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THURSDAY, SEPT. 2,
THE LANCE
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9
We’re back at St. Andrews
or some of us are here for the
first time. Anyway, we have all
been confronted with the dumb
little things we have to tolerate
here.
All summer long you think
how nice it would be to be back
at school here. That is until we
get back. Then we realize that
those people missed weren’t
really friends anyway. They’re
still the same . . . funny what
the summer can do to your mind.
That’s bad enou^. But this
summer someone put a blue
rules-of-the house sign in every
room. It’s got everything but the
rates and the check-out time.
To make matters worse, you
can’t deface or remove them.
Where’s the fun that was once
St. Andrews? The person who
did could have at least contact
ed us as to what color we want
ed. Blue just doesn’t go with
my room. Sorry.
Little signs I can almost
take. You do get used to them,
but after four fall registration
lines I still can not understand
the mind of the man who or
ganizes those semi-annual fia
scos.
This year seemed worse than
any. The upper classmen had
pre-registered last spring, but
still the lines stretched around
the Vardell out into the parking
lot beside the building.
Again the upperclassmen
were given those information
cards to fill out. people are
extremely tired of feeding
personal information to the dif-
ferent departments. Maybe
I’m must a dull person, but
none of my information has
changed since my freshman
year. I’m still me.
And then, much of the in
formation you given them is
never used. For example: your
hometown newspaper. (I was
called on that one yesterday.)
I gave them the newpaper’s
name for three years and de
cided this year that I wouldn’t.
Why bother? No one ever uses
it. My sophomore year I was
editor of The Lance—that was
two years ago, and my home
town newspaper hasn’t heard
of it yet. But maybe this Is the
year they will inform the world.
What the heck. I’m a has-been
now.
Book-buying is another one
of my all-time gripes at St.
Andrews. A person can sweat
at a job all summer trying to
earn some money and lose it
all on one run around the
small gym. With the prices
they charge you would think
they could at least make a loan
to the college.
Note to the book selling peo
ple; President Richard NIxoti
of the United States has put a
freeze on prices, or is the book
store exempt?
Some things just never change
here.
* * *
Question; Who distributed the
“Book of Loving” to the fresh
men class?
Is this year’s class slow or
are they just too fast? No mat
ter, someone’s watching outfor
you, gang. Any chance of upper
classmen getting their hands on
a copy of the book . . . the
pictures are pretty racy, even
if we can’t understand the writ
ing.
By the way, open dorm hours
have now been cut. Twenty-four
hour open dorms are now twen
ty-one hours long. But those
books are floating around so I
guess there is no need for the
extra three hours.
♦ * ♦
What’s this I hear about
freshman girls, er, women,
wanting unlimited hours like the
big people. Don’t you know that
there is a difference between
a first semester woman and a
second semester freshman wo
man? At least to the admini
stration there is. Me, per
sonally, I think all women look
alike.
P. S. I signed your petition!
Good luck, but I don’t know
why you want to be out at
night. Between you and me,
the campus is even deader at
midni^t than it is at noon,
♦ * ♦
We have a new cafeteria ser
vice, or as it is better known
— the Who, What or Where
Game. We now ask ourselves,
“Who was it? What was it?
Where did it come from?”
* * *
Have a good year. If you are
a freshman, remember STMS
ain’t the only course on cam
pus, even if they tell you it Is.
As most of you know, a peti
tion has been circulated de
manding the abolition of the
curfew for first semester
freshmen women. Not only does
this regulation discriminate a-
gainst women, it allows the
school to assume parental au
thority and thus contradicts the
position expounded by St. An
drews concerning “in loco pa
rentis.” Our student personnel
service has professed on num
erous occassions that the ad
ministration does not wish to
assume the role of parent in
regard to the student. This cur-
few, however, deviates from
this policy in that the adminis
tration assumes parental au
thority over the social life of
women.
There have been several
arguments from both students
and administration opposing the
abolition of these hours. This
editorial will attempt to refute
those arguments. One major
argument Is that the freshmen
women need a period of adjust
ment in order to operate ma
turely in their new environ
ment. This argument ignores
the fact that freshmen men are
equally as disoriented by their
new environment as fresh
men and thereby blatantly rein
forces the idea that men some
how are able to conduct them
selves in a more mature man
ner than women.
Another argument frequently
encountered is that women can
get pregnant. This tends to sug
gest that women can become
pregnant only alter 12:00 mid
night and that freshmen men do
not engage in sexual relations
and thus do not need the pro
tection of St. Andrews. The
Bikes^ Dogs
Find Friends
Joining those clubs and or
ganizations already in exis-
tance will be two additions. The
first club being created is the
cyclist club for those students
and faculty members with eith
er light weight or 10 speec
bikes. The organizational meet
ing of this group will be Mon
day night at 8 p.m. in the Stu
dent Union Loimge. Topics to
be discussed will include af
filiation with a national club
and possible tours. For addi
tional information contact Dyer
Ramsey at 268-4879.
Tuesday night at eight an
organizational meeting for the
possible formation of a dog club
will be held. The purpose of this
meeting will be to organize a
group to negotiate with the ad
ministration the conditions and
stipulations under which
kennels could be constructed
and dogs permitted on campus.
A favorable response has al
ready been given by the ad
ministration for the possibility
of constructing kennels. For
further information contact Jeff
Neill at extension 273.
In Brief
This Saturday nl^t Farrago
will start its new season with
a show featuring local talent.
It all starts at 7 p.m. in the
Farrago Theatre which is lo
cated directly behind WSAP.
Admission is 25(.
freshmen at St. Andrews must
face the responsibilities of be
ing college students; a curfew,
however, will not teach these
women to maturely cope with
responsibilities but it ‘ ‘will en
courage them to allow the ad
ministration to take the respon-^
sibility off their shoulder s;”
thereby encouraging im
maturity In freshmen women.
The main argument presented
by the orientation committee
Is that the curfew exists for
the protection of freshmen
women. This argument seems
slightly humorous due to the
fact that every Incident jeo
pardizing the physical safety
of a women has taken place be
fore midni^t. Also the inci
dents involved upper class wom
en—not freshmen. Personal
protection will never come from
locking oneself in one's room.
Rather it will come when in
dividuals learn to become a-
ware of the actual dangers pre-
sent and learn how to deal
realistically with these dan
gers.
Still another argument en
countered states that freshmen
women can Ignore the curfew
anyway. This is a dangerous
answer to the curfew, pri
marily because it is an honor
code offense for an upper
classman to inform a fresh
man of the combination num
ber to her dorm. Thereby, when
one states this suggestion, one
Is asking women to risk com
mitting an honor code offense.
Women should not have to break
a regulation which should not
exist.
In conclusion, please ser
iously consider the above argu
ments and support the abolition
of the freshman curfew.
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