The Lance Michael Greene • • Edit®*" Steven J. I Kimkle Managing Editor Steve Newton Business Manager Norman Mosley Asst. Editor, Sports Kim Leland Asst. Editor, Photography Marion Bowden Asst. Editor, Layout Rufus Poole Circulation Manager Staff: Accessment Of Trustee (Continued) Retreat Hal Bailey Vivian Bikulege Donna Brown John Courtney Clay Hamilton Steve Lowery W. W. Holland, Advisor Printed By The Laurinburg Exchange Letters Welcome. Box 757 Campus Mail. Anonymous Letters Will Not Be Printed. Editorial Once Again! The year has finally cranked up in earnest, and THE LANCE staff is, as usual is overworked and underfed . .. but you know we always complain about little things like that. But this year isn’t going to be a year for complaints and rages, at least from the appearances of the first two weeks of school. Just look at what’s been accomplished by some unusual diligence and planning on many people’s part; The C.U.B. is off and running — if it gets the support it needs (like have you bought your choice ticket/yet, and why not?). Student government has already dispensed with what most people consider its two most important functins; allocating the budget and renting refrigerators. Seriously though, if you don’t support Jeff Walker in his attempts to fill committees, don’t stand around and critize his administration for not doing what you wanted it to do. ORIENTATION AGAIN ... / Public Information of the Duke Endowment. Mr. Sailstad spoke on the liberal arts college and its relationship to the community it is set in and the community of its supporters. He spoke of the great resources that could be found in a search of both communities. The last speaker was Ms. Carol Van Alstyne, who is the Chief Economist for the American Council on Education in WAshington, D.C. Dr. Van Alstyne related to the group the trends in education and forthcoming problems and also the general attitudes of the administration and Congress towards private colleges. She offered advice on economic planning and stressed the need for unity within the college and bet ween the college and other similar colleges. After their presentation, everyone was divided into small groups which discussed what each felt was the major issue in volved with small, private, church-related liberal arts colleges and proposed one question related to this issue for the panel to respond to if they were able. The next presentation was on “St. Andrews today” and included presentations on management by Pres. Perkinson, on student life by Dean Claytor, and on Academic life by Dean Crossley. Again the group broke into small groups and discussed various ob jectives of the college as stated in the Draft Statement of College Goals and Ob jectives produced by an inhouse committee. Each group took a particular section of the document to edit and offer suggestions and generally evaluate. The basic concerns were that the Statement be clear and realistic and not ambiguous and wordy. One area in particular that seemed to have been left out of the Statement was the area of the St. Andrews “community,” or the relationships between all groups on campus. The first item to be eviewed on Saturday mor ning was the reports from the arious long range planning committees. The first report /as from Profiles and Projections, which studies three areas: budget planning, college institutional data, and retention of students. Basically a model of budget planning called Plantran was used to estimate the income and expenses of the college in five year period, to point possible problem areas or areas where resources could be located and utilized. Concerning college in stitutional data, a review of the organization of data was completed, with suggestions on data organization and access, and faculty salary data was updated. A study has been undertaken to locate reasons for student withdrawl and/or transfer in the past three classes (‘76-‘78), and that data is being analyzed. A course selection analysis of the class of ‘78 was completed and the data used in faculty workshops. The second committee, which worked on College Needs and Priorities, reported their suggestions on how to use funds above the day-to-day operating needs. The small groups again took sections of this report and offered criticism and suggestions. Those area thought to be high priority (not in any order) are: Assurance of Present Program Quality, Debt Retirement, Unrestricted Endowmet, Endowed Scholarships, Endowed Distinguished Professorships, Program for the Physicaly Handicapped, Faculty Development and Com pensation, Library Development, Planned Maintenance and Equipment Purchase, Distinguished Campus Visitor Fund, and a program in International Education (i.e. a plan to enable less fortunate students to take a winter term trip abroad which would be included in the tuition and therefore open to financial aid). This last item is of special importance to President Perkinson, it being his brainchild. Other items discussed were the desire to attract qualified women and minority faculty and staff members, which has not been largely successful in the past. Ferner and Associates, a consultant firm hired by the college, gave the last presentation. They shared with us a partial report of their findings of their study of the college, which included not only research but in terviews with students, faculty, administration, and staff. Their findings were optimistic not about the, problems facing St. Andrews but the ability of the whole community, students through trustees, to band together to work these problems out. ST.A. STUDENT SPECIAL OFFER!! h'Contemporary Jesus Music LPs I *Diamond Phono Needles *Witness "T" Shirts *Neat Posters I OFFER GOOD THRU SEP. 23, 1978 \with this coupon... ...and student I.D. THE GOSPEL MUSIC STORE, [Main St. downtown, Laurinburg LANCE Announces Resignation Greg Piccola, managing editor of The LANCE during Spring term, announced his resignation from that post this week, effective im mediately. He cited academic conunitments and his new job as General Manager at WSAP. Piccola won last year’s Thad Stem award for reportage. Replacing Piccola at the Managing Editor’s position will be Junior Steven Kunkle. Kunkle is in his third year with the paper, and had been currently serving as Academic Affairs Editor. Also joining this year’s LANCE staff as Photography Editor is Freshman Kim Leland^___________ New Professor Dr. James J. Bowe will be teaching mathematics for the next year at St. Andrews. He is replacing Dr. William Sranmerville, who is currently teaching at Cuttington College in Liberia, as a recipient of a Fulbright-Hays grant under the Mutual Education and Cultural Exchange Program.” Dr. Bowe comes to St. An drews from Kananga, Zaire, where he was an educational missionary for the Presbyterian Church U.S. at the Institut de Katubua. His doctorate was received from the University of Ken- tucky. New Professor James E. Linehan is St. An drews’ new assistant Assistant Professor of Art. Linehan has received his M.A. and M.F.A. from the University of Wisconsin- Madison. He has had innumerable exhibitions and it has been noted that his strengths are in drawing, printing, basic design, and print making. He also enjoys singing and acting. Chemistry! Matter.” Molecules That New Professor Thomas R. Blackburn has been chosen as St. Andrews’ McGaw Professor of Chemis try. He will be teaching chem istry and STMS. Blackburn received his M.A. and Ph.D. from Har vard, where he was an out standing teaching fellow. He was Associate Professor of chemistry at Hobart and William Smith College in Geneva, NY. WSAP as well as put its AM transmitter back into operation and be available on carrier current on both sides of the lake. At present the station is only receivable on FM cable. BOB’S JEWEL SHOP The Place to go for all your Jewelry needs Main St. College Plaza

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