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Vol. XLV No. 2
MARS HILL, NORTH CAROLINA
Saturday, September 12, 1970
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Interns Wrap-Up
Summer Work
by Linda Baldwin
The Summer Resource Develop
ment Internship Program of the
Community Development Institute
provided 50 students from ten col
leges and universities an opportun
ity to work this summer in agencies
in Western North Carolina which are
devoted to social and economic de
velopment. Initiated last summer as
a pilot project of the Southern Re
gional Education Board, the 1970
program operated with funds from
Mars Hill College, the Appalachian
Regional Commission and matching
agency funds; the cost of salaried
positions, administration and over
head was underwritten with Federal
funds (Title I, Higher Education Act).
The internship program, the larg
est and most comprehensive in the
state, was directed by Miss Sheron
Keiser, teacher of political science
and Director of the Community De
velopment Institute and was co
ordinated by Linda Baldwin, a senior
majoring in Political Science- Soci
ology and English and formerly
Editor-in-Chief of the Hilltop.
In essence, the student interns,
representing schools from Harvard
University in Cambridge, Massachu
setts to St. John’s College in Sante
Fe, New Mexico, provided agencies
with immediate manpower assistan
ce. They carried out research, evalu-
atory or task-oriented propects
which were of special interest to in
dividual agencies which otherwise
might not have been able to have
these projects. The program, which
offered an optional six hours aca
demic credit in any department at
MHC, not only provided a service
for the agencies involved but also
provided students a more relevant
educational experience.
Interns received a $840 stipend
for a 12-week period and reimbursent
on some mileage incurred during
their projects. They were provided
with a technical advisor from the
sponsoring agency and with a facul
ty conselor to aid in project defini
tion and direction. A number of sem-
(Cont. on P. 3)
Coward Classic
Haunts Owen Stage
On August 31 and September 1
tryouts for the play “Blithe Spirit”
by Noel Coward were held in the
Owen Building by the Mars Hill
College Drama department.
The leading roles will be played
by Allen Kirk, Theresa Edsall and
Janey Fishburne. Allen and Theresa
have performed on the Owen Stage
is a freshman and
this wMI be her first performance
at MHC.
The play deals with a husband
and his second wife and the prob
lems that they face when his first
wife comes from beyond the grave
to haunt him.
David Holcombe, professor of
Drama, will direct this play which
will be produced on October eight,
ninth, and tenth.
Revolutionary Curriculum
Accentuates High Quality
Mr and Mrs. Tony Surace, Resident Counselors In Spilman Dorm, are In the process ol
explaining the many rules in the Student Handbook to three freshmen students.
★ ★ ★ ★
Closer Contact With Students
Aim Of New Counselor System
When students returned to school
August 24, they found a new set-up
in housing leadership. Young mar
ried couples have replaced “house
mothers” who retired last year. The
staff has been greatly increased this
year with a total of 16 Resident
Counselors and 31 Resident Assist
ants.
Resident Counselors (formerly
"house mothers” or “hostesses ) are
ultimately responsible for the man
agement of their residence halls.
They work in cooperation with the
Resident Assistants, student gov
ernment, and house officers in pro
viding leadership and guidance for
their hall. Resident Counselors this
year include Mrs. Ruby Alexander
Brown; Mrs. Lillie Rogers, Melrose,
Mrs. Lela Mae Rotan, Stroup; Mrs.
Margaret Bryant, Huffman; Mr. and
Mrs. Bill Newton, Myers; Mr. and
Mrs. Ken Ferguson, Treat; Mr. and
Mrs. Robbie Henley, Fox; Mr. and
Mrs. Tony Surace, Spilman; Mr. and
Mrs. Bob White, Edna Moore; and
Mr. and Mrs. Gary Colvin, Jarvis.
Resident Assistants have been
assigned to all halls this year for
the first time. They assist the Resi
dent Counselors in carrying out the
duties of the hall. “Since they often
have closer contact with students,
their views as students are valuable
to the Resident Counselors and to
the administration. A very important
duty which they carried out during
orientation was to serve as group
leaders in the orientation of fresh
men and transfer students,” com
ments Mrs. Joyce, Director of Stu
dent Development.
Resident Assistants in the men’s
halls include Sammy Lucas and John
Prim, Myers; Gary Lawing, Gerald
Whitley and Jim Mifflin, Gibson;
Danny Phillips and Richard Perkins,
Brown; Charles Lang and Al Purvis,
Melrose; Clyde Campbell, John Fish
er and Randal Phillips, Spilmanj
Bernie Perchinski, Woodrow Cot
tage; Joe Hyatt, Treat; George May
nard, Bowden Cottage; Jeff Thomp
son, Copper Cottage; and Don Fox,
Phillips Cottage.
Women Resident Assistants in
clude Nina Abrams, Mary Ann
Brown, Shirley McIntosh, Diane Leo-
hardt, Sandra Phillips, Elizabetti
Reed, Edna Moore; Sheryl Fowler
Margaret Mashbun, Teesa White
Margaret Mein, Nancy Brazel
Stroup; Stephanie Stimpert, Eliza
beth Underwood, Sally Sligh, Kay
HuffVnan, Huffman; Suzanne Mc-
Guirt, Gail Baker, and Martha Law-
son, Fox.
This year Resident Counselors
and Resident Assistants were chosen
by Dean Sears and Dean Logan. Be
ginning this year, the Resident Coun
selor Association, made up of Resi
dent Counselors and Resident As
sistants, will appoint a committee
who will work in cooperation with
Dean Sears and Mrs. Joyce in se
lecting a new staff for 1971-72.
Even though the school year is
less than a month old. Dean Sears
and Mrs. Joyce view the residence
hall set-up optimistically. Dean Sears
says, “The Residence Counselor net
work allows more leadership by
members of the student body in all
phases of student life than ever be
fore.” “I have great confidence in
our residence hall staff this year
and am pleased with the spirit in
which these people are cooperating
with us“ states Mrs. Joyce. “I feel
that our responsibility is to give the
staff proper leadership and suppor
to carry out their jobs effectively.”
by Terry Kuykendall
A complete overhaul of calendar
and curriculum has taken place dur
ing the faculty workshop at Wolf
Laurel. After the faculty ended their
pre-school workshop. Dr. Richard
Hoffman, vice-president of academic
affairs, announced that beginning
September 1971, the 12-months aca
demic year will be divided into five
terms. The new five-term curriculum
will be divided into a fall semester
of 17 weeks to end before the Christ
mas holidays, a January term of
three weeks, a spring semester of
the same duration as the fall sem
ester, a June term of three weeks
and a summer term of seven weeks.
It is called the 4-1-4-1-2 curriculum.
The new curriculum wil be based
on a course requirement and not on
the standard hour requirement.
Whereas, under the present system
a student is required to have 128
semester hours for graduation, the
new curriculum requires only 35
courses for graduation. This change
means a reduction of approximately
one-sixth of the former number of
courses.
In the new curriculum the number
of required core courses was re
duced and the number of electives
was increased in order that a stu
dent will spend a third of his college
career in the core, a third in his
major and a third in elective courses.
Requirements for the Bachelor of
Arts degree and the Bachelor of
Science degree will be as follows:
1. 35 courses, of which four must
be short-term courses.
2. Twelve of the 31 regular-term
courses be upper-level courses.
3. An overall average of “C” on
all courses.
4. A maximum of three activity
courses to be used for graduation.
This is the equivalent of twelve
semester hours.
“The 4-1-4-1-2 does not refer to
the calendar;” said Bob Knott, “it
refers to courses.” The normal load
for a student under this new curri
culum will be four courses in the
fall and spring terms, one course in
the January and June terms and dur
ing the summer term two courses
will be normal for the student.
In the “core” courses a new
course has been created called an
“inquiry” course. In the “inquiry”
course the students and the profes
sor will decide on a topic for the
course, the method by which the
course is to be conducted, the form
by which the course shall be re
corded and, if necessary, presented.
It was thought by the committee
which designed the new curriculum
that a great many students from
high school have been taught that
learning consists of listening to
somebody say something and mem
orizing that for a few days and re
producing it on an examination. The
committee felt that there should be
other kinds of learning processes
and that it should come early in the
student’s college experience. In the
new curriculum, at least one “in
quiry” course will be required for
freshmen and sophomores.
Over 400 colleges and universities
in the nation are working under a
4-1-4 system but only a few offer
a 4-1-4-1-2. The colleges in North
Carolina on the 4-1-4 are St. An
drews in Laurinburg and N. C. Wes-
lyan with Elon, Guilford, Lenoir-
Rhyne and Wake Forest to soon
submit to the plan.
The basic difference of Mars Hill’s
4-1-4 is the added 1-2. During this
1-2 portion a student can take the
same basic load as the regular
summer. in the regular summer
terms a student could take 12 hours
and in the new summer terms a stu
dent can take one course in the
three week period and two courses
during the second summer term.
Thus, a student will be taking three
four-hour courses.
Research for the 4-1-4-1-2 curri
culum change was completed by the
Subcommittee on Curriculum De
velopment during the last school
year. This committee, representing
all the academic departments on
campus plus four students, pre
sented the plan to the faculty and
(Cont. on P. 3)
BSU Reflects
Need To Love
The Baptist Student Union and
the Methodist Student Movement
sponsored a pre-school retreat for
in-coming freshman and transfer stu
dents on August 23. President Bent
ley gave the welcoming address to
an estimated 200 plus crowd.
The central theme of the three
day program'was “love inn”. The
program included share groups,
films and panel discussions with
Rev. Richard Price and Rev. James
Long. One of the highlights of the
retreat was the talent show which
offered freshmen a chance to do
their own "thing”. Ed Seabough con
cluded the three day retreat with a
talk on “Students on Campus.”
Richard Sparkmen, president of
BSU, said that the retreat “was an
encounter designed to make one
aware of the needs of the world
around him the need to love and
be loved.”
Bill Johnson said that the whole
basis for the BSU Mission Program
is “the need to love and be loved.”
The Mission Program is another one
of the BSU’s focal points.
Every Sunday morning a team of
the Mission Program will leave Mars
Hill for the Tuberculosis Sanitorium
at Black Mountain for Sunday
School, Worship Service, conference
with the chaplains and direct work
with the patients. Several Sundays
throughout the months another group
will travel to the Veterans Adminis
tration Hospital at Oteen. Also a
group will go to the Juvenile Evalua
tion Center at Swannaoua.
The BSU is trying to make stu
dents realize the needs of the world
Richard said, “the need to love and
to be loved.”