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Volume 67, Issue 9 •' Serving The Students Of Mars ffill College Since 1926 • Feb. 10, 1994 • FREE, Please Take One
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Service Work At Sub-Zero
Students Travel Country To Lend A Hand
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Hilltop Assistant Editor
As an arctic cold front
began to move southward
across much of the U.S.,
several Mars Hill College
students traveled north to do
service projects.
During the week prior to
registration for the spring
1994 semester, Campus
Minister, Paula Dempsey,
and 11 students from the
Christian Student
Movement (CSM) went on a
mission trip to Detroit, Mich.
Almost simultaneously, the
director of the Center for
Community Service and
Internships, Wanda Kidd,
and 18 Boimer scholars
made their way to St. Louis,
Mo. to work in the flood
relief effort.
Students from both
groups commented that as
they traveled in the college
vans, the weather was so cold
that the windows of the vans
frosted over on the inside,
and once they reached their
destinations, temperatines
only continued to drop.
Despite the freezing
weather experienced by both
groups, students reported
that they appreciated the
opportunity to perform
service work with their peers,
as well as the opportimity to
perform service work in new
and interesting places.
The Detroit trip lasted
from Jan. 8-15. Students
stayed at a Catholic
community, in a place that
frequently houses college
students. Their mission
work was done through the
Hartford Agape House, and
included work in a Headstart
Program, a Senior Adult
Program, and a Clothing and
Food Emergency program.
One student worked the
entire week with the W omen,
Infants and Children (WIC)
program and another
participated in a program
called Food and Friendship,
which caters to senior
centers and to shut-ins.
Mars Hill Bonner
Scholars jomed 12 Bonners
from Davidson College, near
Charlotte, for the St. Louis
trip. Their service work was
done through the Southern
Baptist Convention Disaster
Relief Program. They were
housed in a missionary house
provided by Compton
Heights Baptist Church
(some students led that
church’s Sun. emd Wed.
night services as part of their
service work).
In a community where
flood waters had risen to 12
feet, work was done on a
home that had been severely
damaged. Also there was
service work to clean up and
repair of one man’s
flood-damaged auto-salvage
business.
Some work was also done
in a warehouse used to store
goods donated in large
quantities to both the flood
relief and clean-up efforts.
Both groups did have the
opportimity to do some
touring of the areas in which
they stayed.
In Detroit, the CSM
students spent time at the
Henry Ford Museum as well
as the Motown Museum.
They also went into Windsor,
Canada one evening for
dinner.
The group attended
services at Hartford
Memorial Baptist Church,
where they saw Dr. Charles
Adams, who participated in
the campus Christian Focus
Week, and James
Abbington, who shared his
musical talent at the 1993
MHC Fall Festival.
Bonner scholars visited
the Gateway Arch and some
museums. They also
traveled to an area 45
minutes outside St. Louis
which had been hardest hit
by the flooding of the
Mississippi and Missouri
Rivers.
On their way back,
Bonners stopped for a quick
tour of Nashville before they
went their separate ways to
begin a new semester.
Layman’s Daughter
The Loft Student Nite Club will be presenting Layman’s Daughter
Saturday, February, 19th at 10 p.m.
Taking the Washington Adventure
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By Candice Bryant
Hilltop Staff Writer
In 1828, a group of North
Carolinians descended on
Washington, D.C. to attend
the inaugural party for
Andrew Jackson. Again, in
1994, another group from
North Carolina trudged to
the capitol “fit to symbolize
America’s prospective
greatness”(Madison, 1915).
As usual. Dr. George
Peery took his annual
Washington Adventure
along with a group of Mars
Hill students Jan. ^17.
In order to get credit,
each student was required to
keep a daily journal, visit
three museum shows in
addition to the National
Geographic Exhibition, and
schedule one interview at an
agency of their choice, such
as a PAC group or a
governmental office.
Junior Dodie Bowman
was very successful with her
interview, “The best part was
getting a job with Senator
Faircloth this summer.”
Dr. Peery was pleased
with the trip. He scheduled
several briefings involving
important issues of the
Clinton Administration,
including NAFTA, Health
Care Reform, and the Brady
Bill. Heath Care reform was
his central theme for the trip.
The group attended six
briefings addressed
“specifically or tangentially
to the health care issue.
They got a good sample of
views that aggregate about
that specific issue,” said
Peery.
Sophomore Takahiro
Tmato commented, “The
gun control issue was most
interesting to me. We don’t
have a gun problem in Japan,
and I worry about the s^ety
of international people here
due to guns.”
In addition to these
briefings, the students also
toured the capitol, attended
a session of the supreme
court, and went sight seeing
and shopping.
Perhaps the trip was best
summed up by another
adventurer, “We were able
to meet so many people who
had distinguished
backgrounds. The only bad
part about it was the bitter
cold weather. It was a
fantastic experience.”
Dr. Peery takes a group
to Washington each year.