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THE METEOR
April24, 1987
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Editorial Board: Jim Blount, Tracey Bostwick, Jared Dawson, Chris Kelly, Stuart Mercer, DJ
Patrick, Cliff Schroeder Photography: AI Wheless
The college process is a long and extremely important part of a senior's year. It is the subject that is most on seniors' minds throughout the period they wait to hear from their college choices. Each student needs some assistance on choosing colleges and the
application process.
During the fall the college counselor's time is devoted to the
seniors (thank God) -because there are too many of those for just. one counselor to try and handle it all and be on top of each student"s status with colleges. The beginning of the year is the
busiest time as every senior is trying to steal all the time they can to get their needs satisfied. Whether it be the seniors who still aren't sure about which schools they want to go to or if it"s the seniors rushing their early decision application to the college counselor, it's all a very crowded scene.
It seems impossible that each ofthe 64 students in the senior class can be satisfied or on time with their college choices or application process, while at the same time the single college counselor has other duties s11ch as teaching a class.
We think there should be real consideration given to adding another college counselor to work with the one we have at present. There should be ~nlimited amount of time in which a student may seek help from his college counselor, and if a class was split in half there would at least be double the amount of time that each student receives at the present. Because there is no denying the fact that the entire college process is a veery important one and will have a great effect on how a person's education continues after the years at V.E.S.
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A. the trees blossom and the temperatures rise, the senior class of V.E.S. sets its sights on graduation. There is still one more obstacle which seniors must cross; the infamous senior project. Many have
DiVenzio
By John Hunter
The winter sports banquet had an added attraction this year. In addition to recognizing out-
standing athletes for the winter season, those who attended heard Dick DiVenzio. Mr. DiVenzio is a graduate of Duke, where he played varsity basket- ball for three season, eventually reaching academic all-American status. Afterwards, he coached in
Europe as well as America and he has published such books as
Stuff and Rip Off.
His 'talk' focused on basically
two subjects. The first was a
subject he feels compelled to
speak out about wherever he
goes. He believes that college
athletes are being grossly
exploited by the NCAA and that it
is immoral how athletes that earn
large sums of money for their from paying for an athlete's
schools receive relatively nothing parents to fly down and attend a for their efforts and talents - game. This JrVenzio believes, is
he maintained, one most con~ tinuously fail and bounce back. Eventually, through hard work, one will succeed. His second principle was that "a sincere
effort is never wrong. Thirdly one must learn how to say "big
deal." In other words, though one might not have been successful and may have lost but say "big deal," at least one made the attempt.
In conclusion, DiVenzio lecture was a welcome change of pace
from the monotones that we usually hear during some banquet. Hopefully his speech
will start a trend that can continue
dreaded the project since their arrival in September. While to attendance was less than satis- many, the senior project represents only a means to deter the factory. "'The band was pretty senior elide, all things considered, the senior project is a good; it was too bad more people worthwhile experience. Because the project involve• a ten page didn't 1how up"' said one student
term paper in conjunction with a twenty minute presentation a great deal oftime must be devoted. '
With thi1 in mind, in order to do a thorough job and get the most out of the aenior project, teachere must undentand the amount of
work involved At the eame t1me wear working on our projectl it appea,.. that our nonnal aenior workload continue. at a fut a'nd funoua pace. In addition to workmg on their senior projects,
who attended only because he w u restricted to campus.
The band played acoustic gui- tar• without their u1ual drum backup but were still able to jam to a mixture ofclaslllcal a1 well a1 progre111ive rock 1ong1 ranging
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m•1 t k p up Wlth their other work, and because of thl• it from the Beat181 all tha way to pea,.. that many are drling the mor proJ~>d t,f a great rlea] of arademic r Inall ,wedobel v th,.t1f could
t treffortt/1t pro ct ,wewtruldhen titmor on
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alway• hMn a problem,
hind th
nior projPCt?
mainly in the sports of football and basketball. He cited exam- ples of their earnings being put to
immoral and cruel; he is devoting his life to changing this.
The second topic of his lecture
use for such ridiculous frivolities to which he devoted more time, as one million dollars being used are a series of philosophies and by up college football bowl selec- often hilarious stories and tion committee, $500,000 being anecdotes designed to help spent to stage the orange bowl - young people in life. This advice
$372,000 was spent on the;. could be divided into three
halftime show alone.! Yet through all ofthis, the athletes generating the money are not allowed to
sections, the first way his urging each person to simply "do things." To be successful in life,
but were IP'eatly disappoanted that more didn't •how up. Like 10 many other VE
1pon10red activiti • participation and attendan hu
Many of th faculty member•
wer on hand to enjoy th 1how Cofli e Oommtt nt
.rran. tl
at Sports Ban
et
legally receive a penny except tuition, room, board and books; the NCAA even prohibits schools
VES Holds First Coffee House
By Cliff Schroeder
In the past few weeks Miss Street and her special committee worked on organizing the Coffee House Concert. The concert, which was held in the snack bar
the night of March 28 featured Jimmy Faulkner and Brady Lum, a two student band from the Phi Kappa fraternity house at UVA. Unfortunately, the student
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