Meredith Herald
Volume XV, Issue 18
We attract bright, talented, ambitious students. Naturally, we’re a women’s college. February 10,1999
On the
inside:
□ Students,
faculty and staff
should be alert
for trespasser.
Page 2
O Student
concludes solo
tour of South
America.
Page 4
□ New local
restaurant a
treat for distin
guishing diners.
Page 7
Meredith Herald
at
Meredith College
3800HiHsboroughSt.
' Raieigh, NC 27607
(919)760-2824.
FAX (919) 760-2869
Email;
carfaa.@ma6diffa.eda
First AIDS awareness week presented
□ Students, faculty,
and staff learn about
the STDs and AIDS.
Krkten Bostedo
Staff Reporter
If you were on Meredilh’s
campus last week chances are
that you noticed many red
AIDS awareness ribbons. That
is because Feb. 1-5 was Mered
ilh’s first ever AIDS Awareness
Week. President of MEA
Dana Flotkoetter was the dri
ving force behind having this
week at Meredith. Along with a
committee. Flotkoetter wanted
to increase the campus’s
awareness about AIDS, as well
as STDs in general.
Ann Gleason, Director of
Academic Advisinng, who was
the faculty sponsor for the
event, helped obtain a Creative
Ideas Fund grant which
enabled Meredith to display the
AIDS Memorial Quilt, in die
Jones Chapel sanctuary.
Flotkoetter was excited they
were able to obtain the quilt
because it really helped AIDS
seem more real.
Monday in Jones Auditori
um. there was held an opening
convocation in which dance
and theater students were fea
tured in a performance called
“Lei's Talk About Sex, Baby.”
The big event was the speak
er from ihe AIDS Service
Agency, who lectured in Jones
Chapel on Tuesday. Carlotta
Lee, a project coordinator for
ASA, opened the speech by
quickly dispelling the myths
about AIDS, sex and contra
ception.
She then introduced a
woman who has lived with the
HIV virus for the past 10 years.
The woman. Judy, gave the
audience her account of how
she contracted the disease and
how she lives on a day-to-day
basis with HIV. She warned the
audience against sex without
protection by saying. “AIDS is
the leading killer of people in
the age range of 15 to 25; it can
and will affect you.”
Faithe Hart. Vann’s resident
director, led a discussion group
for Ihe week on both Tuesday
and Wednesday nights. There
,participants watched a video
which discussed sex. contra
ception and the most prevalent
STDs today. Intermittently, the
facilitator stopped the tape to
discuss these issues and to
allow students to air their
opinions.
Hart, who had worked with
the quilt before as a sponsor,
was excited about getting
involved because she felt the
week was important to encour
age a belter understanding of
how dangerous HIV is loday
Thursday, students were
asked to wear red to help rec
ognize the week. “Circle of
Friends"—a symbolic joining
of hands in support of persons
living with HlV-came together
on the lawn between Joyner
and the Alumnae House.
Flotkoetter was pleased with
how the week turned out. She
hopes that it will continue
because she feels it is impor
tant for everyone to be aware
and know there is a problem.
Students attend UNC-W conference
□ The event targets
concerns of African
American students.
Brooke O'Neal
Guest Wriier
Meredith College could take
a cue from UNC at Wilmington
on how to celebrate Black His
tory Month- On Friday. Feb. 5,
four Meredith students—
Sakeena Abdulraheem, Jala
Abdul-Jabbar, Erica Lee and
Brooke O’Neal-traveled to
UNC-W to attend the seventh
annual South Eastern African
American Leadership Confer
ence.
SEAALC was created by
UNC-W’s Black Student Lead
ership Network. The BSLN
wanted to offer an outlet for
African Americans to “address
their problems and concerns.”
In 1993, the conference was
named the North Carolina’s
African American Student
I.eaders Conference. In 1996,
the event was renamed the
SEAALC to include alt African
American students throughout
the Southeast.
This years iheme was
“Breaking Barriers—Building
Leaders.” During the opening
reception, speaker Columbus
Copeland stated, “Whatever
you want in life. I want you to
pray for it. If work won’t get it
and prayer won’t get it, then
forget it because you don’t
need it.”
Later in his workshop,
Copeland dealt with the subject
of failure. He reminded his lis
teners that “failure is not the
end of the road, but part of Ihe
process.”
As for entertainment after
Friday night’s reception, come
dian Mike B. kept the crowd
See CONFERENCE page 5 '
From left to right. Abdulraheem, Abdul-Jabbar, Lee and
O’Neal pose with The Real Wortcfs Kevin Powell.
Photo submitted bt Stephanis Harris
Search
committee
submits
candidates
Beiti Hall
News Editor
The Board of Trustees
executive committee received
the three presidential candi
date recommendations from
the presidential search com
mittee at an executive board
meeting Monday.
The full Board will meet
Friday. Feb. 26. Between now
and then, the executive board
may re-interview the candi
dates and may cut the the
pool from three to two or one
before submitting the name(s)
to the full Board.
While no one on the search
committee is allowed to com
ment on specifics of the can
didates due to the confiden
tiality of the seach process,
Janice Swab, a committe
member and professor of
biology, said that she was
excited about the candidates
recommended. “It’s real good
news,” she said.
After the full Board has
time to consider the candidate
or candidates, it will vote. It
is only a matter of weeks
before Meredith College will
welcome its new president.
A source close to the
search, willing to talk to the
Herald under animity. said all
three candidate recomenda-
tions are women, but as of
press time this had not been
officially confirmed. The
official spokesperson. Gene
Langley, chair of the search
committe, was out of town
and therefore, unavailable to
comment on the recommen
dations. If a woman is elected
to the position, it would mark
the first time in Meredith’s
over 100-year history that a
woman served as president
of Meredith, the largest pri-
vate four-year women’s col
lege in the Southeast.