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THE LANCE
OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF STUDENT BODY OF ST. ANDREWS PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE
vnL. 8, No- 18-
ST. ANDREWS PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE, LAURINBURG, N, C.
THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1969
Uarfs Concern for Students
forecasts Optimistic New Era
by LINDA SUSONG
He looks at you straight lor-
aai-cl with the kind of concern
Lt his personality radiates.
“ Donald J. Hart believes that
it is essential that he be di
rectly associated with students.
-Our problem at St. Andrews
with good professors leaving,
with several of the Inadequate
professors staying, with the few
black students, and not enough
concentrated black studies
available Is identical with al
most every college and univer
sity In the nation,” Dr. Hart
said in an Interview with The
Lance editor and assistant
editor yesterday.Reconciling
the fact that St. Andrews loses
good professors annually. Dr.
Hart stated that it is now a
national characteristic for pro
fessors to move frequently,
professors widen their ex
periences teaching at various
colleges and universities. Their
reasons for leaving usually
stem from better job opportu
nities and more professional
experience.
Dr, Hart Is Interested in all
aspects of student life. Offering
comments on the drinking situa
tion in the dorms, he said, “I
see no reason why the situation
In the dorms should be any dif
ferent from the situation on the
outside.” There are two main
problems which must be met
before such a situation can
exist: the state law must be
compiled with. Only those stu
dents who meet the legal age
requirement should be allowed
to drink. “Also”, he added,
“those who are drinking must
not be allowed to create pro
blems for those who are not
drinking”.
Favoring liberal womens’
hours, Dr. Hart specified that
when women sufficiently
demonstrate their academic
achievement and physical
health, no difference in hour
restrictions between the men
and women should be main
tained.
“I plan to concern myself
with Improving deficient de
partments.” Without specifying
these widely acclaimed depart
ments, Dr. Hart expressed an
immediate concern to do some
thing about those departments
which are below level in quali
fied teachers and course con
tent.
“Basic to the position of the
presidency Is a large amount
of contact with the students. Al
though Dr. Hart is still In the
process of acquainting himself
with the various student-faculty
committees, he is very much
interested In setting up com
mittees with students to better
inform him of student feelings.
“Within the limits of time avail
able, I plan to associate myself
a great deal with the St. Andrews
students”.
When asked about his feel
ings concerning the Black
Power Movement, Dr. Hart
said, “I can’t categorize the
different aspects of militarism.
He is in accord with the new
surge of black-centered
courses. However, “I feel that
a concentrated study of black
studies Isolates the black stu
dents from what is going on the
rest of the world. It actually
puts blinders on the students to
shrink into one corner and is
not a productive situation”.
Dr. Hart believes that a non-
dlscrlminate policy of admitt
ing students to St. Andrews is,
of course, essential. In recruit-
(Continued to Page 2)
DONALD J. HART, who will take over as President of St.
Andrews In July, expresses opinions of student life In this
week’s issue.
‘Some Comment on the St. Andrews Faculty’
Davidson Replies to Lance Attack;
Announces New Professors
BY ROBERT F. DAVIDSON
DEAN OF THE COLLEGE
This is the time of year when
the morale of both students and
faculty is apt to be quite low.
Even so, I was a little unhappy,
as I am sure other readers
Overholser Remains in Dean’s Office
BY JOE JUNOD
Last week the question arose
whether Mrs. Grace Overholser
would be rehired as the assis
tant dean of students. In con
junction with this possibility,
students organized in favor of
Mrs. Overholser. Petitions
were circulated and from all
reports, the majority of the stu
dent body signed the request that
Mrs. Overholser continue In
her present position.
1 talked with the popular
assistant dean yesterday and
she related the facts of the pro
blem to me. Dean Davidson had
called her and was worried
about the tension that existed in
Jobs Open
in Theatre
for Summer
Students interested in sum
mer theatre positions with out
door drama are Invited to meet
with Professor Arthur Mc
Donald at 5;00 p.m. on Friday
(March 21) in the Lab Theatre
(Room 106).
At this meeting Information
on the auditions will be pre
sented and audition techniques
will be discussed. The tryouts
for “Horn In The West,” “Unto
These Hills”, “The Lost
Colony” and other dramas will
be held in Chapel Hill on Sat
urday, March 22. There are op
portunities for singers, dan
cers, actors and stage techni
cians.
the Student Affairs Office be
tween herself and Rodger
Decker, dean of students,
Davidson suggested that she
move to theEnglishDepartment
as a fulltime professor and
counsellor. Mrs. Overholser
did not want to do.this since
she felt she had made a worth
while contribution as assistant
dean of students. Davidson said
that he was pleased with the job
she had done and that he had no
argument in that regard.
This past Sunday night a
meeting between Davidson,
Decker, and Overholser was
called by Robert Davenport,
college pastor. Davenport
called the meeting because he
felt he could relieve the possi
bility of a student boycott of
classes. He did not intend to
ignore it. The result of the con
ference was that Mrs. Over
holser will continue in her capa
city as the assistant dean of
students.
She commented on her views
of her position. “My
of a dean of students is that I
am a voice of the students to the
faculty and administration. I
am an adult and must adopt that
view yet I try to interpet and
represent the students’opinions
and requests.”
AS to her duties next year
they will remain the same. Bu
she had asked for “a chance to
be Involved in decision making
and policy decisions”.
In closing Mrs. Overholser
added that both she and Dean
Decker realize that they have to
make a special effort in the fu
ture to communicate with each
other.
were, at the somewhat gloomy
picture in last week’s “Lance”
regarding the outlook for the
faculty next year. We are losing
some able faculty members to
be sure whom we hate to see
leave, but a static faculty is too
often a sign of a faculty without
Intellectual and creative dyna
mic. And this isn’t happenlngat
St. Andrews.
Actually our faculty is be
coming stronger and more com
petent every year. Look, for ex
ample, at some of the new
faculty this year—Dr. Hix and
Dr. Crossley in religion; Dr.
Rolland, Dr. O’Connor and Mr.
Young in science; Dr. Melton,
Mr. Looney and Mr. Humphrey
in history and economics; Dr.
Doris Hewitt in sociology and
psychology; Mr. Bayes in En
glish; Mr. Swart in education
and Mrs. Johns In art. The con
tribution they are making at
St. Andrews Is quite im
pressive. Indeed it is hard to
see how we got along without
them. The same thing is equally
MRS. GRACE OVERHOLSER J;:
AMA Meeting Set |
The St. Andrews Chapter of
the American Marketing As- j;:
soclatlon will hold a meeti^ g
on Wednesday, March 26, at 7; 30 .j.
p.m. in room 104 in the Gym.
The guest speaker will be Mr.
E. P. Marsden, IBM Marketing
Representative to education^ x
Institutions in the Charlotte ;;;
area. The subject of his speech .^.
will be “The Impact of Com-
puters on Management Today j;
and in the Future”. g
true of the new faculty who came
last year.
I have a chance to see some
thing of other colleges around
the country and there is no doubt
In my mind that our faculty at
St. Andrews is now one of the
best in any liberal arts college,
not only in North Carolina but in
this part of the country. I don’t
know of another college where
the faculty has a comparable
Interest in new and more
imaginative academic pro
grams, or is more open-minded
and tree from traditional pre
judice in dealing with academic
problems. Under such circum
stances we have to expect that
our faculty members every year
will get attractive offers from
other colleges. It Is my own
feeling that if we provide one
dean a year from our faculty to
help other more traditional col
leges improve their educational
programs, we are meeting our
professional obligation. 1 am not
too happy about providing two
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'IfAFPENINGS
MARCH 20-3 p.m. baseball-Pfelffer-Here
7 p.m. Student Christian Council SACR
6 p.m. IDC meeting - SAG
march 21 - 1 p.m. Dames of St. Andrews Luncheon
8 p.m. SCB Movie-LAA
9 p.m. DIAC Bowling Tournament at Methodist
MARCH 22 - Tennis - UNC-G - There
Bowling Tourney at Methodist
MARCH 23-8 p.m. Gayle Baldwin Junior Recital
9-11 p.m. - “Off The Tracks” on WSAP. A special program
10 p.m. Kings Mountain Film Festival - “King Kong”
MARCH 24 - Albert Meyers Interviews - SACR
Golf-Campbell-Here
OCS Testing
MARCH 25 - Tennis - High Point - Here
5:30 p.m. - SCB Meeting - SAO
OCS Testing
MARCH 26 - Baseball - Baldwin Wallace - Here 3 p.m.
Tennis - Methodist - Here - 3 p.m.
7:30 p.m. "Dolphins In Holiday”-. a swim show by Queens College
MARCH 27 - Baseball - Baldwin Wallace - Here 3 p.m.
Golf - Greensboro College - Here 3 p.m.
Tennis - Atlantic Christian College - There
march 28 - UNC Law School Interviews - SACR
MARCH 29 - Baseball - N. C. Wesleyan - Here
EASTER vacation BEGINS AT NOON