Play to Premiere at College see page 4 Olclwutns Vol. 49, No. 6 The Student Voice of Louisburg College Columns contests See pages 15-16 March 1990 Ministers In Residence By Jerry Hughes, Staff Writer The Reverend Samuel W. Loy, Associate Minister of St. James United Methodist Church of Greenville, North Carolina, will be on campus March 26-28 as Minister-in-Residence. Mr. Loy will speak in chapel at 11:00 on Tuesday, the 27th, and will be available to talk to students and attend class with them so that he can take part in campus life. In his spare time, he will be talking with the faculty and ad ministrators to get an idea of what Louisburg College is all about. Earlier in the semester (Feb ruary 26-28), the Reverend Dena McFarland, Associate Minister of the First Methodist Church of Elizabeth City, North Carolina, was on campus in the same capacity. Dena McFarland Photo by Lana Whited/The Columns In this issue: News 1»3 Editorials 2 Features 4-7 Fall Class Schedule 8-9 Sports 10'13 Fun 'n Games 14-15 Chappell W riter-in-Residence By Melissa Aderhold and Lana Whited Widely-acclaimed North Caro lina fiction writer and poet Fred Chappell will be the Department of Modern Language’s 1990 Writer-in-Residence. Mr. Chap pell will be on campus March 21 and 22 to read from his pub lished works, speak on the craft of writing, and meet with stu dents and aspiring writers. Mr. Chappell is Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he holds an endowed chair. At UNCG, he has taught classes ranging from eighteenth century literature to science fic tion. He regularly teaches work shops in the writing of fiction and poetry. Fred Chappell Congressman Holds Community Meeting By Melissa Leigh Aderhold, Editor-in-Chief Congressman David Price spoke on Wednesday, February 14, at a community meeting at Louisburg High School. Mem bers of the Franklin County com munity were invited to attend and to ask Price questions con cerning national and local issues. Although this community meet ing was non-partisan, political leaders were introduced and can didates running in this year’s race introduced themselves. Price began the meeting by summing up the work done in the House of Representatives up to this point: halfway through this session. Price reviewed the loss of the Speaker of the House, Jim Wright, and commented on the continuous "wrangling over [the] budget.” However, even with these problems Price added that the first session was — "not quite a washout.” Price separated the activities of the House into three major categories: clean-up. Congressman David Price Photo by David Tilley/ The Columns file Guns on Campus? See page 3 acting on America’s basic values, and recapturing the American dream. Clean-up included introduc ing strong legislation to deal with the Savings and Loan crisis and with the HUD scandal. This scan dal basically revolved around the skimming off of funds and mis placement of grants and awards. More clean-up legislation in volved strong oil spill liability to prevent oil spills and to hold companies liable for their actions. Acting on America’s basic values meant passing legislation to protect the American flag in such a way that removed the need to tamper with the Bill of Rights. The House also protested the abuse of civil rights in many areas, sanctioning corrective mea sures. But the legislation was ve toed by Bush and therefore failed to be effective. Third, the House instituted drug-treatment pro grams geared towards children. See Congressman, page 3 Perhaps best known for his 1985 novel I Am One of You Forever (1985), Mr. Chappell is the author of six other books of fiction, more than a dozen volumes of poetry, and a collec tion, The Fred Chappell Reader (1987). His most recent novel, Brighten the Corner W here You Are (1989), is a sequel to I Am One of You Forever [see review, p. 6]. Earlier works of fiction are It Is Time, Lord (1963), The Inkling (1965), Dagon (1968), The Gaudy Place (1972), and Moments of Light (1980). His volumes of poetry include The World Between the Eyes (1971), Bloodfire (1978), Mid- ijuest (1981), Source (1985), and First and Last Words (1988) and several others. Of the many awards Fred Chappell has received, most not able is the Bollingen Prize in Poe try, which he was awarded by Yale University in 1985. The Bollingen Prize is one of the most prestigious awards given Ameri can poets. Most recently, Mr. Chappell received the 1989 Ragan-Rubin Award from the North Carolina English Teachers Association and the 1988 O. Max Gardner Award from the Universities of North Carolina. He has been the recipient of many other awards, including a Rockefeller Grant (1967-68), a grant from the National Institute of Arts and Letters (1968), the Roanoke-Chowan Poetry Award (1972, 1975, 1979, 1980, and 1985), the Prix de Meilleur des Livres Etrangers of the Academie Francais (1972), and the North Carolina Award in Literature (1980). Fred Chappell earned both his B.A. and his M.A, in English at Duke University (1961 and 1964, respectively). He lives in Greensboro with his wife Susan; the Chappells have two children. See CHAPPELL, page 3

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