The Lance
Volume 19 Number 8
St. Andrews Presbyterian College
Thursday, January 22, 1981
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photo by Jonathan Webster
St. Andrews Students to Attend
National SNEA Convention
by Holli Haddix
Elaine Rolfsen and Jan Hill,
members of the St. Andrews chapter of
the Student National Education
Association (SNEA), have been elected
to attend the 44th Annual Convention of
the SNEA January 29-31, in Nashville,
Tennessee.
Rolfsen and Hill will be among 113
students from 45 states who will
comprise the official legislative body of
the national student Association. This
Association represents the thousands of
college students who plan to pursue
careers as teachers. It is the largest,
deliberative student Association in the
naton.
Student delegates to the convention
will determine SNEA’s goals and will
set policies and implement educational
and student-oriented programs. The
delegates wiU also elect officers and the
board of directors as well as approve
the budget. This convention gives all
participants a chance to meet and
exchange ideas with fellow education!
major students.
Special focus will be given to fifth-
year teacher training programs.
Convention workshop topics also
include: Desegregation Integrations;
the Far Right; Resume Writing;
Current issues in Teacher Preparation;
Stress: ERA; Public Relations and the
Rights and Responsibilities of the First-
Year Teacher.
Rolfsen and HiH were elected at the
State Convention to attend the National
Convention. Rolfsen is presently
; serving as the Cluster 2 Coordinator'for
the local chapters of SNEA and plans to
teach history in secondary schools. Hill
is the secretary treasurer of the,St.
Andrews chapter of SNEA and is
majoring in intermediate education
with an emphasis in mathematics.
Economos
Winner Of
Chapbook Contest
Paul Economos, a St. Andrews
Presbyterian College senior from
Tokyo, Japan, has been judged winner
of the lOh annual Memorial Chapbook'
Competition. Stephen Smith, Southern
Pines, author of the highly-acclaimed
BUSHNELL HAMP POEMS was judge
of this year’s competition. Economos’
book is named SEVENTH SENSE.
Smith, speaking of Economos’
poems, said “The poems have wit as
well as substane and the collection is an
amazingly balanced work, too.”
Smith praised the six othe finalists,
as well saying that “amazing as it may
seem, every single final manuscipt is
worthy of publication-but I had to pick
my first fhoie, and tht was SEVENTH
SENSE.
Other finalists and their works were
Donna* Brown, Fairfield, Ohio
(FOREIGN LANDS & BROKEN
DREAMS); Jon Johnson, Charlotte, NC
(OCCUPANT); Harvie Jordan,
Charlotte, NC (PIGEON MAN); John
Mott, Wihnington, NC (DARKNESS,
DARKNESS); Austin Seagrave,
Charlotte, NC (GAUGE); and Mark
Zink, Knoxville, Tenn. (PICTURES OF
MERE BEASTS).
The winner’s prize is publication of a
limited edition of his chapbook bv St
Andrews Press. All seven finalists will
be honored at a writers’ banquet in
April at St. Andews.
Economos attended high school in
New York City and spent his junior
year in Tokyo studying at International
Christian University. He is an English
major at St. Andrews where he had also
served as a tutor in the core curriculum
and the creative writing programs.
Utricularia Invading St. Andrews Lake
by Kim Carter, Judy Diogo
Recently a form of algae known as
Utricularia or Bladderwort has been
spreading in Lake Ansey Moore on the
St. Andrews’ campus causing the lake
to slowly dry up. >
Earlier this year Norman Melvin, a
professor at St. Andrews, proposed a
plan to the St. Andrews Campus
Planning nd Space' Committee to put an
end to the growth of this plant and
return the lake to its youthful condition.
In an interview. Prof. Melvin
explained that bladderwort growth in a
lake is a normal ecological cycle called
succession. In this case because of the
succession there is an abundant plant
growth which is continually spreading
the baldderwort across the lake. If this
cycle continues untreated it will result
in the death of all plants and animals
which now exist in the lake. As a result
the remains of the plants and animals
will supply to many nutrients to the soil,
causing more plants to grow,
eventually drying up the lake.
In his proposal Melvin suggested that
the lake be drained approximately four
feet to allow the freezing temperature
to kill the bladderwort. Following this
the lake would be dredged. Sbsequently
the lake is to be drained once a year to
maintain its youthful condition.
This plan was approved by the St.
Andrews Camps Planning and Space
Committee over a plan to use
chemicals. The reason for this decision
are the unknown long-term effects the
chemicals could have on the water
system.
It will take approximately four weeks
for the whole process to be completed at
a cost of $3,000.00. The draining on
maintenance of the lake is being
coodinated by Reece Butler, who is also
head of the Physiclal Plant on the St.
Andrews campus.