Mndison C-ollege L1Lnry ) Harri600burg; Vfrglnla " 7,250 Enrollment EXpected in Septen\ber~15 · ny t'U1\NK KHOWN :tl·cordtng to Dr. Julius the labor market ·•are now the number of incoming fresh­ Madison College's Hoberson. dean of admissions finding there is no labor men was set to be 1,49-1, the <'nrollment for l''all. l\r75 will and records . . market to enter," he said. non-Virginians of that number <'Xc:<'cd that of the previous The extra students are due Roberson said the latest totaled :m. 'Fhatfigures out to . yrat by about 2110 students, loa larger number of students information indicates 1,490 slightly Jh!es tha·n 20 per cent. • c ...... ncl·ording to current ad­ rcturntng from last year, freshma·n will register for the the cut-off point for out-of­ ministration projections, but Rbbcrson. said. · flill term. Freshman state students set up by the the incoming freshman class Hoberson cited the enrollment in t974 was 1,600. state legislature. - is <'Xpected to be "somewhat t.'Conomy as the main reason A projected freshman Roberson said that ap­ l:fmaller·· than the freshman Cor the larger number of enrollment of l ,500 was used proximately 7.000 applicatioqs class last year. returning students. Students in planning for this year; r<>r admission were received The overall enrollment is who in the past would have according to Roberson. this year, an increase of about 1 expected to total7,250 this fall, dropped out or school to enter Several weeks ago, when 400 over last year.

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Vol. Ll Mac!_ison_College, Harrisonburg, Va., Friday, July 11, 1975 Location in Burruss: First Power WMRA ·Broadcast Due By C\'NTHIA CARNEY The station will be housed from Hagerstown, Md., to can." he said, "so as to make Madison's WMRA radio in the basement of Burruss Roanoke. an impact on the area." station will tentatively begin Hall and will sport a full-time Several variables can set • Four fuU-time employes in September professional staff of five, as ·back full broadcasting have been hired: Karen Holp, with an effective power of a well as astudent staff. When fa9ilities or the station, ac· program director; Rex C. 51.1,000 watt FM public radio fuJly operating, the station cording to Sandy Kirkland, Houser, technical director, Registration... station. will have a broadcast r'ange WMRA general manager and and Beth Stevenson, traffic project director. and contmuity director, in Construction in Burruss is addition to Kirkland. The tentatively scheduled to be station is in the process or l!ompleted mid-August. In hiring a chief announcer, 1ddition. station officials are Kirkland said. not sure when the tower and When the station acquires ...tnlennae, which is to be in· CPB status. it can also stalled at Little North ­ become a National Public : Mountain, wiU arrive. The Radio Network member. The equipment's delivery could NPR provides a free teletype .r also be delayed by shipment service connecting the or company strikes, Kirkland nation's public radio stations. said. The NPR will also supply a As a precautionary step, station with mini-grants from the c6llege is bUilding a fully· $500-$3,000 for, special equipped stereo control room productions. in Alumni Hall which would 6e The Telecommunications able to broadcast at the full (Continue on Page 3) 50,000 watts if the Burruss facilities are not completed. \ However, Alumni facilities Long List -. will limit production, since it has no capacity to produce programs. Of Delays WMRA will immediately begin fulfilling requirements io~ify as a meml>er of the Is Cited ...And Information. Corporation for Public By CYNTHIA CARNEY Broadcasting. The cor- The list of delays is "about taking part in the program by attending group Incoming freshmen and transfer students poration, which funds public as long as my arm," sa!d discussions and meetings with college attending orientation sessions during July and television and radio stations, Sandy Kirkland, general early August will participate in a number of president Rt)nald Carrier and other college . provides stations with $17,800 manager and project director personnel. Many of the parents are finding out activities organized to acquaint them with per year. Stations can also of WMRA radio station. student life. Discussi~ns, multi-media about student dorm life first-band by living in aeJ>lY for "incentive· grants" The college station, which the do~mitory duTing the orientation session. presentations and meetings with advisers are which provide up to $20,000 for is scheduled to begin part of each two-day session. Parents are also one year to produce special broadcasting at 50,000 watts in programs for the corporation. September, has endured a In order to obtain CPB mass of tangled red tape for B_luegrass· Festivals in Region $tatus. WMRA must broad· more than a year. cast 18 hours a day, 365 days a And officials are still not Uy FRANK BROWN is located just across Main the park grounds during the A number of music Street from the. Madison day. ' year. with a signal greater sure when broadcasting will begin in its new facilities, festivals in the bluegrass vein campus. regularly attends In addition to music, a than 3.000 watts, and must are scheduled for the festivals throughout the variety of arts and crafts are employ five full-time Burruss HaiJ. One of the rna ny discarded . remainder of the summer and summer season. also featured at the non-profit professionals. - broadcast deadlines, July 1, , may provide variety for "The National Folk .festival. Although the station will would have given the station anyone planning a weekend fi'('stival has a little bit. or "It's probably the best apply immediately for CPB t>verything • from all around sampJing of different folk qualification, Kirkland- said . an important advantage in cx~'Ursion . of ~,.....:-,..,....."+-..--~ 11ifi National Folk Festival, the country." he said, men­ cultures in lhe country and that it will start out slowly - terms additional funds. perhaps-broadcasting eight to J uJy 1 is the beginning or the schfduled Aug. 1-:J at Wolf tioning that the music played we're really fortunate to have w hours a day • 'land then fiscal year of the Corporation Trap in Vienna. Va . . is includ~s Cajun, Western it... Johnson said. eventually build up to a full­ for , probably the most promising, swing, gospel. blues. and According to Johnson, American Indian. l:iummer music r•tivals fall time radio station. which will provide WMRA - t a<.'l'OI"diM to Phil Johnson. of •·we want to be as with at least $17.800 per year. . • the Blue Ridge Music Em· Johnson considers the best ~ into ttu:.ee categories. Besides professional. right from the However, si~ WMRA P.9rium. "' part of the festival to be the the folk festival which sam- v beginning. as we po&&lbly ": Beginning July :u. Madison regular hours during the Concerts featuring country CoiJege Theatre will('' 'Sent a week Students may check the and western•s wing music by satirical play. "The Pursuit of summer recreation calendar · lla"rdwood will be presented Happiness." The play, available at Warren Campus Sunday and Thursday as part directed by Dr. Thomas King Center. _ of Madison College's summer of the Department of Com- Camping equipment can be t.•ntertainment program munication Arts, will run rented from the Camping John Allen Sue Mallow Hardwood. a group con- through Aug. 3. Center office at ·n per - ~isthi8 of Harriet Greene. In addition to these ac- weekend (or tents and $5 per Fran lc Brown Nancy Rodger Curtis Jones. Harry Doss. tivities. various facilities day for canoes. Other cam- Cin di Carney, David Lemay. and Ron White. around the campus are ping equipment ia also Debby Todd started out with a country and available to summer students. available. · Mimi Conroy Steve Wilso11 bluegrass format in 1973, College tennis courts ar.e Library boura during progressing into what has open Sunday through, Friday summer Ml¥100 continue as .. Richard Frey bc<'n termed ..an innovative from 2 to 8 p.m. and Saturday follows: Monday through mixture ol country, bluegrass from 10 a .m. to 6 p.m. Friday, 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Advi.aer Alan Neckowitz and rock ." Students may reserve courts Saturday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Both concerts will be held by calfing6461 from 8 a.m. to 5 and Sunday, 6 to 10 p.m. from 9 to 11 p.m. in the p.m. Monday through Friday. Tbe bookstore is open Warren Ca mpus Center Discount tickets are Monday through Friday from ~ack of Tennis Courts lounge and are open to aU available for . students who 8 a.m. to 4 p.m . Ot-ar Editor: to reserve a court. students. want to use the Lakeview Golf For off-campus activities, Anyone who has tried to I feel that a si mple~olution There are only four movies Course. Weekday tickets are including theatres, play tennis recently knows to the growing problem would left for the summer session, $2 with an I.D. card. parks. caverns and museums, what a mad scramble il is to ix' a court patrol. especially three on Mondays and one on The college swimming studen~ should check the get a court. The situation durmg the peak hours bet· Thursday. All movies are in pools are open to students at summer recreation calendar. worsens as more and more w('('n 7 and Ill p.m These Wilson Hall at 7:30 p.m. and people are discovering what a persons could check I.D's and admission is 25 cents. terrific sport the game is. rnforce some time limit as to Movies scheduled for the Music Workshop Scheduled I am a student at Madison the length of play. rest or the summer session two graduate credit hours. and entitled to use the campus Also. players themselves are: July 21. "Cat Ballou": The Department of Music will offer a summer workshop Al'cording to a music courts. and I am growing could do much to bring back July 2~. "The Mouse that department spokesman. the increasingly distressed at the the "courtesies" that used to Roared": July 28. ·•cartoon in keyboard skills for workshop is designed to number of non-Madison be so much a part of tennis. Parade" and "A.Boy Named classroom teachers beginning Monday. provide elementary teachers people who are using the Doubling up with those who Ch'arlie Brown": and Aug. 4, on opportunity Jearn or im· College's tennis facilities. The are waiting is a good way to " The Producers." The workshop. which will city of Harrisonburg Is for­ get variety into your game. Other continuing activities tontinue through Aug. 15, is prove basic piano skills. tunate to have a number of I hope that whoever is in on campus during the summer Music Slli·D. and will carry Instruction will focus on the courts and city residente charge of the tennis faci lities session include: ice-cream or use of music materials found '-'Onstantly complain about the will read this and take heart in watermelon on the quad, in most Virgima schools. rartidpartts will work on ,college students and county the fact that for once the Wednesdays at 2 p.m.; and Handbool~s musk r<'ad1ng and playing residents utilizing them. but solution is not in spending coffee and donuts at the ... apparently these same people money on new a theletic Warren Ca mpus Center, Coptes of th 1974·75 student stmpte piano • • ac­ l'Ompaniments. A balan<.:e of have no qualms about facilities but in monitoring the Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10 handbook. "The Living and rolk . art and ethnic music monopolizing the coJiege use of the ones we have. a.m. Learning Environment: A from many cultures wUI be courts even when students are Jlmmi~ K. Grimm On clear weekday evenings Statement or Student waiting to play. tEditor's Note: Students may during the summer the ob­ Policies.·· are available at the presented. ·r am aware oC the reserve reserve tennis courts by servation deck at Burruss office of the dean of students. · system that ts in current use l'alling fH61 from R a.m. to 5 Hall will be open to students on the first floor of Alumnae but often whfn the urge to "hit p.m r.tonday through and the public. Two members Ifall . 'some" comes on it is too late friday.> of the college's Physics The policies in the 1974-75 a • a a .• faculty will be available to handbook are effective bas been publiShed Frid8y instead of Wett. explain what can be oblerved through the ctJrrent summer nesday this week because of technical difficulties. in the summer sky. session. Four more Wednesday issues of The BREEZE are A sign will be posted out­ Copies are available during scheduled this summer, July 16, 23,30, and Aug. 6. Deadlines side Burruss on evenings regular office bouts, from 8 for news and advertising are 3 p.m. Monday, before each when the observation deck am. to 5 p.m.. Monday · assue. through Friday. wiU~~ ------·-· UNUSUAL. MERCHANDISE. . .,.,* Spec\al lt'l ~'I MoulJ'rauu411Stota 10% Diacount GLEN'S FAIR PRICE GLEN'S GIFT STORE CENTER A IAVII ~ on all Cloth8 187 N. Main S' 9S S. Main St. V CAIUIIE ... .,..._t W/ID 8 T;ack Sterea Tapes Gifts of~ $2.99 each ___...... __' IUTHRACE , Thur • Sat July 10 - 12 Home Owned Store• With ! • Virwinie . FRIENDLY PEOPLE 'tO SERVE Ia for ·-r.::. ·1000 ) Music Boxes (Old & New) YOU AND SOLVE YOUR NEEDS Loweri -~1111.11'1. Purest Incense In The Valley --·ITI11l 111111111. ,. ··- ~ nil Much, Muclt, More.... " The North Face • 171' So. Mason St. Camp Traila CNexl to Blue Mt. Books) Vaaque Picture Yourself l SHENANDOAH Indoors Or Out* OUTFITTERS, INC. Purveyors of Fine Gear for the- . See Dr. Henderson for . . Backpacker & Hiker ' . peraonalized photography 63 \\'. Kruct> St. U..hlnd Mart.6n'1 (;aral.. . . . 1-'riday . July ll, Page .. *Delays Tllf:t; tmto;EZE. 1975, 3 I Continue from Page 1) *Bluegrass cannot apply to CPB until c Continue from Page 1) September. funds will be cut pies different cultures and back approximately _$1 ,500 for ofrers craft exhibitions, there every month past July 1, a ,. are also bluegrass festivals total of about $3,000 because of and fiddlers' conventions. the delay. Bluegrass festivals featu"l'e The location oC the radio as their main attraction ~ stu lion is also causing delays. name professional bluegrass The radio station. which is entertainers. Johnson said. t now housed in Alumni Hall, fo'iddlers' conventions, on the was to be housed originally in other band. arle generally less .. Ashby Hall, a dormitory. But professional. with amateurs due to several complications, and semi-professionals thr hascmtnt or Burruss Hall playing old-time and ' . is now undergoing con- · bluegrass music in com­ strudion to provide space for petition for prize money. lh(• radio station. There will be at Jeiaat one S<>v<'ral reasons were given festival of eaclt type Within Cor . th<' rejection of Ashby driving distance during the ltall. according to Or. Donald weekend of July l7-2fl. • , McConkey. head of the A large bluegrass festival .... ~ communication art$ depart­ will be held July 17-~ at ment;= Expensive air ~­ Angier. N.C. Featured per­ ditioning would have had to be formers will include John installed and the school Hartford. Bill Monroe, and . nt'edcd Ashby Hall for dor­ Norman Blake. mitory space. A weekend ticket for the Anot her problem the move festival will cost about $20, to Hurruss presents is limited with single day tickets costing space about$7 "The space isn't as ef­ An old-time fiddfers' . fkicnt. although it is struc­ convention will occur at the turally better:· Kirkland said. Dublin. Va. fairgrounds July 1rall s will be Added. walls 18-L9. ''It's a really nice way will be knocked out. and a Sunshine Anyone? . to spend a weekend." - utilit) area will ~ buil!._ _ It ma.r nol be Virginia Beach. but many mayM get a litUe studying done on the side. The same weekend, July 19- Ouc to the lack of space, a • Madi!6'n students have round a way to combine And ir temperatures continue in the mid-80's. 2H. there will be a craft stud<'nt production center will business with pleasure. Arter a weary day ol the "summer school tan., may equal the festival at Belle Grove in not be built. The station was classes. many students escape to the quad or "beach tan" anyway. ~ Middletown. Va . The festival, planning to build a separate c•orm courtyards to soak up some sun .and an annual affair, will feature studio with sturdier. second­ continuous music. hand <.'quipment for student The festival ' season will Ul:i<' *First WMRA Broadcast continue through August, l' ntil a room can be found tConlinue rrom Page 1) earlier in the year to deter­ the SGA president of Turner September, and October. for the center. students will be Council will also provide some mine the radio interests of the Ashby High School, a student On Aug. 1-3. Warrenton, using one of the two studios at, funding. in addition to the Valley. Preferred music, representative. and several Va. will be the scene ol a lht• radio station. said CPB and NPR. Additional accord,ing to Karen Holp, other members or the com· country music festival Kirkland money will be state.provided program director, is classical, munity. featuring amateur and and will be funded through the jazz. rock and blue-grass. The audience will not be the bluegrass contests. The college. News and public affairs "kind to listen to the station following weekend, one of the .. The station is classified as with emphasis on locaJ events. all day, but will listen oldest fiddlers' conventiQns an "auxiliary enterprise," and national news that is selectively according to their will once again be held at according to Or. J'obn Mundy, related to local news was also interests." said Dr. Donald Galax:-va. director of administrative requested by the community. McConkey, head of Madisol)'s · · Waynesboro, Va. will be the affairs, and will receive its An advisory committee Communication Arts . location ol a bluegrass festival money through charging the formed of a crossection ol the Department. There will be Aug. 15-17 featuring local college's jeneral fund for Valley community will coo­ educational programming, professional bands wltb top instructiOnal services. Funds tribute ideas and input from local talk shows, and music name guest artists. · Johnson the community to "meet the selected for certain times of says the weekend, costing a for the original expansion and . "·- I equipment were })rovided by needs of public broed· the day. total of about $10, promises to an HEW grant. casting," according to Dr. For example, after 11 p.m. be "really pleasant" because Since the station will be Ray Sonner, committee rock music will probably be ol the festival's small size. serving the Valley com­ chairman and vice president featured. and classical music Several other festivals will munity. a market research of public affairs. may be played during the be held during August. in­ ana~ysis was_ conducted The committee is "sup- • early evening hours. cluding the Aug. 28-31 Camp posE"d to be talking to neigh­ The programs will also be Springs. N.C. festival. which . . bors." said Sonner, to as­ more tightly organized and is a "descendant" of the first certain what the Valley people conducted. '88id McConkey. bluegrass festival ever held, a need and want in a public " The average freshman and the Union Grove, N.C., THE BODY· SH()P station. • won't be able to just walk in Fiddlers' Convention Aug. 29- • ~ Included in the committee and out on a show," he said. :u. Lady Wrangler Sportswear are: the superintendent or schools in Shenandoah, the Art . . . Virginia director of the Students To Display Pre-Washed.. Denim Jeans Virginia Telecommunications An exhibition of ceramics, feature ai the Duke Fine Arts Council. the minister ol the paintings and drawings by two Gallery beginning Monday. and Skirts . \ I Asbury United Me)lodist Madison College graduate The exhibition will end July Church. a local attorney, the l:iludents. Patricia Kiblinger 22 Wrangler Pre-Washed general manager of WVPT and Erma Yost. will be the Today is the last day of an exhibition oC ceramics and paintings by graduate • students Shirley Cadmus, FADED GLORY William Chambers and Jeanne Davis. ·Pre· Jf'OBhed Jeans and Skirts A third exhibftlon, of .- paintings. sculpture and' l'('ramlcs by students enrolled! Many Summer Items On Sal~ during the summer _!ieSSion, is AUTHORIZF:O AGENT FOR ALL MAJOR AIRLINES, t scheduled July 28 throu&h • OPEN FRIDAY TILE 9:00 P.M. STEAUSHlP LINES, TRAIN AND TOUR COMPANIES Aug. 6. . ... Works from aU exhibitions, , 66 E. Market St. can u1 ror AU Yoar Tn••l JCHCII • will be on sale and a list ol 1'7'•4 s. MaiD st. K'bal'l prices will be available.

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