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We Have No “We got trouble right here in River City, With a capital T, and that rhymes with P And that stands for Pool.. .’’-The M.«lc Man The other day a professor was walking toe h^k m to Science building, muttermg to ‘ „jean trouble He was answered by a student wit, D y ‘wito a capital T, and that rhymes wito P, and that stands To that remark toe professor retorted, Except that we have no trombones to fall bake on... ReaUsUcaUy, toe professor could have been the financial pUght of this college. Consider the curre national situation: First, the U.S. government is cutting bacK on its budget for 1980-81. One of the most likely cute wiUcome in toe area of student loans, particularly those at toe lowest interest rates. Second, the impedning recession is causing many businessmen and women to cut backon their b^jn^ss and personal spending. Thus, toose wito collegeage children are probably going to encourage toem to attend relatively prestigious-and dramatically less expensive-state , universities. Third, banks are increasmgly reluctant to TrOmbOnGS finance individual college loans. The U U! I lUKJI approved will have interest rates in the neighborhood of fifteen per cent. Many parente are wiUing to go deeply into debt to send a young fellow or a young lady to Harvard, Princeton, or Emory. ReaUstically, however, it is difficult to imagine parente who are equally willing to go into debt for a less prestigious school such as St. Andrews. Fourth, if a school such as St. Andrews has a substantial part of ite endowment invested in stocks, toen inflation would eat significanUy into toe endowment principle. On toe other hand, if much of the endowment has beeninvested in bonds, then recent high interst rates would have made toe return on the investment intolerably small compared to the return on ff . 1 the college right now. In the admissions one r^son or anotoer. Admissions for next year are SLr Dudley Crawford is not pubUcly pessimistic. He Sis that recruiting is “down a little bit,” but the inconung claS may be down by twenty to thirty per cent from this vea“ according to some who have seen the earlv figures. Tn toe business office, toe business manager Richard Lank iUeaving the college abruptly. He has complained recently hat toe college is suffering from a severe cash-flow nrXlem He has even quoted an alarmmg figure-m excess of $70,000-as toe current outetanding debt of the college. Lank has admitted toleaving‘’in a huff.” ki u . It would be easy to blame individuals forproblems here at the college but that would fail to address the actual, serious inancial problems. These problems have been brought about bv a combination of unfortuante factors, many of which are bevond toe control of anyone here at St. Andrews. Of course, there are probably several steps which could have been taken to soften toe impact of this financial crisis. However, if the coUege community decides to solve the problems by beginning a “search to find toe culprit,” then a situation may develop in which administrative and student differences wiU prevent toe coUege from looking for some reasonable and long-term financial solutions. As Benjamin Franklin once said, We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately. Finally as one staff member observed, “If the students feel that this problem is foreign to their concerns, they are sadly mistaken.” Crisis: Carter Faces Foreign Policy For toe moment here is a deep sadness in America over the tragic failure of our rescue mission in Iran last Friday. Early polls show broad support for toe President’s action in spite o ite failure. Still, toe damage to America’s position m toe crisis may be irreparable. The damage to President Carter s political fortunes may be eventually fatal. First of all, toe resignation of Cyrus Vance pute into doubt toe continuity and stabiUty of toe poUcy-making groups within toe administi-ation. The Vance resignation leaves our foreign policy in the hands of academics who are stiU relative novices in toe field of career diplomacy. To compound toe problem, toe President has not had any of toe pr^ous experence in foreign policy upon which his two Presidential predecessors drew. Vance had served capably in four consecutive adminisfa-ations. He was well rspected by our European allies. He helped conduct toe Vietaam negotiations, toe Cyrus talks, trade neogitati»ns wito Common Market nations, and he played a curcial role in boto Egyptian-Israeli agreemente and in toe SALT II treaty. Cyrus Vance was referred to by Hulmut Shmidt and England’s Lord Carrington as America’s most competaent diplomat. His departure complicates an already testy siaution wito our allies in Europe. It is too easy for us to condemn our allies for toeir reluctance to join our self-righeous indignation. “Well,” we glibly exclaim, “We have done so much for toem, and now toey turn toeir back on us! ” This is quite simply not toe case. Our allies would be glad to assist us in toese troubled times. They recohgize our importance to toeir own security. And yet, toey are understandably reluctant to immediately answer our every urgent plea. Our policy has not been a model of consistency. The Europeans have seen us indignantly proclaim that, in toe case of Russian troops in Cuba, “toe status quo is not acceptable.” Two weeks later our President suddenly reversed himself and decided tot toe situation was acceptable after all. „ ■ * T.ask week, toe President ui^ed our European allies to support us in peaceful economic sanctions against Iran. He did so while pledging that America would not resort to military action “in toe foreseeable future.” The Europeans agreed to toe sanctions and within forty-eight hours Americans ere on the ground in Iran to set up a military base for toe armed rescue of our hostages. Whetoer or not toe rescue was toe right thing to do is not relevant to toe fact that toe allies now feel betryed by anotoer example of a foreign policy about-fact by toe Carter Administration. The public show of unity among toe Common Market nations thinly masks toeir deep and abiding doubte about toe nature and conduct of America’s foreign policy. Vance’s departure can only increase these doubte. Their are also continuing doubte about toe Carter foreign policy here in America. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has publicly criticized toe nation’s current leadership only once, but his criticism was wide-ranging. It will be interesting to see how deeply his disagreemente are exposed this Sunday evening when 60 Minutes talks to Dr. Kissinger about his relationship wito the former shah of Iran. The momentary support lent to Carter following toe failure of toe Iran rescue mission is already beginning to disintegrate amidst toe belief of many Americans that toe major fault of toe mission was in ite planning and lack of adequate back-up equipment. “Damn,” complained one solider at Fort Bragg, “We should have sub-contracted wito the Israelis.” Time and Newsweek have already hit the streets with cover stories proclaiming the mission a “disaster” and a “fiasco”. With the alleged disperasal of the hostages thorughout the nation, many thoughtful Americans have come to the uneasy conclusion that at least some of the hostages will never live to see America again. The current situation can only hurt President Carter’s chances for the Democratic nomination. When the shock of the moment subsides, the President will be faced with a growing suspciion that he should not remain President. Unless the Iranian crisis drastically changes for the better then President Carter may have to suffer serious consequences. He may even lose his job. This is as it should be. For Air Conditioning It Will Have To Be A Hot Day According to toe Office Manager of toe Physical Plant, Harry Sangren, it depends on Motoer Nature as to whetoer or not toe air- conditioning will be activated before the end of Spring term. “The main idea is con serving energy,” Mr. Sa^ dgren told me. “it wUl not turned on unless absolutely necessary.” It was a plumbing problem, not toe air-conditioning, that was causing some noise disturbance in several domw recently. “The problem, said Mr. Sandgren, “has now been corrected.” Lame Duck Senate Holds Meeting For Next Year elections have been com- by RHONDA BOYD pleted, toe old senate will step down and allow toe new senate to begin its rei^. In The end is drawing near for the mean time, we are trying the 1979-1980 Inter-Dormitory to tie 14) all of toe old Senate. As soon as all of the business. Some of this in- Greg Piccola Editor Andrew Montgomery Layout Michael Snider Photography Rooney Coffman Charles Booker Sports Steven Cole Cartoonist Staff: Dan Philips Blake Richard Grassi Martin Brossman Billy Hamby dudes placement of resolutions, formation of a bill, and investigation of in firmary conditions. The Stenate is looking into toe [tossibility of beginning a new tradition at St. Andrews. Saiators Mosely (Albemarle) and Woodson (Orange) have begun checking into the possibility of having a cocktail party for the seniors and faculty. At toe last meeting, held April 28, the Saiators were requested to return the Task Force Forms. It is important that everyMie fiU toese out and return toem. Ttie senate meeting will be he May 5 in toe Belk Center Main Lounge. The meetings are open to anyone w terested. - THE LANCE STAFF Rhonda Boyd Greyton Flanagan Anne Franklin Elizabeth McAnulty Michael Saleeby Daniel Sotler Printed by The Laurinburg Exchange The opinions expressed in THE LANCE are not necesarily those of St. Andrews Presbyterian CoUege. (Copyright 1980 Gregory R. Piccola)
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