age SEVEN
THURSDAY, MAY 15,1975
THE LANCE
'^^Fiction For The Ear’’ - John Barth Reads
fpiling his audience, I ni
just a musician gone wrong ”
uthor John Barth a weU-
received reading Thursday
nirfitof“ficti(Hifortheear.
“Hicre is a difference, he
«id “between writing for the
J ’and for the ear.” The
biding Professor of English
and Creative Writing at Johns
Hopkins discussed his
orevious works “Chimera,”
“The Sot-Weed Factor,” “The
Floating Opera,” “Giles Goat-
boy” and “The End of the
Road.” He noted that “I write
fantasy and then serious work
and then back to fantasy.”
This is similar to what Andre
Gides said of his own work
when he described his style as
“finishing a project, walking
to an opposite corner of my
imagination, and beginning a
whoUynew me.”
Barth then read several long
sdections from “Chimera”
relating to the mythic Greek
hero Bdlerophon. “What I
tried to do,” he explained,”
was to look at Bdlerophon as
an everyday person ^o one
day decides to be a mythic
hero and sets out to learn how
to do it.”
Following “Chimera” Barth
read a “snijyet” from his yet
to be publi^ed novel “Let
ters.” An q)istolary novel,
using letters from a character
0[U5
as the vehicle for conveying
the plot, “Letters” consists of
letters between a number of
unrelated coorespondents and
deals with the “role of
epistoles, doctored letters,
mislaid letters, faked letters
and forged letters in history,”
he said. “Think of ^and
opera—where would it be
without the mislaid letter to
livenip the plot?”
Barth said he has been
working on “Letters” for over
seven years, and that it was
roughly one seventh finished.
Students Attend
Competition
Three St. Andrews students,
David Harris, Mark
Podhorency and William
Pherson, recently attended
the Emory University
Business Games Finals held
at the famed Research
Triangle Park near Chapel
Hill, N.C. Under the direction
of Dr. Skip Hdmes, diairman
of the college’s business
department, the St. Andrews
team competed with college
and university teams from all
over the country. Each team
was screened to make sure
that its level of scholarship in
the fields of effort involved
was strong enou^ to make
them competitive in the
finals.
In games like the Emory
finals, each team is assigned
an industry and a product and
must compete wito the other
teams in an effort to cope
with simulated business con
ditions. The busmess year the
teams operate in is divided in
to quarters and profit or loss
totds are computed for each.
A panel of judges the reviews
each team’s performance and
chooses a winner. The St. An
drews team was placed in the
business of producing and
marketing digital docks and
pocket .calculators, and
finished second to Wake
Forest University Each SA
team member received fif-
teai dollars in prize money
and the college received (Mie
hundred dollars worth of com
puter time.
Both the students and Dr.
Holmes were pleased that
they fared as well as they did
against substantially larger
colleges and universities. It
was quite a learning ex
perience,” Dr. Holmes com
mented, “li am very proud of
our team.”
Fall Readings
(continued from p.l)
poets and dosest friend of the
late Anne Sexton) can come to
SA,” he said. Bayes indicated
that the Common Experience,
directed by professor Whitney
Jones would probably sponsor
next year’s Ezra Pound lec
ture, and that attempts were
heing made to get Pound’s
longtime publishe James
I^ughlin and Pound’s friaid,
the scholar Hu^ Kenner, here
tor the occasion.
A benefit reading for St. An-
ifrews Review is taitatively
slated for Tuesday, Sep-
tanber 16. It is antidpated
tiiat the readers will te Dr.
Edmund (“Mike”) Keeley,
director of Oie Division of
Drama and Creative Wnting
at Princeton University;
Carolyn Kizer of Washingtm,
DC, former head of the
Literature Division of me
National Endowment for the
Arts; and Judith Johnson
She.^ „l New York
of the Yale Younger Poets
award.
Keeley, a Guggenheim
Award Winner, will read from
his translations of the Greek
Nobel Prize winner, C.P.
Cavafy.
“There’s something difficult
about writing novels,” he said.
“You have to get used to
working in a sustained
vacuum for long periods of
time without any feedback
from readers. Poets get feed
back all the time since poems
are so much less time con
suming. I asked Robert Creley
how long, for example, it took
him to write a poem. ‘Thirty
minutes,’ And how long for a
book? ‘Five years.’ Doctors
are especially good poets, it
seems. History is full of them.
College Group
Attends Meet
On Handicaps
St. Andrews Presbj^erian
College students Laura
prumhella-, Steve Lindsay,
Buzzy Pierce, Craicetta Ren
don, and Robin Titterington,
accompanied by Dr. Robert
M. Urie, director of health,
counsel and rdiabilitation ser
vices, recenOy attended the
annual meeting of The
President’s Committee on
En^)loyment of The Han
dicapped, in Washingtwi, D.C.
Overall theme of the
meeting was “Threshold to
Century ni - Affirmative Ac-
tiffli.”
The three-day meeting con
sisted of presentatiOTis by
various individuals, including
Paul Stuber, Reynolds Metals
Company; Dr. Harold YiAer,
Hofstra University; Alfred
Pimentel, Gallaudet College;
and, Robert McIntyre, AFL-
ao.
In addition, discussions
were hdd concerning the pros
and cons of Affinnative Ac-
tion-from the local and m-
dividual perspective.
Simultaneous panels ^re
also conducted wiUi regard to
labor, management, and
government; Innovative Ap
proaches to Employment of
Severely Handicapped
People; Educational ^d
Training Needs of the
Severely Handicapped;
Placement Techniques - To
Assure Acceptance of Han
dicapped People; Vototeere
and Their Impact on the M-
fitmative Adion Movement;
Legislation Ad ion ^ of the
Future; Disable m Ac^n;
and, Congress of People wiUi
Disal^lities.
William Carlos Williams used
to dash them off at his
typewriter between patients.
Ever heard of a good doctor
who became a novelist?”
Ending his ninety minute
readii^ to thundering ap
plause from the full house at
Avinger Auditorium, Barth
spoke to a number of classes
the next morning before retur
ning to Maryland.
Bacchanalia
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their friends. Some of the
throwers turned into pushees,
however as a group of pushers
came up behind the throwers
and shoved them in with the
throwee. (If you can figure
that out you are owiously
Gertrude Stdn reincarnated.)
Altogether twaity-four people
ended up in the wet.
After lunch a team of
bluegrass guitarists set up and
played valiantiy in the face of
power and speaker failures
and not a not inconsiderable
degree of humidity. While this
was going on at the college
Union, swimming, sun
bathing, and frisbee throwing
were the order of the day at
the St. Andrews Beadi and
Yacht Club next to New Meek.
A few dozen more people were
thrown in the lake, but most
found it so cool and refreshing
they stayed in.
An Italian dinner was put on
by Epicure that Saturday
evening. Red tabledoths ador
ned the tables; candles lit the
cafeteria, whose glass walls
had been curtained off to keep
out the sun whidi refused to
set until nearly ei^t o’clock.
By nine all was in readiness
for the Launching, a formal
affair on the E^tamble
■ Terrace. Music was jx-ovided
by the lioyd Hinscm Band, as
elegantly dressed couples dan
ced among the light-strung
trees. The attme of the 475
people in attendance ranged
from the resplendent Malcolm
Doubles in a white tie and tails
to an exotic Morgan Miles
decked out in a white dinner
jacket and tennis shorts. “I
could have danced all night”
seemed to be the theme of the
evening and they nearly did,
for it was past two in the mor
ning when Lloyd and his com
pany were finally allowed to
pack iq) and go home.
Sunday morning an un
derstanding Epicure held
brunch for the bleary-eyed
survivors of the previous
evenings merriment. With the
brunch Bacchanalia came to
an end, the Real World im
posed itself firmly on St. An
drews for the duration, and
preparatiMis for exairs began
in earnest.
Food Services to
Change Hands
St. Andrews will have a new
food service next year syas
business manager Julian
Davis. In an interview wth
St. Andrevre will have a new
food service next year, says
business manager Julian
Davis. In an interview with
Tlie Lance, Dr. Davis said
that the college had decided
not to renew its contrad with
Epicure Management Ser
vices because of internal
reorganization difficulties
being experienced by Epicure
and some unsatisfactory
business transactions.
“Epicure was until recently
a three man partnership,
Davis said, “but they recently
^lit and one of tiie partners
formed his own cranpany.
Bdh were vying for St. An
drews’ buaness and for the
services of our cafeteria’s
manager, Dewey Humphries.
Dewey decided to go into
business for himsdf and sub
mitted lower ted.
Being a small operatioi just
handling St. Andrews he will
have less overhead and will
save the college maiey in the
lixig run, Davis noted.