Rotunda vol 58, no 7 nov 7, 1978

ROTUNDA

THE VOL. LIV

[JONGWOOD

COLLEGE, FARMVILLE, VIRGINIA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7,1978

NO. 7

Building Suggestions Wanted

SFS Jordan is awarded certificate by Colonel Ivy, while Henry I. Willett looks on.

Photo by Debbie Northern

Jordan Receives Award

ByPAULA JOHNSON Simpson-Johnson, Inc., Consulting Engineers, have recently completed and released a review of the old Farmville High School building, located on First Avenue.

The building, which became property of the longwood College Foundation, Inc., after a giftpurchase arrangement last year, has been judged structurally sound.

The school was originally built in 1926 with an addition built in 1936. Of the two sections, the original building "would require a complete overhaul in order to rehabilitate the building for a long range use." According to the report, the 1936 addition would also require repair and repainting for a long range use.

The report also stated that the building would require new systems for heating and ventilation, electricity, and plumbing. The Simpson-Johnson, Inc., also recommended a smoke detection and fire alarm system as well as a sprinkler system in the boiler room.

President Henry I. Willett, Jr. said that the college was open for

operations sergeant and operations sergeant he Sergeant First Class Timothy contributed significantly to the B. Jordan, member of success of battalian operations Long wood's ROTC teaching staff, which included six off-island was awarded a certificate of deployments, to New Zealand Achievement on November 1 and the Pohakuloa Training from the Commanding General of Area. He helped establish and the 25th Infantry Division, maintain an effective training Election Willard W. Scott, Jr. at Schofield management program and constantly put forth an extra Barracks Hawaii.

The certificate reads "For effort for excellence. Sergeant Results exceptionally meritorious First Class Jordan's exemplary service from August 1975 to July performance on duty is in ByMINDYHIRSCH 1978 while assigned to keeping with the highest In the Mock election, held Headquarters and Headquarters traditions of the Military Service Company, 1st Battalion, 19th and reflects great credit upon Tuesday, Oct. 31, John Warner Infantry, 1st Brigade, 25th himself, his unit, and the United was the victor over Andrew Miller and the pari-mutuel bill Infantry Division. As assistant States Army." passed. Warner overwhelmed Miller by winning 78 per cent of the votes. He received 386 votes while Miller acquired 129 votes.

The victory of pari-mutuel betting was not as strong; pro gas shortage was in effect. pari-mutuel votes tallied 286 and

By DONNA SIZEMORE Speculation has it that perhaps votes against the bill numbered Longwood College has recently someone walking by dropped a 202. Twenty-two voters had no been plagued by a series of small cigarette on the grass. The fire opinion of this. There were three fires! The sound of the fire alarm from the grass ignited the write in votes for U.S. Senate. ringing has become a familiar remaining oil in the drum, and it Two of these were Arthur Miller sound on campus. The matter is caused the drum to explode and Jerry Brown.

The election was held by the definitely a serious one, and it blowing pieces of the drum in both directions.

ROTUNDA at the request of the can not be taken too lightly.

The investigation of the fire is College Republicans. However, Last Monday afternoon at 5:00 underway by the state police, both the College Democrats and another fire occurred. This fire campus police, and the fire the College Republicans counted occurred behind Bland-Reid marshalls, who have been called the votes. Although the goal was Funeral Home on Ely Street. in on the matter.

It is not known if to have 1,000 students vote, the Officials are unsure of how the fire began. A 275 gallon oil drum this fire has anything to do with Democrats and the Republicans is located behind the funeral the constant campus fires. As a were satisfied with the 518 votes home. The drum is surrounded by matter of precaution, dorm since this is approximately 25 per grass, and it contained a small meetings are being conducted all cent of the student body. The amount of gas. The gas had been over campus, informing students freshmen class had the leading number of voters with 170 from in the drum since 1973, when the of safety fire regulations. that class participating in the election. The sophomore class followed closely behind with 150 votes. The juniors had 110 voting from their class and the seniors had 60.

In other Virginia colleges, Warner is also triumphing over Robert David Stack Miller. At Mary Baldwin, Warner also achieved 78 per cent of the votes; Clinch Valley, 64 per cent; 1958 - 1978 ODU, 68 per cent; Richard Bland, 72 per cent; William and Mary, 54 per cent, and at Lynchburg, 75 per cent.

By DEBBIE NORTHERN

suggestions on ways to utilize the building.

"As of now, we do not know the cost of repairing the building. We may decide to pull it down," he said.

If you have ideas or suggestions on how to use the building in a way that the cost is not prohibitive, send them to Dr. William J. Peele, Vice President for Administration.

Missing Student Found Miss Leslie Boatwright, a resident from Powhatan, a senior, was reported missing by a fellow student. The student who reported this information to the Dean of Students at 3 p.m., Tuesday, October 3, 1978, said that Leslie had been seen at midnight the night before. After checking to locate her car, to determine attendance at morning classes, the Campus Police notified the local police authorities to see if a missing persons report could be filed. By 10 p.m., the local police, county authorities, and State police

investigators were alerted.

Boatwright was found in Fluvanna County and her parents went to pick her up and take her home. Boatwright is still at home and will not return this semester; however, her parents hope that she will be able to return in the near future.

According to the Richmond News Leader, State Police Sargeant S.C. Delt of Appomattox County confirmed that Boatwright was raped. It is not clear whether or not she was abducted from campus.

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Fire trucks on campus have become a h. niliar sight.

Photo by Debbie Northern

Crackdown On Arsonists

By DEBBIE NORTHERN As a result of numerous trash fires set within the dormatories during the last two weeks, the State Police was called in to investigate by the Longwood College administration. Arson experts found evidence against one Longwood student who was suspended Thursday.

President Henry I. Willett commented that the college is "cracking down hard" on

arsonists, and anyone caught will be removed from the college. He added that the administration will "take any action necessary to protect the safety of the student body".

Pulling false alarms or setting fires are crimes with very stiff penalties. The Residence Board has put up signs above all fire alarms which explain the penalties for pulling false alarms.

Art Auction Successful

By KENDAJ1. ADAMS Art Auction 1978 was held on Saturday, October 28. The auctioneer was Dr. Robert Weller and co-chairmen were Marjorie Croxton and Kendall Adams. A total of $1,124.50 was raised during the auction. These funds will be used toward scholarships

in the areas of Studio Art, Art History, and Art Education. In addition to art works, desk calendars for the upcoming year were sold. The calendars were compiled using student art works as the theme. These are still available in the art building for (Continued on Page 3)

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Tuesday, November 7,1978

Things That Go Bump

A Big Step Forward

By VICKI SEEKFORD longwood College took a big step forward for gifted education this past summer by recruiting Ms. Sondra Cosby to instruct courses in gifted education for the Southside Institute.

The Southside Institute is an organization for developing potential in gifted and talented children. The organization is made up of seven surrounding counties which include Amelia, Buckingham, Charlotte, Cumberland, Lunenburg, Nottoway and Prince Edward.

Each county sent two teachers to a nine week training session conducted by Ms. Cosby. The first course was an introduction to gifted education to aid teachers in identifying and facilitating gifted children. The second part of the session was a teaching practicum provided to allow the teachers to apply what they learned about teaching gifted children.

The internal structure of the program was created by Ms. Cosby and the teachers in the program who designed the classes and schedules and mailed them to gifted children in the seven county area. This teacherstudent input is very important to gifted education.

The students then selected the classes they wanted to take.

Longwood not only supplied everything needed for the operation of the program but many professors from longwood assisted in teaching the gifted students. Dr. Hightower, Dr. Curley, Dr. Sullivan and Mrs. Silvera are only a few people who contributed to the program. Two very special people the teachers were fortunate to have were Cecil Kidd and Mary Tatum.

"It's hard for me to name everyone that helped. longwood, especially Dr. Iehmann, Dr. Patterson and Dr. Buck, should be

Ms. Sandra Cosby relaxes at her home.

Photo by Virki Seekford

Schrader-Hooker Films Purchased College, were Vanishing Point and Epilogue, Longwood films directed and produced by screened on Sunday, October 22 Charlotte Schrader-Hooker in Bedford Auditorium.

Vanishing Point, a 10 minute Professor of Film Studies at color-sound film, shows the paintings and sculptures of Nancy Camden Witt, an artist onorurv from Ashland, Virginia. It is a surrealistic journey through Initiate's Teu Jungian symbolism.

Epilogue, a 2 minute colorPi Gamma Mu, the national sound film is a glimpse of Nancy honorary for social sciences, Witt painting in her home- a initiated ten new members at restored grist mill - and relaxing their banquet held Nov. 1. Mary with her husband and three sons.

Barrett, Rebecca Benoit, Karl Mrs. Schrader-Hooker's films Haeussler. Theresa Markle\. have been purchased by not only Mary Ellen Mctaughin, Wanda Ixmgwood College but also PBSPeter sen, Sue Russell, Teresa TV in the greater Washington Ware, Tony Wilkins and Mary area, Norfolk Public library, Lucy Wilson were selected from and national cable TV. Her films the junior and senior classes. To include showings at the West fulfill the requirements Virginia University Colloguium necessary for initiation a student on Literature and Film, the must achieve twenty hours of University Film Association classes in social sciences or annual convention at the social work, a cumulative University of Southern average of 2.5 and a major California, and the Virginia average of 3.0.

Educational Media Association in Standing officers Dottie Jerd, Virginia Beach. The films are President; Virginia Flemmer, scheduled to be screened Vice-President; and Robin November 9 at Phillip Morris Belcher, Secretary, presided Corporation in Richmond. over new elections of I^eigh Duff, Interested students should Treasurer, Teresa Ware, contact Mrs. Schrader-Hooker Reporter; and Rebecca Benoit, for further information on adHonor's Council Representative. ditional screenings.

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complimented for bringing the seven counties together and for having the program go so well the first time," Ms. Cosby said. Dr. Crayton Buck, Director of the Campus School, was director of the Institute this summer. "No program can be successful of its external structure is not in balance with its internal form; and Dr. Buck designed and maintained during the summer an external administrative structure which flexibly formed around the teacher-student designed internal form," complimented Ms. Cosby. "Just as a child's creativity can be 'snuffed out' by an authoritarian teacher; so can a teacher's creativity dwindle if overshadowed by an authoritarian administrator."

"It is cruel and inhumane to make a bright child sit in a classroom and not develop to his full potential," declares Ms. Cosby. She is deeply concerned about the lack of funding and programs available for gifted children.

The Federal government only gives $3,789 million to educate the estimated 3.5 million gifted children in the country. Just over one dollar for each gifted child to develop their special talents.

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In The Night

By EDIE PARKINS "It was the scariest thing I've ever been through," quoted Jenny Lashley, a sophomore at Longwood, after going through the haunted house.

Halloween night wouldn't have been the same without the haunted house, sponsored by the Farmville Jaycees. The house was opened for four nightsOctober 28-31. It took as long as an hour to wait in line for a 10-15 minute tour of the house.

Screams and shouts were heard outside the house from the visitors.

The haunted house located across from the Farmville Post Office, in an old, run down house, coat $1.00 to get in. Groups of eight were taken in at a time.

As one entered, a headless man was there to greet you. He escorted you upstairs to the first room where a man was being sawed in half.

The next room was a funeral, where all eight sat on two benches with the coffin at the end of the benches. During the funeral, a skull popped out from behind the coffin. Then everyone was pushed to the next room where a doctor was doing a brain transplant.

"The wax museum was the worst part," said a Longwood student. After the brain transplant, the group moved into the wax museum where Dracula grabbed everyone, and where wax bodies were displayed.

Poet Speaks Accompanying the bodies were bats flying overhead.

Next, the group was pushed At Longwood downstairs where a man with one eye popping out grabbed group

By DONNA HASKEY members and showed them a "If I could only live at the pitch man with a snake. It's quite that is near madness questionable whether or not the When everything is as it was in snake was real. I^ater, when the my childhood group was asked to give their Violent, vivid and of infinite attention to a picture hanging on possibilities: the wall, a man came out of it.

Ending the haunted house was That the sun and the moon a tunnel in which everyone had to broke over my head."

By Richard Eberhart Those who attended worldrenowned poet Richard Eberhart's reading of poetry, which was held on November 1, can feel fairly sure that within the above lines of poetry they have glimpsed the poet. As he quickly established a lively and

By DEBBIE NORTHERN warm rapport with the audience, Dr. Glenn M. Vernon, Eberhart's descriptions of "near madness" as "a frenzied Professor of Sociology at the drunkenness of the spirit, or an University of Utah, spoke 30 in Bedford ineffable lightness of heart" October Auditorium.

The first of the seemed to fit their author's own visiting Scholar series was friendly spirit.

Between poems, Eberhart entitled "On Being Humanexplained some of his own Symbolic Aspects of Behavior".

Vernon emphasized that man philosophy of writing, and communicates with symbols. He exactly where he had gotten ideas for some of his writings. In support of his idea that poetry is a "gift of the gods" which man's imagination "pulls from the air," he quoted Plato, who said, "A poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he is inspired and out of his senses and there is no mind in him." Some of his better poems, Eberhart maintains, have dictated themselves to htm. One of his goals in life is to rite the perfect poem, but he added, "I guess perfection is an ideal — and probably unattainable."

In what little spare time he has, Eberhart enjoys reading poetry by current writers, swimming in the ocean off the coast of Maine during the summer months and visiting his two children DR. GLENN VERNON whenever possible.

crawl out unless they preferred to stay. Sighs of relief were heard outside the tunnel.

"It was so good I went twice," stated Sherry Hogge, a Longwood junior. Many people did go twice to see what they missed the first time after being so scared.

A Farmville Jaycee stated on Halloween night, "This is our last night and we're just now breaking even, but it was worth it for all of the laughs." Hundreds of people went to see the haunted house.

Tricks Become Dinnertime Treat

By SHARON JANOVICH Does swallowing goldfish, filling telephone booths with people, getting a Mohawk haircut on a dare, (and the latest "Animal House" craze), wearing togas, appeal to you? If so, the dining hall on Halloween night would have succeeded in getting your adrenelin flowing.!

In true "Animal House" style, the words "FOOD -FIGHT" echoed throughout the dining hall, and were immediately followed by flying ice, cakes, rolls, fish, Salisbury steak, and cole slaw...much to the dismay of dining hall workers and innocent bystanders!

Halloween's dinner landed everywhere but students' stomachs. But of course, one must keep in mind that ANYTHING can happen on Halloween, and in this case, it did!

Let the spirit of Halloween AND "Animal House" carry on forever!

Scholar Speaks On Being Human suggested we as human beings have limited understanding of symbols in human behavior.

People respond to words, but man is always bypassing the individual and trying to get inside of other people. They surmise that something inside the person responds—the brain and heart, for instance. Vernon stated, "There is no evidence that the brain responds to words."

"Knowledge is not pulled out of some place," said Vernon. It is not created by one person alone, but jointly.

A person has to translate nonverbal behavior, which is all external, since people cannot see inside one another.

We all think things out before we actually take any action.

When God brought order out of chaos, in essence he said man should continue the creative process in this method. Vernon went on to explain that creativity is man's most distinctive characteristic, which separates him from animals.

Vernon ended by emphasizing the fact that symbols are made real by believing. "Human beings can be taught to believe anything," he summarized.

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Tuesday, November 7,1978

Jon Ims Performs At "Favorite Gig"

John Ims entertains the audience with his witty songs.

Mime At Longwood for a nine-week extended run of his "Men and Dreams" at New York's Theatre de Lys. He then served as Director-in-Residence with the Boston Opera Company where he staged with Sarah Caldwell the American premiere of Schoenberg's opera, "Moses and Aaron," and created a pantomime of Bartok's "Miraculous Mandarin." He has also been Artist-in-Residence at the University of Illinois.

The Claude Kipnis Mime Theatre was formed in 1968 and has been performing to standing ovations and rave reviews since that time. In 1974, the company was invited to perform at the White House for President Ford and distinguished guests. Kipnis is the author of "The Mime Book" and gives lecture-demonstrations and master classes at colleges and universities all over the country.

The performance in Longwood's Jarman Auditorium is open to the public at no charge.

The Longwood College Artist Series will present the Claude Kipnis Mime Theatre in "You ain't heard nothin' yet!" on Sunday evening, November 12, at 8 p. m. in Jarman Auditorium.

Acclaimed as one of the world's masters of the ancient art of mime, Kipnis and his sixmember troupe use a mixture of drama, ballet, and music to create "the illusion of reality."

Their character-sketch vignettes range in mood from comic and slightly bawdry to poignant and bittersweet.

Claude Kipnis was born in Paris, educated at the Sorbonne, and studied mime with Marcel Marceau. In 1959, he left Paris for Israel where he established a mime school in Tel Aviv and toured the country as a solo performer. He also conducted a special workshop with deaf and mute children at the Helen Keller Center in Tel Aviv and taught at the University there.

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The Snack Bar Presents THE FRIDAY AFTERNOON CLUB From 4 to 6p.m.

Free Chips and Pretzels and Free Juke Box Music

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By LAURIE HOFFMAN Sex, marijuana, drinking, pickups, and love seem to be favorite subjects with Jon Ims, who performed in the Snack Bar on November 2 and 3 at 8:00. Ims did a variety of slow and fast songs, all dealing basically with these same topics.

This week end marked Ims' ninth performance at Longwood.

He is already planning to return next year. Said Ims, "I'm getting tired of having fun at this school.

I've been smiling for the past 48 hours."

The good-sized audience, consisting mainlv of Longwood students, especially enjoyed Ims' rowdier songs. The first song he performed, "Smoke Out the Memories," got them excited about the show. Other songs of this type included "Good 01' What's-Her-Name," about seducing a girl who turns out to be a man; "Fair, Fair Nashville," and a capello song about a guy trying to get into the country-music business; "Tinkle, Tinkle, Little Star, How I Wonder Why We Were," which has been called an "uncontrolled derangement," and "The I Don't Know Where I'm Going, But I've Got the Going-Nowhere-In-A Hurry Blues," in which he satirized the Nazis, Mar Antoinette, Nixon, and Cleopatra.

He played "Up Against the Wall, Redneck Mother" twice and Little Feat's song "Willin" by request.

Some of his other fast songs dealt with losing the ability to drive because of the woman in the car with him and having his room searched by the agents of Dale Tooley, a candidate for District Attorney in Denver. His one blues song used seafood in talking about human relationships. The audience's favorite line in this was "when she saw my tuna coming, she knew it was no chicken of the sea."

The audience became very restless during Ims' quieter songs, which dealt with deeper subjects than his fast ones. Some of these were entitled "You're the Best I've Ever Had," "Mind Your Own Business," "HalfHearted Won't Do," and "Here Comes Your Wandering Fool."

Ims' also sang "Nina's Nocturn," which he wrote for and about performer Nine Kayo, who will be coming to Longwood in February.

The subjects of Jon's other songs included his Uncle Willard, the death of one of his "roadies" (traveling Technicians), Niagara Falls, the end of a love relationship, his own illusions, and his youth.

Jon writes most of his own songs. He finds that this mind relaxes while doing routine things, such as driving or cooking, and that this is when he thinks of a line or theme for a song. He then tries to take different approaches to the theme and finally writes the

Art Auction (Continued from Page 1) $2.50 each. A total of 45 artists contributed works to the auction.

Mediums represented in the auction were Prints, Ceramics, Crafts, Sculptures, Drawings, Paintings, Reprints and Photography.

song, keeping in mind all along what type of people will be hearing it.

Ims, who is from Denver, Colorado, is a very enthusiastic singer. He springs a lot when he sings and uses various facial expressions and voice tones.

During his break, he spoke to members of the audience, asking if they were enjoying themselves and if they had any requests. The fact that Ims claims Ixmgwood as his "favorite gig in the whole east coast" is evident in his performance.

Author To Lecture On Shakespeare On Tuesday, November 7, I-ongwood will be given the opportunity to hear a lecture delivered by Dr. George Burke Johnston, concerning "Shakespeare and the Common Man." The Literary event will be held in Wygal Auditorium at 8:00 p.m., with no admission fee.

A native of Alabama, Dr. Johnston began his teaching career at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, only to further his education by receiving his master's degree and doctorate from Columbia University. He began teaching in the Fall of 1930, with nearly 25 of those years spent at Virginia Tech.

George Burke Johnston is nearly 67 years old, but is still in the prime of his life. He is just as quick to accept an invitation to play a game of tennis, as he is to lecture on William Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Age. Since 1965, Johnston has received numerous honors, including the C. P. Miles Professorship in

English. Although his academic interests focus primarily on Elizabethan England, Johnston's areas of accomplishment include work on Ben Johnson and the lesser Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists, Edmund Spencer, Sir Walter Scott and Iiewis Carroll.

George Burke Johnston has also published a volume of poetry, and his Ph. D. dissertation, concerning Ben Johnston's poetry and other nondramatic literary efforts. Soon to be published is his book on William Camden. Ben Johnston's schoolmaster.

To Dr. George Burke Johnston, the twentieth century seems rather tragic and satirical, as opposed to the Elizabethan Age. His recent retirement will enable him to visit and lecture at numerous colleges, as well as literary interest groups. On Nov. 7, Dr. Johnston will lecture on Shakespeare and his connection with the common man. The event is sponsored by Student Union.

Voice-Opera Workshop At Longwood

By SHARON JANOVITCH Dr. Genevieve McGiffert, chorus master of the Virginia Opera Company, will conduct a voice-opera workshop at longwood College on Thursday and Friday, November 9 and 10.

On Thursday at 1 p.m. in the Molnar Recital Hall, Dr. McGiffert will conduct a forum on the topic, "A Singing Actor Prepares: From Medieval Florence to Modern Appal achia."

Dr. McGiffert will work with Longwood music students in open rehearsal sessions on Thursday afternoon and evening and again on Wednesday morning. They will be rehearsing scenes from "The Marriage of Figaro" by Mozart, "Susannah" by Carisle Floyd, and "Gianni Schicchi" by Puccini.

Scenes from the three operas will be performed on Friday evening at 7:30 in the Molnar

MUSIC CALENDAR November 7,1:00 p.m.

Departmental Recital November 12.4:00 p.m.

Fall Concert November 14,8:00 p.m.

Senior Recital: I .aura York November 19,4:00 p.m.

Senior Recital: Nelle Jones November 21,1:00 p.m.

Departmental Recital

Recital Hall. All of these workshop activities are open to the public at no charge.

Dr. McGiffert holds degrees in piano and voice from the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, the M. A. from Syracuse University, and the Ph. D. in theatre from the University of Denver. She is opera lecturer for the Virginia Commission of the Arts and Humanities and an adjunct professor at Christopher Newport College where she teaches opera.

Her background as a performer, conductor, and teacher is extensive and varied.

She sang leading soprano roles in civic and academic productions of open and operetta, and was the founder and director of Colorado Opera Theater. She has conducted 60 opera performances and 58 performances of musical productions.

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Senior Spotlight

LETTERS

FROM THE EDITOR . .~Z~] pen 1Letter To An Open "I don't know what to do," you groan to your friends. You say you have so much work that you need a month's vacation to complete it! You have two term papers due . . . within a day of each other, two tests, one project . . . Everyone then gets in the act, each telling how overburdened they are.

This is the period known as the after mid-terms — bofore-exams blues. There is only one and a half months before the semester ends. It is now or never grade-wise and do the professors know it. They will now be piling work on the poor students right up to exam day.

Now the veterans of college life, the juniors and seniors, know that this occurrence happens every year. Of course, they have not prepared for it and have let their work pile up. They do their term papers frantically the night before they are due just like the most naive freshman. Yet, there is a difference. The upper classmen instinctively know they will somehow survive. Haven't they hung in there for three to four years already? It is the poor freshmen and sophomores who think there is no tomorrow. They magnify every little misfortune. They complain about having to read a mere 7,000 pages ... by tomorrow . . . and charge that their roommate is Godzilla.

Well, everybody just calm down. The end is near. .lust grit your teeth, bring a pillow and blanket to camp out in the library, and say a few prayers in between cursing your professors.

This month we get a five-day break to at least catch our breaths and, then (sigh of relief), Christmas vacation when we have not a single care except registration to occupy our tired minds.

So smile, say the wise upperclassmen. Don't wo.. y iibout acing your classes . . . just pass! Tomorrow will be a brighter day. Survival isn't all that hard, we've done it' The young student then puts on a brave face and turns away, endeavoring to deal with the pains of college life. The older students watch and snicker.

They know that the after mid-term — before-exam pr< ssure will always be present for a college student.

There is no escape. You always will fall behind and never relax but you will survive. Then they hurry back to their studying, preparing for another all nighter . but first, they make a quick McDonald's run

My Fellow Students Of Longwood Dear Editor: I need your help desperately, and to say my life depends on you might be putting it lightly. My name is Dennis (Disco) Fain, and I'm in trouble because I care, as unfair as it is. All of you know about the rash of fires we've had on campus recently and I know alot of you are concerned. So am I, but my concern has caused my suspension from Longwood, and I may soon be faced with several charges of arson. I made the mistake of getting involved in putting out the fires in French and Tabb dorms. I live in room 301 French, which is within 200 feet of the fires that occurred in these dorms. Consequently, if I was in the dorm anywhere, I went to see if there was anything I could do. Each time the alarm went off I began to search for a possible fire, and if I smelled smoke, I followed it. Then I either put it out, or helped someone who was there before me. After the fire was out, I helped open windows and set fans at the ends of the halls to get rid of the smoke. The sooner the smoke was clear, the sooner people could come back in from the cold.

Well, because I cared, I opened myself to a situation that I never would have believed could happen. It's been decided that since my face popped up at almost every fire, I must have been the one to start them. As I write this, I'm sitting in the police station waiting for my mother to call. I'm not even allowed to talk to my girlfriend Sandy, who was with me all night 'till the alarm went off Thursday morning at 2:15. We had been sitting in French lounge since 12:30. When this alarm sounded, I told her to get out of the building, then ran upstairs to look for a pulled alarm box, or even worse, smoke.

I smelled smoke, then followed it into 2nd floor Tabb, where Hound (Continued on Page 8)

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Chemistry Major Brings Right Mixture To LC

By LAURIE HOFFMAN Jim Crites, a transfer last year from James Madison University, has quickly become an active student at I-ongwood. Originally from Annandale, Virginia, Jim moved to Farmville and enrolled at Longwood after marrying Becky Tuck, who was already a student here.

"I am glad I could transfer here and be with Becky," says Jim. He does not find it difficult to handle the responsibilities, financial or otherwise, of marriage while being a full-time student. Since his wife is a student as well, she understands about the need for him to study.

A chemistry major with a physics minor, Jim is unsure of his plans after graduation. He may go to graduate school, or he may try to get a job with an industrial company willing to pay for his post-graduate work. He does not intend to remain in Farmville.

Jim says that the classes at Longwood are on a much more personal level than those at Madison, but finds that there is less of a variety of classes here.

He would like to see more classes offered in analytics. Of all his classes, Jim feels that instrumental analytical chemistry has been the most beneficial to him.

Crites is involved in Legislative Board and in the Student Union.

He is also treasurer of the Chemistry Club. Jim and his wife were commended by CHI of 1978 for their support of campus activities, and Geist recognized his achievements this year by tapping him an Oktoberfest usher.

Jim finds that there is "alot of school spirit here" at Longwood, but he does wish that the students would be more involved. If this was the case, he believes, more could be accomplished. Jim's own concern has certainly shown through in his aid in various projects at Longwood.

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"Reflections"

By DONNA SIZEMORE and DAVE GATES The Kaleidoscope of autumn colors touches the countryside with bright hues. The leaves russle in the cool fall morning.

Indian summer days are followed by brisk and clear nights. The squirrels gather their acorns in preparation for the arrival of "Jack Frost." Soon all of these events will be changed. A blanket of snow will cover the landscape.

The trees will stand barren in the wind. The tiny squirrel will remain dormant, as winter takes its toil on the land.

The unique features that are inherent with each season can teach us a great deal about people through the similarities seen. As we examine each season, certain characteristics stand out. God blesses each season with the marvelous gift of change. He molds each individual into a special person with special talents, in much the same way that He grants each season its picturesque and special features.

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Placement Office Aids Students

By JUDI STANLEY "Finding a job is a difficult task. Some students find it harder . than taking a class," said Miss Niki Fallis, Assistant Director of Admissions and Director of Placement.

Obtaining employment is a developmental process for which the student must be preparing in the second semester of the junior year. A graduate of Longwood College must be able to compete in the job market and must be in the right place at the right time.

The Placement Office at Longwood gives the Longwood graduate a better chance by helping the student along the way towards graduation and employment.

The Placement Office has many functions. Some of the more important ones are: provides career information to all students, though usually deals more with seniors (this function is in conjunction with the Director of Counseling, Dr. Brian

Robie); houses the credentials of the seniors and mails these, without charge, to prospective employers at the request of the student; invites companies and school systems to Longwood to interview for prospective employees and obtains notices of job vacancies and relates this information to graduates and seniors. They also provide seminars in the area of job search strategy which are open to all students. These seminars include writing for applications, completing applications, writing resumes, preparing for interviews, and learning where to look for a job.

The Placement Office works closely with graduates through the summer. According to Miss Fallis, "Although the student has graduated, the Placement Office keeps in touch with them through November, or until they no longer need the services." This office also contacts as many graduates as possible to determine their

employment status.

For example, out of 550 graduates in 1978, all but one were contacted; of those contacted 96 per cent were employed. According to Miss Fallis, "The track record of Longwood College in job placement is excellent and in most instances it surpasses national statistics."

The Placement Office does not find jobs for students — it finds job openings.. The student must be willing to perform the necessary tasks in seeking or applying for employment. Just the same, the Placement Office does offer a variety of services to enable the student to do this. Yet, most students do not realize how valuable the Placement Office may be to them. Miss Fallis states that the' 'major frustration that I experience is that I am not able to reach all students in order to explain these advantages."

She strongly encourages students to take advantage of all that the Placement Office offers.

Dining Hall and I think we have much more variety than they do."

Larrie Watkins: "I think the service is good, and the food is good for a school. The two things I don't like are music at every meal and that it is so crowded upstairs."

Viet Nguyen: "There is not enough variety at breakfast — it is always the same thing over and over. Overall, I only like about one out of every three of the lunches or dinners. The food usually has no flavor, they should spice it up more. Many times I just eat salad — I like the salad bar. I do not like the music playing at dinner, I would like that a quieter meal."

Linda Paschall: "I love the family style service. I wish we could have the salad bar during the week, and also that breakfast could be open until 9:15 a.m."

Lynne Swan: "I guess they try hard, and overall it's OK. Having to have eight is a pain, but I can see their point. I don't like the long lines, sometimes it takes forever to get in."

Jeanne Nolte: "I think the food leaves a lot to be desired. I'm a vegetarian, and their vegetables aren't good. I'd like to see more fresh fruit served, cereals without sugar and more whole wheat bread."

Gary Birkett: "I like the family style service and birthday dinner. Buffet style is OK for weekends. I think the music should be quieter — maybe even classical music during dinner. I would like to see more fruit at lunch and orange juice available at all three meals. I've gone to other colleges and I think our food here is better than that at Madison. Of course, the private and government schools were better, but then they have the money to work with."

Teresa Bing: "I like the family style service, but not having to have eight or be split up. I'd like to see more fresh fruit and a larger choice of vegetables."

Kathy Bique: "I don't like the vegetables, and the menus don't seem well planned — they're too starchy. On Tuesdays and Thursdays I think breakfast should be open til 9:30 so you can go after an 8 o'clock class."

Melissa "Cricket" Crick: "I

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and good experience. Rus said that "if I went into teaching, I'd have to work 15 years to make $17,000, whereas. I can make this amount after working as a manager for only one year." Rus was offered the job because he "had a degree and it didn't matter what it was in."

A language major, Tilsia Stephens, has a job filled with excitement and travel. Tilsia secured a job as a flight attendant for Pan American Airlines last June. She completed five weeks of flight shcool in Honolulu, Hawaii. When asked about the flight school, Tilsia sighed and said, "at times, it was harder than college." She was taking a minimum of five tests per day. Some of the material included learning the safety devices of four different types of planes, the control panels, and abbreviations of all airports, national and international. Tilsia was one of 14 people hired from a group of 500 interviewed. She is presently stationed in Florida and travels to 27 different countries. Tilsia's comment about her job was, "I love it!" think if you come in at the end of Ix)rraine Barree has an the serving time you should still interesting job §s the fashion have the right to seconds instead training coordinator for Miller of them taking the food away and Rhodes in Richmond. Her job immediately. I would like to see a entails translating merchandise larger choice of soft drinks. Also, information from buyers and why are staff people allowed to fashion directors into smoke in the dining hall when information that can be given to students aren't I If it's a rule, then sales personnel. She holds it should be enforced all the time seminars and workshops, writes for everyone!" informational booklet sheets Beth Kearney: "The food is all about merchandise, and trains right, but I feel the planning is sales personnel in the clothes poor. They should vary the fashion area, l-orraine has the choices more." opportunity to travel to New York Many opinions, many where she visits fashion suggestions ... If you'd like to do magazine offices such as something about them, take your Mademoiselle and la Vogue. ideas to the Dining Hall Here she gathers information on Committee, or Food Services predictions for up-coming Director, Mr. Gordon Inge. fashions. Ix>rraine commented that past experience in merchandise was the key to getting her job.

Linda Chalkley, an English major with a minor in Communications, is now working for Fidelity Bankers Life Insurance Company of Richmond. Her main function is "to work with brokers and agents to help them place business with the company.' Although I jnda is happy with in ' present job, she is in the process ol working on a portfolio in hopes of securing a future job in public relations. She commented, "it's harder to get a job than you think."

Even Niki Fallis agrees that ' 'finding a job for some people can be very difficult, but the job placement office can give Crop rockers get comfortable for a long rock. strategies which should help."

Photo by Debbie Northern She continued to say, "students need to be aware of what's going to happen to them in the future," and this is why the placement office, located on second floor South Ruffner, is available to all I.<ongwood students. All anyone has to do is seek assistance.

By TAMMY TRESTRAIL then cheered on their friends as The Federation of Student they bobbed for apples, raced Social Workers celebrated a marshmallows on a string and Happy Halloween with twenty then played musical pumpkin.

THINK ABOUT IT. The evening came to an end kids of Farmville. Not even the hoot of an owl or the screetch of a when twenty bubbling kids DON'T UTTER. witch could scare the smiles and buckled up their coats, grabbed their goodie bags, and thanked us laughter from those kids.

Virginia Division of The night started out with the one by one. litter Control Our Halloween is now more designing of "goodie" bags and since twenty then a dinner of hot dogs and a meaningful night of good old-fashioned beautiful kids allowed us to share Halloween spirit. Twenty kids it with them.

Students Comment On

By DONNA HASKEY One thing held in common by nearly every student on campus is the shared experience of eating in the dining hall. It seems a topic on which everyone develops an opinion. The following is a collection of student and staff comments on the dining hall, the food and related topics: Mrs. Harper, Resident Supervisor: "Breakfast is my favorite meal, although they could serve bacon more often.

Overall though, I think the meals are pretty good. I do wish there was some way to speed up the process of getting in and being served."

Peggy Beebee: "The food for the most part is good, and at least we have a choice. It would be nice to have a choice at lunch, too. One thing I don't like is that sometimes the tables are dirty and there are flies all around."

Dottie Jerd: "I like the new salad bars — I wish we could have them out all week long. I don't like the system of breaking up groups of less than eight.''

Buddy Bourne: "The food's OK, and I think the waitresses and waiters do a good job. If they're going to play music, I think it should at least be loud enough to hear it. One thing I don't like is being sent to fill up a table and having them nearly finished with their meal and you just starting."

Malinda Ayres, Director of Wesley Foundation: "I pay to come over here and eat, and the times I have, it has been very good. The meal choices are usually good, although I didn't like cold cuts for Sunday lunch. I think the salad bar is a good idea.

In my visits to the dining hall, I don't think I've ever had a waitress or waiter that wasn't friendly and courteous. Visiting speakers from Wesley are often brought here for meals and their comments have always been complimentary."

Carol Giancaspro: "The majority of the time the food is good, but I'd like to see more variety — especially in the salad bar. By the middle of the week, the donuts seem stale. I don't like being split up from my friends just because we don't have eight.

I've eaten at William and Mary,

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By JESSIE LIGNIAN and BETH DEVAN "I love it, I really, really do!"

This is just one statement made by a 1978 graduate who loves her job. Statistics show that students graduating last May have had success in securing employment.

However, not all of these jobs were obtained in the teaching profession.

Ms. Niki Fallis, the director of the placement office, states that "the student interest at Longwood College is shifting.

Although teaching may continue to be strong, forty-five per cent of the 1978 graduating class were in non-teaching majors." She continued to say "finding a job is a job in itself." This certainly was true for six of the non-teaching 1978 graduates.

Terry Cochran, a Home Economics major, worked hard and applied many places until she found a job as an assistant buyer for I^eggett of Lynchburg, Virginia. Terry is now in the process of going through a oneyear management trainee program. She circulates within different offices such as credit, display, advertising, receiving and marketing, and personnel.

Terry is also sent to a Junior Executive Development School where she will be broken into the Leggett System. Here she must work on projects which will actually be used in the store.

Rus Tomlin, an elementary education major, found the benefits of Drug Fair to be more suitable to his financial needs than a teaching job. He is in the process of management training for the Farmville Drug Fair. Rus must become familiar with such departments as security, public relations, accounting, and personnel. He finds there is a lot of room for advancement and that the job is a stepping stone

Social Workers Brighten Kid's Halloween

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STOP! Before you tamper with any Fire equipment THINK! It is a 1st Class misdemeanor and is punishable by up to a * 1,000 fine 1 year in prison or both!!

Is it worth it?

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Longwood Players Are In Full Swing

By RONDA LANDIS The longwood Players are already in full swing with their second production of the semester, Legend of tavers, under the direction of Dr. Douglas Young.

Tryouts were held October 21, 22, 23 and the turnout was very impressive.

Rehearsals have already begun and if you walk by Jarman you can hear the banging of hammers as the stage craft class is hard at work on the set.

The cast is as follows, Henry Emmerson, Ken Niemo, Barbara Wood, Buddy Bourne, Marshall Jones, I^ura Streace, Diane LOII"\MHHI

Wright, George Bennett, Roger Strong, Susan Clift, Avril I-agaradu, Bob Bailey, Edward Milla, and Leon Young.

The crew chiefs busy heading their crews are Sara Blue, Nina I^ffue, Carolyn Bryant, Karen Karcha, Kit Orsi, Usa Hughes, I>eon Young, Susan Williams.

Assistant Director is Vicky Mann; Stage Manager is Linda Kulp, and her assistant is Karen Moore.

The curtain will go up December 6 at 8 p.m., students tickets are paid by Students Activity Fees. So support the longwood Players.

Dance Company To Perform Dance Company choregraphers are adding final touches to their dance compositions for the Ungwood College Company of Dancers' Concert on November 9, 10, 11 in Jarman Auditorium. These annual concerts present not only students as dancers but also students as composers. All the dances in the concert are original, growing from each composer's imagination, ingenuity and skill.

Among senior members of Company are Carol Henry and Terri Williams. Carol is a Home Economics and Spanish major and Terri is a Chemistry and Biology Major. They are collaborating on an electronic ballet by Henk Badings. This undertaking is in five parts and can best be described as having a surrealistic approach. The work is entitled Odyssey. Lauren Mundy, a senior Art major, is experimenting with lighting

Preparation Underway For Fashion Show

By KDIF PARKINS The fashion merchandising class of the Home Economics Department is keeping very busy. They are getting ready for their annual fashion show which will be held in the Gold Room, Wednesday, November 8, at 8 p.m. Admission will be 25 cents.

About 50 models, consisting of Ixmgwood students, will model clothes from five categories: disco, prep, formal and cocktail, designer, and classic. Some of the clothes are from Baldwin's, while the others are owned by various students.

During the disco section, Coconut, a Longwood student who teaches disco dancing at the college, will perform a few dances with his partner. There will also be dancers performing in the prep section.

In planning the fashion show, the students of the fashion merchandising class have divided into six committees with

a fashion coordinator: commentators, staging and decorating, publicity, script, models and outfits, and door prizes. Jane Tunstell, a junior fashion merchandising major, will serve as fashion coordinator, who will oversee the six committees.

Along with planning the fashion show, the fashion merchandising class has been busy doing window displays in local Farmville stores. There are approximately three girls per window. Some of the participating stores include Baldwin's, I^eggett, The Village Shop, The Hub, and The Esther May Shop.

technique and mass. Her composition is named Archetypal Images. Jackie Page, a senior, is composing a trio with a jazz theme.

Two junior members — Sherry Hogge, an Elementary School Education major and Dance minor, and Susan Gift, a drama major — are choreographing two pieces. Sherry's dance is a vintage piece called Puttln' on the Ritz. Susan's dance is entitled Jazz Mosiac and is a highly energetic dance filled with exciting movement and explosive technique.

Sandy McFall, a sophomore, has choreographed the opening number for concert. It is her second work for company, appropriately titled Opus No. 2. It is an abstract movement study in three parts with emphasis on line.

Dance Company's new choreographers this fall are Teresa Heatwole who is composing Study in Rose and Cindy Morris, Ellen Hitt, Terri Stuart and Elizabeth Cardin who have composed a suite of dances called Temperaments with music

by Prokofiev.

The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. and there is no admission charge.

Members of Longwood College Company of Dancers invite you to attend this upcoming performance of their creative efforts.

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UVA Takes State Championship on their home field. Both teams came out pressuring hard and at half time the score stood at 1-1.

Mary King scored for Longwood and Peggy Wells for Tech. In the second half LC had some strong offensive drives, but to an avail.

Neither team could score the second half. Since the game was tied, it went into a 74 minute overtime. Tech scored first and the Lancers could not match it.

The final score stood at 2-1.

Besides Longwood and Virginia Tech, there were five other teams from the Tidewater and Blue Ridge regions in the tournament, William and Mary, James Madison University, Mary Washington, Hollins, and Old Dominion University.

In other games played Friday morning, William and Mary defeated JMU 3-1. Cheryl Proscino scced one in each half and Gare Campbell scored one in the second half for the W&M Indians. Madison Bulldog's Tracy Davis put in their only goal during the first half.

UVA toppled Mary Washington 4-0, scoring for the Cavaliers was Cindy Carzo with two and Julia Morris who successfully put in two penalty strokes.

ODU pulled out their game with Hollins on a 2-1 overtime. In the first half Margaret Grill scored for Hollins, and later, Sandra Hicks and Brenda Scholten got goals for ODU. That afternoon UVA met William and Mary in the most exciting tournament game, which went into two overtimes Cindy Dropetkl reaches for the ball as Juli Dayton gets ready and three penalty stroke series.

UVA scrapped by the Indians 1-0 to snatch it from Tech.

Photo by Debbie Northern even though the regular game

By DEBBIE NORTHERN The lancers knew they would be meeting the Virginia Tech Gobblers in the first round of the Virginia State Field Hockey Tournaments held at Ixmgwood this past weekend when they traveled to Blackstone to finish their regular season action, October 31. Tech had had its ups and downs during the season, as had the lancers. Yet Tech in their 3-0 win over LC had a slight advantage as the game was played on indoor astroturf. lx)ngwood showed good hustle, but again was plagued by a lack of strong offensive play.

The JV team fell 2-1 in the final minutes to Tech. The Gobblers

had opened the scoring in the first half sending the Lancers to the sidelines with a 1-0 deficit.

LC sweeper, Dorreen Shuffler, though, went to the sidelines in the middle of the first half with a badly bruised jaw suffered in a collision with a Tech player. The Tech player came away with only a broken stick.

Yet, the Lancers, who dominated the play, soon saw Jeanne Nolte score. The tie game lasted until the last couple minutes of the very fast game as both teams tried to put the ball in the cage, and Tech finally succeeded.

Thus on Friday morning, Ixmgwood was ready for revenge

Winners in the October 20-22 Ixmgwood College Mixed Dougles Tennis Classic are pictured here with their trophies: (1 to r) Jayne Carson and Scott Wlllett, Flight B. Champions, and Teresa McLawhorn and Dr. Henry I. Willett. Jr., Flight A Champions. ended in a 0-0 tie. Most of the game fluctuated from goal to goal, but neither team controlled the ball for long. After two 74 minute overtimes failed to resolve the tie, the pressure was put on the goalies as each team picked five members to execute five penalty strokes. The first series of five for each team ended in a 2-2 tie, the next series in a 1-1 tie. Finally, in the third round, UVA came on top 3-2. Cavalier Julia Morris led the penalty stroke scoring with three, followed by Indian Betsy Frick with two.

The Tech - ODU game went scoreless in the regular time action and reached one series of penalty strokes after a 0-0 double overtime. ODU came out ahead to meet UVA in the finals.

In the loser's brackett, Madison defeated Mary Washington 2-0 and Hollins toppled Longwood 3-0. On Saturday Madison met Hollins to vie for fifth place. JMU's Erin Marovelli scored two goals to lead her team to a 2-0 victory.

William and Mary played a dominant game over a tough Tech to clinch third place in the Tournament, 2-0. Sharon Kelly and Betsy Frick each scored for the Indians.

In the finals, the Cavaliers

scored early in the first half and ODU could not find a way to retaliate in UVA's 1-0 win. Ann Brackhill scored UVA's only goal, but most of the second half UVA threatened to put in more.

ODU's defense did a fine job keeping the Cav's from scoring again.

First place University of Virginia and second place Old Dominion University will be traveling to regionals at Hollins this weekend. William and Mary placed third and Virginia Tech fourth at Virginia's first State Field Hockey Tournament.

Last year the Tidewater and Blue Ridge regions held their own tournaments. The results in Tidewater were; first, William and Mary; second place, Longwood College; third place, Mary Washington; and fourth place, Old Dominion. In the Blue Ridge Tournament first place went to James Madison; second place, UVA; third place Virginia Tech, and fourth place Roanoke.

This year's Lancers were a young team. They will not be losing anyone so they look forward to a powerful team next year. The final record was 4-9.

The JV team had a good season with a 3-4-1 record. They, too will be strong next season.

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On ROTC Canoe Trip

By KENDALL ADAMS The South Anna in late October is usually an ideal site for canoeing. Such was not the case on October 21 as Ixmgwood's ROTC took students on a six-andone-half-mile trip down the river.

The trip began at 7:15 Saturday morning as the Longwood bus transported the students to the put-in site off of Route 33. Upon arrival at 9 a.m., Major Hamaker briefed the group on safety rules and conduct along the river. By 9:30 the group was in the water and headed down the South Anna.

Less than 200 yards downstream the first incident of the day occurred. Two unsuspecting souls encountered a submerged log which in the end succeeded in dampening their bodies but not their spirits. From that time on, this became a very common occurrence with variations ranging from going down with style to muttering various unprintable, and sometimes unheard, of words.

Those canoes carrying the day's

lunch rations were no exception.

Lunch was supplied, courtesy of the Army, in small boxes labeled "C-Rations." These words bring back memories of small forest green cans filled with what resembled Gaines Burger or Purina Cat Chow. One exception was the spaghetti and meat balls, which was the favorite of the day. On the other hand, chopped ham and eggs, along with spiced beef, was avoided as though it were the plague. Lunch's redeeming factor lay in that it gave a chance to at least partially dry out and laugh over those predicaments encountered earlier in the day.

The remainder of the day went much faster except when "rapids" were run upon. The term "rapids" is not really fitting, as the water was only two to five inches deep in places and the canoes drew four to six inches of water.

Finally, the end was reached.

Suddenly it was decided that everybody should go swimming, whether they wanted to or not.

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o This created much confusion and took everybody's breath since the water temperature that day had never risen above 46 degrees Fahrenheit.

At the bus once again the change to dry clothes was a necessity. The girls fortified themselves in the bus while they

forced the guys to take refuge in the nearby woods. After this, the canoes were loaded and the trip home was begun. Needless to say, most everybody slept the entire way home. Possible upcoming activities in ROTC are a skiing trip and a camping trip one week end.

Player Of The Week

Mary jane Smith gets ready to put up the ball in practice. The women's basketball team is looking forward to a great season.

Photo by Audrey Hinok

Men's B-Ball Team Prepares For Opener

By ROGERSTRONG The Longwood men's basketball team, under the direction of new coach Ron Bash, is entering the final stages of preparation for their season opening appearance in the Hampden-Sydney Tournament on November 24 and 25.

Bash, who enjoyed immense success in his previous coaching job at Stony Brook College, is conducting practice on a very strict schedule, stressing precision in every area, from

Longwood College's Player of the Week is junior Meg Cook, a spiker on the volleyball team, who was instrumental in the Lancers' October 26 home victories over Lynchburg and William and Mary.

"If it had not been for her sensational play Thursday night, we would have had a tough time beating Lynchburg College and William and Mary," commented Longwood volleyball coach Carolyn Callaway, who nominated Cook for the award.

Callaway pointed out that, in addition to averaging ten spikes per game in the two matches, "Meg mixes up skills very well and will fool opponents by hitting off-speed spikes." The coach also noted that "Meg's blocking ability really paid off" in two games at the October 27-28 East Carolina University Invitational Tournament, where Longwood placed fourth against some topnotch teams.

A graduate of Andrew Lewis

High School, where she played varsity basketball and volleyball.

Cook is a physical education major at Longwood.

She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Cook of Salem.

coordination drills to the running of plays.

The Lancers will put their talents on display in the second annual opening game on November 9. The game will be a controlled intra-squad scrimmage.

With seven freshmen joining three returnees and three transfers, the Lancers appear to have a bright future. There is quite a bit of talent on the 13 man longwood roster, and with the proven coach at the helm success is simply the voyage which lies ahead.

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The men's basketball team U ready to lay in the baskets November 9 when their season opens Photo by Linda Shanahan

By JANET CLEMENTS As the sun faded below the James River in Williamsburg, so did the hopes of the lancers' Women's Golf Team as they sought revenge over state champions James Madison University in the season's final match.

Because of approaching darkness, the match Thursday was called off on the 16th hole of the Kingsmill Course; however, on the first nine holes the Longwood team demolished JMU, making their title of Virginia Association of InterCollegiate Athletics for Women state champions seem quite insignificant.

The lancers, who were regular season champs with only one loss, had a bad day at Ivy Hills the previous week as they lost their title held for six years, yet they regained their dominance at Williamsburg even though darkness hit jered play.

The following day the State Open was played on the challenging Kingsmill (bourse, and the team members had one more chance to prove themselves in this individual competition.

Kay Smith, the Longwood standout, placed second in the championship fight with an 85, one stroke behind winner Tracy Lienbach of William and Mary, who had an 84. "The match was even up until the 18th hole when I hooked my tee shot into the lake and took a double bogey on the hole," commented Kay. Becky Webb of Longwood placed second in the first flight with an 88, but the rest of the team found the difficult course to be their nemesis and were plagued with scores in the 90's.

The spring golf season looks exceptionally bright for the golf team, with all of the members returning. JMU, however, will lose two of their key players, so LC will find their major competition coming from William and Mary's developing team.

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LETTERS (Continued from Page 4) the R.A. coughing hard from the smoke and trying to put out the fire in a trash can. I told her to kneel down and breath the fresh air next to the floor, and I finished for her. Then I went to my room and got a fan to help clear the smoke out. This is basically what I did at the other fires that were started in the dorm.

Now, statements have been made by students and school officials that it seems like a big coincidence that I happened to show up. I'm finding out that I wouldn't be in this mess if I had just said to myself "Don't worry about it, Dennis, don't bother to care, just don't get involved, even if someone gets hurt, because it doesn't concern you."

Remember the lady in some large city that was brutally beaten and stabbed in broad daylight while people just watched? Nobody even called the police. It's not right. It's not fair.

It's inhuman. And now I'm suffering for someone's foul pranks. So I've got to ask you, with all my heart, If you know anything, anything at all, let the administration and police know about it. If someone remembers me being near me before the fires started, try to remember, write it down, turn it in. I need all the help I can get, because all I have against me is circumstantial

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evidence. I'm suspect because I was there. But I'm innocent, and suffering anyway. Your help might be all that stands between me, and a sentence. Please don't let it be true, that, "Only the Good Die Young."

Sincerely, Dennis Fain Note: Dennis Fain has been interrogated in Appomattox by the State Police and flunked a lie detector test in terms of his involvement in the setting of the fire.

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Library Helpful To the Editor: I am so glad that Ixmgwood has a library for its students. To have an adequate and descent library would even be better. Many of the professors on this campus request term papers during the semester. Since these reports must be from six to ten pages long, the resources that we must obtain our information are urgently needed. Granted, Ix)ngwood does have books for all subject matters pertaining to the majors that we offer, my only regret is that these books I ?) of the "ancient years" of 1902,1927, and 1940's just seem to lack a certain amount of recent information.

Another complaint is that we shouldn't be forced to go for outside assistance such as UVA, Richmond, VCU or any other college. The department heads should request, or DEMAND, material and recent copyrighted

books for all the major courses offered at Long wood. The sociology department, already has made advances in obtaining i jks for their students. It is my only hope that the other departments will take notice and start thinking about how to get our library back to the modem world.

Sue (Grainy) Miskar

Republican

Appreciation Dear Editor: Longwood College Republicans would like to express its appreciation to The Rotunda for responding so promptly and efficiently to our request for a mock election. That Longwood College's newspaper takes such an active interest not only in the College community but also in the larger realm of state and consequently national affairs, is extremely heartening. In time when political apathy is all too prevalent, The Rotunda sets an example of caring about those matters of state that affect all of us.

Sincerely, Alison Swann Secretary, Longwood

LC Has Men's <;<>lf Dear Editor, Please notify the Virginian that Ix)ngwood College has a men's golf team and a competative one.

Sincerely, Robert Boyd

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(Continued from Page 2) are being set up to educate them, the gifted child is still for the most part ignored. There are approximately ten universities in the United States that have graduate programs in gifted and talented education.

More programs and funding are a necessity when you consider the benefits a gifted child can give to society. "If you help a retarded child develop to their fullest potential, they will learn to maintain themselves and not be a burden to society. Whereas if a gifted child is developed to his fullest potential, he not only will be able to care for himself but will be able to give back to society in the form of inventions to improve world conditions," stresses Ms. Cosby.

Three to five per cent of the population is made up of gifted children; but without proper instruction, many geniuses,

America's most important natural resource, will be lost.

(Research supports this fact).

Ms. Cosby's teaching interest probably originated at home in South Carolina when her mother opened one of the first private preschools for all types of handicapped children. She also feels her father stimulated her interests by encouraging her to reach for high goals in life. Her interest in gifted education first surfaced when she was teaching a class of thirty students and felt discouraged about the handicapping effects of the regular classroom upon the gifted child.

Aware of a graduate program in gifted education at the University of South Florida, she trained under Dr. Dorothy Sisk, now the Director of the U.S. Office of Gifted and Talented Education in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.

With degrees in Psychology and Gifted Education, she is teaching in both fields at Longwood. Her parents reside in South Carolina and her one sibling, Geoffrey, has a Ph.D. in Marine Science and works with the Environmental Protection Agency on clorination and PCB pollution of water and oil spills. He has volunteered to come to Longwood for a few days in the Spring to talk with Dr. Marvin Scott's classes.

Ms. Cosby loves being at Longwood and her evident enthusiasm and concern for the students verifies this. Her ever present smile and good nature brightens even the dreariest day.

She enjoys snowskiing in the mountains, sailing in Florida, and needlepointing at home.

This interview would not be complete without a creative question for Ms. Cosby. When asked, "If you could be doing anything else, what would you do?" She laughingly replied, "I'd be out on a stage singing my heart out like Phoebe Snow or Carole King. I love to sing but I'm afraid I'm probably a monotone!"

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