The Lance
St. Andrews Presbyterian College
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Laurinburg, N. C., Thursday, Nov. 30, 1967
Vol. No. No. 12.
Senate Passes Bill Favoring
Consumption of Alcohol on Campus
Gene Barbour and the Cavaliers of Hit Attractions Inc, will
be on campus December 12 for an informal dance.
Alumni, Community Members,
Join In Handel’s Messiah
St. Andrews students, faculty
and alumni will join with mem
bers of the Laurinburg com
munity to present G. F. Han
del’s Messiah on Sunday, De
cember 3 at 8:00 p.m. in the St.
Andrews Gymnasium.
Thomas Somerville, as
sistant professor of church mu
sic and director of choral or
ganizations, will conduct a 110
voice chorus composed of the
St. Andrews Chapel Choir and
the Laurinburg Area Com
munity Chorus. A number of St.
Andrews faculty and staff are
members of the chorus, includ
ing Professors Joyce Bryant,
Alan Burris, Philip Clark,
Spencer Ludlow and Jerry Wil
liamson, College Pastor Robert
Davenport, and admissions di
rector Alen Atwell. John Wil
liams, associate professor of
organ, will be organist for the
performance.
Soloists will be soprano Vir
ginia Somerville, alto Radiana
Pazmor, tenor Richard Lilly
and baritone Walter Boyce.
Mrs. Somerville, instructor in
voice at St. Andrews, has ap
peared in recital and opera
performances in the mid-west
and south as well as on cam
pus. Miss Pazmor, visiting pro
fessor of voice, is a world-
renowned concert artist and
teacher whose most recent per
formances include a recital in
Charlotte and Messiah soloist
In Florence, S. C.
Richard Lilly and Walter
Boyce are St. Andrews alumni
who received the B. M. degree
in Voice in 1966, studying with
Miss Pazmor. They are now
completing their studies for the
masters degree in voice at Bos
ton Conservatory as students of
David Blair McCloskey, where
they have performed in recital
on the opera stage. St. An
drews juniors and seniors will
remember Lilly and Boyce’s
performances in recitals, as
soloists with the College Choir,
Faust and Mephistopheles in
the 1966 opera production of
Goethe’s Faust,
The Messiah performance on
December 3 is being sponsored
by the St. Andrews School of
Music and Student Christian
Council. Students and the gen
eral public are invited free of
charge. Offering plates will be
at the exits for those who wish
to contribute to the White Gift
offering to The R, M, Wilson
Leprosy Center in Korea.
If we cannot enforce the rule
governing drinking on campus
now, what are the reasons to
believe that this new bill will
be enforced ? This question and
many others faced the Senate
Wednesday night as they met to
vote on Committee Bill #5--the
drinking bill.
With great concern and much
discussion the Senate voted 25-4
to accept the new drinking re
gulation. Bob Devlin led the dis
cussion in defense of the bill
as questions were fired at him
from all angles.
The questions of greatest
concern were (1) Has there
been any talk wath faculty and
administration across the lake,
(2) are the St. Andrews stu
dents willing to accept the price,
financial risk, reputation loss,
(3) are the students willing to
accept the extra responsibility
placed on them?
Dean Davidson would not and
is not able to commit himself
on the question of drinking ed
ucation until Dr. Moore has
taken final action. It would be-
almost impossible to find out
about the loss of financial aid
and reputation at this time.
Each student must face the
question of responsibility for
himself. The Senate had to de
cide if the campus was ready
for this adjustment.
The following is a statement
of the bill passed by Senate.
WHEREAS: The freedom to
drink on campus in no way im
plies the necessity of drinking
on campus; and,
WHEREAS: The freedom to
drink on campus in no way im
plies irresponsible drinking on
campus; and.
WHERE.\S; Under the present
rule, neither the choice to drink
responsibly nor the choice to
abstain from drinking is offered
by the college, but is eliminat
ed and superceeded by a fixed
rule; and,
WHEREAS: The present rule
governing drinking, neither re
flects the feelings of the stu
dents, nor attempts to work
for their best interests; and,
WHEREAS; The Senate seeks
to eliminate the current situa
tion in which the present drink
ing regulation is neither being
obeyed nor enforced; and,
WHEREAS: Other colleges
(Duke, N. C. State) have li
beralized their drinking re-
gulaions and have had good re
sults; and,
WHERE AS: The college in go
verning student activity with
regards to drinking under is
policy of “in loco Parentis”,
is restricting unfairly those
students whose parents allow
them to drink at home! and,
WHEREAS: T h e permission
to consume alcohol on campus
would tend to discourage and
partially alleviate the danger
ous situation of student who
drink off campus having to drive
back to campus; and,
WHEREAS: Many people who
drink would prefer the atmos
phere of their own room to a bar
off campus, and would prefer
(■.' ""'ing in the privacy of their
jf residence rather than
wasting both time and expense
in traveling to places off cam
pus; and,
WHEREAS: It is unreason
able and unwise to shelter stu
dents from the reality of social
drinking; and,
WHEREAS: It is healthier and
much more responsible for stu
dents and administration to
work together towards a rea
sonable understanding of the
present problem, through an ex
amination and evaluation of the
situation, than to ignore the pro
blem as if it did not exist;
and,
WHEREAS: The Senate desir
es to be honest and straight
forward with respect to this
issue:
Be it resolved that the state
ment in the 1967 St. Andrews
Handbook “alcoholic beverages
may neither be consumed or
possessed on campus” be re
vised, effective the beginning of
2nd semester, Jan. 15, 1968,
to read:
Persons wishing to drink on
the St. Andrews campus shall
comply with the State and Coun
ty law.
Drunken and disorderly con
duct so as to call undue at
tention to oneself or to en
danger the well-being of others,
or the disobedienceof the above
stipulations of State Law, will
be considered in violation of
the drinking regulations of St,
Andrews.
Strayer Gives Voice Recital
Princeton Religion Professor
Views Popular “Image of God”
popular images of the “ima
ges of God” in contomporary
novels will be reviewed by a
visiting lecturer on St. An
drews campus on Monday after
noon, December 4. Professor
Horton Davies, Professor of
Religion at Princeton Univer
sity will lecture on such nove
lists as Alan Paton, Peter De
Vries, and Francois Mauriac.
Mr. Davies will lecture on these
men and their portrayals of the
priest and the minister in recent
fiction.
Professor Davies is a teach
er and writer in the field of
religion with a keen interest
in the creative arts. His works
deal with such as worship and
liturgy, theology and culture,
and the history and practice of
religious sects? He is current
ly undertaking a multi-volume
history of worship and theology
in modern England.
A native, of England, Pro
fessor Davies served as Con-
gregationalist minister during
the Second World War. His role
as a teacher and a writer have
taken him to Rhodes University
in Africa, to Oxford Univer
sity as a lecturer in theology,
and more recently to Prince
ton University to a distinguish
ed of religious studies.
During his visit to the cam
pus, Professor Davies will also
speak on Monday evening to a
group of students and members
of the college faculty on the
topic, “Catching the Con
science: The Plays of Graham
Greene,”
Miss Carleen Strayer, a stu
dent of Mrs. Virginia Somer
ville, will present her Senior
Voice Recital Friday night at
8:00 in the LAA. Miss Strayer
is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Carl C. Strayer of Hamp
ton, Virginia.
While at St. Andrews, she
has been a member of the Col
lege Touring Choir for four
years and is presently serving
as choir secretary. She was a
member of the Madrigal Sing
ers for one year and is now
co-chairman of the Chapel
Committee under the Student
Christmas Dance With Martiniques
This weekend is a big one
here at St. Andrews. A Christ
mas Formal, sponsored by the
Student Center Board, will take
place on Saturday night, De
cember 2, from 9 p.m. until
1 a.m.
Providing music will be the
Martiniques, an orchestra from
Atlanta, Georgia. The cost for
the evening is $1.00 per per
son, and tickets are on sale
in the student center.
Even though the dance is
formal, semi-formal attire
(short formals and dark suits)
will be acceptable. Girls have
late permission for the occas
ion.
Mary Battle Higgins, a junior
Is in charge of decorations for
the Christmas dance.
Christmas comes to the St.
Andrews campus. The Student
Center will sponsor an Open
House after the Christmas Con
cert given by our music de
partment, Sunday, December 3.
There will be lots of spirits
(86 proof Christmas brand) and
good food.
Job Interviews
Next Tuesday, December 5,
through Friday, December 8,
St. Andrews students will have
the opportunity of employment
interviews with four different
companies and organizations.
Tuesday, representatives
from the North Carolina Em
ployment Commission will be
available for job interviews. On
Wednesday students may talk
with representatives of the
North Carolina National Bank.
Thursday the U.S. Navy will
set up its regular recruiting
table for interested students.
Completing next week’s inter
view schedule will be the Gen
eral Telephone Company, avail
able for discussion on Friday.
Christian Council. She is a
student member of the Calen
dar and Concert-Lecture Com
mittee, Senior representative
and chairman of the Student
Representative Committee of
the School of Music; and is a
member of the choir at Lau
rinburg Presbyterian church.
Her program will open with
an area from Handel’s “Jos
hua --Oh, Had I Jubal’s Lyre.”
German, Fren^ and Italian se
lections will areo be perform
ed, including two arias by Mo
zart from his opera, “The Mar
riage of Figaro.” Contempo
rary songs by Douglas Moore
and Roy Harris will also be
presented. The recital ends with
a group of “Chinese Mother
Goose Rhymes” that feature
oriental melodies, rhythms, and
verses translated and arranged
by Balnbridge Crist.
MISS CARLEEN STRAYEP