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VOL. 9. No. 19
body of ST. ANDREWS PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE
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Hart on SA Direction for Future
Sees Student Advisory Board
N. C.
THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1970
Dr. Donald J. Hart, after nine
months of Incubation In the S.A.
womb, will emerge tomorrow
as a full-fledged President. Re
flections on his goals and in
terests at St. Andrews revealed
a hope for Student Advisory
Boards, as well as for growth
In other areas.
When questionedabouthisex-
periences thus far at St. An
drews, Dr. Hart noted that he
had "been tremendously
pleased with the general tone of
the campus and the openness of
the various elements”. This,
Hart said, speaks, well for the
nature and quality of the aca
demic program wnicn has de-
Off-Campus
Courses Far
Winter Term
Nine winter term courses will
be offered abroad next January,
Arthur McDonald, co-ordinator
of Winter Term international
Courses, announced yesterday.
The courses which will be
offered next year are as fol
lows:
“Introduction to the British
Theatre” will be taught by Ar
thur McDonald in London. The
course will provide the student
with a survey of the develop
ment of .the English theatre
from the Age of Shakespeare
to the present age of experi
mentation.
"Contemporary Practices in
Church Music in Great Britain
led by Thomas Somerville and
John Williams. It will include
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veloped here. The very nature
of the curriculum has en-
c 0 u r aged forthrightness and
participation among the stu
dents, faculty, and adminis
tration.
Dr, Hart visualizes a con
crete application of student
voice through student advisory
boards. As he outlined it, there
would be a voluntary partici
pation of students interested
in advising administrators and
“recommending improvements
in a wide range of campus op
erations*’. For the major ad
ministrators--President of the
College, Dean of the College,
Dean of Students, Business
Manager, Registrar, Mainten
ance, and as many other areas
as necessary--there would be
a group of students, the number
varying according to interest,
who would act as a sounding
board for student opinion. Their
function would be simply to
communicate directly between
the students and administra
tors, This wouldn*t preclude
any other union between stu
dents and administration/
faculty such as student repre
sentation on faculty committees
or a joint college government.
Dr. Hart made several ten
tative projections for direc
tions in which he hopes the
college will move, Amongthese
are strenghtening and reorient
ing course content in several
areas, adding new facilities,
and “generatinganadequateen-
downment so that the income
from it can permit the level
of further improvement that we
need”. In other words, the col
lege needs to utilize effectively
its assets (finances, facilities,
faculty and staff) to achieve a
consistent quality of operations
Mcllhiney Awarded
Episcopal] Fellowship
NEW YORK — An Ej)iscop.al
Church Foundation fellowship
grant for graduate study has
heen awarded to the Rev, David
Brown Mcllhiney of Laurinburg,
N.C, He will study for a Ph.D.
In church history at Princeton
Dave mcilhiney
University and then continue
his teaching career.
William A, Collidge, presi
dent of the Foundation, said that
since 1964, when the fellowship
program was inaugurated, 78
grants totaling more than$290-
000 have been awarded to 37
outstanding scholars. The
Foundation is a national organi
zation of laymen that initiates
and underwrites projects sup
porting the work of the Church,
Mr. Mcllhiney graduated cum
laude in 1964 from Harvard
College with an A.B, in anth
ropology, studies that he con
tinued at Columbia University.
However, finding his interest
turning to religion, he entered
Union Theological Seminary in
New York City, where he re-
cieved a B,D. degree. He then
became instructor In anthro
pology and religion at St. An
drews College in Laurinburg,
He was txirn in Galnsville,
Florida in 1942 and attended
Simonds Free High School in
Warner, N, H,
across the board.
During the past nine months.
Dr. Hart has moved toward his
projections through his open
ness to student opinion, his
dealings with faculty and ad
ministration members and his
honesty in stating his position.
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DEKNY RICHARDS as Peer Gynt,
Peer Gynt To Feature
Revolving Stage, Scrim
“Peer Gynt”,by Henrik Ibsen
will open next Thursday at 8
p,m. in the Liberal Arts Au
ditorium,
Arthur McDonald, director of
the production, has adapted the
Norwegian folk fantasy for the
Highland Players’ presen
tation. Denny Richards is play
ing the title role with Sally
Carlson as his mother, Aase.
The play, in five acts, goes
through Peer Gynt’s journeys
through reality and unreality.
In this type. Peer is confronted
by trolls, inmates of an asylum,
Death, and peasants.
W, D, Narramore, designer
of this production, plans to use
a revolving stage throughout
many of the scenes. He has
also carefully drawn up plans
for each scene, adding depth In
the scenery. A large part of the
fourth act, which has been in
terpreted as Peer’s nl^tmare
will be done behind a scrim.
The play will be the first
event of the Student Arts Fes
tival, Gynt will play April 30,
May I and 2, Reservations may
be made by calling the Theatre
Office at ext. 204.
Owen^ Peace Corps Veteran^
Addresses C & C Class^ Chapel
BY CHARLIE PRATT
Jan W. Owen has been con
nected with the Peace Corps
since 1962 when he headed up the
program in Jamaica, He has
also participated in the pro
gram in the Dominican Repub
lic and Colombia, Currently he
io pastor at Westminster Pres
byterian Church in Waynesboro,
Virginia, He was on campus to
speak to the junior C&C course
specializing in Latin America
and to chapel this morning. In
his talk to the C&C class, Mr.
Owen spoke on “Theological
Reflections on Contemporary
North-South Relationships”.
Mr. Owen goes under the as
sumption that he is a Christian,
but he admits that this is per
haps a secondary or tertiary
identification for him. He also
considers himself “an Ameri
can”, again with the same mis-
identification because he Is stiU
a North American.
Even with this inability to de
fine himself completely, or any
one else, he still claims that
everyone maintains theological
reflections on U,S.-Latln A-
merican relationships in re
gard to the economic, political,
and social scene. The report,
“Illusion and Reality In Inter-
American Relations” a church
publication, IsMr.Owen’sproof
of the theology of hope. He se
lected a few of the paper’s con
clusions for emphasis:
We acknowledge “that there
are signs in our time that bring
a special urgency to our task of
interpretation and special mo-,
ral repugnance to poverty, suf
fering, and humiliation.
We believe that “the strug
gle of the dispossessed and de
pendent groups and nations to
find freedom and justice is a
positive sign of God’s recon
ciling work in our present
time”.
We believe that “God’s jus
tice is biased in favor of the
poor and the powerless and that
this biased justice ... is
needed by the oppressed in Latin
America”.
In U.S.-Latin American re
lations, one problem is pre
valent although apparently not
fully realized. This is the il
lusion that we think we do what
we know is right. But this can
not be because the assumption
Itself is subjective and that it
discounts the wishes of the peo
ples you intend to help.
Mr. Owen also stressed a
second point that insists “we
look at the facts of human needs
in Latin American with coura
geous theological insight. The
realities of the Latin Ameri
can state--populatlon explos
ion, food production, birth con
trol, balance of payments--are
theological in nature as well as
political and economic. To rea
lize the theological Impli
cations, the church must plan a
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