St. Andrews Presbyterian College
The Lance 3
Senior Art Major, Jennie Mayo, decides the layout of her work in
Vardell-(Photo by Rooney Coffman).
Mayo’s Senior Art Show On
Exhibit In Vardell
BY TAMMY JACKSON
Since November 29 the
Vardell Art Gallery has had a one
person show. The art exhibit was
entitled Metamorphosis and fea
tured the work of senior art ma
jor, Jennie Mayo. The show will
run until December 15.
It is unusual for a senior to
have an exhibit by themselves.
Normally, students do not have
enough of their own work to have
a show such as this. When I asked
Jennie how she managed to pull
of such a terrific accomplishment,
she said that she had to work dili
gently in order to do so.
Jennie has always been inter
ested in art, ever since she was a
child. Although she started college
later in life, in comparison to most
college students, she worked hard
and never gave up.
While at the exhibit I noted
that most of her paintings were of
natural settings, such as flowers
and trees. 1 questioned Jennie
about her subject choice and she
told me that she had always loved
nature. While her husband was
studying to be a forester, she
would pay attention to his work.
Consequently, Jennie leamed a lot
about such things which helped
her to understand and appreciate
nature even more.
Her sculptures, however, are
much more abstract. She thinks
that in sculpting you are able to
be more expressive and free with
the things you do. You are able to
create a three dimensional object
instead of just a beautiful creation
that is flat.
Jennie came to St. Andrews
after she and her husband had
moved to Laurinburg a few years
ago. Her endeavors to continue
her education led her to S.A.
Upon graduation she hopes to
go into free-lance work where,
hopefully, she will get the credit
she deserves.
The exhibit lasts until Decem
ber 15, so if you can, go across
the lake to the art gallery and see
this wonderful one-person show.
You’ll be happy that you did.
It has recently been questioned
why 1 am focusing an environmen
tal column on the foods humans eat
when I could be doing more “im
portant” things like telling people
to turn off the water as they lather
up in the shower. Well, what could
possibly be more important than the
foods, we as humans consume? Or,
to paraphrase my science book:
agriculture is the single most envi
ronmentally destructive activity
done by humans. Thus, discussing
the meat industry (which includes
70% of all grain and vegetable pro
duction in the U.S. as reported by
the USD A) is probably one of the
most important issues an environ
mental column can discuss.
In the U.S. becoming a vegetar
ian has more of a positive impact
on the environment than any other
single or combined act a human can
commit. Thus, for an environmen
talist to be consistent with doing as
much as feasible for the positive
welfare of the planet the environ
mentalist cannot eat red meat.
In the 1970’s Rachel Carson
opened the nation’s eyes to the hor
rific results of pesticide use, such
as DDT, in her widely acclaimed
book “Silent Spring.” But such en
vironmentally damaging pesticides
such as DDT, Agent Orange and
heptachlor have been banned by the
government, right? Well, no. DDT
is one of the only pesticides actu
ally banned for use in the U.S., but
U.S. companies still produce and
sell DDT to other countries to use
on their animal feed crops. The ex
tensive use of Agent Orange dur
ing the Vietnam War is still having
a negative effect on the environ
ment; this effect is perpetuated by
America’s continuing use of Agent
Orange’s main ingredient, 2, 4, 5-
T which contains dioxin.
Dioxin has been called by Dr.
Diane Courtney, head of the Toxic
Effects Branch of the EPA’s Na
tional Environmental Research
Center “...by far the most toxic
chemical known to mankind (sic).”
The
Willow
Tree
By Ruth Cook
However, Dow Chemica
Company (which profits from pro
duction of 2,4,5-T) claims that the
chemical is “about as toxic as aspi
rin.” In 1974, the EPA tried to have
the government ban the pesticide
heptachlor, but the Velsicol Chemi
cal Corporation, major producer of
heptachlor, spent millions in legal
maneuvers to fight a possible ban.
As a result heptachlor is still used
on com for animal feed.
An environmentalist should be
appalled by the continued use of
such environmentally destructive
chemicals. As such chemicals are
widely employed and accepted for
the production of animal feed and
consequently, the production of
food animals, the person who
chooses to consume meat actively
supports the continued use of such
chemicals.
On this point alone, the envi
ronmentalist must boycott the meat
industry and thus meat products.
But this point does not stand
alone; in the next article, I will de
scribe another point on which the
environmentalist must boycott the
meat industry; the issue of energy
inefficiency.
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