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Page 2 Friday, October 5,199(Friday, October Editorial Tilson What? Kelly McElveen Staff Writer What in the world is Tilson Park? It is a small grassy area across from Cham bers Gym that has great potential to be come more, if the Recreation and Leisure Department has anything to do with it. Last fall, the Recreation Department and majors submitted a plan to the Cam pus Beautification Committee to name and develop a small park for the college community. The name Tilson Park, so named for the former head of the physi cal plant, was suggested and approved. With the go-ahead from the Commit tee, the recreation majors began their work. Faced with an ample supply of manpower but a lack of money, they sold trees at last year’s Homecoming to raise funds. Last spring, they began working on the area by combining ef forts to trim, rake, prune, and beautify the park. The plans for Tilson Park are coming together for this fall and spring. Accord ing to Dr. Tom Coates, the recreation majors are presently involved in the on going process of preparing the park for future projects. Right now, they have to deal with an erosion problem and reseed the grass for spring. The Recrea tion Department possesses two picnic tables which hopefully will be in place by this spring. Making pads for these tables is the first priority. This will enable the tables to be permanent attractions in the park. Planting flowering shrubs and saving the big trees are also on the agenda. Realizing all of these goals will take money as well as hard work. The main problem is an absence of funds. The Recreation Department eventually wants to place about six permanent pic nic tables in the area. They would also like to place a gazebo in the park, but presently that is a low-priority item. More shrubs and flowers are also needed. Right now, recreation majors are laying the ground work until more money can be raised. Dr. Coates states that the creation of Tilson Park is beneficial to everyone. It will be an aesthetically pleasing place on campus where people can relax and enjoy themselves. The project also provides practical experience for the recreation majors and provides them the opportunity to give something back to Mars Hill College. Persons interested in helping with the Tilson Park project should contact Dr. Coates in Chambers 203. Trinity Baptist Church will hold a gospel sing on Friday, Oct. 5 at 7:30 p.m. at the church on Old 213. A love of fering will be taken. For information, contact Pastor E.J. Jenkins at 689-5880. Blood Loss in the Blue Lounge Dave Greene Staff Writer Recently the American Red Cross, in cooperation with Delta Kappa Theta Fraternity, held a blood drive in the Blue Lounge. On Sept. 19 from 1-5 p.m., MHC students had the opportunity to donate blood to the American Red Cross. Delta Kappa Theta organized the event and its members contributed in setting up booths. Their goal was to col lect 75 pints of blood, and they collected 53. Student participation is encouraged in blood drives. Scott Smith, President of Delta Kappa Theta, emphasized that by giving blood, students may not only save others’ lives-they may also save their own lives. Red Cross members visit Mars Hill once during each semester. Two years ago, blood drives were held twice a semester, but due to the lack of donors, the Red Cross found it impractical to visit more than once during a semester. While many students are afraid of giving blood, there are a few facts to remember. One cannot catch a disease by giving blood. Only one pint of blood is withdrawn, and every needle is com pletely sterile. Potential donors are given a general health questionnaire designed to reduce the risk of spreading disease. Both the blood pressure and blood iron content of donors are tested. Blood donated is sent to area hospi tals including Memorial Mission and St. Joseph’s. Students interested in knowing more about blood donation can visit the Red Cross Center in Asheville, located near Merrimon Avenue at 100 Edgewood Road. Alpha Psi Omega Announces Fall Pledges Andrea Deaton Staff Writer Alpha Psi Omega, a national dramatic honorary fraternity, has an ac tive chapter at MHC under advisor John Oertling. Membership is by invitation only. Pledges must have junior or senior clas sification and must have earned theater credits by working on production or working backstage in plays. There will be two pledge classes this year. The Fall 1990 pledges are Lisa At kinson, Kerrie Beechler, Michael Lester, Lynn Nihart, and Beth Parrish. Alpha Psi Omega is recognized throughout the world as an honorary theater organization. Choices Rob Cothran Editorialist “The rest is up to you.” What does that mean? It means God has given us the ability to choose whatever path we want to take. We have a choice. Look at Genesis Chapter 3. It reads: Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden. And there he put the man he had formed. And the Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground. Trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the gar den were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil...And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat of any tree in the Gar den but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die. ” God lays before man a choice. “What choice?” you might ask. God com manded the man not to eat of the tree. But, then why was the tree in the gar den? If you don’t want a child messing around with something that would hurt him, you do not leave it within his reach. If God did not want us to have a choice, he would not have placed the tree in the Garden. He did, and with it he gave his guidelines. Do not eat of the fruit. Why would God want us to have a choice? What are our choices? First, God knew that if man wor shipped him because he was the only choice that they had they would not do it fully. It is like registering for classes at school. Sometimes you will get a class that you have to take or the only class left and you may not have wanted to be in it. You probably will do just enough workto get by. You won’t enjoy the class orcommit yourself to it. However, some times you get to choose a class that you have always wanted with a teacher you Tin [^limbing th Humble youn n due time. Cast love. Then you will put in the time and|sj|Y^ the effort to do your best. Did you ever I God knew that if people had to wor-y overwheltr ship him and follow him because he waSjg ^g the only choice, their commitmentjg g^gg would lack something. It would not bejg |j^gg ^g^^ complete. But if following God was 3;umstances get i choice among others, then those who Oursurroundi chose to follow him would do so be-g carry our burdt cause they wanted to, and their love and^^g^ jq devotion would be pure and true and.g|ygg ^ straight from the heart. vhat a comfort tc God has given us the choice to decide for ourselves. We do not have the right to decide for other people, nor do_ we have the right to deny people their choice. We are not to ram Jesus bowni |jMofQ|*rj anyone’s throat. We do not have that, authority, and it defeats the whole pur-’'^°'^ pose of freedom of choice. God wants Folk musici. us to choose to follow him on our own'raftsmen, storyt so we will love him with our all. ^6 on hand on We have two choices before us. We^arnpus Saturay, either follow Jesus or we follow Satan. Itatnar Lunsford I is either/or. According to Matthew 6:24,m annual celebr “No one can serve two masters....” And'baped by the be Revelation 3:14-16 says, “I know your^PPalachian moL deeds that you are neither cold nor hot. Mountain livin I wish you were either one. So becausdald from 10 a. n" you are lukewarm-neither hot noPcations on the cold —I am about to spit you out of myus- The “Minstre mouth.” Finally, in Matthew 12:30 Jesus'oncert will be he said, “He who is not with me is againstrsQianing at 7 p me....” Along with ere This is straight from Jesus’ mouth. Iti^ding weaving is a black and white choice. There are®^'Y. and no gray areas, no in-betweens. Either°*^s^'’uction, the you serve God or you serve campus and Either you are hot or cold. Either you are for him or against him. ^OrrGCtion “Choose you this day whom you will)|jg serve, but as for me and my household,,Qyfg fgj. ^^g we will serve the Lord.” jffjgg ^g^g n, „ ne last issui Hilltop Staff 1:00 -5:00 Co-editors Becky Horner and Machelle Cathey ‘hursday anc Sports Editor phil StroueVe apologize Distribution Manager Michael Roten Paste-up Clifton Garland Layout Anita Willoughby, Lisa Edwards Advertising Manager Rodney McRae Cartoonists James McGraw, Mike Houston ... .FLIGHT* Advisor John Campbell Staff Writers Lisa Ramsey, Stan Toney, Frank Powell, Andrea Deaton^^‘/7'f''^L- .. . "M CUT HeKB Marion Ward, Shannon Boone, Rob CothranjTi^SaiTi;/ Lynnette Edwards, Dave Greene, Beatriz Melende^^ John Raley, Regina Roberts, Kelly Reverse .-W The Hilltop is the official student newspaper of Mars Hill College. 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