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STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF CHOWAN COLLEGE
By D. H. NICHOLSON,
Registrar
When a student is admitted to
Chowan College, the Director of
Admissions and the Admissions
Committee feel somewhat con
fident that he will be able to meet
the requirements for continued
enrollment, which means, in
essence, that a regular student,
one who is carrying at least 12
semester hours of work, must
earn a minimum of 9 semester
hours and 9 quality points each
semester in regular attendance
in order to be in good standing, a
classification which refers to the
status of a student who is not on
probation and who is eligible to
continue in or to return to the
institution.
Although the term “good
standing” has a generally ac
cepted meaning among collegiate
registrars and admissions of
ficers at the various institutions
of higher education, each in
stitution, generally, determines
its own standards for continued
enrollment. Therefore, it is quite
possible for a student to be in
good standing and eligible for
continued enrollment at one
institution and yet not be eligible,
gradewise, for admission to
another institution, although both
institutions are of comparable
quality and are accredited.
Notice!
$100.00 reward for the arrest and conviction of
persons connected with or commlting rash of
thefts of automobile stereo tape players on
Chowan campus. (Ed. Note: According to
William Graham, chief security officer, the theif
works mostly on rainy nights. Be on the lookout.)
All information will be kept in strict confidence.
Contact Campus Security Officers if any
suspicions of information is obtained.
CHAPEL SPEAKER—Grady Nutt was the featured
speaker for two chapel services during Religious
Emphasis Week, and on each occasion held his audience
spellbound with his timely messages.
PERFORMING IN STUDENT CENTER—Nutt gave
three performances in the Student Center before packed
audiences. The evening sessions were one of hte most
enjoyable according to several students.
Again, as was mentioned in some
of the first articles in the “Smoke
Signal,” the general rule which
most institutions follow con
cerning the admission of the
transfer student is that he must
have at least a “C” average on
“all” work attempted.
The point of the discussion so
far is that because a student is in
good standing at a college and is
entitled to honorable withdrawal
from one institution does not
necessarily mean that he will be
fully or unconditionally admitted
to another comparable in
stitution. Perhaps the best advice
for a student who is in doubt
about his chances for admission
to a particular school is for him to
write directly to the director of
admissions of that school for
information concerning the
requirements for admission of
transfer students.
One of the most important
indices which an admissions
officer at the four-year school
will have to determine the
prospective transfer student’s
eligibility for admission is the
transcript. Traditionally, a
transcript is a copy of the
student’s official educational
record at the institution. The
transcript, along with the con
fidential character references
(discussed in the last issue) from
college officials and others, will
help the admissions officer form
the best profile of the prospective
student.
When looking at the transcript,
an admissions officer will be
looking specifically at the
description of courses and the
grades. Generally, courses with a
“C” average or better will
transfer from an accredited
institution of higher education
providing the institution
receiving the course will have
one “reciprocal” in nature.
“Reciprocal” means, in this
instance, that a course taught on
the Chowan Campus would have
an equivalent on most other
campuses. For instance, this
means that the Chowan College
freshman course English
Composition 101 has its
equivalent at Campbell College in
Freshman English 111, at the
University of North Carolina
State at Raleigh in English 111,
Composition and Rhetoric, or at
the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill in English Com
position and Rhetoric 1.
Since the basic non-terminal
curriculum is virtually the same
for the freshman and sophomore
years at most fully accredited
institutions of higher education,
an admissions officer at the four-
year school will be comparing a
junior college non-terminal
student’s transcript to what his
own institution requires of its
freshmen and sophomores.
Although the course numbers
at various two-year and four-year
colleges may be different, the
course names and-or descriptions
are generally either the same or
equivalent and, therefore,
reciprocal. Most colleges and
universities accept the
equivalent courses outright from
the fully accredited institutions if
the grade standard has been met.
In other words, assuming that
the grades are generally ac
ceptable, that is, at least a “C”
average on “all” work at
tempted, an admissions officer
will want to see what general
educational requirements the
prospective transfer student has
met while at Chowan College.
Has the transferer successfully
completed his freshman English
requirement? Has he completed
his math and science
requirements? Generally, and we
go back to the earlier columns of
“Smoke Signals”, if the student
completes the general education
and specialized course
requirements for the associates
degree at Chowan College, he, in
a majority of instances, has
already completed the normal
general education requirement
found in the freshman and
sophomore years at most of the
colleges and universities to which
he would apply, and the com
pletion of this requirement will
put him in a better position for
transfer.
In the next issue, we may look
at the importance of the
associated degree to the would-
be-transfer student. Although
this look will involve a “re-hash”
of points introduced in earlier
articles, it will emphasize the
importance of completing work
already started at Chowan
College.
Volume 3—Numer 12
Wednesday, March 23, 1971
Postal Services Reviewed;
Many Complaints Noted
Mrs. Doreatha Thompson,
Director of Postal Services, and
students authorized to work in the
College post offices recently met
with Dean Lewis hoping to find
answers to numerous complains
from parents, students, faculty
and staff members about mail
services. Students have had their
mail opened. Some report that
mail containing money has never
been received. Others complain
that their mail is not being
received on time. Students say
they do not receive call-in slips
from faculty and staff members.
Mrs. Thompson brought to the
meeting many letters and call-in
slips which partially explained
some problems related to postal
services.
1. Many first-class letters
carried incorrect box numbers,
reversed box numbers (424 for
242), and incomplete box num
bers (302 for S-302). Letters to
residents of South Hall should
make sure that an “S” is placed
before the post office box num
ber. All letters with box numbers
under 600 are placed in boxes in
the main post office and not South
Hall unless “S” is placed before
the box number.
2. Some call-in slips from
faculty and staff members
contained no box numbers, just
names of students. Others had
incorrect box numbers. Men who
moved from South Hall or
changed rooms in South Hall
automatically change box
numbers since mailboxes in
Dr. Marchwardt To
Spealc April 6th
DR. MARCHWARDT
Science Fair
Is Scheduled
The CSSO will sponsor a
Science Fair during the last week
in April. The fair will consist of
an arranged exhibit of projects
done. Projects consisting of
reports only will be placed in a
special category IF they are
based on a “students ex
periment.” The displays will be
classified according to whether
they are displays only, or
displays based on experiments.
The e^ibition is to be displayed
in the Askew Student Union.
SGA Elections
Set Apr. 15
Student Government Elections
will be held April 15, 1971, 11:00
until 4:00 p.m. in the Student
Center.
The Offices to be elected are
the Executive Officers, Men’s
Council members, and the
Student Legislature members.
Deadline for application for
candidates is March 26, 1971.
Application forms may be ob
tained from Dean Lewis’s Office
any time before the 26th.
Plans Made
For Spring
Festival Day
The theme for Chowan College
Spring Festival is a “Campus
Carnival.” All clubs and Dor
mitories are being asked to
sponsor a booth for the carnival.
The cost of these booths will
range from a penny to 25 cents a
“throw”.
The booths will be judged on
decorativeness, originality,
participation, and interest of the
students. A lien dollar prize will
be awarded the best booth at
intermission of the dance
Saturday night.
The booths will be opened at
3:30 Saturday until 5:00. A loan of
$10.00 is being offered to help
arrange the booths.
South are opened with room keys.
Box numbers are never changed
on schedule cards given to
faculty advisers, the dean of the
college, the registrar and student
personnel deans. This accounts
for the large number of call-in
slips bearing an incorrect box
number.
Mrs. Thompson stated that
between 250 and 300 letters or
call-in slips with an incorrect or
with no box number are received
daily in the post office.
There is no reason to question
the integrity of students working
in the post office. They were
screened closely before being
allowed to work in the post office.
The following precautionary
measures are being taken:
1. All volunteer student help is
to be refused by Mrs. Thompson
and her student workers.
2. Mail no longer be given to
students asking for their
roommate’s mail.
The point was made that
students should be assigned only
one post office box while at
tending Chowan College. Such a
plan sounds worthy of an at
tempt. However, the group could
not find an easy way to ad
minister the policy.
What can be done now to assure
better postal services?
1. Place your correct address
on all letters which you mail.
2. Notify those with whom you
correspond of a change in your
post office box number.
3. Respond to package notices
immediately.
4. Discourage parents from
enclosing cash in letters.
5. Do not announce to friends
and associates that you are ex
pecting money from home.
6. See that post office box
numbers are changed on
schedule cards, including the
card kept by your faculty ad
viser.
7. Tell Mrs. Thompson im
mediately after learning that you
have not received mail sent to
you.
Mrs. Thompson, students
working in the post office, and the
dean of students will be glad to
hear your suggestions concerning
better postal services.
Dr. Albert H. Marchwardt,
professor of ancient and modern
literature at Princeton
University and a leading
authority on the history and
structure of the English
language, will speak at Chowan
College Tuesday, April 6 at 4 p.m.
in Marks Hall auditorium. He is
sponsored by Chowan and the
National Council of Teachers of
English (NCTE) as part of their
Distinguished Lecture Program.
Prior to his Princeton ap
pointment in 1968 he had spent
thirty-five years on the faculty of
the University of Michigan,
where he received his A.B., A.M.,
and Ph.D. degrees and was
elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
He is the author of “Scribner
Handbook of English” (first
published in 1940 with subsequent
editions in 1948 and 1960); “In
troduction to the English
Language” (1942); and
“American English” (1958; co
author (with Fred G. Walcott) of
“Facts About Current English
Usage” (1938) and (with Ran
dolph Quirk) of “A Common
Language” (1964). Editor of
“Historical Outline of English
Sounds and Inflections” and
‘‘Laurence Nowell’s
Vocabularium Saxonicum”
(1952), he has contributed ap
proximately one hundred articles
on linguistics and language to
scholarly journals. His resear
ches have extended to the entire
range of English linguistics.
Since 1940, Dr. Marckwardt has
been Director of the Linguistic
Atlas of the North Central States.
He has served as the director of
the English Language Institute in
Mexico and the University of
Michigan English Language
Institute. In 1953-54, he was a
Fulbright lecturer at the
Universities of Vienna and Graz,
Austria. He has also held visiting
professorships at Columbia
University and U.C.L.A.
The recipient in 1961 of
Michigan’s Distinguished
Faculty Achievement Award, he
is a member of the Advisory
Committee on Cultural In
formation and Chairman of the
Advisory Panel of the English
Teaching Division of the U.S
Information Agency. He is also a
member of the Research Ad
visory Committee of the Division
of Research, U. S. Office of
Education and of the National
Advisory Council on Teaching
English as a Foreigh Language.
At Ann Arbor, Dr. Marckwardt
served his community as a
member of the Board of
Education. He was also on the
Board of Education of
Washtenaw County and a
member of the Board of Direc
tors of the Michigan State
Association of School Boards.
He recently received the David
H. Russell Award
RELIGIOUS EMPHASIS WEEK
SPEAKER—Grady Nutt, center,
popular humorist-entertainer-
minister, chats with Ron Dunn, left and
Any Carroll after one of his chapel
addresses. The speaker was an
overwhelming success for the annual
event.
Nutt Big Success
For Special Week
Grad> Nutt, minister-
humorist-entertainer, was the
featured speaker for the annual
Religious Emphasis Week at
Chowan College, March 14-19. He
led the campus community in an
exploration of the theme “No
Time to Sell Out”, as he con
ducted the chapel services on
Tuesday, March 16, and Thur
sday, March 18 (9:30 a.m. and
11:00 a.m.); through visitation in
the classroom; in evening en-
tertainment-dialogue sessions in
the Student Union; and through
informal discussion with student
and faculty-staff personnel
throughout the week.
The public was invited to
share in the "An Evening
With Nutt" programs in the
Student Center, Thomas
Cafeteria, 8 p.m., March 16,
17, and 18. There were few
seats available for those who
wished to visit the college
chapel on either March 16 or
March 18, 9:30 a.m. and 11:00
a.m.
Born in Amarillo, Texas, Nutt
is a graduate of Baylor
University (1957) and of the
Southern Baptist Church, Waco,
Texas; minister to youth, Gaston
Avenue Baptist Church, Dallas,
Texas; minister of music,
Southside Baptist Church,
Louisville, Ky.; Pastor,
Graefenburg Baptist Church,
Graefenburg, Ky.; and as
assistant to the president.
Southern Baptist Theological
Seminary, Louisville, Ky.
It was while serving in the
latter capacity at Louisville that
Nutt made his initial appearance
on the Mike Douglas Show—an
appearance which proved to be a
kind of springboard to national
recognition as an entertainer-
humorist. He has since become a
frequent guest of Mike Douglas.
Other “credits” include ap
pearances on the Woody
Woodbury Show, more than 1()0
after-dinner addresses annually,
frequent appearances at fund
raising functions for churches
and other organizations
throughout the nation.
Nutt is a member of the
International Platform
Assocaition (2nd place
winner among 50 speakers in
preview competition at the
1970 national convention), the
American Federation of
Radio and Television Artists,
and the Fellowship of
Christian Athletes. A
musician, he plays the
guitar, ukulele, ban|o,
dulcimer, piano, and tiple.
His first book."Being Me;
Or, Self You Bug Me!" is due
for release in May 1971.
Chowan’s chaplain. Dr. R.
Hargus Taylor, said of Nutt:
“His outstanding abilities as an
entertainer and communicator-
coupled with his own personal
commitment to the Christian
faith—make Grady Nutt one of
the most attractive and ap
pealing personalities who has
ever been invited to share in
Religious Emphasis Week at
Chowan.”