Opinion
To the Members of the Student Body:
Holding Hands With That Person?
...That was really gross, totally
uncalled for and so unnatural! Holding
hands with that...that person...Do you have
no pride in yourself? No self respect for
who you are? Do you not care what my
friends would think of you if they saw you?
They might shun me because I know you
and enjoy our friendship; even with your
sU'ange preferences...
Did you really want to kiss
that..-that person...? They’re not the type
of person I think you should kiss. They’re
not even the type ofpersonllike. They’re
so different from me and their practices
seem so strange. Why do you have to be
so different from me and deviate from what
I think is right for you?
Why would you want to kiss a
person of the opposite sex??
- a gay answer to the same ques
tion of a straight friend
Anonymous
I would like to take this opportu
nity to thank everyone who has been in
volved in the College Christian Union this
year. Many projects have been accom
plished through hard work done on a
volunteer basis by our Council and many
others. I encourage everyone to continue
working to keep the College Christian
Union an active organization.
Particularly, I congratulate Char
lene Carpenter, who has been elected
President for the 1988-1989 school year.
Good luck Charlene—your hard work has
paid off.!!!
Lastly, I salute Bob Martin and
Shirley Arnold for their work as our advi
sors. They have taken time out of akeady
too-busy schedules to help us.
Thanks again to everyone in
volved this year (Addie, Bill, Charlene,
Margaret, Randa, Terrie, and of course,
Howard.) You have made my year as
President of the greatest!!!!!!
Sincerely,
Michelle Taylor
CCU President, 1987-88
Dear Editor,
Pink Paper Caper
This is in reference to the article
on the Pink Paper Caper. I have only one
comment other than I was happy to finally
see something positive on the subject in the
Lance. (Personally I think that some of the
things that some heterosexual couples do
are gross, especially on the couch of certain
suite lounges, but I can deal with them too.)
Maybe the Lance left it out or the
Sl Andrews staff member did not state it,
but just what is a better way of getting this
information out (i.e. aboutthe gay/bisexual
group) to the campus if not through posters,
a mail box, a phone number and a computer
mailbox? Just what is left? Would the staff
member please tell the core group what is
a ‘better’ way? (If the Lance left this
information out, please put it into print in
this issue.)
Or was this ‘better way’ by not
being so public on the subject, and by
hiding the information in P.O. Boxes and
under doors? Did the sight of posters on the
walls of the LA building strike a nerve?
Let’s have the ‘better way’
Sharon
L. Fields
To :Mi Amigito Asustado
To the Editor:
On April 18, a semi-literate,
bilingual member of the college commu
nity left a note on the bulletin board where
I have displayed some Spanish materials.
The note reads “ NO! Una lengua por uno
[sic] pais-ingles [sic]!” [“No! One lan
guage for an [sic] country- the [sic] Eng
lish!”] They left the note on top of an
article entitled “Espanol - Una lengua con
futuro enlosEE.UU.” (Literal u-anslation:
“Spanish - A Language with a Future in the
U.S.”) A more accurate translation is on
the other side of the bulletin board where it
reads: ‘Spanish, the Number One Foreign
Language in the U.S.” Ridge (1980) has
noted that some people in this country
suffer fn>m a foreign language hysteria
which makes them distrustful of anyone
using any language other than English.
“Until recent times, perhaps the United
States has been the only coimtry in which
to speak two languages was a mark of low
status” (Stewart, 1972, p. 27) It is my hope
that whoever wrote this note will be able to
overcome their xenophobic attitude and
discover the absolute joy of being a fully
literate, bilingual person. The innocuous
bulletin board is not the beginning of an
attempt to undermine the use of the English
language in this country or even in this
school; it is just one more reminder that
there are other ways of expressing oneself,
other ways of seeing the world than through
the English language. One of the goals of
foreign language teaching in any country
has to be to develop intercultural aware
ness, that is, “self acceptance, acceptance
of one’s own culture and the acceptance
of other cultures” in all students (Herman,
1974,
p. 8). If we want to know how well we
are developing intercultural awareness in
this country, all we need to do is to ask
ourselves when the last time was we asked
one of the inter-national students about
theirexperience among us. Did we listen to
what they said with an open mind, trying to
see things as they saw them, or did we get
defensive? Ask them! Happy language
learning, especially to you, “mi amigito
asustado”.
Ray Frink
Bonnie says Bye-Bye
Well, it’s that time of year—sen
iors are trying to find the words to say good
bye to St. A. I myselfam having a hard time
even comprehending the fact that it is time
to move on, time to let someone else take
over and continue the Lance “mission”,
whatever that may be.
I, along with Dave and Buck,
started out this year on very shaky ground.
When we all arrivedin September, wewere
faced with the task of making the Lance a
“real” college newspaper, rather than the
joke it had become in recent years. It was
rough. We were met with a lot of opposi
tion to our idealistic goals for the Lance.
However, once we proved we were serious,
things got a little easier (that is, wegotkeys
to the Lance office in LAI). After a lot of
hassles, we were able to get some of the
equipment we needed to make a newspaper
happen. I’m not blaming the administra
tion, after all, it had been years since a
serious newspaper had been a part of the St.
Andrews experience. However, things
could have been a lot easier on us if we had
had the support of the administration from
the beginning.
June Milby of the Communica
tions office is the one exception to our
opposition. She helped us out in getting our
supplies and let Joann Bellavia do our type
setting on her machines. That was instru
mental in the Lance’s survival this year.
She also provided us with support when we
were at our lowest points in morale.
I wish that next year’s Lance staff
can continue what Dave, Buck, and I tried
to start this past year. I hope also that the
lack of administrative support we encoun
tered will not affect next year’s staff in the
way it did for us. The Lance can be a very
effective vehicle for airing student con
cerns, and it is time that the administration
realizes that
Good luck to all involved in the
production, and to all those students
whose time and effort andconcern make the
Lance the newspaper it is today, and the one
it can be in the future.
Bonnie Blackbimi
May 5,1988
Vol. 25 Number 11
THE LANCE
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