Nursing Appeal to Be Decided in September
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m | MEMORIAL LIBRAE e ^Btbeze Vol. UV Wednesday, July 27, lt77 James Madison University, Harrlsonburg, Va. No. 7 Nursing appeal to be decided in September It will be at least another Also, Carrier said, JMU operating a diploma program, area to attempt to secure is that Rockingham would be month before James Madison met all the stipulations made he-said, there is a shortage of scholarships for JMU students University will know if it can when the program was used to house the proposed nurses in the area. and get them into other School of Communcations and have a nursing program, originally approved. In the event the nursing nursing schools in the state. according to officials of the Fine Arts. Such stipulations included . program is approved, the Later, they would return to The school is in the plan- State Council of Higher employing a chairman for the earliest date it could be work in the area. Education (SCHEV). ning stage, which, Stanton department of nursing and started is September, 1978, This would provide a public said, usually occurs two to An earlier rejection of the phasing down and finally according to Dr. John Mundy, serivce for area hospitals nursing program was ap- three years before the discontinuing the diploma director of administrative who are having trouble proposal is actually executed. pealed to the council by JMU program at Rockingham affairs. recruiting nurses, Mundy President Ronald Carrier July However, he added, the time Memorial Hospital If the program is rejected, said. can be "collapsed" under 19; however, the state council as is expected, the role of Dr. If the nursing program is certain conditions. does not vote on appeals until Now, without a nursing Anna Gallagher, chairman of again rejected, the space in the following meeting, ac- program at JMU, there is no Other programs are also the department of nursing will Rockingham Hall planned for competing for the space, cording to a SCHEV nursing program in the area, "probably have to be changed its use would be available for Carrier said, adding that Stanton said, and nothing spokesman. The council is not somewhat," Mundy said. other use. definite can be said about this scheduled to meet again until RMH's last class graduated in Gallagher would work One possibility, accordiing February. or any other proposal, as the September, the spokesman closely with pre-nursing to Dr. Thomas Stanton.vice fate of the nursing program said. Because RMH is no longer students and hospitals in the president of academic affairs, The proposed bac- has not been decided. calaureate degree in nursing was rejected in March, after a "Health Manpower Study of Registered Nurses" found there was an adequate supply of nurses in Virginia. The study was made by a SCHEV staff member. However, there is a shortage of nurses in JMU's geographical area, Carrier said in his appeal of the SCHEV decision. Last fall, JMU conducted its own feasibility study which demonstrated that there is a need for nurses in this area. The study was conducted by sending questionnaires to hospitals, nursing homes, special facilities and physicians from Winchester to Roanoke. Those nurses who attend schools in places other than the Shenandoah Valley seldom return to the valley to JMU PRESIDENT RONALD CARRIER tries to convince the rejected the proposal, will not make a decision on the appeal until work, Carrier pointed out to State Council of Higher Education for Virginia that the University its next meeting in September. SCHEV. does, in fact, need a nursing program. The council, which earlier Photo by Tatni Richardson 'The Mousetrap9 to run four nights While the Dinner Theatre yarn that it is and because of Company has gotten all the the characters which Christie headlines this summer, across has drawn." campus in Latimer-Shaeffer Agatha Christie buffs will Theatre another company has recognize the characters of been patiently working on "TheMousetrap" from her "The Mousetrap" which other writings and those not opens Thursday for a four- familiar with Christie will find night run. them interesting, said Lyn- "The Mousetrap," a drup. murder mystery by Agatha "The Mousetrap," he said, Christie, is the most popular is the first "drawing room play in the history of British drama" which he has theatre, having played con- directed in several years and tinuously in London since 1952. found it enjoyable because of The play's action takes the small cast involved. place at Monkswell Manor, an . By doing the show in .the old English home outside summer, "cast and director London which has been have more time to delve into renovated into a guesthouse the characters and do all the by a young couple, Giles and fine polishing that can't be Molly Ralson (played by done during the more hectic Eric Kirsch and Karen regular school year," he said. Marcus). In the midst of a great In addition to Kirsch and blizzard arrive a number of Marcus, the cast includes guests, described by director Jerry Long (Christopher Allen Lyndrup as "an in- Wren), Deb Semple (Mrs. teresting collection of Boyle), Tim White (Major characters," one of whom is Metcalf), Stephanie Harper the murderer, the other the (Miss Casewell), Mike intended victim. Holliday (Paravicini), and The facts of a bizarre Bob Shaver (Det. Sgt. Trot- murder case unfold, en- ter). tangling .the people at the "The Mousetrap" will be snowbound Monkswell Manor. performed July 28-31 at 8 p.m. "The audience will find the in Latimer-Shaeffer Theatre. STRANGE VISITOR. This just goes to show a "" e«gni-wee» IMU muni a^'muvu. play quite enjoyable," Admission for James person what can happen if they don't clean out Doonesbury too stimulating and decided to predicted Lyndrup, "First Madison University students the drawers in their desk very often. Hejira. *ke » nap. PI-* by >.rb.r. Burch because of the tremendous is $1.50. Page 2, THE BREEZE, Wednesday, July 27, 1977 "MHHiiiHiiCommonwealth Commentary •«•»«•■»•'' Virginia's holy war Waters9album 'inspired9 By DWAYNE YANCEY again"—the way the blues are magazine and Mick and "If you've heard one blues supposed to be played. This is Keith's band, and inspired commences anew album you've heard 'em all," certainly one of the most Bob Dylan's "Like A Rolling is the standard review of a I inspired albums which he has Stone." ■mill iiHiiiiiiHHHi nv Dwayne Yancey""" """""""" blues release and to a large put out in some time. Most of "Hard Again" is extent it is correct. The chief reason for pure, moderate tempo blues The trumpets have sounded. The first battle cries have been After all, how much can Muddy's enthusiasm appears numbers with the rough heard. The troops and faithful have been assembled, their armor one do with a simple blues to be Johnny Winter. There is "Mannish Boy," and the of buttons already shining in the summer sun. chord progression? the suspicion that "Hard upbeat "I Want To Be Loved" In spite of the dreadful heat which has oppressed the land, both Another album by Muddy Again" is more Winter's (an old Willie Dixon tune), armies are restless and anxious to begin their crusade which, Waters, then, could be ex- album than it is Muddy's and "I Can't Be Satisfied" though prosecuted with almost religious fervor and enthusiasm, pected to be no different from The albino wonder, who (with Winter's dobro jumping will end in a swift, invisible, and speechless conclusion that any of the other umpteen started out playing Muddy from note to note) as the only renders all helpless until its result is known. recordings he has made over a Waters music in Texas bars exceptions. A holy war is commencing in Virginia. From the coal fields of stretch of time that dates back and then went off to become a Although the record con- the Great Southwest to the port cities of Tidewater, from the to before World War II. much-heralded, but oc- tains the traditional between urban sprawl of Northern Virginia to the desolate wasteland of So what if he is the greatest casionally boring, rock star, numbers shouting and talking, Southside. the evangelists will take their message. living bluesman, straight out has now returned to the blues it is not done because someone They are true believers, often the most violent and most of the Mississippi delta where that first made him famous. simply left the tape running, vicious which can be encountered in any crusade. the dirty, down-home blues Johnny Winter, as if there but is instead done to give it "Save Virginia From Henry!," cry the one side, hardly are as rich as the soil? was ever a doubt.isnow a fully that "live" feel. mentioning the virtues of their own candidate. So what if he is the man accreditied blues man. He It is a very rehearsed The opposition, equally as vociferous, sing long praises to the who a whole generation of serves as his idol's producer album, with a tight band man who has received the personal blessing of the President and rock stars, including the and adds his own brilliant whose recording would be cite the Gospel according to Henry. They^o are most silent when Rolling Stones and Jimi guitar work and difficult to duplicate live. it comes to John Dalton. Hendrix. grew uo on? "miscellaneous screaming." Perhaps there is a moral in all of thi#\Dalton's Campaign He transmits the force and manager boasts that few people dislike hisVkndidate. Left unsaid 'greatest power of his rock career to 'this is the is the inference that this is because Dalton has done relatively Muddy's album.