PAGE 4 'AUl!- • TT 4- student Pipers Are Piping Hot BY SUSAN WALMSLEY STAFF WRITER Have you heard the sound of bagpipes trav eling across the lake on Thursday nights and felt like you should be in the Highlands of Scotland? Or perhaps you have seen pip ers playing at such parties as Orange's Harvest Moon or the Rugby Party. The St. Andrews Pipe Band has been prac ticing very hard for the various performances and competitions they have had since the start of school this year. Not surprisingly, their dedication has cer tainly paid off. Only two weeks into the fall semester, the band travelled to Charles ton, S.C. for the Charles ton Scottish Games under the direction of Bill Caudill, coordinatorof the Scottish Heritage Center. At the games The band won first place in the Grade V pipe band com petition and took second place after challenging Grade IV. Sophomore Marc Dubois acted as stu dent pipe majoron the field for both events. On Octobcr 2, at the Flora MacDonald Games in Red Springs, FROM PAGE 3 cooked and ale a raulesnake and a copperhead with Chevy Chase. "The Wall Street Journal" featured Squire in its front page June 23, after a reporter flew up from Dallas to interview him at his Aber deen home. More than 30 radio programs have inter viewed him. A couple of other television appearances are sheduled and he has been the subject of numerous ar ticles. His grandfather taught him respect and a ba sic "waste not, want not" at titude that includes eating animals found dead on the roadside rather than killing another animal unnecessar ily. Because his book in cludes recipes dishes like sau teed crow and "Old Tough Rabbit Baked In Milk," Squire has been dubbed "the roadkill gourmet" and some interviewers have tended to overemphasize the roadkill cooking angle as a hook to N.C., the band came in second in Grade V and placed third in an open band competition. At both the Charleston and Red Springs games, the college band, established in 1991, competed against pipe bands from all over the southeastern region of the United States. Aside from the busy schedule of practic ing for and going to the competitions, the band has also performed at several churches in the local area. Towns where they have performed include: Goldsboro, Biscoe and Red Springs. Last week end they performed dur ing a dinner party at the "Mill Prong House" for supporters of the school s Scottish Heritage Center. "Due to the fam ily atmoshere in our band created by Bill Caudill, we have demonstrated our ability to be a top-notch competition band, The friendly atmoshere has at tributed to the success of the band and will help to further Scottish Heritage within the St. Andrews community." stated DuBois. Also part of the performance team are - Fiona Montgomery, foreground, and Bill Caudill per form some traditional dances and music for The Scot tish Heritage Center. get readers interested. The carcasses that he is talking about are the ones that are found on the side of the road and not the ones that have been squished. Squire says that he is into the environmental thing more than the roadkill thing. "When my grand father gathered herbs, he would past seven and gather the eighth. He believed you leave the plant for the seven other generations." He began writing about living off the land dur ing SERE (survival, evasion, resistance, escape) training as a Green Beret after he no ticed several glaring errors in his field survival manuol. He pointed them out to his supe rior, who said, "If you can do better, rewrite it." He did exactly that, and the Army later accepted his changes. He currently has four new books out, some of them include: "TheCounUy Doctor's Herb Garden", and "A Vegetarian Foyager's Manual." Smith Joins College BY MATT PECK STAFF EDITOR There are a lot of new faces on campus this year, maybe you've seen them. The one that really stands out is the young, ener- gedc Trudy J. Smith. Smith is the newest member to the College's Communications staff which is in charge of handling the school’s publicity. She is a 1993 gradu ate of the Journalism and Mass Communications School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a 1988 graduate of Southern WayneHighschool. Smith is already intangled in the life of stu dents. She is the new Resi dent Director of Albemarle Hall and the staff consultant for The Lance. freshman Christina Wisehart and senior Fiona Montgomery, two open class Highland Dancers who travel with the band to all of the events. Wisehart and Montgom ery are also certified Scottish dance teachers. Montgomery is currently an instructor for the Beginner's Highland Dance class offered as part of the physical education curriculum. The pipe band's rigorous performance schedule has not dwindled down yet; they can next be seen at the Waxhaw Scottish Games in Waxhaw, North Carolina on Octobcr 30, and later in the semester, at events around campus. Advice to fellow pipers: do not play at a competition, a dinner per formance and a rugby party all in one day, or the next morning your pipe major will tell you that you look like you slept in your kilt, and you will probably have to admit that you did! Hardwick Vision Center The place where you need to go before your eyes do. Located in Belk's Shopping Center 1355 Scotland Crossing Laurinburg, N.C. 28352 (919) 277-7507 Bruce Highsmith NC Licensed Optician Lutheran Volunteer Corps volunteers from all Christian faiths who are 21 years old and older are invited to join. Sunday Oct. 24 at 6 pm Contact Chaplin Thorton for info Professor From Ind Has Internship At S Although Brenda Newman’s official topsi search will be the Madras presidentcy during WorUi she plans also to learn as much as possiblebetweem May about liberal arts education in the United Su about American culture in general Back home in India, Newman is ahistoiyi and chairperson of academic affairs at Lady Doak, women's college in thecity of Madurai and slateofTi She is spending the 1993-94 acedcmic year at Su through the Visiting Scholars Program of ihcUniiall for Christian Higher Education in Asia. if The United Board's faculty developracm Mrs. Brenda Newman poses for a picturett colorful saris, a traditional dress from India brings promising scholars from Asian colleges and • ties to North America to study. The board is conncclfi 10 denominations and some 200 colleges and univoi ( Newman's grandparents converted from Hinduism loC ' tianity, making Newman a third-gcncration Chrisiii country less than 3 percent Christian. India is ate ti percent Hindu and 11 percent Muslim. p This is her first trip to the U.S. and bctfis j outside India. She likes Laurinburg bccauseoflhcfitc quiemess and open space. t As an United Board Visiting Scholar, Nw e primary commitment during her stay atSt Andrewsm j her own research. She also will do some gucsllcciwi ' teach one class in Indian history next Spring at ihccdi ; "I’m very much interested in knowing ate relationship between the suiff and students, and ato ; whole teaching-learning process here," she said. S» i areas that hold a particular interest bccauseofcom* I teaches at Lady Doak are U.S. history and womens* In order to accept the United Board sclioiJi i study in the U.S., Newman has to be separated fW family until May. Her husband is a chcmistryprof*® men’s college in Madrai. She is interested to see if the iniemationali Americans are true. j. "I have heard that people have lostresiwl law and that values arc declining. 1 want to know.is' I have heard the U.S. is a very free society WehcaraW the condition of women in the U.S.A. and that te*®*' having avery tough time." SRU Presentj. The Star Spangled Girl Dinner Theater Saturday October 23rd in the Knight Room. $13.50 or season tick^ Remember to dress like mom always wanted you to!

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