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—^Terence
Vol. XLIII. No. 14
MARS HILL. NORTH CAROLINA
April 19, 1969
Development Model Is Formed
of Matthews, N. C., and Brick
of Ocala, Florida, will re-
®lye full technical and teaching
r^^'stantships working toward a
aster of Fine Arts Degree. They
■ 'll attend graduate school for
years at L.S.U., receiving
■A. Degrees; their work for one
'ah
in association with La Petite
'®atre, a professional theatre lo-
in the French Quarter and
uciated with L.S.U. At the end
Iheir third year they will be
^®ded an M.F.A., the profes-
P
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Good rum
in Graves
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j^hal drama degree. Katie will
|, sjieech and Brick will teach
^e-up courses at L.S.U.
j^l^atie’s most memorable roles at
j*ars Hill include “Nettie Cleaver”
: ^he Subject Was Roses; “Oliva”
(j.l'^elfth Night; “Laura” in The
Menagerie; and “Laura” in
f and Sympathy. Brick will be
l^'yembered for his portrayal of
h^ce Suk in Death Takes a Holi-
“Henri” in The Fantasticks;
(.uarlie Cowell” in The Music
“The Wicked Witch” of the
^6sf jjj Wizard of Oz; “Os-
i^^ld” in Ghosts and “Pseudolus”
A Funny Thing Happened on
® IVay to the Forum,
jj^heir recent honors include “dis-
^ Suished Acting Award” to Miss
afford (for their work in The
^.^r-Crossed Lover by Timothy
(,laftiore) at the State Drama
^llval at Chapel Hill, N. C.
couple plan to work in the
'®'hier theatre of Indiana State
Mars Hill College has been se
lected to establish a Model Col
lege and Community Develop
ment Institute for Southern Reg
ional Education Board Internships.
The Institute will correlate with
other community-academic-orient
ed efforts now in progress.
The S.R.E.B., which previously
operated out of Atlanta, Georgia,
is a foundation to provide student
manpower for local, state, and
federal agencies. The agencies
utilize student interns to alleviate
their lack of manpower and to
solve other problems pertinent to
the success of the operation.
Through matching funds from the
concerned agency and S.R.E.B. the
students have twelve weeks in the
summer to research and report
their findings and recommenda
tions. Although faculty, agency,
and technical advice are made
available to the intern, he is es
sentially autonomous, free to es
tablish his own guidelines and cri
teria for solving the problem. It
is here that the real academic
value lies for the student: he is
free to exercise his intellectual
initiative and to test the discipli-
ary practices he has learned in
college. The success of such pro-
Racial Conference Schedule
Senior Drama majors Katie Swofford and Brick Tilley in scene
'-pjjg Glass Menagerie," which was produced by the Mars Hill
'®*na Department last summer.
* * *
Wofford, Tilley Going to LSU
j^'^Wo Mars Hill College senior University this summer and will
majors have been award- receive Graduate School credit for
^ full assistantships in Dramatic their work there,
to study at Louisiana State ^ ^
diversity. Katie Swofford, na- Partition Added
An aluminum and glass parti
tion separating the Reserve Study
Area from the Newspaper and
Periodical Areas of the library was
erected during Spring Break as
the 1969 Senior Class Gift. The
partition effectively separates the
upper floor of the library into two
areas: one to be used exclusively
for quiet study and the other to
serve as a light conversation,
newspaper and periodical reading,
lounge and smoking area.
This facility has been needed
for several years to eliminate the
high level of stair noise from the
study areas on the upi>er floor
and to provide an appropriate
place for indoor smoking and quiet
talking and lounging. However,
we must ask students to remem
ber that this is a light conversa
tion area and is still adjacent to a
study area. Also, the smoking is
experimental and must be con
fined to the lounge area where
ash trays are available. Please use
the ash trays rather than the floor
but, like the floor, leave them in
the library when you go. They
may not be checked out.
The library staff and the ad
ministration appreciate the inter
est of the Class of 1969 in provid
ing better facilities for future
MHC students and express pub
licity the thanks of the entire col
lege for this gift from the senior
class.
White Southerners justifiably
call themselves rebels. The long
struggle of Southern rebels against
the system of big business and
Northern capitalism will be the
theme of a Conference on Radical
Southern History being held at
Emory University in Atlanta, Ga.
on Apr. 18 - 20.
The conference has been
planned by the Southern Student
Organizing Committee. It will
feature speakers, discussions and
panels, all emphasizing the radical
role which Southern working peo
ple have played in the history of
this coimtry. Papers on Southern
history written by Southern stu
dents will be printed and distrib
uted.
Black people have begun to
realize the necessity of learning
their own history. They have had
to learn that the black rebellion
did not begin in 1960 or in 1954,
but that it is as old as the pres
ence of a black working class in
America.
The Conference of Radical
Southern History will examine
these and other historic events
and why they failed, why the
South is still the poorest region
in the nation, and why unioniza
tion is still denied to many South
ern working people.
On hand will be H. L. MitcheU
who organized Arkansas tenant
farmers into the Southern Tenant
Farmers Union in 1934, Don West
who edits the magazine Appalach
ian South that deals with the his
tory and culture of Appalachia,
and Donald Roy, a Duke Univer
sity professor who specializes in
the sociology and history of labor.
Peter Brandon, Joe Mulloy, A1 Ul
mer, Harry Boyte and Harry
Shaw — all young people en
gaged in labor and community or
ganizing in Southern communities
today — will be present to talk
on how Southern history is rele
vant to the task of building po
litical awareness in Southern com
munities.
Laurel Distribution Plan Changed
A new, more efficient method
of certifying persons eligible to
receive a copy of the yearbook
is being initiated by the Business
Office.
(The 1969 Laurel is scheduled
for distribution beginning immed
iately after chapel Tuesday.)
According to Business Manager
L. W. Moelchert, Jr., the Busi
ness Office has issued cards to all
currently enrolled students whose
accounts have been satisfactorily
settled. A student must present
his card to the Lam-el distribution
personnel in order to receive a
copy of the book.
Students who have not received
a card should check with the
Business Office; their failure to
receive a card probably means
their account is not settled, Mr.
Moelchert said.
Traffic fines, room damage
charges, library fines, drug
charges at the infirmary and other
miscellaneous charges by various
departments of the college have
been reported to the Business Of
fice and have been considered in
the issuance of the yearbook
eligibility cards, he added.
The cards for dormitory stu
dents were distributed through the
student post office boxes. Those
for commuters were sent via U.S.
mail.
According to Laurel Editor
Carol Chandler, the new system
wiU speed the distribution of the
yearbook. It will eliminate the
necessity of distribution alphabet
ically, and it will save many stu
dents frustration and embarrass
ment. Heretofore, some students
have stood in line for a long time
only to be told — once they got
to the distribution window — that
they were ineligible for a copy
of the yearbook because they owed
a library fine or had forgotten
to pay a traffic ticket.
According to Walter Smith, ad
visor to the yearbook staff, copies
of the Laurel will be sold by the
College Bookstore. Office file
copies, chargeable to a particular
budget, wiU be distributed by the
Department of Public Information
upon request, he said.
The copies of eligible students
who are not currently enrolled
will be sent to them by mail,
he added.
grams has prompted the establish
ment of a college institute pro
gram.
The Mars HiU College and Com
munity Development Institute will
provide immediate access to stu
dents for agencies in western
North Carolina. The college will
become a third funding source to
enable as many students as pos
sible to participate. At least twen
ty-five interns will be involved in
the programs being developed.
Their goals for the summer in
clude researching the needs for
day activity centers for the men
tally retarded, making housing
surveys for Model Madison, devel
oping better recreational programs
for the area, and laying the
ground work for a community-
oriented Christian Ethics Institute.
The Institute will seek to pro
vide the resources necessary for
carrying out these projects. The
faculty will assist the interns by
donating advisory time. The col
lege is lending its facilities to en
able as many students as possible
to have access to and opportunity
for participation in the internship
program.
Pol. Sc.-Socio.
Major Begun
Beginning this fall. Mars Hill
College will offer a combined ma
jor in political science and soci
ology which is designed to pro
vide for the student involvement
in both the urban and rural de
velopment process as well as
study. The new course will at
tempt to blend in classroom the
ory and theory application
through a variety of service-
learning interneships, independent
study, and interdisciplinary semi
nars.
Requirements for this major are
as follows: completion of the basic
requirements for a BA degree;
Political Science 450-451 (6 hours);
a minimum of 18 additional hours
of political science; 6 hours of
Sociology; a program of sup
portive studies including Econo
mics 221, 222, Religion 226, Phil
osophy 337, and 15 hours from
history, literature, psychology,
economics (Public Finance 441,
Comparative Economic Systems
442, Statistics 443) religion, phil
osophy, and Education 402 or 441,
a grade of C or better on all
courses counting toward the ma
jor; and a minimum of 6 credit
hours involving field experience
is required of all majors.
A student planning to teach in
the secondary schools must take
a minimum of 21 hours in history.
Dr. Hoffman has announced that
3 new staff members will be
added to the division of political
science and sociology this fall. A
doctorate in pKjlitical science from
Chapel Hill, and a masters from
Wake Forest will be the new ad
ditions. Another professor of p>o-
litical science will hopefully be
signed this summer.