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iber 14, 1968 )RE ALMER s editor I will the Mars Hill 0 you as pos- of the staff happy to co possible with tion so as to verage in all campus, imn I want to 3lcome to the and Shealy many success- / strive to do. ce will start 1 varsity and loaches Wood 11” boys inter- bhe gym at 3 amurals spon- larles Phillips, student dlrec- id Bob Morris, mesters’ activi- football, team leyball and a Activities are and individual sports are for nd individual ents and facul- any questions to see Coach the student di- d by Miss Al- resident Morty oon. All girls ther of these lember of the )n Association, il note, I would nts, organiza- of the campus nural activities ;r participation lompetition and IS. I will help crested, to get intramural de in its activities. )RE if MHG rag Iristvers :e SERVICE, [CATION ars Hill ry 1 -11 pm ERS ^ense” the Mars Hill College hiIItod LITTLE MAN RETURNS PAGE 2 Vol. XLIII, No. 2 MARS HILL, NORTH CAROLINA September 28, 1968 SGA Keeps Steady Pace Encouraged by the work of its Summer Council, the Student Government Association an3 its various subdivisions are off to a good start for the 1968-69 aca demic year. The Honor Code Committee, composed of Chairman Jean Dunn, James Carroll, Smith Good- rum, Diane Eubanks, Dave Smith, Darlene Swisher, Bruce Hart- grove, Allen Lane and Danny Lunsford is in the process of drawing up an academic-social code. Irresponsible actions such as stealing, cheating, and plagiariz ing would be dealt with by the Student Court. It is felt that such an honor code will increase the dignity, respect, and respon sibility of Mars Hill students. The completed draft of the code will have to be approved by the Com mission and the Senate. The Administrative Council ap proved the Commission-Senate recommendations that $4,600 be put into a special fund to be spent for student-chosen enter tainment and administered by the SGA. This money was appropri ated from the $10 paid by each student toward the student activi ty fee. The SGA maintains the right to charge admission to everyone except students. The Activities Committee, headed by Matthew Graham, met with Dr. Bentley recently and discussed various campus activi ties including dances and possible expenditures. The committee is also sponsoring political parties which will represent the national candidates on campus and seek to stimulate interest in their cam paigns. New commission members re cently elected as as follows: Treat Dormitory—president, David At water and vice president. Bill Ponds. Fox Dormitory — presi dent, Lou Farrow. Myers—presi dent, Marty Phillips. Melrose — president and vice president, Jim Mifflin and Mike Whiteside. The Summer Council, with Dr. Page Lee as faculty advisor, was active and productive. Terry Parkes served as president dur ing the first session and Bill Pons, second session. Three committees worked with L. W. Moelchert, college business manager, discussing the Student Center, campus communications equipment and the cafeteria. Mr. Moelchert presented plans for renovation of the Student Center and the bookstore and out lined long-range plans for a cen tral telephone system which will provide more phones for each ormitory and better service. The anticipated system, which will re quire eight or nine months for construction, probably will not be ready for service until the 1969- 70 session. On the light side the first ses sion Summer Council sponsored two picnics and worked with the students of the Upward Bound (Continued on Page 3) Alumna Takes Lead In First Production Candy Coles, Yelton and Ron Pulliam rehearse lines from upcoming performance of “The Fantasticks.** Yes, That Name Is Familiar! Clarence E. Young, editor of the Hilltop, during the 1966-67 school year, is in Clearfield, Utah, undergoing training for a forth coming Peace Corps assignment to Libya; but even at that dis tance from Mars Hill he has an almost constant reminder of his alma mater. The fellow who sleeps in the bunk next to him is named Walter Smith. “I am presently teaching the first grade on a Navajo reserva tion and it’s just like being in another country,” he writes. “I think I have come to know my self a little better here. While I identify with the cosmopolitan group I realize more and more that my place is here in the country where there is silence and fresh air and time to be alone and do nothing. I still believe, though, that life is a pro cess of balancing conflicting ele ments (including the cosmopoli tan-provincial conflict).” , Candy Coles Yelton, Class of ’67, has returned to the campus to play the leading role in the Drama Division’s opening produc tion of the year, THE FAN- TASTICKS. The play, now in its ninth sea son off Broadway, is New York’s longest-running play. The musi cal comedy, co-sponsored by the Department of Music, will be pre sented in the Owen Building on Oct. 9, 10, 11, 12 and 14. All per formances except the one on the 12th will be at 8 p.m. The one on the 12th is a 2:30 p.m. matinee. The Saturday performance will be open only to out-of-town guests, alumni, and a special group from the Upward Bound program which was on campus this past summer. All other per formances are open to the college populace as well as to the general public; but reservations will be necessary since the Owen Building has a limited seating capacity. Reservations, which must be picked up at least 30 minutes be fore curtain time, are available from the Drama Department, lo cated on the ground floor of the Fine Arts Building (telephone 689-4581). Candy will probably be best re membered by Mars Hill theatre goers for her performance in sev eral musical comedies, including Nancy Twinkle in LITTLE MARY SUNSHINE and Cecily in EARN EST IN LOVE. She toured with Political Science Projects Are Humming In this election year it is no surprise that the political science division of our History Depart ment is humming. Under the di rection of Richard Hoffman the division is embarking on some far-reaching programs. The aim is to “make of the students and faculty of Mars Hill College a catalyst for change in this com munity,” according to Mr. Hoff man. The best-known of these pro grams is a new course in com munity development, called Po litical Science 341. The initial year of this novel project is be ing financed by a $22,000 grant from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation of Winston-Salem. The course enables 15 students a semester to work in the com munity. It carries four semester hours of credit. Students spend their first two weeks in the class room discussing urban and rural issues; for the continuation of the semester they go “into the field” to study how various govern mental agencies affect the citi zens of Madison and Buncombe counties. During the second semester these students may work in a concentrated field for two addi tional hours of credit. The students accepted for the initial offering of the course are already hard at work, but appli cations will be accepted in Octo ber for next semester. All that is required, Mr. Hoffman says, “is a thinking student” who has completed both Sociology 221 and Political Science 221. If this project is successful, there may someday be an Insti tute for Community Development at Mars Hill College, Mr. Hoff man believes. The students currently partici pating in the Community Devel opment Course under Mr. Hoff man include Fernando Downs, Lloyd Goodrum, Allan Lane, Gary Reynolds, Cathey Scrota, David Virts and Pat Webb, who are as signed with the Opportunity Cor poration of Madison and Bun combe Counties. Others are Michael Burch, who is with the Metropolitan Planning Council; Ruth Duckett, assigned to the office of Asheville’s new city manager; Ed Griffin, who also is with the Metropolitan Planning Council; Joan Leich, Re development Commission; Judy Phillips, Asheville Housing Au thority; David Smith, Asheville Police Department; and Garland Williams, the Human Relations Council. Late this fall the college will begin a Leadership Training In stitute to develop community leaders in this area. This is an other of the new prog;rams of the political science division. The institute will be led by welfare and health agents and members of the college faculty. Seminars will be open to students and promise to be highly inter esting. As might be expected, the po litical science division will be come quite involved in politics this year. A petition has already been presented to the Student Government Association for per mission to organize a Young Re publicans Club and a Young Democrats Club on the campus. Such clubs have been very ac tive on the campus in years past and could again serve as moving forces for college students. The final decision on the information of such organizations now rests with the SGA Commission. The list of programs and proj ects in which the political science division and the college are al ready involved or are planning to initiate goes on and on. This illustrates that Mars Hill College is becoming more involved not only in political activity on cam pus but in reaching out to assist the people of the various com munities in Madison and Bun combe counties. Shirley Jones in a New York pro duction of THE SOUND OF MUSIC and served last year as a graduate assistant at the Univer sity of South Carolina theatre de partment. She was married this summer to Mike Yelton, another Mars Hill drama graduate, who is teaching dramatic arts this year at Purdue University. Veteran actor Ken Goble, a senior voice major, will portray El Gallo, the narrator in THE FANTASTICKS. Junior drama major Ron Pulliam will play the juvenile lead in the musical fan tasy, while the delightful fathers of the young lovers will be de veloped by Dan (MACBIRD!) Hayes and Teddy Cassells, an other veteran of the Mars Hill Theatre. The small cast is completed by Linda Duck (ANTIGONE from last year’s production) as the Mute, newcomer Bruce Villalon as an old Indian actor who spe cializes in “dying,” and multi talented Brick Tilley as an old Shakespearean actor. The play is under the direction of James Thomas of the Drama Division. Last year Thomas di rected THE SUBJECT WAS ROSES and MACBIRD! Former Mars Hill student David Hol combe, now an instructor in the drama division, is designing and technical directing the produc tion. Holcombe has worked re cently as production manager with the Sycamore Players of In diana State University. Beauty Pageant Plans Made The reign of Cornelia Akers as “Miss Laurel of 1968” will come to a close Nov. 18, when the “Miss Laurel of 1969” pageant will be held in Moore Auditorium. For the second consecutive year Mike Swaim will be the pageant coordinator. He said he expects the show to be better this year because of certain changes. One will be the presentation of an award to the most talented non finalist. This follows a trend established by the national beauty pageants. To further improve the con centration of beauty and talent and reduce the over-all length of the show the field of contestants will be cut, allowing only one representative per class. Each dorm will still elect a representative, making the total of 14 contestants. The ladies will begin their ac tivities on Sunday, Nov. 17, with personal Interviews by the judges. At the pageant there will be eve ning gown competition and talent competition as usual. The talent segment will count twice as much as the other factors in the ballot ing of the judges. Alpha Phi Omega will give a reception after the pageant for the contestants and their families.