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page three the lance Ervin To Be To the Seniors: -■-•C Graduation is only a little over a week away and it is now rfme to begin making plans for tne occasion. As you know, caps and gowns will not be worn this year. Instead, men are asked to wear coats and ties, and women, dresses. A $15 Graduation Fee is due at the Business Qtflce before 5 p.m. Ml May 18. This expense is to cover the cost of grad- 'latlon, the meal, the speaker, and the diplomas. Rehearsal for ment will be at ^ , THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1972 Main Graduation Speaker T • ^ . commence- 7 p.m. May 17. Please meet at Wilming ton Dorm to line up. The main speaker will be Next Year’s Plans Include Journalism Class, More Staff Sen. J. Ervin, D-NC. Ames Arnold wm speak for the sen ior class. Also, commencement will be at 9:30 a.m. on May 21 at De Tamble Courtyard. In case of ' rain the event wUl be postoon- ed an hour and moved to Harris Courts. If you have any question, please ask a member of the Graduation Committee—Jim Pope, Karl Anderson, or Paul Jamison. You will be receiving a com plete schedule soon. Senate Rejection Shows Majority Of Opinion (Continued from Page 2) failed to comment. He conclud ed that people would rather be offended in such a manner than confront and possibly offend someone else. We agree. Similarly, last week in The Lance Glenda Buck stated after she had Instigated action to in validate the Student Elections she was amazed at how few pe(^)le came up to her and chal lenged her action. The same unwillingness to confront or raise controversies which infects the community affects The Lance staff. In the Lance this year an article was printed condemn ing the rowdy action of students at a basektball game (the arti- -cle reflected the opinion of the staff and did not carry a by line). The next day a student ap proached the author wanting to know who had written the ar ticle. He was obviously mad dened by what had been writ ten. When the student was told who had written it and he rea lized it had been written by a friend, one could see the fight drain from his face. He mere ly said, “Oh,” and walked on by. In another instance a staff reporter tried to research an article for five hours raie night. Most of the pecH>le who were di rectly Involved in the contro versy said they did not know what was going and therefore did not wish to make a comment. They usually had plenty o names to call for further in formation. Finally enough information was gathered from first and second hand sources to allow the article to be written. The next evening a student called and said that the article was incorrect and misrepre sented what had happened and who was to blame. He asked that a clarification be printed in the following issue. He also requested two other things; 1) that his name be withheld and 2) that the per son to blame be refered to by position rather than name. He said most students did not know this person held “that” posi tion. What we see from this is first an unwillingness by stu dents to both render tips and information to The Lance for the paper to follow up. Second, we have for a long time not realized what the problem from our end has been. We, with the rest of the campus, have not liked to Involve ourselves in controversies that may re quire confrontations. Es pecially were we aware that should segments of the com munity get riled enougjij retri bution could result in the form of grades or non-aK>roval of budget requests. This has been the dominant motivation for The Lance staff. There have been others, though. The Lance only receives part of its operating costs from the college. The other part, about half, must come from the busi nesses in town that buy adver tisements. We have been aware that should some articles be printed, we stand to lose some Publications And WSAP Announce 72-73 Staffs Officers for the Publications Board, “The Cairn,” “The Lance,” “The Lamp And Shield,” and WSAP have re cently been selected for the 1972-73 academic year. The Publications Board will have Jeff Neill as Chairman, John Williamson as Secretary, Hunter Watson as Treasur er. The function of this board is to oversee budgeting for the three campus publications and submit an overall budget each tall for the coming year. Th staff of “The Cairn” will be headed by John Wll- Wamson as Editor, with Phil ech serving as Associate Editor, Sid White as Associate Editor and Business Manager, Whitney Jones as Associate dltor and Advisor. David ®ale, Hudson Rogers, and Tim tors^ain^c* Assistant Edi- ’ ^ Stevie Daniels as As sistant Editw and Director of the Senior Series. Jeff Briggs, Don Thrift, and Claire Johnson will serve as art consultants. Jeff Neill will serve as Editor of “The Lance”, with Marshall Gravely and Elaine Thomas as Associate Editors, and Gordon Dixon will serve as Business Manager. Cathie La- mont wUl be Circulation Man ager. The “Lamp and Shield” Staff will be headed by Karen Kennedy as Editor. Beth Stalder will serve as Associate Editor, with Hunter Watson as Business Manager. Nick Griffin will head WSAP next year as President, with Randy Boyd as Vice President in charge of Sales and Gene Ferry as Program Director. Chuck Caldwell will serve as Production Director, with John Vanden Heuvel as Music Direc tor. of that support. Two years ago, Jim Pope, editor of The Lance at that time, wrote an article in which the word “virgin” appeared. At least one business cancelled advertisements and several others threatened to. At this time, should the fi nancial backing of The Lance from the town be lost then operating The Lance would be harder than it is now. Also, copies of The Lance are sent to some of the Trus tees, We are perhaps overly aware of this fact. During their recent meeting here one Trus tee commented that he would like to see The Lance done away with because of its vul garity! So we hope you can see some of the pressures and reasons that have caused The Lance to be like it was in the past. Steps, however, are being taken to help improve the sit uation. Plans for next year in clude a non-accredited journa lism course for staff members, a larger staff, better coopera tion from the community, and an awareness of some of the things we did wrong this year. (Continued from Page 1) Sid Atkinson, when question ed about the proposal, stated that it began as a reaction from a faculty member concerned about the town and its relation to the college. He said that the proposal originated from the faculty committee of the Code of Responsibility, and that stu dents on the committee ex pressed dissenting opinions but were urged to present it to the Student Senate, which Lani Baldwin agreed to do. He also stated that the action was taken months prior to Reggie Daniel being taken into custody by Laurinburg police. Sid felt that the faculty committee was try ing to act to the best of its ability and was Interested in the college community as a whole. He said that the recom mendation was made to be pre sented for student opinion to be expressed. Lani Baldwin stated that she had expected the Senate ac tion, and she felt that not enou^ background work had been done on the proposal. She felt that the response of Stan Lanier In a Dialogue published Tues day was typical of the response of the student body. She said the committee had discussed recommending to the admis sions office that no person con victed of a felony be admitted to St. Andrews, but had de cided against this. Instead, the committee recommendeda pro bationary period before re admittance of current students convicted cf a felony. When interviewed. Dean Decker said that he did not un derstand how a decision could be made without documenta tion from those who made the proposal. He also said that such action as the proposal ad vocated would be completely legal. State ments from various members of the Student Senate are as follows. Dave Kelly, vice president of Mecklenburg Dorm, said that he disagreed with the proposal, for it seemed to have been done on short notice without consideration for all it would entail. He called the proposal very dangerous, and said that under no circum stances would he support re moving someone from school for a crime asastrai^tpolicy. Stevie Daniels, president of Wilmington Dorm, was pleased with the Senate’s action. She felt that the proposal was absurd, and that it is not up to the college to pass a sentence on its students. Marty Fort, presi dent of Orange, stated a simi lar opinion, feeling that the school does not have the right to judge anybody. Judy Cook, vice-president of Concord, said that she was against the pro posal as she understood it, but would like to hear an ex planation from the committee as to what prompted the action. Joanne Folle, Attorney Gen eral of the Student Association, said that a community should accept its members, not re ject them. Thoughts And Miisings About Play, Playwright, And Players BY WALTER RANDOLF “Two hours of mildly re lieved verse speaking is, I ima gine, hell to anyone except some brash, antiseptic, fortitude- toothed young hunters of cul ture, stalking the metropolitan bush with legs and rifles cock ed.” This adjusted comment from Dylan Thomas has little or nothing to do with the re cent Highland Players’ pro duction of Shakespeare’s ‘As You Like It.’ I thou^t it might l)e an “ignoratus literati” way of beginning my last review. In spite of other academic •responsibUities I found crush ing my little shoulders last week, I made available the time necessary to view this Shake spearean classic; I was amazed and entertained. And, let’s be Freudian about all of this, I must say that my insipid brain was renewed by the bawd that was presented. Replete with dirty jokes, this play was only more evidence to prove the long-dormant theorem suggest ing that William Shakespeare should have spent at least 40 hours a week upon Burton’s (Robert not Richard) crude leather couch recounting his de lightful and poachful boyhood, hate for melancholia, and de bating the ethics of a Crom wellian dead theatre. Yet how could this simple play have precipitated this absurd fantasy? Well, I’ll explain. Thank you. The program notes reminded those of us in the audience who had not had Prof. Jones’ course of instruction that ‘As You Like It’ is a pastoral comedy. But first, a bit of misinformation is in or der. Robert Greene exerted a tremendous, or even mediocre. Influence upon young Will. (Isn’t that Interesting, there’ll be a short quiz on that next semes ter.) The reason I bring up all of this trivia is because Greene was a contemporary of Shake speare. Now that I think of it though, it seems to be simi lar to discussing the Impact Woody Allenhad onDlckCavett — so I’ll dr(^ it. Consider it dropped. I would now like to turn to the point of this little review, and that is commendlngthe work of the people involved in this vast project to bring culture to those who stalk the metro politan bush, etc. Cast, crew, and others, consider yourselves applauded for your efforts — but not for the performance. I’m only kidding; you know, the way LBJ used to kid us? The outlandish and lustful Or lando was played by the out landish and lustful Hu^ Helm. He did a good job of portraying the amenities and rusticities of the simple populace who just happen to be royalty living in the forest. An award winning performance it wasn’t, but, my dear Goldstein, I’m glad you won’t take it personally; you’re a good lad, but. . .CSiward and v«)ward. Bill Forrest seems to get all the juicy parts these days. Jean Paul Marat, the Postman, and Touchstone; if I were to say anymore, I would only get in over my head. Jim Pope played the fotund and drunken monk who continually dropped his Bible, and, there fore, continually dropped his lines. (I couldn’t resist that one. Sorry.) •As You Like It’ was really worth any time, money and ef fort one might have expended in order to see this visual Shapespeare. All of the theatre that has been offered on this campus this year has, for the most part, been worthwhile. Since this is my last word so to speak, I would like to leave some advice for those who are not the least bit interested. See all the theatre you can, all the films, hear all the poetry readings, and buy the St. An drews Review. If you can see or participate in all that ap pears to be going on in this community, you might be able to forget your drab, wretched, and sordid lives for a little time.
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