The Lance OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE STUDENT BODY OF ST ANDREWS PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE t Andrews Presbyterian College Laurinburg, N. C., Thursday, Feb. 15, 1968 -1. Vol. No. 17 Betty Tilley To Represent St. Andrews As Best-Dressed Coed For Second Year Petite and spry, Betty Tilley dashed upstairs Into her room on her way back from tutoring with the St. Andrews Peace Corps. Late for dinner, she hardly had time to read the note tacked on her door. A hurried glance at the word, “congratu lations” led her to read that she had been chosen St. Andrews’ Best Dressed Girl on Campus for the second consecutive year. Betty, who is a senior this year, will represent St. An drews in the national contest sponsored by GLAMOUR maga zine. In its search for the Best Dressed College Girl. Betty was a semi-finalist In the 1967 GLAMOUR contest. Students on campus selected Betty as Its representative from 13 candidates nominated by the dorms. Betty was “shocked” and very surprised” to learn that she had again been chosen Best Dressed. Betty is from Thessalonlka, Greece where her father is a tobacconist for the Liggett- Meyers Company. She was born in Turkey and finished high school in Greece. She attended the Chateau Munt-Choisi, a finishing school in Switzerland, before arriving at St. Andrews as a freshman' in 1964. Betty says that her taste in dress “has changed with the fashion trend. Its much more feminine now with all the frills and lace. This look makes a girl look more like a girl.” One doesn’t have to be a fash ion analyst to see that Betty surely fulfills the every de mand of the new feminine look. Asked if there were anything Novak to Discuss Evolution For the second consecutive year Betty Tilley has been picked to represent St. Andrews in the Miss Glamour Contest. "Darwin and Evolution” will be the topic of a public lecture presented Feb. 20 at St. An drews by Dr. Alfred Novak, chairman of the division of science and mathematics at Ste phens College. He will speak at 8 p.m. in the gymnasium. Dr. Novak’s public lecture Draft Protesters Views Freedom Concept George Vlasits, a twenty-five year old member of “The North Carolina Committee Against the War”, spoke to members of the Christianity and Culture 400 program yesterday. Vlasits centered his topic around Individual Freedom and the Draft proposing that con scription is not consistent with American ideals of individual freedom. Vlasits suggested that in America today there is no ab solute freedom, only partial freedom at best. “Our consti tution guarantees us freedom, but a guarantee of freedom means little without a choice of a meanin^ul alternatives,” said Vlasits. He pointed that in 1917 the concept of a conscripted mili tia was a well debated topic in Congress, but that today the draft has apparently be come an American institution. He suggested the alternatives posed to young men of draft age today are inconsistent with the supposed American ideal. Conscientious objector classi fication Is granted only on a theological basis, and General Lewis B. Hershey himself has stated that, students should no longer be deferred because it is their desire to attend college, but rather should be deferred if they are to become spe cialists useful to the govern ment. "The present draft law is an unequal ‘class’document,” said Vlasits. “There is discrimina tion against minority groups.” “Much of the cause for dis sent against the present system is based on a lack of knowledge of Selective Service laws,” Vla sits said. He noted that the Se lective Service System does not give out deferment information, nor make a notlcable effort to relate to an individual his rights for defermant within the con fines of the law. He commented, “The direc tive of General Hershey to re classify draft protestors I’A is an unjust punishment without individual rights to trial by jury. The Selective Service Sys tem is not ruled by law, but is an autonomy ruled by men.” Local draft boards are pre judice, he noted, for they are mainly military men themsel ves appointed directly by the President. They seem to in corporate the idea that “the only was a person can serve his motive of anti-draft protestors. The anti-draft movement is es sentially a coHege movement.” Vlasits is presently faced with a pair of alternatives; obey the present draft laws and cooperate by joining the armed forces, or face a five year prison sentence accom panied by a fine of $10,000. “I hope that the tough road which lies ahead of me will Influence authorities and make it easier on those who, are to follow my path.” “The world needs a better method of foreign policy than with arms and warfare,” he stated, “The present war in Vietnam, of course, is a major country is through the armed forces.” Competition Cash Contest For Artists Open to S.A. Students The Sixth Annual Student Art Competition is being jointly sponsored this year by the Er- dahl-Cloyd Union Gallery Com mittee and the Presbyterian Campus Ministry. Two prominent experts, Mr. Eugene Myers, Dean of the Con- cordian School of Art in Wash ington, D. C., and Mr.Gudmund Vigtel from the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia, will be judges for the competition. Entries may be submitted in the following catagories: fra med paintings, sculpture secur ed to a base, matted prints, and matted drawings. No more than two entries may be submitted by an artist All work must be original, and completed within the past two years. There is no entry fee. Cash awards will be made in each catagory and an overall winner will be selected. Dead line for entries is March 4 at 5:00 p.m. Information and entry blanks can be obtained by writing Steve Sutherland at the Program Of fice of the Erdahl-Cloyd Union, N. C. State University in Ra leigh, 27607. she would like to alter in to day’s fashion, Betty answered an affirmative, “I surely do.” “I would love to abolish this granny look that the new mid calf fashions have produced. They are ugly and are flatter ing to no one.” Betty’s unique style is a con glomeration of various name brands. She buys her clothes “everywhere” and especially prefers European shoes-- “they’re so much cheaper.” A French major, Betty also speaks Greek fluently. Her fa vorite poet is Rod McKuen, whose poetry and albums she finds fascinating. After graduation in May, Betty plans to pursue a career as a fashion buyer. “From there I’d like to travel all over the world,” Betty said with her eyes aglow. will be presented as part of the Visiting Scientists Program of St. Andrews. He is the fifth of eight nationally-promlnent scientists to spend two weeks on campus during the school year, serving as guest lecturers to science classes and consult ing with faculty and students. A science consultant to nu merous colleges, Dr. Novak is president of the Association for General and Liberal Studies. Author of more than 50 pro fessional papers and four books, he was a writer for the NSF School Science Curriculum Project, and consultant, writer, and editor for the Biological Science Curriculum Stud]( for high school biology. Holding degrees from the University ?f Chicago and Mich igan State University, Dr. Novak was an NIH Fellow in bioche mistry at California Institute of Technology and a Guggenheim Fellow at Cambridge Univer sity. Book Revealing Draft Laws Will Hit Market Soon “How To Stay OUT of The Army: A Guide To Your Rights Under The Draft Law, a pa perback book by Conrad Lynn, noted civil rights and draft attorney^ will be published Feb ruary 29, 1968 by Monthly Re view Press and distributed by Grove Press. A firm opponent of the Viet nam war, Lynn urges all young men to claim their rights un der the draft law, and even to go into the courts to invoke the Nuremburg principle if neces sary. He has written this hand book “so that those who wish to resist may be aided in hav ing all their rights that may help them refuse induction into the armed forces.” To this end -he provides a simple guide to the law, and an explanation of all the grounds for deferment or exemption. Betty Tilley To Represent St. Andrews Kilpatrick Speaks James J. Kilpatrick, noted columnist and former editor of the Richmond News Leader, spoke to members of the C&C 400 program last Friday morn ing, and to members of the campus community that after noon. Kilpatrick addressed seniors on the topic "The Nature of Freedom in An Increasingly Regimented Society”. Concern ing the present freedom of in dividuals, he pointed to the various problems of urban li ving in our present society, stressing that the rights of in dividuals in the fields of com munication, privacy, family, and property management are freedoms which are rapidly be ing invaded by the government and the process of urbaniza tion. With the expanding laws go verning foreign travel, taxation, etc., invasion of privacy is be coming non-absolute. He pro jects that in the 21st century, car ownership and driving pri vileges will be extremely limit ed. In the future there will be no room for nonconformity. Free dom as we now know it will not be preserved. There will pre vail a master economical plan which will call for only speci fied skills and job activities, and the individuals as well as the masses must conform to this new concept of freedom.

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