Meredith Herald
Volume XV, Issue 10
We attract bright, talented, ambitious students. Naturally we’re a women’s college.
November 4,1998
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Chorus concert has a full house
□ Meredith
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Backttie Night”
> increase rape
awareness.
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O Senior soc
cer players hon
ored with roses;
team wins final
game 8-0.
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□ Chorus groups sing
variety of music with
full enthusiasm.
KELLY FISH
Staff Reporter
Joyful sounds filled Wesley
Norwood Jones Auditorium
Monday, Oct. 26 as the School of
Music presented its Fall Concert.
The Meredith College Chonis,
Chorale, and Encore! along with
the Meredith Girls’ Chorus and
Chorale performed a variety of
pieces before a full house.
The evening began with per
formances by the Meredith Girls’
Chorus and Chorale. The group
is made up of young singers from
the Raleigh area, as well as from
Durham, Johnston and Orange
counties.
The Chonis and Chorale are
sponsored by Meredith College
and represent over nineteen dif
ferent public and private schools.
Young girls, beginning at the age
of eight, start their choral train
ing in the Girls’ Chorus.
Over the past several years,
the choirs have sung at the NC
Museum of Art, NC Governors
Mansion and the White House,
and tilts past summer they joined
seven other choirs to participate
in the International Children’s
Choir Festival in Canterbury arid
London, England.
Fran Page and Valerie Morris
served as conductors with
Pamela Forsyth as their accom
panist. The Chorus performed
selections including ‘'Jingle at
the Window,” an American folk
song, and “Yonder Comes Day.”
The Girls’ Chorale performed
several pieces such as “Psalm
100," by Ruth Henderson;
“How Can I Keep from
Singing,” by Rev. Robert
Lowry,;and “Winter Changes,”
by David Btuner.
Hie Meredith College Chorus
continued to entertain the audi
ence by singing a variety of
songs with different styles and
different languages. Some of
their selections included a Latin
piece, “Vere Languores Nos
tros,” by Antonio Lotti; a mellow
selection, “My True Love Has
My Heart” by Eugene Butler;
and a spiritual, “Ride the Chari
ot,” arranged by Beatrice and
Max Krone. A special song, “Odi
Odi,” was performed with guest
conductor, Jennifer Angove.
"It was a very satisiying expe
rience to be able to rehearse and
See CONCERT page 2
Meredith College presented its annual Fall Choral concert
Oct. 26 in Jones Auditorium. photo »v holly tu»her
Kickoff to Cornhuskin’ brings madness
KRISTEN BOSTEDO
Staff Reporter
The first ever Cornhuskin’
kickoff party, held on Sunday
Nov. r, began the Cornhuskin’
festivities. The party was a cam
pus-wide unity activity used to
bring the classes together with
their Meredith Spirit. Class
Council, which is made up of the
four class presidents and vice
presidents, sponsored the event.
Held in the Belk Dining Hail,
the evening began with songs led
by various Meredith students.
“MC rocks! MC rolls! MC rocks
and rolls,” and followed by peals
of laughter.
Erin Grant, junior class presi
dent, introduced the Class Coun
cil members. Cornhuskin’ Co
chairs were asked to help “lack
ofT the week with the Chubby
Buddy contest. Instead of using
marshmallows, the participants
used throat lozenges. The co
chairs were paired off with one
stuffing the lozenges in the
other’s mouth. The co-chair with
the most lozenges in her mouth
was the winner.
Amy Mitchell, the winner of
the Chubby Buddy contest, said,
‘That was nasty! The cough
drops stuck to my teeth.”
Once the Co-chairs were able
to clean out their mouths, they
began splitting everyone up into
teams for the Meredith Madness
scavenger hunt. A typical team
had six members consisting of
two seniors, two juniOTS, one
freshmen, and one sophomore.
Each team was given a clue to
send (hem on a wild goose chase
throughout campus to hunt down
the remaining five clues. The
starting clue was not allowed to
be opened until “Meredith Mad
ness” had been screamed by the
Class Council.
The teams roamed the dailc
campus. They traveled from the
president’s house all the way to
Johnson Hall. The first team
back with all six of their clues
was deemed the winner.
Group 14 was the first group
back. These winning team mem
bers included first-years Amy
Mitchell and Jordan West,
juniors Hope Tapscott and Sarah
Glover and seniors Christy
McLean and Allison Carter.
Tapscott enjoyed the scav
enger hunt and said, ‘The clues
seemed pretty easy and our team
didn't have to go as far as some
of the others.”
Her teammate Sarah Glover
agreed, but added, “We still ran
all the way!” They will be recog
nized in the Cornhuskin’ festivi
ties on Friday with a small prize.
The Meredith campus was
bubbling with the excitement of
Cornhuskin* Sunday night
Meredith Madness was a memo
rable new way to begin the 53
year old traditicm of Corn-
huskin’.
Broken maio repaired,
heat restored
BETH HALL
News EcRor
A rupture in the cold water
main 1^ several campus build
ings without cold water earlier
this week, said facilities ser
vices.
Stringfietd, Vann and Canoll
Residence Halls, the Health
Services Building. Harris Hall
and the Carlyle Campbell
Library found they had only
hot water after the nipture was
discovered behind Carroll
around midnight on Sunday.
Toilets could ncrt be flushed
because they run off of only
cold water lines.
By 8 p.m. Monday, Mered
ith’s maintenance and Facili
ties Services had repaired the
break. All toilets were running
again, making what Vann Resi
dence Director Faithe Hart
called the sweet sound” that
had been missing most of the
day.
Settling of earth and 70
years of use caused the break,
said facilities services.
Unrelated to the cold water
main rupture, a sewage back
up in the Wainwright Skiites
located under Belk Dtnisg Hall
fonsd sevaai functions which
were su^Ktsed to take place in
the suhes to be moved, said
facilities services.
Also this past weekend, an
internal leak in the air condi-
ticming coil in Barefoot leaked
into a T^idence hall room on
the fourth flow. At press time,
maintenence crews were still
working with the leak, said
facilities services.
A final noti* to the Mered
ith community; the heating
system will be turned on this
evening in order to prepare for
the cold weather this weekend.
Ai^roximately 48-72 hours
are necessary in order for all
rooms and buildings to be
warmed up campus-wide. It
will take about a week to bal
ance out the hot and cold spots
around cw^mis, said facilities
services.