January 25, 1977 Madison College, Harrisonburg, Va
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Vol. LIV Tuesday. January 25, 1977 Madison College, Harrisonburg, Va. No. 29 New policy Name bill adopted for introduced admissions in assembly Madison has adopted a new The bill to change the name admissions policy in which all of Madison College to James applications are accepted and Madison University has been considered after a Feb l introduced into the Virginia deadline, according to Dr. General Assembly. Fay Reubush, dean of ad- Senator Nathan Miller of missions and records. Rockingham County offered the name change bill to the The new system replaced state Senate Wednesday with the "rolling admissions" the support of Senators policy previously employed, William Truban (Woodstock), in which applications were J. Marshall Coleman selected on a "first come, first (Staunton), Eliot Schewel served basis," according to (Lynchburg), and Dudley Dr. Julius Roberson, dean of Emick, Jr. (Fincastle). the school of education and Delegate Bonnie Paul of former dean of admissions Harrisonburg introduced the and records. bill to the' House Friday with The new system, which was several other Valley approved by the Board of legislators as co-sponsors. Visitors last spring, is The bill, prepared by the currently being used at the CHEERLEADER DOUG DREWYER finds " time out' quite exhilarating. Attorney General's office, University of Virginia, The Ptat* by Walt Morgan provides that the name College of William and Mary "Madison College" be and Virginia Polytechnic replaced by "James Madison Institute and State University. University" wherever it The change was considered Need for WJMU questioned appears in the official code of last spring because of Virginia. pressure from outstanding The education committees students who wished to attend Broadcast training facilities 'sufficient' of both houses will hold Madison, but who applied too By SANDY AMANN hearings on the measure late to be considered under The college's non- receiving practicum credit, before it is sent to the floor for rolling admissions, Roberson Some communication arts commercial FM educational Holp said. "I have never had final approval. said last spring. department faculty and radio station, WMRA, "meets to turn away anyone" who WMRA staff members object If passed by the General Also adopted was an honors all the needs advocated at the wanted to work at the station. Assembly, the new name to the Student Government present time," according to A carrier current station admissions policy, which Association's (SGA) rationale would become effective July considers students who have Dr. Robert Finney, head of the (Continued on Page 11) 1. for establishing carrier broadcast area of the com- excelled in high school and on current radio here. their college board munication arts department. As reasons for establishing The department has no examinations, according to such a station, the SGA states need for such a training 100 students compete in the 1976-77 catalog. the station would provide "an facility, he said, because it Applications for honors excellent training ground for has one instructional radio lab admissions are processed on a people who aspire to the world and another is projected. campus-wide tournament continual basis until Feb. 1, of broadcast"; an outlet for When the projected lab is the catalog states. Those expression of opinions, in- By TAMI RICHARDSON many more people were in- applications for honors ad- completed, the department formation and news, and will have both mono and In the beginning of any volved. The tournament missions received after Feb. 1 various forms of music, in- semester most students try to wasn't organized well enough will be processed according to stereo facilities on which to have as much fun as possible cluding jazz, country, rock, train students, said WMRA last year to be able to do as available residence hall and and classical. before the work starts to pile much, North said. classroom space, it stated. program director Karen Holp. up, which is one reason for the The reasons appear in "A A carrier current station "Next year we hope we can It will be difficult to proposal for WJMU, the popularity of the campus expand even further," he would transmit on the AM center game room. determine what effects the student voice of Madison band and would have only added. change will have, Reubush College," which the SGA Last week nearly 100 Madison students have mono facilities. students competed in table said, until all the applications Executive Council presented » In addition to the lab, 96 never done well beyond the are processed after the Feb. 1 to President Ronald Carrier in students currently work at tennis, chess, bridge and regionals, North explained, deadline. December. WMRA and 80 of them are billiards as part of a tour- because they get into nament which will send the situations where there are first and second place winners professionals. It becomes to the Southern Regional difficult to progress although Championship at the all the competitors are college Alumni contributions up University of North Carolina. students. The tournament is spon- (Continued on Page S) By KENT BOOTY the face of the bleak national various area and chapter sored by the Association of Alumni contributions to economic situation and meetings of alumni also help College Unions International 9 Madison College have "about despite the lack of a fund- to raise money, Sonner said. (ACUI), according to Jack 'Mail fraud tripled" since 1971 according raising staff for alumni Because Madison is a North, the night manager of public institution and the campus center and the Chicago law en- to Charles Scott, director of services, Scott said. forcement authorities the alumni services office. All alumni contributions therefore ineligible to receive person in charge of Madison's have arrested Dennis L. Scott attributes the in- are solicited through an an- any gifts, contributions go to tournament. Roberts, 45, and crease in contributions to nual fund drive, "The the Madison College Foun- Most colleges are members charged him with mail "more emphasis placed on Madison Fund" which sends dation, Inc., Scott said. of ACUI, which is an fraud in connection with fund raising." "Contributions mn letters to more than 15,000 The funds are then organization for student union a mail order offer of a definitely will continue to go allocated by the Board of administrators to get together $16.95 LED watch. up" he said, especially if a Directors among four broad and discuss better ways of full—time staff member is direct mail categories : library and running student unions, he On Dec. 3, The faculty development, general said. Breeze displayed an added to concentrate on fund appeal used advertisement for the raising. development, scholarships, About 10 colleges will be LED watch. The ad was Although exact figures for and administrative costs. involved in the Southern ordered by Creative the 1976 fund—raising cam- alumni. This direct mail Although contributions can Regional competition, and the Media Specialists of paign are unavailable, they appeal raises most of the be ear—marked for a specific winners of that w\il go on to Rosemont, 111. will show about a two percent funds, said Dr. Ray Sonner, purpose, Scott said most come try for the U.S. championship. rise over 1975 Scott said. vice president for public af- in unrestricted. Those that Eventually there will be an The Breeze suggests Contributions for that year fairs. are intended for a specific international champion, that persons who sent totalled $33,887, an increase of The alumni telethon, an area often go to certain North said. the $16.95 for the watch about $2,000 over 1974 and annual telephone solicitation scholarships, scientific Last year Madison only contact the proper equipment, and individual authorities, specifically more than $8,000 over 1973. campaign, the alumni participated in billiards, but the Better Business Surprisingly, these in- reunions held during academic departments, this year the tournament was creases have t>een achieved in Homecoming every fall, and Sonner said. expanded to four games and Bureau. ■1L .\ Page 2. T1IK BKKKZK. Tuesday. January 25. 1977 Pardon is a step to new committment On Friday. President Jimmy Carter helped lay to rest an era of national turmoil and strife which brought America close to revolution, according to various scholars. That epoch, often called "the sixties" was actually born in the Eisenhower years and continued well into this decade despite the menacing calculations of Richard Nixon. Carter's contribution was simple. He fulfilled a campaign promise and pardoned those people who resisted the draft during the Vietnam War. He could have been more thorough Given the consensus that Vietnam was a mistake, a complete and unconditional amnesty would have been in order, and it should have been granted to all who non-violently attempted to halt the war effort in Southeast Asia. But for all intents and purposes, the agony is over. There may be dissension over Carter's decision-it was too much or not enough. Carter will lose favor with groups such as the American Legion. That is to his credit. Arguments postulated by these groups opposed to amnesty or pardons usually amount to the following: "because 50.000 men died, those who refused to fight should not be rewarded." This argument reduces to the absurd position that more men should have died in the war. For many of us. the pardon is personally satisfying. Our generation entered the world of politics when it was torn by assassinations, racial strife, civil chaos and a foreign war. Watergate was the last of a series of atrocities that shocked our conscience. But it's over. Many of us missed the hard questions of personal direction that college students of "the sixties" ex- perienced. Most of us have not experienced the draft though for a long time we feared it.