Meredith Herald
Volume XII, IssuelS February 7. 1996 Raleigh, North Carolina
'ANOTHER WINTERWONDER LAND’
A view of Ledford Hall after the second major snow storm of 1996 hit
Raleigh and Meredith College. Snow and ice forced the school to be
closcd down for the third time since the beginning of the year because
some students, faculty and staff were unable to get back to the college.
Photo by Laura Brown.
Students voice concerns
at 'Nix it of Fix it'
Study abroad students
talk about their foreign
adventures
By Clarky Lucas
The Programming Board sponsored
“Nix it or Fix it” to survey students
about their concerns with the pro
gramming of campus organizations’
events on Monday, January 29 in Belk
Dining Hall.
"We wanted to give students an
opportunity to voice their opinions
^out the events that are held on cam
pus presendy and ones they would
like to see in the future,’’ said Tara
Flanagan, programming board chair.
Thougli the turnout was small, the
students that attended brought up
questions and kleas for weekend events
such as carpooled trips to the movies.
Students were also concerned that if
events were scheduled, theattendance
would not be great enough to pay for
the expense of the activity.
There might be a better turnout if
the people who wanted events on the
weekends assisted in coordinating
them, said Flanagan.
The Programming Board sponsors
many events on campus such as Alco
hol Awareness Week and the after
Comhuskin’ party.
Their upcoming plans include a
special tribute to women during
Women’s History Month in March.
“The Programming board acts as a
link between campus organizations
and offers a support system to the
organizations during their most hectic
times of the year," said Flanagan
Students with any ideas about new
events or changes in tradition ones are
encouraged to bring their suggestions
to Flanagan.
By Addie Tschamler
■‘The Road Less Traveled," a poem
by Robert Frost may be used to de
scribe the courageous few who opt to
take a different route in their studies.
These are the women of Meredith Col
lege who chose to study abroad for a
summer orsemesterlastyear. Programs
in Italy, France or (Jreece are among
the few in which students recently
participated. To give an account of
their experiences, a few of these stu
dents spoke last Thursday evening in
Joyner Hall.
Among the speakers were Melissa
Mearns (Athens, Greece), Alison
Schofield (Spain), Rebekah Abrams (En
gland), Heather Dinkiage (France), Sh
annon Hagardy (Spain), Carrie Snider
(Italy and France) and Kyle Hoffman
(Spain).
Snider, an art history major at
Meredith, told about the challenges
and rewardsof studying abroad. "1 think
a lot of my philosophy has changed,
and my ways of thinking are much
more different from being in Italy, be
ing in France and then traveling and
seeing different people, seeing the way
people interact withother people, “said
Snider.
Snider said that adjusting to France
wasn’t hard but "coming back was hard
to adjust." She said that she misses the
challenge of speaking French.
Dinkiage, who studied in Angers,
France also mentioned missing the chal
lenge of conversing in French.
“I miss being in the apartment and
cooking and eating what I want. And I
liked the challenge of speaking French
all the time and now that I’m back here,
who do I talk to?" said Dinkiage.
Dinkiage said that she did get home
sick a few times overseas and didn’t
realize how much she liked being in
France until after she came back to the
United States.
Rebekah Abrams, who studied at
International University in England,
didn’t experience the language chal
lenge, but she did experience exten
sive travel throughout Holland,
Amsterdam, Ireland and Scotland. Al-
tliough she took a variety of courses
form Renaissance poetry to British
politics, Abrams felt that she learned
more through traveling.
The one thing that Abrams com
plained of was the food. In writing to
a friend back in the US, Abrams told
her that she actually missed Meredith
food.
Schofield said, who studied in Spain,
went under a program with the Uni
versity of Colorado at Boulder.
Schofield said, “it was hard coming
back. 1 wasn’t really ready to come
back to Meredith yet.” Hut her mom
encour^ed her to get back into the
swing of things. Schofield said she was
in touch with her family back in Spain
and hopes to return soon.
All of the speakers told interesting
stories of their experiences and would
recommend the programs to other stu
dents. Some advice to tliose students
considering studying abroad from
Snider: “Don’t go in with overwhelm
ing expectations. Go in as a sponge.
Go in and feel it out. There are so many
different ways of doing one thing in
our society. We re taught that one way
is the way to do it. But there’s more
than one way to reach a goal."
, And as Robert Frost says at the end
of his poem; “Two roads diverged in
the woods and I • 1 took the road less
traveled by, and that has made all tlie
difference."