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Welcome To
Winter Term ByBitLUDE
Winter term is upon us once again and as usual it is a
unique experience. We all hope for some snow to help
divert our imaginations from wandering to the places
that our peers are. From Switzerland to sunny Florida,
we know that some St. Andrews students are having a
lifetime experience now.
It would be easy for us to feel less fortunate than
those abroad, but spending the term at St. Andrews has
some qualities that one could never find while traevll-
ing- ,
Students w'ho stay here have the opportunity to take
specialized classes that would not be found on the Fall
and Spring curriculums. There are also the chances to
take classes from professors that do not teach full time
at the college.
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It is also the time that brings less stress from the
classes. Since the term only lasts a few weeks most
classes are less rigorous than those in the longer
semesters. There is usually more time to spend on ex-
tracurcular activities such as sports or minicourses that
are offered in the evenings.
But with all these good things there are also some bad
things that help make the Winter term a unique ex
perience. Cold showers ar all right in the late summer
and spring, but in the winter they are unbearable and
quite frequent.
Heating, or should I say lack of heating, seems to:
create quite an uproar in the winter term. When we
think of our friends in Florida, while we are in our
heatless rooms we havp a desire to break up our desks
and start a bonfire in our rooms.
For good or for bad, the winter term at St. Andrews
surely is a unique and lifelong experience, so enjoy it.
EDITOR’S NOTE: St. Andrews professors continue
to receive prestigious awards and positions that are out
side of their usual activities. Professor Ron Bayes was
awarded the Diploma of Merit by the Italian Academy
for his contributions to twentieth century poetry. James
Linehan, professor of art, won the 11th annual Com
petition for North Carolina Artists and Stuart Marks,
professor of anthropology and environmental studies,
was named the staff consultant to the Forestry Program
of the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organiza
tion. These awards prove again that at St. Andrews the
students are exposed to some ol the most qualified peo
ple in the nation in their specialized fields.
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Nationwide : Housing is Substandard
Nearly 25,000 col
lege students lived in
substandard campus housing
— dorms or apartments
which failed to pass fire and
health inspections, were
structurally unsafe, had no
usable toilets, bathtubs or
showers, or lacked basic hot
and cold running water -
during the 1980-81 school
year, a just-completed study
reveals.
The survey, conducted by
the American Council on
Education for the U.S.
Education Department,
found that of the estimated
2.4 million students living in
college-operated housing,
slightly over one percent liv
ed in substandard facilities.
“Generally, colleges have
been doing an excellent job
of running a multi-billion
dollar business,” says study
director Charles Anderson.
“But we did find a very low^
percentage (of schools)
where there were problems
and concerns.”
The “one-shot study,”
Anderson says, found that of
the 25,000 students living in
substandard facilities, “the
highest percentage were in
the four-year school sector,
where for both public and
private schools it was nearly
one-and-one-half percent.”
All of the 407 institutions
surveyed, however, gave a
high priority to repairing the
inadequate housing.
In raking priorities for the
next two years, 40 percent of
the schools gave top priority
to rehabilitation, 29 percent
to energy conservation pro
jects, 21 percent to construc
tion of new facilities, and 10
percent to “other spending”
on housing.
They spend a lot already.
Over 2500 colleges and
universities provided housing
for students and spent an
estimated $2.5 billion on
housingduring 1981, the
study reveals. It was an
average of $1078 per student.
Thirty-two percent of the
students at public institutions
live in college housing, com
pared with 52 percent at
private schools. And among
all four-year intitutions, the
study reports, the average oc
cupancy rate for student
housing exceeded the design- .
ed capacity by one percent.
Monthly charges for cam
pus housing averaged $194
for single students and $162
for couples.
Poetry Contest
A $1,000 grand prize will
be awarded in the Eighth An
nual Poetry Competition
sponsored by World of
Poetry, a quarterly newslet
ter for poets.
Poems of all styles and on
any subject are eligible to
compete for the grand prize
or for 99 other cash or mer
chandise awards, totaling
over $10,000.
Rules and official entry
forms are available from the
World of Poetry, 2431
Stockton Blvd., Dept. G,
Sacramento, California.
Draft and Financial Aid Do Battle
The new law that would
deny financial aid to men
who haven’t registered for
the draft will meet its first
legal challenge in January.
the Minnesota Public In
terest Research Group
(MPIRG) has sued the
government, claiming the
draft-aid law violates
students’ constitutional
rights.
The law is supposed to go
into effect next July 1.
“We’re challenging the
law on four grounds,” says
MPIRG Executive Director
Jim Miller.
MPIRG claims Congress is
“stepping into the duties of
the courts by legislatively dic
tating the guilt for a crime
and then punishing the alleg
ed violators.
Miller says the law illegally
forces a student to in
criminate himself and, since
it applies only to males who
can’t afford to go to school
without financial aid,
violates constitutional
guarantees of equal protec
tion under the law.
The law also “violates the
Privacy Act of 1974 by col
lecting excessive and un
necessary amounts of
pesonal information not
specifically related to finan
cial aid,” he asserts.
Selective Service
spokeswoman Betty Alex
ander says her agency still
plans to implement the law
this summer since “it has
already been passed by Con
gress.
MPIRG’s call for an in
junction against the law will
be heard in federal court in
January, Miller says, “but
we anticipate an appeal no
matter which way (the suit) is
decided.”
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ing prestige, money and great
scientsts, they say but it
could also bring ‘fantastic
political trouble