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SENIOR
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by
yiBBETT PHILLIPS
Have you ever stopped to think
about the values that a college
the size of St. Andrews has?
In terms of faculty-student rel^
tionships, classes, student gov.
ernment, friendships, and dorm
life try to imagine what it would
be like with a student body of
10,000. Oh yes, a big university
floes have advantages - frater-
Aities and sororities, football
games, hundreds of courses in
many departments, research
facilities, well-equipped labora.
tories and libraries, and on and
on. But think how many of
these facilities (football games
and Greeks excluded) are avail-
able to the graduate student, or
to upperclassmen undergradu.
ates. For the typical freshman
or sophomore, his education is
confined to the large lecture hall
or the overflowing classroom.
In close conversation with a
University of Miami student
(where there are 3,000 incoming
freshmen), 1 discovered that the
University building where all
freshmen and sophomore level
courses are taught, is termed,
not so fondly, “the slaughter
house”. In this complex, a
student attends all normal fresh
man classes with his fellow 1,000
or so classmates. And if he
doesn’t fit in the respective lec.
ture hall, he watches the lecture
on closed circuit television. Now,
it takes enough courage to ask
a question in a C & C lecture,
but can you imagine standing up
in front of 1,000 students and
asking one?
The point seems obvious that
we have the opportunity, and the
encouragement, to ask questions
at the end of most all and any
lectures we attend. And another
thing, our tests are all taken by
hands, that is, wp, write down all
the answers, objective and sub
jective at the University of
Miami, all tests in the "slaugh.
ter house” are computerized...
you fill in the square with your
pencil and the machine grades
them...untouched by a pro
fessor's hand. The students are
numbered and their test scores
and grades correspond to that
number.
And another thing— on our
campus, you may not know the
nams of all your fellow students,
but at least every face is fami
liar, Enough has been said about
the spirit of friendliness which
is characteristic of St. Andrews
to fill a book, but the fact that
everyone feels free and open
enough to speak to those you
don’t really know is important.
There are so many charac
teristics of St. Andrews, that
I feel could not possibly be found
on a large campus. ' Visiting
in faculty homes and forming
ctose relationships with faculty
families, the attainability of stu-
dent government leaders, the inti-
■nacy of small classes, the life
long friendships built from the
suite climate, the concern of the
administration, and the obvious
dedication of the faculty-all of
ese are indicative of am ex
cellent small college which en-
eavors to educate its students
in all areas.
Everything written so far may
, f''®'^y obvious and even trite.
In'* ^^''®iiPort brought
P n his sermon last week, this
me of year is when “trans-
is" hits the campus. Worse
^ infactious mononucleosis is
Freshman
Fttlinqs
Freshmen, why the sad faces?
So it's one week before exams,
Christmas vacation was great
■we've taken all our cuts, so we
have to get up for C & c every
morning and its cold and windy
outside. Is that any reason to
get depressed? Yes.
As Mr. Davenport brought to
our attention last week in chapel
on a night straight out of Wuther.
ing Heights, January marks the
morale low of the college year.
This is the time we all begin
to think of transferring, quitting,
and joining the Peace Corps,’
But before anyone does anything
drastic, let’s evaluate what we’ve
learned here at St. Andrews.
First of all, in a few weeks
most of us will have completed
one-eighth of our college career.
That by Itself almost makes what
we’ve gone through worthwhile.
It doesn’t seem quite so futile
now, does it?
Secondly, we hope we’ve
learned something. We know
we’ve learned from C & C. After
all, how many of us had ever
re^ the Old Testament, much
less studied iti Those of us
who are passing math have ob-
vlously learned something. For
most of us the language courses
have been quite satisfactory. The
freshman English course, how
ever, is a different case.
Disagree with me if you will,
but I, believe that most fresh,
men feel that the English course
is somewhat of a waste. This is
not the fault of the individual pro.
lessors, but the fault of the sys.
temlzed, rigid curriculum set up
by the department.
Perhaps most Important, we
have made friendships that we'll
remember for a long time - like
maybe the middle of the summer.
Seriously, although we've heard
this many time?, we have had the
kind of experiences that only
college can bring.
Lyrm Leverton
LETTER TO EDITOR
con’t from p. 2
tiie church held today this doc
trine, only successful people
would go to church.
A local pastor with whom I
discussed the letter says, “The
church mercifully embraces into
Its membership those not yet
totally transformed by its mess
age,” As long as this Is true,
the church will be less than
perfect. Yet, Its message is in
deed transforming. “Those who
have ears, let them hear,” I
fear that Mr, Reese has not
been listening.
Sincerely,
Phil Julian
LANCE
the negative attitude that stu
dents develop during the months
of January and February. So
this becomes a good time of year
to stop and think of the good
things about St. Andrews that are
meaningful. Remember the ex
pectations we had about the school
when we applied and remember
that no Institution could ever
fully meet those expectations,
not to compromise our hopes, but
to remember what we do have
in this small college. Our libe
ral arts buUding is not called
a “slaughter house", we are
not classlfed as numbers, and
we are not a part of mass.pro*
duced education. We are a com
munity involved in a dialogue
of learning, a small one, but
filled with as much hope for
the best efforts in education as
the largest university.
SPEAKING OUT
By WALTER BAREFOOT
“A ten percent plurality of his
closest opponent’s votes"
Admitting mistakes is one of
the hardest things to do. The
Senate, because of its action
concerning the proposed amend
ments to the Constitution of the
St, Andrews Student Association,
has to admit that it has made
a mistake which could be rather
drastic if the students do not
correct it when they vote on the
amendments.
I am referring to Article
V of the Proposed Amendments.
It reads as follows; “Election
Is by a simple majority, that Is
one vote over half the votes cast
for that office or by a ten per
cent plurality of this closest
opponent's votes." The prob^lem
is with the last phrase. An
illustration would best explain the
situation. There are three candi
dates for an office. Candidate
A gets 70 votes, B gets 65
votes, and C gets 30 votes. In
this csise candidate B would win
since he has a 10 percent plura
lity of his closest opponent’s
votes, even though he doesn't have
the most votes. For a further
explanation of the fallacy In word-
Ing, please talk with your Senator.
A system which would solve
almost all the problems now be.
setting the elections on campus
is one called the “single trans.
ferable.vote system;" In this sy
stem you mark yourflrst, second,
third, and perhaps a fourth choice
on the ballot and then your second
choice vote is counted if ybur
first choice candidate runs lowest
in ‘ the count of the first choice
votes. This system has two defi
nite advantages: It Is a majority
vote system and It does away
with run-offs.
Under this single transferable
vote system all the first choice
votes are counted and placed In
plies, one pile for each candi
date. Then, if no candidate gets
a majority of the total role, the
candidate having the smallest
first choice vote Is declared
“out of the race" and his
first choice ballots are all re
counted In accordance with tile
second choice Indicated on each
ballot, if the addition of these
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second choice ballots does not
give any candidate a majority of
the total vote, the candidate with
the lowest total on this second
count Is declared “out of the
race" and his ballots are re
counted according to the next
choice on each ballot. This
system of dropping off the lowest
candidate continues either until
one candidate does get a majo
rity of the total vote, or, failing
in that, until there is only one
candidate remaining. Usually,
one candidate will eventually
secure a majority under this sy.
stem if the voters will indicate
their second, third and fourth
choices as well as their first
choice.
continued on p. 5
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