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Thursday, April 3,1975
IHE LANCE
THE LANCE
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Box 757.
Editorial
St. Andrews
Students:
Ho Hum
Letters
• • •
''CrSught on Dear Ge*nde Past, and on Them
Present-Or is that No Thought at all.
“Would they like it?”
would they like it, would they
if he said they should
would they like it?
would they like it if he told them
if he told them, if he told them
would they like it. Would they like it then.
If het told them.
If Whitney told ttiem.
would they like it. would they like it then.
If he told them.
would they thnik it “neat”
if he told them, if he told them,
would they think it “neat,” then
If hetoldftem.
Would they think it “swell”
If he told them, if he said it,
would they think it “swell”
If he said it then.
would they think it then
Would they ? Would they? Would they
think it then. If Whitney told them
No
they would not think, would not
think not, would not, would not think.
If he told them. Would they? Would they?
A resemblance of things past, by Skip Taylor
Farewell Phil
Today was an important day
at St. Andrews. Intertwined
throughout the proceedings
and ceremonies attending Mr.
Perkinson’s election as
president was the theme of
making a new committment to
the college'.
More than any oOier group
on campus, the student body
needs to do just that-make a
new committment-as the one
they are operating under now
is certainly nothing to write
home about. Take the ongoing
elections process, for exam
ple. Winston Churchill
remarked once that demon-
cracy was the worst form of
government there was except
for all the rest, but at St. An
drews it looks to be the worst-
period. Only a paltry number
of students even bothered to
consider self-nomination,
and an even more paltry
assortment actually did. Two
cabinet posts-one of them the
presidency itself-went uncon
tested,
If you think that’s bad, just
wait. There’s more. Last
night’s dorm forum at Orange
produced eighteen candidate
and six-count ’em-six studen
ts. Tonight’s promises to be no
better unless the unexpected
The Power
Of Public
Opinion
Several weeks ago there ap
peared in this space an
editorial crticizing the
Wachovia banking house for
illumniating its thirty-two
story office tower in Charlotte
all night long, and urging
readers to write Wachovia in
jM-otest.
Many did. Their comments,
along with those of many
readers of The Charlotte Ob
server, were duly received by
the bank. Last Saturday night,
while driving through Charlot
te, the editcH- noted with
(Measure that the lights are
now off. C(Higratulations to all
wbo took part.
occurs and someone actually
becomes interested today.
The baseball team folded up
before spring break. One of
Uie causes of its demise-not
enough people. Tlie Lance is
grossly understaffed. The
yearbook is in comparable
shape. On a campus with as
many loud and vociferous
critics of practically
everything, it is truly amazing
to watch them all scurry off in
to the woodwork when
something like elections,
which offer them the chance to
do something about the things
they criticize, comes around.
A new attitude is sorely
needed here, and needed quite
soon. St. Andrews as has been
said and ignored so many
times, needs an active student
body to grow and prosper.
Too many, far too many stu
dents, however, take the
approach to such things as did
Scarlett O’Hara in “Gone
With The Wind”: ‘'Fiddle-
dee^ee, Rhett, I’ll worry
about that tomorrow.” Scar
lett found out, though, as the
students here may well learn
before all is said and done,
that tomorrow might be too
late.
Laurinburg - Dr. Jeffrey T.
Gross, assistant Professor of
English at St. Andrews
Presbyterian College, has
received a grant from the
National Endowment for the
Humanities’ Summer
Seminar Program.
Dr. Gross, who holds the
Hi.D. from the University of
Virginia, will participate in
the NEH program which is
especially designed to give
college teachers a chance to
do advanced work with
promising scholars in their
own fields.
The elections roll around
Monday. As noted in these
columns last week and this
week as well, apathy seems
headed for a landslide victory,
with a number of lesser can
didates trailing behind. While
most of the people who rouse
themselves to wonder at all
are wondering who the new
students government officers
wiD be, a few are wondering
what will become of the old of
ficers. Take, for example,
Richmond, Virginia’s favorite
son, Phillip A. Bradley.
Sometime Monday, after the
buying and selling is con
cluded and the profits are
divided out among the mem
bers, the Elections Board will
certify the election of a new
Gross will study 18th Cen
tury Art and Literature
(Satire) with Professor
Ronald Paulson, Andrew
Mellon, Professor of
Humanities at Jdins Hopkins
University, Baltimore, from
June 23 though August 15. His
award includes a $2,000.00
grant, plus expenses, ac
cording to NEH.
Professor Gross’ home is
High Point, Norili Carolina. In
addition to The University of
Virginia, he has a graduate
degree from the University of
Chicago.
president and statesman.
Bradley will become a has-
been.
Public reaction to Bradley’s
imminent departure has been
mixed. One said, “Really.. I
thought it’d never happen.”
Others just laughed
hysterically. Still others,
quoting a widely circulated
expression spurred by a
recent Dialogue, shrugged
and said, “Who’s Phil
Bradley.
With Bradley remaining
studiously silent about his
plans, several theories are
making the rounds. One holds
that he plans to drop a course,
be unable to graduate, and
To the Editor:
In response to a recent Lan
ce article about the new image
of Mecklenburg Hall, let me
simply say that certainly,
someday, people will look
back upon the legacy of Old
Meek and nod their heads in
appreciative dignity,
recognizing the freedom and
creativity which its unique
espirt de corps and tradition
nurtured. Thevitality and con
tagious enthusiasm for lear
ning and experimentation
which it came to represent
shall not be soon forgotten.
Perhaps in twenty, even for
ty years, when the true worth
of Old Meek is finally com
prehended by those who con
demn it now, and Old
Mecklenburg Dorm Festival
will be held, and a geodesic
dome fashioned out of empty
Black Label and Old
Milwaukee returnable bottles
in conmioration.
Eric P. Lawson ’74
Richmond, Virginia
thus be back next year.
Another is that he is clan
destinely transferring the
student government to the
Alumni Office, with the un
derstanding that Charlie
Parrish will set up a com
mittee (yes, with Bradley in
charge) consisting of all St.
Andrews alumni who are also
former student body presiden
ts to oversee it.
Hardly one to be
demoralized by the fact that
his presidency is about to turn
into a pumpkin ( “But how can
a lemon turn into a pump
kin.a staff member won
ders over my shoulder) Presi
dent Phil spent the last days
before spring break exhorting
and encouraging his fellow
students to participate in the
democratic process. “Just
sign here, “he was overheard
saying,” and I’ll fiU in the of
fice you want. “Another
example of Phil’s ability to in
spire trust was exemplified by
a conversation between two
students the day before self-
nominations ended.
“Are you running?”
“I don’t know. Phil hasn’t
told me yet.”
“Well, if you do, what’ll you
run for.
“I don’t know. He hasn’t told
me that either.”
The end begins tomorrow.
Hail and farewell, Phil
Bradley. You’ll be gone, but
not forgotten, for, as the
saying goes, old presidents
never die, they just get their
budgets slowly r^uced.
-Lin Thon»?s®®
GROSS WINS GRANT
Dr. Jeffrey T. Gross
'N.