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The Lance Editor winter Term Editor SMeSr“lV;;;;;:/’V ... Asst. Editor/sports Rowe Campbell Asst. DougMushet _ Nanci Boggs, C. 0. Spann areulation Manager Mark Powell, Annie Myers Advertising M^agers Susan Bainbridge Art/Graphics Billy Howard Photo Coordinator Dr. W. J. Loftus Advisor Staff; Chuck Andrews, Clay Hamilton, Lin Potts, Tom Brown, wn, Suzanne Hogg, Tony Ridings, Terry Clark, Kim Johnson, Tom Stoecker, Beth Cleveland, Myra McGinnis, David Swanson, Joyce Dew, Kim McRae, Celeste Tillson, Richard Durham, Lanie Noblitt, Lisa Tillson, Dorothy Faimore, Rufus Poole and Lisa Wollman. Overseas Staff; Athens: Chuck Andrews, Lin Thompson i London; Tom Stuart Florence: Lisa Tillson Mexico; Mark Powell, Lisa Wollman Printing by The Laurinburg Exchange Co. Prust and Co. In Athens THE LANCE, FRffiAY, JANUARY 16, mHiiiiiiiiiHiHiiiiiiniiiniiniiiniinininiinninii Editorial jS: r School Spirit In this edition of THE LANCE is an open letter to the student body from Dr. William Loftus concerning the student questionnaire distributed this past fall. He reports that only 114 studeilts bothered to fill in the questionnaire. TTie results of an election held during fall semester showed only 222 students felt a desire to vote. As a freshman I am appalled at tiie school spirit here at St. Andrews. From the facts presented above I can only conclude one of two things — either 60 to 80% of the student body is quite happy with everything that occurs on campus (which still doesn’t explain why the students didn’t reply to the questionnaire because students could comment pro and con) or 60 to 80% cares so little about the events and life at St. Andrews that they won’t even take time to express their wishes. When only 40% of the student body deems it important enough to vote in an election to fill three key offices in the student government and only 20% of the students care to comment on issues affecting their life on campus - I believe that it is time for we, the student body, to take a serious look at our school spirit and take whatever action is necessary, (Affirmative action, I hope). I am constantly hearing one student or another griping about something, but when a faculty member undertakes the distribution of a questionnaire to determine our feelings on certain issues and all he gets is 114 replys out of 544 and many of these answered with obscenities, two or three dozen littered around the campus (what a waste of paper), and 300 students not bothering to answer, I feel we as students must not care. We should be proud of St. Andrews and if we have this school pride we would take the administration’s concerns about our wishes a little more seriously. Dr. Loftus, in his letter, said t*- he was told that a 20% response ratio was “good” for bt. Andrews. Whoever distributed this “rating” must have the opinion that 80% of the students do not care about the student life at St. Andrews. We must prove he or she wrong. Be proud of St. Andrews, get involved in our internal democratic workings and let’s really show our school spirit! MICHAEL GREENE (Replys to this editorial and response to other school issues are invited. Address letters to Box 757, Campus Mail.) THE RED LION Open Nights 8-12 A Gallery of Culinary Delights & Many Flavors of Yogurt by Un Thompson ATHENS, JANUARY 6- Dick Prust’s pilgrimage to the land of U)e ancients, made iq) of Churck Andrews, Eric aark, Nellie Dodson, Beth Freeman, Bob Haley, Jenny Jackie, Paul Miller, Betsy Rhoads, Earle Roberts, Tan Ryan, Lin Thompson, Melissa Tufts, and Betsy Young, arrived here New Year’s Day after an eight hour flight. The groiq) gathered initially at New York’s Kennedy Airport two days after the LaGuardia bom ling; consequently it was a principal topic of con versation. Jenny Jackie sirrived with the harrowing tale of how she and her aunt were just beyond the bcmb’s range when it went off in the TWA terminal; given a few minutes difference in their schedule they would have been ri^t in front of it, as were a number of those killed when the blast occurred. Upon our arrival in Athens we saw a manifestation of the wealth and power of Olympc Airlines’ late owner, Aristotle Onassis; the airline, upon which we were traveling, has its own airport. All other airlines use another facility altogether. Athens is interesting in many respects, several of which are worth noting: 1. Noise and dirt-The air is incredibly dirty and the streets full of cars and trucks who follow no apparent driving rules and use their boms liberally. 2 2. Kiosks - There are at least three of these on every blodt here, selling everything from newspapers to tooth paste to portraits of King Con stantine (notwithstanding the abolition of the monarchy). They are incredibly crowded, and all you can usually see of the vendor is his face. Ap parently one decides as a youth to make a career of it, and has the kiosk built around him, sending out thereafter formeals. 3. Women - Or rather, the absence thereof. Except for those who are there by virtue (or, perhaps, the lack of it) of their profession, you see very few women on the street. Th^r rarely venture out, we are told, except when escor ted. And a good thing too, in light of— 4. Groping - Greeks feel their way along the street. If you are in one’s way, he will put a handupon your arm or shoulder and move you aside. At best it is a nuisance; for those not fond of being touched, it is an absolute terror. Because practically everyone on the street is male, fonales get groped a lot whether the street is crowded or not, and even more so if they are a'one. The first monum int of an tiquity we saw wa' the Tem ple ot Poseidon, th'; god of the seas, at C£^ Sounion, 80 or so kilometers down the coast from Athens. It is situated (xi GLASSBLOWING, offered by Dr. David Wetmore, is one of the more unusual Winter Term courses along with folk lore collwtmg, the art of book making, and Guided Independent Studies in ballistics, solar energy, and and pubUcation of origmal manuscripts. (Rioto courtesy of Rooney Coffman) SUMMER INTERNSHIPS With Stage agencies are being offered this summer -rapprreir:" may apply. These internships are in a variety of fields - b stonj^, computer science, politics, math, natural science etc. Most are paid internships and may be takerS; course credit with instructor's approval SeP a hi^ cliff and surrounded on three sides by the sea Sounion has suffered much over the millenia; most of it was pulled down by the pirates; what remains has been libo-ally carved up® by tourists of the last two cen. tunes, including Lwd Byr® who visited in the 1820’s. Yesterday, Dick Prust Earle Roberts, and I set out’ upon a {Hlgrimage to Plato’s Academy. Starting near the Agora, the ancient business district at the foot of the Acropolis (for whidi there is no word to do justice to its beauty and awesomeness), we followed as closely as possible, via present streets, the Academy Road upon which so many of the legen dary men of that time waked, i Along the way we came upom an out-of-the-way excavation containing the main gate of Athens, the huge dty wall, and a cemetery, the “Street of “Tombs” which contained a great many funerary monu ments and sarcophagi. Among those buried there was Pythagoras, whose tomb, appropriately enou^, is triangular. The day after tomorrow- January 8~the groi?) leaves for a week’s tour of the Peloponesus. Delphi, of wacular fame, and Mycenae, the anciait city of Ai^os im mortalized in Aeschylus’ Oresteion Tril(^, are on the agenda, as well as a visit to (he shrine of St. Andrew Mi self, or rather, his head. The rest of him, for some reason, is in Italy. I have written Bob Tayber’s Italian group to try and determine why. Next report, hopefully with the an swer to this and other sear ching questions, in two weeks. Bakken (Continued from Page 1) Students and interested par ties should be warned, however, that Bakken is ofl accompanied by a 6-f( chicken who goffi by I aUusive name of the “PW" tland Poetry Chicken” has been known to interrft such astute affairs as literary symposium on “pi* Northwest Literary Scene” s' Lewis and Clark College, s will have no qualms atwi strutting at St. Andrews. V chicken was reported once a six-and-one-half feet, so it^ parently fluctuates in It is, never the less, ® mediately recognizable. Upcoming Recita On Monday, Roselyn and Dorothy Bovar^ pi^ will present a concert o music in VardellGalleiy Andrews. program wjl ^ ™ ^ “Exultate Jubilate, » j of Schumann songs, a g Debussy songs, mciu , Ua’s Aria from Son,” and a gro“P f Art songs. The public dially invited to a^nd. The recital wiU ^ P.M. on Monday evening-
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