November 26, 1
the Mars Hill CoHege
hiIItod
I. XLIV No. 7
MARS HILL, NORTH CAROLINA
May all that is Christmas be yours:
LOVE
PEACE
JOY
HOPE
— The Editorial Staff
December 13, 1968
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riiational Moratorium Committee Urges
Take Peace Efforts Home
S^'Ollegians to
The Viet Nam Moratorium Com-
■ndly Service v'ITn'"”.'/''''
f he Viet Nam Moratorium Com-
^ Workmsnshif^^_ has announced that one of
major efforts in December will be
'’y Students in their home
er Robinson -ns during Christmas vacation,
nitur© StOr© Ivltles suggested include canvas-
neighborhoods, distributing leaf-
i to shoppers, organizing of high
^ool students, sending delega-
is to elected officials, and hold-
vigils or processions on Christ-
5 Eve, one of the three Mora-
um days this month.
•am Brown, Coordinator of the
i Nam Moratorium Committee
1. It would indeed be a tragedy
■niss the opportunity to carry the
i-war movement from our univer-
communities to our home towns.
■ work necessary to end the war
i/iet Nam cannot be restricted to
areas where we have already
'n active. We must ‘Take the
ratorium Home for Christmas.’ ”
he Viet Nam Moratorium Corn-
tee recently sent a special memo
its more than 3,000 campus or-
iizers urging them to devote their
■ntion to this effort. Students
e encouraged to contact other
3ents from their home towns now
other campuses. In addition they
■uld contact existing peace
ops or sympathetic persons in
ae towns to bring them into the
aning with the hope that the
stmastime effort could have a
ing influence. Spokesmen for the
ratorium pointed out that many
Jents will return to their towns
an in January for between semes-
oreak and could expand upon
initial December activity then.
IS anti-war sentiment could be
oified or peace groups organized
many areas which have seen
s anti-war activity to date.
6 Viet Nam Moratorium Com
mittee sponsored the Oct. 15 Mora
torium, and the activities around the
country on Nov. 13 and 14. The
Moratorium Days for December are
the 12th, 13th and 24th. The entire
focus for the month is on small
scale, basically grass-roots activity
which will be modest in scope. On
the 12th and 13th, canvassing and
leafletting will take place in many
cities and towns across the nation.
In addition, town meetings are being
held in some localities to discuss
the effect of defense and military
spending upon local need. Others
are planning to visit the district of
fice with their congressmen to dis
cuss his position on the war and to
make clear that support in the 1970
election will be assured only if the
congressman opposes the war.
On the 24th, activities centering
on the Christmas theme of “Peace
on Earth” are planned. A group of
prominent clergymen is being or
ganized to relate the Moratorium to
normal Christmas religious activities.
Among the events which will take
place are vigils, processions preced
ing church services, caroling which
will emphasize “Peace on Earth,”
and special church services.
SGA Makes Proposals;
Some Issues Ride Again
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tEETINC CARDS
MACY
by Jim Ewart
The Student Government Asso
ciation Senate revived a former
“dead issue” at its Nov. 25 meeting
when it decided to reopen a study
on the proposal for placing students
on standing faculty committees.
The new proposal calls for the ap
pointment of four senators by the
SGA president to a committee which
will study the faculty by-laws hand
book and attempt to determine
which faculty committees students
have the right to sit on. It also called
for three faculty members to serve
as committee advisors. Mentioned
to be requested to serve in this
capacity were Dean Richard Hoff
man, Dean William Sears and Dr.
Earl Leininger.
Senator Cathy Bowen, in making
the proposal, called for the advisors
to meet regularly with the student
senate committee for the purposes
of informing representatives of how
the faculty committees work, what
is going on and how students might
(Cont. on P. 3)
The Student Government
Association is sponsoring a
program which may prove to
be a boon to campus com
munications. Every two weeks
for the remainder of the
school year, the top four of
ficers of SGA, the class offi
cers, the station manager of
WMHC and the editor-in-chief
of the Hilltop will meet to
discuss the evolutionary
changes of the college and
to debate on campus prob
lems. These meetings will be
scheduled for times between
senate meetings and Hilltop
deadlines in an effort to co
ordinate campus plans.
CD Interns Now Back
From Field Experience
Ten Mars Hill College students
returned to routine classroom ex
perience for Community Develop
ment 341 after serving for ten weeks
as interns in rural and urban agen
cies involved in the problem-solving
processes of the community. The
course is a participant-observer pro
gram designed to relate classroom
theory to field experience according
to its teacher. Dr. Richard Hoffman.
Dr. Hoffman feels that the political
science course is similar in intent to
the student teaching experience re
quired of education majors. But un
like student teaching, he said, the
internships are more “self-directed.
The students are free to structure
themselves and find their own way
in the agencies.”
Jim Johnstone and George Bullard
enjoyed perhaps the most dramatic
internship experiences. Jim, a junior
drama major, worked with George
Gragg, human relations coordinator
for Buncombe County, and sat in on
meetings held during the Asheville
High School Crisis. George Bullard,
a junior history major, kept tabs on
the one-cent sales tax campaign
from the office of Gordon Green
wood, chairman of the Buncombe
County Commissioners.
Diane Brown, senior art major,
worked with the Opportunity Cor
poration of Madison County towards
setting up a crafts shop for crafts
men in the area. She worked with
Smith Goodrum, a 1968 MHC Gradu
ate, who is now assistant director
of the Rural Project for the Oppor
tunity Corporation in this County.
Emma Jean Pegg, senior home eco
nomics major, and David Cumming-
ham, senior history major, also did
work with the Rural Project.
Larry Moody, a junior majoring in
Business, worked with the Bun
combe County Sheriff’s Department
and was able to accompany law
officers on routine calls as well as
carry out a study of the department
from within the office. Hayes Martin,
junior history major, worked with
the juvenile division of the Asheville
Police Department.
Cathy Bowen, senior religion
major, had her internship with the
juvenile court of Asheville. As a
result of the knowledge and ex
perience she gained during this
course, she will work next semester
toward establishing a MHC-spon-
sored tutorial program for juvenile
students under the jurisdiction of
the Asheville court.
Sandy Altizer, a junior home eco
nomics major, worked with Volun
teer ■ Services at the Opportunity
Corporation in Asheville. She be
came actively involved in an effort
designed to persuade the Corpora
tion from deleting Volunteer Services
from future funding.
Linda Baldwin, a junior majoring
in English and Political Science-
Sociology, worked with the Ashe
ville Citizen Times in an effort to
study first hand the nature of jour
nalism in a democratic society. Part
of her responsibility was to begin
a revamping program of the Hilltop
of which she Is editor-in-chief.
Serving as area coordinators for
the tutorial program sponsored by
the Community Development Insti
tute, Marsha Walker, Andy Cren
shaw, Rick Henderson, Glenn Graves
and Wilbur Parrott are also mem
bers of this Community Develop
ment class. They did a consider
able amount of work and travel
ing to set up better and continued
tutorial schedules.
Students receive four semester
hours credit for the course.
VISTA
On Campus
by John Berry
Some of the new faces seen
around campus lately, especially in
the vicinity of the Office Building,
belong to VISTA workers.
VISTA (Volunteers In Service To
America) is a national project spon
sored by the Office of Economic
Opportunity which endeavors to as
sert a positive effort toward elimi
nating poverty in the United States.
VISTA volunteers, who are called
“Vista”, are generally members of
the middle economic class and may
or may not have a college education.
They have made a total personal
commitment to working and living
with the poor for a period of one
year although they are not service
workers as such. They use technical
knowledge and skills to coordinate
and guide plans for such projects
as health facilities, day care cen
ters and other phases of community
development. Vistas are on call
twenty-four hours a day, seven days
a week, but enjoy a maximum seven-
day vacation leave and emergency
sick leave among other fringe bene
fits. Their financial receipts are slight
and include a small bi-monthly liv
ing allowance and a readjustment
stipend at the end of their year’s
service.
Local VISTA volunteers were re
quested by and are sponsored by
the Madison-Buncombe Rural De
velopment Council and Mars Hill
College. The local VISTA project is
designed for twenty-five volunteers
and as new Vistas become avail
able the present number of nine will
be increased.
Maintaining an office in the Office
Building is two-year VISTA veteran
and local VISTA director, Richard
Hames. Mr. Hames coordinates the
efforts of his Vistas, of which seven
are from the national pool and two
are local and have lived all their
lives in the communities in which
they are working.
Volunteers and their respective
assigned communities in Madison
County are as follows: Mr. & Mrs.
Jack Heckscher, Hot Springs; Nancy
Morgan, Shelton; Diana Buzard,
Laurel; Ron Bedrick, Long Ridge;
Jim Adams, Bluff, Meadow Fork and
Spring Creek; Pete McDermott,
Paint Rock; Mrs. Myrtle Ray, Sodom;
and Eddie Williams, Spillcorn. As
more Vistas are assigned, com
munities in Buncombe County will
also be served.