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Michael Greene
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Billy Howard Coo^ator
Ed Neely Evente Coordmator
Mickey Richey External Circutobon
C. 0. Spann, Eternal Circulation
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Barbara Branges Jackson Morton
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Larry Graham EHzabetfa Snively
SuzamieHogg Wynne Segal
Ed Johnson David Swanson
Kim Johnson Celeste Tillson
Steve Kunkle LisaWollman
Steve Lowery
EDITORIAL
Outstanding Artistic
Events
This past week many outstanding artistic events occurred on
campus, serving as a reminder of the wide range of cultural
opportunities St. Andrews offers.
Walter Hautzig’s piano mastery, Vardell’s Chatets printings,
the experimental theatre production of Line and the SAS -
backed presentation - DO NOT DISTURB: An Evening at
Black Mountain College were excellent examples of the varied
and creative cultural opportunities to be found here.
With the coming of Joel Oppenheimer, Dizzy Gillespie, and
Ralph Nader in the coming year, we’ll have good chances for
more cultural enjoyment and learning.
The testing and encouraging of student talent at Farrago, the
fine work done by the curveship press and the St. Andrews
Review, flie Crafts Center, student poetry readings, the Cairn,
drama productions and musical groups all offer rich
opportunities for students to explore and enhance their creative
selves.
Those who share themselves with us through these endeavors
should be applauded and encouraged, for they are a major
element in making our campus an alive anc creative place. In
my opinion the vast majority of the students here do not take
advantage of these creative opportunities. Channeling our
energies towards creativity and expression seems to be a far
better alternative than the old and stale habit of maintaining
our uninvolved or apathetic stance.
LETTERS
On Violations
Of
Student Rights
To the Editor:
For those of you who do not
think too hi^ly of their
student rights being violated
and totally disregarded, you
may find this article in
teresting. Those of you who
don’t display any emotion are
{M-obably in a majority at this
college. As you may recall, in
the last issue of the LANCE,
there was an article about the
slight difference in opinion
between Mecklenburg and
Winston-Salem dormitories,
this circumstance has so far
led to two meinbers of the
gathering being dismissed
from the college. This obvious
ova’-reaction by our Dean of
Students simply displays her
incapability of handling
disciplinary affairs at St. An
drews College. For those of
you who are not familiar with
our new Dean, her name is
Maria Santa-Maria, she was
formerly a residence director
at Eckerd College and is
demonstrating that she acted
1. emotionally involved with
disciplinary action, 2. in a
severe lack of justice and 3. in
total disregarf of student
rights. This is quite a record
considering she accomplished
this amazing summation of
accomplishments in the cour
se of three days.
The most ridiculous array
of charges against anyone
ever were filed by our Dean
Santa-Maria against Tom
Green. The charges are as
follows: your invoh^ement in
a fire extinguisher fight at the
beginning of the fall term.
(This by the way is only a
$25.00 Jine):^ Your in-
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volvement in the disruptive
incident d lliursday, Novem
ber 22, regarding tampering
with fire extinguishers. Your
involvement the weekend of
November 12-14 with ex
plosives. (This involved a fire
cracker in the hall of a dor
mitory. This charge is clearly
a display of over
reactiveness.) Your in
volvement in GranviDe dorm
last year.
This last charge needs very
little comment as it openly
displays the entire intent
behind ttie action taken by
Dean Santa-Maria. It was
made quite dear to me, while
meeting with the Dean, that
she did not want Tom Green
on our campus and this
display of charges seems to
show to me the means at
which she went to do it.
A “hearing” for Tom was
arranged by Dean Santa-
Maria on December 2nd. The
Dean informed me that she
would give Tom a chance to
defend himself. Tom as ac
companied by Steve Newtoi
and Mark Six for witnesses in
Tom’s favor. This “hearing”,
through the arrangement of
the Dean was apparently to
give her the q>portunity to in
form Tom that he was
“crazy” and that he was not
“fit to be on the streets.” This
harrassment continued until
Dean Santa- Maria adjourned
the meeting abruptly. Tom
had opportunity to defend
himself only in the cases to
deny that he was “crazy” and
that he thought this “hearing
was unfair.”
Shortly after the meeting,
Tom received a letter in
forming him that he was in
need of “conditioning and
therapy”. I would assume the
Dean was recommending
psychiatric care as I tend to
disbelieve she was speaking
of body building. The letter in
structed him that he would be
dismissed from the college ef
fective the next day at 6:00
pm.
A ten page letter of appeal
explaining the obvious in
justice and appauling
disregard for students rights
as sent to President Perkin-
son for appeal. Dean Santa-
Maria attempted to again to
force Tffln off campus by ad
vising him that seeing the
President would have to K.
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ms was in strict violatio!; o(
the rules of the College that
states “Pending action on^
charge, the status of
student should not be altered
or his right to be present
toe camp^...” This attempt
failed as Tom was aware of
the rules.
On Dec. 7 at 9:00 p.m. Tom
received a letter from the
President stating: “.. After
careful consideration i the
appeal document, and after
consultation with people
familiar with the cir
cumstances, I have deter
mined that the decision must
stand...” Tom wiU be able to
complete courses however he
must do this while living off
campus. The letter continued
“while I know that these last
few days have been difficult, I
hope that this will prove to be
a learning experience upon
which you can build towards
more constructive relation
ships in the future.”
Tom will be dismissed from
the college effective after this
term.
It comes as a surprise to me
that our President came to
this conclusion after being
presented with the violation of
procedure and rights on the
past rf Dean Santa-Maria. It
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Thanks To
Pep Band
To: Professor Dave Wilkins
and the entire Pq> Band.
We would like to publicly
thank all of you for your par
ticipation in our basketball
{rc^ram this past Monday
night. Your presence and
your music added a great
deal of enthusiasm to the at
mosphere surrounding the
game.
We all look forward to y®ir
performance at our
remaining home contests. We
feel that you can help us
generate animation at our
games and it will be an in
spiration to our basketball
team.
Thanks, The Physical
Education Program.
I For Your Shopping Phasure
j The Book Inn
Will Be Open Friday, Dec. 10
I Until 9 P.M.
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