Academic Honors Reception recognizes 166 students
From: Staff Reports
The First Annual Academic Honors Re
ception, held Feb. 5 in the Carol Grotnes Belk
Main Room, honored 166 students for their
efforts during the fall semester and throughout
their college careers
To be named to the Dean’s List, a stu
dent must earn a minimum semester grade point
average of 3.5, completed a minimum of 12
credits, earned a grade of C or above in each
course and did not receive an incomplete in any
courses attempted.
Sophomore Honors recognize those
students with a minimum G P.A. of 3.25 on all
coursework attempted through the fall semester
of their sophomore year.
Membership in the Honor Society is
awarded to students with a minimum cumula
tive G.P.A.of 3.5 in all coursework attempted
and a minimum of 49 credits earned at St. An
drews.
Clarification of Pet Policy
By: Marti Newbold
The beginning of the pet policy states
“No pets may be kept in student rooms. Vio
lators of this policy will be fined $100 for
each infraction and the pet immediately re
moved from the residence hall. Exceptions
will not be made for any tfemporary keeping of
p>ets”(Saltire, p. 31).
Simply put, pets are not allowed in the
suites, courtyards, hallways, stairwells, laun
dry rooms, or other places inside residence
halls. There are multiple reasons for this policy
including risk of pet allergies, damage to the
residence hall, noise from barking or whining,
cleanliness, etc. Perhaps the most important
reason is that keeping an animal inside a resi
dence hall room may be cruel to the pet.
The only exception to the pet policy is
a new allowance for fish in a simple fish bowl.
Fish are allowed only if electricity is not used to
power a filter or lights for the bowl
Please note that Resident Directors and
faculty living in campus apartments are allowed
to have pets within the parameters outlined for
them in the Saltire, p. 31.
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24 Hour Theatre Project
By: Andrew Maginn
The 24 hour theatre project was an event
where faculty, staff, and students got toszether to
share their creative talents through the ^ icess
of writing, directing and acting over the course
of 24 hours was a huge success!
The participants under the artistic direc
tion of Mark Mannette put on four fantastic
plays; these plays had the same process over
a 24 hour period. At 6pm Friday night partici
pants gathered in Morris Morgan Theatre to get
the group assignments for the four plays. Each
person was drawn from a hat toJheir group
assignment, finally when all the groups where
assigned the writers were giving the parameter
that were to be met which were; each of the
four groups had a separate theme, each writer
had to include 3 things in each play, a state had
to be mentioned, a hat had to be present, finally
Scotland had to be mentioned also. After the
groups were decided and the parameters were
explained writing began at 8pm Friday night.
Each group writer had to be done with a script
by 6am to be handed off to the director at 7am
Saturday morning. Each writing team took a
different amount of time to write.
I had a unique perspective being a part
of a writing team, being a director, and an
actor I got a chance to be with it every step
of the way. My team was finished writing the
script at lam, ours was the eariiest finished,
and the last group was finished at 4 am.
The directors and actors met at 7am
Saturday morning, and began to work We
were assigned different rooms to read through
lines and work out blocking. We all worked
diligently thorough out the day taking breaks
of course for lunch and dinner. We had a
wonderful tech crew, including lights, sound,
costume,(^ndjprops that went and met with
each director asking what each team needed
to be prepared for the tech rehearsal at 6pm
Saturday night.
At the tech rehearsal the final kinks
in each play were worked out on stage and in
front of our test audience which were the fel
low actors, playwrights and directors of other
productions. After all was fixed or as much of
the plays that could be fixed, the productions
were put on at 8pm with a very warm audience
despite the snow outside.
The four plays that were put on in
cluded HOT Plaid a comedic film noir with
the combination in talent of writing, directing,
and acting that set the pace for the rest of an
enchanted evening, and was talked about for the
next few days for that reason The next play
titled Ttshury Ixine was a play that featured
dramatic talent in writing, acting, as well as
directing that made one pause and be moved by
its theme and emotion The played that followed
that. The Ixist Recording was a production that
was a good middle ground in the themes of
drama and comedy,, with the writing, directing,
and acting talent) tbat showed how one could be
moved but also'tsnigb at’the memories of each
character. The last play I had a privilege to be
a part of was One World We Musi Preserve, the
only play that had no influence by any faculty
member The raunchy themes and language
used was enough to get a disclaimer at the be
ginning of it It was a wonderful way to end the
evening. Overall the project was
a great success that reached its goal of raising
funds for the Highland Players and hopefully
will be a tradition for the theatre department, of
St Andrews for a long time.
Dr. Rona Leach Publishes Article In
READING rOD/lF Magazine
From: Staff Reports
An article by Dr Rona Leach, assistant profes
sor of education at St. Andrews
Presbyterian College, has appeared in the inter
nationally published Reading Today magazine,
the publication of the International Reading
Association.
The article “Special Place Makes Books
Special” talks about how a special bookshelf or
location can give added meaning for a child’s
library.
Space still available
Reservations are still being taken for the
first Religion and Science Roundtable of the
year at St. Andrews Presbyterian College on
Feb. 19 in the Carol Grotnes Belk Main Room
of the William Henry Belk College Center.
Rabbi David W. Nelson, associate director of
the Association of Reform Zionists of America,
will share his insights as the featured speaker
Members of the community are invited
to a dinner prior to the moderated, balanced and
constructive dialogue This event, which begins
with dinner at 6 p.m., is free and open to the
public, but space is limited. Please make your
reservations no later than Tuesday, Feb. 12, by
calling ext; 5258 or emailing mehnetm@sapc.
“One way to help children learn to en
joy books is to encourage them to take owner
ship of their personal books,” wrote Leach
“Fostering this type of ownership can
easily be done by creating a special bookshelf
for your child. The process is easy and simple,
but the rewards can extend into adulthood ”
Reading Today is a bi-monthly publica
tion that covers reading education in general
and the activities of the International Reading
Association. The association’s board of direc-
for SAPC Religion and
From: Staff Reports
edu In your message, indicate the name, phone
number, email address and any dietary needs of
each person planning to attend.
Nelson is the author of Judaism, Phys
ics, and God: Searching for Sacred Metaphors
in a Post-Einstein World (Jewish Lights, 2005),
and is currently working on another major
project dealing with God and the science and
philosophy of consciousness.
The Religion and Science Roundtables
at St Andrews are associated with the annual
John Calvin McNair Lecture on Science and
Theology The McNair Lecture was established
by his 1957 will that asked that “the object of
which lecture(s) shall be to show the mutual
bearing of Science and Theology upon each
tors includes educators from the United States
and abroad Members are individuals concerned
with the improvement of reading and the devel
opment of literacy
A native of Maxton, l.each earned her
Bachelor of Arts degree from St. Andrews
Presbyterian College and went on to obtain her
Master’s Degree at North Carolina A&T State
University She received her doctorate’s degree
in education from Nova University in 1987.
Science Roundtable
other...”
Upcoming Roundtables
The Rev. Sally Grover Bingham, found
er and president of The Regeneration Project,
will be the featured speaker for the St. Andrews
Religion and Science Roundtable on April 15.
Recently named one of the top 15 green
religious leaders by Grist magazine, Bingham
has received numerous awards for her work
with the Inteifaith Power and Light Campaign,
including the 2007 U.S. EPA Climate Protec
tion Award, the Purpose Prize, the Energy Globe
Award and recognition as a “sacred gift to the
planet by the World Wildlife Fund