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A Weekly Journal of News and Events At St. Andrews Presbyterian College
VOLUME 15
^URINBURG, N C., THURSDAY. FEBRIIARV 12,1976
NUMBER 15
Smith Affair Slows Down
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Bushoven In India
POLITICS PROFESSOR Neal Bushoven’s leave of absence odyssey Pound him in Agra, India Jan
uary 29, from whence he sent this missive to college President A.P. Perkinson.
A sort of truce settled over
the campus this week as the
Smith tenure controversy shif
ted from last week’s open
forums to the offices of the ad
ministration.
College President A.P.
Perkinson is expected to reply
within a few days, perhaps as
early as tomorrow, to a letter
passed by the Senate last
Thursday night and tran
smitted to him on Friday.
Sources close to the president
report that the decision not to
grant tenure to art professor
Mark Smith will not be rever
sed by the president in his
reply to the Senate com
munique, which, among other
things, demanded the reversal
of the decision.
Also awaiting action is a
still-unreleased letter to the
Board of Trustees itself from a
group of art majors
requesting that the Board
reconsider and reverse its
decision not to grant tenure
upon the basis of negative
recommendations, (despite a
positive report m Smith by the
faculty Committee on
Promotions, Leaves, and
Black History Week In Progress
St. Andrews College is a
predominantly white in
stitution where some am
bitious and determined young
Black people have found
themselves. Though they form
the minority in Oie school,
they strongly feel that they
are not a minority. For this
reason, they have organized
themselves into an inspiring
and powerful union through
which their dedication and
consolidated efforts have
gained them recognition and
respect within the en
vironment. The Black Student
Union has chosen February 8 -
15,1976 to be the Black History
Week, in which they will
celebrate their history and its
events. 'Diis week will in
clude:
Friday (8-10 p.m.) - Steel
Drum Symphonette & The
Otesha Dancers in the Gym
($1.00 admission)
Sunday (7:30 - 8:30 p.m.) -
Black Gospel Concert in Var-
dell
This Week
Wednesday, February 11 at
Common Experience the
Black Student Union had its
guest lecturer for Black
History Week, Mrs. Vivian M.
Rigby. The lecture was in
tended to illustrate and
highlight a trend in America
today - the search of black
Americans for their birth
right, and prove that their an
cestors played a role in the
nation’s history, as well as a
search for personal identity.
According to Mrs. Rigby, the
invitation to speak was highly
significantly personally since
“I have traced a good deal of
my family’s roots in North
Carolina, and in a sense, this
chance to visit the state
represents for me a
homecoming of sorts.”
The highlight of this event is
the Steel Drum Symphonette
directed by Mr. Jim Boyce.
Boyce is a professional
musician who became in
terested in the steel, drum art
foim while still a teenager in
Barbados. Before coming to
the United States in the earlv
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B-Ball Tourney Here Next Week
FEBRUARY 8 - MARCH 3:
Sculpture exhibit by Frank Smullin of Duke University. An in
teresting collection of in-the-round woodwork, much of which
was carved, believe it or not, with a chainsaw. The Vardell
Gallery. Free.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13:
The Steel Drum Symphonette and the Otesha Dancers perform
part of the Black History Week events. College Union, 8-10
pm. Admission $1.00.
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 15:
An evening of experimental films. Avinger Auditorium. 7.00
pm. Free.
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 15:
The BSU Gospel Choir performs in the Vardell Building. 7.30 -
P^m. Free.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17:
A poetry reading in the Main Lounge of the College Union,
headers include Bunn Memorial Award i^inners Vernon Alford
Beth Rambo, guest poet Dick Bakken, Yvonne Mason, Chip
Wrenn, Jackson Morton, and Dianne Hogg. 7:30 p.m. Free.
The Dixie Conference In
tercollegiate Basketball Tour
nament will be held the
weekend of February 20th and
21st by St. Andrews College on
Harris Courts for the first
time in 8 years. Although St.
Andrews is hosting the event,
it will not be known until late
Wednesday evening (the 18th)
if the Knights team will play in
the event. Under new rules in
stalled last year, the top four
teams in the conference will
be given the home court ad
vantage in the first round of
tournament play. In other
words the second division
teams will travel to their op
ponents site and have to
defeat them in order to par
ticipate in the semi-finals
which will take place at SA. If
Division play ended today, St.
Andrews (the eight place
team) would face Lynchburg
College (the first place team)
in Lynchburg. UNC
Wilmington (seventh place)
would have to travel to
Virginia Wesleyan (second
place) and so on. Thus, there
will be two semi-final games
Friday night at Harris courts
and the two winners will meet
Saturday night to determine
the representative of the Dixie
Confernce in the NCAA
Division III playoffs that take
place on a National scale in
March.
In past years, all eight Con
ference teams would travel to
one site and the whole tour
nament would be conducted in
the same arena. However, the
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Tenure), by Dean of the
College Victor Arnold and
President Perkinsai, at the
January 22 meeting of the
Board.
Smith was one of three St.
Andrews faculty members
who were presented to the
Board for action on tenure at
the January meeting. The
other two. Politics professor
Larry Schulz and English
professor Whitney Jones,
were granted tenure, which
ensures them lifetime em
ployment at St. Andrews
unless they resign or are
removed from their,posts.
Reaction to the Trustee’s
decision was swift. Student
Association President Keith
Gribble called a number of
dorm forums to examine the
implications of the case, and
the Senate met to devise a list
of questions which were sub'-
mitted to Dean Arnold along
with an invitation to discuss
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Last Chance
For Italian Study
Philosophy Professor Dick
Prust reports that tomorrow
is the deadline for application
for the SA in the Alps Sum
mer Session. Coures in
philosophy and creative
writing will be offered.
The program wiU be offered
at the late poet Ezra Pound’s
castle in the Tyrol near
Merano, Italy. Further in
formation can be gotten from
either Prust or Prof. Ron
Bayes.
Graduation
Committee
Seeking
Nominations
The Graduation Committee
will accept nominations and
self-nominations for Senior
Class Speaker through
Tuesday, February 17. These
nominations should be placed
in the box available in the
Student Personnel Office.
The Senior Class Speaker
precedes the Commencement
Speaker during the
graduation ceremonies. Only
seniors are eligible for the
honor, and only seniors should
participate in the nominating
procedures.
The speaker will be chosen
from among the nominees in
a class election Thurs., Feb.
19.
Negotiations for a Com
mencement Speaker are still
under way.
Graduation is scheduled for
Saturday, May 22, at 7:00
p.m. on DeTamble Terrace.