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on Student Life
Ever since Mr. Perkinson assumed the presidency six mon
ths ago, there have been rumblings about student life and the
image it has “given the college.
Too many parties, too much drinking, hours too loosely set,
etc.
If, When, and How a crackdown on such things, be they real
or imagined, would be set into motion has been the subject of
considerable talk among students. Perhaps the vehicle has sur
faced in the form of the Faculty Executive Committee’s
request for a study of student life and housing by the Student
Life Committee, for it will ertainly examine these matters.
Such an examination will call for objectiveness and restraint
on the part of the committee to avoid letting personal opinions
get in their ways, as well asto avoid letting the discovery of un
desirable situations lead to oversized curtailments of student
freedom, as is feared in some quarters of the SA community. It
will call for attentiveness on the part of the student body in
following the committee’s progress and responsibility in
seeking out and expressing opinions to Student Life Committee
members. They are listed below this editorial.
For its part, THE LANCE will cover the activities of the
study as it negotiates its way toward its January 22 deadline,
reporting them as they develop.
The SLC report will be a substantial and influential
document. Make sure your views are heard while it is in the
making.
John Clausz
Malcolm Doubles
William Loftus
Student Life Committee
Faculty Members
Jo Ann WiUiams
David McLean
William Holland
Alvin Smith
STUDENT MEMBERS & CAMPUS ADDRESSES
Sally Beatty Steve Fox
Concord 216 New Meek 138
Joyce Dew
Albemarle 107
Steve Elkins
New Meek 134
Peg Kays
Wilmington 317
Paul Miller
Winston-Salem 227
Marti Newbold
Wilmington 315
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Here’s The Text
Of The Dean’s Letter
Dr. David McLean, Chairman
Student Life Committee
Dr. Malcolm C. Doubles
Dean of Students
Dear Drs. McLean and
Doubles:
The Faculty Executive
Committee requests that the
Student Life Committee
study:
1. The Student Housing
Program, its purpose, struc
ture, and non-structures and
its philosophy of Student Life.
2. Student attitudes toward
the quality of Student Life,
academic and social.
The Committee is asked to
delineate the positive features
of the Housing Program as
well as the shortcomings and
inadequacies of the program.
We would hope that the Com
mittee in its report will ar
ticulate its philosophy of
Student Life and its recom
mendations for a Housing
Program consistent with and
complimentary to that
philosophy. To be of any func
tional use, the Committee’s
recommendations must also
be consistent with reasonable
expectations as to college
resources.
The evaluation and survey
of student attitudes as to the
quality of Student Life should
provide an identification of
those qualities and charac
teristics of the student ex
perience at St. Andrews
which we should strive to
preserve. At the same time,
we woul hope that the
evaluation and survey would
identify those shortcomings
and undesirable charac
teristics in Student Ufe which
we should strive to eliminate
or minimize.
I am enclosing copies of a
search of the literature on
student residence studies and
problems made by Dean
David McNair, You may want
to make sure that Committee
members read this study and
that there is some agreement
as to what is understood to be
the professional attitude
toward the role of the
student’s dormitory life and
his wider college experiences.
So that the Committee’s study
and report may be of use in
our long range planning, we
request that it be filed with
the Faculty Executive Com
mittee no later than Novem
ber 5th, 1975.
Sincerely yours,
Victor C. Arnold
Vice President for
Academic Affairs
Chairman, Faculty
Executive Committee
More on Sharks
Dear Editor;
I am probably relieved like
yourself to learn that Mr.
Bradley is alive and well. But
this does not detract from the
seriousness of the impending
danger of a St. Andrews
“JAWS”. Why just the other
day I heard a student making
light of sharks. Here is what
he said:
“Why did the shark paint his
victim orange? So he could tell
his kids they were eating at
Howard Jdinson’s.” He con
tinued, “Why do sharks have
flat noses? From running into
parked barracudas.”
Now Mr. Courtney may be
able to gain a ha ha from the
dilemma but I promise you
this is serious, ^^ere is Ms.
(sic) Neylans? The number of
people disappearing is
growing greater everyday.
Has anybody seen or heard
from Donald Hart? No, The
time is now for all good
students to come to the aide of
their school. The shark is
there I know it! You’ve got to
help me find him and kill him.
On The Other Hand:
Mr. Chuck Westburg’s ap
pointment as head of the
maintenance seems to be
producing results.
Veteran holes in the
pavement are being patched.
A contractor has been hired to
do some roofing repair long
deferred.
The golf course is thriving.
It looks like a course again af
ter a summer of neglect.
Greens are being cross-cut;
they’ve been aerated and fer
tilized. The bunkers have been
weeded and filled with new
sand. Hundreds of divots
mark the fairways, but it will
take a while to fix that. Tom
Whiteley’s beginning golf
class had a head start.
Thangs seem to be on the
move.
The President had another
party this week, this aie for
James Laughlin and Mrs. L.A.
number of students were in
vited, as has been the case at
all the functions he’s had at his
home. It is a good practice;
the atmosphere is relaxed and
friendly. It keeps the chief in
touch with his constituency.
The Presidential lawn by
the way, has sprouted its win
ter grass and is blindingly
green compared to the sub
dued reds and browns of the
residence. Two pots of
marigolds flank the front
steps, making little blazes of
color. Drive by sometime. It’s
a si^t to see. 612 South Main,
on your right as you go into
town.
The easy way to kill a shark
that I Imow of is to feed it
something poisonous. Mrs.
Pete perhaps? (Maybe delete
that, lin) Dean Doubles? We
We must
act now or forever be a ser
ving dish to an oversized
swimming hold.
Sincerely,
Peter BCTchley
LAUGHLIN
really wanted to dean i? the
mmonetary and banking
system in I^y.”
“Econimics,” said the New
Directions publisher, “was the
obsession of Pound’s life. If
the city of New York had star
ted listening to ‘Uncle Ez’ 20
•years ago, they wouldn’t be
about to default on their bon
ds.” . ,
In spite of his high praise tor
the poet’s intellect and
wisdom, Laughlin said he felt
that Pound’s alleged anti'
semitism was a matter of
“mental disease,” rather thM
simple prejudice, and add
that psychiatrists had con"
firmed this view when they
examined Pound after
taken into custody by j
government following Wor
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awake an hour early- Qo
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different time. Hopeful y
they’ll be fixed soon.
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