Rotunda - Vol 49, No 18 - May 13, 1970

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VOL -XLV4I ^<j Longwood College, Farmville, Va., May 13, 1970 No 18
Women's Liberation Movement Provides
Courtny of Women'i Llb«r«elon By CAROLYN CUMMINS
In this age of social protest there Is one movement in which ongwood students should show particular interest. The 1960*s were marked by civil rights and student rights movement while the 1970's may unveil a full- scale women's rights movement. Un- fortunately, few people understand the women's liberation movement (WLM). It is an attack on a male- dominated society where women are second-class citizens. It wants to change social attitudes and customs to permit women to function as sepa- rate and equal persons.
In 1848 the first Women's Rights Convention met in Seneca Falls, N.Y. These women sought and eventually got some states to liberalize divorce laws and to grant women the right to own property, make contracts, and bring suit. With the coming of indus- try, the women's role changed. Fac- tories, canneries, public schools and hospitals took away some of her func- tions, giving her leisure time to par- ticipate in this movement. In the 1920's, after she got the rieht to votp. this movement tempered. Soon electricity, household appliances, and refrigera- tion added to her leisure time. During WWTI while the men were off fighting, she showed her ability to do the tra- ditional male occupations. But after the war she again took her place as wife and mother. This was the age of Dr. Spock where women were told that child-rearing was the most chal- lenging thing that she could do.
The mid-60's saw a revival of the women's liberation movement on two fronts. In 1963 Betty Friedan's "Femi- nine Mystique" was published telling women that their role as a producer of children was trivial and empty. Un- der her leadership in 1966 the Nation- al Organization of Women (NOW) was founded to attack job inequalities and other injustices through the courts, to get more women elected to public office and as a legislative lobby. This organization admits men and now has over 35 chapters including one in Richmond. The other group sprang from those women working in the civil rights movement. They found themselves being used for sweeping floors, cooking meals, making coffee, typing, and bedding down. The actual protesting was considered too dangerous for women. In mid-1967 these dejected women started their own or- ganizations. Some of these are: Sis- ters of Lilith, the Gallstones, the Redstockings, the Sisters All Learning Together (SALT), Women's Liberation Front (WOLF), Media Women, the Feminists, the Radical Feminists, and the Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy (WITCH).
The WLM has a stigma of silliness. Female Liberation Cell 16 wears tight pants, polo shirts, heavy custom-made mountain boots, and short hair in protest of the male-dominated society. At Temple University eight women take the ROTC course. At Berkeley 20 take a karate class and dress in the men's locker room. At one Miss America contest women took off their bras and burned them. There are also those who give the movement a bad name by stripping in public and using dirty language.
For-the-most-part this is a re- volt against being treated as a sex object, a guinea pig in the use of birth control pills, a chick by peace radicals, and second class thinker. These women resent the equating of manli- ness to Tom Jones and womanliness to Rachael Welch. Thirty-one million women work — one-third are secre- taries and clerical workers, and over one-fifth are waitresses or domestics. The average yearly income for a full- time working female is $4,150, while it is $7,200 for a full-time working male. The major occupations of working women are teaching, nursing, making clothes, cooking and cleaning - simply extensions of their home func- tions. The WLM seeks to change these situations.
There are five states where a wife must get court approval before she can operate an independent business. In five states (not all the same as in the first example) a wife may not dispose of her property without her husband's consent. In three states, women are excluded from jury duty. Such inequalities exist throughout America and the WLM wants to rectify them.
Some factions of the WLM advocate living in female communes, avoiding men and overthrowing the male-dominated society. But most of the WLM is dedicated to getting better Jobs, abortion reforms and more child-care cen- ters and to eliminating sex difference in education, home life, politics and manners. The membership is mostly under 30, radical, white, and located in New York, Boston, Washington, Pittsburgh, Chicago, San Francisco and on college campuses. Behind these activists are many nonjolners who have indicated their support in their voting patterns reading habits, and letters to Congressmen and to editors.
This movement has its opposition. Some women feel that their present position is a natural one and resent the belittling of it. Those women al- ready well-established in the male- dominated world resist the WLM because they like the sense of superi- ority they receive from their achieve- ment. Some men view the WLM as an assault on their masculinity by a few uppity women. Others feel that the women involved must be frigid, lesbian, or self-haters. Most are frightened or angered by the idea of restructuring the society's role of the woman and the family.
Like all protests, this one has its radicals, but they do not make the rest of the movement invalid. Hope- fully the WLM will be influential in rectifying the injustices, equalizing the opportunities, and changing public opinion. An unhappy wife is not a good wife. If she would be happier with a full or part-time career, then she should pursue it. Those who want to maintain their role as a full-time wife and mother should be allowed to also. But even more crucial those who do not desire marriage should not be condemned and should be allowed to pursue their chosen profes- sion on an equal basis with men. The WLM reminds us that the American Dream does not apply to men only. The decade of the 70's may prove to be an enlightening one.
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This was the scene on Friday at 11:10 a.m., when students, faculty, and administration gathered under the flagpole at Hampden-Sydney for a memorial service honoring the seven dead Kent State students. The
:*.:*** ? Reverends Vassey and Griffin and Professors lleine- mann and Mrllwaine from H-SC were the main speakers. Another memorial service for the students was held on Wheeler Mall at I mii:« I on Monday night.
Action On College Campuses Reflect Presidential DecisionTo Expand War
By ETHEL REITER President Nixon's decision to send
U. S. troops into Cambodia has re- awakened the dormant peace movement. Students are massively striking, marching, demonstrating, mourning, rioting, burning, and protesting in a nationwide storm of rage and passion. Morbid shadows of bloodshed and death no longer exist as imaginations of dis- aster, rather as realities.
It is absurd for college adminis- trative officials to restrict or advise students against demonstrations. ALL campuses in Virginia and over the nation will be affected by the realization of the murder of innocence and disgust over extension of the war. Polarization and alienation are inevitable when pro- testors are referred to as "bums" and "choleric young intellectuals" by the President and his rhetorical scape- goat, Vice-President Agnew. A weary society sick of far, foreign involve- ment, and death finds the promise of military victories through escalation little consolation. American youth re- sents Nixon's deceptive policies. Only ten days after announcing successful Vietnamization of the war, he called for more U. S. troops to combat Com- munist sanctuaries in Cambodia and resumed limited bombings of North Vietnam.
The youths killed were not 'bums' or radicals, and the majority of pro- testors are not. The violence cannot be considered as a result of parental per- missiveness or childish stupidity. Sev-
eral American students simply cannot respect a President who, without the consent of Congress, reescalates a hopeless war in a country whose people are generally ignorant, uncooperative, and unappreciative of our efforts.
However, it would be gravely er- roneous and narrow-minded to condone and justify the behavior of radical students. It is senseless to fight violence with violent dissent. It is obvi- ous where this leads, evidence being the Kent State University massacre. Pseudeointellectuals and pseudoradi-
cals do more harm than good. To ig- norantly and violently wave the banner of peace and love is ridiculously ironic. And naturally, it is this mindless mi- nority that is the loudest and receives the most attention. This radical sub- group delights at the present social and political crisis of our nation and would like nothing better than to see a spread of violent protest. Bombings, arson, and destruction cannot create peace and social change, only chaos
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Student banners later removed caused much discussion and dissent.
Financial Assistance Regulations Stated For Student Jobs
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Abortion - A Two
Sided Subject Abortion has come to be a popular word in today's world. Once
almost obsolete, it now hits the heodlines in many state and national newspapers, as state legislatures attempt to set up abortion laws for their people As it now stands in many states, a legal abortion may only be obtained to save the life of a pregnant woman.
Legislators, pro and con, are hastling with new suggestions about abortion laws These people for extended abortion laws hove presented thr .uggestions that abortion be legalized if done by a licenced physician in an accredited hospital up to 19 weeks after conception, provided the expectant mother's physical or mental health would be seriously affected by continual pregnancy, if in case of rape or incest, or at times when the fetus seems reasonably sure to be malformed or mentally retarded.
Defendents of liberalized abotion laws cite the facts that 31,000 women each year are raped in this country and that one out of four become pregnant. After the 1964 rubella epidemic in the United States, which claimed 30,000 lives, 15,000 childred were born handi- capped, yet in these cases, under present laws, these women could not have a legal abortion Most of the women seeking abortion today are married and 70% were attempting some form of birth control at the time they became pregnant.
Some say why bring a deformed or unwanted child into the world? Why break up a happy home because of a faulty birth control system ?
Opponents of the liberalized abortion laws say that the child may be unwanted by the real mother, but what about the childless couple3 With vacines, genetic counseling and other recent medical advances, it is not as dangerous on the mother or baby if a disease is caught The risk of embry malformation is one in four if the disease is contracted in the first eight weeks of pregnancy, and one in ten if contracted in the eight to twelve weeks period of pregnancy.
The opponents also scy that it is impossible for a doctor to say for certain in the early stages of pregnancy that the fetus is deformed Suppose a woman has an abortion, and then finds out the child she was carrying was normal' What does she do then? How does she feeP
Defendents say that state legislatures are dominated by men who don't know what its like to feel, "I am pregnant and ecstatic about it." or "I am pregnant and desperate " Also, they say influences of the Roman Catholic Church have kept the popular will from being put into law
Opponents say they are not attacking womanhood. They have more respect for womanhood because they believe in the sanctity of life, and life is the unique force which only women can bring into this world.
Over 1,000,000 American women each year resort to illegal abortions performed by themselves with coat hangers, poisons, screw drivers, and other dangerous tools, or by shadowy practitioners who often have had no medical skills Eight thousand women die every year from consequences, making illegal obortion the leading cause of maternal death.
Opponents say extention of legalized abortion laws will not help the poor, but will only be for the upper class The poorer people could not pay the $350 to $1,000 cost of the abortion Also, they would be under pressure from relief case workers to hove abortions because they have to keep down welfare costs.
Who is right and who is wrong? Who has the power to say who will live and who will die? Someone will have to decide, and that decision will most definitely be made in the near future. What are your opinions
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Editor-ln-Chlef MARY ALICE CARMODY
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Co-Managing Editor* MARY HUNCH BALDWIN. LISE WORTHINGTOS Businr** Nuim LYNDA DAVIS
Free Expression? Dear Editor:
Once again I find it necessary to use THE ROTUNDA as a forum for my rhetoric. It is the best way to communicate with the whole student body. I only wish that more students would express their opinions in their newspaper.
During the past week two protest banners were displayed on this campus. One, "In Memoriam," was will- ingly removed by its owner after it was suggested to her that it may pro- voke outside agitators to action. The other, "America,R.I.P." wasremoved by its owner at the request of the Presi- dent through the campus police. In- stead of allowing the owner to keep her sign, she was told that she could reclaim it from the President.
Although I do not agree with the implications of "America R.I.P.," I do realize that some people feel this way and I respect their right to express their feelings. I would prefer that our campus dissenters hang a banner out a window than paint the words on a wall, demonstrate on the mall, boycott and prevent others from attending classes, burn buildings, throw rocks or shoot someone. Some students complained about the sign being on their dorm — I am glad to see that Longwood students can get upset about something other than Slater food. I hope that these students will do more than complain to their head resident: I hope that they will write to their Con- gressmen and the President explaining their sentiments. I also hope that if the time ever comes that our campus police will respond as efficiently to violence as they did to banner protesting.
I remind all my fellow students that not words on a banner, but actions and reactions could make the sign come true.
Carolyn Cummins » * *
Banner Defended To the Editor:
Out of sympathy for the Kent State students who were killed and a feel- ing of disgust and regret at what Ameri- ca has become I hung a mourning banner outside my window. It read, Ameri- ca R.I.P (rest in peace). The banner was hung May 6 and I heard no disap- proving comments from any of the "authorities." On the night of May 9 the Campus Police (Gestapo?) were sent to have me remove the banner. They told me President Willett wanted the banner taken to him. Naturally I let them have the banner. To reclaim the banner, I have to go have a conference with President Willett. Having studied a Student Handbook for Long- wood College, I could find no regulation about flying a banner onthe dormitory. Actions such as the ones taken by the President and the Campus Po- lice in my case serve only to stifle the self-expression and emotions of the students and breed campus unrest.
Regretfully a Longwood "lady," Donna Wadsworth
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Opinion Imposed? Dear Editor,
Last week for a very brief time a black mourning banner was hung on Wheeler. The banner read "IN ME- MORIAM." It was put there to express my sense of tragedy, and that of others at the death of four Kent State students. That was its sole purpose. There was no intent to protest our In- volvement in Cambodia (or any part of Indo-China), nor was it meant to support and/or incite riots. I felt that a mourning banner was a quiet, sincere expression of sorrow. Granted, it was a public expression of my personal feelings. However, I do not feel that a banner would impose my feelings on others.
I was told that "inany"studti. objected to the banner. According to my information these girls felt that its location implied that the entire dorm .shared my (Ming. There have I several signs hung in the same place tin. ...,i, and DM entire dorm has not
I them. But that Is not what worried me the most. Many girls seemed to think It was a symbol ol in- surrection, or at least an attempt at subversion. As I stated above, this wa.Mmt my intention. The wordl "l monaiii" are used in conjunction wltt mournim ilno
other use of this phrase. Perhaps Long- wood students should be required to own a dictionary, or at least check one before they jump to conclusions.
The mourningbannerwasupforless than 24 hours. It was taken down (at least on my part) because of the students' objections. This letter is an apology to those students who felt that I had imposed my personal feelings on them. I am sincerely sorry that my action offended them, and I hope they will accept my apology. However, I would like to put a question to these girls: is public mourning really an imposition on you?
Sincerely, Pleter Laundon
Lost Or Strayed! Dear Editor,
Several weeks ago there appeared in the dorms a petition for liquor on campus. Mysteriously one day it disap- peared. What became of it?
The legislative board minutes, April 27, 1970 state, "The Board decided it was not obligated to take any actions at this time concerning alcohol on campus." The minutes do not, however, state why.
A report on drinking on other college campuses has been compiled by Dean Wilson. This information has not been posted or announced.
In general, all actions for liquor on campus have been ignored or just given no consideration. The mere fact that any action has been taken at all on the part of this somewhat apathetic campus is evidence of a strong desire to have the proposal objectively considered.
Shouldn't the student body be more informed about proposals which circu- late on campus?
And anyway, whatever happened to that petition?
Sincerely, Salli Akers
Apathy At L.C.!?! To the Editor:
The total blanket of apathy that covers the Longwood College com- munity is very sad indeed (LC) seems to breed apathy. But even sadder still is the deliberate attempt of the administration to stop those few students who are concerned from becoming involved and from acting to express their beliefs and ideals. It seems to me that when parents grant blanket permission they are saying that they believe their daughter is mature enough to make her own decisions. Therefore, it should not be the privilege of the Dean ofStudents to call (collect, even) parents about their daughters' activities. I am re- ferring specifically to the students who went to U.Va. to hear a well-known speaker with whom certain members of our administration do not agree. This seems to me to be a breach of trust somewhere, and I personally resent being treated like a six-year-old rather than a twenty-year-old.
And while I'm griping, I also resent being harrassed by a head resident with 18th century values, about my activities. (It is very sad that some of our head residents can find nothing better to do than gossip with each other and with some students about "their girls," who have "gone astray.") It is neither her right, duty, or privilege to impose her beliefs on "her girls" and I'm getting sick of her teUing me, oh, very subtly, and with all the graciousness to be had, that I am an immoral person, when she doesn't even know what I've been doing. Seems like she's been taking lessons from Vice-President Agnew.
Gripe number three: I resent the disgusting ways our black students and our black guests are treated by the administration and employees (i.e. head residents). Most are covert acts, but there are enough overt to be felt.) It is time that the fact be realized that these are not objects but people and
ild be treated as such. Thank you for your ear.
Peace and Power, Travis Smith
Proper Channels? Dear Editor:
If a person wants something done on this campus, she is advised to go through the "proper channels." At a press conference on March 18 (which was over a month ago) I asked Dr. v.ilh'tt what were the proper channels
to go through to see about having alco- holic beverages consumed on campus. He said to consult Legislative Board, and I did so in a letter and requested an answer. In return I received a phone call from the president of Leg- islative Board asking me to wait until after Ring Dance Weekend (April 11) to start a petition or such, so that the board could see how the situation went with beer on campus one night. I felt this was a reasonable request. In this same phone conversation I was asked to come to an open meeting of the board a week after Ring Dance to discuss the matter. Also, I was informed that I would need a petition to see any action, but the person did not know how many people I would need to sign this petition and she said she would find out. I was unable to attend the open board meeting due to four tests during that week. I never heard from Legislative Board again.
Now I went through the so-called "proper channels" and I feel as though I was put off. Because I didn't attend the open board meeting I don't see why the board had the right to ignore my letter. On May 5, I called her. She, in reply, said she thought I was going to attend the open board meeting. Then, I asked her how many people I needed to sip a petition. She said a fourth of the student body which con- sisted of four hundred or five hundred people. There is a difference of a hundred people there. I would think that the Legislative Board should be able to tell me exactly how many people I needed to sign a petition and not some mish-mush about four hundred or five hundred people. And that's not really the main point; why has it taken over a month to find out how many people are needed to sign a petition? I was courteous to the board and the administration by trying to do things in a proper manner. I feel the board was lackadaisical in this matter, and the "proper channel" in this case was a bummer.
Unimpressed, Linda Lee Jones
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA A university is a place for learn-
ing and knowledge: to be taught and nurtured — but if we are not aware, do not comment on what is happening around us, no one will. It is our duty to protest actions that we deem un- acceptable. It is our duty to work for change, wherever and whenever it is needed. This is our country. What good is an education which prepares us for a society which Is ultimately not worth living in? For these reasons a university must speak out - it simply cannot remain silent to the injustices and stupidities of our society.
I cannot support any country -least of all my own — which slaughters 500 women and babies at My Lai; I cannot support National Guardsmen shooting on an unarmed crowd; I cannot support a President who calls pro- testors "Bums," or a Vice-President who calls them "thieves, perverts and irrational people." I will not sit idly by and watch my country stagnate — I am proud and relieved that universities feel they must protest - even If that means shutting them down. We are at a watershed.
The blood battle in Vietnam must end. We don't have to be the world's policeman - let us get out and return that poor land to its people.
The time for sittingaroundisgone-, action must be taken: preferably in the universities rather than in the streets. I support any university's action to bring a return to reason in our country.
Action On Campuses (Continued from Page 1)
and anarchy. We need not destroy public order and civil liberty to make the government aware of our discontent and disgust with its war policies.
Our nation is unfortunately sue - cumbing to an Era of Irrationality: senseless student rage, senseless kill- ings by National Guardsmen, senseless war. We are in an age of gloom, chaos, and tragedy. One cannot help but to take on a Ferlinghettian view of the world, where suffering humanity writhes in a rage of adversity, and "lost teacups full of our ashes floated by.'
Longwood College, Farmville, Va, May 13, 1970 Page 3
Elastic, String, Hot Oil Set
Scene For Orchesu Concert The annual Spring Concert pre-
sented by the Longwood Modern Dance group, Orchesis, was given last Wed- nesday and Thursday nights at 7:30 in Jarman.
The open sequence, "Five Psalms," represented various phases and characteristics of lite. These were executed well, a choreography was done by Mrs. Betty Bowman. One of the most outstanding of the Pslams, "Let us number our days," was a beautiful study of shapes and movements, done in the form of a prayer.
The class studies bordered on the modern theatre, as such props as strings attached to the toes, elastic webbing, and even one ingenious dance used the various sounds made by the world today as its accompaniment.
Two solos were presented, one by Debbie Henshaw and the other by Pam Patterson, both were choreographed by Pam Patterson.
Returning from last year, the
"Flashlight dance'' and the spotlight dance, "The Establishment," were great hits again this year. This type of inventiveness was also witnessed in the usage of light in a new dance 'Improvisations." With the help of an opaque projector, colored oils were shown mixing together to form erie shadows on a screen. This silhouetted the forms of the two dancers as they imnrovised to tne music.
The big hit of the night proved to be "Bach Revisited," a satire on the elegant music used earlier as the setting of a serious dance study of flowing movement. However, "Bach Revisited," was by no means serious. Conductor, Fran Anthony, directed the most hilarious combination track meet, fencing class, scooter derby, and dance class ever imagined.
The entire concert was as it has been advertised, "A Delightful Eve- ning of Dance."
The AST pitrher and catcher had quite a few conferences Monday but North-Main Cunningham still downed them 8-3.
Softball Intramurals Close;
Class Teams Announced Intramural Softball got off with a
bang as each dormitory and sorority represented tried to put their best foot forward, especially on first base. Intramural games started last week with sprained fingers, slide burns and soaring tempers. The last game was played Monday as North-Main Cun- ningham defeated Alpha Sigma Tau, for the Intramural trophy.
Class teams are as follows: Fresh- men - Carol Chory, Barb Cridlin, Sue Manahan, Becky Jennings, Barb Bagley, Cindy Bradley, Terri Gadsby, Diane Padgett, Mary Lou Glasheen, Cindy Cain, Gail Gossage, Eleanor Challen, and Diane Derrick. Sopho- mores — Pam Harrison, Darlene Al- mond, Judy Heironimus, Patti Coogar, Martha Hicks, Bobbi Morris, KayHar-
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Madison and I.C got alone fine, off the field. Here some of our Varsity players share a tournament mascot with a Madison player. Longwood graduate. Jane hrdman. front right, played on the Virginia Club Team.
Tournament Held, Two LC Players Named
Longwood's Lacrosse team represented the school at the annual Vir- ginia Woman's Lacrosse Association Tournament May 8 and 9. Amid flat- ties, sight-seeing, and sore muscles, they did well, receiving two wins and having two players picked to attend the district tournament.
It seemed the team to beat in Rich- mond this week end was Madison Col- lege. Unfortunately Longwood didn't. Neither did anyone else for that matter. The Longwood Lacrosse team end- ed its season well with two wins out of three games at Westhampton.
Friday afternoon the L.C. players faced the most nervous game of the entire season, Madison College. Madison proceeded to pile up goals immediately, and even though the L.C. defense pulled together well, the Madison offense out- ran and outplayed them to a towering final score of 19-2.
The next morning found the L.C. team warming up at 8:30 a.m. ready to go at 9 o'clock against Randolph- Macon Women's College from Lynch- burg. The game was a complete fiasco with L.C. passing and catching like be- ginners, however R-MWC was playing just as badly and maybe a little worse. The game improved at the half, and the scored did too, and except for RMWC's first home Bobby Shirley, the
vey, Janet Ford, Martha Chevalier, Betty Ann Glasheen, and Renea Har- ris n.
Juniors - Gay Rutland, Paula John- son, Peggy Hutcherson, Sandi Wilson, Carolyn Hurley, Freda Lunsford, Lynn Coleman, Barbara Jenkins, Kathy Long, Maxine Stone, Janet Harpold, Jane McCaffrey, and Connie Lou Williams. Seniors- Lynn Lusse, Carolyn Thomp- son, Marsha Tench, Betty Layne, Barb Snellings, Judy Allen, Betty Ford, Pat Quinn, Janice Hudgins, Carolyn Cum- mins, Judy Turner, Fran Anthony, and Betty King.
Color games are scheduled to begin Thursday, May 14, and be continued Monday, May 18. They will be played on Her field at 4:00 p.m. Come out and support your color.
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going was pretty easy. The final score was Longwood 6 R-MWC 3. Following the Randolph-Macon game the Long- wood team rested for their game against Sweet Briar College. They were look- ing forward to this game for two very good reasons. One, the game scheduled in the regular season had been cancelled because of rain and sec- ondly, Sweet Briar's coach Diane Davis will be teaching here at Longwood next year and she especially wanted to win that game.
The first half went slow, it seemed that both teams were evenly matched, the half closed with a 2-2 tie. In the second half Longwood started out strongly and kept it up throughout the game, scoring four more goals while holding SBC down to none. The final score was 6-2.
Eleven colleges were represented at the Tournament. Longwood, Madison, William and Mary, Hollins, Lynchburg, Mary Washington, Westhampton, Roa- noke, Sweet Briar, Bridgewater, Ran- dolph-Macon, and a team composed of college gratuates, the Virginia Club team.
Players were being rated for the district teams. Of these Longwood's third man, Barbara Jenkins, was chosen for fourth team and Sherry Wil- liams received an Honorable Mention. As expected, Madison and W&M con- stituted the first team; with a smat- tering of other schools.
Archery Team Is Victorious In First Matches
The Varsity team hosted Madison College here last Tuesday. This was their first meet of the season. Long- wood won with a score of 2,300 to Madison's 2,100. High scorer of the match was Georgia Freeman with a score of 531. Also shooting were Su- san Stutz, Barbara Cridlin, Penny L"b- erly, and Judie Guidice.
On the following Thursday, the team traveled to Westhampton in Richmond to play them, and they were again victorious, 2,300 to 2,000. This was the first time in six years that the Longwood team has beaten Westhamp- ton. Georgia Freeman was again the high scorer with a score of 550. Sopho- more Susan Stutz placed second in the match.
Tuesday, the team had an away game at Randolph-Macon in Lynch- burg and hopes were high for victory.
The state tournament will be held at WesthamptonFriday, and the coach, Miss Ripley, will take eight girls to represent Longwood, these will be chosen from the high scores made at practice in the next week.
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Creativity and variety arc the passwords for thi-. \<\u\ Annual Student Art Exhibit.
Annual Student Art Exhibit Featured In Library Gallery
Currently in the Library Gallery is the Annual Student Art Exhibit. This exhibit, which will continue until May 20, features work done in various art courses. This year the show in- cudes more crafts than in previous years, this year's addition is tie-dyed and stitchery pillows. One pillow which takes advantage of its spontaneous tie-dyed design to employ stitchery is #54 by Phyllis King.
There are several painting cate- gories. A watercolor, #7, done by Brooke Baxter, shows a pillar of a dilapidated house painted in mystical colors of gray and blue. An acrylic by Sherry Van Walkenburg, #13, em- ploys a small canvasboard window adhered to the canvas to give a three- dimensional effect. A painting-collage by Sandy Cordle, #31, includes Andy Warhol, Peter Max, and the statue of Liberty to show the effect of pop-
Spring Colloquim Of Asian Studies Held Participation Poor
The Spring Colloquim of the Vir- ginia Consortium for Asian Studies was presented at Longwood, Saturday, May 9. Student representation was poor. About ten students attended part of the lectures and films throughout the day. However, many scholars and professors from other institutions in Virginia attended the Colloquim.
Freshman, Becca Carroll, enjoyed the Colloquim and was particularly interested in "Buddhist and Hindu Con- cepts in American Thought and Cul- ture" as presented by Kurt F. Lei- decker of Mary Washington College.
Different lectures of the Colloquim were of interest to various groups. Mary F. Williams of Randolph-Macon Women's College spoke on "Far East- ern Influences on the Arts of the West," while T. Sato lectured about "The Greek Classical Theatre and Noh Theatre: A Structural Compari- son." Richard C. Rowland of Sweet Briar College presented theories on "Echoes from the East in Contempo- rary Verse." Following the lectures and films and preceding other films, the speakers and participants held a group discussion.
art in our culture. Advertising designs and TV spots
are also included in this show. One, #26, by Margaret Ware, is an adver- tisement for Wanamaker's Department store. Another, this one in the hall, is a commercial expressing love for mankind through the phrase, "The Blind are also Color Blind," #6 by Linda Walsh
These are just a few of the many things included in this year's Student Exhibit. Many more works are scat- tered throughout the library, and some may be seen on the Art Department hall on the second floor of Grainger.
From The Board
Retirements And Leaves Of Absence Affect Longwood
The following is a list of additions to Longwood's faculty for the 1970-71 year, as well as faculty retirements and leaves of absence:
Faculty retirements: Mr. Henry Bittenger, Dr. and Mrs. Landrum.
Losses: Mr. John Molnar, Jr., resigning to complete his book; Miss Drowota resigning to continue work on Ph.D.; Mr. Mortimer resigning to accept a teaching position at Madison; Mr. Pyle resigning to resume work on Ph.D.; Mrs. Saunders resigning to complete doctoral program; Mrs. Woodburn to teach part-time and work part-time on doctorate; Mr. Eyster resigning to take a position in the Creative Writing department at Lou- isiana State University; Miss Ripley is uncertain as to leaving; three leaves of absence granted by the college so as to pursue Ph.D.'s - Miss Nancy Andrews, Mr. Hevener, and Mrs. Wack- er; Mr. Webb and Mr. McKinley wUl continue their absences for another year; Mr. Blash will be on leave of absence while Mr. Graham will take his place (ore year appointment).
Additional leaves of absences: Mr. Blash will work on his doctorate of music at Columbia; Mr. Ray Fawcett will work on his doctorate at Va. Tech; Dr. Harvill on leave to complete his book; Mr. Lehman on leave to work on his doctorate at University of Oklahoma; Mr. Stuart to work on doctorate at U.Va.; and Miss May and Dr. Thoreau will reduce their work loads as to be able to work on doctorate and novel, respectively.
Student Government Committees are continuing their organization of their various croups. Legislative Board has renewed and accented the list of nominees for next year's Evaluation CommtttM, submitted by their present chairman, Carolyn Cummins. These
re asked to serve on the committM: Jeanean Woolfolk, chairman, Val Whit*, Lee Sharr, Dragon Chandler, Wendy Searle, and Kitty Willis. I'arolyn Latham will be asked to serve as the Junior member and t«0 freshmen will be appointed in the tall. The Campw dees Coinn has ai'iminted Melinda I evws as chairman next year and Nan Sayles, the Bophonon aotatlva, will serve U chairman her Junior
The GYRE and VIRGINIAN were ad to submit their nomination
next war's advisois. The two publi- cations *ere also requested to submit
i i.iteinent o| the duties and respon- llbilitiei of t! i the Legis- lative HoUid.
Junior Class offierrs, President Nam v I owlkes. Vice President Verona Leake. Secretary Martha Marchase. Treasurer Betsy Craig, Historian Donna Gibson,
Nan Sophomore dan OfNeen ire rrtaMani Manna nerrieh. viee Presi- de m Man i"» Qlaahaan, Bacretarj Imj Thaaaaa. Treaaarai Ann Ingram. III-I.IIi.in Mania <.iiii>s
Women* Liberation Movement Saturday Ha] I, CnaUangs '70,
at a workshoi >ung Republicans, I IV Liberation Movement >ng several t for seminars. S. Jane Chittom, a professor of phllosoph) at I ,V.A. and
la afarojnal, daughter if the Rich- mond organizer of N.O.W. were the
ers. ad the need
for s i il employment opportuni!: I hour
, conscription for toman. She also felt that women's
ition did not prepare them for procuring employment. Miss Marquel talked about dating. She suggested that girls begin to share the costs of a date and that they open their own doors. She also complained that the
en are pictured as unintelligent especially in the media
levision where men usually solve 1! problems in the com-
Coming Events Wednesday, May 13
Senior Assembly, Jarman, 7:30 p.m Movie — "Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice," State Theatre, ($1.25)
Thursday, May 14 Senior banquet, Senior Dining Hall, 6:00 p.m. Special Meeting of Junior Class, Jarman, 6:45 p.m. Voice and Organ Recital, Janice Brown and Kay Johnson, Jarman, 8:00 p.m. Movie — "Take the Money and Run," through May 16, State Theatre, ($ 1.25V Lantern Parade
Friday, May 15 Play — "Inherit the Wind," by the H-SC Jongleurs, Jar- man, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, May 16 Movie — "How to Steal a Million," Jarman, 7:30 p.m. (25c)
Sunday, May 17 Piano Recital, Janice Austin, Jarman, 4 p.m. Movie — "Tick, Tick, Tick .," through May 19, State Theatre, ($1.25)
Monday, May 18 Movie — "House of Usher," Jarman, 7:30 p.m., (free).
Tuesday, May 19 Movie — "Son of Dracula," Jarman, 7.30 p.m., (free).
The new senior elass of fleers are: President Connie William*, Vice Presi- dent Debbie Remsbun;. BaemUrj Man- liicram. Treasurer Brenda South- worth, Historian Brenda Broun.
Authenticity And Realism
By DIANE STOUT THE HOUSE ON THE STRAND. A
Current Best-Seller by Daphne du Maurier. 1969. Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, Inc. 298 pages.
Miss du Maurier has combined authenticity, realism, and mysticism into an intricately-woven tale of a young man's experiences with halluci- nogenic drugs. All his experiments take him back in time to the fourteenth century. As he becomes involved with his new-found world, his real world loses its appeal - his wife becomes dull and sometimes rather disgusting, his children become boring and impossible, and their pres- ence becomes a hindrance. The rea- listic, mystical web of this ancient- modern Gothic tale created by Daphne du Maurier, will hold the reader's attention until the last surprising twist.
Authenticity seeps from each turned page - in dates, family lineage, historical data, and in the maps on the back and front inside-covers of the book. Miss du Maurier has delved deeply into factual data and has compiled the family tree of Sir William Ferrers and Isolda Tracy nee Cardin- ham. Miss du Maurier is more able to speak intelligently of the area about which she is writing also, because she is now living in Cornwall as the mistress of Kilmarth, the house whose six-hundred-year-old past was the inspiration for this tale. In her writing, she is constantly inserting some tidbit of factual data to aid the reader toward a deeper understanding and ap- preciation of the characters and the historical setting of fourteenth century England.
Realism and mysticism are de- veloped through the main characters' actions and feelings. Magnus Lane is a London University biophysics pro-
fessor who used undergraduate friend- ship as a lure to get Dick Young to be his human guinea pig for experimen- tation with drugs that might lead to the reproduction of the brain cells concerned with memory. Dick Young is a young married man, between jobs, who comes with his family to live rent free at Kilmarth, Magnus'summer cottage, while he is helping Professor Lane with his studies.
Though not a major character, Dr. Powell plays an important part in the plot development. He is a recurring figure — with each new appearance we see some unusual situation.
Miss du Maurier's book can be easily read because of her freely- flowing active style and vivid descrip- tions. While reading her book, one becomes a part in the action and can identify with Dick Young and his experiences. One can almost feel the nausea and vertigo that overcomes Dick as he returns to the real world if he has touched anyone or anything- while under the effects of the hallucinogen. One can ride beside Dick as he tours the countryside of fourteenth century England with his contact in this new world - a horseman named Roger, whose master is Sir Henry de Champernoune, lord of a large manor. One can see Dick with his hands twisting around his own wife's neck when he, while under the effects of the hallucinogen, thinks she's Joan- na Carminowe whom he has grown to hate.
The writer thinks that the popu- larity of this novel is based on the
-flowing style and contemporary subject matter. Anyone who Is con- templating the use of LSD, marijuana,
illucinogenic drugs may well profit from reading this timely novel. Those people who desire to broaden their world through vicarious experiences may also find this book stimulating.
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Rotunda - Vol 49, No 18 - May 13, 1970