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u w SSiSSSSSftW*:;: :;::%?SSSS5S!S!Si?!8SSSJ5®!SiSS55iSSfSi^^ It pays to check on requirements before transferring Chowan students James Martin, left, of Richmond, Va., and Harrison Green law of Fredericksburg, Va., check cat alogs of four-year institutions to which they plan to transfer after completing work at Chowan. The catalogs are available in the Admissions Office. Similar to Daytona New speedway planned DALLAS, Tex. (AP) — De troit financier Lawrence LoPat in has announced plans to do in Texas what he s already don- in Michigan—construct a $6 mil lion major league-type auto rac ing facility. LoPatin, president of the Michigan International Speed way, Inc., told a luncheon Tues day that Texas International Speedway would be completed in time for a Texas-size opening Dec. 7 with a 500 mile grand na tional championship race. William France Sr., president of National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, attend ed a news conference announc ing the speedway and confirmed plans for the NASCAR sanc tioned event. “Since this will be the final race of the 1969 NASCAR Grant National Series, it should cli max an exciting year of both driver and manufacturer com petition and could decide the 1969 champions,' France said. LoPatin said Texas Interna tional is negotiating a long term Students perform at several area meetings By PAULINE ROBINSON The annual supervisors ban quet for the Union Camp Corp., was held Jan. 31 at Franklin Armory in Virginia. Paula Welch, Howard Harrison and Jack Nelson performed. The corporation invited the three students^ to entertain them. Paula and Jack, as a team, sang a number of folk songs accompanying themselves on the guitar. A very talented piano player, Howard played for the banquet. Chowan s Alumni Chapter met January 30 for dinner at Cypress Cool Country Club in Franklin, Va. The meeting was for or ganizational purposes and Carl Wimbish, Alumni Director, gave a talk on “What Chowan Can Do for Alumni and What Alum ni Can Do for Chowan. There was also a panel discussion with alumni sponsors and Bonita Treadway, student representa tive, on the panel. Entertainment was provided by three Chowan students. Bon ita Treadway and Marsha Alls- brook sang together accompan led on the piano by Don Phil lips. SPORTS WRITER REPLACED With the post of sports edi tor being vacated on the Smoke Signals staff by Phil Edwards, a search was made for some one to fill it. George “Speedy” Skinner was appointed. George worked on the paper staff last semester and is an active mem ber of Chowan s track team. agreement with NASCAR that guarantees the final event of each Grand National season would be at the Texas Facility. LoPatin said 2,600 acres of land already have been acquired and actual construction will be gin in four to six weeks. He said Michigan International Speed way had invested $1 million in the project and woiild be the principal stockholder. All forms of auto racing com petition will be accommodated on the speedway s four circuits, including', a two-mile, 18-degree banked high speed D-shaped track; a 2.75-mile grand prix road racing course; an infield road circuit designed for inter national driving instruction and testing; and a fourth road course of about two miles in length. LoPatin said Texas Interna jtional will have five major rac ing events each year. He said two grand national racing events would be stages, in addition to the United States Auto Club races and one Sports Car Club of America sanctioned event. “I m sure that with the back ground these people have, Texas will wind up with the finest rac ing facility that can be built, France said. LoPatin got Michigan Interna tional off the ground last Oct. 13 with a 250-mile United States “T/ic Voice of Chowan” Volume 2—Number 9 Wednesday. February 5, 1969 Murfreesboro, N. C. A traumatic spring Transfer student and his problem Auto Club race, with an atten dance of 55,000 at the inaugural. C. H. Moneypenny, who de signed the Daytona Internation al Speedway, has been retained to design the oval and road cir cuits for Texas International. Harvey Harris resigns post at Chowan By PAULINE ROBINSON Former director of college re lations, Harvey W. Harris, re signed and plans to devote full time to news reporting, free lance writing and other writing Harris has been director of college relations since 1965. He prepared the “Chowanian’ , a news and alumni magazine and also co-ordinated church pulpit supply speakers. Having won many national awards for news features and alumni magazines he has served as a former news paper editor and reporter. A Baptist pastor, Harris also filled the post as chaplain to delinquents in Louisville, Ky. He is a veteran of the Golden Gloves fighter, and he has written many dramas, poems, and short stor ies which have been published. As of now, no one has been hired to replace Mr. Harris. Spanish Club speaker Marie (iamio, an exchange student from Lima, Peru, was a recent speaker to the Cliowan College Spanish Club. Marie is currently studying at Gates County High School. By D. H. NICHOLSON Because Spring can be a rat her traumatic experience for the prospective transfer student, it has been decided that an article originally written for the Novem ber 22, 1968 issue of ■ SMOKE SIGNAL, in part, be re published in the hope that any student attempting to transfer to a 4 year school may have some in formation which will address it self to one salient question on his mind; How can I find that school which will be best for me? Since approximately 80 per cent of our enrollment here at Chowan College anticipates g& ing on to four-year schools for the baccalaureate, to attempt to crystallize an answer for the above is to direct ourselves to some of the problems involved with transferring. One subject with which we may wish to begin, and a subject probably most important at this early point in our discussion, is the necessity of completing work already started at Chowan College. When an applicant is considered for admission to Cho wan, it is automatically assumed by the Director of Admissions and the Admissions Committee that the prospective student in tends to pursue work in a cur riculum which leads to a degree or a diploma. Of course, whether or not the new student does this is primarily his own decision, however, we, as members of the faculty and the administration of Chowan College, strongly re commend that a student stay in a program and complete tho reqtilrehients for the associates degree before he actually trans fers. We recommend this because we know that, increasingly, four year schools are requiring that transfer-students from both the junior colleges and the commun ity colleges hold the associates degree before they are admitted to junior status. Accordingly, we may see this as growing trend in the ad missions offices of the senior colleges and the universities. For instance. North Carolina State University at Raleigh now strong ly recommends that a transfer er from a two-year school holds the associates degree as an add ed advantage over the transfer Garrison has high hopes for 1969 golf team The 1969 golf team, coached by Jim Garrison, has the to win the conference and place high in team standing in the nation. The team, comprised of seven players, has four returning They are Alex Phillips of Va., Tom Pickin of Virginia Beach, Tom Pickus of Richmond, and Lewis Tripp from Ayden, N.C. The team has depth with freshman Jeff Scholl, J. C. Sullivan, John Sobito, and Phillips capable of shooting in the 70‘s. The 1967 golf team finished eighth in the nation at Miami, Fla. while the 1968 team ninth in New Mexico. With good Steady playing this year Coach Garrison predicted another year in the top ten. The 1969 golf team has the potential to be the best team ever fielded by Chowan College. With the additional freshmen the team should go all the way. Alex Phillips, an All American as a freshman, won the honor by shooting 74 , 73 , 68, and 72 on a par 71 course. He had no double Bougies and finished medalist. There are ten matches this year five home five away. Joins Army HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) — Eddie Hodges of Hattiesburg, who gained fame as a Broad way and motion picture child star, was sworn into the Army Thursday night. er without such a degree ac complishment. There is also another emerging advantage of having the two-year degree, many four-year schools are be ginning to consider accepting “D s in transfer providing the transferer has an over all “C on all work attempted. For ex amples, Radford College in Vir ginia and Catawba College in North Carolina will accept “D s in transfer if the transferer has an over all “C average on all work attempted and the as sociates degree. Although At lantic Christian and Camp bell College do not necessarily require the two-year degree but recommend it, they do, in fact, accept “D s providing the pros pective transfer student has an over all “C ' average on all work attempted. For the young ladies of Chowan, Meredith College of Raleigh offers some possibilities along this line. For instance, Meredith will accept “D's in transfer providing there is a “C average on work attempted. Another interesting point about Meredith is that students may repeat courses with only the first hours attempted counting. In other words, Meredith is still using a system with repeat hours which Chowan discontinued with its entering freshmen this last Fall semester. With the preceding discussion in mind, one major consideration of the prospective transfer stu dent is how he will fair in the transfer, i. e. will all of his credits from the first school be fully accepted by the second? What will be his status when he enters? Will he be put on probation for his first semester in residence, after which it will be determined just what credit he will get for his previous work? How will he come out on “D courses? Perhaps the best answer to any of the above questions is also the best answer to the that salient question in every prospective transfer students mind. He should write directly to the admissions officers of the various colleges and universities which are of interest to him and get what information and bul lentins they may have for mail ing. In short, only the admissions officials themselves are in the best position to speak concern ing the admissions requirements of their respective schools. There is little doubt as to the high positive correlation between educational attainment and oc cupational achievement-from the point of view of the status of the job and the amount of in come it produces. Some type of college educational experience has become an absolute prere quisite for better jobs with higher incomes. It is, therefore, essential that every junior col lege student put himself in the best possible situation for fur thering his education. What may be the “best possible situation for one person may not be the best possible situation for some one else. This is the reason why the prospective transferer must keep in close contact with the various schools to acquire as many options as he can in order to be in a position to make a meaningful decision regarding his future. In the next issue of the SMOKE SIGNAL, we might look at the following subject; The confiden tial nature of your records here at Chowan College. We should try to answer such questions as the following'. Just who has access to your records here at Chowan College and under what conditions? What about your re cords as an aid to employment? What about your records and governmental agencies, finance companies, and other invest! gating groups or agencies? please . . don’t run over my little girl! (Editor’s Note: A timely bit of news from a column by Charles Craven known as “Byways of the news” in the Jan. 30 Raleigh News and Observer. Each of us should note and remem ber.) S Capt. Cecil Price of the Uniformed Division S of the Raleigh Police Department, the other | •i;; day got this letter, the author of which is un- jji known to the officer. g “Dear Drivers: $: “This morning, my daughter who is seven :•:• S years old, started to school as usual. She wore ;i|: a dark blue dress, with a white collar—she had S S on black shoes—and wore blue gloves. S “Her cocker spaniel, whose name is Coot, % s; sat on the front porch and whined his canine belief in the folly of education, as she waved j: jj goodbye, and started off to the hall of learning, ;S “Tonight, we talked about school. She told me ji; about the girl who sits in front of her—the girl ::|: jiji with the yellow curls—and the boy across the jij: aisle who makes funny faces. Iji: “She told me about her teacher—who has ji; eyes in the back of her head—and the trees in g the school yard . . . We talked about a lot of g jj: things and then we studied spelling, reading, S arithmetic—and ten to bed. S S “She’s back there now—back in her room— ;| ji; sound asleep with ‘Princess Elizabeth’ (that’s ::i; a doll) cuddled in her right arm. ?: “You guys wouldn’t hurt her, would you? S You see I’m her daddy. When her doll is bro- S jij; ken, or when her finger is cut, or when her Ji; g head gets bumped, I can fix it—but when she starts to school—when she walks across the >;•: street—then she’s in your hands. :ii|: S “She’s a nice kid. She can run like a deer and darts about like a chipmunk. She likes to >:•: S ride horses, and swim, and hike with me on S jj: Sunday afternoons. ii: “But I can't be with her all the time. I have :ii| i:-: to work, to pay for her clothes and her educa- :•:■ S tion. % S “So please help me look out for her. Please jij: drive slowly past the school intersections—and ::j: vi please remember that children run from behind ;i:| parked cars. S “Please don't run over my little girl." ij|j I'll have to take some more math Harrison S. Greenlaw gets a bit of help from Clifton S. Collins, director of guidance and counseling, as he plans for transferring to a senior college following graduation at Chowan. Student unrest is under-estimated WASHINGTON (AP) — Act ing President S. I. Haya'kawa of embattled San Francisco State College testified today the cur rent danger to the nation and to higher education demonstrated by student unrest “has been vastly underestimated. Hayakawa, the linguistic scholar who took over the riot rocked San Francisco campus eight weeks ago, defended his prompt and massive use of po lice force—but he also told a House education subcommittee that massive efforts are needed to remove the root causes of some of the student protests. “I believe that I have intro duced something new to this 1,204 students enrolled for spring term The spring semester at Cho wan College is underway with a total full time enrollment of 1,204, according to a report by Darrell H. Nicholson, registrar, Nicholson has irtdicated that sophomores account for 432 and freshmen 737. Also 12 students are in their final year of the colleges 33 month Nursing program nine are covleting medical secretarial programs in hospitals and there are 23 special students for a full time equivalent of 14. Approx imately 165 students are com muters. The comparable full time enrollment for the spring, 1968, was 1,155. The Chowan student body will face a full calendar of aca demic, cultural, religious and athletic events before the final day of graduation, set for May 8. Examples are; the spring dramatic productions, March 5, 6 and 7; mid term exams, March 14; religious emphasis week, March 17 ; spring holidays; April 2 8; visiting lecturer. Dr. John Bright, on April 23; spring festival on April 26 and honors day on May 8. A full schedule of intramural athletics and varsity baseball, track, golf and Icnnis arc interspersed. business of preserving order on campuses, Hayakawa said. He said at most institutions police qere called in as late as possible and in small numbers. But, he continued, “I went the other way. I had ample force available and demonstrated a willingness to use it quickly to protect people and property from attack. “The opposition has received my message. . . “What we have succeeded in doing is to move the action from the classroom to the space be tween buildings and from there to the streets surrounding the campus. For weeks, now, the classrooms and the inner cam pus have been quite and safe. As an overflow audience largely of young people jammed the committee room and lined up outside in hopes of getting in later, Hayawa told the commit tee, “In a sense, the issues be hind most present troubled are valid. He said the country is com mitted to education but still tolerates great numbers of low er school systems “that are crippling the poor and the mi norities educationally. If we were dealing with hun ger instead of education, you can imagine what would happen if we had a walled city in which the citizens had all the food they need while outside there were hordes of starving people, he said. “We would have to be pre pared to open the gates wide and admit everyone, or be pre pared for a riot. That is the situ ation now with higher educa tion. Notice In the January 29th issue of the Smoke Signals, a poem was printed called “Don t Fall in Love. With several comments from the student body as to the origin of the poem as to the- author, this editor researched and found that the poem is found in a collection of love poems by a noted author. With this, the editor would like to print an apology to anyone who may have been affended by the misrepresentation of the correct author.
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