^e ^Bt&eze ■asss- Vol. LII Madison College, Harrisonburg, Va. Friday. October 31, 1975 No. 14 Old Mil To Be Served: Beer Prices To Decrease By TIM 0*LEARY beer than I was before." Beer prices in the student Bill Merck, assistant vice union will be reduced to $2.50 a president for business affairs, pitcher and 50 cents a glass explained that Griffin's plan Nov. 3, according to Robert D. for lowered beer prices Griffin, director of food originated in the form of a services. recommendation to Col. Old Milwaukee will now be Adolph Phillips, vice the only beer sold, replacing president for business affairs, Michelob, said Griffin. who made the final decision. Beer will also be offered at Additional management $2 a pitcher on specially personnel will also be hired designated nights, he said. "for the purpose of con- The student union will trollong the high volume of initiate a policy of reduced sales that could result with the beer rates before 7 p.m. with lowered price of beer," said beer sold at $2 a pitcher and 30 Griffin. cents a glass. "We have recruited a The move to reduce beer manager and are recruiting prices in the student union another to control the sale of was a direct result of student beer," he said. Basically, it pressure and a clear cut will be their job to enforce desire for cheaper beer, said A.B.C. laws and "generally Griffin. keep order." Griffin cited the results of "We're really pleased that the beer survey conducted in the prices are going to be lowered," said Larry Landes, Closed president of the Sn- Madison Drive will be trafraternity council (IFC). closed to vehicular traffic Landes' organization was starting tomorrow for a trial the main body responsible for period of the month of consolidating student November. The part of the pressure with a petition front campus drive that will calling for reduced beer be closed includes the stretch prices. The petition, which of road from Burruss parking was turned into the ad- lot to in front of Varner House. ministration Thursday Both Burruss and Harrison morning called for a reduction parking lots will be open for in beer prices to $2.50 a pit- parking. cher and 45 cents a.glass. HORACE BURR points out properties of the The communication arts professor researched "$2.50 a pitcher is exactly Madison family coat of arms which is pending and modified the original Madison coat of the student union as another what they wanted," said approval as Madison College's official seal. arms to suit the college's themes. «UH phot* prime cause for the reduced Griffin. prices. In the survey, opinion Griffin expressed a hope was decidedly in favor of Old that the reduced beer prices in Milwaukee beer at 50 cents a the student union would limit New College Seal Proposed glass. Miller beer was second off campus drinking. choice at 55 cents a glass and At the Elbow Room, for Coat of Arms Inspires Idea Michelob third at 60 cents. example, Old Milwaukee is By CYNTHIA CARNEY arms back to its original mid- "Knowledge is liberty." Griffin also noted that the sold at 50 cents for a ten ounce A new seal for Madison ljth century form. What he Burr became interested in student union may not con- glass and $2.50 for a 60 ounce College would have cost about traced and designed for a new seal for Madison tinue its policy of reduced pitcher, according to an $5,000 if it had been drawn up Madison College is a modified College when he volunteered by the College of Heraldry in beer prices on Thursday Elbow Room employee. The version of the original to design panphlets for the London. But Horrace Burr, a nights. student union uses 12 ounce Madison family coat of arms Fine Arts Festival and the communication arts professor 'I was influenced, of glasses and 64 ounce pitchers. suited to the college's theme Arts and Sciences Sym- and a heraldry enthusiast, did course, by student reaction The Elbow Room employee of the pursuit of knowledge, posium. **" it for free. and the survey which showed did note that their business according to Burr. ' 'You know what the old one i clear preference for cheaper from Madison College That is, he spent hours in The Madisons were a looks like," he smiled, beer," said Griffin. "We don't students "had improved." the . library translating prominent family. Burr said, referring to the official crest live in a vacuum here, we're geneology texts and tracing and probably came to which displays a beehive, in constant contact with the (Continued on Page 11) the Madison family's coat of England after the Norman some books and a spinning itudent." Conquest. The coat of arms is wheel, with a motto of "Head, "I'm sure students realize a traditional seal which was Heart, Hand." it if we do have a resurge in In embroidered on an mantle So when one of the queen's vandalism and violence that which the knights wore over heralds from the College of may have to restudy the The Homecoming their armor for identification. Heraldry in London came to pricing structure," he said. The original coat of arms speak at Madison last year. "This year we've had a better Breeze, . displayed an axe for the crest Burr got the idea to trace and and heralded a family motto record for vandalism and Homecoming Feature -p.9 design the original Madison violence than we had last of "the fearless ones," ac- family coat of arms. cording to Burr. Burr year, which I'm hopeful will Homecoming Schedule • p.ll Burr, who was director of continue with the reduced replaced a torch as the crest, drama at Madison for ten prices. I'm less concerned years, has done an extensive The Art of Making Rules - p.8 made the background silver • about the social problems and replaced the war slogan associated with the sale of with the latin version of (Continued on Page 11) ■ • Page 2. THE BREEZE. Friday. October 31. 1975 Power of the Vote There are approximately 10 million students in the United States The amount of influence students could have at the polls is a point to consider for those who have either not registered or have not participated in previous elections. According to National Student Lobby (NSL), there are 110 Congressional districts across the country where students have the potential to vote the candidate of their choice into office This is made possible because of the high concentration of students in large universities which cover a majority area in a district. ... That does not include the influence students could have in state legislature and city council elections. In Austin. Texas, recently students were able to form a solid coalition with other minority groups in the district and elect a liberal city council for the city. ... «,w« According to NSL, voter participation is lowest among the young people in the country between the ages of 18 and 25. The Associated Press reported that 84 per cent of the young people did not vote in the 1972 Presidential election. However students within the 18-25 age group are reported to have voted 5 per cent above the national average of other age groups. But when students do not vote, the main reason may be their lack of information concerning the registration process. HAPPY HALLGWSS Problems with the absentee ballot also prevent many students from voting for the candidate of their choice in their home district. Students have the right to vote, and should exercise this i O icentennial right. The state and local elections coming up November 4 provide a chance to voice student opinion on who should serve revity in the State legislature, as well as locally in the city of R Harrisonburg. If students formed a tight coalition, a situation could result like that in Madison, Wisconsin. That city has a student as its mayor, and, even more suprising, he is serving his second term. 'Gatsby' as Melodrama Only about 200 students from Madison are registered to vote in Harrisonburg elections next week. There is little chance By PATRICIA ANDERSON that 200 votes will make a difference in the outcome of the names so that the audience wouldn't get bored Department of English election. But if a majority of the 6,211 full-time students voted, with seeing "Owen Davis" on the billboards. Although everybody knows that "The Great If such a background hardly seems suitable it might make the difference in representation. Gatsby," one of the most celebrated of It is the responsibility of students to get into the system and to the dramatization of a novel so subtle and American novels, was early and repeatedly made the needed-changes. All over the country students are finely wrought as "The Great Gatsby," the made into films, most of them terrible, the most interesting light the play throws on the discovering that they do, in fact, have a voice in the outcome of literary world has almost forgotten that it was elections. Looking ahead, the student vote in the 1976 book is that it does contain elements of con- made into a play in the very year that it was ventional melodrama. We know that Fit- Presidential election could have a si2eable influence on who published - 1925. The play ran for nearly a will run the country for the succeeding four years. zgerald enjoyed melodramas in his childhood; year on Broadway, a good run in those days, was he, perhaps unconsciously, trying to get to but was never published.