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