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Page Two MARS HILL, NORTH CAROLINA Saturday, May 9,1i*3turday, May PfizHAentiaL liedp.OHde In response to the April 25 Hilltop editorial which questioned the existence of a commitment to black stu dents on the part of Mars Hill College, President Fred Bentley discussed with me several facets of the col lege’s overall commitment to all students. Dr. Bentley said that Mars Hill’s obligations to black students have largely been in the form of a paper com mitment. He said that the school is interested in con tinuing Its wide, cultural commitment to a broad Ap palachian region and that this commitment will include obligations to blacks and whites. Persons who are directly involved in student recruitment, such as Mr. Perry White, Director of Student Activities, have re cently established contacts with black or predominantly black high schools. Mars Hill’s involvement with the Upward Bound program has led to increased Interest in recruitment of blacks as has the tutorial work which has been done in black neighborhoods through the ef forts of the Community Development Institute. Each of these programs has the potential of recruiting blacks to Mars Hill College both in the near future and through out the coming decade. —Linda Baldwin LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS Mars Hill students have definitely resurrected them selves from the grave of antiquarian concepts which lie buried in the college’s past and have ascended in spirit to new realms of interest and commitment. This resur rection was exemplified Monday night when approxi mately 50 students converged in front of the adminis tration building to protest the shooting deaths of four Kent State University students when National Guards men fired into a crowd of student demonstrators who protested recent U. S. actions in Cambodia. A group of MHC students presented a list of griev ance, which they demanded be immediatly remedied, to President Fred Bentley. President Bentley had been sum moned to the scene by Student Government Associ ation President Danny Ray who was seeking to estab lish a line of communication between the students and a representative of the administration. President Bentley, in the forum which followed his arrival, read off all the grievances and answered them individually. In rebuttal to a request that he promise to never call National Guardsmen into Mars Hill, he said that he would take whatever measure he deemed nec essary, at whatever time, to protect this educational en terprise and the community at large. I do not believe President Bentley could have made a more sound or more ethical decision. He mentioned that he could only make that promise if students would promise that cam pus conflicts would always be subject to internal solu tion and control. It was a good rebuttal. In response to oral speculation on the part of some students concerning the unjustified firing of guns by campus policemen. President Bentley promised to look into the matter. He had not been aware of such actions. Dr. Bentley said that, while he was always willing to work with students to effect positive changes through the proper legislative channels, he naturally assumed a defensive role when called out of his home late at night to meet with a group of students who presented illogical requests and used tactics of sen sationalism. He encouraged the students to work for their desired changes through the Student Government Association and to make full use of campus communi cations media. Mars Hill students have ever-widening opportunities to effect innovations: in order for the SGA, WMHC and the Hilltop to be effective instruments of the students’ voice and wishes, these organizations must be utilized. I would like to see increased participation in the Hilltop and WMHC and an expanding range of support offered to SGA. These organizations will literally be rendered useless without this support. At the same time I would like to see increased com munication between the administration and.these or ganizations. Next year, with the expanded role of stu dents on this campus, these organizations will serve as liaisons between the administration and the students. I would like to see regular appointments scheduled for the SGA President, the General Manager of WMHC, and the Editor-in-Chief of the Hilltop with President Bentley, Vice President Hoffman and Vice President Sears. I would recommend open seminars between the latter- mentioned persons and the students at a more fre quent rate than have been had this year. Students, especially student officers, can not ef fectively carry out their duties if notified of adminis trative and legislative decisions after the fact. They must be tributary members of the administrative stream of actions in much the same way as the administration has an advisory voice in directing student life. Thanks bunches. —Linda Baldwin I KEVlElN WITrtTHl^ THe EVENre CF AAARKED ^IT-IN& Pi^oreSTS, I^CT? & GENEIZAL •Souruld tlie ime6 Dear Editor, The other night I had the oppor tunity to sit and listen to a rather spontaneous meeting between Presi dent Bentley and approximately 50 students. This meeting occurred as a result of student concern over the killing of four Kent University stu dents by National Guardsmen pres ent on their campus. The meeting proceeded to accomplish little as is typical of meetings of this nature with the president. It should be obvious by now to all who have participated in such meetings that whenever the presi dent is coerced into this type of ’’gathering” (I use the term gather ing because, in effect, that’s all it amounts to) little can be accomp lished relative to what initially was intended to be accomplished. This remains true because of the fact that the situation, per se. Invariably dictates the frame of mind the president will be in at the time he views the students and the situation and obviously this frame of mind is not to the advantage of the students concerned. In such a situation the president will use and has used administra- The Hilltop offers deepest condolences to Mr. Roger Johnson in the recent loss of his father. the Mars Hill College hIUtod Editor-in-Chief Linda Baldwin Managing Editor Terry Kuykendall Advertising Manager - Gary Singleton Proofreaders Connie Cauble, Rick Garrison, John Ulmer Typists Chris Pierce, Frank Farrell Linda Ritchie, Karen Cummings Circulation Manager Jim Hayes Photographers Ken Stephens, Joe Franklin Dana Hale David Shores Nannette Payne Fred Spitzoff Harry Quiett Laine Calloway Ed Robinson Second-class postagt paid at Mars Hill, N. C. Published IS times during the college year. Box 486-T, Mars HUI, N. C. 28754 Telephone 689-1250 by Linda Baldwin In its Decemb Well, rejoice, gang. The old adage that mW iiiding committei never cease is becoming more beiievabie every' Jrning the ciairr Last night the cafeteria initiated the first of several tat the moral sti novative and welcome changes when it provided cool tjt directing the and soft drinks in all dorms and cottages. The goo In making its probably seemed like manna from heaven to the ID, the Board g starved bookworms who partook of the treat in S'^Nents the foil exaltation. The cafeteria provided the service fra® Hrect interest tc charge and the Student Government Association ® fry positive eir plied volunteers to assist in the delivery of the Hits meeting or freshments. Hats off to the cafeteria for this surf There is defir snacks. excessiv Dr. Fred Bentley, President of Mars Hill ColK lotal hours the c recently announced that the cafeteria plans to classes, ma at least one special treat each week during both sesi htuming on' Sun of summer school. These treats will include such tot prepared for tivities as picnics, Hawaiian dinners, watermelon tlher day. The i tings and cook-outs. The weekly gourmet festivities * Taiti of academ rival Shoney’s and Suds ’n Pizza; who knows? ,*eet minimum r Sigma Kappa Lambda social fraternity received ® ^ takes the st new brothers at the regular meeting April 20. MeisMars QQUeg, of the spring pledge class were Rick Chiles, am®* It is the opinio golf amateur, David Krickan, Pete Lampby, CUSjiocigi aotivities Orr, Herbert Peek (pledge class president). Jack P* Nuct on the | ards, Doug Thomas and Steve Williams. The pl®^'®«ipus social a class, which lasted approximately eight weeks, '''hstantiate any climaxed by a party in Hickory, April 18-19. *the students Following the induction of new members, elects The students, officers for 1970-71 was held. The results are: the administr Hough, President: Tom Myers, Vice President, 'Pitied to feel Chinnamon, Treasurer; Steve Williams, Secretary:'JJ *operty” and/or tive rhetoric to refute grievances presented by the students. The stu dents, as a result, are unable to offer a suitable rebuttle to sub stantiate their demands. Subsquent- ly, the students are stupified and more than likely must seem, in the eyes of President Bentley, like a bunch of dumb little kids who are caught in a degree of sensational ism and really didn’t know what their aims are or what they want to accomplish. One of Dr. Bentley’s primary bases for refusing the ma jority of student-planned reforms is his rationale that when one matri culates in Mars Hill College he auto matically accepts the objectives strived for by the college. Inevitabil ity, objectives must be obtained through a means which will be rela- vent to the times. The Chapel program is just one example of this. A few years ago students were assigned seats in Chapel and if they ever cut then they were suspended. Obviously, the student aware of this consequence was careful not to exceed the amount of cuts alloted to him. But how much benefit did these stu- (Continued on P. 3) pa Lambda is MHC’s only purely social fraternity’ ^ssession and File 34, being appreciative of good editorial ^tic or hallucii bestows admiration upon Editor Hayes Goodrum Assistant Editor Diane Brown of The Laurel tot outstanding work and achievement on this year’s Handbook, ory book. Their long hours, tedious tasks, and existing rule times unrewarded efforts all contributed to the I’*’* success. Hats also go off to Cadenza Editor Gary S® ton whose second literary magazine went on sale 6* this week. The Veterans Administration has sent out a bulletin which found its way, through the grace suoDort U. S. Post Office, into the Hilltop copy box. All ‘ veterans are reminded that they must return tlflr'atinn r\f M.. 3nCl Trus i/, j ^ Thomas and David Krickan, Pledge Masters. Sigma caused by tHi '66 recommei issue unequiv We the Comm '■Jri 'Ve that Mar be realized Soard of Tn , 'be same tim comr recomm( '69e; and es| I'^ial committf ®63ues and t Have ' In Pay fo, V /I TVoJui The Hilltop Staff wishes to express our 6l®®p|i irc’ predation and admiration to Mr. Walter P. Smith, tor of Public Information and Advisor to The Laui'*’ The Hilltop. This man has unfailingly offered jo®® tic criticism, technical assistance, and person®' couragement through the production of each the newspaper. He’s a bridge over sometimes tr®'* waters. MA tification of attendance cards during the last full hmi r ii of every enrollment period. The current semester'll®"'"^®''* end next week for Mars Hill students. (Quit celebr®’ and read on.) VA computers are programmed to f pare the final check this spring for the 1969-70 sc" year only after the certification of attendance carr^ been received. What’s more, if the card is not returned at the the current semester, the student cannot be autom®’ ly enrolled under the G.l. Bill next semester. College registrars also have a role to play. They promptly return the veterans’ re-enrollment certic'®' to the VA so the veteran may start receiving his on schedule the next semester he is in school- ^ a reminder there. Silver Fox. Everyone attending school under a VA prograi® the responsibility of keeping the VA informed ®®j whether thre has been a change in the number pendents, or in his enrollment program. The NoDoz Service Award of this week 9°^ Frank Farrell, faithful Hilltop typist who stayed wH*' Hilltop editors until the wee hours of dawn last day morning. He helped to revamp the paper aft®' campus demonstration late Monday night (see page one) and courageously endured the aches of lessness. In case anyone who might be reading this didn’t make it to Collegiate Sound, the show rific. The Phi Mu Alpha chaps, along with all thos® participated in the show, did a really fine job i® J senting the first annual Collegiate Sound. The shov®^ a good turnout and an even better response. Auditorium certainly has never hosted a livelier, entertaining group and Mars Hill has never had '*T reason to be proud of the ingenuity, talent and of®® production of its students. A veddy good showl , The Associated Collegiate Press has awards®^ , Hilltop a rating of First class for its fall, 1969 edn,^ (Hard work really pays off!) You Roor L. PhD
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