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Volume 66, Issue 10 • Serving the students of Mars Hill College since 1926 • March 11, 1993 • FREE, Take One
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Michael English will play Moore
Auditorium as part of concert series
by Kelly McElveen
assistant editor
Michael English, Christian con
temporary music artist, will play
Moore Auditoriiun on Thursday,
April 15 at 8 pan. in the second
major concert scheduled this year
by the student activities office.
Tickets go on sale March 26 at
10 a.m., and the price is $5 for stu
dents and $7 for the public. Ac
cording to Student Activities
Director, Jay Hirst, tickets will go
fast since a direct mailing will be
sent to area churches encouraging
them to buy large blocks of seats.
"We’re hoping to sell around
1500 tickets, and I think the show
will do real well," he said. "MHC
students have the first chance at the
tickets, however, and they have the
opportunity at the first row seats.
That’s only fair since it is their
money that brings in the show."
Hirst said he "got an incredible
deal" on the cost of the concert but
declined to say how much. How
ever, he did say that Mars Hill was
fortunate to get Michael Enghsh
who like Toad the Wet Sprocket,
last semester’s major concer^ is in
creasing in popularity and in an
other year would be too expensive
for the college to book.
"Right now Toad is playing for
four times as much what we paid
them in November," Hirst said.
"And Michael English will be the
same. He’s one of the hottest stars
in Christian contemporary music."
Hirst cited that friends in the
concert industry helped him to get
Michael English for a good price.
He also said that English only had
three concert dates open and Mars
Hill was able to get one.
One of the reasons Hirst ex
pects the concert to do well is the
rising popularity of Christian con
temporary music.
"Before a few years ago, Chris
tian contemporary music had such
a small niche," he said. "Now it has
a more modern and pop beat and
that has attracted a larger audi
ence."
Having a Christian concert as
opposed to another pop/rock con
cert such as Toad is one way the
student activities office hopes to
entertain all segments of the stu
dent body. Hirst said a major-
country act will be booked for the
fall semester to continue this pro
cess.
Tickets are available through
the student activities office on the
third floor of Wren Student Union
and through the Carpenter’s Shop
in Innsbruck Mall in Ashevdlle.
Michael English has won many awards Including the 1992 Dove
award for Male Vocalist of the Year. English will perform at Moore
Auditorium April 15, with tickets going on sale March 25.They are
expected to go very fast because of block sales to churches.
Snow and ice blankets
campus, stalls travel
MHC students made their annual pilgrimage
to Olbson hill, Feb. 25 and 26, reaquainting
themselves with childhood fun.
by Freda Banther
staff writer
A much-anticipated winter storm ar
rived in western North Carolina and sur
rounding areas on Thursday, Feb. 25,
dumping four inches of snow on the Mars
^^ni Hill College campus.
Also, a snow and ice combination feU
all day, Friday, Mar. 5, making all walkways
slick and covering the cold spots around
campus.
The Thursday snow prompted the clos
ing of highway 19-23 during the morning
and, on campus, the media center. It also
caused the cancellation of various classes.
some of which that cancelled again on Fri
day.
Early Friday morning, Feb. 26, the
snow turned into rain, but froze on cars and
some roads.
Meanwhile, many students took advan
tage of the winter weather, planning ski
trips and bundling up for some sledding on
Men’s hill and other places on campus.
Some even braved the hill behind Huffman
Dorm high above the soccer field.
Even though it was not the deepest
snow the campus has ever had, it did thrill
students from Florida and elsewhere who
had not previously experienced snow.