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Page Four MARS HILL, NORTH CAROLINA Saturday, November Novemb jurnmi Agnew Speaks by Harry Quiett The Trouble With Diversity: It Won’t Fit Into One Categoiy •lashi mgton (CPS)- How well read are you? Do you have more than a nodding acquaints ance with the “in” authors of to-* day? Weil, if you are the average Mars Hiii student, facuity or staff member, you don’t. Spurred on by an articie in a recent issue of The New Republic, concerning wha America’s coiiege students are reading, i sent out a questionnaire via several willing profs. The sur vey was designed to determine how weli read we are at MHC. The finai resuits were at once encour aging and disheartening. The questionnaire was designed very simpiy (to be compatibie with my mentality) to determine mereiy how weli read or how weli acquaint ed people here are with works which, according to The New Re public article, are at the top of reading iists of coiiege students across the country. Just for good measure I aiso threw in the tities and authors of the best seiier iist for that week. The results were interesting though not at aii unexpected. Of the iist of books and authors from The New Republic article—which included such as: Hesse, Kafka, Vonnegut, Heller, Brautigan, South ern, Farina, Kesey, and Wolfe, and works such as: God Bless You Mr. Rosewater, Cats Cradle, Catch-22, Lord of the Flies, Electric Kool Aid Acid Test, and One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest. The only works MHC people were really familiar MAKEAN APPOINTMENT WITH OUR OOCTORS > DOCTOR FAUSTUS BDCSTni® Cliff's Notes are written by scholars who know how to help you study. Authors (predomi nantly Ph.D.’s) are carefully selected for their knowledge of a particular play or novel-plus ability to interpret its plot and characters so they will be relevant toyour literature course. This careful attention to quality has made Cliff’s Notes the most- used study aid on college campuses nationwide. Pick the title you need today-you’ll find it holds the key to efficient use of your study time. Nearly 200 titles available at: MARS HILL PHARMACY with were those of Hesse and Hei- ier, both of whom are discussed in the Humanities course. Those books and authors from the best seiier list fared somewhat better, with an aimost 25% recognition or acquaint ance response. Thus, the first gener al conclusion to be drawn is that MHC has just somehow miracui- ously missed being caught up in the mainstream of current American iiterary effort. —Associated Collegiate Press— Michael Bates, University Coliege-2, recentiy conducted an exciusive in terview wth Vice President Spiro T. Agnew. Foiiowing is word for word account of the interview. The second conciusion that can be drawn is much more encour aging? It is at least more interest ing when the subject matter of the works from The New Republic arti cle is considered. Ail these works are disestablishmentarian in nature. This immediately says two things about MHC. First, we are not in clined to the current onslaught of revolutionary adventures to the de gree of most students in American educational institutions. Second, we are largely unaware of the current ideologies sweeping the country. Take heart! Don’t hide in shame! There is hope for us yet. The Com munity Development Institute has established a miniature library of books for the socially and culturally aware Mars Hill person (the use of the word “person” may be awk ward, but “Mars Hillian” makes my skin crawl). Rick Garrison, a senior political science- sociology major, is one of four MHC stu dents who are members of the town voIun>> teer fire department. Rick and his wife Connie live in Mars Hill. Court Record On Oct. 13, W. O. Myrick and Ellert Pugh appeared before the Housing) Court of Mars Hill College Student Government Association charged re spectively with having a girl in a boy’s residence and being in a man’s dormitory at an undesignated time. Under the Court’s verdict of guilty they were placed on Conduct Pro-* bation. Student Government Asso ciation appealed Myrick and Pugh’s case to Student Court on Oct. 14, and to Appeals Court on Oct. 20. The Court of Appeals pronounced a ver-i diet of guilty and both were suspend ed. The CDI library is designed to alleviate the situation and acquaint anyone interested with some of the more current concepts. The collec tion consists of works on politics, religion, philosophy, sociology, and ecology. The following is a list of some of the more prominent titles: Do It—Jerry Rubin, America vs. American—James Michner, City Talk —Hopkins and Arenella, On Re volution — Hanna Arendt, Agenda for The Nation—Kermik Gordon (editor). Pax Americana—Ronaid Steel, Open Classroom—Herbert Kohl, Love and Will—Rollo May, The Arrogance of Power—Sen. William J. Fullbright, The Population Bomb —Dr. Paul Ehrlich, and The Social Contract—Robert Ardrey. On Nov. 3, Dick Morgan and Mack Byrd, charged with having girls in a boy’s residence, appeared before Student Court. Both entered a plea of guilty and were placed under judicial probation. The girls, being non-students of MHC, did not come under the court’s jurisdiction. On Nov. 10, Ernest Robbins, charg ed with possession and consumption of an alcoholic beverage on campus was brought before Student Court. His plea was innocent and, because of insufficient evidence, the charges were dropped. GET 10% DISCOUNT Sunday thru Thursday i'RiE y^ti IIR0N Bates: If you found a university student today. you think, aside from your S' ituiflfi Bates: What I’d basically like to center around, since we have such a short time, is more or less your throughts about college and oollege kids today. In other words, after your many trips throughout the United States, and after speaking to the thousands of people, what is your concept of just the typical American university student? VP: I don’t think there’s such a thing as a typical American univer sity student and too frequently we’re asked to reach a conclusion that there is. The people who ask for a composite university student raise the question that one is potentially in existence. The same for the peo ple in the communications media who love their generalizations of the young, the black and the poor, but our society is so varied, so infinitely complex that it’s unrealistic to expect that a bunch of young people coming from different back grounds, coming from different areas, and centering in a university, would immediately assume a homo geneous quality that they would all think alike. Now, there is a ten dency, in that circumstance, to de velop a peer opinion among stu dents. I don’t question the fact that principally, because of the impact of the liberal thinkers who, for the most part, dominate the faculties in the universities, that there is very little understanding of the philoso phies of the people such as me. There hasn’t been enough chance for me to communicate in depth with college students on my belief about the principles of the country, which is one reason why I welcome this interview with you—and there’s almost the image that anyone repre senting the conservative establish ment as a crass, contained rather cold, calculating person is hard to overcome. flU your activities would center other words, would you b® dent politics or ecology, VP: I just don’t know ^ answer that because my P activities emerged rather my life and during my I was much more intereste® conventional pursuits of tb® fraternity activities, athle®® the things that young doing in those days. Ther® this over-powering sense ® consciousness that exist® present time. Bates: Do you think to use the inaccessibility ment leaders—that the sort I of the Depart P ®*'on, and Welfa , °rty students lost I'lirect 'aw require; tective world of govern men'' is a hindrance to college understanding government® lems? In other words, it stilt access to the machinery of! ment more, could talk with say, like I’m talking to ye® think it would be a help? VP: It would—and y®'' that there’s a lot more of it on than we give It credit jf th® have intern programs m House—White House inf®’’" | an intern program wh®® ^ il'7 Governor that I set up t® ^ dents in during the summ®'^^ to work in the departt®^j|| government. We had i®^'®Lj. terns and White House P®,' J ■t. And':, programs of that sort as much communication ®® tj® ih ble. Now, students must that as elected officials, 'I't® represent a constituency the student population of try is probably less cent. We must be just a® to these other groups as students. They should b® , to us, but cert® access i®' superior access. And this problem of government, ti?® ^ do our jobs, too. One of think communication wo®' jjif proved would be if this f®®J()> a®‘^.,isi thing on the campus 0*®®® ing people to be heard are invited to come would just disappear, really is the most ai- facade that’s ever been er® intellectual community. Bates: Let me ask y®® b8®‘ anti-'^jf r®.'f question. I’m sure y°®. oh with President Nixon’s sp®® ,J feiy w and that there were a J ®id to 440 stud ^ “'f because of th ’'’"tpus disorders 2 V. - in the Studen •is Mile result of fed. - remaining 41 ',>'®trations of t fede an annual ■ j ®r of students ’ financial aid ®" but 160 of "hiversities sho ‘"ions |[ ® June of last cut off fun y t>H( by Gordon Gi a seme '1^® tjpon ® old professor students. The ®d much to 0 '"°rld about f " iiis iy. He was fille ideas, and ^ “ Possessions, te '"'ith these e> Profe ijp^fiaracteristic: ( irjDi I"® 9'’®' '*8ri fhls geran ^ Physical appe Part of his p tot(| ,^®ontributed to 'fs color andl in!', because it si the ®ot on the PrL'^'Sorous perst !i\s hieginni %j^^®aiiings com dr’s unusual ®f the remarl ®'rceptional!’ iJ°rful!” remark! a fresh poir o5 3 third. Nwer \|.. strange!” re out of tc cried tl League. \i)g®®ti-religious!’ 'tyf, ®bldn’t be allow Da • ■k ®tked do, a majoi ®sn’t have ‘'hsv '.^''I'yer. that were, as you said, ® son minority. There’s been tion as to whether th®®® should be prosecuted ling and for calling out. |pK’ feel about that? Do y®® an answer to it? VP: I don’t think X K^'®®ded ttie wer. I think that the 3®®,, j', ® satisfactor discipline that comes college campus itself. Af* | they have done more ths® kind of law that is 9®®® stray A®' f iJf’lS^-""'® old ished publicly is to # rageous bad manners, part of a community manners and reasoned supposed to dominate- are unable to adjust munity, then it seems to ' the college administraf 1^ impose their own discip J think outside laws ®h° of this. It’s more of a bo^> that should develop of — that would be ]f effective, I think, than ' y ■; harmful to Sts' ? Chairman ociation. > ®deri " ' ■ i % ri ® Politiciat > .K"®Pior grew s( he’s , tilB for '^resident of the profes ikiH ProTi Je]', ’ f^rofessor. toi,, be “ut hat. Or 6 ® geranium! "file Old p Cs a ■ i». ®®d blosso iv'ffo f ''.{Hn' t! h” *he profes t® rti«. I?” V * h !?'y?!^®or to^ u. - of shoulde a p ^ 3n in: from t him he conti
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