THE
LANCE
^ Weekly Journal of Ne,.s and Events A. St. Andreu,s Presbyterian CoUeg.
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St. Andrews Presbyterian Colleg#
OCT 11 1978
Volume 18 No. 3
Laurinburg, North Carolina
September 28,1978
CAMPUS CAMPAIGN
KICKS OFF
Using the slogan “13 on the the month.
13th”, the St. Andrews Annual
Fund sets out to achieve a
fourth consecutive, record-
setting year when the Campus
Campaign begins Friday,
September 29.
More than 30 volunteers,
under the leadership of
Campaign Chairman Julian
Smith, will get things going
with a breakfast Friday
morning. Later in the day,
meetings will be conducted
with administrative and
maintenance personnel.
Campaign leaders met with
faculty members earlier in
Campaign volunteers will
be contacting all of the
College’s 150 employees on a
' one-to-one basis during the
next two weeks. The cam
paign is set to end on Friday,
October 13, and has a goal of
$13,000; therefore, the slogan,
“13 on the 13th.”
The Campus Campaign is
the first campaign conducted
among the nine divisions of
the Annual Fund. More than
$12,100 was received last year
towards the Annual Fund
total of $608,949.
SLC Approves Charters;
Looks At Agenda
Lank Named V-P In
Charge Of BusinessAffairs
To Join Staff
October 1
At its first meeting on Wed-
nesday afternoon, the Student
Life Committee covered
routine organizational mat
ters in addition to approving
organization charters and the
1978-79 Student Association
budget.
Organizations which sub
mitted charters for this
academic year and had thein
approved were: Foreign
Student Association, St. An
drews Historical Society,
WSAP, BSU, Rifle and Pistol
Club, St. Andrews Riding
Club, St. Andrews Dumb and
Bungle Corps, Farrago, THE
LANCE, Art Squad, Water
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Folk Art On Display
In Vardell
The dynamic and powerful
folk art of tribes in the Belgian
Congo (now Zaire) is on
display at the Vardell Gallery
of St. Andrews Presbyteriar
College during September.
Prof. David McLean, a
missionary resident in the
Congo for 17 years, has
brought parts of his extensive
collection to the campus.
“We are so pleased to be
Andrews. “The carving is
superb, and the tapestries and
other materials are so distin
ctive and so beautifully done
with native materials.”
The works are principally
fom the Bakubu, Baluba,
Batshioka, Basala and Mpasu
tribes, says McLean, who
served the Presbyterian
Church in the Congo form 1944
to 1962, and has revisted the
area twice since that time.
“Most of the art from the
Congo of that era was magico-
religious in its connotations,”
®ys McLean. “There was
very little ‘art for art’s sake’.”
The Vardell Gallery is open
Monday through Friday from
9:30 to 5, and Sundays from 1
to5.
Richard A. Lank, an ex
perienced college business
official, will join the staff at
St. Andrews Presbyterian
College October 1 as vice
president in charge of
business affairs, announced
President A.P. Perkinson Jr.
“We are fortunate to find a
man of Mr. Lank’s experience
available to fill this important
adminstrative position,” says
President Perkinson. “His
background in other schools
should be invaluable to St.
Andrews in the coming
years.”
Lank is a graduate of
Bucknell University, and has
served at Lycoming College
in Williamsport, PA., as
assistant to the president and
director of development; at
McMurry College, Abilene,
TX, as business manager and
controller, and since 1970 at
Moravian College and
Theological Seminary,
Bethlehem, PA, as vice
president for administration.
After college and World
War II service, he was in the
retail appliance sales and
service business in
RICHARD A. LANK
Harrisburg, PA.
From 1961 to 1968 Lank
served as treasurer and
director of stewardship for
the Central Pennsylvania
Conference of the United
Methodist church, with
headquarters at Harrisburg.
He has done garduate work
at the University of Michigan
and American University,
and in 1972 received an An
drew W. Mellon grant to
attend the Chief Business
Officers Institute conducted
by the American Council on
Educalion.
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Senate
Unanimously
Endorses
Nestle Boycott
The Interdormitory Senate,
in its meeting of the 21st,
contemplated several issues
that will soon have their
impact on the campus.
The Senate ratified the list
of committee appointments
presented by Student
Association President Jeff
Walker and his Cabinet.
The Senate unanimously
roted to approve a resolution
;o support the Nestle Boycott
being conducted by the
College Christian Council.
Another unanimous
resolution the Senate voted on
was to open investigation on
the subject of suite phones,
also asking the Student Life
Committee to consider the
subject.
The Constitutional amen
dment which the Senate voted
support on earlier in the year
will be decided by the student
body on Oct. 2, alongside
other issues.
Monday Night Series Featured Critic
Using the four novels of
Joan Didion as his base. Dr.
John Casteen Monday
evening discussed the
author’s exposition of women
against their physical
enrivonment.
“Her first three novels all
show women in isolation,”
said^ Casteen, “except for
physical comforts. In the
duality of California life,
Didion says that the sterile
landscape of the San Ber
nardino Valley particularly
affects women.”
While Didion does not ac
tively indict men, she shows
that they resemble women in
-their inadequacy to cope with,
the world around them.
“While Didion uses
traditional methods in telling
her stories, she writes out of a
profound sympathy for
woiaaen,” Casteen add^.
“good joumoUflt” in the
completeness of her
descriptions, and praised her
for “bridging a gap In our
Western tradition by proving
the bond between the physical
and the spiritual.”
“In Didion’s writing, and
particularly her latest, “The
Book of Common Prayer,”
she creates a woman wh(
The novelist offers no ex
cuses for her essentially
tragic women, but places
them in physical and
emotional environments in
which they are unable to
control people or events
around them, and eventually
meet an unwanted but
inevitable fate.
He termed Didion as a
reaches Uie stature of a tragic
hero,” commented Casteen,
who in his other “life” is dean
of admissions at the
University of Virginia.
Dr. Casteen spoke at St.
Andrews Presbyterian
College as a part of its
Monday Happenings in the
Arts program, a weekly event
for students and outsiders
interested in the various
creative arts.
Educated at the University
of Virginia, Casteen is an
Anglo-Saxonist training
and interest, studying English
culture as it develops out of
British and Roman cultures.
His current interest in the
contemporary writing of
women grew out of his
teaching experience in
California before returning to
his present post in Virginia.
Student
Government
Self-N omin ations
Open Today
This
Week
FRIDAY - Wilmington Beatles Party 50 cents
SATURDAY - Cross Country: Home; Christopher Newport
College, 11 A.M. Soccer: Home; Virginia Wesleyan-College, 2
P.M. (First Conference Game); Tennis: North Carolina/South
Carolina Borderline Qassic Tennis Tournament; Home (Tennis
Courts In Use For Week-End); Farrago NiWock & St. Andrews
Sisters 8:30 50 cents.
SUNDAY OCT 1 - NC/SC Borderline Classic Tennis Tourney
(home); Wilmington Women’s Program: TBA; “Bedazzled”
Avlnger7p.m.; Open Bicycle l:30meetatBelk.
MONDAY OCT. 2 - Volleyball; At Shaw University-Meredith
College at 6 p.m.; Soccer: At. Francis Marion; Mass:
MeditaticHi Room, 5 p.m.; Monday Happenings in the Arts
presents: Actors and Summer Hieatre, 6:30 p jn. Vardell
TUESDAY OCT. 3 - Movie: “Harlan County”, 7:30 p.m.
Mecklenburg Lounge; Academy Award for best documentary in
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WEDNESDAY OCT. 4 - Volleyball: at Atlantic Christian
college, Elizabeth Qty State University 6 pjn.; CCC: worship
service, 6:15pjh. Chapel Isle.