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In a March 11 editorial, “Wake Forest: Whipping Boy,” ||
the Old Gold and Black lamented the fact that everybody ||
(read: Baptist State Convention) picks on little ole Wake ||
Forest. The school is cited as “the one institution in North ||
Carolina that Baptists watch, hoping for mistakes or ‘un-
Christian’ conduct.” ||
The paper continued to say that my Feb. 24 marijuana g
editorial created a situation as potentially controversial as the |i.
Wake Forest paper’s beer advertisements in 1963-64. I|
To Wake Forest I would say three things:
1) Sorry, but that’s just the price of being big. It’s a ||
fact of human nature that people are going to look to the ||
big institution first. Wake Forest constantly gets more pub-
licity, not just on controversial matters, but in sports and in if
other fields than Mars Hill. More people are interested in what ^
major schools such as WF do than in what a small school such ^
as Mars Hill does. ||
2) Granted, I realize that Wake Forest, as a result of If
its recently acquired university status, is growing, but Mars ||
Hill is growing in a different way. We were for many years a
peaceful, tradition-minded. Baptist junior college. We are just ||
now coming out of the dark ages in many respects, and do not ||
have a history of controversy. ^
3) There is a considerable time difference of some four |i
years in the WF beer incident and my marijuana editorial, and ||
times change. I feel confident that four years ago I would l|
not have been permitted to run the editorial. If I had run it, 1
I could have probably packed my bags the next day. §
True, Wake may be the whipping boy, but it’s the price ||
that must be paid.
—^jls
Class Officers Are Chosen
the Mars Hili College
hIUtod
VoL XLII, No. 12
MARS HILL. NORTH CAROLINA
March 22. 1968
Night
^earn. Following her were Judy
^•'illips, vice president; Judy
ourgess, secretary; Joan Leich,
j^easurer; and Diane Eubanks, Al-
Lane, Dannie Lunsford, Terry
^rker, and Patrick Webb, sena-
tofs.
For the junior class, Judy
^hschberg will serve as presi-
®*it; Mary Underwood, vice
^ Resident; Melba Smith, secre-
—Helen Kugley, treasurer;
*'*4 Joyce Garland, Betty Smith,
Garland Williams, senators,
‘'ere is still a vacant junior sen-
seat.
The sophomore class offered
*^•>16 competition. Bob Peterson
unopposed for president. In
I ® race for the vice presidency,
J^ke Ellis defeated Deborah
“'^es, 130-51. Myra Smith was
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;ch.
A light turnout affirmed the
*6lection of class officers for the
|968-69 school year. There was
'ttle competition in the races,
^>th none at all in the junior and
*etiior classes.
Running for senior class presi-
jknt for the coming year was Ida
Opposed for secretary, as was
••n Friedell for treasurer. In the
i*0ate race winners were Janet
■ster with 134 votes; Morris
Cox Selects
e Odd Couple
The cast for the final dramatic
Jfoduction of the year. The Odd
l'*0ple, has been announced by
k Charles Cox, director of the
V.
the lead roles of Felix and
i?oar will be David Jones and
, jkkard Dillingham, respectively,
kers in the cast are Teddy Cas-
^ as Speed; Ron Pulliam as
I'^iTay; Steve Dillinger, Roy;
Huls, Vinnie; Gail Atkin-
Gwendolen and Linda Duck
Cecily.
,.The Odd Couple is about two
orced men trying to share an
^i’tment, getting on each others’
^^'’es as they did on their former
/'’es’. The comedy opened on
*'oadway, March 10, 1966, and
^ an immediate smash hit.
The Mars Hill production of
■ play will be given on April
®nd May 11.
White, 97; and Steve Graham, 94.
Johnnie Lamb got 84 votes and
Danny Ray polled 83.
Afars Hill Ranks
Two in Transfers
(From the Raleigh News & Observer,
March 18, 1968.)
by* Gene Marlowe
Approximately 5,300 college
students transferred to North
Carolina senior colleges and uni
versities last fall.
In the 16 public senior institu
tions gains through transfers were
up one per cent while the total
undergraduate enrollment in
creased by 7.5 per cent.
Statistics compiled by the State
Board of Higher Education show
more than one-third of the trans
fers came from out-of-state insti
tutions. The remainder came from
North Carolina colleges — about
half from two-year institutions
and the other half from four-
year colleges.
The big gainer through trans
fers was the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill which
gained 449 students as compared
to a loss of 109 for a net grain of
340.
Campbell College at Buies
Creek was the second high gainer
of transfer students with a net
gain of 97.
On the other hand, the Univer
sity of North Carolina at Greens
boro had the largest net loss of
158—reflecting part of the large
number of women transfers from
UNC-G and other women’s col
leges to the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Mars Hill College ranked sec
ond among the institutions losing
students through transfer with a
net loss of 66.
Many institutions swapped stu
dents in transfers, such as the
North Carolina State University
at Raleigh which lost 35 transfer
students to Chapel Hill in ex
change for 20 former Chapel Hill
students.
Private senior institutions as a
whole lost nearly 200 students to
public senior institutions through
student transfers among all sen
ior institutions in North Carolina
in fall 1967.
Survey On Transfers Taken
by Ed Griffin
After hearing that a large
number of my (sophomore)
class had applied for transfer, I
decided to conduct a survey of
students to determine why they
proposed to leave Mars Hill. Also,
constructive cures for lowering
the number of transfers in the
future have been offered.
Since the college has achieved
its primary goal of accreditation.
Obey Laws or
(ACP)—Aiding young men to
avoid the draft is against the law.
The Rev. Robert Branconnier, a
Catholic chaplain at the Univer
sity of North Dakota, Grand
Forks, says he will disobey the
law in order to obey his con
science.
His action, the Dakota Student
commented in an editorial, is in
the American tradition.
—two hundred years ago, 20
drunken colonists boarded a Brit
ish frigate and dumped her cargo
into the Boston harbor;
—one hundred and ten years
ago, white yankees operated an
“underground railroad” and, in
direct defiance of the Federal
Fugitive Slave Act, helped Negro
slaves to escape to the North,
sometimes to Canada;
—seventy-five years ago, Euro
pean males were leaving their
homelands to escape military con
scription (today, some of us call
them our ancestors);
—five years ago, northern
whites, acting in defiance of the
South’s segregation laws, rode
into Mississippi.
Today we revere them.
To these men certain situations
were so intolerable, certain ac
tions so monstrous, that public op
position was necessary. Some were
fortunate enough to find a new
life; some succeeded in changing
the conditions or laws they op
posed. Others paid with their lives,
with jail, or with ridicule.
Father Branconnier is willing
to take that chance today. He,
with thousands of other Ameri
cans, finds the Vietnam war in
tolerable, the draft laws an
abridgement of freedom.
Unlike most Americans, his con
science will not let him stand in
silence.
Some demonstrators have
broken the law to exercise their
conscience. Some of them have
gone to jail for a democratic so
ciety recognizes the majesty of
the law and the rule of the major
ity.
But a democratic society must
also recognize that the concepts
which foster laws are more
precious than the laws themselves.
When a law contradicts the con
cept which fostered it, a man’s
first allegiance must be to the
concept. That is the principle of
civil disobedience.
A man’s conscience is more
precious than man’s laws.
and permission for federal aid has
been granted. Mars Hill has the
opportunity to embark on a drive
to improve the educational facili
ties. Education is referred to in
the conventional sense of the
word as well as in the equally
important sense of socialization
of the students.
In polling the students who plan
to transfer, a wide variety of
answers was received. They can,
however, be broken down into
two main categories of academic
and social life.
Since actual figures regarding
the number of transfers or po
tential transfers are not obtain
able, I can only approximate the
actual number. Of 94 sophomore
men in the sophomore dorms, 38
have applied for transfer to an
other institution. Several others
indicated a desire to transfer, but
were unable to gain acceptance
into the desired school. Assum
ing similar statistics on girls’ hill,
this represents better than 40 per
cent of the sophomore class.
The majority of transfers do
come out of the sophomore class
for a number of reasons, not the
least of which is the student’s
choice of a major.
Most of the students transfer
ring desired a good education so
that they may be able to obtain
a good job and serve a useful
purpose in society. This group is
composed of the most active and
involved students in the sopho
more class.
This year’s sophomore class is
not unique in this. A look to the
past will reveal that it is an estab
lished trend and not a precedent.
Academic reasons played a ma
jor factor in the decision for
many students to transfer. The
lack of courses being offered in
a number of fields is a principal
complaint.
Some suggestions offered by
the students include: the need for
a psychology department includ
ing courses with labs, more physi
cal sciences such as geology and
astronomy, African history
courses and more Latin American
courses, more sociology, and more
philosophy courses. Generally,
satisfaction was expressed with the
math, religion, music, and Eng
lish departments, while it was felt
that the business, history, and
science departments could use
some changes.
The quality of instruction given
by some members of the faculty
was questioned by some.
Several students offered the
idea that admission requirements
be raised. Quantity should be sac
rificed for quality. Mars Hill
should decide whether it wants to
be an institution for the average
student or for the more knowl-
edgable and enthusisistic student.
There is a vital role for both
types of schools.
Several students considered the
attitudes of fellow students in
their decision to transfer. The
lack of initiative shown by some
is not too desirable for an educa
tional atmosphere. If the college
desires progress, it must consider
the type of students which it ac
cepts.
The weekend “exodus” of stu
dents is familiar to all of us.
There is nothing worthwhile to
do here on the weekend, so stu
dents seek to go “where the ac
tion is.” This lack of activity
is one reason for some trans
ferees. The ability to associate
with people in social situations
is a valuable asset. It is felt that
such social success can better be
obtained at other places.
To relieve this social problem
somewhat, it has been proposed
that Saturday classes be discon
tinued. This would enable stu
dents to leave more often, but it
would help the student become ex
posed to an active society rather
than a stagnant community.
Another solution to this prob
lem is to get better movies, open
the student center more, and in
crease outside entertainment. To
finance this increased activity, it
has been suggested that admission
be charged outsiders and perhaps
even college students.
It has been suggested by sev
eral transfers that the library be
opened more on weekends. If
nothing else, it would be nice to
read magazines on Sunday after
noons. The weekend is an ideal
time for a student to work on a
research paper, but with the li
brary closed that weekend time
is drastically limited, if he wants
to do reference work.
Attitudes developed by condi
tions rather than particular issues
have directed students toward
other schools. The average stu
dent interviewed listed several
reasons for transferring without
offering a major reason unless it
was that the college does not of
fer his major. Mars Hill must
break away from the patterns of
traditionalism and remove the al-
liance-against-progress attitude at
tached to the college.
The above article is a much-
condensed version of the original
article by Mr. Griffin. As it stood
originally, these ideas and sugges
tions were more fully backed, but
could not be carried here due to
lack of space. —Ed.
Student Honored
Danny Ray, freshman history
major from Lake Junaluska, has
been named Southern Teenager
in Service to America. The award
is based on civic activities, gov
ernment involvement, academics,
and chuch activity.
Ray will travel to Washington,
D. C., April 16 to receive his
award from President Johnson.
While there, he will be inter
viewed by a group of distinguish
ed governmental leaders, who will
then choose a National Boy and
Girl Teenager in Service to
America from those interviewed.
The national winners receive a
full scholarship to any college or
university in the United States.