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Oxford Dreatn Conies True For Thompson “Oxford!” wrote Rnrfieh ^ “Oxford!” wrote English essayist, critic and cartoonist Max Beerbohm. “The very sight of the word printed, or sound of it spoken, is fraught for me with most actual magic.” Sharing Beerbohm’s fascination with one of the pillars of Western learning is a 1978 St. Andrews graduate, Lin Thompson, whose lifelong dream of studying at Oxford will come true in October. Son of Tommy and Margaret Comer Thompson (Flora MacDonald, ’52) of Shelby, North Carolina, Lin wUl spend the next two years there, reading for a degree in politics and philosophy. Founded in the twelfth cen tury, the university has about eight thousand students and is a collection of thirty-nine semi-autonomous colleges and halls, each with its own faculty, library and residen ces for students, in the center of the ancient city. A major auto manufacturing center, Oxford has a population of about 100,000. Thompson will attend one of the newer colleges of the university, Mansfield CoUege. Founded in 1886 as a training sdiool for Congregationalist ministers, Mansfield has, over the last three-quarters of a century, expanded its of- fereing beywid tteology and now accepts students reading for degrees in English, Geography, Law, Modern History, Oriental Studies, Human Sciences and P.P£. (an abbreviation for Politics! Philosophy and Economics, "niMnpson explained in a recent telephone interview. At Oxford, “the three subjects are grouped together and one must either study all three or a combination of any two of the three.”) Thompson will be one of four students admitted to study P.P.E. at Mansfield, w*ich h^ a total student population of about 100. “I’ve wanted to go to Ox ford for as long as I can remember,” Thompson says. With its resources, traditions and faculty, it’s simply the best there is for a liberal arts student.” His chance to go came in January when he was chosen over eleven other candidates for a LIN THOMPSON Chan Gordon Memorial Scholarship, given annually for overseas study at the in stitution of the recipient’s choice by the Rotary Oubs of western North Carolina. Ap plying to Oxford in the spring, he “practically camped out at the mailbox” until word came this summer that he had been accepted first by the Univer sity and then by one of its colleges. ‘Hiompson, who graduated in may with a B.A. in politics has high praise for his St. An drews education. He credits it with making the difference in his post-graduate efforts. “All the other people who came out for the scholarship were from schools much bigger and better known than St. Adrews- fDuke, Dartmouth, UNC and the the like. I think I was bet ter prepared academically. Once accepted at Oxford he found more proof. “To ap plicants from big, established schools Oxford grants what they call ‘senior status’, allowing them to complete work for their degree in two years instead of the ususal three.” St. Andrews, he found, is not on the list of such schools, but the faculty at Mansfield found his preparation strong enough to seek senior status designation for him from the University shortly after accepting him. An Anne Blue Tucker Distinguished Scholar during his time at St. Andrews, Thompson was active in a variety of aspects of campus Booking Error Results In Two CUB Films This Week^ Both To Be Shown Sunday “Paris 1900 Directed and written by Nicole Vedres; English adap tation by John Mason Brown; music by Guy Bernard. Narrated by Monty Woolley. This is a compilation of precious document^ footage and silent movies made in Paris between 1900 and the outbreak of World War I. The first part of the film lighthear- tedly evokes “la belle epoque” through its fashions, its od dities and its celebrities. Among the most remarkable segments are those showing a gentleman who hurtles to his death from the Eiffel Tower in an unsuccessfully designed “flying suit,” and the capture of two anarchists. Sarah Ber nhardt, Enrico Caruso, Leon Blum, Jaures, Colette, Andre Gide and even Buff^o Bill make appearances, and the camera miraculously cap tures Claude Monet painting his water lillies. The preparations for war, the flag- waving and the departing recruits provide an ironic con clusion to this record of years in which Paris was the in tellectual and artistic capital of the world. Firestone Lobbyist wiiich have not t)een widely publicized, or at least paid at* tention to. The National High way Transportation Safety Administration, he noted, held its last set of hearings in early August, promising a decision in a month. No decison had yet been issued, and in the in- intervening eight weeks se- independent reports have come out to weaken the NHT- SA’s case against the 500. But Hagel also predicted that action would probably occur thi? week, most likely a volun tary partial recall of some four to five million tires by Firestone. Candidly, Hagel observed that Firestone had handled the life. He edited the school newspaper for two years, was program director and later general manager of WSAP, St. Andrews’ radio station, was an officer in two dorms and served two terms in the student association senate. He did a turn on the college golf team, directed the CoUege Union Board Film Series his semor year, and sat on a num ber of faculty, administrative and trustee conmiittees. In the summer of 1976 he served as a legislative intern for Nor th Carolina congressman James T. Broyhill and then as a press release editor for the President Ford Committee at the Republican National Con vention in Kansas aty. He is currently an associate editor of the K. Andrews Review, and was honored this spring for his contributions to jour nalism at St. Andrews by teing named recipient of the first Sam Ragan Award for editorial writing. He plans to attend law school upon his return to the United States in 1980. Thompson says he hopes his acceptance will help lay to rest the myth that a degree from a small college is a han dicap in the competitive world of post-graduate work, and as an advertisement for St. Andrews itself. “There’s a lot more here than people are aware of,” he declares. “It’s a pretty good little school.” situation less capably than the corporation might have, suggesting that such a volun tary recall a few months ago might have considerably aided the company’s image. He also suggested that the problem should have been not straight on, arguing that if you look guilty or defensive people are going to aut(»natically think you’re guilty. He finished out on an op timistic level, saying that the present crisis might well cost Firestone as much as $200,000,000, but that the com pany was financiaUy sound enough to sustain the loss. “It may take us years to get back to where we were before all this, but we'll make it.” ‘‘Citizen Kane” The Country Store Because WeVe New, We I Have To Be The Best I Kegs Pony Kegs Orson Welles produced, directed, wrote and starred in “Citizen Kane”, one of the most precisely-constructed Announcing THE LANCE Photography Service The Lance is pleased to announce an inexpensive black and white service for students and faculty members. Any photo you see in The Lance (and some you dwi’t) is available for a small charge. Also, the Lance will now process your black & white film, or make enlargements from your own negatives. One roll of black and white, twenty exposures with contact sheet.. $2.00; 36 exposures. 42.25; 8x 10 enlargement. .$1.75; 5x ^enlargement.. .$1.00. . For service, or additional information contact Clay Hamilton, Box174,SAPC. films of all time. It is a com pelling and fascinating study of the powerful recluse Charles Foster Kane. Welles, who was a newcwner to the cinema, created a completely fresh and original screen masterwork. Utilizing “newsreel” footage and the divergent perspectives of five of Kane’s intimates, W^es tantalizes the audience with glimpses of the inscrutably tycoon’s career and eventual mysterious withdrawal to his opulent retreat, Xanadu. Pat terned on the life of William Randolph Hearst, Kane is a man whose influence extends far beyond his publishing em pire. As Kane, Welles evolves from a young, energetic and ambitious man to the aging, declining exile. Gregg Toland’s deq)-focus camera Schlitz, $21 Stroh’s, $21 Schiltz, $35 Pabst. $35 Budweiser, $35 Natural Light, $35 Michelob, $23 Dark Miller, $35 Mich. 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