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OPINION "A New Beginning" Welcome to a new year and an all new and improved I am very excited about this year's publication. This particu lar edition is not all that I had planned, however I believe it is a welcome sight compared to previous years. I have high expectations for each issue. Being a rookie in regard to the position of editor, I have had much to leam these first couple of weeks. I feel I am on the road to success and I pray the rest will be smooth sailing. Already I have recieved much input from fellow class mates and I would like to see this continue throughout the year. If ever you have a great idea, a problem, or just want to speak your mind, let me know. I welcome all new, brilliant, and innovative ideas. I hope to see this student publication become the voice of the campus. Each issue of The Lance will be sent to the Board of Trustees. I feel it is important that they know what is happen ing on campus through the eyes of the students and not just the administration. Also, each issue will definitely be sent to our students studying overseas. We have a great school and I want to publicize it in every way possible. We need to promote the good and not just the bad. There is so much going on that we need to let people know. Portions of The Lance will even be used in an admissions newsletter to be sent out to perspective students. This will be a useful tool when recruiting students. As always this will be a learning tool for me as well as the staff. To those of you who did submit work and it is not here, my sincere apologies. I know that every now and then things will be cut, however, I had no idea how little eight pages could hold. From here on out, the paper will be much larger! Information that was cut from this issue will be carried on to the next, which will be published October 3. -jlw THE LANCE F.niTOR - Jennifer Woodward STAFF Joy Berry John Cohen Eric Eubank Sharon Frain Heather L. Gupton Marsha Hansen Raylene Kaufman Jason King Candy Round Janna Turner Lewis Wemmett Fred Wilson RDSTNKSS MANAGER Adam Whitehead GRAPHIC DESIGNER Garreth Griffith PHOTOGRAPHERS Jane Karpenske Rooney Coffman ADVISOR Tabbie Nance The Golden Daze By Bill Cox Student Government President If you are a fresher, you have probably heard many stories of the upper classes about the Grand Old Days of St. Andrews. We all seem to remember our first year as being a time when things were simple, the administration was more lax, and we had more rights. Not only that, we the seniors, remember hearing about a time only a year or two before when the drinking age was only 18, kegs were allowed on campus, and Albemarle hosted a happy hour every Friday afternoon at 5:30. It always seems th^t things were better just before we got here, or were they? In the past three years that I have been at St. Andrews I have seen many faces change in the admini stration. We have had a new college president and dean of students. We are on our third chaplin, our fourth director of student activities and Winston- Salem has had at least six resident directors. Further we have seen changes in many different programs. The baseball team has changed from a group of ten or eleven guys that just walked on, into a viable team with potential to win a national championship. This in just four short years. The same has happened with women's soccer. There is no longer any mid season recruiting from Wilmington and Concord, the team is established and alive. On the academic side of campus programs have increased and changed. There is an Asian Studies program, a specialist in ethnomusicology, and the mass communications programs, which was just beginning three years ago, is still growing stronger. We have seen many im provements in the physi cal facilities and the grounds. The faculty and staff have redoubled their efforts to provide a top quality education for each of us. Individual student groups have joined to begin inspired programs. The dream of Rugby at St. Andrews has been realized because of the work of devoted individuals. The school has been put into the World Book of Rec ords because of the deter mination of four and sup port of many. Yet, there are those who claim that the golden days have passed us by. I would like to ask those of you who have been around for a while, what has actually changed since you arrived? The Saltire is still basically the same, go back and compare it. The way we live is still much the same, think about it. The seat of power is still the same, take advantage and use it. The main thing that has changed at St. Andrews is YOU. Think about your perceptions and ideals when you first ar rived, whether it was four years ago or only this month. Look at yourself and see the changes. The basic policies of St. Andrews have re mained the same only we have now taken the time to look at them and see how they actually work and what they actually say. The only substantive changes have been due to changes in state law, not school policy. The changes in administration in the last three years have facilitated only one major change, and that is to wake us up. This is the best thing that could have happened. No longer are we content to simply be and not worry. Rather we have chosen to work and be aware of the things happening around us. We have shouldered the responsibility of gov erning ourselves and tak ing care of our own con cerns and community. It is up to us to instill this sense of responsibility and com munity in those that are new to this school so that the spirit of St. Andrews will remain intact. I would like to take this opportunity to challenge each and every student to remain aware and in volved. If you do not take the responsibility no one else will. Keep your eyes open and realize that the Golden Days of St. An drews are even now upon us. Don't look to the past as a time that is lost, look to it as a time of develop ment and learning. Make things happen now and plan for the future that way the Golden Days will never pass, they will simply keep rolling on and on.
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