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Page Two, The HILLTOP, Friday, February 7,1986
HILLTOP
CHANGING
For The Better
JUDY
SMITH
Co-Editor
JOHN
ANDERSON
Associate Editor Pro-Tern
Recently, there has been a great
deal of change going on in the staff
structures of the HILLTOP. In the
previous two week period our
News Editor, Managing Editor,
and my co-Editor have resigned
their positions. They felt that they
neither had the time nor the
dedication to continue with their
positions. It is regretful that they
had to make these decisions,
however, I am sure that everyone
can uderstand and relate to their
dilemma. We have all at one time
or another been in a position of
over-extension. I am deeply sorry
to be losing these co-workers, yet it
is agreed that they made the best
decision for all concerned.
The position of Managing
Editor will now be filled by
DeeAnn Peterson, who is an ex
ceptionally competent individual.
John Anderson, who previously
served as my layout editor will be
applying for the position as co-
Editor and has already assumed
the responsibilittes thereof. This
leaves the position of Layout
Editor vacant. Jim Parks has
agreed to fill the vacancy. We are
still searching for a News Editor.
I have absolute faith in these in
dividuals. We have proven in the
past theat we can work together as
a team. We hope that through
these changes we can improve and
upgrade the quality of the
HILLTOP. Changes will be seen in
this issue and others that follow it.
We invite students, faculty
members, and any other interested
individuals to get involved with the
paper, through suggestions, ideas,
and criticisms. The HILLTOP is in
desperate need of support from the
student body. We can only be as
good as the student body will let us
be. It is often difficult to dedicate
your time to something that you
feel receives little support. We ask
each of you to help make the
HILLTOP the quality paper it
deserves to be.
There are several new projects in
the works that we think will
generate student involvement. One
such new addition is Campus Can-
dids compiled by Kristy Crowe.
She will be going around campus
with a tape recorder asking
students their opinions on certain
topics of interest to them, such as
SGA and student media. The
general layout style will change for
the better. Also, we hope to
establish columns which appear
regularly that will highlight student
life. One such column will be Bren
da Holleman’s “Introducing”
which will present unique in
dividuals on campus. Other ideas
are at this time being considered.
Once again we invite you to get
involved.
Campus Candids
KRISTY
CROWE
Staff Writer
The Laurel and the HILLTOP, i
appreciate. WVMH - I feel
[doesn’j contribute enough to the
campus. It doesn’t enhance the
campus and doesn’t bring it to to
day - it is still playing yesterday.
Bonnie Brewer
Senior
How do you feel about student
publications The Laurel, The
HILLTOP, WVMH?
I like the HILLTOP because
they’ve covered some of our foot
ball games. [I] can’t pick up the
radio station since I live off
campus.
The Laurel is good. I like that.
The newspaper is pretty good. I
kind of wish that it would come
out more... with more interesting
things to peak the interest of the
students.
Charles Cook
Sophomore
Joe Pizzo
Junior
Wft&VOV
Serving Mars Hill College Since 1926
Judy Smith & John Anderson
Editor & Associate Editor Pro-Tern
Managing Editor Deeann Peterson
Sports Editors Stuart Jolley
Robby Parham
Copy Editor Keith Kimble
Layout Editor Jim Parks
Staff Writers Terrie Boisvenu
Kristy Crowe
Jeff Fitzgerald
Amy Gaskin
Georgia Harrington
Trina Hollister
Joy James
David Meier
Brenda Smith
Cartoonist Owen Robertson
Photographers “Corndog”
John Edwards
Greg Googer
“Gumby”
Ronnie Hayes
Cynthia King
Pam Megathlin
Diane Rose
Advisor “Dad”
The opinions expressed herein do not necessarily reflect those of the
administration or members of the HILLTOP staff.
Misplaced Grief
DEEANN PETERSON Managing Editor
On January 28, 1986 at about
11:40 am, the space shuttle
Challenger carring seven
astronauts and millions of dollars
of satellites and experiments ex
ploded on live television. For the
rest of the day, we were bombard
ed by the press with interviews and
speculation on the cause of the ex
plosion and the impact it would
have on the public and the space
program. I am not going to try to
explain what happened because I
am not qualified. I am going to ex
press my opinion on the specula
tions that flowed for a week
following the accident.
There was an outpouring of
grief in the media for the
astronauts, especially for the
teacher Christa McAulliffe. I wat
ched this grief go from the TV and
radio to the faces of people wat
ching and listening. I heard people
talking about how terrible it was
and how it should not have hap
pened. My first reaction was
selfish. I wanted to know how it
was going to affect my brother
who does research for NASA. I
felt sorry for the families of the
astronauts but 1 was not overcome
with grief and could not at that
time understand why people who
did not know them could be. The
media told everyone that they
should be sad and they were.
The accident was a tragedy.
There is not other way to say it.
But how can anyone say that it was
more tragic than the crash of the
HELP WANTED
There will be an organizational meeting for anyone
interested in joining the staff of the HILLTOP. We
will be meeting in the HILLTOP office located in the
publications area, ground floor of Wren College
Union at 6 PM on Sunday, February 9,1986. We need
writers, layout staff, photographers, typists. Most im-
portantly, we need people who are willing to wor\ and
commit themselves to something worthwhile.
How do you feel about SGA?
I think that SGA is an organized
committee that included all
members of classifications of
students who meet together to
figure out where we’re going to
have dances. Other than that I
think it’s a puppet regime set up by
the administration of this college.
[I would improve SGA by] first
severing all ties which it has with
the administration so that it could
represent the people. I would have
free and open elections. I would
try to form some different kind of
party such as Democratic and
Republican, for example where the
issues could be debated in which
the population of this campus
could in fact join into a campaign.
It would provide valuable ex
perience plus it would get some life
and motivation into the campus
from its usually humdrum self.
Another thing which might be
valuable is having not only free
elections where you vote the peo-
I think they should publicize
themselves more. No one really
knows anything about them. I
guess they’re doing a good job. I
don’t really know anything they’ve
done. But, then again I don’t have
any complaints.
Charles Cook
Sophomore
I don’t know anything about it.
Marty Feebus
Freshmen
A Real Person
military transport plane in
December carrying men home for
Christmas, or the pilots we lose
everyday in training exercises, or
the homeless on the streets of the
cities. Part of being an astronaut is
knowing the risk you are taking
with your life. It is not all glory
and it is not easy. Every astronaut
knows that he is riding a bomb into
orbit and that any small ‘accident’
in orbit can kill him. NASA makes
his job as safe as possible, but can
not foresee everything.
This accident does not mean the
end of the space program as some
reporters speculated. The program
does too much for us that we take
for granted for it to just stop. To
stop now would be to admit
defeat. We did not stop trying in
the early years of the program
when accidents were plentiful. We
will not stop now.
I grew up with NASA and have
enjoyed its advances and been sad
dened by its setbacks. I am sorry
for the families that lost their loved
ones, but life goes on. Being an
astronaut means risking you life.
That is a part of space exploration
and should not be unexpected but
accepted. Those that it affected
personally should be comforted.
But I think that the best thing that
those of us who are separated from
it can do is should support the pro
gram and expend our energy help
ing people by charity work and giv
ing blood so people that have a
chance can survive.
MARIE
BEAN
Campus Minister
pie, but also where you vote for the
kind of government you want.
fVayne Flyer
Freshmen
SGA doesn’t do anything visibly
seen on campus. It has its good
points and bad points.
Bonnie Brewer
Senior
Have you ever heard somebody
say, “Now he (or she) is a real per
son! Or, “Man, he’s (or she’s) not
real!” What does it mean to be a
real person? How do you know
one when you see one?
Last month I had the rare
privilege of hearing Bishop Tutu
speak. Since the setting was a wor
ship service on a Sunday evening,
he preached a sermon, which
lasted only about fifteen minutes.
He spoke softly, in a gentle,
friendly kind of way, telling
stories, reading scripture, and
holding us spellbound because he
“spoke the truth in love.” Bishop
Tutu is of small stature, rather or
dinary looking. There was nothing
pretentious about him at all. 1
couldn’t help thinking as I listened
to him, “There stands a real
person!”
Another word that is sometimes
used to describe such a person is to
say he or she is “authentic.” Some
of us who teach PDS at Mars Hill
like to say that one of our goals is
to help students understand the
process by which persons become
whole, mature, and authentic.
That is, genuine, not phony or
fake. Real.
The words authentic and
authority both come from the
same root, which means creator.
The first thing we can say about
real persons is that they are self
creators. They have a sense of who
they are and act out of their own
self-knowledge to become their
own per sons. They are autonomous;
they are self-ruling, inner-directed
persons, as opposed to those who
are outer-directed.
An outer-directed person does
not have opinions or loyalties of
his/her own. Whomever he/she
judges to be the “in” crowd sup
plies opinions, loyalties, beliefs,
and prescribes behaviors and ac
tions for them. So the person who
operates only under the influence
of others has no lasting or
trustworthy authority of his or her
own.
You say: “Wait a minute! It
sounds to me as though you’re ad
vocating a self-centered in
dividualism that could
Nietzsche’s Superman.”,
autonomous existence
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