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CCU Plans Hunger Week
Dave Snyder
A canned food drive March 12
initiates Hunger Awareness Week, featur
ing four presentations about hunger issues
both locally and globally. The highlight is
the Oxfam Fast and the ceremonial dinner
to break that fast.
Charlene Carpenter leads the
Prophetic/Political and Bread for the
World Committees (PPC/BFW) of the
College Christian Union in organizing the
events. Their help comes from a corps of
business students coordinated by Eric Lien.
This unprecedented combination of skills
is likely to make this event the biggest of
such events in years.
“It’s not a quiet thing among a
few people at St. Andrews,” said Cather-
ineChurchman, PPC/BFW secretary, “It’ll
■be a huge community project.”
On Monday, March 14, the poli
tics of hunger is the topic of Dr. Larry
Schulz. His speech is called “Feeding the
World: Myths and Realities.”
The philosophy of hunger is
addressed by Dean Tom Benson March 15.
His speech: “Ethics and Hunger.”
Hunger in Scotland County is the
topicofNeal Walter’s March 16 address.
Walters is the director of the county Social
Services.
The fast begins Wednesday
night, after dinner. Participating students
will turn in their meal card numbers and
skip the next two meals. Thursday night
before dinner Dr. Neal Bushoven will lead
a presentation intended to dramatize the
plight of the world’s hungry people.
On campus, Spencer Hull plans
a flood of advertising. Stephanie Riggs will
advertise the event in Laurinburg hoping to
get radio, television, and newspaper cover
age. Eric Lien, in charge of the food-
raising effort, plans food drives at local
schools and churches and a “food wall”
here. Maurice Holland’s plans for money-
raising include selling awareness t-shirts
and soliciting donations from individu
als and businesses. Stephanie Bass hopes
to involve community schoolchildren
from kindergarten through high school.
What is unusual about this list of
programs is that it does not include compe-
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tition. At first it did. The business students
wanted to organize a dorm competition to
attract fasters. The dorm with the most
fasters would win a pizza party. Sensing a
contradiction, the CCU organizers vetoed
the idea.
“We don’t want people partici
pating for the wrong reasons,” said Car
penter.
Lien agrees, “In order to achieve
the objectives that were set for Hunger
Awareness Week, I don’t think competi
tion is appropriate. In other instances it
would be more appropriate, but not for
achieving awareness.”
The origin of this alliance stems
all the way back to last September. When
business students devised the “Gotcha
Game”, originally called “Assassination”,
Carpenter and Mary Snyder approached
Jack Ferren about the social implications of
the violence-oriented game. This started
a dialogue that extended into the role of
business students’ promotional skills. The
idea to match these skills with justice con
cerns was bom in these discussions.
Carpenter thinks the cooperation
“is great.”
Lien says, “It’s a whole different
situation for us. In the past we’ve tried to
reach a material end—get a certain number
of people in the gym, raise a certain amount
of money. This time, we’re trying to in
crease awareness and that’s not a concrete
item.”
“I think it’s good experience for
both groups,” he said.
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Election March 11
Nomination forms are available in the
Student Life Office for the Student Asso
ciation elections to be held on Friday,
March 11.
The Student Association elections
board, this year chairedby Wendy Phillips,
oversees the campus-wide elections for
Student Association president, vice-presi
dent, treasurer, attorney general, student
defense counsel, Student-Faculty Hearing
Court and Appelate Court members.
The general election also determines
the College Union Board president and
vice-president. College Christian Union
president, vice-president, secretary and
treasurer.
All candidates for Student Association
offices must maintain a 2.5 GP A and not be
on academic probation in addition to •
meeting the eligibility rule for extracur
ricular activities that is listed in the college
catalog.
Nominations may be made by individu
als or by groups of three people.
Debaters Drop
Penn State
Buck Tredway
The St Andrews College de
bate duo of James Inman and John Cox
defeated Penn Slate University and lost to
host Princeton by only one point in a
tournament held the weekend of Feb. 26-
27.
Inman and Cox suffered one
point losses to debate powerhouses Yale
and Harvard as well. The team of Todd
Jones and Brett Henry were also 1-4.
‘The matches were so close,”
said Brian Atchison, director of student
activities and Debate Team advisor, “that
any of the matches could have been easily
reversed. Our teams were competitive in
every match.
“All four team members com
mented how the tournament was such a
quality experience and one described the
Yale and Harvard debaters as ‘brilliant,”
Atchison said.
According to Atchison, three of
Jie four-member St. Andrews contingent
were novice debaters, having never at
tended a tournament before.
“Of the three tournaments we
have attended, 12 different team members
have been involved,” Atchison said. “Inter-
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