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THE LANCE
Official Publication of the Student Body of St. Andrews Presbyterian CoUe,
volume 13, NUMBER 1
ST. ANDREWS PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE, LAURINBURG, N.C.
THURSDAY SEPT. 13,1973
Paul Finger, as Student
Body President, was in
strumental in withstanding
the blitz for severe rule
changes the last week of
Spring semester by the now
predominantly conservative
Student Life Committee. We
interviewed him at length-but
because of space limitations
we had to edit at least a third
of what was said.
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Lance Interviews Finger
Student Body President
“If you close dorms, you
know, you’re just restricting
people, you’re not doing them
any good. You’re not gonna
make them change their
ways, or anything.”
“Okay, I think a lot of times
faculty members haven’t
engaged themselves as
wholeheartedly as they should
into the course.”
Lance: We would like, first
of all, to get your comments on
the rule changes, Paul.
Paul; I’d like to say that all
of the rules changes that oc
curred from last year to this
year went through the Student
Life Committee, and the Stu*
dent Life Committee met
last year in the last week and a
half of school. They formed a
committee-the faculty part of
the committee-and we
organized immediately upon
finding out that they had
organized a new committee.
We dealt with issues of co
habitation, hour changes, the
drug problem, and just
general problems we had in
conununication.
Lance: Would you discuss
these different issues
separately, and elaborate on
them?
Paul: Number one, the
biggest rule change, the one
that affects the students most
directly, is the hour changes,
□osed dorms are now from
3 o’clock in the morning until 9
in the morning-and that was
as a result of a proposal by
Dean Decker to the committee
that the dorms be closed from
12 at night until 12 at noon on
week days, and from 2 in the
morning until 12 noon on
weekends.
Lance: What committee
was this exactly that proposed
this?
Paul: This was a proposal
presented by Student Per
sonnel Services, which
Decker was representing, and
from other people which I
prefer not to mention. But it
was from Student Personnel,
that the official, and they are
administrators and they’re
under the Board of Trustees.
Of course, we just disagreed
completely with that, and we
argued and said “If you close
dorms, you know, you’re just
restricting people, you’re not
doing them any good. You’re
not gonna make them change
their ways, or anything.” So,
anyway, we compromised on
the issue, to be brief. We didn’t
argue for more open hours,
‘cause we thought that would
be foolish. So we argued from
4 to 7, and we got a com
promise from 3 to 9, and that’s
what happened.
Another one of the issues
that came up and was dealt
with in the Student Life Com
mittee was the problem of
drugs, and the problem of
when someone is arrested on a
drug charge and when
someone is convicted on a
drug charge, or a felonious
charge I should say, not just
drugs, because we tried to
eliminate the drug thing as the
only issue-and made it just a
felony. One of the things we
came up with-that all of us
were in personal
disagreement with, including
the faculty, they wanted it
stricter and we wanted it
looser-was if a student is in
dited on a felonious charge,
he is required by the Honor
Code to withdraw himself
from the campus.
Lance: Whether he is con
victed, or not?
Paul: Right. He must wUh-
draw himself from his living
quarters, and live in town; he
can still attend classes, as I
understand it.
Lance: So he can still attend
classes, right?
Paul: Let me quote it for
you. “Withdraw themselves
from campus residency until
that charge has been resolved
by civil authorities.” If and
when he is proven guilty, he
will be asked to remove him
self from the school, not just
residency but from classes,
and if he is proven not guilty,
he’ll be taken back into the
dorm and be reimbursed for
the entire time that he was
out. Also, if in the event
Student Personnel is led to
investigate a complaint con
cerning the possession of con
trolled substances-
Lance: Marijuana.
Paul; Marijuana. Okay, if
they find out about this and
kick a person off campus, the
student may appeal to a
special committee which was
set up by Student Life, so that
Student Personnel Services
would not be the final word.
Last year they had some com
plaints that Student Personnel
was being unjust.
Lance: Last year wasn’t the
system set up so that you were
supposed to go before a
residence court before you
were removed from the cam
pus?
Paul; That I’m not ab
solutely sure of.
Lance: Do you think that it
is ethically right that person
has to leave this campus
before they’re proven in
nocent or guilty?
Paul: Ethically I disagree
with it. I personally feel that it
just has no substance-but in
light of the situation that the
Student Life Committee was
in and the pressures from
above, the Board of Trustees,
the faculty, administration,
and a group of concerned
students, we felt on the Com
mittee that it was ethically
wrong, but we had to come to
the realization that this was
the best way to deal with the
problem now, rather than
have it dealt with strictly by
the administration. It was a
definite compromise. They
were concerned with image of
the college.
(Continued on page 3)
Work Progressing On
New Rehab Center
Many students have been
wondering what that new par
tition of the gymnasium
represents. It is an extension
of the old weight room, or
could it possibly be a new set
of hand-ball courts? It is
neither. That new partition is
none other than the new re
habilitation and health center
complex. This new center
which has long been needed
(as the other health and re
hab centers are out-moted by
many years) is a first in
making the handicapped
student, primarily the
quadraplegic student, adjust
to the rigors of everyday
college life.
According to Dr. Urie, head
of this new project, this
development entails life in a
more natural environment
with friends one can relate to
and discuss problems; not a
hospital where your problems
are settled in some staff
meeting. True, there will be
such needed services as a
twenty-four-hour nurse, and of
course the old college aid and
off campus attendant will still
be there to help out. But it is
the goal of this new approach,
as Dr. Urie pointed out “to
eliminate or hopefully
change the alienation caused
by the quote: “rehabilitation
mode” which is created by the
quadraplegic’s constant need
for help.” This new approach
is further emphasized by Dr.
Urie’s use of the efficiency
apartment which will be held
for the upper class
quadraplegic student so that
he may overcome his
problems by doing the
everyday chores one would
carry on in his or her own
apartment such as cooking
and cleaning. In his know
ledge that he can cope with
these problems he may go on
to adjust to a new world of in
dependence, self-confidence
and self-care.
After having listened closely
to some of the gripes and
Questions of the wheelies, I
questioned Dr. Urie on some
of the points such as living
quarters, care, and luxuries;
such as leaving the complex
when one wanted to. One, this
new complex will hopefully
not have the air of a hospital,
or clinic, rather it will be a
rare and plush place to live
with fully carpeted rooms, (a
kitchen w'here one may cook
his own meals, this is a cen
tralized area for all para and
quadraplegic students, nur
ses, and staff to use) paneling,
and private baths. And yes, if
you are not under constant
care you will be able to come
and go as you please. Also you
will have the advantage of re
ceiving personal care when
and if you need it; it will not be
forced upon anyone. If you are
a paraplegic who wants to live
in this new complex you may
find it difficult because the
complex is primarily for
qua(i-aplegics, you would, ac
cording to Dr. Urie, “probably
find yourself turned down.”
Many students, especially
the wheelchair students, feel
that this complex will be a big
clinic for handicapped stu
dents. And Dr. Urie? He still
feels that this new complex
will solve many of the pro
blems which face the quadra
plegic. Both will begin to be
answered only when this new
complex is completed.
BY MIKE GREENE
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