MEREDITH HEKALD
Vol. 1. No. 6 Meredith College, Raleigh, NC 27607 March 19; 1986
Trustees pass new parking permit policy
by Kim Allen, News Editor
The Board of Triistees passed a new
policy which will i ncrease the cost of park
ing pennits for ail Meredith College stu
dents. The increase will become eifTective
in the fall of 1986.
According to an excerpt from the
Meredith College Boiu'd of Trustees meet*
ing on Feb. 10, the college will increase
the parking fee for dormitory students to
S40 per semester, for day students to S25
per semester, and for night students to
$10 per semester.
Charles Taylor, vice president of busi
ness and finance, said that the new policy
came about because of the problems with
freshmen and sophomores needtng their
cars. The Beard of Trustees had a parking
committee investigate. Due to the cars
parked on the front drive it was decided
that something must be done.
The extra funds will be used to improve
and to expand the present parking facili
ties. *The additional revenue from stu
dent parking will godirectly into the park
ing improvements on campus,” Taylor
said.
For 1986-87 the present policy allow
ing freshmen and sophomores to have
cars on campus only in unusual situations
will be continued. If revenues are suffi
cient, sophomores with a GPA of 2.5 or
better will be allowed parking privileges
during the school year 1987-88. The pos
sibilities of everyone having a parking
permit will then be studied.
In the past the number of people on
campus has increased, causinga problem
with parking. The junior and senior
classes will be larger next year and we will
need more spaces to accommodate the
number of cars, Taylor noted. Dan Shat-
tuck, chief of security, states, **It is just a
natural thing. We have been getting the
people and not the parking."
When asked why the colle^ made
such a sudden increase in the parking fees,
Shattuck said. The college has been
behind too long. They shouM have been
easing up each year.**
**1 still plan to bring my car next year,
but if it comes to the point where fresh
men and sophomores can have cars I
hope that it doesn't take away from cam«
pus involvement,** said Beth Shannon.
Freshman Christy Nicoll said, **As a
freshman without parking privileges, I
feel that when 1 am an upperclassman I
will be willing to pay the increase so that
freshmen and sophomores can have the
parking privileges that 1 was never able to
have.”
rVIEREDIT
Next year this sticker will cost dorm students $80 for the year, (Photo by Kim Cook)
Graduate studies department heads comment on admittance of
males issue
Paige Leistj Featurrftepoiter
Meredith’s three graduate programs
are in the departments of business, educa
tion and music. All three heads of these
departments said in recent interviews that
allowing men in their respective graduate
programs would have either no effect or
no negative effect on the graduate and
undergraduate programs.
**Federal, law is
very explicit about
making all graduate
programs co^uca-
tional,** explained
Ron Bird, head of
the business depart
ment. **Having a
Dr. Ron Bird few men enroll in
— pco^am-won^ huit.jmy-
thing. We’d be able to offer a unique
service. There are a very few women
graduate students whose husbands would
like to be in the program.”
Bird also said he is ‘^committed to the
mission of Meredith College... to edu
cate women and help them achieve their
personal goals. The graduate program of
this department will always be supportive
of that mission.”
When asked if males would affect the
courses in the MBA program. Bird res
ponded, “Of course not”
Having males enrolled in the graduate
program in education would have no
effect on the program or its courses,
stated Mary Johnson, head of the educa
tion department.
can’t. fpresjee
any changes being
made to accommod
ate males," Johnson
said. However, she
added. don't want
to see anything jeo
pardize the single-
Dr. Mary Johnson sex tradition of the
undergraduate program.”
The i^aduate degree in music '‘expe
riences no lack" without men. stated
David Lynch, head of the tnusic depart
ment.
Continued on page 4
Kelli Barefoot, News Reporter
Meredith College to participate in ‘Feed Raleigh’
Betsy Short, Editor
Meredith CoUe^ will be participating
in the “Feed Raleigh" canned food drive
along with North Carolina State Univer*
sity and other Raleigh colleges on March
22, 1986.
The project is sponsored by WRAL-
TV and coordinate 1^ NCSU.
Feed Raleigh's goal is to collect «t least
24,000 canned foods to be given to the>
Central Food Bank for distribution toi
area soup kitchens.
Christy Browder, Meredith*^ represen
tative on the Feed Raleigh committee,
said she was “real disappointed in the
organization” of the project headed by
Jay Everette, student body president at
NCSU, and htt public relations assistant,
Krista Peterson.
Browder had hoped to arrange for a
majority of the organizations and clubs at
Meredith to be involved with this project.
However, due to lack of information dis
tributed by Peterson, Browder expects
only the Astros to have a good showing at
the drive.
Browder said Peterson “did not let any
other schools know the progress of the
project except NCSU.
Students interested in participating
shoukl divide into groups of no more
than 15 people and meet at the East Coli
seum parking lot at NCSU at 10 a.m.
Saturday. ^
The groups will be assigned one of 40
pre-selected target areas io which to col
lect cans.
Everette said the areas were small
Continued on page 4
INSIDE
Art in Johnson Hall rotunda
Battle of 'Angelic. Stats' results
nM'8t$llGiy. Li^Cire’series .
Page 3
Pages
Ten ‘Outstanding
Seniors' selected
The Senior Class of 1986 has chosen its
ten Outstanding Seniors, its class gift and
its class doll.
The class officers and one non-partisan
memb^ of the junior class tallied the
votes of the senior election. The class doll
will be Wearing a classic knit, long tailed
skirt with a long knit cardi^n sweater
over a white cotton blouse with a collar
pin and pearl earrings, according to the
election results.
The class gift will be a contribution of
undetermined amount to the new art
building. The donation will be added to
the base amount of the memorial fund
established for Jacqueline Edwards who
died this past summer in an automobile
accident. Lisa Britt, Senior Class Presi
dent, said Edwards was an art major
and the class wanted to do this in her
honor.
The top ten Outstanding Seniors were
also chosen in the election. Britt said th^
are chosen for their leadership and con
tributions to the class, excluding any
IVho's ffVio member. This year’s ten Out
standing Seniors are:
Amy Little
Laura Cochrane
Teresa Ward
Amy Watson
Lisa Robie
Susan Duck
Christy Jordan
Julianne Bell
Cynthia Church
Cathy Tarleton