THE LANCE
OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE STUDENT BODY OF ST ANDREWS
PRESBYTERIAN COLLEOB
Laurinburg, N. C., Thursday, March 21, 1968.
St. Andrews Presbyterian College
Vol. j8. No. 22.
Education Conference Begins Here Today.
Focues On Principles In Modern Thought
St. Andrews will host a con
ference of the Foundation of In-
tergratlve Education here
March 21-24 which will feature
reports by a team of nationally
prominent educators, philoso
phers, and scientists. Approx
imately 100 educators are ex
pected to attend the conference
which will focus on ways to link
the specialized areas of study
in modern-day education.
The conference on “Integra
tive Principles in Modern
Thought” opens Friday morning
with an address by D r. Henry M.
Higgins, professor of Physics
and Natural Philosophy at Yale
University, Others speaking
Friday are Dr. Roger Slmonds
of American University; Dr.
Donald H. Andrews, Baker Pro
fessor Emeritus of Johns Hop
kins University; Dr. Ervin
Lazio, University of Akron. On
Saturday’s program are Dr. C.
G. Arstutz, University of Hei
delberg; F. L. Kunz, vice pre
sident of the Foundation; Dr.
Robert Thornton, University of
California. Dr. Alastair Tay
lor of Queen’s University, On-
Elections End Tonight at 6 P.M.
Today the student body will
decide who their student Asso
ciation leaders for the coming
academic year, 68-69, will be.
The polls which opened in the
dormitories at 9 a.m. will close
this evening at 6 p.m. Results
will be posted later this evening
in the Student Center by the
elections board.
The first competitive race for
Student Association President
feces the student body with a
choice between Pete Cook and
David Betts, both of whom have
presented firm stands during
the brief campaign period.
Vying for the office of Vice-
President are Pete Perry and
Mike Ferrell. The importance
of this position should be re
cognized as the elected Vice
President will assume the duty
of President of the Senate.
Also a hotly contested race is
expected to take place for the
position of Secretary with Jane
Johns and Diane Davis the can
didates.
Todd Davis is expected to give
Glendy Higgins some competi
tion In the race for the office
of Treasurer.
Top competition can also be
depicted in the race for each
office of the Student Christian
Council. Elizabeth Ward,
George Sherrill, and Tom Wood
are all seeking the President’s
seat. Mary Stone and David
Flucke are running for Vice-
President. Candidates for the
office of Secretary are beth
Bryant and Barbara Olson.
Henry Hall is expected to give
John Roper a tough race for the
position of Treasurer.
Bob Brewbaker is running
unopposed for the position of
Attorney General of the Judi
ciary Board.
Carol Williamson, Nancy Ri
chardson, and Don White are
the three candidates running for
the three positions for seniors
on the Judi Board. Rick Wal-
Pete K lop man, Mary
Prince, Sandra Gaddis and Carol
Holmes are vying for the two
junior Judi positions. The sole
sophomore position Is sought by
Louis E. Lomax, Negro lec
turer, has been rescheduled to
appear at St. Andrews tomor
row, March 22 at 11:00 to seniors
n the C&C program, and in the
^ternoon to the campus com-
J*’'“'lty in the gym. The topic of
Ms address will be "Race,
“pace, and Nation.”
Charles Pratt, Craig Barton,
and Joan Magnusen.
Carolyn Caldwell, Ray Rid
dle, and Susan Cotton are can
didates for the Student-Faculty
Appellate Board.
All candidates running for the
Student Center Board are un
opposed.
tario, will address the conclud
ing session Sunday morning.
The conference will climax
the first stage of a research
and communications program
sponsored by the foundation un
der a grant from the World
Institute. The project was
launched at a September 1967
conference at Yale University.
Through this project the founda
tion is seeking to design a cir-
riculum that will provide links
between the specialized fields of
study that mark much of today’s
education.
In August the foundation will
sponsor a workshop to draw up
classroom materials, teaching
methods and a sample course
of study for concrete testing
in colleges and high schools
throughout the nation.
During the conference dele
gates will hear a brief explana
tion of the St. Andrews’program
of interdisciplinary studies in
the humanities as well as the
college’s similar program be
ing developed for the sciences.
Cowle Suggests “Child Tax” And
Sterihzation As Birth Solutions
m
Dr. Dean B. Cowle, visiting
nuclear physicist and molecular
biologist, who Is presently the
chair man ofthe Biophysics Sec
tion of Carnegie Institution In
Washington, D. C., spoke to
seniors ye^erday on the fears
and realities of the exponential
increase of population with re
spect to time.
Cowle stressed that the most
important factor of our survival
rests in man’s ability to sup
press the present birth ratt
Man needs more space to live.
Experimentally proven with
certain animal species, over
crowdedness causes psycho
logical disorders. Living In
dense popularlons causes dis
ease, poverty, and death.
Cowle stated that "within a
decade we will have hundreds
of millions of people dying of
famine. Without more living
space we will not survive.”
He predicts immediate dis
aster for the country of India.
He feels to relate the impor
tance of the overpopulation sit
uation to the people of Asia can
only be achieved through mili
tant force.
He suggests that now is the
time to take positive steps to
prevent the crisis which the
oretically is bound to occur.
He proposes mandatory steri
lization for our society, which
can be reversed when parents
have planned a family of limit
ed size. He theorizes that per
haps the solution is to place a
federal tax on children instead
of allowing tax deductions for
each child. Perhaps the best way
to decrease the birth rate is to
"sterilize people at birth”.
Our Dean of Student’s is
seriously toying with the idea
of all freshman dorms. It’s time
we toyed with our dean’s ideas.
DEVASTATING Betty Tilley, Senior St. Andrews Coed from
Thesolonika, Greece, has captured the votes of not only her
peers about campus, but^also the judging panel of Glamour
magazine, who have for the second year selected Betty as a
semi-finalist in Glamour’s "Ten Best Dressed CoUege Girls
of ’68.”
Basic Science Program Praised
The basic science program
was cited in a nationally fam
ous magazine as "the bright
est note of optimism” in the
sad plight of physics in the
U. S. college today.
The March issue of "Phy
sics Today” featured an ar
ticle on "The Interdisciplinary
Curriculum.” Dr. John M. Fow
ler, director of the Commis
sion on College Physics and a
member ofthe department at the
University of Maryland, point
ed out in his article that G.
Campus To Hold Primaiy
Dean
Cov/ie
Are you under 21 years of age?
Do you resent not being able to
voice your choice in national
elections? Then you have a
choice in ’68. Are you over 21?
Do you feel that your vote
doesn’t count? Then you, too,
have a voice in the choice in
’68, to express your preference
on Presidential candidates.
"Choice ’68” is a national
Presidential primary in which
students on college campuses
across the United States will
vote on April 24, 1968. So far,
200 colleges and universities
having an enrollment of over 2
million students have said they
wished to participate. The re
sults could have significant in
fluence on the conventions this
summer.
The election will be financed
by TIME magazine, but will
be completely administered by
non-partisan students. A board
of eleven directors, composed
of student body presidents and
newspaper editors from various
universities, will coordinate the
election by working with campus
coordinators from each college.
Kenny Prichard is the St. An
drews campus coordinator.
The board of directors has
met with President Johnson and
has received letters from Sena
tors Robert Kennedy, Edward
Brooke, Charles Percy,Eugene
McCarthy, and former Vice-
President, Richard Nixon,
among others.
Senator Joseph D. Tydlngs
wrote, "Most college students
today are Infinitely more rna-
ture and aware of national and
world events than their parents
at the same age. 1 think that the
Idea of Choice ’68 Is an ex
cellent Idea and I will be anxi
ous to see the results.”
Tyler Miller, assistant dean
in charge of instruction at St.
Andrews, offered the best solu
tion to the problem of bene
ficial courses in science offer
ed to the non-science major.
The interdisciplinary Idea Is
one of the best attempts to pro-,
vide combined physics-chem-
Istry-biology courses.
Fowler says that "the plan
at St. Andrews Is for a series
of concept-centered ‘mlnl-
lourses’ of varying length typi
cally two to eight weeks—to
give maximum flexibility. , .
The science building Itself and
particularly the teaching labor
atories are designed to encour
age Interdisciplinary overlap.”
"The laboratory stockroom
will be equipped to provide ma
terial for experiments in any
ofthe sciences, and the labora
tory furniture and accessories
will be compatible with many
different experimental uses.”
‘ ‘The St. Andrews curriculum
development seems to be the
most thorough test of the In
terdisciplinary approach in
higher education and will be
followed through with Interest.”
This Saturday at 8:00 p.m. In
the alcove an underground
movie concerplng student In
volvement, “A Cause Without A
Rebel” win be shown.
Following the show will be a
response panel, headed by
Peace Corp President Martha
James, Head of Laurinburg
Mult l-Purpose Center Lucy
Gay, and SSOC member Joe
Ingle.