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Jid ^oi" any one of a dozen terms
have been coined to dis-
9uish it from the average run-of-
I Wednesday. All of them, at
so^ indicate some sort of con-
, jtsf® for the environment.
fo p|>n the Mars Hill Campus, as on
3 1,000 college campuses across
I United States, there will be a
enWciai program; on the local cam-
® if will be sponsored jointly by
® Administration, the Biology
Student Government and
'■Seta and hopefully will generate
hiIItod
MARS HILL, NORTH CAROLINA
Little Bo Peep has lost her
sheep!
Pollution got ’em
—T. K.
(See lead Story.)
April 11, 1970
interest among students, faculty and
community. For those who don’t
consider themselves knowledgeable
enough to converse intelligently on
the subject (environmental pollu
tion — if you haven’t guessed by
now) it’s also an excellent oppor
tunity to pick up a lot of useful in
formation.
The day-long program will begin
at 10:00 a.m. with several movies
presented by the U.S. Park Service
in Moore Auditorium. (Classes will be
adjusted to allow students to at
tend.) These will be followed by
lectures by park service personnel,
who will be available for classes
following the morning program. At
2:30 p.m., there will be more short
films and filmstrips in the library au
ditorium, sponsored by the biology
department A panel discussion at
4:00 will follow. As of this date, it
will consist of the following indi
viduals: Rev. Richard Price, pastor
of the Mars Hill Baptist Church,
amateur naturalist, and honorary
member of Tri-Beta, moderating: Dr.
Fred Diercks representing the bi
ology department: Mr. Charles Frost,
Air Pollution Control Director from
Asheville; Representative John Ste
vens, State legislature: Mr. Don Ran
dolph, U.S. Plywood-Champion Pa
pers; and Mr. Marvin Palmer, Direc
tor of the Public health Laboratories
trip
mal
ntemational Club Has Happening Tonight
by the Mars Hill College Interna
tional Club. Performances of music
dances will be presented at
and
®night at 7 p.m. the John Cecil
f Biltmore Dairy Bar in
hi scene of an
' .^''national Happening presented 7;30, 8:30, and 9:30 p.m. Between
ar'
be
Student-Faculty Unity
bargained For And Won
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Proposal to include students on
1 committees was adopted by
O'' faculty at its regular monthly
Tuesday.
^hil^ action, which takes effect
. fPe opening of the 1970-71
9 ®®mic year, will give students
;di voice in the management
; college.
P ,®Uier this school year the facul-
turned down a similar sug
Van
but Tuesday’s vote was
g 'vheimingiy in favor of the prO'
— something like 67-2. it
that a good deal of behind-
l^^^cenes work has taken place
® the first vote.
1 ® new procedure, technicaiiy
in^'^^^Pge in the facuity’s byiaws
^ Constitution, converts what has
“Faculty Committees” into
itujj Committees” by adding
members. In most instances
,'vill be two students on each
Criteria for their selec-
'^>'6 actuai election procedures
^ ® Ue worked out by SGA.
ni.'Jniitt,
ees to which students
Vijij."” added include the following:
'P9 Lecturers and Campus Sem-
'Jiley Invited
hist ■ *^3Ney Joliey, professor of
''sto
Oti
at Mars Hill College, who
® leave of absence was in
i', j. Py Secretary of State William
to participate in a Na-
for I Poreic
I •''icign Policy Conference
Apr||®®9ers in higher education on
Ranking officers of
)0l P’^^'^Pnent of State have taken
$0 current issues to be an-
^ Topics such as ’’Teacher
S 3 '■'U Affairs,” “Nation Bulld-
Newly Independent Coun-
v, “Population and Pover-
discussed.
inars. Religious Life, Curriculum,
Traffic, Library, Athletics, and Plans
and Policies.
Editorial View
The evolution of channelled com
munications between students and
faculty members concerning the ac
tual direction of the college has
been a long, slow, and sometimes
tedious process. The latest addition
in these channelled communica
tions—the changing of Faculty Com
mittees to College Committees and
the addition of students to these
committees — should enhance both
the overall development of the col
lege and student-faculty relation
ships. The Hilltop joins with the
rest of the student body in heaving
a great sigh of relief that this ac
tion has now been taken.
I believe that the potential value
of this action is obvious and does
not, at this time, need explanation.
However, I am concerned about the
criteria by which students will be
chosen to participate in these com
mittees. I would like to see students
file for a position on a particular
committee; by placing a student on
a committee in which he is parti
cularly interested, the Student Gov
ernment Association Senate would
be more assured of active service
on the part of the students than if
the student were placed in a com
mittee by random choice or by the
choice of the Senate alone.
I am sure that, while both stu
dents and faculty are encouraged
by the potential of this new method
of negotiation, we are all aware of
the need for this method to prove
itself at Mars Hill; the establish
ment of criteria for choosing stu
dent participants is of vital im
portance to us all.
—Linda Baldwin
performances an exhibition of karate
will be given and exhibits of handi
crafts will be displayed. Mr. Per
Sorenson, who has spoken before
the Asheville Rotary Club and the
Mars Hill Roteract Club, will be the
guest of honor. A native of Den
mark, Mr. Sorenson will preside
over a Danish Lottery. Mr. R. J.
(Joe) Kowal will be Master of Cere
monies. He is best known for his
work with Little Theatre productions.
Fortune telling and foreign foods
will round out the evening.
The Mars Hill International Club
was founded in 1966 by Dr. and
Mrs. Roman Gorski. Dr. Gorski, who
was born in Europe, has studied
at Columbia University, Yale Uni
versity’s Institute of International Re
lations and has received a doctor
ate from the Sorbonne in Paris.
When a student at Columbia he was
twice elected vice president of the
Student Council of the International
House in New York City. Mrs. Gor
ski, like her husband, has studied
in many parts of the world. Her
education includes studying in
Paris, Vienna and Bogota, Colum
bia.
The desire of Dr. and Mrs. Gorski
in establishing the International Club
was to help students on campus
who have come from abroad feel
more at ease in the United States
and to give them hopefully, an opti
mistic view of American society.
On a broader base the International
Club hopes to promote brotherly
love and to help create greater un
derstanding among all peoples and
all nations.
With this in mind the Interna
tional Club will present an Inter
national Happening. Tickets are on
sale at Cagle’s Music Company,
78 Patton Avenue for one dollar
per person.
As the Honorable Wayne Mont
gomery, M.D., Mayor of the City of
Asheville, in endorsing an Interna
tional Happening had to say:
“Every community needs to strive
towards the ideals of the Mars Hill
College International Club, namely,
the brotherhood of men for all na
tions and all peoples.”
Everyone is urged to attend Mars
Hill International Club’s. “An Inter
national Happening.”
for Western North Carolina.
The keynote speaker oft he day
will be Mr. Larry Bancroft of Wash
ington, D.C., also with the U.S.
Park Service. Mr. Bancroft, who was
obtained by Dr. Harley Jolley, will
speak on “A Matter of Time,” and
will be accompanied by an excellent
film of the same title. This will begin
at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium of the
Baptist Church and will conclude
the day’s activities.
The environment and pollution
should be a topic of vital concern
to everyone, since, by virtue of the
fact that man would find it rather
difficult to move to another planet,
he is “trapped” by his environment
— unless the moon and the other
planets become readily accessible
in the near future. For the moment
at least, then, the earth upon which
we live is all that man has to work
with, and it’s only recently that
concern has been expressed over
his wanton disregard of his fellow
creatures and the environment
which they all must share in com
mon. Waste products just don’t
disappear when dumped in streams
or oceans; they often upset na
ture’s delicate balances. Ecology,
which is primarily concerned with
the study of these delicate balances,
was a once-neglected field of bi
ology, but has now become the
vogue for biology majors; and little
known ecologists, such as Eugene
Odum and Paul Ehrlich, have be
come acknowledged leaders in the
fight against pollution.
Ecologists are beginning to sound
like the Old Testament prophets,
predicting not only the end of the
oceans (biologically speaking), but
also mass famine, over-population,
and death by starvation.
Appealling or not, this is an Issue
which concerns every student at
MHO. Unlike some issues which can
be avoided, like drugs, sex (?), or
the VietNam War, (by some of the
luckier ones), this is one with which
everyone has to iive. Ampie oppor
tunity has been provided for
every student to get involved, and
all are being encouraged to do so.
Pay Your Bills, People
The Laurel is Coming Soon
The distribution of the 1970
Laurel is scheduled to begin im
mediately following the Awards Day
Convocation on Aprii 30, according
to Editor Hayes Goodrum.
The distribution point will be at
the Hilltop-Laurel-Cadenza office in
the Montague Building. The pro
cedure for receiving a book will be
the same as last year.
In order for a student to receive
his Laurel, he must have unpaid
bills settled with the college. This
includes infirmary bills, traffic fines,
and library fines as well as debts
in the business office. If all ac
counts are settled, a student will
receive a card in his mail box to
this effect by Friday, April 24. If
a student does not receive a card,
he will not be eligible to receive
a book and should check by the
business office to make some other
arrangements.
I
Mrs. Roman Gorski helps Alice Oliver adjust her costume for the
Happening which is to be held in Asheville tonight.
International