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MARS HILL, NORTH CAROLINA
October 11.
I Am Waiting
I am waiting for a rebirth of wonder
I am waiting
to discover true humanity
when man is not judged by the color of his skin
but by the authenticity of his character.
when student is not judged by the college board
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but by the creative imagination which he shares . . .
am waiting
to develop that sense of sensitivity
which will permit my eyes to see
and my ears to hear
the inhumanity of man to man . . .
am waiting
for the day of peace
when young people are taught to create
rather than destroy and kill
when money will be spent on the poor
rather than by the Pentagon
when equality is understood as unity
rather than sameness
when war mongers are not honored as national heroes
rather they are recognized as frightened children
when vaccines will be our largest export to Asia
rather than bullets and bull
when birth control information will be distributed m
the world
rather than waiting to solve over-population by war
when people trust the Prince of Peace
rather than the prophets of doom . . •
I am waiting
for a rebirth of hope
I am waiting
and while I wait I pray
for that young wife to accept her immature mate
for the campus Don Juan to stop playing games with
his sexuality
for that bereaved student who has just lost his
father ...
for that friend who has recently lost his job
for that student who does not want to go home . . .
For these I pray and wait
may God’s presence be felt through my waiting
may we learn to grow in our suffering
Help us God
to resist becoming bitter
and to accept forgiveness
to fight becoming cynical
and to maintain realistic optimism . . .
am waiting
and hoping that each day will find me sufficient
with fortitude to continue the dynamic process of
becoming
with excitement about just being alive
with appreciation for friends who accept my ugliness
with faith which produces courage to be . . .
am waiting
for the Christ event to happen in my life today
for forgiveness for my ungodliness
for faith that enables me to live with my doubts
for courage to resist complacency and idleness
may the hound of heaven keep my life stirred up
so that I might live before 1 die.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
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am waiting
for many things
for Godot
for that plain looking girl in class to believe in her
beauty
for people to stop killing mockingbirds
for respect for the conch shell
for the end of romantic love
and the beginning of realistic love
for people to understand that eternal life is now
for ministers to enjoy their humanity
for church organizations to become personal
for students to love Shakespeare
for teachers to throw away last year’s notes
for classrooms to become beehives
for faculty members to rejuvenate their weary spirits
for personal peace without surrendering the com
plexity of life
for "law and order” with justice
help me God to see things as they are
without despairing
and to help them become alive.
Dear Editor,
Upon reading your article, “SGA
Slow on Varied Student Demands,”
I am worried because the state
ments of the article had no con
nection with the title. How are
we to be held liable for these de
mands when we don’t know what
they are? SGA cannot be liable
for these demands when the stu
dents never talk to their Commis
sioners and Senators about de
mands. I just wish that people would
stop looking at the past and think of
the present and give us some of
these demands. 1 think we can do
something with them.
If one would study the Constitu
tion and By-Laws of the SGA, one
would find that there are some areas
that are outdated. The SGA is
still very young on our campus.
With the changes in the Adminis
tration this year we find ourselves
in a new and different role; we
finally have some responsibility in
stead of a puppet-on-the-string
structure. We still question the
structure and the function of some
of our committees. There are cer
tain things that are automatically
tabled to certain committees be
cause they affect the Constitution
and By-Laws. The Senate is now
in the process of making changes
by going through the Constitution
and By-Laws, and studying these
sections to see if they need change.
It is my view that this paper is
taking a very negative attitude to
ward SGA. I have never worked
on your staff and have not been
informed on how to structure a
paper. With this in mind I cannot
understand how you can take this
negative view of SGA since you
have never worked on my staff. I
hope that you will try to get in
formed on the structure of SGA. I
am sure if you would simply study
and carefully consider the Constitu
tion and the By-Laws your view will
change.
Bill Pons
SGA President
Editor!
SGA beware! You’re being watched.
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the Mars Hill College
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Linda Baldwin
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Thursday, Nov. 3, at 8:00 p.m. is curtain *yjgjQpg| ,
for the 1970 Miss Laurel Pageant. With a ‘hem^^^^^
“A Night to Remember”, Mars Hill students will be
tertained by an array of lovely bods doing their ^
thing. The girls have already started preparing fotf,Q|g|
gala affair with talent practices and lessons ir ^
charm school. There are nineteen hopeful beai/^ Sidney
participating this year. Under the watchful eye |y|QQ|^ ^
director Jim Roberts, the pageant should prove to^^ p.||’ ^
one of the highlights of the season.
October
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Officers of the Logothia Club are David Atwj
president: Bruce Hartgrove, vice-president; Jo
Pace, secretary; Don MacCaslin, chaplain; and Drama
Welch, publicity chairman.
Due to Fall Break, the Hilltop will not be
stands” again until Nov. 1.
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Drama
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Pi Sigma Phi, the Physical Education Majors (33 AT N
will meet on Monday evening, Oct. 13, at 7:30 p.Hel by ArtI
room 42 in Chambers Gymnasium. :he story
Dr. C. Earl Leininger, Professor of Religion, wih considei
the guest speaker for the evening. His topic will He is j
"Helping to Form a Personal Philosophy:” A film, "'se of tw
Association Is You,” will also be shown. The film viewpoin
cribes the National Physical Education Associatione fell in
Members of Pi Sigma Phi are operating the conces he expri
stand at home football games. They are hopin?n inoppc
make enough! money to help finance the upcoming, he is
to the North Carolina Health, Physical Education, ce and
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Recreation Convention at Greenville, N. C. EaSg
Carolina University is the host of the convention t
held on December 4-6, 1969.
Members of Pi Sigma Phi are also looking forwai
the Southern Distrct Convention which is to be
in Columbia, S. C. in the last week of February, 19l
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Dear Linda,
Ever try to graduate in three
years by taking only 18 hours per
semester? This necessarily means
spending two full summers in sum
mer school!
The decisions of the recently
established Academic Overloads
Committee are causing numerous
headaches for many students. What
is the harm in a student taking 20
hours if he can successfully com
plete them? How many students,
even if their applications are ap
proved, can afford to pay $30 for
each semester hour desired? Would
the academic standard of our col
lege really be lowered by allowing
Cont. on P. 4
The South Carolina State Library will offer
scholarships of $2,500 each for graduate stud^Qp^jgy^ ^
library science during 1969-1970. Awarded under a vvhat perl
gram to extend and improve library science to qj
Carolina, these scholarships enable qualified yjrious fc
people to obtain a year of professional library traiLj, p
The scholarships are open to recent college grad^
and young teachers. In addition to being gradt
of a four year college or university and acceptabt approxi
a graduate school, scholarship recipients must ha' freshma
special interest in libraries. ^ Sp
Scholarship recipients in the past have attended ^ some
schools as: Rutgers, Simmons, University of Mich ^'’cned
Louisiana State University, Emory University, ° ^
University of Washington. ^ stolen
The scholarship program is one of several educat^^^^ ^
opportunities available through the South Carolina •
Library. The State Library has developed a ^
linuing personnel training program for those uppgrcia
in professional library work. cottage.
Information scholarships and other programs is F
able on request from the State Library 1500 >ie Rats 1
Street, Columbia, South Carolina 29201, or frm men thn
local public Ibrary.
You’re sitting in class—your professor is lecturl
then its starts to happen. You’re sleepy, so you I#
It but it comes again—louder. You notice yoj
writing—short lines or just words, iambic pentaij
or free verse. The thought is fertilized andj
your pencil you are pecking through the restra
shell— a poem is hatched. Now you want to give!
poem the best of care to make sure it developsl
and is given a nice home under the care of intefi
people. So you let it dry, then look at it again
sure it has no deformities. Then you take it t4
good people in the Laurel-Hilltop-Cadenza office ij
Montague Building and place it in the copy box oj
Cadenza’s desk and leave knowing your poem
good hands. Or you may also send it to 599-C o1
it to Gary Singleton in Myers 220. The deadli)
November 1.
Dr. Williams Sears, Dean of Students, has an e|
tive sandbox.
The following students have been inducted inf
Mars Hill College Business Honor Club: Ben
Ralph Smith, Larry Tatum, David Shores, Mike D'
David Sperling, Sherry Fain, Linda Howell and
Whitt.
Marilyn Swafford, sophomore, went to Orlando, n
this past week with Dr. and Mrs. Boice Grigg to
the graduation of Boice Grigg, Jr. from Navy
training. Boice is a former MHC student.
—Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Marcia Gosnel, freshman, has been elected a chicagc
ment queen at the Citadel. iondy nigh