EREDiTH Herald Volume XV, Issue 5 We attract bright, talented, ambitious students. Naturally we’re a women’s college. September 23,1998 On the inside: □ Housekeepers receive praise during national recognition week. Page 2 □ Local play wright to show audience what lies behind Locked Doors, Page 3 □ Review of Rounders', Film has shape, but is strictly for squares. Page 8 Meredith Herald at Meredith College 3800 Hillsborough St Raleigh, NC 27607 (919) 760-2824 FAX (919) 760-2869 Email; cartera@meredith.edu MEA celebrates entertainment □ Wednesday’s Luau featured the popular band The Clef Hangers. KRISTEN BOSTEDO Staff Reporter Meredith Entertainment Asso ciation gave Meredith College a week that was filled with fun and excitement. Sept. 14 through the 19 was MEA’s week to strut their stuff. The festivities were kicked off Monday evening in the din ning hall where MEA played music for the campus’s enjoy ment, giving the dinner hours something out of the ordinary. The music choices were varied, and there was something played to suit almost anyone’s taste. Tuesday, MEA offered a buy- one-get-one-free balloon special at the Balloon Gallery. The Bal loon Gallery is located in the Cate center and is run by mem bers of MEA, who use the gallery to raise money to support the events that they sponsor, such as the White Iris Ball. The climax of the week was Wednesday’s luau dinner, which took place in the courtyard out side the Belk Dining Hall. Din ing Services served grilled chick en and barbecue, along with pasta, salad and chips. The Pepsi truck was there to provide drinks to quench any thirst and they came complete with complimen tary straws decorated with puffy tropical flowers. As if that weren’t enough, MEA members in grass skirts even passed out leis and danced with The Clef \ Hangers, a of shagging for a mere fifty cents in the dining hall after dinner. The lessons were full of laughter and feet fumbles as the students tried desperately to master the steps. MEA week ended with a regu lar Friday meeting held in 202 Harris during the 10 a.m hour. This was an open meeting, and anyone interested was invited to attend. This open session was to See MEA page 4 p 1»1 hag lessons weere Thurs day nights special event. Expert Nan Miller taught Meredith stu- Food and decorations allowed for students to dents the art authentically Hawaiian. Photo by Alison Flood Open Day brings prospective students □ Admissions sponsors fall visitation for high school seniors. BETSY CARBREY Staff Reporter On Friday, September 18 the Meredith community welcomed area high school seniors to attend this years first Open Day. The purpose of The Open Days, said Shera Hube, is to introduce high school seniors to the Meredtih experience as they are narrowing their college choices. “By meeting our stu dents, faculty, and staff they will be encouraged to apply,” added Hube. The perspective students attended an academic and stu dent activities fair and a student panel presentation, conducted, a class visitation, and toured the campus. Visiting student Jennifer Carter of Raleigh said that she really enjoyed attending Survey of American Literature and was impressed that the professor knew all of the names of the stu dents. Sarah Watson of Pink Hill shared a similarly positive expe rience in the Calculus class she attended. The Admissions Office finds that Open Days are quite suc cessful. Approximately 75 per cent of students who visit Mered ith’s campus apply for admis sion. Each year the Admissions Office has the visiting students complete an evaluation form to improve the structure or nature of the Open Days to better accommodate the visiting stu dents. The Admissions Office is not the only integral part of the Open Days, however. Shera Hube stresses the importance of the whole college effort to welcome the students. Current Meredith students are involved by serving as hostesses, working with regis tration, and giving campus tours. Faculty and staff are involved by See OPEN DAY page 4 Prospective students line up in Belk Dining Hall to have their first meal at Meredith. photo by auson flood Campus leases tower area Beth Hall News Editor A cellular phone signal tower was completed last week on the college campus area leased to a communications company, said Executive Vice President Chuck Taylor during an interview Fri day. Because the tower is in a “prime location” for All-tel Communications (formerly 360 Communications) the negotiated lease will be “a great financial benefit to the college,” said Tay lor. All negotiations were made through Taylor’s office. All-tel, a division of Sprint, approached the College last fall to request permission to build the 70 foot tower in a wooded area on the Wade Avenue side of Meredith grounds. All-tel contracted SBA Inc., a service provider to wireless com munications companies, to find possible tower sights and negoti ate leasing, said Taylor. Cellular phone systems work by passing siganls from cell tower to cell tower. David Cutlip, a project diretor for SBA, said the chosen area on the campus would fill the signal gap between the tower at Cameron Village and one on the NCSU campus. The traffic on Wade Avenue and on 1440 interfered with sig nals. The new tower will improve signal reception.The Board of Trustees approved the construction last fall, but the actual construction of the tower began only two weeks ago due to a long delay in the city’s permit ting process. The housing box for the tower will be finished in a couple of weeks, said Taylor. The communications compa ny wields jurisdiction over the 50x50 foot tower area, but Meredith has the right to move the tower to another location on campus if the college ever needs the current area. The current area does not interfere with any of Meredith’s long-range plans in the foreseeable future, said Tay lor. The company’s access to the tower area will not impact the campus. The walk-through gate See TOWER page 4

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