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THE LANCE, Thnrsday, April 22,1976 EDITORIAL Support The PIRG Hike PIRG has done many good things since it was established at St Andrews. Its members have conducted wide ranging in vestigations, touching many diverse areas of our lives: working conditions in textile milles, pesticide regulation, voter registratim discrimination against college students, drug pricing policies, and court procedures. Like everyone else, the staff of PIRG, both here and in the cen tral office in Durham, find that current revenues don’t go as far as they once did. For this reason the St. Andrews chapter of PIRG has placed oi the ballot a proposal to raise the student subscription rate fifty cents per term, from $1.50 to $2.00. While PIRG’s findings are not always widely publicized While PIRG’s findings are not always widely publicized in the news media-save THE LANCE, which has devoted much space to PIRG’s activities this year - their influence in state government is substantial. Their track record shows they are a good investment. We recommend approval of the PIRG referen dum. On The Committee Letters Today’s paper carries statements from the faculty committee on Leaves, Promotions and tenure and an ad hoc committee of the Faculty Executive Committee about last week’s editorial on Smith tenure case. THE LANCE welcomes the points of clarification offered by the two groups and apologizes for a rather crucial phrase which was omitted from the report of the Personnel Subcommittee on Mr. Smith when the report was set into type. Notice was made of the omission at the dorm forums on April 15, but THE LANCE apologizes all the same for the omission. Bushoven Reports On Carter Eloquence to; Editor: The Lance from: Travelling Political Corresponsdent Neal Bushoven. While in New Hampshire, I taped Jimmy Carter speaking at the Carpenter Hotel in Man chester, Feb. 22. This is a por tion of that tape. Jimmy Carter:... The most important single issue in this campaign that is going to be decided in 1976 is the relation ship ... A person in the crowd; Mr. Carter, what is yo^r position on handguns? Jimmy Carter: Okay, could you wait just a minute. The person again: No, it’s important. Jimmy Carter: Look Mac, keep quiet just a minute. The current issue is this campaign is the proper relationship bet- weenn the government and us people, because in the last few years we have been deeply hurt. We have lost something precious in our government, a competence and an ability. We have seen the veils of secrecy surround the government, and we have lost a belief that the government can be decent, and honest, and truthful, and fair, and a source of pride and inspiration. Sorry I am so late, chief. I’ll try and get my report of the Wallace rally on March 20th in as soon as I can. O.K.? Bayes On PR Materials To The Editor: I wish to speak briefly about occasional spoken and written^ pot-shots taken at the promotional material now used by Admissions to advise- in overview-potential St. An drews students. And I wish to flaUy state that I think that notions that they are un- creative or sell a false image arehogwash. The materials are provided needed, initial (i.e.,pre-visit), accurate information about us and our geography. If the pieces are flawed by lack of creativity^nd I do not think that they are-that is my fault- -for I gave over my own writing last summer to work on campus in Laurinburg to formulate them, in coopera- with various experts. The ef fort was to try to stress the ex citing truths that are multiplex, and which are in sum St. Andrews. St. Andrews the creative and St. Andrews the practical and the con cert that we are and can be. Obviously I am sticking my head out of the trench because I am proud of my work and I think that I am quite willing to take any flack anybody wants to aim my way. Besides, selfishly, I think that just a lit tle analysis will give the “3 not-so-easy pieces” many more merits than demerits. To cite Ezra Pound once more: “Above all to be precise/ At the gulf’s edge or on thin ice.” Sincerely, Ron Bayes Writer-in-Residence Letters . . 2 Dean Doubles: Rhetoric Inappropriate To the Editor: The most recent issue of THE LANCE (April 15) as wen as other comments which I am beginning to hear impels me to write this letter on the “Mark Smith issue.” I have tried to avoid any par ticipation in the debate since introducing my motion to the Faculty to re-open the case but the tenor of the discussion has begun to take on overtones which I can no longer ignore. The im putations of maliciousness and professional malfeasance which are now being suggested are inappropriate and unworthy of a disagreement wtthin a com munity which is both scholar^ and ecclesiastical. Is is im portant that what is said be formulated with greatest care to the end that everyone have as clear an un derstanding of positions as possible My concern has an added personal dimension as no decision by the College sin ce I joined the faculty has so depressed me. The enormity of this is reinforced m my mind by the conviction that all involved have acted in good conscience but that Ihe sequences of their actions will bear only evil for the entire community. For Mark Smith it means the trauma of having been denied the opportunity to con tinue more ftan another year as a part of the academic com munity within which he has begun to develop into a nationally recognized sculptor and to which he has devoted much of his time and energy. Furthermore, it constitutes the kind of professional rejec tion which is always difficult to accept and which, if allowed, can affect a person’s life and wwk detrimentally from that point, on. What is said therefore must reflect careful and concerned anal)^is. For the President, it has meant that the reactions to a decision taken in good faith and on the same evidential basis as others of its kind have been so heated that he has had to spend much valuable time responding to Ihem when he should be otherwise engaged. Furthermore, his credibility with both Faculty and Studen ts may have been damaged. Certainly he has tried to in dicate his commitment to fair ness by requesting the Faculty Committee on Tenure to review the current procedures and to propose safe-guards for the future. However, I think the President also feels that you can only “march up the hill” once with a recom mendation to a Board of Trustees; to request recon sideration of a matter by that body usually must be done with resignation in hand. What is said must therefore reflect an awareness of this aspect of the total situation. For the Dean, ^ decision of his ^ being chaUenged which he tebeves was made inti best mterests of both the in. dividual involvedandthej munity. I think that he is J' convinced that Professor Smiths professional career needs the stimulus of other locations and that the « ferent experiences gained through such a move will ad. vance his artistic career significantly. Beyond that I believe that he is convinced that the Board of Tnistees might have rej ected the entire concept of tenure if the Ad- (continued on page 3) Committee Investigating Lance Issues Report To TTie Editor: The Faculty Executive Committee met this af ternoon, (AprU 20) drafted the statement below, and in structed me to hand it on to you with the attached Rq)ort of the ad hoc committee to the Executive Committee. The statement follows: On April 16 the Faculty Executive Committee ap pointed an ad hoc committee to review statements in the AprU 15 issue of THE LANCE which appeared to be miscon structions of the Report of the 1975-76 Faculty Personnel Subcommittee on the Smith tenure case, and to prepare a response if appropriate. The membership of this ad hoc committee consists of the faculty members who wrote the Personnel Subcommittee Report. The ad hoc committee has sent to the Faculty Exec- tuive Committee the following statement, which the Executive Cranmittee wishes to bring to the attention of the college through the services of THE LANCE. The members of the Executive Cranmittee would appreciate very much your printing both Bie statement above and the attached Report (continued on page 3) The Lance Lin Thompson Michael Greene L" MickMeisel.. Managing Editor Rowe CampbeU. ''" ® Editor/Sports Doug Mushet.....!!!!” Editor/Business Nanci Boggs, C.O. Spaim pV ’’.j Mark Powell Circulation Managers Billy Howard Advertising Manager Dr. W. J. Loftus Photo Coordinator Staif;"' Chuck Andrews Tom Brown Terry Clark Beth Cleveland Joyce Dew Richard Durham Clay Hamilton Suzanne Hogg Kim Johnson Myra McGinnis Lin Potts Curtis Sawyer David Swanson Celeste Tillson Lisa Wollman Barbara Branges Pri^g by The Laurinburg Exchange Co. Leaves Committee Clarifies Report To The Editor: THE LANCE of April 15 reflects the college com munity’s concern about several tenure issues. The faculty members of the Can- mittee on Leaves, Promotion and Tenure wish to speak to some of those issues. We recognize that different mem bers and segments of the com munity have legitimately dif ferent and sometimes con flicting points of view. We fur ther believe that these dif ferences, conflicts, and even errors may arise because of lack of understanding rather than from base motives. We hope that the following wil help to clarify some of the issues in the tenure decision on Professor Mark Smith. 1) Statements dted in the report of the Personnel Sub committee of the Faculty Executive Cdnmittee were not taken from letters but are extended, comments taken from evaluation forms routinely completed by faculty manbers as part of the tenure process. (continued on page 3) BOB'S JEWEL SHOP The Place to go for all your Jewlery needs Main St. College plaza
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