(Contnued from Page 2) student and pet will both be evicted. Follow-up of war nings from the Dean of Housing are a rule, not an ex ception, and nearly every violation reported has resulted in the pet’s im mediate and permanent removal, or the eviction of the student. But the “other side” of the campus has not been quite so conscientious. The academic and top ad ministrative employees of this college enjoy a wealth of assumed privileges to in sulate their positions from the students they teach. Seveal professors have long enjoyed the close proximity of their residences to their place of employment. Unfortunately several of these professors’ dogs have found their owners’ place of work and rather than train the dogs to stay away, as one would if located near a highway, the concept of privilege was expanded to include the presence of these particular dogs. Ac cording to state and school laws “faculty dogs” were and are illegal; Dr. Hart’s letter obviously included faculty dogs as subject to removal. But the faculty-policing body was not nearly as con scientious (or simply laced in- tegriy) as the student-policing body. Until recently, that is how the matter has stood. This year an unusually large number of stray dogs have ac cumulated on campus, promp ting many faculty and studen ts to question whether or not something should be done. In addition, an increasing num ber of students have illegally tried to hide dogs in the dor ms. Several students forced to get rid of dogs wondered why, when so many strays and faculty dogs were left free to roam. At least one student went to the trouble to remove all identification from her own dog in order to afford it the “freedom” of a campus dog. The Housing Office in addition was advised by ad ministration higher-ups to do something to remove the dogs from campus. Two alter natives were possible for removing strays; if the Laurinburg dogcatcher was called, he would be obligated to try to catch the dogs. But the dogcatcher has a habit of legally shooting on the spot any stray dogs he cannot cat ch with reasonable effort. To avoid this, the Housing Office had to remoe the strays, and Dr. Hart was informed of this plan before spring break. An impartial faculty member claims that within the past two weeks another letter was ^stributed to faculty saying that all dogs found on campus had to and would be removed. On April 18 a member of the Housing Office and a con cerned student caught as —^ny dogs as they could find BOB'S JEWEL SHOP Place to 9® for all your •^®we/ry needs Main St, College Plaza on campus and released them ^armed six to eight miles off campus rather than take them to the Laurinburg pound on the advice of several people famdiar with the often deadly holding pens at the pound for new dogs. As chances for sur vival at the pound for any dog are very slim, the dogs were released in an area of many farms providing them with an excellent probability of adop tion. Very soon afterwards the Housing Office representative was accused of stealing and Illegally abandoning a dog, by a faculty member who has for years blatently refused to keep his dog off campus The Dean of the CoUege, whose decision one would assume constitute official policy fur thCT stated that the Housing Office was doing a good job in removing strays, but that faculty dogs were not to be removed. A deliberately misguiding poster has been put on the lost-and-found board claiming the dogs were stolen. Nowhere does anyone admit the obvious truth: am ple wamig was given that all dogs on campus were liable to be removed at any time by an authorized persons, and that the two dogs were legally and propfe% removed and dis posed of. As hopefully matur ing students are we to be in duced to stop thing every time a professor speaks. Are we to accept half truths, con tradictions and logic bor dering on immaturity from our instructors and ad ministration. . This school ad vertises “teachers not above the class” . . .are you sure.. Finally, is the student body of this school ready to find the truth, or are we all content to accept whatever fantastic story we are told.. I hope that anyone not believing what is written in this letter will ask someone who knows what hap pened, rather than his room mate. RICHARD RODERICK THURSDAY, APRH, 25,1974 Kerr Recital At 8:00 p.m 20 ^ rr, a junior piano maior here at St. Andrews gavTone he outstanding perfor mances of the year in fiis rf ^ pianist. The repertoir for the recital great Bach Prnw"”'' to the ^okofiev 2nd Sonata. Kerr’s playing provided a variety of keyboard color and showed great subtlety, particularly in the Chopin F minor Ballade Along with the Mozart A minor Rondo, Kerr’s program showed a diversity of musical sensitivities. (Continued From Page l) nels. Therefore, he discussed we situation with Dean Mc Nair and Officer Reville. S^ler reported RevUle as animal ^ P”vate property. that to avoid what might have been A major crisis of shooting on p^PUS, the members of mat ter and he rechecked with Reville as to what was per- missable to do and then picked up the two black hounds. S^er stressed that, con- cho?p*"^h-^^^ possible STfr’ ® what he beheved to be the most humane thing to do in carrying out his job. Salzler f he did not see any i^dentification on Flappy however, Ludlow stated the dog had a collar with tags Ludlow said that Flappy was a registered hound and his private property on which he fk . ®very year. He said that the dog could be taken by due process of the law. ihe Othpr Hncr o^ier reported RevUle as «ue process of the law. tellmg him to take the dogs off p according to campus, not to the pound. ^^“ler had no identifinafinn Reville was not available to verify this statement. Salzler gave reasons for the proposed procedure. There are several alternatives for removing stray dogs. One would be to take them to the Pound. Salzler claimed that the con ditions in the Pound are so poor that a movement has been started in Laurinburg to organize a humane society to ^ke legal action against the Pound as violating state law Therefore, he stated that to take dogs to the Pound would probably harm them; he ad ded that a dog was reported to have contacted rabies from a rat while in the Pound. A second alternative would be to call the Board of Halth to send a dog warden on campus to remove the dogs. A statement made by Salzler in regard to the warden’s res^nsibility was verified by an official at the Scotland Countv H_^lth Department. If the warden is unable to catch the dogs, he is legally bound to shoot the animal if the warden has been c 1 10 Salzler had no identification also. Salzler said that a student who owns Elsie had been asked to remove the dog or place it in a kennel. The doe was put in the kennel for a day or two; then, according to ^Izler, the girl took her out of the Kennel and removed all *l®"tification. Salzler said, therefore, if the dog is found she won’t be returned; he added, if Ludlow’s dog does have identification, she will be returned when found; however, Ludlow does not hold much hope for his dog. He said that she was too old to last and was “probably dead now ” Salzler added that he had spent 350 miles looking for the dog in token of feeling for Ludlow’s family. Ludlow said that he heard rumors on Friday about the disappearance of Falppy. These rumors were confirmed ROCK/NG mm ^ Cinema ^ Gihson PAGE FIVE feough a conversation with Salzler. Ludlow said Salzler gave him directions to the spot vjere he dumped the dogs. These directions, when foHowed, ended up the the middle of Gibson. After a second set of incorrect direc tions, Ludlow sad he talked with Decker and again with Salzer -a4 found the spot on Sunday afternoon according to a third set of directions. As for legal action, Ludlow has talked with lawyers and was scheduled to talk with the county prosecutorf however, he said he didn’t want to hurt Salzler, but he wanted to change the school’s policy to a new one. He said his first con cern was the dogs; secondly, he wishes to awaken the ad ministration to the thoughtlessness of the people within it. Ludlow said he had been ex pecting he might have to one day retrieve Flappy from the Pound; that, in his opinion, would have been reasonable. He said that his dog very rarely had been near the cafeteria and the' dorms. Ludlow also added that the ad ministration should have taken action sooner instead of bitching without doing anything; however the action taken was not in his opinion in accordance with the laws governing his private proper ty. It was, in his words, “a sick and stupid” thing to do. To date, the dogs have not been found. In general cam- piK sympathy seems to lie with Professor Ludlow; however, it is evident that fur ther investigation is called for . The problem is due to come up before the next Student Life Committee meeting to see if the rules concerning dogs on campus should be enforced. 27MS60 • Celb9« PWs Sboppbg Center | STARTS FRIDAY BUTCH & THE KK> ARE BACKI BUTCH CASSIDY AND I THE SUNDANCE KID' I Panavrspor*. Color by OeLuxe* iPd ^8^ 3:00-5:00-7:00-9:00 NOW PLAYING ACTION AS YOU LIKE ITl "Bamboo Gods and Iron Men" R 3:00-5:00-7K)0-9:00 LATE FUCK mu t1;oo PM ADUL "MAD DOGS AND ENGLISHMEN" R ADM. 51.50 - ADVANCED ADM. $1.00 TIL 9 P. M. 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