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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1972 THE LANCE THE LANCE staff Editor Jeff Neill Associate Editor Marshall Gravely Business Manager Gordon Dix(^n Circulation Manager Cathy Lamont 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 Collegi Letters to the editor and articles are welcomed though sub] .'t to space limitations. Subscription rates $2.50 per semester. Advertising rates $ .90 per column inch. Semester contracts, $ .80 per column inch. Efforts Produce No Change In Problems BY MARSHALL GRAVELY The end of the semester and the rapid approach of 1973 provides a time for SA students to assess the happenings on campus since September. From this assessment, it is only natural to try to find the re’.aUon between these events. Each student who is interested will inevitably try to find some mean ing or central issue which can relate all the multi-faceted issues of Fall 1972. It is in this spirit, then, that I would like to offer the thesis that this semester has been, in essence, much ado about nothing, (apologies to W. Shapespeare) 1 say this because it seems that aU the campus issues and debates have been characterized only by the lack of mean ingful results which have been produced. Not that there has not been much effort made by many people -- just that their ef forts look like a waste. The first illustration of what I mean comes to mind in look ing at the performance of the Senate and Cabinet. The members and officers are to be commended for trying, but it seems that each issue brought before them has not been resolved. In parti cular are the controversy over the yearbook, the incidents of the panty raid, and the structure of the Senate and Student As sociation itself. As Phil Bradley noted in his Dialogue of 12/4, student in terest is at an all-time low. The Senate is said by many to be a very unrepresentative body. They attempted to deal with student pressure to change the yearbook format, but the result was a compromise so balanced that it meant no real change. The Stu dent Association really tried to handle the matters resulting from the panty raid, but Dr. Hart took final action when he wasn’t satisfied with the results and thus demonstrated graphically what many students have long felt — that there is no real power in the student organizations. The lack of relevance of many student attempts at change was further demonstrated by the problem of resignations from several bodies. Rare is the organization which has not lost at least one officer to resignation. The Senate has been reduced by several members, and those who are still on it are as aware as everyone else who cares that they do not provide meaningful representation for the students. All of this leads to an answer to the question posed in Brad ley’s dialogue. What should the Senate do? A very real answer would be to have it abolish itself. The same is true for other organizations which have tried to produce change. Rather than get involved in futile attempts, scrap the present system and re-design one which can be representative and which has some power -- one which can produce some real change. page two I • And at no time ao humans explicitly ® promise passivity. CUli • IF VOO WILL RE-ReAD THE IN5TCOCTIONS VOO lANLL MOTE AT NO TIMS DO WE MA04I(^S eXPLIClTLV PfZOMiSE TO VOOACOLA INEXCHANeE POQ.*X>OQ. COIM. Well?^ "Instructions: Ose nickel,dime or quarter ... Deceit co»n... Press'PCIN» SELECTOR butbon, lO Okay... I'll give WMiRR... / ita \ CLiK? I// try. ^heres cda? TMANK Letter From Outsider Coimnents On SA Yearbool With one exception, I wish my college that I am attending now would produce such a yearbook as yours of the year 1971-72. How well the human situation is displayed ranging from the loneiness of college life to the hypocrisy of our many feelings. Attitudes were portrayed so that they identify with any college student anywhere in this country. The Student-Faculty or should 1 say, Faculty-Student communication (p.224) show excellent involvement in the search for better solutions for the entire Laurinburg com munity. The photos were ideal- especiaily those concerned with sports (all showing the "sense of team” awareness whether depicting the hard life, in dividual spirit or school spirit). Who would ever imagine a sport to include ice packs and gum (p. 218) the lifting of a low sock (p.200), and the mystery of a team (p. 204)? There pictures of custodians together with the faculty showed the concern of.ie the edi tori'for a well developed progressive liberal arts education flourishing at SA. The people at SA must have concern for the education that they are receiving - judging from my reactions to the intelligent, articulate thoughty ex-different comments throughout the year book. The smiling faces of the seniors bring joy to my heart for many reasons. I wish the pictures were in color-but then, I guess the editorial staff wanted to create a drab set-up. Karen Kennedy has a lot to realize. Her comment: “This yearbook was based on the assumption that SA people must speak form themselves, for the differences in attitudes and worldviews are so wide as to make it foolhardy for one per son to attempt to speak for all.” (p. 264( Is this an honest conclusion to a year of college thought? I sin c PONT AUSSttj p.eii ‘fe'Tuic.t ■Accordir, To Th. Blllbo.rds, The Scen.r, Al^, Her, Is J„, Zmu' cerely doubt it. Even though I am not a student of SA. I somehow sense that the scales of balance (of attitudes Here) were weighted on ne end of the scale. I don’t think the “dif ferences in attitudes and world views” were expressed in thisl yearbook. I had to look very hard for varied opinions. I am sure that SA has some sense of optimistic awareness. (judging from my visit to SA two years , ago and from myi (Continued to Page 3) Lack Of Patrol Due To Understaffing Mr. Jeff NeiU Editor, THE LANCE Post Office Box 757 St. Andrews Presbyterian College Laurinburg, North Carolina 28352 Dear Jeff: The November 16, 1972, is sue of THE LANCE raised the question as to where was Se curity at 3:00 a. m. the morn ing of an accident near the college campus. I would share with you our situation so that there will be no misunder standings of the security schedule. In a sevea-day week, there are twenty-one eight-hour shifts to be covered. A three- man security force allows us to cover five times three, or fifteen, of the twenty-one shifts. Therefore, some discretion is required in terms of which hours are left uncovered— should they be the same hours?—should they be day or night hours? Our procedure has been to vary those hours when the security officers are away so that persons intent on theft, as an example, would never be able to Identify those uncovered hours. I would also call to your attention the fact that a se curity officer is always avail able and we have done our best to specify this fact by listing appropriate phone numbers in every single issue of the news letter which comes from the Office ofStudent Personnel Ser vices to every dorm president, vice-president, and suite lea der. There have been clear instructions that these be posted. We greatly appreciate the actions which you personally took on the morning of the accident. However, had you phoned Mr. ReVUle’s home (one of the listed numbers), he would have responded to your request for aid as quickly as he did mine. Thanks for your help and concern. Most cordially yours, Rodger W. Decker Dean of Students RWD/mqt CUicu^ *
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