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OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE STUDENT BODY OF ST. ANDREWS
VOL. 8. No. 7.
PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE
ST. ANDREWS PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE, LAURINBURG, N. C.
VAUGHN EYES BUDGET PROBLEM
THURSDAY, OCT. 17, 1968
inancial Outlook Bleak
j. terry jaywork
Lance Staff Writer
For the past month, the St.
Andrews Student Senate has
been struggling with a major
problem-namely, how to ef-
teclently allocate $21,240 a-
moijg the various student a-
gendes when $27,000 was called
for How, students ask, did this
proWem arise? Why were not
sufficient funds set aside by
the Business Office for the op
eration of the Student Associa
tion, the “Lance, the "Lamp
and Shield, and the “Cairn?”
To answer this question. The
Lance aslsed me, as Budget
Committee Chairman, to Inter
view Mr. Silas Vaughn, Campus
Business Manager, and present
the more essential facts to the
Student Body. Accordingly, I
met with Mr. Vaughn on Monday,
October 14, to discuss the ori
gins of the problem and any
possible solutions.
I first asked Mr. Vaughn to
explain how it came to be that
the monies allocated to the stu
dent agencies were Insufficient
to meet their proposed budgets.
Mr. Vaughn replied, “in the
spring of 1968, when the Student
Life Committee met to prepare
a tentative budget for the school
year 1968-69, 950 full-time stu
dents were expected. However,
when registration day arrived
this fall, it became obvious that
only 886 full-time students
would be enrolled. The Business
Office allocates $24 per stu
dent to the student agencies and
guarantees a minimum of 885
students.” He then grabbed his
trusty adding machine, made a
few calculations and Informed
me that “ .... on the basis of
885 students, the funds available
to the student agencies is only
$21,240. The Student Life Com
mittee, expecting 950 students
($22,800) was $1,560 over what
was actually available to
the student agencies”.
I then asked Mr. Vaughn how
the figure of $24 per student
was arrived at and where
specifically did this money
come from. He pointed to a
mimeographed sheet lying on
his desk, a break-down of the
general service fee. I had been
given a copy of the sheet during
a meeting on September 24 in
which Mr. Vaughn, Mr. Tho
mas, Dean Decker, various
members of the Student As
sociation and campus publi
cations, and myself were pre
sent. At that time Mr. Vaughn
explained that the money al
located to the student agencies
Is derived from the general
service fee (averaging $112.50
per student). The figure $24
per student is based on a per
centage arrived at In 1961 when
the Business Office and Student
Association met in conjunction
to draw up some workable di
vision of the general service
fee. Mr. Vaughn stressed that
the Business Office had done all
It could to allow the student
organizations to operate In
dependently but he also admitted
that the original division of the
general service fee was nothing
more than an educated guess
and that it had not been revised
since.
I then asked Mr. Vaughn about
the possibility of reevaluating
the percentage priorities in the
general service fee breakdown
in order to give the student a-
gencles a bigger cut of the cake.
His reply—“I have just be
gun discussing this possibility
with Mike Ferrell (president of
the Senate). Next year the gen
eral service fee will go up to
$150 per student tor the en
tering freshman. This increase
will pull the overall average
up to approximately $120 per-
student. We hope to give most of
that $8.00 per student Increase
to the student agencies, parti
cularly the “Lamp and Shield”.
However, 1 must point out that
the Physical Education Depart
ment will also receive an In
creased percentage of the gen
eral service fee”.
1 felt that the discussion was
beginning to lead into the realm
of fantasy (1. e. future plans and
committments at S. A. by the
water) so 1 backtracked and
asked Mr. Vaughn if there was
any way to alleviate the fi
nancial problems of the student
agencies for “this” school
year. I pointed out to him that
the Senate had approved a bud
get giving the Student Associa
tion $13,000 (original request
$15,525), the Lance $2,000 (ori
ginal request $2,700), and the
Lamp and Shield approximately
$ 6,000 (o r i g i n a I request, ap
proximately $9,000). I reminded
hi m that although these cuts
permitted the student agencies
to operate within the $21,240
allocated them by the Business
Office, they were forced to the
borderline of mediocracy, in
all their endeavors.
Mr. Vaughn’s reply amounted
to “Things are getting tough
all over”. He explained to me
that major budget cuts had been
put in effect throughout the cam
pus primarily because of the
cutback In Federal aid. He also
stressed the fact that St.
Andrews is expanding rapdlly on
all fronts. “We are raising the
standards everywhere through
out this institution. I will make
no apology for how we accom
plish this. St. Andrews is caught
in the dilemma of all private
schools—it is forced to com
pete with larger state-
supported schools without pric
ing Itself out of the market. If
we don’t continue to improve
the quality of this institution
at the rate we have in the past,
St. Andrews may cease to exist
within the near future”.
(Continued to page 2)
Folk Chapel
Features
Father Lawson
A modern Interpretive dance
to the music of “Lord of the
Dance” is scheduled for the
service of preparation in chapel
next Thursday, October 24. The
speaker will be Father Lawson
of St. Margarets Hall, who has
recently come to Laurinburg
from the Catholic chaplaincy at
Duke University.
A teacher and scholar in his
own right. Father Lawson was
a high school principal prior to
his service at Duke. One of his
Protestant colleages said
Father Lawson’s outstanding
quality as a church man is his
celebration of the joy of life
In his parish. A liberal thinker
and very informal preacher,
Father Lawson will bring a
lively and enlightening service
of worship to the St. Andrews
community.
Petition For Liquor
I Set For Nov. 5
I At County Polls
Scotland Couniy is dry. If any mem-
I ber of this community is interested in
I seeing the county go wet, they can aid
I by passing petitions at ail the voting
locations in the county on November 5.
Signatures of 15% of the voters that
cost ballots on that Tuesday are need
ed for the petition to be placed before
the referendum. The general feeling is
that the referendum will be passed, if
it gets that far.
One week from today on October
I 24, at 6:30 in the Alcove of the dining
room there will be a meeting to or-
ijj gonize for Election Day. Any concern-
'ji; ed student or faculty member should
contact William Winn in B-50 or Joe
Junod, at extension 269.
Davidson Bombed
3-1 in Heavy Rain
J. W, SCOTT McCREA
SPORTS EDITOR
The tee-totalers from St. An
drews beat the sots from David
son College 3-1 Wednesday to
run their record to 5-1-1 and
demonstrate convincingly what
happens to a school that passes
a law allowing drinking on cam
pus.
The game had wet implica
tions in more ways than one;
the rains came shortly after
the opening face-off ajid con
tinued throughout the first half.
The Wildcats took advantage of
Dr. Kahn On Politics^ Vietnam
BY TOM WOOD
“The Negro riots because the
liberal-progressive consensus
says he must. But he does not
riot viciously, yet. Although
ilmost all Negroes are crack
shots, and thousands of rounds
were fired at police and flre-
“Jen during the Watts riot, not
1 single one was hit”. With these
^d a myriad of other far-out,
Kten heretical, but always
[plausible observations on
Vmerlca, Its future, and thefu-
ure of the world. Dr. Herman
?ahn enlightened and bewll-
lered students, faculty, and
'Isitors during his foray at St.
indrews Monday and Tuesday.
As a futurist, author, andDl-
'ector of the Hudson Institute,
Dr. Kahn was able to penetrate
the usually formidable ideal
istic defenses of the academic
community in a way few other
radical pragmatists can hope
to do, even on the touchy sub
ject of Vietnam. In three ad
dresses and several informal
discussions he covered the
gamut of future possibilities
from the immediate choices In
Vietnam to the probable world
situation in the year 2000.
Speaking on the policy de
cisions facing the next adminis
tration Kahn started from a
penetrating analysis of the pre
sent American situation,
“America, a country with are-
markable history of political
unity, has become more or less
alienated in four basic groups.
“The very progressive
change-oriented humanist left
Is probably most alienated. The
responsible center is that con
fused group who nevertheless
believes the system works and
are bent on preserving the
American traditions. The group
which has largely been running
the country for the last 35
years or so, the liberal-pro
gressive consensus, consists
of the intellectuals and the
upper class. Finally the most
Important group for this elec
tion year is the alienated lower
middle class, about half the
country, usually second genera
tion American or of rural back
ground, which is upset about
such Issues as pornography and
lack of respect for America.
This so-called forgotten man
will cause a swing to the right
for a time, but it is the function
of this forgotten man to be for
gotten.
“These groups are simply
not communicating, and the
most important issue facing the
next president is putting the
country back together. This
alienation has taken place be
cause the lower middle class is
primarily Christian fundamen
talist in Its outlook while the
upper class is the relallvlst sec
ular humanist who draws the
line only at hurting human
beings, not at burning the flag.
Also the two most obvious con
tacts with reality which might
serve to unite, the need for
national security and the need
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the slippery field first, scor
ing halfway through the first
quarter. With the rain pouring
down in torrents, Davidson
brought the ball down the right
side. They crossed It in front
of the goal, and then back again.
Bill Horton fired hard, putting
It past Hannas who could not
move fast enough in the mud
around the goal.
By this time the rain had
settled to a constant deluge,
and footing was becoming in
creasingly difficult to main
tain. With 14:20 gone in the
quarter, John Daniels took a
pass from Albers, and evened
the score at one all on a short
shot from the right side. There
was ho scoring for exactly 22
minutes, until Albers bagged
his seventh goal of the season
with 14:20 gone in the second
quarter. Moise was credited
with the assist as the Knights’
leading scorer splashed in a
shot from about six yards out.
With the second half canie
the sun, and the field dried out
somewhat. Early in the third
quarter SA put the game on
ice with their third tally of the
game, this one from no less
a personage than Craig Hannas,
SA’s favorite All American.
Davidson was caught pushing in
the penalty area, and Albers,
who had already scored, re
linquished the penalty kick to
Hannas, who ambled up the
field waving his idiot mittens
and slammed the shot home as
(Continued to page 4)