EDITORIAL ^ Meeting
The budget process this year was a good example of wM good
organization and understanding can accomplish. In marked
contrast to the bitter and'vindictive sessions of 1975 and 1976,
last night’s budget session was a pleasant, if rather long,
experience. . ...
Credit should be given to the Cabinet for providing m their
various budget options a flexible forum for fuU consideration of
a serious community question-what to do with the yearbwk,
which had grown like Topsy in cost but was returning very httle
on the investment.
Steve Newton and the Senate’s budget committee went to
exceptional efforts to make sure that every organization was
consulted in the process of drawing up the budget the committee
sent to the full Senate.
The Senate’s president, Bob Haley, deserves the praise of all
for restoring to his office the respect it had lost in recent years.
Bob conducted the meeting along a narrow and winding path
lined by snags and perils of all sorts, kept order without
suppressing full consideration of each budget item, and headed
off potential points of contention with unfailing good humor and
a quick acknowledgement of his own errors when they occured.
Judi Plyler, a member of the Senate and Editor of the
...But With
Unfinished Business
A year at St. Andrews disappeared last night.
It did so when LANCE editor Michael Greene, reporting to the
Senate on conversation he had had with the company that
publishes St. Andrews’ yearbooks, said he had been told there
was nothing in the possession of the publishing house that could
even hope to be strung together into a yearbook.
To be specific, there is enough cloth to cover 650 copies of the
yearbook (nothing has been printed on them, though, as the
order for the cover was received incomplete and was never
amended) and layout sheets for a handful of pages. They are
incomplete, too.
Even those of us at St. Andrews who have most loudly
criticized the poor quality of our annuals the past few years still
look forward, down inside, to getting one. Even with their flaws,
they are prompters of memories. A picture of an event will
recall something someone said that was funny at the time; a
photo of a friend gone on to other pursuits after graduating or
transferring helps lessen the feeling of separation. As years
pass, their sentimental value grows.
Yearbooks are a part of life, or at least part of it we pass in
high school and college. Last night, we learned that as far as
1976-1977 is concerned, there was no apparent effort made to get
one put together last year, and that it is now too late to do
anything about it.
There just won’t be one.
There will, however, be an enquiry into how this came about.
We intend to ask the President of the Student Association to
immediately create a special blue-ribbon committee to get to
the bottom of the biggest loss of faith and funds that the students
of St. Andrews have ever been asked to take, and we intend to
pursue this matter until it is resolved.
Sally Beaty, drawing about her the inimense prestige she had
acquired through four terms on the Student Life Committee, an
overwhelming election to the post of Secretary of the Student
Association, and as a member of the committee that selected
President A.P. Perkinson and several other high ranking
college committees, assured the Senate in September, 1976 that
she sould do the job and get a good yearbook out on time, and
surely, we all thought, if anyone had what it took, she did.
The end of the year rolled around, the word was that the
yearbook had been delayed for a while. We believed it.
We got back for the new year three weeks ago and it wasn’t
here yet. We started to worry some, and last night we found out
the truth.
What happened?
Obviously things didn’t happen. SaUy Beaty, who now works
for the College as an admissions counselor, must be called to
account for what amounts to a serious breach of the public’s
trust. The devastating incompleteness of the material in the
possession of the publisher makes it clear that by the end of the
last school year she had to have known that there was no way in
the world a yearbook could be gotten together. Why didn’t she
so? Why didn’t the audits the Treasurer of the Student
Association was constitutionally required to conduct during last
year turn up warning signals?
Why are the yearbook’s financial records so incomplete’
To whom much is given, Bert Lance remarked last week
much IS expected. Sally Beaty betrayed the confidence placed iii
her as a respected student leader. She should come forth now
a M account her tenure as editor of The Lamp and
^e.vi We caU on President Tillson to aoooint a c(Hiunittee at
once to provide an appropriate forum for the invesSoifaS
setOement of this maddening, and at TZe tiSf
disheartening, episode in our history.
YearbookasweU,wasinthehotseatforalongtimebutkepther
cSproved herself to be admirably open and fleab e about
the fate of the annual. On top of that, she has got the^aU rollmg
niw ?o put out a fine, on-time yearbook that will m he coming
year deserve every’one’s support and encouragement.
^e man of the hour, in our estimates though, was our own
editor Michael Greene. Michael put m long hours to ferret out
the ?a^ts in the yearbook matter, and came up with a proposa
for funding the yearbook-and even an unexpect^ source of
funding that will cover fully half the book s cost that amazed
everyone with its thoroughness, and, more miportant, provided
the final pieces of the puzzle needed to peacefully decide the
yearbook’s f ate. His performance before the Senate last night
was a masterful one, reflecting hard work, persistent, and an
unflagging dedication to finding out the facts. Since he rearely
writes THE LANCE’s editorials wouldn’t have mentioned
himself had he written this one, and wouldn’t have let this one
pass had we submitted it for approval the way we usually do
until we took out the references to him, we on the editorial and
layout staffs have engaged in a friendly conspiracy to point out
to the St. Andrews community what a signal service he
performed and that we at THE LANCE are proud of him.
Hrs. 12.12
Directly Across From
St. Andrews
We're Here To Serve
St. Andrews
Students!
Reflections On A Dirty Fork
Dear Editor,
In the weeks since school
started, I have heard
numerous complaints about
the food service - complaints
from Students, faculty, staff,
and administrators. These
complaints have varied from
poor sanitation (as evidensed
by the record low of 80.5 on the
sanitation grade), to rude
employees, to unidentifiable,
old, and unappetizing food.
Nor were these complaints
limited to some few hard to
please individuals: I know of
no one who does not have some
complaint. I, myself, would
have walked out of a
restaurant if I were served the
way I ;have been in our school
cafeteria on many occasions.
But take heart, students, we
are promised improvement.
But only after an 80.5
sanitation grace; only after
weeks of conditions which
would (and did) raise the
tempers of the most tolerant
students; only after several
meetings with food service
managers; only after a survey
in which individual students
complaints numbered several
hundred; only after numerous
appeals to Pres. Perkinson,
Barry Stallings, and other
nigh placed college officials.
This, I think, speaks louder
than flies in my food, rude
servers, dirty dishes, and lack
of glasses: That we now have
a food service that would
allow such conditions to go on
for weeks and not correct
them. Only after all these
complaints has ARA taken
any action. What does that tell
you about ARA’s motives and
concerns? What do you think
about a food service manager
who thinks nothing of serving
on dirty dishes unless people
complain, who ignores dirty
glasses unless they are
handed to them. Where are the
people who will clean glasses
because they are dirty and not
just because people complain
if they don’t.
I think the answers to all
these questions are obvious,
and easy to explain:There is a
total lack of concern for
students on the part of ARA’s
representatives at St. An
drews. Only after their jobs
are threatened is any action
taken. Perhaps these people
should be called to account for
their attitudes and concerns.
Perhaps then we would have a
food service which would try
to anticipate problems, even
look for them, instead of
sitting back and waiting to see
what people scream the
loudest about.
But, I doubt it, enjoy your
dinner.
Dennis M. O’Toole
To the Editor:
Many thanks to the College
Union Board, faculty and
students for their enthusiastic
support this past Saturday.
The entire coaching staff,
soccer team, and athletic
department are most ap
preciative.
Dean Betts
Soccer Coach
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Dear Editor:
It used to be funny
Everybody makes jokes aboil
institutional food. But tlii
laughter becomes strainei
after three weeks of pulij
hairs out of your fooj;
returning filthy glasses, aiiji
forty-five minute lines.
Somehow it all ceases to 1*
amusing when you fini
yourself spending two bucks i
night at Hardee’s becaust
there’s not enough edible al
supper to tide you over luifil
morning.
Now I am assured that all
this is going to improve, anj[
that many of my complaintj|
should not be lodged at
doorstep of ARA. Maybe a
But my skepticism as to the
wisdom of writing off the last
three weeks as a general i
shake-down is intensifiei|
when I remember that unlfj
most of the student body,
AKA has been here all|
summer (and if you want ti
hear real horror stories, tall
to the students who were here
then). The idea that the;
didn’t realize until just
recently that the dishwasher
was putting out dirty glasses
worries me more than many
of the food prep.iration gripes
that many have aired.
The hair in your hamburgei
didn’t get put there by AIW
personnel-they all wear hair
nets—so the hair must ha«
come in the burgers. Which is
said in a manner to make you
think that ARA is therefori
not responsible for them.
who ordered it, I ^
why would a concerned
service allow such to
pawned off on us?
Perhaps I’d write it :
my own paranoia, but for o»
thing: A single obseiraW
confirms my reaction to
situation. The gags and
puns don’t go over very |
any more. Suddenly it s 1
not funny.
Steve Newton