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Official Publication of the Student Body of St. Andrews Presbyterian College
ST. ANDREWS PRESBYTERIAN C0LI,E(;E. LAUR1NHI^R(;. N. C.
THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1969
Incompetency Plagues Campus
Admission Standards Reviewed by Atwell
BY LINDA SUSONG AND
HOLLACE LAWS
Most of our English depart
ment Is leaving, our dean of
admissions Is pulling out, the
students give the old catch
all term "apathy” as their ex
cuse for poor grades, they want
to fire our assistant dean of
students (amazing Grace), the
freshman class wants to trans
fer out, we still don’t have a
P. E. major, nobody wants to
run for a student government
office and the senior class Is
worried about the future of Its
Alma Mater.
Incompetency seems to be the
major complaint the faculty
gives for the students and the
students give for the faculty.
Where exactly does the problem
lie? Are the profs so dissatis
fied with students’ abilities and
Is the campus social situation so
bad that students want to
out as soon as they get in? Just
what )ind of student comes to
St. Andrews? On what basis is
he accepted? Who sets the
standards for admission?
We were concerned about the
situation, so yesterday we went
to talk to the Dean of Admis
sions, the man who shoulders
the responsibility for recruit
ing students.
When approached about stu
dent concern for the recruiting
of students and the present ad
missions standards at St.
Andrews, Dean Atwell was very
open and frank about the pro
blems he and his admissions
staff had faced: recruiting stu
dents and the standards they
often had to accept in order to
obtain students for St. Andrews.
Dean Atwell Informed us of a
Summer Program To
Include New Courses
To The Victors...Beer
DICK PRUST AND WILLIAM WINN enjoy the privilege of
buying beer In Scotland Co. for the first time. This scene
is at the Kwlk Shop. Prust and Winn were two otthe spear
heads of the movement, (photo by McCrea)
By Margaret Offterdlnger
Summer school has some
thing for everyone as St.
Andrews extends its program
for summer 1969 to include The
Grant Awarded To Board
The Federal Government has
recently awarded $21,440 in the
form of a grant to the newly
formed St. Andrews Community
Relations Board. $17,710 in the
shape of office space, secre
tarial help, phones, etc. has
been alloted by St. Andrews for
the program.
Silas Vaughn, college busi
ness manager, was named as the
temporary project director.
According to the college pastor,
Robert Davenport, the project
is hoping to name a Negro to
the director’s position by sum
mertime.
The Director’s job will m-
clude the establishment and
maintenance of a Public Ser
vices Information Center from
which any person In the com
munity could seek information.
The Center will be located ad
vantageously to the poor com
munity. The director will also
serve as coordinator of all the
educational services that are
set up.
The objectives of the pro
gram, as stated in the request
to the Department of Health,
Education and Welfare, are as
follows: (1) To make the privi
leged persons aware of, and
sensitive to the plight of others
near at hand, and of the diffi
culty the disadvantaged ex
perience in breaking out of
cycles of poverty; (2) To make
the disadvantaged persons a-
ware of the services available,
to motivate them to seek and
use these services and to press
to make these services more
responsive to the real needs.
Faculty Approves Plan
For Multi-Racial Campus
At a meeting Tues
day the faculty approved the
College Council’s recommen
dation concerning St. Andrews
as a multi-racial, multi-cul
tural community.
The following is the recom
mendation in full.
“The current pressures and
needs of our society and stu
dent body make it obvious that
the policies of St. Andrews in
relation to the multi-racial and
multi-cultural structure of our
faculty, staff, and student body
need to be clarified. The im
pending change of administra
tion at St. Andrews makes it
Impractical to adopt long-range
policies at this time since ob
viously the new president must
share In the formulation of ma
jor policies which he will be
responsible for implementing.
Therefore, the College Coun
cil goes on record as follows:
A. We strongly urge
(1) immediate intensified re
cruitment ofblackfaculty, staff,
and students for 1969-70, and
(2) employment at once of a
black member of the staff of the
Dean of Students who would be
available, among other things,
to counsel St. Andrews stu
dents and also be available on
a part-time basis as a re
cruiter.
B, We recommend to the new
president that a long range plan
be developed as soon as pos
sible which would create a
multi-racial and multi-cul
tural community at St. An
drews; and which should include
the following:
(1) a significant increase in
non-white faculty and staff
members,
(2) a significant Increase in
non-white students,
(3) an evaluation of the cur
riculum in relation to these
changes.
The Laurinburg group of citi
zens that sent the proposal to
the government for considera
tion saw a desperate need for
the implementation of such a
program. In the proposal, the
problem was identified thusly.
“Community Economic De
velopment”—Scotland County
and Laurinburg have a large
non-white (Negro & Indian)
population (approx. 40% of
whole). Many of these, along
with a sizeable number of whites
are poorly educated, housed,
fed. By contrast, there is pro
portionally a large number of
affluent people in the countv.
The poor sector is lacking in
Indigenous leadership and or
ganization to meet the needs of
the poor. This absence has
tended to retard the local ex
pression of legitimate com
plaints. Although public ser
vices of all types exist, there is
a problem of making those who
need services, aware of their
availability and rights to them.”
As described to HEW, the
services will Include the follow
ing: Lectures from Afro-Asian
and American Studies, an exten
sive film library, faculty mem
bers (St. Andrews) speaking on
race tensions, housing and
population needs, environmen
tal pollution, education, health,
mental health, etc. Special
courses and training programs
will be provided on contem
porary problems. Research will
also be conducted in Scotland
County to determine the level of
malnutrition among disadvan
taged families. Information ga
thered will be used to give
guidance in projectingfuture
programs In w e I f a r e, health,
and poverty by the respective
agencies.
Summer Institute on American
Culture, three-week Seminars,
and Guided Independent Studies,
Afro-American Culture, di
vided into American Historical
Heritage and American Cul
tural Heritage, is the theme
for the 1969 Institute on Ameri
can Culture. Basing this pro
gram on the premise that pre
sent and future American citi
zens should have a far more
balanced and Informed under
standing of what constitutes
American Culture, the Institute
will center on two courses,
History 381-382 and English
381-382,
Faculty for the Institute will
consist oi*
cultural representative Tin this
case, an Afro-American), a St.
Andrews member in history,
and a St. Andrews member in
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fact which is becoming quite
common place on the campus
and was already a known fact
about hi m self--he’s leaving
St, Andrews, leaving vacant the
position of Dean of Admissions,
He said that his new position at
the University of North Caro
lina at Greensboro would entail
less travel and offer him more
time to be with his family. Al
though he is looking forward to
his new position, he also said
he would miss St, Andrews: for
St, Andrews is a special school,
but because of this, it has
special problems, upon which
he proceeded to expound.
It is a known fact that St.
Andrews has very little endow
ment, and it is hard for re
cruiters to compete with large,
endowed universities that are
prepared to offer the excep
tional stude nts full scholar
ships. He did say, however, that
every effort was made to give
financial aid to students, and the
college is just not in the posi
tion to aid students on the basis
of merit or on athletic abilities
if that student can pay the price
without aid.
Dean Atwell quoted the Di
rector of Admission of Harvard
University as saying that
emerging small schools had to
recruit first for quantity and
then for quality.
He did have an encouraging
word about the average college
board scores on the present
freshman class. He said that
this class’ average score of
1050 indicates a trend toward a
better quality of student. How
ever, Mr. Atwell also noted that
with these higher academic
scores, a student must also
have personal motivation.
Dean Atwell also stated that
;the rising tuition cost (next
‘a ifctctol' whicn
turns many academically ta
lented students away from St.
Andrews, It is hard for a pri
vate Institution to compete with
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m
THE LAST OF AN ERA, The Senate Monday might vote Itself out of existance. The Interdorml-
tory Senate will replace the IDC and the Senate.
Senate Establishes New Constitution
Create Inter Dorm Senate
by Sara Lee
The Senate, after long deli
beration and consultation, ap
proved unanimously the revised
constitution Monday night. Dis
cussion of several points was
heated and lengthy, especially
the proposed size of the newly
created Interdormitory Sen
ate. Also under debate were
the qualifications and grade
point average for various of
fices, and the veto and referral
power of the President of the
college,
Danny Beerman and Pete
Peery, representing the IDC,
presented and explained a state
ment by that body, “It is the
general consensus of the mem
bers of the IDC that the pro
posed changes in the Student
Association Constitution are
both practical and necessary.
However, we strongly urge the
Rules Committee to suggest to
the Senate as a whole that the
membership of the proposed
Inter Dorm Senate be set atone
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Mitchell, Comer Open In Shaw’s
A “Arms and the Man”
(4) budgetary increases
necessary for this program in
terms of recruitment, financial
aid, counseling, and additional
staff and services, and
(5) a review each year by the
College Council of the specific
percentage changes to Insure
that a significant Increase is
made in the immediate future,
and that progress toward a
multi-racial, multi-cultural
community is continued,
C. Because of the urgency of
the problem, we recommend
that a copy of this be sent to
the president-elect, and that
he be made aware of the need
for prompt action on this mat
ter as soon as he assumes of
fice”,
Hix Will Head C&C Dept
Dean Robert Davidson announced on Monday that Dr. Douglas
W, Hix has been chosen to head the entire C and C department
beginning this fall.
Dr. Hix will replace Dr. Leslie Bullock who will be on
sabbatical next year and who will return to St. Andrews as
chairman of the Religion and Philosophy division in 1970.
Dr, Hix received his B.A.
from Davidson, his B. D. from
Columbia Theological Semi
nary and his Ph,D. from Duke
University, Currently teaching
freshman and senior C and C,
Dr. Hix said, “I have no drama
tic plans for altering the pre
sent program, not only because
of the excellent work of Dr,
Bullock in bringing it to its pre
sent state, but also because,
since 1 am new to the program,
I feel the need for Increasing
my knowledge of the program as
It now stands”.
Dr, Hix expressed en
thusiasm about this opportunity
since most of his teaching
career has been involved with
interdisciplinary concerns.
FOUR OF THE STARS In Shaws "Arms and The Man” rehearse the production that will be pre
sented tonight through Saturday night. From left are Joe Mitchell, Mary Key, Todd Davis, Kaye
Comer, (photo by Junod)
Group Plans Trip To Holy Land ,
Greece, Rome During June-Aupst
Many student veterans of the
St, Andrews theatre head the
cast and operations in the High
land Players production of
George Bernard Shaw’s “Arms
and the Man”, The play opens
tonight under the direction of
Dub Narramore and runs
through Saturday night.
The comdey is set in Bulgaria
in 1886 and moves in the world
of minor aristocrats, Joe Mit
chell returns to the spotlight in
his first lead role of the year as
the delightful and farcial Ser
gius, Joining Mitchell and play
ing opposite him in the female
lead is Kaye Comer as Ralna
Petkoff. Her style and talent
lend themselves well to this
comedy that attacks the es-
;abllshment of war as a means
of settling the affairs of men
and nations,
Todd Davis enters as Captain
Bluntschili while Mary Key, a
veteran of eight St. Andrews
productions, portrays and
seem Ingly inncocent Louka.
George Sherrill and Sally
Syphrit are cast as Ralna’s
parents. Jack Liggitt and Bill
Johns complete the cast,
Jeffrey Alheim designed the
set and costumes in the “art
nouveau” style. The era of “art
nouveau” underscores the
comic element of the play and
recalls the decadent glory of
the world of Sara Berhardt,
Oscar Wilde and Toulouse-
Lautrec.
KAYE COMER portrays Ralna
Petkoff and Joe Mitchell Inter
prets the role of Sergius.
DOUGLAS HIX
by LINDA SUSONG
Instead of turning to page 123
of the Robb and Garrison (to
you old-timers) or of the Myers
text, students will walk out of
their hotels to find the classical
heritage of the ancient world at
their doorsteps. The cultures of
Greece, Rome and Jerusalem
will be primary sources for in
coming freshman and transfer
C and C 101-102 students this
summer.
Dr, Malcolm Doubles and
Dean RobertDavldson will guide
this group of students through
the ancient world, incorporating
and relating the material that
freshman C and C offers with
our classic heritage.
Leaving on June II from New
York City, the group will fly
to Jerusalem, In Jerusalem they
will visit the American Schools
of Oriental Research .at the site
of Biblical Al, and St.
Catharine’s Monastery at Mt.
Slnal, Other highlights include:
climbing Mt, Sinai, worship In
the Church of the Holy Sepul
chre, a visit to the Old Synago
gue of Capernaum, tour down
Via Dolorosa. After the three
weeks in Jerusalem, the group
will journey for another three
weeks In Greece,
The Greek culture will be re
vealed to the students in a
lengthy examination of the
Acropolis, a guided tour of
Athens, visits to Thebes,
Delphi, Olympia, and stays in
Pylos, Sparta and Nafpllon. The
group will see a Greek Tragedy
and will read and study the
Greek classics during their
stay.
On July 26 they will travel to
Rome where they will remain
for three weeks. The group will
go on a guided tour of the city
and visit the Etruscan, Re
public, Angustan, The Early
Empire and Eastern sections of
the Vatican Museum, Also in
cluded in the Rome stay are
visits to the Roman Forum, The
Baths of Caracalla to see the
Opera Aida, and The Christian
Catacombs, An audience with
the Pope has also been re
quested by the team durlngthelr
stay in Rome,
The students will study seven
basal texts while they are in
Europe. Returning to the States
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HAPPENINGS
March 13 - Highland Players present “Arms and The Man”
through the 15th,
>;j - Federal Civil Service examination - P. E, bldg,
- Interviews for Fieldcrest Mills - SACR.
March 14 - Baseball Pfeiffer - there
- DIAC tennis tourney at Campbell College through the 15th,
March 15 - Golf Charleston - here
>:j March 17 - Golf Wesleyan - there
C|: - Baseball Atlantic Christian - There
- WRA softball, tennis, golf
March 18 - Tennis Atlantic Christian College - here
- SCB-SAO
- Senior Recital - Sandra Berg 8:00 p.m.
¥ March 19 - Baseball Pfeiffer - here
- Dr, Massey - “Where do we go from here” - Black-White
relations - 8:00 p.m, S. C,
- Cheerleaders - SACR
- Mid-term testing begins.
;;j March 20 - Baseball Pfeiffer- Here
-SCC-SCAR
March 21 - Dames ofSt, Andrews 1:00 p.m, - Luncheon
-SCB movie-LAA 8:00 p.m.