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Nixon Hurts Party - Phillips
THURSDAY, MARCH 21.1974
“Impeachment could become
an extremely drawn out
process”, syndicated colum
nist Kevin Riillips told his St.
Andrews’ audience last night
in the LAA. “It could be the
focal point of the fall elec
tion." Phillips referred to the
legal tangles which would
surely involve the im
peachment process if it were
to take place, and predicted
that the trial would not be
concluded until the spring of
1975. He pointed out that
many questions concerning
the legitimacy of the jury (i.e.
the Senate) and the
legitimacy of the procedures
of impeachment would be
subject to judicial review.
Impeachment, therefore,
would be a complicated web
which might throw the U.S.
into serious turmoil,
especially if foreign nations
were to take advantage of the
confusiwi. While not explicitly
calling for President Nixon’s
resignation, RiiUips, a con
servative Republican who
was chief “political voting
pattern analyst” for Nixon’s
1968 campaign, indicated that
both the country and the
Republican Party would be
best served by Nixon’s depar
ture from office.
“If the President were to
resign within six weeks or so,
and Jerry Ford came in, I
think you’s see the party rally
around the flag.” He
dismissed the recent GOP
losses in special
Congressional elections as in
consequential, saying that
these were anti-Nixon, not an-
ti-Party decisions of the elec
torate. Hiillips’ point was
that Nixon’s resignation
would not badly injure his
party, even in the 1974 elec
tions. If, on the otherhand,
Nixon is still in office in No
vember, and impeachment
Typical” W eekendPlanned
Younger Brother-Sister
weekend will be ^ril 26-28.
This is an attempt to show
high school age people S.A.
during a “typical” weekend.
“Typical” weekend in the sen
se that the events planned
represent the variety of ac
tivities found on the S. A. cam
pus. It will be a weekend
without speeches from any
branch of the school, for it is
an attempt to create a feeling
for the natural S. A. at
mosphere. It will also be suite
oriented, so that in addition to
the planned events, suite
members will entertain and
house their guests. There
should be information sheet on
the door of each suite. This
,£i^^lso provides space for
people to list the names of
their guests, "niis is important
because we need an ap
proximate number in order
for meals to be planned and
other arrangement to be
made. We need this in
formation the week following
spring break, so please write
or talk to Kith and Kin before
or during this time.
Proposed schedule of even
ts:
Regular classes-afternoon.
Piano Recital-8:00, Movie,
Bedazzled-9:00.
‘Saturday: Faculty
Divisional Coffeehouse 10-11,
Poetry Reading-4:00,
Farrago, Square Dance -
evening
Don’t make any plans at all for the weekend after Spring-
break-April 5th and 6th! The College Union Board is sponsoring
really exciting weekend for everyone! llie name properly
given to this spring weekend is Bacchanalia. For those who
have not heard enough about the Bacchanalia three years ago,
or did not learn your Greek mythology, Bacchanalia is an “an
cient Roman (or Greek) festival in honor of Bacchus, the god of
"^e and revelry”. Details of events will be given on return
from spring break but here are a few previews of what to ex
pect: (all times and events subject to change)
Friday, AprU 5
Outside cookout by Epicure
Hootennany 7:00-1:00
P^aturing Blue Grass Experience other known
Diuegrass artists”
^ntest for the students with the above professional as judges
"ices: Ist-^o, 2nd-$25.
^turday, April 6
■ j^drews Olympics - Marathon Race 10:30
types of races covering entire S.A. campus -
teams of lo males/10 females
Jiitside lunch by Epicure
acchanalia Carnival 1:00-5:00
featuring Flea Market, Student Booths of
, j *^afts, and Art, Amusement Rides
. Andrews BasebaU Game
Is Powder Puff Football Game 3:30
of p/ous Dinner by Epicure
Elmo’s Fire
Nn^ fk other bands!
you have some idea of what’s going to happen
St.
St.
pip, “ Jiave some laea or wnai s guuig ^
Wp f 1 plans to stay around campus April 5th and 6th.
feel
"'atcht(
it will be one GREAT WEEKEND. One to remember.
or more details.
Hamill
procedures are taking place,
I can imagine 50-60 Congres
sional and 4-5 Senatorial
seats being lost.” Such a de
feat would give the Demo
crats power to override Presi
dential vetoes, if the Con
gress was to vote strictly
along party lines.
Phillips, however, is even
more cynical about the
Congress’ competence than
the President’s. “If Congress
gets the ball they’re going to
fumble.” He referred to the
Nixon Administration’s ten
dency for the “forward fum
ble”. They’re so incompetent
they’ll fumble the ball but the
Congress will pick it up and
fumble it back at a point far
ther up the field than the Ad
ministration started, he
analogized. “If the
Democratic Congress is in the
spotlight for the next three
years, the Republicans think
maybe they can win in ‘76
with the ^ston Strangler,”
Phillips commented.
Beyond his constant
cynicism toward the political
process, Phillips showed a
deep concern about the future
of the nation because of a
very serious leadership crisis.
He considers nobody an out
standing 1976 Presidential
candidate. “If Jerry Ford
Becomes President within the
next year (of which there’s a
to Vs chance), he’s almost
certain to be renominated in
’76.” Ford, he predicted,
could probably form a coali
tion with Southern Demo-
crats-who recently have tend
ed to vote Republican in Pres
idential elections, forming the
basis for Riillips’ concept of
the emerging Republican
majority-to win in 1976,
despite the impact of
Watergate.
Phillips discounted Nelson
Rockefeller as “too old” for a
serious Presidential bid. Of
Ronald Reagan, he said, “I
think a movie actor is not
going to run for President.”
He discounted James Buckley
as having “no political sav
vy” and said that Charles
Percy is considered a
“posturing little twerp” by
the Republican Party
establishment.
^ring Convocation Speaker Dr. Proctor.
Proctor To Speak
At Convocation
At the coming together of
the college community this
spring, April 8 at 7:30 in
Harris Courts, Dr. Samuel D.
Proctor will be the guest
speaker. He is the second lec
turer in the Staley Lecture
Series.
Currently Dr. Proctor is a
Professor of Education at the
Graduate School of Education
(Martin Luther King
Memorial Chair) at Rutgers
University in New Brunswick,
New Jersey. He is also the
Senior Minister in the
Abyssinian Baptist Church in
New York Ciity.
Dr. Proctor is a native of
Virginia and is an alumnus of
Virginia Union University
(1942), Crozer Seminary
(1945), and Boston University
(1950), earning the doctorate
at the latter in ethics. Other
graduate study was done in
sociology at the University of
Pennsylvania and in ethics at
Yale University.
Beginning his career as a
minister in the Pond Street
Baptist Church, in Rhode
Island (1945-49) and as a
teacher and dean at Virginia
Union University (1949-55) he
has since served as President
of Virginia Union University
(1955-60) and North Carolina A
& T University (1960-64) and
held administrative positions
with the Peace Corps,
National Council of Churches,
Office of Economic Op
portunity, Institution for Ser
vices to Education and the
University of Wisconsin.
Dr. Proctor has traveled ex
tensively in Europe and Africa
and has served on the gover
ning boards of many univer
sities. In 1964 he received an
outstanding Alumnus Award
at Boston University and in
1966 a Distinguished Service
Award by the State University
of of New York in Plat
tsburgh. He has received
honorary doctorate decrees
from Bryant College, David
son College, Stillman College,
University of Rhode Island,
Virginia Union University and
others.
Dr. Proctor is the author of
“The Young Negro in
America”, 1966, and many ar
ticles in various journals such
as “Liberal Education,”
“Journal of Negro History,”
etc.
Philosophy Major Instituted
Congratulations—Mr. and
Mrs. Mark Smith for the birth
of a new daughter born March
19, 1974.
Floyd Blackwell, director of
the P.E. Center, has asked
the Lance to express his
gratification to faculty, staff,
and students for the kindness
shown him during his recent
hospitalization. Blackwell
was deeply touched by his
many calls, cards and
visitors. ■
Blackwell has recuperated
rapidly from surgery for
removal of a benign tumor
and has returned to work at
St. Andrews.
The addition of a major in
philosophy is the major
change in the revision of the
Division of Religion and
Philosophy program recently
passed by the faculty com
mittee.
The new philosophy major
requires twelve courses, in
cluding eight 300400 level
courses. The addition of a
major in philosophy resulted
from the philosophy depart
ment recently meeting the
requirements of the American
Riilosophical Association.
Both the religion major
and the religion and
philosophy major have also
been revised. Previously
unofferred, a contract major
is now available for religion
majors. This change as well
as the addition of senior
guided independent studies,
are planned to allow the
religion major to concentrate
his studies in a field ot special
interest to him.
Plans are also made to ex
pand the present curriculum,
revising several courses of
fered presently. With the ad
dition of new coureses, the
division hopes to increase the
offerings in Philosophy by ap
proximately fifty per cent-
New courses include
Riilosophy of Science, Ad
vance Logic, and at least one
special studies course each
year.