THE TWIG
Newspaper of the Students of Meredith College
VOL. LII NO. 4
MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N.C.
SEPTEMBER 22, 1977
Photographers exhibit ‘‘Personal Spaces”
by Annette Gregory
F 0 u r Raleigh
photographers recently
compiled and printed a joint
collection of their favorite
photographs in a book entitled
“Personal Spaces.”
Chris Jones, Ralph
Rognstad Jr., JoAnn Sieburg-
Baker and Whitney Talcott
are exhibiting original
photographs from their book
on the second floor of Cate
Center Sept. 11-30.
“Personal Spaces” has no
central theme. Rather, each
artist presents the
photographs he considers the
best examples of his personal
view of life.
Mrs. Sieburg-Baker, 30,
an architectural photographer
by profession, exhibits studies
of windows and old houses.
“She has an acute sense of
realism and an awareness of
recording a specific place at a
specific time,” Ernest Wood
says in the introduction to
“Personal Spaces.”
Jones, 25, studied art at
the University of North
Carolina - Chapel Hill and
IVoii-discriminatory policy
will affect admissions
by Nancy Newton
To prepare to meet the
requirements that the
Department of Health,
Education, and Welfare
(HEW) set out under the non-
discriminatory policy towards
the handicapp^. Dr. SaUy M.
Homer, as a representative of
the President’s Office, at
tended an information con
ference conducted by the
National Civil Service league
on August 8-9 in Atlanta,
Georgia. The seminar was
held for all groups that would
be affected by the regulation
and presented information on
what the regulations are and
how to conform to them.
Homer interviewed
Dr. Horner explains that
two major ideas were
developed from the seminar
that will directly affect
Meredith. She cited the first
being that, “Any program
offe^ must be accessible,
not necessarily in location but
in experience. For example, a
chemistry laboratory would
not have to be built on a first
floor for a more impaired
student, but that chemistry
lab must be made available
for that student.” Secondly,
“a handicapped person must
be admitted to the college as
long as they can function and
meet college requirements
with ‘reasonable ac
comodations’.” Dr. Homer
further explained that
‘reasonable accomodations’
meant that when reasonable
adjustments were made, the
student could perform on an
equivalent level with the
average.
Certain tasks have been
undertaken by the college to
establish what “reasonable
accomodations” are. Dr.
Homer explains that all ad
ministrative offices have been
made aware of the
regulations, assessments will
be made of the physical
barriers to the physically
handicapped and decisions
will be made concerning area
and program accessabUity. In
addition to this, a statement
has been added to the ap
plication and medical form
stating that Meredith
maintains a non-
discriminatory policy towards
the handicai^ied. Dr. Homer
feels that it is safe to assume
that all handicaps will
handled individually and will
require individual decision as
to the best method of ad
mitting that student. Dr.
Homer further explains that
at this time the college was
required to show that it was
taking affirmative action to
accomodate and reach the
handicapped. The school must
recmit handicapped and non
handicapped equally and
must publicize that af
firmative action is being
taken. Dr. Homer concluded
that, “Meredith has already
shown that they are willing
and eager to accomodate as
the past record shows and are
now trying to articulate what
we have tried to do as a part of
the college’s concern for the
student. Meredith’s past
policy is in line with what is
now required by the govern
ment.”
Josey interviewed
In acknowledging the non-
discriminatory policy. Miss
Mary Bland Josey, Director of
Admissions, explains that
Meredith can nolongermake
pre-admission inquiries
concerning handicaps, nor
can they request information
on the medical forms other
than as a voluntary action of
the student after admission.
Also alternate college ad
missions tests must be made
available that will not
Career Placement Notes
Fall Recruiting Schedule
(Sign-up sheets for ap
pointments are available in
the Career Services’ Office
three (3) weeks prior to the
recmiting date.)
Sept. 27 - Sears, Roebuck &
Co.
Oct. 4 - Hanes Hosiery
Oct. 12 - N.C. Treasury Dept.
Oct. 13 - Pmdential Insurance
Co.
Oct. 13 - Burroughs Wellcome
Co. Sales Only
Oct. 27 - National Institute for
Paralegal
Nov. 2 - Metropolitan Life
Insurance Co.
Nov. 2 - Western Electric-
Southern Bell
Update on State
Government Internships
The deadline for ap
plications for Fall Internships
with North Carolina’s State
Government has been ex
tended beyond the Sept. 15
date reported in last week’s
TWIG. Interested students
should investigate further in
the office of Career Services
as soon as possible.
Part-time Job Opening
Wake Radiology has
clerical position. Four hours
per day, 4 days per week at
$3 per hour. Contact: Mamie
Lewis - 787-8199.
Interested in personnel woric?
The N.C. State-Meredith
Student Chapter of the
American Society of Per
sonnel Administration will
hold its flrst meeting of the
year at 4 p.m. on Thursday,
Sept. 29,19^, at 100 Harrelson
Hall, N.C. State University.
Ray Deltz, Personal Ad
ministrator of IBM Corp. will
address the group. See Ann
Willson, Office of Career
Services, for further in
formation.
Federal Job Information
Mid-Level Positions
The Federal Government
is now accepting applications
for several mid-level (Grades
GS-9-12) positions in the
Atlanta Region. The an
nouncement concerning these
positions is now the Office of
Career Services.
PACE
The Federal Govern
ment’s Professional and
Administrative Career
Examination Announcement
will open sometime in
November. The first test will
be given in January. Only one
additional test will be held
during the academic year,
probably in April or May.
Foreign Service
The Department of State
and the U.S. Information
Agency are seeking people for
the Foreign Service who have
education, experience, or
skills in administration,
commercial economics,
politics, or cultural in
formation. Applicants must
take the Foreign Service
Examination. Recruitments
of women and minorities is
being emphasized in this area.
Information booklets about
this exam are now in the
Office of Career Services.
design at North Carolina State
University, but is a musician
by profession.
He has “freedom to use
the camera as an exploratory
tool, a device with which he
uncovers his personal vision,”
Wood says.'
Talcott, 28, is now a
graduate student in design at
NCSU. He also teaches
photography there.
Talcott uses the camera to
“emotionalize space,” to
realize visual ideas in
photographs of landscapes
and architecture.
Rognstad has studied
commercial art and political
science, but considers himsdf
a “voyager.” “I’ve never held
a job for more than eight
months, but I’ve been taking
pictures for three years,” he
said.
Nona Short, Latin and
photography teacher at
Meredith, stresses the im
portance of seeing the dif
ference between a
photographic print and a
reproduction of a photograph
as printed in a bode or
magazine.
She considers the
“Personal Spaces” exhibit a
good teaching device on tiiis
difference and a good support
of photography as an art form.
“Personal Spaces,” the
book which the four
photographers literally
printed themselves, is
available in the bookstore for
$5.
discriminate through the
Director of the Office of Civil
Rights. All college literature
must state the non-
discriminatory policy.
Admissions policy stable
Miss Josey further ex
plained that she foresaw no
great problems because all
admissions would be handled
with the same “intellegence
and spirit of care and un
derstanding as has been past
policy.” The only change is
the sequence in which the
college may gather in
formation, “but for all in
terests and purposes, we have
always wanted to serve any
qualified handicapped student
for whom services could be
provided. The legislation has
not changed the spirit of
admissions. We can forsee
that in some situation it may
be difficult to clarify in our
own minds whether there is
a void of abUity in the students
credentials or a disability and
will do our best to determine
qualification for admissions.”
This concludes the TWIG’s
investigation of the new
Educational policy and how it
can affect our campus.
Readers are invited to
comment on the possible
results of this act.
Gynecological acrytcea
Tedder joins staff
by Jacque Lawrence
On Tuesday, September
20, at 8:30 a.m.. Miss Jan
T^der joined the Meredith
staff as a nurse practitioner.
Miss Tedder is available
for counseling and treatment
of gynecological problems.
She is licensed to prescribe
certain medications under the
supervision of a doctor.
Dr. Marie Mason, head of
student services, said that
Miss Tedder will be available
to treat such problems as
“vaginitis, cystitis, and
veneral disease.”
Miss Tedder will also
perform Pap smears and
breast examinations
routinely. Because of this, the
annual Pap smear clinics will
no longer be held.
Her services are available
six hours a week.
Miss Tedder uses the
doctor’s office in the in
firmary. She works on
Tuesday from 8:30 a.m. until
11:30 a.m. and on Thursdays
from 12 noon until 3 p.m.
The addition of Miss
Tedder’s services gives
Meredith students
professional help daily. The
services are being provided
by the college for the benefit
of the stuctents. Dr. Mason
urges that “the students use
her for counseling and in
formation.”
Application deadline to take
the exam is Oct. 21, 1977.
Interested in public relations?
The Institute of American
Business Communicators will
sponsor a workshq) on Public
Relations Skills, Nov. 14-16 in
Winston-Salem, N.C., called
PROSE Garden. The
respective editors of Better
Homes and Gardens, EXXON
USA, and Atlantic will be
participants. Work-shops will
cover layouts, A-V, leads,
interviewing, legal concerns,
artwork and graphics, in
dustrial photography, and
creative editing. Further
information available in the
Office of Career Services.
Journalism Internships A
Scholarships
Information is now
available in the Office of
Career Services concerning
the 1978 Newspaper Fund
Internship and Scholarship
Program. Applications must
be requested from the
Newspaper Fund by
Nov. 1, 1977. The application
deadline is Dec. 1.