Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Vol. 47, Issue 5
Winston-Salem State University
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Photo by Corderius Cowans
The decorated tree in Kennedy Dining Hall signifies the holiday spirit has arrived.
525 graduates expected to participate
in fall commencement exercises
Marcus Cunningham
Copy Desk Chief
Dec. 18, at 4 p.m. Winston-
Salem State will say goodbye
to its 525 graduating seniors.
Andrea Thompson, senior
class adviser, said graduation
rates increase by approxi
mately 20 percent during the
spring.
"Spring graduations are gen
erally a few hundred more in
size," said Registrar Sharon
Hush.
"They [fall and spring
Commencement] exercises are
pretty much the same. The
only difference is the weather,"
Thompson said.
The fall commencement will
be in the Lawrence Joel
Veterans Memorial Coliseum
in Winston-Salem.
"There is an anticipation of a
large crowd because of the
number of projected gradu
ates," Thompson said.
Along with completed credit
hours, the graduating seniors
also had to meet several other
requirements.
Thompson said seniors must
complete the "Graduating
Senior Survey," register as
alumni, satisfy all financial aid
requirements, and complete
Yearbook to remain
with Student Activities
The mission of Winston-Salem
State's yearbook is to provide
memories of campus life at
WSSUfor students, faculty, staff,
and alumni via words and pic
tures.
Corderius Cowans
Reporter
The yearbook's presence was
almost a memory to Student
Activities.
There had been discussions
of relocating the yearbook to
an academic department.
"We wanted to move them to
an academic area to provide
the students with more experi
ence in that capacity...prefer
ably the Department of Mass
Communications," said Theo
Howard, assistant vice chan
cellor for Student Affairs-
Campus Life.
Dr. Phillip Jeter, chair of the
DMC, said the faculty voted to
decline Howard's offer of
accepting the transfer of the
yearbook, for a number of rea
sons including timing and the
lack of department faculty and
staff to take on the project.
Administrative Assistant of
Student Affairs and Yearbook
Adviser Linda Scott Cole said
the students on the yearbook
staff do not receive any course
credit for their work.
"Extracurricular/ co-curricu-
lar activities are not tied into
coursework," Scott Cole said.
The responsibility of the staff
is to take pictures of University
events, layout pages and write
copy.
Yearbook
continued on Page 2
New Provost Allen
discusses her goals
their senior exit interviews.
The Graduating Senior
Survey, a requirement for all
schools in the UNC system, is
overseen by the Institutional
Planning and Assessment
Department.
As a part of meeting finan
cial aid requirements, students
must also complete an online
exit questionnaire counseling
form.
This is for students who bor
row money to pay for their
education and is a way to
Commencement
continued on Page 2
Tiffany Gibson
Editor In Chief
The new provost. Dr. Brenda
Allen, has been getting
acquainted with Winston-
Salem State for about 150 days
and counting. But during her
brief tenure, she has had "a
productive six months."
Allen has more than 20 years
experience in higher educa
tion, making her move to
WSSU a natural progression.
When she was at Smith
College, she was a professor in
the psychology department for
14 years, and she was the spe
cial the assistant to the provost
for one year.
For five years, Allen was the
associate provost at Brown
University.
"I have spent 20 plus years
at institutions different from
where I got my own education.
[Allen is a graduate of Lincoln
University in Pennsylvania
and Howard University.]
"I always knew I wanted to
come back to an HBCU.
"I have had an opportunity
to learn some great things from
some of the best people in
Provost
continued on Page 2
Support WSSU with a test drive
Show your Ram school spirit! Join
Ford and the Tom Joyner
Foundation in support of HBCUs.
Through Jan. 4 visit a Ford or
Lincoln Mercury dealer and take a
test drive. For each test drive, Ford
will donate $25 to the Joyner
Foundation on behalf of your
favorite HBCU, up to $250,000. As
of Dec. 10 a total of 12 test drives
were on record for WSSU.
Source: blackamericaweb.com
No more texting while driving
DONTTEXT
Dec. 1 the ban of texting while
driving became N.C. state law.
Those caught sending
or reading texts while
driving can be fined up
to $100 plus court
costs. The law only
AND DRIVE moving vehi
cles. North Carolina
joins more than a dozen states with
similar laws against texting.
Source: drivinglaws.org
Lose the frame, or pay $100
The Greek and WSSU frames
have to go. License plate frames
that cover state name and expiration
date are now against N.C. state law.
The new regulation makes it easier
for law enforcement officers to read
license plates. For the first year,
drivers will be warned if caught with
an illegal frame. December 2010
drivers will be fined $100 plus court
costs.
Source: newsl4.com
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