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Page Two MARS HILL. N. C. May 3. 1969 May 3. 1969 What Price Progress? .1=111^^ MAN ON CAMPUS 2.) 3.) Mars Hill has Mars HUl and not much else. Fad—^Mars Hill presently operates on approx imately a two-and-one-half million dollar budget, of which $2,080,000 is paid for by the students, based on an average of $1600 paid by 1300 students. Ap proximately $250,000 is paid for by the state Baptist convention. Fad—^Mars Hill offers no outstanding financial aid. The only real assistance now available is through athletic grants-in-aids. Fad—Academic calibre of the student body has been decreasing due to: 1.) top-flight students are able to get scholarships to other colleges. activities are at a minimum and offer no real interest except those sponsored by the students themselves. costs of attending a private institution are rising far beyond a comprehensible level. Fad—Curriciilum expansion is at an ever-increas ing pace but its needs are pressing in order to pro vide a worthwhile survival. Students are bearing a disproportionate share of the cost. Last semester the college mailed out 15,000 brochures to alumni, requesting $10 from each alum nus to be used toward capital improvements; the college received enough donations to cover the cost of postage. If the college had received the donations from its alumni, improvements could have been made in the faculty, curriculum and could have helped alleviate the ever-pressing need for classroom space in the form of the Blackwell Building. In the future Mars Hill will be launching a $3 mil lion campaign for capital funds. Some money is earmarked for buildings but, most importantly, to ward the upgrading of faculty and curriculum and for providing many academic scholarships at Mars Hill. This college is blessed with young administra tors with guts, brains and elbow grease. In recent years, in order to keep dormitories full of students, the college has been forced to drop its minimum SAT admission scores. Last year the students voted upon themselves a $10 activities fee to help cover the cost of returning to football and help upgrade other athletic teams. They also voted upon themselves a $5 entertain ment fee to be administered by the students for their own enjoyment. It has been proposed in several state legislatures, including North Carolina’s, that the state offer fi nancial aid to private institutions such as Mars Hill to help alleviate rising tuition costs. Curriculum has been expanded to interest students in the fields of Humanities, Political Science and So ciology and Commimity Development but there re mains a crying need for future development in every department on campus. Mars Hill has Mars Hill and not much else. Mike Swaim Linda Baldwin Editor's Note: The following two letters were re ceived in answer to the special issue of the Hilltop concerning the mobilization of the Community De velopment Institute. Dear Dean Hoffman: Dear Mr. Hoffman: You were kind to send me a copy of the Mars Hill College newspaper which describes the very fine pro grams President Bentley and his associates have re cently introduced. I understand the vital leadership role you are playing in these efforts and hope you will call on me if I can ever be of assistance to you. Please express my compliments to the students who produce such a fine publication and especially to its editor. Miss Baldwin, who I understand is a cousin of my Administrative Assistant Tom Lambeth. Cordially, Richardson Preyer United States Representative ffeoF ^Ai?P 5A1R 'Mo TEPM PAPEP- NO PtPl!0MA'. “ Jiette>U. to- tke editor. . . Dear Linda, Presently sponsored by the B.S.U., the Alley Door has failed in its attempts to assume the role of a campus coffee house. It is a place designed to give students light refreshments, enter tainment, talk, and some phil osophy swapping; we can not honestly say it has succeeded in any of these. Because of Mars Hill’s geo graphic isolation it is almost a ne cessity that such a place be pro vided, at least to some degree — by the school or a student group. The Alley Door now has the embryonic characteristics of what a coffee house should be, although its potential has been dreadfully slighted. These questions have arisen in my own mind concerning the e>os- sible renovation of the Alley Door to be a true coffee house: that does? The Alley Door has great pos sibilities if given a chance for here in a place of unique atmosphere could be found a conglomerate sparkle of students’ personalities. But let’s face it! This campus gem needs polishing! Love anyway, Biilt Brittle Dear Linda, Thank you for sending me a copy of the special edition of the “Hilltop” featuring accounts of com munity service p*rojects in which Mars Hill students have become involved. I find this a heartening contrast to the student activities on some other campuses which have been so much in the news in recent times, and I commend the college and the students who are participating for undertaking this kind of educational development. With best regards and best wishes for continued success of such enterprises. Sincerely. B. Everett Jordan, United States Senate 1) Why can’t it be open every night for a specific length of time? 2) Why can’t a group or com mittee be chosen to operate it faithfully, on shifts if necessary, in order that the Alley Door should never have to close because of lack of workers? Not meaning to criticize the B.S.U., but if they don’t have the time to give that the Alley Door deserves, then why not turn it over to an individual or group What do you as students think the library should be, a quiet area in which one can study without distraction or one where there is smoking and excessively loud talk ing? Sincerely, Dianne Lee Sterner Dear Editor, When do we get the real annual? Ken Goble the Mars Hill College Hillrop Editor-in-Chief Linda Baldwin Advertising Manager Judy Pait Proofreaders Ken Yates, Britt Brittle, David Cuningham Photographer Ted EUmore Sports Editor Butch Palmer Typists Kathy George, Carole Kirksey, Nancye Knight Cathey Serota Ken Yates Mike Mills Jim Hayes Smith Goodrum Sonny Fenton Allen Lane Mike Burch Second-class postage paid at Mars Hill. N. C. Published 16 times durine the college year. Box 486-T, Mara Hill, N. C. 28754 Telephone 689-4010 pRess Rraund Campus The Mars Hill Chapter of the American Hom« Economics Association met Monday April 21, 1969. Officers were installed at the meeting. The Fall semester officers are: Chairman, Kitty Cansler; vice-chairman, Rachael Long; 2nd Vice-chairman, Jean Garvey; Secretary, Rosemary Goodwin; Treas urer, Patricia Worsham; Publicity, Donna Arrow- wood; Historian, Marilyn Fullam; Devotional chair man, Martha Kolb; Refreshment chairman, Emily Sanders; Refreshment committee, Kathay Hodges, Becky MacGeorge, Betty Jones, Doris Franklin. The weekend of April 18-19 was the Home Eco nomics Spring Workshop at Western Carolina Uni versity. Four members attended: Kitty Cansler, Helen Kugley, Mary Underwood and Emily Sanders. Mrs. J. V. Howell, Miss Carol Kendell and Miss Wionna Bierbaum were the advisors that also at tended. Kitty Cansler, rising senior, has been elected Miss Home Economics of Mars Hill for the academic yea’’ of 1969-70. Mrs. Ruby Alexander, housemother at Brown, would like to sell her car, a 1965, 4-door, beige Val iant 100. It is clean, in excellent condition, has 5 tires and a new battery. Mrs. Alexander will sell it for $800; any interested person should contact her. Patti O’Briant, freshman PE major from Greens boro, represented MHC in an invitational golf tour nament sponsored by UNC-G this last weekend (April 26) and finished 4th among approximately coeds. Nancy Sorrells, a Mars Hill senior, was recently employed by the Southern Baptist Foreign Missio!> Board for two years of service imder the Journey' man Program, by which she will work alongside career missionaries. After eight weeks of training, Nancy will leave for her assigned post in ReciB, Brazil. The Mars Hill College Chapter of the Society Advancement of Management was the recipient the University Division Membership Watch Award, presented annually to an outstanding senior college or university chapter, for the member of the Chapt®^ who contributed the most to this outstanding bership record during the academic year 1968-1969' Several members of the Chapter were candidate^ for this award, and a decision was reached only afB^ a great deal of deliberation. The Executive Coun' icil In the quiet of the library, I have noticed much that should not be permitted in this area—smok ing, talking and senseless rattling of magazine pages. I was under the impression that the area on the opposite side of the doors was for this purpose. I do not blame the noise of the library on its workers, but on the thoughtless users of it. decided that the Hamilton watch should go to Sts” Sellstrom, last year’s president of the Chapter. Stan, a charter member of SAM on the Ma^ Hill College campus, is a senior business major, gra°' uating with a B.S. in Accounting. His devotion 3.^ leadership enabled the Mars Hill Chapter to becoiu® the largest Chapter in North Carolina. Stan was als^ instrumental in coordinating the Native Son Proje'^J’ which is the cooperative effort of Western Noi’l'J Carolina industries to employ college graduates ° this area. Through his eforts, the Mars Hill Chaplf of the Society for Advancement of Management certainly one of the strongest chapters in the Souti’; Dr. Harley Jolley has been named a member ® the elite North Carolina Historical Society; memba^ ship is limited to 75 members and only those persoU* who have made in the form of publications substaP' tial contributions to history or who have shown low and continuing interest in the study of history eligible. Membership is on a lifetime basis. How about a replacement for the American flying in front of the Office Building? It’s looki^® pretty tattered and dirty these days. Boys in Myers have been answering the phoP®' “Rejoice! Through the grace of God and Alexam dei Graham Bell you have now reached Myers Dorb’' For whom does the bell toU?” The spring edition of the 1969 Cadenza placed on sale Wednesday following delivery Grove Printing Company. The 16-page issue featiV art and literary work by students of Mars Hill The 1969-70 Cadenza has been awarded a grant by the N. C. Arts Council for the publicati® of a second edition of the publication next spn' j The 1968-69 Cadenza had been awarded a $750 earlier this academic year. According to editor Mike Rice, this year’s denza has been most successful in operating throU» the N. C. Arts Council Grant and through approP^ ated college funds. , Literary and art editors for the 1969-70 Cade^^^ have not yet been appointed. Interested j should contact Joseph P. Schubert in the Offi Building. Rad Dear Fellow The cam (WMHC) is a which is fina lion. One la: the purchase ( tors, one to ^orm or dorrr oi Carrier Ciu ^ satellite sys wiring on car heal to inst, simplest to e Was planned evaluation of east Co. and e: Collegiate Bro ef which we have reci eoce in a va 'ffV'IV at V.I eoms receive hudent-facult Will order a cc transmitter June 1st Harri: The Busine Jeciation of 5/ Jold its 30th eay beginnini ^hrary Aud eetivities wR ?17 p.m. in th l''g HaU with in the Fa '*'orial Librau Members ol Ijade up of he Business hhl College. Jackie ! Casey F Mary Ar Speaker for Edward ( '°Use and C subject Friem Quality 1 under Fumi HAPP VERY WE The CO U We
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