Meredith Herald
Volume XVII, Issue 11
Educating Women to Excel
November 8,2000
On the
inside:
□ Meredith’s
biology depart
ment head
adjusts to his
new school.
Page 3
□ Get the
Cornhuskin’
finai results
and check out
pictures from
the big day."
Page 4-5
O Charlie’s
Angels is a
heavenly expe
rience at the
movies.
Page 8
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No ‘Mission Impossible’ for seniors
□ Campus uni
fies for week-
long events.
Bktsy Rhame
Slall Wnier
The week that started out
with a spirited campus-wide
car raid last Sunday
night ended Friday with
the familiar sound of
whistles, chants and
cheers. As the week of
Cornhuskin’ 2000 drew
to a close, many Mered
ith students were at the
amphitheater to witness
the result of each class’
hard work.
“I thought this Corn-
huskin' was fantastic,”
said Christine Kelley,
Meredith Recreation
Association president.
“Each [class] per
formed really well.”
From 6 p.m. until just
after 11, members of the
Meredith community,
along with a few
strangers to Corn-
huskin' traditions, watched as
each class processed into the
amphitheater, acted, datKed,
sang and cheered.
The night began with the
corn-shucking and apple-bob-
bing events, and (he seniors
captured Urst place in each.
Each class performed skits
next, and each one related to
the class’ Cornhuskin' theme:
Mission Impossible: 2001 for
the seniors, Round 3 for the
juniors, 20 Steps Out for the
sophoiTK>res at>d Take 1 for the
Ircshmen. Al the end of the
night, the juniors placed nrs( in
both skit categories.
Hog-callin' skits came next,
with (he seniors taking first
Members of the senior class skit comnuttee make their entrance in Friday’s
parade on a truck. The class also had military vehicles and a fire truck.
Photo by Heathe* Thomson
place. Next the sophomores
won Tall Tale. Following those
monologues, each class stood
and sang their Cornhuskin’
songs.
As the judges deliberated,
classes serenaded and were ser
enaded by their big sis and li’l
sis classes. The Oddballs and
the Bathtub Ring also enter
tained the audi
ence.
Finally the
judges returned
with the results:
seniors, winning
first place in the
majority of the
week’s Corn-
huskin' events,
placed first overall.
Prdbably no one
was more excited
than the senior
class Cornhuskin’
co-chairs Kryslal
lyndall and Kate
Breen.
“Senior Corn-
huskin' is probably
the most difficult
because -©veryone
has so mtidi
Elections reach finale
Leslie Maxwell
Editor in chief
After months of watching
debates, reading newspaper
articles and holding campus-
wide discussions, election day
finally arrived yesterday.
Up through Monday evening
and Tuesday morning, most
people could not predict the
winner of the presidential elec
tion. In every poll, the differ
ence in numbers between Gov
ernor George W. Bush and Vice
President Al Gore was within
the margin of error.
All 14 of North Carolina's
electoral votes are expected to
go to Bush. The final results
from the elections were not
available before the Herald
went to press.
At press time. North Caroli
na gubernatorial candidate
Mike Easley (D) was in the
lead against Richard Vinroot
R)-
Meredith Votes, the organi
zation that sponsored much of
Meredith’s election-related
publicity, passed out Meredith
Votes buttons and decorated
campus with red, white and
blue balloons as reminders for
Meredith community members
to vote.
In addition, half of the class’
members wore masks repre
senting presidents or soon-to-
be presidents. ir\cluding Bill
Clinton, Al Gore. George W.
Bush and Ronald Reagan. The
rest of the class wore T-shirts
that proclaimed “I’m voting.
Are you?”
Kathy Palahnuk, a junior
and member of Meredith Votes,
.said that Tuesday’s focus was
to "remind everyone to get out
and vote.”
Dr Clyde Frazier, the poli
tics professor who sponsored
Meredith Votes, noted that
“Meredith students are, by and
large, civically-minded.” Thus,
he was not surprised at the pos
itive response the group
received on campus.
He also noted that campus
interest in elections was influ
enced by the race itself. “It
helped that we had a close elec
tion,” he said.
Meredith Votes also sent a
reminder to students in the
form of Frank Jeffreys, a for
mer physical education teacher
at Meredith, dressed as Uncle
Sam. Palahnuk callcd JelTreys
a “patriotic reminder”
Yesterday, the polls opened
at 6:30 a.m. and closed at 7:30
p.m. The closest polling site to
Meredith was at Forest Hills
Baptist Church on Dixie Trail.
Please see
ELECTIONS
page two
so it wasn’t until
Friday night when I
knew it had come together,”
Tyndall said. “Tliis is it for us.
We went out with a bang.”
At the end of the night junior
co-chair Tara Fulcher was
proud of her class' hard work
and called it “a gtxxl growing
experience” for her class.
“Our class really came
together this year,” she said.
Sophomore co-chair Erin
Taylor was proud of the effort
her class put forth in the weeks
before the Cornhuskin’ compe
tition Friday night.
“We felt so proud of our
selves no matter what the
results were,” she said.
Freshman co-chair Kelly
Rhodes was happy that Corn-
huskin' had brought the fresh
man class together.
“It really helped us get to
know people in our class better
Please see
CORNHUSKIN’
page four