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Thursday, May 8,1975 page TWO THE LANCE staff Editor Managing Editor Vanessa Holdsworth Sports Editor Phillips Advertising Managers Jim Brice Mark Powell Art Editor Susan Bainbridge Business Manager Rowe Campbel Contributions this week: Richard Hudson Acting Advisor Dr. WilUam Loftus The Lance subscribes to tiie St. Andrews Code of Responsibility in its editorial policy. Signed editorials reflect the opinion of the author, while unsigned comment represents a consensus of staff opinion. Views expressed are not necessarily those of the college. Letters are welcomed but subject to space limitations. Box 757. Editorial Yes, Virginia, There Is Still A Lance To all of those students who were curious about the exclusion of the college newspaper from the newly arrived yearbook, let the word go forth: We’re still here. We are inclined to protest with vigor this omission, however, in light of the number of groups who did manage to find their way into the volume. WSAP did, as did the College Christian Council, the St. Andrews studies course and several others. Needless to say, we do not begrudge their good fortune. What makes us cruious is why Lighthouse, a Laurinburg counseling service with no connections to St. Andrews at all other than that a few students work there, got a page, and why an another entire page was occupied by songs of praise of parachuting. If such extraneous material can fiAd its place in the yearbook at the expense of regular college organizations, it may be well to see just how valuable the large investment of student funds the annual requires is. Yearbooks are the sort of things that tend to be treated with studied indifference most of the time. Here, for example, a large, shamefully large, number of students don’t even bother to have their picture taken to be included in this bound volume of nostalgia. Question its existence, however, and the response is usually swift and loud in its favor. Yet question we will-why do we need one? It costs a greal deal, but its quality cannot be guaranteed by the expense. Gathering a staff is always a problem, as it was this year. Many people don’t even pick their copy up. As late as it is this year, there is no chance of any real examination of this question this year or next. Their needs to be, though. There are bound to be cheaper alternatives, or at least ways to ensure that the yearbook will cover those things which are important on campus-such as The Lance, which publishes twenty-two or more issues every year in spite ofan appalling budget and a smaD staff, or the Student Association government, which appropriates the funds for them to use in the first place. Some of the optimists on the staff of The Lance note that it could have been worse-we were at least quoted twice. True enough, but if you see the source of the quote and aren’t connected with the college, how do you know what The Lance is? An important function of )3 yearbook is topresentthe college an its activities to the public, and entirely too many things were left out. Short staffedness is undboutedly a problem, but not to the extent of the incompleteness of the yearbook. Be that as it may, though, rest assured there is a Lance, yearbook or not. McNair Wins Grant Letters . . . dean McNAIR Assistant Dean of Students David McNair has recently been awarded a Graduate Alumni Fellowship from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dean McNair, who holds a BS degree^/om Fayetteville State and an MA from Columbia University, will be working on his doc torate degree in the field of counseling and plans to return to St. Andrews for the 1976-77 year. To'nie Editor: Unfair pditics cost the win ter soccer team its netful place in the state playoffs last week. Despite everything that happened in the post season play, however, I am sure that St. Andrews will field a winter soccer team again next year. Although this is more than Goldsboro’s unit can daim, it comes as small consolation to the St. Andrews squad in the wake of Goldsboro’s last-ditdi effort to put Fayetteville in the playoffs. I was under the impression that the St. Andrews team was going to Chapel Hill last Tuesday. Sandy Quillen read me a nasty letter from the coach of tiie Goldsboro group concerning all the troubles of his team. He included com ments about their forfeit to us but did not come dose to ad mitting that they did not even have a fidd suitable for play. The coach also as mudi as said that St. Andrews dieated its way to a 3-1 victory over Fayetteville April 13. It seems that the whole Goldsboro team is little more than a bunch of fools bordering on the baby stage who will never grow up and play soccer as it should be played. The league would be well advised and gratefully thanked by many to expel this bunch of characters at Mice. Quillen could give me no results from Chapel Hill beyond echoing last week’s statements. Fayetteville tried to tell us that they scored an equal number of goals in their match with us, claiming a 3-1 victory instead of the actual 2- 1 count it was. Everyone knows 4 doesn’t equal 3. SA showed up on time ready to play all of its games. The college provided a lined field and well designated penalty areas. Sandy Quillen might have found the opposition’s politics “distasteful”, but there can be nothing distasteful about the efforts of his winter soccer team. Sincerely Kim Phillips To the Editor: I would like to reply to the editorial entitled “The Trium ph of the Few” which was printed in the Ajffil 24 issue of The Lance. I am doing so because a newspaper should print facts, not inaccurate assumptions. Even an editorid should be based on investigated facts, and to print an editorial so clearly unresearched as the one to which I am refering is an act of irresponsible journalism. Had the editor looked into the history of the development of the new pasture (even into the immediate past history) he would have found thatmost of the printed assumptions have little factual basis. The college granted the Riding Club permission to develop a pasture in 1971. This was done because, even at the earliest stages of Riding Club ac tivities it was obvious that the temporary facilities by the Development office were inadequate for keeping the club horses. That the pasture is becoming a reality oily af ter a period of four years reflects the careful land use analysis which preceeded development. The site behind Granville and one other site far back in the woods were found by soil conservationists to be the land most suited for pasture. School officials decided not to opt for the development of land far back in the woods because of the security risks involved. The site was not, then, diosen for convenience and to suit “the whims of a marginal per centage of the study body.” Rather, it was diosen after a long land use stuidy by experts from Soil Conservation, U.S. Dept, of Agriculture, Divisicm of Wildlife, and Fisheries, and representatives from U.S. Forest Service. I might add that en vironmentalists and soil con servationists have been con sulted at every stage of devdopment to insure that the land and lake will not suffer environmental damage. Proper planting and fertilizing techniques and materials were determined by con sulting such experts. Fur thermore, the dub will adhere strictly to the recom mendation that (Mie horse can be safely supported per acre of land using the recom mended fertilization program. Not only to bring aesthic pleasure, but also to insure the health of the horses, the dub will not allow the pasture to become ‘‘A great dustbin”. In the spring of 197#, a long awaited dub goal began to become a reality. Club mem bers and students concerned with the environmental im pact of the pasture develop ment cleared, plowed, and seeded the new pasture area. Had the editor been at St. An drews before this school year he would know that the area he now praises as “me of the nicer places in the residence area” was not always the “large grassy...area” he now finds it to be. Before the dub cleared and planted the area, it was covered in tree stumps, low lying scrub foliage and pine straw. It was only the very devdopment he opposes which now allows the editor to praise the area as one so beautiful that it should not be fenced. Furthermore, before To The Editor: The Lance has been well uplifted by from the dark dep ths of touchy-feely, artsy stories (no offense) to the spiraling heights of jhour- nalism as it should be; in formative. One suggestion, thou^, and it really doesn’t concern the paper. Next year, why not run a contest called, “Find the Error”? That way, if you make «i (rare as they are these days) you can say it was all part of the plan. Instead of getting three angry letters with each writer blaming the other for what they them selves did (better read that again for clarity), you’d be able to announce the names of the vigilant souls who found the randomly scattered niistakes that week. It would ^so cause more people to read rae Lance and get involved in it. I think it is an idea wdl wor th considering. the dearing, the land was too entagled in scrub growth to at- tract most sunbathers anrf frizbee throwers. In answer to the change that the pasture will deprive trailer “residents access to an area just beyond their door- st^} , two facts are in order First, the pasture area was deared and planted before the HUD {M-oject was begun (at least in its i*ysical stages) Infact, «ie of the trailors was actually built on land originally to be induded in the pasture. However, the dub does not intend to run its fence directly beside the trailore. Rather, the fence will be far ther from the trailors in question on the lake saide than are the other two trailors on the other side. The editorial charges that, once fraiced, the pasture will be inaccessible and ugly to students. This is not true. Students can continue to read and walk through the pasture once horses are there (acutally, I do not believe any students are presently sun- Vbathing in the pasture area. The pasture goes to the ser vice road above the lake, not to the lake. The editor may wdl be assuming that popular lakesdie areas will be fenced in. They will not.) It is possible that the area may be more ap pealing to observe with horses than it is now. I know of few people who cringe at the sight of horses grazing in a well cared for pasture. Finally, the Riding Club is not an elite group as the editorial implies. Membership is available to all students. Non^nembers can also enjoy the club horses when ac companied, for reasons of safety, by club members. Three of the horses to be living in the pasture are dub horses used both for trail riding and for physical education in structions. Far from wishing to be an dite society, the St. Andrews Riding Club welcomes interested, willing, and partidpating members. Thank you very much, Beverly Beck Secretary St. Andrews Riding Qub (Editor’snote: Touch?!) Now on the matter of erros in the way a newspaper is done, as far as I’m concerned, the nile of thumb should be that famous Now on the matter of errors in the way a newspaper is done, as far as I’m concerned, the nile of thumb should be that famous old quote, “To err is the norm; to not let it bother you should be the norm also.” Good job, Lin. Sincerely, Qay Hamilton. The choir, chorale, and chamber singers of St. An drews will present a sping con cert Sunday night at 8 pin. The choir, chorale, and chamber singers of St. An drews will present a special concert Sunday ni^t at 8 p jn. in the Liberal Arts Auditorium. Directed by Dr. James Cobb, the choral per formance will feature Johan nes Brahms’ famed “Liebeslieder Waltzes.”
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