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Page 6 September 19,1980 Minister’s Message BY REV. PAUL H. EASLEY Campus Minister Clark College GREETINGS! I am happy to have recently been selected as campus minister here at Clark College, a church related educational institution of the United Methodist Church. The coming school year brings a challenge to us all. To the faculty and staff many long hours in les son plans, study, teaching, grading, personal organization puts demands not only on their school time but many and much on their personal and family life. For this we all must understand and have patience, faith and grace. May God Bless them. To the upperclassmen, readjustment to the familiar and often a tendency to forget the caution and sensitively that newness brings. Keep the faith. Many look to you for hope, ideals, morals, values and strength. Your standards of liv ing impact on us all. Do not overlook the fact that many rely heavily, on you to set the standards and guide in the way of truth. I recall part of a letter my mother wrote to me when I was return ing to school. “Too few of us know our im portance,” the letter said. “Yes, you, whoever you are can do more than you realize. You can br ing that precious peace and joy to the human heart which it is looking for. Keep a small amount for yourself; but spread the rest of it to others ac cording to His Divine plan. Yes, yes, you are im portant in bringing God to this earth. Let your lightshine that others might see your goodwork. By so doing, this brings about love. There is noth ing more magical than Love. If you love even your enemy you will be loving your religion and be loved. The more you use it, the more it grows. Life will take on a new meaning. Sol Again I say keep the faith. May God surround you with his grace and love. To all of us who come here to a new en vironment we bring hidden anxieties, loneliness, fear of the unknown, rejection of ourselves, due to our own inner needs and hidden human Rev. Paul H. Easley obstacles. This causes us to cloud our perception in life. One of the most important tasks for you and me is to develop a common and accurate preception of the problems we have to solve. Accurate perception is difficult in any human encounter. It is equally difficult in our close college community. ”... to be in full accord and one mind (Phil. 2.2)" Campus life is far different from all the necessities and securities of home. Some may test you, tempt you, try to use you in the light of their distorted values. However, this new life is your testing and developing grounds for the future. An engineer can construct with the aid of percise gauges and instruments, and thereby be in close proximity to reality. But when that same engineer or anyone else, is relating to other human beings, operating in a world of feelings, attit'ides, values, goals, ideals, commitments, there may be -9 very difficult match between reality and one's perception of. reality. So! Keep the faith. Hold on to those time proven positive values. This is the quality of life we need in our own life and period of history. To us all, we need each other. Why? For the leadership it brings, the pride it develops, the personhood it creates and the future it unfolds. In order to make life worth while we must make mature choices. They may present big or little hang-ups those sticky r.ituations that arise to con front you with so called self-interest on right things to do. We don’t always have ready made answers for every situation, that is why we need a standard of conduct. Religion develops such standards. What can we do to cope? Be specific. Get together with others and discuss the issue of the day with openess and honesty. Develop a strong positive religious life. A good place to start is at chapel or church. Hope to see you there. God Bless always, may the future present you (Photo by Jerome Gwinn) Grace. In My Op BY WILLIAM MORRELL The late 1950’s brought a new legalism to our society with emphasis on the rights of the in dividual. This new trend of thought was accelerated during the 1%0's and 1970’s. This legalistic society of ours created a needfor additional legal minds and the need for specialized legal services. The day of the general practictioner has almost gone out of existence. Some legal experts believe that there is an over - supply of lawyers. This may be so for the white lawyers based on the ratio of white lawyers to the white population, but this formula, when applied to blacks, show the need for additional black lawyers; particularly in the small community with no black lawyers. New laws have been enacted and old ones amended to provide more and better protection for the general population than ever before in the history of this country, but there are still thousands of statutes on the books that deprive many citizens of their constitutional guarantees. • • inion... Many are deprived due to technicalities in the law and sheer ignorance of the law. The aforementioned individual rights include a host of things such as, right to a speedy trial, right to legal counsel, right to the quiet enjoyment of one’s property, guarantee of merchantability of products, product liability, and contract liability to name a few. The general population is more legal prone than ever and some will seize the slightest op portunity to institute legal proceedings if there are likelihood of monetary gains. One has to be very careful about how to drive a car down the street, what he signs his her name to, etc. In our next article we will talk about how one might receive legal remedy to some problems in lieu of retaining legal counsel for a few. EDITOR’S NOTE William Morrell is Special Assistant to the President of Clark College, Elias Blake. His responsibilities include impact analyses and studies that affect the college’s physical development. He is also the primary advisor on legal issues facing the college. William Morrell (Photo by Jerome Gwinn)