SA HARRIERS CAPTURE
By Steve Lowery
On a damp, dreery Virginia
morning, the St. Andrews
cross country team kept ttieir
pre-season promise and ran
away with their third con
secutive conference cham
pionship. Defending their title
against Methodist College,
Virginia Wesleyan and
Christopher Newport, the
harriers attributed the victory
as well as previous ones to the
fine depth of the squad. This
year’s conference meet held
at Virginia Wesleyan turned
out to be one of the slowest
races of the season. Number
one runner Gary Ramey
commented, “due to the cold,
3RDDIAC TITLE
rainy weather and poor course
conditions everyone’s time
was off by at least 30
seconds.” Gary and Jim
Somerville placing 2nd and 5th
respectively made the All
Conference Team and will
receive an award for this
distinction. The amazing
depth of the squad was
exemplified in the race’s
statistics, six out of the top ten
runners were from St. An
drews. The following numers:
Steve Lowery (7th place),
Doug Wentz (8th place), Keith
Walling (9th), Mark Anderson
(10th, Rick Crawford (16th),
Bill Brennan (18th), and Jim
Smith (23rd) clinched the final
points necessary for the
conference championship.
The team finishes conference
competition with an im
pressive 13-1 record.
The harriers will go on to
compete in the NCAA
Southern District qualifying
meet at Emory and Henry
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THE LANCE
A Weekly Journal of News and Events At St. Andrews Presbyt
Volume 18, Number Seven
Laurinburg, North Carolina
erian College
November 9,1978
“Oedipus” Opens Next Week; Highland Players
Stage Sophoclean Drama In Far Future
Budweiser Super-Sports
to be Held On Campus
One of the biggest events to
hit the college scene in recent
years will be staged at St. An
dres, and Budweiser will be
right in the middle of the ac
tion.
St. Andrews will select a
team to represent it in state
competition by holding a cam
pus-level Budweiser College
Super-Sports event,
feaaturing co-ed teams of four
men and four women com
peting in six events:
volleyball, 880 yard relay
race, obstacle course, frisbee
relay, round-of-Bud, and man-
of-war. Contestants must be
full-time students who have
not participated in varsity
sports competition and do not
attend school on athletic
scholarships.
Campus-level winners
receive Budweiser College
Super Sports warm-up suits
and advance to state com
petition. All participants and
games officials will receive
Super Sports jerseys. A Bud
Awards Bash will be held
Saturday evening, December
2, at a Highlands Hall party.
Competition will be held on
Thursday, November 16, from
1-5 p.m. at the track and field
and from 7-10 p.m. in the
Physical Education Center.
Rules and team entry forms
may be picked up from the
Student Life Office. Entry
deadline is Monday, Novem
ber 13.
Last year the competition
was known as the Budweiser
College Super Stars Com
petition and the University of
Idaho bested teams from
more than 175 colleges and
universities from around the
country to take the national
championship at the finals at
Busch Gardens in Tampa,
Florida.
Campus-level winners ad
vance to state and regional
competition, and a represen
tative from each regiop will
travel to the Budweiser
College Super Sport national
championships in Florida
during college spring term
break 1979.
Local competition is hosted
by Seago Distributing Com
pany, Rockingham, area
distributer of Budweiser and
other Anheuser-Busch, Inc.,
beers.
Games officials are curren
tly being sought. Interested
faculty and students should
contact either KathyBen-
zaquin or Ron Diment in the
Student Life Office.
REHEARSALS ARE WELL UNDERWAY FOR
THE HIGHLAND PLAYERS’ NEXT
PRODUCTION, “Oedipus the King”. Seen here in
the midst of the practices are Hera Brown and
John Courtney (Jocasta and Oediups,
respectively). Photo by Kim Leland.
Pound study open again this summer
BYANNCAIMI
Again this summer, studen
ts will have the opportunity to
study at Ezra Pound’s castle
in Brunnenburg, Italy. The
four-week program will begin
on Saturday, June 11, and end
on Friday, July 13, 1979. The
students will have a choice of
three courses: Byron in Italy
(Eng. 290), Pound’s Poetry
(Eng. 390), and Studies in e.e.
Cummings (engl. 490). They
may take a maximum of two
courses. Even students who
will be taking two courses will
have time to enjoy excursions
to Venice, Florence, or even
Rome. As in past years, this
trip proihises to be an exciting
cultural experience as well as
an opportunity to study these
great poets in the country that
to some degree had an in
fluence on all of them.
This year. Dr. Edna Ann
Osmanski will accompany the
students to Italy and will also
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By Steven J. Kunkle
Next week the Highland
Players will be performing
“Oedipus the King.” First
produced in 420 BC, the play
has been done in a wide
variety of styles. This produc
tion of “Oedipus” by
Sophocles is an attempt to
remythologize the ancident
Greek legend so that it can
have a impact on a con
temporary audience. The
story of Oedipus has been set
in a futuristic period of about
2500 AD. The script has been
partially rewritten to indicate
to the audience that the truths
presented in “Oedipus” are
universal and apply to all ages
and to all persons.
Oedipus is portrayed by
John Courtney. Bronwen
Woodson is the priestess,
while Nancy Henry, Charles
Perkins, and Kay Stanley play
supplicants. David Miller is
Creon, and the wide persons
are Mary Beaty, George An
derson, and Fred Harbin.
Hera Brown plays Jocasta;
Tom Guinn, the herdsman;
and Sheila Blancard, the
messenger from Corinth. The
theban messenger is played
by Chris Carter; this charac
ter is particularly interesting
in that he is mute and must
use sign language to speak.
Instead of going to an Oracle
at Delphi, Creon, the brother
in-law of Oedipus, is sent to
the sattellite Delphi to consult
the Vortex. From this Vortex
Creon learns what the planet
Thebes must do in order to rid
itself of the plague that rages
in the land. King Oedipus, at
the command of the Vortex,
must find the murderer of
Lauis, the man who ruled
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This
Week
TODAY:
—Faculty and Administration Pie-hit day
—Espicopal Worship Service; The Holy Eucharist;
6:30 PM, Meditation Room » dm
-Writer’s Forum; open mike reading, GranviUe 6:30 PM
FRIDAY:
—Faculty and Administration Pie-hit day
—NCAIAW Volleyball Tournament at UNC3iarlotte
SATURDAY:
-Muscular Dystrophy Carnival; 1:^ PM; PE Center Lawn
(in case of rain, to be held in small gym)
8 PM, Harris Courts
SUNDAY:
the 16th: Director of
atizen’s Advisory Committee on Arms Control (sponsored
by Politics Department)
—CUB Movie: “Vanishing Point”, 25' Avinger
MONDAY:
—Mass, Meditation Room, 5 PM
—Faculty Dinner with William Jackson, President’s Dining
Room, 6 PM
—Monday Happenings in the Arts: Faculty Recital with Emily
Ellsworth, soprano, and lee Kesselman, piano; 8 PM, Vardell
TUESDAY:
—William Jackson, to discuss the Salt Arms Megotiations, 8
PM, Avinger
WEDNESDAY;
—Common Experience: William Jackson, 11:30 AM, Avinger
—Dinner: for Politics majors, with William Jackson
—Discussion: with William Jackson, 8 PM, Pate HaD
—CCC: presents Joe ColUns; 6:30 PM, Avinger
—Farrago: Mike Cross, Niblock & Gwyn, 8:30 PM, $1 ad
mission.