LIBRARY
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Hlarch 24,1988
Vol. 26, Number 9
THE LANCE
A St. Andrews Presbyterian College Student Publication
Student Association Elections:
phillips Wins; Hall, Skinner Roll
Buck Tredway
Student Association presidential can
didate Howard Hall and treasurer candidate
Steve Skinner, both running unopposed,
won easily in the March 14 general elec
tion.
Wendy Phillips defeated A1 Schilling
with 65 percent of the vote in the vice-
presidential race while Bobby Musengwa
finished first in the race for attorney gen
eral. This set up a run-off between
Musengwa and second-place finisher,
Sharon Fields, who placed three votes
ahead of third-place Bobby Simpson.
Greg Dillard mounted a successful
write-in campaign for Student Defense
Counsel. Dillard received 52 percent of all
votes cast for the position.
Dillard, who was already on the ballot
for Student-Faculty Hearing Court, with
drew from that race shortly after the votes
were counted. This meant that the next
highest vote-getter for the two-year posi
tion, Jennifer Spangler was declared the
winner.
Other winners in the Hearing Court
race included Pam Whitfield and Warren
Williams.
James Beatty, Charles Corley and Dee
McBride vied for four positions on the
Student-Faculty Appellate Court and all
fmished within 30 votes of each other.
There was a three-way tie in the write-
in race for the fourth position between
Denise Dickenson, Deborah Kelly and
Lane Moore, to be decided in the March 21
nin-off.
Buck Tredway
Musengwa,
Kelly
Win In Run-Off
Sophomore Bobby Musengwa of
Saulsville, Africa has captured the March
21 run-off election for Student Association
Attorney General. Musengwa defeated
Philadelphia junior Sharon Fields 203-138
votes.
Musengwa, whose campaign theme
was "Sanity and justice," prompted the run
off by finishing ahead of Fields and third-
place Bobby Simpson. In that race,
Musengwa received 140 votes to 105 for
Fields and 102 for Simpson.
Candidates for Student Association
cabinet level positions require a 50 percent
majority in order to be elected.
Deborah Kelly won the write-in run
off for Student-Faculty Appellate Court,
defeating Denise Dickenson and Lane
Moore. Kelly had 181 votes to 80 for Dick
enson and 54 for Moore.
A Handbook Committee revision
measure by the Student Association was
also mandated by a 229 to 50 vote.
Security Discussed at Forum
Deborah Kelly and
Dave Snyder
Campus security was the source for the
majority of gripes aired during last
Wednesday's campus-wide forum. Dean of
the College Thomas Benson, Dean of Stu
dents William Loftus and Business Affairs
Consultant Pete Prosser addressed the con
cerns of about 40 students who attended the
forum.
Loftus announced that an official pro
posal to add a fifth full-time security officer
to the staff was on hold during the interim
period between presidents.
Describing a need for more internal
solutions to the security problem, Loftus
noted that residents of Wilmington Dorm
have initiated their own security "check-in"
system. All off-campus visitors are to sign
their names on a guest list to discouragei
unwelcome intruders. In a recent incident
this system had been implemented. Nmes
were obtained-beforehand of five males
who came uninvited and refused to leave
when asked by the resident director.
Laurinburg police have increj^ed pa
trols along Dogwood Mile, and town offi
cials have expressed a willingness to cede
this road to the school, according to Loftus.
Loftus warned students to "keep your
eyes open" to strangers or someone suspi
cious and report them to security or a resi
dent director. He also issued a recent memo
addressing these concerns.
The current policy of the school is to
officially escort undesirables from the
campus and repeat offenders will be ar
rested.
"Noone is neglectful or mindless of the
problem. It (security situation) needs more
planning," said Benson.
The Board of Trustees made security
issues their number one priority concerning
campus life. Student representatives to the
Board, David Perkinson and Charles
Brown had brought their views to the
Board's attention.
There was some concern that the ex
pansion of the library was an extravagant
expense in this time of financial hardship,
when bills to keep up subscriptions cannot
be met and a hiring freeze is in effect The
expansion is the result of a project-specific
donation provided by th Pugh Foundation
and had no impact on any other part of the
budget In response to a student complaint
of inadequate library stocks, Benson ex
pressed regret that the library was not better
funded, but that comparisons show that the
percentage of St. Andrews' overall budget
devoted to the library is average compared
to other colleges of this type in the region.
Recently funds for the renovation of
the Knight Room were cut off. Benson
described the project as "asleep". Work that
has been completed includes the bowling
alleys, except for some faulty mechanisms
and a handicap ramp needing reapair. The
pool tables have been recovered. Contracts
with local vendors for video machines are
in progress.
Benson predicts the opening to be
"very soon", either the fu^t of April or on
hold till the summer. He envisions the
See Forum, page 8
Charting the Changes
NCAA to NAIA:
Christopher Wood
The start of a new fall term always
brings on change, and next year will be no
Mception. Next fall St. Andrews will be
going through some of the biggest changes
in its history. But perhaps the area of
greatest change will be in intercollegiate
athletics.
Next fall, St. Andrews will no
longer be in the Dixie Conference of the
National Collegiate Athletic Association
(NCAA) but instead we will be competing
in the Caax)linas’ Conference of the Na
tional Assocaition of Intercollegiate Ath-
Mcs (NAIA).
The NAIA is a smaller league than
tlie NCAA, comprised of 500 small col
leges like St. Andrews. Many of its
policies are different than those we have
been accustomed to in the past. The pri
mary difference is that St. Andrews may
now offer athletic scholarships to its
athletes.
Athletic scholarships, which were
prohiitedby NCAA Division HI rules, were
a concept once totally foreign to this school.
Sl Andrews Athletic Director
Gordy Scoles likes the way the scholar
ships will be implemented. “We dida study
to see just how much money St. Andrews
could actuaUy put into the scholarships.
Wedidnotguessastohowmuch addition^
money we could raise, and budget for that,
said Scoles.
According to Scoles, the current
planisto spread the scholarships as evenly
as possible between the teams and the
athletes. Ilie idea is to have the most (if not
all) athletes to recieve at least a small
amouunt of scholarship, instead of giving
a few st^s full scholarships.
But all this talk of scholarships has
many athletic students concerned. Some
students feel that athletes do not deserve
money for just being a good athlete. On the
other hand many athletes feel that the
scholarships are just compensation for the
many hours of work that go into the sport,
much of it time that could be spent doing
other things.
Some students are concerned that,
with the new scholarship invesunent, the
school will become preoccupied with win
ning. In order to insure wins, a few mar
ginal athletes may be allowed to enter the
school. This idea is enhanced by the mis
conception that the NAIA is an academi-
See NAIA, page 8
Inside
Paul Dinkins Wins
ChapbooK Competition
page 4
President to consider
Student Association
Budget Proposal
page 6
Seniors elect
Graduation Speakers
page 6
WSAP Back on the Air
page?