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Bt Afrjifc^ws Presbyterian ^
THE LANCE
Official Publication of the Student Body of St. Andrews Presbyterian College
APR 1^3^977
■volume 14, No. 7
ST. ANDREWS PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE, LAURINBURG, N. C. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1974
President Hart Presents State of the College
President Hart on October
16, presented his statement of
the condition of the college to
the faculty meeting. The
foUowing is his sumary of
what was siad.
Though we are disappomted
that the college’s enrollment
has declined this fall to 637
from last spring’s enrollment
of 661, we exceeded the level of
620 that had been anticipated.
The number of new students
this fall is almost identical to
the number of new enrolees a
year ago.
We need to concentrate on
more effective student
recruitment for next year. The
Admissions staff is directing
primary attention to
geographical areas from
which we have drawn the
largest number of students,
for St. Andrews is best known
in such locations. Help from
students, parents, alumni,
and trustees is being sought to
acquaint as many people as
possible with the collge and
with what it has to offer.
Faculty members have been
active in developing programs
to bring more high school
students and teachers to the
campus. Advertising
programs are being developed
to gain broader exposure for
the college. Testing services
have provided lists of students
with particular interests and
capabilities which are com
patible with St Andrews’
programs.
The academic program
changes implemented this fall
appear to be successful and
stimulating. Faculty effort
must be directed toward con
tinuing to emphasize student-
centered learning, to strive for
improved scholarly effort and
for steady elevation of the
quality of the academic en
vironment.
The budget continues to be a
challenge that requires major
effort to attract financial sup
port from foundations, gover
nment sources, and in
dividuals. Coupled with this
effort is a program to
cultivate and inform the
college’s various clienteles-
donors and potential donors,
business firms, churches, and
foundations.
Despite the current budget
pressures, many steps have
been taken over the past five
years to conserve resources
and use them more ef
fectively. For example, the in
flationary rate over the past
five years has been 38. 3 per
cent. Over that same period,
St. Andrews’ expenditure
budget has declined 9.5 per
cent. The college also has
“beaten inflation” for studen
ts and their families by
holding total fees (tuition,
room, and board) to an in
crease of 20.8 percent-roughly
half the inflation rate.
Cost savings have been
achieved in nearly all
operational areas. Though
faculty size has been reduced
over the. past five years
faculty-student ratio this faL
is 1:11.8 compared with 1:12.'/
in 196&-70. Meanwhile, tht
(See State of the College, p.6)
^^Voices” Give Artistic
View of South
Southern Voices: What’s
That?
Beginning Thursday Novem
ber 7, Saint Andrews will host
a “Southern Voices Festival.”
“Southern Voices,” a
magazine which began
publication last March, at
tempts to reflect the South
today while incorporating its
problems and potential.
“Prospectus,” a pamphlet
published by the Southern
Regional CouncU which gives
an overview of the
magazine’s intentions, states
that “in tilling the truth about
the South, it (Southern
Voices) wiU not sensationalize
or make grotesque the
reality of the South. It affords
Southerners and people in the
rest of the country a new op
portunity to hear the truths
that our artists and poets
know.” But, this magazine is
not simply a literary
publication. It is full of ar
ticles dealing with politics,
economics , psychology,
sociology, history, literary
criticism and humor, as well
as literary works in prose and
poetry.
What’s Happening on Cam
pus:
Thursday evening at 8:00 in
Avinger, Charles Morgan will
speak. Morgan is the chief
American Civil Liberties
Union lobbyist in Washington,
D.C. and one of the first
people to work on impeaching
the President. He has defen
ded, most notably, Moham
med Ali and Captain Howard
Levi. He founded the ACLU in
Atlanta and has worked on
numerous civil rights cases in
the 60’s. Morgan is featured in
the second issue of “Southern
Voices.”
Friday evening at 8:00 in
Avinger, Pat Watters
(Southern Voices editor) and
Allen Freeman (managing
editor) will respond to the
By R. E. Banbury
topic “Southern Voices-Is
Anybody Listening?”
Saturday Evening, also at
8:00 in Avinger, seven poets
will be introduced by
Charleen Whisnant. Satur
day’s poets will include: Jim
Wayne Miller and Bettye
Payne James of Berea, Ky.,
John Carr of New Orleans,
Grace Freeman of S.C.,
Chuck Sullivan of Winston -
Salem, Jimmy Samuels and
Carol Roberts.
Who are these folks? Do you
care to know? Then read on...
Charleen Whisnant was
editor and publisher of “Red
Clay Reader” and is
publisher of Red Clay Books
as well as poetry editor for
“Southern Voices”. John
Carr, former editor of the
“Richmond Mercury” who
taught creative writing at
UNC-Ch, is at present a jour
nalist and newspaper editor.
Grace Freeman, 60, has been
(See Southern Voices, p. 7)
Chuck Storm Speaks
CHARLES MORGAN, diief of the America Civil Liberties
Union will be on campus Thursday evening at 8:00 p. m.
Give Blood
Last Thursday’s, Student
^ociation meeting was ad
dressed by Mr. H. D.
Maynard discussing the up-
wming Bloodmobile visit.
Maynard, representing
Piedmont Carolinas Red
TOSS, emphasized the en
dless shortage of blood; that
pint of blood is used
''*’7 14 seconds. He also ex-
P ained that giving blood is a
“‘"'Pie and painless
Procedure performed by a
Sistered nurse. People who
have
should
never given blood before
fwt be afraid, but
rather proud for the chance to
have “direct 'input into
saving a life.” Another ad
vantage that Mr. Maynard
pointed out is that after giving
a pint of blood, the donor and
his entire family are insured
against all possible blood
needs for one full year.
The Bloodmobile will be on
campus November 12. The
small gym will be the scene of
the action between the houre
of 10 a.m.-4 pjn. and all
students are urged to donate
so that we can achieve fte
goal of 110 pints frm this
sdiool.
St. Andrews students were
able to experience another
culture on October 23rd a^
24th as the campus was visited
by Hyemeyohsts “Chuck
Storm, and his wife, Sandi.
Storm held four sessions,
two on Wednesday, and two
Thursday, to discuss his book,
“Seven Arrows,” and to relate
some of his native Cheyenne
culture to modern
technological society. Each
session had a different tone
and resulted in vaned reac
tions from the students.
The first session, which
most students thought w^
rather harsh, dealt with
pragmatism. Storm asked
that the people imagine them
selves t^’ansported back to the
West 5000 years ago. The
question of survival is all im
portant here. Storm gave
examples of the liefstyle and
asked that the situations be
dealt with pragmatically.
On Thursday afternoon.
Storm seemed more jovial and
most of the session dealt with
interesting and often
humorous incidents in his life.
He talked about his childhood
on a reservation and how the
Indians bring up their
children. Storm also in
terpreted sections of John
Neihardt’s “Black Elk
Speaks.”
The last session on Thur
sday night was, perhaps, the
most intereting of ail. \^tney
Jones opend the meeting at
which Storm did not appear.
He said that Storm was at the
Holiday Inn waiting to see
what the group would do. The
group talked extensviely
about what Storm had said
and what they had gotten from
the things he said. The
meeting lasted two hours.
Most people had mixed
reactions about Storm. Some
were impressed by this
dramatic, intense man, others
were not. All ag^feed, however,
that they had gained much to
think about.