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EDITORIAL
A New TV Series
Televisiffli viewing at St. Andrews shows signs of becoming
standardized. Every Monday night for weeks, for example, half
the campus has gathered around the tube to watch ABC’s
marathon soap opera, “Rich Man, Poor Man.” Tuesday nights
everyone watches the primaries.
The primaries have become a new weekly seri^ tliis year.
There are thirty of them, double the number extant in 1968.
They began with New Hampshire on February 24, and con
tinued on March 2 with Massachusetts and another of those
New England blockbusters, Vermont. This week it was Florida.
Next week Illinois. Tlie 23rd the game comes to North Carolina.
We get out for spring break on the 26th, and as if to keep us
from getting behind, the powers that rule have declared a
week’s moratorium on primaries. The next ones. New York
and Wisconsin, are on April 6, the day we get back.
After that you will have to wait three weeks for the Pen
nsylvania primary, whidi happens on the 27th. Here we get to
see what will become of Milton Sha^), the governor of that
state and so far the most also of the also rans. Shapp considers
his home state the essence of his presidential plans, and wants
to win every one of its 168 delegates to the Democratic con-
ventiwi. For quite a while he was claiming to have “broken it
all open,” and the Pennsylvania primary may give us some
clues not only to how he broke it all op^, but as to just what he
broke open as well.
The primaries are going to follow you home, too. After
Louisiana and Texas May 1, Alabama, Georgia, the District of
Columbia, and Indiana on the 4th and Tennessee of the 6th,
come Connecticut, Nebraska and West Virginia on May 11.
Maryland and Michigan come the 18th, and you get to spend
your first Tuesday of the summer reveling in the accumulated
totals of Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Nevada, and Oregon, all
of which occur on May 25.
Now you get a week of light entertainment: Rhode Island,
Montana and South Dakota come iq> on June 1. June 8 wraps up
the primary seasai with three blockbusters; California, Ohio
and New Jersey. Hien, just like the other television serieses,
the primaries go into summer replacements: conventions. The
Republicans go to Middle America to nominate, it’s beginning
to look like, Gerald Ford in Kansas City. The Democrats are
meeting in Madison Square Garden in New York City. The last
time they met there was in 1924. They deadlocked and ended up
going on for 104 ballots before settling on a dark horse com
promise, John W. Davis. Hmmmm. Could history repeat itself?
Maybe Milton Shapp knows something
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President Perkinson’s Reply To The Student Petition
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Dear St. Andrews Students:
This letter is in response to
the petitiMi signed by more
than four hundred of you
which Steve and Keith
delivered to me and which was
worded as follows:
As members of the St. An
drews Student Association, we
believe there is a moral
dimension violated by the
secrecy surrounding your
decision, and by the attoidant
communications breakdown
between administration and
faculty concerning ad
ministration reservations.
Our greatest reservatirai is
that the manner in which this
was handled is indicative of
your stance on determination
of goals and direction of St.
Andrews. We feel that your
handling of the situation has
raised serious questions
regarding who determines
goals and direction of St. An
drews and regarding the
procedures used to decide
goals and directions. Ac
cordingly, we urge you to
reconsider your decision.
I must confess that I ex
perienced some difficulty in
interpreting precisely what
you intended to convey by the
wording of the petition. Hop
ing that I have interpreted it
co-rectly, let me respond to
the questions as I understand
them.
In connection with the
recent tenure decisions I have
met with Faculty committees,
with individual students and
members of the faculty, and
with several trustees. Letters
have been exchanged between
the Senate and me, and I have
made a statement on the mat
ter to the Faculty in its
February meeting. In ad
dition, Dean Arnold met with
the Senate in a public meeting
attended by some 150 persons,
and THE LANCE has devoted
a great deal of space to the
matter.
All of this discussion and
review confirms in my mind
that academic freedom was
protected. All legal
requirements were met and
moral obligations fulfilled.
Furthermore, there is now un
der way an active effort to im
prove procedures for con
sultation between the Leaves,
Promotion & Tenure Com
mittee and the Dean and/or
President, so that questions
such as Oiose raised in your
•i petition wfll not bccur in the
J future.
In regard to Uie concerns
raised about the overall
decisionmaking process at St.
Andrews, an objective look at
at the manner in which the
questions of goals and direc
tions are being approached
should relieve the minds of
those who are concerned. Two
projects currently underway
will illustrate my point.
The Task Force on Reten
tion of Students and the Task
Force on Counseling Needs
are committees reporting to
the Faculty Executive Com
mittee and the President. The
Task Forces are dealing with
two very basic matters
whichhave implications for
several other important
J aspects of our community life.
Both groups are combination
faculty/student/administra
tion committees, with a solid
majority of the membership
being faculty and students.
The Faculty Executive
Cfflnmittee is diarged with
the responsibility of long-
range academic planning. I
have begun to involve the
FEC in budgeting matters far
beyond w^at had been done
previously, and I expect both
long-range and current
budgeting to be a shared con
cern.
In summary, I do not want
nor expect the determination
of goals and directions at St.
Andrews to be a one-person
show or an administrative ex
clusive. I am not smart
enough to pull off such an act,
nor dumb enough to try it.
In any institution, the
arrival of new leadership
raises both hopes and con
cerns. We have experienced
those feelings since my
arrival at St. Andrews. As a
result, there is an inevitable
process of each taking the
measure of the other as we
seek a comfortable working
relationship among the
several elements of our com
munity. I hope that faculty,
students, and administration
are ready now to work
together in a spirit of mutual
trust toward our common goal
of a better and stronger St. An
drews.
Sincerely yours,
A. P. Perl^on, Jr.
President
Trustees’ Reply to
Art Students’ Letter
Students in the Art Depart
ment
St. Andrews Presbyterian
CoUege
Laurinburg, North Carolina
28352
Dear Students:
Your letter of February 7,
1976 addressed to the mem
bers of the Board of Trustees
has received careful at
tention. I have consulted with
members of flie Academic Af
fairs Committee of the Board,
other Trustees, and members
of the College administration.
As you know, there is a
defined process or reaching
tenure decisions which in
volve student evaluation, peer
evaluation, consideration by a
faculty committee, and
recommendations by the
Dean and the President. Ilieir
recommendations are con
sidered by the Acadeic Af
fairs Committee, and final ac
tion is taken by th Board of
Trustees. With full support of
Trustees, Dean Arnold and
President Perkinson are
working with appropriate
faculty committees seeking
ways to clarify all aspects of
the process in hopes of
avoiding misunderstanding
and conflict in the future.
In the case of Professor
Smith, it is dear that proper
procedures were followed.
There is no evidence of vin
dictiveness. Professor Smith
has all of this ^ring, plus a
full academic year, to find a
position at ano&er institution.
In view of these factors, it is
our belief that he was treated
fairly and with proper con
sideration.
The Board of Trustees as a
group and as individuals have
committed themselves to
exert their full effort in sup
port of St. Andrews
Presbyterian College. You
may be assured that when we
make a difficult decision, as
we have in this case, it is our
purpose to be fair and im
personal, and to keep the im-
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