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President Board Speaks to S.A. Community
by
John Hess and
Tristy Lee
McKenney
Dr. Board talks
with students
and hands out
apples before
his speech to
the St.
Andrews
community.
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A large portion of the St.
Andrews conmiunity gathered in
front of the Bell Tower, on Tues
day, March 22, to hear the new St.
Andrews President, Dr. Warren
Board, speak publicly about his
plans for the college.
Board emphasizedkey words
in his speech such as quality, com
munity, effort, and change. Board
stated that we need not cling to old
traditions that no longer work. He
said, "The way it is, we must pre
serve. This to me is a tragic error."
We need to gather as a commu
nity to improve the quality of St.
Andrews.
In a personal interview, he
was more specific by saying, "We
need to recruit students who want
what St. Andrews has to offer."
Board emphasized the need
for people to work as a commu
nity to put this plan into action.
He stated, "We're going to be
members of a new college."
Board said that he would
like to see St. Andrews become
known as the place to get the best
Liberal Arts education on the East
Coast. He has hopes of doing this
during his term as president.
Board illustrated the need for
community involvement andcon-
cem for one another. He men
tioned the need to do little things
such as keeping the campus clean,
taking care of our residence halls,
etc.
Board spoke of the faculty in
high regards when he mentioned
the quality of the education avail
able here.
see BOARD on page 2
St. Andrews To Offer B.F.A. in Creative Writing
St. Andrews, which now of
fers more than 30 academic ma
jors and is already widely recog
nized as a writers’ college, will
add the B.F.A. in fall 1994. The
creative writing program will be
grounded in the college’s core cur
riculum and breadth requirements,
as well as offering beginning and
advanced courses in the writing of
fiction, drama and poetry. A the
sis and public reading will top off
the creative writing major’s se
nior year.
The heart of the new program
is already well in place. St.
Andrews has been identified as a
leader in creative writing for more
than a quarter of a century and has
become a mecca for writers of all
sorts.
Each week the Fortner Writ
ers’ Forum is held on campus,
with students reading alongside
literary luminaries. At almost ev
ery forum there is an open micro
phone time that invites students to
try out their new work on an audi
ence that is both sophisticated and
friendly. Among the many visit
ing writers who have read from
their work through the years are
Tom Wolfe, James Dickey,
Reynolds Price, William Stafford,
Happiness is
Buckminster Fuller, Robert
Creeley, Robert James Waller,
novelist and television scriptwriter
Alan Hines, playwright Romulus
Linney, former St. Andrews pro
fessor Clyde Edgerton, Basil
Bunting, Yale Younger Poets
prizewinner Judith Johnson,
former South Carolina poet laure
ate Grace Freeman and North
Carolina poet laureate Sam
Ragan-just to name a few. Most
return with frequency and gener
ously spend time talking with St.
Andrews students about the craft
of writing.
Many of the college’s gradu
ates have gone on to successful
careers in writing or publications,
including editorships of some of
the larger papers in North Caro
lina and several national publica
tions.
St. Andrews has twice served
as host institution for the
Intemational Interdisciplinary
Conference on the Fine Arts of
the 20th Century, with writers par
ticipating from throughout the
United States and 10 other coun
tries.
The college library contains
the complete canon of Yukio
Mishima’s work a gift from the
Professor Ron Bayes will be part of the core faculty for the new
B.F.A. in creative writing.
Japanese writer’s widow.
One reason St. Andrews ap
peals so strongly to writers is its
pastoral setting, with a large lake
splitting a campus of vast open
acreage. But, most people date the
birth of St. Andrews ’ literary repu
tation to the day in 1968 when
writer-in-residence Ronald H.
Bayes arrived on campus. Distin
guished Professor of Creative
see B.F.A. on page 2
not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Margaret Lee Rurbeck