THE
LANCE
St. Andrews
Presbyterian College
Marks Receives Award
Volume 19
Number 2
Quiet Hours
Imposed
The Student Life Office plans to '
implement revised guidelines for
dormitories this semester with the goal
of improving the overall quality of
student life in the residence hall
Major goals of the program are
reduction of excessive noise during
week nights in all dorms, a renewed
emphasis on academics, reduction of
drug and alcohol abuse, revitalization
of the St. Andrews Honor Code, more
open lines of communication between
the administration and the student
body and increased student par
ticipation and Residence Hall Council
involvement in dealing with dorm
problems.
The guidelines were developed from
a study made last spring by the Task
Force on Student Life. The Task Force
was set up in the wake of the freshman
dorm controversy to examine the
residence hall situation and suggest
solutions to complaints about noise,
vandalism and other problems.
Student committees, to be appointed
in the next few weeks, will report to the
Student Life Committee near the end of
the year on the progress of the
guidelines towards improving the
dorm situation. If the policy is not
working, the administration has said
freshmen dorms will be set up in the
Fall of 1981.
Under the new policy excessive noise
will not be allowed after 8:30 p.m. in
the residence halls and weekend paties
must end at 3:00 a.m. Changes or ex
ceptions to these hours require the
unanimous consent of all the members
of any given suite and Resident
Director approval.
LAURINBURG-^tuart A. Marks,
local educator, author, researcher and
professor of anthropology and en
vironmental studies at St. Andrews
Presbyterian College, has received a
fellowship from the Guggenheim
Foundation.
According to the Guggenheim
Foundation, these awards are designed
“to recognize and to support specific
and innovative projects that promise to
achieve breakthroughs in our un
derstanding of human social life.”
Each year the Foundation sponsors
competition nationwide for research
fellowships in each major academic
discipline. Dr. Marks is the first St.
Andrews professor to receive such
national recognition.
According to Marks, the awards will
be used to conclude his studies on
hunting traditions in Scotland County.
This research provides a social history
of the county as reflected in land use
and hunting patterns. This research
has already received recognition
through its support from the Wenner-
Gren Foundation for Anthroplogical
Research and a grant for Independent
Research from the National En
dowment for the Humanities.
Stuart Mark’s interest in hunting and
wild animals has a long history
beginning with his youth in eastern
North Carolina. Hunting was a sport
enjoyed by his father. This interest
continued when his family moved to
the Belgian Congo as medical
missionaries in the 1940’s and 1950’s.
After spending much of his youth in
Central Africa, Marks returned to
Africa in the late 1960’s to pursue
advanced studies on man’s relation
ship with his environment. These
studies resulted in his Ph.D. disser
tation from Michigan State University
and in the publication of his first book
“Large Mammals And A Brave
People:” subsistence hunters in
Zambia, published by the University of
Washington Press. This book has
received acclaim by both biological
and social scientists, as well as con
servationists, as a penetrating analysis
of the environmental relationships of a
Third World culture and is based on
field work.
Marks is currently completing his
third book on Africa for Burgess
Publishing Company called “The
Imperial Lion: Human Dimensions of
Wildlife Management in Central
Africa”. In addition, he has puslibhed
over 20 articles and reviews in
scholarly journals.
Currently, Marks serves as a con
sultant to the Center for the Study of
Southern Culture at the University of
Mississippi, and for the 1981 Sym
posium on Biology and Culture at the
Smithsonian Institution in Washington,
DC.
Marks is a resident of Laurinburg for
the past ten years. Martha, his wife,
teaches at Shaw Middle School and
was the recipient of the Terry Sanford
Award for Creative Teaching in 1979.
They have two sons, Stephan and Jon,
both students at Johnson Middle
School.
To motivate the Residence Hall
Councils to enforce college policy, a
clause has been adopted that requires
councils to deal with rule infractions
within 10 days after they occur. If the
council doesn’t take action, the matter
goes to the Student Life Office. Student
life officials want to avoid interference
with matters that should be handled by
the councils.
A more comprehensive inventory
system for dorm furniture and suite
facilities has been implemented to
reduce vandalism, and information
programs to help cut down on drug and
alcohol abuse are planned.
The honor code will receive attention
in SAS 101 and through various
“consciousness raising” activities
including dialogues from key students
and faculty members and group
discussions.
“The policy provides an opportunity
for students and the administration to
work together to deal with problems
in the dorms” said Jerry Surface,
assistant Dean of Students.
Both Surface and Dean of Students
Robert Claytor stressed that the
Student Life Office wants to avoid an
authoritarian approach to dealing with
lifestyle questions. They hope these
guidelines will aid in developing spirit
of cooperation between students and
the administration when considering
changes in Residence Hall life.
Handmi Kimura
Ezra Poand
See story on page 3
“When someone asks me what I
major in, and I tell them English, they
laugh! Why is that?”
Why is it? It is because the bright
eyed five foot-one girl who asks the
question is Hiromi Kimura, the
Japanese exchange student at St.
Andrews. This is lUromi’s second trip
to the States, and she will stay at St.
Andrews for the entire school year. She
hopes to study literature and drama.
She is especially interested in public
speaking as she hopes to get a job in her
home town of Kyoto teaching English or
serving as a tour guide at the local
shrines and temles.
Since Hironi has sepnt three years
attending a Japanese college of eight
thousand students, she hopes to benefit
from the small class size. “All my
classes where lectures with fifty to
sixty students. I hated it.”
Hiromi notes that the students in
American colleges seem to be much
more competitive. In Japan the
part of college is getting admitted, so
once in school the Japanese students
are more relaxed.
Hiromi talks about the differences
between America and Japan with
obvious interest. Baseball and frisbee
games are familiar in Japan. For
Hiromi, football is interesting, not be
cause of the game, but because of the
fevor of the fans. Like many other
young Japanese, Hiromi enjoys “The
Beatles” and “Simon and Garfunkle.”
But her favorite singer, Shaun Cassidy,
is virtually unknown in Japan.
What has struck her as most odd
about America? The wide variety of
skin and hair colors, and the ability of
Americans to laugh and talk so
directly. “In Japan we always cover
our mouths when we laugh.” She smiles
self-consciously and says’ “I am afraid
I will be too loud when I get back to
Japan.”