St Andrews Presbyterian College - Lamp and Shield / Bagpipe Yearbook (Laurinburg, NC)

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INTRODUCTION St. Andrews is a church-related, coeducational, residential, liberal arts college. It exists to liberate men and women socially, intellec- tually, and religiously. Its purpose is to develop men and women whose leadership and service are an expression of their critical, creative and disciplined minds and lives and their humane concern. The effectiveness of such an edu- cational process is determined by the quality of the total life of the college community. The College recognizes that ex- cessive conformity prevents com- munity and forbids individuality. Similarly, extreme individualism not only prevents individual growth, but denies the individual ' s respon- sibility for his brother ' s good in the community. Therefore, the College endeavors to hold in meaningful and balanced tension both inde- pendence and interdependence. To give Its members an opportunity for maturation it advocates freedom: to ensure the existence of a viable community it insists upon the ex- ercise of responsibility. It believes that its educational purposes can best be accomplished in an at- mosphere of responsible freedom and commitment rather than by means of superficial conformity to a set of detailed rules and prohibi- tions. It believes that responsible maturity is more likely to develop when each member of the com- munity is both free and obligated to struggle with principles of con- duct and to accept full responsibil- ity for his own actions. Introduction to the Code of Re- sponsibility

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II iiiiBf RnningRM liliii il Living in the land of the free and the home of the brave has a dif- ferent connotation for us and for our country than it has ever had before. We are enjoying more freedom of the press now than has ever existed on this continent or any continent, and still many are clamoring for more. Changes are being made on all fronts. The pre- sent young generation, as IVlargaret Mead said, has never seen any major problems solved: Vietnam war, racial inequities, poverty, pol- lution,, and on. Attempts have, and are being made to solve these problems but progress is slow. Our age group and the upcoming younger groups who follow our model are impatient, anxious to see needed solutions realized to stan- dards which we set up. A cloud of unrest seems to loom over us all, a cloud which can sometimes take the form of a mushroom or even of smog. Students have wanted re- sponsibility so that they might be free to do what they think is right about these ever-present pro- blems. Now, through the Code of Responsibility, this right has been given to us, not only at St. Andrews but in the outside world as well. Af- ter all, the Code could be said to apply here as well as on the out- side. Outside because we have never been dependent on our- selves, only on others; we really cannot know how our predecessors felt about life and its responsibili- ties: that will be a new and educa- tional experience for us. Miliiiiii