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THE LANCE
THURSDAY, OCT. g, 1970
THE LANCE
St. Andrews Presbyterian College
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Campus Factions
St, Andrews Is a really nice place, when you get right down
to it. The faculty is intellectual and rather Jovial, If a little
hard to understand. The Administration, oddly enough, Is
qulet--one could hardly say dormant. It is as if something is
about to start happening or Is on its way to becoming. But
what?
Under its quiet surface, the St. Andrews campus is fac-
tlonallzed to a degree that has never in my memory, been
seen here before. Polarities are developing which can and
will leave scars on our communcal psyche. No longer can the
different groups be explained away as cliques or ‘‘trlendship
groups”. The antagonism between the factions Is too fierce to be
explained away that easily. Each group (and 1 can thlnlt of six off
hand) Is Insular and inward oriented; each is tremendously
defensive about its own particular viewpoint; each is quick to
attacl( the other groups when it feels threatened.
Most are composed of students admitted by- subconciously-
rlgorous admittance standards. Each Is committed to action
within its ranl(s with very little broad-based appeal. And all
this applies to the faculty and administration too, for no matter
how united a front they present, Internal wrangles and per
sonality conflicts are rampant there also.
St, Andrews is no longer a community, but a caucus of In
dividually oriented interest groups with tenuous ties, if any at
all, to other groups, and indeed, to reality.
Is there a solution? Not in specific terms, because the
problem Itself Is too broad. One personality cannot pull things
together; one Issue probably cannot. And I am not speaking of
compromise of beliefs or even of agreement.
Any kind of communication between these groups must be
seen as a step forward. I urge for these groups a rigorous
self-examination; to drop the parochialism which limits rather
that defines; to end the eternal hassles between groups over
picky things. Otherwise this campus must fall apart, just as
this country Is falling apart.
Contributors to this issue:
Janet Moses
John Vander Heuvel
Marshall Gravely
Randy Long
Photographer:
J. Nicholas Grlflln.
Dudley
Charles Joyner
Ron Bayes
bILENT MAJOR ITV
Letters To The Editor:
"Pre Dawn" Blasted By Two
To the Editor:
The iJurpose of this is not to
refute the right of Pre Dawn to
exist. That would be foolish.
It certainly has the right to
exist and I feel it Is desir
able. Any different views or
Ideas can be l>eneficlal to the
student in his acquisltlrai of
knowledge and help him In de
ciding his personal goals and
views. However, I personally
believe the first Issue of Pre
Dawn to be insipid, boring, of
fending and Irrelevant. I choose
to criticize the lead article, fbr
it seems to set the stage tar
what Is to come. It starts off
weU until the third paragraph,
but then begins to deteriorate,
so starting criticism there ap
pears logical.
••A radical change in our
society is Inevitable, either to
the right or to the left. To
stay the same is Impossible.”
True. A change Is taking place
now, growing in momentum
every day. It would be hard tor
an intelligent, aware person to
dispute this. But a little fur
ther down in the same paragraph
we are hit with a statement about
the U. S. destroying “the fllesh
of Vietnam and the spirit of the
Third World people.” Third
World People? I doubt if 3/4
of the campus know who these
Third World people are. Elo
quent term, tut Its use seems
to be a prime example of a
“shallow literal manner”
which Pre Dawn states It at
tempts to avoid, since the term
means so little to so many
people.
“Education At SA” turns out
to be somewhat offending flop.
Can it be assumed that all
these “hitherto non- political
students” are now political? Or
could it perhaps be that the ma
jority of them are simply fol
lowing the current trend in stu
dent activities? Are all these
students thinking, political in
dividuals or are they just fol
lowers of a small group of
political leaders, not reaUy giv
ing Individual thought to their
actions? The latter seems to be
true. There have always been
a few political leaders who lead
the many. What about these dis
ruptions you infer that you sup
port? What has been bom of
them? More disruptions, re
pression and right wing back
lash, which is rapidly defeating
the purpose of the disruptions,
If there is one. Why not en
gage in constructive activity;
very little positive accomplish
ments are made from destruc
tive activities.
Perhai)s the most offending
thing is the statement that SA
is a factory. It can only be a
factory if you allow it to manu
facture you, if then. Most any
place can be what you make of
It.
Then the article proceeds to
Inform us about what we will
do. We will take this job, sup
porting “Racism, sexism, im
perialism” and “capitalism”
(same old rhetoric); we will re
search for biological warfare;
we will be drafted. Speak for
yourself. You defeat your whole
thesis by stating that there is
political change which implies
social change by printing Pre
Dawn. It is defeated by the fact
that there are opposing political
views on campus. It is defeated
by any deviation from this so-
called “discipline” you tell us
we have. And there are many
such deviations. Your use of
the word “discipline” is poor.
If you did not have some sort
of discipline, would you still
be in school? Would you ever
be able to do anything you didn’t
want to do? Could many things
be accomplished without some
amount of discipline? Obviously
not.
Spiro
"Shut
by Marshall Gravely
As the 1970 House and Senate
campaigns get into the home
stretch, Vice President Spiro
Agnew has been jetting about the
country campaigning heavily for
Republican candidates. His
campaign speeches have one
major theme — that the trou
bles in the country are large
ly due to a nefarious group of
“radlcllbs” In Congress who
are obstructing the magnifi
cently ordained purposes of
President Nixon. He says that
this climate of heinous defiance
is coupled with permissiveness
toward students who have lost
all respect for America.
Spiro recaitly wrote a na
tionally syndicated article a-
bout the purposes of college
and his desire to see students
return to useful, quiet edu
cation that will serve the na
tion without any uproar or com
motion. This desire might be
legitimate if it was sincerely
made. However, Agnew’s at
tack on the Heard Report on
Campus Unrest and his denun
ciation of the Scranton Com
mission report without reading
it show that he is motivated
by a sincere desire to see an
end to dissent. He wants stu
dents to shut up.
In this article, he attacked
the special courses being of-
Says
Up-
fered across the country to
give relevant education. He says
that these courses are use
less because they encourage
emotion and not rational use
of technology to solve pro
blems. This reason overlooks
the fact that these courses are
not emotive but give facts and
provide the basis for interpre
tive solutions to pressing pro
blems. Once again it becomes
evident that Agnew wants to end
these courses so that he can
pursue the Nixon plan without
students being able to obtain the
facts to contradict him. Un
fortunately for him, these cour
ses are results of attempts to
bring underground activities to
the forefront of learning. If they
are discontinued In colleges,
the learning wiU return to the
underground media which ori-
gln^ed it. Protest will not be
extinguished in this manner.
This article expresses the
same fuzzy thinking and over
blown rhetoric Agnew has be
come famous for in speeches,
and it will, sadly, have the same
effect — divisive and alienating
10 students, encouraging t o
hardhats and conservative po
liticians. Once again, Spiro is
doing ills best to widen the al
ready huge rip in the fabric of
America’s society.
Why should you oppose mill,
tary recruiters on campus? You
do not have to pay any at-
tention to them If you clioose
not to. There might be some stu-
dents who want to talk to them
Perhaps a student is sure he
will be drafted after graduation.
He might prefer to go into Of-
fleer Candidate School rather
than being drafted directly Into
the service as an ordioary
draftee. Why should we d®y
these people the convenience of
talking to recruiters on cam
pus?
I hope this will rate some
response from the editors of
Pre Dawn, and perhaps chal-
lenge them, not necessarily to
change their political views,
but to come out with a better
paper next week.
Sincerely,
Randy Long
To The Editor:
In a recent article in Pre-
Dawn the Issue of military re
cruiters on St. Andrew’s cam
pus was expanded in a series
of spacious assumptions to in
clude such problems as stu
dents being commodities on the
market and the rule of America
by an obllgarchy.
The problem with these as
sumptions was that they were
made in reverse. The writer
stated his beliefs about this
school as an educational fac
tory and its students as mere
chattel on the business mar
ket to be bou^t and sold. Then
at the article’s end he stated
that all this was true because
there were military recruiters
on SA campus.
Thus ttie reader was led to
believe that the presence a(
these recruiters justified pass
ing judgment on the students
and school as he did. That’s
a pretty cheap assessment d
this place.
Military recruiters should
not be on campus. This is true
and is not the point being
argued in this response. What
is being contended here is that
the presence of these recruit-
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