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OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE STUDENT BODY OF ST ANDREWS PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE
Laurinburg, N. C., Thursday, April 25, 1968.
Vol. 7. No. 25
Contemporary Issues Are Focus-
DICK GREGORY SPEAKS HERE MONDAY
(From an article in The Wall
Street Journal, December 4,
1967, by David Garino.)
Dick Gregory, a Presidential
candidate, will speak on the St.
Andrews campus this Monday.
Appearing as part the C&C
400 program, the “comic with
a cause” will speak in front
ol the DeTamble Library from
9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Un
doubtedly, Gregory will cover
a wide range of subjects—civil
rights, Black Power, President
Johnson, the Viet Nam war,
and poverty.
Many people believe that the
35 year old Negro Is still a
full-time comedian and part
time civil rights supporter. No
longer. The situation is re
versed. He has become a nation
ally known civil rights activist.
Garino writes that "the tran
sition began in 1962. Late that
year when he has in Jackson,
Mississippi, Gregory says he
was stunned by the case of a
78 year-old Negro man who
was jailed during a voter
registration drive. The man’s
wife died while he was im-
prisoned--on the first night the
old man had ever spent away
from home. About then, says
Mr. Gregory, he began to won
der if he ‘really had It made’
when so many of his people
were suffering”.
“His involvement in civil
rights grew. Using jets the way
most people use taxis, he criss
crossed the country, going
where the action was. He
marched in demonstrations
north and south. He was hurt
trying to cool the Watts riot.
He saw many a jail from the
inside”.
Gregory views himself as a
social commentator who uses
humor to Interpret the needs
and wants of Negroes to the
white community, rather than
as a comedian who happens to
deal in topical social material.
What Gregory is attempting
to do is pressure the white com
munity Into action “now”. He is
Mr. Godot and the Finer Arts
By BARDIE BOBBITT
The St. Andrews Contempo
rary Arts Festival - 1968, pre
sented April 22 - May 1, will
feature a partial scene of what’s
happening in today’s arts. Visit
ing artists to the Festival are
Jonas Mekas, film maker,
James Rosenquist, painter,
Gregg Smith, conductor and
composer. The acting chairman
is Helen Rodgers.
The Festival, sponsored by
the division of Music, Art and
Drama, began Monday night
with the opening of John Dahl’s
art show at the V ardell Build
ing which Includes paintings,
collages, and miscellany.
WAITING FOR GODOT, a
Highland Players production,
will take place April 24 - 27
in the LAA. Directed by Mr.
Dub Narramore, Samuel Beck
ett’s tragic comedy will star
Joe Mitchell, Jeff Alhelm, Hal
Crowe, Tracey Moore, and Todd
Davis. The Highland Player’s
have created a theatre in the
round for the production --
something new in St. Andrews
drama.
The romantic French drama,
A MAN AND A WOMAN, will be
shown at the Gibson Theatre
April 25-28. The film shared
the Best Picture Award at the
Cannes Film Festival in 1966
with SIGNORE E SIGNORE.
ESTERIFICATION, a chemi
cal happening for electronic
instruments, tape recorder,
movie and slide projectors and
audience will be presented in
the LAA April 28 at 8 p.m.
The computerized symphony is
produced and directed by John
Dahl and Professor Thomas
Sommer Vi He from an idea
created by Tyler Moore and
Warren Mosley.
The film SCENES FROM UN
DER CHILDHOOD by Stan
Brackhage will be shown in the
LAA at 3 p.m. April 29. DIA
RIES, a film by Jonas Mekas
will be shown at 8 p.m. of the
same day. Immediately follow
ing there will be a symposium
on “the importance of the com
monplace in contemporary art”
with Jonas Mekas, James Ro
senquist, and St. Andrews pro
fessors.
Festival Fete, a conversa
tion with the Visiting artists
will be held at 7 p.m., April
30, at Mr. Dahl’s house. There
will be a barbecue and enter
tainment. Admission by ticket
only.
Closing the Arts Festival will
be the premiere of Gregg
Smith’s new choral work, CAN
TICLES OF PRAISE, by the St.
Andrews choir in the Scotland
High School auditorium at 8
p.m.. May 1. Mr. Smith will
conduct.
SUMMER FURY, a play to be
directed by Joe Mitchell, will be
presented May 2-3 In the Lab
Theatre at 8 p.m.
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MITCHELL, ALHEIM: “BECOMING REALLY INSIGNIFICANT”
Miss Lamp and Shield
Travels To Azalea Festival
By JO ELLEN SCHILD
It was a genuine honor and
experience for me to repre
sent St. Andrews in Wilming
ton’s twenty-first Azalea Fes
tival, and I left school Thurs
day, April 18 for four days
of varied and entertaining
events.
As a member of the Queen’s
Court, I was ushered into the
Cape Fear Hotel where I was
introduced to the other mem
bers of the court, comprised of
the May Queens from fourteen
various colleges around North
Carolina. Each girl was lovely,
it being evident why she had been
chosen to represent her school,
and In the process of getting to
know them, I made some very
good friends, which more than
made my visit interesting and
memorable. We were to of
ficially meet Queen Azalea XXI,
Linda Cristal, the following day.
From this point on, we ad
hered to a tight schedule which
kept us constantly on the move.
We began by traveling to the
nearby local television station
where we were interviewed in
dividually on the “Jim Burns
show,” and each girl was pre
sented with a key to Wilmington
by Mayor O. O. Allsbrook. From
there, we were rushed to the
airport to meet Miss America,
Debra Dene Barnes, and our
escorts from the Naval Aca
demy, midshipmen of this
year’s graduating class. It is
traditional to ask military aca
demies to escort the girls, and
each year a different academy
is invited.
Thursday’s evening events
included appearances at the
Sound and Light Spectacular at
the USS North Carolina Battle
ship Memorial, at the Variety
Show at Legion Stadium and a
dance sponsored for the court
by Wilmington College.
Friday, we officially met our
Queen, Miss Linda Cristal, for
the first time. She is an In
ternational film beauty and tele
vision actress, born in Argen
tina and currently starring in
NBC-TV’s, “The High Chapar
ral.” She is also an accomplish
ed linguish in several lan
guages. Her sincere willingness
to meet people won her spon
taneous praise and applause
from everyone.
The remainder of the three
days was spent in appearing
with the queen In public events
such as ribbon cuttings, an art
show, meeting celebrities and
personalities who had been se
lected as special guests, visit
ing the famed Orton Plantation
and Airlie Gardens, and ap
pearing two nights in the Fes
tival Pageant in which the coro
nation of Queen Linda took place
and thousands of people were
entertained.
The celebrities included Ed
Platt, the Chief of the tele
vision series, ‘‘Get Smart,”
Rich Little, comedian and mas
ter voice impersonator as well
as Master of Ceremonies for
‘Back Porch Majority,” an out
standing singing and entertain
ing group of young people who
entertained us more than once.
Other celebrities included Miss
North Carolina as well as a
host of queens and princesses
throughout the state.
Another highlight of the Fes
tival was the parade Saturday
morning which included ap
proximately ninety events
bands and floats — and lasted
about five hours. The promen
ade, which was televised, toured
about four miles of the city
which is famed for its having
over a million azaleas.
The four days ended Satur
day night with a Worker’s Party
at the Surf Club of nearby
Wrlghtsville Beach. Here,
members of the production staff
were recognized and enter
tained further by the celebrities
and Harry West and the Or
chestra.
often seen marching in Milwau
kee, where civil rights forces
are led by a w’hite Catholic
priest. Father James Groppi.
According to Garino, “Gre
gory is a thoroughgoing inte-
grationlst. Everywhere he tells
his audiences, ‘This (the racial
problem) is not a question of
oiack against white but right
against wrong’. He tells a re
porter: ‘When I stop being your
Negro friend and become just
a friend, then we’ll have a
thing going’. He is not in
terested in Negroes’exercising
their rights in a black society
but in an integrated society”,
“He remains an advocate of
nonviolence. To predominately
white audiences, he declares:
‘I will not hit you. I will not
kill you. But I will bug you to
death’. As for Intimations that
civil rights forces somehow are
linked to communism, he says,
‘I'm not saying I won’t bring
this country to Its knees. But
if I did, I wouldn’t fly across
New Leaders
Plan 1968-69
at Fort GisweD
“The Year of Action, 1968-
1969” was the theme for ap
proximately one hundred Stu
dent Association leaders during
the Third Annual Leadership
Workshop at Fort Caswell,
April 6-7. Following a day of
sunning on the beach, the group
began to look toward plans for
next year.
Questions of “Where are
we?” and “Where are we
going?” opened up the con
ference. Art Gatewood, in his
talk interpreting how student
government now stood, felt that
St. Andrews leaders had come
to a new awareness of their
roles. Students have realized
that they can be a powerful and
equal voice in the college com
munity.
David Betts, building on this
base, spoke about directions in
which student government can
now move. This base is the
Student Assoelation Con
stitution containing numerous
authorities that students are
just beginning to realize.
“Student Power Tactics”,
one of the workshop’s dis
cussion groups, revealed that
the student power concept is a
positive Idea based specifically
on communication. Student
power can be a significant ex
perience for a mature and
responsible student govern
ment.
One group met with Dean
Davidson to discuss student
government in academic af
fairs. Several areas calling for
student action are teacher -
course evaluations, a pass-fail
grading system, a more ef
fective AP policy, and placing
students on more faculty com-
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the ocean and give it to another
white boy’. ”
His own conception of black
power differs markedly from
the doctrine of violence and
separatism propounded by
others, a doctrine deeply dis
turbing to most whites. To Dick
Gregory black power means
simple equality. Commenting on
black power in his book, “The
Shadow that Scares Me,” he
says, ‘All Americans have a
right to a decent wage, to own
their property, to own their
own businesses, and to choose
and elect their own public of
ficials who serve as their power
of attorney at the seat of govern
ment”.
“While he personally abhors
rioting and separatism, he finds
their existence today wholly
understandable--and believes
that w'hites should stop viewing
violence as simple lawless
ness and wake up to the ‘in
justice’ that he feels has bred
the racial explosion in our
cities.
Gregory will not criticize the
militant sector of black power.
“Rap Brown and Stokley Car
michael taught me non
violence”, he says, “but then
they saw that the same rat that
bit a baby five years ago biteS’
another one today”.
He does not believe that
violence has done nothing but
harm to Negroes. “It sickens
me to admit It but violence has
helped.” He says that right
after racial disturbance In some
cities, the recreational and
other facilities have been Im
proved In the ghetto.
He Is harshly critical of
President Johnson, calling him
“the most vicious tyrant since
Julius Caesar”. Of the John-
son-Kosygin meeting this past
summer In Glassboro, N. J.,he
says: “The two most powerful
men In the world were meeting.
Kosygin was sitting there and
he don’t understand English, and
neither does LBJ.”
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Dick Gregory
McCarthy Wins
Campus Vote
Eugene McCarthy scored' a
landslide victory on the St.
Andrews campus last night in
the CHOICE ’68 voting. His
total was 262, compared with
a 139 votes cast for Republi
can Richard Nixon.
Robert Kennedy received 85
votes from the students while
his fellow New York politician.
Nelson Rockefeller received 44.
President Johnson finished
fifth in the voting with a total
of only 16 ballots. Charles
Percy of Illinois followed John
son with 14 and New York City
Mayor John Lindsay had 13
votes.
Other voting saw Ronald Rea
gan 12, Wallace received 5 and
Romney and Hatfield got one
apiece.
The nation s
determined the
students have
final ballot and
Trustees, Visitors
Here This Week
J. Edward Day, postmaster
general in the John F. Ken
nedy administration, will ad
dress the Board of Visitors
of St. Andrews Presbyterian
College during their annual
meeting here, April 26-27.
At 10:15 Wright Tisdale
of Bloomfield, Mich.,chair
man of the Board of Visi
tors, an advisory group of some
100 members Interested in
strengthening the programs and
resources of St. Andrews The
banquet will be held at the
Country Club of North Caro
lina In Plnehurst.
Saturday morning Wright
Tisdale of Bloomfield, Mich.,
chairman of the Board of Visi-
Two New History Professors
Join S. A. Faculty in Fall
GLAMOUR Names Tilley As Semi-Finalist
Miss Betty Tilley, senior at
St. Andrews, and campus re
presentative In the Glamour
Magazine “Ten Best-Dressed
College Girl’ contest has re
ceived word that for the second
year she has been chosen as a
seml-finallst in the nation-wide
event.
Miss Tilley is a French major
from Thessonallkla, Greece and
has represented St. Andrews
in the Glamour contest for the
past two years. She was elected
by the student body as the ‘ ‘Best
■iisessed St. Andrews Co-Ed.”
Betty, who also calls Durham
home, was one of 15 coeds
to receive ‘ ‘honorable mention’'
ranking among the more than
300 entrants. Tar Heels might
boast of the fact that five of
these semi-finalists are from
North Carolina.
Contestants were judged for
an understanding of their
fashion types, imaginative ap
proach to their wardrobe plan
ning, and a commentary on
evolution of their fashion tastes.
Miss Betty Tilley
Two professors of History
have been contracted for the
next academic year. Dr. George
E. Melton will be working full
time next year. This past se
mester Dr. Melton has been
substituting for Prof. Harry
Harvin, and Is rapidly becom
ing a part of the St. Andrews
community. The 6’7” prof holds
a B.S. from Davidson, and an
M.A. and Ph.D from UNC. Dur
ing 1967 and 68 he holds a
fellowship in the Cooperative
Humanities Program at Chapel
Hill. He spent the summer of
1964 In France on a Piedmont
University Center Fellowship
completing his Ph.D. Dr. Mel
ton has been a member of the
faculty at Pfeiffer College for
the past ten years and was As
sociate Professor of History
there fr«m 1962 to 1967. Prior
to 1957 he was connected with
the City Schools in Gastonia
and the Mecklenburg County
Schools in Charlotte.
Run offs for the positions of
president In Wilmington and Al
bemarle Dorms were held April
4. Linda Susong was elected as
president from Wilmington and
Julia Wilson was chosen from
Albemarle.
Dr. Melton is married and has
two children. He and his family
are Methodists.
Working with Dr. Melton will
be Mr. T. Buchanan Looney,
who has been on the Queens
College faculty since 1963. Mr.
Looney holds a B. A. from South-
wester n-at Memphis, and an
M.A. from Columbia Univer
sity In New York City. He
taught previously at Centre Col
lege, Vanderbilt University and
at preparatory schools In New
York. He is now completing
his work for the Ph.D at
Columbia.
Mr. Looney Is married-and
the father of three children.
He and his family are Epis
copalians.
tors, will preside at a pre
sentation of St. Andrews' $30
million expansion program for
the next 12 years and of pro
gress toward the Immediate-
phase goal of $5 million.
Day, whose son James E.
is a freshman here, was named
postmaster general In January
1961. He introduced the ZIP
code plan, one of many innova
tions he made to improve postal
service efficiency. Resigning
his cabinet post In 1963, Day re
turned to the Chicago law firm
he had joined following his gra
duation cum laude from Har
vard Law School and is now
a partner in charge of the
firm’s Washington office.
Day served four years in the
Navy during World War II, then
served in Adlal Stevenson’s ad
ministration as governor of
Illinois. In 1953 he was elected
a senior officer of Prudential
Insurance Company and In 1957,
senior vice president in charge
of the 13-state western area.
He is the author of two books,
“My Appointed Round,” “929
Days as Postmater General,”
and “Humor In Public Speak
ing ” as well as numerous ar
ticles in legal and Insurance
publications.
At a “LaurlnburgBreakfast”
at Holiday Inn Saturday four
students will speak briefly to
the Visitors on a “students’
eye view’^ of St. Andrews. The
students are Dave Betts, Bob
Brewbaker, Joyce Lowdermllk,
and Pete Peery.
At 9:30 the group will hear
A. E. O’Dell, architect for the
campus'reviewing the architec
tural philosophy of the campus.
Dr. George Melton
Dudley to MC Talent Show
SCB?
A pre-exam entertainment
break to look forward to: on
Monday night. May 6, Rick
Walker and Dudley will present
the long-awaited talent show at
8:00 pm in the Liberal Arts
Auditorium. Acts to be featured
• 1 the show Include the team
of Bev Davies and Julia Wil
son, Ruste Righton and David
Henderson with Bill Shomo pre
senting an updated “Saint
Andy’s’', and Lynne Corbett
vocalizing to her own guitar
accompalnment. Dudley is
scheduled to emcee the affair.
There will be no admission
charge.
Of the newly elected offi
cers of the Student Center
Board, it seems as though only
one of them, the president, was
on the scene this past weekend
to prepare for and operate the
Spring Fling dance and con
cert. Congratulations to all the
newly “appointed” members of
the SCB.
referendum issues of their first
nationwide collegiate presiden
tial primary, called CHOICE
68.
Meeting in Washington, D. C.
from February 10 - 13, the pro
gram’s student directors se
lected a slate of fourteen can
didates for the presidency. They
are: Fred Halstead, Mark Hat
field, Lyndon Johnson, Robert
Kennedy, Martin Luther King,
John Lindsay, Eugene McCar
thy, Richard Nixon, Charles
Percy, George Romney, Ro
nald Reagan, Nelson Rocke
feller, Harold Stassen, and
George Wallace.
The students also decided
that three referendum ques
tions be included on the ballot.
Two deal with the country’s
current Involvement In Viet
Nam, and one with the priori
ties of government spending In
confronting the “urbancrisis”.
Mr. Richard Scammon, Di
rector of the Elections Re
search Center, and Dr. Howard
Pennlman of the Political
Science Department at George
town University assisted the
Board In their efforts to en
sure that the various questions
were properly phrased towards
achieving maximum clarity.
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Honor
Code
Revised
As a member of the Honor
Community of St. Andrews I
pledge that I will not lie, cheat
or steal, nor will I tolerate this
conduct in any other members
of the community. I will do
all within my power to uphold
the high standard of integrity
and honor of St. Andrews.
The above is the new Honor
Code, which has recently been
adopted by the Senate. As of
September 1968 all students of
St. Andrews will be under the
new Honor Code.
All students will be formal
ly Introduced to the new Honor
System In various ways. The
Honor Code will appear in var
ious ways. The Honor Code will
appear in classrooms, on the
back of 1. D. cards, and in pam
phlets which will be distributed
to students In the ensuing weeks.
Next fall students will be in
troduced to the new Honor Code
In mandatory suite meetings.
Freshmen will be given a com
prehensive explanation of the
honor system In Freshmen
Orientation next fall.
As a partoftherevlsedHonor
Code student^ will be asked to
pledge any work done for
classes with the following
pledge;
I have neither given or re
ceived unauthorized help on this
work. Each professor will de
fine what he considers un
authorized work at the beginning
of each term.
Although the New Honor Sys
tem Is more stringent than the
old one, it is believed it will
be far more effective and give
to the St. Andrews campus a
greater sense of integrity and
freedom.
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