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Page 2 Friday, February 2l> Febri Editorial “Sometimes I Wish i Didn’t Know Now... jj You might be beginning to feel a little like Scarlett O’Hara in Gone With the Wind when she said “War, war, war! If I hear one more word about this war I’ll scream!" I know I am, but regardless of how unpleasant it is to hear about the Gulf War, we can’t help but listen to accounts and interpretations of what is going on. For one thing, they’re all around us. For another, we are naturally interested. We are inter ested because the war affects us all. At least I think it has affected me. I’ll never forget how I felt the night of January 16 when my suitemate opened the door and said, “It’s started.” I didn’t have to wait for her to explain that air raid sirens were sounding in Iraq; I knew that war had started. That night as I lay in bed, I started thinking about ail of the service men and women that I knew in Saudi Arabia: people I knew in high school, people from my church, teachers in my community. For the first time I realized that soldiers actually younger than I was might lose their lives. I thought about all the things that I wanted to do and hadn’t done. Twenty years is not enough time to fulfill a lifetime of dreams and am bitions. No one should have to die that young, but I knew .that people would have to. I remember thinking before the Gulf War started how lucky I was to never remem ber the United States at war. I was born during the Vietnam Conflict, but I don’t remember it. Maybe that’s why I feel like this war has affected me so. It’s all so new. Poison’s song, “Something to Believe In" has a line that says, “Sometimes I wish I didn’t know now the things I didn’t know then.” Sometimes I do wish that. I wish I didn’t know what it was like to wonder how many of my friends would die in the next year. I wish I still thought that the good guys always win and the bad guys always get punished, i wish I still thought that everyone plays fair. Most of all, I wish I still thought that the world really could exist in peace. I still want desperately to believe that there can be a world without war, but I doubt more and more every day whether I’ll ever see it. War isn’t just winners, losers, military strategies, and numbers of casualties. War changes people. I don’t think I’ll ever look at the world the same way again. I’ve seen too much of the bad in it. I’ve seen how one man like Hussein can turn the world up side down. You don’t have to fight in a war to be changed by it; you only have to live through it. — Machelle Cathey President Bush Sends Message to College Students President Bush sent a letter con cerning the Persian Gulf Crisis to 450 college newspaper editors dated January 10, 1991. Although the Hilltop was omitted from his list, we received a copy of the letter from the World Federalist Association. A copy of the let ter is reprinted below: If armed men invaded a home in this country, killed those in their way, stole what they wanted and then announced the house was now theirs—no-one would hesitate about what must be done. And that is why we cannot hesitate about what must be done halfway around the world: in Kuwait. There’s much in the modern world that is subject to doubts or questions- washed in shades of gray. But not the brutal aggression of Saddam Hussein against a peaceful, sovereign nation and its people, it’s black and white. The facts are clear. The choice is unambiguous. Right vs. wrong. The terror Saddam Hussein has im posed upon Kuwait violates every prin ciple of human decency. Listen to what Amnesty I nternational has documented. “Wide-spread abuses of human rights have been perpetrated by Iraqi for ces...arbitrary arrest and detention without trial of thousands...widespread torture...imposition of the death penalty and the extrajudicial execution of hundreds of unarmed civilians, includ ing children.” Including children. There’s no horror that could make this a more obvious conflict of good vs. evil. The man who used chemical warfare on his own people-once again including children-now oversees public hang ings of dissenters. And daily his troops commit atrocities against Kuwaiti citizens. This brutality has reverberated throughout the entire world. If we do not follow the dictates of our inner moral compass and stand up for human life, then his lawlessness will threaten the peace and democracy of the emerging New World Order we now see: this long- dreamed-of vision we’ve all worked toward for so long. A year after the joyous dawn of freedom’s light in Eastern Europe, a dark veil has descended in another part of the world. But we have the chance- and we have the obligation—to stop ruthless aggression. I have been in war. I have known the terror of combat. And I tell you this with all my heart: I don’t want there to be war ever again. I am determined to do ab solutely everything possible in the search for a peaceful resolution to this crisis-but only if the peace is genuine, if it rests on principle, not appeasement. But while we search for that answer, in the Gulf young men and women are continued on page 4 Hypocrisy of Ignorance ibing Stan Toney Columnist I’m sure that many times before in the history of Mars Hill College there have been calls for repentance and revival. And I’m sure that there will be many more before the Day of the Lord. I don’t think, however, that many people take such calls seriously anymore. In a sense, that is what I would like to share some thoughts about. There are many different types of people on this campus and many kinds of ethics and values. But I feel that many people, of all faith persuasions, are ig noring exactly what they claim to be true. We ask others and ourselves to compromise what they believe in order to reach some earthy goal or pleasure. This “buyout” is not limited to the religious on this campus; those who claim to hold no beliefs ask us to sell out as well. We sell out to things that give us gain right now instead of seeking the greater good. When we sell out or try to get others to sell out, then we are hurting our relationships with those we try to in fluence. For the Christian this means that we should always try to do as Paul wrote, “Let all that you do be done in love” (1 Corinthians 16:14). Christians, we must remember that it is God who provides for us and wants us to follow his lead. Ask yourself each day “is this what Jesus would do?” Christ promised us new life and guidance for each day, but we must use that life and guidance for the purpose it was intended. By our actions we must show that Christ has changed us through his love, because of the price of being that he paid, we respect him him enough to share that feeliP*'^® others. seem To the non-Christian, the becomes that he or she ^ rejected the love that the ChristiP be showing to him or her, for io®^® friendship go hand in hand. If S the agape love of a Christian trying to be your friend, then yo just as surely rejected the love of When a student takes a te answers, “I did not know,” bi present in class the day that covered but chose not to listen, get no credit for that knowledge. I same with Christ: God will ask y( you should be granted entrant heaven, since you did not knovv as Lord and you might say, “I t know.” And God will hold a tear a( “When you rejected yourfriend b) Hilltop Spring Publication Schedule Copy Due, 5 p.m. Friday: Publication, Friday: February 27 March 8 March 13 March 22 April 10 April 19 April 24 May 3 Hilltop Staff Co-editors Becky Horner and Machelle C3 Distribution Manager.. Michael S Paste-up Clifton G3' Cartoonists James M' Advisor John Cai^ Staff Writers ..Lisa Ramsey, Stan Toney, Rob Cothran, Andrea C Kelly Reverse, Dave Greene,Shannon ^ Amanda Colley, Regina Roberts, Beatriz Mel' Lynnette Edwards The Hilltop is the official student newspaper of Mars Hill College. The of contained in this publication do not necessarily reflect those of the faculty, st^ administration of Mars Hill College, nor do they necessarily reflect the opinion! editors. Written response is encouraged and should be directed to the editors, include full name, phone number, and post office box number for verification ^ tity. The Hilltop PO Box 1148-C Printing by Groves Printing Mars Hill, NC 28754 (704) 689-1419 c to make him reject me you said nt son. I’m sorry, but you must depaf from me.” It does not have to be that vvi the choice is yours. “For I W pleasure in the death of anyont the Lord God. Turn, then ant (Ezekiel 18:32). Jesus is the ans' the world today. If you don’t evet if he exists, ask in your heart fot to show himself to you and then b and listen, because God wants to to you in a way so that there will doubt in your mind that he exisi call to you is choose: death in ign and hate or life in knowledge anC 14 17 20 p 32 35 38 41 46 53 56 59 1 5 10 14 15 16 17 20 21 22 23 25 26 28 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 43 44
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