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Gardner-Webb University
THE PILOT
October 24,1996
The Official Campus Newspaper Issue #3
Boiling Springs, NC
A Look Inside...
Page 2
Students speak out
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YOTS encourages professors and
students to work together
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For Your Information
GWU’s library soon
to be automated
by Denise Horton
contributing writer
Days of flipping through the library’s
card catalog are coming to a long-awaited
end. Plans for the library’s automation are
“in the works,” Director Valerie Parry said.
At present, Parry and others are talking
with vendors and gathering
recommendations about the project.
According to plans, the library should
receive full automation by June 1997.
With the installation of 12 new
computer terminals, library users will find
research faster and more up-to-date with
today’s ever-changing technology.
Users will not only have access to an
electronic card catalog, but will also gain
information about a book’s availability and
how many copies are owned by the library.
Personal records will be available through a
password, allowing users to find out their
current library status.
Parry hopes to add further options to
the computers by eventually having the
Internet installed, along with heavily used
databases. If growth continues, students
will be enabled to use the electronic card
catalog and other features from their dorm
rooms.
New York Comes to GWU
The Goliard group consists
of Janet A. Axelrod, flutisst;
Janes Blanton, tenor;
Victoria Drake, harpist;
Mark Gustavsson, violist;
Lowell Lieberman, pianist;
and Susan Mello, soprano.
(These performers are a
part of the Distinguished
Artists Series, a project of
the Fine Arts Department).
(Photo courtesy of Fine Arts
Dept.)
by Brandi Pennington
contributing writer
October brings new sounds to the
Gardner-Webb campus including the culture
and style of New York.
The Goliard Southeastern Music
Festival, a group of six professional New
York musicians, were at Gardner-Webb on
Oct. 22 in Dover Theatre.
The Goliard group performed a
repertoire that spans over four centuries. It
included Renaissance duets with harp and
viola, a trio written by Debussy and a set of
four hymns performed by the tenor,
viola and piano.
The group was established in 1983 as a
community-based ensemble. Now the
project has won critical acclaim and tours
all over America, Dr. Terry Fern, Fine Arts
Department chair, said.
The musicians perform in
miniconcerts, holiday concerts, music
festivals, as well as a children's concert
series, according to Fern.
There are authors among us:
English professors Hobbs and Theado soon to have work printed
by Jenny Rogers
staff writer
The English Department is sporting
two new authors. Dr. June Hobbs and Dr.
Matt Theado, English professors, both have
contracts from university presses for books
to appear in the next few months.
Dr. Hobbs decided to write “I Sing for
I Cannot Be Silent; The Feminization of
American Hymnody, 1870-1920” when she
was “bored in church one Sunday.” She
was flipping through the hymnbook and was
struck by the contrast in hymns written by
men and women.
The title of her book comes from a
hymn by blind writer
Fanny Crosby, who
wrote over 9000 hymns
during the 1800s.
Hobbs’ book
studies the gender
differences in hymns
during the era most
great hyms were written.
“Hymns gave women a voice in
evangelical churches that denied them
public speech,” said Hobbs. Writing songs
to God was how a woman repressed by the
times could express her feelings, she
explained.
Several themes passed in and out of
fashion in hymn writing, such as the idea of
coming home to Jesus or meeting Him in a
garden. When Hobbs studied hymns
written on the same theme by men and
women, “startling differences started
coming out.”
Women of the era believed that they
should be self-sacrificing and give up
indulgences, which led to hymns like “We
Shall Never be Drunkards” that seem silly
in modem context.
Their hymns expressed a “totally pure
but passionate relationship with Jesus,” said
Hobbs. Men’s hymns, on the other hand,
often incorporated a military attitude.
University of Pittsburgh Press gave
Hobbs a publication offer at a conference
when she had written only 14 pages. The
book is expected to be in print by fall 1997.
She is especially excited since this is her
first book.
See "Authors’' on page 3