February 8, 19C
the Mars Hill College
LORE
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Vol. XLIIL No. 10
MARS HILL. NORTH CAROLINA
February 22. 1969
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Bentley Beats the Others Cold—
Mars Hill Pours It On
At the November 1968 meeting
of the Administrative Council
President Bentley appointed a
Study Committe consisting of the
Dean of Students, the Dean of
Women and the Chaplain. Their
purpose was to investigate the
possibility of forming a group,
more representative than the Ad
ministrative Council, to deal with
matter relating to student social
life.
At an early meeting of this
Committee it was decided that
the faculty advisors to the Stu
dent Government Association, Dr.
Page Lee and Dr. James Jordan,
should be asked to contribute their
ideas.
Two basic principles guided the
deliberations of the Committee as
it considered the formation of an
appropriate group to determine
regulations guiding student af
fairs. First, it should be broadly-
based with equal representation
from the administration, the fac
ulty and the student body. Sec
ond, it should serve throughout
the school year in order to evalu
ate the effectiveness of its de
cisions and to serve in an advis
ory capacity in the whole area of
student affairs.
The Study Committee recom-
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I’m sure we will (be operation-
^ I this semester.”
Tim Ellmore and David Cun-
^^^gham made this statement as
hey worked to finish the panel-
and painting in the new
'"^hio studio in Fine Arts. Using
^ decor of orange, green and
^'own burlap, and modern accous-
tile they have converted the
^eom into a studio and control
f°?m. Installation of equipment is
®*^g aided by Bill Pegg and oth-
of the faculty.
There have been many prob
lems to surmoimt. “Everyone
wants to be a D.J. but no one
wants to carry the lumber.” It is
because of determination that the
work has proceeded without much
cooperation. Financially, Student
Government has contributed more
than $300. A variety show last
year netted more than $300. $700
has come from the Student Activ
ities Fund. American Enka has
contributed rugs and drapes. Re
cords will depend to a great de-
^cirs Hillians Attend Meet
^he Southern Regional Educa-
Greensboro on
.. h. 15. There were representa-
from state and federal agen-
students and faculty from
ght colleges and universities.
^ mong the institutions represent-
'Vere Mars Hill, Davidson,
Joh)
litii
hson C. Smith and North Caro-
State. Dr. Richard Hoffman,
' Williams and Smith Goodrum
Presented Mars Hill,
he purpose of the meeting was
gj^^^^mine statewide potential for
g increase in internships. The
®i‘d is anxious to determine how
students would be interest-
are work-learning jobs. They
,®Iso seeking agencies interest-
sponsoring the jobs and in-
tj '^^^ons that would give their
® to assisting students,
gj, he conference opened on a
tjjg^P'Participating discussion of
ert ^°st influential occurence in
Elation since 1900. A second
topic was to project what would
have the most effect by 1984. In
regard to the first, some of the
ideas were publications of Sum-
merhill, Hisenburg’s uncertainty
principle and the 1954 Supreme
Court Act. In regard to the sec
ond, ideas such as total nuclear
destruction, a rise in introspection
and decline of productive think
ing and a reversal of democratic
and totalitarian government be
tween East and West.
For the Mars Hill observer one
of the more interesting revela
tions of the program was to dis
cover that MHC has instituted
some progressive programs. This
is particularly true of areas where
the students and faculty work to
gether to establish guidelines such
as many campuses. As one ob
server stated, “We’ve already been
down this road. We are two or
three years ahead of them in this
area.”
gree upon donations. There are
other sources, however, such as
WLOS and independent record
companies. Recognition by the In
tercollegiate Broadcasting System
will also make many services
available.
Transmission will be by carrier
current. The station’s own trans
mitter will carry the station’s sig
nal via phone wires into the cam
pus power system. It will be pos
sible to pick it up with either a
conventional radio or a portable.
Call letters have not yet been as
signed.
Operation time and progrcim
content will be determined by the
student body. Anyone interested
in air work will be given the op
portunity and training. There will
also be a need for a program co
ordinator, news director, student-
faculty coordinator, someone to
tape specials, etc. Anyone inter
ested in taking part is encouraged
to contact either Ellmore or Cun-
ingham.
Ellmore will graduate this
spring but is determined to see a
station materialize. Cuningham
wants to help hold the operation
together imtil it gets on its feet,
but doesn’t see a significant posi
tion in the operation for himself.
He is anxious to see the students
take the initiative and exercise
some of their opportunities.
“I’m really tired of that word
‘apathy’ but I think the students
are trying to live up to it.” David
also sees the station as an attrac
tion for future students at MHC.
mended the formation of a Stu
dent Affairs Council to serve un
der the chairmanship of the Dean
of Students.
Administration: The president
of the college shall serve as an ex-
officio member of the Council.
Others are the Dean of Students,
chairman; the Academic Dean;
the Dean of Women; and the
Chaplain.
Faculty: The faculty sponsor to
the Commission of the Student
Government Association; the fac
ulty sponsor to the Senate of the
Student Government Association;
the chairman of the Plans and
Policies Committee of the faculty.
If this person serves on the Coun
cil by virtue of another office, the
faculty will elect on an annual
basis a member to fill this place.
(Roy Wood has been elected.)
Another faculty representative
on the Council is to be a faculty
member to be nominated by the
Faculty Committee on Commit
tees and elected by the faculty for
a three year term. (Miss Virginia
Hart has been elected.)
Students: The president of the
Student Govermnent Association;
the vice-president of the Student
Government Association; the sec
retary and the treasurer.
The Committee suggested that
the Council assume the following
functions:
1. Policy-Making. Guided by
the philosophy and goals of Chris
tian education held by the college,
the Student Affairs Council wiU
be responsible for formulating all
policies relating to social stand
ards and regulations, student ac
tivities, dormitory life and student
government. It will work closely
with the administration, the fac
ulty and the Student Government
Association in this task.
2. Interpretation. The Council
will interpret to students the Col
lege’s philosophy of Christian Ed
ucation and the policies guiding
student affairs through “The Stu
dent Handbook,” an orientation
program and other means. It will
keep the faculty informed of the
policies guiding student affairs.
3. Advisory. Through regular
meetings and periodic reports
from the Student Government
Association and administrators re
sponsible for student affairs, the
Council wiU evaluate the status of
student life. Believing that the
total college environment is itself
a powerful educator, the Council
will serve as a resource group to
offer suggestions which will con
tribute to a wholesome and cre
ative academic community. It
will also provide a chaimel for the
free exchange of ideas.
'Tea and Sympathy' Slated
On Drama Menu Four Times
“Tea and Sympathy,” the touch
ing Broadway dramatic hit about
a teen-age boy’s ordeal in a prep-
school when unfairly charged with
abnormality, will be presented on
campus by the Division of Drama
on Feb. 28, Mar. 1, 3 and 4th.
Katie Swofford is starred as the
warmhearted wife of a school
master whose function it is to in
vite in her husband’s mid-teen
age students, when they become
homesick, for “tea and sympathy.”
The play tells the story of one
particularly moody, sensitive and
lonely boy in the school who does
not run with the pack. He loves
classical music, scorns crew-cut
hair and otherwise fails to fit the
hearty athletic pattern of his
schoolmates.
An equivocal situation with an
instructor known to be a “queer”
causes the boy to be smeared by
association and he becomes a vic
tim of nasty gossip and persecu
tion. Out of bravado, to establish
his virility, the lad visits the town
tart. The episode is a failure, as
might have been expected of a boy
of his sensitive nature. He loses
all confidence in his manliness
and attempts suicide.
As the accusations of his school
mates, his housemaster and even
his father close in on the imhappy
boy,, he receives friendly support
only in part from his roommate,
who must then desert him to keep
from being tarred with the same
sticky brush. But he receives full
friendship and understanding
from the wife of his housemaster,
whose nature makes her sympa
thetic to all abused people. Her
sympathy for the pariah is boor
ishly resented by her husband,
whose over-emphasis on mascu
line interests, turns out to be a
panicky disguise of his own weak
ness.
“Tea and Sympathy” outward
ly is a story of adolescence, hing
ing on the false charges of homo
sexuality attaching to an 18-year-
old schoolboy; but its candor
about a subject that everybody
knows and talks about but has
been merely snickered about in all
previous plays that touched on it,
is not its theme.
Robert Anderson, author of the
play, has written that the play’s
theme seemed to him best ex
pressed by saying that it is a play
about human responsibility, that
each person has to give other per
sons more than tea and sympathy.
To be of help they must give love
and understanding.
The cast includes Jim Roberts
as the beleaguered student, Bruce
Hanson as the muscle - headed
housemaster - husband, James
Wyatt as the boy’s father. Kin
Goble as the boy’s roommate, and
Ed Lynch, Thad Hamilton, Brick
Tilley, and Ron Pulliam as fellow
students.