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THE TWIG
VOL. XLIX NO.
Newspaper of the Studaus of Meredith College
MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N.C.
FEBRUARY 19, 1976
What is the state of MereditWs sports program?
“A Concerned and Proud
Athlete” stated in a letter to
the editor in the February
issue of the TWIG that
“females of good academic
standing and excellent
athletic talent” choose other
schools over Meredith
“because of the apathy and
lack of scholarships in sports”
here.
conflicting ideas as to to the
solution of the problem of
apathy.
The athlete seems to feel
that if sports were encouraged
at Meredith with scholarship
money, then attendance at
games and overall campus
support would improve, thus
making the college more
appealing to prospective
student athletes.
But statements from
several campus athletes and
Mrs. Jay Massey, tennis
coach and chairman of the
physical education depart
ment, would imply than more
is involved that a lack of
scholarships. There also exist
Athletic Philosophy
Mrs. Massey disagreed
that the apathy was related to
lack of scholarship aid. “I
don’t think that girls on teams
feel that the teams are not
effective because we don’t
have scholarship players,”
she said.
She pointed out that the
current financial aid policy of
the college allows a good
athlete with financial need to
receive aid.
‘‘We encourage
(prospective) students who
are interested in sports,” she
said. “We like to encourage
good athletes as well as good
students; both are valuable.”
Mrs. Massey did not think
it desirable to recruit athletes,
however, for a number of
reasons. The first was the
philosophy of the in-
Forum topic is ‘death’
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Dr. Stalnaker completed
his undergraduate work at the
University of North Carolina,
and did ^aduate work at that
institution and at Yale
University. He is an ordained
Presbyterian minister. He
teaches courses in the
philosophy of religion, con
temporary theology, human
sexuality, death and dying,
bio-medical ethics, and
technology and American
culture. He serves as chair
man of the American
Academy of Religion’s
working group on “death and
dying,” and has been a
member of the N.C. Advisory
Committee to the U.S.
Commission on Civil Rights
for eight years.
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Dr. Clayton Stalnaker
On February 24, at 7:00
p.m. in the CEA, the Meredith
Christian Association will
sponsor its spring Forum.
This year’s topic is “Per
spectives on Death.” Dr.
Clayton Stalnaker, of the
Department of Philosophy
and Religion at N.C. State
University, will introduce the
topic and moderate the
following panel discussion.
The panel led by Dr.
Stalnaker will include Dr.
Sally Page, Dr. Jack Huber
and Dr. Allen Page. Each of
these Meredith faculty
members will discuss death
from the perspective of their
subject area. Following their
remarks. Dr. Stalnaker and
the panel members will an
swer questions from the
audience. All Meredith faculty
and students are invited to
attend and participate in this
year’s Spring Forum.
Seniors visit campus
Hospitality Weekend will
be held Saturday, February 21
and Sunday, February 22.
Approximately 150 high school
seniors are expected to attend
this annual open house.
These prospective
students will after morning
registration attend a Saturday
general session at 1.00 in the
CEA. Rebecca Askew,
Student Body president, Ms.
Mary Bland Josey, Director of
Admissions, Vice-President
Dr. Sandra Thomas and Joyce
White, Dean of Students will
address them and then will
respond to questions.
Panel discussions will
follow this meeting. Ms. Betty
Brewer. Dr. George Hoffman,
Ms. Rebecca Murrey and Dr.
Dorothy Preston will be
faculty participants. Fresh
man Laurie Lutz, Najla Nave
and Pam Rembert have been
invited to participate as have
Student Government
Association officers Rebecca
Askew, Amy Garber, Shearon
Roberts and Missy Upchurch.
At 2:45 the prospective
students may meet with
representatives from the
college departments.
The remainder of
Saturday will be devoted to
entertainment. There will be a
3:45 p.m. fashion show
presented by the Home
Economics Department, at
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tercollegiate program at
Meredith. “I am not opposed
to girls being given
scholarships if they are
capable, but our philosophy is
not that kind,” she said.
She said that the college
endorsed the philosophy of the
American Intercollegiate
Athletic Association (AIAW),
of which the college is a
member. The philosophy
provides opportunities for
competition at the level of
skill of interested students.
In addition, Mrs. Massey
cited an AIAW rule which
prohibits the use of college
funds to recruit. She also
pointed out that the coaches of
Meredith’s five teams were
hired first as teachers,
carrying full loads while also
directing team programs.
Recruiting was not possible in
such a schedule, she said.
“If we go into full-time
recruiting,” she added, “we’ll
have to have a coach whose
one desire is to coach and to
produce a winning team.” '
Lack of Publicity
Mrs. Massey agre^ that
there was a severe lack of
campus support. “We do not
have losing teams, so that’s
not why students don’t come
to the games,” she said.
“Students are staying away
because the games are not
publicized.”
She felt that “an all-out
effort on the part of the
student newspaper and news
bureau” (TWIG and Office of
Information Services) was
needed to inform students of
the activities of the five in
tercollegiate teams, which
include basketball, volleyball,
tennis, gymnastics, and
swimming.
Founders to
be honored
In conjunction with
Meredith’s 85 Founders’ Day
observance, the Board of
Trustees will hold its semi
annual meeting on campus
Friday, February 27.
William L. Bondurant,
executive director of the Mary
Reynolds Babcock Foun
dation, will deliver the
Founders’ Day address, which
is open to the public, at 10 a.m.
in Jones Auditorium. Bon
durant, a North Carolinian,
obtained his A.B. from
Davidson College and his
LL.B. from Duke University
School of Law. He has been
legal advisor to Davidson
College and has served as
secretary to the North
Carolina Department of
Administration.
The chairman of the
Board of Trustees, Shearon
Harris, will recognize guests,
and the Reverend William B.
Rodgers, pastor of Ridge
Road Baptist Church of
Raleigh, will give the scrip
tural reading and benediction.
Following the address,
there will be an informal
buffet luncheon in Belk Dining
Hall. In the President’s Dining
Room, a luncheon will be held
honoring Mr. tsonaurant and
the families of the late Lorna
Bell Broughton and Zeno
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Student athletes who were
interviewed agreed with Mrs.
Massey that more publicity
would help diminish the
apathy surrounding campus
athletics. Weekly TWIG write
ups and photos of games were
suggested.
Ginger Kimball, Meredith
Recreation Association
president and member of the
basketball team her first
three years at Meredith (she
is out tois year with an injured
knee), felt that not enough
publicity or attention was
coming from “higher up.” She
noted that the basketball
team’s trip to Aruba last
spring to help organize
women’s community
basketball went unnoticed by
the local newspapers until
after the team tod returned.
She said that Gerald
Martin, the News and Ob
server reporter who wrote a
feature story after the girls
returned, was “appalled” that
someone at the college tod not
contacted the papers.
As for TWIG coverage.
Ginger said that inadequate
TWIG coverage could not be
totally blamed. “When games
were reported (a few years
ago), it didn’t help that
much,” she said. “Until you
have real good teams,
students aren’t going to come
out.”
Meredith’s teams aren’t
l(»ing teams, but they aren’t
winning teams either. Ginger
said.
Need to Win
The problem of not
winning appears to be related
to the focus of the P.E.
department. Nancy Boyette, a
former member of the
gymnastics team, said that
the focus was on recreation
and competition but not
competition to win.
For her business com
munications class, Nancy is
preparing a survey of
Meredith students, faculty,
and prospective students to
determine campus opinion
regarding intercollegiate
competition.
Nancy has some opinions
regarding the program
herself. “Meredith is trying to
change its emphasis from the
old liberal arts focus to a
career and modern day
woman emphasis. But we’re
not keeping up with the times
in sports.”
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TWIG newsbriefs
Huber is honored
Dr. R. John Huber has
tod a paper accepted for the
summer meeting of the In
ternational Association of
Individual Psychology in
Munich Germany. The paper
will be part of a symposium
concerning the scientific
inquiry into Alfred Adler’s
theory of personality. For the
past ten years Dr. Huber has
been investigating the per
ceptual style of children,
adults, and institutionalized
subjects. He has found the
tendancy to see human forms
in ink-biot type figures to be
positively related to age,
mental health and empathy.
Munich will serve as a
gathering point for Adlerians
all over the world. All papers,
therefore, will be translated
into six languages as they are
delivered.
RSW
A Meredith College
delegation to the North
Carolina State Student
Legislature received support
from the RSW Executive
Committee last Tuesday,
February 17 according to Dr.
Sarah Lemmon, when it was
voted to provide funds for
registration fees and for
accommodations during the
four days of the mock session.
Ruth Butler and Alice Sim
mons are organizers of the
delegation. RSW has already
approved funding for
Meredith to be represented at
the Model United Nations in
March.
according to director Nancy
Truesdale.
Beth Leavel will play
Sandy, the most popular
student. Suzanne Mattex was
cast as Jenny, Cathy Fleming
as Monica, Kim Hewlett as
Mary MacGregor and Carol
Reser as house. Lynn Cane
will play Sister Helena and
Viki Atkinson, Miss Mackey.
Other students will be play^
by Rita Blevins, Georganne
Branham, Karalee Brown,
Kim Dale, Donna Hill,
Deborah Roebuck and Patrice
Strifert.
Male roles will be played
by Craig Bromby, Kurt
Busam, Elmer Clark, and
Louis Girkam.
Jones was awarded
For her full-length play.
The Elm and the Baobab,
Mrs. Helen Jones of the
English Department has been
awarded third place, $250, in
the Partington play contest, a
competition sponsored by the
Winston-Salem Little Theatre.
Mrs. Jones’ play concerns
the African-born slave poet,
Phillis Wheatley, who lived in
Boston at the time of the
American Revolution.
Cast announced for
PRIME OF MISS
JEAN BRODIE
Cathy Bland has been cast
as the title character of
Meredith’s spring dramatic
production of The Prime of
Miss Jean Brodie. The play is
about an English Girls’ School
Lee spoke
Former Chapel Hill
Mayor Howard Lee served as
the keynote speaker on
Friday, February 13 as a
feature of Black History
Week. The 10:(X) a.m. speech
was based upon a bicentennial
theme entitled “200 Years of
Struggle”. Mr. Lee’s
presentation traced the
history of the Black man in the
last 200 years of America.
Using a variety of analogies,
Mr. Lee stated that the
current Bicentennial
Celebration is of little interest
to the Black man.