Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, August 23, 1994                   TAG: 9408250026
SECTION: WELCOME STUDENTS                    PAGE: 16   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: KENNETH SINGLETARY STAFF WRITER
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SHE LIKES HER COLLEGE SMALL; HER PLANS (AND RALLIES) NOT

A senior speech communications major with her eye on the Peace Corps, possibly, and then medical school, Hebler, 21, sometimes doesn't get to bed until 4 a.m. And if studying doesn't keep her busy enough, her work in the student government often is like a full-time job.

Still, she finds time for jogging, swimming and drawing. She also is an emergency room volunteer and a trained belly dancer.

One reason she chose Radford was because it's small. During high school in Culpeper County, her grades couldn't compete with her other interests, including cheerleading, track and field, and the marching band.

So at Radford, Alice Elizabeth Hebler took it easy at first. But good grades during her first semester convinced her she could get back into a busy routine.

Hebler was re-elected in the spring for a second term as SGA president. After organizing a campus rally last year to protest proposed budget cuts for higher education - the largest rally the university had seen in 20 years, attracting more than 1,000 people - on the drawing board for this year is a push to get more students involved in university governance.

She also will help the school's faculty form a senate, to be patterned after the university's SGA.

Like college students across the country, Radford students are worried about their job prospects when they graduate. To increase student marketability, the SGA will continue to advocate that internships be included in the curriculum in all departments.