Attention Is Energy
What you put your attention into grows and prospers. People
vi^o don’t understand about attention sometinies put their
attention into strage things. In the first place, you are supposed
to be able to control your attention and put it on what you want
to put it on, and you’re not supposed to be easily distract^.
You can lode at something, pay attention to it, do a task while
there are distracting things going on around you. If you
couldn’t, there would be cars piled up on every comer in town.
People can drive while their kid leans up and yammers in their
ear, or while the radio’s on, or while somebody waves to
them—they keep their attention focused.
When you’re driving a car, you get instantaneous feedback if
you make a mistake. There you are, bent fender. But there are
many other things that people dwi’t leam to do that way. Th^
don’t leam the value of the pure act of being able to put their
attention somewhere.
One of the things that teachers of meditaticm are trying to
impart is how to be able to put your attention where you want
it, and to foUow out a difficult idea. I don’t think some people
are smarter than other people so much as I think that some
people are willing to put more effort into following an idea. If
something doesn’t come easy to some folks, they say. Well,
I’m just not good at that,”
But I think that anybody, if they care to put out the effort,
could surprise everybody witii what they could do and how far
they could really reach and grasp and understand farther. If
you’re going to talk about spiritual things, you have to prepare
yourself to really reach out in that fashion and grasp things,
and be able to focus and point your attention and not be
distracted by something transitory or unreal.
There is a kind of thinking that is to ordinary thinking like
speed reading is to ordinary reading. You can do anything if
you just apply that kind of thinking, which is being
unprejudiced, not afraid of \diat kind of answers you’re going
to get, not attached or involved in praise and blame—so you
can make changes instantaneously if you need to. You can
apply that kind of good thinking to any kind of problem.
If every time one of us asked another one a question, the
other person just answered the question accurately the first
time instead of saying, “Hug?” or “What are you talking
about?” or “Would you clarify that?” or “Just a minute. I’m
bysy_” just that very simple thing would make the human
race so much smarter than it’s ever been before, that it would
bring about world-wide dianges and would solve many
problems affecting millions of people.
We are living now in an age that is ranarkable for planetary
networks of television, radio satellite, telegraph , radar— a
really global communication effort. And our attention is t>eing
moved from where we wanted to put it—maybe you needed to
put your attention into your homework, but you found that old
flashing box, that old television set snatehed your attention,
and it got your attention instead of your homework. Well, if
What was coming out of the Box was just commercials, drivel,
something that somebody made up that wasn’t heavy at all, you
wasted your time.
Paying attention to what we choose to pay it to is probably
the greatest freedom we have.
(c) 1976 The Farm News Service -Stephen Gaskm
letters
The Lance
John Patton
MikeKdly
Knight Chamberlain
Sheikh Jagne
Mark Powell
Billy Howard
Ed Neely
Mickey Richey
C. 0. Spann, Jr
Dr. W. J. Loftus
Barbara Branges
Allan Pershing
Beth Cleveland
Lisa WoUman
Larry Graham
Judi Plyler
Suzanne H(^g
Elizabeth Smvely
Ed Jdinsm
Wynne Segal
Kim J(Ason
David Swanson
Steve Kunkle
Celeste Tillson
Steve Lowery
Teresa Chavis
Woody Shepherd
Dear Sir,
I am a black inmate at this
institution who is in dire need
of a lot of postage stamps,
that may help me to get out of
this place. I would appreciate
it very much if you will print
this letter in one of the up
coming issues to this school
newspaper, so that I may get
someone on the campus there
at this school to help and
assist me in the above request
for postage stamps. Any and
all amounts will help.
Sincerely,
Jdin L. Wright 124730
P.O. Box 787
Southern Ohio Correctional
Facility
Lucasville, Ohio 45648
To All Students,
If you want Brice Street or
don’t want Brice Street for
Bacchanalia please say so-
contact members of the
College Union Board and let
us know, or if you have
suggestions about a band let
us know. Decisions are now
being made.
All C.U.B. dorm represen
tatives, please hold a dorm
meeting to discuss the type of
band that the campus would
like to get for the launching
before next Monday.
On February 19 there will
be a Sdiiltz beer seminar in
the Student Union. The more
people that come to the
seminar, the more beer!
Anyone that wants to help
with Bacchanalia please con
tact your Dorm Represen
tative.
Thank you,
Janet Cote
C.U.B. Secretary
To All Students,
Please note that the Senate
has voted unanimously to
revise Article VI of the
Student Association Con
stitution (regarding the
Judicial Branch) Section 2a,
to read as follows: a) The
membership of the Judicial
Committee shall consist of the
Attorney General and one
member from each class ap
pointed by the Cabinet with
the Approval of the Inter-
Dffl-mitory Senate. The At
torney General Shall chair the
committee. One member
shall be chosen to serve as
secretary. All members of the
Judicial Committee are
distinct from those on the
Student Judiciary Board. A
representative of the Student
Affairs Office shall serve as a
permanent advisor.
Formerly the last sentence
read: The Dean of Students
shall serve as permanent ad
visor to this committee.
Dean Maria Santa-Maria
To the Saint Andrews com
munity.
If you say that you have
school spirit, now’s your
chance to prove it. Come to
the gym Monday night,
February 14, and support St.
Andrews’ basketball team as
it hosts Francis Marion
College. The game, scheduled
at 7:30, is the center of the
Hranecoming activities which
begin at 7:00 with a short pep
rally. Entertainment will con
sist of the music of the
Dkieland Jazz Band under
the leadership of Mr. Dave
Wilkins. The cheerleaders
will provide a special half-
time show.
Everyone is urged to crane
to the game and support Dr.
Tom Whiteley and the
Knights. To each one of the
team members and the
coach: good luck!
The Cheerleaders
(Editor’s note-The “St. An
drews’ basketball team”
referred to in the above letter
is the men’s basketball team.
We also have a wranen's
basketball team.)
Registrar James Stephens
reports about 535 students are
enrolled for Spring Term.
This is a six per cent drop
from the fall enrollment,
caused by students
transfering, dropping out, or
completing their academic
program and meeting
graduation requirements.
New Managing Editor
THE LANCE welcomes to
its staff Mike Kelly, who will
serve as managing editor.
Mike is an active member of
the Highland Players, having
appeared in three plays this
year: Macbeth, Line, and
their current production The
Insect Comedy. He is a WSAP
dj and is playing on the
Knight baseball team.
THE LANCE welcomes
creative people interested in
photography, graphics, car
toons, or writing. Simply see
anyone on the staff list below
or better yet come to one of
our weekly meetings (watch
bulletin boards for time and
place).
That And This
Anyone interested in using
the Craft Center facilities
during luring Term either
contact Paul Baldasare or
come by the Craft Center
anytime between 1-3 on Satur
day. The center is located in
the white frame house on the
dirt road next to Farrago. The
Craft Center has facilities for
pottery and batik.
(Continued from page 1)
IfSMge” we must first know
“who we are, how to Jo
something, and what we are™
On Friday night tli
Zequilas Band will perform at
a campus dance in Z
Student Union Lounge.
Saturday, the Dragon
Brothers Sdiool of Karate^
Wmston-Salem is sponsorinH
a ten-event Karate Tour-
nament in Qie main gym.
Events in the tournament
include Pee Wee, Youn
Ladies, Women (16 and over)
Women Black and Browii
Belt, Men White and Yellow
Belt, Men Blue land Greer
Belt, Men Brown Belt, Men
Black Belt (light weight)
Men Black Belt (middle
weight) and Men Black Belt
(heavy weight). There will -
also be team fighting and
fighting with weapons (kata).
The week’s events will end
on Sunday when there will be
a BSU Gospel Choir Festival
in the Vardell Building.
Service Aids Students
In Obtaining
Foundation Funds
The American College and
University Service Bureau
announces a service to aid
students, both un
dergraduates and graduates,
obtain funds from foun
dations.
The Bureau’s director says,
“There are hundreds of foun
dations with millions of
dollars in funds earmarked to
aid students in meeting tiie
cost of higher education teat
goes untouched each year.
Why? Students do not know of
the foundation or foundations
or how to go about obtaining
these funds.”
The Bureau offers its ser
vices to deserving students by
supplying names of foun
dations and guidance as to
how to go about obtaining fun
ds from same.
For more details on this
service interested students
may write:
American College and
University Service Bureau
DeptS
1728-5050 Poplar Ave.
Memphis, Tenn. 38157
Five persons from St. An
drews are attending a
seminar today and Friday in
Washington, D.C. on student
retention, sponsored by the
American College Testing
Service.
The keynote for the meeting
is “Why Students Stay, m
They Leave, What Makes We
Difference...” ,
During its
enrollment decline one or
major factors confounding
$2 Million Rip-off
^ each year. St. Andrews ha^
slowed this attrition
last two years, and m^en^
keep the trend moving
favorably. ,
Joining ur-
Stephens, registrar, a
Meeting are
ta-Maria, Dr. Neil Busho -
Dr. Harry Harvin and
Richard Prust.
In the December 9 issue of THE LANCE we ran an ad for
Teltronics electronic watches. This ad also appeared in other
coDege newspapers, the Ralei^ News and Observer, and TV
Guide. Since then we have learned that the company and its ad
agency were phony. The Federal Grade Commission has
estimated some 100,000 persons last their money in this rip-off.
Please contact me if you were one of the unlucky 100,000, so
we can be included in the lawsuit against the man responsible.
He has been apprehended in Mexico with over $2 million.