the lance
A Weekly Journal of News and Events At St, Andrews Presbyterian College
volume 15
LAURINBURG, NORTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY, MAY 13,1976
NUMBER 25
Monday Announcement Poss!Mt>
Arnold Resignation Likely
m
Malcolm Doubles
.. .accepts new post
Victor Arnold
...on the way out
Ron Crossley
...Acting Dean
Doubles To Accept New Post At Coker
Dean of Students Malcolm
Doubles announced yesterday
that he has accepted the
position of Dean of Academic
Affairs at Coker College in
Hartsville, South Carolina.
Doubles joined the St. An
drews faculty as Associate
Professor of Religion in 1965
and was named Dean of
Students in 1974.
Dean Doubles’s an
nouncement came as a sur
prise the St. Andrews com
munity. He had recently
received approval for a year’s
leave of absence to participate
in the translation of a quantity
of Aramaic documents recen
tly discovered at Cambridge
University in England, and
the news that he had changed
his plans and was leaving all
together was quite unex
pected.
' Married and the father of
three children, Doubles is a
graduate rf Davidson College,
Union Theological Seminary,
and University of St. Andrews
in Scotland.
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This Week
Tonight: WSAP presents Santana’s latest as its Album of
the Week. It begins at 10:30 tonight on WSAP, 640 am. 91.1 fm.
Thursday, May 6 - The Goodbye Rob Ray party at 7:30 p. m.
Buses will leave from in front of the College Union.
Friday, May 7-The Brice Street Band performs in front of the
College Union with $150 worth of Senate - appropriated beer. 9 p.
ro-to 1a.m.
Saturday, May 8-The Launching. Formal. Admission $1.50;
BYOB DeTamble Terrace, 9p. m. to 1 a. m.
Saturday, May 8-SA Chapter of the National Paraplegic
Foundation is sponsoring a Wheel-A-Thon to raise money for
research. Departing from Student Unicai around 9 am, the
“people on wheels” (cyclists, wheelies, skaters, etc., no cars
please) will travel to the South Carolina State Line and back^
total of 11 miles. A $5 prize will be awarded to the first cyclist
there and back. Pledge sheets are available from John Copeland
Sunday, May 9-Hangovers. Bruncn m the cafeteria, 11:30 to 1
Sunday, May 9-Senior art show opens in the Vardell Gallery.
Admission Free.
Sunday, May 9-The St. Andrews Choir and Chamber Singers
present their annual Spring Concert in the Liberal Arts
Auditorium at 8:00 p. m. Admission free. The College Union
Board film this week will be Stanley Kubrick’s “Dr. Stranglove.
^ How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, me
'dinner of 60 international awards. Hie film, starring
Sellers and George C. Scott, is a wildly comic nightmare that
sees the President of the United States and the President of the
U- s. s. R. cooperated in a bizarre effort to save the world from
total disaster. 7 p. m. in Avinger Auditorium free.
Runoffs Today
Runoffs for the presidency
of Concord Hall and the vice
presidencies of Granville and
Mecklenburg are scheduled
today as dorm elections held
earlier this week decided most
of the other posts i^>for grabs.
Among the dorm presidency
elections, the Granville race
saw seven candidates miming
to succeed senior Earl Kirk-
man. Out of this confused
situation, however,
sophomore David Strasburger
won an overwhelming
majority, receiving 27 votes to
defeat Rowe Campbell (4),
Steve Fox (5), Fred Hovey
(4), Dan Hiller (3), Steve
McLean (2), and incumbent
vice president lin Thompson
(5). The vice presidential elec
tion was tlffown out in a
dispute over the qualifications
of candidate Eric Qark, and
Arthur Goodwyn, running
continued on page 6
Editor
Retracts
Comments
lance editor Lin Thom
pson yesterday retracted as
“completely off toe mark”
charges in an editorial last
week that the college should
not have purchased large
quantities champagne for a
(^ception in honor of
President A. P. Perkinson’s
inauguration two weeks ago at
the same time it was out
trying to raise funds to relieve
the straightened budget
situation for next year.
“Several people have pom-
ted out to me that the $10.00 a
head people had to pay to go to
the reception was intended to
cover the cost of the cham
pagne,” Thompson ^id. 1
should have checked it out
more thoroughly.”
by Lin Hiompson,
Editor, The Lance
and
Michael Greene,
Managing Editor
THE LANCE has learned that
the resignation of Dean of the
College Victor C. Arnold is
likely to be announced in the
near future, perhaps as early
as Monday.
Contacted by Managing
Editor Michael Greene for a
comment on wide-spread
reports of his imminent
resignation, Arnold said that
he could not comment “at this
time (Wednesday afternoon)
because the administration is
in the process of making its
plans for next year and I have
not yet definitely made
mine.”
College President A. P.
Perkinson, interviewed on
Wednesday by Editor Lin
Thompson, was also unable to
respond specifically to
questions about the Dean’s
future. Confinning the Dean’s
remark tha the
College President A. P.
Perkinson, interviewed on
Wednesday by Editor Lin
Thompson, was also unle to
respond specifically to
questions about the Dean’s
Mure. Confirming the Dean’s
remark that the ad-
ministraticm had not finalized
its plans for the coming year
with regard to personnel.
Perkinson said that the
relationships of a number of
persons to the college, in
cluding Dean Arnold, were
under review as part of an an
nual audit of sorts he has
established. Under this audit
system key personnel will
reevaluate their relationship
to their posts and to the rest
of the administration on an
annual basis. This procedure
will include the president,
who has asked the Board of
Trustees to establish a sub
committee for the annual
review of presidential per-
formancer
Despite the vagueness of
the I^sident’s and Dean’s
replies, though, reliable sour
ces on the academic side of
campus indicated that the
resignation is indeed im
minent, and that Dr. Ronald
Crossley, professor of
Religion and head of the
freshman St. Andrews Studies
program, has already been
chosen to serve as Acting
Dean of the College while the
^arch for a successor to Ar
nold is conducted.
Arnold’s announcement wll
probably be made at Mon
day’s faculty meeting.
Crossley, interviewed by
Thompson this morning, said
he v«s unable to comment on
the report as nothing official
has been announced about the
Dean’s future or anything
else. Other sources report,
however, that Crossley,
(Continued on Page 7)
Bayes, Jones Accept Jobs
St. Andrews’ Writer-in-
Residence Ron Bayes has
been elected Chairman of the
Board of the newly organized
St. Andrews Press.
The press was formally
established six weeks ago. It
was begun in 1970 when a
number of St. Andrews
faculty members published a
collection of essays in honor
of then-retiring Dean of the
College Robert F. Davidson.
A number of other individual
works have been published
since then in addition to the
quarterly St. Andrews
Review, of which Bayes was
founder in 1970 and editor off
and on in the years since then.
Bayes will be succeeded as
editor of the Review by
English program chairman
Whitney Jmies.
Inside
Student Association President
Keith Gribble announced this
week that he was banning
all parking tickets at St. An
drews. See story, page 3.
President Gribble
Treasurer Cyril Spann has
announced he will collect
refrigerators on Monday and
Wednesday from 12:30 to 1:30
p.m. in front of the College
Union.