THE LANCE
Friday, March 5
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Students Stand Up
for Financial Aid
By BILL LIDE
News that has recently
caught the eyes of many
students is the ever increasing
rise in tuition and the ever
decreasing money from
financial aid by the govern
ment. Several student
organizations in this country
have become actively involv
ed in trying to reverse this
trend of higher costs for
education.
As members of the St. An
drews community, we, the
residents of Winston-Salem,
feel that the students should
stand up and be heard by the
state and national leaders
who represent us. Action like
this has already been
established in several major
universities in the United
States and we feel that it is
our duty to join them.
The document you are
about to read is one that the
dorm of Winston-Salem has
already given 100% positive
affirmation to. We ask you
to read it and give it some
thought. There will be a peti
tion which you may sign, if
you wish, that shows your
support.
Once we have obtained the
signatures, hopefully from
everyone, we plan on sending
them to the senators and
representatives of the State
of North Carolina. Again,
we urge- you to take this
seriously because it affects
your future.
Here is a copy of the docu
ment:
We, the undersigned,
residents of Winston-Salem
Hall, students at St. Andrews
Presbyterian College,
registered voters and con
cerned citizens, would like to
express our disapproval of
any further cuts in aid to
education. We are ready to
accept our share of respon
sibility in assuming budget
cutbacks in order to restore
health and vigor to the
American economy,
however, we also feel that the
disproportionate share of
the national budget targeted
for defense is unfair, im
moral and not representative
of the country’s best in
terests.
By cutting aid to education
and depriving countless
numbers of otherwise
qualified students from
beginning or continuing their
work toward a college
degree, you would not only
be inhibiting, but damaging,
this country’s most valuable
natural resource - the youth
of America. We earnestly
urge you to consider
seriously and conscientious
ly the negative impact any
further budget cuts will have
on the entire future social
structure of this country
Progress has never been
made by retrogression. Our
future in in your hands.
ecu Goes to Prison
and orovide a “missine link”
By BETH MARTINSE society, par-
Come get involve^ticipate in this ministry.
Yokefellow Prison Ministry
this Sunday, March 7 with
ecu Pastoral Committee.
The Yokefellowship is a
two hour meeting at the
Wagram instructional prison
on Monday nights. Twenty-
five prisoners from
Wagram’s all male,
“medium” security unit talk
with 10 to 12 college
students, ministers, and
laymen at the open meetings.
Volunteers from the com
munity, who will listen to
frustrations of the inmates
This program was first in
troduced to our College
Pastor Conrad Sharps last
fall by Rev. GeOrge Cheney,
the regional Yokefellow
coordinator. Several St.
Andrews students have par
ticipated in the program over
the last four months.
Yokefellow is approved
and supported by the state.
The program is informal, but
a training session is required
before the actual encounter
with the prisoners..
ecu will sponsor a train
ing session from-2;00 p.m u
6:00 p.m. this Sunday j
Wagram. During the session
participants will have theo;^
portunity to meet and bt
briefed by the administrators
and counselors in this field,
Anyone interested in tijj
opportunity should meet jj
front of the Belk Center ai
1:30 p.m. on Sunday. Con
tact Beth Martinsen, Esl
483, Box 322 if you havi
questions. Transportation
will be provided to the unit
Philosophers Unite
By BILL LIDE
All students and faculty
who are interested in social
and intellectual growth in the
community of St. Andrews
will be glad to hear of the
beginning of the Philosophy
Club. It is open to all in
terested in philosophy,
political thought or personal
growth.
The first meeting of the
Philosophy Club will be at
8:00 p.m., Wednesday,
March 10th, in the main
lounge in Winston-Salem
Hall.
The club, which organized
through the combined efforts
of Professor Bill Throop and
Winston-Salem Resident
Director Ken Kruger, will
meet to hear and discuss ar
ticles or ideas that students
and faculty have concerning
philosophy or some field of
political thought. Although
it is a philosophy club, all
students are invited.
At th^ meeting, a paper by
Tom McCoogan entitled
“The State-A Human
Adventure” will be read,
Tom’s paper is an in-deptl
analysis of the works ol
Herbert Marcuse, tht
founder of the New Left,
McGoogan wrote the papa
as a project for a Guided In
dependent Study he had witli
Professor Dick Prust. Aftet
Tom has read his paper,
there will be an informil
discussion on its contents.
Women Get It Together
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By SHARON STANLEY
“In the beginning, it was
very quiet,” says Career
Planning and Placement
Director Mrs. Veronica
Newman from her position
behind her office desk. She
removes her tortoise colored
glasses, perches her right
elbow on the back of her
chair, and continues: “But
conversation gradually
became very relaxed. I
thought it was a good begin
ning.”
No, Mrs. Newman is not
The St. Andrews caucus is
composed of women faculty
members who meet on an in
formal basis to “counsel”
about their job decisions and
experiences. Students are en
couraged to ask faculty
members for career consulta
tion.
The first caucus session
met on February 25 in
response to invitations issued
to female students and facul
ty members by Mrs.
Newman. Nine faculty
talking about creating a new memfciers and 24 students at-
universe. But she is reflecting tended., Mrs. Newman says,
on a new St. Andrews “Over tea and cake (the
creation--the Women’s caucus discussed) very real
Caucus. problems of being female
Mrs. Newman has believed and thinking seriously about
for years that women “are life after college.”
faced with unknown quan- Faculty members Peggy
titles” in the job market and Anderson, Peggy Floyd,
“need a particular boost” to Peggy Johnston, Betty
balance their career and Holmes, Margaret Van-
family goals. So when college Bulck, Cathy Kass, Ruth
pastor Conrad Sharps men- Wetmore, Anne Woodson,
tioned to her that St. An- and Sandra Lee shared with
drews women should form a students reasons for pursuing
causus, she shaped his idea their present careers,
roadblocks encountered in
Mrs.Newman explains that their careers, and the dif-
the caucus is "really not a ficulties of integrating work
political thing.” The word and love,
caucus, she says, originates The women stressed that
from an Indian word which working wives often do not
meant “counselor.” receive concrete rewards for
“well-done” work. They
discussed special problems
faced by women in offices
and academic politics. They
urged female students not to
mold themselves to malt
models of success.
Mrs. Newman says tli!
Women’s Caucus is presentiy
“for the benefit primarily®
women students.” But Mis,
Newman plans to invite m*
faculty members, ad
ministrators, and students H
an open forum on Apnl
The next Womens
meeting will be held ®
March 18, at 4:00 p.m ®
Belk Lounge. Mary Ann
Green , from Wacho»
Bank and Trust Company
Laurinburg, will
to discuss “Women mBani-
neetiB
mg.”
Format for the
will be casual. Mrs. New
promises that “NewJ
Enterprises”
herself) will provide
home-made cake
suggestions for
and for ways to impf
Women’s Caucus.