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tviauison lAmege ktuiaij Harrisonburg, Virginia Vol. LIV Tuesday September 21, 1976 Madison College, Harrisonburg. Va No. 6 70 per cent would fund: Students support Chrysalis By SANDV AMANN not do "anything contrary to in a portfolio, brought the More than 70 percent of the what people want," he strongest negative reaction. student body believs the believes that a "more ap- One third of those responding Student Government propriate question would be: rated it "poor" or "very Association (SGA) should would you rather have the poor". No other aspect of the continue funding the Chrysalis Chrysalis, or a carrier current magazine received a similar at its present level or give it radio station and faculty response. more money, according to a evaluation booklet?" The Chrysalis has had to Breeze survey. Anestos added that the SGA fight for funds for the past Out of 109 returning was left with a small budget three years, according to sophomores, juniors and for the year and probably adviser Todd Zeiss. The seniors 56 percent said the would not be able to fund all magazine has been budgeted literary magazine should be three projects. for $6500 this year. funded at the same level it is In the survey, students "I think the Chrysalis has now, and 15 percent said it were asked to rate last year's lived up to its intent to present should be given more money Chrysalis from "very poor" to the best of student production - Twenty-six people, 23.8 "very good" In the overall in different, experimental percent, said the SGA should category, a majority of ways," Zeiss said. discontinue funding the students said their reaction to Steve Zapton, art adviser Chrysalis. the Chrysalis last year had for the Chrysalis, objects to The Breeze conducted its been either 'neutral" or the large budget the Bluestone survey after SGA president "mildly favorable." yearbook has. He called the Mike Anestos said the student Reaction to the poetry, yearbook " standard, typical government is considering artwork and photography uncreative and boring." discontinuing funding the contained in the magazine Ninety-four percent of the Chrysalis because "response was also generally "neutral" student body read the had been poor." or "mildly favorable," ac- Bluestone last year, the Told about the survey cording to the survey. survey found. Forty percent results, Anestos said Sunday The format of last year's students surveyed said their that although the SGA would Chrysalis, posters packaged reaction to the yearbook was "neutral" and 28 per cent had Photei by Mark Thompson. "mildly favorable" reactions. A CONCERT is a great place to have fun but it Zapton said that informal ■ can be tiring as this girl found out Saturday. —— surveys over the last two years showed that 90 percent of the students were excited about the Chrysalis, as op- posed to 5 per cent who found Problems foreseen the Bluestone exciting. According to the Breez^"" survey, reaction to both in on-campus radio publications is spread bet- ween "mildly favorable and By LINDA McCREADY designed a carrier current mildly unfavorable," with the Expense and future system at Bridgewater largest number of students Federal 'Communication College. having a neutral response to Commission (FCC ) If the signal is fed into the both publications. regulations would be the main water pipes, the college would Survey results did not seem problems encountered if risk feeding it into the city's to reflect "excitement" about Madison College establishes a main water line, causing the either the Chrysalis or the carrier current system, ac- signal to be carried all over Bluestone. About nine per cent cording to several Madison the city, Kirkland said. rated the Bluestone "very College officials Dr. Donald McConkey, favorable" and slightly over head of the communication four per cent rated the arts department, wondered if Chrysalis "very favorable." See related story pg. 9 such a station would be able to Sixty-seven per cent of the cover the whole campus. people surveyed believe the There may be a technical yearbook should get the same Student Government amount of money this year as Association (SGA) president problem transmitting the signal to all the dorms it did last, three percent Mike Anestos has said the believe the SGA should SGA hopes to establish a because "everytime you have a transformer you would lose discontinue funding the student oriented carrier the signal," he said. yearbook and 26 per cent current station on campus this (Continued on Page 9> would like to see the Bluestone year. The SGA is considering get more money. having the signal travel through all water pipes so that any building with a plumbing system could receive tran- Carter campaign hopes to carry the valley smissions. Democrats and Republicans son, Jeff, campaigned in two major candidates, set for By DWAYNE YANCEY September 23, "will mean a "Before installation, the The Shenandoah Valley will show Virginians, who have Virginia on Saturday, said college should investigate how voted Republican in five of the Horn, and Carter's wife, lot" toward arousing voter be a battleground in Jimmy enthusiasm. they want to transmit their Carter's drive to carry Rosalynn, may speak at a last six presidential elections, Democratic picnic next signal, and get comparative Virginia, according to seventh to be about evenly divided George Gilliam, a costs on each system," said district Democratic chairman between Carter and President month. Charlottesville attorney and Sandford Kirkland, WMRA Jack Horn. Ford. Horn also outlined the Carter co-ordinator for the general manager. Horn spoke to 42 party "I think* Virginia's a toss- restrictions of the new federal Seventh District, emphasized Equipment cost could be members from Rockingnam, up," said Horn, "and it's been election law. Under the the importance of registering kept low by buying from low Page and Shenandoah identified by Carter as a measure, each city and county new voters. power broadcasters or buying counties and the city of battleground state." party may spend up to $1008 "A poll done by CBS," he second-hand equipment, he Harrisonburg Tuesday night. He noted that Carter, who on any candidate. He said, said, "shows that 63 per cent said. Since Madison must "I think the seventh looks spent part of Labor Day any expenses which exceeds of the unregistered voters have a multiple system of good and the seventh is one of campaigning in the Tidewater the $1000 limit would have to favor Carter. Voter transmitters it would run the the toughest areas in the state. area, is slated for ap- be deducted from the $21.6 registration is something we cost up, he added. If you can hold your own in pearances in the Ninth million subsidy both Carter should be doing." The signal could be fed the Valley, Jimmy Carter is Congressional District. In and Ford received from the through the plumbing system going to carry Virginia. No addition, members of Carter's federal government. He added that "Virginia is as long as there are no plastic doubt about it," Horn said. family will visit the state. He said the first of the three one of the few states that pipes, said Dave Trout, who Polls by both the The candidate's 24-year-old televised debates between the (Continued on page 9) v; i Page 2, THE BREEZE, Tuesday, September 21, 1976 ———— Uncommon sense ■ 'Breaker-one-nine9 By Roger Wells The three upcoming debates between presidential candidates Geral Ford and Jimmy Carter are likely to evoke much public interest. In order to fully reach the American electorate, a secret fourth debate has been scheduled to take place before the National Convention of CB Owners. It may go like this: MODERATOR: Breaker-one-nine, this is Tom Ken- nedy, alias Joe Cool, with presidential candidates Gerald "Three yards and a cloud of dust" Ford and James "Here Traveller" Carter. Our first question is for Dust. Sir, what is happening to the economy? FORD: As Chief Bearded Buddy of this nation, I can proudly say that our hopper body is over the hump and moving into the pay hole. CARTER: Mercy sakes, Good Buddy. Take a ten 100. Thunder chicken here has abused it for too long. Our national convoy needs a strong front man. MODERATOR: Mr. Carter, your opponent has accused you of being a bodacious cotton picking, dock walloper. How would you respond? CARTER: Probably very ambiguously. To begin with...my opponent has an unfair bucket mouth. I am not a cotton picker, nor have I ever been a dock j walloper. MODERATOR: But you do change your mind on the issues very frequently. Jytt&jT CARTER: Occasionally a detour forces my rig from one highway to another. It is very unfair to blame me for these shifts. ' Perhaps President Baby Bear could ex- In the cultural hands of the SGA plain why he's here tonight when he announced his last choke n' puke stop two years ago. MODERATOR: Anchor it, sailor Mr President, your ■ imiiiniiiiiiiiH miiiiiiiMiiiii Faculty viewpoint wmmmmm opponents categorize your administration as being stuck in creeper gear. FORD: I would hes. hes hesitate to say that. That southern chicken choker is a suicide jockey. He flaps A rose by any name.. worse than a pa jama wagon over his left shoulder. Washington & Lee-are each about one-fifth the MODERATOR: Mr. President, your opponent has By FRED HILTON "Madison College" is a pretty nice name. size of Madison. criticized you for pardoning all truckers caught Two other Virginia state-aided institutions speeding with fuzz busters, particulary your Why change it? Well, there are a lot of people-many of higher education-George Mason and Old predecessor who was caught in Mexican overdrive on Dominion-have changed their name from the watergate.