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^diloriaiiu ^neaL ^ ^peaKing. Where are you going? For some upperclassmen this new semester means a chance to change directions, reset sights and correct failures. Or perhaps to ac hieve ever greater successes. These years fac ing freshmen are full of glorious promise or the possibility of abject falure. Slick upperclassmen looking for suckers of ten pick off freshmen like sitting ducks. Dis count half you hear, frosh, for rumor-mongers work overtime at the first of school. Don’t buy a ticket to chapel. Take with a grain of salt the wild tales about the ogre in chemistry who eats tender freshmen. Campus ogres are known to prefer meatier upperclassmen, two to one. No professor has yet been known to flunk 90 percent of the class or to require his term papers written in blood. When you hear any horror tales, lift an eyebrown and laugh. That’ll stop them. Shifting from high school patterns of study to stricter disciplines of college will cause many drastic changes in habits within the next few weeks and months. Just as marriage brings adjustments, so does each dormitory roommate. Though you may have skimmed through high school, you should know that there are no colleges set up with a curriculum of crip courses. Now relax—though not too completely—and enjoy being a Chowan student. If upperclass men and recent graduates look at you with a superior glance, just know that they’re trying to cover up their envy at your favored estate. Experiences that are present realities for you are treasured memories for them. Smile broadly, but sincerely, at one and all: your roommate, the cute classmate across the aisle, your dormitory advisors, last year’s Homecoming Queen, the awkward student whose clothing shows signs of wear and tear. Be friendly to everyone, particularly those who need befriending, and you’ll have less time to get homesick or despondent. You'll have less time on your hands because smiles have a way of leading to dinner dates, off-campus social dates and even wedding dates. Smiles cement friendships and you will have friend- shios when vour straight “A’s” are forgotten by everyone but your family and the registrar. Don’t forget foreign students, as well as those with differing racial and religious backgrounds on your campus, when dispensing your person ality. They need and deserve your friendship and interest and will give you much more than they get. An international friend, as well as one whose family and faith differ from your own, will broaden your understanding and sympathies for those around the world. Perhaps we do not think that what we do as one person matters. But it is of great conse quence. This is graphically illustrated by Sam Walter Foss in his poem, “The Calf Path.” “One day through the primeval wood, A calf walked home as good calves should. But made a trail all bent askew, A crooked trail as all calves do. Since then three hundred years have fled And I infer the calf is dead. But still he left behind his trail. And thereby hangs my mortal tale. The trail was taken up next day By a lone dog that passed that way; And then a wise bell-wether sheep Pursued the trail o’er vale and steep. And drew the flock behind him, too. As good bell-wethers always do. And from that day, o’er hill and glade Through those woods a path was made. This forest path became a lane That bent and turned and turned again; The years passed on in swiftness fleet. The road became a village street; And this before men were aware, A city’s crowded thoroughfare. And soon the central street was this Of a renowned metropolis; And men two centuries and a half Trod in the footsteps of that calf. Each day a hundred thousand route Followed this zig zag calf about And o’er his crooked journey went The traffic of a continent. A hundred thousand men were led By one calf three centuries dead.” PAGE FOUR Olljf QUjnmantan EAAMITT TOTTY, President of Chowan College Student Government Association Three-dimension college life The day^s demand These first few weeks of Chowan College’s 1968-69 year have been bewildering and hectic for many people. New friends, new classes, new experiences have rushed in upon them. They’ve matriculated and “extra-curriculated” (joining many campus organizations), slept eight feet from the floor, learned to eat in ten minutes flat and shaken a thousand hands. Campus veteras refuse to admit that they are not lord of all they survey. Newcomers have little time to think. Adjusting to a new life is a full-time job. But very likely upper classmen have neither had nor made time for mental exercise or self-examination. There is a common need—need for an oppor tunity to be still a moment; to retreat from the crowd and examine yourself, your motives, your reason for being here. There is a need to “stand on a hill” mentally and observe yourself and others. From this vantage point, you will find that the world makes more sense. The confusion and distraction of crowds, the hubbub of classes, the din of campus chatter—all will grow fainter. Here is leisure and quiet neces sary to meaningfully survey reasons behind your pursuit of education. The true reason for education, you may have heard, is human relationships—a man’s ability to live with his fellow man. Yet this is not enough. A Greek philosopher summed up all wisdom in two words, “Know thyself.” The mind and body must be cultivated, but campus living is incomplete when a student neglects the spiritual dimension. From the summit of your “hill”, you may look down at yourself and in all honesty “take yourself apart.” By frank analysis, you will discover your true motives. Many people at tend college to “get by” more easily in life, to play for a few glorious and happy years, to become “Wheels” on campus and influential leaders after college. Others find the door to a fuller, richer life of service. During early weeks and months in college, frustrations are found on every hand. It seems that circumstances and the world (consisting of classmates and professors) are closing in to crush individuality. It takes time, but a valu able lesson is learned \;^hen you realize that you must get along with others in order to free yourself. Up on your mental hill, you will see above and beyond people—above the things they do, beyond immediate circumstances. You will understand and forgive. Up here you will be freer; you will be harder to defeat; you will be happier. Contributions of compassion and integrity to tomorrow’s world by Christian higher edu cation face formidable opposition, but dedicat ed and dynamic leaders continue pioneering in meaningful progress while more people throughout the world demand the type leader ship described in Josiah Gilbert Holland’s “The Day’s Demand.” God give us men! A time like this demands Strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hands; Men whom the lust of office does not kill; Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy; Men who possess opinions and a will; Men who have honor—men who will not lie; Men who can stand before a demogagouge And damn his treacherous flatteries without winking; Tall men, sun-crowned, who live above the fog In public duty and in private thinking; For while the rabble, with their thumb-worn creeds. Their large professions and their little deeds, Mingle in selfish strife, lo! Freedom weeps. Wrong rules the land, and waiting Justice sleeps. owanian EDITOR Malcolm Jones MANAGING EDITOR Harvey Harris PRODUCTION ADVISORS Herman Gatewood, William Sowell, Charles Stevens Chowan College, Murfreesboro, N. C., a stan- L\9 jur\ior college controlled by the North Carolina Baptist State Convention and foond- ed in 1848. Printed, designed and edited by the students and faculty of the School of Graphic Arts at Chowan College. Send changes of address r>otices to The Chowanian, Chowan College, Murfreesboro, North Carolina 27855. Second class postage paid at Murfreesboro, North Carolina Vol. 18 October, 1968 No. 1 The Chowanian
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