her teachers are still on the fac
ulty. "She was always a very
serious student,” said Sister
Elizabeth Marian Murray,
who was Aquino's professor in
an English lit course. "She
was her own person with her
own convictions.” Cory’s for
mer English composition pro
fessor, Sister Julia Marie
Weser, remembers her as being
reserved and poised. "She was
moderate and didn’t give in to
histrionics.” Her teachers all
thought she would go far in the
world, but no one knew she
would go this far. "You always
have great expectations that
are frequently disappointed,”
said Sister Murray. "But hav
ing a former student of mine
become president of the Phil
ippines far surpasses any ex
pectations I ever had.”
Minnesota’s
Big Thaw
At the end of a long, gruel
ing winter, University of
Minnesota students
have at least two reasons to
celebrate: below-zero tem
peratures can be kissed good
bye and Campus Carnival '86
is almost there. Billed as the
nation’s largest student-run
fund-raising event, "Cami"
draws at least 20,000 people
each year into the university’s
old, barnlike held house for
three days in mid-April to
watch elaborately staged the
atrical revues. Last year Cami
raised more than $50,000 for a
local children’s charity and fea
tured, among others, "The La
vettes”—a group of women
dressed as volcanic flames ac
companied by musicians clad in
purple togas.
Sadly, this could be the last
year for Cami. Increased insur
ance rates for Cami ’86 could
seriously decrease the amount
of money that goes to charity.
Also, last summer the old field
house’s dirt floor was covered
by a $360,000 polyurethane
surface, and Carni may lose
its venue if the rambunctious
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Cold comfort: Ending winter with the University of Minnesota ’» celebrated Campus Carnival
affair results in damage to the
new covering. "It ’s scary, know
ing that Carni’s in the bal
ance. If we foul up, this may be
the last year, and that would
be a real shame,” says Kerry
Bowe, Carni’s overall chair
man. "There’s nothing like it,
nothing that can bring 2,600
student participants together
for three months of hard work
and fun, and all for a worth
while cause.”
Recording a
Bachelor's
Some of the folks who lis
ten to records at Middle
Tennessee State in Mur
freesboro aren’t just playing
around: they’re working on
their major in RIM (Recording
Industry Management). The
10-year-old program produces
promoters, agents, publishers
and technicians for the music
business. (Nearby Nashville
boasts a similar program at Bel
mont College.) The State of
Tennessee recently gave
MTSU $1.3 million to set up a
Center of Excellence in Record
ing Arts and Sciences, includ
ing an all-digital recording fa
cility. 'That should put us up
at the top of the charts,” says
program coordinator Geof
frey Hull.
RIM majors take 33 hours of
required courses in such areas
as career development for re
cording artists, music publish
ing, merchandising of records
and the technology of record
ing. And each year students in
the program produce a record
album. Not surprisingly, giv
en its Grand Ole Opry sur
roundings, MTSU emphasizes
down-home music. "They come
here really into rock and roll,"
says Isabel Landeo, a music
publisher who earned an KIM
degree from MTSU, "and learn
to like or love or live with
country music.”
The Leaders
of the Pack
Parents who think their
college-age offspring have
totally different stand
ards of merit may want to re
consider A recent Newsweek
On Campus Poll asked students
what person alive today (ex
cluding friends or relatives)
they moat admired. The No. 1
slot went overwhelmingly to
that youthful spirit Ronald
Reagan Mother Teresa was
second, followed by Pope John
Paul II. Chrysler’s Lee lacocca
and the Rev Jesse Jackson
rounded out the students’ top
five, with South African Bish
op Desmond Tutu, Margaret
Thatcher, Diana, Princess of
Wales, everything-Aid’s Bob
Geldof and Nancy Reagan
completing the top 10 With the
exception of rocker/humani
tarian Geldof (not too many
Boomtown Rats fans out
there), all these names also ap
peared on a 1985 list of the 20
most admired men and women
in a poll of adults conducted by
The Gallup Organization.