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Ossie Davis Will Give Keynote Address Free Concert Actor, Writer and Civil Rights Activist by Ishmail Conway Assistant Director of Memorial Hall * « H • i_Jfc_ mill Non-profit Organization U.S. Postage Paid at Williamsburg, VA Permit No. 26 WHXIAM&fMAEY A WEEKIJ NEWSPAPER FOR FACULTY, STUDEI-rfS AND STAFF NEWS VOLUME XIX, NUMBER 22 • WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1990 REMINDERS General Assembly Includes Faculty, Staff Pay Raises The 1990 General Assembly adjourned $165,000. million frojn the Virginia Supplemental Pre-Law Talk Saturday, March 10 after adopting a $26.4 Also among William and Mary's origi¬ Retirement System will help finance con¬ billion budget that was the product of nal amendment requests to the Gover¬ struction projects on campus such as The W&M Pre-Law Society is host¬ one of the tightest financial sessions in nor were funds for library materials. The Tercentenary Hall, which is in the design ing an informal lecture and discussion recent history. General Assembly approved funding of stage, and the Lake Matoaka studio, which with Sharon Pandak '75 B.A. history; Among budget initiatives from Wil¬ approximately $104,000 for this item in received bids in December. J.D., '78, Marshall-Wythe School of liam and Mary, the College's applied sci¬ the first year of biennium and $296,000 Included in the 1990-92 biennial bud¬ Law, at 7 p.m., Thursday, March 15 in ence program was approved for the sec¬ in the second year. get are funds for across-the-board raises the Campus Center rooms A&B. ond year of the biennium, receiving Planning funds totaling $617,500 have for state employees for the upcoming fis¬ A former SA president, Pandak is funding of $694,000 and nine positions. been authorized for the university cen¬ cal year 1990-91. Salary increases for the now the Virginia Commonwealth At¬ The College's student information sys¬ ter, according to Sam Jones, budget di¬ second year of the biennium will be de- torney for Prince William County. She tem was also funded for the second year rector for the College. In addition, the will be speaking about her law career of the biennium at approximately General Assembly's plan to borrow $100 CONTINUED ON PAGE 4. in the government and her experi¬ ences as an undergraduate at W&M. preparing for a career in law. Cultural Awareness Week: Unity Through Diversity For more information, contactMark Katzatext. 15693. Ossie Davis Will Give Keynote Address Free Concert Actor, writer and civil rights activist by Ishmail Conway assistant director of Memorial Hall. Directed by senior Gina The Concert Band of the College Ossie Davis will be the keynote student activities and leadership develop¬ Clayton, the play is a satirical look at how and the University of Utah Wind speaker for "Cultural Aware- ment at Virginia Commonwealth Univer- blacks deal with the pain caused by stere¬ Symphony will present a joint concert ^ ness Week: Unity Through Di¬ otyping. at 8 p.m., Tuesday, March 27 in Phi versity," March 18-24. The Minority Affairs Committee is a Beta Kappa Memorial Hall. The program has been planned by the standing committee of the Student Asso¬ Minority Affairs Committee of the Stu¬ ciation Council. "It is working to attain a Contest Deadline dent Association. All events are free and supportive campus environment that open to the public. meets the social and cultural needs of the Tomorrow is the deadline to sub¬ Davis will deliver the keynote address various student groups on campus," said mit entries for the College's annual chairperson William Mack HI, a fresh¬ literary awards. Submit entries to the at 7:30 p.m., Sunday, March 18 in Trinkle Hall. man. The committee was established by English department, Tucker 102. Call Long active in the civil rights move¬ Tom Duetsch, SA president, to promote ext. 13924 or 13905. ment, Davis was master of ceremonies at diversity at W&M and to provide a voice the March on Washington in 1963 and for Asian, Black, Hispanic, Hindian and Museum Reception delivered the eulogy at the funeral of other students who are not represented The Muscarelle Museum will hold a Malcolm X. He is author of the play by the views of the majority at the College. reception for the current exhibits "Purlie Victorius," and has acted on Broad¬ The Minority Affairs Committee is also "Third Faculty Show" and "Georgia way, in films and on television. looking ahead to future projects. Mem¬ O'Keeffe: The Artist's Landscape," at Most recently, Davis and his wife, Ruby bers plan to work on a report which ex¬ 5:30 p.m., Friday, March 16. Dee, were featured in the film "Do The amines the change in the campus envi¬ Right Thing." Vincent Canby, critic for ronment since the first black student en¬ The New York Times, said "Ms. Dee and Mr. rolled in 1964. The committee is also Art Walk Davis were not only figures within the seeking campuswide observance of a An Art Walk Tour at the Muscarelle film, but, as themselves, they also seem to Ossie Davis variety of cultural holidays including Museum will be conducted by Louise preside over it, as if ushering in a new era Kwanza and the Chinese New Year. The Kale, registrar, Saturday, March 17, at of black film making. sity, will be held at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, committee also plans to work with the 9:15 a.m. and 11:15 a.m. Sheila Walker, visiting professor of an¬ March 20 in the Campus Center ball¬ staff at William and Mary Hall to establish thropology, will speak at 7:30 p.m., room. a concert series that reflects the diversity Gymnastics Wednesday, March 21 in the ballroom of "The Colored Museum," a play by of the student body and the community. the Campus Center. George Wolf will be presented at 8:15 For more information on the commit¬ Championships During the week, students will sponsor p.m., Thursday through Saturday, March tee's plans, contact Billy Mack at ext. The ECAC Gymnastics Champion¬ a cultural forum on Monday, March 19. A 22 to 24 and 2 p.m. on Sunday, March 25 14748; or Keisha Ferguson, vice chairper¬ ships will be held Saturday, March 17, multicultural perspective workshop led in the studio theatre at Phi Beta Kappa son, ext. 14354. in William and Mary Hall, Preliminar¬ ies, noon; finals, 7 p.m. Nominees Sought for Carr, Sullivan, Ewell Awards Town and Gown Nominations are being sought for the be made no later than 5 p.m. on Friday, are made annually "to not more than one The future of Lake Matoaka will be Carr Cup, the Sullivan Awards and the April 6 man and one woman in the graduating the topic of the Town and Gown Lunch¬ Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Award. The Carr Cup is awarded to a graduat¬ class, and to one other person who has a eon, Thursday, March 22, at 12:15 p.m. The Committee on Prizes and Awards ing senior on the basis of character, schol¬ close relationship to the College. In the in the Campus Center ballroom. Res¬ will meet shortly to select the recipients arship and leadership. The aim is to find selection of the recipients, nothing is ervations are due noon, Tuesday, of these major College awards a "well-rounded student, having a good considered except the possession of March 20. Submissions for the Carr Cup and standing in all three of these respects, characteristics of heart, mind and con¬ Sullivan Awards are due at the Office of and withal carrying within the spirit of duct as evince a spirit of love for and the Vice President for Student Affairs, willingness to sacrifice and give oneself to helpfulness to other men and women." James Blair 203B by Friday, April 13. a cause." Nominations for the Ewell Award must The Algernon Sydney Sullivan Awards CONTINUED ON PAGE 4. Costume Designer Named New York Auction Attracts Orchesis To Spotlight Cheek Award Recipient Largest Alumni Gathering Student Choreography Outside Virginia March 14, 1990 NEWSMAKERS Kornwolf Gets Grant for Architecture Book James D. Kornwolf, professor of fine tract with Cambridge University Press. ible amount of research and restoration arts, has been awarded a grant of $3,000 Kornwolf has also received grant sup¬ has occurred in those years; my method by the American Philosophical Society to port for the book from the Canadian Em¬ has been to include much of this newer assist with the completion of a book, Arch- bassy in Washington, D.C., and a Sum¬ work. In addition, Canadian architecture itedureand Town Planning in ColonialNorth mer Research Grant from William and until 1815 is also included in three chap¬ America, 1562-1792, which is under con- Mary. ters. My method has also been far more Seven of the 10 chapters and a lengthy historical than the more purely architec¬ introduction have already been written. tural approach used by Morrison." The support of the American Philosophi¬ Kornwolf has authored, co-authored cal Society will enable Kornwolf to travel or edited three books on English or Amer¬ and see and photograph works for the ican architecture of the 19th or 20th book. Well over 1,000 photographs have centuries: M. H. Baillie Scott and the Arts been tentatively selected. and Crafts Movement (Johns Hopkins Press, This book is meant to fill a large gap Baltimore, 1972); Modernism in America left by the out-of-date status of Hugh Mor¬ 1937-1939: A Catalog and Exhibition of Four rison's Early American Architecture (Oxford, Architectural Competitions (Williamsburg, 1952). Included are not only the build¬ 1985), and In Pursuit of Beauty: Americans ings Morrison discussed, but several hun¬ and the Aesthetic Movement (Metropolitan Dale Hoak dred additional works of architecture.
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