THE TWIG
VOL. LI NO. 18
MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N.C.
MARCH 23, 1977
Freshmen applicants boast higher SAT scores
(Editor’s note: An overview of
collegiate enrollment in the
South is on page 2 of this
issue.)
by Debbie Doss
Applications for ad
mission to Meredith are still
running about 30 percent
ahead of last year, Ad
missions Director Mary Bland
Josey, announced last week.
As of mid-March, 671
.freshman dorm applicants
and 37 freshman day ap
plications had been received.
Only 330 freshman dorm
students will be enrolled.
Miss Josey explained that
about 500 dorm applicants
have been accepted, as
Meredith’s average per
centage of enrollment is 66
percent. Therefore, about 500
students will be accepted to
insure 330 matriculations in
the fall.
In addition to the 500
applications, about 50
students have been placed on
an August waiting list.
“This is the firet time in
recent years that we have had
to establish a waiting list this
early on the basis of com
petition,” Miss Josey said.
A new aspect of the
waiting list is that this year
those 50 students can opt for
accepting guaranteed ad
mission to Meredith for the
following January.
With the number of dorm
vacancies that occur in
December each year, the
admissions staff feels the
possibility of enrolling several
freshmen in January instead
of August is a good way to use
oil available dorm space
during the spring semester.
Guaranteed January
admission, explained Miss
Josey, is probably the best
way for a student who desires
to attend only Meredith to be
admitted if the college is
unable to accomodate her in
August.
Miss Josey also related
that overall SAT scores and
predicted grade averages are
higher for the incoming fresh
men class. As of January 21,
78.7 percent of the total ap
plicants pooled had scor^
above 800 on the SAT.
“By and large every
student who has been ad
mitted had had a predicted
grade average of 2.0,” she
said. Last year’s minimum
average was 1.75 on a 4.0
scale.
“The profile of next year’s
freshman class is going to be
considerably better,” she
stated.
million man goes academic
Can you imagine a two-
hour credit course that
requires you to watch “Happy
Days” or “Ryan’s Hope”?
An unusual new Life
Directions course (LID 941) to
be taught this coming fall by
Mrs. Helen Jones has as its
goal the education of
televiewers as informed
critics. The class will discuss
not only such topics as the
source of Fonzie’s appeal for
Meredith students, but the
similarities between the Six-
Million-Dollar Man and the
mythological Hercules, or the
writing of soap operas.
Yale SOB^s slated
to perform Friday
The Society of Orpheus
and Bacchus, more commonly
known as the S.O.B.’s will
perform in the CEA at
Meredith College on Friday,
March 25, at 8 p.m. There will
be no admission charge and
the doors will be opened to the
public at 7:30 p.m.
According to legend,
many years ago a group of
Yale undergraduates
gathered weekly to sing and
drink at Mory’s Tavern. One
night, an alumnus in the
audience remarked, “Hey,
those S.O.B.’s are pretty
good!” Those initials stuck,
and the spirits of Orpheus, the
Greek god of song, and
Bacchus, the Roman god of
wine, the Society of Orpheus
and Bacchus was born.
Consisting now of twenty-
two members, the S.O.B.’s
still sing at Mory’s every
Tuesday and perform for
various Yale events
throughout the year. The
group also sings weekend
concerts at nearby colleges
and clubs and makes three
concert tours each year.
The Society sings the well-
known Yale and S.O.B. songs
which form such an important
part of Yale’s singing
heritage. In order to maintain
a balance between the
venerable and the modem, a
number of selections from the
realms of jazz, barbershop,
popular songs, spirituals,
blues, and traditional college
songs have been added to their
repertoire.
TheS.O.B.’s will arrive on
campus Friday afternoon,
March 25, in time to eat and
sing a couple of songs in Belk
Dining Hall. After their
performance at 8 p.m., the
members will spend the night
on the floor of Weatherspoon
Gymnasium.
In addition to an ex
ploration of the societal values
reinforced by the Mary Tyler
Moore show, for example, or
the reason for the successes of
Norman Leat sit-coms, the
class will keep in mind more
basic questions.
Are Americans coming to
prefer the televised (or
symbolic) version of
something to reality itself?
What happens when we
WATCH conversation (as in
the talk shows) instead of
conversing ourselves? While
providing us with “a window
on the world,” does TV also
deny us an opportunity to act
on that world?
Before coming to
Meredith, Mrs. Jones spent
six years doing promotion
work for one of a large chain
of broadcasting stations based
in Miami. She will visit the
networks in New York this
summer in order to make the
course as contemporary as
possible.
LID 941 will meet
Tuesdays from 6 to 8 p.m.
probably in Cate Center’s
Faculty Lounge, and will offer
two hours’ credit.
Major offlcers elected during first slate elections are, from left to
right: top row: Julie Nipper, president, Meredith Christian
Association; Emily Widman, president, Meredith Recreation
Association; bottom row: Meg Hess, vice-president. Student
Government Association; and Cindy Allen, SGA president.
Second siate elections are scheduled for next week. An interview
with the candidates for the legislative, judicial, and interdorm
l>oard is featured on page 4 of this issue.
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Distinguished Faculty Lecture
Sally Page lectures on
modern literary trend
Dr. Sally R. Page,
assistant professor of English
at Meredith, will present the
Distinguished Faculty Lec
ture Wednesday, March 30, at
8 p.m. iri Jones Auditorium.
Dr. Page, selected as this
year’s lecture by a committee
composed of faculty and
students, will speak on
“Vision and Transformation:
Trends in Modern Literary
Consciousness.” The topic,
said Dr. Page, will analyze
various ways authors present
different levels of con
sciousness.
Dr. Page has been on the
Meredith faculty since 1972.
Other professional experience
has included teaching high
school English in New Jersey
and New York, and teaching
on the college level at
Newberry College and
Clemson University in South
Carolina-
Dr. Page is the author of a
book on the women in William
Faulkner’s novels and has
presented papers on women,
creativity, and Faulkner.
The lecture will be
followed by a reception in the
Mae Grimmer Alumnae
House.
NDSL Loan Interview
Any student who has
received a National Direct
Student Loan is rec^ired to
have an exit interview with
the chief accountant before
leaving school. Matters to be
discussed at this interview
include grace period,
repayment schedule, terms of
payment, billing procedures,
interest, and borrower’s
privileges for deferment or
cancellation.
If any student has
received an NDSL at any time
while at Meredith and is not
returning after this semester
for any reason, she is asked to
call the chief accountant for
an appointment.
A Personal Data Sheet
must be completed and
brought with the student to the
interview. Students may pick
up this form at any time from
either Mrs. Audrey Gardner,
financial aid office, or Mrs.
Eunice Williams, business
office.
In their Manual of NDSL
Policies and Procedures, the
federal government stresses
the importance of the in
terview by stating, “An exit
interview must be conducted
for each borrower leaving his
college or university,
whatever the reason
Students must be required to
attend before being cleared
for withdrawal, graduation,
etc. They suggest that
records, transcripts,
diplomas, and even recom
mendations be withheld on
any borrower failing to attend
exit interviews.
Social Work Club
The Meredith Social Work
Club will meet Tuesday,
March 29, from 5:30 to 7 p.m.
in the President’s Dining
Room. Featured speakers will
be Jennie Lancaster and
Nancy Gunn, both social
workers in area correctional
facilities.
Jennie Lancaster is a
social worker and counselor at
Umstead Youth Center and a
recent winner of the Jaycee
annual award made to an
outstanding person in the
correctional system. She is a
1%9 Meredith graduate.
Nancy Gunn is a social
worker at the North Carolina
Correctional Center for
women.
The meeting will be in
formal, with the discussion
centering on what it is like to
be in prison. All interested
persons are welcome.
Privileged Seating
In order to relieve the
crowded conditions at the
Concerts and Lectures func
tions, time will be reserved for
Mer^ith students and their
guests to enter the concerts
earlier than the general
public. This policy will also
ensure that they will get the
best seats in the house.
Meredith students will be
allowed to claim seats bet
ween 7:15 and 7:30, and
beginning at 7:30, the doors
will be opened to the general
public. The Concerts and
Lectures Committee hopes
that this will aid the students
in seat selection.