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The Lance Mich2^el ’ loma Whitaker Associ^ Editor Qif Fitzgerald Sports Editor Sheikh Jagne Business Manager Mark PoweU Advertising Manager Ed Neely. Events Coordtat.r Mickey Richey R,ifus Poole " Dr. W. J. •; ■ • Teresa Chavis PatMcNeeley t Beth Cleveland Gibbs Moody ^oodSLrd ChetNaiman C. 0. Spann, Jr. HoUy Allen Graham Disque Mc^te Wynne Segal Artiiur Goodwyn EUzabetli Smvely Steve Lowery Ea™ RrtWtt Steve Kunkle Tony Ridings Anne Kimrey Yana Banks GUEST EDITORIAL Why Have They Gone Crazy? Somehow in the light of the events of the last two weeks, it appears that half of Laurinburg has gone crazy - looting, piUaging, and slashing up the St. Andrews Campus. Why have St. Andrews students and bike racks been declared easy pickings? Why has half the campus gone paranoid over their possessions, supposedly secure on our little island of isolation? Could it be that St. Andrews is not as safe and secure as it’s cracked up to be? Those who deal in the sale of stolen bicycles seem to have figured this out which makes it a damned shame that the administration hasn’t. Of course our resident bike thieves probably doi’t know that our security force operates from a base station radio that they stopped making spare parts for over twelve years ago. Nor are they aware that we have no dispatcher, or absolutely no security coverage between 8 am and 4 pm. No, they don’t know all that. But neither do most students. And the administration is not taking any great pains to advise them of the problem. The administration it seems, would rather pretend that these problems don’t exist, ignoring potential solutions. After all, solutions cost money. Now around here money is a funny subject. The college, we’re often informed, has financial problems. Which is why we are down-grading the food service, hampering security, and cutting comers on health services. But that doesn’t quite explain where Bun found the money to build a shopping enter, hire a “recreational coordinator”, hire a “special assistant”, and still find the funds to renovate the Student Union baisement. Maybe the President can explain the high finances, for all the non-accounting majors out here. Why for instance has an economical proposal by security for an improved communications system been turned down - for the past four or five years? Or why is it good business to have your people slashed up, with no nurse on duty, or ripped off in their dorms? ' Sure, it’s good business. Good business if you don’t really give a damn about students. Good business if you’re selling a product, not building a community. It’s good business if your business is to ignore present needs in the interest of future image. And it’s good business for our friends, the bicycle thieves. For them, it’s open season. LOCK YOUR DOORS. LETTERS Health Service Leading Contributor Dear Editor: This letter addresses itself to the events of the weekend o'" May 1st, the conditions whic. precipitated said events, and their aftermath in respect to their prevention and correct ion. I was off-campus that weekend and, upon my return, was informed of the preceeding weekend’s events by my vice-president Steve Newton. I was quite shocked and angered to hear that: one of the guys in my dorm had had his stomach split open, another had been beaten badly, and an attempt to stea’ bicycles from Winston-Salen had been successfully brokei up in spite of the brazen anc careless manner the thieves had exhibited. I was late returning from my weekend at home because my younger brother, Matthew, also a student here, had to stay a day later to go in for a medical check-up from a problem cold he contacted here but couldn’t get any attention for, here. I mentioned that last per sonal concern because it bears directly on the conditions cont ributing to the disruptive weekend of May 1. Another in cident occurred the week before. Norman Moseley, who lives next door to me in Meek Suite 2, was severely ill. Some of us escorted him to the Health Center only to find no nurse on duty at our 24 hour nurse’s station. Hie next mor ning I and two of my friends complained to the President and the Dean and Assistant Dean of Students. We were told that while we were temp orarily without a nurse for the 3 to 11 pm shift, it was supp osed to be covered and a replacement would be hired shortly. We were also told that “we are paying for 24 hour service and from now on you’ll have it.” As is related elsewhere in this paper, the following weekend, when Den nis O’Toole, Meek’s Assistant Residence Director, carried a critically injured and severely bleeding BUI Downs into the Health Center, he found no nurse on duty. He called the Rescue Squad, who, when they arrived, had to spend ten ext ra minutes prepping Bill just editorial What’s Happening? Several events of the past week and a half should make each of us stop and think. In fact, they are so urgent that we need! consider them before we leave this year. The first event, which has already drawn a great deal of' criticism from students, concerns campus health ahd services. The stabbing last weekend indicated the des^e need for both improved health service and improved security service. Students pay for twenty-four hour health service but for the last few weeks these has nurse on duty fromj to 11 p.m. However, improvements are being made, and the administration has guaranteed that the health service will be “100% improved” next year. On the other hand, security service was not affected by the incident. The problems which exist today are the same problems which existed last year. Security has no decent communications equipment - they stopped making spare parts for their base station twelve years ago. Also they have no dispatcher which creates another major problem. Another which will affect everyone is the changing of the guard in the cafeteria. ARA, the largest food service chain in the natiffli, has been contracted to feed the college. Despite rumors circulating on campus, students will continue to get as much as they want to eat and ice cream will still be free. However, we are all sorry to see Dewey and Cardinal leaving St. Andrews, because of our close relationship with them. They are wished the best next year as they move to Coker College in Hartsville, S. C. A third event which has caused many students a great deal of concern is the yearbooks. Last year’s yearbook is not due in until the summer and this year’s annual is not expected uni the late summer and it is not even guaranteed then. Several students have expressed the desire to get their $20, for the two annuals, refunded. Let’s hope that next year’s staff will be able to deliver next year’s yearbook during next year. A fourth event which has caused some to call the CUB financially irresponsible is the CUB sponsored senior dinner at the Bam. While students complain that the administration does not spend money wisely, a student organization has money left (approx. $800) and instead of returning the extra funds to the senate for use next year, it decides to take the seniors to dinner. While it must be conceded that the complaints are from those not being taken to dinner, it is important to realize that steak is not a prime value for everyone. Pertiaps next years CUB will be more financially responsible than this year’s CUB, There are already signs that next year’s board will be more ■ active than this year’s board. Let’s give Ed Wilson and crew | our full support. Each of these items affects each of us. It is important that we examine them, and derive a workable solution for next year. so they could get him into the ambulance. Bill very possibly could have died because of an absence of competent help. Over the past year I have seen many of my friends leave school seriously ill, and have to stay at home or in the hospital to recover from a variey of serious illnesses from flu to pneumonia. They had to leave and be absent because they could not get care and treatment for their ills. I myself had to miss almost two weeks of classes due to serious illness, and I am not exggerating when I sai that I know, personally, 11 people who have missed al least a week of classei because they were sick ami j could not receive adequate help at St. Andrews. | The violent act whiciii caused this attention to lie 1 drawn to the Health Center’s faults, was permitted due in part to the other sore spot for the administration, campus security. There was not out security officer around whei the car carrying Bill Dow® assailant roared past tiit (continued on page 3)
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