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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
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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.