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Meredith Herald April 21,1999 8 Campus Extras Prospective transfers visit Meredith Kristrn Bostedci Siaft Reporter Prospective and accepted transfer students could be seen Friday roaming Meredith's campus. The students were here in response to a Transfer Visitation Day. This day is held every year at Meredith, but this year brought about the largest crowd of students that Mered ith has ever seen. This year, 39 students attended the visitation day. Meredith Patterson, who is in charge of Tran.sfer Visitation Day for the Admissions Office, said that there were approxi mately seven transfers that vis ited last year, so 39 is a signifi cantly larger number, 'I'he students visiting had a full day planned. The morning was reserved for registering 28 of the transfers who were already accepted to Meredith . From 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. all of the visitors watched a video on college life in Kresge Auditorium. They were taken into a seminar where they were greeted by Dean of Students Sharon Cannon. Dr. Deborah Tippetl. head of the human environmental sci ences department, spoke on the importance and helpfulness of faculty advising. Stephanie Harris turned the audience’s attention to com muter life and a panel discus sion on commuter life as well as Meredith in general. The panel consisted of Leta Jo Gardner, who is the chief trans fer student adviser-elect, and Cara Dole and Monisha Mills, hoth of whom are former trans fer students. After the discussion, the group was split into two groups; students that had been accepted to Meredith and prospective transfers. The prospective transfers learned about the process of admission and opportunities at Meredith. They were also given a Meredith application. One transfer said that she was “very anxious about get ting started on her application.” The students that had already been accepted to Meredith were given the opportunity to talk to Ann Gleason about credit transfer, and Phillip Roof, the director of finanical assistance, about financial aid. The groups rejoined later in the afternoon to enjoy campus tours. The prospective students found the day to be “helpful and the faculty was wonder ful." The day resulted in fifteen of the accepted transfers paying their deposits, and they will he attending Meredith in the fall. Expert Testimony “The professional training I received in the Meredith College Legal Assistants Program has proved invaluable in etjuipping me to meet my career goals. Enrolling in the program was one of the best decisions / ever made." — 1994 LAP graduate Carol Hayden.CtAS. Vice President, Investors Title Exchange Corporation LEGAL ASSISTANTS PROGRAM An ABA-approved Paralegal Certificate program for women with a bachelor’s degree in any major MEREDITH COLLEGE 3800 Hillsborough Street • Raleigh, NC 27607-5298 yvww.meredith.edu (919) 760-2855 Meredith College admits Momen students without regard to race, creed, national or ethnic origin, age, or distdtility. Poet Deborah Pope shares her work with students LtSLlE Maxwku. Police Reporter Deborah Pope, poet and Duke professor, has advice for aspiring writers and Eng lish .students alike. "People should persist with what they love," she said in a brief interview before an informal poetry reading Tuesday after noon, Apr. 20 at 3:30. The reading, made po.ssi- ble by English Professor Ix)uise Taylor, was held in the Alumnae House. Students in Taylor’s American Litera ture cla.ss have been reading Pope's works in their class. Approximately 20 people attended. Taylor first heard about Pope from Meredith’s Writer- in-Residence Betty Adcock. But it was not until a trip to Knoxville, Tenn. that she first read her poems. Taylor .said that the first poem she read, "There is Something,’’ moved her. Taylor said that it was a "delight” to have Pope back on campus for her second reading. Pape had recently read at Quail Ridge Books in Ridgewood Shopping Center. Pope began by saying that she wanted this poetry read ing to be different than oth ers. She said she wanted it to be a “conversation.” She encouraged questions and comments from the students neat paper bag,” Pope read. "A lot of writers think that excelling in writing comes quicker than they realize," Pope said in the interview, noting that some good writers give up loo soon because they think they "don't have that magical ‘it’.” Although “A lot of writers think that excelling in writing comes quicker than they realize.” —Deborah Pope, poet and professor and professors. "Reading is as much an art as writing." she said to encourage an open discus sion. The first poem she read was "There is Something,” a poem about a daughter say ing good-bye to her mother. "She kisses your cheek/ and hands you your life/ in the she reiterated the need for continuou-S writing, she also noted that she herself has to go long periods without writ ing. "Writing is a long, long prwess,” she said. Other poems of Pope’s focu.sed on family. "The Secret" was about the appre hensions that she and her husband had at the birth of their first son. “I’m actually scared to read this out loud,” Pope .said about “Bad Child,” a poem from her newest book ab.)ut the emotions invested in a parent-child argument. In this instance, the fight was over spilled tniik. “Pantoum for a Child in Fall" was written about her younger son. A pantoum is an Italian style of poem that is repetitious and "good for obsessive subjects,” Pope said. In this four-line stanza style of poem, the first and third lines of the proceeding stanza become the second and fourth lines of the next stanza. Pope reminded and informed the audience that there is always a separation between the poem’s speaker and the poem’s author when she read "Loose Ends." While the poem was based on a childhood experience, it does not perfectly parallel Pope’s own life or feelings, she said. “You’re always going to be a mix of emotions," Pope said so that the students would know that they could write on any emotion. The poem “Changeable Geography" was about mem ories and gardening. “It merges daughter and mother together.” she said. Two vers es of the poeiri read. "I hold it like a heavy flower/ I long to carry home." After she finished reading the poems that she had pre pared, Pope took requests from the students, reading poems like "Happy” and “Equinox.” She also took time to autograph copies of their bcK)ks of her poems. Pope is a native of Cincin nati, Ohio and now leaches wriiing and women’s studies at Duke University. She is the author of three volumes of poetry; Fanatic Heart, Mor tal World and Falling out of the Sky, her newe.st volume. She is also the author of A Separate Vision: Isolation in Comemporary Women's Poetry. She has two sisters, a brother and two sons.
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