Volume LXI NUMBER 20
THE TWIG
NEWSPAPER OF THE STUDENTS OF MEREDITH COLLEQE
APRIL 16,
Joan Bunting: New SGA president
In the recent first slate
Sections tield at Meredith, Joan
Bunting became the new SGA
president for the 1984-85 school
year. The rising senior has
many new and acciting ideas
planned for Meredith in the up
coming year.
Joan first became involved
in student government her
freshman year when she served
as class secretary. She con
tinued her interest in school
government activities by ser
ving as Sophomore class
secretary and Junior class
president. Joan credits much of
her Interest in student affairs to
her involvement with the 4-H
dub throughout high school. It
was through this dub that she
learned much of what it takes to
make ideas and projects work.
During the past year,
several cheinges have been
made to Meredith’s SGA
Constitutton and By-L^ws.
Joan hopes that through her
position as SGA President she
can set these changes into
motion. With the additiwi of the
Senate and Student Activities
Board, Joan is optimistic that
much of the overlap of duties
will be deleted and that^speclflc
energies will be channded by
specific committees. Joan is
also excited about plans for
nmre select activities to be
offered next year to Meredith
students. This means perhaps a
fewer selection of activities and
events but ones in which the
majority of the students will
want to participate In.
Meredith plays an im
portant role in Joan's life. She
Is not only Involved In student
government but Is also a mem
ber of the PHI sodety and the
Barber Sdence Club. She
enjoys getting involved io stu
dent activities'and served as a
Student Life Sub-committee
chairperson this past year. She
is a strong supporter of the
Honor Code and feels that it is
an important part of Meredith.
To her, the Honor Code goes
t)eyond the campus by helping
girls build their own horwr
codes in their personal lives.
The 1984-85 school year
plans to be a busy one for Joan.
She hopes to increase the en
thusiasm on campus and to get
more students Involved In
campus affairs. Joan wants all
students to know that she is
available to them and will listen
to any complaints or sugges
tions they may have. She wants
to make the coming year an
exdting and eventful one.
Jill Hensdale
Much student support seems to swing to Hart
Joan Bunting [far rlghf\ is seen here f/ith Becky Evans, [center]
and Tracy Tftompsor} [far to/fj.
BIG CAMPUS CflOMOS, A
RUSH OF VO.UNTEERS AND
h^SSiNG MONDALE 'SPUNK'
ALBANY. NY (CPS) - When a
lortely candidate named Gary
Hart visifed Albany in May,
1983, Gov. Mario Cuomo was
too busy to see him.
Hart’s organizers gave up
trying to book a room at the
State University of New York-
Albany (SUNYA) campus
because, as one organizer re-
memt»rs it, they were worried
the candidate couldn't draw a
crowd big enough to fill one.
TTiings ha^ changed. In
the vireeks before the April 3rd
New York primary, the campus
diapter of Americans with Hart
hadabout 100 volunteers, about
40 of whom were “active,” says
Michael Schmall, the campus
campaign’s co-coordinator.
And while there Is student
support for both Walter Mon-
d£de and Jesse Jackson on the
campus, Patty Salkin, the
officially-uncommltted head of
the Albany State Young Demo
crats, concedes that "from what
I've seen and personal contact.
I’d say there’s a lot of student
interest in Hart.”
Indeed, for the first time
since 1972, a Democr^ic presi
dential c^ldate seems to have
caught fire anong a broad cross
section of students around the
country.
0)«r SOOO students heard
Hart speak at the University of
Illinois two weeks ago. About
1200 showed up to listen to him
at Cal-Berkeley, white another
300 couldn't get in. During the
Massachusetts primary. Hart
handily won student precincts
in Amherst.
Now Eric Schwartz, Hart's
youth coordinator, speaks of
mobilizing a nationwide volun
teer co^ of 10,000 students to
match Walter Mondale's volun
teers fn^m organized latx>r.
At Marquette, Hart seenrts
to be drawing a lot of support
on a campus that is “about 80
percent Republican," reports
Kevin Jereczek, president of
Marquette's Young Democrats'
chapter.
With the possible ex
ception of schools in New York
and Pennsylvania, adds the
nominally-uncommltted Dave
Smith of Young Democrats'
headquarters in Washington,
D.C., “campuses are pro-Hart
as opposed to Mondale."
"I s^se a great lack of
enthusiasm and lack of inspir
ation for Mondate/J ^s Cathy
Campt)ell, Berkeley's student
body president.
Campbell believes Hart's
“spunk" and faithful evocation
of the Kennedy style probably
help attract student support as
much as anything.
Mondale's student
organizers contend their volun
teers are more concerned with
issues than Hart's.
"Students who look at the
issues and not at appearance
are swringing to Mondale,”
claims Valarie White, national
student coordinator at Mondale
headquarters in Washington.
Mwidale's carr^us sup
porters, adds Sean O'Brien of
SUNYA's Students for Mondale
chapter, are more “committed"
than Hart's. “Rather than jump
ing on the tiandwagon, th^ are
a detennnrned group.”
In a sort of reverse band
wagon effect, O'Brien says “we
got 10 new members” after Hart
beat Mondale in the New
Hampshire primary In early
March.
“Since' New Hampshire,
(the campaign) has really
started to roll,” adds Schmall of
Hart's campus group. Schmall
says he has 40^ active volun
teers. O'Brien says he has 30.
Both have courting
student support - and- the
immensely valu^le free labor
that comes with it - for a long
time.
Hart, for example, made
campaign hops through nor
thern Califomia and Colorado
campuses as as sprfr^,
1982.
Hart spoke against the
nuclear anris buildup to Univer
sity of Denver students in May,
1982.
The month before, Mon
dale delivered the same
message at Yale.
Mondale and his fanrtlly
have worked campuses in all
the big caucus and prinwy
states for the last two years.
Hart's reach has been a little
shorter, due prinwily to having
less money to spend.
Still. t>y last November,
Patti Grogan, president of the
nationsd Young Democrats, told
College Press Servjce, "there is
no student candidate. No one
has really toudied ttie hearts
arxl minds of students across
the nation."
The early primaries and
caucuses appear to have
changed that.
“I think there is a revival of
student activism," contends
Chris Phillips, a Hart national
student support coordinator.
“Student activrism is
coming around a little bit,” says
Brian Grossman, president of
tfie University of llllrKjis’ Col
lege Democrats, of the campus
support for Hart. But “we still
have a little way to go to get
students involved.”
lnvo4««d or not, students
historically don't vote. Only X
percent of the registered col-
leg^ged voters actually cast
ballots int he 1980 presidenti^
race.
‘The problem is getting
people out to vote,” points out
llise Levine, a Hart vA^rker at
SUNYA.
The . Jackson, campaign,.
which appears to have wilted
after a uproarious campus start
last fall, has had the most
success in actually bringing
new voters into tt» system, the
obsen/ers suggest.
At SUNYA; the student
Democrats’ ambitious voter
registration plan has run out of
money, and now relies on “word
of mouth,” Salkin says.
The College Republk^s
on the other hand, say they
have a registration budget.
What is the
which thie/ii use for thie general
elect k>n.
At SUNYA. College
Republicans chapter President
WHI Kamishllan says that, until
the general eledion in the fall,
his group wiil “ait back and
watch the Democrats slit each
others’ throats."
“TTie interest is there” in
suppoiling President Reagan's
r&«lection drive, Kamishlian
says, though “it’s not on ttie
surface."
Student Life Committee ?
This is a qu^ion heard
often around campus and it
needs to be answered. Many
students seem unaware of the
Student Life Committee, It's
members, (Hjrpose, and func-
tlwi.
Each student at Meredith is
represented on the Studnet Life
Committee by one of the fol
lowing memt>ers:
Becky Pyles, Chair; Mary
Tronnes, Secretary; Grace
Akers, SGA President; Jil
Humberger, MRA President;
Jan Joyner, MCA President;
Peggy Overton, CCA President:
Kim Causey, Senior Class
President; Joan Bunting,
Junior Class Pre^dent; Renee
Godwin, Sophomore Class
President; Becky Auman,
Freshman Class President;
Kelly Leazer, NorvResktent
Student; MoQk» Keele, ABA
Representative; Connie van der
Does, MIA Representative;
Teresa Ltele, WINGS Repre
sentative; Donna Sartain,
WINGS Representative; Terri
Holland, Legislative Board
Chiar; Maia McAnulty,
Member-at-Large; Michele
Cheny, Memfaer-at-Large;
tinda Seilers, Tyi^g . Editor,
Cynthia Washington, Har)d-
book Editor; Leila Davenport,
Oak Leaves Editor; Dr. Carolyn
Grubbs, Faculty Representa
tive; Dr. Peggy Starkey, Faculty
Representative; Mrs. Betty
Cook, Faculty Representative;
Rhoda Sowers, Director of Stu
dent Activities; Mrs. Dorothy
Sizemore, Dean of Students;
Dr. Sandra Thomas, VP for Stu
dent Development and Advisor
to SLC.
The main purpose of the
SLC Is to deal with student con
cerns. If a student has a con-
cem about any aspect of stu
dent life, she may tither voice
her concern at a Student Life
Committee meeting or relay her
concern through a committee
member. After the concern has
tieen looked into, the SLC may
then decide to send a recom
mendation to the appropriate
per^ asking that action be
taken on this matter.
In September this year's
committee held ttfeir retreat at
Quail's Roost where neariy a
hundred goals were set for the
coming year. These goals deal
with dther student conc^s or
kJeas for construdlve changes
. (Continued on page 2)