Rotunda vol 58, no 21 april 10, 1979

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LONGWOOD COLLEGE, FARMVILLE, VIRGINIA TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 1979

Cause Of Dorm Fire Still Undetermined ByPAULAJOHNSON The cause of a fire in Curry Dormitory is still unknown, according to college officials, Sunday. The fire, which was discovered around 10 a.m.

Friday, totally destroyed one suite and damaged others on the dorm's fifth floor.

According to President Henry I. Willett Jr., ruled out as the cause of the blaze has been any electrical or mechanical failure and arson.

"Beyond that the fire is still undetermined," stated President Willett. "The arson people have already been here and confirmed that it was not arson."

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Vanities Captivates Audience A Review

By ROBERT P. WEBBER Longwood audiences were treated to an excellent production of Vanities at Jarman Auditorium last week. The play concerns three young women at various stages in their lives: as high school cheerleaders, college sorority girls and young adults.

The three are at the zeniths of their lives in high school. They are still Big Women On Campus in college, but cracks are already showing. As adults, the former head cheerleader has no job and no ambition, the high school rebel no morals and no respectability, and the high school Miss Future Homemaker no imagination and no liveliness. Their lives are three dead ends.

The actresses quickly established the personalities of their characters. Joanne (Karen Wood) is a whiner. Her ambition in life is to marry, have children, and join the Junior league, and she threatens to "just die" if anything occurs which may thwart that dream. Miss Wood unerringly emphasizes the vacuousness of the character.

Kathy (Kathy Sowers) is a compulsive organizer. She organizes her high school, she organizes her sorority, and she organizes her friends, but she is unable to organize her own life.

Miss Sowers is particularly effective as the lonely, burnedout adult Kathy. Lisa Hughes, as Mary, has every man in the audience panting by the third act.

Her Mary is a trollop in high school, a tramp in college, and a slightly overacted strumpet as an adult.

Technically as well as emotionally, the actresses were very good. Gestures were natural. Movements were realistic. Voice projections were ample, and all three had good senses of comic timing. The pacing was brisk.

The staging was imaginative.

The actresses were never offstage; they changed costumes and applied makeup at huge vanity mirrors on stage before each act. That gave the audience a perhaps too intimate view of the actresses, but it also helped to establish character and show growth. It left the actresses in awkward positions before the third act, however, when they had to turn and walk to the wings before the action could begin.

Scenic designer Benjamin Emerson believes that less is more, and the set consisted of the oversize vanity tables and multipurpose cubes as props.

Costumes were gorgeous and appropriate, particularly in the third act, when career girl Kathy appeared in a functional pant.suit. homemaker Joanne in a frumpy suit, and voluptuous Mary in a slinky, clingy dress.

Any play which silences the squeaky Jarman seats must be counted a success. The audience loved Vanities, and with good reason. The acting throughout was as good as any seen at Jarman this year, and the theme of the play was particularly appropriate for the college audience. Vanities closed the 1978-79 dramatic season for the Longwood Players in excellent fashion.

Two girls of the three room suite were asleep at the time the fire was discovered. The girls from across the hall saw smoke from under the suite door and got the sleeping girls out.

The six girls who lived in the suite are Shirley Blanks, Ann Furr, Karla Williams, Beula Bolden, Cheryl Logan, and Brenda Hamner. Miss Hamner is away student teaching.

Most of the damage was

confined to the fifth floor. The laundry and kitchen room walls were badly scorched. The fourth floor sustained some water damage as did third.

Residents of the fifth floor are not able to remain there for the rest of the year. The residents of the two suites above and below the fifth floor suite will also be relocated. In all, approximately 50 to 55 students of the dorm's 383 residents have been relocated.

Students were allowed to reenter the building, Friday, around 3:30 p.m. to collect enough belongings to last them through the week end. After lunch Sunday those who would be remaining were allowed to return to their rooms. The fifth floor residents began their relocation.

Students are asked to check with their parents' home owners policy. By law, a Virginia company should pay at least $100 deductible, longwood does not have any insurance policy concerning student belongings nor does any other college. It is all covered by personal home owners insurance.

There is evidence that the temperature during the fire was as high as 1600 degrees F.

"We were fortunate to have stopped the fire when we did. If not, there would have been more damage than what was sustained," stated President Willett.

He also stressed that because all doors were closed more rooms were saved.

As of yet there is no estimate of the damage. A structural engineering team will be called in before a final estimate is made.

According to President Willett, insurance should cover the damage.

When asked why there are not any sprinkler systems in the dorms, President Willett said, "They are not required. They would have ruined the property of everyone else. The systems were not designed to save lives."

He was also asked about smoke detectors. "Smoke detectors are not required by the state fire marshal. We will consider them and will probably put them in the rooms."

In fighting the blaze, three members of the HampdenSydney fire departmert were injured. Two w;re treated for burns and one for smoke inhalation at the local hospital and were later released.

Weekend Makes Spring Reality

By Donna Hasky the picnic), the Student Union Spring is officially here. Of Spring Weekejid, Committee, course, the calendar told us that chaired by Marjone Croxton, put earlier, but some things are in a number of hours to insure needed to really make you feel it. that everyone had a good time.

After a mini-concert with Willie Spring Weekend '79 provided Nininger and Family on these little 'extras' that made Thursday night and a mixer on Spring a reality...like the first picnic of the year, flying frisbees Friday night featuring the Royal everywhere, blankets on the Kings, Saturday was the day. ground, warm sunshine and lots Student Union activities began at of good, outdoor music. 10 a.m. with a Scavenger Hunt, Responsible for most of the above which participants claimed had (except maybe the sunshine and been devised as an illegal form of

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cruel and unusual punishment.

The winning team consisted of Robyn Black, Ix>ri Davis, Jan Jennings and Pam Wagner.

Trailing by only one item, the second place team was comprised of Sara Blue, Libby Bowman, Donna Hasky and Steve Whitten, otherwise known as "The Fantastic Four."

A favorite of aspiring frisbee floaters was the professional frisbee demonstrations and workshops provided by C.OODTIMES PLYING DISC SHOW Saturday's picnic lunch was the setting for the talented and everpopular band, "Southern Hospitality." Flatfooting and impromptu square dancing became the order of the day for some, while others preferred to merely sit and watch. For those who saved their energy, the afternoon still had a lot in store.

For those who made it through to Saturday night, Robbin Thompson and the No Slack Band provided a fast-paced and exciting show.

Sunday afternoon was the end to an enjoyable week end, as a large crowd enjoyed sunshine, good music and the entertainment of LOCO-MOTION CIRCUS, and "THE BUFFALO CHIPKICKERS."

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The Milo Russel exhibit will be in Bedford Gallery this month.

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An Artist Interprets "Isolated Individuals'1

By J.TRIMBLE craypas, "Patio Figure," If you have been in the "landscape With Figure" (there neighborhood of Bedford are two of this title) and the oil, Building's Gallery lately you "Landscape with Figure." may have noticed a change. No Russel's palette is one in which longer are you greeted by the turquoise and pink predominate. expansiveness of the "Old West" The viewer is able to feel a Rather than the "Great similarity of mood conveyed by Outdoors," you will find the the various figures although the interior landscapes of Milo mood itself is somewhat indeterminable. Russel's figures, Russel displayed.

I x)ngwood College and the Scott being quiet and non-threatening, McKennis Gallery in Richmond invite one to make many are co-sponsors of the Milo interpretations. At one point in Russel exhibit taking place in the time the impression of softness touches one; the softness as Bedford Gallery April 3-26.

Twenty works by Russel are expressed in the curves of the displayed in the Bedford Gallery. figures' arms, their serenity of These are mainly oils (which is expression, the soft and the artist's preferred media) and caressing nature of the clothing a few craypa "sketches." In which is worn.

Conversely, the viewer may be talking with the artist he said that he worked with the craypas when struck by a sense of man's trying to develop ideas for his oil isolation and the mass production paintings. and coolness which seem to If one were to state a particular characterize our 20th century. All theme for this show it would have in all, Milo Russel's exhibit is a to be "Individual Figures." thought provoking show.

Russell's liet-motif of single Biographical Information: persons, as well as the similarity Milo Russel has taught at of facial features and expression Virginia Commonwealth which can be seen, provides a University for the past 20 years. unity in this show. Variety has He received his initial training at been achieved through the the School Museum of Fine Arts variation of stance (seated or in Boston, Mass. He earned his Standing) and gender (male or BFA at VCU in 1954 and his MEd. female) of the figures he paints. at UVA in 1957. He is currently Another unifying thread which Associate Professor of Art for the can be seen in Russel's work is Department of Painting and the inclusion of nature in some Printmaking at Virginia capacity. Although the majority Commonwealth University. of his figures are contained He has exhibited in numerous within interior environments galleries in Virginia and had there is usually a vase with works included in the Virginia flowers or a plant in the Museum Traveling Exhibit. He background. was given the award of the ART As plants are secondary in ACHIEVEMENT KEY by VCU in Milo's interior environments, the 1954 and most recently received persons included in his the Major Award at the James landscapes are of less River Show in Newport News. importance than nature herself.

This can be seen by the absence of facial and figural detail which characterizes the people of his interior scenes. The works in which figures are present are the

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Vest Presents "Words And Music" Tonight

By WILLIAM C. WOODS One of the secret rock stars of the sixties will break ten years of silence tonight at 7:30 in Wygal Auditorium when the Gyre presents "Words and Music: Quentin Vest in Concert."

Vest—best known here as poet and professor—is better known nationally to fans of jazz, rock, blues, and country as the man who abandoned a promising career in pop to court a different muse. But he sees no contradiction. "Irately I find it harder and harder to separate poetry from music. What starts out a poem may wind up as disco punkabilly bop. And the other way around."

The pianist (he plays five other instruments) plans to offer a blend of both tonight. He's also been studying classical keyboards intensively over the past year, and claims to be under the spell of the legendary Irvin Nyireghazhi, the bizarre Romantic master who stunned the world in the 1920's and then hid in a I/>s Angeles hotel room for fifty years. "But what really made me decide to play again was meeting Tray Eppes, a fine musician who can really hear. I play with him now whenever I can." Guitarist Eppes teaches

art at IiOngwood.

Though Vest's main involvements over the past decade have been teaching and poetry, he spent years in Nashville and on the road with some of the most important pop music artists of all time: Big Joe Turner, John I^ee Hooker, the Drifters, Red Foley, and Faron Young only begin the list, which also includes performances with Elvis Presley's original backup band—and with the King's father.

"Come on up to the house some time," Vemon Presley once told Vest, "and meet Elvis. Elvis likes music."

Vest also toured with Tammy Wynette, who recorded some of his songs, and he worked his way through a PhD at Vanderbilt by playing in dozens of Nashville recording sessions, somehow finding time to appear in a Hollywood movie and to cut a much-discussed unreleased album with musicians who later backed Bob Dylan on Blonde on Blonde. Appropriately, his doctoral dissertation, completed in 1973, discussed historical consciousness in modern Southern writing.

In the last few months, he has been in a passion of song writing.

"Sometimes it's like a blizzard

when they come," Vest says, "and I can't get them down fast enough. Most of the music I ever wrote I can't remember. If I can't play something new, I won't play.

I don't want to be laying down 'Shake, Rattle, and Roll' in a Holiday Inn when I'm seventy."

While at Vanderbilt, he was awarded the American Academy of Poets Prize, and since then his work has appeared in numerous periodicals and anthologies, although his first book of poems still resists completion. Of his poetics. Vest has remarked, "What is made clear will remain mysterious if it is clear enough."

The clear mystery that surrounds his long silence as a musician may be enacted in Wygal tonight.

Music Schedule Includes Concerts And Initiation

By SHARON JANOVICH As the 1978-79 Academic year comes to a close, the Department of Music still has a variety of activities left for the enjoyment of the college community. The Camerata Singers sang on Saturday, April 7th for Spring Weekend and along with the Concert Choir, are preparing for a Spring Concert at 4 p.m. on the twenty-second of this month. The 24th will then bring the "Conductor's Concert". The 12th and 17th of April will bring about 2 additional Departmental Recitals. One of the highlights of the semester will be the recital held by the head of the Department, Dr. Egbert, and

faculty members, Mr. Williams and Mrs. Williams.

The last weekend of March brought about the initiation and official charter of the first men's professional Fraternity on Longwood's campus. Phi Mu Alpha, Men's music honorary fraternity had 18 initiates who are: John Hudson — president, Scott Noonan — vice-president, Tony Kent — secretary, Dale Roller — treasurer, Charlie Mason, Doug Blevins, Hank Dahlman, Nathaniel Eisemann, Dennis Helms, Rusty Hurley, Chuck I^fferty, Bill McKaig, Billy Nixon, Andy Pittard, I/enny Smith, Tom Sullivan, Jack Tolbert and Wilson Troxell.

Congratulations Guys!

Alumni Ass. Solicites Seniors

By PAM WAGNER This is Senior Challenge Week.

During this time seniors will be contacted by members of their class, asking them to make pledges of various amounts to the Alumni Association.

This fund drive was started with a kickoff banquet Thursday, April 5. There were twenty enthusiastic students in attendence. Speakers for the evening were Miss Niki Fallis, and Mrs. Nancy Shelton. Miss Fallis talked about the Placement Office and what it can do for the seniors now and in the future. Likewise Mrs. Shelton spoke on the Alumni Office and the benefits Alumni receive.

Coordinator of these events is Janet Hedrick, Director of Annual Funds.

The personal solicitation for pledges and total amount will be presented at graduation by Carol Cooper, Senior Class president.

Participation in the Alumni Association through monetary gifts and attendence at Chapter activities throughout the state will keep alumni in touch with Ix)ngwood College. Graduation is only the beginning of a new and exciting relationship each alumnus has with his school.

NEWS GLIMPSES

By CHERYL WILCOX President Carter speaking at the State Democratic party's annual Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner said that he is "prepared for a fight" to bring about congressional approval of his proposal to tax windfall profits that oil companies might gain because of his decision to decontrol petroleum prices.

The USS Ohio, the most powerful submarine ever built and the first equipped with trident missiles was christened at the General Dynamics pier in Groton, Conn.

After a two year $5.8 million probe into the slayings of John F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King a divided house committee has maintained its majority view that two gunmen fired at

President Kennedy in Dallas and that circumstantial evidence in the King case also raises the likelihood of a conspiracy in that case.

President Carter, commenting on a new Senate effort to permit voluntary prayer in public schools, has said at a news conference, "I think the government ought to stay out of the prayer business."

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Tuesday, April 10,1979

Niningers Have Unique Style

By Frank Creasy Although Lankford's Gold Room has seen its share of fine performances, it is doubtful if that room has ever experienced such a rare combination of quality music and general good times which were to be found there Thursday evening, April 5.

Willie Nininger and Family provided for its small audience in performance which only the most absent minded person could soon forget. Despite a country flavor pervading Nininger's music, to categorize the group as country or any other musical faction would be an outright lie. Willie Nininger and Family springs from the melting pot as refreshingly unique and consistent throughout their diversified format.

Willie Nininger himself proved a most professional performer whose sparkling personality put the audience right at ease. But Nininger and family's strong torte is the well arranged, consistent quality of their music.

Nininger plays lead acoustic and is competently accompanied by Bill Gehling's rhythm. Nininger's sister, Annie, sings harmony with Bill, although both of them got their shot at solos; neither one disappointed the crowd.

Yet the most pleasant surprise of all came in the form of an elderly but charming gentleman known as Eugene, who also happens to be Willie and Annie's father. Eugene's fiddle shone through as an integral part of the entire performance. His solo on "Popeye the Sailor-or-Snow White and the Seven Dwarves Breakdown" left the audience wanting more of the same.

The two sets Nininger played ranged from one end of the musical spectrum to the other.

Songs differed from Bob Dylan to Paul Simon, to John Denver to the Beatles. Nininger also has written songs for the Captain Kangaroo show, and his "I'm Proud to be a Moose" was naich more pleasant and enjoyable than would usually be expected of a children's song. If all this was not enough, Nininger asked for requests, and was asked to do "Blackword" from the Beatles

popular White Album. Though Nininger had not practiced the song, he came through with an astoundingly competent rendition. Just to make sure nothing was left out, Nininger and father Eugene did the William Tell Overture, with a slight country variation to account for the fiddle.

Willie Nininger and family has the ability to leave its audience hoping that Nininger's return will be soon to come.

Frisbee Enthusiasts

By Chuck Cole A radar station in Farmville, Virginia reported that a barrage of unidentified flying objects was sighted on their radar screen on two different occasions on Saturday, April 7, 1979. The report further stated that the UFO's were clustering on the portion of the Longwood College campus known as the I^ankford Mall.

What was the mysterious origin of these objects? Were alien beings visiting the Earth? Is this story paralleling Orson Wells' "War of the Worlds"?

The answer to all these questions is a resounding no.

There were some objects buzzing around on the Ix>ngwood campus, but they all seem to have been part of the GOOD TIMES FLYING DISC SHOW, which visited the campus as part of Spring Weekend festivities.

The Good Times Flying Disc Show is an exhibition of that alltime college favorite sport known as Frisbee. Frisbees have been an integral part of college since their invention, but one has to be awed by the exhibition of freestyle Frisbee by Show members Ken Westerfield and Mary Kathron. This pair combined gymnastics, disco, and showmanship while defying all laws of gravity with their Frisbee feats.

Waterfield and Kathron, are no strangers to the sport of Frisbeeing, as both are renowned in the nation for their feats. Mary Kathron currently holds the U.S. and Canadian titles of National Freestyle Champion.

Ken Westerfield is the current holder of the WORLD record for Frisbee distance with his toss of

552 feet. This record is currently under consideration by the Guiness Book of World records as being the farthest that any object has been thrown.

Long Frisbee enthusiasts should be more proficient in the art of Frisbee due to the instructional part of the Disc Show.

Ken and Mary demonstrated the different techniques of throwing the Frisbee, including the crossbody, power, and underhand tosses. Students were asked to participate during this phase of the show and eagerly showed their Frisbee interest and skills.

When the instruction was over, Waterfield and Kathron prepared for their Freestyle exhibition by warming up the crowd with top 40 hits. When they finished and the cheers of the crowd died down, they distributed a large number of Frisbees to the crowd and handed out individual instructions to all.

Bubble Cum Champ Chosen

By JUDI STANLEY "Ten and a half inches! That's the biggest yet!" said one of the measurers at the bubble gum blowing contest. The Student Alumni Association, who were primarily responsible for guiding prospective students on spring week end, sponsored this contest during the Southern Hospitality band break.

There were thirteen participants trying to blow the biggest possible bubble at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday afternoon. Of these thirteen, three winners were announced. Meryl Phelps, with a ten-and-a-half-inch bubble, won a free pizza at Perini's; Jenny tashley blew an eight-anda-half inch bubble for two tickets to the Robin Thompson concert; and Michelle Roper, coming in a close third with an eight-inch bubble, received the remainder of the bubble gum (about eighty pieces!).

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afternoon at 1:30 p.m. The play, directed by Ken Jones, was also presented at area high schools during spring break to "promote high school students' interest in Longwood College," as Ken Jones said in his introduction to the play.

The one-act is a story about love and its charms. It was humorous because of the one-line quips and the antics of the characters.

The lovers.

Columbine and Harlequin, were played by Maria I-eMaster and Duke Rollins. Columbine's nurse, Margot, was performed by Barbara Wood; Harlequin's friend, Pierrot, was performed

by Bill I^Warne. The peddler, responsible for selling the charms to Columbine and Harlequin, was played by Kit Orsi.

Despite the humor, the play posed a serious question to its viewers: After the charms of love are removed, does the real love remain? The one-act ended, leaving the audience to answer this question for themselves.

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By SHARON JANOVICH "This is our third vear in a row playing for Spring Weekend, and we enjoy it more every year," said Charlie Mason; a member of "Southern Hospitality" who was with us once again on Saturday during Spring Weekend 1979.

"Southern Hospitality" has seven band members. They are Dak Roller and Charlie Mason, wh( are Ixmgwood students, Nick Collins from VMI, Don Meyerhoefer from Virginia Tech and Mike Western, Gary Kirby and Dave Tanks who are employed at home.

The original 5 members; Charlie, Dale, Nick, Mike and Don began playing together in high school. They initially played Bluegrass and sang four-part harmony. However, in the past one and a half to two years, "Southern Hospitality" has One-Act moved their focus to country and southern rock.

Poses Question Originally, the band was

By JUDI STANLEY overheard by their high school "The Wonder Hat" is a one-act choir teacher, who started them play which was presented by the playing for banquets and other Longwood Players on Saturday such social gatherings. "We've

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played everywhere from D.C. to Bristol to Richmond," said Charlie. "We've played for colleges such as Bndgewater.

Madison and Virginia Tech..and of course, here! Hopefully", Charlie went on to say. "we will stay together and make it a full time occupation, as we move on to bigger and better things."

A Splash Of Precision

By J. TRIMBLE Kaleidoscope was the title and theme for the H2() (Hub's Spring show. In both variety and beauty of the various numbers performed, the H20 Club lived up to this theme.

The first number, entitled ''Kaleidoscope' was choreographed by Mrs. Nancv Andrews.

The second offering of the evening was entitled "The Journey," a very striking and unusual number, choreographed and performed by Patti K. Chapman and Pam Mayo. This selection began with Patti K. swimming from the side of the pool in darkness lit only by the single candle which she carried.

"Reflections," performed to music by Santana was another serious number choreographed

by Susan Anstey. The swimmers: Bev Mozingo, Debra Harrison, Susie Transue and Kathy Watson, began with a dance at the side of the pool before entering the water to complete their display.

In "Break of Day" the swimmers expressed the quiet joy of the awakening dawn in a short performance done with the music of Tim Wiesberg and Dan Fogelberg in the background.

Next on the agenda was "The Gold Miners," a light-hearted story about greed for gold in which the good guy triumphed over the selfish miner who had tried to murder him for his gold.

Continuing in this lighthearted, Old West mood, "Madam and Her Girls" appeared in soft red lights to dance both in and out of the water in a spoof on the early burlesque strippers.

Another story was told as Mary Jean Frank and Susie Transue re-enacted the "Sorcerer's Apprentice" tale as choreo(Continued on Page 8)

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FROM THE EDITOR...

What could have been? ... It must just be human nature to wonder about things after the fact. Like . . . What if the fire had been at one o'clock in the morning or what if the new fire truck had not have been bought?

When we think of these questions and many more we realize that the students of Curry Dormitory were really lucky! The fire was at 10 o'clock in the morning when most everyone was in class. That's good luck Point Number One. Number Two is that it was not icy and cold outside. The only hindrance in the weather was that it was windy. The fire even makes us thankful that we have those "awfully annoying" fire drills in the

middle of the night. For, now we understand the importance of shutting the windows, grabbing a towel, coat and shoes (those all important orders that were drilled into our heads during orientation) andthen having someone check the rooms to make sure everyone is out.

It makes us appreciate fire departments more . . . especially those volunteer ones. For, even though they had to be called away from their jobs, they were there in a short time.

Most of all though it makes us appreciate our friends. Several people thought of the old saying, "You never know who your good friends are until something like this happens!" And that's true. An air of genuine concern swept over the entire campus Friday after word spread about the fire. Those who needed places to stay, did not have any trouble finding them.

We still do not know what caused the fire, but all in all, we know that Luck was on Longwood's side Friday!

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IAC Decision Gets Response April 5,1979 College students are aware of the Dear Students: latest action taken by the There seems to be a consensus administration in regard to interof opinion among many of the collegiate sports.

The women athletes that the I.A.C. administration has decided to decided to eliminate archery, eliminate the riding team, the fencing and riding from the fencing team, and the archery intercollegiate athlehic program team from the Intercollegiate in order to obtain more money to program in order to free money be used for full basketball to be used next year for full men's scholarships for men. basketball and golf scholarships.

This is completely FAI5E! No The Riding team feels that the men on any team at IiOngwood action taken by the receive athletic scholarships, administration was unjust, that only women receive no other possible alternatives scholarships. were looked for, and that no fair We believe it is unfair to put the warning was given to the coaches blame on us for something the of any of these teams before the I.A.C. did. Before you throw budgetary cuts were announced. stones at us we urge you to base We also feel that it is unjust to your charge on FACTS and not deprive a team of eight girls the RUMORS. chance to compete in order to Get the real answers from fully support one male basketthose administrators that make ball player or golfer. (Our budget the decisions and do not create an is approximately equivalent to environment that will pit the the tuition for one full time women against the men. longwood student to attend Your fight should be with the school for one year.)

I.A.C. not us.

In closing we would like to say Wo hope we can have your that a college should apply the support and work cooperatively same principles of equal to help make I -ongwood one of the opportunity to its students as are best colleges in the state. found today in our society, and Peace, that we hope that for this and The Mens other reasons the administration Basketball Team will reconsider its actions.

Respectfully Submitted Dear Editor; The IiOngwood College The I-ongwood Riding team Riding Team like to be sure that all I-ongwood

Dear Editor: As a student here at I/Higwood, I would like to express my concern over the recent Intercollegiate Athletic Council decision to cut the Riding, Fencing and Archery teams from the Intercollegiate budget.

We students have been given many "reasons" for these cuts, none which I consider valid.

1. Cutting these teams will provide funds to increase budgets of "Spectator Sports".

2. Because these teams involve fewer people than say a baseball team, it is hardly to justify appropriating funds to the smaller teams.

3. There is a "Lack of Interest" on the part of students in participation on these teams.

These are typical, bureaucratic reasons, all designed to confuse those involved.

If one would but take a quick glance at the past achievements of a few of these teams, one would

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probably see good reasons to continue to fund these teams.

For example, the Ix>ngwood Fencing team qualified for and competed in the 1977 NIWFA Nationals. In 1978 this team took first in the state, varsity and junior varsity. This team is currently ranked No. 3 in the state and No. 4 in the sectionals.

The archery team is currently No. 2 in ths state. The team was No. 1 in 1976 and 1977.

These small teams have better records than some of our larger, better funded teams.

What ever happened to the educational value and pure enjoyment of participating in athletics. It has seen better days here at Longwood. Cutting these three teams would cut the opportunities for those students involved.

What about the promises made when Longwood went co-ed three years ago that women's athletics would not suffer due to the (Continued on Page 7)

By LAURIE HOFFMAN Senior Cam Oglesby hails from Richmond, Virginia. She chose her major of social work because she "wanted to work with people, and particularly with juvenile delinquents." Miss Oblesby is also minoring in sociology.

"The philosophy of reintegrating the client back into the community" is one aspect of social work which Miss Oglesby finds especially appealing. She is currently unsure about her future in this field; she would like to either work with adolescents and children or attend graduate school. A third choice is to enter law school with the thought of later establishing a career com-

bining law and social work.

Miss Oglesby has apparently enjoyed both of her field work experiences in her major. During her junior year she worked at the Virginia Home for Boys, helping adjudicated youngsters as well as those with emotional and learning disabilities.

This semester she served as a legislative aide for the Virginia chapter of the National Association of Social Workers. As such, she worked at the state capitol, following social work bills, going to daily committee meetings, and attending sessions in the House and the Senate.

Miss Oglesby finds that her "extracurricular activities have helped to make (her) education really well-rounded." These activities include her positions as Student Body President in 1978, Corresponding Secretary for Legislative Board in 1977, and Secretary of Residence Board in 1976.

She also served as a dormitory president for two years, sophomore class chairman for Oktoberfest 1976, Freshman Production cochairman, and swap shop chairman. She is a member of Alpha Sigma Tau social sorority and has been both a Student Assistant and an Orientation I-eader for incoming freshmen.

Among her honors, Miss Oglesby includes her

membership in Geist of 1978. She was chosen as Oktoberfest usherette her freshman year and was the president of Freshman Commission. She has also been named to WHO'S WHO IN AMERICAN COLI-£GES AND UNIVERSITIES. Two characteristics that Miss Oglesby likes about I-ongwood are its emphasis on personal growth and its opportunities for forming friendships. She is also glad that students are able to get to know the administration personally, and finds "all the people that are employed by Longwood College and the students to be extremely friendly and outgoing."

Miss Oglesby does feel that there is room, both in the town of Farmville and on Longwood's campus, for more social interaction. She would like to see more recreational activities outside of the traditional ones sponsored by sororities and fraternities. She sees a need for more community organizations and for elimination of racial problems in the town.

Definitely a campus leader.

Cam Oglesby has shown much concern for the school and the people at it. This concern for others is one which wiH remain with her in her career and throughout her life, benefiting all who come into contact with her.

Sydnor Receives James Harvey Robinson Award

By PAULA JOHNSON When a person wins an award he is usually notified by the people or group who gave that award. For Dr. Charles W. Sydnor, this was not the case. He was "notified" by a student while he was in a Richmond bookstore.

Sydnor is the recipient of the first James Harvey Robinson Prize for his film Adolf Hitler: 1889-1945. The film was judged "for teaching aid which has made the most outstanding contribution to the teaching of history in any field."

According to the American Historical Association's March newsletter, the prize committee felt that Sydnor's film met more than the requirements set by the AHA by meeting "the committee's own requirement that the work be of distinguished quality, be generated by a teaching person, be reasonably available to the profession, and

have an obvious and easy use in a structured history course or program."

Adolf Hitler: 1889-1945 is a biographical study of Hitler.

Sydnor researched and wrote the film. He also had complete editorial control. Al Moffett, a Virginia television news correspondent, produced and narrated the film.

"It took almost two years to make the film — a year of research in film and photography source materials, then it took another year to get it through studio production and on the air (PBS)," Sydnor said.

The film, photographs, and art for the 90-minute film were gathered from the National Archives, the library of Congress, the Photo Archives of the West German National Archive in Koblenz, West Germany, and art captured by the U.S. Army.

Archival film footabe of

Jim And Bejae On Return Performance

By DONNA HASKY QUESTION: Take one of Texas' finest and most versatile song-writers, and then, add a truly accomplished folk musician. Form into a husbandwive duo and what do you have?

ANSWER: Jim and BeJae! Jim Richey and BeJae Fleming combine two individual sounds into a program of not just music, but total entertainment. Their balance and timing are nothing less than complete professionalism.

Jim's original songs yield a delightful-and often hilariousinsight into life. BeJae takes the same look, but from her own individual viewpoint, and provides a moving glimpse of traditional folk life as found in its music.

Well-received last year at their first I-ongwood Coffeehouse, Jim and BeJae are returning to again delight their audiences with their own special blend of music and entertainment.

Performances will be April 13 and 14 in the Snack Bar, beginning at 8 p.m.

Freshmen Recognized For Achievement

By PAM MAYO Alpha Lambda Delta, the national honor society recognizing achievement in the freshman year, held Spring Initiation for its 1979 members on Sunday, March 11. Thirty-seven people, who had achieved a 3.5 average in the first semester or after the second semester of freshman year, were inducted into the society. President Mary Sewell, Vice-President Karen Hoffman, Secretary Jennie Carraway, Treasurer Julie Baca.

Editor Tammy Davis, Historian Ruby Barnes, and Honors Council Representative Walter Wooldridge were swom in at this time. To conclude the ceremony, Mrs. Cada Parrish, Assistant Professor of Mathematics and advisor to Alpha I-ambda Delta for the past ten years, was presented with a certificate of meritorious service. She will certainly be missed after her retirement and the members of Alpha lambda Delta extend their

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gratitude to her for all of her help in the past years.

The following people were initiated: Julie Marie Baca, Ruby Barnes, Mary Donna Cappaert, Jennifer Lynn Carraway, Deborah Ann Cobb, James Melvin Coleman, Julie Rae Compton, Donna Nanette Courtney, Tammy Jo Davis, Marilyn Gillispie, Ginger R. Glascock, Susan Godbey, Susan Gayle Goodman, Linda Sue Hall, Kimberly Joan Hancock, Karen Ann Hoffman, Mary Beth Johnson, Beth Ellen Joles, Elizabeth N. Jones, Ann-Elyse Kathleen Maxey, Elizabeth B. Mitchell, Tammy Marie Newton, Susannah Catherine Nuckols, Lynn DuVal Painter, Cynthia Progar, Carole Robertson, Barbara Jane Sabitus, Mary Dawn Sewell, Mary Ix>uise Slade, Donald Elliott Spence, Jane Waters, Nancy E. Willard, Deanna Wilson, Walter Lee Wooldridge, Sharon Paige Wooten, Diane Elizabeth Wright, and Talmadge Habel Yeatts, Jr.

May this Easter bring you joy and hope May you find the realization of the glory of the season and the event being celebrated, and a sense of its impact on history and in the heartsj)f those who have come to understand it HAPPY EASTER 'jM

American and German origin is also included in the film.

But how did the film come about?

"In 19751 had, through a series of coincidences, a chance to do an interview program. Out of that came my association with Al Moffett."

According to Sydnor, Moffett was interested in World War II and documentaries.

"He (Moffett) knew the media and not the history and I knew the history but not the media." The two agreed to collaborate to do a documentary on a subject that both were interested in — Hitler.

Through another series of coincidences, Sydnor had the opportunity to obtain a grant from the Longwood College Foundation. The grant was made possible by the Franklin Federal Savings and Loan of Richmond, Virginia, in the form of a gift.

Ironically, Sydnor's interest in history and film goes back to his childhood.

"I was very much taken with the power of television," he said.

"It influenced me tremendously."

Beginning about 1955 or 1956, documentary programs on World War II were broadcast. "I saw the original crop of documentaries made on the Third Reich. The most powerful was the Crooked Cross."

By the time he graduated from high school, his interests had moved toward books. "The more I read, the more I became interested in it. My interests were traditional — books and documentaries as any historian would."

Adolf Hitler: 1889-1945 stresses the personal and historical forces that were a part of his life which combined to shape his character, personality, and prejudices. The essential facets of Hitler's political abilities, the basic features of his character and personality, and the racial and ideological obsessions that were the consistent basis of his thought from the mid-1920's to his suicidal death in 1945 are analyzed in the documentary.

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OFFICE OF PLACEMENT SERVICES SPRING SCHEDULE April 10 Surry County 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Dinwiddie County 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Chesterfield County 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Alleghany County 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.

Brunswick County 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Amherst County 9:30 a.m. - 4 p.m.

April 11 Fluvanna County 9 a.m. - 3:30p.m.

Rockbridge County 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Patrick County 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.

April 12 Rappahannock County 9:30a.m. -4:30p.m.

Appomattox County 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Cumberland County 9:30 a.m.-2 p.m.

Westmoreland County 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

April 16 Jim Cox, C&P Telephone Company 2:30 p.m. — Jeffers Auditorium: "What Employers Look For In An Employee, and How Can a College Student Prepare For Job Market."

April 17

Fauquier County 9 a.m.-3:30p.m.

Ix)udoun County 9 a.m. - 3:30p.m.

Department of Corrections 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Sgt. Andrews Holland, U. S. Army Linguistics 11 a.m. - 2 p.m.

April 18 Rockingham County 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Manassas Park 9 a.m.-4:30p.m.

Chesapeake 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

Prince Edward County 9 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.

April 19 Quantico Dependents School System 9 a.m. - Noon Prince William County 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

April 20

Prince William County 9 a.m. - 4.30 p.m.

April 23

I^ancaster County 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.

Charlottesvillel0a.m.-4p.m.

April 24

Franklin County 9:309 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Newport News 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Prince George County 10 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Henry County 10 a.m. -3p.m.

April 25

Madison County 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Danville 9:30 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Orange County 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

"Women in Business - Opportunities" — Ms. Julia I^verenz from the College of William and Mary.

April 26 Halifax County 10a.m. - 3 p.m.

HopewelU0a.m.-3p.m.

Stafford County 9:30a.m. -4 p.m.

April 27 Gloucester County 10a.m. -3 p.m.

Seniors, if your "job search plan" is not in order, make an appointment with Miss Fallis now. The time for graduation is near, and the world of work is waiting for you. Are you ready''

Nuclear Reactor Disaster: A Closer Look ByDOUGSTROBKL Red lights flash on a panel.

Engineers calmly go through a routine of lever pulling and button pushing. Little did anyone there or in the surrounding community of Harrisburg, Pa. realize the impending danger.

The worst nuclear accident in the history of the United States nuclear production was taking place at the Three Mile Island plant.

Here, step by step, is an account of the events which took place within the reactor as reported by Newsweek magazine.

A pump on the generating system shut down, which, in turn, cut off the water to the steam generator. However, the reactor kept producing heat which raised the pressure of the water in the primary reactor system. The reactor then went on to shut itself down.

A valve on the pressurizer opened as it was supposed to, but then failed to close. Radioactive water then gushed into the quench tank, which overflowed and flooded the floor of the containment structure.

Then the pressure and water level in the reactor system started to decline, triggering the emergency cooling system.

However, an operator shut it off which caused some fuel rods to overheat or even melt.

A sump pump transferred the radioactive water to an auxiliary building. The radioactive steam goes through a vent into the atmosphere.

The leakage continues for a couple of days.

A radioactive gas bubble is discovered at the top of the reactor. This raises the possibility of a meltdown. This is where theoretically the core could melt through the floor and contaminate soil while shooting up radioactive steam through the earth.

The hydrogen bubble as been vented by a group of experts This removed heat from the cove therefore lessening the danger of the "China Syndrome" or meltdown.

This is a short technical explanation of a complex problem of a complex system There will be many months of investigations as to what happened and why.

However, a more serious question remains. What now is the future of nuclear power production7 As could be expected both sides had their own answer for this dilemma.

Pro-nuclear power forces and plant officials reminded everyone that no one was injured or killed in the incident. They contend that it is not that serious and the situation did not get out of control.

The anti-nuclear forces were now fueled for a new wave of protests against the continued use of nuclear power. They are going through a "I told you so's."

However, what is the U.S. to do in a world where oil supplies are lessening and becoming increasingly undependable if not nuclear power, then what'' Ultimately, what about the people around the plant and the public in general. Will there be any long term radiation effects of those close to the plant"? Is the government trying to hide anything from the American people?

These are just some of the questions which this country must address itself to in the future.

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IAC Recommends Cutting Three Sports

By DEBBIE NORTHERN The Intercollegiate AthleticCommittee has made a tentative decision to delete the sports of fencing, archery and riding from intercollegiate competition next fall. This decision apparently came as a surprise to participants and coaches of the riding and fencing teams.

President Henry Willett. Jr., a member of the IAC. commented that this decision is not final. The three sports will have the opportunity to appeal the decision this week The fencing and riding teams have already formally appealed.

Willett said the IAC has been working since this fall on analyzing how many sports a college this size can handle, and formulating what sports should be regarded as "high intensity sports."

"The IAC did a thorough Study." stated Willett. "It is self defeating if there are too many shirts." He added that when i ompared M ith similar institutions, Longwood has more sports offered Willett said these sports were not proposed to be dropped due to financial considerations.

The IAC has also been looking at additional sports programs such as track, cross country, women's softball. and men's tennis. Softball has been suggested for a number of years and has a good chance of being added since Longwood's invitational team has won the University of Virginia tournament for a number of years, said Willett.

The committee is composed of the Athletic Director. Dr. Carolyn Hodges; the Men's Athletic Coordinator, Dr. Ron Hash; Dr. Shirley O'Neil, Chairman of the HPER department; two faculty members. Dr. Barbara Smith and Dr. E. T. Noone; the Director of Financial Aid. Marvin Ragland, .Jr.; Dean Carolyn Wells. President Henry Willett, Jr.; two student members, Brendfl Fettrow and Byron Rracy. The Chairman is Dr. T. C. Dalton. Administrative Assistant to the President. The IAC is responsible for dividing the sports budget proportionally between the different sports. If archery, riding and fencing are dropped, their funds would be dispersed to existing or contemplated sports. don't think we can keep all three of them," concluded

Willett. He did feel that, for The fencing team and their beginner and advance upward." example, the riding team could coaches are definately going to As soon as a rider collects 21 revert to club status and gain fight what they consider an points in his division, he can "unjust and unwise decision" for advance to the next one, until Student Activity Fee funding. a team who had the most fencers eventually they get to the Fencing coach Sally Bush at regionals. jumping classifications. exclaimed, "I'm very concerned Mrs. Marna Neal, the I^ancer about the whole situation. The whole procedure taken by the archery coach, said the The team started out the year IAC was unfair and possibility of disbanding the with only two riders jumping and undemocratic." She felt there archery team had been six on the flat. Now they have five was virtually no criteria to decide previously discussed and that it jumping and three on the flat, one which sports would be dropped. was a foregone conclusion this 0f whom lacks just one ribbon to She also believed there was a lot was the team's final year of get to jumps, of conflict of interest on the competition. The reason for committee as both the men's and ending the team was a lack of "I'd hate to see it cut when it women's sports coordinators participation. Yet Neal, too, felt can benefit so many," Neal coached basketball and the the IAC should have talked with explained. She was also disturbed student representatives played everyone concerned before because the college does not making their proposal. "It was publicize the riding team as they basketball. do for other intercollegiate sports and that the committee did not come to the team for suggestions of how to cut costs. For instance, Neal stated that the riding team members would probably have been willing to pay their own entry fees like the James Madison team does or pay for lessons like the Mary Washington team. Neal pointed out that the riders already buy their own habits which range about $300.00.

Botht James Madison and Mary Washington are the only other state supported institutions besides Longwood, which offer intercollegiate riding.

Neal scoffed at the complaint from the IAC that I-ongwood did not own the riding facility as a reason for discontinuing the sport, noting that only Hollins an under the table type of thing," and Sweet Briar have their own facilities and that the riding she conceded. lessons offered by I -on gwood are "We were very surprised since not given on state facility. She we had no warning," announced added that although the team is riding coach Mrs. Mary Whitlock currently all female, male after learning her team was participants would be welcome. proposed to be excluded from Wednesday the riding and intercollegiate status, after fencing teams will appeal to the gaining it about a year ago.

IAC. Also at this meeting, the IAC The team had dreams of will decide if men's sports should building after a very good year, stay at Division III, a nonwith six riders advancing to scholarship brackett or advance regionals. They were under the to Divison II. If Longwood impression that the IAC had decides to go to Divison II, a known this was a building year modest number of scholarships and that plans had been would go to men's basketball. formulated to improve the President Willett said that the program. total sum would not approach $5000. This decision will be made Neal complained, "A lot of as a result of the Dixie people don't understand that the Conference rejection. The riding team has eight divisions.

To be a member of the riding team all you need to know is how to walk and canter; to make the basketball team you must be the cream of the crop. On the riding team you could start out as a

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Bush was concerned that the coaches of the three sports "had not really been warned." The IAC had asked for imput in the fall and the coaches were not invited to discuss the situation since then.

Bush pointed out that fencing is a growing sport. There was the largest turnout ever at the regional tournament and three new fencing teams have been formed in the state.

The fencing team traditionally handles between eight to ten people. It is generally made up of chemistry and art majors..

"These people won't have a thing to participate in. for sports," lamented Bush, referring to the asthetic quality which is associated with archery, fencing and riding.

She was very concerned that I-ongwood seemed to be pushing for sports to gain recruitment and ignoring other sports. She asks, "Does every team have to be for recruitment purposes?'

Trot. Canter Division. In the Advanced Walk, Trot Division Janet Young placed 3rd.

On April 6 the I-ongwood I^ancer Intercollegiate Riding team traveled to Virginia Intermont in Bristol for their last show of the season. Pointriders for the show were Robyn Walker, Kelly Kent, l-eslie Henry, Rhonda Powell, and Kathy Redmond. longwood had a total of 10 teams points thus tying with Mary Washington College for 7th place place out of the 12 colleges participating.

Virginia Intermont was High Point College with 25 team points, Sweet Briar was Reserve High Point College with 18 points.

Results of the show are as follows: Advanced Walk, Trot — Janet Young, 3rd place;

Ruggers Learning

By CHERYL WILCOX On Saturday at 2:00 the I.ongwood Rugby team played host to the Mary Washington rugby team at the Wynne Campus School. The game was the ruggers second game of the season.

The ruggers were defeated by the Mary Washington team 12-4.

The I-ongwood try was scored by Joe Brusca with an assist from Kevin Brandon. Kevin Kidd also made his attempt at a three point kick. The kick was a near miss off the goal post.

The longwood team played a better game than previously against VCU. They still are not comfortable in their knowledge of all the rules and regulations of the sport. This can be attributed to the fact that playing rugby is a new sport to most team members.

Following the game a large keg party was held for the members of both teams. It seems the object of rugby is "to kill each other on the field and make friends after the game over a cold beer."

Longwood's next rugby game will be held Saturday, April 21st against the Hampden-Sydney B team, at the campus school field.

Bernette's Determination

Six Riders Chosen For Regionals

By KATHY CHASE On March 30th the longwood Intercollegiate Riding Team traveled to Southern Seminary in Buena Vista for their 6th show of the season.

In the Novice Equitation on the Flat Kathy Redmon and Rhonda Powell won 4th place ribbons in their sections. In the Novice Equitation over Fences Kathy Redmon won 4th place.

Robyn Walker and Kathy Chase qualified for the Novice Division by winning 3rd and 1st respectively in the Advanced Walk, Trot, Canter Division. Also in the Advanced Walk, Trot.

Canter Dvision Kelly Kent won a 6th place ribbon.

Paige Bartholf won a 4th place ribbon in the Beginner Walk.

reasons given by the Conference were that the college gave women's scholarships and not men's and had inadequate facilities for baseball and softball.

Willett said the "problem with men's athletics is we have to go to one di y/sion or another for all sports." In women's athletics, the AIAW gives each sport the opportunity to go Division I, II or III. Also Willett disclaimed any knowledge of a prevalent rumor that the men's basketball manager was to receive a salary next year. He said this was against college policy and the only students paid out of the athletic budget are the Intramural Athletic Association equipment checkout personnel.

Beginner Walk, Trot, Canter Paige Bartholf, 4th place; Advanced Walk, Trot, Canter — Kelly Kent, 6th place; Novice Hunter Equitation on the Flat — Section A, Kathy Redmon, 4th place; Robyn Walker, 5th place; Section B, Uslie Henry, 6th place, Section C Rhonda Powell.

4th place.

The Regional Intercollegiate Horse Show will be held on April 21st at The Barracks in Charlottesville. Kathy Redmon, Rhonda Powell, Sally Lowe, Robyn Walker and Kathy Chase will be representing Longwood in this event.

The lancer's have had a very successful year and feel they owe their success to those that supported the team.

Brings Award

From Sports Information Ixmgwood College baseball player Eddie Burnette has been named Player of the Week for his superlative effort in the Lancers' 8-7 win over Hampden-Sydney on March 13.

In Iiongwood's first baseball victory in the 2-year history of the program, Burnette's three for five performance at the plate keyed the Lancer offense by driving in two runs, one of which was the game winner. Burnette also scored one run himself and was further cited by Coach Buddy Bolding for his steady defenseive work.

"Eddie displayed courage and wisdom throughout the game," commented Bolding in nominating his left-fielder for the Player of the Week award.

"Eddie's determined hitting and great baserunning helped to lead the Lancers to one of the most important intercollegiate

victories in I/wigwood College history."

A freshman physical education major, Burnette is a graduate of liberty High School in Bedford, where he lettered in both baseball and basketball. He was a twoyear All-District Outfielder and an All-State Outfielder in his senior year.

He is the son of Mr. Warren E. Burnette of Bedford.

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Idelson Named Ail-American From Sports Information Nineteen years ago this month, Longwood gymnast Kathy Idelson was born in Topeka, Kansas.

Idelson, who now lives in Annapolis, Maryland, had never visited her birthplace until this past weekend, when she returned to Topeka to compete in the March 30-31 AIAW National Small-College Gymnastics Tournament held at Washburn University.

Idelson, who at the end of the regular season was ranked eighth in the nation among small-college gymnasts, was one of 12 individuals invited to compete in the national tournament in addition to the teams that qualified via regional tournaments.

She tied with Fay Neukan of Radford for 18th place out of 57 participants in the March 16-17

AIAW Southern Region II Tournament held at James Madison University. Idelson was 9th in floor exercise with a score of 8.55 and 14th in vault with an 8.3 mark. Her overall score was 31.5. The team competition was won by the University of i/ouisville gymnasts, who scored 136.55; Eastern Kentucky was second with 135.05.

"When we got there and saw the competition, I thought 'This is really going to be tough â&#x20AC;&#x201D; we're lucky just to be here!"' remembers Longwood gymnastics coach Ruth Budd, who accompanied Idelson to the tournment.

But Idelson, a freshman, proved to be tough herself. After competing in the uneven parallel bars, vault, balance beam, and floor exercise events on Friday, she learned on Saturday that her score of 8.5 in floor exercise had

qualified her for the finals in that event.

In the finals Saturday night.

Idelson, despite being unlucky enough to draw the number one spot, scored an 8.45.

"That was a very good score,"

observed Budd, "considering she was first. If she'd been farther down the line, her score would probably have been much higher.

The crowd really loved her routine!"

"I felt I'd done a good job," commented Kathy. "I put as much into my floor exercise as I can, and I try to sell it because I really like it."

The score was good enough for a seventh-place finish (out of over 100 original entries) in the floor exercise, which also earned Idelson the title of All-American Gymnast, an honor bestowed on the top 10 individuals in each event.

The first All-American athlete in the history of Longwood College. Idelson described herself as "Excited!" over her achievement. However, it would be three days before she would be able to receive the

Lancer Lacrosse Persistent

Julie Dayton trails past Virginia opponent.

Photo by Amy Gates

Win 2-Drop 1

Netters Blast Seminary

By Steve Whitten The longwood Tennis team upped its record to 2-1 with a win over Bridgewater College Saturday at Bridgewater. On Monday, longwood trounced a much improved Southern Seminary 9-0. On Tuesday, the lancers traveled to Lvnchburg College and suffered a 6-3 lost in a tough, but excellent match.

Ixmgwood had wins from Margie Quarles, Penny Stephens, and Eva Lowe. At Bridgewater, the team reversed the score and took the win 6-3.

Coach Phyllis Harriss commented that Southern Seminary was going to be the

By J. Trimble Let no one say that the lacrosse Team isn't persistent.

Of what other team do you know with the determination to play on a soggy field in the middle of a cold spring rain?

If you were one of the few motivated to be out on the sidelines supporting the women's lacrosse team in their match against University of Richmond this past Tuesday you would have seen an exciting game with many turnovers, the final score of which was a 7-7 tie.

Coach Dee McDonough stated that Celeste Rodriguez did very well in Tuesday's game, scoring 5 goals in the game against U of R. The other two goals were scored

by Kim Garber and Julie Dayton.

Ms. McDonough was very surprised by the outcomers of both games played by the women's lacrosse team this past week. She feels a great deal of confidence in our lacrosse team and had been sure that we would be the dominent force on the field in both the game against U of R and ITVA.

In speaking of our playing against U of R Ms. McDonough mentioned that although Ixmgwood was in possession of the ball a great deal of the time, the player's impatience and attempts at forcing goals prevented us from scoring as much as we might have.

In the game against UVA Thurs. Longwood lost 12-2.

Longwood players Celeste Rodriguez and Julie Dayton each scored a point for longwood.

Jean Nolte, the goalkeeper did very well, managing 20 saves against UVA's aggressive players.

The Junior Varsity lacrosse team did exceptionally well on Thursday, losing to UVA 7-* in the last 5 seconds of the game (oh, if we could only have stopped the clock!) Denise Snader showed a great deal of skill in her defensive playing Thursday.

Although the scorers may not show it Ix>ngwood's lacrosse team has showed a great deal of concern and effort, continuing to play and practice in the face of discouraging results.

easiest match of the season, but she was proud of the way the girls played. Commenting on the match against Lynchburg, Coach Harriss stated that the score was not indicative of the team's playing as Lvnchburg won 116 games to I-ongwood's 103 games.

Against Bridgewater, Coach Harriss felt that the girls were moving very slow and that this area of playing needed much improvement.

The team travels to VPI-SU on Tuesday and to VCU on Thursday.

The team captain for the The Lady golfers were only able to shoot the first nine holes in the season is Senior Mary Barrett. Sweet Briar Invitational on March 5 before bad weather intervened.

Miss Barrett was also captain By the end of the tournament, which was plagued by cold weather and last fall. wind, LC's Kay Smith had won the first night and Lancer Beth Wydell had taken the second flight. Smith and Wydell both shot 88. Debra Hood followed with 89, Janet Clements 92, and Margaret Andrew 112.

Today they travel to Kentucky to compete in the I ad> K Invitational.

congratulations of her fans on campus.

Due to the airline strike, Idelson. her parents, and her coach were laid over for 2 days, first in Kansas City and then in St. Louis, while awaiting connections back to Annapolis.

During the long hours they spent in airports, she and other gymnasts 'entertained people by doing handstands" to help pass the time.

From Annapolis. Kathy and Coach Budd had a five hour drive back to Ixmgwood. She had little time in which to enjoy yer warm reception at College because of an injured ankle.

Kathy had surgery on April 5 at the University of Virginia Hospital. She is now back hobbling on crutches.

One can only wonder, is this any way to treat an All- American' "

Sports

Briefs

By DEBBIE NORTHERN The longwood men golfers finished 14th out of 17 schools at the 30th State Collegiate Golf Tournament at the Lower Cascades Course. At Hot Springs, defending champions University of Virginia took the title with a 302. Virginia was followed by James Madison University with a 308, and Old Dominion with a 309.

Ix)ngwood had a 347. Tim White shot 38 and 43 for a total of 81.

Robb Ljne had a 41 and 44 for a total of 85. Charles Lineberry had a 44 and 44 for an 88. David Yerkes had a 48 and 45 for a 93. and Rob Bovd had a 49 and 44 for a 93.

In their first shoot of the season last Thursday, Kaki Hicks shot a 390 to lead the Archery team to victory over the University of Richmond. The I-ancers shot a 952 to the Spider's 873.

Their next shoot is at home April 11 against James Madison University

Letters (Continued from Page 1) development of men's athletics'' Then why are three women's teams being cut'' longwood students need to stand up and support these teams. If not, the Administration will allow these teams to be cut.

Longwood belongs to the students. If the students want these sports, then the students should make the decision, not the Intercollegiate Athletic Council.

Alda V. Brown

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Tuesday, April 10,1979 THE ROTUNDA very apparent in the final number in which all the H*G Precision swimmers came out as either a (Continued from Page S) Cowboy or Indian. graphed by Patti K. Chapman.

H20 Club's hard work was very A sense of fun was felt obvious in the precision and throughout the show which was excellence of the performance

they gave this spring. The musical selections were appropriate to the numbers and there was a good balance between long and short, serious and light-hearted.

Crazy Antics And Bluegrass

By BRENDA BONUCELLI On the last day of Spring Weekend festivities, students and friends gathered at tankford Mall to watch the crazy antics of the Loco-Motion Circus and to listen to the bluegrass sound of the Buffalo Chipkickers.

The excitement started at 2 p.m. with the first session of the

Loco-Motion Circus. Three crazy and extremely talented men, Bounce, Cyrus and Flip, dazzled their audience with thrilling acrobatics, hilarious comedy situations. They immediately captured the audience and continued to hold them until their final sketch.

The group's selections held all types of entertainment. One of the first was a ballet on unicycles. Two of the men cycled with each other to the music of the Nutcracker Suite.

Another selection well-received was a juggling act to the disco music of "Boogie Oogie Oogie." This was a fantastic technique of rythmic balancing that had the audience clapping,

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Some other selections were the "Flaming Torches", "Waldini, The Magician," "Lonely At the Tip," the list is endless. All were exceptionally well-done.

Their final selection, "Cremation," earned them a standing ovation. It was a culmination of dance, acrobatics, and humor. To the theme of 2001 Space Odyssey, the three men did a type of dance and moved into an acrobatic show.

Following the Circus were the Buffalo Chipkickers. Three men and one woman made up this group of bluegrass players. The Chipkickers' instruments included a Bass, Guitar, Violin and banjo—a wide selection which combined to produce a very nice sound.

Grabbing on to the enthusiasm of the crowd, the band played both slow and fast-paced bluegrass selections. The band gained instant followers when it immediately complied to a request of "Rocky Top." From here on the crowd was with the band, clapping and singing when possible.

"Sweet Virginia Breeze"

By GEORGE BENNETT To say that Cheryl Tiegs is pretty is an understatement. To say that Robbin Thomson is talented is proving that you were there this past Saturday when the Student Union presented their last "Saturday Night Alive!"

And what a way to go out on a Bang! As the SRO crowd quieted to an electric tape of expectation, Robbin and his "No Slack Band" took to the stage amid a large welcome. Robbin is a native of Richmond and has played at Longwood on two occasions in the past.

It's hard to pinpoint the type of music Robbin Thomson plays. To try to lock it down into one category would be a mistake. But with relative ease he managed to weave a blanket of good sounds by mixing up slow, R & B Ballads, with. foot-stompin' country fusion, rock. Some of his most memorable songs of the evening were "Candy Apple Red!' But, what the crowd was waiting for, they got early in the second set when Robbin performed a patriotic rendition of the unofficial anthem of Virginians everywhere-Tnothinjf else but "Sweet Virginia Breeze". This is Robbin's most famous hit to date and was performed Saturday to wall-cracking applause.

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