Meredith Herald
Xii:
Volume XVII, Issue 12
Educating Women to Excel
November 15, 2000
On the
inside:
□ Lorrie
Moore will read
her work on
Thursday.
Page 2
□ Dr. Hart
ford presented
her plans for
Meredith’s
future.
Page 3
□ Basketball
team started
season with a
scrimmage.
Page 8
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National limbo continues
□ Meredith
waits for the new
U.S. President.
jKNNiFtR Boyce
Staff Writer
After more than a week
since Election Day on Nov. 7,
the selection of a president has
been a long and drawn-out
proccss-
Meredith. too, is feeling the
hangover of this year’s elec
tion. Indeed, students and fac
ulty arc frequently heard in dis
cussions about the confusing
situation. The television in the
Cate Center has rarely been
turned to something other than
election coverage.
On Monday, the secretary of
state of Florida, Katherine Har
ris, gave the mandate that the
third ballot recount of all 67 of
Florida's counties should be
completed by Tuesday at 5
p.m.
The constitutionality of this
decision was questioned, and a
Florida judge ruled that the
state could end the recount at 5
p.m., with counties making
addendums at later times.
Though Democratic officials
said that they would appeal the
decision, only a few minutes
before the deadline, the Bush
campaign filed an appeal in the
Florida courts, appealing Mon
day's decision not to stop a
manual recount of the votes in
Palm Beach and Volusia coun
ties.
Thus, according to CNN, the
5 p.m. deadline came and went
with no definite answers.
In Florida specifically, Bush
led Gore by 388 votes with
2,910,299 to Gore’s 2,909,911.
With multiple recounts
being ordered in the state of
Florida, some of those by hand,
the entire nation has spent end
less hours in front of the televi
sion awaiting the final deci
sion. Not only is the nation
awaiting the completion of the
recounts but also for the return
of absentee ballots from those
in the military.
‘There is so much to say”
about the elections,
said professor of politics Dr.
Barbara True-Weber. “We need
to let the political system work
fully."
Mathematics professor Dr.
Gwen Clay noted that the Gore
and Bu.sh arc “acting like mid-
dle-schoolers."
“I’m interested to find out
who’s going to be President,"
she said, “but I’m not really
interested in the interim stuff.
“I want to find out who real
ly got the vote of the American
people.”
Palm Beach County. Florida
is at the center of this struggle.
In a hand recount 80 ballots
were tossed out because voters
had punched holes for both
Gore and Reform Party candi
date Pat Buchanan.
Thirty-thousand ballots have
also been canceled because
either two or more holes were
punched or no holes were
punched at all.
“I think that everyone has
the right to vote,” said fresh
man Sarah Wiggins, “but if you
need help punching holes or
drawing arrows, ask for it.
Don't mess up and then get
mad when your vote doesn't
count.”
The Democratic Party asked
for the recounts in four large
Democratic counties in Flori
da.
According to the Associated
Press, these four counties,
Volusia. Miami-Dade, Broward
and Palm Beach are the coun
ties where voters complained
about the integrity of the com
puters and the results that were
tabulated.
This debate has brought on
lawsuits from voters, and the
lawsuits have further length
ened the recounting process.
In Palm Beach County, a
judge is preparing to consider a
lawsuit filed by votes in the
county to contest what they say
was an unfair ballot.
True-Weber criticized the
litigious nature of th^se elec
tions, saying, “I am worried
about the rush to the courts.
“1 don't think we should put
our election process into the
judicial system.”
Please see
ELECTIONS
page three
Eure’s ‘Out of Water’ comes to life
□ Meredith stu
dents’ project ‘a
lot of fun.’
Brtsy Rhamc
Staft Writer
On Friday, 16 former
Meredith students saw the
completion of a project they
began a year and a half ago.
These students, members of
last year's Illustration II class
in the art department, illustrat
ed a children’s book manu
script written by a famous
actor, writer and producer.
This man, Wesley Eure,
spent last week at Meredith,
and ended the week at a convo
cation celebrating the publica
tion of his book, A Fish Out of
Water, that Meredith students
illustrated.
“At first it was a class pro
ject with no intentions for pub
lication,” said Eure, in an inter
view on Nov. 8. However. Eure
noted that there is always the
possibility of publication.
At the end of the semester,
the class sent Eure copies of
their illustrations. Impressed,
Eure sent them to his publisher
without telling the class.
“Each student took a page
and when they finished it
looked like
one artist
[had creat
ed the
iI lustra
tions 1, ”
Bure said.
Eure's
publisher
had never
seen any
books
illustrated
by a col
lege class
before.
Neither
had several other publishers.
At the convocation Iasi Fri
day. Linda FitzSimons, a coor
dinator of the event and profes
sor of art, spoke.
“It is possible that we could
be the first in the country,” she
said.
She described the book as
one for children, but with a
message
for adults.
“Really
this book
is about
tolerance.”
she said.
“It’s about
a d a p t a -
tion.”
She
described
the proce
dure the
students
did to
illustrate A
Fish Out of
Water. The color illustrations
were cut-paper collage. The
students also made the textures
in the book.
“It was a long process but
actually a lot of fun,” FitzSi
mons said.
Once the book had pictures.
Regina Rowland's graphic
design students created a look
for the words in the book. She
described their strive for “bal
ance between illustrative
images and typographical
images."
An energetic Eure was intro
duced to the audience at the
convocations, both at lO a.m.
and I p.m. on Friday. He read A
Fish Out of Water aloud as the
illustrations (lashed above his
head on a screen.
Then he used audience par-
Please see
FISH
page four