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VOLUME XLIX NUMBER 3
MARS HILL, WORTH CAROLINA
FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 27. 1974
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LUNSFORD
FESTIVAL
mars HILL-The Eighth
^nual Bascom Lamar
Lundsford "Minstrel
the Appalachias"
'^ill be a three day
affair this year at
Mars Hill College.
October 3, 4, and 5
have been set as the
dates for this year's
festival.
Billed as "The
World's most aijbentic
festival of mountain
Music and dancing,"
has added a night of
dancing to the fes-
fivities. Thursday
*^iuht, October 3,
smooth and clog danc-
®ts as well as dance
beams will compete
for trophies in the
''Weekend' s only compe-
bition. The dance-
^ag will start at 7:30
^’M. in the college's
°cre Auditorium, and
bophies will be a-
^rded in both junior
^'^^dult classes. An
ission charge of
•So for students and
•00 for adults will
charged. All ad-
®®ion charges will
Used to establish
.Appalachian museum
Resource center.
'ctoK night,
eober 4, local and
0,
Coil
Will
®9e musicians
f 'Participate in a
bf^^bval of tradi-
°*^al mountain music.
■®5iate dance
will also com-
Coii
^®ams
Pet,
event will start
P.M, in Moore
itorium and an ad-
tor trophies,
at
^Ud
fQ^^bon charge of 50?
for ®^*^dents and $1
cha will be
^^bged.
bg ^^*^^day will again
fesv bhe
Ocr., with events
all day.
from last
^'^PPlar^^ be the very
workshops.
ttitgj^^^ding mountain
will con-
^fawh ''°bkshops in
gt^gg^er and blue-
^hj-ta playing,
®^hgi^ Peking, ballad
aiid bhe dulcimer,
shopg ^ fiddle. Work-
^Ud 01 both smooth
°9 dancing will
L-
also be held. The
workshops will start
a’t 10 A.M. on the
green in front of the
Dining Hall and in
the Amphitheatre.
Weavers, whittlers,
quiltmakers, spin
ners , and woodworkers
will be on hand all
day Saturday, dis
playing their crafts
and demonstrating
their skills in front
of the Country Bou
tique .
A "jam session"
will follow the work
shops and last all
afternoon. These ses
sions will give op
portunities for old
friends to get to
gether and for new
aquaintances to be
made among the many
fine musicians ex
pected to attend.
The mountain music
festival will be held
at 7 P.M. Saturday
night in Moore Audi
torium, where musici
ans and dancers will
gather to honor the
memory cf Mr. Lund sford
and to carry on the
tradition he began
nearly half a century
ago. Winners from
the dance contests
will dance in an ex
hibition. Admission
for the night is $.50
for students and $1D0
for adults.
This will be the
second year the fes
tival will be held
without Mr.Lundsfordfe
presence.
'Mm
It—
New Grading Policy
by Sam Easterby
The faculty in It's
meeting of September
10 adopted two propo
sals recommended to
them by the Admissions
aid Academic Standards
Committee. A new
grading policy and an.
academic suspension
policy, as of January
1,1975, will become a
part cf the continuing
and intensive study
of the total educa
tional program here
at Mars Hill.
The grading policy
will eiliminate F's
D' s, WF' s or what are
thought of as neg
ative grades but will
retain the tradition
al A's, B's, and C's.
The revised policy
will also contain the
grades S for satis
factory, I for incom
plete, W for excused
from the course for
medical or other sig
nificant personal
problems by the Aca
demic dean, and X for
auditing a course.
For example; if a
student feels that he
has developed through
reading or practical
experience an exper
tise in a certain
area and can meet the
competency level re
quired in that area,
he may be tested by
an assesment team
from that field and
receive credit ( A,B,
or C) for the course.
The rationale be
hind changing the
grades is that "the
present system mixes
positive grades (A,B,
C)
grades (D, F, WF)and
these negative grades
may be based on incom
plete evidence."
According to the
Admissions and Aca
demic Standards Com
mittee "negative gra
ding reflects no de
cisions, since under
the competence curri
culum the burden is
on the student to
demonstrate minimum
competence and on
the instructors to
certify competence is
demonstrated to his
satisfaction."
Credit gained by
examination, or CE,
will cost a student
20 dollars per credit
hour. If a student
fails his exam under
the CE, half of the
money will go towards
with negative See New Policy pg.2
Grand Jury Indicts
Schilling In
Murder Case
The Madison County
Grand Jury indicted a
21-year old Mars Hill
College student for
murder Monday of last
week in the death of
fellow student Sally
Bell Moffitt, 18, in
October of 1973.
Wayne Schilling of
Mount Holly, N..J.,
was arrested some six
months after Miss
Moffitt's body was
found at the junction
of the Mars Hill,
Burnsville - Johnson
City highways Oct.
12, 1973, and prob
able cause was found
in the case in July.
Schilling is pre
sently at home, free
on $25,000 bond, ac
cording to the Mad
ison County Sheriff's
Department. The case
has not yet been cal-
andared for trial, a
spokesman said. Ac
cording to college
authorities. Schil
ling is under an int
erim suspension pen
ding the outcome of
the trial.