THE LANCE
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NOV 30
A Weekly Journal of News and Events At St, Andrews PresbyterianiCollege
1961 - Fifteenth Anniversary’ Year-1976
VOLUME 16
LAURINBURG, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1976 NUMBER 8
Meeting On Problem Tonight At 6:30 In Orange Hall
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^erkinson Plan May Cut Cafeteria Force By Half
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All Night Watch Leaves Democrats Joyous, GOP Sad
)rama To Re-enact Famous Trial
A jury of local citizens will
pass down a judgment at
Scotland County Courthouse
on November 5 when the
Carolina Theatre Company
reenacts the treasrai trial of
Junious Scales, head of the
North Carolina and South
Carolina Communist parties
inthel940’s.
The admission-free produc
tion, entitled “The Limits of
Descent”, is based on the ac
tual transcripts of the Scales
trial in 1955. Although Scales
later disavowed his mem
bership, he was incarcerated
for belonging to a group whose
aim was to overthrow the U. S.
government.
Ihe 90-minute production
will begin at 7:30 p.m. and the
following discussion will be
moderated by Dr. Harry Har-
vin, history professor at St.
Andrews. Dr. George Fouke,
political science professor at
St Andrews, is regional coor
dinator for the Carolina
Theatre Company.
The Winston-Salem based
company places a heavy em
phasis on theatre for new
audiences through its school
touring program and per
formances in correctional in
stitutions and homes for
senior citizens.
The group performing in
this production of “Hie Limits
of Descent” was formed two
years ago. Supported by the
Theatre Arts Section of the
Department of Cultural
Resources, Mary Reynolds
Babcock Foundation, Mary
Duke Biddle Foundation and
individual contributors, the
company has since mounted
11 productions and presented
261 performances for an
audience count of about
115,000.
According to Fouke, a num
ber of fffominent citizens have
been invited to participate as
members of the jury. The
names of those accepting the
invitation will be announced
later.
Compiled From
Staff Reports
Wilmington Hall was a
beehive of activity Tuesday
night as returns in the 1976
elections began to roll in.
Festooned with multi
colored streamers and
posters for the candidates
supplied by the St. Andrews
Republican Committee and
Scotland County Democratic
headquarters, the main
lounge began to look and
sound like a real election
headquarters, as over 200
people soMi showed up, hud
dled around the six
televisions, running back and
forth to compare notes with
friends, or just wandering
about. Coffee, sandwiches and
beer were consumed in large
quantities. The tension that
began to mount after mid
night was heightened as
cheers periodically arose
from in front of various TV
sets over new state projec
tions, the network estimates
sometimes varying by as
much as 50 electoral votes
and spurring arguments over
which was most accurate.
Supporters of Carter and
Ford seemed about equal in
number. Campus Republican
chairman lin Thompson, his
prophesies m which way the
states would go on a clipboard
under his arm, circulated
about vigorously asserting
that the early Carter surge
was predictable and that F ord
would take it wi the western
and tag state returns to doub
ters in both camps.
Carter chairman Nanci
Boggs was equally confident,
pointing to the early Carter
lead as evidence of things to
come.
The crowd dropped off shar
ply between 1 and 2 a.m.
Republican faces grew long
as Carter partisans
celebrated what was turning
into an inexorable process of
attrition, a state by state mar
ch toward the 270 electoral
votes needed to win. Pen
nsylvania and Texas dropped
into the Carter column,
followed by a razor’s edge
victory in Hawaii to put him
five votes short. Shortly after
3 a.m. the networks an
nounced the Carter victory as
Mississippi fell in line, and it
was all over.
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By Suzanne H(^g
Staff Writer
A shift in the hiring policies
of the college food service by
President A.P. Perkinson is
expected to result in the tran
sferring of one half of the
stude'nt positions on the
cafeteria staff to workships.
A recent memo circulated
among the administration has
not only caused soup to fly
and cafeteria workers to
begin sporting hats bearing
the legend “Save Cafeteria
Workers”, but indicates the
change will save an estimated
$29,000 a year as well.
Perkinson says the cuts are
necessary in order to reach
his goal of a balanced budget
by next year. In an interview
with THE LANCE, the
president said that cuts have
been made across the board
so far and that he had put off
student positions and services
as long as possible in hope of
leaving them intact.
Coupled with the budgetary
problems is the problem of
idle workships. Perkinson told
THE LANCE that there are a
number of essentially useless
workship positions which
need to be done away with,
necessitating additional
openings elsewhere for
students receiving this form
of financial aid. The president
added that in the future all
departments of the college
desiring workship assistance
wiU be required to submit job
descriptions in order to en
sure that all such jobs are
being productively utilized.
Perldnson stressed that at
most only half of the jobs in
the cafeteria would be shifted
over to workship students,
and that the move was being
made to save the college
money it badly needs for to
other areas. Should the plan
prove unworkable, he said, it
would be abandoned in favor
of other arrangements.
Financial Aid Director Mac
McMillan is currently
drawing up a placement
directory of sorts in an effort
to at least ease the for
thcoming employment crun
di. The directory would c«i-
sist of the names and work in
terests of students who choose
to be involved, and would be
made available to business
and private persons in the
Laurinburg area as a guide
for hiring students part time.
McMillan told THE LANCE
that he has recently visited a
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This
Week
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4: Intramural Soccer -
Mecklenburg vs Winston Salem, 4 pm
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6: Cross Country - DIAC Meet,
Fayetteville, N.C.
Monday, Novembers: Attic cheap Flbn - Edward Munch;
The NOTwegian Master (rf E3q>ression, from the Kenneth Clark
series on modem painters.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9: Intramural Soccer - Granville vs
Winston S^em, 4 pm
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10: Intramural Soccer -
Mecklenburg vs Granville, 4 pm
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10; “A Visit to Communist
China” with commentary and slides by Edna Little, Granville
Lounge, 7:30 pm
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10; CCC Worship Service, Chapel
Island, 6:15 pm, (in case of rain, meet in Kings Mountain
Lounge)
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