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Volume 21, No. 4
ST. ANDRKWS PRESBYTKRIAN COLUXiK
Literary Arts “Take Off’ at SA
OCTOBER 28, 1982
By BILL LIDE
The literary arts at St. An
drews are already off to what
looks like a very successful
year. With the St. Andrews
Review, the St. Andrews
Press and the Writer’s
Forum, those who enjoy the
literary arts will have a seem
ingly endless supply of new
literature to browse through.
The St. Andrews Review
came out with its most recent
issue this summer under the
guidance of editor Jack
Roper and founding editor
Ron Bayes. The Review
which was founded in 1970,
is a bi-yearly publication
that features local as well as
international writers.
The newest issue of the
Review was praised, with
very positive reviews, in
several large newspapers.
Roy Parker, of the Fayet
teville Observer-Times said
of the Review, “Few small
college literary publications
have the sweep and quality of
the material that founding
editor Ronald Bayes and ex
ecutive editor Jack Roper
cram into this wonderful
magazine from St. Andrews
Presbyterian College in
Laurinburg.”
Besides the rave reviews
the two editors received, they
also collected a combined
grant worth $4300 to support
the Review in the future. The
grant, which was awarded by
the N.C. Arts Council, was
the largest of the eleven
grants given out this year.
The other half of the St.
Andrews publications, the
St. Andrews Press, is also off
to a healthy start. Besides is
suing several books in the
near future the Press received
a $1400 dollar gift from an
anonymous housewife that
will be used to help fund
future publications from the
Press.
The newest book to be
published by the S.A.P. is a
book by St. Andrews’ long
time friend Joel Op-
penhiemer, entitled At Fifty;
A Poem. Mr. Oppenheimer,
who has been a guest reader
at several Writer’s Forum
meetings, has had several
books of prose and poetry
published by the S.A.P.
Two new books that are
due for release soon by
S.A.P. are Nervous On The
Curves by Ethel Fortner and
Drakes Branch by Grace
Gibson. Although Mrs. Fort
ner has printed two previous
books, this will be her
first effort that will be
printed by the Press. Mrs.
Gibson’s book will be the se
cond one she has had printed
by the Press.
Mrs. Fortner, from
Portland, Ore., has been
contributing to the St. An
drews Review for 11 years.
Her book is being printed
and designed by Michael
McOwen, of Manteo, N.C.,
who is a graduate of St. An
drews. The release date for
Fortner’s book is November
1, which is the same day that
Mrs. Gibson’s book is due
out.
Cont.Page 5
Ron Bayes and Jack Roper, Co-editors of the most recent
issue of The St. Andrews Review.
Law Pits Catholic
Colleges Against Church
Hiroko Suzuki (Japan), Ronnie Newman and Suyen Cor-
inne Schotborgh (Netherlands) all listen durmg a tea given
for foreign students by College Pastor Bob Martin.
Global Glance
The FBI began a nation
wide search for James B.
Lewis who is believed to be
involved in the Tylenol death
scare. It is believed that
Lewis is the suspected writer
of an extortion letter,
demanding the cash amount
]n exchange for an end to the
killing.
Former First Lady Bess
yuman died in In-
cpendence, Missouri at the
age of 97. Dr. Wallace
Graham said Mrs. Truman
died of congestive heart
failure. President Reagan _
commented:: “Bess Truman
embodied the basic decency
of America.
France has made the deci
sion to begin production of
the utron bomb. The deci-
sic- -ould have considerable
effect on the mlitary balance
of Europe. France would
join the U.S. as the only
countries in the West to
authorize such production.
The St. Louis Cardinals
won the seventh and deciding
game of the World Series,
6-3, to win the Fall Classic
four games to three. It was
the Cardinal^’ ninth cham
pionship. St. Louis catcher
Darrell Porter was voted the
Series’ MVP.
A proposed change
in Catholic Church doctrine
is bringing about a
showdown between church
officials and, on the other
hand, administrators and
faculty members at the na
tion’s 237 Catholic colleges,
many of whom claim the
church is unnecessarily
challenging their freedom to
teach students.
At issue is a proposed
canon law which would stop
anyone without official
church approval from
teaching theology at a
Catholic college.
Pope John Paul II is cur
rently reviewing the pro
posal. Church' officials ex
pect him to approve it in
some form in the near future.
“I am a full professor and
have my tenure,” says John
Connolly, theology depart
ment chairman at LoyOla
Marymount University in
Los Angeles. “Now the sug
gestion is that in order to
continue teaching, I might
need some kind of mandate
from the church.”
“Basically, the law pro
poses that theology faculty at
all Catholic colleges and
universities would have to
have some kind of mandate
by the competent ec
clesiastical authority in order
to teach,” explains Father
Donald Heintschel of the
U.S. Catholic Conference.
In most cases, he says, that
means the instructors would
have to be approved by their
regional bishop or ar
chbishop.
The issue isn’t debatable at
Catholic University. As a
pontifical university - one
officially sanctioned to grant
degrees in the church’s name-
-the school is obligated to
follow all church doctrine
precisely.
At Marquette, things are
more uncertain.
“In s( far as the new
canons can guide us, we
welcome them”, says Quen
tin Quade, executive vice
president. “But in so far as
those canons violate universi
ty regulations, we’d have to
set them aside.” Marquette,
he contends, is not “legally
bound to canon law.”
But Milwaukee Ar
chdiocese Chancellor Mike
Newman disagrees, and pro
claims “the university staff
will have to correspond with
the directives of the church.”
“Academic freedom,” he
argues, “has limitations.”
The prospect of a
showdown between campus
and Vatican over the rule has
ma^e Loyola’s Connolly, a
layman like many of the
theology instructors at
Catholic schools, unsure
about his career.
“1 would hate for us.
Catholic and lay instructors
alike, to be in a position
where our jobs would depend
on receiving or not receiving
an ecclesiastical mandate. If
that happens,’ he notes, ‘it
would clearly be an infringe
ment on our academic
freedom, and I think I would
be reluctant to even accept
that as part of my contract.”