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The Rotunda Interviews: Sally Shreir Editor's Note: In the second of The Rotunda interviews, Sally Shreir comments on her own views of U.S. politics and feminism, as well as issues relating to her Wednesday evening speet h, entitled Totalitarianism: Marx's Legacy Or The Kremlin's Heresy". Sheir is managing editor of The Salisbury Review, a lending British journal of
political opinion. She was at Longwood last week on a speaking tour. Rotunda: There is a polarization of views in the political field in the U.S. anyway of the neo-left and the neo-conservatives -What do you think of the conservative trend here? Is it a positive force in the country? Shreir: Yes. I have to say
yes.. . I'm going to get into my role now and play it. As far as I can see it, it's quite different from in Britain. In Britain conservatism as an intellectual force is only just taking off now whereas here it seems to be something that's been going on maybe since the Fifties . . . it's been quite respectable to call yourself an intellectual
conservative. Whereas in Britain, that's only now the case. Up until the last few years the intellectual establishment was entirely dominated by the left, and there was a left wing consensus in all spheres of
left really whereas to be a liberal in Britain is quite a lot in common in some spheres anyway between conservatives and liberals as opposed to the labor party or the socialist party - - a lot of variants would be
Search For A New Director Of Student Activities by Barrett Baker The search for the new Director of Student Activities, which is in the process of beginning, is geared to involve as much student participation as possible. "We want to get as much input on the applicants as we can." says Phillis Mable. VicePresident of Student Affairs, "and we want the applicants to get a lot of student exposure - it's a two way thing. After all," she continues, "these people will be working for the students and if the students aren't happy with woever gets hired, then the effort won't be much of a success." Barb Gorski, who is currently the Interim Director of Student Activities and involved with screening applicants for the job, feels very good about the way the project is being handled. "This is one of the most organized projects around," she states, "and we've got a good bunch of candidates to choose from. We are in the position to be very picky about the person we choose." The process, which begins with a screening committee consisting of Colleen Brenan, S-UN President. Moffett Evans.
Technical Director of the Speech and Dramatic Arts Department. Ann White, Lankford Building Manager. Randy Chittum. President of Student Government, and Sophia Pollet. Chair of the Series for the Performing Arts, along with Gorski. is designed to eliminate those applicants who don't meet the minimum requirements of candidacy. As soon as this process is completed, the remaining applicants will be invited to come to Longwood for interviews. The interviews, which are expected to run for about 1V4 days per applicant, are to be conducted by various committees representing Student Activities, Employees of Student Union, and Student Leaders directly involved with S-UN. "A lot of work has gone into this project in order to control the element of bias and to get ' as many students involved as we can," adds Gorski. "I think this is a great opportunity for students to discuss what they want in the new director and to gain interviewing skills that can be used after they graduate." Upon the completion of the interviews, the screening committee will then review the remaining applicants to make recom-
mendations to Phyllis Mabel, who will make the final decision on who will be hired. The new director will be expected to begin operations by January 1. 1985. Among other things, the Student Activities Program supports students in their academic preparation and achievement through educational, social, cultural, and leadership programming for the college community; registration and coordination of student organizations; and development of policies affecting the Student Union and Activities Program. With the addition of a new director, the Student Union itself will begin to expand. Defined committees will be formed dealing with different activities (lectures, films, concerts, mixers, etc.). This is designed to get more people involved in the S-UN and to give more power adn authority to those people. "The students at Longwood have not been given enough credit as to their ability," states Gorski. "I've had to put a lot of trust in them and they never let me down. Whoever the new director is will have a real talented and great team of people to work with "
Sally Shreir talks to an English class of Miss Camilla Tinnell. education and culture. That's beginning to change now, partly because we've got a very distinctively conservative government and partly because I think people do think the left is subverting some of our institutions and that education is no longer the sort of liberal humane kind that conservatives and indeed liberals in Britain would like to see. You have to make the distinction you see between here, where to be a liberal is to be on the
the same - not by any means all. So, although the liberal party never gets into power in Britain all politics is built on a foundation of liberalism and so to be a liberal isn't to be left. You might not agree with them. You might not agree with their philosophy of the human nature of instituions. But it's far less one side of a polarized situation as it is here, where nobody as far as I can see calls themself I
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