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Longwood Begins Cooperative Engineering Program With University Of Virginia
TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 1986
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Have Passport- Will Travel
By KENT BOOTY Longwood College anthropology students should Longwood College has by Dr. James Adams, established a dual-degree Longwood's vice president for always remember to have a program with the University of Academic Affairs; Dr. Fawcett; passport, some suitcases, and a Virginia in which students will Dr. T.G. Williamson, chairman of sense of adventure. Later this year, three earn a bachelor's degree in U.Va.'s Department of Nuclear Physics from Ixmgwood and a Engineering and Engineering anthropology majors, following a master's in Nuclear Engineering Physics; and Dr. James L. Kelly, pattern of recent years, will or Engineering Physics from a member of that department pursue their studies in foreign lands. Betsy Chalfant and Keith U.Va. and program administrator. Russell will participate in an Students will be enrolled in The new program takes effect archeological project at an I-ongwood's physics program for immediately; current Longwood the first three and a half years students can take advantage of it, ancient site in the Middle East, and Denise Rast will study at the and must complete 111 credit said Dr. Fawcett. University of Londgon's Institute hours with at least a "B" The so-called "3^ + IV average. Then they enter U.Va.'s program is similar to other of Archaeology. In the past two years, four School of Engineering and cooperative arrangements Applied Science as a between Longwood's physics other anthropology majors have "conditional" undergraduate. program and engineering studied at various locations After taking a semester of programs at Old Dominion around the world. That's not bad appropriate courses, they are University, the Georgia Institute for a program which currently admitted unconditionally into the of Technology, and U.Va. has only 17 majors. Chalfant, a sophomore from graduate program of either Longwood already has a "3+2" Nuclear Engineering or program with U.Va. whereby Charlottesville, and Russell, a Engineering Physics. That takes students earn a bachelor's in senior who has spent about half his life abroad, will take part in about 12 months to complete. Physics and a master's in "This program is a packaging Electrical Engineering. The the "American Expedition to of existing courses, both here and programs with ODU and Georgia Petra" — a survey and at the University of Virginia," Tech result in two bachelor's excavation project in Jordan — said Dr. L. Raymond Fawcett, degrees, one in Physics and from June 20 to August 16. Only about a dozen college students director of Longwood's Physics another in Engineering. from the United States and and Pre-Engineering programs. "It's a creative and innovative "It offers the students something way of putting the pieces together Europe go to Petra each unique without extra expense to into a package that is good for summer. I,ocated in a desert east of the cooperating institutions. It Longwood, good for the the Jordan River, Petra is doesn't involve any new courses, University of Virginia, and good roughly halfway between the faculty or equipment." for the student," said Dr. A detailed "memorandum of Fawcett, who has worked on the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba. understanding" between the two program with Dr. Kelly for the The site contains the ruia« of a institutions was signed March 10 past year and a half. "It is a wise rock-hewn city that was the capital of the Nabataeans, an (Continued on Pane 9) Arab people whose kingdom flourished from the fourth century B.C. through the second century A.D. Petra, an important trading center in the ancient Middle East, was conquered by the Romans in A.D. 106, was apparently abandoned after an earthquake in 551 and was "rediscovered" in 1812. The American Expedition to Petra (AEP) is sponsored by the University of Utah and directed by Dr. Philip C. Hammond, an anthropology professor there. An authority on Nabataean culture, he has worked at Petra, on and off, for more than 30 years. The AEP, which is worth 12 academic Dr. L. R. Fawcett (center) confer* with two senior phyiici credits, was begun in 1973. Nestled in a valley amid redmajors, Jamie Marsh and Kathy Armentrout.
ifrom left): Betsy Chalfant, Keith Russell and Denslse Rast sandstone mountains, Petra is noted for its natural beauty. The site is accessible only on foot or horseback through a deep, narrow canyon. "Petra owes its uniqueness to the monuments elaborately carved from the
dramatically colored living rock of the flanking cliffs and surrounding mountains," according to Encyclopedia International. The expedition will be Chalfant's first trip abroad. "I've
Editor Impeached Frank Raio, Rotunda Editor since September 1985, was forced to resign his post late last week amidst a sea of controversy. The Rotunda staff asked Raio to resign in light of "his declining motivation and increased ego." Many of the exact reasons for his dismissal are being withheld as part of the 'resignation agreement', but the Mazda RX-7 purchased by Raio during Christmas Break will be sold and the money returned to The Rotunda account. Raio, who had been credited with the increase in circulation of the Rotunda to 3,000 copies per week, was allegedly under tremendous pressure to "outdo himself" every week. One staff member commented that "He (Frank) was going loonie! He would storm into the office and start throwing last week's paper at anyone there. Then he would sit at his desk and laugh at every
story that had been turned in. One time, we caught him lying on the floor kissing a picture of Amy (his girlfriend who is student teaching in Korea)." Raio has been seeing "professional help" in Lynchburg since January. Presently, he is staying with a friend of the family until a decision has been made on a pending application to excuse him from classes the rest of the semester. The Rotunda will continue to publish with Barrett "Mick" Baker as acting Editor-in-Chief. Baker, who has been on the Rotunda staff since the fall of 1984, and has a background of experience in "Union Communication Services." Asked about the recent incident, Baker commented, "First, I'm going to get all these damn papers off the floor — this'place is a mess!"