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MEREDITH HERALD Volume X, Issue 19 February 23, 1994 Raleigh, North Carolina Students respond to Open House referendum Elizabeth Rihani The Senate of Meredith College held a referendum last Thursday to gather students’ opinions about making the tentative open house policy a perma nent fixture. Well, the students have spoken, and the results come as a sur prise to no one. Out of 582 total voters, 531 stu dents, residents and commuters alike, voted for the open house policy, and 51 voted gainst it (91% for; 9% against). Seventeen commutcrs voted, 16 of them voting for the policy to remain and only one of them voting against it. Kelly Formy-Duval, Senate chair, and Jennifer Smith, RHB chair, compiled these statistics and will present them to Class Total For (%) .gainst (%) Freshman 157 149 (99%) 8(5%) Sophomore 179 174(97%) 5(3%) Junior 127 112 (88%) 15 (12%) Senior 102 80 C78%) 22 (22%) Commuters 17 16(94%) 1 (6%) Tot^ 582 531(91%) 51 (9%) the Board of Trustees on Friday morn ing. Formy-Duval and Smith will also present RHB results from the previous trial open houses. Senate surveys and recommendations and a copy of the open house recommendations from last year. Fortunately for students, there were no complaints or security prob lems during the past trial open houses except for a few parking violjttions. In last week’s Herald, Formy-Duval was quoted as saying that if the trustees didn’t like the open house policy, then she wouldn'tpushthe issue. Infict,she meant that if the students had voted against it, she would not have pushed for it, but because the student body voted so overwhelmingly for the policy, she and Smith will do everything they can to get it pass^. "This policy will help with retention and will ^so look good to prospective students," said Formy-Duval. If the policy is passed, the schedule for open houses will be the same as it has been—one Sunday a month from 12-5 in the afternoon. “It’s a start," said Formy-Duval. "It’s a move to treat us more like a women’s college, not a girl’s school." Speech is free at Founder's Day Convocation by Traci Latta The Founders’ Day Convocation entitled “Banned in America' \ras held at 10 a.m. Monday in Jones Auditorium The topic for discussion censor ship and the speakers panel included Deborah Tippett, Ph.D., Blue Greenberg, A.M., and Janet Freeman, M.L.S. Tippett, who is a textbook author and researcher of censorship on au thors and teachers, as well as associate professor in the home economics de partment discussed the censorship of five home economics textbooks that were tanned Alabama in the last de cade. She began her discussion by trac ing the history of censorship in America with the example that “families from the South practiced censorship by re- fusing^that their children be tai^t that the North won the Civil War.” Tippett explained that these textbooks were banned from the school system in Ala bama under the charge that the books promoted secular humanism, the belief in man over God. She presented on slides passages that were allegedly rep resentative of these beliefs. Most of the passages urged young adults to be re sponsible for their actions and deci- what you say may be discriminated sions. Tippett concluded her discus- against, and it is your right to stand up sion by addressing the seniors and tell- for what you believe in." ing them that “as educated women, Greenberg,assistantprofessorofart at Meredith and columnist for the Herald-Sun, pre sented the contro versy over the worics of artists Andre Serrano and the late Robert Mapplethorpe. Presenting slides of two works of the artists, Greenberg de scribed how the artists' woikswere censored by forces such as Senator Jesse Helms, a well-known oppo nent of the Na tional Endowment for the Arts. Greenberg went PrancMPate on to say that ait- Alldre*«edup-.-Murphy Osborne, Vice Presidentfor Institutional now wary Advancement, and Dean Allen Burris prepare for Monday's of presenting con- Founder’s Day convocation. troversial artwork because there is the possibility that funding for the NEA can be stopped if art works in national exhi bitions are found obscene. The last speaker, Janet Freeman, college librarian and former president of the North Carolina Library Associa tion, addressed the issue of censorship in literature. Freeman used the local example of the censoring of the book More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Sch^rartz. She read aloud the story “Wonderful Sausage,’ which caused the audience to laugh and was the cause of local controversy in 1992. The story tells of a butcher who kills his wife and numerous tomjspeople and feeds them to his sausage grinder The story was charged as unfit for a first grade classroom when a 7 year-old girt complained to her parents of night mares and a fear of eating meat after her teacher read it to the class. The book was not banned, but it is now available only for checkout in public libraries with parental consent and in the school see CONVOCATION ps^e seven
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