LIBRARY
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THE
A Weekly Journal of News and Events At St. Andrews Presbyterian College
Volume 18. Number 14 Unrinburg, Nortb CaroUna March 8,1S79
Bust Shakes Campus
Paranoia Sets In
BY CHRIS STRONG
It was precisely 10:12 PM,
Monday night, when a sharp
knock scored on the door of an
anonymous student.
Hello!! It’s Officer Charlie
Buffkin, of the Scotland Coun
ty Sheriff’s Department, with
a pink warrant in his hand
that states that the occupant
of this room may be violating
GS 90-95 (a) (1), North
Carolina Statute on Controlled
Substances, Code IV, and tiiat
to “the best of his knowledge,
said drugs was in said room
and were to be divided at
10:15, this date.” In other
words he was suspected of
possession of marijuana with
intent to sell; meanwhile
unknown pranksters relieved
Buffkin’s tires of their air.
In the words of Scotland
County Chief Deputy Bobby
Green, “he had in his
possession controlled sub
stances, which are on their
way to an SBI lab in
Raleigh;” namely a “green
leafy vegetable material,
seeds, pills and smoking
devices.”
The catalyst of these events
was a call to campus security,
presumably by a student.
Security, in turn, involved
both the Laurinburg and
Scotland County law agencies
at approximately 9:30 PM.
Due process of law was
followed to the nth degree and
the anonymous student was
arrested. He was later
released on $1000 bond.
Dean of Students Bob
Qajrtor verified these reports.
“Security received a tip and
we felt it was s(did enough
that we had no otter choice
but to allow the police to act
on the matter.
“They also impounded a
van, owner unidentified. The
police found more drugs
the van. We have reason to
believe that the van was
owned by persons other than
St. Andrews students.
Green clarified just what
was in that van: “seeds,
green vegetable material,
scales, a “roach”, a “roach
cl^”, and cigarette rolling
papers.”
Ramifications:
This student, if found guilty,
stands to face more time in
prison as a suspected
distributor of mild intoxicants
than the average murderer.
Regardless of his guilt, his
implication of involvement in
a felony disqualifies him from
further education at this in
stitution, until the matter is
cleared. If innocent, he will be
allowed to return next fall.
His familial relatiraiships
have been destroyed to the
point that even the foun
dations must be reworked.
lliere will be those who will
scream, “he should have con
sidered these factors before
he even remotely became in
volved with narcotics.” Still
the point remains: from legal,
educational and social stand
points, this student now faces
a drastically altered reality.
After the bust: a small
group of close friends console
the student. He appears
relaxed, yet the inner tension
Symposium Success
BY JON JOHNSON
The symposium on southern
literature held Friday and
Saturday at Saint Andrews of
fered a wide range of en
tertainment. Hie two-day
event was spoisored by the
Special Events Committee
and was titled “Tradition and
Transition in Southern
Literature.” Presentations
varied from a fun playlet by
Fred Chapell to a tedious
study of grammatical struc
ture in “The Heart is a Lonely
Hunter.” -
During the symposium, a
total of 11 papers were
presented.
The symposium was well
attended. The attendance at
any one time was somewhere
within a range of 18-25.
Because students and faculty
were able to come in and out
as their schedules allowed, a
large number was able to see
at least a part of Uie sym
posium.
The first of the Uiree
sessions was held in the Belk
Center Main Lounge Friday
from 9-12. The last two took
place Friday afternoon and
Saturday morning in Avinger
Auditorium.
Each of the sessions was
successful for its own par
ticular reasons. The first
session, whidi was chaired by
Saint Andrews writer-in-
residence Ron Bayes, focused
on traditional southern
literature. Hie first paper of
the session was read by Saint
Andrews pr(rfessor Oiarles
Joyner. Eiiadi of the four
papers presented contained
enough insight and in
formation so that no one
seemed bored.
The Belk Center Main
Lounge also gave the
proceedings enough in
formality so that those at
tending felt comfortable
tcdking with the readers and
asking questions. The at
mosphere made the
discussion, after the presen
tation of the papers, sur
prisingly interesting and
lively.
The next two sessions,
which dealt with con
temporary southern
literature, were in Avinger
Auditorium. Avinger
regretably lacked the in
formal atmosphere of the
Belk Center Main Lounge.
Happily though, the interest
generated by papers was
more than enough to make up
for the lost informality.
The Friday afternoon
session was from 2-5. llie
Saturday morning one started
at 9 and was over by noon.
Joseph Berrigan’s paper
“Random Thoughts of a
Renaissance Historian on
Walker Percy” and Skip
Eisiminga-’s infonnal paper
on “A Year with James
Dickey” highlighted and con
cluded the Friday afternoon
session. Berrigan, a history
professor from the University
of Georgia, and Eisiminger, a
teacher of creative writing at
Clemson, were both en
tertaining and informative.
Tlie discussion session, which
immediately followed,
focused on their work.
The final session was
chaired by Dr. White. It was
held Satui^y morning from
9-12, and featured a playlet in
verse by Fred Chapell called
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remains obvious. His thoughts
are clear and he expresses
himself concisely; a slight bit
terness is his, rightfully, and
is accepted by the others.
Like a bad aftertaste, the
bitterness lingers; more
friends drop in offering their
sympathies and trying to em
pathize. Yet, with each knock
on the door, everyone in the
ro«n jumps, as if a smaller
inner time bomb exploded,
fraying nerves; creeping
paranoia.
Still the surface of this story
has just been bared. Chief
Depu^. Green emphasized
that a case of this matter
could take “weeks, months or
even years,” to clear the
courts. For the mean time,
his educaticm is suspended
and his freedom hangs in the
breech. His arraignment was
this morning and the court
date is in two weeks.
Coke Bandits
Strike L.A.
BY JULIA KENNEDY
On February 25, thieves
broke into the Liberal Arts
building Coffee Shop. The
burglars were apparently
quite persistent in their ef
forts to gain entrance to the
shop as they not only removed
approximately one dozen
ceiling tiles, but also tried un
successfully to knock out a
wooden panel extending from
the top of the door to the
ceiling. Although these
methods of admission proved
!utile, the thieves did not ap-
t>ear to have been daunted for
'xiey then shattered the glass
window in the door itself.
Upon entering the shop, they
vandalized both the Pepsi
Cola and snack machines and
removed the coin boxes from
each. Also taken were most of
the snacks from tha snack
machine.
According to L. Gay of
Campus Security, the LA
building itself was closed and
locked by 12:00 a.m. the
preceeding Saturday and the
Wak-in occurred between
the hours of 2:00 a.m. and
9:00 a.m. Sunday morning. As
there were no signs of forced
entry in any areas of the
building with the exception of
the Coffee Shop, Lt. Gar
dener, one of the detectives
from the Laurinburg Police
Department handling the
case, suggested that perhaps
a passkey had been used to
enter the LA building. When
asked of this, however, Mr.
Gay did not agree, thou^ he
did not offer an alternative
method of entrance.
Later that same week,
either on Wednesday,
February 28, or T^usday,
March 1, the locked wooden
storage spaces under the Cof
fee Shop bar were broken into
and at least 2/3 of a case of
Monarch coffee was stolen.
Mr. Dewey, of Cardinal Food
Service, explained that each
case contains 96-2 ounce
packages of coffee at a cost of
$72.00. He further stated that
“this type of thing” had hap
pened several times in the
past. Indeed, before the week
was over, the Coca-Cola
machine at the end of one of
the halls the LA building
was looted not once, but
twice. It is now turned to the
wall as, according to Fred
Scroggs of the Business Of
fice, the Coca-Cola company
is simply not interested in
repairing the macMne again.
If these incidents continue,
especially with the alarming
r^ularity in which they oc
curred last week, there may
be a possibility that both the
students and the ad
ministration shall have to suf
fer the removal of these
machines. In ordo* to avoid
this event, the entire campus
community is urged to co
operate with Campus Security
by reporting any suspicions
about either pak or future
break-ins.