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Page Two THE TWIG December 10, 1970 IMtreditk. College December 10, 1970 A Little Checking Now, Less Trouble Later Several weeks ago students, fuciilly and administration went through the seasonal grind of pre-registration. In January we will complelc the process and receive cards to enter another semester on the road to gradua tion. At this time before registration is completed and while some “free time” may be found during Christmas, it seems well-founded to olTer students a word of caution and a plea for self-education on the Meredith curriculum and requirements for graduation. Our professors, frequently overworked, are taxed to their limit during advising days. Having to push so many conferences into so short a time, the advisors amazingly manage to straighten out most of the schedule complications. To make this period easier for them and to help mistakes or matters overlooked in the confusion, every student should sec to it that she completely understands the requirements for graduation in (lie catalog she is using. If she is interested in education and her department does not have a copy of the requirements, she should obtain the booklet, '‘Requirements for Ccrtil'ieation." which the registrar and many professors have, and be fully aware of the requirements in her (ield. With this infor mation, she should plan her four-year schedule and. with her advisor's help, check each semester to see that requirements arc met and that courses arc olTcred at desired times. More must be done, however. The student should regularly check with her advisor to see that courses which she had planned to take in the future have not been changed, switched to a dilferent semester or dropped entirely. Such things happen and often trap unwary students. Another problem occasionally found is with placement scores tor classes. If there /.y any doubl or real contlict between the student's ability as she sees it and as the scores show it, the student, professors and the registrar should settle the question. This may mean camping in some ofFices and may be annoying, but it is belter than finding out four semesters later that the course you did not have to take, you must now face. Another suggestion: go to the registrar, preferably at the end of your junior year and at least during the first semester of your senior year to be sure that yt>ur schedule meets all the requirements. Alt of this is a warning. It may be trouble and ciTort to ligure out everything needed to graduate and get course schedules checked and recheeked. but it is all much better than coming to the end of your four years of work and being told, "rm sorry, you have not met requirements for graduation (or eertifieation)," "I’m stirry" is all they can say then. The problem is yours, the student's. It is vour responsibiiitv to take care of yourself. RAW rilK TWIG MjiIV wishes cvcr.voiu' GOOD l,i:CK on iJmir cxuminntions! F.DITOHIAL STAFF Kdiior Helen Wilkie AsMKiaic F.ditor^ Nancy Ausbon, Abigail Warren Miin;it:iii}i Fdiiors Geni Tull, Anna Vaughan News Hilijor Susan Van Wiigeninjjcn Feature liilitor Percy Bcanc Copy Hiliior Susan Shipp Assi:,tant Copy Reader Lynne Bogguss C'oliininisi Phyllis Willetts Reparii'is ...Patsy Brake, Susan folcman, Beth Credle, Colcen ni'dmun, Cindy OiniKi'. Doris Heusfess, Teresa Holl, Carolyn l.ewis, Carol l.itidley, I.ura McCain. Pam Odcil. Suzanne Potncran/ Cavloonisi Dclena Williams Photographer Tina Vaughn Faculty .Sponsor Dr. Norma Rose BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager Joyce Little Advertising Manager June White Assistanl Advertising Manager IJeverly Fox Mailing Editors Nancy Barnhill, 1-Jiiinc Dawkins Cirenlaiions Managers ..Linda if.hrlich, Penny Gallins Typists Marie Hrii.\ton, Martha June l.eggci Faculty Sponsor Dr. Lois Frazier Member Associated Collegiate Press. F.ntcred as secomi-eiass matter at post oOke at Raleigh, N. C. 27(511. Published semi-monthly during the months of Septemlicr. Ocloher, Noveinber, January, Fobniary and April; monthly liuring December and March. The Twto is served by National Educational Advertising Service, 18 East 50th Street, New York. Subscription Kales; $3.70 per year. Letter to the Editor Sartre's NO EXIT Dear Editor, 1 wish to use the columns o£ Tut Twig to thank the College Com mittee on Cultural Affairs for bring ing to Meredith the Lyric Players and the Hudson Drama Group with their production of Jean-Paul Sar tre’s NO EXIT. .Here we had an evening of good theater, . , a play of profound meaning, well performed, and interpreted so as to bring the audience face to face with sotne of the basic questions of human exis tence. Like Dante the Pilgrim, who plunged into a 14th Century Hell and saw Paolo and Franccsca blown about by the winds of passion, we too experience the same symbolic retribution in which the punishment is the condition of the sin itself, as we see in the struggle between Garcin, Inez, and Estelle. Unlike Dante, who escaped the frozen pit of Hell and pressed onward and up ward to the mysterious, beatific version of God. Sartre would leave us in our Hell of people, tell us lo "get on wilh it” and accept the fact of e.xistential despair, But does he, really? I. don’t think so. Certainly, the surface meaning is despair; the door is locked; the bcH won't ring; and man is locked in with his tor- menter; people are Hell. But there is a strong undercurrent of Hope, but if not Hope, then a desperate plea for Love. 1’he door opens but man will not, indeed, can not desert his com-patriots in the earth. There is NO EXIT from the dotnands of community. Here is the glory of human existence. Here is what makes man human. Here is an affirmation of man, perhaps not of God as in Dante, but surely of man who finds himself in a Hell of peo ple and still seeks lo make some thing better out of the situation. Heaven, perhaps? But whatever it is. "let's get on with it.” Sincerely. Allen Burris Academic Dean The Perils of Percy By Percy Beane I am convinced that sotnewhere an evil gremlin exists who lies in wait for tiie, looking for any oppor tunity lo clout me with the big slick of bad luck. In fact 1 call him Old Clootie! For instance, several weeks ago on a dreary, rainy Thursday I set forth on a journey to Socialite City, U. S. A. — Ramseur, This trip was purely for business purposes, how ever, noL pleasurable ones. The Red Zoomer (the name of my new car) desperately needed a new set of tires, The tires were as slick as glass, and they caused the car to fishtail wildly on damp pavement! My dad was insistani that those tires would come off before I liad a wreck, Therefore, I was on my way to outfit the R. Z, with a new set of treads. Just as my passenger and 1 were leaving the campus, a deluge of rain began. Lasting for nearly ten minutes, the rain looked like it would never stop. When it did, though, the sun came out and shone brightly as ever, Jane, my co-pilot, commented that she hoped we wouldn't have any trouble wilh the tires, and I assured her that trusty Beane had complete control of the situation. After all, I’ve had enough wrecks before to know what to do in that situation. Somehow, she Inquiry Christmas Is , . . By Phyllis Willetts Christmas can be the loveliest time of the year, or it can be one of the most trying times. For some, it has come to mean a party season, •. complete with glittering clothes and beautiful people making merry. For others, it's a time lo come home to the family, and enjoy a togetherness there is seldom time for. Christmas is musical programs, « midnight mass, special dinners, faces glowing in the candlelight, red and green and gold decorations. Christmas is irresponsible collegc students feeling responsible for their . hungry and homeless brothers in East Pakistan and all over the world. Christmas is the rush of shoppers. It’s wanting something special for^ someone and not being able to af ford it. It's giving what you thought was second best and seeing that the fact that you bothered ai all is tnore • than enough. Christmas is missing someone who is far away and can’t come home. It’s wanting peace on earth more than ever. Christmas is the celebration of the birth of One who came to show this troubled world what love is really like. It’s realizing once again how far we arc from the ideals He preached. It’s wondering why we don’t always have the Joy and peace' He was born to bring. Here’s hoping that Christmas won’t find you doing one good deed and then forgetting all about others. May Christmas be a lime when you have the time to find peace within yourself and the opportunity to share it wilh others. didn't seem so confident in my agility and dexterity in ihe handling of a motor vehicle. We had just come up the access to the main highway, when the R. Z. started to cut some era/.y capers — she veered first from lefl lo right, then back again. I had barely gotten the words, “Jane, we’re skidding,” out of my mouth, when my little machine made a 360 degree turn in ihe middle of the highway. Not only did she do one. she came in for an encore! All of a sudden, this gianl concrete abutment jumped in front of the car and bit out a piece of the back as we went around for the ihird time. We stopped. I jutnped out to survey the damage. Instant nausea. Then hysterical laughter. Don’t ask me what was so funny, but the whole incident was so ironic and morbid, we cracked up. We must have looked prelty ri diculous to those passing by — two girls standing beside a car with the back chewed out, laughing. No wonder no one would stop. People would slow down and peer at us as they whizzed by. but .seeing no blood or detached appendages they would accelerate, I suggested that Jane scramble under the car so someone would take pity and slop. Finally, a salesman did take pity on us and screeched to a halt, He then carried us to Ramseur and there 1 broke the first of a series the lonely humperdink with yellow stripes by iuiiii) vDu^huii the story of the yellow-striped humperdink, the humperdink is a lonely little fluffy animal, he is' lonely because he is alone, he lives in a pretty green field with lots of flowers and stinkweeds. there arc • also wild onions in his prelty green field, the little humperdink loves to eal the wild onions in his pretty, green field, maybe that is why he is alone, the yellow stripes on the lonely lillle humperdink are very ■ pretty, the places between ihe stripes are not so pretty, in fact, they are ugly. Ihe lonely Jittle yellow-striped humperdink is very self-concious abt)ul the ugly places between ihe yellow stripes, he tried lo erase the ugly places between the yellow • stripes wilh his kneaded eraser but nothing happened. the lonely little yellow-striped humperdink decided then that the ugly place.s between the yellow stripes made hitii an individual, none • of the other huniperdinks even have yeljow stripes, they have blue ' stripes, and green stripes, and pur ple stripes, and orange stripes, but no yellow stripes, they do not have ugly places between their stripes be cause they do not have places be tween their stripes, they arc very funny looking huniperdinks. these funny-looking huniperdinks live on. the other side of the stream from the green field wilh flowers and stink- weed and also, wild onions. news to my dad. He took it like a trooper. As of this writing, the R. Z. is back at her favorite spot behind Potent with new lires and a lovely, dent-free back, f guess the only good part about the whole incident is that it made a lovely subject for jny overdue column. But that’s a rather' expensive column.
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