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The Lance September 9, 1983 In the middle of January at about 7:00 p.m. your parents call you to discuss a problem with your financial aid forms. Unfortunately, the phone you are using is out side in the courtyard of your dorm and it is 20“ F. - not a very comfortable situation to talk in. This scenario may become a reality at St. Andrews this winter as a result of the administration’s recent decision to limit telephone switchboard service to the hours of 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. This means that students and faculty will not be able to receive off- campus calls on suite or office phones after 5:00 p.m. weekdays and not at all on weekends. In a discussion with College Business Manager Jerry Surface I learned that this action was taken as a solution to previous problems with the night and weekend swit chboard service, problems that all of us returning to St. Andrews are aware of. Defying Gravity David Propst In the past, some work-study students have not taken the iob as the important responsibility that it is. The result was that the evening and w.eekend service was sporadic at the best. However, the administration’s solution to this problem is about as practical as chopping off a foot to cure an ingrown toenail. This curtailment of the college switchboard service demonstrates a definite lack of consideration for the St. Andrews community by the administration. 1 doubt that President Perkinson would tolerate having to go into his backyard in the evening to answer his phone as in the case of students or having no incoming phone service at all, as in the case of the faculty working late at St. Andrews. The pay-phones in the dorms are not adequate enough to serve a whole dorm. In addition to weather problems in the flat dorms, the phones are often not heard since they are outside or in stairwells. This makes it very difficult for parents, other relatives, friends, and faculty to reach students in the evenings or on weekends. This problem is made even more acute by the fact that almost all long distance calls to students are made in the evenings or on weekends to take advantage of the lower phone rates. It seems to me that there must be responsible students who really need work-study to work the switchboard on this campus. The telephone service at St. Andrews is the worst I have ever seen at a college by far. Considering all the money that has been spent to make this campus more attractive to perspective students and potential con tributors, I would think our phone system would be an em barrassment to the administration. I hope that students and faculty will not allow the pre sent phone situation to remain. The Student Life Commit tee and the Senate should both consider and present possi ble solutions to this problem. Also, if your parents are upset by this decision ask them to write to President Perkinson. This decision affects our parents as nearly as much as it affects us, and our parents have a big hand in the control, of the purse strings of St. Andrews. If students, faculty, and administrators have any sugges tions about the switchboard service I urge you to become involved. Write to “The Lance” and talk to your senators and Student Life Committee members. Make your opi nions known! St. Andrews is not a business that runs only five days a week and closes at 5:00 p.m. It is a community of people working, learning, and living together 24 hours a day. §sccnd STRIKS caPaBiLiTy SceNaRio NOcLSaR FReeze gceN’aRio Intellectual Warm-Up Commitment Seminar Theme By Missy Marlowe From Tuesday, August 30 to Friday, September 2, St. Andrews hosted approx- iamtely sixty students at the fourth annual Honor’s Seminar. The theme of this year’s seminar was Commit ment, and each of the four discussion leaders dealt with the subject in a manner which was related to their specific disciplines. The Seminar is designed to group together students with scholarships and at least a 3.5 grade point average to participate in academic discussions and attend other related activities. Professor of Physics, Dr. Dotson, discussed the validi ty of Commitment in the science areas while Professor of music. Professor Engelson, applied the ideal of Commitment to the con cepts of music, both classical and contemporary. Also lec turing was Professor of Psychology, Dr. Johnston, who discussed human real- tionships in term o commit ment, and the fourth partici pant, Dr. Throop, from the philosophy department con templated whether commit ment acutally exists. Aside from the four discussion groups, separate meetings were scheduled which dealt with topics such as the availability of Fellowship grants at St. Andrews-given by Dr. Bob Martin, and a workshop on coping with stress delivered by Dr. Patton, Director of Career and Personal Counseling Center. Other guest speakers in cluded Ambassador Max Krebs, who spoke on Com mitment within nationalities and Professor Tom Spragens from Duke University w^’o spoke to the group about the pursuit of democratic prin ciples. Professor Neal Bushoven, director of the seminp, says that he feels the seminar went extremely well and that he was excited that almost one hundred percent of those asked to attend came. Corey Ingold, who has at tended the seminar all of his four years here, said, “this seminar was more of a challenge”, and the group discussions were both in teresting and beneficial. Lake Ansley Moore Lake Generates Concern By Nora Zbieranski This age of technological and scientific advancement has thrown the environment some pretty hard knocks. In the words of Robert Leo Sith, author of “Ecology and Field Biology”, “Warnings of deterioration have been sounded for years, but only now have people begun to awaken to the fact that planet Earth is in trouble. Suddenly the public has become aware of ecology.” In the 1960’s the general public treated a concern for our environment as a passs- ing phase. It was not until the 1970’s that ecology became a “household word”. But even today the interrelationship of human beings and their en vironment is misunderstood and its importance under rated. We are all “aware” of pollution in the environment, and the growing list of chemicals that are considered harmful to the environmnet by the federal government. It has only been in the last fifty years that we have discovered tfie long term effects of DDT, PCBs, mercury, many chlorianted hydocarbons and other chemicals. But are we aware of what is happening right here in our own backyard? St. Andrews is more than a little proud of its aesthetically pleasing cam pus. And the administration as its guardian has done a dynamic job in maintiang the natural beauty of the cam pus. Lake Moore seems to draw visitors and residents alike. Since is has become the focal point of envi: on-^entai concern on campus, it seems only natural that we, as students, should be aware of the measures that the ad- minstration has take to keep it in an attractive as well as ecologically sound condition. During the summer the ad ministration decided that something had to be done about the bladderwort pro blem. The solution came in the form of the aquatic broad-spectrum herbicide Diquat. It was sprayed in two areaS'-behind the Belk Center and in an area almost directly across from the Belk Center, the south-west side of the bridge. These “generating sta tions” are shallow areas where “Utricularia” (blad derwort) seeds, roots, matures, breaks off, and then becomes a free-floating plant that makes the lake un sightly and ecologically un sound for other forms of life. The bladderwort blocks the light needed by other aquatic organisms to grow. As these organisms die and begin to decompose, it causes an oxygen depletion which may result in large “fish kills”. The fish acutally suf focate from a lack of oxygen in the water. Although this process is a normal succession pattern for a lake, it is undesirable in maintaining the lake in a per manently youthful condi tion. This pattern is the result of a slow perpetual addition of organic matter. If allowed conlinued on Page 8 MuTuaLt-Y-a&suReo DeSTRUcifoN SceMaRio §!&M
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