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Christian Student Movement
Super Sports
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MARS HILL, NORTH CAROLINA
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The Happenings: At Homecoming — See Them
How Many Mini-Mesters Can
Mars Hill Muster For January?
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New I j
beifjg , 'aeas and programs are
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a pg ® year. The mini-mester,
°t the new core curriculum,
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let ‘"■hi-mester is organized to
Intefg^ . hts pursue one particular
Each St study or out.
ffie j ^tlent is allowed to take only
!oursQ°'^’^®® and will be given one
tin the 7he professor grades
^ Satisfactory scale.
Jti65tg*|^*®l°9 describing each mini-
b,
'uted t'^^tJrse offered was distri-
dew g ° sll students last year. A
Pared catalog is being pre-
Eegjg. _f distribution in October,
bar. ®*lon begins late in Novem-
Efude,.,
Pats Ip oiay pursue their Inter-
Pot opi areas. For instance
*®red^ h classroom studies of-
'PdspTI'* ®lso foreign travel and
®tUdy study. The independent
must be In to the
Ppd pj Committee by October 15
Pfofeg ^6 signed by the course
'®hti 'he student. The short
^Ppk Ohimittee members are Mr.
1 'lard u®®’ ‘-®®’ °'’-
r ■ Jo, Mr. Robert Knott,
^liapp, Godwin, Dr. Robert R.
"^Pprseg ’ and Dr. Bill Walker. The
’'JIttsg ®''o approved by this com-
'''Jiiai are designed for indi-
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courses are organized to
,, prepare In certain
to u*®*'*^ the student’s major
'‘Pfsoppi ® more beneficial to their
? Copr Personal Income Tax,
g''''s pg® .^sing offered, discusses
( Parip"^ ®'®'ng to income taxes and
^ fetur^ federal and state Income
^ Another course, Growth
Phient, involves the theories
of the school child with observation
in the public school area. Readings
in Negro Poetry concerns the ex
posure to the reading, discussion,
and study of Negro poetry, especial
ly contemporary poetry. Students
interested in writing may choose the
Creative Writing Workshop. Course
instructors will try to have a pro
fessional or published writer in this
workshop at least one day for a
talk. “And what’s so great about
Mathematics?’’, a point well taken,
explores the purpose, value, and
uses of mathematics.
French students may be interested
in the French language course. All
students will live together in the
house giving each person a chance
to acquaint themselves with French
culture. Miss Regina Rabin, a native
of Paris, will live in the house with
the students.
Several chances for foreign study
and travel will be offered for the
mini-mester. One trip leads to
Cuernavaca, Mexico where the stu
dents will attend the International
center of Documentation. Language
classes will be held five hours a
day and students will be attending
lectures of the Institute for Con
temporary Latin American Studies,
directed by Ivan lllich. Father
lllich is one of the foremost authori
ties in the western hemisphere on
land and poverty problems. Lectures
in January deal with aspects of the
economic and social conditions of
the Latin American peasantry and
the Ideology and the cultural ex
pression of the campesino. Field
trips on weekends cover Acapulco,
Mexico and the Aztec Indian ruins.
Students will live with a Mexican
family. The approximate cost of the
entire trip is $600.
What’s white-walled, yellow
pressed in back, and studded on
top? The Student Affairs office.
Despite these significant handi
caps, Intrepid servants of the public
Perry White and Ben Cochran, di
rector and assistant director of stu
dent activities, have lined up such
notable entertainments as the movie
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here and
musical groups such as Huckleberry
Mudflap, Georgia Prophets, and
Classics IV.
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here,
which follows in the “back at the
ranch” tradition, started this year by
Two Mules For Sister Sara, stars
Robert Redford and Catherine Ross
and was presented in Moore Audi
torium, September 12.
To start the music beat will be the
Huckleberry Mudflap which will be
ministrelling their way back to Mars
Hill for the dance after the Randolph-
Macon football game, September 25.
Another thing that was probably
enjoyed recently was the outdoor
concert held in the amphitheater.
Sometimes, back in the endless files
of mediocre musicians, a performer
Is conceived. Jeffry Commanore,
an almost gaunt, delicately whiney-
volce troubador was just that and
more than stole the show with
his distracted impromptu, right-into-
the-mind wit. He almost took the
punch out of punch— almost. Punch,
a four vocaled musicianed traveling
ear-tickler, retaliated with some of
the better sounds heard here as yet.
It takes a special kind of talent to
turn an old song like “See you In
September” into a hit and the Hap
penings have that kind of talent.
Remember “I Got Rhythm”, well
this group, The Happenings, will
belt it out at the Homecoming con
cert Oct. 30. The concert will be
free, so make your plans now. Come
see them. They must be pretty good,
they have three gold records and
that means something.
Another trip heads for the Holy
Lands led by M. H. Kendall. The
ten day trip covers excursions to
Jerusalem, Samaria, Galilee, Caper
naum, and Nazareth. The tour be
gins and ends in time for the stu
dents to start classes in the mini-
mester. A study of the origin of
Judaism, its development doctrines,
festival, and why the religion is
racial makes up the entire course in
cluding the trip.
Other tours head for Europe and
London in studies concerning music
and political science. Details and
cost of these tours will be printed
in the catalog in October.
Students should study carefully
the catalog and should decide upon
a course of study that he wants to
pursue keeping in mind one mini-
mester course must be taken in his
major. The mini-mester is particular
ly good for those students wishing
experiences outside the classroom.
I
by Ed Lynch
The new Rolling Stones album,
“Sticky Fingers," misses, just barely,
the consistent vitality and quality
which made “Let It Bleed" their
best venture to date.
“Brown Sugar” surges steadily on
and up with joyful, wanton promise
and a driving rhythm that celebrates
the highly palatable charms of a
black girl.
“Sway” just escapes mediocrity.
It’s about, I suppose, the source of
conL on p. 3)
SGA Elects Vice Chief
Terry Kuykendall was elected to
the S.G.A. vice-president post after
a Senatorial election In the Gold
Room at the cafeteria, Tuesday,
August 31. Kuykendall, a junior fills
the vacancy left by Bill Early when
Early assumed the presidentship
Kuykendall is the assistant dorm
counselor at Treat House, has
as his past credits: managing editor
and editor-in-chief of the Hilltop,
S.G.A. treasurer, and Junior class
vice-president. Though Kuykendall
will resign his position as vice-presi
dent, he has been asked to remain
on the Student Appeals Court, the
first time in the history of the Ap
peals Court when one of the student
members will not be a vice-president
of either the Junior or Senior class.
Other candidates nominated were
Senior senator Ruth Gillerstadt,
Sophomore senator David Gasper-
son, and Junior class president
Denise Myers (Myers declined the
nomination). The election was
closed to Senate members as Is
specified in S.G.A. constitution, “the
Senate will fill vacancies in the Stu
dent Government Association.”
New business presented on the
Senate floor was a bill to select a
S.G.A. chaplain by Joe Lear which
was defeated and a motion made by
Student Court Chief Justice Frank
Farrell for the appointment of an
assistant Chief Justice which was
passed and sent on to the Legisla
tive Review Council.. President Early
made the motion to keep students
appointed for 1970-71 college com
mittees while new students would be
elected to fill the positions of mem
bers who have graduated. The rep
resentatives selected are: Plans and
Policies, Karen Cummings and Larry
Pfaff; Traffic, Allan Yarborough and
Steve Francis; Curriculum, Gretchen
Mayo and George Hurt; Activities,
Dobby Charlton, Phyllis Dorm, Rich
Harris, Ron Richardson, and David
Caldwell; Visiting Lecture, Jennifer
Blythe and Pat White; Religious Life,
Irene White and Ken Gregory; Li
brary, Betty Moss and Marilyn
Turner; and Athletic, Jerry Hayes
and Rodney Johnson.
Inquiry Stresses Innovation
Mars Hill College Is trying new
ideas in education in hopes of mak
ing the student more aware of his
own needs and Interests. Perhaps
the single most impressive and ex
citing catalyst into this self-explora
tion is the Freshman Inquiry Course,
which is in its first year as part of
the curriculum.
The Inquiry course Is designed to
break up the normal approach to
teaching which takes on the survey
attitude and places the emphasis on
the “process” of learning. Dr. Rich
ard Hoffman, Vice-President for
Academic Affairs, explains, "The
purpose of the Inquiry Course is to
facilitate the student to learn to learn
and build that learning on where he
is.” He also said that this should
encourage the student to continue to
(cont. on p. 4)