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VOL. XLIV
THE ROTUNDA
'Bernarda Alba'Opens In Jarman Thursday
Candidate's Conferences Mark Election Opening by Linda Dyer In the coming elections, there are many things which the students should keep In mind. First1 the minor elections are Just as' Important as the major elections, particularly because the elected student will be a voting member of that particular organization. It is very important that the student body attends the conferences to find out where each candidate stands on specific Issues. One should look for qualities of leadership and stability, integrity and scholarship, personality, and a sense of responsibility. A student should vote for the candidate who she feels Is most qualified and avoid being Influenced by friendship or popularity. The only way to do this objectively is to attend the conferences and to vote In both the
Longwood Choir Plans, Presents Holiday Concert «i» •• i The Annual Christmas Concert by the Longwood Concert Choir will be presented on Sunday afternoon, December 12, In Jarman Hall, at 3:30. The Concert Choir will be Joined by members of the Longwood String Ensemble, and other instrumentalists, as well as seven members of the Richmond Symphony Orchestra. The first number on the program will be the cantata, The Childhood of Christ, by Johann Christoph Bach, one of the great Johann Sebastian's sons. Soloists for this number will be Linda Pr.tchard. Judy Hester, Blllie Sue Board, and Arnee Stowell. A group of numbers will then be sung a cappella by the choir; these will be Ave Verum Corpus, by des Pres, Hodie Christus Nadu Est, by Monteverdi, Carol of the Bells, by Leontoviche, and Nowell, by Randall Thompson. The concert will close with A CeremoBy of Carols by the Englls> contemporary composer, Benjamin Britten. The soloists in this number will be Mildred Johnson and Gall Mllstead. The Christmas Concert Is traditionally the high point of the Christmas season at Longwood, and the student body and faculty are most cordially Invited to atterd.
Madrigals Give Annual Concert On December 15 The Madrigal Singers of Longwood College, under Mr. James McCombs. will present their annual Christmas Concert In the Student Lounge at 5 o'clock on Wednesday, December 15. The program will consist of a variety of songs including traditional Christmas carols and sorgs sung in three languages: English, French, and Latin. Everyone ls Invited.
Maggie Joke Mafirie: "What's the difference between a telephone pole?" Mary: "Its like a T-shlr. because a motorcycle doesn't have doors and neither does your mother.
No. 8
Longwood College, Farmville, Va., December 8, 1965
primary' and general elections the primary elections are to be held on Monday. December 13, and the general on Wednesday, December 15. The following people are candidates In the minor elections. Legislative Board: For Vice Chairman are Sandy By rum and Tootsie Kay; for Secretary are Eleanor W a 1 n e s, Alice Bland Collier, and Pam Spigle; and for Treasurer are Margaret Bridges, Kay Boykin, and Patsy Dlehr. Judicial Board: For Vice Chairman are Gayle Dervishian, Becky White. Karen Walton, and Pat Finn; for Secretary are Nancy Britton, Alice Rennie. Kathy Stone, and Nancy Walnes. Athletic Association: For Vice President are Dianne Davis, Deedle Holdren, and Connie Spradlln; for Secretary, Peggy Wilkins; and for Treasurer are Vannle Gunter and Carol Boy the House Council: For Vice President are Brucie Flournoy and Mary Virginia Manson; Betty Copley for Secretary; and for Treasurer are Sharon Bannon and Susan Sturm. Y.W.C.A.;; Vice President. Carol Rex; Secretary, Ella McDade; and Treasurer, Sandy Curry. Those run ing for Freshman Counselor are Jane Curie, Kathy Grizzard. Meg Pherson, and Janet Sofly. If any students have suggestions for changes in election procedures, submit these in wlrting to Gerry Edwards, (322 SO chairman of the elections committee, or' place them In the Student Government suggestion box m the smoker by Friday, December 10.
Longwood students rehearse for I.orca's "The House of Bernarda Alba" which opens on December 9. This will be the last play that Mr. David Wiley will direct before he leaves Longwood to accept a position at the I'niversity of Indiana.
Civil Service Announces
The curtaias in Jarman Auditorium will open tomorrow night on The House of Bernarda Alba, a powerfully dynamic tragedy by the Spanish playwright and poet, Frederico Garcia Lorca. The three-act drama describes a Spanish house of mourning after the death of the only male in the house. The House of I'.ernarda Alba is characterized by sexual frustration. Four single women see no prospect of leaving the house for years because of the lack ot suitable husbands. The only suitale male, Pepe. is very young and is promised to marry the eldest daughter. Even though Pepe never appears on stage he is a mast significant force in the drama. The major conflict Involves his presence in Bernarda Alba's courtyard at nighttime. Mr. David Wiley Is directing the play with Dr. Patton Lockwood doing the light design. Mr. Wiley also designed the set. The set and the lighting will produce
a highly influential tone which coincides with the meaning of the drama. They depict the tragic umber atmosphere which pervades throughout the play. The all-female cast of HMD teen Longwood Players has worked hard for over a month to present a polished performance. Linda Long will be playin | the part of Bernarda; Karolyn McAtloo Ls cast as Maria Josef a; Pat Holmes as Angustias; Donna Barnes as Magdalena; and Shirley Timberlake as Amelia. Matirio will be played by Marianne Mowbray; Lynn Gardner will play Adela; Carole Gibson, a maid; Millie Gwaltney, Poncla; and Prudencia by Cheryl Rose. Plan now to attend this moving performance. Student tic! are being distributed in the Smoker after meals; these have been paid for by your student activity fee. The House of Hernarda Alba will be presented on Dec. 9. 10, and 11.
Exam For Summer Jobs
A nationwide competitive ex-1 who pass the test. In each testanimation for temporary sum- score group, the names of those mer employment in the Federal j who live outside the District of Government as an office assist- Columbia, Virginia, and Maryant or a science assistant was land will be listed first, and will announced Nov. 23 by the Civil be given first consideration for available Jobs. The purpose of Service Commission. Applicants seeking summer this- procedure in the Washington employment in grades GS-1 area is to give highly qualified through 4 (at annual salary people from all over the Nation ranges of $3,507 to $4,6411 in such the opportunity to gain the exoccupations as clerk, stenogra- perience of working for a beadpher, typist, office machine op quarters agency in Washington. erator, student assistant, engi- The examination for Office and neering aid. physical science aid, Science Assistant positions will biological aid, and mathematics "ot be used to fill the follow poaid should ask for a copy of sitions: — the so-called blue-collar Announcement No. 380. Candidates for the examina- Jobs; — jobs in post offices, such tion should obtain a Civil Service The members of Mrs. Jack- Form 5000-AB. This form is as clerk-carrier, mail handler, son's astronomy class made their available at many post offices, etc. (candidates for postal sumannual migration to the Uni- at U. S. Civil Service Commis- mer Jobs should apply to their versity of North Carolina obser- sion offices, and at Boards of U. local postmaster for the approvatory last Wednesday, Decem- S Civil Service Examiners. The priate competitive examination); ber 1, to study the stars and completed form should be mail- -- specialized positions above planets. The class observed the ed to the Civil Service Commis- ttH- grade GS-4 level; p'anet Saturn, its rings, and four sion, Washington, D. C, 20415, — certain positions in the Naof its moons, the Pleiades con- belore January 3, 1966, to enable tional Park Service and the Forstellation, and the Moon. In ad- the candidate to take the 2!2 est Service, such as Park Randition, the group listened to a hour written test which will be ger, Forestry Technician, etc. lecture by Dr. Osvald. who also given In various cities on a SatFurther Information about showed them lunar maps and urday in late January or early Federal summer employment discussed Sidereal time. February of 1966. can be found in the Civil ServThe trip had several humorous The test, which ls scheduled to ice Commission's pamphlet No. highlights in that Mary Lee be given only once, is designed 68. "Summer Vacation Jobs In! Shoulders and Barbara Raglaud to measure clerical skills, vo- Federal Agencies," which will went wandering off and left the cabulary, reading comprehen- be available early in December :e.'l of the ciass waiting for over sion, abstract reasoning, and at most places where application an hour. The trip had several table and chart Interpretation. foims are distributed. cooling effects since there was Sample questions will be providno heat on the bus. and to add ed in advance. a c'a.ssic climax to the whole All citizens will be given equal thing, the bus proceeded to back opportunity to compete in the into a parked car when it ar- nationwide examination. Those rived back at Longwood. Space who pass the test will be per- Each year during the Christtravel does have its advantages' muted to file applications with mas season, Alpha Kappa Gamma sponsors a door decorating as many as six Federal agencies contest. The doors are Judged on or installations: three in the I, attractiveness, and Washington area and three out- artistic quality. There wfll be side of Washington. lor the best hall With a Throughout the Nation, the central theme and for the best names of applicants who pass rel.'gious and best commercial tin test and send their notices of door in each dorm. The Judging eligibility to Federal agencies will be on Monday, December along with their applications for 13 Students may not spend over Phi Beta Lambda, the bu club at Longwood, Will be having employment will be entered on $1.50 on decorations, and may ibeir annual Christmas party In agency rosters in ranked cate- use no decoration that will scar Ruffner 218 on December 9. The gories determined by their test or deface the doors All greenery club will make tray favors for scores. For example, those who mj.st be fireproofed 'see Mr. the patients at Southside Com- score 95 and above will be in the Henderson at Building and munity Hospital. These favors tor group, those scoring 90 to Groui.<. will consist of apples decorated 94 in the second group, and so Winners of the contest will be on. Consideration will be given announced at the Christmas banin the form of Santa Claus. Phi Beta Lambda ls also col- first to those in the highest cate- quet on Wednesday. December lecting food for a Christmas box gory. j 15. Following the banquet, the to be gven to some needy famiIn the metropolitan Washington faculty and administration will ly in the Farmville area. area, there will be a further 1 be touring the dormatories.
Astronomy Class Travels To UNC To Observatory
Door Decorations
Business Group Meets; Prepares Christmas Fest
First Reading Clinic Opens At Longwood by Kay Young This year for the first time Longwood College ls operating a Reading Clinic. Students of Education 425. a course offered for the first time in remedial reeding on the undergraduate level, work In the clinic with its director, Miss Beatrice Bland. The purpose of the clinic ls to work with children who have average or above average Intelligence, but who for some reason have not learned to read. The Longwood clinic has two of major importance: It • s as a professional training center, and as a service cenfor schools in the neighboring counties. The clinic provides elementary education majors an opportunity to develop knowledge and techniques In working with children who have reading prob-
dividual remedial reading program. This year the clinic serves fourteen boys and girls In grades 4-C from Dillwyn Elementary School on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from :i uiiiil I o'< :< On Wednesday and Thursday from 2 until 3 o'clock the clinic icts reading instruction to fourteen boys and girls from Edward Academy In grades 2-6. This block (the program ls conducted during the I ight weeks of each semester i Longwood Invited schools to children to the clinic who thought could profit from it. At the end of the eight weeks the clinic will give a .summary to each parent of the findings of the clinic and of recommeodatloni tor fui ' ■ child ictlon. In some The role here is In training in the diagnosis of reading dlfflcul- cases the clinic will ask that the m offering tbi chile return for the second an opportunity for learning to block, when the clinic will take 'llitlonal children. It ls hopprescribe and conduct a remedil that the clinic will be able al reading program. The clinic serves as a service to increase its group as more center; It offers a complete dlag and more students take the tic reading work-up for se- wjiir.se, Education 425. lected children of elementary This year the clinic is using : .us rading tests. This Inage. The clinic provides services i Continued on page 3) i to schools and parents by an in-
THE ROTUNDA. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1965
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Academic Freedom
Rainy Days Bug You?
PAUL GOODMAN
Across the land, from Ohio to buttal can be prescribed by the North Carolina and from New faculty council. But the years of struggle at Jersey to California, the real Let me quote some scattered sentences from an article enmeaning of academic freedom is UNC and Ohio State have taken brightest thing you own went into titled The I'niversity: "For youth, there is no future in the coni» riiNiiis Boomer being debated. The debate is not their toll in loss of faculty, both the wash just before the rains formist attitude that consists in a continuity in the basic options, confined to the campuses and to incumbent and prospective. The When Blue Monday meets a came? And your roommate took varied merely with some consoling modifications having to do sense of alienation caused by an the AAUP BULLETIN i weather condition. your umbrella? And you .left with the least real or most scandalous abuses of the system. The atmosphere that stifles freedom The ie controversy surrounding a'™^""™-""; K„ P™ vou can always expect the sam« your raincoat at home? THAT young want a profound structural change that offers the posthe question has become a criti- U» cur™"?«^?^ tonSrW of «««* - depression! is depression.) formeriy of ..^ ^ , ^.^,., "Oh, my aching back!" really sibility of moral justification. At present there is the deepest gap cal ..i.sue in the Politics * sev- j l«»r Ec Solomon in THE ATLANTIC. eral states and. Indeed, the nacan mean a change in the weath- between the young and the adults that we have known in his"Nothing wrong with me. I'm November, 1MB. Some three huntion at Urge. Tin debaJ just depressed. I should go back er. Hippocrates had similar ideas tory. There ls not only the usual psychological hostility between gages not only heretofore ob- dred faculty members at the to my room .Hid close the door." about 2000 years ago. and now generations, but the young regard themscure professors but governors, University of North Carolina Concentrated eavesdropping on scientists are learning this to selves as the total negational of the oldis, and ex-presidential have signed a document saying several g'oomy Monday morn- hold true. er generation that is the symbol of candidates. Academic freedom ' they will be impelled to seek Inga discovered these grumb- They also find that weather bankruptcy. We have had an era of is once again a national issue. ports elsewhere if accreditation A prolonged weekend of conditions can influence such national aggrandizement, the 'apotFreedom of speech on college Is lost. rain can give you the grouches. diseases as arthritis, asthma, lneosls' of spiritual grandeur contained The most heartening recent deand university campuses has befeel restricted because rheumatic fever, schizophrenia come Inescapably intertwined velopment is the failure of the they can't go out. and the blues sinusitis, heart ailments, appen- in institutions regarded as basically perw.t.'i the broader question of Republican candidate for gover- aren't uncommon. When thcidicitis, ulcers, and tuberculosis. fect. The lack of history implied in such freedom to dlsent in our so- nor in New Jersey. State Senator r interferes with plans Changes in the weather have an attitude gives its defenders moral ciety, and for many is linked to Wayne Dumont, to defeat Gover- there Is a natural feeling of dls-|both mental and physical ef- Impunity; in a certain sense, they are specific movements or grievan- nor Richard J. Hughes in the appointment. So you're normal feets on people. Clebeland de- no longer responsible agents. It is the ces: the communist threat, civil November 2nd election. when the weather gets you down, i tectives suspect that a steady- young which have been first aware of Dumont's mam issue was his While it can't be pinned down rain sets off an epidemic of the global immobility concealed in it rights, Vietnam and The Domattack on Hughes for failure to scientifically, something d o e s ' burglaries. S u 1 c i d e attempts inican Republic, Berkeley. "In North Carolina, a "speak- demand the dismissal of a Viet seem to exist between weather seem to rise as the barometer These remarks do not happen to be is falling. Some policemen think about Berkeley students and the Great er bun" law was hurriedly pass- Cong sympathizer on the faculty and depression. ed through the state legislature of the state university (Ruthg- Bright clothes are said to ward a full moon invites crimes of Society, but about the recent student protests in Spain. The in the closing hours of the 1963 ers;. Governor Hughes made it off gloom. "Any protracted con- violence. The relationship between Marxist author, Enrique Tiero Galvan, goes on to explain that session. This unique law prohib- clear that he disagreed strong- dition will have its effect on its "any known member" of thi' ly with the views of Professor peop'e," agrees John Yeatts, di- weather changes and mental ill- the crisis is the unfeasibility of Franco's feudal capitalism and Communist Party, or anyone Genovese, but that he also be- rector of the Mental Health So- ness has been indicated in sev- the clamoring of youth for the opportunities of "neo-capitalwho has invoked the fifth lieved in freedom of speech and ciety of Greater Miami. "And eral studies. A New York psy- lam." But I doubt that this is the essence, for let me describe a amendment's protection against a university free of political in- remember, we are told to wear chiatrlst connected "sun spots," movie I saw recently: self-incrimination in loyalty in- terference. I our brightest clothes on a rainy or solar storms, over a fourWitty' Griping About Life vestigations, from speaking on Just recently a subcommittee dav It nelps ward off tne gi00m year period, with the number A young fellow goes to the University in order to avoid being Itato supported college and uni- of the United States Senate pro- of BCttiHB wet and losing the of admissions to mental hospi- drafted. He chooses his majlr at random, but when it comes to jecied itself into the controversy pieats." tals. When the number of storms writing his senior thesis he cannot perform and is flunked out. versity campuses. The proponents of the law were on academic freedom. The Seni But what do you do when the increased, so did the number of He is immediately called up for induction. He spends his last admissions. motivated by diverse concerns, j ate Internal Security subcom«~ Another study Involved schizo- day of freedom quarreling with the woman with whom he has ranging from anger over civil 'mittee staff,, uj by i^wuv.. dir rights demonstrations In the Democratic Senator Thomas J. j< UlDri&nt (jfUnt [Phrenic patients. As warm, tropi- been living, picking a pointless fist-fight and getting knocked cal air masses blow, mentally ill down, pursuing a chance sexual opportunity for a kick, engaging state capital participated in by Dodd of Connecticut, published a patients, especially women, get in "witty" griping about life with a friend. some UNC faculty and students' report on October 20th designed more restless. And when a cold The movie ls Jerzy Skolomowskl's No Identification Marks to general popular unrest over to show that the Vietnam proair mass or cold front sweeps and is about the University of Warsaw. Yet apart from Polish the -liberal" teaching at the lest movement had been taken over, epileptic patients become faces, there is not a detail of gesture, Incident, idea, motivation state university. One of the chief over by ■Communists and exrestless. As a foehn (a warm or lack of motivation that I could not identically replicate In backers of the law, State Sena- tremist elements." freak wind sweeping over the New York City Evidently the disaffection of these young people tor Thomas White, has candidly Professors at several colleges commented: 'I don't believe and universities were unfavorby Suzan Waltz northern side of the Alpine has to do with Issues more basic and universal than the ideothere's a Communist . . . over ably Identified with teach-ins. An interesting new addition in (Continued on page 4) logical, economic, and Institutional difference. Free Enterprise. than (Chapel Hill), but there The reP°rt contained much mis- the Language Department is Communism. Feudal Capitalism, or whatever, that loom so large might as well be as long as the leading and false information, Misc Hanna Schroer, who teachor the statesmen and adult commentators of the United States. people think there is. They need especially in regard to the Unl- es German and French. Miss Spain, or Poland. to reassure reassure people along this versity of Colorado. (See The schroer herself Is from Ger| New York Times, October 29th, many, specifically from Mulheim Particular Slogans Differ line." Of course, the particular slogans of protest depend on each A special commission appoint- 1965). Senator Dodd expressed on the Ruhr, in the industrial nation's political problems and traditions. For example, our ed by Democratic Governor Dan •regret" In a letter to the presl- region of the Rhine. This is her marches against fallout or the Vietnam war do not occur behind Moore has held public hearings dent of the university, but pre- first experience teaching at an by Suzan Walt. the Iron Curtain, where "peace" is strictly a government monoand Is now considering propos- sumed to add: T do feel that American school. th. re is a situation on your camMiss Schroer studied at the Student teachers returned from poly; but young Communists demonstrate madly by poetry readals to modify or repeal the law; pus which calls for attention. University of Bonn for six years first block with a flush of stoits recommendations are due ings and riotous May festivals, whereas we cushion free speech v. ry soon. The Southern Associa- Th<> report had inferred Com- ar.d then did the equivalent of rial and happenings and many, I by swamping It and we regularize dissident music by commercial student teaching for two years. ma„y memories. The Rotunda tion of Schools and Colleges has munist influence at Colorado. What is at stake in these bat- In Germany, the system of de- asked a few to tell some of their cornPeuuon 'Censorship implies that ideas and feelings have hinted at withdrawing accreditaUfca those used here is dif- more humorous experiences, and 'K,tltlcal P°wer- not llke wlth U8-' tion unless control is returned to tles is the raison de'ere of colwhat feient. She has the title of Stu- also to reveal any advice they Nevertheless, as always, it is the style and the moral attitude leges and universities, the trustees. have picked up along the way tnat reveal the underlying truth: this ls one Identical protest of (It should be noted that such a Dean David Truman of Colum- ('ieu Assessoriu in Germany, law has been under considera- bia College has called 'an un-| She is in the United States fo>- those Just preparing to go. the young In the developed countries The style ls unkempt; intensity about teaching under a F u 1 b r i g h t The experiences are some of the the morality is existential authenticity The protest is a sudden tion in the state legislatures In embarrassed at least ten other states: Ala- matters of the intellect, a hier- Grant for one year. She says, following: reaction to creeping anomie and the drift to 1984. whether bama, California, Florida, Geor- archy of respect ... for com-J "It is a very great experience, Brenda Donavant, who taught fascist, State socialist, or democracy-by-consent. gia, New Hampshire. Pennsyl- petence and imagination, an at- I can see many similarities and second grade in Danville, tells The uniform message ls that the system of the previous genvania, South Carolina, Virginia, tachment to the fragile values of differences. You can get so close thai one of her students told his eration has become irrelevant to the radically new conditions of civilization." parents that his new teacher Wisconsin, and Maryland.! modern life. The adults have not confronted the fact that war"just sits in the back of the The heavy hand of such a law To assert these 'fragile valroom and tells the other teacher ring major power-structures are too dangerous to tolerate, and ior ruling to the same effect) ls ues" is not to deny the obligawhat she's doing wrong." Bren- that national boundaries are obsolete In the One World. They do felt in its administration. Nar- tion of the colleges and universda's advice is this: "Its not aa not know a human use for high scientific technology. They canrow minded college and univer- ities in this country to provide bad as you think. Everyone ls not cope with urbanization, but let It drift like a glacier turning sitity administrators, worried responsible leadership. Rather, about maintaining good relations it is to reaffirm this obligation. very helpful, so you Just can't Into an avalanche. Their "basically perfect" systems do not algo wrong," with stale legislatures, can vnl The soap box is not and must low another generation to grow up with real choices Since this ually control the flow of speak- not be a substitute for the classE. C. Glase in Lynchburg had bankruptcy of Ideas ls everywhere the same, the student protest ers from the outside. room. But the campuses of the Jar. Durnicr as a student teach- is really everywhere the same This danger ls illustrated by nation must constantly warn er for World History and GeogCopyright Paul Goodman. 1965 Ohio State's *gag rule" and against the misguided search raphy. She remembers one day iiK.ihfic.ttion. thereof, which In for a static security. As Justice when she called the roll and the effct denied access to the cam- Douglas once said: 'The fact ls entire class answered "here" In pus to any speaker not accept- that security can only be achlevAnother time, when able in iiii i i vatlve admin ed through constant change . . . watching a movie, one boy kept lstration. A kind of admlnlstra- There is only an illusion of safecomplaining that he couldn't see tivi tyi annj has prevailed under ty In a Maglnot Line. Social forthe film. She said. "Of course you can." But, one week later. which the President of Ohio ces can sweep around a fixed Itato, Novice Fawcett. bans position and make it untenable." he had very thick new glasses. from campus anyone distasteful Some ideas do have durability The advice Jan offers ls to "be to a faction of the trustees led however. The Framers of The prepared to understand that you by former US Senator John W. c.irstitution were not afraid for don't know too much. I had to Brisker. men to be free. Today we should work each night to keep up. And, However, a student protest be as, confident as Jefferson don't be panicky." MISS SUIKOKK movement led by the Free war when he said In his First Sydney Phelps recalls that. Sp, ech Fiont and Student for Inaugural Address: 'If there be to people here, especially by "They called me 'Miss Belts' for Liberal Action appears to have any among us who would wish'working with them. A major dif- six weeks." She taught the first aful this year. In to di this Union or to lerence I have noticed between grade In Danville. She adds. August, Uie trustees voted a'change its republican form, let the students of the two countries "Don't worry. It's really fun. rule change which rests final them stand undiaturbed M mon here relations between There Is really nothing to worry '>rity to vakers In uments nt the aafi ehleh pxotoastw and students are about. It's very Interesting, too, •gnlzcd student groups and ' error of opinion may be tolerated "inch more natural." more than school.' ' faculty advisers, with no limita-1 where reason Is left free to com- The theatre, concerts, and mu "So many funny things hapMUM are special favorites of pen" says Barbara Garrison who tlon on wlw may speak. A re- bat it.' Miss Schroer. She is also Inter- taught English in Colonial ested In politics and present day Heights. One day she gave a problems. quiz and one boy kept trying to a asked about the United tell her something. Someone fiStates. Miss Schroer readily re- nally said that what he wanted I STAIII |S||| l> MOV1 MIIKK i: mo plied, "I like It, and have been to tell her was that the quiz key ABOUT: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF GIVING ll natmrd rrtlluriala orltlrn h> Ihr rititor) doing a lot of traveling. I enjoy was clearly In his view. When BarUra Mrll.n Kdllor-in CkM it very much, especially meeting she graded his paper, he'd made What makes some gifts so successful — while others, perhaps K.) r«M M.n»ln( Ult.r SMtlr. Mann llu.ln.-a. Manairr people and learning their atti- a 79, so "evidently he didn't use much more expensive, get a reception that's merely polite? Often Hoar Mar> Sum AaalataM Haalnraa Minuet tudes." It." Another difficulty Is learn- the difference ls simply the knowledge of a little psychology. Do Sman W.illi idy in her travels, she has ing to call your friends Miss give a present that won't cause anxiety; a fragile knick-knack ls ■MN UMM Barbara KarrUm Aaaaatant Krwa Mat* visited New York, and hopes to "So-and-So" In school, and, If the wrong gift for a woman with children. Don't give cash; It's l'h> Ilia llllmrm-r t'raturr MUM see the South over Christmas va- you student teach in smaller like telling the recipient that you think he needs money Do put Karrn Hurt*. Sporta Krlll..i cation. Later on next year, she towns, you're always running Janrt Kalrra DMI i',iii,.i would like to travel to the West Into your students, say, shopping flattery Into your glfta; the right cologne or toilet water, for exHrlrn Jran llatn,.. rhntnt raphcr Coast, but. she admits. "It ls or something. I answered the ample, flatters a woman's femininity And do learn how to listen Maraarrl l.awmm < n. itlalinn Manager Btvrrkr Koark and for hints — there's more of a knack to It than you may realize! .. Advartlatnf Manaarr ls really impossible to see a door one day In cut-offs Mar? Mgrrlm, Thought-provoking tips that are sure to be well-received. (#139) (Continued from page 4) Vaal. Ad Hanilll whole country In a year."
You Are Not Alone
Brings Scholar From Germany
Seniors Return With Memories Of Good Times
The Rotunda
THE ROTUNDA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1965 Down To Earth Reprint from the New York Herald Tribune
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Now comes word that a professor up at the State College of Agriculture, at Ithaca, has a S42.000 Federal grant to study the sex life of cabbage. It at least should open new fields for the current crop of avantgarde movie-makers.
Dramatics Club Offers Program IOn Garcia Lorca
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Active Senior Has True Spirit Of LC Helena Hall, a smiling senior physical education major from Alexandria, is active in many phases of student life at Longwood. For this reason, she has been chosen for this weeks Sports Spotlight. Helena has been a member of the varsity hockey team for two years. She has also been active hi class sports, Including participation in the class swimming meet her junior year. Helena has a particular interest In modern dance and she has been a member of Orchesis since her freshman yew. This year Helena is president of Orchesis. She has also attendee several modern dance master classes. Including the one held by Jose Limon in Richmond last year. To round out her interests in sports. Helena is a member of the A. A. Council. Last yew Helena was an usherette in Circus. She was also a representative to the May Court last yew.
Preceding the Longwood Players' production of The House of ' Bernada Alba a symposium on i Garcia Lorca, its author, will be held tonight at 7:30 in the Student Lounge. Mr. David Wiley, professor of ! speech and drama who is direct: ing the play, will be the moder! ator. Three speakers will open the session. Dr. Patton Lockwood, professor of speech and drama at Longwood. will speak Longwood College plans to lottesvil'e where he Is a member roroty. She is a charter member on the "Theatrical Aspects of name two major campus build- of the faculty of the University of the Virginia Social Science As- Garcia Lorca." Speaking on ings, now under construction, for of Virginia. sociation and the Southern So- "Symbolism in Lorca's Poetry" Action to honor Dr. LankforJ ciological Society, and she Is will be Mrs. Anita B. Ernouf. a recent president and former and Miss Stubbs in this fashion credited with originating plaas a Spanish teacher at Longwood. faculty member. A new dormitory designed to was taken by the board of visi- lor the first observance of Oucila Koppany, who came here as a foreign exchange student house 209 girls and head resi- tors at a quarterly meting held Founders Day at Longwood. During his 10-year tenure as last year and returned again dent will be named in honor of in November. A popular teacher of sociology sixth president of Longwood, this year, will talk on "Lorca's Miss Florence H. Stubbs who The Student Lounge was filled was a member of the Longwood at Longwood prior to her retire- Dr. Lankford directed the col- Lite." After the talks an open to capacity Nov. 29 when Erwin ment in 1954. Miss Stubbs found- lege during a period of growth forum will be held. faculty for 37 years. The n e w student activities ed the Longwood chapter of AKG and development that saw the After the conclusion of the D. Canham. Editor-in-Chief of building, on which cons' rue! ion and later served as adviser to student body increase from 780 symposium a preview perform- the "Christian Science Monitor" ance of The House of Bernada discussed the topic "Who Is winbegan last summer, will be our chapter of this national fra- in 1955 to a current enrollment Alba will be held. Members of ing the World-Wide Struggle for of 1461 students. The faculty innamed In honor of Dr. F. G. ternity for leadership. the Central Virginia Arts Associ- the Minds of Men." Mr. Canham Lankford. Jr., who resigned this As a resident of Farmvtlle creased from 55 to 98 members ation are coming as special began this discussion with anduring this period. year after serving 10 years as since her retirement. Mis.s other question. "Does it matUnder Dr. Lankford's leader- guests to the symposium and president of the college. Dr. and Stubb continues to serve as adwill attend the preview. ter?" Mrs Lankford now live in Char- viser to Kappa Delta social so- ship, academic standards were Canham feels that national raised, and more modern equipself-government, the idea of sement and techniques were incuring nationalism by rebellion, troduced into the classrooms. In federalism, the improvement of recent years 40 percent of the the eternal lot of poverty and faculty have been holders of disease by the application of new Ph.D degrees, an Increase In knowledge, the acceptance of the professional rank that has added goals of universal education and to the college's effectiveness (Continued from page 1) communication, and the accepand prestige. tance of populw culture we the In the Lankford era, the phy- eludes Botel's Reading Inven- principles now sweeping the The Round Robin Tournament a play-off to determine the wintory, Bond's Developmental in vo.leyball began on Monday. I ner of the Round Robin Tourna- sical plant expansion included Reading Test, Dolch's Basic world. He stated that although three new dormitories, doub.ing this Is a "triumph of an idea In November 29 with approximately ment. Sight Word Test, Grays Oral 350 participants. Games are now I Following the tournament one the size of the library, a conver- Heading Test, and McCullough's which we have our shwe" it Is a disillusion to think that the US being held each week Monday team will be selected for each sion of the old training schoo. Word Analysis Test. through Thursday at 6:45 and class by all girls with eight building into modern classrooms, The most exciting thing about alone Is advancing these Ideas a home management house, and the clinic is the use of Dr. Rose He stated that these Ideas we a new gymnasium, plus exten- Saoaroff's linguistic reader. Dr. free to anyone who wishes them sive renovation In the main Sabaroff, of Harvard University, and that other countries can building to provide larger dining developed this reader, and ask- copy our approach to these room space and additional class- ed ten areas in the United States basic ideas. Mr. Canham further stressed rooms. A fine arts building and to use it on an experimental additional dormitories are as- basis this yew. Longwood is one that as a powerful and affluent sured as a result of his fore- of the ten areas. The weas in- nation "The US should stop worsight and vigor ous efforts to clude California, eorgia, Mary- rying about popularity and gratimeet future needs. land, Massachusetts. Minnesota. tude." He believes that these One of his most significant Texas, Michigan, Pennsylvania, terms contradict each other contributions to Longwood was New Jersey, and Virginia. The since it is not possible to be powthe securing of a special board situation here at Longwood is erful as well as popular He of visitors as the state's govern- the first and only experiment in went on to explain that "Ours ing body with whom the presi- the United States where the Is a unique and difficult role" dent would be closely associated technique is used in a remedial because we we in a pwadoxical in administering the college. reading situation. Under this plan position having much power Scheduled for completion in the child is taught to think the Which we aren't able to use. As June of 1966, and in plenty of word, say the word through the a result of this he feels that we time tor use in September, the context provided, and then to have reached a "stalemate of four-floor dormitory of 54,468 sq. write the word. The child uses terror" and have a "mushroom ft. is being erected on the south- all the basic facilities of visual cloud hanging over our heads." east corner of Madison and Ely discrimination, auditory discrimi" Therefore our economic, moral, Streets at a cost of $714,800, in- nation, association, substitution, and Ideal tools must be used more than our military tools. cluding both building and fixed and kinesthetic. Canham feels that we should equipment by Mottley Construc- There are six seniors who did tion Co., Inc. Thompson and their student teaching first block Payne, of Roanoke, have served and who are now engaged in as architects and engineers In this class. Education 425, and GRAY'S REXALL planning the building. the Reading Clinic work. These 10:00 In each gym. practices. These four class teams DRUG STORE The student activities building, include Suzanne Bowles. Norma Six volleyball leagues have will play eii'll other for the len consisting of two floors totaling Davis, Helen Grigsby, (Mrs.) been formed with seven teams points toward the color cup. 34,695 sq. ft., is being built on Sandra Mays, Judy Moore, and Christmas Gift Items in each league. Each league will The volleyball managers this the southwest corner of Madison Jean White. Dr. Janet Bingner, year are Bess Mann and Patty and Pine Streets at a cost of Mrs Helen Llles Page, and Miss have one winner. Perfumes & Toiletries These six top teams will have Duke. $709,468. including both building Kate Trent form a committee of Stuffed Animals and fixed equipment, by An- assistants for the clinic. Mrs. drews, Large and Whiden, Inc.. Wacker assists the clinic In adAnd of Faimvllle. Scheduled for com- ministering individual tests. pletion in February of 1967. the Miss Bland is a 1939 graduate Russell Stover building will provide space for of Longwood College. She obtainthe student government associa- ed her Masters from the TeachChristmas Candy tion, student publications, var- ers' College of Columbia UniDr. Doug Lawson, dean of Laude from Drew University. ious .student chibs, and other stu- versity In New York. She Is RandolphJMacon College, is be- From Duke University Dr. Law- dent activities. now a candidate for her doccoming a familiar face on Long- son earned his PhD. He was a torate in Language Arts from wood's campus as a popular member of Phi Beta Kappa, Pi the University of Virginia where speaker. Gamma Mu and Omlcron Delta she has studied under Dr. Ullin CRUTE'S He has been a guest of the honorary fraternities. Dr. LawLeavell. Miss Bland has workYWCA on many previous occa- son is an ordained Elder In the ed |.n viously in tin n Toiletries For Men sions, the last being a critique Virginia Conference of the Methclinic at Columbia State under on the Feminine Mystique. Many od! rt Church and has served as Old Spice Dr. Marian Jennings. For the students heard Dr. Lawson as he a minister in Hampton, Virginia, past eight yews she has served Yardlcy participated in a panel discus- and Madison, New Jersey. In as Elementary Supervisor in sion at the Wesley Center con- l%2 Dr. Lawson was appointed Black Watch Henrico County with the special cerning birth control. the first full time Chaplain of assignment of remedial reading Tara Dr. Lawson was born in New- Randolph-Macon. In 1964 he took for the county. port News, Virginia, and attend- the position of Dean of Men and The concept for this clinic, Perfumes For Ladies ed Warwick High School where also serves as Professor of Hiswhich has just gotten underway Wind Song he was president of the student tory and Speech. here at Longwood, was designed body. In 1957 he received his Dr. Lawson was here Decemby Dr. Rose F. Splcola who is Beloved B.A. degree. In 1960 he received ber 6-7 when he led discussions presently on leave of absence for bit BD. degree Magna cum on "The Masculine Mystique." one yew.
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Helena was recently tapped into AKG. She has also been named to Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities. By enthusiastic participation in all facets of school life at Long wood. Helena has shown herself to be a possessor of the "true. spirit" of Longwood.
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make our own life have more quality and that "What we are and not what we say will speak for us." He further stated that the revolution of rising expectations which he mentioned previously we an American style triumph even though we are not completely responsible for these. He concluded expressing the Idea that we should be grateful that the world Is not dominated by the US because we live where "the adventure of the human race was never more challenging."
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Senior Week - End The tiiuil bi^ social event at Loimwood before Christmas I line with Senior week-end last weekend. Activities ranged from 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon to 1 o'clock Sunday morning. The day began with a concert featuring Dionne Warwick and the Brandywine Singers. Although the concert left something to be desired i like about another ten songs and thirty-five more minutes worth of effort on the part of Dionne' most people who attended were thoroughly and satisfactorily entertained oy the Brandywine Singers. At any rate, most of the people who followed through with all the planned events oJ Saturday had an enjoyable day "although it would have been nice to have seen about eighty-eight more seniors at the banquet". The next big weekend of this nature will be sponsored by the Junior Class. So, in the final analysis there is only one more thing to say . . . ! Take it away, Juniors!
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peacock feather. "Student teaching Is 6lcppy -shirt, only to find the more fun than you think. The more you teach, the better you new Of my Bttldl at For advice, Barbara says, like It." "When you speak of your par"Don't be scared, It's fun. Once kids are amazed that ymi you're there, and have started have a mom and dad. When you in, it's fine." Marti Musgrave, who taught sit in a swing, they all come tin- third grade In Danville, says, and Stare. I think they think I'm "Funny little things happen every ' about 600 years old." These are And there is nothing to be ;ht words of Lou Johnson, who afraid of. It Just takes one or taught second grade In Danville. She offers the advice of "going two days to get used to It." Another student teacher of with the intent of enjoying It, i i lonial Heights,! and, you will." 1 Mary Gompf, had some memo- Mary Jo Wright, who taught fourth grade in Henrlco, remem"One student called me 'Mrs. Lady' one time when he bers the boy who thought it couldn't remember my name. would be "runner" to live In the' They thought I was about 47 Colonial Period. Another boy years old." She recalls the awk- nearly died of embarrassment ward situation one fifth period, when a girl schoolmate reported when, having slipped her 6hoes that he had said he would like off. she accidentally knocked to see bus new teacher in a bithtm too far away to reach. She kini. "On the last day, when had to excuse herself and bend every child was saying goodbye, down to get them and put them one boy asked for my autoon. "Two things are Important graph. The kids are really wonto take with you: money and a derful. They gave me a charm MOM of humor. Kids will try to and a poetry book for going sell you everything. I've got a away gifts." Her advice Is this: LOc chance on ■ '46 'lonl Th ■ "Be prepared for anything. serse of humor is really lmpor- There are many rewards to be You've got to be able to derived from teaching. Just laugh " Mir. adds thai the last fa ach and you'll see." Well, these were some of First day is really sad. Marilyn Watklns. who RWghl Block's adventures. Are all you fifth grade in Richmond, says other seniors ready for what's that her students sang "Happy coming up? After all, they'll be I rung to you next! Birthday" to her on her birth-
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The Home Economics Club of Longwood College will be making Christmas favors for the patients of the Southside Community Hospital. The favors will be made at the chib's monthly meeting on Tuesday. December 13. This is an annual project sponsored by the Home Economics Club, and each year a different type of favor is made. ThL- pear the members will make small fed stockings which can be used as book-marks by the adults and the ones for the children will contain small candy canes. All home economics majors been u treat Infltrnrn niton are members of the Home Ecoof the mouth, insomnia, and nomics Club as long as they blgn blood pressure. With the formation of the American Institute of Medical REPAIRS Climatology, scientists are di• Radios recting more attention to the links between the weather and • Tape Recorder how it affect.- your Wei being and Supplies They might soon be able to a n i w e r the nunoui • Phonographs i:\.r\body talks about the • Hair Dryers i r, but nobody docs anything about it." SMITTY BROS. ELEC.
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The annual Christmas dinner sponsored by the Slater Food Service will be held in the Dining Hall on Wednesday, December 18. The menu will be kept secret until the day of the dinner, but Mr. Pennock is planning for several Christmas decorations. Among them will be Christmas trees, holly wreaths, greens on the balcony, and decoi ation-s for the Senior dining hall. Following the dinner, the Freshman Commission will present its annual Christmas pro cram The commission will put on a skit which will cante r around the theme of the night before Christmas at Longwood Later the commission will lead ood girls in the singing of Christmas carols in the Rotunda. Tin commission plans to deco rate the Christmas tree in the Rotunda on Tuesday, December 14.
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