THE TWIG
NEWSPAPER OF THE STUDENTS Of MEBEOTH (X)LL£Qe
Vol. LXII Number 6
MEREDITH COLLEGE
October 31. 1983
Christmas dance
features Va. band
A "Winter Wonderland” is
approaching.
The 1983 Christmas Dance
will ttick-off Saturday,
December 3, in the Kerr Scott
Building on the State Fair*
grcwnds from9:00p.m.to 1:00
a.m. This year the dance should
be a special event with the per
formance of “The Voltage
Brothers” out of Richmond,
Virginia.
CCA is also mailing the
event special by taking resen/a-
tions when tickets ste pur
chased. The reservations are for
anyone who has a group from 2-
10 people who wouid enjoy
b^ ng seated at a table together.
The girls’ names in the party
must be submitted along with
the name of one girl wrfio will
head the parly. There will be
hostesses to seat each paty at
their t^le.
The ttieme of the dance is
"Winter Wonderland.” The color
scheme b^ng used is cool
blues, whites and sllv^. \n^ite.
lights, tinsel, glitter garlands,
pine trees, and angel hair will
- set the winter atmosphere for
the dancers.
Be at the Kerr Scott
Building Saturday, Decembers
for an enjoyable winter evening
with friends and “The Voltage
Brothw’s.”
Students accept
new alcohol laws
by David Qaede
(CTS)-Thls fdl’s expert -
ments in clamping down cm
student drinking - experiments
perfomwd almost simulta-
neoustybya huge nurnber of
aotools aow - hsye
series df rtSW
student betiavlor, but an injtlal
check with colleges across the
country indicates students are
willingly adding to their dryer
campuses.
"We didn't have the ‘beer,
suiters’ that have always been
around before,” Mike Jewell, a
menr4)er of the University of
Kentucky’s Phi Delta Theta
house, obserws gratefully. His
house and all the other Kent>-
udy fraternities agreed to hold
dry rushes for the first time ever
this fall.
Bar owners near the
Univer^ty of Odahonfia campus
amng^ to uccomodate a
(Sroyirf of 36D&'Stw3^^titfafty -
to protest the states new 21-
year-c^d leged drinking age law,
but only 150 students showed
up.
Dry aishes and parties
elsewhere unfokled without
controwrsy. “I think (thie frater
nities) are finding it brings good
results, and keeps' the people
awayw4>oOTlycomf
The Voltage Brothers will perform at the Meredith Oiristmas Dance, to be held at the Kerr Scott Build
ing Saturday, December3, 9 p.m. -1 a.m.
t)eer anyway,” obsen^
Jonathan Brant, head of the
National interfratemity Coun-
fererwe.
It also shovys "that fra
ternities are something besides
Not all student groups are
happy about the way schools
are going about controlling stu
dent drinking, however.
“We’re all for controlling
drtnking, says Bob Blngaman,
head of the State Studmt Asso-
clatlm in Washington, D.C.,
u^ich coordinates state student
activities around the nation and
also helped Kansas aid Georgia
students ward off drinklng-age
hikes last spring.
“But students are respon
sible enough to sensitize them
selves without having legisla
tures making decisions for
them,” he argues.
Both legislators and school
administrators are making
those decisions nevertheless,
and at an lncreasir\g pace oyer
the last year.
Mai^and, Oklahoma,
Virginia, Bonewenture «id
many others have simply
banned drinking on at least
parts of their campuses. Frater
nities like thosd at Kentucky
and North D^ota State volun
tarily have begun dry mshes
and special alcohol-free ac-
t tylties.
At Loyola College of
Maryland, students must now
don special wrist bands to get
liquor at campus parties. Stu
dents caught violating the new
policy - by giving a wristbtfid to
an under-aged drinker, for
example - can be kicked out of
student housing.
When the University of
Maryland's under-aged popula
tion “plummeted from only 25
percent of ttie (student body) to
over 60 percent this year, we
just decideei to {MJisn end to aU
dt»nl(tn0:(^cas»«l.ijitl^th^
try to deal with an the enforce
ment prot>lenns,” reports Sandy
Neverett, the assistant resident
life director.
“Since the majority of stu
dents can’t legally drink any
way,” adds Anona Adair of tl^
University of Oklahoma, “there
simply cannot be any alcohol
on campus.”
The crackdown is ex-
tending off-campus, too.
Town police have been
spot checking parties at
Millersvllle State College In
Pennsylvania this fail, hunting
for under-aged drinkers and en-
(Continued on P^e 3)
Season theater tickets on sale
PETEFi PAN OPENS AT MEBEDITH - Sandy Dunn of Meredith,
plays Pater Pan and Jim Burnette playaCaptaIn Ho^ in Sir James
Barrie’s musical, Mhlchi^)enedatMeredlO}October^. Otherper-
formancesareNovend)er4, 5,11, and 12 at 8 p.m. A matinee per
formance will be presented November 6at1 p. m. AH performances
vW// be held in Jones Auditorium the canv>us. Admission Is
S6.S0 for adults, $4 fw students and senior dtlmis.
Season Tickets for the
Meredith Performs season are
now on sale. Tickets can be
purchased from the Music
Office Monday thru Friday from
8:30 - 5; 00. The total cost is
$11.00 for fl\« (5) performances.
The average cost per show .is
$2.20. That is a 28 percent
savings over Individual .ticket
prices for students.
The Meredith Perfonns ‘83 -
‘84 season opened with “Peter
Pan” on October 28th at 8:00 in
Jones Auditorium. A matinee
performance will be held at 2:00
on Novemt)er 6th during
Parent’s Weekend.
Other performances for tfte
‘83 - ‘84 season include:
“A Christmas Concert and
Elliot Engel in a Dickens’
Christmas Sampler*’ to be
performed December 3 & 4 at
2:00 and December 4th at 8:00
in Jones Auditorium.
“The Old Maid and the
Thief”acomicopera,isto beper-
formed on February 3, 4, 9,10,
and 11 at 8:00 and February 12
at 2:00 in the studio theatre
located directly under Jones
Auditorium.,
Ten nesse Williams’
“Summer and Smoke” will be
performed on March 30, 31,
April 6 and 7 at 8:00 in Jones
Auditorium.
Meredith Dancers "In
Concert” will perform April 13
ar)d 14th at 8:00 In Jones
Auditoriurri.
HELP WANTED
Position available for
Theatre Shop Techniclaft‘Scene
Designer and Builder. No ex
perience necessary. Ten hours
per week. Work according to
your sdiedule. Minimum wage
but convenient campus
location! See Bob Wharton or
Paul Gabriel or Call Extension
228 or 297 respectively.
if It Is not possible to
icome by theTheatre Departm
ent to purchase a season ticket,
then till out the following fonn
and place In an envelope
marked Attention Titeafre
Department.
Name:_
Campus Address:.
Phone. Number: _
/ wish to Purc^)ase
Ticket[s] ^
Season
Aduits - 17.00 ea.
Studente-Sr. Qtizens -11.00
Total Amount Enclosed.