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Student Newspnper of St. Andrews PresbyteriRn College
VoL 38. No. 1 St. Andrews Presbyterion College Lourinburg NC 28352-5598 September 1997
News Briefs
A
neel Gill has been
named scholar of the
month for September.
'outhern Living
magazine will prominently
feature the pipe band, as
well as the campus and Scot
tish Heritage center in an
article focusing on Scot
tish Heritage and culture
in the South. The article
will appear in the June
1998 issue of the magazine.
E.
'ncore! Theatre’s
fall production of Our
Town will include many St
Andrews students.
Amanda Strader, Mary
Fleetwood, Suzyn Smith,
Dana Youmans, Amy
Watkins, Jason Laiosa
and Julia Shipunova will
all appear. The perfor
mances will be October
21-24.
n
ecklenburg
Dorm will host its annual
Bakefest Party on Friday
October 3rd.
here will be a
mock GRE held in
room 114 of the LA
building at 7:00 on Oc
tober 2. Sign up in the
career services center.
Baldasare named VP
by Suzyn Smith
A lot of people who
come to Laurinburg for the
first time suffer culture
shock, but for St. Andrews’
newest Vice President, this
shouldn’t be a problem. Paul
Baldasare has been here be
fore. Quite a bit, in fact.
Baldasare has been a
student, employee and
trustee of the college since
he first came to St. Andrews
over 20 years ago. He gradu
ated from SA in 1977 with a
politics major. Since then,
he has both served on the
board of trustees and worked
as an assistant to the presi
dent.
Baldasare’s main task
will be working with the Of
fice of Institutional Advance
ment. He will be helping the
school raise money at a time
when the college needs his
assistance. He will also work
to help St. Andrews arrange
more partnerships similar to
LECRC (the Laurinburg Elec
tronic Commerce Resource
Center) and with the Commu
nications Office to develop a
comprehensive communica
tions plan, along with
strengthening the tie between
St. Andrews and the Presby
terian Church.
Baldasare is currently
the Associate Legal Counsel
at the Univer
sity of North
Carolina at
Chapel Hill,
also serving as
Director of
Government
Relations and
Associate Vice
Chancellor for
Development.
Before that, he
started his own
law firm, where
he practiced
law until 1990.
He got his law
degree from
UNC-Chapel
Hill.
Paul Baldasare.
Photo by Rooney Coffman
Continental Convenience? Inside:
Students returning to St.
Andrews this semester may
have been more disoriented in
the morning than usual. Those
who woke a little too late found
an important part ot Uieff regu
larly balanced breakfast was
missing. A half hour.
Actually, though break
fast last year officially ran from
7:30 to 9:00, students weren’t
admitted during the last 15 min
utes. Whether that was a fac
tor in attendance or not, a lot
of students were missing the
meal. Rich Yokeley, Director of
Food Services, combined
forces with Dean Nance to cre
ate a morning meal plan that
would accommodate more stu
dents.
The result is the conti
nental breakfast available in
the Gathering Place from 8:30
to 10:00 on weekday mornings.
A half hour of the old break
fast meal was sacrificed to off
set the cost of the continental
one.
Rich is enthusiastic
about the new venture and is
content with the turnout. He
claims that an average of 50
students drop by in the hour
and a half, significantly more
than the numbers that would
show up on any given day to
the last half hour of breakfast
last year.
Despite the move for
campus convenience, many
students are resentful of the
“equivalency meal” the Gath
ering Place offers. Some items
cost money, and servings are
limited.
The Gathering Place is a
retail operation. Items aren’t
bought in bulk and certain
goods are prefabricated. The
food they serve upstairs in Belk
costs more than the food in the
cafeteria, so choices are limited.
Originally, muffins and
danishes were displayed at the
continental breakfast but were
only for sale. These muffins
were made off-campus and
cost so much they couldn’t be
given away.
“I’d get raped on muf
fins,” Rich rationalized.
The continental break
fast now offers students the
option between pastries of
less intimidating cost. Other
changes are on the way, in
cluding a toaster for bagels
and perhaps a new look for the
room.
“We’re here for the cus
tomer,” assures Yokeley, who
is always open to sugges
tions.
—Greg Chatham, who would
like it known that he accom
plished this entire article
without putting condescend
ing quotation marks around
the words "food” or "meal"
Photos from
Brunnenburg
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Angst
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ECRC Updflte
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A hypnotist
comes to SA \y
Sports
And of course,
Eddie Peflr
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