STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF CHOWAN COLLEGE
Volume 3—Numer 2
Murfreesboro, North Carolina
Wednesday, September 30. 1970
Science Facility is Vital
To Chowan, Planners Told
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Happiness is a Touchdown!
Just ask Ronnie Mack or any member of the Chowan team. Mack, who wears No. 14,
scored on a 63 yard run and gained 113 yards on the ground in the win over Baltimore,
40-18, Saturday night, September 19.
Currier and Ives Prints
On Display at Chowan
The Currier and Ives prints,
on display in Chowan's art
gallery, have more to offer the
viewer than just an eye filling
pleasure. Their contribution
to art matched with their histor
ical importance, gives a nine
teenth century air of greatness
to each individual print. Most
important of all, the prints
show an amazing resemblance
to yesterday’s problems match
ed with today’s unanswered
catastrophies.
The first print on display,
“The Republican Party Going
to the Right House,” shows an
amazing similarity to today's
issues. The problems of the
black man in America, women's
rights, property rights, and even
the expression of free love, are
expressed through sarvasm
in this print. The prints, “Death
of Col. Edward D. Baker " and
“The Battle of Gettysburg,”
show the senselessness of war
through the expression of art,
something a writer can not
explain with words. Times of
disaster marked by the prints,
“Life on the Prairie, “View of
Great Conflagration at New
York July 10th 1845," and “The
Great Fire at Boston,” are
equally marked by prints show-
Proposed SGA Budget
The following is the proposed budget for the Student Govern
ment Association for the 1970-71 year as announced by SGA
president Ronaldo A. Karunungan and Ed Wooten, Faculty
Sponsor.
Freshmen Orientation $ 700.00
Community Concert Association 2,000.00
Coffee Houses 500.00
Movies 600.00
Student Travel 250.00
Lectures 1,500.00
Concerts 7,500.00
Homecoming 1,500.00
Spring Festival 2,000.00
Weekend Dances 600.00
Total $17,150.00
ing good times such as, “Glory
of the Day" and ‘Squirrel
Shooting."
One can see that a hundred
years does not separate a
soldier’s mind and feelings. His
ideas and dreams are still the
same and prints like “The Sold
ier’s Home”, “The Vision, ” and
“The Soldier’s Dream of
Home, ” bring out these ideas
and dreams.
Currier and Ives had a profit
motive at risk. Therefore,
they tried to bring out both
sides of an issue. Lincoln is
shown both by the south and
by the north, shown to be
human and that his decisions
were based on human elements.
As an individual enters the
gallery, he or she is immediately
reminded of today’s philosophy
and frame of mind in America.
Beginning with print one and
walking through to print twenty-
seven, the indivudial reviews
almost one hundred years in
fifteen yards. He or she exper
iences fire, dfath, love, and
freedom. As you finish, you
realize that Currier and Ives
wrer trying to show the growth
of a great nation. These prints
remind one that a nation is
like a human being, it lives,
it breathes, it loves, and it
bleeds. America is yound and
she is still growing up, and
Currier andlves have captured
a very important stage of her
development.
Participants in Chowan College’s fifth annual Planning
Conference Saturday, Sept. 19, received visual proof of
the critical need for a new science-engineering facility.
Registration was held in the present science facility.
Green Hall, with each person escorted on a tour of the
building. They viewed the laboratories and classrooms
for a maximum student body of 400. The current enroll
ment is 1,472.
Later, to reinforce what they had seen, they were told
by college officials tnat the
major need of the science pro
gram is a new facility. Dr. B.
Franklin Lowe, Jr., dean of the
college, emphasized that Green
Hall is “already crowded to the
bursting point.”
Speaking to an audience of
some 175 during the opening ses
sion, Dr. Lowe said that new
equipment is needed, but added
no space is aviable for the equip
ment even if it could be acquir
ed.
Echoeing the theme was Prof.
George Hazelton, acting chair
man of the science and mathem
atics department. Currently, he
said, science equipment must
be stored in the hall and “we
may run out of hall space,”
he added.
The lack of space also cur
tails any research that the fac
ulty might want to conduct.
Hazelton commented that re
search is necessary for the pro
fessor’s continued growth and
ability to keep the students’
curiosity aroused.
“We must not only be teach
ers of science but doers of sci
ence,” he said. He frankly stated
that in light of the present fa
cility it would be difficult to at
tract additional professors. “We
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Huerta Teaches Spanish
Juan Antonio Huerta, Cho
wan’s newest addition to the
language department, arrived
recently from his home in Mex
ico, and speaking little English,
Huerta is the eldest of eight
children, having three sisters
and four brothers.
“I also have a cat,” he chuck
led.
Having attended Escuela Pre-
paratoria “Ateneo Fuente” de
la Universidad de Coahuila,
Mexico, he received his B.A.
in law there, and his M.A. in
secondary education with spec
iality in language and Spanish
literature from Escuela Normal
Superior de la Universidad de
Coahuila, Mexico.
Morris E. Carson, Spanish
professor at Chowan, who per
suaded Huerta to come to Cho
wan and teach, met him while
studying at the Interamerican
University in Saltillo.
“Mr. Huerta has taught both
garaduate and undergraduate
students at that university and
we feel extremely fortunate to
have such a brilliant and gift-'
ed young man with us,” he
reflected.
Since this is his frirst time
in the U.S., Huerta reported
“I want very much to visit
Williamsburg and Jamestown
and to see the Atlantic Ocean.”
Huerta enjoys playing guitar
and singing; also writing short
stories and poems.
“I love Chowan - all is beau
tiful, the trees and Murfrees
boro, and especially the peo
ple and students,” he concluded.
W. J. Parker Joins
Chowan College
As New Bursar
William J. Parker of Mur
freesboro has assumed duties
as bursar at Chowan College.
He replaces Miss Arelia Adams
who recently retired after 17
years of service.
Parker’s wife, Edith, is the
switchboard operator and recep
tionist in McDowell Columns.
He is a graduate of Murfrees
boro High School and Richmond
Business College. Parker at
tended Chowan one year. He
served in the Armed Forces
during World War II.
Parker has taken an active
part in civic affairs. He is a
member and past president of
the Exchange club and is a
member and past master of
American George Masonic
Lodge No. 17 at Murfreesboro.
He is presently chairman of
the Board of Deacons of the
Meherrin Baptist Church.
Parker came to Chowan from
Georgia-Pacific Corp., where
he served as assistant office
manager. He was with the
firm, which was formerly River
side Manufacturing Co., for 24
years.
The Parkers have three child
ren. Billy, 24, is married and is
serving in the military and is
in medical records at Ft. Hood,
Tex. Kenny, 21, is working at
Farmer’s Chemical. Cindy, 15,
is in the 10th grade at Murfrees
boro High School.
have a good nucleus of teach
ers,” Hazelton observed, “but
we are in danger of losing some
of them.”
Dr. Lowe’s summary of the
situation was “the need for the
new science facility is critical
in the extreme. We need it now. ”
James M. Piette, vice presi
dent of Union Camp Corporation
and manager of the Franklin
division, also spoke on the need
for strengthening the science
program. Union Camp was
praised by Dr, Bruce E. Whitak
er, president of Chowan College,
who presided, for its substantial
annual support of the college.
Another feature was discuss-
sion groups at which time par
ticipants shared in an evaluation
of Chowan’s policies and pro
grams and in setting goals for
future development.
The conference ended with a
luncheon in Thomas Cafeteria.
Chowan Boards
Hold Meeting
At College AAon.
A joint meeting of the Boards
of Trustees and Advisors of
Chowan College was held Mon
day beginning at 10 a.m. in the
office of Dr. Bruce E. Whita
ker, president.
The agenda included a report
from the Fifth Annual Planning
Conference, held Sept. 19;
firming of plans for the dedi
cation of the dormitory-lake
project, to be held Oct. 24; and
adoption of the 1970-71 budget.
The latter was presented as a
recommendation from the exe
cutive committee of the board
of trustees for action by the
trustees.
Trustee chairman is Charles
L. Revelle Sr., of Murfreesboro.
State senator Irwin Belk of
Charlotte serves as chairman
of the advisor body. The latter
board does not participate in
policy-making but serves in an
advisory capacity.
BSU Announces
Retreat Plans
The BSU plans for the up com
ing year begins with a retreat
at Nags Head Beach the last
weekend of September. They
will start tutoring programs for
grades 4 through 8 on the week
ends at B. S. Brown Elementary
school.
The officers of the BSU will
go to Caroway N. C. in October
2nd through the 4th for a con
vention. During this semester
there will be a Union Revival in
Burlington. To close the first
semester, the BSU will have
a hay ride at Christmas.
Spanish Club Officers for '70-71
The Spanish Club was very active last year here at Chowan. The officers for this year
are; Front left: Amy Wynns (Vice President), Joyce Dodson (Secretary). 2nd left: Larry
Thurston (Treasurer), Greg Fogle (Program Chairman), Jay Esposito (Social Chairman)
3rd left: Dr. Carson (sponsor), Steve LeHew, (resident).
Professor Greene More
Than Uusal Teacher
J. Craig Greene is employed
by Chowan College to teach art.
He appears to be a simple man
with a sufficient background
in art. Don’t let looks fool you!
Sometimes what seems to be
simple really isn’t. Professor
Greene is more than just
another instructor in the field
of art. His personal involvement
with his field includes creations
of his own. These creations
are in the form of color
paintings or as Professor Greene
would rather say, “visual
objects.”
■To explain what a “visual
object” is to the average man
on the street would take a
very talented vocabulary;
however. Professor Greene
possesses a talent for explana
tion.
“Art is essentially the process
whereby things are created,
whether these things be paint
ings, musical compositions,
or, more directly, ideas.
Paintings are visual traces
left along the path of this
creative process. The phen
omenon of vision is, naturally,
the fascination of the painter.
Visual art is not history nor it
it literature. The paintings of
this exhibit, then, are not in
adherence to historical trad
itions or literary meanings.
They are concerned with the
visual phenomenon, the relation
ships of contrasting lights and
darks, or of cool and
warm colors, or of the move
ment in a sequence of colors.
Girl From Alaska Affending Chowan
Ceramics class interests students
The pride of accomplishmeni; tnakliig somcUiitig with one's own hands, is l ewarding.
Students in (Chowan’s ceramics class thoroughly I'njoy their class. 'I'hcy may enjoy
being allowed to ware ‘■gubhics " to class also
Linda L. Carawan, one of Cho
wan’s freshmen has traveled
a long way to attend college
here.
Hailing from Chugiak, Alaska,
Miss Carawan decided to come
to Chowan, “Because I wanted
to go to a Baptist school that
offered nursing and the only
nursing school in Alaska was
Methodist.”
She has lived in Alaska for
12 years. Her home is approxi
mately 20 miles from Anchorage,
Alaska.
Finding little difference in the
people at Chowan and in Alaska,
“except that people in Alaska
are just a little friendlier," she
attended a high school with (i(KI
students from the eight to twelfth
grade.
“The thing 1 miss the most is
that there are no mountains in
this area. One of my hobbies is
mountain climbing or hiking,”
she revealed.
Other hobbies include reading,
singing and playing piano.
“Eskimos live right in the com
munity and are accepted as
everyone else,” Miss Carawan
reported.
"We see moose quite often,
but a lot of the wildlife is being
killed off, some from hunting.
We usually have four to six feet
of snow annually. We don’t have
as much as people think. The
coldest spell is in the last two
weeks of Decenibof or the first
two weeks in January when It
gets down to ten or twenty below
Winter lasts from mid-October
to mid-April.”
Miss Carawan found that the
most preparation she had to
make before coming to Chowan
was buying summer clothes.
“I had to buy lots more summer
clothes,” she stated.
Her parents are still living in
Alaska, and she will fly back to
see them at Christmas.
Other holidays will be spent
either with her grandmother or
an aunt, who both live in North
Carolina,or relativesinMaryland.
She has traveled in Missouri,
North Carolina, Maryland, and
Iowa.
Her father, who is with civil
service, moved to Alaska "As
the resiill of a dream he always
liad to live tliere"
The successful achievement of
these relationships is a means
of dealing with truth abstractly
and outside the self. These
paintings are visual objects'
and are to be viewed as such,
with any meaning to be derived
from one’s experience with
color and form.”
The exhibition which ran
from August 23 through Sept
ember 13, existed of five
paintings and a pencil study.
The first work entitled “Tritch,”
consisted of three rectangle
sections in the colors of green,
blue and red. This work has a
religious tone in that the middle
section represents Christ on the
cross between the two crim
inals.
The second object “Flav 3”
is a round and is made up of
several colors using curved
lines. This is the oldest work
in the exhibition and its
curved lines represent the body
of a human being.
The third work is a rectangle
in shape and its title “Eric 7,”
receives its name be being the
seventh work in the Eric series.
The name Eric was given
to the series by Professor
Greene from his son who was
born during the birth of the
series.
“The Polish Are Coming”
(Sequence 1) is the fourth
object and its main purpose
is to stress logical color
sequences to the viewer.
“The Polish Are Coming
(Sequence 2)” is the fifth work.
It is the newest of the five and
it shows the modern change
or turnabout to three dimen
sional paintings.
Professor Greene has been
creating color paintings since
1967. Before this he was strictly
a figure painter, but decided
to go to the more basic colors.
Professor Greene’s visual ot>-
ject painting is becoming not
only more popular in this
modern age, but also more com
plex. Even if some people
disagree with his logic as he
states, “these paintings seem
to be a logical development in
my own thinking, ” one must
say that this type of art is
most beautiful to Uxik at and
most intriguing to comprehend.
The art department plans
to have a different exhibit on
show each month The next
exhibition will bt> an exhibit
of Currier and Ives Originals.
These paintings are scheduled
for Septembet 20 through Octo
ber 3. These works show the
ways and habits of middle nine
teenth century America. There
is no admission charge and
students should make available
time to view these fine works
of art. Gallery hours are listed
below.
An Exhibition of Currier and
Ives Originals
Sept. 20 - Oct. 3, 1970
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Daily
2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Sun.
You Could Help
A litter Bit'
“Visual pollution” is getting
action here and there across the
land. That's the new name for
litter — trash tossed onto pave
ments, roadsides, public and
private property. Such uglifi-
cation is widespread in South
Florida, as elsewhere. We are
inclined to fear it will get worse
until ways are found of removing
the present accumulation of lit
ter. There seems to be a sub
conscious reluctance in people
to mar a clean place with the
first piece of trash. Conversely,
dirty gutters, for example, seem
to invite more of the same.
If existing shreds of paper,
flattened cans and the like could
be hauled away, the cleaned-up
scene might stay that way for
a while, at least. In communities
all over the country, cleanup
drives are being launched —
Philadelphia, Seattle, Pittsfield,
Mass., to mention just a few.
The need is obvious. The Nation
al Academy of Sciences reported
last year that in one month a
typical mile of highway was
cluttered with 1,304 pieces of
litter — paper, cans, bottles and
jars, plastic and miscellaneous
junk. The cost to taxpayers
is enormous, perhaps some $500
million a year nationwide.
This “hidden tax” isn’t likely
to spark countermeasures as
much as the affront to the eyes
from the slovenliness. “Visual
pollution” would cease over
night, of course, if each man,
woman and child decided to
stop it. Litter would vanish if
each passerby picked up a single
bit and put it in a container or
his own garbage can. None
would be added if everyone re
solved firmly to litter no more.
— Miami (Fla.i Herald