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OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE STUDENT BODY OF ST ANDREWS PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE
Vol. 7. No. 26
Laurinburg, N. C., Thursday, May 2, 1968
St. Andrews Presbyterian College
Womens’ Hours
Big Issue
by MARGARET OFFERDINGER
“Since we are responsible women, let's
assume responsible hours” Is the cry of
the St. Andrews women who have proposed
new closing hours and slgn-out procedures
In the dormitories. These proposals are to
be presented to Dean Decker today.
The movement Is headed by Helen Hudson
and Gloria Bell working with a steering
committee of several dorm representatives.
Dean Decker met with the group of women
representing that side of campus in their
quest for an extension of hours. The decision
reached was that tommorrow Decker will
take the matter before the Senate Welfare
Committee and on Monday before the Student
Awards Presented
Tonight At S. C.
. by SARAH LEE
Tonight, May 2, is the climax
of the St, Andrews’ school year.
At 7:00 p.m. the annual Ad-
wards Night will be held in front
of the Student Center. Outstand
ing students from several or
ganizations will be honored. The
I,D,C. will sponsor this annual
event.
Dean Decker will present
certificates of recognition to
those members of the Class of
1968 who were named to Who's
Who Among Students in Ameri
can Colleges and Universities.
Judi Lawson will present two
certificates on behalf of the Stu
dent Center Board to those who
have worked “over and above
Vtve call ol duty** tl\ls pastyear.
Mr. Sommerville will present
the Choir and Wind Ensemble
Awards and Glnny Boyce will
present an award to senior mu
sic majors on the basis of mu
sicianship, scholarship, lead
ership and contributions to the
department and the school.
Mr. Dub Narramore will an
nounce the presentation of honor
memberships in the Highland
Players which are based on
nours dedicated In three conse
cutive semesters to some part
of play production.
Mr, Kramer and Bill Wyatt
will announce the winners of the
Poetry Contest and present the
awards which total $100.00.
Miss Dove will present a skit
from “The Raggedy Ann Show”
which was written by her. Rag
gedy Ann will be played by Lynne
Corbett, Raggedy Andy by Greg
Gibson, toy cowboys by George
Sherrill and Chuck White, toy
soldier by David Flucke, the
toy doll, “Mary Lou” by Jim
Smith and Marcella will be
played by Miss Dove.
Carol Batten will recognize
those people who have render
ed outstanding service to the
Student North Carolina Educa
tion Association.
W.S.A.P,, represented by
Mills Fitzner and David Hen
derson, will present awards to
the individual doing outstanding
service in the engineering de
partment, to three seniors who
have served the station during
the past four years, and to se
veral underclassmen who have
given much effort this year.
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SA Graduate
To Join Staff
A professional writer and
former St. Andrews musician.
IttKger Lamb, head the list
of new professors.
Mr. Ronald H. Bayes will be
‘St. Andrews’ Wrlter-in-Resi-
dence as well as an Associate
Professor of English. Mr,
Bayes received his B.S. and
M.S. degrees at Eastern Oregon
College and has taught there
for the past ten years. He was
a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at
the University of Pennsylvania
and has done graduate work
at Colorado State College and
the University of British
Columbia.
Mr. Bayes is well known
among writers, teachers and
students in the Northwest where
he has coached creative
writers, taken a leading part
in many literary activities and
contributed poetry to several
publications. He Is the author
of “Cages and Journeys”, “Of
Dust and Desire”, “Child Out
side My Window”, and “History
of the Turtle”.
Mr. Roger B. Lamb will take
Professor Sommervllle's place
while he is on leave next year
as Instructor in Church Music
and Director of Choral Organi
zations.
He received his B,M. here at
St. Andrews and his M.M. de
gree from the New England
Conservatory of Music, Mr,
Lamb has had experience as
organist and director of choirs
in churches in North Carolina,
Maryland and Massachusetts,
Mrs. Doris W. Hewitt will
serve in a double position as
the college counselor and as
an Assistant Professor of So
ciology. She received her B.A.
from Berry College and her
M.S. and Ph.D degrees from
Florida State University.
Mrs. Hewitt has taught for
several years in Georgia and
was a graduate assistant at
Florida State University while
completing her Ph.D there. She
has had wide experience as a
counselor and a research as
sistant.
Mrs, Patricia M. Johns
will be an Instructor in Art.
After receiving her B.F.A. at
Life Committee.
Women are proposing a
change in dormitory closing
hours. The dorms will close at
12:00 midnight, Sunday through
Thursday: 1:00 a.m. Friday; and
2:00 a.m. Saturday.
With parental permission,
senior women and women who
are 21 years old will have un
limited permission.
The concept that St. Andrews
women are responsible is the
major reason for such a new po
licy. Also, by granting unlimit
ed permission through parents,
the college will be relieved of
their position of “in locus pa-
rentas.” Later hours during the
week will give women students
more time to work in the science
labs, the music building, and the
drama department. Later hours
on the week-end provide more
opportunity for campus activi
ties as well as activities In
nearby cities.
The proposal calls for seven
more working hours at the dor
mitory desk. Thus, one more
hostess could be hired. Possi
bilities for later hours in the
library, the snack bar, and the
gym are being Investigated. Al
so, keys or card-lock doors
are being investigated to ac
commodate the women on un
limited permission.
New sign-out procedures are
included In the proposal. Women
will only be required to sign out
for overnights and week-ends.
Those on unlimited permission
sign-out for “after hours.’’Sign
out will be done in the suites,
and the suite members can
decide among themselves how to
let the suite leader know that
they are in.
The Inconvient rule concern
ing overnight sign-out by 8:00
p.m. will be discontinued.
Unanimous approval of these
proposals has been obtained
from the Cabinet, the Senate,
and the Interdormitory Council.
The proposals grew out of a
petition signed 66% of the women
students calling for a change In
closing hours and slgn-out poli
cies. Those that signed the peti
tion were committing themsel
ves to a previously sclibduled
“Walk-out” at 11 p.m.
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Frosfi Orientation Altered
For Fall Semester
BY SANDIE GADDIS
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The Orientation Committee
responsible for setting up
activities to acquaint incom
ing freshmen with the different
social and academic opportuni
ties which St. Andrews offers.
It is designed not only to pre
sent the physical structure of
the campus, but also to Intro
duce the questions, “Why Am
in College?” to the fresh
men. The orientation schedule
will be channelled through dorm
functions and Student-Faculty
Advisory Committees.
Dorm orientation for the
freshmen begins September 1,
before upperclassmen returnon
September 5. It will consist
of such activities as cook-outs
for two dorms together, a com
puter-matched dance, and even
a beanie hunt with a prize for
the dorm whose freshman find
it. Although these activities are
organized by Orientation,
freshman participation will be
necessary to actually set up
these activities.
In this way the freshmen will
feel more a part of things, and
it will be easier for them to
get to know each other. Inter-
dorm activities will also pro
vide the opportunity to meet
freshmen in other dorms.
Because dorm socials will not
be enough, during this time
there will also be a series of
thought-provoking and infor
mative films and discussions
with the theme, “Why Am I
In College?” This question
should be reflected in both so
cial and academic decisions
of the freshmen. Some of these
activities can be repeated a-
mong the freshmen when the
upperclassmen have returned
and can give some support to
the freshmen in their dorms.
The Student-Faculty Ad
visory Committee will replace
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ST. ANDREWS BOARD OF TRUSTEES were on campus last Thursday for their annual spring
meeting. Students emphasized the importance of the meeting with this sign in light of the recent
controversy over womens’ hours and the drinking bill.
Government Approves
Science Building Grant
A grant of !|>672,252 for con
struction here of a science
building already attracting na
tional attention has been ap
proved by the U,S, Department
of Health, Education and Wel
fare. President Ansley C.
Moore this week announced that
the college had received offi
cial confirmation of the grant
which opens the way to a start
on construction by mid-sum
mer.
The new building, a radical
Blue Gives $200, 000
For Building Fund
A $200,000 gift from John
Blue of Huntsville, Ala, and
Laurinburg was announced here
this weekend at a meeting of the
Board of Visitors of St. An
drews Presbyterian College.
President Ansley C, Moore said
the gift will make possible the
Dick Gregory Enlightens Campus
ROGER LAMB
Wichita State University, Mrs.
Johns earned her M.F.A. at the
University of Oklahoma, where
she has been teaching art for
the past three years as a gradu
ate assistant. She has had un
usual professional recognition,
with exhibits in Kansas, Okla
homa, Ohio and California to
her credit.
Bringing needed strength in
the area of the history of re
ligions and especially to the
Afra-Asia program, Mr.
Ronald C. Crossley will be an
Assistant Professor of Re
ligion.
He received his B.A. from
Howard College, his B.D. from
the Southern Baptist Seminary
and his Ph.D. from Duke Uni
versity. Formerly, he taught at
Duke University and Campbell
College and most recently at
Kentucky Southern College in
Louisville, Kentucky.
The Biology department will
have anew Assistant Professor,
Mr. Paul D, Young earned his
B.S, degree from Saint Francis
College, and his M.S. degree
from Villanova University. For
the past year he has been head
of the Chemistry section of the
Physical Science Division at
Parkland College in Illinois,
He has been a research as
sistant at the University of
Illinois and Princeton Univer
sity and has done additional
graduate work at Rutgers Uni
versity,
BY SARA LEE
by ED BUTTERWORTH
“I am not here to preach to
you,” said presidential candi
date Dick Gregory, “but to
Inform you” of the purpose of
the black man’s protest today in
white American society. Gre
gory spoke before the Senior
C&C class, attracting a gather
ing of students, faculty, and
townspeople Monday morning
in front of the DeTamble Lib
rary on St. Andrews’ campus.
He centered his talk around
problems of racial tension and
conflict, indicating the impor
tant role of today’s youth in
solving these problems.
Gregory pleaded that “you
young people today will have to
find a solution to the current
racial problem in the next three
years, or theproblem will solve
you. You white cats are the nig
gers today ifyou think that black
cats will fight tollberate stran
gers in Vietnam and then not
riot to liberate their own black
mammies in their own coun
try.”
Gregory is not an advocate
of black power. He informs the
public of the reasons behind the
N^gro movements, and he is
neither sworn to violence nor
nonviolence. He does, however,
indicate a preference for non
violent protests, and yet sug
gests that the riots to come in
the near future will be even
more violent than those of the
past.
A basis for his thought is
the notion that America is “the
sickest nation in the world.”
According to Gregory, Ameri
cans are insane, and they pass
insane laws. He professes that
“LBJ is the biggest tyrant the
world has seen since Julius
Caesar.” He associates John
son with syndicated crime In
America, and places the label
‘liar’ on Robert Kennedy, who
would "split the moon and the
sun, let alone the' Democratic
party, to become President.”
Gregory says that the Ameri
can Negro is entitled to the
same rights under the Consti
tution as American whites. The
Negro is infuriated by recent
legislation such as that on open-
housing. Gregory asks, “Why
sTiould legislators pass separate
laws giving freedom to Negroes
when the Constitution already
gaurantees these freedoms?”
He says that Negroes do not ask
for kindness, but for equal op-
portunity-“no more, no less.”
Gregory voiced a strong pro
test against the present draft
system and military proce
dures. The law is sick, he said,
when the draft refuses to Induct
convicted killers and yet every
they take nonviolent men
train them to kill for their
country. He noted that three
times as many Negroes re-en-
list than do whites. The full im
pact of riots will occur, he sug
gested, when these trained Ne
gro killers come home from the
army into the streets of the city
and join in the liberation of
their race.
“The white man is a bigot,”
spoke Gregory. “For example,
that a black man’s father
killed in World War II
fighting for this country. Today
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DICK GREGORY
construction of an administra
tion building which will bear
the Blue name.
“Mr. Blue’s most generous
gift, which follows in his es
tablished pattern of generous
support of St. Andrews, will
materially advance the in
structional program here,”
President Moore noted. “With
a new administration building,
we will be able to free class
room space now being used
temporarily for administrative
offices.”
The Blue gift is the first
major gift to St. Andrews for
its recently-announced $5 mil
lion Forward Fund, first phase
of a planned $30 million ex
pansion program in the next
12 years.
Earlier gifts by Mr. Blue
have established two major
scholarships, one In his name
and the Anne White Blue
Scholarship, honoring his wife.
He also is the donor of funds
which provided a book store,
post office, and snack shop in
the Student Center. Those funds
were given as a memorial
honoring his father and mother,
John and Flora McKinnon Blue.
Blue, a native of Laurinburg,
heads the farm implement com
pany founded here by his father
in 1883.
“Summer Fury”
Premieres
Tonight
SUMMER FURY, a play to be
directed by Joe Mitchell, wlllbe
presented May 2-3 In the Lab
Theatre at 8 p.m.
The play focuses around a do
mineering landlady, Sally Syph-
rit, her ward, Mary B, Hig
gins, and the girl’s Mexican
boyfriend, Joe Mitchell, Round
ing out the cast are Sarah Bell,
Barbara Bobbitt, John Turner,
Rick Walker, Sharon Weber.
Jean Carr is stage manager
and costumes are by Julia Wil
son. Admission is free.
departure from traditional
science buildings, will be com
pleted by September, 1969. Total
cost of the laboratory building,
an adjoining 400-seat teaching
auditorium, and equipment will
be an estimated $2.1 million.
The science complex is a
priority objective of the recent
ly announced $5 million St. An
drews Forward Fund.
Plans for the new building
and the program It will house
are featured in the April issue
of COLLEGE MANAGEMENT
magazine. In the March issue
of the professional journal,
PHYSICS TODAY, Dr. John M.
Fowler, director of the Com
mission on College Physics,
wrote: “The St. Andrews cur
riculum development seems to
be the most thorough test of
the interdlciplinary approach
in higher education and will be
followed with interest.”
Described as “two-thirds of
a football field under a roof,”
the new science building is
specifically designed for the
innovative science program be
ing developed here. The pro
gram seeks to break down the
barriers that specialization has
thrown up between the sciences
and between the sciences and the
humanities.
In the new building there
will be no separate laborator
ies for chemistry, biology, or
physics. Drawing needed sup
plies and equipment from a
common stock room, students
will work at movable lab tables
that can be set up for indivi
dual or group work. One stu
dent may work on a chemistry
problem while next to him an
other student or professor does
research on a biology project.
Only fixed equipment in the
laboratory area will be 10 clus
ters of utility outlets.
As Dr. Tyler Miller, Jr., is
quick to point out, “Such an
arrangement also avoids the
expense of separate labs for
each science, the duplication
of equipment, and the waste
represented when separate lab
oratories are not used through
out the day.” Dr. Miller and
Dr. Delta Gier are principal
“architects” of St. Andrews’
new approach to science in
struction.
Architect for the science
building and teaching audi
torium will the firm that has
designed all other buildings
since opening of the college here
in 1961, A, G. Odell and Asso
ciates of Charlotte. General
consultant was Stanton Leggett
of Engelhardt, Engelhardt and
Leggett of New York.
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