ST. ANDREWS
The Ridgerunner
The Students^ Right to Information and Expression
SATURDAY
Vol. I No. 3
Asheville-Biltmore College, Asheville, North Carolina
November 22, 1965
BULLDOGS’
SCHEDULE
SET
Nov. 23 — Tuesday, Tusculum
College, Greeneville, Tennessee.
Nov. 26 — Friday, St. Andrews
Q>Uege, Home.
Nov. 27 — Saturday, Wilming
ton College, Home.
Dec. 3 — Friday, Tusculum Col
lege, Home.
Dec. 6 — Monday, King College,
Bristol, Tennessee.
Dec. 9, 10, 11 — Thursday, Fri
day, Saturday, Western Carolina
Holiday Tournament, Skyland, N. C.
Dec. 15 —^Wednesday, Charlotte
College, Charlotte, N. C.
Jan. 6 — Thursday, Milligan
College, Home.
Jan. 8 — Saturday, Pembroke
College, Home.
Jan. 11 — Tuesday, King Col
lege, Home.
Jan. 15 — Saturday, Maryville
College, Maryville, Tennessee.
Jan. 22 — Saturday, Augusta
College, Home.
Jan. 28 — Friday, Pembroke Col
lege, Pembroke, N. C.
Jan. 29 — Saturday, Wilming
ton College, Wilmington, N. C.
Jan. 31 — Monday, Frederick
College, Portsmouth, Virginia.
Feb. 1 — Tuesday, St. Andrews
College, Laurinburg, N. C.
Feb. 9 — Wednesday, Charlotte
College, Home.
Feb. 16 — Wednesday, Augusta
College, Augusta, Georgia.
Feb. 19 — Saturday, Milligan
College, Johnson City, Tenn.
Feb. 25 — Friday, Maryville Col
lege, Home.
March 1 — Tuesday, Oglethorpe
College, Atlanta, Georgia.
Basketball Coach
Bob Hartman
EXCHANGE STUDENTS
VISIT CAMPUS
On Saturday, October l6th, Ashe
ville-Biltmore was privileged to
welcome to its campus nine for
eign-exchange students from Dav
idson College.
The students, representing Den
mark, England, Finland, France,
Germany, Japan, and Sweden, were
invited to tour Western North
Carolina by the Asheville Chamber
of Commerce with Mrs. Albert
Lathrop to act as hostess for the
group. Accompanied by their ad
visor, professor of psychology John
D. Nelton, Mrs. Nelton, and one of
their sons, Mrs. Paul Mauldin and
her son, all of Davidson, the group
arrived in this area Friday and spent
the night at Mrs. Mauldin’s country
home in Arden.
On Saturday morning the stu
dents were welcomed to the campus
by President Highsmith and given
a tour of the campus by student
guides Patsy Ballard, Denise Dia
mond, Ed Harris, and Sally Straine.
The members of the group toured
the buildings on campus and even
inspected the new humanities build
ing presently under construction.
When the campus tour was fin
ished, the group and their students
split up into three groups prepara
tory to visiting points of scenic in
terest in the area. Picking up box
lunches at Buck’s the groups parted
company, two cars heading for Mt.
Mitchell and one for Pisgah Na
tional Forest.
The party returned to Asheville
in the late afternoon and after
thanking the college for its hospi
tality drove back to Arden where
they again spent the night at Mrs.
Mauldin’s home. Sunday morning
the students visited the Greek Or
thodox Church and later the same
day they returned to Davidson.
All of the foreign students spoke
English quite well, many of them
having had as many as six to eight
years of English in their homeland.
During the tour, conversation be
tween the students and their hosts
ranged from small talk to a com-
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FINANCIAL AID AT
ASHEVILLE. BILTMORE
FRATERNITY
PLEDGES
INITIATED
Recently Asheville-Biltmore’s
two recognized social fraternities.
Sigma Lambda Chi and Sigma Del
ta Upsilon, conducted initiation of
their new pledge classes. The re
actions to this activity were varied
in ranging from thoughtful disdain
to good-natured support. Although
sometimes distracting during class
hours, the apparel chosen by the
brothers for their pledges to wear
was at worst inventive and humor
ous in its own way.
The brothers of Sigma Lambda
Chi had their charges decked out
in Eskimo outfits one day, junior
birdman costumes the next, and the
swaddling cloths of infants on the
final day. Sigma Delta Upsilon,
with fewer variations, was no less
continued on page 4
The student aid program of Ashe
ville-Biltmore College is directed
by the Scholarship Committee and
the chairman. Dr. R. N. Johnson,
has the responsibility of spending
all available funds for maximum
benefit for all students. This school
year the committee will administer
a total of approximately $40,000
in grants, scholarships, loans and
student jobs. This means that no
good student will be turned away
because of financial need.
The NDEA loans consist oi 90%
federal money and 10% college
funds. Loans are granted to aver
age or above average students who
can show financial need. The in
terest is low and the repayment
schedules are liberal.
Other areas of aid include the
state tuition grants. The money
comes from tax funds and the ne
cessity for a greater degree of finan
cial need and a higher scholastic
standing is desired. This program
includes money for grants and hon
or scholarships.
■ i, '-s'
In addition to the above major
programs, there»are numerous schol
arships and awards available from
civic clubs, fraternal groups, and in
dividuals from the community. Spe
cific regulations are listed in the
catalogue.
A new program for financial aid
started this year and is called the
student work-study program. This
involves use of approximately $6,-
000. 90% of this money is financed
by the federal government to pro
vide on - campus employment for
students from low income families.
The jobs are limited to a maximum
of 12 hours a week at $1.25 an
hour. At present the program is set
up for 12 student jobs.
The basic procedures required for
Most kinds of financial aid:
1. Aid requests must be cleared
by the Scholarship Committee 30
days prior to the beginning of the
next succeeding term.
2. Continuance of aid through
the school year depends on at least
a satisfactory academic average for
each term.
T/ie Honorable Tom Adams
ENROLLMENT
CONTINUES
TO CLIMB
School enrollment for the 1965-
1966 academic year shows a 27%
increase over last year’s enrollment
according to figures released by the
Office of Student Activities.
When A-B first opened its doors
as a community college in 1927, a
total of 82 students were enrolled.
The number of students increased
steadily reaching a pre-war high of
182 in 1942. In 1943 marked the
low point in the history of the col
lege as only 67 students were en
rolled.
Following the war, enrollment
continued to grow more rapidly
than ever before and in the last
year prior to A-B’s becoming a sen
ior college (1963-1964) a total of
500 students were enrolled, 400 in
day school and 100 in evening
classes. In 1964-1965, the college’s
first year as a senior institution, en
rollment dropped slightly to 480.
The first term of 1965-1966 had
an enrollment of 609 students, ap
proximately 30 of which were en
rolled in evening classes. This rep
resents a 27% increase in total en
rollment over that for the first term
of last year. Actually the increase
in day school students has increased
much more since night school at
tendance dropped sharply when the
college no longer offered business
and secretarial courses.
A breakdown of the first term
enrollment shows that there were at
the beginning of the term 76 sen
iors, 124 juniors, 150 continuing
freshmen, 209 beginning freshmen,
35 special students, and 35 students
bearing various other designations.
The college was also showing the
beginnings of a cosmopolitan stu
dent body as approximately 10%
of the enrollees came from outside
of a commuting radius and there
are several foreign students en
rolled.
Projected enrollment calls for an
appreciable increase for 1966-1967
and a substantial increase for 1967-
1968 when two dormitories will be
opened for occupancy.
There have been a number of
questions about academic matters
circulating the campus for several
months. In an interview with the
editor on November 11, Dean W.
W. Kaempfer gave answers to some
of these questions.
(See page 2)
SUNSHINE
STATE
SECRETARY
SPEAKS
Success must be defined as the
fulfillment of God’s purpose for
one’s life as well as the realization
of personal goals Florida’s Secretary
of State Tom Adams told a student
assembly at the college Thursday,
Novem^r 11, 1965.
The Assembly’s Committee, com
posed of both student and kculty
representatives, presented as its sec
ond program of the current aca
demic year Tom Adams, Florida’s
Secretary of State, speaking on
"Service”. Mr. Adams graduated
from the University of Michigan in
1940 and then attended the Uni
versity of Florida Law School. In
1956 he was eleaed to the Florida
State Senate in which he served un
til i960 at which time he was elect
ed to his present office. As a sen
ator he was responsible for many
major legislative acts including the
establishment of the State Division
of Corrections and the State Divi
sion of Mental Health and Child
Training.
Mr. Adams was introduced by
Dr. James A. Stewart, professor of
philosophy at the college.
Success, according to Mr. Adams,
is more than the traditional idea of
merely attaining one’s own personal
goal. It must include "the fulfill
ment of that purpose for life as
prescribed by the Hand which cre
ated it.” It is the unselfish service
implied in the latter requirement
which gives the greatest meaning
and purpose to man’s life. Man has
the unstated task of making the
world a better place to live by pro
moting greater human understand
ing.
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CLASS FUND
RAISING
STARTED
Saturday, November 13 th saw the
beginning of two class projects.
The freshmen and junior classes
combined forces to sponsor a Shin
dig Saturday night and the senior
class held ^e first of two turkey
shoots to be held on consecutive
Saturdays.
The Shindig was held on Satiir-
day night at 7:30 in the student
center auditorium. Arrangements
for the show were handled by mem
bers of both the freshmen and jun
ior classes. The chief people in
volved included Linda Gayle Ed
wards, ticket distribution; Dennis
Moore, stage manager; Sally Straine,
assistant stage manager; and Jim
Day who served as both emcee and
director of the show.
The show consisted of fifteen
acts, utilizing both students and
outside groups. The performers in
cluded the Satists, the Woebegones,
Jeff and Carol, Raymond and Peter,
Sherry Shoof, Sharon Phipps, the
Spades, Don and Lewis, the Town
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