THE LANCE
Official Publicatwn of the Student Body of St, Andrews Presbyterian College
VdLUMK 13,SUPPLJMENTN0. 5A ST. ANDREWS PRESBYTERIAN CQI .T.RGE
LAURINBURG.N.C.
THURSDAY, OCT. 18,1973
New Prog ram Introduced
St. AnHrpwQ familfv Koe
GENE DAVISON
JOHN SPRAGENS
Asian Experts to Speak
John Spragens and Gene
Davison of the Indochina
Mobile Education Project will
come to St. Andrews as a part
of aie Asian festival on Oct. 25,
26, and 27. The purpose of this
project is to inform people of
the history and culture of In
dochina. There is a great deal
that we do not know about this
part of the world. TTiis project
presents insights into such
areas as the literature, folk
tales, education, general
history, and history of
resistance in Indochina.
Discussions will also be cen
tered on the present political
relationship between the
United States and Indochinese
countries, and about the
political prisoners in Viet
Nam, of which there are ap
proximately 200,000.
Hie program will feature a
picture exhibition by Don
Luce, similar to the one here
two years ago, but vastly ex
panded. Artifacts and in
formation will accompany the
exhibition along with toree
films and several slide shows.
John Spragens and Gene
Davison are experts on In
dochina and will lead six
discussion sections, the first
being at 12:30 p.m. on Thur
sday, Oct. 25 in the LAA
during the first hour of June
C&C. The picture exhibition
will be in the P.E. Building
classrooms, open from 9:30
a.m. to 4:30 p.m. each day of
the project. A schedule of
other activities will be posted
around campus. This will
probably be one of the most in
teresting programs here on
campus this year.
Tlie St. Andrews faculty has
approved the replacement of
the Qu-istianity and culture
program with St.‘Andrews
Studies in Tradition and Tran
sition. It has not been decided
when and how this program
will be implimented, but a
committee will be formed to
decide these issues. The new
program will go into effect
next year for freshmen
and/or be delayed for a long
er period for upperclassmen.
Exactly what the new pro
gram will entail has not bee
decided, but its tenative
structure will differ radically
from its predecessor.
Dr. Neal Bushoven outlined
some of the basic changes to
the Lance. The apparent dif
ference in programs will be
the lack of set studies content
in the St. Andrews Studies,
program and an increased in
terest in using and developing
personal skills. The program
is also designed to strengthen
the major field programs.
Bushoven said Gie freshman
year of St. Andrews studies
will consist of Freshman tu
torials. This wiU students will
meet for two hours a week in
a group of about five. They
will have the option of choos
ing their reading from a large
book list (maybe 40 or so) and
performing individual guided
studies. This will also include
a film and speaker series
rather than the convential lec
tures. Thus the total content of
the existing Freshman C and
C program will no longer
necessarily be studied.
Hie second year, according
to Dr. Bushoven, will consist
of Disciplinary studies. The
program wUl include a variety
of lectures and become more
involved in disciplines, rather
than historical content as was
its predecessor C and C. It will
strongly emphasize the
development of skills to be
used in the last year of the
program, Interdisciplinary
Seminars.
These Seminars will
examine different areas of
study from the prespective of
different disciplines. This will
reportedly strengthen the
student’s use of his major,
and the skills acquired in the
preceding two years of the
program.
Mr. Bushoven said this new
program should eliminate
studying material from out
side of the choosen major af- ‘
ter the first year, as well as
ever having to take a subject
within St. Andrews Stupes
from a professor outside of his
field. In leaving the student up
to do his own choosing of his
subjects to a large extent and
forcing him to do most of his
own creative thinking the
faculty hopes to create a
system of student activated
learning.
Cabaret on Review
PIRG Seeks Unit Pricing
BY GREG DICKIE
The Public Interest Resear
ch Group (PIRG) at St. An
drews proposed a resolution
concerning unit pricing to the
Laurinburg City Council
Tuesday night. PIRG asked
that the resolution be passed
as a consumer interest
measure. The matter was
returned to the city attorney
for study.
Unit pricing is simply Uie
pricing of an item to indicate
its cost per ounce, unit, or
pound"Whichever is ap
propriate. According to
reliable studies, unit pricing
when used properly can cause
a 10% decrease in a con
sumer’s food bUl.
With the great variety of
sizes and brands of products in
a grocery store it is im
possible to accurately com
pare prices without unit
pricing. However, with a stan
dard unit price, the consumer
•s able to compare prices very
quickly. Furthermore, unit
pricing ends any type of price
deception in the form of
charging more for the large
“economy” size product.
The following is the
proposed resolution:
Whereas we the City Council
of Laurinburg, North Carolina
■■ecognize the rapidly in
creasing cost of food, and
Whereas we wish to aid the
Mnsumer in his/her efforts to
compare prices of all food
commodities, and
Whereas we wish to end any
|ype of deception in pricing of
‘00(1 commodities.
Be it Resolved that Unit
Pricing be instigated in all
grocery retail outlets where
gross annual sales of $250,000
or more exist, and
That said Unit Pricing be
conspicuously displayed, and
That said Unit Pricing be
uniform in format as set forth
by the food industry, and
That said Unit pricing be
uniform in measure of produc
ts.
REVIEW BY
K. LUNSFORD
AND C. RAGAN
“Cabaret”, a musical about
pre-war Germany, received
tremendous acclaim for its
performances which ran Oct
ober ll-16th. It was probably
one of the best plays product
here at St. Andrews.
,The cast was well chosen
and performed like true pro-
fessionals. Danny Mizell
brought the character of the
emcee to life. Not only with
his excellent acting but he
came across with much the
same intensity as Joel Gray.
Teather Lalley portrayed
Sally Bowles with great skill
and vitality. Her rendition of
the song "Cabaret” made one
truly identify with thecharac-
Suzanne Collins was perfect
for the part of Fraulein Schne
ider and formed the stabling
factor in the play. She exhi
bited a crystal-like ton qual
ity in her musical numbers and
Dale Carson was superb in his
role as Clifford Bradshaw. By
drawing the audiences’ sym
pathy, he projected the image
the character he protrayed
with competant acting ability,
while Sydney Humpress pro
vided comic release as well
as a touch of reality in her
role as Fraulein Kost.
Steve Wilson is to be com
mended for his exceUoit con
ducting of the musical score.
The band provided a tension
outlet and were truly beauti
ful.
The staging, lighting, cos
tuming, choreography along
with the music allcoordinated
perfectly to provide for the
overall impression received
by the audience. The only dif
ficulty was the band’s loud
ness drowning out the vocals
of certain characters.
The play being the huge
success that it was proves
that the Highland Players re
presents St. Andrews at its
finest.
Caswell Lectures
Three Poets Read
The poets Ron Bayes, Ethel
Fortner, and Tim Tourtellotte
read Oct. 11th in Albemarle
main lounge. It was a good
diversion for Thursday night.
The first poet to read was our
writer-in-residence Ron
Bayes, who read selections
from W.H. Auden in addition
to his own work. Mr. Bayes,
his pleasing baritone, ex
tended his own thoughts on
being a poet. Mr. Bayes said a
poet should be a local figure,
but “praised elsewhere." His
reportoire * consisted of
everything from satires on of
fice mailboxes to poems on
bachelorhood.
Next, Tim TourteUotte, one
of our better known student
poets, read several poems
which contained the themes of
anger, home, and love in
tricately interwoven mto their
context. His poems were very
sensitive in nature and
seemed to captivate the
audience. To set the mood for
his love poems,
guitar accompaniment
provided by BiU Bender.
Ethel Fortner, our visiting
poet, read a variety of poems
from her recently published
volume entitled, “Qouds And
Keepings.” The poems ranged
in themes fron humorous
animations to the more
serious theme of Women’s
Ub. Her presentation was
lengthy, but informal, and her
style was good-natured.
BY LUNSFORD
AND RAGAN
A representative of Wake
Forest University School of
Law will be at St. Andrews on
Monday, November 5 Mr.
Herring is Placement Du-m-
tor for the School of Law. He
will be glad to discuss law
schools generally or Wake
Forest particularly with any
students. He will be in
terviewing between 11 and 2
D.m. Student may sign up for
interviews in Professor
Fouke’s office, L.A.7.
BY NANCY WATKINS
Dr. Austin Caswell,
Associate Professor of Music
at Indiana University, com
pletely captivated his audien
ce with his “straight-from-the-
hip” manner and his immense
knowledge of Renaissance and
Baroque Music. Incorporating
humor with history. Dr.
Caswell and company, (Mrs.
Caswell on the harpsichord,
and Bruce Dickie on the recor
ders) demonstrated the many
styles of the periods from the
16th-18th centuries, by playing
a piece in its original form and
then “taking off” into an im-
provisational furor that many
times was more beautiful and
musically interesting than the
original. This ability to im
provise was of great im
portance to Dr. Caswell he
claims it was a great
motivating force in creating
new music, and attacked the
musician’s role today as being
that of “a well-oiled machine
who plays exactly what is in
front of him, no more^lo less.”
“If he doesn’t, he is fired for
being a destroyer of a master-
Im-
ac-
peice.” said Caswell,
provisation is an art,
cording to Dr. Caswell, and
should not be looked upon as a
nuisance to the original work
of an artist.
Bruce Dickie, a graduate
student under the study of Dr.
Caswell, handled the recor
ders beautifully, producing a
pure and very pleasing sound
that everyone enjoyed. His
virutosity on the recorders
and other ancient instruments
such as the cometto (an an
cient horn-shaped wooden in
strument) was surprising and
interesting, as many people
had never heard these exam
ples of ancient instruments
played before.
Mrs. Caswell accompanied
Mr. Dickie on the harpsichord
throughout tiie program and
was very adept at it. IJpon
leaving St. Andrews" *tTie
Caswells and company
travelled to Catawba already
having appeared at Pfeiffer
the day before. We w^o at
tended the lectures that day
can only hope they will return
again before too long.