Eddie are breaking up! —Marietta Atkins to be supplied tvith a built-in helplessness .r,t. helplessness that closely links them to the blijl tipy*’ lig man on the corner, who is working on his seco^ Points minion. "* he. On dates, a girl is at her helpless best it always gets results. There are some girls good tussle; and yet, when'they’re out dopyV'ke can outrebound Wilt Chamberlain, outshoot ^ (I Cousy, and probably give Floyd Patterson a abl'!!^'' said male, these same girls have trouble finding handle on a car door. . ^ This is not a condemnation of society, but a record for the next 66th Congress to reR® when making its next legislation. beli, eve 'vhen at;> ^°®’IIsh { - add( Hu Collegians Die In view of the rash of accidents in which Art „ lege students and other young people across ^ — _ , . . I.,', hi meditate on why some are spared and others ■ iv-g.- aiiu (Jiiici yuuiig people ■, nation have been killed recently we pause to» thanks for our safety during the holidays ai®‘ The Asheville Citizen of Monday, hla®- carrie^a front-page story about two Appala^jj^ * NliJ Mtk"'’' uni ler; *®UUsua Puate State Teachers College students who were jers" in a wreck near Morganton. Four other p® were injured. j The students were returning to the camp®** ter a weekend at home. j! Sunday’s Citizen-Times carried a story wreck at Manning, S. C., involving college dents, in which a coed lost both legs and ® other persons were injured. ^ii: Hardly had the chill disappeared fr®*®*®.,^ spine when we picked up the Monday (Apr. 2) and read the headline, “5 Coeds f Duke Killed in Florida 3-Way Smashup.” Footnoted to the story were two shorte® jj[, telling of a head-on crash at Modesto, hdv which killed six young men, ages 16-21, crash near Marshall, Tex., in which four y®*'' ages 21-23, were killed. College Has Valut Reprinted from the Daily Tar Heel ^ ^ Today there is almost universal app®®®'^^jjttl‘ the value of a college education. Here i* ^ story that proves the point: ■a*'', After the college boy delivered the teleg®^^j5ii> the estate-owner, the man said: “What’s tl®^ tip for you messenger boys?” , , ;(*f “Well,” replied the youth, "this is my here, but the other guys said that if I gc® out of you. I’m doing great.” “Is that sol” snorted the man. “VVell’ y to show them how wrong they are, here s lar.” . / “Thanks,” replied the boy, “I’ll put tl®'* my special school fund.” ^ “What are you studying?” asked the ®®®^ The lad smiled. “Psychology.” %
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