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PIRG Effort
Warrants Support
In the February 19 issue of THE LANCE an article was run
describing a complaint filed by the North Carolina Public In
terest Research Group (PIRG) against the State Board of Elec
tions to end unconstitutional discrimination against college
students in the Board’s voter registration guidelines.
Currently the guidelines are based on the proposition that a
college student is not a resident of the college community .
PIRG’s brief cites a number of instances in which the courts
have overturned this presumption. The notion that a college
student who spends most of four years in a town is not a
resident, says PIRG, is pretty silly when you note census repor
ts indicating one U.S. citizen in five moves annually, and that
the average citizen residency in one place is only 5V4 years.
St. Andrews students are lucky in that a local court suit a few
years ago put an aid to the registration hassles here. Orange
County, home of the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, is equally hassle^ree. Students in the state’s 98 other
counties, however, are forced to answer to battery of questions
not required of any other voting groiq), some of which border
on the absurd and seem to have no purpose besides giving
students a hard time.
The state’s guidelines strike us as an obstructimi of a
student’s ri^t to vote under the 1971 constitutional amendment
allowing eighteen to twenty-one year olds the vote. THE LAN
CE supports PIRG’s actions and urges you to do the same.
Write to either Attorney General Rufus Edmisten or Elections
Board chief Alex Brock in Raleigh, N.C. Let 1976 be the year
North Carolina gives all its students the vote.
Letters
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Picked Up
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March 12 is the
DEADLINE!
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News Bureau
To the Editor:
It is very exciting to see the
last three issues of THE LAN
CE so articulate toward
building a clear un
derstanding of what everyone
involved thinks so the wn-
troversy of Mark Smiths
tenure denial. It is good to see
St. Andrews people concerned
by an issue to the point of
“passion.” I think we enjoy
appearing wise and profound
too much. . XU
However, by ignoring the
• gathering which took place
Monday evening, February
16, under the rather am
biguous announcement of a
“town meeting” to discuss
“educational policy.” THE
lance missed a rare op
portunity to report on the in
tellectual struggle toward
recognition of profundity and
organizational continuity here
among us. In our decision to
hold the meeting, the basic
common truth need we
discovered among ourselves
was a chance to identify or
ask about all the crazy things
we worry about all the time.
(Those students of
Bronowski reading this are
asked to bear in mind that
“asking impertinent
questions” is the essence of
science.)
At the town meeting nothing
was specifically com
municated, or said, or done.
But I have a better un
derstanding of and respect for
some people here with whom
I had previously had no
touching point of concern and
energy. A great struggle or
any political action is to have
a sense of a common collec
tive base before moving. I
wonder if, in contesting the
recent Smith tenure decision,
the bulk of our energy has not
gone into communicating and
qualifying our sense of com
mitment to the “purpose of
St. Andrews”, which might
have been preexisting had we
taken the time and patience
with ourselves to allow for
that communication.
To qualify my point, I recall
a statement of Jeff Gross,
eminent but terminated St.
Andrews professor of
English:
“At St. Andrews everyone
talks about our problems,
then gets up and leaves,
thinking that we have solved
them.” I see a need for
ongoing forums of com
munication in the form of St.
Andrews town meetings. As
an organizational participant
in those meetings and in this
community I feel a need of
evaluative feedback from
2
“It’s Saturday Night
At The Movies
“Cat Ballou.”
With Lee Marvin and Jane
Fonda.
Lee Marvin won an Academy
Award for his role in this
western, one that “Common
weal” called so “outrageous
ly funny that it even bur-
legques satire and itself.”
Sunday at 7 p.m.
Avinger Auditorim.
It began last fall and
quickly became the hottest
item OTC has put on the rec
tangular screen in 25 years.
It’s “Saturday Ni^t” a live,
late-night ninety minute
collectiwi of mayhem and
satire.
“Saturday Night’s” cast is
made up of a group of
unknowns billing themselves
as “The Not Ready For
Prime Time Players.” Two of
the players, Anne Beatts and
Michael O’Donoghue are for
mer writers for “National
Lampoon,” and the totally
irrelevant style of Lampoon
humor, cross with the
zuniness of Monty Pyuthon, is
what “Saturday Night”
viewers are given each week.
By its fifth week, when Lily
Tomlin appeared as guest
host, “Saturday Night” had
become a cult diow, and
around campus you could
hear people tiying to explain
what the show was and
usually giving up in
desperation with the cry
“Just watch it-you’ll love it! ”
And most have. In format,
“Saturday Night” is a loosely
strung together series of
skits, musical numbers and
regular features. The show
opens with its star Chevy
Chase falling down (often
while impersonating
President Ford) and crying
“Live from New York! It’s
Saturday Night!”
Past features on the show
have included “Land Shark”,
a land based parody of
“Jaws” in whidi a huge
shark’s head gobbles up apar
tment dwellers; a Chanel No.
5 commercial poking fun at
actress Catherine Deneuve in
which Candice Bergen ended
up with a perfume bottle
stuck to her head, and an
imagined session between
President Ford and an
analyst in which the
President takes a word
association test. (“Staris.”
“FaU.” “Rug.” “Trip.”
“Ronald Reagan.” “Hair
Dye.” “Primary.” “Lose.”)
(Continuiedon Page 3)
other voices of the St. An
drews community, it is the
role of THE LANCE as an ira-
portMt voice in this com
munity to make some
recognition of the fact that at
tempts of this nature are
taking place.
Enough said,
Kathleen Newsom Simmons
(Editor’s Note: There was
not an attempt on the part of
THE LANCE to ignore flie
meeting to which the writer
refers. Given the workload
ttet week, we just didn’t have
time to get a story together on
the matter. Fwtunately, Ms.
Simmons’ letter nicely sum
marizes the first meeting for
us, and we will pick up from
here with coverage of future
meetings.)
Women
(Continued from Page 1)
build shelters, self-health. We
can explore our cultural
myths and what they mean to
us today. We can create our
own calendar, observe our
own rituals. We can re-write
fairy tales or learn about wit
chcraft, herbal lore. We can
do individual jH’ojects: What
are women doing in the scien
ces education, politics, men
tal health, etc. What do you
want? We can structure or not
structure, these meetings and
their content any way we
to.
For those interested please
attend the meeting or contact
Jo Ellen Pasman at 276-9620.
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