THE LANCE V
Michael Greene Editor
Steve Newton Managing Editor
Cliff Fitzgerald Sports Editor
Lhvid Swanson Photography Coordinator
Rufus Poole Circulation Manager
Staff
Johanna Bowman Greg Piccola
Howard Ellis Scott Robertson
Terri Hayman Mike Snider
Steven Kunckle Chris Werth
Lisa I Wollman
William J. Loftus, Advisor
Food
Food Action Needed
Griticism of the food service earlier this year had, we thought,
indicated the dissatisfaction of the students, in regard to poor
sanitation and poorly prepared food. Apparently that criticism
brought only short term results, for today, the food service is
not concerned about sanitation and is doing nothing at all about
preparing the food in a more appetizing way.
Several incidents best illustrate the sanitation problem. At a
meal approximately one week ago, a student had to search
through 24 knives to find a clean knife. While most students had
grown accustomed to searching through 3 or 4 (which is
inexcusable in itself), having to search through 24 is
outrageous. It will not be tolerated. TTie glasses are almost as
bad. While some improvement has been made in this area
since the beguming of the year, it is evident that a considerable
number of students are still “putting peanut butter in their
glasses.” (This was one of the reasons given by the food
service earlier in the year for dirty glasses.) The food service
admittedly has as “A” rating from the Health Department, but
were the inspector to make another inspection today, the rating
would drop to a ‘B’.
For those of you wondering about why you must get a clean
plate everytime you want seconds, we here it is. The food
service feeb this cuts down on the amount of germs transferred
from spoon to plate and vice versa. So while you are standing
in line, waiting for a clean plate, realize, they are doing it for
your benefit. We wish the same could be said for the glasses
and silverware.
To the Editor:
Well, it’s time for another
exercise in food service
futility. Once again someone
is writing to THE LANCE to
protest the poor food, third-
rate service and unsanitary
conditions of the cafeteria. It
is, after all, an old, old song.
Everyone knows, for
example, that I would walk
out of any restaurant where I
found old food and napkins
crusted on supposedly clean
silverware. Unfortunately,
due to a contract which I have
neither seen nor signed, I
can’t walk out of this one.
It is also worth nothing that
for the past three days the
souD has been made bearable
only by the fact that I can
rarely find a spoon to eat it
with. I have been informed,
too, by a reliable source, that
the french fries at Tuesday’s
lunch were not really deep-
fried by simply held under
until they stopped breathing.
I would, however, like to
Moving on to theother part of this editorial - the poor
preparation of food, we find similar problems. Many of the
meals do not contain any nourishment at all, and the few that
do, contain very little. Many times the food is under-cooked or
over-cooked ”] we realize this deals considerably with
personal tastes but crunchy rice and burnt hamburgers are not
in great demand. Recently a student was served a veal patty
that had been clearly nibbled on by a mouse and/or rat. When
this was reported to the food service they expressed no concern
whatsoever as to what the Health Department would say.
Another student was rushed to the hospital recently to have his
stomach pumped. Some sandwich meats served by the food
service was spoiled. This list goes on.
By now, it should be clearly shown that the food service does
not have the students’ interests at heart. Several of the faculty
and staff have questioned why the food service is allowed to
serve such “food,” a fter they have eaten there.
We feel that enough time has been given tothe food service to
adjust to St. Andrews and its people. We encourage the
administration to take positive action in contracting another
food service which does care and does correct problems. If
such action is not taken soon the college may soon have a food
service but no students to feed. TTils is not a threat but a
warning that many students have picked up applications to
drop food service beginning with winter term and we suspect
many more will be issued unless a ction is taken to replace the
current food service.
Being Called Bad By The Bailie Is Like Being Called Ugly By A Frog
When it first appeared, we weren’t going to comment
Constructive criticism, we felt, should be noted and then acted
upon If It has merit. That action, or the lack of it should be all the
response necessary. However, when Jackson Morton chose to
follow up his Dialogue critizing The LANCE’s policies with a
subjective and misinformed letter to the Biweekly Bailie it
became incumbent upon us to set the record straight
Jackson first charges that there are “basically four people
who control what is printed in The LANCE.” In the final
analysis, one person, LANCE Editor Michael Greene, controls
what IS printed each week. This is as it should be. A newspaper
cannot be edited by committee, nor can what isn’t submitted be
“controlled.” Jackson continues to bemoan the fact that
students are apparently unwilling to contribute their time to the
^per Quite true. But let’s carry the argument out to Jackson
hunse^whose reams of criticism have appeared everywhere
but m T^e I^CE’s letter column, and who has not submittS
an article all sem^ter while exhorting everyone else to do so.
^e n^ assertion in Jackson’s letter is not without it’s merit
either. Ihere are unportant, exciting events going on at St
them aU as
well as ftey deserve, due to a numberof often overlooked
factors, two of which bear mentioning here. The first is space
four {»ges will only cover so much. And while there is always
room to argue with an editor’s choice, that choice must be final
question of including various
hterary efforts within the context of the paper. While we are
ScE k ? St_ Mdrews’ fine literary publications. The
^ frankly, established for a different puroose-
and that is to print news. It makes no sense to Sem3£
fo^^rP coverage of the news while clamoring
the paper’s
TJie other frequently neglected factor is time. The LANCE
publishes on a regular schedule, and must be put together from
scratch e^ch week. This might not be qSe so maVo^^^
COTsideration if eveiyone on the staff wasn’t also taking a full
l^d of classes and trying to find time for eating and Sfenin^
work as “dull and occasionally irrelevant.”
We now move from the area of “constructive” or “subjective”
criticisms (depending on who you agree with) to the more
precise confines of mistatement and blatant untruth. Where
ackson got the idea that a budget increase granted The LANCE
by the Student Association Senate “under the assumption that
toe money would be used to expand the paper, perhaps adding a
ew more pages,” and that this money was spent on a series o
Punishment” articles is a mystery to us. The
LANCE requested additional funds to keep pace with the rising
c^ts of newsprmt (and raises over $1,000 each year through it’s
rlairn?? Publication can make that
? T this money has been spent for the
Crime Md Justice” series (that’s the correct name by the
way). The series if free. We advise Jackson, in the future
ma e ^me attempt to get his information verified before
Biweeay
T^e toilie itself is another sore spot. We recall that this
almost make us wish it did contents of the latest issue
the Dinner-Dance two S?!,! ^^e menu for
incorrect names, ^d a whim«i.oii, three
recoVo^rhr^’g^^^ZnVha^ndl
this is “inexcusable”
“competing” publi^tn p^^subieTt ^
column, but the magnitude comment in this
Association, is to S to alJow i tf" Student
Senate to make We urge the
spendi,* mul Sv *
nrninlomatlon, and errors so infr^nently
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commend ARA on the V,
of meats .they offer V'
ground
In closing I should
offer some helpfm hi
cafeteria customers, pi.
don’t grouch at the serv.
isn’t their fault. Se2’*
you see a fly stuck toE'
on a desert item, leav J
will serve as a waml *
those who foUow. S
when all else fails,
Pizza Inn.
Goodbye and good luck
Brian Dolge ’
P.S. I’d also like to sa
few words about Sas :
since, like this letteri^,:
confused, and j. f
useless.
To the Editor:
We would like to
sincere appreciation
thanks to the
Christian Council, Heal
Sciences Qub, Black Studt
Umon, President Perki«,
Dean Cla'ytor, Bam
Stallings, Tom Jones, Gam
Paul, Michael and W|
Torres, and everyone wit
came out to play and havefj
at the Carnival For Muse*
Dystrophy.
Yana Banks
Teresa Staley
Joey Sherr
Pyramid
Power: For Rn
BY DAVID CRAFT
Special to THE LANCE
(The author is a student i
the University of I
Carolina at Chapel Hill.)
A recent experiment ii
pseudoscience of “pyri
power” dealt the UNC physit
department and dyed-in-fc
wool skeptics a terrible bin
A scaled down version
Egyptian pyramids presem
a banana sUce for 11 days,
The experiment began i
an article I wrote for theSejl
6 issue of the Daily TarHd
The story told of straiji
forces some scientists cret
to pyramid-shaped
Theorists attach to pyramit
a power capable of everytl*
from preserving meat an
fruit to improving sex, li
article said.
The story told of an a
periment in which one-thirJi
a banana could be pi
under a pyramid, one-l
under a square bos ai!
another third in the
Pyramid power would
preserve its banana whiW
other two would becow
rotten.
Dietrich Schroetij
associate professor (
physics, responded witli i
letter to the editor of
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