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Page Two THE HILLTOP. MARS HILL COLLEGE, MARS HILL, N. C. November 6, 196i November Students-Faculty Relations Improve Campus cynics may deny it but there is some progress being made in bringing about closer relationships between students and faculty mem bers. Some discussion of the subject has been aired at recent SGA meetings. One proposal advanced as a partial solution to the problem was for the establishment of a non-profit coffee house in the community where faculty and students can meet in formal conversations. One committee of the faculty currently en gaged in the institutional self-study leading to ward accreditation has discussed the subject. In other areas there is at least a recognition that there is need for and ought to be a closer relationship between students and faculty mem bers. The problem, brought on by increase in size of the student body and the faculty and by changing social patterns, is not an easy one to solve; however, it must be solved to at least a degree of success if Mars Hill is to be a Christian college. Hard-pressed by paucity of funds to keep up with publicly-supported or heavily-endowed private institutions. Mars Hill and other colleges like it hove to improve and emphasize those qualities which distinguish them from secular institutions. What ore these qualities? Christian atmos phere, high moral standards, religious environ- ment-^all them what you will, but they all seem to hinge upon the spiritual and academic caliber of the faculty. There cannot be a Christian col lege without a faculty of Christians, and there is some doubt that a faculty could call itself Ctos- which did not communicate its convictions cmd concern to its students. This brings us back to the need for closer relationships between students and faculty mem bers. In former times, when the student body was smaller and social habits were different, students were frequently invited into the homes of faculty members for informal occasions as well as for meetings. Perhaps this is not practi cal now days, but some practical substitutes ore needed. As indicated, this is not an easy problem to solve. It is one which students, faculty mem bers and administrators must face individually and collectively. You Can Help Too! Separation of church and state is currently a topic of frequent discussion across our nation, especially as it relates to public schools; but look what the Republic of Chona in West Africa is doing. Chona, a small nation about the size of Illinois or Oregon, has asked the American Bible Society and the British and Foreign Bible Society to provide half a million copies of the Bible in six languages for use as textbooks in the schools of Chona. Think what a howl of protest such a move would create in the United States. Chona s president, Kwane Nkrumah, is not ignorant of the influence he and other leaders of the dynamic new nation can have on the population of 7,250,- 000, of which 2,250,000 are of school age. They know that the people of Chona, eager to learn to read, will be greatly influenced by the textbooks and other materials they use in learn ing; thus, a sort of double barrel blow can be fired by providing copies of the Scriptures for use as a textbook, the children can learn to read and they can be presented the Christian message at the same time. There is one hitch, however; it's money! Cost of production and delivery of the Bibles will total approximately $514,470. Chona will pay 65 per cent, and the Bible societies will have to bear the other 35 per cent. The American Bible Society's 1965 budget for its work in Chona, although increased 100 per cent over 1964, is already over-spent. Thus, the organization is forced with the task of trying to raise its share through a special campaign of contributions. This is where college students, faculty and staff come in. You can aid this worthy under taking with a contribution—large or small—to the American Bible Society, 450 Park Avenue, Nev/ York, N. Y., 10022. LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS 'Oh. I THINK. fiDlNSTOCOOBSe tS 3REPir~ UP LA^WIgEKyW'^iAlp IP r IP HAVertPTAKE 60t/€ COtgSeV ta editor ... Editor’s note: The following: letter was published recently in the Winston- Salem Journal. A copy was sent to the Hilltop with a request that it be reprinted although Mars Hill College students have not engaged in demon strations expressing opposition to American policy regarding Viet Nam. Dear Sir: “Fellow Americans: My name is David B. Simpson U.S.M.C. I am serving in Viet Nam. “Tonight I was reading a news paper and I read of the demon strators and college students back home. I read where they were raising money to help the Viet Cong. If the people of America only knew what that did to the morale of the men here. “We are in the rainy season now, and after you work in mud ankle deep all day, and stand in chow line to get food that isn’t that good, you often stop and wonder why. “Well, I can tell you why! “The V. C. are Communists and that is the biggest enemy the free world has today. We are over here fighting in this worth less country to keep them off your front lawn. Tonight you may sit down in your nice easy chair and listen to the radio, just turn on any channel and hear nice music or what you want. “Here, we have our own station supported by the armed services. All others are Communists telling us we are going to die. We get so tired of reading of the demon strators back home. “Personally, I believe they are the most ignorant people in the world. To me, they can’t be true Americans; no American would conduct himself in such a man- ree ner. “Tonight take a good look at your children. How would you like for them to grow up under Communist rule? Well, I don’t! I want mine to go to school and the church of_ their choice. As long as I can be sure that my family can live in a free world and my baby sister can attend the college of her choice, then I’ll stay here and fight this war as long as it lasts. “People, I’m 20 years old; I want to come home ... all of us want to, but if you keep the at titude you have now, then all these men have died in vain. We need the moral support of our fellow Americans. You are Americans; never forget that fact; we over here don’t.” If through your window you can see A single tree. Its branches etched against the sky In Winter and, as the days go by. Its soft buds swelling till they burst in leaf In May, with the season brief Of bloom, then the long Summer days Of cooling shade and happy ways. Until October’s red and gold Proclaim the year is growing old— If through your window you can watch One tree all the year, and catch Its beauty as the seasons change. Life will not seem so sad and strange. —Roman Gorski WCC Columnist Raps Mars Hill T Wo Editor’s Note: A rather bitter column of complaint was published in ^*The Western Carolinian” of Oct. 22 under the byline of WCC student Bill Smathers. It is reproduced here for the benefit of Mars Hillians who have not heretofore seen it. Comments should not be addressed to the Hilltop but to the WCC publication at Cullowhee, N. C. Because of events arising from this weekends game with Mors Hill, that college is thinking O' severing relations with Western Carolina. In mi opinion, taken for what it is worth, this coulc only be for the better. Have you ever considered starting a classified advertising section and/or a lost and found column in the Hilltop? It seems to me there must be dozens of students and some faculty mem bers who could utilize the paper to try to sell books, cars and high fi’s or to rent rooms, trailers or houses or even to convey mes sages to friends on the other side of the campus. I know I’ve got several textbooks I’d like to sell plus some short wave radio equip ment. You might even find some stu dents willing to pay modest classi fied advertising rates to solicit rides or riders, and others who would gladly pay to try and get back a pen or a book or perhaps an umbrella they had lost; how ever, I doubt you would have very many persons willing to pay to advertise something they had found. Also, I wonder if the staff has ever considered a column of ad vice to lovers. “Dear Abby” makes good reading whether you’re a lover or not! (Don’t use my name; somebody might think I’m kooky.) Mars Hill is a seat of consistently backwctf moves which have no place in the accelerate^; society of today's world. The fact that the scho® is endowed by a religious sect is immateri® The administrators of that school should devd* more time to the mental development of its sh dents rather than to their moral development. It is escapism from reality to allow studei>!® to smoke only in designated areas, and to sp^ iiy the minimum distance to be kept between ‘ boy and a girL Anyone can walk down o®! street in any city or small town and see tb! such regulations will not work. This is not only a concern of WCC, but of other schools associated with Mors Hill as wel When a school tries to impose its standards up®’ another, even in visiting, then it is time to gi^ serious thought as to the worth of having relij tions with that school. Let Mars Hill keep th®; standards; if we wanted them here, we wouldf have gone here in the first place. We would h^' sought admission to Mars Hill. I hove kno^ many Baptists, but never have I encounter®* such fanatic moralists as I hove in this area- These people seem to be the self-appoint®* moralists of the time. What it actually amouP' to is not regulating their own affairs and leoviP* others alone. For example several years 0^^' some students went to the lake during sumiP* school. During the course of the afternoon tb® drank beer and were seen doing such by an i** portont personage of the local Baptist Stud®’ Union. The person's actions? He immedicrid reported them for drinking. Of what conC®’ was it to him? The students were not tryin? * direct his morality, why should he try to dir®* theirs. Of what significance is this? Simply that *1* same thing has happened again, only this ^ with a different director of morality. Why abandon this moral imposition and adopt policy of live and let live? It is a very siiHr thing to do. 'Do unto others as you would have them ® unto you.'' This simple statement is in esseP*" one of the simplest, yet most profound pb^ Sophies anyone can adopt. Then try not to fo’’! things on other people, things they don't 'Wd’ People will leave you well enough alona^ you leave them alone. Only when you imp’’', upon them will they impose upon you. If 7^ don't report people for drinking and remain ®*^ tent with your own problems, then no one write columns about you. 'There’s Hillians s "ary in them are Hruton, W Hore, Gen( Hen Hune "y Patton, ®tt Thoma ris Wray, Clark. A 1964 a Master University hammer be nary. . Coach F ‘"volved ii Asheville 1 ®tely no their car sively. The frui dance the '’®rsity car ®''nment e Prohobi consider ''ersiiv’. \ Some statistics worth considering; Take *, average American men at age 25 and trace lives. By the time they ore 65, 36 will hove dc 1 will be wealthy, 4 will be well-to-do, 5 will» self-supporting and 54 will be dependent noncially. Published by the Students of Mars Hill Coll^l Q*he Hilltop Box 486-T. Mors HRL N. C. ALL-AMERICAN Second-class postage paid at Mars Hill, N. C. Pub lished 16 times during the college year. ’ Volume XXXX November 6, 1965 STAFF THIS ISSUE Bessie Cline, Caroline Pond, Tracy Heath,. Clarence Young, Sue Siegwarth, Mike Swai^ Circulation Manager Ricke Faculty Advisor Walter
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