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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