ALETHEIA
Volume XXVI, Number 9
Montreat-Anderson College
November 11, 1992
Visitation Weekend... Recruiting the Class of '98
By Jennifer Gunsch
On Thursday, November 12,
Montreat - Anderson College will
see approximately 30 - 40 new
faces on campus. These new faces
are prospective students, who will
be jumping in and joining campus
life for the weekend. The admis
sions office is again hosting a fall
Visitation Weekend.
Visitation Weekend will be
gin on Thursday, November 12
and will conclude on Saturday,
November 14. Many activities are
taking place this weekend. Friday,
Prospective students will have the
privilege of attending classes with
their student roommates. Next,
these prospects will be thrown back
in time when they attend the Fifties
dinner, which will begin at 4:45
p.m.
After dinner that evening, the
prospective students will have the
opportunity to see our women's bas
ketball team make their debut
against Toccoa Falls at 6:00 p.m.
Following the game that
evening, the hopeful recruits will
have a chance to see how much fun
M-AC can be with a Fifties-style
sock hop, which will be held in
Howerton Cafeteria. The sock hop
will feature a dance contest, music
from the '50s, soda floats, and a
costume competition.
Visitation Weekend is a great
chance for curious high school se
niors to see what life here at M-AC
is really like. Many current stu
dents feel that Visitation Weekend
helped them make the final decision
of where to go to school.
Greg Steinbarger states, "I felt
more comfortable with the people
here than at other colleges. [M-AC]
also felt more like a family. I be
lieve Visitation Weekend helped me
to decide to come to school here."
Janie King also felt Visitation
Weekend helped her to make up her
mind. She realized that people at
M-AC really do have fun and that it
is not just a "stick-in-the-mud" place.
Visitation Weekend also
served to help some of our current
students reinforce decision s they had
already made. Mark Wright com
mented, "It helped me to become
more comfortable with my deci
sion."
For the most part, past Visita
tion Weekends showed current stu
dents how much fun life is here.
But prospects see the serious
side ofthe college as well. Jennifer
Hardman said, "After Visitation
Weekend, I realized there were lim
ited distractions here, therefore I
could study hard and get good
grades."
Because Visitation Weekend
is an important part of college re
cruitment, the Office of Admis
sions encourages students to help
these special visitors feel welcome
here at M-AC.
Academic Competition Team
Optimistic After good start
By Matt Haney
The Montreat-Anderson Col
lege Academic Competition Team
ventured to Lee College in Cleve
land, Tennessee to compete at the
Second Annual Christian College
Challenge. Nine teams from eight
colleges competed for five hours
in a test of academic prowess.
Jeff Reardon (Team Captain),
Naj Alicea, Kim Trapnell, and
Mark Wright improved on the
eighth place finish from last year
by winning three matches out of
eight, and placing sixth overall.
When asked about his opinion on
the team's standing, Mark Wright,
the only Freshman on the team,
responded: "Considering our size
is minuscule we did extremely well,
because the other schools were
twice our size and had twice as
many people to choose from." In
reality some of the colleges, like
Lee Colley, are six times the size
of Montreat-Anderson College.
Jeff Reardon, displaying the
spirit that is always required of a
good captain, had this opinion of
the competition: "I think we played
really well. In my opinion, the other
teams knew that they were up against
something much greater than them
selves. When all was said and done,
I actually saw a grown man cry."
Under Dr. Charles Risher's
continuing instruction, Jeff
Reardon's steady confidence, and
the team’s dedication Montreat-
Anderson can expect future great
ness from its scholarly competitors,
no matter how arrogant the team
captain may sound!
Curriculum Changes Provide
More Class Options
By Eric Bush
As M-AC students begin pre
registration for the spring semester,
they will discover some new sur
prises in the curriculum. According
to Dr. Rich Gray, several changes
have already been made, while oth
ers are still under consideration. In
addition to a few new courses, a
new major has been added, and the
English Literature and English Com
munications majors now have in
creased core requirements. Gray
said.
One brand new course is Nine
teenth Century English Literature, a
junior level course which will cover
maj or Romantic and Victorian writ
ers. Another is Applied Stage Di
recting. also a junior level course, in
Constitutional Reforms...
Building a Strong Foundation for Growth
By Phil Parker
Many sessions of this year's
Student Government Association
have been devoted to reforming the
SGA Constitution. There are three
major reasons why the SGA is mak
ing reforms. First, the SGA wants
to build a strong, solid foundation
for the growth and development of
this college.
Another reason is that the SGA
needs better representation of the
students. Justin Ramb, SGA Presi
dent, says that there is a need to
expand legislature which will in
clude class vice-presidents. Pro
posed changes will also allow for
classes to send "at large" members
to the SGA. These members are
meant to better represent the stu
dents in each class.
The third major reason for re
form is to leave behind the two-year
mentality of the current Constitu
tion in favor of the college's re
cently-adopted four-year status.
Until now, for example, the
freshmen have been represented by
a sophomore. This is because dur
ing the spring semester of each aca
demic year, the freshmen elect a
class president to represent them.
However, that person remains presi
dent of the freshmen class the fol
lowing fall, after actually becoming
a sophomore.
If the new changes are ap
proved, the freshman class will elect
their own president during the third
week of the academic year.
What will these changes mean
for students? Ramb says that, "Con
stitution reforms.. .would mean that
the Student Government would op
erate more efficiently and, thus,
better serve the students.
On November 17, students will
be able to vote for the new Constitu
tion. Copies ofthe proposed changes
are posted all over campus, so stu
dents can make informed decisions.
which students will supervise the
production of at least one one-act
play. Unlike the current Theatre
Workshop class, this will be a three
credit-hour course. Also, Gray said
that two courses. Advanced Writ
ing and Nineteenth Century Ameri
can Literature, were found to be too
wide-ranging in content and have
each been split into two more con
centrated courses.
Other changes include a stiff
ening of core requirements for En
glish Literature and English Com
munications majors. Students from
either major must now have 41 core
hours instead of 35, including a
minimum of 15 elective hours of
junior or above courses. Overall,
the changes are being made to bol
ster what Gray considers to be solid
but improvable programs.
Lastly, a mathematics major
has been added to the new curricu
lum. The core requirement is 36
hours, 24 of which must be junior
level or higher. Students may also
choose a minor in mathematics by
meeting the requirement of 18 hours,
6 of which must be junior level or
higher.
As M-AC continues to explore
possibilities of expansion in its cur
riculum, three other changes have
been proposed which are still under
consideration. These are a minor in
art, a math education major, and a
major in environmental studies.
These have been recommended by
the Academic Affairs Committee
but have yet to be approved or re
jected by the faculty.