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OCTOBER 25, 1966 Ed Butterworth EdItor-in-Chief John Apperson Business Manager iheLance Mary Fisher Associate Editor Brian Weger Managing Editor Tuxedo or T-Shirt “Good taste in aress and in general appearance Is expected of all students at«all times. Casual attire is permitted throughout the campus at the noon meal on Sundays.” Would you enter your dormitory in attire unsuitable to your residence assistant? Would you consider attending class barefooted or in bathing apparel to be In good taste? If you would, the choice may now be yours to make. The legislation of the Senate Welfare Committee has placed the freedom of the student’s integrity within an individual analysis of moral rights and dis crepancies. Should the student be allowed such personal freedom to decide for himself how he should dress for the varying occasions of student life? Obviously when a person reaches maturity he should be given certain rights of personal adherence and responsibility. The student Is a ma turing Individual and his rights cannot be denied. This Is the Intention of the Welfare Committee’s legislation. A student Is within his rights when he attends class in informal at tire if his manner of dress fits his own approval and does not exceed the liberation of his professor’s mode of classroom conduct. The student’s goal is to be productive in his academic endeavors. If he can do so in a leisurely style as well as In formal attire, his aim as a student has not been altered. This new Senate bill, the first step towards complete student indepen dence regarding moral non-academic behavior, is not yet in effect. This bill should be regarded as a building block, a first in a series of steps toward entire Independence which places trust in the student’s individual integrity. If the bill fails to pass Cabinet, Student Life, or Presidential appro val, a grave injustice has been directed to all concerned students of our campus community. This is our life to regulate, and it is our responsibility to fulfill our regulations in a manner, (be it formal or informal) suitable to student iemands. Cut Freedom Cut We have been placed this semester in an existence of personal academic freedom. We have not been restricted unless by the personal llrtegrity of our Instructors to attend class. Yet now, with vacation past and work well done, some St. Andrews students wUl be placed on academic probation for having cut the class prior to vacation, or perhaps for cutting either today’s or tomorrow’s classes. This seems to be inconsistent with the entire system of class cuts. The purpose is obviously to prohibit the student from taking an exten sive holiday break. Would it not be possible for the student at any other desired time during the semester to take a vacation equally as long as the one past? Because of the unlimited cut, a student may take a vacation at his lib erty. It seems that the responsibility placed in the student is now being taken away. Why therefore should the student be given unlimited cuts at all if not also at the time of a holiday? The same basic underlying principle exists. If the student needs to attend a class, it is his prerogative to do so, regardless of the situation at hand. It hardly seems fair that a student who is achieving satisfactory marks should be placed on probation for non-attendance during a four day period, while a student who does not attend a class for the rest of the semester may maintain his academic freedom. Delayed Directory Delivery Dilemma STAFF Joe Junod SPORTS EDITOR Peggy Gamble STUDENT ASSOCIATION Debbie Harper ACADEMIC NEWS Elizabeth Parker DRAMA and MUSIC Margaret Parrish DORMITORIES Linda Susong ADMINISTRATION Bill Barry, Sandy Harris PHOTOGRAPHERS Jim O’Brion CIRCULATION MANAGER Business Staff: Charma Walker, Beth Anderson, Todd White, Lydia Hertsgaard, June Stockbrldge, Bonni Blossom, Peaches Atkinson, Nannie Pettyjohn, Genia McNeill, Allison Bennett, Bege Miller, Marian Haley, and Buzz Rogers. Contributors this issue: Karen Baird, Betty Hunter, Carmen Hill, Sally McLeod, Linda Curtis, Jim Sirbaugh, Nancy Schnei der, Art Gatewood. The semester is in Its second lap, and we have returned from fall break, hopefully refreshed and ready to clear the approaching hurdles. Yet, we are still without a directory of phone numbers and addresses of students, faculty and administrators. In order to get In touch with a student, we still have to go through the trying job of calling several dorms to find out which one the student lives in and then of call ing back on the right extension. To get in touch with a professor. last YEAR’S directory may help us if he is a returning professor. If not, we must dial "O” and hope for the best. The time we really need a dir ectory Is at the first of the year when we have not the slightest idea where freshmen, transfers, and new faculty live and what com bination of numbers will bring their voices to our ears. Are not most of the students as signed to a dorm and a particular suite before August? Are not new faculty members obtained before % “Say, that’s pretty good taste. You ought to wear it to lecture tomorrow.” August? Why could not the major portion of the directory be com posed or aflrstdraftofItBEFORE fall semester begins with all its meetings and complications? If it is such a big job to com pile a directory, to get everyone to turn in the needed data, per haps some people should be em ployed to do nothing except com pose a directory (I hc^)e there Is another solution because I would hate to see the tuition raised again in order to pay these people. I am beginning to question the purpose of a St. Andrews direc tory. By the time one IS availa ble, we will have many of the extension numbers memorized and we will have already learned who lives near us and can give us a ride home or to another school’s campus for a weekend. Some of us may be mad and stub born enough not to buy one now that the semester Is half over. If we have survived without a direc tory for half a semester (the half in which we really need it), do we need one now? Phoolosophy Too many men ruin their chances while figuring out what they would do if they had another’s. Those who complain about the way the ball bounces are often the ones who dropped it. Keep, up your courage and youi courage will keep you up. If some people got a penny for their thoughts, they would be over paid. By Hugh Murr North Carolina Masonic Journal IDC Procrastinates On "Do Not Disturb” By MARY FISHER Associate Editor How many times this semester would you have been thankful to have had a Do Not Disturb sign? These signs may not be so ef fective or necessary in the boys dorms as in the girls’. Somehow boys can tell other males to leave his room so he can study or have some privacy better than a girl can tell another girl. "We do not want our friends to think us_ pru dish or square, but sometimes it is absolutely necessary that we do some highly concentrated study. Some students can study amidst all confusion and noise, and some claim they never need privacy. But there are some students who DO need quiet to study and who need times in which they will NOT be disturbed. It is for these students that Do Not Disturb signs serve their purpose. “The Mer-Dormltory Council is responsible for the general welfare of all resident students, Ad Policy Changes A new LANCE policy for non commercial, campus related ad vertising goes into effect on Nov ember 1st. The cost of all ads from campus organizations and individuals will be 50? per column inch, as contrasted to the pre vious minimum rate of 70? and upward. Inquiries should be addressed to the Business Manner at Box 554 or to the LANCE office at Box 757. and heretofore the Inter-Dormi tory Council has distributed these signs. At one dorm council meeting a president said the IDC is working on “getting estimates” for Do Not’s. Having been a member of IDC, I know it does not take half a semester to compile estimates for Do Not’s, to have them prin ted and distributed to students. Last year IDC president Bruce Robertson delegated the responsi bility to members of IDC, the necessary information was com piled, decisions made, and Do Not Disturb signs distributed within the first six weeks of school. By the time Do Not’s are dis tributed this year, some of us will have been deprived of a certain amount of needed privacy or we will have made a few enemies out of friends because some people cannot understand our pushing them out of our rooms or threat ening them not to bother us. Without reflection on or implica tion concerning this year’s Inter- Dormitory Council, I wish to ac knowledge and commend Bruce Robertson for his excellent lead- dership of EDC last year and for the respect which he amply deserved and received from those who served under him. Phones Concern Vaughn^ Writes Letter To Southern Bell The following is a letter from Business Manager Silas Vaughn to Mr. C. C. Cates, Representative of Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Co. The editorial staff of The Lance sincerely hopes that the efforts of the school’s administration an swers all doubts about their sin cerity in dealing with problems of student life. Dear Mr. Cates: I am sure you are familiar with the old problem of our telephones on the St. Andrews campus. En closed is a letter written to the editor of our school paper telling of the re-occuring problem this year. I happen to know that the stu dent is not really understating the case and would like to ask that the best engineers that you have give their immediate attention to this and see if we can get it worked out where there will not be jumping of telephone conversa tions and calls. Frequently when people dial the Business Office they get one of the dormitories. lunder- stand the limitation of circuits- within our general set-up and ask„, that students bear with us on the shortage of lines during the past period. This, I believe , they are willing to do provided we can give them good service otherwise. Very sincerely yours, Silas M. Vaughn
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