THE TWIG
Newspaper of the Students of Meredith College
\Jot. XLl/II
MEREV1TH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, W. C
JANUARV 17, J973
NUMBER 14
Meredith Chosen
To Host Program
Meredith College has been sel
ected as one of 12 institutions
across the nation to sponsor a
National Council of Teachers
of English summer program,
Meredith President John E.
Weems has announced.
“The three-week program is
designed to help students with
reading problems and to help
secondary school teachers be
more effective in the teaching
of reading,’- Dr. Sally Page,
Meredith assistant professor
of English and program direc
tors, said.
“Also, the program is design
ed to encourage the use of
Black literature when the use
of such literature will stimu
late an interest in reading, de
velop a self image of Blacks,
or promote respect for Black
Americans,” Dr. Page said.
Junior and senior high school
students with reading problems
and secondary school teachers
may enroll in the program.
Meredith plans to waive tuition
payments for the course and to
offer renewal credit for teach
ers. Details on enrolling will
be announced later.
Members of the Meredith fac
ulty will serve as the staff for
the institute with guest lectur
ers from local and regional
colleges and universities also
participating.
Class lectures and discus
sions, small group discussions,
and free reading sessions will
comprise the academic acti
vities of the three-week pro
gram.
DICK AND ANNE ALBIN
MAKIN’ DO
Years ago if things didn’t go
just right, you might begin to
wonder if there wasn’t some
thing a power doctor or herb
doctor might be able to do to
remedy things a bit, or you
might just settle down to work
and make out the best you can.
Dick and Anne Albin of The
House of Atreus will be per
forming at the Meredith College
campus on January 18 at 8:00
p.m.
Their concert is titled M AKIN’
DO WITH WHAT YOU HAVE and
features Ozark and Appalachian
folklore, songs, superstitions
and home remedies from these
mountain regions.
The Albins accompany them
selves on traditional folk in
struments including the guitar,
banjo, autoharp, jaw harp,
mountain dulcimers they build
themselves, and a banjo-dulci
mer combination they think
they may have discovered.
The House of Atreus is the
Kentucky based company they
began four years ago as a re
course booking company for
colleges and universities under
the Atreus name. They have
performed all over the country,
toured with the National Hum
anities Series, played at the last
two National Folk Festivals, and
produced the 1st and 2nd Belk
nap Folk Festivals, the 1st
Southwest Missouri State Col
lege Ozark Folk Festival and
the Mountain Music Festival in
Cleveland.
MAKHST’ DO WITH WHAT YOU
HAVE has been described as a
back porch song sharing session
and gives a glimpse through
stories and songs into a life
style which may, in fact, be on
the verge of general redis
covery.
The concert will be held at
Jones Auditorium - Meredith
College on January 18 at 8:00
p.m. and admission is FREE.
SGA MEETING FRIDAY
JANUARY I»
1. LEGISLATION!
2. Sgt. Hinton and self-defense
3. Springs Qneen nominations
The Students prepare to sign the SGA petition to stop the bombing in Vietnam. Petitions have
been posted in the dorms, cafeteria, and student center for only interested signers. Com
pleted petitions will be sent to North Carolina Congressmen in Washington as a gesture of
deploration of the renewed military activities.
HANDICAP TOUR TO ROLL
An intrasquad wheelchair bas
ketball game featuring the tour
ing University of Illinois Gizz
Kids will be held on Saturday,
January 27 at 7:30 p.m. at Dor-
ton Arena in Raleigh. An added
attraction will be a half-time
wheelchair basketball game
between local high school and
college football coaches who
will play well-known local per
sonalities and politicians.
Included among the local “tal
ent” who will perform are Bill
Dooley, UNC head football
coach; Mike McGee, head men
tor of the Duke Blue Devils;
Jessie Clements, assistant
football coach of Shaw Univer
sity; N.C. State Representative
Robert W. Wynne; N.C. Attorney
General Robert Morgan; former
defensive end for the Detroit
Lions, John Baker; former UNC
basketball great Dr. Danny Lotz
and others.
The game is sponsored by the
Raleigh Parks and Recreation
Department and the Raleigh
Youth Council in collaboration
with the Easter Seals Society,
the Wake County Association for
Learning Disabilities, theWake
County Association for Retard
ed Children and the N. C. Coun
cil on Developmental Disabili
ties. AH proceeds will go to the
Raleigh Recreation for the
Handicapped Program and will
benefit the physically and men
tally handicapped of Raleigh and
Wake County.
According to Mrs. Paula ■ J.
McClain, supervisor of the
Handicapped Program, one of
the key goals of the basketball
game is to promote wheelchair
and other types of recreation
programs for the handicapped
in Wake and other counties.
“There are many kinds of re
creation programs for the hand
icapped that can be made avail
able if we can obtain the funds
and support of the general pub
lic,” she said. “If sufficient
interest is generated by this
event, possibly a wheelchair
basketball team could be
organized in the Raleigh area
similar to the one in Charlotte
which has been so successful.”
Mr. Hiott struggles with students at a snow-belated new
semester registration.
“Through this fine exhibition
by the University of Illinois
team we hope to make the public
aware of the wide variety of re
creation programs in which
those with physical and mental
handicaps can participate and
to recruit enthusiastic volun
teers to work in these pro
grams,” she concluded.
(Continued on page 4 )
STUDENT
PROPOSAL
DEFEATED
By a vote of 33 - 28, the
proposal to admit students to
the Academic Council was fin
ally defeated at the December
meeting of the faculty. The
struggle for student represen
tation on one of Meredith’s top
academic decision - making
bodies was denied after months
of faculty deliberation and post
ponement of the issue for fur
ther consideration. Chief dis
sent concerning the stated pro
posal involved review of the
total committee structure, im
plying that future study of the
committee’s responsibilities
might shed more light on other
student representation pro
posals.
Besides the action on council
representation, the question of
academic honesty and honor
code obligation was also dis
cussed in reaction to complaints
of increased student pressure
during the week before exams.
Problems with test grades being
equivalent to exam grades were
viewed, as both student and
faculty questions were enter
tained, with the response mainly
in favor of a reduction of last-
week pressure.
Various committee reports
were entered to the meeting,
with the major emphasis coming
from the Academic Council’s
approval of the B.S. degree in
mathematics and home econo
mics. Reports from the admin
istration involved the plans of
the Business Office for a putting
green near the gym, a parking
lot for the College Center, and a
private dining room under the
cafeteria. At the close of the
session, a proposal was made
for eligibility of instructor
membership on the Academic
Council, with further consider
ation planned for the next meet
ing.