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April 12,1995 Campus News 5 Meredith makes big splash into spring compiled by Addie Tschamler • An American attending Brandeis University was taken off life support after suffering injuries in the Gaza Strip bomb ings. Alisa Flatow was declared brain dead, and her father au thorized doctors to remove his daughter’s organs for donation. • One of the largest studies ever undertaken of the nation’s elementary schools concluded that too many of them use class time poorly. The study, released Monday by the Carnegie Foun dation, urges educators to de vote new attention to improv ing elementary schools. The Carnegie study was presented to more than 6,000 of the nation’selementary school prin cipals. • Haitian officials responded Monday to critics and pre-elec tion violence by delaying June elections for three weeks. Op position politicians welcomed the news but threatened to boy cott the elections if President Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s govern ment shuts them out of the elec toral process. • Proponents of a federal program to release red wolves in North Carolina have some new ammunition — a survey that indicates public support. The survey by NCSU found that 51.7 percent of the people con tacted by telephone supported the wolf release, while 30.2 were opposed. Red wolves, an endangered species, have been released in a five-county area during the past seven years by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Ser vice. by Melissa Cloer Two of Meredith’s organizations recently presented spectacular events: On Thursday, Apr; 6 the surf was up with Stunt ’95 presented by Meredith Recreation Association, and on Sun day Meredith Entertainment Associa tion sponsored Spring Fling. Both were successful and drew large crowds. Stunt con sisted of many activities from eating to sing ing. The picnic began at 4:30 p.m. and gave everyone en ergy for all the games in which they would com pete. Hot-dogs, hamburgers, pasta salad, cole slaw, potato salad, chips and ice cream were served. After feasting on din ner, there was the limbo con test. Four mem bers from each class competed to see how low they could go. The sopho more class came in first, seniors in second, juniors in third, and freshmen in fourth. Next was the bat spin, a dizzy experience, in which the seniors won, the sophomores placed second, the juniors third, and the freshmen in fourth. The three-legged race took some tough work, and the winning class was the juniors, followed by the seniors, sophomores and freshmen. Tug of war came up next, with the winning class of the two games facing off. The seniors came out on top with the freshmen taking second, sopho mores third, and juniors fourth. In the balloon toss, the seniors got first place, the sophomores second, the freshman third, and the juniors fourth. There was a tie for first place in the sponge toss game between the sophomores and freshmen. The seniors came in second, and the juniors third. The grand finale was the lip sync contest. The freshman class performed a song from the Lion King and re ceived third place. The sophomores performed a song from the movie Annie and came in fourth. The junior class did a variety of introductions to old television shows: the Facts of Life- Happy Days. Laverneand Shirlev. and many more. This presentation placed them in second. The seniors went on stage as a group and aaed out various Seniors won the day competition. They also photo by Jetson with their fantastic renditions of songs in the lip sync came out on top in bat spin, tug of war and balloon toss. songs. Their excellent performance placed them first in the lip sync. Over all, the seniors got first place, the juniors second, the sophomores third, and the freshmen fourth. Page Brown, Stunt co-chair, stated, “I think Stunt went great. I’m glad I got to be a part of it! I think co-chairs and all four classes should really be commended. They did a lot of hard work, and I think it showed a lot of creativity and originality.” Sunday was a great day for MEA’s Spring Fling! The weather couldn’t have been any better. The sun was shining, and it was hot. Crowds of photo by Jetson Junior Julia Rathbone hopes her balloon can take the pressure in the balloon toss. people parked their cars in any avail able spaces and took off to the front lawn, where aU the action was taking place. While listening to the cool tunes of Cravin’ Melon, Far Too Jones, and Hausman Syndicate, people played vol leyball, moonwalked, sumo wrestled, or ate and watched the bands play. Ann Slate, a co-chair for Spring Fling, stated, "I think I J it went great; there was a ^ good turn out." 1 asked Slate about the bands and how they got them because Cravin’ Melon acknowledgedjamie Morris during their set. Slate told me that Jamie had heard Cravin’ Melon play at fiat parties, got in touch with them, and invited them to play at Meredith with their opening band Far Too Jones. V^en the band Hausman Syndicate heard about Cravin’ Melon playing, they offered to play here for free. If you are wondering why so many people from all around Raleigh were at Spring Fling or about the commerciais for Cravin’ Melon playing at Meredith over the radio, MEA’s vice president. Heather Hudgins-McKean, called radio stations and informed them, so there would be a wide variety of people there. She also advertised in the Herald and Spectator and put up banners around cam pus. When I asked her about how she thought Spring Fling went she said, "It was a huge success! There were Meredith stu dents, State students, and fraternity guys. Everyone was into the bands and playing volleyball.”
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