THE LANCE
Publication of the Student Body of St. Andrews Presby terian College
VOL. 13 NO. 11 'ST- ANDREWS PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE, LAURINBURG, N.C THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28,1974
Cutbacks Made
In Maintenance
To continue the reports
from different areas of the
college Mr. Wade Hendrix
was contacted this week for a
discussion of the effect of the
cutbacks on his staff. The
Physical Plant was cut both
in personnel and budget as all
departments of the
college have been. Although
the quota to cut was 10
positions, he actually only had
to cut 3. The staff has had to
double up quite a bit and yet
they continue “to do the best
they can.”
Mr. Hendrix did not have to
cut 10 positions because 3 of
these 10 positions were empty
and 3 people had recently
retired. One person quit and 3
others he had to let go. From
a total of 44 employees there
are now 34 which means that
this has increased everyone’s
workload. Some of the results
of these cuts will be; a
slowing down on being able to
respond to work-orders from
the dorms, yard care reduced
to a minimum and lack of
time and staff to move fur
niture, etc. for students. (T^ie
ground crew was 10 and it i^
now 4). Mr. Hendrix said that
vehicles would always be
provided for students’ needs
to move things and that he
and his staff would try to keep
up with workorders as best
they could. He was anxious
for students to know that they
have not given up and that
they will continue to try and
keep up everything.
Whenever there is a major
breakdown somewhere all
other problems have to be
neglected for awhile.
Some students noticed
failure in the heating system
recently, which turns out to
have been a result of trouble
with the boiler. This problem
was complicated by the fact
that Mr. Hendrix had had to
cut the shifts for the boiler
room from 3 to 2 and then
finally to 1. The shift had left
at 4:30 one day and no one
was there to catch the
problem at its beginning. It is
repaired now, however.
Of course, prices are going
up everywhere and the
Physical Plant can not avoid
that fact. Fuel oil has gone
from 13 and 9/10 cents to 30
9/10 cents a gallon. The motor
fans in the heaters (individual
dorm rooms) will begin to
wear out soon-these were $34
a piece and are now $50.
There is an area in which
students can actively help he
Physical Plant in ijs overload
of work, that is, to take care
of die areas that we live in
and are partially responsible
for. It is not just major events
that are co^ly but also par
ties, unnecessary trash, bot
tles, and cigarettes thrown
around which are rarely
cleaned up by the students
themselves.
Students could also help by
keeping a look out for destruc
tive forces which have caused
around $400 worth of damage
in the last 2 weeks.
College Anticipates
Large Deficit
Many questions have oc
curred concerning the finan
cial status of the college. In or
der to answer some of these
questions , a reporter from
The Lance talked to Dr. Julian
Davis, Business Manager here
at St. Andrews.
Mr. Davis said that at the
beginning of the fiscal year
the college had anticipated a
deficit of $232,000.00 It was
planned that the next year
would even things out. All of
this was planned before
enrollment was known for this
year. This factor would have
led to a $400,000.00 deficit if
immediate action had not
been taken ie. the faculty cut
back. Through these cut backs
the deficit prospected is
$280,000.00. Also, the college
expects next year’s
enrollment to be ap
proximately the same as it
was at the beginning of Fall
Term ’73, which will be a
stablizing factor.
Another factor that many
Noted Poet To Read
people are not aware of is that
mere are several other funds
besides the operating budget.
The college has 2.5 million
dollars in endowments,
$1,300,000 in securities and a
physical plant worth
$20,000,000 to draw from.
Major fund raising projects
are in operatin for next year
and program development
will come from funds other
than the operating budget.
The trustees have renewed
their commitment to the
school and are doing all they
can to help, says Dr. Davis.
Dr. Davis stated that the
college is not in the hole
because of interfund
borrowing. The only debt out
side the coUege is the debt to
the Federal Government for
the unpaid balance on dor
mitory bonds. «
Dr. Davis does not believe
the college is on the verge of
bankruptcy. Immediate ac
tion was needed to curb the
slide and immediate action
was taken.
On Friday night the Black
Mountain Festival will con
tinue with its series of
distinguished poetry readings
with Robert Greeley, who
taught a Black Mountain
College during the fifties.
Greeley is the author of
several books of poetry-
including For Love, The Whip,
All that Is Lovely In Men,
Words, A Form of Women,
and a novel, The Island. His
writings-poetry, fiction, and
criticism-^ave appeared in
numerous magazines here and
abroad, and his books are now
being published in several
European countries, including
England, France and Ger
many. He has made extensive
reading tours both in this
country and in England. He
has been the recipient of
several awards for his work-
most notably a Rockefeller
Grant and a Guggenheim
Grant to work abroad.
Creeley, according to one
critic, “belongs to the main
stream of modern poetry from
William Carlos Williams,
Pound, and Zukofsky to the
present experimental
writers.” Long labeled, as a
“Black Mountain poet”,
Creeley has developed a style
uniquely his own that defies
such easy categorizing. His
poems tend to be miniatures-
that is, he writes in short,
quick lines, carefully
measured and drawn that, at
their best, are intense in the
emotional impact they con
vey. There is joyous beauty
and force in the compression
of his poems-in the way Cree
ley selectively discards what
is superfluous or obtuse for ly
ric epigrams that are lean,
truthful and wire-taunt on the
page. Each word is carefully
weighed for its rhythmic
possibility, and then placed
together-perhaps welded
would be a better word- into
tight, quick stanzas that grab
the reader with the un
derstatement and power they
incur so forcefully that one is
hesitant to accept the jolting
truth, they have received-and
thus, no single poem by
Creeley, and especially his
later poems, can be read once
but rather must be read
several times, slowly, dif
fusing the strength his lines
emanate and envying the ten
se beautyt underneath. In ap
pearances, Creeley’s style is
rather like that of a light
weight boxer-compact,
graceful and quick, yet the
power they release is
heavyweight in its impact;
bonehard and staggering, un-
Williams
Last Wednesday, Jonathan
Williams gave a reading
"before an almost capacity
audience in the
Williams’ reading had a dif
ferent tone than the other
distinguished poets who
preceeded him in the series of
poetry readings in connection
with the Black Mountaia.
Festival. The poetry that he
read was richly humouroi^-
which brought forth in
termittent and enthusiastic
applause-and, at tinies,
rather ribald in an appealmg
and irreverent style. Much of
his poetry is derived directly
from the lidiom of the North
Carolina Mountain people; he
forgettable.
Reads
is intrigued with the natural
music of their language, and
often puts it down on paper
verbatim, making only the ap
propriate line breaks, thereby
constructing poetry out of a
rich and humourous language-
-that might, otherwise, have
been lost.
Williams feels that poetry
is, quite literally, everywhere,
and one needn’t travel around
to find it, though he is
something of a traveller him
self. He feels, though, that the
best poetry he has written has
come from common people-
that is, farmers, gas station
attendants, grandmothers, old
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Fiedler And
Fox Coming
The Black Mountain Festi
val continues this weekend
and Monday with Leslie Fied
ler and Hugh Fox appearing
for readings and lectures.
Leslie Ffedler, in-
tematioinally recognized as
one of America’s most
provocative literary critics,
could well be one of the most
exciting speakers to visit St.
Andrews Wing the festival.
He is the author of three books
forming a trilogy dealing with
the sexual myths of America:
“Love and Death in the
American Novel,” “Waiting
for the End”, and “Return of
the Vanishing American”. He
starts with our primeval past
and carries his observations to
the present in order to see
what myths we really live by.
A man of very controversial
opinion, Fiedler’s in
terpretations of various
literary works--from
Shakespeare to Mark Twain-
have drawn outraged respon
ses from traditionalists. He
will be sitting in on classes
Friday and will talk on the in
fluence of Black Mountain in
American arts and letters in
the 1950’s and 1960’s on
Satudayat8p.m.
Hugh Fox is a professor of
American Thought and
Language at Michigan State
University and is the editor of
“Ghost-Dance”, an important
journcd of avant-garde poetry.
He is a well known poetic and
historical critic, much of his
writing having been published
and widely circulated. On
Monday, March 4, Fox will ap
pear in the lounge of the
Student Union to read. An un
disclosed event is to take place
during reading.
Cage To Perform
Recognized as two of the
most influential artists of con
temporary music and dance,
John Cage, compser and Mer-
ce Cunningham, dancer and
choreographer, will perform
March 5 at Scotland County
High School Auditorium.
Cage, a highly controversial
figure in modem compostion,
has abandoned the traditional
structure of composition and
art to pursue what he feels is a
more relevant art for modem
man. This art, as he explains
it, attempts ‘ ‘to wake up” man
“to the very life we’re living,”
by making man aware of the
massive changes constantly
surrounding him in the world.
To reveal these changes. Cage
structures his music by time
units rather than classicial
rythym. In so doing, he
allows chance and in
determinancy to structure the
music and create a new ex-
perence in living in which self-
expression has no part.
The avant-grade activities
of Cage reach into many areas
of experimental music. His in-
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