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SIGMA MU NEWS
With the coming spring wea
ther, the St. Mary’s Tennis Team
has been vigorously preparing
itself for upcoming matches. This
year it plans to take on Duke,
Meredith, Carolina, and Peace.
Members of the tennis team in
clude : Cathy Cline, persident; Sue
Willingham, Mary Morrison Pen
nington, Anne Parrish, Keith
Richardson, Nancy Diggs, Dede
Walton, Laurie Beaton, Connie
Johnson, and Jessica Gillespie.
The Sigma-Mu’s are presently
engaged in volleyball. The Sigma’s
won the first game and in total
points are leading the Mu’s by
the score of 75 to 60.
Other Sigma-Mu activities in
clude an archerv match on March
24th.
The Tennis Club also has quite
a rigid season ahead of them:
ilareh 12—Duke at Duke
March 28—Peace here
April 2—Carolina at Chapel Hill
April 4—Peace at Peace
April 9—Carolina here
April 23—Meredith here
April 30—Meredith at Meredith
On April 27, the Tennis Club
will play in the State-Wide Col
lege tournament at Carolina.
ASSEMBLY SCHEDULE FOR
MARCH
March 12: Student Government
Nominations for President
March 14: Dr. Smyth; Nomina
tions tor Chairman of Hall Coun
cil
March 19: Nominations tor Vice-
President of S. G. A.
March 21: Nominations tor Secre
tary-Treasurer of S. G. A.
March 26: Nominations for Secre
tary of Hall Council
March 28: Nominations tor Assem
bly Chairman and Editors of the
StaKccoach, Holies, Muse, and
Handbook.
NIXON FAVORED IN
CAMPUS POLL
In a recent poll conducted by
the Current Politics Club, Richard
Nixon was favored for the Repub-
lican party presidential nomina
tion. The poll of staff, faculty, and
sttidents of St. JIary’s showed
Jtonald Reagan as the top choice
for vice jiresidcnt.
The faculty and staff showed a
strong preference for Nelson
Rockefeller.
President -Johnson took a back
seat to Senators Eugene MeCarthy
and Robert Kennedy, indicating a
strong anti-Johnson sentiment and
jii-otest support foi- McCarthy and
Kennedy.
In a series of ehoices jiairing
possible major party nominees
and George Wallace, Wallace re
ceived a consistently small vote.
About 60 percent of the faculty,
staff, and students partieipated in
the ])oll. Co-chairmen of the poll
were Chris Crowley, ])resident of
the YRC, and Nancy Richardson,
YDC president. Faculty advisor
is Mr. Don Roberts.
JEANNE SMITH, ’65
GRADUATE OF SMJC
PRESENTS CONCERT
TO STUDENTS
THE CASE AGAINST SKIRTS
Jeanne Smith, a 1965 graduate
of St. Mary’s, who recently won
a Metropolitan Auditions award,
gave a concert Tuesday, March 5
in the auditorium. Her program
included two arias from Mozart’s
Marriage of Figaro, Songs of the
Wayfarer by Mahler, Songs from
the Auvergne arranged by Cante-
loube. Songs of Love and Rain by
Ned Rorem, and concluded with
the Menotti aria. To This AVe’ve
Come from the Consul.
Jeanne was a soloist in last
year’s performance of the Cen
tennial Cantata in the St. Mary’s
Chapel.
She has received many awards
for her singing, the most recent
being the Student Musician schol
arship presented by the North
Carolina Federation of Music
Clubs. She has been a featured so
loist in a number of opera and
oratorio performances at East
Carolina University.
At present she is a graduate as
sistant in the Musie Department
at E.C.U.
article is reprinted from Carolina's THE DAIl^
lihLLy and vjas ^written by Terry Gingras.) ^
Now that women’s rules are get
ting their most thorough inspec
tion to date, it’s time
, someone
changed the rule requiring girls
to wear skirts to class.
Granted, there’s a certain
amount to be said for the female
leg and I am the last to object to
mini-skirts. But all the fussing
and tugging women do trying to
.yank a skirt down so their whities
won’t show is keeping me awake
in class.
Jl.y instructor is also having
more than a little trouble keeping
his mind on his business.
I’m all for keeping the Carolina
female female, but isn’t it about
time we let her catch up to the
rest of the countr.v?
Another point against the rule
is winter. Winter is cold, babv.
And while I think skirts are fine
and legs are great, the sight of the
average coed’s blue, goose-pimpled
knees on a cold winter da.v fills
me with more pity than masculine
satisfaction.
Supporters of the rule sav skirts
keep Carolina coeds looking fem
inine. I hat s fine. If a girl wants
to wear skirts let her, but win-
force all the girls to? Can’t we
give the girl with uglv legs a
break? Can’t we let her cover
taking drama and art cO''
Pieture Kathy Koed in
class. She’s working away,
expressing herself through
confident in the comfort
blue-jeans. Suddenly she
it’s late and she’s got a classf
campus. Does she imnie^'*
rush off to class like any r**
abl.y intelligent bubblehead?.
Not on your life, Charley* Q
got to toddle into the ball"
and change her pants befo^' j.
can go anywhere.
Obviously this rule makes
large number of irritated p( jj!
sors—not to mention contril’J
to the high rate of college'
t A.
I’m not realh- against f
but looking at the whole tb*' se
a perfeetl.v realistic niaim^^ vg
you imagine a more imp^, A:
garment? An item of clotlii ar
the wind can blow under-,
doesn’t protect evervthin? m
••an get cold and that can’*' tv
be sat in comfortably. , ai
( an you imagine the nii"^ co
created skirts?
Is it any wonder that
liaye had to strive to rise
ft*
position of inferioritv? Iff,.
those fat, over-muscled legs if she
wants to? Personallv I think it
would do much to beautifv our
campus.
Another Thing that’s not read
ily apparent is that skirts just
aren’t all that comfortable. If you
don’t agree, try asking any girl
what she wears in her dormitorv
Wanna bet on Levis?
The you-gotta-wear-a-skirt rule
IS a si)ecial problem for all drls
'vore one of those tiling*’
call him at least inferior.
It seems to me, if I can
sweat-shirt and cut-offs F
'vhy shouldn’t a girl be abk
the same thing. She migld "
«I1V ociiiic tiling, one
an.v dates for a while, bn'
her busine.ss. ^
Female equality has
recognized b.v the federal
nient. it seems to me our -
ior bureaucrac.v might aB^j^
the privilege of cqualiU
own coeds.
Hcts.v Green and her late
•liirint- r re.sliinan-Sophoniorc-
(o pose for pietiin-.
pause
dance
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NEWS IN BRIEF
Susan Leonard engaged to Tom
my Lowe. — ^
Lynn Fulghum pinned to Wick susan"*
Large,, Kappa .Sig, NCSd.
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