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Page 2 the lance EDITORIALS Existential Blues At St Andrews You have undoubtedly noticed that your newspaper is somewhat different from that to which you are accustomed. You may like it—and then again you may not. During my three years here at St. Andrews I have observed little more than wholesale criticism of this publication. Let me remind you that this newspaper Is merely one function of an organism. This organism Is oonstltuted of students—clay footed humans. If you beleive that the newspaper is sick then you should be aware at the fact that in many ways our whole campus is sick—and you made it that way. If the newspaper is mute it is because you have made it that way in your indifference and complacency. A newspaper can serve a vital funcation to all of us—but you, on your backsides have cut out is tongue. Your inability to rec ognize the necessity of group effort has been a product of nothing more high sounding than infantile egocentrirlty. There is no valid reason why a relatively small student body such as ours cannot achieve more group spirit than it has in past years. There must be a strong facit of your “self” which is labeled “responsibility to St. Andrews. ” This does not mean a candified allegiance to some romantic “volksgeist," however. Responsibility to St. Andrews means an interpersonal relation, ship based upon an obligation which we must have to our fellow student in our day to day living. We live in a society that can exist only when we treat our fellows as people rather than things. Only then do we realize that the other man is not a “something” but a thinkine. feeling, striving organism. La the final analysis competition will not make a “thing" into a man, only co-operation can do this. Our campus community lacks this mutual support which Is such an essential ingredient to our aspired success. The power of each Individual is greatly limited, but the power of the unified group can reflect Itself to the advantage of all concerned. If you are dissatisfied with your newspaper and your campus don't just sit on your posteriors reviewing the same, trite “in Posteriori” arguments to your bridge partner—do something about it. Let's not be a campus crawling with majors in the “existenial blues.” "nothingness” it Is your own fault. Pur- —Lonnie Mann Gustafsons Congratulations to Professors Robert K. Gustafson on two counts. Mr. Gustafson has recently been awarded the title of Dr. Gustafson as he was bestowed the Doctor of Theology degree from Union Theological Seminary on May 19. In June Professor Gustafson will be teaching and conducting a summer study tour in Jerusaleum as a part of the summer school program of St. Andrews. Further, Dr. and Mrs. Gustafson have been named as Danforth Associates by a regional section committee. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Charles Quick BUSINESS MANAGER Roy Wilson EDITORIAL STAFF SPORTS EDITOR Courtney Shlves CONSERVATORY EDITOR Jeanne Smith MAKE-UP Sara Payne, Beth Hopkins FHOTOGRAPHER Mike Mullinnix REPORTERS & WRITERS Mary Fisher, Carol Privette George Davidson, Robert Perry Ted Foy, Alan Hancock BUSINESS STAFF CIRCULATION Nancy Stroupe, Lucylle Crook DISTRIBUTION Jim Keylcn, Mary Ellen McLean, Meredythe Lawrence •; Jack Abernathy The Lance is published every second Friday except during holidays and summer vacation. Offices are on lower floor of the Student Center. Subscription $2.00 per year. Opmions expressed in letters to the Editor and in signed columns are not necessarily those of The Lance. Letters to the Editor should be brief and must be sign- _ed. Names will be withheld upon request. SAPC Vandalized By see Sponsored Chapel LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor; Please allow me to use this means of saying thank you to all the students who did such a mag nificent job Wednesday on the Big Move.” We knew they were interested and willing to help but the enthusiasm and energy they brought to the job were greater than anything we could have anticipated. It was as if each one wanted to move every book himself! I don’t know who holds the record for the most trips, but some seemed to be there all day long, working as hard at 3:30 P.M. as they had at 8:00 A.M. I should like to thank especial ly those students responsible for organizing and promoting the move: Claude Andrews and Jack Cole, representatives of the Cabinet, and class presidents Majorle Rehm, Bob Zeh, Walter Barefoot, and Jim Smith. The ten or twelve monitors who kept score by classes also deserve a special mention. Sincerely, Margaret Bennett Acting Librarian H?of essor Lewis Professor W, Paul Lewis has been selected to attend the sixth summer Institute for college chemistry teachers at Chapel Hill beginning June 8. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the Institute Is conducted by leading chemists who give lectures in morning sessions and lead discussion periods In the afternoons. Some 30 teachers are awarded stipends and some expenses for the six-week Institute, which will end July 17. I By JACK MARION St. Andrews Presbyterian Col- lege has been vandalized* in a most outrageous manner. Be. cause of the action of a few non-thinking individuals, we the people, the money paying people, have been most viciously in. jured. A few malicious show offs, llmelighters, and psycho, paths have caused us all to suf fer unbearably. They have de stroyed our most valuable pos- session, the only one of its kind in the world. They have ab- scounded with the largest bed room on Earth. Our bedroom was a magnifi. cent one. With accommodations for over two hundred sleepers, it was even furnished with croon ers and lullaby singers, who did their jobs so effectively that sleep and amphora came to all in a matter of seconds. Our bedroom was so popular that sleepers could only be ad mitted by scheduling. The week was divided into three sleep periods, from 10 until 11 on Wednesdays through Fridays. This was done so that all might be accommodated. Everyone used to leave refreshed and good hu mored, ready to face the pro blems of the day, but these Xhalclon days are over. The bedroom is now in ruins. Be- cause of these deranged “peo. pie,” we are forced to bear our problems with tired bodies, bowed heads, and drooping, blood, shot, sleepless eyes. We want our bedroom back. We want to hear the soft, sooth, ing words of the great crooners and lullaby singers once again. We want to hear the old fav. orites, not the soul shattering, ear splitting, fanatical, charts, matic cry of these “new Mod. erns.” They have destroyed our bedroom. We demand satisfac. tlon. Tlie lumber industry is the largest employer and principal source of revenue in the tiny African nation of Gabon. Ozigo, acajous, douka, okoume, limba, kevazingo, mahogany and ebony are found in the tropical forests. Cbmmetifary BY ROBERT HAM With the GOP race for u i Presidential nomination gett more and more confusing th« is practically only one thing remains certain; Barry Lri water keeps steadily losing po!‘ larity at the polls andprimarS | and at the same time keeps stej' ily gaining delegate votes rather amazing paradox can b explained logically in only o! way; while the majority of Republicans do not like goij water, they have nonethelessfaii'j ed in finding any other suitabuj candidate with which to r behind. The field of poteniiall candidates can be gaujJ somewhat In the following man.} ner: '■ Nelson Rockefeller, finding n, almost impossible to gain anvl widespread popularity due to his| divorce and remarriage, isgiveJ little hope even if he wins i California primary. Henry Cabot Lodge, remains onl the other side of the world iJ Saigon. Also, his rather lack.j adaisical campaigning in igejj makes him disliked by many the Republican professionals, Richard Nixon, a two time loser j could win only as a second choice!| That leaves William ScranJ ton, who has everything in hisl favor but one point; he doesn’f want to be President, ThefeelJ ing seems to be that Scrantoij could come off with the nominaJ tlon if he would go after itJ Thus it is that unless the GOa rallies behind someone fasti Goldwater is going to be unbeatf able and will come off with thl nomination in July. To manj it looks so certain that one R& publican committeeman remarkl ed last week that his only worrl was something happening to Johnl son between now and NovemberT thus opening the posslbilitj that Goldwater might actually enj up in the White House. Reflections continued from page 1 as soon as the break is madJ One day, to your surprise, yd find yourself looking at the plac^ and the people that have been s| much a part of you with i separate look. This occurs morj frequently until, at last, it seen only your ghost that perforn the final duties of the finalweeH - that walks and talks amoij friends - while you, a separall self, are preparing to meet thf responsibilities, joys, and card of the outside world with couragl enthusiasm, hope, andmaturityil the education received, bothlnj tellectual and social, has sen^ its purpose. Few real experiences ini are absolute, so this, an endiq and a beginning is compounds of a healthy mixture of smil? and tears, of hope and doubt, ( pleasure and fear, of pride humility. You can only hope thl the college years have prepar| you for a new life, “We look before and aftej and pine for what Is not. Our sincerest daughter With some pain Is fraught; Our sweetest songs are th^ that tell of saddest thoughf Percy Bysshe Shelley | “To a Skylark”
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