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THE LANCE The Lance Lin'niompson Editor Rowe Campbell Asst. Editor/Business MickMeisel Asst. Editor/Sports Nanci Boggs Circulation Manager Mark Powell Advertising Manager Susgan Bainbridge Art/Grap ics Dr. W. J. Loftus Advisor Staff: Clay Hamilton, Suzanne Hogg, Michael Greene, Myra McGinnis, Dorothy Fillmore, Rufus Poole, Kathy Lunsford, Terri Qark, Tom Brown, Kim McRae, Tony Ridings, C. 0. Spann, Jr., Lanie Noblitt, Celeste Tillson, Lisa Tillson, David Swangon, Billy Howard, and Richard Durham. Thursday, October 2,1975 Letters Getting Maintenance Moving Slow down, you move too fast got to make the morning last. .. -Simon and Garfunkel, “The 59th street Bridge Song” The hiring of a new Director of the College ^lant (Maintenance) last week to replace Karl Mattson will hopefully, also spur a reevaluation of that department’s effectiveness. Because of its responsibility-care and maintenance of the campus grounds and buildings, the department is one of the key agencies of the college. It has not, however, by any stretch of the imagination, lived up to its responsibilities. Maintenance’s general ineffeciency has become a St. Andrews legend. Students on workship with that department contantly amaze their fellows with tales of how for example, changing light bulbs in a dorm courtyard can take half a day. Recently it took nearly a week to rake the cut grass from the soccer field, with the result being the playing of a match on the practice field. Two students in one dorm have had a non-working lock on •; theit door since classes began a month ago. A work order for repair of a door in Mecklenburg Hall was submitted two years ago and has yet to be attended to. This kind of slipshod work is inexcusable on so large and continuous a scale. The new director should take a long, hard look at his operation and personnel with a view toward improvement-soon. Amendment (CcKitinued From Page 1) “No elected officer may be an employee of Student Per sonnel Services;” the amend ment would, if passed, change the section to read: “a) No elected oficer may be employed by Student Per sonnel Services as Dormitory Resident Director, Dormitory Assistant Residence Director, or Director of the College Union. “b) No appointed member of the Judicial Brancl) of the Student Associatiai may be employed by Student Per sonnel Services as Dormitory Residence Director, Dor mitory Assistant Resident Director, or Director of the Student Union.” Houge resigned his CCC post after Senate passage of the amaidment. A vote of the amendment, the CCC vacan cy, and a successor to recen tly resigned Student Association Secretary Lisa Tillson, will be held as soon as a Elections Board is ^- pointed by Student Association President Keith Gribble. At The Movies THE IMMORTAL STORY, directed by Orson Welles. Starring Orson Welles and Jeanne Moreau. An old man’s power and wealth appear to bring an old sea tale to life, only to disappear with the suicide of the principle character. A fable of the ab solute corruptiai of absolute power, the film is a wwthy product of the maker of “Citizen Kane.” 7:00 pjn. To the Editor: An informal group has been meeting to consider how we will continue learning about the food we eat. We are: Bety Lyon, Terry Clark, Elizabeth Scott, Glen Kennedy & Kathleen Newsom Simmons. The five of us began reading and thinking about nutrition and food production last year in connectiOT with' the Food Day observance held across the country. Where does food come from? Why do we eat different foods? What does food do in our bodies? — To continue with ti!ese questions is a priority for th*; five of us, and we invite anyone else in terested to get in touch with us. At this point (thh begin ning) we would like to make it clear that, coUectiely, we have not the money, time, nor inclinatiffli to establish any sort of organizational or groi?) structure in the sense that issues are most often for mally dealth with. We are not going to stuff mailboxes with pictures of hungry-bellied tebies. (Although we do cer tainly bear in mind that they exist.) — What we do have to offo", & ask you to join us in, is: 1. To share and expand our personal research; included would be a resource display and bibliography in thh book store, and a reserve shelf in the library. 2. To niake our par ticipation available to more formally organized groups on campus. We foresee this taking two forms. A. Helping to plan special programs for regularly scheduled campus gatherings (for exaaple, a Whet Wed nesday on the Politics of Food Production and Distribution). B. Utilizing the research & resources of NC-PIRG, ECOS & the Food Committee (ie. getting some off-campus speakers through the Resear ch groups). 3. To plan a series of events the week-end just prior to ITjanksgiving. These events will include: A. Presenting some short films, a panel discussion by food producers from our area, some workshops on “how to’s” (ie. how to plan better and simpler diets, and how to shop between the aisles at the food store...etc.) ,B. Thinking together on the theme of events, namely, “How can we become more aware of how (and whom) we eat?” . 4. To evaluate persmal and institutional (specially St. An drews) alternatives to our present eating halats and food production process. (This is going to be the hardest part. - We see this weekend to be a part-'cular time to* reflect creatively as well as critically together; not to get all of us mired in depression or guilt, but to begin to identify some (^tions toward which we, as a community, can begin to act.) 5. To begin implementation of the options generated. All of these words are ideas now. We will be scratching around in the words and ideas again on Monday night at ten P.M. in the Wilmingtai Main Lounge. We ask you to work with us to make the ideas shared experiaices. Kathleen Newsom Simmons & Glen Kennedy (for Beth Lyon, Terry Clark, E3izabeth Scott, Glen Kennedy, & Kathleen Newsom Simmons) page two Students Conference Two St. Andrews studenb Kathy Lunsford and LauJ Drumheller, attended the recent convention of ihe Nor th Carolina Rehabilitation Association in Asheville. The only student members of the organization, the students participated in the con vention’s fiftieth anniversary look at rehabilitation {M-ograms in the state. Even though progress has been slow in the field, it was poln- ted out by a number of speakers that North Carolina’s programs are among the qiost advanced in the naticm. While at the convention, the students attended presen tations on the new field of rehabilitation engineering, new communications devices for the deaf and blind, and certification of rehaWlitation counselors they also discussed with professors from East Carolina Umver- sity and UNC-Chapel Hill the graduate study opportunities in rehabilitation counseling. We Goofed! Last Week’s article on recent Judicial Committee appointments contaaned a typographical error-an extra comma-that made it appear that David Southcomb is chairman of that board. He is not. The actual chairman is Libby Floweree. THE LANCE apolc^izes for the error. On The Other Hand: More On Murphy^s Laws Sunday in Auditorium. A linger Murphy’s laws explain why things go wrong. Eight of them were run in THE LAN CE last spring, and are rerun here for the benefit of those unfamiliar with them. 1. In any field of endeavor, anything that can go wrong will go wrong. 2. Left to themselves, things always go from bard to wor se. 33. If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will go wrong is the one that will do the most damage. 4. Nature always sides with the hidden flaw. 5. Life is a bitdi. (Whit- tingtffli’s Corollary) 6. If everything seems to be going well, you have ob- viously overlooked something. 7. If any two people are in agreement, they must be talking about different things. (Vaughn’s Corollary) 8. Entropy is increasing. (Tyler Miller’s Rule) One might well think, as this reporter did, that this compendium o't cynicism could explain anything. We were wrong, folks. There’s more. Mackay Asbury* a ’75 SA graduate, former attorney general and soccer star for the Knights, sends me a clip ping this week which carries the results of a lengthy search for the complete Murphy’s Laws by a New York management consultant firm. Charles Yulish Associates anno^inced recently the results of their research into the man Murphy and his laws. The search for information led the to a garage in Toledo, an inventor’s junk left in Alequippo, Pa., the home of a retired female blackmailer in Sarasoto, Fla., and some other places as well. It was learned that Mmphy had no first name, never held a job, and that his letters were invariably returned by the post office for insufficient postage and added the resear chers, “we learned that Irish whiskey definitely deteriorates writing paper.” Perhaps the most important aspect of the Yulish search was the discovery of eight more laws. Knowing the average SA student’s desire to always be on the cutting edge of new knowledge, we present Laws 9-16 as a pubUc service. 9. Nothing is ever as simple as if first seems. 10. Everything you decide to do costs more than you first estimated. 11. Every activity takes more time than you have. 12. It’s easier to make a commitment or to get in volved in something than it is to get out of it. 13. Whatever you set out to do, something else must be done first. 14. If you improve or tinker with something long enoug - eventually it will break. 15. By making something absolutely clear, somebo y will be confused. 16. You can fool some oftne people aU of the time and^u of the people someof the tiw and that is usually suffipieni’ Lin Thompson henry V An Oustanding Film Starring Lawrence Olivier Wednesday Night 7:30 P. M. . Avinger Auditorium
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