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THE TWIQ
FEBRUARY 14. 1983
Editorial
Elections Reveal
Students’ Apathy
Banners, posters, speeches ■ yes, it is time for student Sections
again. Candidates for first slate offices appear in this edition of The
Tvirig. Unfortunately, only tfiree offices are contested • the rest of
the candidates run unopposed. And some offices even have no
students filing for them.
Meredith students should feei embarrassed that so few people
have shown Interest in elections. It seems that every year, the
responsibiitiesof leadership fall on the same group ofpec^le who,
although are well-qualified, are already involved In sev&al other
committ^s and projects. As these students can teii you, the
rev^ards of meeting new people and making positive changes on
campus outwelght the costs of time.
Understandably, there are many who were not bom to lead. But
Meredith is composed of many fine women wfto were active in high
school, yet t>ecame just another face on canpus at college. There
is so much talent and energy out there that could channeled in
such positive directions.
Second and third slate elections are next on the agenda. Con
sider these offices - there may be one lust right for you! Remember,
one day Meredith will be iust a dim memory and only a few things
will standout In your mind. Will you remember the two hours a day
you spent lying in the sun ■ or the two hours you spent helping
students and improving campus life? It is up to you.
MLS
Letter to students
Diagramming: A Real Pain
To the Editor:
Somepne once told me that
what 1 got from college I
would take with me
throughout the rest of my life.
I had Freshman English last
semester. It gave me a
headache and a pain in my
neck {and elsewhere). All I
have to say is that if this
statement is tme. I’m in for a
rough life.
it wasn’t Freshman English
as a whole that caused these
problems, just a part of it.
They call It diagramming. I
call it a waste of time. Don’t
get me wrong, I'm not against
learning grammar, it’s just i’ve
been taught it the past twelve
years and it is losing it’s
interest. I feel that we, as
Americans, should use correct
grammar, but diagramming
sentences, Meredith English
Department, is not the
answer. If the English
professors want to draw,
teach and grade lines, let
American dance festival offers
new jazz workshop at Duke
For the first time a Jazz
Workshop - directed by Buzz
Miller, who has danced with
Carol Haney and Gwen Verdon,
worked with. Jerome Robbins
and Bob Fosse •* will be offered
by the Americstf) Dance Festival
school at Duke University in
Durhafn, N.C., Ihis summer.
The Jazz V^shop will be
held June 12-24.
Participants will take a tw>
hour theatre dance technique'
class in the morning and a tw>
and-a-half hour repertory class'
in the afternoon, Monday
through Friday. (Participants
will have the option of con
tinuing at the Festival, either as
full-time or part-time students.)
The workshop is. a twoweek
intensive program for In-
tennediate-advanced dancers
under the direction of Miller,
who has danced extensively as
a soloist and as a partner to
Judy Holliday. Marilyn Monroe,
ZIzi Jeanmaire and Nora Kaye.
During his 20 years on
Broadway, he's taken to do
several films, Innumberable
television shows, a season with
ATTENTION
STUDENTS!
“Under Milk Wood”
has been originally
scheduled for
Febnjary 11, 12, 18,
and 19. Due to popular
demand, per
formances have been
added for February 10
and 17 at 8:00 p.m.
and Sunday, February
13 at 7; 00 p.m.
also
Auditions for
Walter Gibson’s “The
Miracle Worker” will
be held on February
14-15 at 7:00 p.m. in
Jones Auditorium.
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them teach geometry. The
English Department here is
difficult and Freshmen
English is one reason it has
received this infamous
reputation among students. I
feel diagramming is a
stumbling block among
students and causes students
to either pass or fail. We can
blame the teachers for poor
grades and we can blame the
students for not learning but I
feel the major bi^e belongs
on the diagramming system
and it alone.
There are other ways of
teaching grammar than by
diagramming. This method is
not used by the majority of
universities and colleges and
hasn’t been for several years.
Yet, maybe this is the reason
Meredith uses this method
because It k^s with the
tradition of .being old
fashioned.
I feel that two Freshman
English courses should be
avallsAle. One could be the
traditional course and the
other could be Expository
Writing. The students could
be given the opportunity to
decide which one they felt
would benefit them more
instead of coming out of
English ill, like me, knowing
as much now, as I did when I
entered the first class.
Because I made a “D”, for
diagramming, last sefnester, I
am presently taking
Expository Writing. In there I
learned more in one week than
I did in one semester of
grammar.
if creativity was brought
Into the teaching guide, this
would benefit the students
more in the long njn. When
applying for jobs, the chances
of the employers asking you
to diagram a sentence is little
to none, but the chances of
them looking for creativity is
great. Instead of helping us in
areas we need knowledge in,
such as: ttie ability to
exercise our minds creatively,
writing empresslve resumes
and learning to express'
ourselves in writing as we do
in speaking, we are held
prisoners behind bars of
diagramming meaningless
sentences.
I feel, the diagramming
system at Meredith is not
worth the thirty-five cents paid
for the diagramming sheets
last semester, and I would like
to see It changed.
Cynthia L. Church
Les Ballets de Paris, and
concerts with Carmen
Lavallade, including ' the
Spoieto Festival in 1958 and
1971. Most recently he has
taught at Han/ard University,
City College of New York and
Southern Methodist University.
Enrollment in.. the Jazz
Workshop is limited.
For further Information write
the School Coordinator, The
American Dance Festival, P.O.
Box 6097, College Station,
Durham, NO 27708. Telephone:
(919) 684-6402.
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