THE LANCE
A Weekly Journal of News and Events At St, Andrews Presbyterian College
FT VOLUME 16
Year -1976
LAURINBURG, north CAROLINA
THURSDAY, MARCH 3,1977
NUMBER 14
iportant Changes Approved
In Grading System
l^jBy Steve Kunkle, Staff Writer
The grading system used at
St. Andrews has undergone
major changes effective the
Fall Term of 1977 due to the
Educational Policy Com
mittee (EPC), which passed
the changes at a meeting
Thursday, February 17.
The first of foiu- major
changes is a simplified
system of grading and of
classifying students as Fresh
men through Senior. Whereas
before the letter grades in
cluded WP (Withdrawn While
Failing), the simplified
system has only F, W, and P.
A student can now be
classified as a Senior upon
completing 26 courses, in-
fstead of the presently
required 28, a Junior upon 17,
|and a Sophomore with 8, with
no consideration given to the
I state of their cumulative
average.
The second major change to
: be made is the introduction of
the Pass/Fail option. Those
Sll students with a Junior or
Senior standing may decide to
I;; take a total of 2 Pass/Fail
courses, and that option can
Hi be declared anytime up to the
^ final 2 weeks of a course.
Pass or Fail grades for these
courses will not be calculated
in a student’s Grade Point
Average (GPA).
Tliirdly, a different method
|of arriving at a cumulative
average will be employed. It
vill now be possible for a
professor to give an A, A-,
iBplus, B-, Cplus, C, C-, and a
|D as the student’s grade,
vith the added addition or
[subtraction having a dif
ference in the cumulative
average. An A will still be
counted as a 4.0; A-, 3.7;
|Bplus, 3.3; B, 3.0; B-, 2.7;
Dplus, 2.3; C, 2.0; C-, 1.7; and
aD.1.0.
'Ihe most important change
[to be made, in the opinion of
obert C. Crossley, Dean of
Vcademic Affairs, is that
grades of F, W, or P wiU ap
pear in the student’s tran-
eript but not be included in
|the cumulative average and
pthat a student may wiflidraw
; and receive a W anytime up
l^to the final 2 weeks of the
|(course, with the instructor’s
and faculty advisor’s ap
proval. This in effect would
ake it possible for anyone^
I GPA to go below a 1.0.
This
Week
However, any student not
attaining a 2.0 GPA and
passing three courses during
a regular term will be placed
on academic probation, with
possible expulsion if no
favorable change is seen.
Further actions will depend
upon consultations with the
Dean of the College and the
Faculty Executive Sub
committee on Student
Problems, as will be stated in
the revision of the Catalog on
page 32-33 regarding
Academic Probation and
Eligibility to Continue in
College.
Dean Crossley said that he
is ‘’personally pleased by the
work of the (Educational
Policy) Committee and the
changes in the grading policy.
It will be more responsive to
student needs and less
punitive; the new system will
allow for more precise
evaluation of learning and
will continue the high
academic standards of the
college.”
The new grading policy
began with the Learning
Evaluation Sub-committee of
the EPC, chaired by
Professor Dick Prust. After a
thorough study of the grade
system, which included
talking to students,
professors, and ad
ministrators, a report was
filed with the EPC containing
a list of recommendations.
This report was acted upon by
the EPC, and after some
minor alterations, became of
ficial college policy.
All of the above changes in
the St. Andrews grading
system will take effect in the
Fall Term of 1977. However,
all grades received before
this date will not be altered
and GPA’s will remain the
same.
You, Wood?
Ctoe of Bob Kopf’s Artistic
Furniture Pieces.
About one half of all studen
ts who enter college do not
graduate four years later, ac
cording to the National Center
for Educational Statistics.
Bob Kopf lives in Winston-
Salem, likes stocking caps,
came first to St. Andrews
about a year ago with Chuck
Sullivan (who read poetry)
and makes furniture, REAL
furniture. Good wood and
good craftsmanship. . .and a
good feeling in the senses. Fw
instance, his idea for the
cocked alignment of legs for a
recent cantilevered writing
desk came to him through his
attraction to Rodin’s sculp
ture “Walking Man.” And the
development of a charac
teristic cypress-stump foot for
much of his current work
arose from just that, the
visual pleasure of the natural
form of cypress trunks.
Next week, Mr. Kopf wiD
spend two days on campus,
sponsored by the Art
Program and the Special
Events Committee. Monday
evening he will open an
exhibition of his furniture at a
reception at 8 p. m. in the
gallery of the Vardell
Building. There he will be
avaUable to talk about his
work and the problems of fur
niture design and con
struction.
THURSDAY, MARCH 3: Dizzy Gillespie ^d Jazz (^rtet,
Avinger Auditorium, 8 pm, Students admitted free with ID.
FRIDAY, MARCH 4: 6% cent* film - Shootout at Rio Lobo,
starring John Wayne and George Platon, Mecklenbui^, 7 pm
FRIDAY MARCH 4: Recital - Kathie Devane (Flute) and
Richard Whitley (Piano and Harpsichord), Vardell Gallery, 8
LtURDAY, march 5: 6% cents films - Blood and Sand,
starring Rudolph Valentino; and College, starrmg Buster
Keaton, Meckenburg, 7 pm.
Legendary Dizzy Gillespie
Performs Here Tonight
by Thom Johnson, staff Writer
Jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader Dizzy Gillespie
will perform tonight at 8:00 in Avinger Auditorium. St. An
drews students will be admitted free with I.D. cards.
Gillespie was bom in Cheraw, South Carolina, and attended
Laurinburg Institute. He is credited by most jazz critics as the
co-founder, along wiUi saxophonist Charlie Parker, whom
Gillespie played with, of bebop, the then-revolutionary style of
jazz that broke away from swing, the prevalent style of that
time. Gillespie played trombone at 14, and added trunq)et a
year later, taking lessons from his father, an amateur
musician himself. He also studied theory and harmony, and, at
age 20, replaced Roy Eldrige in Teddy Hill’s band. In the next
few years, he play^ with many big bands before leading his
own.
Gillespie played with Qiarlie Parker first at the Savoy
Ballroom in Harlem in 1941. and tiien at a club called Minton’s,
also in Harlem. Ihis is where the style that came to be called
bebop evolved and devel(^)ed, fueled by Parker’s red-^ot
creativity and projected outward to the jazz world by
Gillespie’s musical prominence.
After Parker died in 1955, Gillespie went on to become the
most important living exponent of tebop, going on world tours
with his big band; becoming an American “jazz diplomat.”
The trumpeter has proved himself very able to change with the
times, so that tonight’s concert shoidd feature many styles,
from bop right on up to tiie jazz-rock of the seventies, and
everything in between.
Tuesday morning, March 8,
Bob will conduct a furniture-
making workshop from 10 to
11:30 a. m. during which he
will demonstrate joining
and laminating and finishing
skills on two works-in-
progress. The workshop is
open to anyone interested and
will take place outside the
art rooms on the lakeside of
the Liberal Arts Building.
At 12:30 Tuesday in room
W2 LA, Bob has agreed to talk
with Mark Smith’s Senior SAS
class about how he decided to
make a living from what was
essentially a personal interest
and hobby and what sort of
committments and decisions
were necessary to carry out
those intentions. He has ex
pressed considerable interest
in such a discussion about
lifestyle, so the session should
be very informative. Although
it should be particularly per-
tinant for seiors, anyone else
who would like to attend is
welcome.
If you have any questions
about the two days of events,
contact Prof. Mark Smith at
the Art Program, ext. 313.
SUNDAY, MARCH 6: CUB Movie - Blaise Pascal, with Pierre
Arditi, Avinger, 8 p. m.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9; Poet Maria Ingram, 7:30 pm,
Wilmington.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9: Nortti Carolina Sjmphony’s debut
concert at Carnegie Hall; many area FM stations will carry the
concert live, beginning at 8 pm
THURSDAY, MARCH 10 thru SUNDAY, MARCH 13: The
Highland Players present “A Raisin in the Sun”, Liberal Arts
Auditorium, 8 pm, (phone 276-3652, ext. 204).