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VOLIHME. XUV, NUMBER 4
9M HILLSBOROUGH STREET.
ST. MARY’S COLLEGE. RALEIGH. N.C.
Of
St Mary:
College
FEBRUARY 1985
Important SGA Elections to be coming up
Mrs. Shirley Moody
Raleigh Native Speaks
During Muse Week
Muse Week for many students
not only a week of readings but of
Self-expression and discovery. During
Muse Week, St. Mary’s was very fortun
ate to have a Raleigh native poet, Mrs.
Shirley Moody, to speak and teach
'Classes. Mrs. Moody has been a publish
ed poet for seven years now. She is a
*^ce Col lege and an NC State graduate.
addition she attended the NC Writers
t^nference and also studied with Sam
*^gan and Betty Adcock, other renown
ed figures in the literary world. On Wed
nesday night, January 16, she read from
^er book. Four North Carolina Women
°^ts, which was published in'1982. Not
Only (jid she read her work here, but she
eiso taught classes. Mrs. Moody has
^n doing residencies since 1978 across
'^e state of North Carolina. She has
Completed 135 residencies so far, teach-
1^9 in both private and public schools,
nor a few days during Muse Week she
'ought six classes a day, combining
®orne of the classes. She taught poetry
'^'’’iting in the classes of Marcia Jones,
Tate, Bart Rollins, Tom Bauso, and
J^ggie O’Shaughnessey. Many students
vied their hand at composing poetry,
^'udents wrote every day during class.
Moody had certain topics which
class wrote on: objects, feelings.
Silence, and “other eyes”. Students
ound writing about the objects the most
'oteresting of all. Some examples of the
'^'^jects that were given to students were
® Cow’s skull, a rattlesnake skin, shelf
'^hens, deer antlers, fossilized rock, and
^ode just to name a few. During this
everyone gained an appreciation
how difficult writing is even for pro
visional writers, but at the same time
[3^ rewarding self-expression can be.
^try appeals to the five senses, and
turn these senses into images to
^ to make readers share their ex-
'snce. Students who were interviewed
their classes were all surprised
it they could write poetry with this
L ^ed direction. Students stated, “It
vcght out abilities I did not know
^t.” One student who did not believe
"h^i write at all said the class
^ V Ped drag the creativity out of me.”
really surprised and pleased,
the^^ one of St. Mary’s students from
classes will turn out to be a
poet too.
by Sara Dowling
The time is here at St. Mary’s to start
thinking about the SGA elections which
will be held in mid-February. St. Mary’s
Student Government is unique because
every student is a member. As the elect
ion draws nearer, it is important that stu
dents understand the lengthy process by
which their leaders are elected.
First, the president of SGA selects a
nominating committee composed of a
representative group from all classes and
one or more day students. The president
of SGA is the chairman of the committee,
but she has no vote. The President of the
College and the Dean of Students must
approve each nominee. Also, each nomi
nation must have three signatures from
the committee.
The nominating committee is given
a list of eligible students who have at
least a 2.5 QPA from which they select
nominees. The committee meets fre
quently until they have selected two
nominees and^one alternate for each of
the nine SGA offices. Each outgoing
SGA officer abstains frorri voting when
her successor is being nominated.
A CURE FOR
PROCRASTINATION
by Shannon Taylor
All students procrastinate through
out the year. Most students do not start
on papers or reports till the last minute
because they do not want to do the re
search and difficult writing that it in
volves. Now St. Mary’s has a solution for
this: The Writing Center.
The Writing Center was developed to
help students with their difficult writing
tasks or even their personal writing. The
Center’s hours have expanded from those
of last semester. Now the Center is open
onMondaylO-11,12-1,3-4; Tuesday 9-
11 12-3; Wednesday 10-11,12-1; Thurs
day 10-12, 1-3; and Friday 10-11, 12-1.
Qher times are available by appoint
ments so that everyone has a chance sto
make use of the Not oNy twe
the hours expanded, but also Dr. Bart
Rollins has joined Dr. Charlotte Jones in
working with students. Faculty members
are indirectly working with the Cent^ by
Sing Dr. Jones and Dr. Rollins lists of
the assignments they have given to their
students which are filed and l^pt
hand right in the Writing Center. The fac
ulty is very enthusiastic about the great
job the writing Center
aidinq students. Any student can seek
SoTn Sny subject. It is strictly a on^on-
oood conslructive criticism and help
Sfo'pt worrying about g^
rSngOe^nter^s;-^'"
S;"’ 'onZS.
applications, r^un^J
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Nominees may accept or decline
within 24 hours. The candidates make
speeches in front of the student body at
assemblies. The process takes about
three weeks. Students run on three dif
ferent slates, one each week. The first
slate is the President and the Chairman
of the Judicial Board. The second slate is
for Vice-President and Vice-Chairman of
Judicial Board, and the third is for Secre
tary-Treasurer, Chairman of Hall Council,
Underclassman Vice-President, and So
cial Chairman. If a person loses on one
slate, that person may be nominated
again for another office. Candidates are
required to get to know students by be
ing in the dining hall on the day of their
speeches so students can have a chance
to talk to them. Each night after the
speeches students vote for that parti
cular slate. The winners are announced
the following Wednesday morning in
chapel.
The President of SGA has many
jobs. She meets with Dean Jones and
President Rice individually. She also
meets with the Chairman of Judicial
Board, President Rice, Dean Jones, and
Pia Price to discuss all Judicial Board
cases dealing with suspension or expul
sion. The President of SGA is also a
member of the Legislative body, Chair-
hrian of the Nominating Committee, a
non-voting member of the Board of Trus
tees, on the Buildings and Grounds
Committee, and a member of Hall Coun
cil. She is also on the Committee to ap
point Counselors and in charge of orient
ation for new students. She attends
functions off campus to represent St.
Mary’s.
The Vice-President of SGA performs
duties in the absence of the President.
She is Chairman of the Legislative Body,
a member of Hall Council, and on the
Committee to Appoint Counselors. The
Vice-President is the student body repre
sentative to Academic Council, co-Chair-
man of Orientation, and she aids the
Secretary-Treasurer in elections. She is
also in charge of administering the hand
book test to all students in the fall.
The Chairman of Judicial Board also
has many responsibilities. She is in
charge gathering information and evi
dence from all sources or appointing
someone to do so, and drawing up a pre
ferential slate for Judicial Board mem
bers to select the replacement for the
faculty member rotating off. She is
Chairman of Honor Week, and she ap
points two counselors to Judicial Board.
The Chairman of Judicial Board is also a
member of Hall Council, and on the
Committee to Appoint Counselors; and
she aids in elections.
The Vice-Chairman of Judicial Board
also has specific duties. She keeps a rec
ord of the minutes, and after each case
prepares reports of the work of J-Board
and submits copies to appropriate staff,
the master file, and the SGA bulietiri
board. Other responsibilities include
submitting an" ahnuaf summary of J-
Board cases to the President of the Col
lege and Dean of Students at the end of
each semester, notifying students and
teachers of suspension and expulsion
decisions, and keeping the master file in
order. The Vice-Chairman also aids the
Chairman of J-Board in any way pos-
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THE MYSTERY AND THE ANSWERS
by Shannon Taylor
During the week of January 14-18,
many students were perplexed over the
true meaning of the mysterious “Muse
Week”. The mystery has been solved.
Muse Week is St. Mary’s College Literary
Festival which is held in January of every
year. Now in its fourth year. Muse Week
was created by Anna Wooten-Hawkins,
advisor to the Muse. This year we had
three very talented literary people come
to speak at St. Mary’s. These included
Peter Makuck, David Payne, and Shirley
Moody.
Poet Peter Makuck read poems on
Monday evening, January 14, in Smedes
Parlour. Peter Makuck, Associate Pro
fessor of English at East Carolina Univer
sity, is also Director of the East Carolina
University Poetry Forum and editor of the
Tar River Review. A former Fulbright
Lecturer, Makuck has taught at a French
university and speaks fluent French. In
1981 a collection of his short stories,
breaking and entering, was pub
lished by the University of Illinois Press.
A year later a volume of his poems,
WERE WE LIVE, was published. Makuck
is currently teaching American Literature
at East Carolina University.
Novelist David Payne read from his
first novel, CONFESSIONS OF A TAOIST
ON WALL STREET, on Tuesday evening.
January 15, in Ragland Auditorium. The
novel, which is being translated into six
languages, was published by Houghton-
Mifflin, in October of 1984. Payne was
awarded a Houghton-Mifflin Literary Fel
lowship for his tour de force. His full
time job is writing, therefore he is living
entirely on his income from writing in
Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Not only
does Payne write novels, he is also a tal
ented poet and won an Academy of
American Poets Award in 1976.
Shirley Moody, a Raleigh area poet,
read her work on Wednesday, January
16, in Smedes Parlour. Her book, FOUR
NORTH CAROLINA WOMEN POETS,
was published by St. Andrews Press in
Lauringburg, North Carolina. It repre
sents Mrs. Moody’s poems, and also in
cludes the poetry of three other poets'.
Mrs. Moody has completed 150 resi
dencies as a Poet-in-the-North Carol ina-
Schools since 1978.
Not only were readings held but also
dinners for David Payne and Peter Mak
uck on the evening of their readings in
the small dining hall of the cafeteria.
More than half of those attending the
dinners were students. Some of the stu
dents also enjoyed an hour of conversa
tion with David Payne after his reading
on Tuesday night.