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THE LANCE
SMILE
THURSDAY, DEC. 10, 1970
Exams-And Finances
The new “non exam” schedule Is Infinitely worse than the
block exam concept for students. Especially upperclassmen are
under tremendous pressure with many having two or more large
papers, or lab projects due in, as well as up to ten or twelve
hours of comprehensive exams. Seniors are 1 n a particularly bad
position with GRE’s on Saturday. Too many professors have cho
sen to end their courses with a combination of papers and exam.
This isn’t the typical student griping about too much work that
they don’t want to do. Instead it’s the very legitimate problem
of having much too much work to finish, and do well, In a two
week time span, even If students have l)een working for the
latter half of the semester.
The quality of academic work at St. Andrews Is high. Re
ports from students who have transferred, or gone on to grad
uate school bear this out. But a saturation point can, and , we
think has, been reached. The value of education beyond that
point must necessarily decrease. There Is a very real need for
a second look Into the current end of the semester hassle.
Many people have been asking why the LANCE hasn’t been
coming out as often as It has t>efore, and why we don’t have
some of the features of other papers, such as cartoons, articles
which are syndicated and all the goodies that money can buy.
Well, there’s your answer right there. Money. Now we all know
that college finances are not the best they could be. We just
feel some explanations are due students who want to know why
these things are happening.
This issue has a lot of ads, and we may be attacked for run
ning ads Instead of writing articles. Well, it’s a financial
necessity for us to make money. This last LANCE of the year
was planned to be an eight page paper, with lots of features
and good stuff. But we decided to run the paper, crammed with
ads as It Is, as a four page paper so we could make a profit
on It, and have a little padding, be It ever so small, to carry
over until next semester.
The LANCE Is operating on a minimum budget, considering
the availability of advertising In Laurinburg, our operating ex
penses, and the time necessary to put out a paper regularly.
We are currently In the situation of having to have a certain
amount of advertising to publish a paper, along with a concern
for what news is Important. Every week there must be a de
cision both on what copy--artlcles, features, news items—
are available and, as well, on how much advertising we
are likely to be able to get. With a budget of twenty-one hun
dred dollars, we must take Into every close consideration the
viability of publishing each Issue of the paper. Since we are
carrying a debt-flnally brought home to roost--from three
years ago, we must not only break even but attempt to make a
profit and STILL put out a paper fairly often which Is pleasing
to the student body.
And here Is our second point; beginning tomorrow the Sen
ate will t)e distributing a questionnaire to all students to dis
cover whether students read and enjoy the LANCE. On one hand
we think this Is valuable. The poll at the beginning of the year
offered some valid criticisms and good suggestions for our
Improvement. And if we’re not pleasing the students now, we
always can rely on the fact that we get very few suggestions,
criticisms, or heaven forbid, praise on specific Issues or
articles.
We have known all semester that the Senate was going to put
out this poll, whether we liked It or not. And we don’t parti
cularly like the Idea, since there’s a very real possibility that
the LANCE will l)e phased out—a polite phrase for being told
that everybody hates you and just to go away and leave us
alone. That’s been an added pressure--to know that one bad
Issue or even one bad article may sound the death knell for
you. But enough of explanations, seU-pity, whatever, we only
ask students to judge us fairly according to their standards
within the context of the practical considerations that were
outlined above.
This will be our last Issue for the semester. We hope that
at least some of the things we’ve done have had meaning fbr
you. If not, we hope that you’ll tell us, so we can be better In
the future, If there is a future.
Jim Mitchfii
A Step Toward Pollution End;
Stop Appropriations For SST
by Marshall Gravely
The recent Senate vote to deny
further appropriations for the
development of the supersonic
transport by the U. S. marks an
Important victory for those in
terested in preserving the en
vironment. The Senators who
voted against the measure were
Letters To
The Editor:
Basketball
To the Editor of the LANCE:
It has become Increasingly
evident to St. Andrews bas
ketball followers that the team
has not been playing up to Its
potential this season. With four
returning starters and a res
pectable bench, it seems very
disappointing that the team has
lost toateamlikellNC-Greens-
boro. On December 7, a day that
will live In Infamy for SA
rooters for two reasons, an In
teresting but norma] phenome
non occurred in the SA gym.
Up by 24 points with ten min
utes remaining, the Knl^ts lost
by seven. A number of reasons
can be cited for this sudden
collapse. Inconsistent substitu
tion and poor use of personnel
have to rank hl^y. For In
stance, In the UNC-G game the
substitutes were not removed
In time In the second half for
the Knights to have a chance at
winning the contest. Gary Gred-
lein, one of our best guards,
was not reinserted In the line
up at all In the last seven min
utes and well-playing Tony
Fernandez was lynched hav
ing scored 23 points In a half’s
play.
If Coach Boyd has the skill
to coach the St. Andrews team
then the St. Andrews fans would
be very anxious to see It In the
near future.
Ralph Nesbit
convinced to do so largely
throu^ the efforts of Sen. Gay
lord Nelson (D-Wisconsin). The
bipartisan coalition formed by
him voted against allotlng fur
ther money for SST from ap
parently sincere motives, but
the defeated group who sup
ported the bUlhave charged that
the vote was politically moti
vated. What was the real rea
son for the vote?
Nelson himself can hardly be
accused of political motives,
thou^. He was recently re
elected In Wisconsin with a 72%
margin of victory. The reason
that the vote Is significant is
that it may in fact be the first
successful coalition in recent
Senate history motivated on
non-political grounds.
The battle against SST cen
ters around the debate over
whether the need for this new
plan coimterbalances Its poi-
lutlon potential. The pro-SCT
forces were obviously con
vinced that It was needed to ad
vance air transport. But, does
the air Industry need a plane
that is “ten hours from any-
where”? Why?
The pollution potential of the
new plane is enormous. The ]et
exhaust would only add to the
pollution over airports and
cities. Furthermore, the noise
pollution around airports and
cities would l)e greatlyln-
creased by the use of the SST.
The battle against the various
forms of pollution has just be
gun. But this reverse for the
technology of envlronmentalde-
structlon may show the way for
stopping future expansion ot
pollution. The political inter
ests pale beside the human in
terest—survival.
nmm
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