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Class Of 86 s Job Outlook lirightens "Slightly" BETHIJ3HEM, PA (CPS) Students who graduate in 1986 will enjoy "slightly" better prospects for landing a job than 1985 grads, the College Placement Council (CPC) predicts. All told, American businesses expect to hire about two percent more grads next year, the CPC found in its annual mid-year assessment of the student job market. The CPC's report, the first of three national job outlook surveys published by major agencies in November and December of each year, forecasts better times ahead for most kinds of majors. But last year, the CPC's rosy predictions of a bumper job market for college grads did not come true, in part because of the computer industry slump. "The recovery slowed down to some degree," explains CPC
spokesman Rhea Nagle. "The big fall-off in the Silicon Valley was the category we were off in." This year "there will be plenty of opportunities (for computer majors) outside the computer industry," says John Shingletjon, placement director at Michigan State and the sponsor of another of the annual job outlooks. Shingleton expects his report to appear in a few weeks, and that it also will indicate a "slightly" better job market for the Class of 1986. He also predicts starting salaries will rise more slowly than the Cost of Living Index compiles by the federal government. In the CPC survey, firms said they expected to hire seven percent more business grads than last year. They also forecast having four percent more openings for masters of business administration, although last
year was a bad one for MBAs. Students with degrees in science, math and technical disciplines — excluding engineering — should also experience a slightly improved job market, CPC predicts. Employers expect to hire three percent more bachelor's grads in these areas and 13 percent more who have a master's, CPC data show. Employers' predictions of engineering grads' prospects "are contradictory," Nagle says. "Employers are saying one thing, but when they project figures, those figures show a decline." The data indicate corporations will hire five percent fewer grads this year, but in interviews engineering executives thought there would be a rising demand for engineers, explains Nagle. "It's particularly surprising at the bachelor's level because they
Virginia Governor-Elect Gerald Baliles was a surprise visitor to Longwood College last Wednesday. Baliles, who turned up at a banquet for Longwood's "Superintendent's Network", looked tired from his long campaign and declined to make a
statement in order to not influence Governor Robb's last days in office. Longwoods "Network" is an outreach program to help retrain teachers and generally improve K-12 school systems in the South-Central Virginia area.
have been the most sought after for a number of years," she adds. Companies expect to have seven percent more job openings for engineering students with advanced degrees, however. Liberal arts majors face a similarly confusing job market,
Nagle contends. While the data show companies anticipate hiring three percent fewer liberal arts majors in the coming year, many employers say they are increasingly interested in hiring humanities (Continued on Page6)
Halley's Comet By BARRETT BAKER Picture, if you will, a blazing 6-billion-ton fireball, screaming towards the earth at over 20,000 miles per hour! Could this be the new plot line to another bestselling fiction by Stephen King? Possibly, but this story is not expected to involve the destruction of our planet as we know it. In reality, this is a description of Halley's Comet, which is to appear for the first time since 1910 sometime later this year. From a scientific viewpoint, this appearance will give astronomers and scientists a first-hand opportunity to unlock some still unanswered mysteries involving the origin of our universe. Although this fireball will not actually be burning, it will definitely be blazing. In an article published in the Washington Post, on January 27, 1985, Michael Kernan, the author of the story, stated that Halley's comet
is going to be about 100 times brighter than originally predicted. This is due, in part, to the core of the comet vaporizing much sooner than previously expected. According to Mr. James Curley, who teaches astronomy here at Longwood, the prediction was also based on a sort of 'safety factor.' In 1972, a comet by the name of Kohoutek was predicted to be almost as spectacular as Halley's. Unfortunately, it turned out to be somewhat of a dud. "About a year ago, Halley's was predicted to be very poor — very poor vision," Curiey said. "I think that Kohoutek had a lot to do with that. But even so, it will be less than what it was in 1910, simply because of our point of view — where we are located in our orbit relative to where the comet is. You see, in 1910, we were so close to the comet that the tail of it actually went through the earth — or we went through it. Now we are going to be farther away from
it, thus it'll be a little dimmer, so (they) were predicting poorer results. Now they are saying, 'Hey! its vaporizing a little better than we had anticiapted' so that's going to make it brighter. And I hope so, too," he finished, "because this is a once-in-alifetime thing, and if we miss it.. •i
So — what is a comet? What is so special about Halley's comet in particular? What is the significance to this year's appearance? And what are we doing to avoid 'missing* it? First of all, a comet is a mass of frozen gasses with dust, sand, and a little gravel mixed in with it — what astronomers refer to as a 'dirty snowball.' As this snowball gets closer and closer to the sun, the sun's radiation vaporizes some of those frozen gasses, casuing the head of the comet to expand — up to much larger than the size of the earth, creating a tail that can extend out as far from the comet as the distance
between the sun and the earth. So, the closer it gets to the sun, the larger it becomes. Halley's comet is a special case because of its extremely regular appearances — showing itself every 76 years or so. It has been said, by a Chinese scientist, that his ancestors may have spotted the comet as far back as 1057 B.C. But a Halley's historian at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, doubts this date because subsequent close passes in 374, 607, and 837 A.D. would have changed its time schedule. This would put a more conventional date at around 240 B.C. — making next year's event the 29th recorded appearance. The comet gets its names from Edmond Halley, who was the first to discover that these comet sightings throughout history were all the same comet. Halley first got excited about comets in 1682, when a spectacular one appeared over his home in Britain. He had previously been
working on a theory that would conclude that a comet was the cause of the great flood depicted in the bible through the story of Noah's Ark. Previously, during Middle Ages, comets were believed to be a phenomenon of the atmosphere; that they were part of the earth itself. Shortly after this period, someone finally figured out that it was not part of our atmosphere and started working on the theory of orbits. Halley was the first person to work out the comet's correct path on a 76-year orbit and astonished the world when he predicted its return in 1759. Unfortunately, he never got the satisfaction of seeing his prediction come true. This year's appearance of Halley's comet is causing quite a stir with the scientific world because it will be the first opportunity to find out where comets actually come from. "One idea," said Mr. Curley, "and probably the most (Continued on Page 5)
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The Rotunda
Tuesday, December 3, 1985
My Page
On Lankford
If this editorial seems to have a rhythm to it, it is because a pipe above the ceiling has burst, demolished a ceiling tile, and is filling the Rotunda office-suite complex with a rather consistent pitterpatter-type drip. If this editorial seems to use an overabundance of short words, it is because The Rotunda's Lankford Building home is so cold that we can see our breath and can only take our hands out of our pockets long enough to write the shortest of words. This is a rather crappy situation, as it is difficult enough to get people to come in to the office and work without asking them to experience what, in essence, is the exact atmosphere of a slowly melting igloo. Let's see, what should I rank on this week? . . . I've got it, let's examine the various frailties and shortcomings of the big, fat elephant that is the Lankford Student Union Building. Firstly, a big chunk of the comprehensive fee that we pay to Our Lord, Cashiering and Student Accounts, goes to repay the loan that bought Lankford; this loan will be paid off around the time that we are thinking up names for our grandchildren. (I've already decided to name my first "Frankie Lankie", always hoping that the kid will never get as useless and burdensome as his Student Union namesake.) Let's face it, if you don't work for The Rotunda, hold a SGA office, go bowling, play videogames, or appear in front of the judicial board, you don't get a lick of use out of that place. (Oh yes, we did take a nice fraternity picture on the front steps.) To be fair, the Lancer Cafe is a huge step in the right direction towards making Lankford a real Student Union; but if we apply international mathematic principles and basic American exaggerationism, we find that (considering the total cost of the building) a beer at the Lancer Cafe costs us $750,000 per mug. Who's buying the next round? A quick look around upstairs will bring any budget-minded student to tears. Besides Garth Wentzel's Oval Office-cubbyhole, there isn't a thing up there worth a pud. You have your color rooms that are all white, and will stay white since we apparently aren't allowed to reserve them for parties anymore. You've got your Mecklinburg prison-type T.V. room that would rouse anybody but a Longwood student to riot. Of course, there is the Day Student Lounge where all the weird people hang out.
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Finally we have the Gold (fleece?) Room, A.K.A. Grandma's living room. Apparently the purpose of this room goes along with "living fully" at Longwood. How can anybody pretend to "live fully" without knowing how to act at Grandma's house? Take your shoes off! Don't slouch! Quit picking at your pimples! The only thing missing is a fat lady at the door who pinches your cheeks when you enter. In reality, the Gold Room is an expensive gift from the Longwood students to the Town of Farmville. The only time there are more than two people in that damn room is when the townies get together for the Women's Club, Men's Club, boy's club, girl's club, pedaphile club or the club-foot club's annual thump dance. The only time Longwood students use the Gold Room is when they are waiting to be tried by judicial board. But we owe it to the Town of Farmville as compensation for all of the time their police spend patrolling our loading zones, right? While discussing the problem of Longwood being a suitcase college, with the President's Student Advisory Committee, Lankford's uselessness came up. Administrative responses were: 1) Janet Greenwood: "We're considering building two new wings on Lankford, extending towards Stubbs." 2) Vice-President for Academic Affairs Adams: "Maybe we should have classes on Saturdays." I now respond: 1) Forget the new wings, let's save money and improve what we have and 2) Where did this guy come from and why? The truth is, I, like everybody else, am stuck for answers to the problem of Landford's under-usage. However, the first steps are obvious: Fix the pipes, turn the heat on and drive a catapillarbulldozer right up them steps and into Grandma's living room. The only way to have a real student union is to quit flying with these winged ideas and approach the people who pay for, and are suppossed to be benefitted by the ton of bricks that has Myron Lankford rolling in his grave. FIREARMS The administration has recently overruled a judicial board recommendation of probation for a student who had a gun in his room; the student is gone, later, see ya, goodbye. The judicial board has more gun cases coming up. You will be next on the long road home if a room search turns up guns in your room. The Campus Police will gladly store your gun if you wish to have one on campus. Give Campus Police a call and bring all of your guns; their rooms don't get searched. In a similar but different tidbit, we are told that anyone caught pulling a fire alarm will be suspended from school as well. You would be well advised to pull on something else, Ya pointy-headed flits. F. F. Raio
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Cable In Cunninghams To the Editor: I would like to take this opportunity to offer support for Mr. Weibl concerning the cable T.V. issue. I approached Mr. Weibl earlier this semester regarding the feasibility of getting hooked up to a roof antenna on top of the Cunningham complex. The idea was ruled out, but he did strongly suggest that I get residents to show interest in cable TV so the cable company would be interested in hooking up the building. After talking with representatives and the manaeer of Farmville Cablevision on several occasions, the manager agreed to send someone out to the
Cunninghams to see if the building could be hooked up. The men that came, checked out the building and said it could be wired for cable. The next day Farmville Cablevision called me back and said they would give the Cunninghams cable service if there were enough interested residents. I immediately called Mr. Weibl and asked him if it would be O.K. to start drumming up support. He gave me his O.K.! So, Cunningham Residents, do you want your MTV??? If so, come by 204 South Cunningham and sign up. Thanks, Kevin Duck Box 336
"Life Threatening To The Editor: All right everybody, let's gather all of our "life threatening" materials and carry them over to campus police for storage. No, maybe that's not such a good idea. I really don't think there is enough space! Perhaps it would be more clever to define what "life threatening" material is. In the "Urgent Reminder" that was issued to us all, it was stated that things such as "firearms fireworks, explosives, knives (except nonspring pocket Knives) are considered "life threatening." (Oh, I see, nonspring pocket knives can not threaten someone's life, right?, wrong!) With a good imagination, practically anyone can create "life threatening" materials. Let's begin now by ridding the dining hall of all their knives, spoons and torks. Also, we must not forget the golf teams clubs; or the baseball team's bats. (Man, I bet an Accounting book
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could really do some damage!) It's the individuals who are "life threatening," not the materials which they may possess. I believe that anything which a person may own, is their own personal thing. Who has the right to take these things away from them? And, if they wish to store these items in their rooms, what does it really matter? Think about it, if someone wants to threaten someone else's life, storage of their personal items in the campus police station will not stop them. Why start complete paranoia over a few incidences. Isn't this how wars are started? Lastly, it's nice to get these reminders every now and then; it really let's us know what a real jungle we live in. Students of Longwood, unite. We are the soldiers on this great battlefield. Present Arms! Or, should we just turn ourselves in?? Sincerely, Mark Higgins Box 648
As a denizen of South Ruffner's end of this alley — WHY are they knows it wasn't spent on painting 3rd floor Residence Hall, I would rebuilding it? No one ever uses it our rooms or replacing the screen like to voice a few of my "pet or knows it exists — even if they in our hall kitchen. As a result, peeves" to those who are the did, why work on it from 12-7 pieces of our ceiling fall on our cause of many a sleepless night a.m.? Aren't the daylight hours heads periodically, our walls look along the west side of our humble enough? (remember the echo . . like a road map of lovely (what an understatement!) • ) downtown Saigon, and we have abode. Being a native New Yorker, I pigeons in our kitchen. (These Firstly, I will address Mr. and- am compelled to compare these things don't keep me awake at or Ms. To-Whom-It-May-Concern conditions to those found in night (except for the ceiling, in the dining hall-kitchen, who tenement neighborhoods of the since I have the top bunk), but I might be able to tell me what Bronx. Oh, how I love to peer thought I'd mention them while possible good can be done by the from yonder window and watch I'm at it. . .) 12"xl2" exhaust fan that runs 24 diners across the way tiptoeing Sounds like a real hours a day in the alley below our their way through their Hearty academically oriented rooms. "How disturbing can a Beef Stew! Mr. Weibl, I'd like to atmosphere, eh? We can't sleep, little 12"xl2" exhaust fan be?" request permission to hang a get more than our fair share of you're thinking to yourself. Well, clothesline from one building to the dining hall's cooking, and things echo in that alley like you the other to complete the scene. have become pretty good shots wouldn't believe. That little Then all we'd need would be a big with our rusty trusty Ronco exhaust fan sounds like a Boeing Italian woman sticking her head Pigeon Pistols. 747 right outside our windows. At out a window calling "Anthony! I hope my messages will reach night, with no other noises to Anthony! Come home for dinner! the eyes and minds of those they mask this monotonous droning, It's Wednesday — Prince are aimed towards, and maybe the effect is better than that of 3 Spaghetti Day!" Perhaps you get a few gears turning. or 4 NO DOZE tablets. Even with could use some of last year's Sincerely, the windows closed, you can't room damage $ to hire someone Cathy Gaughran help feeling there's a Sherman to do that for us — God only Ruffnerite at Large Tank somewhere close at hand waiting for just the right moment to pop in. (To make matters worse, the few people that know where the heck we live on campus refuse to visit us because our rooms more often than not smell of what will be affectionately referred to as YOUR CLUB OR ORGANIZATION COULD BUY "Dinner" that evening in the Dining Hall). THIS SPACE AT A REDUCED RATE TO ADVERTISE Now: how about the midnight A SPECIAL FUNCTION OR EVENT. IT'S EASIER THAN shift construction workers who are rebuilding the porch at the FLIERS OR HANDOUTS AND GETS BETTER COVERAGE.
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One More Parking Problem By MICHAELT. CLEMENTS As we all know, I/)ngwood's system for providing parking does leave something to be desired. Many times we have made seemingly endless journies to or from the most desolate and under-lighted reaches of campus where we were forced, without alternative to leave our vehicles. Well gang, we have not suffered enough. Recently a statement was made by the Parking Appeals Committee which referred to the alleged Loading and Fire Zone in front of Curry and Frazer. You know the ones you are told to park in by campus police when you first arrive as a freshman. What was stated is that rule which says "students are allowed to park in loading zones for twenty minutes if both hazard and head lights are left on" but does not refer to this area. Actually it does not refer to the driveways in front of Cox, Wheeler, or Stubbs either. Technically none of these are loading zones, they are there for fire and emergency use only and anyone parked in these areas regardless of how many flashing lights you have on your car is subject to ticketing. In conversation with members of the Parking committee it seems this has always been the case. In the past our campus
police have been somewhat understanding about the fact that most students would like to park at least within a hundred yards of the building in which they live, when loading or unloading their cars. Although do not forget those guys downtown, they cannot get you in front of Cox, Wheeler or Stubbs, but anything in front of Curry or Frazer is like money in the bank to the Farmville Police Department. So even though this is not a new occurrence it seems the law will be more strictly enforced by both Police Departments, especially with the statement made by the Parking Committee which was supposedly being spread by word of mouth. Don't you just love how students are kept so well informed? In regards to this one question still lingers, "Where are those loading zones we are told of in the parking rules and regulations book?" And as usual nobody seems to know about the ones for any buildings, other than Curry and Frazer. The zone designated tjo accommodate these two buildings is the small dirt area which is situated between them. With the departure of everyone on Tuesday, we wish you a happy and safe Thanksgiving. Although it would be wise to beware of the eager little uninformed men with | their pens and ticket books.
An R.A.'s Opinion By JUDI LYNCH R.A. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Those two letters are Dean of Students. Although I had incoming students? Where were either looked upon in awe, or not applied for a position, I was the detectives, ready to snoop out laughed at. Freshmen look upon faced with an opportunity of a a game of quarters or a Thursday R.A.'s in awe, while the rest of lifetime (or so I was told by my night party? By the end of the week, my parents). AN R.A. POSITION AT the school laughs at them. outlook was one of total What exactly is an R.A.? LONGWOOD COLLEGE! I accepted the job, knowing the positivity. I was looking forward Someone who is Really Awesome? Or someone who is a sacrifices which I was about to to meeting "MY GIRLS" and make. (Not being able to live in helping to create a homey Real Asshole? What? Being an R.A., I can honestly Stubbs; not being able to continue atmosphere for them, while also say that students tend to forget my rowdy behavior; etc.) I began keeping them aware of the rules that their Resident Assistants are my first phase of training in and regulations expected to be people the same age who are August, not very excited at what I maintained. (Even the girls in dedicating themselves to the had gotten myself into. (Plus, I my kitchen were an experience I contentment of their fellow had to give up a whole week of was anticipating!) I was also sorry to have that week come to a students. They are not the "bad sun!) SURPRISE!! I was wrong! close, because deep down I knew guys," although they are often considered to be such. They are (Yes, I admit it.) It was probably that the close bonds developed not spies for the judicial board, one of the more exciting weeks of would soon be broken as old living only for the misery of my life. I met people who I had friends returned and new others, while ruining the college known and people I hadn't. The friendships started. We'd all go (party) atmosphere. And, they funniest part was, no one fitted our separate ways, trying to keep certainly are not spending every the description which I myself this campus content and waking moment trying to meet a had made of typical R.A. I found controlled. Although I did not go into detail everyone there to be . . quota of "write-ups." .HUMAN!! Fraternity members, in this article about what an R.A. What, then, are R.A.'s? I recall this past summer, sorority members, wrestlers, is, I think I did a fair job of giving coming home from a "real" job rugby players, Smurfs from you an insight as to WHO we are. at Smoketree Pool in Richmond, Kings Dominion, . . the list We're people who have a job to do only to find a letter in the mail continues. Where were the Army in terms of administration, while from Sue Saunders, our new sergeants, ready to drill the also continuing our jobs as students. . . and friends.
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State Department Speaker On Friday, November 22, students were given a chance to listen to and speak with Mr. William Burns, Special Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of State. Students of Dr. Harbour's and Dr. Helm's government classes were given the opportunity to ask questions concerning Government policy in the Middle East and elsewhere, following a fifteen minute speech on the Government's position. The number and quality of questions asked, showed that time in and out of the classroom was not wasted. Mr. Burns surprised me in that he appeared to be just out of graduate school. He has made it into a very influential position for a man of his age. Mr. Burns was also a typical government
representative; he was informed and also informative. His view was aligned with the government's pro-Israeli position (recent events not withstanding). Several students spoke up for Arab-Palestinian rights which Mr. Burns did acknowledge but also talked around like many politicians. A luncheon followed in the Virginia Room, but student participation was lacking. I would like to think more students would take the time to better themselves and the world around them. Get more involved with the issues that involve you; Get involved with Student Government, Student Life, and the International studies program here at Longwood. Randy Hart Member, I.S.L.
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Halley's Comet (Continued from Page 1) prevalent one, is that all comets measure the hydrogen halo, originally came from a gigantic which will determine the effect of cloud of comet material probably solar wind on the comet's tail. Part of all the hoopla to give about three times as far out from the sun as our last planet, Pluto Halley's comet its first ever — called the Oort cloud. It that is physical examination is to true than comets would contain establish just how much longer it material which was produced will be orbitting. Scientists know way back when the sun and solar approximately the size of the system was born with hardly any comet's nucleus, but have no idea changes!" Unfortunately, as to how much is rock and N.A.S.A. did not get the money to dust. The more rock and dust send a probe directly to the there is, the greater the chance of comet, but the United States will nuclear vaporization. If this have equipment on board the should happen, the nucleus would European shot — Giotto — which break into chunks forming will meet with the comet on several smaller comets that March 13,1986. The U. S. will also would follow the same cycle as have a cosmic dust analyzer Halley's, but as a group instead. aboard the Soviet Vega-1 and Each time they came around, Vega-2 orbitors which will launch they would lose a little more and eventually shortly before the European material craft. This is the first joint space dissapate — thus being the end of operation between the Soviets Halley's comet as we know it. Another significant part of the and the United States since 1975. scientific studies is to see exactly The space shuttle will also be taking pictures from a distance what odds are involved with with the help of three ultra-violet Halley's comet actually hitting telescopes. These telescopes are the earth. Some say that it could designed to pick up the area of happen but the odds stand at the comet that we will not be able about a billion to one. However, to see with the naked eye. "This scientists believe that a very is why Kohoutek was such a small piece of the comet Encke bomb," said Curley. "A comet did strike the earth somewhere in gives off two different types of Siberia in the early 1900's. The light - reflected sunlight off of fragment was estimated to be dust particles and ultraviolet only about 40 yards across — in light from the vaporizing gasses. comparison to Halley's three That's what makes Halley's such mile diameter — but the a nice comet — it has a high destruction it caused was percentage of dust. Kohoutek, on phenomenal. It was calculated to the other hand, didn't have very have exploded five miles above much dust, so all we got was the earth's surface with an ultraviolet light, which was fine explosion rated around 12 with the astronomers because megatons. Fortunately, it hit in they had ultraviolet senitive an unpopulated area, obliterating film; something the naked eye a 70-mile streak of trees, couldn't pick up." The Japanese flattening thousands of square are also sending up a probe to miles of forest land.
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Dance Co. Reviewed By LEE RICHARDS The Longwood Company of Dancers finished off a three-day concert series Sunday with Company Director, Dr. Nelson Neal's final production before taking some time away from Longwood College to teach abroad - the 1985 Fall Concert. The series added five new dances to the Evolution of Modern Dance that was performed during Oktoberfest. The new dances included: ALL AT ONCE, choreographed by Teri Freeman & Kelly Shannon and performed by Freeman, Shannon, Margaret Bickerstaff, Kim Cecil, and Deb Robbins; FOR YOU, a quiet, romantic dance choreographed and performed by Tami Bostian; BODY FLOW, choreographed by Hilary Silvera and performed by Silvera, Cecil, Freeman, Amy Harold, Robbins, and Shannon; CEVEAT, the Latin translation of Beware! choreographed by Sherry Massey, performed by Sandi Dovel, Freeman, Robbins, Silvera, and Mary Thompson, and featuring a lighting design by Barrett Baker; THE SHOOT OUT, choreographed by Tami Bostian and performed by Bostian, Dovel, Shannon, and Thompson. The evolution dances included: TORCH, choreographed and performed by Sherry Massey, featuring costume design by Dr. Neal; AUTUM, choreographed by Dr. Neal, performed by Cecil, Dovel, and Silvera, and featuring costume design by Marna Neal; RITUAL OF THE POIES, which featured some new choreography by Dr. Neal added to what was previously seen during Oktoberfest. The result made the dance spectacular, performed by Bickerstaff, Bostian, Robbins, Shannon, and Thompson, and featuring set design by Dr. Neal; and RAZZ MA JAZZ - JUMP, also featuring an addition to the Oktoberfest show by Tammy Tipton, choreographed by Tipton and Dr. Neal and performed by the entire company. The Company would like to thank everyone for their support of this event including the Longwood Ambassadors, who helped as ushers, and the lighting-technical crew: Barrett Baker, Jennifer Chilton, Lee Ann Grimsley, and Gail Starling.
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Education Majors May End Up Teaching 'Wrong' ("lasses WASHINGTON, D.C. (CPS) Many college students planning to become primary or secondary school teachers can expect to spend all or part of their time teaching classes they are not certified for, according to a new study. The study, produced by the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the Council for Basic Education (CBE), estimates some 200,000 teachers are teaching at least one class a day they are not properly trained to teach. "It is not an exaggeration to infer that what some educators call 'out-of-field' teaching is out of control," says CBE director Graham Down. "It's not a pretty picture. The implications for morale, professionalism, pedagogy, subject knowledge and student learning are dire, to say the least." The study, released Sept. 24, is based on a state-by-state survey of misassigned teachers. But because many states do not track misassignments, a precise accounting of the probelm is not possible. Although most states prohibit misassignments, few have
reliable ways of preventing them, the report concludes. Moverover, some 15 states permit misassignments on a limited basis, the survey found, while six don't restrict the practice. The report's authors reject the widely-held assumption that misassignments invariable occur because of shortages of qualifed teachers in certain disciplines. In fact, they say, many English and humanities classes are taught by teachers certified in other fields, even though there is no shortage of English and humanities instructors. The authors call on state lawmakers to tighen policies against misassignments, but they blame teachers themselves for some of the problem. Some teachers, the report says, do not understand the subjects they are certified to teach, and are therefore reluctant to challenge misassignments. There is one feature of the problem that will help reformers, according to the report: "It may be the only problem currently plaguing education that schools themselves could correct, alone, quickly, without cost, and probably with dramatic effect."
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Amhassa<lor*s Corner
"Liberal" Professors Named By JIM SCHWARTZ (CPS) — Accuracy in Academia, the ideological watchdog group that began hunting for "liberal" professors earlier this fall, has begun to name names and, according to some, to apply pressure on administrators to rein in — if not fire — the professors. In its first newsletter, AIA accused Arizona State political science Prof. Mark Reader of using his classes to espouse his views on nuclear weaponry. AIA then sent a letter complaining about Reader to the ASU administration. AIA National Director Matthew Scully says AIA will be naming three more allegedlyleftist professors in its next newsletter, which the organization distributes to 5,000 people and organizations. Though Scully refuses to name the three teachers AIA will charge mislead their students, College Press Service has learned that Mary Karasch, a history professor at Oakland University in Michingan, will be one of them. Scully estimates there are 10,000 leftist professors working on American campuses today, and reports classroom "monitors" — anonymous students who inform AIA of what they perceive as leftist teachers — have already turned in the names of about 100 instructors since the program began in September. I would assume a good number (of the complaints) are valid," Scully says. So far, ASU has stood behind Reader, the lone professor named publicly. "There have been no reprisals against Reader," days Brent Brown, Arizona State's vice president of community affairs. "He is a respected member of our faculty." "The administration has come out on my behalf, fully and romp'etely," Reader affirms. Brown adds there's been no reaction from the state Irgislature, either. During the McCarthy Era in the early 1950's, state legislators sometimes threatened to slash college funding if the college refused to fire professors with whom they disagreed. 'I don't see any indication of any pressure to muzzle our professors," Brown says. "We are very pleased with the response of college presidents," says Iris Molotsky of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), which at a national meeting last week passed resolutions condemning AIA
"We don't think professors are above criticism, it's the methods (AIA uses to monitor lectures)," Molotsky explains. "What's really disturbing is that they are enlisting students who won't reveal their identity," she says. "Spies in the classroom break trust between people," Reader contends. "Students have told me that they are less willing to speak up in the class and professors don't feel free to talk privately to students anymore. They don't want conversation to become public property." Scully, however, disagrees with Reader's public lectures, largely because he uses too much class time to discuss the threat of nuclear war. "He devotes his whole class to the nuclear issue," Scully ways, "If you call a course one thing, you should not teach something entirely different." "The charges are false" Reader says. "What's so lovely (is that) I have so much documentation. It will show that they are inaccurate." An anonymous AIA monitor contends Oakland University Prof. Karasch presents only the "leftist" viewpoint about Central America in her classes. Scully refuses to elaborate on the Karasch case, and Karasch did not return phone calls to College Press Service. Scully says AIA looks into its monitors' reports before "reviewing" professors in its newsletter. But AIA's investigations and professors' confidence their schools will support them haven't muted the alarm in the academic community. "I have never had the volume of responses to any issue as this one. It's of great concern," Milotsky says. The implications of what AIA is trying to do worry Reader. "It's absolutely frightening." "One step leads to another. McCarthy started by labeling people communists, but then some of them lost their jobs," administrator Bill Antaramian observes. "This is what was done in Nazi Germany. Students did this for Hitler when he was getting started," Antaramian adds. Scully contends AIA's objective is merely to "make free and open debate," on views expoused by leftist professors. ASU's Reader attributes the effort to what he sees as AIA's unwillingness to allow free and open debate. "Most political thinking (today) is being cast against the
possibility of extinction of the human race," he says. "These people don't want to think about the extinction possibility." But Scully asserts it's the professors who aren't thinking. "They (professors) have led an insular existance. A word of criticism to them represents censorship," Scully observes. "When you have an ideological fever swamp, a little chill might do them some good." Schools don't see criticism of conservative academiecs as censorship, he asserts, noting the case of Stanford anthropology grad student Steven Mosher, whom the university dismissed after he reported stories of alleged forced abortions in China. "Why do professors talk about unlimited freedom and Mosher does not get it? He (Mosher) offended their progressive sensibilities," Scully maintains. Stanford dropped Mosher from a doctoral program in 1983 after a panel of faculty and members determined that Mosher had "endangered the subjects of his research" by reporting the alleged abortion scandal, a serious example of "ethical misconduct." Mosher himself charges Stanford failed to treat testimony from his former wife about his "misconduct" in China as charges from *'a scorned woman." "Nobody expects professors to be bias-free," Scully says, but he wants them not to abuse the spirit of academic freedom by advocating their views in class. "If professors don't tell students how lucky they are (to live in the U.S.), they are not doing their job," Scully believes. He does not think "conservative" professors advocate their view in class. "We need not pretend to need to monitor conservative profs abusing their position," Scully says.
ByKIMSETZERAND BOB SMITH Mr. Parker Wheeler and Mr. BillGrogand, owners of Par-Bils, were made honorary longwood Ambassadors. Jean Wheeler was chosen as a new advisor to the Ambassadors. Mr. Wheeler and Mr. Grogand made a substantial contribution to the Ambassadors. The Ambassadors will be holding interviews for the spring
membership campaign December 2 through the end of the semester. Pick up applications and make an appointment for an interview in the Institutional Advancement Office, second floor Ruffner. A reminder that to become an Ambassador, a 2.3 GPA is need and being a second semester
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Outlook Continued (Continued from Page 1) students, Nagle says. The rising interest of employers, if in fact true, "is a positive note for liberal arts grads. It shows employers recognize the value of the skills liberal arts majors have." Of the contradictions in the survey responses, Nagle speculates, "Maybe, if the survey was bigger, the results would have been different."
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Getting Around Longwood ByKIMSETZER and OMAR FAKHOURY Being handicapped or disabled, temporarily or permanently, can create problems on I,ongwood's campus. Many of the buildings are inaccessible to many handicapped and disabled students. There doesn't seem to be much improvement in the near future. Hiner, Her, and I<ankford don't have elevators. This makes it difficult for disabled students to reach second floor. Some can't even attend events in the Gold Room. There are a few facilities for those in need of them. Wheeler, South Cunningham, Curry and Frazier have apartments for the handicapped. Still, there is much need for improvement in many areas. Many elevators are not in working order. Wheeler's elevator has been broken since the first few weeks of school. One major complaint concerning this dilemma is that of the Ambassadors. Many Ambassadors show their rooms to prospective new students and their parents. Many older parents cannot climb the flights
of stairs. This entire situation projects a bad image of Longwood. When it rains, many handicapped or disabled persons have trouble with the walkways. The walkways are not cleared and some slip on a wet leaf, on mud, etc. Sara Collie, a handicapped junior, stated that she had a very hard time getting railings put up on the steps in front of Wheeler where she lives. She also stated that railings are needed across campus in addition to lighting. The dining hall can be the worst obstacle to overcome. The ARA workers provide no services for handicapped persons. They have to find another student to get their food. Also, sometimes there is a hard time getting a table on ground floor. There is only one elevator that serves Grainger and Ruffner. It is usually closed between twelve and one because "it makes too much noise in the tea room," states a teacher. So, if you break your leg in a rugby game, maybe the worst obstacles to conquer are yet to come . . .
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Education Degree May Take 6 Years EAST LANSING, MI. (CPS) If a group of education deans gets its way, most of the nation's education majors will find it much harder to graduate from college in the near future. Under the group's plan, students intending to become "regular career teachers" would need six years of study to get teaching certificates, while "professional career teachers" would have to obtain a second advanced degree emphasizing leadership. The group of education deans from 39 "leading research universities — which named itself The Holmes Group in honor of legendary Harvard education Dean Henry W. Holmes — hopes to enlist 60 other teaching colleges in its effort to create "a new type of teacher" by making teaching a prestigious, highlypaid profession. In its founding statement, released last week at Michigan State University, The Holmes
Group said it hoped to overhaul the education programs by 1990. There is, moreover, "a willingness of institutions to move in this direction," says Richard Prawat of the Holmes Coordinating Committee. Prawat, a Michigan State education professor, helped present the group's suggestions to the Academic Vice Presidents Committee of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges. Prawat says the report was "received very positively." The Holmes report coincides with similar findings released two weeks ago by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The Carnegie study also suggested tightening professional standards to get greater recognition and rewards for teachers. "It won't be enough to prepare a new type of teacher," Prawat says. "We need incentives for holding the best and the brightest." To do so, the Holmes plan would aim to create "career professional teachers" who have extensive academic training and can lead the profession into better supervising, and developing and evaluating coursework. According to the plan, both "career professional teachers" and "regular career teachers" would get undergraduate degrees in academic subjects, rather than in education. Students would then devote a fifth year of study to "learning to teach." They would spend a sixth year in a supervised internship to
complete graduate requirements. Career professional teachers would have to earn a second advanced degree, and then would qualify for higher pay. Prawat envisions career professional teachers, comprising 20 to 25 percent of the nation's teaching force, forming an elite corps for the profession. To work, the plan would need the help of institutions that employ teachers as well as those that train them. For example, elementary and high schools would have to prohibit instructors from teaching subjects other than their acadmic major. While Prawat admits The Holmes Group proposal is a radical one, he doesn't believe its rigorous training requirements will discourage prospective teachers. "If we can change the workplace, conditions and compensation, then people will know their career will reward them for their efforts," he says. But the plan may not be for all colleges. "While our goals and strategies for improving teacher education may be appropriate for teacher training programs in other institutions, they have been designed with the research universities in mind," explains Judith I^nier, dean of Michigan State's College of Education and chair of The Holmes Group. Nevertheless, group organizers hope to sign up a total of 100 schools in its reform efforts by January, when the final version of its report, "Goals for Educating Teachers as Professionals," is published.
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Longwood Hosts Science Fair
TEXAS MAY AXE ITS STUDENT GOVERNMENT AGAIN: Students are circulating a petition to dissolve the student government on the grounds of "general uselessness." If they gather 840 valid signatures, the campus will vote on the COMPLAINTS HAVE BEEN dissolution issue in the next FILED against the U. of election. Minnesota police by three students arrested for an antiMINORITY STUDENTS apartheid sit-in at the UM represent only 14 percent of all president's office. The students students at four-year institutions say police incapacitated them and 21 percent at two-year with mace as they loaded them schools, according to a new study into a police van, and then drove by the American Council on around for 30 minutes, stopping Education. White students and starting quickly and comprise 82 percent of the fourslamming them against the sides year student body, and 79 percent of the van, instead of driving of the two-year. straight to the police station. The students also plan to file "RACIST" FLYERS, complaints against the distributed to advertise a student Minneapolis police. bowling party at the U. of ANOTHER SCHOOL SONG has California-Los Angeles, drew been changed to recognize the strong objections from UCLA's importance of female collegians: black, Hispanic and Asian The Massachusetts Institute of student groups. The flyers Technology has changed its portrayed a black infant playing "Arise Ye Sons if MIT" to a drum above the caption "Take "Arise! All Ye of MIT." the Skinheads Bowling." A A WAVE OF VIOLENCE has confrontation and verbal prompted the Minneapolis police exchange between the groups and to crack down on student parties the bowlers prompted Bruin Bowl in neighborhoods near the U. of to end the party. Minnesota. Assaults and RONALD REAGAN'S VISIT to stabbings have plagued student- Milwaukee brought out about 300 hosted parties since last year, student protesters from the U. of and police attribute it in part to Wisconsin campus in that city. recent crackdowns on drunk The theme of the protest was that driving, which prompted more federal funds would be better parties at home. spent on education than on TURNED DOWN FOR 75 CAMPUS JOBS, a 45-year-old Arizona State U. student is charging ASU with age discrimination. "They hire people who are 24 and pretty," he says, "and I'm not 24 or pretty."
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CAMPUS C.I.A. WOES Longwood will be the sight of CONTINUE: Police arrested 26 the 1986 Southside Regional U. of Michigan protestors of Central Intelligence Agency Science Fair. Although plans are still being recruiters, but U. of Colorado President E. Gordon Gee refused made, the basic outline of the to bar CIA recruiters from event is finished. The fair is a two-day event and campus. Also, last week, the will be held on March 14 and 15. House Intelligence Committee scheduled hearings into the CIA's On the 14th the contestants academic activities in the wake (winners of high school science of a revelation a Harvard fairs) set up their exhibitions. On professor used CIA funds to stage the 15th there will be a speaker, programs for the students, and a campus conference. judging of the exhibits. The exhibits are broken down BRANDEIS DECIDES TO KEEP FUNDING AN 'ANTI- into 13 categories including SEMITIC STUDENT PAPER: Biology, Chemistry, MicroStudents at largely-Jewish Biology and Zoology. Brandeis voted to cut off student Each contestant will receive a fees to a leftist student journal certificate, the 2nd-3rd place called The Watch on the grounds winners in each category will it was un.supportive of Israel and receive pins, and the first place therefore anti-Semitic. But the Faculty Senate last week voted to retain funding for The Watch if it agrees to faculty controls and seeks wider student input into its pages.
winner in each category will receive $25 and a chance to compete with the twelve other categories. The top two winners of the second judging will compete in the 37th International Science Fair which will be held from May 11 through May 17 in Fort Worth, Texas. The remaining winners will compete in the State Science Fair which runs from March 11-March 17 in Richmond, VA. At the present time, there are 12 counties participating in the fair. Each of these counties must pay $500 dollars to be associated with the fair. The money raised by the fees will be used to pay the expenses of the contestants who will compete in Fort Worth.
A bumper sticker dating club, begun by student at the U. of Kansas, has a unique student twist. Members of the dating club wear stickers on their backpacks. The stickers have the club telephone number and a fourdigit ID number. People who see the sticker and would like to meet the club member call the club with the ID number and leave a -^ 8tudents collided behind Cox this week; their cars were only message. An "introductory in the way. offer" is selling life memberships for $7 to students and $15 to nonstudents.
A TUITION FREEZE was the demand of more than 200 U. of Iowa students and faculty who gathered outside a recent UI Board of Regents meeting. Inside, the Regents raised tuition by 6.5 percent. NOTES FROM ALL OVER: Indiana U., named the nation's second most sexually-active campus by Playboy in 1983, was called one of the nation's top 20 "coolest" schools in the latest issue of High Times, the drug magazine . . . Harvard President Derek Bok has agreed to sell shares in companies that helped kill off the woolly mammoth, now extinct for about 100,000 years. EMPLOYERS WHO DISCRIMINATE against gay and lesbian job applicants will no longer be allowed to conduct interviews at Stanford Law School. Previously, the law school allowed recruiters who practiced discrimination based on sexual preference to the use the school's facilities as long as they disclosed their discriminatory practices in advance.
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POLICE SUSPECT ARSON in ENFORCEMENT OF MARIJUANA LAWS is facing a another fraternity house fire, this new challenge in Phoenix. time at the U. of Kentucky. No Stickers have been appearing on connection has been made the Arizona State U. campus between this fire and the recent The following is the the third in a series of articles extracted from encouraging students to deluge terrorist-style arsons at two old Rotunda issues. This article is a tribute to Dr. Joseph L. Jarman, the police department's "Silent Colorado schools. fourth President of The State Normal School. IT SEEMED LIKE A GOOD Witness" telephone number with "phony tip(s) about marijuana" IDEA AT THE TIME: The in the hope that rampant false College Republicans at Western alarms will frustrate the police Kentucky U. started a petition (For our President, from his girls) and public enough to cause them drive to persuade the school to For you, whose life is as a torch held high, to guide us on our way, divest of any stock in companies to give up on enforcement. we, your girls, would ask the boon of just these simple blessings: may ENROLLMENT WILL DROP that deal with the Soviet Union as your eyes be always clear to see the things that the years should bring; AGAIN: According to the a protest of the Soviets' may you have an unfaltering faith that will lead you to your goal; may National Center for Education occupation of Afghanistan. each morning find you with courage and strength to face the task Statistics, there will be about Trouble is. Western invests only before you; and each day's close bestow upon you the joy of unselfish 575,000 fewer students enrolled in in certificates of deposit and treasury bills — and owns no service rendered, and the peace of work well done. college by 1993. PLAGIARISM is increasing, stock. Dr. Joseph L. Jarman, fourth U . WISCONSIN says the chair of the political President of the State Normal science department at the U. of CHANCELLOR TELLS School, was born in STORIES TO Washington, and home CAMPUS Charlottesville, Virginia, on the RESUME SELLING PUWBOY: computers are part of the 19th day of November, 1867. His problem. Sharing discs makes Wisconsin's student government father, William Dabney Jarman, the work of another available at last spring banned campus sales served in the Confederate Army, the push of a button, and the of magazines featuring unclothed and his mother was Catherine But last week, editing commands make women. Goodloe Lindsay, of the wellChancellor Irving Shain ordered alterations quick and easy. known Lindsay family of A DATE RAPE SURVEY by the resumption of magazine Albemarle County. the U. of California-Los Angeles sales, saying the ban may violate His early education was found that 54 percent of males, free speech guarantees. obtained in the public schools of A PETITION DRIVE, opposing and 42 percent of females, say Charlottesville, and at the age of forced sexual intercourse is OK a plan by Mercer U. to borrow $20 fourteen (having been left an in some circumstances. An million for construction of a new orphan) he was sent to the Miller Auburn U. study of college men library and classroom building, Manual Training School, where found that 61 percent say they has been organized by students. he remained from 1881 to 1886. In have sexually touched a woman The plan calls for a $158 tuition the competitive examination, he increase next year. against her will. won the Miller Scholarship at the A DEACTIVATED HAND THE RAPE OF MEN, both University of Virginia, where he GRENADE was left by Harvard heterosexually and as a student from 1886 to 1889, homosexually, is increasing, U. students in the mailbox of a devoting himself especially to the according to the U. of Arizona classmate judged to have made Natural and Physical Sciences. the worst "bomb" of a comment police. Upon completion of the course at the University, he returned to MORE THAN 500 GREEKS in class that week. The prank Miller School as a member of the donated a helping hand in a local forced a building evacuation. Virginia which has taken place in MORE THAN 300 FELL FOR A buildings, courses, faculty, and Adopt-AS-House program near faculty, but remained there only at the U. of one year as, at the end of that the last thirty years is the students. Mere numbers and the U. of Kentucky to paint and PRANK history of the work of wise and comparative statistics do not Pennsylvania. The students were time, he was called to the chair of repair the homes of the Natural Science at Emory and courageous leaders, among begin to describe the State underprivileged. Transportation, duped by a phony letter Henry College. He filled this whom Dr. Jarman ranks near the Normal School, or the work of Dr. equipment and refreshments promising free meals at campus Jarman in developing the were donated by area businesses. restaurants as compensation for position for twelve years, and left top. The State Normal School at meals missed at the cafeteria. Normal School. The biggest thing it in 1902, to take up work at ■ Farmville, which is both a result in S.N.S. after all is its peculiar Farmville. During his stay at Emory and and a cause of the movement for and distinctive spirit. It cannot be Henry College the degree of A.B. better education in the state, has described in words. It can be felt was conferred upon him by that had a conspicious part in the only. Students here gain more institution, and since he has been development of education in than a knowledge of the textbooks in Farmville, Hampden-Sydney Virginia. A good foundation was and training in teaching. There is College has honored him with the laid when Dr. Jarman became an indefinable atmosphere about LL. D. degree. Within the past president in 1902, but it was only a the school that affects in a ^ Y<#ft#^ 118 W. THIRD year Dr. Jarman has been beginning. From a relatively marked way the character and small school doing high grade personality of Farmville folks. JLMMJm FARMVILLE, elected to Phi Beta Kappa by the secondary-school work in the This intangible, stimulating, and VIRGINIA University of Virginia Chapter, main, it has become a modern character-forming force is 392-6755 an honor that comes to alumni HOURS: Monday-Wednesday 7 am - 2:30 pm only after a prolonged period of teachers college, with strictly probably the greatest thing about professional courses, covering the school. This force, emanating distinguished service. Thursday-Saturday 7 am - 9 pm four years' work, with diversified from and passing to faculty and Dr. Jarman has been a member of many state and types of work fitting students for students alike, finds its source in BREAKFAST SERVED ALL DAY national organizations and he has many types of service in the the spirit and attitude of Dr. held responsible offices in these state, and an enrollment of over Jarman. In spite of his constructive THURSDAY NIGHT "ALL YOU CAN EAT" organizations. However, his 700 students. It has been ranked by competent judges among the educational work, his greatest contribution has been SPAGHETTI WITH SALAD BAR...$3.75 made in connection with best normal schools of the contribution to the educational education in Virginia, and country. This growth in the large development of the state, honors FRIDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT particularly in connection with is due to the foresight, careful received at home and in various FRESH SEAFOOD planning, and energy of Dr. parts of the country, the greatest the State Normal School at Jarman. thing about Dr. Jarman is his Farmville. The history of the But an institution is more than loving, sympathetic personality. educational renaissance in
Tuesday, December 3, 1985
WO ME H'S Longwood's young women's basketball team ran into a tough opening game assignment Friday night at Divison I American University and the Lady Lancers came out on the short end of 97-53 contest. With six players reaching double figures, American converted numerous Longwood miscues into points while racing to a 45-17 edge at the half. Coach Shirley Duncan felt her team played better in the second half with the opening game jitters out of the way. Things don't get much easier for Ixmgwood in its next two games as a Monday night visit to Radford and the home opener versus Virginia Commonwealth Monday, December 2 are next on the schedule. The Lady Lancer's first game with a Division II opponent is December 5 when St. Paul's visits. Three Longwood cagers reached double figures Friday night at American Guard Caren Forbes led the way with 14 points.
BASHCT Melanie Lee scored 10 points and freshman Sandy Rawdon had 11. Junior center Karen Boska was the top rebounder with 8 and scored 6 points. IxHigwood played a solid game in most aspects, shooting 50 per cent from the floor (20-40) and grabbing 30 rebounds to American's 33. The Lady Lancers turned the ball over 46 times, however, enabling American to get off 76 shots. The Lady Eagles hit 40 of the those shots for 52.6 per cent. "Our early season schedule is very tough," said coach Duncan. "I may be guilty of overscheduling. As a team we did much better in the second half against American. They (Lady Eagles) were much more talented and experienced than we are. They forced many of our turnovers. Radford will also be good, but they're not experienced as American." American returned all five starters and eight veterans from a team that finished 12-14 a year ago in Division I.
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Anything Goes Relays Men Indoor Soccer Women Volleyball Past Weekend Winners Coed Bowling Bud Lite Coed Softball Players Horseshoes Celata-Larson Men's volleyball will be coming to an end after Thanksgiving break. There are four teams left in the tournament with "Bandits" and "Death From Above Strikes Again" still undefeated. Men's pool finished up last week with Mike Horinko taking first and Lyndell Shelton with second. Womens indoor soccer is just starting to get under way with six teams in the tournament. UPCOMING: Weekend Basketball on Dec. 7; Entry Blank, Dec. 3; Regular Mens Basketball Entry Blank & meeting Dec. 4; Officials for basketball application & meeting Dec. 2.
In theory, basketball is a simple game — put the ball in the basket. Longwood's men's basketball team found out the truth of that axiom over the weekend in the third par-bil's TipOff Tournament. The Lancers, opening the season on their home court, were handed two surprising losses by hot-shooting teams. Virginia Wesleyan canned 57.8 per cent of its shots in a 78-70 win over Longwood Friday night and St. Paul's did even better Saturday night, hitting 59.6 pe;- cent in a 7564 victory over the Lancers. Longwood shot only 41.2 per cent against Wesleyan and 36 per cent versus St. Paul's. Despite hustling, scrambling comebacks in both games and outstanding play from seniors Lonnie Lewis and Kenneth Fields, the Lancers got too far behind to catch up in both contests. Now 0-2 for the first time since 1977, the Lancers visit Guilford Tuesday night and then break for Thanksgiving before returning to play at North Carolina Charlotte Monday, December 2. For the record, Shippensburg carried the Par-Bil's Tournament Championship trophy back with them to Pennsylvania Sunday, after beating St. Paul's 82-70 Friday night and waltzing past Wesleyan 82-62 Saturday night. The Red Raiders landed three players on the All-Tournament team, forward Mike Palm, the tournament MVP, center Dale Lay and guard Rick Jackson. Longwood's Lonnie Lewis, who tied Jackson for the fifth spot, was joined by St. Paul's Keith Downs and Virginia Wesleyan's Joe Darby. Shippensburg set a tournament record by shooting 68 per cent in their opening win over St. Paul's and Jackson had a record 14 assists, seven in each game. Longwood had its chances to win both tournment contests, but seemed to run out of gas. Against St. Paul's, Fields scored seven straight points in a 10-0 Lancer run which moved the home team from a 39-48 deficit to a 49-48 lead with 11:58 remaining. The Tigers then ran off the next six points and held onto their lead. Fields put on a spectacular performance with 28 points, 17 coming in the second half. He also hit 8-8 free throws and grabbed six rebounds. Lewis scored 18 points, grabbed six rebounds and handed out seven assists, a career high. Center Quintin Kearney was saddled with foul problems both nights. He fouled out of the loss to Virginia Wesleyan, playing just 15 minutes, and he picked up four fouls against St. Paul's, staying on the court 28 minutes. Kearney proved to be a solid performer when he wasn't on the bench. The 6-6 junior had sue points and five rebounds Friday
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Lonnie Lewis leapt. and nine points and seven rebounds Saturday. Guard Walter Harvey played well for the Lancers against Wesleyan Friday night with eight points and five assists. The Blue Marlins ran off 11 straight points at the start of the second half to take a 40-28 lead: The Lancers could never get closer than five the rest of the way. Lewis scored a career high 29 points and Fields added 11 points and eight rebounds. With 47 points in his first two games, Lewis is fast approaching the 1,000 point mark for career scoring. The 6-3 senior from Henrico High School has 984 points heading into Tuesday night's game at Guilford. He will be only the fifth player in IxHigwood history to top 1,000 points. The Lancers were hurt by the hand injury of senior forward Lionell Ogburn. Ogburn was able to play just two minutes in the tournament, after hurting the hand in an accident last week.
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Lancer Sborts Wrestlers Whip Hampsiers 39-8 By Tony Brzezicki Longwood's grapplers won mistakes which always hurts," three out of three matches in an said Nelson. "We are young and outstanding performance in a weak at the lower weights." four-team meet at HampdenWhitman, Stukes, and Howard Sydney Saturday with six team were the only victors for members going undefeated. longwood, winning by decisions. The lancers defeated Pfeiffer Longwood's grapplers next 39-14, Furman 36-18, and match will be the Washington 4 Hampden-Sydney 39-8. I^ee Tournament at Washington & Longwood's record now stands at Lee on December 6-7. 3-1. Sophomores Pete Whitman 142, Tommy Eaves 167, Jesus Strauss-HWT, John Stukes 134, and junior Billy Howard 158 went 3-0 for the day. Freshman John Boatwright 150 went 2-0 against his opponents. Stukes now has a season record of 10-1, Howard 6-1, and Whitman is 11-3 leading the grapplers to a great start for the 1985-86 season. "All in all it was probably one of the best days of wrestling we've ever had," said coach Steve Nelson. "We had a lot of hustle, we worked hard and it paid off." I^ast Wednesday the I^ancers played host to William & Mary suffering their only loss this season, 36-14. BILLY HOWARD "We made inexperienced
SCHEDULE OF EXAMINATIONS FALL 1985 r.««r init ions for the Fall Sesiester 1985 air scheduled at tines determined by the regular class meeting ti»e. For example, the elimination for the classes normally meeting at 2 p.m. Tuesday and/or Thursday will be held 9-12 Thursday, December 17 in the regular class meeting location. This schedule provides cakeup periods on Thursday, December 12, Monday, December 16, and Tuesday, December 17. Makeup periods have been established so that students with valid reasons may auange with the instructor to make up a Hissed eaasu Night classes will take their e»eminatlon from 7-10 on the regularly scheduled night during examination week. The Wednesday night courses will take their exarination frost 7-10 on Reading Day. Students having three examinations on one day nay take one of the examinations during the conflict period or during a scheduled makeup period. The arrangements are to be worked out between the student and the instructor. 7
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Saturday at Hampden-Sydney, Longwood's wrestling team perhaps its finest hour. At the forefront of the Lancer showing was junior Billy Howard who won all four of his matches last week and has been named Longwood College Player of the Week for the period November 17-24. Player of the Week is chosen by the Longwood Sports Information Office. A veteran in his third year on the Lancer team, Howard took a 14-0 decision at 158 pounds in Longwood's loss to William & Mary Tuesday night and then won all three of his matches Saturday as the Lancers beat Pfeiffer 39-14, Furman 36-18 and Hampden-Sydney 39-8. "Billy has wrestled extremely well since getting his weight down to 158 pounds," said coach Steve Nelson. "He was rated as a preseason All-American InMCAA Division II and he has livea up to that rating this past week. "He is starting to show much more maturity and is working much harder this year," said the coach. His hard work is shwoing early season dividends as he is 4-0 in dual meets."
Riding Team Gains Ribbons Sunday, Nov. 24, 1985, at their Stay in tune for more state show at R-MWC, the Longwood finalists. riding team brought home three Results: I^ura Thomas — first place ribbons. These were Flat, 1st; LeaAnne Lawson — won by Mike Carey, LeaAnne Fences, 1st; Bill Fahey Lawson and Laura Thomas. Fences, 3rd; Liz Steven — Flat, Mike's and LeaAnne's blues won 5th; Mike Carey - Flat, 1st. and them a spot in the regional show. Fences, 5th; Sharon Kaufman — This means they are both State Flat, 5th; and Jennifer Winn — finalists. Among the other ribbon Flat 4th. winners were Liz Stevens, Bill Qualified for Regional: Lea Fahey, Jennifer Winn, and Anne Lawson - Novice, P"lat and Sharron Kaufman. Novice, Fences; Mike Carey — The next show will be held on Novice, Flat and Novice Fences. Dec. 6, at Sweet Briar College. Next show — Dec. 6 at Sweet Briar.
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Longwood senior Mark McArdle has been named to the Virginia Intercollegiate Soccer Association All-State team for the third year in a row, and teammates John Kennen and Erick Karn have also been voted to the select group. Kennen is a two-time All-State pick. McArdle, a second team AllAmerica in 1984, had three goals and two assists from his midfield position as the Lancers notched a 12-4-3 record and 20th place national ranking in Division II. Kennen, a senior forward, collected 6 goals and a recordtying 10 assists. Karn was a consistently outstanding performer at sweeper for what was probably Longwood's best defense ever. Lancer hooters named to the All-VISA second team are goalkeeper Rob Liessem, midfielder Mahfoud Kyoud and forward Mark Kremen. All three are juniors. Liessem had a record-tying six shutouts and a goals against average of 0.88, Kyoud totaled 4 goals and 4 assists and Kremen had eight goals and three assists.
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ROCK QUIZ WINNER Barry Green was the winner of last week's rock quiz. Barry correctly answered all but one of the questions. Barry attributes his knowledge of rock and roll to his father being a disciple of Jim Jones and his mother being an Ellen Jamsian. Barry can pick up his Itza pizza (Courtesey of The Lancer Cafe) at our convenience.