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Senior Aide
by Larry Jones
In response to the findings of
the summer planning committee, a Senior Aid Program has been established here at VES. The committee felt there was a need
for increased supervision of the dorms to ensure a comfortable and pleasant atmosphere during and after Study Hall. The Senior aid program is an option open to
all boarding Seniors and Post Graduates. Those who take part in this program will be sharing extra duties with the counselors
and duty masters.
The responsibilities which the counselor aides must live up to while on duty are making sure a "study" atmosphere prevails on
dorm during study hall and making sure that students get to
bed at the proper time. Assist- ants will also be required to
serve with a duty team on at least one weekend, and be willing to fill in when necessary. Senior Aides might also be called apon
to sit in on a class when a teacher or counselor is unable to
do so.
While not on duty, senior aides will be expected to make sure that a good school atmosphere is generally maintained. In ex-
change for fulfilling these re- sponsibilities, Counselor Aides will be entitled to a "package" of
privileges. Seniors who have passing grades in all their courses will be allowed to have Day Study Out in their rooms, or
in Randolph Lounge. Aides may also eat dinner in town on weekend nights including Sun- day if they obtain permission from the Duty Master. On Sun-
day nights, they must return by 7:00 p.m. Seniors will be allowed to 'wear blue jeans and tennis shoes into town and are entitled to one extra weekend leave per
year.
If, in the opinion of the teachers or counselor body, a Senior Aid has not lived up to his responsibilities, that Senior Aid will be given a warning. If this warning does not bring about a
change in his behavior, his privi- leges .may be suspended for six weel_l:s, and if this is unsuccesllful, then a permanent revOcation of
privileges may result.
As shown by the nearly un-
animous participation, the Senior Class feels that the Counselor Aid Program is an important step towards greater Senior involvement in school life, as well as an establishment of substan-
tail Senior privileges. The real success or failure of the program lies in the hands of the Senior Class, and in the amount of effort
they are willing to put into it. ·The Senior Aid Program is a
worthwhile and welcome addi- tion to the school.
THEV.E.S.
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9TH .AND MAIN PITTMAN PLAZA
1979
7
a
Tax Measure
Defeated
by Kerke Johnson
As many of us have heard
recently, the city of Lynchburg was seriously considering levy- ing a service charge on tlie five private educational institutions
in the city. The five schools were: VES, Lynchburg College, Ran- dolph-Macon Woman's College, Seven Hills School and Virginia
College.
The service charge, if insti-
tuted, would be a tax placed on faculty housing owned by the schools. VES, owning an esti- mated $849,050 of such housing, would have to pay $5,264 per
year in tax. VES, possesses more of this type property than any of the other four institutions and is
followed by Lynchburg College
Almost
generate from all the schools As a requirement for employ-
and Randolph-Macon.
half of the $11,000 the city would
boys from Lynchburg attend YES, the cost of sending these
city free of cost.
"VES, Lynchburg College and
boys to public schools is elimi- Randolph Macon puml' ffillllvu:.
nated. The cost incidentally is between $150,000 and $180,000
per Year.
"The quantity of line with- drawn from the different boats engaged in the capture of this one whale, amounted altogether to 10,440 yards of nearly six
of dollars into the City's economy each year. Most of this amount
English miles."
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The National Merit test is given each year to rising seniors across the country. Last year over one million students took
this test, and of that number only fifteen thousand were chos-
VES felt it would be unfair to tax faculty housing on campus.
en as Nationa! Merit Semi-final- ists. V.E.S. is proud to recognize John Michael Sullivan as one of the National Merit Semi-finalists for this year.
comes from sources outside the City," stated Ainslie. These schools undoubtedly hring many
ment as a teacher at VES, one
would come from VES.
"The educational institutions," must live in on-campus faculty who spend a lot of money in
housing if the appropriate type is available. This is for the simple reason that a close-knit commun-
visitors and parents of students Lynchburg.
said Mr. Ainslie, "unlike public
schools and colleges, were found-
ed by private funds and continue
to be supported through the ity such as ours needs to provide service to the citizens, we find it
private sector without costing supervision and aid as part of its unfair for the city to try to tax the citizens of Lynchburg a total educational program. "As our facul_ty housing. The faculty dime." Section 58-16.2 of the surrogate parents," remarked on-campus housing is an integral Code of Virginia, allows for this
Headmaster Ainslie, "the faculty are called upon at all hours of the we,k in the performance of their
part of the service VES provides. Mr. Ainslie and the admini-
type of taxation, if the city finds
it necessary. Until now, the City
has respected our situation and duties." Since VES does not idea of housing taxation and has not attempted this type of charge rent on this housing and thanks to Mr. Ainslies' persua- taxation. The service charge was no income is received by the sive efforts as well as those of
to be imposed in order to help . school from the occupants, it is cover the costs of police and fire unfair to tax these buildings at protection, as well as garbage all.
Pres. Spivey· and Dr. Brewe·r in the City Council meeting this month, the service charge pro-
posal was defeated.
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collection and public education. YES does not receive City gar- bage collection and public educa- llon. VES does not receive City
Also, VES and the other institutions, especially Randolph- Macon W oman's College and Lynchburg College, provide the
garbage collection, rather it is city with many services and done privately at the cost of the benefits. Plays, programs and school. Ainslie also pointed out other entertaining functions are that since approximately 100 provided by these schools to the
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THE METEOR
September 29, 1979
Since VES
organization, and it provides a
stration were opposed to this
is a
non-profit