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I Page Two MARS HILL N. C. November 23. 1968Novembe ‘Make It Better.. LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS It is a sad fact that people, Mars Hill students included, have the uncanny ability of skillfully ex cusing themselves from active participation in life, campus activities and personal relationships. In this realm Mars Hill is a staunch supporter for the propagation of the status quo. While the status quo traditionally takes a beating from certain in dividuals and groups within a society it almost always outlasts protests against it. In order for the students here to objectively study their rela tionship to this campus and to the world beyond it, we must first recognize the nature of this campus and the influence it undoubtedly bequeaths to us. There exists on this campus a mere illusion of reality, created by the relatively safe, secure at mosphere to be found here. We are isolated geo graphically and are away from the metropolitan influences which touch the lives of a majority of college students in the United States today. Al though we have a faculty with open minds and open mouths, we still find ourselves located in a tra ditionally conserv».tive region whose personality touches us religiously, socially, politically and eco nomically. I am not suggesting that we exchange the un reality and comfortable safety of this place for the surreal atmosphere of some larger, more metropoli tan institutions of higher learning. One can be as destructive as the other to the evolution of in dividual selves. What we need to do is disregard the disruptive factors in our environment — politi cal, social or otherwise — which tend to shred the fabric of our constantly developing personalities. We need to look for the articulate and definite truths in all phases of living and draw from them the exquisiteness of this gift called life. Mars Hill, renamed in some circles “Womb Uni versity,” has great potential academically and extra- curricularly. The problem of development of all this untouched potential lies in the students, of which there are three types. Perhaps by defining and exploring the characteristics of these types, we can see what changes need to be made before any great progress can be made. The core of the first group is comprised of apa thetic, unenergetic, unenthusiastic students who are “here for the duration.” Although they may be caught up to the point of entanglement in the here- and-now, day-to-day situations of their lives and problems of other persons. Caring little for SGA decisions, changes in administrative policy and dor mitory regulations, they have even less interest in such things as religion, the national election or Viet Nam. These students have never met themselves and certainly never challenged themselves. Painfully involved in life and living, the second group includes those who have found themselves but who have found no place for those selves within the superstructure of society. Acutely aware of their limitations as well as their capabilities, they are caught in the throes of a battle within themselves concerning the conflicts of what is, what ought to be, and what can be, along with the choices and changes that must necessarliy ensue any decisions on their part. These are the saddest persons around. By nature a “found” person cannot be satisfied when cooped up within the shell of himself. Al though the beginnings of wisdom come in knowing oneself, the beginnings of joy come in giving away that self. The third category is made up of those students who have learned to know themselves and who have given those selves over to a greater purpose than self. Perhaps the survival of the college is owed to this type of person, along with some financial endowments and the grace of God. The fact is that Mars Hill remains a rather “protected” college in terms of today’s world. Al though I am not suggesting that Mars Hill give up its personality or its heritage, I am suggesting that perhaps we need to become aware that Mars Hill is not the whole world, neither is it a true repre sentation of the world. To those of you who don’t care about anything — from cafeteria food to the student next to you in your 12 o’clock class — I can only say that I am afraid of you, of the harm you are bringing to yourself and to this campus and of the harm you are capable of bringing to this nation and the world. To those “found” persons who have not yet discovered their niche in the universe I can only suggest that you refrain from locking your self with in yourself as a precaution against destroying your self completely. To those few individuals who are content with life, having searched long for it, I can at best offer my deepest congratulations and best wishes in the rough journey that lies ahead. —Linda Baldwin "-AN' FUI2TMe/2MgK6’— MY STUVSHie ^£EM TO ?£ EASILY BOf2EPBY MY l£CTiA'iZBS jHetteM ia Ute. edUon.. . • Linda, Please let me use this means to commend Mike Swaim for his good work in organizing and directing Monday night’s “Miss Laurel” pageant. This was the second straight year in which Mike shouldered this demanding responsibility, and he did an excellent job each time. Few persons know what an exacting task it is to plan and promote a successful beauty pag eant of this type. It takes long hours of hard work, discouraging bouts with almost insoluble prob lems and several nights of sleep lessness. There is beauty and talent on this campus, but they must be as sembled in some order and pre sented in enjoyable form in order to have impact and significance. Mike has demonstrated his skill in this respect. He is a depend able young man, a person to whom you can delegate responsibility and authority with assurance that the job will be completed success fully. Ever since the pageant was orig inated several years ago as a means of selecting the campus beauty queen, high standards of beauty and performance have been the rule. Each of the pageants has shown what students working to gether can do. Finally, let me call for atten tion to next year’s pageant. Al ready I am in the market for a pageant coordinator-planner. Any one who feels he can maintain the high standards which Mike and his predecessors have set is welcome to apply for the job. —Walter Smith Laurel Staff Advisor the Mars Hill College Hillrop Editor-in-Chief Linda Baldwin Advertising Manager Judy Fait Circulation Manager —Mike Mills Photographer Ted Ellmore Sports Editor Butch Palmer Typists - Carol Kirksey, Nancye Knight Robert Bradley Ken Yates David Cunningham Jim Hayes Sandy Sharp Second-class postage paid at Mars Hill, N. C. ‘Y\\ times during the college year. Box 486-T, Man Hill, N. C. 28754 Telephone 689-4010 press nround Campus In cooperation with the Opportunity Corporation Followii offices at Marshall several social-service clubs arethe execui sponsoring county families for Christmas projects.Republicai Under the organizational direction of Cheek, Tommy Smith and Skippy Liles, Sigma Kap-P°®^^ pa Lambda is providing clothing for a family of^ six boys. With Beecher Horton, Nick Bennett, Eddie^^^ ^ Ganiney and Jim Brown, Kappa Phi Theta and P^'ment clas Mu Alpha are combining efforts to provide for ^ family of eight including a deaf child and a month-g^^ old baby. posg ^ Bill Kilgore and Don Morris are in the procesSfi^gg of arranging for Alph Phi Omega to sponsor aform of t family of eight. There is the possibility of furtherMembersh sponsorship for this particular family since thereiggtjyg is a child with polio. Mr. Hoff Under the leadership of Waynette Garland andity Devel Judy Burgess, Delta Phi Zeta is sponsoring a fam- David ily of four and giving a Christmas party at the of YRC, Orthopedic Hospital in Asheville. sons why Sigma Alpha Chi’s president Charlette Oakley and^^^Ser: Judy Hirschberg are hoping to give assistance to a®® o fatherless family of four. Enthused by the action of the social-service clubs, the freshmen girls on the third floor of Edna Moore, headed by Donna Vaughn, are sponsoring a family with seven children. The newly-formed Veterans’ Club, under the presidency of Gary Styres, is providing clothing and toys for a family of five children. “Be judge not, yea you will be judged!” In this world of hypocrites, men often judge others; but they do not judge them fairly, but by their own standards. Who is to say that they are right and you are wrong! But they say “It is my Christian duty;” did Christ ever feel it was his duty to judge an other?. That is for the Father above to decide! In this time of Thanksgiving we give thanks to Him who hath made us; but do we give thanks that He made others besides our selves ? How narrow-minded men we are when all we think about is what the person is doing wrong. Alas, you men of God, how little you have to say for yourselves. Are you not doing something as guilty as the next? Yet you pre tend to judge on the “Christian duty;” my what fools you be. Alas, your turn will come. I am not worried for my deeds, for I have answered them to God. But what of you and your deeds? Have you not been so busy judging others that you have forgotten your own deeds! Well, my friends, God has not forgotten them and you will be judged as you have judged! —Linda Brose On Thursday, Nov. 7, under the leadership of Dr. Roman Gorski, a large group of students made the annual trip to Charlotte to visit the Federal Reserve Bank and a brokerage house. They were given a tour of the bank and were indoctrinated into the procedure of placing orders and into the general mechanics of the investment business. HAN( THE FEVI IN E FIVE Congratulations to Richard Hoffman of the Hi*‘ tory and Political Science Department faculty. H* successfully passed the final oral exams in his doC' toral program at UNC-Chapel Hill this week, tb^ last hurdle in his race for the coveted Doctor oi Philosophy degree. The possibility of students or faculty leavinf early for Thanksgiving holidays was blounted earliel this week by a pointed announcement from Ac»' demic Dean R. M. Lee. “Our calendar for the fall term calls for ThankS' giving holidays to begin at the close of classes ot Tuesday, Nov. 26,” he said in a memo distributed to members of the faculty and administrative staff' “It is necessary that we follow this scheduF' There have come some requests to make up classed on Monday evening, and I have heard by the “grape' vine’ that some faculty members plan to make up classes in order for students to leave early,” b* continued. “Our schedule is too heavy to pemU’ making up classes at any time.” One concession in the matter was offered, hov^’ ever. Chapel will be dispensed with on Tuesday and the day’s class schedule will be the same as th»* normally followed on Saturdays. Dean W. L. Lynch was among 100 persons wb® participated in a two-day seminar last week a* Chapel Hill on drug abuse. The program was spoi>' sored by the North Carolina Association of ProfeS' sions, the N. C. Highway Patrol and the Stat* Bureau of Investigation. College Coveralls Stetson University, a Baptist institution in D^' Land, Fla., has organized a student-operated campU*' security guard. The guard consists of four mal* sutdents who have received police training in tb* use of the little black stick they carry. An added note of caution to any fun seekers is that the guard' also carry, hidden about their person, cannisters mace or tear gas. East Carolina University’s faculty, administr®' tion and SGA have joined together in presenting the university a vitalized concept of the value forum discussions. Bi-monthly forums, with foiJ* members representing the faculty, administration and SGA answering questions from the floor cob ceming a specific topic, are to be held. Prior the question-answer period a guest speaker o speakers will present their opinions on the subjec* The president of the ECU SGA will act as moderatof 1
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