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PAGE TWO THE LANCE THE LANCE Staff Editor ; Jeff Neill Associate Editor Marshall Gravely Associate Editor Elaine Thomas Assistant Editor Ligon Perrow Business Manager Gordon Dixon Circulation Manager Cathy Lament Advisor Mr. Fowler Dugger The Editorial staff’s intent is to maintain professional stan dards within the guidelines put forth by the Code of Respon sibility. Signed articles reflect the opinion of the author, where as unsigned editorials and articles reflect the majority opinion of the staf Opinions. expressed are not necessarily those of the Collegt Letters to the editor and articles are welcomed though subj :t to space limitations. Subscription rates $2.50 per semester. Advertising rates $ .90 per column inch. Semester contracts, $ .80 per column inch. Intimidation One Source Of Student Apathy BY JEFF NEILL Much of what gets done poorly around here is blamed on apathy. And rightly so. Most of us readily label someting as being motivated by apathy but few have given the cause of apathy serious thought. Without understanding the causes little constructive action can be taken. To us apathy is a fluid matter that quickly solidifies to bring about inactiviness. We have recently become aware that one source of apathy on this campus stems from intimidation— both real and imagined -- from faculty members, administra tors, and peers. Many students hesitate to challenge some action they feel is inappropriate because of the consequences. Heads get turned the other way when they see cheating for fear taking action might create antagonisms and lose friends for them. One faculty member we have heard of, antagonized by a student, actually voiced mild threats toward that student thru other students. Another faculty member employed subtler means of intimidation when he was antagonized by not teaching a tu torial that had already been agreed upon. Still another case, and more serious, happened when a group of students approached one professor about another professor whose course they had then recently completed. They expressed concern over what they considered to have been consistent irresponsibility on the part of the instructor and over whether he should be allowed to offer a similar course. The professor they spoke to said he would do what he could about the instructor in question and would do all he could to protect the students. He warned, though, that there was no way he could protect them fully. Revenge could be gotten in one way or another. They were concerned enough not to drop the whole matter. Other students, wefeel, would have been intimidated into submissiveness. What’s to be done? Finger: A Good Choice Last night the Senate appointed Paul Finger as the new Vice- President of the Student Association. They appear to have made a good selection. Knowing nothing more about Finger than we observed last night we believe he will exhibit responsible leadership and lend a sense of direction to the Senate this year. Cabinet Posts^ Community Relations Senate Topics (Continued from Page 1) in the Student Association.” Tom Warren, president of Granville, stated optimism stemming from a recent com munity relations meeting he at tended in Laurinburg. He stated the organization was a pro gressive idea with plans to es tablish a rumor control center and to open the lines of com munication. Funds to support various projects are expected from the government. A central group shall be es tablished with 33 members - 3 from each of the ten precincts and 3 from SA, A meeting will be held soon to find out who from SA might be interest ed in serving in such a com mittee. Approval of the proposed bud get met with little opposition. Rod Brown, Student Associa-' tion Treasurer, requested $400 be made available to donate to the Chapbook series—printings of original works by two SA students to be printed this year. The Senate, following Browns’ recommendations, al located the funds. Cuts were; $300 from the summer school program, $25fromZPG, and$75 from the Student Union Board. Bob Chaiken, Director of the Student Union, stated funds may be available from his office to pay for student summer co ordinators which would thereby allow the $300 taken from the summer programs to be re placed. An attempt to select a President Pro-Tem for the se nate was tabled until the next meeting. XXI.. THURSDAY, SEPT. 28, 1972 Project Funds To Be Shifted To Other Recruiting Project (Continued from Page 1) retention rate should be attri buted to the students’ inability to adjust to ttieir extremely middle class and highly com petitive environment. This means that the majority of stu- dents left for non-academic reasons. The decision to dis continue the project came when St. Andrews administrators found themselves unable to fi nance it adequately. It is es timated that after three years St. Andrews alone had spent $80,000 for aid, recruitment, testing, and test processing. They were able to receive only $15,000 from foundations and $125,000 from the federal government. The total cost of Who Knows? (CPS) - - R e p r e sentative, Moor-head of Pennsylvania re cently released figures which Indicate that the U. S. Govern ment spends twice as much mo- ney hiding information than handing It out. A total of $126.3 million is spent for classifica tion while only $64 million is spent for information pro grams. Of course, the congress man’s figures may exclude a lot of secret funding of secrecy programs the project for three years was $220,000. Because most of the project members remaining here were black, included in this decision to cancel the plan was pressure from the black students already here, to re cruit more non-project blacks along with complaints that pro ject identification was causing psychological pressures on non-project participants. Since Project Creativity was such a high risk program, administra tors decided that it would be more beneficial to use the pre- V i o u s 1 y appropriated project funds to recruit more minority students who could more easily assimilate both academically and socially into the St. An drews community. This plan was initiated for the 72-73 year. After reviewing the admini strative tecimiques applied to the project, advisors admit weaknesses in the following areas: lack of paid tutors, lack of expert guidance, inadequate selection techniques, lack of special reading and writing pro grams, and lack of funds for psychiatric consultation. Even though there is little hope for the reinstatement of the Project Creativity program, the administration does not con sider it to have been a complete failure. St, Andrews is looking into a Special Services pro gram that will function in the same manner as Project Crea tivity—but, with the above im provements implemented along with more financial assistance from the federal government After speaking to some of the Project Creativity students, it was found that some of the students considered it to be a worthwhile endeavor whUe others took a very negative stand. The success of the future program is yet to be seen. Investigation (Continued from Page 1) details. The recommendation was never acted upon, however leaving Brown will "full ad min i s t r a tive authority,” ac cording to Bender, Further facts thus revealed show requisition^forms for $63.13 for hired help -- half of which went to a non- S. A, student—and $253.44 paid* di rectly to Brown — $174.69 of this was for the end of the spring semester “for services rendered,” Bender stated that in his opi nion the sums “were a bit excessive” and that “I think he (Brown) has over stepped his bounds and needs a rap on the hands by the Cabinet,” Foil raised the issue of the pay rate at the Cabinet meet ing on Tuesday and was met with complete silence from all those present except for Brown. Brown contends the pay rate was justified because of the hard work involved and also be cause he could not get anyone to work for less. Senate Adjusts Annual Budget Chooses Compromise Format (Continued from Page 1) to be considered a competent representative of the student body. I hope you will choose to ac cept this resignation,” Sincerely yours, Patricia Smith The resignation was accepted by consensus of the Senate. As Vice President of Stiident Association, Miles Weaver, be came President of the Student Association when the Senate approved the resignation of Tri- cia Smith, Before turning the meeting over, Paul Finger, President Pro-Tem of the Sen ate, notified the Senate that they would have to appoint a new Vice President as the Senate would fill all vacanies. It was recommended and approved that this appointment would be tabled until the Senate meeting on the 27th of September, Paul Fing er then assumed the chair. Also, the Student Life Com mittee met on Septmber 20th to discuss the yearbook situa tion, The committee directed the Lamp and Shield and Pub lications Board to use any ex tra money allotted to them by the Senate to make changes in their planned format that would reflect the desires of the Stu dent Body as shown in the re cent Senate annual poll. At the Senate meeting it was decided that an increase in the budget be allotted to Lamp and Shield, There followed a lengthy de bate as to how much and for what purpose money be allotted. By vote from the Senate next year’s yearbook format will be: 8 1/2” X 11” in size, 200 pages bristol board form. Other business which was discussed was the Community Relations Organization which is a board of thirteen people that was formed to improve better understanding and relations between the community and schoo’s in Laurinburg. It was recently decided that it would be necessary to expand the board by having representatives from each of the ten commu nity districts in Laurinburg. Miles Weaver received word from the Co-Chairman of the Community Relations to send student representatives from Saint Andrews. Those who at tended the meeting on Septem ber the 26th were: BUI Asher (M), Dave Kelly (M), Tommy Warren (G), Stevie Daniels (W), and Paul Finger (W-S), Tommy Warren brought up the possibilities of having a Jazz Festival this year. The Senate discussed the amount of money to be spent on the festival and that if anyone had any feel ings of questions toward this matter to contact Dr. Joyner, who is in charge of planning the festi'-al. Dean Decker requested that if any student on campus sees a stranger roaming around the suites or campus to call secu rity. Also, he felt that every body should lock their doors for their own protection. Future m e e tings were dis cussed as to where they would be held so that any student who is interested in student govern ment could attend. Several sug gestions were made as to where these meetings could be held. Suggestions were: 1. the Gym 2. Student Center 3. Dorm Lounges The members of the Senate voted to hold the meetings in the different dorm lounges. Finally Sue Everett was ap proved by the Senate as Junior member of Student Judiciary Board. Also, Jim Bibb is the new Vice-Pres. of Granville Dorm. \B.E Goodrich r HANEY’S TIRE SERVICE “GREAT PEOPLE WITH FINEST SERVICE ANYWHERE” S. MAIN LAURINBURG
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