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Ot'tlCIAL PUBLICATION OF THE STUDENl' liuDY OF ST. ANDREWS
VOL. 8. No. 8.
►’RESBYTERIAN COLLEGE
ST. ANDREWS PRESBYTEKIAN COLLEGE. LAURINBURG, N. C.
THURSDAY, OCT. 31, 1968
County Committee
Pushes Liquor Bid
The Scotland County Citizens’
Committee for Legal Control
voted unanimously on Monday
to prepare and pass a petition
that will give the voters of
Scotland County the right to
decide If they want the sale of
liquor and beer In their county
brought to a vote. The petition
Includes the Introduction of ABC
stores and the sale of beer into
the county. The right of on
premises consumption of beer
ms discussed and unanimously
llsmlssed as an unwise addition
:o the petition since members of
the committee had received
many negative opinions about
this possible aim of the peti
tion, The sale of wine was also
discussed and dismissed.
J. C. Tyson, chairman, em
phasized that this petition will
serve as the means whereby the
members of the county can de
cide whether they want to bring
the legal sale of alcoholic
beverages to a vote. State law
requires that the petitions con
tain signatures of 25% of the
number of people who cast bal
lots 1 n the last gubernatorial
election. The Committee plans
to pass the petitions through
out the coming weekend and on
Election Day, November 5, at
all the polling boxes in the
county. When the petitions are
turned in the County Com
missioners Office, they be
come public property of the
county. Otherwise, they will
not be published.
As for the legal sale of liquor
and beer in North Carolina, the
law states that a person must
be eighteen to purchase beer,
twenty-one to purchase liquor.
Those who voted to pass the
petition as such were, William
Winn, Jerry Peele, J. C. Tyson,
Buddy McCarter, Joe Junod,
Jerry Riggins, Bill Riggins,
J. R. Blackwell and S. W.
Blackwelder.
SPEAKING AT CAMP MONRQE Tuesday morning as part of “Time Out", Bill Wilson discussed
the college radical’s views toward college. (Staff Photo by McCrea)
Students, Faculty Speak On St. Andrews
MARGARET OFFTERDINGEP
•‘St. Andrews is oeginning to
find its identity ... As a liberal
arts college it seeks to provide
both breadth and depth by
balancing a strong major pro
gram with a unique four-year
integrated general education
program emphasizing concepts
and open-ended scholarly re-
Siegal To Exhibit Works, Lecture
In Venezula On Exchange Program
Mr. Sidney Siegal, Assistant
Professor of Art at St. Andrews,
has been invited by the U. S,
State Department to lecture and
exhibit his paintings at El
Centro Venezolano-Amerlcano
In Caracas, Venezuela. Mr.
Siegal’s invitation Is jointly
sponsored by the governments
of Venezuela and the United
States as part of a continuous
Intercultural exchange pro-
sram.
Thirty-five of Mr. Siegal’s
oils and watercolors, spanning
the period 1956-1966, will be ex
hibited at El Centro from Nov
ember 17 through December 2,
1968. In addition to attending the
opening of this exhibition, Mr.
Siegal will deliver two ad
dresses at El Centro during the
period of his stay in Caracas.
The first lecture is entitled
"Play and Paradox: A Com
mentary on Contemporary Art.”
In this lecture he will expli
cate his concepts of playfulness
as an essential condition for
creativity manifested in many
of his idioms of contemporary
art. This will be connected witji
his idea of paradox, or "the
visual surprise resulting from
the discrepancy between our be
liefs and our experiences,”
which he regards as being cen
tral to many modern works of
art. His second address, “Ad
vice to Young Painters,” will be
presented in the form of a “hap
pening”.
In addition to the one-man ex
hibitions in Caracas, two draw
ings by Siegal are included In the
4th Annual Piedmont Graphics
Exhibition at the Mint Museum,
Charlotte, N. C. October 27
through November 24.
During the period of their stay
In Venezuela, November 17-
December 1, the Slegals plan
ARTIST SIEGAL
to visit Angel Falls which is lo
cated 450 miles southeast of
Caracas at the headwaters of
the Rio Churun, a tributary of
the Orinoco River. It is a
topical rainforest area, “being
everything a jungle should be,’*
to quite Mr. Siegal who is a
devotee of the world’s jungles,
having voyaged through the
jungles of the Philippines, and
rainforest areas in the Cari
bbean.
The cataracts comprising
Angel Falls are named In honor
5f Jimmy Angel, an American
pilot who crashed near the falls
in 1937 while searching for gold
and were subsequently dis
covered by him during his re
turn journey back to civiliza
tion. Angel Falls are the highest
waterfalls in the world, plunging
down 3,212 feet from the fact of
Devil Mountain, or Auyan-
Tepul, in local Indian dialect.
Until several years ago only a
'few dozen Americans and
Europeans had ever seen Angel
Falls. An air service now links
this remote spot, replete with a
new camping area, with the out
side world. Formerly unknown
native Indian tribesmen of this
region, who only a few years ago
had never seen a Caucasian, are
now In mutual contact. Mr,
Siegal points out that some of
ihese Indian groups are head-
aunters, and while some have
renounced this pursuit, others
may be encouraged to continue
this curious activity as a result
of the Increased commercial
demand for shruken heads on the
American market. Mr. Siegal
hopes that only his work will
find its way to commercial
markets.
search. In this way it hopes that
its graduates can be liberated
from narrowness and prejudice
of view, liberated to participate
in life as free and knowledgeabfe
human beings, and liberated to
be radically open to an emerg
ing and challenging future”.
So emphasized Dr. Tyler
Miller speaking on “What Is the
purpose of St. Andrews as a
Liberal Arts College” at Time-
Out-‘68, the student govern
ment retreat held on October 29
at Camp Monroe.
First, emphasizing St.
Andrews as a liberal arts col
lege, Dr. Miller singled out the
Christianity and Culture core
program and the new science
programs. He also said that,
at St. Andrews, “an education
is not liberal unless it recog
nizes the great pi»bllc issues of
the day”. Dr. Miller felt that
“the habits if learning to serve
one for a lifetime must in the
final analysis Involve self-dis
cipline and Inner motivation”.
St. Andrews as a community
is seen as a totally Involved
in a “shared search for what
Is good, what Is true and what
is beautiful”. He also noted
that dormitory life should con
tribute to this totality and not
just be a “hotel business”. Dr.
Miller noted the problem of “en
loco parentis” at St. Andrews,
‘St. Andrews recognizes that
;he design of undergraduate life
can no longer enclose and pro
tect students as It did in the
past”.
As a small college. Dr. Miller
felt that St. Andrews should fix
the maximum size at 1200 stu
dents—an “economically feasi
ble operating size” and one that
allows “an atmosphere of open
and free inquiry”. In spite of
Its smallness, St. Andrews can
“continue in Its efforts to make
the world its campus”.
Dr. Miller also sees St,
Andrews as a free Christian
college. In such a role, St.
Andrews “does not tell our stu
dents or faculty what to believe
or that they must-, believe, in
“Ither God or Jesus Christ. We
do expect them, however, to
examine critically their basic
beliefs about the meaning and
value of life In an atiemyi to
arrive at a position of their own
that has been and is continually
examined and critically af
firmed.” Such St. Andrews
graduates should contiue in this
sense of open and free inquiry
in order to be constructive and
concerned critics of the Church.
As a Presbyterian College,
St. Andrews should continue to
recruit members of the Synod
of North Carolina, who is the
founder and owner of the col
lege. However, students should
also be recruited from the en
tire Atlantic Seaboard in order
to become a nationally recog
nized model of what it means
to be a quality Christian col
lege.
Dr. Miller also feels that,
as a bold and ongoing experi
ment In Christian higher ed
ucation, St. Andrews “is a con
tinuing experiment in trying to
find out what a free Christian
liberal arts college is and
should be”.
Summing his concept of the
atmosphere at St. Andrews into
three phrases. Dr. Miller
feels that the college is “in
tellectually exciting; bold,
emergent, innovative; and in
dividual centered”.
Reaction to Dr. Miller’s talk
involved where St. Andrews
should go from here. Dan
Beerman felt that student
government, hung-up on only
being here for four years, has
essentially neglected looking at
the future picture of St.
Andrews. The student leaders
are too much Involved in “sand
box politics”.
Bill Wilson sees St. Andrews
as a “ghetto” which needs to
more community (Laurinburg)
Involvement—a creation of ten
sion within the community. He
suggested that students be given
course credit for work In the
Laurinburg community.
Commenting on the part of
racism in the college com
munity, Todd Davis presented a
narrative, emphasizing the
white students’ lack of empathy.
He felt that a new outlook was
needed by the entire college.