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10, 1972 Friday, Noveni)er 10, 1972 THE MARS HILL COLLEGE HILLTOP Page Three students 't speak 5npt be lt yarn comb. ragles list ermng vated ew month pen arm girl er ie ngs ler pral : obs. list d fan ment :c ) laying of Troy s nickname of orange ous lify > Broz. ila I's friend il Air e: abbr. inal ber ct egg Nixon ecutor ige ee 19 20 31 ■ i3 64 '0 p 3 99 1 ;9 140 6 Knott Reflects On College Governance le has :e then s can be ing and the of- irerheard r say, ;nien are :ime o£ here, .rls are 'ry them I loving of it." .ey are. s leav- Metcalf audi- e right of the I have follov/ed v.ith more than distant interest the recent camnus events, .hy reaction to the cri.sis in the Student Government Association is mixed. On the one hand, I find *!ars Hill l:as entered the mainstream of higher education vath tne raising of■serious questions Ly students ahout amnror^riate forms of aovernance. Camnus faculty are also raising similar questions aoout governance nut in a less dramatic fashion. It is oncouraaina to sec students and faculty scening to assume some voice in decisions miacn sh.ane the institution most influential in tire immediate lives. On the otlier Iiand, ;;ecause I hnov.- -./ell t..e rrarticipants, I regret that such; turmoil involve.s personal frustration and broken rclationshams of trust. I -ould houe that these critical encounters i.-r-nmo v,,. blocks of personal and in.stitutional gro\.’th and maturation. I personally believe that t]ie' pain, ’9come th.e building ;oti! can and '.dll. Since I choose, and I th;ink not '..-itnout foundation, to take a somev];at r>ositivG view of tiic long range effects of recent event..^, I v.ould lii.e to .snare .some o..>scrvations aixjut th.c dimen.sion.s of t'ne coi^troversv ’rith hone tiiat tiie'^ might prove useful in the follovun period of assessment and redesign. Tnrough; reading \.'nat relevant documents I could obtain from t;ie camnus (th.e HILLTOP van one of th.e most thorougii ) and introducing netw'een-the-lines inferences .based largely on familiaritv n-ith the camnu.s, I identify two major con tentions underlying the confrontations. Student leader.^, .some at least, believe that SGA has "no real voice in the governance of Mars Hill College," (i.e. representation in major ’XJlicy decision ma):ing) and bGlicve~that student in put is not taken v/ith appropriate seriousness by the college administration and faculty even v.-lien it is offerd While the tv.’o contentions are similar, and related, th.ey are not identical. Student or facultv Participation in the major decision making processes could be obtained without serious attention given either by the administration. Such practices are presently called "toj^enirmi." For this reason, I find it unfortunate that the debate has i.cen couched largely in terms of participation in gover.nance only. The far more serious ciiarge is that students and r«ssihlv fac ulty, feel themselves to be less t.ian first class members of the camous community; that students in particular under stand those of us in the faculty and administration to Tiew tnem as incapable of informed judgment on critical, campus ^atters^or vievr us as unv.dlling to cultivate such development on their part. Tne very fact of the charge, regardless ot Its accuracy, brings into serious question our recorded commitment to the stated college purnose of seeking t’le UGvelopment of independent learners and maturing problem solvers. I per.sonally place substantial value on these cur ricular goals of independence.and must concur that our actions have tended to indicate a lack of serious support of them. Or possibly'it is more accurately stated that our actions reflect a lack of depth, in understanding the many and complex dimensions of life which must be cultivated if genuine development toward maturity and independence is to Occur amona studenPs. . "f*4rn to po^e 6 Philosophical Profundities Of Dammit by Billy Stair . Last ^fonday mom- ihg I arrived at the ^sfeteria much earl ier than usual. Seeing that none of % friends had ar rived, I decided to with ■ Dammit. Though one could not ^11 Danmit an ex trovert, talking '^ith him is some times quite an ex perience. In the ^9tirse of a day Dam- ^t overhears a sur prising number of Conversations. In t^ct, he related one these conversa tions to me Monday ^rning;' a convers a- tion involving Susie Sorority, who was standing in the cafeteria line' wait ing for her usual Sunday dinner of fried chicken and cottage cheese.. She was talking to her friend, Alphie Qmi- cron, ^out the big party that I Phelta Thi had thrown the night before. "Oh Alphie, you should have been there! It was the biggest party this school’s ever seen!" "Really?" replied Alphie, only mildly interested. "Who was there?" "Oh Alphie, ev- imiLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Bibler Rumor HA5JT— eiybody was there! Bfell, at least all the fun people were there." "Did everyboefy’ have fun?" said A1 phie, noticing that the line hadn’t moved. "Oh yes, Alphie everybody was so drunk!" "Yeah I know. But did everybody have fun?" Alphie persisted, wondering if he wcaild be able to get a breast when he got his tray. "IVell, I guess so," Susie munfcled. "Tim Coolman was so drunk he took off his clothes and di rected traffic on Patton Avenue." "That’s interest ing," Alphie said. "Oh, that was no thing!!!!" replied Susie, becoming more excited. "Anita Tension was dancing on the tables with a sparkler in her bel ly button!" ”You call that fun?", blurted Alphie hoping to drown out his growling stomach "It sure was! That is, until the curtains caught fire and the hotel charg- edus with a hundred, and thirty dollars in damages." "Don’t you ever worry about getting caught by the schaol?" Alphie man aged to say while yawning at the same time. "Oh never!' How could the college ever find out?" an swered Susie confi dently. "Do you do any thing besides have parties in I Phelta Ihi?" said Alphie, hoping to change the siiject. "Of course we do, silly. .We have pledge season twice a year, conpetition for the spirit tro phy, and sometimes we sit together at the ball games." "I was thinking more of service pro jects," said Alphie "Oh, I didn’t un derstand," replied Susie, stalling for time to think. "Yeah, if I’m not mistaken one of the girls has a pen pal in Af^anistan." "I’m certainly glad to hear that you’re not entirely socially oriented,'" remarked Alphie, picking ip his sil verware . "Oh Alphie, just talking has made me realize that every thing I am at Mars Hill I owe to I Phelta Thi!" "Gimme a breast," said Alphie. This sixth issue of the 1972-73 Hilltop was put together by: editor sam easterby managing editor tim haden production manager mike orr business manager ....... .tom beyer advertising deborah barlow news editor frank farrell feature editors mary diercks, bonnie dark sports editor thad strom photographer joe franklin staff . . . karen williams, maura short mike Conner, marilyn reid jean hartley. advisor jack willia. The Hilltop is published by students of Mars Hill College, P.O. Box 486, Mars Hill, N.C. 28754. Telephone: 704/689- 1250. Advertising rate is $1.50 per col umn inch. Subscription rate is $2 per year. It will be published 17 times dur ing this college year on a fortni^tly basis* Second class postage paid.
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