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Page Two THE TWIG November 3, 1967 Mitrtditlv College November 3, 1967 Happy New Year! As department stores begin to display their Thanksgiving merchandise before Halloween and their Christmas stock before Thanksgiviog, so also Meredith students are already anticipating the celebration of the new year. This year, however, we find that the student body will spend the national holiday returning to the college on crowded highways. Resuming classes after the Christmas holiday on January 2 and thereby causing students to return to the college on New Year’s Day poses sever^ problems. The main obstacle is the crowded traffic conditions, which make driving extremely dangerous. Also, because students from nearby colleges will not be returning on this day, students who either do not have cars or who can not have cars because of the college restriction will have no re turn transportation. Likewise, public transportation will be crowded with returning vacationers. This problem is significant in that it affects every student at Meredith except non-resident students, who live in Raleigh or in neart)y communities, and practice teachers, whose holiday is determined by city and county school systems. We suggest that placing this school day elsewhere on the college calendar be the new year’s resolution of those who formulate college policy. LJL A Top-Notch Faculty As the cartoon in this issue suggests, Meredith faculty members were the real “stars” of Com Huskin’. Not only the teaching faculty, but also the ad ministrative staff, were enthusiastic and well-represented. Although they were not named in the list of winners, this group was undoubtedly the audi ence’s favorite. They entered Com Huskin’ not to compete with students for top honors, but to add to this spirit o£ fun and community that was at its height during that evening. For this, the student body says “thank you.” Corn Huskin’ is the only one of the occasions during the school year when the faculty and staff contribute their share and more to campus extra-curricular activities. They head and serve on numerous committees for the improvement of every phase of life at Meredith, act as counsel group advisors, club sponsors, publication advisors, and chapel speakers. They are usually the most enthusiastic participants at Play Day each spring, and once every four years give their traditional production of A lice in fVonder- land. In past years they have helped to raise approximately four thousand dollars by offering their services at two successful faculty auctions. All the while, faculty and staff members carry full teaching or work loads, and maintain an interest in their own church and community affairs. Perhaps a disadvantage of being a faculty member in a small church- related college is that one cannot lose his identity in the masses and get by with merely teaching classes. However, no Meredith professor or instructor seems to take this attitude, and the result has been a unified and enthusiastic faculty that contributes much to the life of the college. We who feel so busy and imposed upon in these busy mid-semester days might look to them as examples of what can be done when one is truly interested, involved, and active. EAS EDHORIAL STAFF - Leonard Anne Stone Mary Watson Nooe Feature Mitors joy O’Berry, Shera Jacluoo ^lumnwts Ginger Hughey, Judy Komegay Copy Editors Barbara Bailey, Cathey Rodgers Re^rtcrs—Eloisc Behoken, Linda Burrows, Sharon Ervin, Bunny Hinkle, Betty King, Anne Meekins. Ann Robertson, Nance Rumlcy, Belinda Smith, Susan Soloway, Genl Tull, Anne Watson. Karen Baals Photographer Grace Hoyt Faculty Sponsor Dr. Norma Rose BUSINESS STAFF Manager Suzanne Guthrie Advertuiog Manager Bennett Dudley Howard, Phyllis Edwards, Susan Fletcher, Sandra Holder, Susan Laird, Betty McNeill, Joyce Wilson. Linda Woolard. Mailing Editor Susan Leath Ci^cu'atloQ Delila Edenficld Ty^sli^Barbara Pritchard, chicf; Peggy Alien. Linda BarneU, Bccky Batson, SLrah Jano Hutchins, K^lly Knott, Barbara Pillouii, Donna Sluiner Louise Watson. Faculty Sponsor Lois Frazier second-class matter at post ofRee ai rf M tluriog the months of October. November, ‘Jufng Sept«mbef. December, and January KiZ? NaOpn^ Educational Advettis ng Service, 18 East 30Ui Street New York, Now York. Subncription Rates: $3.45 per year! ' CLASS CLAS9 Jf TO PCULTY'/ ClA^S of *69 -f/cuLTr BVaA /// Letters to the Editor Dear Editor, Poor Dr. Parramore—he has tried his best to arouse some response on the controversial issue of required chapel attendance. He is not the only one speaking out; Mr, Young, who has very decided views on Viet nam, has expressed them. These two men care. Students care, too; one can tell that by listening to them complain. “We don’t care a^ut be ing like Vassar, walking around on carpeted floors, or Uving in air-con- ditioned dorms if it will cost our parents $2,100 a year.” “There is no sense in our going to school ap proximately ten more days a year than other colleges.” “The Acorn, Twig, and Oak Leaves have no per sonality.” There is no profit, however, in merely complaining. Students and faculty members who are in favor of required chapel (and there are plenty of them) should state their case by either writing The Twig or speaking up in chapel, as Dr. Parra more and Mr, Young have done. Students who object to the way their money is spent should talk with an administrative officer. They may or may not convince you that the fi nancial policy is valid, but at least you will have cleared up rumors and misconceptions. Those who object to the length of the calendar year should go see Dean Peacock or Miss Josey, sign a petition, or write a letter, but they should do some thing. Not atl opioioos are negative; even those who only want to say “I like this” should say it to the people who can profit from their praise. Mary Watson Nooe Dear Editor: Re: Dr. Anna Hedgeman’s state ment concerning required attendance at all college events should be taken with a grain of salt, as should most statements by most people. Rc: Dr, Anna Hedgeman’s cause (and she certainly seemed to be car rying a banner), “Black Power,” has hopefully, as Dr. Hedgeman claimed, been misinterpreted. However, all the average American has been able to view is the image in the wake of people who claim to be disciples of Stokely Carmichael and H. Rap Brown, If I may be forgiven for be ing trite, “ it is not so much what they say that irritates as how they say it.” One must think deply and decide for himself if all the “Black Power” movement needs is a “new image.” Faye B. Humphries Director of Public Relations LETTERS AH letters to the editor should be brief and must be accomiianled by the names of their authors. We reserve the right to condense any letter, correct s^iiing and gram mar, and nitlihold fnm publica tion any unsigned letter "Changing Britain" Depicted As Progressive, Constructive By CATHEY RODGERS From the effect of miniskirts on drivers to attitudes on the common market—Mr. Ivor Richard, Labour member of Parliament, described the course of modern Britain during his two day stay on campus. Mr. Rich ard made two formal talks, to a large group, mainly members of the In ternational Relations Club, and to the chapel audience. Mr. Richard presented his view point on Britain’s entrance into the Common Market with clarity. He stated that the new British attitude is one of facing up to a non-insular role; geographically allied with Europe, the success of the British cconomy rests on its ability to form stronger economic alliances. This would make way for a larger market, greatly needed by a country which must import and export with facility to exist. Perhaps the most stimulating idea put forth by Mr. Richard was his optimistic hope for new European unity. The new trend of submerging national identities, identities which have caused division and bloodshed, was depicted by Mr. Richard as an extremely excitmg and not unattain able prospect. Mr. Richard also spoke on social issues of interest. He spoke favor ably of the effect of socialized medi cine, describing the benefits he and his family have received under this plan. When questioned personally on the general subject of women, Mr. Richard responded first of all that he found southern girls to be the pretdest in the United States, which, of course, endeared him to students. He assured conservative southerners that miniskirts were quhe the thing in London, even on older women. As for other evidence of the emanci- (Continued on page 4) Anomaly By GINGER HUGHEY Sustained by the knowledge that> all great men arise early in the ^ morning to begin their creative work, the Meredith College news paper girl manages to faU out of bed every day at 6:00 a.m., stimu-* lated by the noxious peal of her alarm clock (tucked beneath the mattress for the soothing of her* roommate). By 6:05 a.m., our un- j sung heroine is stumbling through ' the dorms, dressed in blue jeans and ^ a sweat sUrt (both of which prob ably spent the night on the radiator), * pink flip-flops, and three jumbo sized curlers. Vaguely aware of her — surroundings by the time she finishes % unwrapping and forcing sixty papers into her knapsack, she slowly re alizes that all doors to Johnson Hall are missing; precious minutes are. spent on an intensive, highly or* ganized search for "Pops,” un& she decides to leave before “they” come back to steal the windows. Delivery is a mad four-minute dash through two dorms and seven floors with an extra minute used for new variations of her throw and the d resulting echoes. At 6:30 a.m. she ^ is back in the room, hovering over the coffee pot (which is under the covers because it makes too muchJ| noise) and trying to read the paper V by a crack in the blinds. By 6:31 " a.m. she could care less that Ben jamin Franklin start^ his day at 5:00 a.m., and she’s back in bed. • AGREE OR DISAGREE? "Persmai morality is a very per sonal thing, and on tbe whole, the function of the state is not to in terfere with it.” Mr. Ivor Richard, chapd ad* dress, Octuber 31. \ THOUCHTS ON TRADITIONS By JUDY KORNEGAY Anyone who has visited the Mere dith College cafeteria at suppertime has been witness to one of the chief non-hailed traditions of the college: esprit de corps. Never an evening passes that several girls do not go “round the table” while their birth- days, pinnings, or engagements are celebrated. The caifeteria holds other displays of group pride and honor as the classes each cheer themselves with their .pep songs, and societies compete with each other to win new freshmen by putting on the best supper shows and having rous ing lunch-time “sing-ins.” The fountain, too, has an im portant function aside from beauti fying the court—it is a ritual spot to christen new lavalierings, pinnings, and engagements; even the winter events, which cannot be celebrated because of ice, are duly honored when spring weather thaws the foun tain. The auditorium is often the scene ^another display of esprit de corps. This IS the most frequent place for people to be “stood to.” Cora Huskm’ performers and chairmen, officers, Big and Little Sisters, and otliers are saluted here. These examples are only a fewi of the ways that the spirit at Mere dith IS manifest, but they are sucit everyday occurences that we do notl recognize them for what they are:' a symbol or expression of the com munity spirit we share at Meredithi so small a group &at1 we all know each other, nor are we so large that we cannot share eachi other s joys. As trivial as our songsj ^d ntuals may seem at times, theyl (a tradition themselves) play a small, but significant part in keeping ahye the vital tradition of Meredith spirit.
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