QHje&otunba Longwood College The Rotunda
Vol. 69 No. 16
February 19, 1990
Farmville, VA
Pulitzer Prize SGA Releases Position Statement Winning Author Reviewing Student's Views Starts Career By Falling Out Window The purpose of this statement Is to clearly define the opinions of the student community concerning the proposed changes In the athletic program by the Intercollegiate Athletics Review Committee (IARC). The Student Government Association would first like to commend the IARC on the effort they put Into their report. The IARC worked hard to arrive at the conclusions they did. However, the SGA feels that we must voice the resounding opinions of our constituency; and those opinions are in opposition to many of the IARC recommendations. IARC proposes that the Intercollegiate athletic program be moved from NCAA Division II to NCAA Division III. IARC has based Its recommendations on five Inter-
related factors: 1) A move to Division III Is predicted to lower the cost of drive. Travel costs are currently 25% of the operating budget. 2) IARC feels Longwood needs to explore every opportunity for conference affiliation. Affiliation with a conference could provide more competition In our region; and it would limit costly, time consuming travel to distant points. 3) If travel were reduced. Longwood would be able to engage In more athletic competition within our state and region. This. It Is believed, will foster regional Intercollegiate rivalries; as well as build school spirit and community support. 4) IARC predicts a greater number of students are likely to bee o m e Interested, and involved In various sports at the Division II level. 5) IARC predicts that
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moving to Division III could have a potentially good Impact on the recruitment of students. Particularly males and minorities; two groups to which the college has made a commitment to increase enrollment. The SGA is of the opinion that the IARC recommendations are not satisfactory; and require much deeper consideration and research. When considering the travel expenses of the athletic program, we realize sizeable reductions will not be made by strictly playing in the region. Athletes will still need to be transported, fed, and housed. The amount spent on travel is not the place we need to examine for reductions. In a report by Bruce Grimes, an expert hired by the college to study our current program, we are told, 'Travel costs for Longwood College athletes Is slightly less than the average costs of class B institutions (Grimes. 12)" There are other places that need reductions. The Grimes report states that, The expenses for supplies and equipment for Longwood College is six times greater than the average expended by class B institutions ... When Longwood College athletic expenses are compared to all class B Institutions, Longwood College shows to have 72% more total expense than (Continued on page 6)
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Author and Pulitzer prize winner Shirley Ann Grau. Photo CrwdlL Judt WelLer
By JEN DOOLEY Falling out of a window certainly seems to be a strange career inspiration; but that experience is exactly what convinced novelist Shirley Ann Grau to begin writing. On Wednesday. Feb. 14. Shirley Ann Grau. author of the contemporary American novel. The Keepers Of the House did a reading from her book of short stories. Nine Women, in Wygal Auditorium. Mrs. Grau. when asked why she became a writer replied. "Because I fell out of a window when I was six." She explained how she broke her leg attempting to gain access to the books In her grandfather's library that her grandmother forbade her to read. Her grandfather
purchased her a typewriter to keep her busy after the fall, Mrs. Grau was bom in New Orleans in 1929. Her first book, a collection of short stories called The Black Prince, was published in 1955
Probably her most famous The Keepers Of the* House, was published in 1964. It won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction In 1965. Mrs. Grau explained that her ,„ . „ ,,. (Continued on page 6) Contents
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