April 12,1995
10
Campus News
Students calculate success
in mathematics contest
The winners in the Fourteenth Annual Freshman-Sophomore
Mathematics Contest were(l-r) Addie Keeton, Kristin Lyerly,
Emi Tarleton, Pam Mobley and Carolyn Parnell.
Early
on Sat.,
Jan. 21,16
Meredith
students
gathered
in 204
Harris to
partici
pate in the
l4th An-
n u a i
Fresh
man-
Sopho
more
M a t h -
ematics
Contest. The winners were recognized
with awards at the Canaday Mathemat
ics and Computer Science Club meet
ing Mar. 22.
Emi Tarleton, a freshman, won first
prize and was awarded a tuition schol
arship of $200. Tarleton is a Teaching
Fellow and honors student who plans
to major in mathematics of English and
teach in high school.
The second prize went to fresh
man Teaching Fellow Pam Mobley.
She was inducted into Pi Mu Epsilon,
the Honorary Society in mathematics
earlier this month and is also inter
ested in physics. She plans to teach in
high school.
Addie Keeton, Kristin Lyerly and
Carolyn Parnell received honorable
mention. Keeton is a freshman Teach
ing Fellow, honors student planning to
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movie, however, back in the late 80’s
that represented wholesome broad
casting with a sublinunal moral story
to it— A Christmas Story —that in
volved a young boy who wanted a
Daisy gun, and his mother was dead
set against it. He also cursed and got
his mouth washed out with soap. It’s a
lovely portrayal of how life should be
but isn’t.
How can we clean up the “trash ” in
the public media today? The answer is
clear and simple: Get rid of it all. Get
the records off the market; quit selling
major
i n
math
emat
ics and
teach
either
e 1 -
emen-
tary or
s e c -
ondary
school.
Lyerly
is a
fresh-
m a n
honors
student who plans to major in math
ematics, minor in computer science
or psychology and teach in secondary
school. Parnell is asophomore, double
majoring in biology and mathematics.
She plans to work with animals in
national parks, and her long-term goal
is to be a wild life conservationist in
Africa.
First given in 1982, the Freshman-
Sopho'more Mathematics Contest pro
vides students with the opportunity
to try their problem-solving skills out
side the confines of a particular course.
Through this contest, the department
of mathematics and compute science
is pleased to recognize the academic
interest and achievement in mathemat
ics of freshmen and sophomore stu
dents and looks forward to sponsor
ing the contest again next year.
the naked body for money, and cut
violence, sex and profanity out of
movies. Of course, saying this is a
whole lot simpler that actually doing
it. It is a long and strenuous ordeal that
could take years, if even that short
amount oftime. The First Amendment
cannot be avoided, unfortunately, but
how did Thomas Jefferson know just
how far people would go with free
speech and publications? I am sure
that he is rolling over in his grave right
now and wishes that he could be
reincarnated to set society straight. I
stand by his side 100 percent of the
way if he does.
Monday, Apr. 24, 8 p.m.
Kresege Auditroium,
Cate Center
Free to Meredith students
and their guests!
Charlotte Bronte:
A fascinating life
contributed by Dr. Robin Colby
The Story of Charlotte Bronte’s
life is the stuff of legend. Growing up
in a household of precocious chil
dren and a volatile, eccentric clergy
man for father, Charlotte quickly
learned to turn to the world of her
imagination for stimulus and solace.
At the Bronte home, Haworth, all of
the Bronte children amused them
selves by producing handmade books
containing exotic tales of the imagi
nary lands of Gondal and Angria.
The fantastic worlds dreamed of
by the Bronte children were matched
by the real hves ahead for the mem
bers of this family. Consider the sen
sitive Emily, whose Wuthering
Heights continues to haunt readers;
the unstable Branwell, whose early
artistic talents were dashed when he
began to sink under alcohol and opium
addiction; and finally Charlotte her
self, whose desperate love for a pro
fessor in Brussels made its way into
her fiction.
Supporting herself as a govern
ess, Charlotte experienced firsthand
the plight of the intelligent woman
in Victorian society. Her Jane Eyre,
which she wrote in a hospital while
tending her father after his surgery,
is a declaration of women’s needs
and women’s abilities.
In this presentation of the life of
Charlotte Bronte, Quinn
Hawkesworth recreates this sensi
tive, b rave writer whose novels have
intrigued generations of readers. In
beautiful costume, Charlotte Bronte
returns from the grave just for us,
taking us for 90 minutes back to
Victorian England. Mark your calen
dars for Monday, Apr. 24 at8 p.m. in
Cate Center.