THE
LANCE
St. Andrews
Presbyterian College
Volume 19
Numbers
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Freshman Students Compete In Canoe Race
Rooney Coffman
St. Andy’s students
honest say merchants Stanley heads admissions
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In the past there has been talk of
various forms of tension between the
town and St. Andrews. The town-gown
split, as it has been called, centers
around several issues, but the two that
are closest to the heart, and the pocket-
book of the community, are shoplifting
and bad checks.
The stereotype of the college student
who writes bad checks to local mer
chants and leaves the store with
bulging pockets of stolen merchandise
is a misrepresentation, at least ac
cording to store managers in the Saint
Andrews area.
The managers of K-Mart, Harris
Teeter, and Eckerds all agreed that
bad checks written by St. Andrews
students is a minor problem. The few
checks that do bounce seem to be the
result of honest errors rather than
premeditated attempt to get sanething
for nothing. “You would be surprised
how many college students can’t add
and subtract.” comments Harris
Teeter manager Grady Greshan.
Manager Ed Leadiworth of Eckerds
added that he gets fewer bad checks,
percentage-wise, from students, than
from the rest of his customers.
Shoplifting also seems to be a minor
problem. Shoplifting is harder to detect
and keep track of than bad checks, but
the general opinion of all three
managers was that it was no more of a
problem with students than with any
other group.
Grady Greshan notes that his store
had a problem, a little over a year ago,
but says that it has almost completely
cleared up now that they have adopted
a policy of consistant prosecution. He
adds, with a smile, that it helps to have
a Deputy Sherriff working in the meat
department.
There are , however S.A. students
th^t have been arrested and
prosecuted for shoplifting; one case in
volved a student who stole a tube of
toothpaste and a package of luncheon
meats.
All the managers interviewed said
they thought that the community was
generally supportive of St. Andrews,
the success of fund-raising drives and
the economic benefits that Laurinburg
reaps from the St. Andrews faculty and
staff.
“We can tell when school starts by
the increase in our business,” noted the
K-Mart manager.
Two of the threes stores have em
ployed students in the last year. Both
praised the capability and honesty of
the student employees.
Entropy at work
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Jim Stanley, already a familiar face
at St. Andrews, has taken over a new
office. Formerly Director of Financial
Aid, Stanley will now head both offices.
Stanley said St. Andrews is well
prepared to deal with competition from
larger schools in the 80’s. “The
problem here,” stated Jim, “is that
most people don’t know about us. St.
Andrews has been called the best-kept
secret in North Carolina.”
He went on to explain that while the
overall college-age population wiU
drop during the 80’s, this decline
shouldn’t be a problem on the Eastern
Seaboard, where the population is
concentrating in increasing numt>ers.
In fact, colleges from the Midwest,
where the population is less dense,
should be recruiting in this area.
Stanley observed that the competition
Shouldn’t be any problem, as long as
St. Andrews maintains their strong
base in North Carolina.
But does this optimistic news
actually mean that the quality of
students will decline? Jim Stanley’s
answer is a firm negative. “People are
looking for a quality education. If we
lowered our standards, we might have
short term gains, but in the long run it
would kill us.”
Stanley further conunented that,
while he has been on a tight schedule
during registration week, he hopes to
be able to deal personally with
students throughout the year. “I’m
looking forward to lots of student and
faculty input,” he concluded. “I think
the relations between admissions and
the rest of the St. Andrews community
will be very positive.”
Students subject to new food stamp law
New regulations are going to make it
more difficult for students to receive
food stamps. Effective September 1,
1980, students enrolled at least half-
time in an institution of higher learning
wiU not be eligible to receive food
stamps unless they meet one of the
following criteria:
—Be employed 20 hours a week;
-Participate in a Federally financed
work study program;
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-Be the head of a household or
spouse containing at least one other
dependent; or
-Be enrolled in school through a
Work Incentive Program.
If you faU into one of the above
categories, you njay want to apply at
your local department of social
services. Students not meeting the
criteria will, under Federal law, be
ineligible.
There are more new faces than ever
before at St. Andrews, as ap
proximately 200 freshmen and 85 tran
sfers swell college enrollment to 747
students. This is an increase from 620
last fall-the largest increase, both in
numbers and percentage, (19%), in the
history of St Andrews.
Re^strar Jim Stevens said. “I don’t
know of any college ever to have that
kind of an increase, and we’re still
registering this week.” Stevens said
Highlight
One of St. Andrews most valuable
resources is the College Archives,
located in room L.A. A-7, the office of
Dr. Carl W. Geffert. Dr. Geffert, keeper
of the Archives, is a professor of
German at St. Andrews. The “Ar
chives”, consisting of a huge mountain
of letters, memos and other papers
dating back to 1964, is the personal
collection of Dr. Geffert, an ac-
culumation of his seventeen years at St.
this new trend could have a bandwagon
effect, which could lead to further in
creases next year-theoretically-until
there is no more dorm space. These
changes wiU have a positive financial
effect on the college.
The freshmen are primarily from
North and South Carolina, with a mean
SAT score of 907, slightly lower than
last year. The male/female ratio is
50/50.
By Jennifer Solt
Andrews.
Geffert explained to The Lance that
when he was at the University of
Chicago, one of the professors there
would pile each day’s paperwork on the
front page of the Chicago Tribune, Thus
creating a dated desk-sized file. Dr.
Geffert intended to do the same thing
here. “But,” said Geffert, with a smile,
‘ ‘I never got the newspaper.”
Roooey Coffman
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