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THE BELLES
OCTOBER. 1977
by Maru Amburn
Belle of the Month
From the moment you
enter the Rice household you
are surrounded by a warm
and inviting spirit. The per
sonality behind this spirit is
Mrs. Rice. This feeling is not
confined to the household. Her
presence is felt throughout the
St. Mary’s campus. For her
energy, her concern, her time
and her devotion to St. Mary’s
we choose Mrs. Grace Rice as
our Belle of the Month.
Mrs. Rice attended
Madison College where she
was active in her sorority as
Pledge Chairman, as well as
in the Student Government by
being Vice-President of the
Honor Council. There she
majored in History and Social
Sciences and received her
teaching degree.
While Mr. Rice was at
Sweetbriar College, she
taught Language Arts,
History of Virginia and U.S.
History. She has always been
active with the advisors that
have been welcomed into their
home by Mr. Rice.
Not only has JVIrs. Rice
been active in the schools at
which she and Mr. Rice have
been involved, but she has
also been interested in the
communities. Already, she
attends Sunday School at the
Church of the Good Shepherd
and she is a Junior High
School youth league (EYC)
leader. She is also a member
of the Mordecai Square
Historical Park Association, a
new group in Raleigh.
Mrs. Rice’s involvement
at St. Mary’s is extensive. She
is the Marshal sponsor and is
initiating many new ideas
such as new gowns and a job
description book for the Chief
Marshal. As ex-official
member of the Board of
Trustees Building and
Grounds Committee, she is
interested in making “the
grass greener” around the St.
Mary’s campus. Within the
year, Mrs. Rice is having the
entire school to dinner at her
home. Although it takes a
great deal of time to plan and
prepare, she is anticipating
getting acquainted with all the
girls!
“The community at
mosphere is spearheaded by
the chapel,” said Mrs. Rice,
“the genuine friendliness and
happiness of the atmosphere
at St. Mary’s means
smiles...no frowns.” Mrs.
Rice means it when she tells
people to drop by any af
ternoon! Thanks Mrs. Rice
and Congratulations!!
Students-Faculty Evaluate SMC
This year there is a
committee on campus that
has undertaken the enormous
task of studying and
evaluating every aspect in St.
Mary’s life. This committee
which is under the direction of
Dr. Werman is the Self-Study
Committee.
Every ten years a school
must be reaccredited by the
Southern Association of
Colleges and Schools. In order
to reaccredit the SCAS must
judge that a school
“represents current good
practices of an educational
institution and is in full good
standing with the public,
community, alumnae.
students, and future
students.” St. Mary’s is due
for accreditation in 1979.
The Self-Study Com
mittee’s purpose is to compile
an evaluation report which
will then be presented to SACS
officials. Then using the self-
study report for background
information, the SACS of
ficials will make their own
evaluation of St. Mary’s.
Subcommittees under the
Self-Study steering committee
are composed of faculty, staff,
and students. These com
mittees are trying to make an
objective analysis of St.
Mary’s purpose and
organization, educational
program, financial resources,
faculty, library, student
services, physical plant, and
special activities.
In order to compile an
objective report that will cite
both strengths and
weaknesses, students are
going to be asked to answer a
questionnaire that will seek
their opinions of services
offered at St. Mary’s. The
committee feels that in ad
dition to helping them write
their r^ort, this question
naire will provide students
with an opportunity to com
ment on any areas of St.
Mary’s life that they feel
needs improvement.
EDITORIAL
For The Love Of Quiet
Quiet; free of noise,
hushed-according to the
dictionary. How many halls
are free of noise and hushed
for even part of the designated
time for quiet hour? The
answer is none of them, and
that is to be expected. No
normal group of girls between
ages 16 and 20 can contain
themselves for 12 straight
hours. However, there is no
excuse for the continually
boisterous behavior which has
disturbed some students to
such an extent that they either
are considering or have
transferred to other schools.
The noise factor is getting out
of hand-it must be and will be
restricted in the future by
means of severe warning and
campusing. These measures
may seem to be going over-
boanl on the issue, but if each
student would think back upon
one instance in which she
really needed to study and
was distracted by the noise
she would realize WHAT
SOME GIRLS ARE GOING
THROUGH SEVERAL
NIGHTS A WEEK. Everyone
has different study habits and
for those students who wish to
be able to study every night
there should be a quiet place
available. The library is an
obvious alternative, but the
nightly disturbances of a few
students have kept many
others from even attempting
to study there.
Everyone realizes that
students don’t intend to
disturb others. In most in
stances, especially in the
library, the incidents are
isolate. Nevertheless, if the
train of thought is broken, it is
often hard to get back and
after several interruptioas,
studying can become
frustrating.
Fall Break is in one week.
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students would agree that
they need to improve their
grades. It may be too late for
this grading period for some,
but the semester is only
halfway completed and there
is time for improvement
before exams. Each in
dividual needs to think of her
own grades and those of
others and keep this in mind
when she is making un
necessary noise. There is no
reason why less noise must
mean less fun-only more
consideration for others can
be the result.
Honor Week
Honor week will be held
Monday through Thursday of
this week. The purpose is to
stress the importance of the
honor code at St. Mary’s and
to present several viewpoints
on the subject to the student
body.
On Monday, posters will
be distributed by honor club
members and a speech on the
subject will be given by a
student during assembly.
Honor chapel will be Tuesday
night. The SGA officers will
conduct this candle light
service which will include
more thoughts on honor and
the signing of the honor book
by each student. Dress will be
formal. On Thursday there
will be a required honor
assembly at which there will
be a panel discussion. This
panel will consist of a student,
an alumnus, a faculty
member, an administrator, an
honor board member, and
Mrs. Rice. After the
discussion the meeting will be
open for questions.
Belle of the Month
National Survey
KNOXVILLE, Tenn.-A
recent survey of more than 500
U. of Tennessee students
found 93 percent drank
alcoholic beverages, up 10
percent from 1970 and 4
percent from 1973.
Jack S. Ellison, a
professor of health and safety,
found in his survey that the
average grade point for
nondrinkers was 3.4, while
drinkers averaged 2.56. Vodka
was the most popular distilled
beverage for both men and
women, with gin and bourbon
following closely.
Daily beer drinkers
constituted 15.6 percent of the
survey. About 2.4 percent of
the sample said they drank
liquor daily. Nearly 75 percent
of the surveyed students said
that they have been in
toxicated, with 45 percent of
the men and 33 percent of the
women saying they have
passed out because of
drinking. 7 percent of the
drinkers said they have been
arrested for public in
toxication and 6 percent had
been arrested for drunken
driving.
Clothes Make A Difference
UNIVERSITY PARK,
Pa.-“Clothes do make a
difference in the classroom,
even though most of us would
like to believe otherwise,”
said Dr. Steven A. Rooman, a
researcher who recently
completed a study on the
subject.
One hundred Penn State
University students examined
pictures of the same teacher
dressed formally and in
formally. In formal clothes,
the students perceived the
teacher to be better prepared,
more organized and more
knowledgeable while the
informally attired teacher
was perceived to be more fair,
sympathic and enthusiastic.
RoUman said that the
informal clothes may suggest
a closer age association
between the teacher and
student which may account
for the responses. He said a
teacher should dress ac
cording to the image he or she
wants to project.
First Impressions
LAWRENCE, Kan.-Pre-
exam bulletin for students:
There’s no truth to that old
advice about sticking with
your first answer on a
multiple choice test.
Two researchers recently
allowed a sample of students
to change multiple choice
answers up to four times and
found that students changed
from the wrong answer to the
right answer more often than
they made changes from right
to wrong. Various studies
since 1929 have also disputed
Students Fast -
that the first answer is best.
The new advice to follow
is this: Be careful in the first
place when answering a
question. A second test group
of students who were not
allowed to change their
multiple choice answers at all,
also did well by thinking
carefully in the first place.
Note: CH designates articles
taken from “Collegiate
Headlines,” a syndicated
bulletin for student
newspapers.
On October 1, Jody Genet
and Melicent Jeter attended a
C.R.O.P. fasting project to
raise money for hungry
families throughout the world.
The girls raised money by
getting SL Mary’s students
and faculty to sponsor them.
The two eam^ over $80
dollars of the total group
earnings which exceeded $500.
Jody and Melicent joined
a group of 18 others at the
Knights of Clumbus Club
House on the outskirts of
Wendell. From 12:00 Saturday
afternoon until 12:00 Sunday
the group went without food
Raise Money
and beverage, with the ex
ception of water.
The girls commented that
the 24 hours of starvation was
an adventure but at times they
wished that they were both in
S.M.C.’s cafeteria and they
can now have better ap
preciation for the plight of the
undernourished and were
thankful for having the St.
.Mary’s cafeteria to return to.
The $80 contributed by St.
Mary's students was greatly
appreciated by the Christian
World Science Fellowship
wWch sponsored the fast.