THE LANCE
St. Andrews Presbyterian College
Laurinburg, N. C., Thursday, Oct. 12, 1967
Vol. 7, No. 6
Oxford Scholar Lectures on Wessex
Neolithic and Megalithic Cultures
Students at SA and Interest
ed townspeople will have the
opportunity to hear a native
of Dorset County, England, see
colored slides and hear about
Thomas Hardy’s “Wessex,” the
heath country made famous In
such novels as “The Return
of the Native” and "Tess of the
D’Urbevilles,” when Roger
Peers comes to the campus
for a two-day visit October
20-21.
Mr. Peers, M.A., Oxford
University, England, isanarch-
aelogist, historian, antiquarian,
and Curator of the Dorset Coun
ty Museum, and is speaking
this fall at the Univ. of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill, Duke and
St. Andrews and will then con
tinue his first tour of the US
with talks on campuses in Lou
isiana, Texas, and Colorado.
Friday at 8 a.m. he will
speak and show slides to An
thropology In room 128 at the
L.A. At 9 a.m. he will be In
history 411, room 116. His lec
tures in these two classes will
deal with findings of archae
ologists and historians in South
western England in Prehistory
and history, including the back-
culture in Britain, according
to Mr. Peers: the Neolithic
period (c. 3,500 B.C.). During
this time Stonehenge and Maiden
Castle were built. At the close
of each lecture there will be
questions and discussion.
Calvin A. VanderWerf
Lt. Gov. Bob Scott
Addresses Board
The newly-appointedBoardof
Advisors for SA met yesterday
and today on the campus. The
Board is composed of a number
of leading Presbyterian minis
ters In the North Carolina Sy
nod. The Board and their wives
are guests of the college at the
Holiday Inn.
Last night the advisors and
their wives dined and heard
Lt. Gov. Robert Scott speak on
“The Role of Privately Sup
ported Colleges in North Caro
lina.” Scott said that if all
higher educational facilities in
North Carolina were state own
ed and controlled, “our entire
educational process would be
subject to every whim and would
shift with the political tide.
The learnlngprocess might well
be under control of politicians
rather than the educators.”
This morning at breakfast,
the group heard a dialogue with
student leaders, Robert M.
Urle, Director of the VRA Pro
gram, Jim Bennett, attorney
general of the SA judiciary com
mittee and Art Gatewood, Pre
sident of the Student Associa
tion.
They met later this morning
with other college officials to
learn better the role that SA
Is playing in higher education
in North Carolina.
THE LANCE Will no longer
be distributed in the student
mailboxes. Each Thursday night
they will be placed in the Main
Lounge of each dormitory. Pro
fessors will receive theirs in
the usual manner.
Two lectures Friday after
noon, October 20, will be open
to Interested students, faculty
and townspeople. At 2 p.m. in
the LAA, Mr. Peers will speak
on “Thomas Hardy and His
Wessex,” sponsored by Eng
lish 201 and at 3 p.m. in the
choral room, Vardell Building,
he will demonstrate an ancient
church barrel-organ fromBere
Regis Church, the Kingsvere of
“Tess,” or recordings from It,
and lecture on the old hymns
and vanishing dialect of Dorset
County, Slides will accompany
each lecture.
His final appearance is on
Saturday at 10 a.m. in anthro
pology 204 B, room 132, when
he will continue lecturing on
prehistory, including informa
tion about the early Megalithic
culture. He will return to Chapel
Hill on Saturday,
Hope President In Residence
Dr, Calvin A. VanderWerf,
who last year was a signifi
cant part of the Concert Lec
ture Series, will be the next
visiting professor In science.
VanderWerf will be in residence
from October 23 through No
vember 4,
The topic of Dr, Vander-
Werf’s lectures will be acid-
base theory,
VanderWerf, who Is consi
dered a liberally educated sci
entist, has many outstanding
credits. Receiving his BA at
Hope College and both his MS
and his PhD at Ohio State Uni
versity, he has been both pro
fessor and chairman of the De
partment of Chemistry at the
University of Kansas, and at
present is President of Hope
College,
Dr. VanderWerf also holds
degrees from Rose Polytechni-
cal Institute and from St. Bene
dict College. He is a member
of the Board of Directors of
Research Corporation and Pe
troleum Research Fund. He was
once secretary and president of
the Division of Chemical Edu
cation with the American Che
mical Society,
Dr, Delta W. Gier had Dr,
VanderWerf as research direc
tor and advisor while in graduate
school.
Dr, VanderWerf has written
110 scientific papers and four
books, and is greatly concern
ed with the scientific nature of
religion,
A sports enthusiast,Dr, Van
derWerf is kept busy with a
family of eight.
Student appointments to con
sult with Dr, VanderWerf may
be made with Dr, Gier, room
125.
Goldwater addresses campus on selected topics of national
Interest.
Goldwater Reflects Viewpoints
On National Political Issues
Former U.S. Senator from
Arizona, and G.O.P. Presiden
tial nominee In 1964, Barry
Goldwater, addressed the cam
pus of St, Andrews last Mon
day evening, covering briefly a
few topics which he depicted
as “non-polltlcal.”
Declaring himself as a
staunch conservative, “one who
builds the future on the proven
values of the past”, Gold
water emphasized to the pub
lic that a politician’s platform
Is built entirely upon the Issues
presented by the public them
selves.
Goldwater stated that while
the present world situations
PLAYERS INAUGURATE SEASON
PRODUCE SATIRICAL FANTASY
The Highland Players last
night Inaugurated their scho
lastic season’s performances
with the opening of Jean Glr-
ardoux’s “The Madwoman of
Challlot.” The play will run
nightly through this Saturday.
“The Madwoman” Is a plea
sant amalgamation of satire and
I
George Sherrill and Suzle Mowery in Madwoman dress rehearsal.
fantasy that is tempered by
controlled imaginative Impro-
vision. As a comment on the
materialistic twlentieth-cen
tury world, it pits the society
against an irrational, yet hu
manistic, madwoman,
W D. Narramore, acting
chairman of the Department of
Drama at St. Andrews, is di
recting the play. Tickets maybe
reserved by calling the drama
department, ext 204, or at the
door.
Following the production of
“Madwoman” will be “The
Trojan Women,” "OhDad, Poor
Dad, Mama’s Hung in the Clo
set and I’m Fellin’ So Sad.”
In conjunction with the annual
St. Andrews Contemporary Re
ligious Arts Festival, the last
production of the season will be
the contemporary classic,
“Waiting for Godot,” to be pre
sented in April.
Dixie Volleyball
A Dixie Conference Round
Robin Volleyball Tourney will
take place on October 28th at
1 p.m. Action is open to all
students, including Varsity ath
letes . All participants are to
meet Monday night, October 15,
at 7:30 p,m, on the basketball
courts.
were not being caused by the
United States, and were in fact
all contributed to the assets
of communism, the US must
play a vital role in liberating,
countries under communist in
fluence and keeping free those
threatened by its influences.
He emphasized the import
ance of our nation’s security
pacts with 44 different foreign
countries and that our being In
Vietnam was an essential role in
the building of a free and better
world. He admitted that if a
nation finds fault in a policy,
then it should be subject to
change, but insisted that there
is no fault in the United States
defending and fighting for free
dom In Vietnam,
Goldwater stated that the pre
sent draft system was indeed
not a fair system, and that Con
gress in the past has made no
intentional effort to change the
now standing draft laws.
He suggested that the Hippie
movement in the states today
was the cry of a suppressed
and basically unhappy minority
who depended upon material ob
jects for security and happi
ness. He said that If material
objects made happiness, we
would perhaps be the happiest
country In the world.
Goldwater feels that Richard
Nixon, former Vice-President
of the United States, was thus
far the best prospect for the
GOP nomination in the 1968
election. He feels that the March
primaries In New Hampshire
and Michigan will determine
Nixon’s candidacy,
“I envy the youth of the na
tion today,” reflected former
Senator Goldwater, “for I pro
ject that in the next fifty years
they will see and experience
more changes and advance
ments than have been made in
the entire history of man.”
Goldwater suggested that the
youth of today strive not just to
become better US citizens of
tomorrow, but better men and
women by ridding themselves of
the typical human nature of con-
tradictory emotions;being
stingy and hateful in one mo
ment, and being generous and
loving the next.