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THE LANCE VOL. 14 NO. 10 ff Publication of the Student Body of St. Andrews Presbyterian College ST. ANDREWS PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE, LAURINBURG, N. C. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5,1974 Gregory Tells of ‘‘Eastern Elitist Control” “It’s up to you, young America, but you haven’t got much time.” This was the central theme of Dick Gregory’s two hour lecture before a standing-room rally crowd in Avinger Auditorium on November 21. Mr. Gregory, a noted author, recording artist, comedian and lecturer, used a comical approach to discuss, and make real in the minds of his audience, the social problems that face America and the world today. Opening with satirical remarks about former president Nixon and them moving on to his successor, Gerald Ford, Gregory filled the audience with laughter, only to suddenly chill them with a recital of uncovered corruption which, he claimed, runs rampant in the American political system. He noted that no democracy in the history of the worid has lasted more than two hundred years; yet, as America ap proaches its Bicentennial, we are the onlv rtemocracv with a president-and soon, a vice preadent-who were not elec ted by the people. Gregory went on to declare that the American govern ment is essentially being run by a handful of “super-rich, East coast” Americans. Much of his subject matter reflected this premise. The world food problem, he believes, is part of a systematic setup of con trived Portages organized by this super-rich elite to create panic among the people and aid them in their seizure of the government. Just prior to his St. Andrews appearance, he said, he was a member of the United States delegation to the World Food Conference in Rome, which had beem called by the United Nations at the urging of Secretary of State Hairy Kissinger. There, the delegates discussed the current food crisis and tried to devise solutions to the problem of providing food for the half-billion starving people in the world today. Gregory criticized the U.S. government for refusing to make a commitment of its Student Advisory Board Selected Under New Plan Confirming unofficial repw- ts floating around campus sin ce before Thanksgiving break Student Association President Phil Bradley acknowledged this week that the student ad visors to the Presidential Search Committee have already been chosen. The student advisory com- ®ttee, along with a similar l^ty committee headed by George Melton, is to ad vise the “Search Committee,” ^ it has come to be known, in efforts to secure a suc- cessor for retiring college president Donald J. Hart. ^dley had previously told Lance that the students wodd be chosen by the MUdent AssodaUon Calrinet the self-nomination procedure employed in filling "“er committee posts. “That my plan at the time of Dr. jrt’s announcement,” he * ’’ *hen asked about the ^ new Library hours for kends beginning winter «nnsare Changed from : 30pm Saturday Dm-io: SOom Sunday To Saturday [^•"Opm-ii: 30pm Sunday change. However, an alter native plan designed “to be more representative of the student body and to take less time in fonnatirai” was sub sequently proposed by Dean Victor Arnold, Bradley noted, and was recently put into ef fect. Under the new plan, two Cabinet members, two Senate members, and the four class representatives on the Student Life Committee will serve as the student committee mem bers. Representing the Cabinet will be Phil Bradley, who will serve as chairman of the student committee and Keith Gribble, vice president of the Student Association. The Senate chose from its ranks Terry Clark and Steve Chassqn, and the four SLC members are Bill Allen, Sally Beatty,15teve Elkins, and Nat Rackett. While details concerning the duties of the newly appointed students have not been finalized, it is known that they will be active in drawing up a presidential profile again^ which candidates for the j(^ will .be measured. TTiey wU also participant in the in terviewing and selection of a new president. The actual search committee, made up o^ members of St. Board of Trustees, is expects to begin its meetings early next year. resources at the Conference, and the described his recent run from Chicago to Washington to dramatize the seriousness of the food problem. Commending the students who participated that day in a fast to help provide food for countries in need, he said ‘one half of the potential farmland in this country is not being used to produce anything. We Americans waste entirely too much.” “These problems,” he said, “are the kind young Americans will be constantly faced with in the days ahead, and time is running out faster than you think.” Continuing his remarks on the wasteful ways of the American people, Gregory said that “collapsing morals are closing in on us on the one hand and ecology is closing in on the otho-.” As an example of the moral situatioi in America, he outlined a theory linking the Central In telligence Agency with the murders of President Ken nedy and his brother Robert, as well as the kidnapping of newspaper heiress I^tricia Hearst. All of these, he said are a part of the changing moral dimate in this country, but said they are secondary in iirpirtance to the problem of what we are doing to our en vironment. As a black American, Gregory said, he had grown up in circumstances quite dif ferent from that of most people, a theme that frequen tly appeared in his remarks. He hailed integration as a great achievement, par ticularly for blacks; black schools and their curriculum, he said, have improved tremendously as a result. In proposing solutions to the myriad problems he described, Gregory made special reference to his recent books on how to cope with shortages of some food items and the high prices of nearly all of them. A related point was his idea that institutions of higher learning “need to spend less time trying to educate people and more time on teaching them how to live. He conceded, however, that he did not have answers to all the world’s difficulties.” One of the big sources of solutions for these problems,” he dedared, referring to his youthful audience, “is you. He dosed by remarking that “inner spirit’ is what peo^e exist upon, and that by keeping themselves well- young Amencans can be better prepared to make decisions on the problems they wiU inherit from their dders. They muj be ready to start right m, though, for as he said ten, “There isn’t much tune. DICK GREGORY, with a colorful speaking style, is seen here telling a packed audience in Avinger of the elitest establishment of the East. His speech was both entertaining and somehow profound. Fw responses to what he said, see page 2. Students to Visit Commune Twenty freshman SAS students, members of Whit ney Jones’s “Walden Seven” tutorial, will leave tomorrow for a weekend visit to Twin Oaks Community, a commune in Louisa, Virginia. Interest in the trip was spurred by several books the group read for their course about Utopian communities- theoretical communities in which the inhabitants’ lifestyle and philosophy are such that the moral, social and political problems of society at large are done away with. The most in fluential of the books, which induded Plato’s “Republic” and St. Thomas More’s “Utopia”, was “Walden Two,” by the famed behavioral scientist B.F. Skinner. His book, a novel about life in a twentieth cen tury Utopian community, was the model after which Twin Oaks was patterned when it was organized in 1967. Twin Oaks was founded by Kathleen Kinkade, who discovered “Walden Two” in an extension course in philosophy in 1965. A 34-year old divorcee “working at of fice jobs,” Ms. Kinkade first participated in an un successful attempt to establish a Walden-type com mune in Washington, D.C. before she and seven other persons influenced by Skin ner’s book started Twin Oaks on a farm about 100 acres near Charolttesvllle, Virginia. Initially, membership was open to anyone who paid a $200 fee, which was frequently waived and eventually drop ped. Continually in danger of failing for lack of people, the commune allowed anyone at all to join for well over a year. By the middle of 1971, however, a waiting list had develop^, and an application form was devised to enable the community to chose from their applicants those who would make the best mem bers. Presently, membership is below the 100, but the goal of the Twin Oate residents is to have a settlement with a population of 1000. 'Rie next issue of the “Lance” will carry a report on the trip to Twin Oaks and what com munal life is like.
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