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Page Two, THE HILLTOP, April 13, 1979 editorial Since this editorial will appeal to the “common sense” I will start it in a “common” way. The problem is common throughout the world and solutions, though sensible, don’t seem to be commonly known or at least commonly insisted upon. America faces an energy problem. Of course that means that you and I face an energy problem. One that will effect the size car we buy, our warmth in the winter and cool in the summer. It may even effect blow dryers and electric toothbrushes. President Jimmy Carter recently spoke to all of us via the tele vision. What he told us could happen may not happen. We may not jump up in gas prices but they might in fact keep rising gradually like a growing cancer. The WINDFALL tax on big oil firms may not become law and thus oil profits will soar and the average Americans wallet will suffer even more from its now withering condition. With out the decontrol and the windfall tax being passed Americans will continue to face lack of safe energy alternatives, continued stag nation and starvation of our money, and over consumption. A good deal of talk has surrounded the energy situation. Oil companies show commercials deplicting how progressive they are just as ar^-pther groups pointing the finger at oil companies for hold ing back development of other energy forms. 'Government controls have bogged domestic development. Before us now may be a step forward a long term solution that may hurt a little at first but help a good deal later. It is a step toward change. Without some kind of progression America can only con tinue to slide down a certain path to continued weakness by not heartily confronting the important issues at hand. A goal and strategy are needed to reach these goals. A pointless controlled government is not good but it can only do something if people of America show enought support. The United States has a government which has to respond if enough mass support falls behind something. To sit back and ignore the problem doesn’t even put it under a rug when it comes to these issues of energy and the strategy for changes. Solar energy and coal are abundant enough and inexpensive enough to someday make pe troleum usage fractional to what it is now. The change will not just come unless you push for it. The change may seem radical at first; conservation of energy and new energy technology are really con servative moves in view of long term benefits. A little lower standard of living or at least a somewhat different “American dream” inevitably lay ahead. No one says it will be easy but the fact is - it is necessary. President Carter’s proposals can only be effective if mass support is thrown behind them. When control of oil prices end then the prices will go up. If you want your fair share as an average American citizen then you must take action to prevent unearned profits from being retained by the already abundantly welthy oil companies. That action that you must take is not time consuming. Just write your congressman to express your strong support for the Windfall tax and cutting down on foreign oil imports. Each letter represents a vote and a large quantity of letters represents a large number of votes. This will show massive political support by the American public, us. If we do not pull together on these issues then it will be our fault and not Washington’s that things haven’t changed, for we are the govern ment . LAUREL w to arrive early in May M The 1979 LAUREL is expected from the printer early in May; and the yearbook staff, led by seniors Kirk Hall and Cheryl Aldridge, is gearing up to distribute it quickly and efficiently as soon as it ar rives. As in previous years, the eligibility of each student to receive a free copy of the book will be certified by the college Business Office. Personnel there are currently checking student accounts. When that task is completed, they will issue an eligibility card to each student who has paid at least one semester of the “Fees” charge and who does not have any unsettled accounts including traffic tickets, library fines, infirmary charges, or room damage assessments. These cards will be distributed through the student post office around the first of May. Students who do not receive a card should suspect that they have an unset tled account somewhere on the campus. They should check with the Business Office, which will issue the card when payment is made or when official ar rangements are made for later payment. The eligibility cards of students no longer enrolled — those who were here during the fall term but did not return for the spring semester and those who have withdrawn from school since th® term began — will be forwarded | '‘uiner mail to the home address on the stu ."fespon ar,;nstru J ildanj areNortl Students no longer enrolled ^ “1, |,( *Pon; card,wil[^i( 'linated iti not eligible for a LAUREL earn of so notified and told how they can eligible. nreC^'^T-r, r* This year's book, boasting t , uoino pro® , than previous editions, is being^^®gj,y, for tf ed by the American Yearbook Co which is affiliated with Josten s, the '"lid abi I'l'ofessit !"1 other Osora firC'age of lias ah i, " I, *Mthle that supplies Mars Hill rings aoo 6'^ js ,'esto far ation invitations. The produ® "'ithleai being handled by the company® in Clarksville, Tenn. uy 1 The 232-page, hard cover, fou",' book is scheduled for delivery jjjirUj May 5 or 6. If it is received * bution — from the publications ent Wren College Union — pr' Monday morning. May 7. ^ dure will be simple: those eligibility cards will present claim a copy of the book: those not have an eligibility card vv'i ceive a copy. y p' Faculty and staff members^ fw chase copies of the '79 LACK the college bookstore. ■oc*' ha''' 4 one wi air ■ df •’OS] of Spring Festival Schedule 24, 25, 26 April 1979 - 8 P.M. - Moore Auditorium 24 April “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” by Terry Gilliam and the Monty Python Crowd , jgpS This film has become a college favorite in the U. S. since its release ia ^' is essentially a British take-off on ancient English history: pulling the Ar* end’s leg. Everything that has ever worried you about the Holy Grail vvijih* King Arthur, Malory, and the general mucking about of P°®*lTs* The whole film which 25 April same old story is tackled head on . . . t he whole film wiy''- recklessly funny and sometimes a matter of comic genius is of errancy and muddle. Its mind strays like an eye, and it ‘ peC®* p following false trails. The Monty Python people have won right to be funny even when they make a mess of things, becS style accepts floundering as a condition of life. Penelope Gilliatt “Pretty Baby” by Louis Malle t>‘! the'g.. This is Louis Malle’s film of a child prostitute in New Orleans during ‘ f, days of World War I. The story focuses on the famous Storyville photogc^P.^gje^' Bellocq, but the issue is the process by which children become adults. I 1978) It will be difficult (in our culture of glorifying children) UUI uuiiuic U1 giuiuying ' -pi ■ j- people to see Pretty Baby” for what it is: a civilized, inteine v .j by one of the world’s most intelligent and civilized filinma*^ spite its subject matter, Malle’s first American movie is fa® in language and action than most currently popular U. S. filh'f. Jack Krol' 26 April lei in “The Serpent’s Egg” by Ingemar Bergman This is Bergman’s examination of Berlin in 1923. Liv Ulmann and ggr/ dine live through inflation, cultural stagnation, and individual despa*®' ^ uses them to explore the roots of Nazism in Europe, (released 1978) jiS^^). , The film is regarded as one of Bergman’s weakest. But the critic®.gpiS Li ai about the reasons. This is one of its attractions. Does this show the P*"? fill®.!/ language switch: from the comfort of Swedish to unfamiliar English? Is jlif persuave than Bergman’s others because it is political rather than psy j And finally, is there any way that contemporary western man can dea historical legacy of Hitler and Nazism? . -SI i.d and .■Pany , ■n bus '"ecomt ^enev ,fofes ’id" Wh LffJCo ih, fi'"8 'C"”' r^ed Xioe se New® iV.'^ill rr
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