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VOL. 21 NO. 9
ST. ANDREWS PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE
FRIDAY. MARCH 11. 1983
S. A. Students Gain A World Of Experience
By DW^AYNE SNOWDEN
The land of the famous
Alps, the world’s finest
.chocolate and authentic
Swiss watches was the site of
a winter term trip attended
by a group of St. Andrews
students and College pastor
Bob Martin and his wife
Billie.
The entourage, which in
cluded Pam Donaldson. Lisa
Phillips, Beth Thomas.
Chuck Booker, Withers An
drews, Laura Durfee and
Jennie Wilhelm, attended the
World Council of Churches
at the Ecumenical Institute
and stayed at the Chateau de
Bossey at Celigny.
Switzerland.
The St. Andrews group at
tended various lectures given
by religious speakers, par
ticipated in discussions con
cerning pertinent social and
religious issues, shared the
American culture to the
various groups and sects and
in return learned about their
cultures and customs.
“I wanted to go to
Switzerland and learn more
about world churches.” said
Phillips, a junior from
Laurinburg. “I wanted to see
what it was all about.”
The trip was a perfect op
portunity for international
law major Jennie Wilhelm to
test the waters and see how
she could interact in an inter
national environment.
“We traveled a lot. We
reflected on things we learn
ed. On a personal level, the
trip proved that I could func
tion well in an international
community,” said Wilhelm.
Wilhelm further com
mented that although the trip
was an enjoyable one, the
group had to overcome a
variety of tensions.
“We (various countries)
didn’t speak a common
language. Everything had to
be translated
simultaneously.” said
Wilhelm. “Also, one of the
graduate students (a 40 year
old man from Brazil) died.”
According to Wilhelm
each religious group stressed
something different. Also,
the issue of women’s rights
became a hot topic of debate.
“The women took the
issue seriously. Three-
fourths of the men found it
trivial. The East European
delegates were adamant. Per
sonally, this was
frustrating,” said Wilhelm.
When entering any new
country a language barrier is
encountered. Also, tourists
from the United States must
deal with the image of the
“ugly American.” Freshman
Laura Durfee felt a certain
level of hostility from people
from other countries.
“It was fun seeing how
America is perceived. Pepole
view Americans as wealthy
snobs. Some Geramns
weren’t very welcome
towards us. You almost felt
The group of S.A. students who traveled to Switzerland during the winter term
Global Glance
In what was a surprise to
many fans around the ACC,
Virginia’s center Ralph
Sampson was named player
of the year over North
Carolina’s Michael Jordan.
The 7-foot-4 center averaged
'8.5 points and 12.3 re
bounds per game and had a
pecent field goal accuracy
while leading the CavaUers a
25-3 record.
Pope John Paul II asked
thousand of onlookers to
pray for peace'in his first trip
to the war torn country of El
Salvador. Amid death
threats from the leftist' and
rightest factions in El
Salvador the Pontiff told the
estimated crowd of 1 milhon
people to end the war in Cen
tral America that has “sown
the land with gi^ ■
The Persian Gulf oil pro
ducers, in an effort to
achieve soUdarity and avoid
an all-out price war. agreed
Sunday to lower the price of
a barrel of oil from $34 to
$28.50. The price drop was
also made to compete with
African and North Sea ex
porters. who had earlier
lowered the price of their oil
to $30 a barrel. The only
country in the 13 member
OPEC cartel that refused to
drop their oil prices was Iran,
who wanted their quota of
barrels produced per day in
creased.
like you had to apologize for
being American,” said
Durfee.
Durfee noted that one of
the best this about the trip
was the exposure which the
students received to other
parts of the world.
“The trip opened up a
whole new sense about what
other parts of the world are
like,” said Durfee. “There
are some subtle differences
between Americans and the
Swiss. For example, in
Switzerland men told hands
and people are generally
more prone to touch.”
One St. Andrews student
who had ample time to learn
more about the countrv of
Nigeria was Chuck Bboker
who was stranded in a
Geneva train station with a
Nigerian refugee named
Mohammed.
Fortunately, Booker bare
ly had enough money to
return safely to the Chateau
de Bossy the following morn
ing.
“The atmosphere of the
symposium was ; adverse. At
first we weren’t welcome or
well prepared. The graduates
had been earring on the sym
posium since November.”
said Booker. “Overall, it was
very pleasant. We went ski
ing in the Alps and had the
option of further traveUng to
Venice or Paris.”
The new Scotland memorial Hospital
Colleges Use Innovative
Ways To Raise Funds
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The campus of
Park College in rural
Missouri happens to cover
over 800 acres of rich
limestone deposits. Soon, of
ficials plan to mine and sell
the limestone, and then lease
out the excavated caverns as
underground warehouse and
office space.
The scheme may sound
odd or even far-fetched, but
administrators at Park don’t
have much choice. They say
it’s the best way they have to
make up for federal and state
funding cuts the school has
suffered over the last few
years.
Colleges everywhere are
resorting to schemes and
somewhat-eccentric
strategies in this, the third
year of a prolonged depres
sion in college revenues.
St. Andrews Presbyterian
College, for example, leased
out 10 acres of land to a
shopping center, sold 40 to a
hospital, and is readying
more land for sale to private
residential developers.
To some, particularly in
the Reagan administration,
all this is great news.
“Colleges are coming up
with all kinds of ways to
replace money they have lost
from funding decreases,” ex
ults U.S. Dept, of Education
spokesman Duncan
Helmrich.
Such creativity in getting
money is “proving that a lot
can be done, as President
Reagan said, when you put
your mind to it.” he asserts.
The president, of course,
has argued that colleges have
been too dependent on
federal support, and that
once cut off, they’d find
some new ways to support
themselves.
“I don’t share the view of
some that the cuts being
made in higher education will
bring about disaster, agrees
David McKinney, financial
affairs vice president at the
University of Idaho.
“We’ve got to get the
federal deficit down, and
we’ve all got to tighten our
belts a little. A lot of people
in higher education are blow
ing smoke,” he adds, “but
there’s still no fire.”
With nowhere to turn for
help, then, the schools have
been feverishly trying to turn
necessity into invention in
fundraising.