Page Three, The HILLTOP Wednesday, December 10, 1986
Retreat
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re aware Wulaski, a type of rake which
-ter suspen*^everai had never heard of, and
> feel that?°ldto follow their guide up the
are entitlel'*'^ountain.
‘Some parts of the trail were
) communic^l'^rrow and I was afraid I was go-
rd the chap"''g to fall off the mountain,”
ini. In ouraid Janine Lankford of Spruce
hout thinki^'^'de.
ito account‘At many points the branches
nbership- ' at eye-level,” said Tripp
the letter to'j^reen, frorn Greenville, S.C. “So
narrow^ '*'ent ahead with a hand ax and
|vas receive^ locked the branches back. For-
d stereotyp dateiy there were not any
e to apolop dakes hanging from the
lish this lei'^dsheggilded, with more of
9tirnace than a grin.
n excellent Although many had concerns
lid never P Out snakes, bees were the
blemish t am problem. Richard Hoff-
e or its idej profesor of political
.nnot “unP® 'Once and assistant to college
iwever, we» asident, was stung several
3ve APO. Os. David Brackens, of
ce projects dger_ chased by bees
act accidently disturbed a
dents and • But he escaped uninjured,
will tjP Ih® pants leg of
'his
liege and “I “^01 jgg^^ Harrel, of Bostic;
hat this is q Came to attention
/e are but handled the
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very
situa-
The last day the group worked
on campgrounds, digging a new
campsite and painting picnic
tables. “Shoveling the rocks
was not one of the easier jobs,
so the guys got stuck doing
that,” said Phil Turner of
Raleigh.
“Painting the tables was pro
bably the easiest job I did, but it
ruined my jumper,” said Ronda
Evans, through gritted teeth. “If
it hadn’t rained,” said Harrel, “it
wouldn’t have been so bad. I had
to re-paint a whole table!”
“There are several purposes
for the retreat. One is that it
creates a bond amoung the
scholars,” said Tom Plaut, pro
fessor of sociology and coor
dinator of the retreat.
“At the beginning the
students do not know each
other but by the last day they do.
They have lent a helping hand to
one another when it was dif
ficult to take the next step up
the mountain and seen each
other at their low points,” Plaut
said.
“It also makes the freshmen
more sensitive to different peo
ple’s needs. If someone thought
physical labor was beneath
them, their outlook has probably
changed. They respect the peo
ple who do this type of work.”
“It helps each person see his
or her own capabilities. They do
things they previously thought
they couldn’t. This also helps
train them for the classsroom.
Many courses they take will re
quire the scholars to put forth
an all-out effort, just like climb
ing a mental mountain,” Plaut
said.
“And it gives students the op
portunity to see the beauty of
the area and see the needs of
the people,” he said.
Many said they had never
done manual labor before - they
have now. “My body felt as if I
had been whipped and drug over
that mounatian,’’ said
Asheville’s Lynn Miller.
But all the scholars had a
common comment at the end of
four days in the mountain
wilderness: “ I can’t wait to get
in a hot shower!”
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