V0I2O. No. ^7 ST. ANDREWS PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE February 22. 1982
SGA Charts New Beginning
Founding Fathers of revised Constitution.
Ike McRee, Paul Dosal, and Bob Dascombe.
Edwards Wins
Chap book Contest
By DREW HAYES
On the cover of this year’s
Memorial Chapbook, the
name of Beth Edwards will
appear as winning writer of
! the 1981-1982 writing com
petition sponsored by St. An
drews. The Chapbook is the
winning writer’s own
manuscript published in
book form by the St. An
drews Press. Beth and nine
other students submitted
manuscripts for the competi
tion.
Beth could not be reached
for interview. But, her 72
year old grandmother told
how Beth received the news
of her award. Over a long
distance phone call, her
grandmother said, “I was
downstairs and two letters
came from the school (St.
Andrews). One of them was
from Ron Bayes. So I took
them up to Beth who was get
ting ready to take a bath. 1
went downstairs and sudden
ly she started screaming and
yelling. 1 went back up and
thought she was in hysterics.
I asked her what was the
matter and she said, ‘1 won. I
won.’”
Previously, Beth had writ
ten two children’s story
books accompanied by her
own illustrations. Beth
graduated with a degree in
creative writing and English
in January and now lives in
Highland, N.C. She enjoys
drama, skiing, and skating,
as well as playing the piano
and the guitar. Beth will be
reading her poetry at the
By TERRI DAVIS
SGA President, Paul
Dosal introduced a new Stu
dent Association Constitu
tion to the Senate on Mon
day, Feb. 15 at their first
meeting of the Spring
semester. At the request of
Attorney General Ike McRee
in May of 1981, the Cabinet
assigned itself the task of
rewriting the Constitution
due to many inadequacies,
ambiguities, and contradic
tions found in the present
constitution.
Dosal, McRee, and
Albemarle Senator, Bob
Dascombe, consulted with
other students (through a
survey sent out before the
Christmas vacation), faculty,
and administrators for ad
vice, then rewrote the entire
constitution over winter term
through a GIS directed by
By SHARON STANLEY
While student government
leaders debate proposed
changes in the administration
of their political system, col
lege administrators have im
plemented potent power
shifts of their own. Last
week. President Bun Perkin-
son began to handle fewer
administrative duties and to
manage more “external af
fairs” of the college. Dean
Ronald Crossley assumed
more administrative respon
sibilities and relinquished
two committee leadership
position. Faculty members
Elizabeth Holmes and Jack
Dr. Neal Bushoven. These
students also analyzed a
number of Student Constitu
tions from schools such as
Duke, College of William
and Mary, and Pembroke in
order to put together several
aspects from each which
would be applicable to this
community.The proposed
document was also discussed
I in length with President
Perkinson, Dean Crossley,
Dean Claytor, Dr. Daughtry,
Dr. Prust, Dr. Roper, and
Professor Jonakin.
Dosal explained to the
Senate that he could have
gone directly to the student
body for ratification, but
wanted to have the Senate
make suggestions for needed
changes. The amendments
must be made soon,
however, if the Constitution
Roper took over Crossley’s
positions, and became
chairpersons of the Faculty
Development and Evaluation
Committee and the Educa
tional Policy Committee.
Why were these changes
necessary? What do these
changes mean? Jack Roper
(now EPC chairperson) ex
plained it this way: “St. An
drews has seen the best of
times, and the worst of
times.”
College enrollment is
higher than ever before. En
thusiastic, new faculty
members accent the campus.
Innovative changes in core
is to go into effect for next
school year. “We hope to
put the document up for a
vote by the second week of
March,” says Dosal, “and if
passed, refer it to the Faculty
and Board.”
The following major changes
would be made in the pro
posed Constitution:
LEGISLATIVE:
-Powers of Senate expand
ed and clarified
-Senate may establish rules
governing student life not in
conflict with general college
policy.
-Senate may require
reports from any officer of
the Association
-Senate President apponts
committees and their
chairperson
-Senate may censure any
officer of the Association
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Change
curriculum highlight
academic development.
Faculty research is booming.
But, dormitory politics
within the past decade have
been tense. Faculty and
students have met with con
troversy. Student Life Com
mittee policies and the
Judicial system have come
under close administrative
scrutiny. Roper said that
even the “new (student) con
stitution will not promise pie
in the sky.”
These “worst times” in St.
Andrews history have left the
college with problems of
reputation within the
Presbyterian Synod--the
regional governing body of
the Presbyterian Church in
the United States.
Reaganomics and dminished
federal support for small,
private colleges make an im
proved reputation with the
Synod necessary to receive
stronger financial contribu
tions from the Presbyterian
Church to replace federal en
dowments and subsidies. To
help alleviate these problems,
Perkinson will now spend
more time concentrating on
“public relations” work with
with the Synod.
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Global Glance
The Washington Post revealed that several secret
recordings were made in the Oval Office during the Ken
nedy Administration. They were explained by Evelyn
Lincoln, his personal secretary at that time, to be at
tempts by Kennedy “to record accurately for history.”
The tapes will be publicly released this summer.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said that he was
still committed to the Camp David process. During a
visit to Washington he said he would continue the
Palestinian autonomy talks with Israel if Israel returned
the occupied region of Sinai to Egypt by April 25.
President Ronald Reagan has announced that he will
pursue a budget involving increased deficit spending.
For the fiscal year 1983, the Reagan Administration for-
casted a $91.5 billion dollar shortfall. Proponents of the
plan reason that the short-term crisis will be followed by
a successful long-term economic recovery. Increased
defense spending and lower taxes are largely accoun
table for the increased deficit projections.
The United States gave $55 million to the military
junta in El Salvador in order to help them stave off in
creasingly strong attempts by the opposing leftist guer
rillas at taking over the government. The suspicion this
aroukd, in light of our current domestic recession, was
answered by Secretary of State Alexander Haig who
said that the U.S. “will do whatever is necessary” to
prevent another leftist victory in Central America.”
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