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THE LANCE
See Color Insert,
S. A. 15-year History
official publication of the student body of ST ANDREWS PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE.
Thursday, March 28, 1968 Laurinburg, N. C.,
St. Andrews Presbyterian College
VoL 7. No. 23.
Causewalk Carnival Opens S. A. Mardi Gras,
“The Platters” Headline Evening Events
Good music and a causewalk
turned carnival are the
ingredients for this year’s
Mardl Gras. The causewalk will
be decked with a variety of
booths and an abundance of
prizes. From 5;00 p.m. until
8:30 p.m. the booths and rides
will be open for busfness. Then
“The Platters” will take the
spotlight with their familiar
songs and show. ...
When you stroll across the
causewalk you will have an op
portunity to win valuable prizes,
throw pies, ride boats, smash
cars, eat cotton candy and
arrest your best friend. You
can see a student satire on the
"SA drinking bill”; buy an
original poster from SA’s pos
ter maker in residence; buy a
helium filled balloon or win a
room at The Holiday Inn (plus
refreshments). You can take
your chances in a Co-Ed kissing
booth, eat candy apples, toss
a basketball, or take a romantic
boat ride around the lake. You
can break balloons for prizes,
try your luck at a cake walk,
win a prize in King’s Mountain’s
grab bag, win a case of beer
or a Winchster rifle. All this
at Mardi Gras.
At 8:30 the big dance-.i-con-
cert begins in the gym. “The
Platters” have recently
finished a world tour and are
currently the most demanded
college group in the nation. They
will be backed by the Dan
Ramsey Orchestra—at the re
quest of “The Platters”. Only
soft shoes or socks will be
allowed in the gym.
Admission to the concert and
causewalk is $5.00 per couple,
$2.50 per person and $.50 for
the causewalk only. Tickets will
be on sale through Saturday in
the Student Center.
To kick off the evening, the
cafeteria will serve a cookout
’68-’69 Calendar Structured
Around Novel 4-1-4 System
The 1968-69 calendar has
been announced as a 4-1-4 pro
gram. This calendar will have
thirteen teaching weeks during
the fall and spring terms, while
the winter term will have four
weeks. During this winter term,
the general education core cur
ricula will not be offered, there
fore an additional semester of
C&C will be required in the
senior year, and the Physical
Education program will be ex
tended one semester, to be
taken anytime during the junior
or senior year.
Graduation requirements for
the B.A. degree are 32 units
of regular term courses, 4 units
in winter term courses, plus the
physical education requirement
(equal to one additional unit).
This will mean that the normal
student load per week will be
45-50 hours.
There were many complica
tions concerning this new calen
dar. One was the choir and
Wind Ensemble. It was decided
that the choir and ensemble
will continue rehearsals dur
ing the winter term with the
same hour load per week as
during the fall and spring terms
(presently 4 and 3 hours re
spectively), but without credit
during the winter term. All
freshman in the school of Music
will be expected to continue
work in music theory during the
winter term as one of the re
quired winter courses in music.
Major applied practice of at
Conservatives To
Decide Leaders
If anyone makes a killing
through CHOICE 68, the Na
tional Collegiate Presidential
Primary, it could be the cam
pus conservatives. Although
caricatured endlessly as dedi
cated young fascists obsessed
with the mirage of extermin
ating insidious communism and
related socialist and products,
the fact remains that as a semi-
professional political machine
in the narrow, conventional
sense of the word, the student
right is "nequaled.
Actually, this guise of con
servative anonymity is deceiv
ing, for the vitality of the stu
dent right rests in its dedi
cation to the democratic pro
cess. Student power for con
servatives does not entail the
leftist course of direct and
militant social intervention re
gardless of law and order. It
involves Instead power gained
and administered through ac
cepted formulas and established
structures-student govern
ment, for instance, and national
student organizations such as
the Young Americans for Free
dom,
So while the leftists picket,
agitate, and alienate, the stu
dent conservatives try to pack
the polls and churn out the vote.
It's simple, direct process, al
most mechanical in fact. But
that, after all, is how elections
are won—and campus conser
vatives are out to win CHOICE
68.
least one hour per day will be
expected of all music majors
during the winter term.
The grading system, on a 4
point basis, has been approved.
An A is worth 4 grade points
per course, a B Is 3 grade
points, a C is 2 grade points
per course, a D is 1 grade
point and course credit, and
an F gives no course credit.
The overall requirement for
graduation is 36 courses with a
minimum of 2.00 cumulative
average both on all work at
tempted at St. Andrews and also
in the major program. Mr,
Ed Gross has been working on
a formula for the transition
of grades, and it will be an
nounced concerning the pro
cedure, as soon as possible.
behind the Student Center at
5:00 p.m. This cook-out, com
bined with a home baseball game
and tennis match, plus the Stu
dent Center Board’s breakfast
(late permission until 4 a.m,)
will provide for a full Saturday,
Platters
The Platters, who have re
corded songs for twelve years,
have been twice voted the
“World’s Most Outstanding Vo
cal Group”, They have traveled
all over Europe, Asia, Africa,
and the Americas, appearing
before millions of fans from
the London Palladium to out
posts of The French Foreign
Legion,
Their stage has Included such
heterogeneous settings as con
cert halls, theatres, nightclubs,
ice palaces, and sports arenas.
The Platters were propelled
to fame by in the mid-fifties
during a wave of rock-anf^-roll
music, but soon over-shadowed
the bouncy rock tunes with a new
ballad, “Only You”, Discover
er, founder, and arranger Buck
Ram penned this four-million
record seller especially for
their talents. He followed their
first hit by composing their
now famous songs “The Great
Pretender”, “The Magic
Touch", •‘Twilight iime ',ahd
others. He uniquely arranged
“My Prayer”, and “Smoke Gets
In Your Eyes” by adding a full
string orchestration with a big
beat.
After ten gold records and
millions of miles of travel,
Herbert Reed, bass singer and
group leader of The Platters,
feels that he is not being im
modest when he says, “Of all
the singers who started during
the rock-and-roll period, only
three acts can still draw a full
house - Elvis Presley, Brenda
Lee, and The Platters,”
Golden Hits
“Encore of Golden Hits” has
been listed as a best seller for
184 weeks and reached its first
million in sales in '62. “More
Encore of Golden Hits” earned-
its gold record award In ‘65.
Both albums are still going
strong. In the singles depart
ment, The Platters have con
sistently hit the best seller
charts, scoring in both Rhythm
and Blues, and Pop fields.
Considering the long-time
durability and popularity of The
Platters, HerV-jrt Reed ex
plains, “Elvis Presley has
Mehta Gives Recital Series
LAURINBURG, N. C. — Dady
Mehta, concert pianist and
School of Music faculty member
at St, Andrews, will make three
appearances prior to his April
17 performance at New York’s
Town Hall.
Two concerts will be per
formed in this area, the first
at Vardell Hall in Red Springs,
N. C., on March 28 at 8 p.m.,
and the second on April 1 at
8 p,m. at Coker College in
Hartsville, S. C. as a part of
Coker’s Exchange series. The
third concert will be performed
April 8 at Appalachian State
Students Elect Leaders
The annual Student Associa
tion elections last Thursday
and the results were announced
at 1:00 a.m. by WSAP Friday
morning. David Betts, a junior
from Atlanta, Georgia was elec
ted President of the Student
Association, He has served as
Treasurer of the S,A. for the
past two years,
Mike Ferrell, a sophomore
from Fayetteville, N. C. Is the
new vice-president of the cabi
net, Mike has been a senator
this year representing Kings
Mountain Dorm, Mike will serve
as President of the Senate.
The closest race was for
secretary of the Student As
sociation, A sophomore from
Fort Royal, Virginia, Jane
Johns is the new secretary.
Todd Davis, from Hopewell,
Va,, was elected as treasurer
of the student government.
Bobby Brewbaker, who ran
unopposed, is the new At
torney General, Bobby is a
junior from Bedford, Va, and
he has served on the Jurdl-
ciary Board for two years.
Senior members of the Stu
dent Appellate Board are
Carolyn Caldwell, Lynchburg,
Va,, and Ray Riddle, Charles
ton, S. C. The one junior is
Susan Cotton from Winston-
Salem, N. C, Judiciary Board
members for the coming year
are Nancy Richardson, Don
White, and Carol Williamson as
junior members; Pete Klopman
and Rick Walker, junior mem
bers; and Craig Barton and
Charlie Pratt as Sophomore
members.
Officers of the Student Cen
ter Board are Ted McCormack
as president, Al Moss as vice-
president, Donna Gardner as
secretary, and Ralph Nesbit as
Treasurer,
There was a run-off for
president of the Student Chris
tian Council between George
Sherrill and Tom Wood, George
Sherrill won in the run-off,
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BETTS -- President
FERRELL — Vice President
BREWBAKER —
Attorney General
University in Boone, N. C.
At each concert, Mr, Mehta
will perform the selections he
has made for his Town Hall
concert. He will begin his pro
gram with two Mozart compo
sitions, Fantasie in C minor,
K. V, 475 and Sonata In C mi
nor, K. V, 457. He will then play
Bela Bartok’s 1926 Piano So
nata,
Following intermission,
Mehta will perform Piano
Variations (1930) by Aaron Cop
land, and he will conclude the
program with Beethoven’s So
nata in A major. Opus 101,
Mehta was born in Shanghai
of Parsi-Indlan parents and It
was in that city that he recei
ved his early musical train
ing, After studies In Paris at
the Ecole Normal de Muslque
and in V ienna at the State Aca
demy of Music, he made his
concert debut in Vienna in 1958.
Since that time he has accu
mulated critical acclaim for
performances in major Euro
pean cities and in the United
States.
After his American debut in
Washington in 1965, reviewers
termed his performance "su
perb,” “exciting and compel
ling,” and displaying “absolute
control over every note and de
tailed molding of each phrase.”
Chem Students
To San Francisco
Twelve St. Andrews students
will attend the national meeting
of the American Chemical So
ciety in San Francisco March 31'
April 5.
A grant for the St. Andrews
delegation, members of the so
ciety’s student affiliate chapter
at St, Andrews, has been pro
vided by the Texaco Founda
tion,
Dr. Delta W. Gier, profes
sor of chemistry and chair
man of the Division of Natural
Sciences and Mathematics, will
participate in sessions of the
meeting, in addition to accom
panying the St. Andrews dele
gation.
On Monday, April 1, Dr. Gier ■
will take part In a symposium
on science education for stu
dents centering their studies in
other areas. He will read a
paper on the “Organic Che
mistry Laboratory” on Thurs
day, April 4,
Included in the activities of
the society’s meeting will be
student exhibits, seminars, and
field trips in the San Francisco
area.
The twelve students who will
attend the meeting are: Rooney
L. Coffman, James S. Holler,
Karl C, Jones, Charles C.
Kerley, Jack LaPointe, Kim
Matthews, Gregory J. Melss-
ner, Philip T. Nickle, George
Watson, Ted Wendel, Sharon
White, Martha Davis, and Joan
Magnusen,
stayed on top by successfully
adapting to movies and televi
sion, while our bag has been to
travel all over the world, play
ing to the largest concert au
diences,”
Buch Ram easily explains
why all types of audiences find
The Platters entertaining,
“Their biggest hits have been
standard and pop ballad tunes,
which is in contrast to the lack
lustre lyrics of the latest dance
tunes,”
“The Platters sound includes
a repertoire of over two hun
dred arrangements and a sing
ing style that is adaptable to
accept a beat, a lyric, or a folk
song,”
After a recent tour of natio
nal universities. The Platters
home office in Las Vegas re
ceived a deluge of mail prais
ing their ability to be both en
tertaining and profitable. Dean
Hendrickson of the University of
South Carolina commented, “I
would like to express our ap
preciation for the splendid con
cert given by The Platters. I
personally believe it was one of
the finest programs we have
ever had at the University, They
received three standing ova
tions,”
Apparently there are no
limits to their success in the
coming years. This past year
they hit big with the single
recording “With This Ring”
which placed number 60 on the
charts only ten days after its
release. Now for the thirteenth
year, audiences across the na
tion are enjoying the entertain
ing showmanship of The Plat
ters, a truly ever-green at
traction.
THE PLATTERS, backed by the Dan Ramsey Orchestra head the entertainment for Mardi Gras,
The dance will begin at 8:30 in the main gym after festivities on the Causewalk,
Self-Nominations Still Open for Dorm Positions:
President, Representatives in Wednesday Elections
Nominations for dormitory
positions are now being filed
in the Student Affairs office.
Yesterday the following can
didates had posted their bids
for office.
Four girls in Albemarle Hall
are in the running for the po
sition of dormitory president.
Brenda O’Berry from Dudley,
N. C, is a junior and is ma
joring in Human Relations. She
is now a suite leader, Sara
Abernathy is a junior from
Charlotte. She is majoring in
religion and is a member of
the handbook committee for
1968; she also serves on the
dorm council.
Margared Offterdinger,a
junior from Lynchburg, Va. is
majoring In English, She was
vice-president of her fresh
man class, was secretary of the
Student Government her sopho
more and junior years, as well
as being suite leader in her
dorm for the past two years,
Julia Wilson, a sophomore
from York, S. C. plans to ma
jor in English. She is secre
tary of the Highland Players
and is on the social committee
of her dorm as well as the
executive committee of the so
phomore class.
Also running from Albemarle
for seats in the Senate are:
Nina Dougherty, Ann Bottoms,
Linda Hill and Joyce Fryar.
Amy Davis is the sole can
didate for representative to the
Women’s Residence Court,
Scottie Scott is running un
opposed for social chairman,
Ann Ward is the single can-,
didate for the president of ConT
cord Dorm. She is a junior from
Winter Park, Fla, and is major
ing in psychology. She is a
senator this year and has
tutored in the peace corps for
two years.
Those girls running for Sen
ate are: Gray AnnHelder, Mary
Prince, Cindy Leach, Cathy‘
Wallace and Carol Dugger,
Becky Sudderth is the candi
date for Women’s Resident
Court.
Hix to Join Frosh C&C Team As
Christian Thought Professor
Dean Robert F. Davidson has
announced the appointment of
Dr. Douglas Wiley Hix as As
sociate Professor of Christian
Thought to replace Dr. Gustaf
son on the St. Andrews faculty.
Mr. Hix is coming from King
College in Bristol, Tennessee,
where he has been Associate
Professor of Philosophy for the
past seven years and also Dean
of Students since 1966. He will
be a member of the freshman
C&C team at St. Andrews, in
addition to teaching advanced
religion courses.
He has said that he is es
pecially interested in the in-
terdisiplinary program of C&C
and it is one of the main rea
sons SA attracted him.
Dr. Hix is a native of St.
Augustine, Florida, is married,
and has three children. He is a
Presbyterian. He received his
BA from Davidson College, his
B.D. from Columbia Seminary
and his Ph.D from Duke Uni
versity In the field of Chris
tian ethics. He comes highly
recommended from King Col
lege as one of their finest
teachers and also a personal
friend of Mr, Bruce Frye, new
SA Development officer, who
also came to us from King.
DR. DOUGLAS WILEY HIX
Granville’s candidates for
dorm president are Betts Hun
ter and Joyce Lowdermilk,
Betts is a junior from Aiken,
S. C. She is majoring in Eng
lish and is a senator. She has
represented Granville for two
years in the Miss Lamp and
Shield Contest, Joyce is also a
junior and halls from Raleigh,
N.C. She is majoring in ele
mentary education. She was se-
creatry-treasurer of her fresh
man, sophomore and junior
classes. She is a suite leader
and served as dorm president
the summer of 1967, She has
also served on the executive
council of her class all three
years at SA.
Senator candidates from
Granville are; Julie Morris,
Cathy McDowell and Jean Tem
pleton. Dixie Fulton is a can
didate for representative to the
Women’s Residence Court,
Two juniors are in the run
ning for dorm president from
Wilmington Hall. Linda Susong,
from Middlesboro, Kentucky is
an English major. She has serv
ed on the Executive Council her
sophomore and junior years.
She is a social chairman for
the dorm this year and is se-
creatry of the Quill and Scroll
Literary Club. She is as
sociate editor of the “Lance”,
and a member of the Calendar
Committee.
Ellen Clarke, from Montgo
mery, Alabama, majors In re
ligion and philosophy. She has
been a senator for two years
and has tutored with the peace
corps. She was president of the
Young Democrats Club her sop
homore year. She attended the
SUSGA and NSA meetings this
year.
Running for positions as
Senator are: Lucy Wilson,
Elliott MacKethan and Hollace
Laws. Betsy Pope and Phyllis
Dieth are both candidates for
social chairman, Janet Dalton
is the sole candidate for Wo
men’s Residence Court rtpre-
sentatlve,
Danny Beer man and George
Shaffer are candidates for
president of Kings-Mt, Dorm,
Danny, a junior from West Palm
Beach, Fla. majors in politics.
He was president of his sopho
more and junior class. He has
served as chairman of Mardi-
Gras for two years.
Danny also attended the NSA
convention and the national
SUSGA meeting, George, also a
junior, is from Woodstock, Va,,
and is majoring in psychology.
He served as president of
Klngs-Mt, this year. He is
business manager for the Lamp
and Shield and is a member of
the choir. Running for positions
in the Senate are: John Royall,
Eddie Porter and Mike Rey
nolds,
Mecklenberg Dorm has only
two candidates running for po
sitions. Jed Howell, a sopho
more from Waynesboro, Va, is'
a candidate for president. He
is a member of the Highland
Players and participates in
intra-mural sports, John Mc
Allister is the only candidate
for senator.
Winston-Salem Dorm has
three juniors vieing for the pre
sidency, Chuck White is from
Charlotte, N.C. and is a music
major. He is a member of the
college choir. PetePeery, from
Tazewell, Va. has been a mem
ber of the Senate for two years
and served as President pro-
tem this year.
Bill Rinker,“Irom Greens
boro, N.C, is majoring- in busi
ness administration. He Is on
the junior class executive coun
cil, Running for senate seats
are: Chris Heppe, Ron Tingle
and Banks Garrison, Frank
Pfenning and Jeff McKechnle
are running for representative
to the Men’s Residence Court,
Three Orange men are run
ning for the position as presi
dent. They are: Ruste Rlghton,
Jimmy Wright, and Kenny Prit
chard. Ruste, a junior from
Stone Mt., Ga, is majoring in
drama. He is vice-president
of Farrago and is a member
of the radio club. Kenny is a
junior and is from Williams
burg, Va, He is majoring in
math and chemistry.
He was a star member of the
math and chemistry. He was
a star member of the soccer
team.
Jimmy Wright is a junior
and is from Raleigh, N.C. He
is majoring in biology. He was
social chairman this year.
Those vieing for positions in
the senate are: Terry Jaywork,
Henri Johnson, and Judy Brown,
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