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PAGE TWO THE LANCE THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1969 THE LANCE St. Andrews Presbyterian College Laurinburg, N. C. 28352 Staff EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Joe Junod ASSCX:iATE EDITOR — Linda Susong ASSOCIATE EDITOR , David Wagner SPORTS EDITOR Scott McCrea NEWS EDITOR Sara Lee BUSINESS MANAGER . Jim Bouek ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGER Stu rfarris Supscription Ratos ^1.50 per semester Advertising Rates $ .80 per column inch Letters to the Editor: New Hart BY SPENCER LUDLOW Professor of Philosophy It is an important event when the college hires a new faculty member or even a new member of the administrative staff. A new faculty member, with new insights and skills can bring new life to a sagging program or department. A new memt)er of the administrative staff may find new and more effective ways of untangling the rela tional and procedural knots that inevitably get tied when more than a thousand people repre senting many conflicting In terests and ideas work, live, and study together. When the new man on cam pus Is the president of the col lege, It Is, Indeed, a very sig nificant occasion. Everyone will be expecting something. The students, the faculty, and the board of trustees all expect Dr. Hart to represent their in terests faithfully and ef fectively. The Interests of these three groups are obviously different, and they are not simple. Never theless, let me try lo Isolate a few of the more obvious In terests and expectations in order to Illustrate the problem. The students will generally be expecting Dr. Hart to be more sympathetic toward their de mands for a freer social life and a stronger voice In pro cedural matters. The faculty will expect Dr. Hart to make administrative decisions with out disregardlngdue processes, but also without involving the faculty in long and tedious com- f.ieviings. The faculty will expect Dr. Itart to be aware of and sympathetic to ward the Innovative curriculum that we have developed at St. Andrews. And, the faculty will expect Dr. Hart to help raise the academic standards of St. Andrews, both with regard to the quality of the faculty and the admission policy (raising stan dards 9nd broadening the base). The board of trustees will ex pect Dr. Hart to coordinate all the various college programs, academic and non-academic, and, above all else, to main tain the college as an econo mically sound Institution. These are Just some of the conflicting Interests and ex pectations with which Dr. Hart must deal. He cannot wipe the slate clean and start with a black tablet. He starts with our messes and our successes. He must hear It all like it Is and like we want It to be. Lance’s Stand Criticized Dear Madame Editor: It Is the opinion of many, of which we are In accord, that the last Issue of the "Lance” was In very bad taste due to your support of can didates In the recently passed election. The editorial which named certain candidates as Its choices for Student Associa tion offices was carelessly con strued and blatantly hollow of any sincere evaluation of ALL the candidates running. Your editorial chose to keep the S. A. student unaware of your reasons for your preferances. The only clue given was that the can didates “lucky" enough to merit approval by you were the "best” for the Job. Every candidate feels himself to be the best qualified for the Job, thus you made no new revelations. Some of us appreciate your willing ness to commit yourself on Issues, however, your conduct was overtly biased and exceed ingly amateurish. We Invite a response and we are sure that with your vast supply of verbage vou will be able to justify your motives. We remain, Sally Speer Henry Hall 1 Bayes Comments on Creativity Are we expecting too much? How can one man listen to all these demands, grant them, and resolve the conflicts? Clearly, he cannot, at least not in a short period of time. But that does not mean that we should give up our hopes and expectations. It does not mean that they are wrong when they create tension. If we do not absolutize our ends, this kind of conflict of Interest is healthy. We must realize that Dr. Hart is not a miracle worker. The tensions and conflicts on the campus, between t h e campus and the churches, between the campus and the town will not Just suddenly and effortlessly disappear. To untangle- these knots Is possible, but It re quires work and patience, and even then the resolutions are temporary. At every step of the way we must guard against making either one of two prac tically fatal mistakes. The first one is to give up our hopes and expectations when they are not Immediately fulfilled; the second one Is to absolutize our hopes and expectations, and withdraw from the scene be cause they were not fulfilled In the pristine purity. The first mistake Is to simply give up trying to solve and problems or change the situation. Its name Is apathy. The second mistake Is to demand all or nothing, to take your toys and go home because they won’t play your way. Its name Is defensive self- righteousness. We have both kinds of mis takes represented on our cam pus. Which one Is most pre valent and by whom are matters for serious debate. What can not be debated is that we must guard against the both. Both are cop-outs. Rumor has it that Dr. Hart plans to meet regularly with many of the standing commit tees, Including the Student Life Committee. No one could really want to do such a thing, but that Is not the point. The im portant point Is that the rumor shows the kind of hopes and expectations which are being generated about Dr. Hart, but it also shows something of Dr. Hart’s willingness to face pro blems and people In a direct and genuine way. I have no desire to be In Dr. Hart’s position. He, ap parently, Is quite eager to be there, and that Is as It should l)e. EDITOR’S REPLY Miss Speer and Mr. Hall: We are glad someone reacted in writing to The Lance's ac tion In last week’s edition. We have but one question. Why did you wait until AFTER the elec tion results were published to write your letter? (We assume this because the letter was re ceived late Tuesday afternoon) The only possible logic behind the wait was to see If your CHOSEN candidates had won or not. Evidently they didn’t and you realized that perhaps The Lance’s stand made a dif ference. Thank you, The Lance Staff Carver Speaks on S.A.^ , Drugs and Christianity By Margaret Offterdlnger It has been said that Dr. James E. Carver, whose stately knowledge Is so vast, has forgotten more In his life time than 99% of the popula tion ever knew. For this rea son his comments on St. An drews are especially worthy of note. Commenting on exactly how “Christian’’ St. Andrews Pres byterian College really Is, Dr. Carver says, "I don’t really know what a Christian college Is, and I don’t think colleges themselves know what they mean when they call themselves a Christian college. People act like Christians but does that mean you conduct your classes "C hrlst 1 anl y?” How do you teach mathematics “Chrls- tlanly?’’ "So I don’t know that St. Andrews Is less a Christian college than any other I know. It Is a great deal less char acterized by “religiosity’ which Is a pervading inslstance upon religious observance such as that at Bob Jones Uni versity”. Looking at the drinking pro blem at St. Andrews, Dr. Car ver comments, "Sumpuary laws have never been successful ex cept when tied up with some religious observances, and one cannot tie alcohol to religious beliefs successfully. It Is futile to say students can’t drink In the dorms unless It Is backed up by some action. If you say you will expel people, then stick to It”. Not saying that we should enforce the present drinking rule. Dr. Carver added, “We ought to enforce any rule we make”. Concerning drugs. Dr. Car ver feels that‘‘State laws should be enforced. I wouldn’t expell a person who Is smoking pot, but I would get rid of the peddler’ . Winter Term Photos Judged DR. JAMES E. CARVER Many faculty members and students have suggested that the college be governed by co-- operatlve student-faculty-ad- mlnlstratlon organization. Dr. Carver comments, "Of course there are areas In which we should work together but to put students on the Board of Trustees Is nonsense. "As for voting on the Ed ucational Policies Committee, (Continued to Page 3) POET RON BAYES Summer School Pre-Reqistration (Continued from Page 1) * clpates a synthesis of the cul ture and heritage of the Negro American. A person may reg ister for either or both of the five-week sessions. Tentative considerations already Include an Indian American emphasis for the 1970 term. The two Institute courses will be taught by three faculty mem bers, including a guest cultural representative. Dr. Charles Joyner is serving as Chairman of the Institute staff and will teach the first term. Dr. George Melton win teach during the second five-week session. Dr. Carl Bennett will be the In stitute staff member in Litera ture. During the first session, a guest faculty member in Literature will be the team, and a soclologlst-hlstorlan will be In residence for the second session. The Seminars: Three seminars, each con ducted as a full course and last ing for three weeks, will offer another attractive first. These Include: "The Art Seminar” to be under the direction of Mrs. Pat Johns and Mr. John Dahl (July 14-August 15); Beginning Drawing, for non-majors,(first session); principles of Art Criticism (first session), Music Appreicatlon (first session). The Business and Industry Seminar with Mr. Gentry W. Wade and Dr. William Holland as co-directors (June 16-JuIy 5). An Intensive study of sev eral representative Laurin burg area business/industrial units will be Incorporated in the course. Computer and sim ulation techniques will be re lated. The Drama Seminar under the direction of Mr. Art McDonald (June 9-June 28). A full course, 3 s.h. equivalent with an em phasis on the principles, pur poses and content of creative drama for young children In the school and church. Dear Joe: As the year goes Into the stretch it seems to me that a gratuitous review of the year’s creative writing at St. Andrews Is not a bad idea. I've asked myself quite a number of times "What goes on here?” This, when wondering at the amount of good work coming from a relatively small student body--work In both poetry and fiction. That curiosity is appropriate in a newcomer such as myself, I think. That the college itself is somewhat experimental and Is, Indeed, a relative newcomer, no doubt bears on the health of creative writinghere. Of course special credit is due to faculty here who have encouraged the efforts—and a number not now here who encouraged the pro gram (e.g.. Professors Oerke and Kramer). The unique St. Andrews cur riculum, perhaps especially C&C, provides a rich back ground In the Important vicarious experience necessary to be added to personal ex perience and observation If writing Is to have dimension. And, If we agree that a creative writing teacher Is as much mid wife as anything else, the ab sence of a course In that "sub- -ject” last year no doubt lent Itself to more deliveries than usual this academic year. When possible, publication or other sharing with a unique, presumably keenly interested, audience should follow writing. CAIRN Is a good forum and has had good faculty and student support, as have this year’s poetry readings. Too, as you know, the Spring Issue ofl970’s SOUTH AND WEST: AN IN TERNATIONAL LITERARY QUARTERLY will feature St. Andrews writers. One hopes that there may be further op portunities of this kind, and that CAIRN will be able to publish more than once a year in the future. It can and should gain a regional, even national, reputa tion In a relatively short time. It may be that these remarks Alumni Day (Continued from Page 1) Capt. William S. Campbell, Parris Island, S.C.; Miss Jean A. McLean, Chapel Hill; Mrs. William N. Watkins, Jr., Rock ingham. Registration opens at 9 a.m. In the lobby of the Liberal Arts building with the meeting begin ning at 10:30. A panel of fac ulty and staff members will speak briefly on the college program and student life. Following luncheon and In stallation of new officers, after noon events will include a show ing of water colors and sketches by Mrs. Genevieve Willcox Chandler of the Class of 1910 and special presentation by the drama department. have a tone of apology about them. Faced with publisher’s deadline, and a realistic one of my own, I have been able to finish editing the Issue of SOUTH & WEST over the vaca tion. It would have been an easy matter to fill three such Issues with high quality ma- terlal--and that takes a good deal of the fun out of being Its guest editor. The precedent fact also deserves mention In de ference to writers not Included, or Included scantily. SOUTH & WrST has a set printing schedule that Is seldom changed, so, unless Its pub lisher chooses to re-print the St. Andrews Issue next spring, when copies are gone they will be gone for good. I know that some persons who will gradu ate this year will wish to re serve coples--and others of us will wish to take that same pre caution. So, then two notes: (I) Con tributors will receive copies if they get their permanent addresses to the editor--pub- llsher, Mrs. Boyd. (2) Non contributors, and contributors who will wish more than their contributor’s copy, should or der the appropriate number, direct. In each Instance the person to write Is SUE ABBOTT BOYD, Editor, SOUTH & WEST, 2601 South Phoenix, Fort Smith, Arkansas. Issues are $1.00 each. We will be asking the book store to make as large a pre order as they feel the risk allows, but demand may easily be greater than supply in this case. Thank you. Sincerely, Ronald H. Bayes Writer-In-Resldence Twenty-five St. Andrews wri ters will have work published In "South Si West”, Spring 1970 issue. The prose of Arnold B. Edgerton, Blair Turner and Nancy Williams will appear. The poetry of professors Paul Young, Charles Joyner, Elaine Johnson, Charles Johnson, Ron Johns and that of librarian Richard Leltz is Included in the SA manuscript. Students having their poetry published are John Lawson, Jeff Alheim, Waverly Land, Paul Howie, Terry Jaywork, Craig Smith, Joe Junod, Kemp Gre gory, Bill Wilson, Todd Davis and Jane Talley. Additional stu dent verse Included will be that of Doug McLean, Anne SavIIIe, Mike Ehrlnghaus, Jim Johnson and John Turner. The following poem by Kemp Gregory, "Modern Drama In Memory of Friedrich Nietzsche’’ is considered by Bayes to represent the "fine quality of creative work that has appeared on this campus.” the drama hobbles onstage, a victim of Wagnerian flak trlstan walls for isolde awhile then godot follows, moving upon the face of the waters during intermission; an anthropomorphic love affair, triangular, is created the audience is suspended by Its disbelief and folds Its arms in a resigned sigh, already bored by laughter in naturally; something went wrong intermission lasts on; Silence is petrified and trlstan sleeps outside IV but death shall have no dominion in dramatics; the crowd melts into Nirvana; Samuel beckett and Isolde play endgame on a monopoly tx)ard backstage then all curtains fall down It is conventional to wait for a conclusion, mr. genius but since truth is never final, the drama hobbles off In the dark, a victim of Wagnerian flak —kemp gregory “MAN IN FENCE” - one of Breck Chapman’s three photographs to win recognition In the recent campus photography contest. This photograph won first honorable mention. Breck Chapman’s portrait entitled "Nude” Is the winner in the recent judging of the photographic display in the Var- dell Building. The 92 photographs, which represent the best work of the winter term photography class, were judged by Larry Clark, a free lance photographer from New York. Clark now resides in Laurinburg. Danette Duncan’s candid, ‘‘Policeman’ follows Chap man’s shot In second place. Sally Carlson’s “Kids In Rain” was picked for third spot while “Tree” by Della Becton and “Barber Washing Head” bySue Wade finished fourth and filth respectively. There were six honorable mentions. Chapman's "Man In Fence” and "Supermarket” finished In the first and fifth positions. Chapman was the only photographer to have more than one picture among the winners. Margaret Welch’s composi tional study "Machine and Bricks” was received second spot in the honorable mentions while Hunter Bahnson’s “Por trait of a Pig” was third. "Sha dows” by Christine Ryon was fourth and Allan Tre^.oe’s “Three Soldiers” was sixth. Treece's photo was part of the Counter-Inauguration display In the Vardell. body by Roxanne ^4 •, I Photo by McCrea THIS IS MUFFY See Muffy in a two-piece adjustable drawstring hiphugger that adjusts to bikini. SEE YOUR NEXT SWIMSUIT AT BARRON MILLS ALSO ASK ABOUT THE COMPLETE LINE OF WHITE STAG SPORTS WEAR BRING THIS AD IN FOR 10% DISCOUNT Barron Mills Highland Sports Shop 2 Doors from Wachovia Bank & Trust
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