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Page Two MARS HILL, NORTH CAROLINA February 14, ruary 1 Several Comments The following cartoon is a reply to UNC-A’s Ridge- runner, which, in its Jan. 30 issue, bestowed upon Mars Hiil Coiiege its own cartoon personaiity, Prudence F. The cartoon mocked both Mr. Whiteside’s editoriai praise of this schooi (see above editoriai) and siashed at this piace with such cutting remarks as "foliow the yeiiow brick cowpath to Mars Hill.” Of course, the Hilltop can consider the source of such remarks and chaik it up to UNC-A’s youth and relatively trivial journalism. As for Prudence, welcome. — Linda Baldwin UJ tit //;// UM't f$ -h yii,t THAT / / LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS (Editor’s note: This was the editorial presented Dec. 11 on WLOS-TV by Arthur Whiteside. Mr. Whiteside was commenting on an editorial in THE RIDGERUNNER, UNC-A’s campus newspaper.) GIVE, DON’T GRIPE We have just experienced the displeasure of reading the December 5th issue of ‘The Ridgerunner”—UNC- Asheville’s student newspaper. Its lead editorial berates Asheville for being, as the editor puts it, “apathetic,” and a “clunky town” with “illusions of grandeur.” Seeming to imply that the “establishment,” and all over 30, are quite content to sit back and let their town suffer from physical, moral and social decay. We could say it isn’t so and we could, furthermore, document it. But instead, we’ll say that if some stu dents at UNC-Asheville don’t like what they see, let them roll up their sleeves and get involved. The best way to get change is to make it. And having inserted that knife, we’ll proceed to twist it. Up in Madison County there’s a very square college called Mars Hill, with an equally square student body culled from the rural and urban South. But they don’t sit on the sidelines and gripe. They get out to effect change. We'll cite just a few examples: About 80 Mars Hill College students are involved in tutoring an equal number of elementary and high school students in Ashe ville and Madison County. They spend as much as 3 to 4 hours a week with the student in his home. Without pay. With the hope that the young people they help today will be better equipped to serve thier fellowmen tomorrow. Last summer the college had about 15 Vista Volun teers working in several Madison County communities. And, if we’re not boring you, the college also offers an internship program in community development. After 6 to 10 weeks in the classroom, discussing political science, community organization, the power structure and economics, the students move out into the field for actual work with various public agencies such as police, fire, health, welfare, CEC or the Redevelopment Com mission. The college has the only Upward Bound program in all of Western North Carolina. It’s year-round. It serves about 65 tenth and eleventh grade students from Buncombe and Madison counties. These are young people who are judged to be underprivileged economic ally, socially, culturally and academically. There’s a per sonal contact once a week. Then, they live on the Mars Hill College campus for 8 weeks in the summer. For many it has been their first real chance to mingle with those who care, to see plays, to go to concerts, to travel out side of the state, and to discover that they can do better academically. They have seen doors open to a better world. We could tell you more. But what we’ve told you should demonstrate that more good can be accomplish ed by giving than griping. Apathy, like obscenity, is in the mind of the beholder. 'WU.bC;ix HW rKOYcl^ i-i-uai TEAC«£g.THAT I HAVE PECIPEP TCMCVE UP (fJTP ACMNl5imi^* Soundd the ^imed Dear Editor, It seems as if the two-week-long flu epidemic Mars Hill College has been experiencing is about to sub side. Thank heavens it is finally over. Recent days have been filled with the glazed eyes of our stricken classmates, the hours of tortuous daytime television for those too weak to leave their beds, the sicken ing sound of the symtomatic, hack ing cough ringing through the dorms and the ever-present question “How do you feel?” But now it seems to be over, and with the exception of a few who are critically ill, things will soon be back to normal at old Mars Hill. Cr will they? Cn the surface the epidemic does- not appear to have had catastrophic consequences, or does it? The stu dent body responded well to the crisis; students helping their friends or roommates were a common sight. For the most part the faculty took the situation into consideration and slowed their class assignment pace so as to make it possible for the sick to catch up when they were able to return. There were, however, those who reported “not much above the normal absentee level” (see sounding board, p. 3) The Hilltop expresses deepest condolences to Bill Johnson in the loss of a brother in Viet Nam. the Mars Hill College hIIItop Editor-in-Chief Linda Baldwin Managing Editor Terry Kuykendall Feature Editor Sam Wallace Sports Editor John Berry Advertising Manager Singleton Assistant Advertising Manager Carolyn Stamey Proofreaders Connie Cauble, Rick Garrison Photographers Ken Stephens, Joe Franklin Typists Chris Pierce, Frank Farrell, Patsy Davis Linda Ritchie, Karen Cummings Circulation Manager Jini Hayes Dana Hale David Shores Richard Sparkman Fred Spitzoff Harry Quiett Steve Morris Ed Robinson >4ike Burch Jim Ewart Elizabeth Underwood ^ .Oao Second-class postage paid at Mars Hill, N. C. Published 15 times during the college year. Box 486-T, Mars Hill, N. C. 28754 // Telephone 689-1250 press Kil e unJd (contim =on the official! and pushed on irregardless of the wheezing breath and pale color of most of their students. These pro fessors were the ones that students feared to cut for they knew the inevitable effect such an abuse, sickness or not, would have on their grade and such a lack of considera tion has come to be expected from them. On the whole the faculty did the best they could considering their timidity and inherent lack of cour age. It is in the powerful administration division of the college that the real tragedy took place. All hopes of an approaching coalition between stu dents and administration were dash ed, perhaps forever, by the gravity of the campus situation. Negligence in understanding such a thing be speaks of incompetence in and of itself. The almost total disregard for the students’ welfare that was ex hibited by our college officials dur ing this past week from the Presi dent on down was nothing short of criminal. From the outset of the epidemic there was a crying lack of percep- by Sam Wallace As the flu bug continues to lay siege upon Mar/J’® College, File 34 asks the question “What can be Worthy about this attacker of man, woman, and college studice n to Some students have found comfort in a bottle, LisWs of thi The only problem with using Listerine is that you were like a walking hospital. The most popular and re’® mended solution is to go the antibiotics trail. One i go to the infirmary and get a standing preserf Editor, from the visiting doctor or even stay in the infii'f U. S. if there is room (the infirmary only has room ic contri patients and only one nurse is on duty on each passive Other students have resorted to a remedy frofflostwar shelf of a drug store. Either way it usually means stirian Go\ in the dorm until the bug passes. tppreciat altruist Last week during the peak of the flu epidemic soi’ the pas confirmed that 300 to 400 students had flu. if you war, your bug in your room it could mean missing jPfesiden test or just completely missing a day or several ' homework. If you are a freshman it could mean bri^the Arne you closer to the magic number of six cuts. Last ht of Nig there was a rumor that MHC would be closed bee who ha- of the proportions of the flu epidemic. File 34 suffer the question “Why wasn’t MHC closed during th'”®®* B the mi ®P*demic?” By the way, whatever happened to the flicks that Program shown during the early part of last semester? ||^® Raquel Welch and Bob Hope movies were very P®Njggfjg and tended to lend a hand to Mars Hill CassanovaCEF’s e had no greens. Part of the mass movement ed earli MHC during the weekends could be solved withnutrition grams such as this. epidemic , threat t( Seniors interested in working for the Feds shouk cle Feb. 24 on their calendar. On this date the F® Service Entrance Examination (FSEE) will be cond^ at 1:00 in Room 31 of the Administration Building’ examination is used to fill entrance-level position over 200 occupations ranging from data processif general administration. About half of the posltioni the Government in which a college education is h* sary are filled through the FSEE. Any students intf ed in taking the test should contact Miss Binghai Room 31 of the Administration Building. There is a story told about a football player transferred from Carson-Newman to MHC during s^* semester. He had already been enrolled by Mr. Chap and had been assigned a room. Mrs. Alexander, his L mother, introduced him to some of the studehL Brown Dormitory. During his conversation with the! the courses and teachers he was taking arose i" conversation. When he told the group he had a c® History teacher, a well-known Biology teacher, a certain English teacher, he was met with cries of anP and despair, everyone wishing him the best undei circumstances. Obviously this reaction affected this That night while his roommate was asleep, the fo> player packed his clothes and left MHC and has been heard of since. For you nature lovers who would like to see a gli" of spring even in the dead of winter, the Biology D®l ment has announced the donation of 21 plant pis| from Mrs. Bernice S. McKay, a former member o' MHC faculty. The plaques are made from exact pressions of the plants and are painted in oil. A manent display case has been constructed in the' foyer of Wail Science Building. Congratulations go out to Dean and Mrs. Bill SeS| the new addition to their family, Stacy Rene, on 23. K There is a sign on the Marshall highway besid® Montague Building which, until two weeks specified that Marshall was 11 miles away. It now sf ties that Marshall is 12 miles hence. Either the quake last semester really shook up the mountains o* celerating Asheville has gone too far. File 34 salutes Don McCaskill and the BSU for the superbly planned Christian Focus Week, musical arrangements were outstanding and Grady was an amusing and inspirational speaker. The NoDoz Service Award of this week goes nurses in the infirmary for their efforts during tN epidemic. File 34 will sponsor a Miss Valentine’s Day CO^ the day before Valentine’s Day. All interested co n' TDt BUv OR: APR THIS syw Pair ^A1 ■Ame ants should meet in the Hilltop Office at 2 p.m. Contestant rules will be announced at the co^ Judges will be male members of the Hilltop Edl^~ Board. Prizes will be announced at the contest. iAB,
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