Meredith Herald
Volume XVII, Issue 8
Educating Women to Excel
October 11, 2000
On the
inside:
Feminism not an ‘f ’ word to Stone
□ How are
students and
community
members
responding to
Napster?
Page 2
□ Picnic gives
students a
chance to meet
their candi
dates.
Page 3
□ Checkout
Ben Stiller’s
Meet the Par--
en^sfor afew
good laughs.
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MerVdith Herati
at
Meredith College
3800 Hillsborough St.
Raleigh, NC 27607
(919) 760-2824
FAX 919) 760-2869
tnaxwelU@meredith.edu
□ The journal
ist challenges
Meredith.
Jenny Costa
News Editor
“He’s the real Forrest
Gump," said Dr. Garry Walton,
professor of English and direc
tor of the Honors program.
Chuck Stone, Spearman Pro
fessor of Journalism at nearby
UNC'Chapel Hill, addressed
the annua! Honors Convoca-
corps to writing the “Black
Power" speech delivered by
Adam Clayton Powell. Slone's
presence in historic events and
the pictures (hat record them
are the reasons Walton com
pared him to the 1994 movie
character.
Jokingly. Stone said, “I am
so old that 12 good friends of
mine have stamps in their
honor.’’
Along the way he has
become a strong proponent of
feminism, evinced in the title
Chuck Stone, a nationally recognized journalist, encour
aged feminism at Meredith Monday.
Photo by Steve Wrisos
tion Monday morning in Jones
auditorium. He also spoke with
students and faculty at a drop-
in luncheon as well as meeting
with Herald staff members.
Senior Deanna Whaley,
communications major, was
one who met with Stone at that
time. “It was amazing that he
would sit down with 10 college
students and talk to us,” she
said.
Stone has been a part of
many historic events through
out his career as a journalist.
He was the first African Amer
ican hired to do commentary
on television. He has done
everything from being in the
Kennedy White House press
of this year’s convocation,
“The Twenty-first Century;
The Era of Women’s Leader
ship."
Stone defined feminism as
the belief that women have
rights “equal to those of men.”
Stone noted that it was his
mother who instilled in him the
virtues of feminism and kept
him humble along the way. He
recalls once when he received a
distinguished introduction and
then turned to his mother, ask
ing. “Aren’t you proud of me?’’
Deflating his ego. she respond
ed, ”Negro, you just can’t keep
a Job.”
At Meredith, he focused on
the feminist facets of his
beliefs. Indeed, though some
have disparaged him with the
myth that only women can be
feminists, he believes that “the
ability to be a feminist depends
as much on reproductive anato
my as having the right to free
dom depends on one’s skin
color."
Junior Julie Rasmussen.
Honors student, said that she
learned that men could be fem
inists. too. “It was refreshing,’’
she said.
Rasmussen also liked his
attributing his feminism to the
women influences in his life,
saying that shows how impor
tant women are in shaping
futures.
He has advocated his femi
nist stance by writing around
40 columns about women,
speaking to countless audi
ences about the parity of power
and marching in parades like
Take Back the Night, which
will be held at NC State on Oct-
26
“Women should hold leader
ship positions across the board
according to their proportion of
the population at large,” he
said.
And the current proportion
of women in the U.S. popula
tion is 51 percent. There is
nowhere near that number of
women in major leadership
positions in the U.S.
According to Stone, there
are several things women need
Please see STONE
page five
Faircloth gate to
close at 10 p.m.
Leslie Maxwell
EOKorinchlel
Starting Oct. 18, the day that
classes resume after Fall
Break, the Faircloth Street gate
will close at 10 p.m. Currently,
the gate closes around mid
night.
In addition, beginning at 10
p.m., any car coming through
the front entrance with a male
inside will be stopped and
checked by the guard at the
gate house. This policy stands
for any day of the week, both
weekdays and weekends.
Campus Police Chief Frank
Strickland said that the goal of
the new policy is to “eliminate
guys on campus that we don’t
know about."
Strickland noted, however,
that cars with only females will
not be stopped until the usual
lime, which is T a.m. Sunday
through Thursday and 2 a.m.
Friday and Saturday.
Strickland made this deci
sion after two unauthorized
males were found on campus
last Thursday evening when
Campus Police did a random
car check.
Police arrested one male
both for drunk driving and for
possession of marijuana.
Another male, who has a long
record, ran from Campus
Police. He had no driver’s
license and was driving a
stolen car. There are now four
warrants out for his attest.
"This is the type of individ
ual we’re trying to keep off
campus,’’ Strickland said.
The SGA Executive Board,
as well as the Association for
Meredith Commuters and
Campus Health and Safety
Committee, made of faculty
and staff members, supports
the decision of the Campus
Police.
Many students were sur
prised by the change, but when
they discovered why the new
policy was implemented, they
understood and agreed with the
new policy.
Natasha Farrington, resident
junior, said of the gate’s clos
ing earlier. “It’s a great idea
just for the safety of Meredith
students.”
“We want (o know who’s on
campus.” said Strickland.