Th€ Lflnc€ Student NewspRper of St. Andrews Presbyterinn College Vol. 38. No. 2 St. Andrews Presbyterinn College Lourinburg. NC 28352-5598 November 21.1997 News Briefs Tree Lighting cer emony will take place on De cember 3rd at 6;00 pm. Par ticipants should meet on the Belk patio. Tiie whole campus is invited. Q ^ yi. Andrews’ newest campus organization is the chess club. The club was founded by Sainath Surj'anarayanan. It meets at 8:00 every Monday night in the Vardell Main Lobby. A ifty-eight students chose their majors Novem ber 11 during the “Major Spring Preveiw,” which was ! held during dinner. T 1 h he Art Mafia painted a mural in Highland Hall on Saturday, November 14. B. etty Holmes, Director of DeTamble Library, re quests that the St. Andrews community be mindful of li brary resources. The request comes as the result of a re cent surge in mutilations of library materials. “The library deliberately charges five cents a page for photocopy ing to make it affordable for everyone,” Holmes ex plained. “While quite a few of the books in the Library are replaceable, it is costly to do so. Unfortunatly, other ma terials cannot be replaced,” Holmes added. Seniors discuss SAPC's future by Sii-yn Smith Wednesday, November 19, the senior class held a meet ing in Orange Main Lounge to discuss various issues dealing with St. Andrews, how it has changed, and the direction it is going. The problems dis cussed at the meetings varied from students not being allowed to drink in the courtyards, to problems with the campus po lice, to questions about diver sity in the faculty. The purpose of the meet ing was to discuss these prob lems and to choose a group of students to send as represen tatives of the senior class to a meeting that will be held with Dean of Students Marcia Nance, President Warren Board, Vice President for Ad ministration and Finance Bill Gearhart, Dean of the college Larry Schultz and Associate Director of Admissions Shirley Arnold on December 2. The students selected were Maggie Brewinski, Sammy McGee, Emily Rogers, Brad MacArthur, Donna Sammander and Heather Hayden. Adam MacKenzie will also attend as President of the Student Government. “I love this school,” Sammy McGee said, and I want to leave it with positive changes.” The first big issue dis cussed was the feeling that a more restrictive campus police staff, a more apathetic student body and the rules about drink ing in courtyards were taking their toll on the feeling of com munity. “When I was a fresh man, people hung out in the courtyard of Orange all the time. Now theyjust sit in their rooms because they can’t have beer outside,” one per son said. There was also concern about campus police officers walking into suites. Many students consider the dorms their homes and are offended by what they see as intru sions by the campus police. The fact that there had been alleged threats of reper cussions for streakers at GANZA was also discussed. “I’m not going to streak. It’s not something I’d want my children to do. But it’s a St. An drews tradition and it’s part of what St. Andrews is,” another senior said. Some students expressed concern over an issue of the wall being painted over right before Open House, removing a message that had talked about oppression. Some students viewed this as censorship. Diversity was also a cen tral issue in the conversation as many of the students felt that the campus was less diverse and that the students stayed in their own dorms and rarely interacted with the students in other dorms. “When I was a freshman, Granville was full of hippies. Meek had the preps, and all the (See page 4) Phonathon volunteers reach out and touch alumni by Suzyn Smith If Pasta Pizza were to have a Dorm Wars competition, Pate Hall would win hands down. No students live there, but for the last few months, the SAPC admnistration has been buying several pies a week in an attempt to get students to partici pate in the phonathon. The phonathon was a great success. They got pledges of about $36,000, but Associate Vice President for Institutional Ad vancement Frank Byrne esti mated that when all is said and done, they will raise something between $45,000-$50,000. “1 think the phonathon does a lot of good, because a lot of the alumni enjoy the op portunity to find out about cam pus life directly from the stu dents,” Byrne said. Byrne reported that many “Money is an important goal of the phonathon, but reconnection with alumni is an even more important goal. It’s all about connectivity.” -VP Frank Bryne alumni asked the student vol unteers questions about cam pus life and seemed very inter ested in what student life was like. “Money is an important goal of the phonathon, but reconnection with alumni is an even more important goal. It’s all about connectivity,” Byrne said. The student volunteers came from various organiza tions on campus, from Granville Residence Hall, to the yearbook, to the baseball team. “Gary really got his guys together. We saw a lot of baseball players,” Byrne said. The alumni weren’t the only ones who enjoyed the phona- tion,. Students had fun as well. “The phonathon was a great opportunity to interact with alumni and help out the school at the same time,” se nior Maggie Brewinski said. Byrne wants the stu dents to remember that even if they missed this year’s phonathon, it’s likely they’ll get another chance to participate, if only from the other end. “We ’ 11 be calling you some- day. Be ready.” Irislde: Not to be cynlcRl, 2 but... Fill In the D Angst ^ Comics 8