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THE LANCE
OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE STUDENT BODY OF ST. ANDREWS PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE
vnT. 10. No. 9_
ST. ANDREWS PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE, LAURINBURG, N. C.
CRAIG HANNAS drops in two Of Ms 36 points In SA’s win over
Greensboro. He also hauled down 33 retx>unds and recorded
seven assists. See story on page four. (Photo by Street)
A Christmas Spirit
A new Christmas spirit needs to come into being—one which
manages to include everybody. Students usually are full of good
wishes tor their fellow students, their families, and all of man
kind—blanket term.
But students at St. Andrews tend to exclude from “mankind”
two groups of people, maybe because we never notice them
except in their absence, and they’re pretty faithful. These are
the cafeteria and maintenance workers who constantly struggle
through long hours so that the College Union, the dorms, the PE
Building, the LA and the grounds don’t become swamped with
dirt and trash, so that our meals are even in existence at all.
This ignoring of service workers is a year-round thing. How
many of you have ever thou^t about who cleans up the copies
of the LANCE you throw down? How many of you bother to put
out a butt in an ash tray Instead of on the floor?
Christmas is a good time to be reminded that giving is not
one-sided. These people have given a lot of hours of hard work
(or students. Include them in mankind; show some apprecia
tion towards them, as a habit.
THURSDAY. DEC. 10. 1970
Policy Committee Debates
Exam Times, New Course
Students Lose Federal Funds
WASHINGTON (CPS)—Fe
deral financial aid to 440 stu
dents has l)een cut off because
of their Involvement In cam
pus disorders to receive stu
dent aid funds, according to
an otficlal in Uie Student Fi
nancial Aid Division on the
Department of Health, Educa
tion, and Welfare.
Forty students lost their
funds as a direct result of fe
deral provisions, and the re
maining 400 throu^ the ad
ministrations of their indivi
dual schools.
Federal law requires univer-
sltltes to submit an annual re
port on the number of stu
dents removed from their fi
nancial aid lists. Reports from
all but 160 of 2,390 colleges
snd universities show that 86
Insitltutlons cut off funds to
students since June of last year.
The largest cuts came in
small colleges, rather than the
larger more politically active
campuses like Columbia, San
Francisco State, Berkeley, Mi
chigan State, Wisconsin, none
0* which reported any students
losing aid.
The Information is part of
a report on campus violence
from an investigation conduct
ed by Rep. Earl Edith Green,
(D.-Ore). The report will not
be released because, she said.
It would embarrass the presi
dent.
The Educational Policy Com
mittee In its regular December
meeting discussed three items
of particular Interest to stu
dents. Presented to the com
mittee by student members
were suggestions from the Sen
ate concerning final exams
being given this semester, a
proposal from Wilburn Hayden,
and Dean McNair for a new
course to be offered spring
term for seniors closed out of
electives, and a recommenda
tion that an ad hoc committee
be formed to investigate re
gistration procedures.
THE SENATE PROPOSAL
“RESOLVED: That the Ed
ucational Policy Committee be
informed of the difficulty fore
seen in the number of exams
scheduled for the last three
days of school.
The elimination of the block
exam was thought by many to
be also the elimination of the
final exam. In reality many In
structors are giving compre
hensive examinations which will
take from one to three days to
complete. The problem Is not
so much the exam as the num
ber of exams which are being
given on the same last few
days. We of the Senate request
that some satisfactory solution
to the problem be considered.
Some suggestions have been put
forth. These are only sugges
tions and perhaps not the best.
They are:
(1) A final block exam period
be established by John Craig
at once.
(2) histructors be asked not
■to ^ve comprehensive exams,
but rather a test over a select
amount of material, e. g. over
a given book, or one of two
weeks of study.
(3) That three days out of
Monday-Friday be set aside
as a Reading and Preparation
Period.
(4) Or no exam be given and
that students be graded on the
work they have already done.
This would probably bring about
number (2) above.
IN BRIEF:
The Gum Swamp Pickers and
Singers will host a Christmas
Party tonight at 8:00 p.m. in
the College Union. The group,
which Is a loose collation of
guitarists, singers and other
assorted musicians known for
weird sounds and a great sense
of humor, will lead singing of
some of those old favorites
out of the past, as well as tra
ditional Christmas carols.
Refreshments will be served
and everyone is Invited. Dr.
Joyner wlllbe “dolnghlsthang”
as MC of the festivities.
Students who enjoy the tra
dition of Christmas caroling
will meet In the Student Cen
ter tomorrow ni^t at 7:00.
Transportation will be pro
vided to Laurinburg.
Archie Bell and The Drells-
On Campus For a Concert And
Dance Tonight. Admission is
1.50 per person, 2.00 per cou
ple. The event will be held in
the cafeteria from 9:00 to 12:00.
Attention, novel poets and
writers, Elman P u Wishing
House is selecting poems and
short stories for their annual
books “Voice of Poetry 1971”
and “Selected Short Stories
1S71.”
Contestants for poetry may
send up to three entries, each
of fifty lines or less, and for
short stories only one entry
not exceeding eighteen hun
dred words, which must be ac
companied by a self address^
post-paid envelope, and mailed
not later than December 15th.
So poets and writers, send
your entires to Elman Publish
ing House, 8261 North Bay-
shore Drive, Miami. Florida
33138 - and good luck!
Our major concern is to cor
rect the situation as it now
stands. We sincerely hope you
will find a satisfactory solu
tion. ”
The EPC discussed the idea
of end of the term exams at some
length. Faculty memt>ers of the
committee pointed out that at
the first faculty meeting of the
year the faculty were inform
ed of the new concept in exams
and were told that they must an
nounce exams, if they were to
be given, sufficiently early in
the semester. It was noted that
the purpose of the new plan,
in theory, was to provide al
ternatives to the old block exam
concept, and to move away from
the concept of final comprehen
sive exams—which would be re
placed by a college-wide test
ing period of two days to be
held in the spring. The theory,
possibly because of the trans
ition, has not proved valid thus
far.
The committee expressed ap
preciation for the suggestions
from the Senate, and noted that
unless faculty had tailed to
announce the exam in advance
there was little that could be
done at this time. If students
felt that a professor did not
do this they may appeal to the
Division Chairman, or to Dean
Davidson. An evaulation of this
semester’s exam schedules will
be considered at the February
meeting of the EPC. John Craig
is currently gathering infor
mation on student problems with
exams so that further guide
lines may be set up.
The propossd for a new course
which is outlined below was re-
fered to the Division of Beha
vioral Sciences to be includ
ed in the courses offered as
Special Studies. The course,
to be taught by Dean McNair,
will be limited to sixteen sen
iors, with first preference to
those closed out of electives.
Entitled “Contemporary Is
sues In Black Studies,” the
course will apply to majors
In Sociology and American Stu
dies, and will be offered this
spring. Students desiring to take
the course should add it at
the regular period in Febru
ary. It Is described as follows:
"A seminar course designed
to give an in depth study Into
some of the areas of our society
as well as to allow the student
to pursue an area of imme
diate Interest and concern to
him. The course will consist
of weekly discussions, field stu
dies, on the scene observations
and each student will be re
sponsible for directing the class
in a discussion on a topic of
his interest.”
The EPC also approved a
proposal that an ad hoc com
mittee composed of student,
faculty and the Registrar be
appointed to consider prc*lems
arising from current registra
tion procedures including pos
sibly renumbering courses con
sistent with the level of stu
dent to be taking that course,
a staggered schedule registra
tion including preference for
seniors and majors and gen
erally more efficient registra
tion procedures.
Student members of the com
mute are Sid Atkinson, Mllll
Gibson and Sara Lee.
Davenport Reviews
Why Of Counseling
Rol)ert Davenport, recently
awarded the Doctor of Divinity
degree from Vanderbilt Uni
versity, Is head of the campus
counseling services, as well
as the college pastor.
His conception of counsel
ing is shaped by the psycho
analytic tradition, drawing
from Freud, Carl Rogers and
Eric Berne, who is best known
for his book “Games People
Play”. Davenport’s approach
to counseling the college stu
dent is shaped "in the light of
my conviction that the last thing
students need is long-term de
pendent adult relationships in
counseling.” There is a strong
reliance within the approach on
short term, reality-oriented
counseling.
Noting that “nobody knows
specifically what works in coun
seling, or why what appears to
work, does work,” Davenport
pointed out that counseling is
still more an art than a science.
He looks at a limited problem
area with a student, In an at
tempt both to avoid the depen
dent relationship and to help
the student understand himself
better. Instead of trying to re
make him.
The counseling secylce,
which operates on a strictly
confidential basis, deals with
widely varied problems, al
though they tend to center a-
round the “who am I?” ques
tion. They include particularly
Job concerns, parental relation
ships, sexuality, and relation
ships with other students. They
also have some faculty counsel
ing, as well as getting referrals
from the faculty.
The three counselors, Daven
port, Mrs. Grace McS. Over-
holser, and Vann Jolnes. carry
a heavy load of students with
draft counseling and problem
pregnancies counseling, two
specific areas they service.
Members ofthe counseling team
are under the supervision of a
psychiatrist who visits St. An
drews each month to discuss
the techniques which they em
ploy as counselors.
Davenport sees his role “as
educational rather than ther
apeutic” with emphasis on guid
ing the student to self-know
ledge rather than pushing him.