4 The Lance
St. Andrews Academy
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The main rule that Academy stu
dents must follow is the curfew.
All Academy students must retum
to Granville and sign in before
their curfew or else they could
face a possible fine. Once an
Academy student has signed in
they may not leave the confines
ofGranville for any reason. Also
after curfew no one is allowed in
beyond the Suite Lounge of any
Suite of the opposite sex, and no
non-Academy students are to be
in the Academy section of
Granville. Also, in order to leave
campus over-night, Academy stu
St. Andrews Presbyterian College
It’s Our Only Home, We Must Save It Now!!!
The most commonly asked
question among Academy
students is: “Why would
you skip your senior
BY RUTH COOK
Innocent child and snow-white
flower!
Well are ye paired in your
opening hour?
Thus should the pure and
the lovely meet.
Stainless with stainless, and
sweet with sweet.
White as those leaves, just
blown apart,
Are the folds of thy own
young heart;
Guilty on and cankering
care
Never have left their traces
there.
Artless one! though thou
gazest now
O’er the white blossom
with earnest brow,
Soon will it tire thy childish
eye.
Fair as it is, thou wilt throw
it by....
—Bryant
Humanity has entered a sad
age. There is no
way to know exactly when we
shed the veil of innocence,
perhaps it was a few millennia
ago. Some may blame the
Industrial Revolution, some may
trace the loss farther back to the
Agricultural revolution. When
ever it was, the fact remains;
Himians have lost their innocence
and have begun to trample the
snow white flower.
In our modem day of televi
sion and rampant materialism
many of us don’t see the dying
flower at our feet. But I believe
we still have a chance to save the
snow-white flower,, our earth,
from premature decomposition.
The mission of this column is to
provide information, and ideas to
aid in the saving of our Earth, our
dying snow-white flower.
■ a iiO:
*.iO
"Innocence is Bliss ” with Singer Roger Day
dents must have written permis
sion from their parents, and they
must sign out and back in with one
of the Academy Mentors. The
Academy Mentors are Elijabeth
Woodard, Kellam Parks, Adrian
Martin, Kim Ribaudo, and Lewis
Beatty. They are in charge of the
signing in and out procedures, dis
ciplinary action against the Acad
emy students, and helping the
Academy students with the tran
sition from high school to college.
“Why Skip Your Senior Year?”
The most common question
asked of Academy students is,
“Why would you skip your senior
year?” The resounding answer
among this year’s Academy is, “I
hated high school!”
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when several people (including
the infamous Stan Dura) had to
leave for a meeting. I think the
real ice-breaker came when
Day sang “Stand Up, Sit
Down,” and reduced even the
most serious of us to silly, five
year-old antics.
Listening to Day play a
sweet song for his newborn son
that will be on his new CD, and
then joggling my knees along
with a fiin one he called “A
Love Song Filled with Old
Testament Imagery with a Doo-
Wop Section for the Rest of
You,” I found myself thinking
this was the type of guy I
wanted to sit around on the
floor with and just sing and
listen.
After the break, that’s exactly
what we all did. Day entertained
us with some of our old favor
ites, such as “The Boxer,” by
Simon and Garfunkel;
“Moondance,” by Van
Morrison; “Message in a Bottle,”
by the Police; and even some
thing by The King himself. Be
lieve it or not, we sang along, and
amazingly we sounded pretty
good.
Day was willing to play as
long as we would stay and lis
ten, and I found he was equally
willing to talk with me after the
show. He told me about quitting
German literature in order to play
guitar, that he couldn’t imagine
writing poetry without the crutch
of music, and about his past
projects —including the
soundtrack to a play which has
been performed three times so
far in Chicago. He also has an
all-children’s music program
which is only available in bootleg.
I had already enjoyed the show
immensely, for Day emanated the
sound and energy of current greats
like the Indigo Girls and sentimen
tal favorite James Taylor (whom
he’s been compared to multiple
times), but even more refreshing
was meeting an artist who simply
enjoyed what he was doing.
“That’s why I play for so long when
I do,” Day told me. With so much
driving between his 80 gigs this
year alone at colleges, he seizes as
much playing time as possible, be
cause playing is, of course, what he
knows and loves.
Regardless of how well he can
re-create Monty Python’s version of
“Annie’s Song,” Roger Day is cer
tainly one that this audience, and
I’m sure many others, did and will
enjoy listening to as long as he’s
around.