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17 1978
The Lance
A Weekly Journal of Ne^s And Events At St. Andreu^s Presbyterian College
VOLUME 17
FEBRUARY 16,1978
LAURINBURG, NORTH CAROLINA
NUMBER 21
Rising Costs Of Paperbacks;
]Son-credit Courses To Be Offered
A unique compliment of non-
credit courses will be offered
this spring under joint
sponsorship of the St. Andrews
Residential Life Office and the
Richmond Technical Institute
(RTI). All classes will be held
in the evening on the
residential side of Lake Moore
with hall lounges, physical
education building
classrooms, the crafts center,
and College Union Building
serving as primary locations.
LOU was spawned by an
interest programming
questionaire completed by SA
students in the fall term. The
survey jointly administered
by the Student Activities
oiffice, produced a variety of
popular activity interest areas
which are not common fare on
the St. Andrews campus
menu. In an effort to meet
these expressed needs, LOU
courses lasting from 6-60
hours, will be available on a
non-credit, low or no tuition
basis beginning the week of
February 20.
Courses opening for
registration will include:
Basic Auto Mechanics
Sewing Patchwork Quilts
Library
Institutes
New Policy
In an effort to reduce the
number of overdue books and
resultant fines, DeTamble
Library is trying a new cir
culation policy on a trial basis.
Library books can now be
checked out for a period of
four weeks with the due date
always falling on a Th- day.
The rationale behino this
policy, The LANCE was told,
is that students now need only
remember to check for due
books every Thursday. At the
end of semesters, under this
system as the previous one,
books may be checked out for
less than a month.
Woodcarving
Macrame’
Ceramics
What to do in Case of an
Emergency
Women as Winners
Personal Growth and Ex
pression
Practical Electronics
Needlepoint
Basic Sign Language
Tole Painting
FCC 3rd Class Permit
Pine Needle Crafts
Crocheting
Square Dancing
Enrollment is open to any
member of the College
Community and Scotland
County residents. Some
courses, those offered through
RTI, will require a minimum
of 15 students and a $5.00
registration-tuition fee.
General registration will
begin on Monday, February 20
in the College Union Building
and will continue at specified
times throughout the week
until February 24. Members of
the college community may
expect complete registration
and course description in
formation by mail in the very
near future.
Classes will begin the week
of Monday, February 27, in
certain courses slated for
starting later in the term.
Each course will allow late
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FLAUNTING VAST PRODUCTION NUMBERS with a cast of
thousands, Busby Berkeley movies have finally made it to St.
Andrews. The CUB Film Series is presenting “Golddiggers of
1935” this weekend.
“Golddiggers Of 1935'
The CUB Movie This Week
To a great extent, the
Warner Bros, world of the
thirties was a real world, an
urban proletarian Depress
world, populated by tough,
hard-working victims of
circumstance scratching and
scraping just to stay even.
This tone even permeated the
early Warners musicals.
Enter Busby Berkeley. This
man wisely thought that the
highest function a musical
could serve was to cheer up its
Depression audiences, not
gloom them down to even
deeper depths. And this
Broadway routine was fine,
except that if you wanted to
see a Broadway show, you’d
go to Broadway, not to the
local Bijou. The movie
medium had unique resour
ces: why not us then to the
hilt and give the people
something they couldn’t
possibly get anywhere else.
For want of a better name,
they called it a Broadway
Show, but never did or could
Broadway see anything like it.
The curtain rises to
an elaborate stage. The
principals of the number
typically Dick Powell and
Ruby Keeler, begin to sing the
theme song. Then the fantasy
begins with a dissolve to a set
containing what appears to be
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Not Reflected
In Bookstore
Profits
BY HOLLY ALLEN
Paperback books are un
dergoing disproportionate
price increases although they
remain the betterbuy for
students in books, the college
bookstore manager said late
last week.
Betty Patton, a bookstore
employe since 1961, has
watched paperback book
prices raised to equal the
former prices of hardbacks.
Books once sold at St. An
drews for 75 cents would now
sell for $1.95 to $3.50, she said.
Yet retailers like herself
aren’t profiting from the in
creases, she claimed.
In fact, bookstore profits on
paperbacks, traditionally
about 40 percent minus
transportation costs, are now
down to about 20 percent.
Conversely, transportation
costs have risen with the
greater number of books
ordered.
Another factor lowering
profits has been the declining
enrollment, which prevents
the store from utilizing
wholesale discounts ef
fectively.
Patton estimated that even
hardback book prices are
raised about a dollar a year.
But, she said, the trend here
has been to replace the single
text with a variety of
paperbacks.
“Since paperbacks have
become so readily available,
professors can use more than
one text in a course,” she
explained.
She said the average cost for
books for one class here is
about $15 to $20, with math and
science books usually costing
most.
This
Week
TONIGHT: Women’s Basketball: NC Wesleyan College, 7 p.m.,
gym. BasketbaU: At Francis Marion College, 7:30 p.m.
“Images From Art and Science”, presented by Phil Sweeney
and Laurence Acland. 7:30 p.m. Vardell Auditorium.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17: CCC Hayride, 7 p.m. Festival
Disco, Farrago, 9 p.m.-l a.m.. Free.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18: Basketball: NC Wesleyan
College, 7:30 p.m., gym. Farrago presents: J(*n Stanfield, 8:30
p.m., 50‘.
SUNDAY FEBRUARY 19: CUB Movie: “Golddigers of 1935”,
7 p.m„ AWer. Episcopal Worship and Communion Service,
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20: Women’s Basketball: Meredith
College, 7 p.m., gym. Monday Night at the Arts presents:
Auditions - Mark Sumner of the Outdoor Drama Institute in
Chapel Hill, 6:30 p.m., Vardell. Seminar: Muscular Dystrophy
by PhU Sweeney, 6:30 p.m., Vardell Aud.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21: Women’s Basketball: vs.
Elizabeth City State University at Atlantic Christian College.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22: Breakfast Discussion Group,
7:45 a.m.. President’s Dining Room. College Foundation Loan
Meeting, 2 p.m., Avinger. CCC Worship Service: 6:15 p.m..
Orange. Basketball: DIAC Tournament.