THE LANCE On Campus ^Student Association Report Julie Norem What can bcdone about security? The Senate, under the direction of David Pcrkinson, is working on that. Several students have been assaulted, and some thing needs to be done! David Perkinson is looking into the security problem focusing on student concerns and solutions. Some concerns voiced are the need for more lighting, more security officers, a manned gate on the road leading to the residential side of the campus from Dogwood Mile, and an escort program for people who need to cross the lake at night or might get stranded there. It is asked that if you have any concerns or suggestions, please contact David Perkinson. A commuter student assigned to each dorm? This is the current proposal, created by Jack Ferren, to incorporate the commuter students into the residential life of the campus. This proposal states that a commuter student would have a choice of which dorm he/she wishes to be assigned to; those who do not make a preference will be randomly assigned to a dorm. Pcrkinson said that the goal was to have the commuter students “exposed to more people.” According to Ginger Egel, each dorm council will work their own policy in accordance with guidelines set up by the Senate. The Senate is looking at a proposed Substance Abuse Policy. The policy looks at different charges and their punnishmcnts. No decision has been made on the new policy, but it will be forthcoming. Do you have a name for the Gath ering Place? Ifso, place it on the question- aire that will be passed out about the Gathering Place. The Gathering Place Committee, chaired by Amy Heavner, is trying to get an idea of what the students of St. Andrews would like in their Gathering Place. The Senate urges your help! SAGA will be offering a Mid night Breakfast and two movies on Friday, November 13. This is direct work from the SAGA committee. It is free, and the movies start at 8:00 pm. BETHERE! Also remember to use the taste tests; they arc used to decide what the student body likes and what they would like to see at SAGA. see Association . page 12 Ragan Awards Tonight Mark Powell Communications St. Andrews Presbyterian Col lege will host the North Carolina Poetry Society during the college’s Sam Ragan Awards Night tonight in the Vardell Build ing. The evening, starling at 8 p.m., will feature six outstanding North Carolina writers as they do a reader’s theatre. The event will honor St. Andrews president A.P. Perkinson Jr. and Robert Mason, president of the Weymouth Center for the Arts in Southern Pines. The readers’ theatre will end a series ofreadings around the Tar Heel state to celebrate the publication of “North Carolina’s 400 Years: Signs Along the Way.” The book is a celebration of North 400th birthday and contains work by some of the stale’s acclaimed writers. Players in the readers’ theatre will be: Perri Schmidt, a Wilmington violinist; Shelby Stephenson, editor of the Pembroke Magazine; Marsha White Warren, Chapel Hill resident and execu tive director of the North Carolina Writ ers’ Network; Mary C. Snotherly, Raleigh resident and Writer-In-Residence for the Wake County Arts Council; Stephen E. Smilh, Southern Pines writer and teacher at Sandhills Community College; and Margaret Boothe Baddour, teacher of crea tive writing at Wayne Community College. Recipients of the Sam Ragan Awards are recognized for their long-term contributions to the arts in North Carolina. Perkinson, who is finishing his 12-year term as president of St. Andrews on Dec. 31, is a graduate of Davidson College. He is on the Board of Directors of the Weymouth Center in Southern Pines and is a director of the Indian Museum of North Carolina. He has been past president of the Association of Presbyterian Colleges, vice chairman of the executive committee of the North Carolina Association of Inde pendent Colleges and Universities, and a member of the Southern Growth Policies Board. Mason, a native of Mebane, N.C., who was editor of the Virginian- Pilot in Norfolk, Va., for 17 years, is now retired in Southern Pines. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Mason edited the Sanford Herald and the Raleigh Times and is the author of his memoirs “One of the Neighbor’s Chil dren,” published by Algonquin Books in 1987. He was elected to the North Carolina Journalism Hall of Fame (spon sored by UNC’s School of Journalism) in 1987. The Ragan Awards are presented yearly by St. Andrews in honor of North Carolina’s poet laureate Sam Ragan. The see Ragan , page 12 PPC Yard Sale Solidarity is an Act of Charity Their academic year will soon be over. Whether they completed their academic programs uninterrupted as usual by the army is still unknown. And slowly Christmas crawls around the comer. The children in question are the litde friends of St. Andrews. They do not know us, and we do not exactly know their names. But we do know the situation they face in their daily lives. We are^dso involved in trying to make them survive their sorrows. They are the children victimized by Apartheid. The Prophetic/Political Commit tee, a member committee of the College Christian Union, calls upon the St. Andrews’ student body to support the project meant to help these children. There will be a Yard Sale this Saturday morning atthe Harris Teeter’s parking lot. If you have anything you want to donate today for that sale, please contact the Resident Director of Concord, Marsha, at Ext. 480. This project has been going on at this college for several years. St. Andrews’ participation in the burning issues of social concern is one of its hall marks. In case you did not know about it, make sure you are not left behind. We hope you will take a little time to meet with Marsha. For more information call Char lene Carpenter at Ext. 483. November 12,1987 Education Update Brian Rodgers With American Education Week coming up from November 1 ^21, the time is now to look at some positive aspects of the profession. Over the last five years, there have been extensive reports on Education (“A Nation At Risk” - 1983, Carnegie Report on Education -1985) that have brought a lot attention to the profes sion. This attention helped outline some weaknesses that needed to be changed. As a result, there have been improvements in certification requirements, teacher sala ries, and more impact in Congress about issues that directly relate to the profession. Like any other profession, teaching has its share of problems, but is now making an effort to overcome the bad points and emphasize the good ones. A MeU'opoliian Li fe survey taken in the last year shows that 85% of teachers surveyed are satisfied with their jobs. Rochester, New York,is the highest paid urban area in the U.S.; within two years the starting salary for teachers will be $29,000. The median salary will be $46,000, and top teachers will be able to earn as much as $70,000 a year! 'I can say that I have honestly enjoyed student teaching and look forward to becoming a full-time teacher. ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ More Than 200 Attend Casino Night More than 200 students, faculty, parents, and staff took part in the Casino Night at Belk Main Lounge on Friday, Nov. 6. The Business Club sponsored the event for the benefit of D.K. Beyer who won 37 million Las Vegas dollars. In the true tradi tion of a sportsman, the largest winner in the house donated the bulk of his assets to a future cuisine casting event. Lance Eller, with certain unspecified backing, bid fora microwave oven which he promptly donated to the Campus Gathering Place. Things went downhill from there. Paul Ford bid $400,000 for a cue sheet indicat ing which suits were red and which were black. Prizes valued in excess of $600 U.S. dollars were auctioned for $80,000,000 of special casino money minted for the occa sion by Michelle Rene Bird. Exotic prizes included a beautiful polka dot dress pur chased by an anonymous bidder for Amy Heavner, a case of oil from Haney’s, a large bar stool from Mr. Willis of Firestone, dinners donated by Laurinburg’s finest restaurants and a map of Fayetteville pur chased by N. Donald Edwards for David Tew. A-V Relocation! Causes Concern Julie Norem Anyone trying to find the Audio- Visual Department this year might be sur prised to find it not located in LA. That’s because A V was moved down to part of the Psychology Maze this past summer. It was moved as part of a plan to move all the offices dealing with student services in one place. AV’s new location is 30 percent smallerthan the space recommended for it and one-third smaller than its previous location in LA, according to Moms Mitchell, AY manager. Mitchell, who is in his second year as AV manager, said that AV will probably have to move back to a centrally-located place within ihe year. St. Andrews will be undergoing the re-accreditation process in the 1988- 1989 academic year. One of the requirements for a school’s re-accrcdiu- tion is for its audiovisual center to be cen trally located. Dr. Michael Torres, who was on the re-accreditation committee ten years ago, said that the new location of A would probably not cause St. Andrews to lost its accreditation, but that it would not see Relocation , page 12