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

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It makes me feel good and secure just to walk around here. -a former SA student It ' s the easiest place for us to be right now. -a St. Andrews junior St. Andrews provides the stu- dent with destructive security. —a St. Andrews senior It ' s a place to go before hit- ting the outside world. -a St. Andrews freshman I don ' t think SA provides security as much as it pro- vides escapism, -a St. Andrews sophomore St. Andrews presents an elit- ist security. Its education is abstract while at the same time keeping us from getting our hands dirty. The goal of St. Andrews seems to be to separate us from the world, not only for the present but for the future. We are more secure in abstract reality. —a St. Andrews junior ' r ' i

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There ' s a loneliness about Ihis place that bothers me. I feel sort of helpless nol thai I can ' t reach out, but that I ' m not sure I even want to. -a St. Andrews junior It can be lonely here and people can be very (old. At times I can communitate really well with pcH)ple, but other limes I gel so tired of seeing the same people and hearing the same old things thai you want to walk right on pasi people and they walk right on past yon On other cfays you w.inl l smile and say hello, but it you didn ' t say anything the people would just walk on by -a St. Andrews soplionmrc ThcHe are all dilferenl types of people here and you know you can always find someone to do things with, so it ' s like you ' re never alone -a Si Andrews freshman There ' s a sorry silualion that ex ists in the ommunily rel.ilion ship of a small lif)eral arls ol lege when you have loneliness . . . something ' s wrong when you have loneliness - a St Andrews prolessm

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