"fiwxte 1982 olleM iVol. 21 No. 1_ ST. ANDREWS PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE Sept. 22, 1982 “It’s Just Like Coming Home” Hannis Assumes Dean of Students Post By BILL LIDE Out of the many new faces to appear on the St. Andrews campus this year, one of the most prominent and visible ones has to be the new Dean of Students, Craig Hannis. Actually, Craig has been at St. Andrews longer than most of the students. Dean Hannis has returned to St. Andrews after an eleven year leave that started when he graduated from the college in 1971. From the interview he gave he couldn’t be any hap pier since he returned to the alumni -earlier this past sum- Hannis came to St. An drews in 1967 from Crain- bury, N.J. He had originally intended on being a business major and making a bunch of money, but he explained that the humane atmosphere changed his goals and he changed his major to English with an emphasis on secon dary education. Academics were very important to Dean Hannis, but he received most of his notoriety though his excellence in athletics. Craig played four years on both the soccer and basketball teams and was a three year member of the golf team. He is the only All-American soccer player to come out of St. An drews and it was an honor which he won for two years in a row, in 1970-71. Craig married the girl he dated in high school, Christine, when he was a sophomore and he learned what it was like to struggle financially for his last two years at St. An drews. After leaving St. Andrews Craig and his wife moved to Princeton, N.J. where he was employed at The Hun School, as an English teacher. He also coached the soccer, basketball and golf teams. In 1971 Hannis started to take graduate courses at Trenton State Col lege and Columbia Universi ty for “self-knowledge”. Then, in 1976 Craig enrolled to Rider College to receive a masters degree in counseling. In 1980 Hannis received his masters from Rider. While at The Hun School Hannis became a personal counselor and was promoted to the position of Ad ministrator of Residential 'life and progress. At the time Christine was also a personal counselor for the school. While Craig was a student at St. Andrews, Christine was a counselor at St. Andrews, a job she had pursued directly after high school. Dean Hannis says that he has seen quite a few changes in the make up of the St. An drews students since his days back in the sixties. The most recognizable one is that the students are more conser vative and seem to be more business minded and materialistic. He explained continued on page 3 IT? ■'V 1 New Dean of Students, Craig Hannas. Dr. White Returns From Sabbatical By JOHN PAIT Many students may have noticed that during the 1981-82 school year Dr. W. D. White was absent from the St. Andrews campus. Dr. White was on sabbatical at Indiana University at Bloom ington, studying biomedical ethics. With the help of a grant from the National En dowment for the Humanities, Dr. White and. ten other professors from small colleges and univer sities met in seminar fashion to critique the major literature in the field of biomedical ethics. Along with the weekly group meetings each pro fessor did individual study about a specific area of the topic. Dr. White’s interest dealt with the legal oroblems Dr. W. D. White returns from lU with pertinent knowledge in'field of biomedical ethics. of medicine. White wanted to learn more about the legal rights both patients and doc tors have. Studying with Roger Dworkin, a leading authority in the field of medicine and the law, Dr. White studied Torts Law (legal wrongs), and Law and Biology, in an attempt to find the “conflicts and associations between the law and the ethical values in medicine.” Dr. White feels that the major problems with medicine and Jaw occur at the “beginning and end” of one’s life. At these times a person is must vulnerable to the decisions of others. A child may not have much say about their future because they are too young to make a aecision, while the elderly are not always clear about what they really want. Dr. White also believes people in mental Institutions, jails, and old folks homes are “coersive” atmospheres. These people may be more vulnerable to therapy and ex perimentation. As part of his independant study. Dr White wrote four major essays, one of which will be published by the St. Andrews Press. Two others will be pubhshed by Yale University and in the “Preceedings of the Southern Humanities Con ference”. Another part of his study was the making of three educational films. One was filmed at Miami Univer sity in Oxford, Ohio. This film dealt with the right to live issue. The other two films were filmed at Indiana University with the help of the Cincinnati Council of Churches. These two films were interviews about biomedical ethics in general. Dr. White’s selection of this field of interest stems from a study he did in 1977 where he was placed in the actual hospital situation. Dr. White says that biomedical ethics is a “real social pro blem”, and a “strong cur rent topic.” Dr. White will pass his knowledge of this subject on to the students in his senior SAGE class. White also hopes to hold a conference on this subject al St. An drews in the spring. He says that “St. Andrews students have an opportunfty to one of the most distinctive undergraduate biomedical educations in the country”. The SAGE course gives the student a firm foundation on the subject. During his absence Dr. White was replaced by Sister Bernetta Quinn. This will be White’s eighteenth year at St. Andrews, and he is more prepared than ever to give to his students information on the subject of biomedical ethics.

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