APRIL 16,
EAjGEJTWO
Christianism
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Freshman
Uncle Ern’s
By CHUCK MOSLEY
FeQlmgs
Acid Vat
A recent student - faculty ju-
d i c i a r y committee decision,
which I believe most everyone on
campus knows about, should have
begun students to thinking (get out
the aspirin). I have heard much
discussion pro and con lately con
cerning the decision and have for
mulated my own humble opinion
concerning the situation. Actually
it is an opinion which I have been
developing for several years now,
and I hope that if anyone has any
thing to add or disagrees he will
respond with a letter to the editor.
You are probably wondering
what the title means. I hope that
this will be made clear as the
article progresses. My main con
tention in this article is very
simple. It is that this admini
stration (Including students in
volved in it) has about as much
Christian concern for the individ
ual student as the K.K.K. has for
Martin Luther King. Now that the
cat is out of the bag and it should
be plain to everybody what I am
trying to express, I will proceed
with my “argument.”
I know some of the readers are
at about this time just too welled
up with righteous indignation and
bewilderment to continue. My ad
vice to them is to open up their
favorite Bible and read a few
verses, cool off, and try to curb
the wrath of God from me until
June anyhow. That’s a small favor
I ask from these brethren. I
realize that they have itchy fin
gers when it comes to seeing
God’s wrath being levied, but how
about holding/ off on me another
couple of months, okay!
Oh, by the way, have any of you
students ever read the openine:
letter in the handbook by Dr.
Moore, I sit and day-dream jy it.
It conjures up such lovely images
of long-faced puritans with long
poles clouting some poor sinful
wretch who forgot to open his
hymnal to the right page in the
middle of a six hour spiritual
marathon, or of some solemn-
looking pontiffs peering through
“Poesian” apertures at a de
praved creature sweating it out
on a rack because he forgot one
of his “hail Mary’s.”
I “But what has all this have to do
^ with a certain student-faculty ju
diciary committee decision,” I
hear someone say, “This guy
must be some kind of a nut,” I
hear someone else say. Maybe
so, but before you pass Judgment
ask yourself whether Jesus would
have given one of his followers
the boot because he “reflected”
badly upon the image of his con
stituency or because he had dis
played conduct “unbecoming” to
one of the twelve? Do you think
Jesus cared about “unbecoming
conduct” and “images,” or don’t
you think he cared more about
saving individuals from their sin
no matter how preverse one may
think that sin was? Jesus hung
around with prostitutes and
crooks, you know, why he even
ate wiOi them (hang on to your
Bibl.ef 'or just a fe\ more sen
tences) and I would imagine if
one of them got drunk in his
presence he would have mini
stered to him rather than cast
ing him into the outer darkness.
Now I don’tbelievethat Jesus was
a “libertine,” but where does one
draw the line between individual
Christian concern and retributive
judgment? How horrible must a
sin 'je? As “horrible” as cast
ing a bad reflection on a certain
“Christian” institution? (one,
which by the stretch of anyone’s
imagination could use a little
myth-exploding anyway)
I would only urge students to
keep in mind and heart Jesus
Christ (you know, the fellow who
was so good as to make places
like St. Andrews possible) when
they condemn “unbecoming con
duct” and “bad reflections” upon
the “image.” Which image - one
which Jesus Christ would con
done or one which some self-
righteous, hypocritical benefact
or to this school would condone?
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Lonnie Mann
BUSINESS MANAGER Arthur Sickles
MANAGING EDITOR Brian Weger
ADVISOR Jack Abernathy
EDITORIAL STAFF
SPORTS EDITOR Steve Pitt
ACADEMIC EDITOR Nancy Stroupe
SOCIAL EDITORS Lucylle Crook,
Meredythe Lawrence
PHOTOGRAPHER Jeep Mullinnix
POLITICAL COLUMNISTS Chuck Moseley,
Gil Rock
STAFF WRITERS AND REPORTERS Jim Ashley,
Ernest Badgett, Eloise Barefoot, Jim Bennett, Ed
Butterworth, Cyn Carpenter, Paul Epley, Eliza
beth Finlator, Alan Hancock, David Higgins,
Mamie McFarlane, Debbie Medlin, Billy Miller,
Cheryl Monroe, Bill Shomo, Dave Sifford, Adger
Smyth, Henry Steele, Lynn Terry, Tom Tomlin
son, Brian Neunschwander and Jane Wright.
BUSINESS STAFF
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CIRCULATION Lucylle Crook,
Meredythe Lawrence
Opinions expressed in letters to the Editor and in sign
ed columns are not necessarily those of The Lance. Letters
to the Editor should be brief and must be signed. Names
will be withheld upon request.
Puggie Kohl
Due to circumstances unfort
unately beyond our control, half
of the authorship of this column
has been eliminated, Hiis situa
tion is due to a dispensation of
traditional magnanimous Chris
tian justice (n.b, Tlie Spanish In
quisition). Since freshmen feel
ings concerning this event are un
printable, we will pussy-foot
around the subject in the usual St,
Andy’s manner, avoiding entirely
the point of conflict,
“Christian justice” has been
marked by leniency even since
Yahweh kicked Adam and Eve out
of the Garden for petty theft. Down
through the ages, marked by one
barbecued heretic after another,
“Christian justice” has marched
with a two edged sword in one
hand and a BAR in the other. St.
Andys is to be commended for
carrying on this age-old tradi
tion of the church.
For some time multitudes of
gaudy sins have gone relatively
unpunished on this campus, Whsi
happened this time! Perhaps,
after consultation with the diety,
it was decided that in the time of
the almighty dollar sign it would
be propitious at this time to offer
up an atoning blood sacrifice for
the sins of the St. Andrews Stu
dent Body.
At any rate - in this year of
1965 (?!) - All students are order
ed to report immediately to the
Ministry of (Christian) Love for
re-orientation and brain-washing
concerning the non-existence of
one of our former colleagues. Re
member - ignorance is strength
and aborted justice is better than
a budget in the red,
* * *
I take full responsibility for ex
ercising my constitutional right
of both speech and press by ex
pressing the opinions and ideas
in this column.
Dear Sir:
Little more than a fortnight ago
the students of St, Andrews re
jected a proposed honor code by a
2:1 ratio. Repudiating the vague
statement of many interpreta
tions, the students expressed a
desire for an honor community
built around a principle of ex
plicit meanings. Few people
realized, however, that a state
ment controlling the areas of con
cern for the judicial boards also'
limits the rights of the individ
ual. A limited discussion of the
individual case could result in
mandatory penalties assessed on
unjustifiable terms. In short, it
is a “double-edged axe” capable
of cutting in both directions. An
other such “double-edged axe”
faces the students in elections
this week.
The situation concerning can
didacies for positions on the col
lege judiciary boards is of CON
CERN to this writer. Of the 8
posts at least 5 (possibly all!)
will be filled with women. The
entire Student-Faculty Appellate
Board, highest court in the col
lege, will have NOT a single male
as a member!
Certainly, the St. Andrews young
ladies are of the highest social
and academic caliber, but no
f amount of excellence can replace
the ability to project oneself into
the pathos and problems of one’s
own sex. TTiis writer feels that a
I more evenly balanced group is
needed to be elected to the ju.
dicial positions so that a greater
area of knowledge and experience
can be instilled Into the college
judiciary system - to insure jus-
It is a shame in the best and
the worst senses of flie word
that In this year's elections
there are several people who are
running unopposed. Maybe if
enough of us refused to vote
where there is no choice some*
one would get the point that we
were somehow not satisfied with
this mockery of an election.
There are some very quail-
fled people running this year.
Perhaps there would be more
“qualilled” people if some of you
border-line would-be candidates
had checked your *ranscrpits.
Due to the number of enormous
and sometimes catastrophic er
rors that have been made in the
records in the past.
Under the old system a candi
date had to have 50 per cent
plus 1 of the total votes cast in
order to win. Mr. Rock re
cently made a proposal that we
recognize a winner on the basis
of a simple majority. I do not
know whether the new proposal
has been made the law of the land,
but to my way of thinking, it
doesn’t make a bit of difference.
I for one will not vote for a sin
gle candidate, even if I believe
him to be the best for the job,
in cases where there is no real
choice.
Actually there is always a
choice-if not between two people,
then at least between two courses
of action-to vote or not to vote.
In a democracy we have the right
to make our choice. No one who
does not feel so inclined can be
held in error to refuse to par
ticipate in what he feels is a hol
low mockery.
It sounds a little odd to be
calling for non-participat]o„
this campus, but that is exa
what I»m doing. Don’t get,
hopes up, though, that this is
usual easy way out that we ■
so very willing to take aro
here. What is called for here
an active non-particlpaii.
That's right, I said active) n
Is one way in which we
ridden goof offs can help
general climate of the St
drews S.G.A.
In a way Pm not surprij
that this situation has arlsj
It Is indeed unfortunate thali
number of really Interested s
dents is so small that they t
be lumped together and call
the “student government cron
with almost the same vehemen
as certain other students
called the “student ceil
crowd.” This article will {,
bably come to nothing. The i
jority of the voters oncampusi
the "student government crovi
and their friends, therefore Hi
will go ahead and vote any»
without any regard for the fi
that in doing so they are pai
clpating in another mocke
(the other mockery they are
to be involved in is the exist!
student government). Whatotl
copies of this article do not wl
up in the trash can or on
ruddy floor will be absently sci
ned by the more literate membe
of that other “crowd” I
tioned. Needless to say it«
fall on deaf ears there too.
It's an odd little world we'
made ourselves here. Ift
pity we haven’t the guts to
something about it.
Letters To The Editor
History has often repeated itself
in demonstrating that many noble
and virtuous deeds have been
chance by-products of self-in-
terest or misfired political ex
pediency.
There is and always has been a
school of thought which holds that
under the auspices of the highest
spiritual tribunal of right and
wrong, the intentions - not the
consequences - of an action are
considered the most vital. Cer
tainly this line of thinking is ap
propriate to the individual and his
relationship to God; the purity of
the soul is beyond any buffetings
the body might experience. But in
complex society all souls have to
render unto society what is so
ciety’s. The moment you leave
the plane of individual concern
and move along that of interna
tional welfare you automatically
weigh the results of an act great
er than the procedure of that act.
And let no man so much as breathe
under the illusion that he is not a
function of society. The day you
were born a part of your im
maculate soul was bartered off
to the world; and in the exchange
your soul received a fat chunk of
original sin.
nie tentacles of original sin
have slithered among the edifices
of modem civilization for more
than six-thousand years. Every
generation has felt the sting of its
influence. The venom runs no less
strongly today. If that venom con
gealed just for the passage of one
day history would witness the
purest twenty-four hour fossil
ever produced. And during that
amnesty brotherly love might be
tice at St, Andrews.
Sincerely yours,
Drannon Busklrk
Winston-Salem No. 310
realized. Unfortunately, 11
world would take a chronologit
about-face before the tentacl
extending the web of originals
are stemmed.
What then does society do!
moves. That’s all it can do. I
it won’t move backwards uni!
it becomes static. The onlybai
ward movement is lack of moi
ment. If you believe that the i
ture of man calls for self-ii
provement then aU movement
upward.
So long as men are acting ■
respective of the errors
make - decay or deterioraS
are impossible. Decay isthevi
ture that pillages the dead mi
If man is still kicking that vulti
will fly away. If a Federal trooi
accidentally tramples the floi
bed of a Birmingham citizen wl
protecting the life of a Cl
Right’s marcher ,.,Okay.Son
body has been inconvenienc
But the flowers can bereplant(^
The death of a human being ii
loss to everyone, everyvtel
Roger Stephens
McDonald
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tumes direct attention to
characters and music that^
the familiar story of innocei
— and of knowledge.
The musical accompanlu
for the production will be dlri
ed by Professor Franklin l*'*
Instrumentation consists of
piano played by Robert Muri
and percussion will be haml
by James NeiL The harpist’
be Dottle Ann Bushby.