EREDiTH Herald
Volume XVI, Issue 13
Educating Women to Excel
December 1,1999
On the
inside:
□ Aqua Angels
bring in the
season.
□ Students
and faculty
duke it out in |
volleyball.
Page 41
□ Is publicity
on campus
enough?
Page 4
□ Basketball
team brings
home a win.
Page 7
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Campus meets vice president finalists
□ Academic
Affairs position has
been vacant for two
years.
Lesue Maxwell
Editor In chief
When students arrived back
from Thanksgiving Break, they
received a notice in their mail
boxes: The three finalist candi
dates for the vice president of
academic a^airs had been
announced and visits to cam
pus had been planned.
Dr. Suzann Buckley, Dr.
Richard Fallis and Dr. Rosalind
Reichard are the flnalists in the
search that has gone on since
September.
Since Dean Allen Burris
retired in the June of 1998 after
28 years of service at Meredith
College, the position has been
vacant. Dean Allen Page has
handled some of the duties of
that job since Burris’ retire
ment.
The job of vice president of
academic affairs includes
working with the president and
members of the faculty to
structure academic programs.
The person will run the acade
mic programs on campus.
On Monday, Nov. 29,
Reichard visited campus. She
is the dean of sciences and
mathematics at Elon College
outside of Burlington, NC,
about 45 minutes away from
Raleigh.
From 3 to 4:30 p.m. on Mon
day, Reichard spoke and
answered questions. The forum
was open to all students, facul
ty and staff.
FalUs is the Dean of the Col
lege of Arts and Sciences at
Belmont University in
Nashville, Tenn. He will visit
Meredith on Friday, Dec. 3. On
that day, another open forum
will be held from 3 to 4:30 p.m.
in Kresge Auditorium. Fallis
will speak and answer ques
tions from campus members.
Buckley is the Dean of the
College of Arts and Sciences at
Texas Woman's University in
Dallas, Tex. She will visit cam
pus on Monday, Dec. 6, also
speaking from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in
Kresge.
Not only are the candidates
meeting in open interviews, but
they are meeting people like
President Maureen Hartford,
Page and Vice President for
Student Development Jean
Jackson.
Each candidate will also
share a lunch-time discussion
with a small group of students,
with a mixture of traditional-
age, non-traditional age, com
muters, residents, graduate stu
dents and undergraduates.
During the lunch, each can
didate has the opportunity to
ask about concerns and praises
the students have. In addition,
the students can ask questions
of the candidate.
The search committee for
the vice presidency consisted
of students, faculty and staff.
Dr. Marie Chamblee, head of
the physical education depart
ment, was committee chair.
Others on the search com
mittee are Dr. John Huber, psy
chology; Dr. Robert Vance,
religion; Dr. Eloise Grathwohl,
English; Dr Rebecca Oatsvall,
business; Dr. Betty Webb, Eng
lish; Dr. Fran Page, music. Dr.
Mary Johnson, dean of the
graduate school; Gordon Fol-
ger, director of the Career Cen
ter; junior Carrie Swart; and
senior Sabrina Hearst.
Hartford appointed the com
mittee members to their posi
tions. Each prospective com
mittee member received a letter
during the summer. The com
mittee then began meeting dur
ing the first week of August.
The group met with all the
candidates during the first
week in November, Corn-
huskin’ week. The interviews
were held off campus.
Swart received a letter invit
ing her to Join the comn\ittee in
late July. She was unable to
attend any meetings until the
beginning of school, however.
Swart said that serving on
the committee gave her a belter
understanding of and apprecia
tion for Meredith College.
MCA helps community with cheer
Christina Holder
News Editor
With exams quickly
approaching, Meredith stu-
dent.s are anticipating the
events that are notorious for
inducing stress: late night
study sessions, back-to-back
exams, borderline grades. Yet
for many of those with vein-
popping brows and those
engrossed in thick textbooks,
some relief may be within
reach.
The Meredith Christian
Association (MCA) is spread
ing some cheer. On Oct. 31,
1999 MCA sent a letter to par
ents of resident students
informing them about a pre
exam treat for their daughters.
Cheer Bags consisting of vari
ous fruits, snacks, and candies
could be sent to any Meredith
resident.
Sam Carothers. Campus
Minister, said that the Cheer
Bags were available to resident
students only because compli
cations over distributing bags
to commuter students have hin
dered MCA in reaching the
entire Meredith community in
the past. However, Carothers
said that MCA was still work
ing on a way to amend the
problem.
The Cheer Bag project is in
its seventeenth year. Begun
with the Christmas of 1983, the
project was borrowed from a
similar idea that the Baptist
Student Union at NC State had
used.
The surprise bags were not
sold for a set price. Instead,
MCA asked parents to make a
monetary contribution to
MCA. Carothers said that in
the past, the average household
sent from $16-518. The com
bined donations, a $8000-9000
net from last year, were used to
supplement MCA’s Mission
Fund, a fund that helps with
various mission projects
throughout the year. The first
$5200 made from the project is
sent back to the NC Baptist
Student Union to supplement
the overall budget. However,
the remaining money is donat
ed to various ministries
throughout Raleigh such as
Interact, Urban Ministries, Pre
vent Child Abuse, Project
Angel Tree, Operation Christ
mas Child, the Shepherd’s
Table Soup Kitchen and the
Tabernacle Baptist Young
Women’s Linen Closet. Addi
tional money is used to pay for
MCA’s annual Spring Break
trip to Florida to work for
Habitat for Humanity and a
possible missions trip to
Bolivia this May. According to
Carothers, the MCA Council
decides where the money is
distributed. However, all of the
money collected is donated to
some organization or cause.
“It’s a win-win-win situa
tion. The mission budget wins.
The parents are delighted to
make their daughters happy,
and the students are happy to
get a surprise treat. It’s a great
feeling,”said Carothers.
This year close to 550 par
ents placed orders for the
Cheer Bags. Carothers and
members of the MCA council
used a portion of the money
donations to buy the bags and
goodies for the project.
“It is a great thing-studenls
making the bags, knocking on
the doors, spreading the cheer.
Everyone has a good time.”
said Carothers.
Students enjoy the thought
ful gifts as well. Sophomore
Molly Jensen remembers
receiving her cheer bag last
year, saying. “Sometimes the
exam schedule is so hectic that
you don’t have time to eat. So
it was wonderful of our parents
to think of us-to make things
easier for us.”
As students gear up for the
final long trek of the semester,
they may find hope in this: the
Cheer Bags are being delivered
today.