Windows on the World
By Bob Martin
It has felt rather foolish greeting Happy New Year to peo
pie on campus, but since I have not seen any of you since
early December, that felt more appropriate than “Happy
Valentines.”
The campus was buzzing when Billie and I returned on the
8th of February. It was good to hear talk of what everyone
had been about during Winter Term and the range of
things that had been studied, done and seen has been ex
traordinary. I will not even try to list all those things.
1 bring greetings from Michele Francois. Her Junior yeai
at St. Andrews University is going well and she looks
grand. We had opportunity to take her to dinner and heai
her accounts of academic work, residency life and
...well...never mind! We missed Rita Phillips at Stirling
University by two days. She is staying for the whole year
rather than just Autum Term. Rita put together an Intern
ship in a hospital in Belfast, Ireland for January and had
not gotten back yet. From all reports form the Registrar’s
Office and Advisor to International Studies, she is having
a grand year though I am sure missing the company of
James Farmer, Pam Wall and Bevin Wall who ‘gang a
‘wee hame’, much to our joy in having them back here!
One of the central purposes of going on to Great Britain
after our Winter Term with eleven St. Andrews students
outside of Geneva was to pursue international study
possibilities that could and would include disabled
students. I met with the officials at the Royal Association
for Disability and Rehabilitation. They could not have
been more welcoming or helpful to our advances. The long
and short of those conversations and explorations resulted
being able to report that people in London and in Utrecht,
the Netherlands, are now willing to assist us in ar
rangements at every level of need...from having aides
available to bus trips for participants.
A second purpose in going to Britain was to follow on the
th^ Bob Andcrson has done in helping develop
»•'» rplationships we have’Wlttl bUrUug anti fit. ATvdTc-wa
Universities. As most of you know, we have what are
described as “reciprocal relations” with both schools and
supposedly “exchanges” with them. The problem with the
latter is that it has been mostly a “one-way”
exchange...St. Andrews students have repeatedly gone
abroad while they have not opted to come here. In
meetings with the Principal and Deans at St. Andrews and
a key cluster of Faculty at Stirling, that agreement seems to
have been ironed out and a new readiness to select and
send students indicated real progress.
It IS time now tor us to turn attention to conversation
about study overseas. There are opportunities for St. An
drews students to study at Stirling, St. Andrews, Aix-en-
Provence (Phil Leist is there just now), Kansai Gaidai in
Japan and a new agreement with Han Nam University in
Korea. There are other possibilities but those are ones with
which we have some formal agreements that benefit your
consideration and processe.s for admission and financial
support and aid supplements through normal school chan
nels. ■
Washington Symposium Held
An Exploration Of Legal Careers
Faculty Debate Rescheduled
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scheduling, the Faculty
^^bate, scheduled for Tues-
Jay (tonight) at 8 p.m. in the
,7 Lounge, will be changed
^ the following day.
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«k Lounge. The admission
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Philosophy Club. Due to
the surrounding
402 program thi?
g Fall, the topic of “The
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debate. topic for
Philosophy Club seeks
to facilitate a new form of
I dialogue through the institu
tion of an Annual Faculty
> Debate in which students can
engage one another on rele
vant topics. Tomorrow’s
debate will find Professors
Till, Bushoven, and Mc
Cracken arguing against the
resolved and Professors
Purst, Clark, and Loftus af
firming the resolved. It
should be noted that the
views argued for in the
debate do not necessarily
reflect the positions of the
professors. I hope everyone
can come out and enjoy this
unique and special event.
By Kim Wallace
While some St. Andrews’
students were basking in the
sun in India and Greece or
working on international af
fairs in Switzerland, four
students resided in the na
tion’s capital and par
ticipated in a special sym
posium on “The Legal
System and Legal Careers”,
sponsored by the
Washington Center. Those
four students were Ellis
Hunt, Michael deMayo,
John Burke, and myself; yet,
we were a mere few in com
parison to the 250 other col
lege students from all over
the country who also par
ticipated in the symposium.
While we had a difficult and
busy schedule to follow, we
were also given an oppor
tunity to enjoy the numerous
cultural sites as well as many
fun night-spots that the city
has to offer. We also had the
opportunity to see the na
tion’s capital take part in
“Hog Fever” as the Red
skins were charging their way
towards the Superbowl, with
the many banners, vendors,
and sports which featured
tKeml
We would begin a routine
day in the midst of “rush-
Experiencing
The “Big Apple”
By Corey Ingold
I am not a religion major
and presently 1 do not
foresee going to a seminary
for graduate work yet I spent
Winter Term at Union
Theological Seminary in New
York City studying theology.
Little did I know that this
course would be as enriching
as it turned out to be.
The class consisted of
seventeen students from
small colleges throughout the
country including four other
St. Andrews’ students
(Natalie Lester, Linda Biggs,
Mark Stalnaker, and Kurt
Linn). We met together for
an average of about five
hours a day on weekdays.
Weekends were left open for
exploration of the city. The
class heard lectures from
first-rate theologians on the
faculty at Union and was
given access to use the
Theological Library which
probably is the finest in the
country. We were given dor
mitory rooms on the
Manhattan campus and got
the experience living in a
hour” traffic - sometimes in
snow, ice or rain - tyring to
find the loccation for our
I morning lecture. Many of
these sites included the
Supreme Court, the Pen
tagon, the Department of
Justice, the F.B.L Building,
and the U.S. Court House to
name a few. The first two
weeks dealt primarily with
the legal system (past, pre
sent, and future) and the
many controversial legal
issues this system is now fac
ing. These issues ranged
from capital punishment to
affirmative action. The at
mosphere for most of these
sessions was lecture-based
(this included one “meet the
press” session and a few
other panel presentations)
with questions being asked
by the audience at the end.
Featured lecturers included
such prominent members of
the professions as defense at
torney F. Lee Bailey,
Supreme Court Justice
William Rehnquist, Civil
Rights Attorney General
William Bradford Reynolds
and several lawyers from
D.C.’s most respectable law
firms among others.
As for the 'academics in
volved in the course, we were
»ach reanlred lo Veep a Jour
nal of our daily activities and
our responses to them. Two
or ttiree nights of the week,
we would separate and meet
in our designated groups
where we would discuss re
quired readings and daily
events and turn in our jour
nals. These groups were
directed by top students of
area law schools who later
aided us in our general con
cerns for law school. Their
information was later com
bined with that given to us by
deans for admissions to law
schools as Yale, Harvard,
Georgetown, and Catholic
University. Their input tend
ed to not only motivate most
of us but tended to ease our
fears as well.
We also participated in the
optional third week on
“Trial by Jury”. We were
given an opportunity to
preside over and participate
in trial proceedings as well as
visit an actual line-up at the
Metropolitan Police Depart
ment.
All in all it was a very
demanding but enjoyable
three weeks for all of us. I as
well as they encourage
anyone who is interested in
seeking a legal career to par
ticipate in such a program-it
will really “open one’s eyes”
■ to the breadth in 3cop« of the
law.
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Philosophy Contest
Annomieed
Fifty dollars ($50.00!!) will
go to the person who submits
the best solution to the
following puzzle. Ten dollars
will go to the runner up. Any
SA student can enter; no
special knowledge of
philosophy is involved.
Answers can be no more than
600 words in length, and they
must be submitted by March
12 (avoid the rush and get
them in early!). We would
like to use blind judging, so
please do not put your name
on your entry. Instead put
your social security number
on the entry, and we will an
nounce the winners using
these numbers in the Lance.
Submit your entry at the
registrar’s office.
!! The Puzzle !!
It seems obvious that:
(a) on a Friday a professor
could announce to a class
that there will be a suprise ex
am sometime during the
following week and that this
announcment could be true.
However a clever student could
response in the following way;
(b) the exam can’t be next
Friday for then, by Thursday
after class, 1 would know it
was going to be on Friday
and it won’t be a suprise ex
am. But if it can’t be on Fri
day, then by Wednesday
after class I would know that
it would be on Thursday.
Hence, the professor can’t
give a suprise exam on
Thursday either. However,
this same reasoning appHes
to Wednesday, Tuesday, and
Monday too. (If the exam
can’t be Thursday or Friday,
then by Tuesday after class I
will know it will be on
Wednesday, and it won’t be
a surprise etc.) From this
reasoning it follows that the
professor cannot give a sur
prise exam next week.
There is something very
plausible about both (a) and
(b); yet it seems that they
can’t both be right since they
contradict one another.
Which should we reject and
why? Or is there a way that
they can both be true? How?