October 17,1989
The Lance
Page 5
On Campus
BSU Meets
AJ. Jones
The Black Student Union
held its organizational meet
ing recently, and had an at
tendance of twenty students.
The B.S.U. is an organization
whose purpose is to educate
the St. Andrews community
as to the cultural and other
contributions of blacks to our
sodety. Club President A.J.
Michael Roberts
Jones stated, "We would like
to reach an understanding
through interaction and edu
cational programs." He
added that in order for that
process to work, maximum
participation is needed. "We
need as much participation
as possible," said Jones.
"That includes all blacks and
other minorities, as well as
white students." I
This year B.S.U. plans to
work with the local Teenage
Pregnancy Council, Scots for
Youth, and closely with the
C.C.U. and World Culture
Club. The Black Student
Union is presently working
on educational trips and
events for Black Awareness
Week and other activities.
The Black Student Union
meets on Sunday nights,
twice monthly. All members
of the St. Andrews commu
nity are welcome to join.
Announcements
St. Andrews is participat
ing in the National Colle
giate Alcohol Awareness
Week program for this this
entire week.
Sunday was the "Win,
Lose, or Draw" competition,
which was based on the
game show, where teams
attempted to guess alcohol
related puzzles. The event
was attended by approxi
mately thirty students. The
film "Clean and Sober" was
shown on Monday, and
Tuesday is the Breathilizer
tests.
These programs have been
planned around the theme of
"Drink Sensibly." The pur
pose of this week is to have
students be sensible about
their drinking habits, and to
make them more aware of
the dangers of excessive con
sumption of alcohol. The
programs are designed to
help individuals make their
own decisions about drink
ing. This week is the kickoff
week for Alcohol Awareness
Programming. Involvement
from the entire St. Andrews
community is encouraged,
including faculty and staff.
Times and locations of
events are posted on cam
pus.
Glamour magazine is
sponsoring its 1990 Top Ten
College Women competi
tion. The contest is open to
young women from colleges
and universities across the
country, and is the 34th an
nual search for ten outstand
ing students.
A panel of editors will se
lect winners from among
students who have demon
strated leadership abilities,
involvement in community/
campus affairs, and aca
demic excellence in a chosen
field. Students may submit
entries in five categories:
Creative Arts/Communica
tions/Humanities, Science
and Technology/Health,
Politics/international Rela
tions, Business and Econom
ics/Entrepreneurship and
Public Service.
Winners of Glamour's Top
Ten College Women Compe
tition will be featured in the
October 1990 issue. More
information is available in
the Lance Office.
Tn Memory
The St. Andrews community is deeply saddened by the passing of
Dr. Carl Geffert this summer.
He was a valuable treasure to those who knew him, and to the college.
We are greatly lessened by his loss.
continued from pg. 1.
homosexual tendencies in
feminist theology is due
partly to ignorance of the
need to have it and partly
because femenists find it po
litically favorable not to align
themselves with such so
cially unaccepted groups.
Another organization
from which Bringle would
like to see a more inclusive
attitude toward homosexu
als is the Christian church,
specifically from Protestant
denominations. She points
out that the Christian faith
was founded as a fringe reli
gion and that it was initially
unaccepted. Therefore, ac
cording to Bringle, it should
be more willing to accept
marginalized members of
society because of its special
history.
Bringle feels that were our
society to change this man
ner of speech we would see
several effects. One of these
changes, according to
Bringle, would be a re-ex
amination of Woman-bond-
ing. This was describes by
author Adrienne Rich as the
"lesbian continium" which
contends that all women are
to some extent lesbian be
cause of the relationships
they share. Bringle believes
that this would become pub
lic and accepted if we were to
eliminate the cycle of straight
•talk/gay abandon.
A "Non-Henotic Sexual
Ethic" would also be
adopted, according to
Bringle. In this we would
become awcire that there are
mant ways of being a person,
not just one. We would also
experience a move from
"Gender Dichotomy to Gen
der Pluralism." Rather than
classifying everyone as male
or female and their accompa
nying stereotypes assigned
to them by society's heter
osexist attihides, sexual ori
entations would become
eliminated or irrelevant.
Related to the idea of the
erasure of gender dichoto
mies in favor of gender plu
ralism, Bringle points to the
belief in some cultures in a
human being called a 'ber-
dache" who is niether male
nor female but exists within
the society as a third gender.
The berdache is often a priest
figure.
In conclusion, Bringle
commented that bringing
straight talk and gay aban
don to an end will lead us in
direction not necesarily
"straight ahead but gayly for
ward."