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The Hilltop, December 10, 1976, Page Five outstandi®? their scl'®' ity achieve' 3 Who Amo®3 in UniverS^ las furth®^ jher educ3' and recof excellence .. With ,000 insti' .earning ^ le countny lay a tr®« caliber je student having thei^ shments p^r® 6-77 editio® dent membst® are entitl®: Referenc®' maintain' ,ec ,c« ng post-g^®^ felio’'' tue eiT or harge to spective ,te school ^ Monday nighty Veaember d, 22 new members (pictured above) ^^e initiated into the campus honor society. Alpha Chi. To ^ome a member in Alpha Chi, a student must be of good J^acter, have a 3.5 overall quality point average, rank in top 5% of their respective class, and be in either the ^^nior or senior class at Mars Hill. Photo by Kirk Hall ^pha Chi Meets Mew Members Inducted Into Honor Society a candlelight ceremony Monday night, December 6, yenty-two members were ini- ^ted into campus honor soci- Alpha Chi .Meeting in the jtesident's Dining Room, the ^ductees took part in a 30 took part in a dute initiation in which member pledged to fur- iacademic excellence on ^>Pus \ j^hsor, along with Dr. James ,^urg, associate sponsor, Richard Hoffman,Dean Academic Affairs led each as lives. well as in their Winona Bierbaum, |V the new members in their ^^tiation pledges. After the 06: ^(3 t'smony. Dean Hoffman issued tohallenge to both the new I [ studying ' by Kirk old members to "search idealism" in their aca- and personal lives. In ;^^^d.tion, Hoffman asked all L^ha Chi members for their L^tt in aiding faculty and k^histration in formulating Itii approaches to the curric- I ■lUiti. ter Dr.Ho ffman's comments j^'^'ly-elected officers were in; Kim Allen, presi- Jo Ann Johnson, vice- (^^Sident; Gary Bridgman,sec- - treasurer; and Bill Fowler, delegate. New members to Alpha Chi in cluded: Rebecca Blankenship, June Brendle, Gary Bridgman, Diane Brown, Rhonda Bryant, Carla Ruth Bunn,'Jamie Cowan, Margaret Doutt, Bill Fowler, Karen Lynn Greene,Cathy Hill, Ninette Humber, Patricia Ann McKinney, Danny Lee Metcalf, Beverly Parrish, Sally Dee Phillips, Tina Pippin, Debra Lynn Todd, Ronnie Trammel, Sarah Vickery, Marsha Walker, and Susan Maney. After the ceremony, the college honored the members with a dinner. Entertainment for the evening was provided by two of the new members, Ninette Humber playing a Tellemann sonata on flute,and Margaret E. Doutt accompany ing on piano. To become a member of Alpha Chi, a student must be either a junior or senior,in the top 5% of his or her respective class, and have a 3.5 over all quality point average. Good reputation and accept able character as well as high scholarship are also es sential qualifications for membership. News in Brief: A Bizarre Request (CPS)Patricia Wilson is dead, but her brain lies deeply frozen in Oakland, California awaiting the day it might be plopped into another head in order to create another Patricia. That, at least, was the bizarre request of Patricia's parents following the 15-year old's violent murder in early October. They asked the Oakland coroner to turn the girl's b^ain over to a cyronic(body preserving)organ ization in the hope that it can someday be "cloned" into a person exactly like their late daughter. Cloning is the new process in which modern scientists delicately reconstruct an entire body through the dupli cation of a single cell, . ..Since scientists have not yet perfected this technique, Patricia's brain is kept at a temperature of minus 310 degrees Farenheit until that scientific milestone is reached. The girl was found on the first Sunday in October bound and beaten in a Berkeley apartment. On the Way Up (CPS)According to a recent Gallup poll, a large number of Americans are turning away from traditional religions and are turning to transcendental meditation, yoga, as- trolo^, and the charismatic movement. Evidence presented by the pollsters shows that six million Americans have embraced TM. Some meditators claim that if one percent of the population can be induced to repeat coded, mantras twice a day, peace, freedom, and similar benefits could be reaped in a resulting Utopian "Maharishi effect." Yoga, with roughly five million participants, runs a strong second to TM. Also, the charismatic movement, a religious group wiiich interests itself in holding prayer groups and understanding many languages, registered an estimated jump in membership to a new high of three mil lion. Surprisingly, 32 million Americans, mostly female, be lieve in astrology;nine out of ten Americans under-thirty know their birth sign. Apparently believing that somebody is "still up there',' two million Americans have tied themselves to Eastern religions. A Losing Battle (CPS)Some people never give up. Blistered by election results, Jim Johnson, a University of Nebraska student, has founded an anti-Carter/Mondale group in Lincoln, Ne braska. Johnson, a registered Republican, explained that his organization is reactionary, not radical. Shortly after Carter's victory, Johnson placed an ad in the Daily Nebraskan soliciting cohorts for the group, which will examine and criticize the Democratic platform for Carter and Mondale. Johnson has been barraged by phone calls ever since, though no one has left a last name. "My greatest concern," said Johnson, "is that the Dem ocratic platform tends to lean towards socialism. I don't want to see socialism in my lifetime, so hopefully this organization can look into this and other issues and see what Carter plans to do." Johnson hopes that the group will expand soon to other points in Nebraska and then nationwide. "This is very ex citing to me," he commented, "because it's my first real experience in politics."
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