the LANCE
THE LANCE
Staff
Editor.
. Lin Thompson
Managing Mtor Vanessa M^worth
^Mtor Kim Philips
Advertising Managers, Jini Bnce
Mark Powell
Susan Bainbridge
Rowe Campbell
Art Editor
Business Manager.
Contributions this week:
Ridiard Hudson!
Acting Advisor Dr. WUlip^ L«ftus
The Lance suiwcribes to the St. Andrews Code of R^opsiMli^
in its editorial policy. Sgned editorials reflect the opinion «the
%uthor, while unsigned comment represents a consensus of
staff opinidi. Views expressed are not necessarily those of the
collie. Letters are welcomed but subject to space limitations.
Bor 757.
THURSDAY, MAY 15,1975
Letters . . •
-Uill Wilmot. who li
To the Editor :
My Tuesday Dialogue was
in o-ror? the references to 3-2
should read 3^. I apologize
for the mistake. So far
response to the Dialogue has
been overwhelmingly positive.
Thank You,
Steve Chasson
To the Reader:
Since becoming editor I
have more than aice been
made aware of what I did not
know about running a
newspaper. Luckily I have
had a great many people to
help me out, and I would like
to say “Thanks” here to:
-Walter Kuentzel, who made
the transitiffli so easy;
-Bill Wilmot, who listen €d
patiently to my problems and
offered good advice;
-The indispensable Vanessa
Holtbworth, who laid out the
pjiper 63ch week i ^
-The staff of The Laurinbiff g
Exchange, put »?) with
more missed deadlines than
wyone ought to have to;
-Kim Phillips and Richard
Hudson, v^o kept the sports
reports coming;
-Terri Heyman, who patien
tly turned ill^ible Iraighand
into typescript each week;
-Dr. Bill Loftus, who volun
teered to be The Lance’s ad
visor and drove over from
Maxton every Tuesday ni^t
to help out;
-Skip Taylor and Kim
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McRae, who put up with and
met scorra of unreasonable
photographic demands;
-Bi-1 Allen and Phil Bra^Sfey-
-they know why;
-R(hi Bayes, for a multitude
of services rendered;
-Rowe Campbell, who put up
with me and The Lance as
roommates and volunteered to
be Business Manager;
-Suite 3, New Meek, whose
residents put i^) with my tem
per when things went wrong
and my ego when things wait
right;
-Neal Bushovoi, who stop
ped calling the paper “The
Glance” and “the best high
school paper in the State”;
and
-The faculty, administration
and students for stories,
praise, and criticism.
Sincerely,
Lin Thompson
Editor
Editorial Commentaries
At Year's End
Over the last two and one half months there have been a
number d changes made which we feel have led to an
improvement in the quality of our product. In this last issues of
the year, we’d like to review just vrtiat has been done and give
you, the reader, an idea of what we have planned for the fall.
In the area (rf personnel, a number of new people have been
brought in. We have a capable new managing editor, a new
business manager, and new advertising personnel who have put
a much needed extra effort into getting ads to supplement The
Lance’s rather inadequate budget. With the new executive staff
has come a fresh committment to put out the best paper we can
every week. Morale on the staff is up immensely.
We have extended our deadline by a day and a half. While we
still try to get most of our copy ready on Tuesday night, we can
now handle late breaking news. The recent Student Association
Caistitutional Convention, v^ch met on a Wednesday night and
was in the next day’s Lance. The announcement of President
PerMnson’s selection was made at 1:30 on a Thursday afternoon
and appearedjn The Lance three hours later. In short, if there’s
aiqr wiay we can get a big story in, we’ll do it no matter how late.
We have cultivated our relationship with various student
organizations and the other side of the lake to improve our
ability to get a story out as soon as possible. Formerly it was
said, with a sometimes embarrassingly high degree of truth, ,
that you read about things in The Lance after everybody else
knew it. As much as we can manage, now you read about things
first in The Lance and this will be more so in the future. To make
The Lance a more representative view of campus life than it has
been in the p^t, we have increased our coverage of faculty
activities, and this fall the editor will meet weekly with
President Perkinson to keep abreast of goings-on in the
administration.
Because of all these things, we have received a positive
response from our readers. This in turn has helped raise the
sagging credibility of The Lance and caused more groups and
persons to actively seek to have news run in The Lance than was
the case in the past. We have also received valid and welcome
criticism, and appreciated hearing about both our successes and
our failures.
In terms of the future, we will be concentrating on recruiting
staff manbers from the incoming freshman class by contacting
everyone who has had any connection with journalism,
photography, or writing in high school. Already we have secured
several new staffers this way. A number of students already
here have expressed interest in working with us next year.
We plan to increase our photographic staff, and to include
more photo-joumalism if we are given a sufficient budget
allowance. In the sports department, we are trying to attract
sports writers to beef up this understaffed area and to increase
our photo coverage of sports events. We are also looking into the
possibility of having several sports columnitsts working on a
rotating basis.
We shall apply for a new charter, outlining in detail
procedural and organizational rules to make The Lance run
more efficiently. We will also be looking at a change in our 5
year old masthead at the top of page one to reflect the new style
and attitude here The Lance. Some of the staff will come down
early to get a paper out during Orientation Week; we hope to put
out a big Winter Term issue, and as many eight page issues as
we can afford.
As you finish reading this last issue of The Lance and get
ready for your next exam, the staff of The Lance wishes you a
summer and we’ll see you in September.
A Plus for CUB
Susan Hamill and the CoUege Union Board have caught alot of
flak this year over their handling of entertainment at St.
Andrews, sometimes it was deserved, others not. But be that ^
it may, they all deserve the applause of the coUege co^umty
for the exteaordinary successful Bacch Analia festiviti^ last
weekend. The Brice Street Band was worth five times their fee;
the Great Bacchanalia Relay was fun, excitii^ and brought
everyone—wheelies included—into the action; and The
Launching on Saturday night was a rare event indeed. For soon-
to-graduate Susan and the other senior CUB m^bers, the
weekend was a good way to bow out; for the remaming and new
coming members it is a hard act to follow but one well worth the
effort.
Parrish to Resign
The Rev. Charles E.
Parrish, director of financial
aid and alumni affairs at St.
Andrews Presbyterian
College, will leave bis work at
the collc^e on May 31 to return
to the pastoral mtaistiy.
Parrish came to St. An-
(b-ews in 1967 as assistant
director of admissions from
the pastorate of the Ebenezer
Presbyterian Churdi in Rock
Hill, S.C. In 1969 he was
named director of Alumni af
fairs, and in 1973 he was given
the added responsibility of
director of financial aid. ‘
In commenting upon his
leadership in alumni affairs.
Vice President Bruce Frye
commented, “Charles Parrish
was uniquely qualified to
bring our alumni program
from infancy into its in-
tramediate stage. He is a
graduate of Presbyterian
Junior Collie; his wife Ruth
is a graduate of Flora Mac
donald College; and two of
their children, Margaret and
Stuart, are graduates of St.
Andrews. This enabled him to
relate in a persraial way with
the many diverse groups that
make iq> the St. Andrews
Alisnni Association.”
Drive Ahead of Schedule
Last week marked the half
way point in the local fund
raising drive for St. Andrews,
and General Chairman James
Morgan of Laurinburg an
nounced that over 70 percent
of the $75,000 being sought has
been (X’omised to the fund
raising conmiittee.
“This reprraents a very
strong and successful effort to
date,” Jones said, and in
dicates Uie high degree of
support the college enjoys
from the people of Scotland
County.”
As . of May 2, pledges
totaling $52,297 had been
receiv^ and just over $39,000
of those pieces had been
collected. The funds will be
used to help balance the
collie’s budget for 1975-76.
Student Offices
The last Student Association
cabinet office to be filled was
decided yesterday as Bill
Wilmot gathered IM votes to
defeat Verncai Alfrod’s 125 in a
runoff. 283 students — 48.7% of
the student body voted.
In dorm elections held
yesterday a number of offices
were still unsought-the
presidencies of Wilmington
and Winston-Salem, and sodal
diairmanships in Old Meek
Winston-Salem, Albemarle,
New Meek, and Orange. In
coming Assodatiai president
Keith Gribble will be respon
sible for filling the two
presidential vacancies, and
dorm presidents will appoint
social chairmen.
Those elected to the
presidency and vice fffesiden-
cy of dorms yesterday-and
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Miller Proposes
Energy Policy
Proposing a national energy
policy is a big undertaking for
anyone. Congress has been
wrestling witii the {yoblem
for months and has failed to
come 15) with anything. Yet
proposed a national energy
policy is just was St. An
drews’ Dr. Ty Miller does in
his new book, “Engery and
Environment: The Four
Crisises \
Published by California s
Wadsworth Pulbishing Com
pany, “Energy and En
vironment” is Dr. Millers
fourth book and his second m
less than a year. ,
“We are facing
energy crisises,” said MiUe ’
’‘each a district problem
interrelated with the w ®
three. The first of thex
crisises is the rea^.
crisises of today-the
crisis. Two-thirds *
people of the world do "ot ge
oiough to eat to .
adequately. The second
is the energy poU^
This is the crisis we’re se^
acted out in
today. How to allocate
resources and what to
bout the future when these
sources dwindle away-
and that is the second ener^
policy crisis. It takes
fifty years to ^ase m a ma]
new energy system, ^
1985 we will
way there. It that tune
be at the tunung po^*
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