THE TWIG
NEWSPAPEFi OF THE STUDENTS OF MEREtXTH COLLEQE
VOLUME LXII NUMBER 17
MEREDITH COLLEGE
MARCH 26, 1984
Writing award presented
Elise Win and Small Family Orchestra vtill be at Meredith College
1 AphI 4. Members of the band are Rick Ruggles, Mary Witt, ■
Steve Harris, Beth Heidelberg, and Elise Witt.
Group to appear at Meredith
Bise Witt and Small
Family Orchestra will be ap
pearing at Meredith College on
Wednesday, April 4. Their cor>-
cert will be held in Le Green
house at 7:30 p.m. They also
will entertain from 12:00 noon
until 1:00 p.m. in Le Green
house for those who would like
to join them for'lunch. '
CCA and Concerts and
Lectures Committee are spon
soring this group with its bright
new sound. The Orchestra in
cludes five Atlanta musicians
along with their seven instru
ments which blend into Interna
tional artd domestic music, in
cluding folk tunes. Songs from
Italy, France, Germany, South
America, and Portugal are
juxtaposed with tunes from the
Southeastern United States,
many by new Southern song
writers.
Elise Witt was bom tn
Switzerland and speaks four
languages. She describes the
group’s style as “international
and classical and traditional
and modem.” Along with Elise
Witt, Small Faftrfly Orchestra
includes her sister Mary Witt,
her brother-in-law, Rick
Ruggles, and friends, Beth
Heklelbers's flute and clarinet
to Harris' fiddle-violln. Ruggles’
ntandolin, and Elise's guitar.
The orchestra Is seen
regularly at Claudette’s and
Maison Gourmet, both of which
are in Atlanta. They also have
perfomfied at Raleigh's own Ir-
regardless Cafe as mil as at
Student leaders at
private colleges not paid
PHILADELPHIA, PA (CPS)-
-Student governments generally
spend from $15,000 to $200,000
a year to run themselves, and
while most public colleges pay
their student officers some kind
of salary, most private colleges
do not, a new study of campus
governments points out.
The study, by the American
Association of University Stu
dents (AAUS), found much
diversity in the ways students
govern themselves at the 33
“major research universities” it
polled.
“The thing that really
caught my eye" among the re
sults, says Brad Torgan, who
edited the final report for the
AAUS, “was the compensation
issue.”
Seventeen of the 27
schools answering the salary
question corr^nsated their
student officers.
The University of Colorado,
for example, pays some of its
officers $400 a month. Brigham
Young pays $225 a month, plus
Charleston's Spoleto and many
otherfestivals. They enjoy play
ing special concerts for the
elderly, school-children, and
the blind.
Their album, “BIse VWtt
and Small Family Orchestra,"
includes several songs written
by North Carolina natives -
Tommy Goldsmith, a 1970
graduate of Broughton High
School and Steve Runkie,
whose "Love Song” te a hit on
the new Oak Ridge Boys'
album.
TTiis concert is free to the
Meredith community. Admis
sion to the public Is $1.00.
Don't miss what’s sure to be ein
outstanding concert.
some tuition vouchers worth
about $50.
At Indiana, the two top
officers spilt $K)00. One Uni
versity of Minnesota officer
makes $2000 a year.
Generally, Torgan found
that “the larger and more cen
tralized the student govemment
is, the more likely It is to conv
pensate its officers.”
The survey also revealed
how widespread student apathy
about campus govemace is.
Asked to estimate campus
voter turnout for assembly elec
tions, Michigan State officers
reported only three percent of
the students voted.
Berkeley estimates four
percent, while only five percent
of the student body turns out
for assembly Sections at
Arizona State and Minnesota.
But three-quarters of
Duke’s students and more than
half of Southern Methodist's
students vote In assembly elec
tions.
The survey found voter
In accordance with the
wish of Ruth Ann Hubbell to
encourage Meredith students to
more and better creative
writing, the Hubbell Prize is
given yearly on Awards Day.
scheduled this year for April 16.
The prize is given in re
cognition of a student’s sus
tained effort and intensity of ef
fort over a span of time. There
fore, contestants are asked to
submit not fewer than three
compositions (prose or poetry)
and are further asked to Include
a half-page autobiographical
essay telling of the duration and
inten^ty of their interest in
creative writing.
RULES:
1. Each contestant must
submit three \otive composi
tions. These may be alt in the
same literary form or may be
different.
2. All entries are to be
turned In to Dr. BreiMer or left In
her office. DEADLINE IS APRIL
6.
3. All compositlotis pre
sented by contestants must
have been nr/ften after corv-
testants entered Meredith.
4. A half-page auto
biographical essay must be In
cluded with the three to five
compositions entered. The
essay should outline the dura-
tk>n and intensity of the con
testant’s interest In creative
writlr>g.
5. Since the fonm will deter
mine the length of composi
tions, there is no length limit
for compositions either in prose
or in poetry.
6. Each contestant Is asked
to submit typed coiiries of
^1 ntaterial submitted.
7. Papers entered must bear
no mark of identification other
than the titles of stories, essays
or poems. At the end of each
composition, the date of writing
should be given. Each con
testant must place with her
entry a seeled envelope with
her name Inside and with the
titles of the submitted com-
positk>nsontheoufs/ais of the
envelope.
8. The prize will be awarded
only once to any one student.
9. The prize will not be
awarded If no entry seems
worthy of the recognition.
Summer and Smoke
coming up soon
turnout tends to be higher on
private college campuses.
Torgan says it is difficult to
make decent judgements of just
how effective certain student
govemnrtents are in protecting
and promoting student In
terests, but noted “the numbers
of student services and types of
services” might be a good
gauge.
By that n>easure.
Berkeley’s student govemment
controls an $11 million budget
that includes running the
campus bookstore. Colorado's
$8 million budget includes the
running of the campus health
center.
The average student
govemment, however, spends
$15,000 to $200,000 to am it
self, Torgan points out.
Some are bigger than
others, however. ^zona
State's govemment spends
some $406,000 while employing
112 full and part-time staffers.
On the other end of the scale.
New York University splits
By TrasI Campbell
In just a few days Meredith
Perfonns will present Ten
nessee Williams' ‘Summer and
Smoke', so be sure to make
plans to attend this award-win
ning play.
Many Meredith students
are participating in the acting,
stage pnxluction, and publk:ity
of this play. Lisa Robie, a
sophomore at Meredith, will
play the rueful, virginal heroine,
while Klmmie Turman, a junior,
will appear as her demented
mother.
Sherril Jolly and Jennifer
Hubbard, both freshmen, will
play other key nsles, while
Juanita Guarderas, a
sophomore, will appear as a
tempestuous Mexican tramp.
The key male roles are being
done by Paul Gibbins and Ric
Myracle.
Showtimes are as follows:
March 30, 31 at 8:00 p.m., and
April 5, 6 and 7 at 8:00 p.m. In
the Studio Theatre. Th^e will
be a matinee perfomnance on
April 8at 2:00 p.m., also In the
Studk) Theatre. Ticket prices
are $5 for adults and $3.50 for
students. For more information
call 83^6461, ext. 236 between
8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.
(Monday through Friday).
Don't forget to come and
enjoy an evening at the theatre
with Meredith production of
“Summer and Smoke.”
N.C. history course offered
The History of North Caro
lina will be offered by the
Department of History and
Polltks In the Fall Semester,
1964. The course is numbered.
History 520 and may be taken
for either undergraduate or
graduate credit. Studwts
ts4(ing it for undergraduate
credit will be expected to fulfill
only those course requirements
that have been expected in pre
vious years.
The course will be offered
fn>m 7:00 to 8:20 p.m. on
Tuesdays and Thursdays and
will be taught by Dr. Parramore.
It is open to freshmen by
special pemiission of the
teacher.
$3500 among its 30 staffers.
Campus offk:ers also have
mixed emotions about the stu
dent press.
Half the respondents said
the relationship with student
papers changed all the time.
whH(> ''the rest were spilt about
evenly between those having
good relations and those whose
are bad-horrible,” the report
said.
Student officers cited can-
dklate endorsements, "vickjus
editorials” and “inarticulate re-
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