Seniors Revamp Graduation Plans Took Second Place in the Vir- Forensics Sponsor This Year the Senior Class
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Madison College Library Harrisonburg, Virginia \m» 7i Genesis"In fhe begnnmnqr,.. there was news" n ! _ &££1L Vol. I Madison College, Harrisonburg, Va., Friday, flfty 30, 1*>71 No. 10 One Performance Only . t SAC Announces Grass Roots Concert The Student Activities Com- the group performed/at Wood- mittee said in a recent an- stock, "Wait A'Million Years," nouncement that the popular and their recent smash, rock group, "Grass Roots," "Temptation Eyes." will present a. concert at Madi- son. The concert will be May "Grass Roots" have made 8 at 8 p.m. in Wilson Hall. no flashy headlines. They have concentrated on making their "Grass Roots" have been music,' and making it better. one of the most popular re- Nothing sudden, just solid. cording groups in the country for more than four years. They Tickets for the concert are got their start in Israel, where $3.50 and $3.00 each, and will two of their members met, be on sale at the information and later returned to Los An- counter in the Warren Center. geles to start putting their There will only be one con- sound together. Their first rec- cert, so tickets are limited. ord, "Let's Live for Today," sold a million copies, and "Grass Roots" have been go- Soprano Redford's ing strong ever since. Other top-40 winners for the Recital Tomorrow group /include "Heaven The Music Department of Knows," "River is Wide," Madison College presents "Out/in the Country" which Shirley Redford, a soprano, in Senior Recital this Sunday, at 3 p.m. in Latimer-Shaeffer Theatre. Miss Redford will be assisted by Wandalyn Boley, In the last issue of pianist, and Brenda Riley, Genesis II, the WMRA-FM clarinetist. radio schedule had sign-off times for Friday and Satur- Miss Redford's program will day at 12 midnight. This include a recitative and aria was in error. from "Acis and Galatea" by Handel; an aria by Scarlatti; German selections by Schu- Correct sign-off for both bert, Schumann and Brahms; nights is 1:30 a.m. Genesis French selections by Reynoldo II apologizes for the error. Hahn, Gabriel Faure, and Gus- tave Ferrari; and others. Miss Redford has attended GRASS ROOTS IS COMING Madison College for all of her undergraduate work. She has studied voice under Sally Novice Debate Cut-Out Date June 6 Lance of the Music Depart- ment for four years. In her. Team Takes First; freshman year, Miss Redford Seniors Revamp Graduation Plans took second place in the Vir- Forensics Sponsor This year the Senior class . day before graduation in order 8:30 a.m. in the dining hall. ginia National Association of voted on a different format for to practice on Saturday. A The seniors will go to practice Teacher Singers State Com- Campus Comment graduation which is set for party was usually held Satur- around 9:30 a.m., and Presi- petition. June 6 at 2:15 p.m. on the day night for the Seniors, but dent and Mrs. Carrier will She has also assisted with Madison College's Novice quad. The new format elimi- attendance was always low. host a coffee for the parents another Senior Recital during Debate Team won the First nates senior weekend and This year the party will be in the Student Union. her sophomore year, and has involves the Deans of the eliminated and practice and all Place trophy at the Virginia At 10:30 a.m. the seniors soloed with the Madison Col- schools of Education, Human- other activities will take place State Championship Debate will go to the church of their lege Orchestra on several oc- Tournament held at Longwood ities, Natural Sciences, and So- on Sunday. choice with their families. Af- casions. cial Sciences. College in Farmville, Virginia, ter church there will be a Another change will be in Admission is open to the April 23. In the past the Seniors had luncheon in the dining hall for the Baccalaureate Service. In- public at no charge. to come back to school on Fri- the seniors and parents. Donna Will and Bob Makof- stead of this service, Seniors sky went undefeated to win will go to the church of their The next major event will honors as the top affirmative choice with their families. most coveted award. be graduation at 2:15 p.m. It team, while Jane Reiser and will take place on the quad David Bottenfield sustained a Madison College Forensics, The graduation ceremony facing Wilson Hall. In case single loss to be the top nega- in conjunction with W.M.R.A. will be slightly different, also. of rain, the ceremony will be tive team. Radio, is pleased to announce The degrees will be given out held in Wilson Auditorium. a new discussion program call- in alphabetical order according The First Place trophy mak- ed "Campus Comments." to the four schools. This is in The guest speaker at grad- ing theni "State Champions" contrast to the past method of uation willx be Dr. Marshall was awarded to Madison Col- This program will be aired mass alphabetical order. The Hahn, president of VPI. His lege for the best record of a at 8:00 p.m. each Wednesday. seniors will receive a blank topic has not been announced four man debate unit. Madison students will be dis- roll of paper during the actual yet. cussing campus, national, and ceremony and after graduation All the students are first international topics in a panel *hey will go to the head of The class of 71, with an ex- pected total of 612 graduates, year debaters at Madison, and discussion format. their school to get their de- including 49 honor graduates, all without previous high gree. school experience. They have It is hoped that your stu- has not yet decided on the gift won trophies three of their dents will find this program Graduation activities will to leave the college. Any sen- last four tournaments, but the both thought provoking and. begin early Sunday morning iors with suggestions are ask- State Championships was their educationally stimulating. with the Senior Breakfast at ed to contact Nancy West. Shirley Redford Page 2 Genesis II, Madison College, Friday, April 30, 1971 EDITORIAL COMMENTS Letters To The Editor ive comments are well-receiv- to save a few dollars on a Response to the demonstrations currently being held in ToucheU ed. If you will re-read the smaller item worth little more the nation's capitol has varied from whole hearted support to Dear Editor: We talked in my office at editorial, however, you would than what it is being sold for.) hearty disapproval. Whatever the reaction, however, the demon- discover that the "crime" of strators have made their presence felt. some length one day about Yea, Campus Center! freedom of the press for "economic rape" in fact was One VVAW member presented a passionate plea to a campus publications. At that stated. Subsequent to the Dear Editor: senate committee for the. immediate withdrawal of all troops time you mentioned that there editorial, a meeting was held When in the world will from Viet Nam. Students met with the Foreign Relations is a responsibility for the cam- between members of a campus those post office boxes be fix- Committee, and at one point, even the always-cool, Senator pus newspaper to adhere to group and representatives of ed? Mine has not been work- Aiken blew his composure and asked why the demonstrators the ethics and practices of two local businesses. At this ing since February when the did not leave the country if they thought it was so bad. sound journalism. time, grievances were aired, offices were changed, and I Naturally, their (students) response'wa's that they loved the How then can you justify and the merchants were given can only get my mail by hav- country very much, which was why they wanted to change it. your charges which seem to the opportunity to respond ing an employee open it from center around the unethical or directly to their "accusers." the inside. Two letters to the editor of the local Harrisonburg news- More of these meetings are even dishonest practices of Needless to say, I have to paper were opposed to what the demonstrators were doing. the Harrisonburg businessman. planned in the near future to One condemned the "Peoples Peace Treaty," while the other get there betwen 9-12 and 1- You accuse, but you do not bring about an understanding found actions he had observed between certain demonstrators between merchants and stu- 4:45. It gets quite aggravating state the crime. This kind of to realize you finally have a very offensive. (The offensive actions were public displays of journalism should be reserved dents. By the way, in talking private physical and emotional actions.) to the two businesses at the letter, only to have to wait 15 for the gossip column, not the (or more) minutes until the This weekend, demonstrations will continue, with all editorials. Yet you speak of meeting, it was learned that their business had dropped as P. O. opens. I have reported branches of the protest movement represented: anti-war, women's ethics. it, and get the same excuse: It is my hope that the mer- a result of the editorial. "That lib, gay lib, et al. In publicity materials sent out by partici- "I don't know when the man pating groups, targets were annbunced against which the chants of Harrisonburg will was one of the reasons they came to the meeting. But where will be back." Can't somebody demonstrations would concentrate their efforts.