by ANN FRANIO.IN
“I would just as soon teach
outside with a blackboard'
stuck on my chest,” saia
Biology and STMS professor
Tom Jones.
Jones, an avowed agnostic
who had his wedding out
doors in a state park far from
the nearest p^tog lot, is
leaving St. Andrews.
After a period of four
years, Jones intends to
Jones Leaves With High Hopes
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it. Andrews Presby1^''t
vacate his position as in
structor of biology so that he
may further his education.
He will also be teaching part
time at Gardner-Webb
College in Boiling Springs,
NC.
Jones, however, is reluc
tant to leave St. Andrews, he
and his wife Miriam have
grown attached to Laurin-
burg, which they have come
to call home. It will be
especially hard to leave the
students they now know.
Basicaly, Tom Jones
rememebrs what it is like
being at a small college. He
particularly enjoys the “good
camaraderie” he finds here.
Jones reflected mi his ex
periences. As a professor at
N.C. State, he never really'
got to know the students in
his classes because there
were 600 or so students in
each class.
Jones has always strived to
establish a rapport with his
students. Tom, as he prefers
to be called, tries to deal with
people on a “one-to-one”
level, whether at home, at
the office, the snack l>ar,
v^enever.” This is what he
believes a small coUege is
about. However, there have
been problems.
When George Fouke depar
ted from the Environmental
Studies program, Jones was
offered the reins of the
pr(^am. He accepted on the
premise that he did not wish
m «
to see the Environmental
Studies program die out.
Looking back, he has
misgivings.
“I believe I was shafted,”
stated Jones. “My major
professor warned me and I
din’t believe him. I was
stupid enough to take on six
courses, four of which were
labs, whereas the average
work load is about two or
three coruses. I’d end up
spending from sixteen to
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THE LANCE
A Weekly Journal of News and Events At St. Andrews Presbyterian College
Volume 20, Number Six
Laurinburg. North Carolina
Mav 1.1980
For
Expectations
Next Year
by MARTIN BROSSMAN
Because colleges all over
the area seem to be ex
periencing a drop in
enrollment due to the
economic situation, we went
to talk to Dudley Crawford,
Director of Admissions to ask
if St. Andrews is having
trouble recruiting freshmen.
According to Crawford,
“we might be down a little
bit, overall,” but he at
tributed that to the loss of
over half of the admissions
staff. For the most part,
Crawford was visibly op
timistic. He said that 270
freshmen have been ad
mitted and 62 have already
withdrawn, he expects to ad
mit over three hundred new
students, of which 150 to 170
are expected to actually
enroll in the fall. Last year
180 new students actually
enrolled. The school also ex
pects between 50 and 60 new
transfer students.
We asked Crawford about
admissions policies, and he
It’s Frankensteen.
Not Frankenstein!
Tonight at Farrago the
movie feature will be Mel
Brooks’ uproarious look at
Mary Shelley’s creature,
Young Frankenstein. The
black-and-white film re
creates the visual effects of
the horror films of the 1930’s
with heavy doses of 1970’s
humor. The monster is
portrayed by Peter Boyle,
who is devised by the creative
genius of Gene Wilder, who is
annoyed by his up-tight fiance
Madelyn Kahn, who is
challenged for Wilder’s af
fection by Teri Garr, who is
frightened by the doctor’s
assistant with the mobile
hump, Marty Feldman, who
lives in the same house with
an old demented Cloris
Leachman, who was an old
flame of the late, unseen elder
Dr. Frankenstein. Abbie
Normal makes a cameo
appearance.
The show begins precisely
sometime after nine.
responded that we have a
“rolling admissions system.
This system allows a student
to be admitted and begin
school even up to the
drop/add date. Student ap
plications are reviewed
weekly by an admissions
committee of six faculty
membes who look at the
student’s gradra, SAT scores,
and extracurricular ac
tivities. Three-fourths of the
students who apply are ac
cepted for admission. Three-
fourths of the students who
apply are accepted for ad
mission. According to a St.
Andrews bulletin entitled
“Ihe Shape of Things to
Cwne” the incoming fresh
man class will have an
average ccmbined SAT score
of 944. The same average last
year was 894 for all college-
bound seniors, and was 811
for college-bound seniors in
North Carolina. The average
grade-iMint for the incoming
class wiU be around 2.85.
Fianlly, we asked
Q-awford what methods they
had used in the past for
recruiting students and what
new plans they had for the
future.
This past year, the Ad
missions office tried to ask
suite leaders to host visiting
Process Art,
Mooney
AridSA
ByRICKGRASSI
April 25, Friday a beautiful,
clear, windless night; a night
many witnessed process
artist John David Mooney’s
lake scuplture. On Lake
Ansley Moore, there existed
for a few hours a symmetrical
bow-shaped design of 2500
alternating gold and white
candles, possibly lined up
with a star formation.
Although the mosquitoes
were bad, student and faculty
lined Laked Ansley Moore’s
shore to see art in process.
students overnight toi show
prospective students the
campus perspective of life at
St. Andrews. But, according
to Crawford, it was too dif
ficult to reach the suite
leaders and not enough of
them were available on short
notice. This plan will be
eliminated.
Othe things the admissions
office has done in the past
which wUl be continued are
“Fridays at St. Andrews.”
This program allows
prospective students to spetxi
Thursday nights in one of the
guest rooms, the spend
Friday sitting in one classes
and getting a “feel ” for the
school. Prospective students
are also asked to give ttie
names of two friends who
might also be interested in
attending St. Andrews, along
with the friends’ addresses
and the name of a favorite
teacher or two.
The recent loss of over half
the admissions taff will
almost certainly result in a
review of the entire ad
mission system in June. The
review may cover policies as
well as the office’s 181
thousand dollar budget, some
of which helps to pay for food
and lodging for prospective
students. One possible result
of the review will be an “on-
campus admistrative co
ordinator” to help in the
hosting of prospective
students. They may also plan
to work more closely with the
faculty toi locate “key”
alumni to help with recruting
our future classmates.
CR Presidential
Convention Plans
St. Andrews College
Republicans have already
begun making plans for a
gathering in conjunction with
the Republican National
Convention this July in
Detroit. The campus club has
already reserved a two-room
suite at the Windsor Holiday
Inn, five miles from the
convention center at Cobo
Hall. According to club
chairman Greyton Flanagan,
the cost per person will
depend on the number of
members who attend.
If you would like
more information about the
convention, contact Greyton
Flanagan or Billy Hamby in
Mecklenburg.
Conerly: A Portrait Of A Professor
by DANIEL SOTLER
BiU Conerly, after a three
year stay at St. Andrews, wiU
leave the faculty at the con
clusion of the spring term.
Conerly, acting chairman of
the Business-Economics
program, will seek a position
as an economist for a com
pany in the private sector.
Two positions in the
economics department will
be open next year to fill the
vacancy left by Conerly. He
will also leave a position on
the Faculty Admission,
Retention, and Financial Aid
Conmiittee.
The reason for Conerly’s
departure is a disen-
di^tment with ttie system of
higher education. According
to Conerly, students are
fraudulently led to believe
the diploma is the key to the
future. He also indicated that
some students don’t belong in
coUege at this time and
possibly not at all.
“The students are not wan
ting the product I’m selling.”
Conerly’s goal in the
economics department was
to expose students to the
values of economics in a way
that they would enjoy the
study of toe subject.
When asked about St. An
drews’ contribution to solving
the world’s problems,
Conerly indicated that one of
the world’s biggest problems
is a lack of tiie will to be com
petitive, and that most people
were just looking for
security. In his opinion St.
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Photo Courtesy of Rooney Coffman