The Belles
VOLUME XLII, NUMBER 5 ST, MARY’S COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N.C.
of
St. Mary’s
Collese
MAY, 1981
REYNOLDS WINS
IN ROAD RACE
by Anna Tate
On Monday, April 5, 1981
the streets of downtown
Raleigh flooded. However, the
streets and sidewalks were
not flooded by watw; they
were inundated with waves of
runners.The Hillsborough St.
area was the scene of the
fourth annual Raleigh Road
Race.
Amid this sea of 4600
participants ran a young
sports enthusiast from St.
Mary’s College named Ellen
Reynolds. Ellen won the
>hfomen’s division of the 6.2
mile race by clocking the time
of 41:03. 1,033 women
participated which was
almost double the number of
women that ran last year.
Ellen set a steady pace
with rhythmic strides, but was
unaware of her good position
in the pack until she hit the
fourth mile mark and people
began yelling, “You’re the
first woman.” At the fifth mile
mark Ellen looked back over
her shoulder and did not see
any other women trying to
challenge her. “At that
point,” EUen said, “I knew I
wasn’t going to quit.”
Like many other runners
on Sunday, Ellen was touched
by the tune “Rocky” which
had been taped and was
played for the runners at a
particularly agonizing section
of the course. “I really liked
that,” Ellen said, “It was
encouraging.”
And encouraged she was,
so much so that she went on to
win the women’s division of
the Raleigh Road Race and
became a Raleigh and St.
Mary’s celebrity.
Other participants from
St. Mary’s included Cathrine
and Emily Winfield, Valinda
Dubose, and Beth Fischer.
EASY MOVERS BRING
DANCE EXPERIENCE
by Sandra Moore
Dancing professionally is
anything but easy. Just ask
Patti Kilpatrick, Gregory
Morkovin, or Cyntoia Schraf-
Fletcher of the Easy Moving
Dance Company. They
rehearse six days a week and
perform all over North
Carolina;
The Easy Moving Dance
Company performed at St.
Mary’s April 27th. They
presented three pieces, one of
them a premier. The
Company has been
professional for seven years.
There are four full-time and
four part-time dancers. Their
studio is on Hillsborough
Street above Darryl’s and
Edwards Grocery. Their
classes are open to the public.
Patti is from Asheville
and has been with the
Company five years; Greg
studied in Boston and has just
joined the Company; Cynthia
is married to a N. C. State
Assistant Coach, sometimes
works with the cheerleaders,
and has been with the
Company two years. They all
met at the American Dance
Festival held annually at
Duke University in Durham.
Modem dance consists of
technique and strict control;
The difference between baUet
and modern is in the
choreography. Modem dance
is imagination and what one
sees—not just movement.
There may be no meaning
other than the movement.
Dancers interpret the music
or contrast it. Greg Morkovin
compares modem dance to
the flowing colors of an
abstract painting. But there is
a time element involved. In
dance, it is created on stage
and then gone. The craft is in
presenting it again.
The Easy Moving
Company will be pertaming
June 12 at the Raleigh LitUe
Theatre.
INSIDE
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Exam tips
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Letter from China -- Part H
VIOLENCE INCREASES ON CAMPUSES
by Mary Taylor
Two college women
return to their dorms,
laughing and talking about
their night on the town. As the
girls stagger out of the dimly
lit parking lot, they fad to
notice three figures hidden by
the shadows of a car. The
three men emerge from
behind a car and saunter
silently toward the girls. The
girls, too immersed in
conversation about that cute
guy at Zack’s, unfortunately
do not notice. Two we^s later
they are found raped and
dead in a heavily wooded
area.
Why was this senseless
incident allowed to ha^ien?
Where were the security
guards? Why wasn’t there
sufficient lighting in the
parking lot?
This is a fictional account
of what mi^t happen on any
of the area’s college campuses
due to the increase of violence
in the Raleigh area. With the
brutal deaths of Peace
Professor Mary Schwartman
and State student Leslie Anne
Kennedy, many college
females have become
concerned about the safety on
college campuses.
After interviewing two
college coeds, one from Peace
and the other from State, it
seems that the increase of
violence is due both to laxity
on the student’s part and
insufficient security. Both
girb agreed, violence may not
be increasing but awareness
of violent crimes on women is.
Blonde, petite Jana
Wright solenmly told me that
since the death of Leslie
Kennedy, she had heard of
three or four assault attempts
of women on campus. Jane
Smith never thought about
violence until the meaningless
death of Dr. Schwartman.
“Violence has always been
there, but it does not affect
you until it happens to
someone you know.” Now
most Peace students leave
campus in groups of four or
five. They are not allowed to
walk to Hardees or Krispy
Kreme only two blocks away.
Different views were
found when the girls were
asked who they felt was to
blame. Some put the blame
squarely on security systems
and poor lighting around
campus. “Now,” Jane says
“we don’t walk by ourselves
at night; public safety takes
us where we want to go.” She
does not mind calling public
safety to take her to the
library. Jane believes part of
the problem at Peace is
security. Most of the security
guards are over forty-five.
Many are retirement age.
There have been too many
occasions when the security
let strange men pass by
unnoticed.
Only State and St. Mary’s
campuses have twenty-four
hour security systems. State
has phones wifii blue lights,
which are at various points
throughout die campus. If a
student is in trouble, and she
is near one of these phones,
she picks up this phone and
public safety will be there
within minutes.
St. Mary’s security
guards cannot be everywhere
at once, but if St. Mary’s had
an easy emergency number
which every person on
campus would be required to
know, if St Mary’s had blue
light phones and if the
security would continue to be
more conscientious about
strangers and if they had
someone in the security office
at all times then the robbery
and attempted assaults on St.
Mary’s students would be
prevented.
But the students must also
participate in their own
security. Don’t walk alone at
night. If you must walk at
night, go in groups of three or
four. Above all it is stupid to
leave side doors propped open
at 1:00 a.m. A strange male
could easily be in your room in
minutes and, it take only
minutes for a rape to happen.
It takes years for the victim to
recover from the memory.
Faculty Members Do More Than Teach
by Foo Vaeth
By day they tend to rattle
on various facts and figures
that are supposed to enhance
our learning experience, yet
something tells me this
faculty of ours is up to more
than the students’ think. While
trying to find out if these
teachers were indeed actual
people, I found a wide
assortment of activities and
hobbies that occupy their
spare time.
For example, when Dr.
Coffey isn’t running, reading,
or working she can be found
traveling around the world,
having already been to the
U.S.S.R., Australia, Egypt,
Japan, and several other
interesting countries. Mrs.
Scoggin of the Social Studies
department is also a .traveler
with her archeological digs
taking her to the Middle East.
When Mrs. Greiner is not
reeling off formulas, she can
be found dashing down a river
canoeing with her husband.
Mrs. Stoops .is diligently
working on her book dealing
with the history of St. Mary’s,
and when Dr. Kalmar isn’t
improving her powerful tennis
backhand she is working on
her book as well. Wait, there is
more.
Dr. Watson and Dr. Hume
can be found in the summer
sailing away on their
sailboats. Dr. Murray and Dr.
Quinn are both accomplished
organists, and any student of
Mr. Faucette’s knows of his
undying love for horses. Mr.
McRae of the math
department is an avid runner
and I have heard Mr. Rice is
quite a runner himself,
jogging about five miles a
day.
I really would get a
great deal of pleasure by
being able to say, “Sorry
faculty - you flunked the Are
Teachers Human? test.” Yet
with such a wide variety of
activities, I have no other
choice. All of you are hereby
awarded a 99.9 in Foo’s
“Pleasures of Life - 101”
class.