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THE HILLTOP. MARS HILL COLLEGE, MARS HILL. N. C.
November 23, ®niber
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What Price Truth ?
Malignant Talk Is
No Party Game
Q*Ke Rilllop
Box 486-T. Mars HilL N. C.
Second-class postage paid at Mars
Hill, N. C. Published 16 times dur
ing the college year.
Volume XXXVin Nov. 23, 1963 Number 6
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
Now is the time to search for truth and knowl
edge. It is on unending, life-long search. The
worlds within, and the world without, abound
with new ideas and new relationships waiting
to be known and understood.
If we wont old knowledge, it is stored in books
of which the library teems. If we are content
with old knowledge, we con continue to believe
tne things we hove been learning and telling
ourselves all these years. Strange, how repeti
tion reinforces plausibility.
it we wont new knowledge, we must question
the old answers and old truths and bring them
up to dote in light of current life and current
experiences. The quest for new knowledge and
truin is a bold and exciting adventure that only
the strong and courageous willingly undertake,
racing the truth about life and ouselves takes
courage that few men possess.
Old truths are like old shoes; they ore com-
fortaPle, seem irreplaceable. But time brings the
need for new truths and we must accept them,
as new shoes, even though they may hurt a
great deal at first.
You hove been told that there ore universal
truths; and maybe there ore. How do you know
when you have found one? This is like saying,
"This is it! You need look no further." We should
never limit ourselves; especially in the sphere
of truth.
It takes courage to travel the imtread paths
to knowledge. Your worst enemy will be that
part of yourself that clings to the pleasant se
curity of dear and familiar half-truths.
Now is the time to enter the realm of creative
thinking . . . treading the paths unseen onfl un
touched by others. It has been said, "You shall
know the truth, and the truth shall moke you
free.' There is a price for freedom and a price
for truth. You will find that it is worth every cent.
—Robert H. West
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Have you ever played the party gome called
Gossip? It is a simple game in which the par
ticipants sit around the room and a simple sen
tence is whispered around the group. When it
returns to the originator, he soys it aloud and
then states the original sentence. The object of
the gome is to see how distorted the sentence
gets. For instance, the sentence could begin as:
"Mary has a silly giggle," and could end up as,
"Harry eats rotten figs."
The example is extreme, but it will do. The
operating principle has a serious significance in
real life. This con mean hurt feelings or even
broken friendships.
Campus gossip is on especially dangerous
problem. Students live in a closely knit situation
which affords many opportunities for loose talk.
When the books are put aside, talk begins; and
for some reason, others always enter the conver
sation. Quite often the volume of words is in in
verse proportion to depth and accuracy of in
formation.
The problem is obvious. To ovoid responsibil
ity for it is to keep a closed mouth or to say only
what can be backed up with facts.
Malignant talk is like cancer — unknown of
origin and painful of consequence.
—Creek Pebbles
Two momentous milestones have
been reached. The importance of
these cannot be apathetically ac
cepted. An obvious first is the at
tainment of senior college status.
Constituting a vital part of the
success of Mars Hill as a senior
college is the second achievement,
the formation of the Student
Government Association.
There are two roads along
which Mars Hill may travel in fu
ture years. The choice as to which
one we will follow must by neces
sity be made now, at our begin
ning. We could, along the first
road, go on to become an insti
tution renowned for its standards
of learning and for the atmo
sphere of integrity and responsi
bility created by the students.
This step must be initiated by to
day’s students, for a college is
what its students make it.
In order for us to attain our
ultimate goals, we must have con
sistently enforced standards at
Mars Hill. This requires not only
Paper & oCament
Published by the Students of Mars Hill College
STAFF
Editor-in-Chief Mary Mattison
Associate Editor Sally Osborne
Sports Editor Bill Deans
Circulation Manager Ken Huneycutt
Assistant Jim Daughtry
Religion Reporter Martha Penley
Rej)orters Sue Hatfield, Faye Shaw,
Dolly Lavery, Bessie Cline,
Steve Spain
Typists Judy Hill, Rebecca Gurley
Faculty Advisor Walter Smith
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 pa
per 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 others’ pa
pers.
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!!!
SaJ St
Thanksliving Is ist
Important Too! bs(
Four, three, two, one — home again, b
hat th
again!! Thanksgiving and the joy of
home is foremost in the minds of each of
this paper goes to press and is read. Gej^
away from the grind of classwork and the (jjy
pus for a few days will do us all a lot of
It's been a long time since we arrived in ^
tember. Much has been done or not dons .
the case might be. Teachers ore remindini^jjggjyj'
of past-due parallel and papers that should
been done earlier. Pressures of activities
day?
enforcement by the faculty, but
also a purposeful involvement on
the part of each individual stu
dent. For these students to feel
this responsibility they must have
a decisive part in forming the
standard by which they are ex
pected to abide. The student gov
ernment provides just such an op
portunity, if students are permit
ted to exercise this entrusted
late hours of study are finally catching up
adding up to the fact that we need a vacd^ ^
iks for
The HILLTOP staff wishes to soy "thcmksings c
each club reporter and faculty member whoaksgivi;
contributed to the newspaper thus for. Esped621 b;
is a word of appreciation due to our faithfuhouth
visor who works diligently to help put the pibered
together. The staff also wishes to scry thcmlPksgivi:
the administration and others who make-^l lega
work possible. his da
Thanksgiving is sometimes spoken of®^
"Thanksliving." Most of us will eat hearty ih j
cooked at home and enjoy being with our
ilies. Some of us will experience the absenr*””®’^®
a loved one for the first time. "Thanksliving ®
the awareness of what we hove to be
for each day. Ours is a rich heritage (as J
reminded each chapel period), and we ougi
be thankful for it. We should be thankful fol
privilege of living at this time of Thonksgn ^
Over the tables laden with food and during4.4.4..i,.i
hours of relaxation, may each of us be fre
aware of our opportunity here on "the hiir'K.ggr
come back more dedicated to the rough t ^
ahead as we plan those papers and prepaP Lqc
exams.
From your newspaper staff — a hearty/J A '
wholesome Thanksgiving time wherever yd
and whatever you do!! HC
—Mary Mottish
power.
From the student government
could evolve an honor system,
whereby the entire student body,
rather than only those students
holding positions in the student
government, would feel free and
even obligated to uphold the
standards of the college. If we
fail to realize these objectives,
we automatically choose the other
road, one of lost ideals and ob
scurity.
We as students can continue to
plod complacently through our
campus life, disregarding the fact
that we are the only ones who
can make this choice; or we can
make a determined and conscien
tious effort to prove that we are
mature enough to merit this con
fidence from the faculty.
If you have considered this let
ter a joke, you have not read into
it its true purpose. We are not
“rebel rousers,” but students vi
tally concerned for the future
reputation of our college. We
would encourage those who are in
terested to talk with us for a bet
ter understanding of our purpose.
—Dolly Lavery
—Ellen Havens
Lo
Mars
Is Thanksgiving
For Nov. 28 Onlf^
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He read the textbook.
He studied the notes.
He outlined both.
Then he summarized his outline.
Then he outlined his summary on
3x5 cards.
Then he reduced the card outline
to one single card.
Boiled the card down to one sen
tence.
Boiled the sentence down to a
phrase.
Boiled the phrase down to a word.
Entered the exam.
Analyzed the question.
And then, forgot the word.
Thanksgiving is the smell of fall in the
it is the time of year when trees look os i
artist had spilled his many colors and each
received its own brilliant shade; it is the se
when the cold nips the sea of noses protn)
between caps and scarves; it is a time of
ing and plenty; it is the call to families to
together at reunions and eat imtil they con
no more; it is the smell of a turkey roosting
sizzling in the oven; it is the warm, fragrant s
of rice and gravy and all the trimmings so
essary for a Thanksgiving dinner; it is
which inspires families to come to chur04''l-'i>+.
thank God for another good year; it is
abounding of love and good-will in the N Q (
of young and old; it is the pealing of church I
and the world-wide chant of "thank-you, *Beacl
for this blessed day!" Come
Now Stop! Think! What is it like the day' Dec
Thanksgiving? Duel
Everyone gripes beccmse he ate too
favorite skirt won't fit due to a few excess po'
which were added the dcry before; the we^
seems too cold; the house is dirty from to
bottom; the dishes are still in the sink bed
everyone was just too tired to deem up buZif!
going to bed; the whole family is off sch^'*"*”!.^..
because they went to church the dcry befor®
house is in a turmoil cmd everyone is comp
ing about one trifling thing or another;
mouths cmd hearts which whispered wor^>
themks cmd love the day before are now seP
ing cmd shouting out of selfishness cmd hd
Everyone seems to have forgotten that Th^
giving was just the day before cmd all too'
things are back in the same old "grind."
Are hearts pure that beat "themk-you"
cmd pump out selfishness tomorrow? Are
truthful that whisper gratitude todcry cmd ‘
plain tomorrow? Are Christiems sincere ^
they let the festivities of the day of Thctnl®
ing absorb their good-will?
No! Themksgiving is not a dcry. It is etP
tude which daily expresses itself in praise
gratitude to Him, Who is the giver of all tl’
good cmd true.
-Adapted