specifically .American Heritage. and the high prices, was one ' that brought a positive cfiange." In the staff's effort "to benefit the students," the views of special interest groups were given a platform through the Bison. When, for example, the Mohicans social club believed they were vic tims of a poor image, their views received coverage in the Bison through a special feature about their situation. Likewise, a large story with numerous quo tes was devoted to or ugly things, but the good things as well, the unusual things." The editorial page gave st udents a chance to speak on si tuations th.y felt needed to be changed. Many issues, including the dress code , chapel services, war and peace, the proposed O lympic boycott and the conduct of guest performers found their way to the edi torial page . The Bison, though, labored under a handicap . Miss Collar, the person who had to ultimately decide what went into the Bison 'We began to question the traditional outlook of which stories were newsworthy and which weren't. And in the Bison, we looked at aspects that hadn't been covered by the Bison before.' - Kay Williams Harding studen ts who were not members of the church of Christ. Even students who were driven to anxiety by the pressures of college life could ident ify with the story about suicides on American college campuses. Miss Williams reflected on the year by saying, "We began to question the traditional outlook of which stories were newsworthy and which weren't. And in the Bison, we looked a t aspects that hadn't been covered by the Bison before - not just the bad things and what did not, said, "Even though we' re called a newspaper, it's kind of hard to get out very current news because we are a weekly. So tha t's wha t makes us almost more of a recorder. " Despite the handicap of "weekliness," despite the handicap of pre-set molds and despite the problem of too much to do in too little time, Miss Coll ar laughed and described the end of her efforts as a "great learning experience, a fun year." (continued on page 190) Column provokes spiritual thought Of the three columns appearing in the Bison this year, Innervisions was the one that provoked deep spiritual thought in the minds of Harding students. "My goal in writing lnnervisions was to cause people to think. I tried more to ask questions than to offer anything dogmat ically. I just tried to spark thought, to present concep ts and offer some solutions . If I have done this, then I have accomplished the purpose I set for myself, " sta ted Gary Hanes, author of the column. Innervisions evolved from a political column Hanes wrote as an undergraduate here. Two years ago he wro te the Bison's political column until he tired of it and began using the space for a spiritually-oriented column. Upon returning to Harding this fall he decided it would be good to write a column again. Hanes received more responses on the spiritual column than on the political. "I haven' t had anyone get mad at me Xet, " he quipped. "Quite a few people have mentioned they enjoyed it. That really made it a lot easier to write because I felt like I had a constituency here, a readership. Some weeks when I wasn ' t very motivated to write , the fact that there were people out there who were interested in reading the column helped me." Although lnnervisions did not originally begin as anything spiritual - originally, it was just a column composed of his thoughts - Hanes thought it served a purpose to many on the campus. "I think that I've said some things that needed to be said, especially this past semester," he commented . "I gained the sa tisfac tion of doing someth ing tha t affects people , even if in a small way. With the departure of Hanes this semester the perpetuation of the column is in question. He, along with 1980-81 co-editors Sue Bal and Beth Parker would like to see it continued and know of few people interested in carrying it on. "I don't know if it would go with the same title ," said Hanes. "I hope so, because I do like it. " - Sue Baj Illiil
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