THE LANCE
A Weekly Journal and Events At St. Andrews Presbyterian College
1961 - Fifteenth Anniversary Year-1976
VOLUME 16
l^URINBURG, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9,1976
NITMBER 2
Senate Approves $28,000 Budget
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SPLASHING TO THE FINISH line at Riverton Park Mmday were (left to right) staff reporter Jc^
Patton, Managing Editor Michael Greene, and Editor Lin Thompson. Although this looks like a
dramatic finish, they got out and dragged the canoe across the finish line because they couldn’t
steer straight enou^ to get there paddling. The man pointing was showing them wiiere the finish
line was. (photp courtesy The Laurinburg Exchange.)
A Daring River Trip
Three intrepid members of
THE LANCE’S staff carried
the banner for St. Andrews
Monday in the first annual
WEWO-Scotland County
Parks Commission Lumber
River Raft Race.
Editor Lin Thompson,
Managing Editor Michael
Greene, and new staff mem
ber Jdm Patton, set out from
the boat landing on the river
just past Wagram on Highway
401 as entry number 17 in the
field of 20 canoes, and finished
the 5 mile course 50 minutes
and 35 seconds later
somewhere around 17th place.
The winning time in the 29 and
under age group was 28
minutes and 20 seconds; in the
over 38'group, 29 minutes and
7seconds.
The race, which also in
cluded five entries in inner
tubes andoneraft (racing in a
homemade raft category)
marked the formal opening
of a 51 mile Lumber River
Canoe Trail, and the
dedication of liie Livingston
Johnson/Riverton Park. a
riverside recreation area.
Both trail and park were
projects of the Scotland Coun
ty Parks and Recreation Com-
■"ission and the Youth Con
servation Corps, an
organization cosponsored by
The Departments of Interior
3nd Agriculture.
“We didn’t expect to win,”
^fflpson said after the race,
a point made abundantly clear
by their racing time. “We
wanted to check out the river
first hand to see what would be
lost if the Army Corps of
Engineers goes through with
its plans to channelize the
river.”
The Corps has recently in
dicated it had plans to chan
nelize , or carve out all the ben
ds, in the meandering river, in
order to improve the fbw of
water. The river’s curves tend
to slow water flow, creating
flooding problems on oc
casion.
What the group found was a
river roadway through an
area of great natural beauty.
Pine, cypress, gum, poplar,
sweet and loblolly bays and
juniiper trees line the river,
which is lined along the
water’s edge by Virginia
creeper, Spanish moss, Venus
flytraps, and a host of ferns.
Farrago Opens Saturday
Farrago director David
Niblock says the coffeehouse
will open the 1976 season
Saturday night. Featured will
be Pete Ansley and Tom Ter-
ner, Willie Evans, Susan Per-
singer, and Niblock himself in
a program that will range
over Farrago’s usual fare;
folk, acoustic rock, jazz, and
bluegrass.
“We’re hoping for a good
season,” Niblock told THE
LANCE at Tuesday night’s
Poison ivy and poison oak
grow in abundance, and most
trees fallen in the river have
autumn-colored poison sumac
growing on them.
Fishermen report the
presence of catfish, robin, per
ch, pike, small and
largemouth bass, jack, and
bluegill bream among the fish
to be found in the Coca-Cola
colored waters of the Lumber,
aixl along its banks can be
seen beaver, mink, otter, wild
turkey, deer, muskrat, racoon
and several varieties of ducks.
“I’d hope that as many St.
Andrews people as possible
will try to travel part of the
canoe trail,” Thompson said.
“It’s worth whatever fight it
takes to save it, and you can
appreciate the value of the
Lumber River all the more
when you’ve been on it. ”
budget session. “Since our
money for outside acts will be
pretty tight, we’ll be looking
for new student talent,” the
mainstay of Farrago’s weekly
offerings.
Niblock indicated
willingness to help schedule
any sort of event in Farrago
on non-Farrago evenings.
“It’s a good place to have just
about anything now that the
MacKENZIE RULINGS TO BE CHALLENGED
St. Andrews student Sheila McAllister told THE LANCE
yesterday afternoon that she would institute action to challenge
the legality of the Senate’s appropriations to the Black Sutdent
Union and the National Paraplegia Foundation’s St. Andrews
Chapter.
Mcallister said her challenge would be based on parliamentary
rulings by Senate President Donald MacKenzie which
precluded discussion on those appropriations. Because proper
procedure was not followed, the Senate’s votes on those items
are invalid, she said.
We (the students) need to know if the Senate will be run this way
an year,” she said.
MacKenzie could not be reached by THE LANCE for comment.
McAllister did not say in what manner she would challenge the
Senate.
In a grueling three and a
half hour session, Tuesday
night the Senate gave final ap
proval to the $28,000 1976-77
Student Association budget.
Few of the twenty items in
corporated in the budget went
uncontested as represen
tatives of campus
organizations pleaded for
restoration of cuts made by
the Cabinet in its six hour
review session earlier this
week.
This year’s budget was
“prioritized,” as Senate
President Donald Mackenzie
put it, with organizations
being groups according to fun
ction, the most important
items, according to their place
in the Student Association
hierarchy, coming first.
In group one,
“Organizations,” the College
Union Board was given $10,200
of its $13,500 request; the
College Christian Council was
granted $2,000 of its $2,500
request, and the dormitories
were collectively budgeted
$800.
Group two, “Publications,”
led off with THE LANCE’s
request for $3200. Backed up
by a detailed budget ex
planation, the paper’s ap
propriation passed
unanimously, a far cry from
last year, when the same
amount was granted by the
tie-breaking vote of Senate
President Steve Elkins.
Yearbook editor Sally Beaty
came in for detailed
questioning on her $6500
request, but it encountered no
serious opposition and was
passed.
(continued on page 3)
Enrollment Up
Enrollment for the fall
semester at St. Andrews is 571
students, an increase of 4.7 per
cent. Registrar James F.
Stephens told THE LANCE
yesterday morning.
Stephens and President A.
P. Perkinson, Jr., expressed
themselves as very pleased
with the turnaround in
enrollment figures, following
declines in total students on
the campus during the last
five years.
St. Andrews reached a high
in students in 1968 of 900, and
then sagged slightly, rising to
892 in 1971 . Then a rapid
decline set in that carried
registrations down to 544 last
fall, and 526 in the spring
semester.
Also very significant in the
St Andrews enrollment pic
ture this year has been the rise
of 39 per cent in new students
on the campus this fall, an in-
(continued on page 3)
Committee
Appointments
The Cabinet will interview
nominees for conamittee ap
pointments on Thursday, Sep
tember 9 in the Student
Association Conference Room
(the lower floor of the Student
Union Building). Nominees
for Student Life. Educational
Policy Com., Campus Plan
ning and Space Utilization,
Library, Publication, and
Special Events should be
present by 7:30. Nominees for
Judicial Committee, Traffic
Court, Campus Services, and
Elections Board should be
present by 8:00.
remodeling is done,’ ’ he said.
Greensboro College, Away
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15; Writers Reading - Wallace
This Week
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 9; Organizational Ri^by Oub
Salem tage, 8.00 p.m., all tatere.ted please
TODAY, SEPIEMBEE 10; Soccer game against Pfeiffer
13; —
5™!“SISH“rsoccer game against
Fowlie, “New Views of Marcel Proust”, Granville lounge, 7:30
p.m., free
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15; Intramural Football Game,
Mecklenburg vs Granville, 4:00p.m.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13; Peter H. Wood, author of “Black
Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina,” will speak at
Farrago. 7:30 p.m. Free. See Page 3.