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Editorial RUNNING WITH THE LIONS April Fool’s? Senioritis Second Opinion by Craig Cox Columnist l)y Stan Toney Staff Writer Being an Exploratory Treatise on the Effects and Symptoms of Ap proaching Graduation It must be some kind of late April Fool's joke. If you remember the weather in January was seventy degrees and beautiful outside—per fect spring training weather. Now, it's in the thirties, calling for snow occasionally, and this is spring? But cold weather or not, it is spring, and that means it's time for baseball, softball, and spring football prac tice. Both baseball and softball got to enjoy those beautiful January and February tempera tures. In season, however, it's back to winter. I'd still like to encourage everyone to come out, rain, snow, or shine, to see the ath letes in action any time of year. A reminder: April 22 at 6 p.m. (at least that's the last word I've heard on the time of the game), the annual Alumni vs. Varsity Football game will take place in Meares Stadium. Please come out and support Lion athletics, and pos sibly see some alumni favorites. Review of spring ath letics and year-end round-up next issue. 'Til next time... Imagine a lazy, sedate beach scene; a tropical island somewhere, com plete with a white rib bon of sand separating a crystal clear lagoon from a lush, palm tree forest. There are only two people on the beach... Imagine walking along a trail (perhaps some where near here) and suddenly coming out into a clearing overlooking a valley in a panorama that surely must be hundreds of miles wide... Imagine the career that awaits after col lege. For some, a busi ness of some sort. Eight hour days, evenings and weekends off, vacation once a year, and a re spectable pay check. For others, perhaps graduate school, a teaching job, a professional sport, who knows... Imagine anything other than the daily drudgery that college seems to become after two semesters a year for four years. Of course, if you are planning to participate in the com mencement ceremonies here in a few weeks, you need not be told to im agine such things. The Peace will have found you all by itself. Laurel Informalion Released From Staff Reports The 1989 Laurel is ex pected from the printer around May 1 and will be distributed to students at that time, according to Walter Smith, advisor for the publication. In order to pick up a copy of the book, stu dents will have to present a Laurel Eligibility Card. These cards will be dis tributed through the student post office boxes during the last week of April. "We're going to handle the yearbook distribu tion a little different ly this year," Mr. Smith explained. "All students who have been charged the 'Fees' as listed on page 10 of the current catalog will receive an eligibility card. In the past, those who had not settled their account in the business office or owed traffic or library fines did not receive their card." The books will be delivered to the college union by motor freight and will be distributed there from the publica tions area on the first floor, next to the stu dent post office. Mr. Smith cautioned that no one without and eligibility card will be given a copy of the book. "No card, no copy," he said. The cards of students who were enrolled during the fall semester but who are not currently enrolled will be sent to them through the mail. Smith explained. Mr. It is perhaps amusing to watch someone who is juggling a half dozen or more classes, with as sociated assignments and other responsibilities, not to mention extracur ricular activities (some of which may actually be obligatory), and actual ly be there when The Peace descends. Generally known as senioritis (apatheticus pregratuatii), it is characterized by a variety of symptoms. These can include glazed eyes, dazedness, indif ference to critical as signments, extraor dinarily calm attitude and low blood pressure in the face of multiple deadlines, novel methodology in the cal culation of probable final grades, pronounced increase in "cuts" taken (occasionally a severe ly afflicted person will overcut a class), use of the phrase "ask me if I care" and its variants, and an overall serene attitude where such an attitude basically has no business. Or does it? Consider the alternative: an overworked student, up until all hours of the night, existing only, on No-Doz, pulling his or her hair out to get everything right, get ting ulcers and general ly wrecking his or her health. Certainly we don't want this person such students may receive their copy of the book in one of three ways: "They may come to the campus and pick up their copy; —They may send their eligibility card to a friend on campus and have him/her pick up the copy; —They can pay a small fee and have the book mailed to them. The 1989 Laurel was planned and begun by Celita Gilmer, a sophomore from Mt. Airy, GA, who withdrew from college at the end of fall semester. It was completed by freshman Tammy Young, senior Ron nie Hayes, and others with the assistance of the printer's repre sentative , Sandra Smith of Asheville. to be accepting his or her diploma from a stretcher. There is no known treatment for senioritis, except per haps a general stimulant which would induce the panic condition described before. The cure, obviously, is graduation, whereupon some victims immediate ly panic and start in tensive job hunts that should have been at tended to some months before. This is a lesser-known condition called "reality shock"; for those who have pur chased their own car, it is first cousin to "sticker shock" and does not have a Latin desig nation as it merely an allergic reaction to real life. Being prone to allergies myself, I am dreading the probable onset of the condition next month. Were this a serious article, I would probably go on to men tion the help available through the various graduation preparation offices on campus. However, this is not serious, this is tripe; moreover, I have more than just a small case of senioritis myself. Which, come to think of it, was what I'm sup posed to be writing about. Victims of senioritis are easily distracted and will go off onto tan Friday, April 14, Ap gents without much couragement; it is diversion from schoolwork they arc co |‘''C)onna F Write pulsively avoiding sut' a Mars Snt, yo - tc jects normally bene ■outgg ^9inally neutrs their notice will iteJl denly become absolu-^ j fascinating. They have an abnof®^j capacity to ramble about a subject coming to a defi*’^^ conclusion. Papers, ^ done, will appear ^ though they were ° . without outline (witi’ this article). ^ If you or someone love is a senior ahd 'kt % Of the ave is th iJJfome n ^^cy at h ■ into e Ml allows s ad at t flicted with seniori'- 'ioi >ce to 1 >Us cours the only thing to (tweeting to show moral suPP".ih,«* gra ;upP«Aa and ask the Porgi, question about a^ad 9 .or. V work. More than passing concern pj' j^^etics duce feelings of '_ juS’ly’ it'- °>^igina i987's tion in the J*'^6nic~st towards the work p a I more harmful than structive. In fact may want to take 5 (ii, Policy llll.'r CO from the affli^ senior: don't take ^ thing, including if^lar pc fliction, too serio“ v,o bega: To the person J Policig viously missed my j (JJ^oig on maturity and pi® a smoke bomb outsi so ' Cata By your your mothers so bite each of you lUf Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Presents: An American Music Recital Monday, April 17—7:00 p.m. Spainhour Recital Hall door at 10:30 or ^ the night of Thur®' April 6: When your buddy get bO‘“pj(in hajj your kennels, I to in •Sj.^ihninc aca Hvb' '^hder enro in Hilltop Staff Editor-in-Chief Becky Horner Assistant Editor Craig Cox Sports Editor Stan Toney Staff Tammv Condrey, Duane Partin, Lisa Edwards, Lisa Ramsey. Frank Powell, Melanie Childers, Joanna Deaton, Kevin Byrd Cartoonist Mike Houston Advisor ■I®!'” Campbell The Hilltop The Hilltop is the ofncial student POBoxlI48-C newspaper of Man Hill College. The Mars Hill College opinions expressed in the paper do Mars Hill, NC 28'* not necessarily reflect those of the ad- (704) 689-1419 ministration, faculty or staff of the — college, n« do Ihey nec«s.rily renect Xypeseuing and Printing those of the Hilltop suff. lan Reg exp Jnni tom S Hill , %,■ '•'e dir.™:. is coa yo f -Javid ' -10. '^i'lnan Pal Plays Ai,‘^ively. - '’’•ermon O'* and S'-/-. 1?* , M more ''•n; has ''^an.
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