March 30, 1972
THE TWIG
Page Three
Candidates’ Views Noted
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This year North Carolinians will
have the chance to vote in presi
dential primaries for the first time.
In addition to New York Republi
can Shirley Chisholm who spoke at
Meredith College last Monday, the
four Democrats entered in the May
6 primary are: former N. C. Gover
nor Terry Sanford, Alabama Gover
nor George Wallace, Washington
Senator Henry Jackson, and Senator
Edmund Muskie of Maine.
Former Governor Sanford, pres
ently serving as president of Duke
University, initially entered the race
as an alternative to George Wallace.
Called a “forward-looking Demo
crat” by Senator George McGovern,
Democrat from South Dakota, San
ford feels that voters should have a
Southerner other than Wallace
among their choices. He holds the
ideal of a progressive South, and in
sists he is a serious national con
tender.
Winning 47 per cent of the vote
in the recent Florida primary. Gov
ernor Wallace is also expected to do
well in North Carolina. Although his
anti-busing stand merits the most at
tention, Wallace is attempting a
broader appeal in 1972. Attacking
the entire liberal bureaucratic estab
lishment, the Alabama Governor ad
vocates more state and local control
saying, “People are fed up with gov
ernment and want to be left alone.”
Suffering from being somewhat
unknown. Senator Jackson is con-
Promotion Set for
Horner, Ledford
Dr. Sally M. Horner, assistant
professor of chemistry, has been ap
pointed chairman of the Department
of Chemistry, promoted to associate
professor, and granted a sabbatical
leave it was announced recently. Dr.
W. David Lynch, chairman of the
Department of Music, has been
granted tenure, and Dr. William R.
Ledford, acting chairman of the For
eign Language Department, was
promoted from assistant to associ
ate professor at a recent Board of
Trustees meeting.
Dr. Horner will be on sabbatical
leave during the fall semester next
year, doing research in the field of
x-ray crystallography at Duke Uni
versity. Dr. Mary Yarbrough, cur
rent chairman of the Chemistry
Department, will continue on the
faculty and will serve as acting chair
man during Dr. Horner’s sabbatical.
Dr. Lynch joined the Meredith
faculty in 1969 as chairman of the
Music Department. According to
Dean Burris, the granting of tenure
insures job security and protects the
right of academic freedom.
Dr. Ledford joined the Meredith
faculty in 1957 and became an as
sistant professor in 1964. He previ
ously was granted tenure on the
faculty and was appointed acting
chairman of the Department of
Foreign Languages in 1971.
sidered the Democrat closest to
President Nixon. Solidly opposed to
busing, Jackson supports the work
ing man and believes he is the “com
mon sense” alternative to Americans
who voted for Nixon in 1968 and
who are considering voting for Wal
lace in 1972. These are the “real
majority” he says.
Attempting to recover from a dis
appointing less-than-50 per cent vic
tory in New Hampshire, Senator
Muskie is trying to re-establish him
self as the front-runner. Muskie has
not committed himself on the bus
ing issue yet, although he did vote
against a recent proposal for a con
stitutional amendment forbidding all
forced busing. Muskie is known to
be one of the earliest anti-pollution
workers and says on Vietnam that if
he were elected, “My objective
would be as close to immediate with
drawal from Vietnam as soon as
possible after I took office.” His
major backer in North Carolina is
present Governor Bob Scott. GR
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McLain to Visit India
Dr. Ralph McLain is one of
seventeen scholars from the South
selected to attend a Faculty Seminar
on Indian Religion, Art, and His
tory this summer in India. The
group will leave around June 10 and
return August 18.
Dr. McLain will visit New Dehli,
Madras, Bombay, Nepal, Agra, site
of the Taj Mahal, Benares, site of
Buddha’s first ministry, and other
significant cities and villages. He
also plans to visit some friends in
the country.
The program of study will include
lectures and discussions by impor
tant scholars from each of the great
religions in India. Specialists in In
dian history from primitive times to
modern day will talk to the group.
Also, specialists in various forms of
Indian art such as painting, music,
dance, and theater will address the
group.
Dr. McLain had feared the trip
would not be possible because of the
India - Pakistan conflict and the
United States government’s cut-back
of grants for educational study. He
received official confirmation of the
trip only three weeks ago. Now his
only problem is how to cope with the
36 inches of rain which will be fall
ing each month during the Monsoon
Season while he is in India.
The study is sponsored by the
Southern Atlantic States Association
for South Asia Studies. The United
States government has given a grant
of over $37,000 through the Office
of Education to sponsor the trip.
Dr. McLain’s selection for this
study is another indication of the ex
cellent quality of the faculty at
Meredith College. The Meredith
community wishes Dr. McLain a
safe and exciting educational experi
ence, in India this summer.
Libber Stopped Trying to Kiss Elbow
Meredith Gets LTD
Meredith students are aware that
our school maintains a car for fac
ulty and student use, however no
one seems to know much more than
that. Here is the whole scoop.
Meredith has been provided with
an LTD station wagon by a local
merchant. Any student, faculty, or
other school group may use it for
any school-sanctioned activity. They
need only to sign for it ahead of
time in the business office in John
son Hall. Availability is on a first-
come-first-serve basis.
The only restrictions on the car
are that it cannot be dominated by
any one group, and it cannot be
used for transportation to classes at
State. It can be used by an indi
vidual under very special circum
stances.
Combat too - early marriages,
which often lead to marital disrup
tions and too little vocational and
educational preparation.
“Girls should learn to compete
with boys — not just for boys.”
These were the words of Mrs.
Martha S. Grafton, speaker at Mere
dith’s 30th annual alumnae semi
nary, Saturday, March 18. Past
dean, professor, and occasional act
ing president of Mary Baldwin Col
lege, Mrs. Grafton spoke to the
group of approximately 100 women
and men.
She presented an overview of the
women’s lib movement, drawing epi
sodes from history to support and
encourage the movement.
“Women have never really been
in charge, but they have had tre
mendous influence through their
menfolks. Now they want to do it
themselves,” she said. With a smile,
Union to Feature
Snack Bar, Billiards
Construction of Meredith’s stu
dent union, initiated in April, will
near completion in July. The floor
space, according to Business Man
ager Joe Baker, will be roughly
equivalent to that of the two top
floors of the library.
Housed in the spacious building
will be many facilities now located
in the Bee Hive area, and also will
include some additional luxuries.
The post office will be relocated, as
will the snack bar and book store.
Extended services of the book store
will include the selling of gift items
in conjunction with regular book
sales.
The snack bar will have a menu
more elaborate than the typical soda
fountain. A small dining area will
be included. It is hoped that student
support will allow the snack bar to
remain open at night.
The faculty lounge next to the
snack bar will open into another
room to accommodate group gath
erings. Another lounge adjacent to
the snack bar includes equipment
for ping-pong and billiards. Facil
ities for playing records and tapes
wilt be available. A television room
and an upstairs fireplace also con
tribute to an atmosphere of relaxa
tion.
Office space will be available to
the staff of each student publication.
The Director of Student Activities
may have office space in the new
union. Space also is allowed for dis
plays and art exhibits around the
center staircase.
The bottom floor will include the
continuing education center with a
small auditorium. The assembly hall
will have a seating capacity of a
little over two hundred. This audi
torium can be divided into two or
three smaller rooms for meetings.
Meredith’s new student union will
be a unique campus building in that
every element in it from actual struc
ture to color coordination was
guided by the architect. The furnish
ings, including a set of lockers, will
be new. This newness is the direct
result of the five million dollar de
velopment program. As the most
modern phase of the building pro
gram, the new student union will, it
is hoped, benefit all on campus.
Criminology Class
Hears Speakers
Recent speakers to classes in
Criminology, Sociology 352, in
cluded an employee of the jail in
spection division of the Federal Bu
reau of Prisons, a spokesman for
the North Carolina Department of
Correction, and a prison inmate who
is presently serving a life sentence.
Speakers led discussions of prison
problems. They illustrated the con
ditions prevalent in many jails with
actual slides. Devices sometimes
used by prisoners as makeshift
weapons were exhibited to the
classes. The speakers urged students
to become more aware of the penal
system of their state and the prob
lems it must cope with.
Wayne Oates to Address MCA
On Student-Family Problems
Mrs. Grafton remembered her child
hood envy of masculine roles and
her futile attempts to kiss her elbow,
a feat which would allegedly turn
her into a boy.
As much as she is in favor of the
liberation movement, Mrs. Grafton
questions the feasibility of eliminat
ing sex roles entirely from society.
“Even communal living is not the
answer. Look in the kitchen of a
commune and see who stands there
all day. It will be a woman,” she
declared.
In closing, she offered several
suggestions to the alumnae. She
urged women to take advantage of
the freedoms of voting and running
for office. Women should use in
genuity in the business world. She
said, “You will need it if you switch
from the heat of the kitchen to the
heat of the professional world.”
“Student-Family Problems” will
be the topic of the MCA Spring
Forum, April 10-11. Dr. Wayne E.
Oates, Professor of Psychology at
the Southern Baptist Theological
Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky,
will be guest speaker. One of the
country’s leaders in the field of psy
chology of religion and pastoral
counseling. Dr. Oates is very much
concerned with the questions that
students are asking. He will be
speaking to such questions as: How
can students accept a more liberal
set of rules for personal conduct at
school than at home? When should
parents have the priority in de
cisions? How can students please
parents but at the same time be
come independent from them in life
style?
Monday afternoon, April 10, Dr.
Oates will be speaking to various
classes. At 4:00 in the Hut, a ses
sion will be held to begin to define
student-family problems. At 7:30 in
103 Joyner, a short, dynamic play.
The Glass Wall, will be given by
students from Ridge Road Baptist
Church, after which Dr. Oates will
lead informal discussion on implica
tions of the play. Tuesday morning
from 9:30-10:30, a “Get-Acquaint
ed Party” will be held in the Blue
Parlor to give faculty and students
an opportunity to talk with Dr.
Oates.
A native of South Carolina, Dr.
Oates received his B.A. and Lit.D.
from Wake Forest College and his
B.D., Th.M., and Th.D. from South
ern Seminary. He has also done
post-doctoral studies at Union Theo
logical Seminary and Columbia Uni
versity in N. Y. He has taught at
Wake Forest, and at Union Theo
logical Seminary. He is author of
over twenty books, including Anx
iety in Christian Experience, Re
ligious Dimensions of Personality,
Christ and Selfhood, On Becoming
Children of God, When Religion
Gets Sick, and his most recent work.
Confessions of a Workaholic.
The MCA considers it a real
privilege to be able to present Dr.
Oates to our campus. Each student
is encouraged to take some time to
share in these discussions which are
being offered for her personal bene
fit. Consider this time well-spent.
Wayne Oates
Shirley Chisholm
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adequately with the economic plight
of the American Indian, the migrant
worker, and the blacks in urban
ghettos.
She stressed an emphasis on in
ternational economic decisions as
they affect the average citizen and
stated, “I would also cut off finan
cial aid to foreign countries which
do not let their people breathe free.”