Student Legislature Meet
Tuesday Causes Concern
Smoke Signals, Wednesday, Oct. 27, 1971—Page Three
Know Your Professor
SERVICE PROJECT—One of the
service projects of the Circle K Club is
the raising and lowering of the flag in
front of McDowell Columns. Above,
David Silva, left, and Butch Stinson
prepare to raise a new flag which has
flown over the Capitol in Washington, D.
C. The flag, which replaces the old one.
which was frayed, was secured by
Circle K through the assistance of
Congressman Walter B. Jones, and the
architect of the Capitol, George M.
White. The flag will be presented of
ficially to the college during
homecoming.
Circle K Purpose,
Activities Outlined
By JIM HUNTER
WHAT IS CIRCLE K—Circle K
Iflternational is the largest
collegiate organization in North
America, with nearly 800 clubs
throughout the United States and
Canada. However, it is not the
size of our organization that gives
us our identity or provides with
our primary source of pride and
satisfaction in Circle K; rather
our reason for existence is found
in what we do and what we stand
for.
CIRCLE K is a service
organization through which
college men can find a means of
responsible student action in
their communities and a more
active involvement in the life of
their campus. Our concerns
result in very direct personal
service. We are involved in nuts
and bolts activities that help
people and serve the campus and
community as clubs perceive
needs they can effectively meet.
CIRCLE K is a practical
laboratory for the development of
personal leadership skills and the
growth of personal initiative in
analyzing the needs of our en
vironment and attempting to find
solutions for them.
CIRCLE K is a means of for
ming friendships, working in a
common cause with other
students, and simply having fun.
Social functions are important
for a well rounded club. Parties
and other purely social club
events are recommended, and
the weekly club meetings are
designed to be educational and
interesting.
College is more than
scholarship—it’s a good time; it’s
Unrest
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Departments of Labor, and
Health, Education, and Welfare
Bill, 1972.
The article appearing above
was forwarded to college officials
by the U. S. Government for
dissemination to college
students, faculty, and ad
ministration.
Mid-Term
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discussed, there will also be a
discussion in the next issue of
Smoke Signals of the increasing
importance of earning the
Associates degree here at
Chowan College before tran
sferring to a senior institution to
complete work for the bac
calaureate. Read this column!
getting to know others; it’s fin
ding out who you are; it’s trying
to make a meanfngful cdn-
tribution in a world that wants us
to wait. Circle K provides a
unique opportunity for reaching
each of these goals.
Circle K is an international
organization sponsored by the
local Kiwanis Club (in Ahoskie).
International club dues are $5.00
annually for each member.
If interested in joining Circle K,
see Jim Hunter, President of
Circle K, about an application. I
live in Superintendent Barracks,
Room 4 Box 442, phone number is
398-9500.
B5U
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is co-operating with local
churches to provide Christian
witness by arranging visits by
BSU rivival teams. The BSU has
three revival teams, two of which
center around peeaching, while
the third witmesses through the
use of Christian folk songs.
In addition, the BSU is planning
some weekend “game-parties,” a
Halloween Party, and a
Christman caroling excursion.
Members will also have the
opportunity to attend several
conventions and a retreat.
By Terry Shoulders
There was a Student
Legislation meeting held Monday
night, October 25, 1971 which
caused a lot of concern
throughout the student body. It
was one of the first displays of
unity through out the student
body. Questions and suggestions
brought up are as follows. Just a
few were answered but “changes
at Chowan are' not rapid.”
1. Does student legislation
have power?
Student legislation has power;
changes have been made by the
legislature. Changes have to be
presented to the administration
to be studied and considered.
Students are to go to Dean Lewis,
who is head of student relations.
He goes to Dr. Whitaker. It then
must go to the Board of Trustees
and from there to the Southern
Baptist Convention.
Two suggestions were made to
remedy this matter of little
student representation. One was
to invite two or three trustees to a
meeting of the Student
Legislature. The other
suggestion was to send
representatives from the
legislature to attend a meeting of
and speak to the Board of
Trustees.
2. Does the Dorm Council
really have power with a trial by
jury?
The Dorm Council is to review
each of the five call downs
resulting in a student’s ap
pearance before it and decide if
they are all fair. It was
brought up that the person going
before the council is already
considered guilty by the ad
ministration before ever being
sentenced by the council. The
point was that the Dorm Council
has more power in finding a
person innocent or guilty than the
student body realizes.
3. Make student trials public
(open to all students).
4. Make self-supporting
students responsible for their
own grades and conduct instead
of having grade reports and
permission slips sent to parents.
5. End two Chapel meetings
per week.
Chapel must be held in some
form because of Chowan’s
position as a church-related
school. Alternate chapel times,
including a night-Chapel were
suggested.
6. Define the powers of Mr.
Graham.
Graham is an investigator and
a prosecutor of people involved in
crimes on campus and being
tried by the dorm council. He
may keep a suspect until he is
through his interrogation. He has
to use his tactics for results. As
to threats: No one has been
shipped out or suspended because
he has wanted it.
7. Would like to see
disciplinary actions against
persons after reaching their
rooms with out undue notice of
the persons condition
(drunkedness) eliminated.
%
8. Why punishment tor crimes
off campus.
This act of “double jeopardy”
depends on your crime. Public
drinking (an example) violates
Chowan policy which is to bring
undue notice of your drunked
ness.
9. Later hours for girls.
SPECIAL PERMISSION FOR
1:00 could be changed to sign
permission instead of the red
tape process you must go through
now.
10. Why are some of the ^A
funds taken by the Ad
ministration?
11. Lunchroom hours and
quality of food changed.
It would be too difficult to
change them. “We cannot come
to the cafeteria barefoot but dogs
may roam around.” It would be
possible to get such a petty thing
such as this changed.
12. Girl’s lounges open on
weekends.
Could get it if it were pushed.
13. Abolish room checks.
Room checks are necessary to
make people have a reason to
keep some personal hygiene.
EVERY THURSDAY THERE
WILL BE A ROOM CHECK-BE
READY.
14. Off campus students would
like to abide by the house owner’s
rules rather than the school’s.
15. Extremity of penalty for
parking tickets reduced.
16. Class cuts left up to in
dividual teacher.
It has been tried and it did not
work. There must be a central
policy. You may have double
cuts if you make Honor Roll,
Dean’s List, or President’s List.
17. Call downs should be given
out realistically.
18. South Hall’s lounge should
be open for girls.
Make up a committee to get it
approved.
19. Abolish dress code.
20. There should be a set of
displinary actions for rules
broken.
21. Get phone calls after
12:00.
22. Why is there such a
maintenance problem? Washers
and dryers were not replaced in
dorms.
23. Eliminate unorganized
registration.
24. Why are registration fees so
high?
The administration decided on
the rate.
These funds are calculated by
looking at the ledger.
25. Eliminate red tape to get an
excused absence.
26. Change hours kept by the
infirmary.
27. Assign parking spaces.
28. Why is there such a rise in
tuition rates?
Inflation.
Dean Lewis did say any
suggestions for changes which
are practical would be con
sidered. If concrete suggestions
are made instead of gripes, a
committee could be made to
represent the ideas.
One legislature said when
asked about the meeting, that
“Dean Lewis beat around the
bush.” Another one agreed but
also added that the questions
raised were not direct.
The majority of the Student
Legislatures feel that “students
have no representation” in the
governmental system of Chowan.
DO NOT gripe among your
friends but take your complaints
to your representative so he can
take it directly to the legislative
council where it can be directly
dwelt with.
COACH WILLIAM
P. MCCRAW
CSSO Report
Chowan Science Service
Organization
NEW FLAG—Folding with precision
the new flag secured for the college by
Circle K are veterans David Silva, left.
and Butch Stinson. Silva is a former U.
S. Marine and Stinson served in the U.
S. Army Airborne.
ByARTHUR RIDDLE
For somtime now, man has
been able to cause rainfall by
seeding clouds with silver iodide
crystals. Raindrops condense
around the crystals and fall to the
ground.
Scientists now believe that
smoke (specifically the solid
particles in smoke) from fac
tories can somtimes accidentally
cause rainfall or snowfall.
On the morning of Janurary 11,
1971, a Purdue University
Letters
About Flag
Hon. Walter B. Jones
House of
Representatives
Washington, D. C.
The Honorable Jones,
On behalf of the Chowan
College Family, I send to you our
gratitude for your part in ob
taining for our campus a new
national flag, which enriches the
beauty and heritage of our
campus.
The flag will be formally
dedicated to the college on Oc
tober 30 at the Homecoming
game during the pre-game ac
tivities, afterwhich it will then
replace the old frayed flag, which
we are now using.
Your quick response to my
letter of inquiry concerning the
acquisition of a national flag that
has flown over the United States
Capitol is most appreciated. I am
sure this is indicative of the faith
you have in Chowan College and
the part it plays in preparing
young people for the tasks that lie
ahead. For it is here that one
finds such advantages as a real
sense of belonging to the college
f^ily and definite interest in the
individual on the part of the
faculty and staff.
An announcement of the role
you played in making this
possible will be made in the next
student newspaper, “The Smoke
Signals,” which will be mailed to
you on that date.
Sincerely yours,
James T. Hunter
Chowan College
Circle K President
Dear Mr. Hunter,
You were indeed kind to write
me as you did about my providing
a new flag for your campus. It
was a pleasure to be of some
small service; and I sincerely
hope the flag may be flown on the
campus of Chowan College for
many years of peace.
With best personal regards, I
am
Sincerely,
Wlater B. Jones
Member, Congress
scientist, Dr. E. M, Agee, noticed
that a peculiar snowfall had
taken place in parts of Lafayette,
Indiana. A quick survey revealed
that the snowfall took place
within a parabola beginning at
the Purdue University power
plants and extending in a
direction which was downwind at
the time of the snowfall. The
pattern of the snowfall and
the known weather conditions at
the time, as well as snowfall near
other factories, tends to confirm
Dr. Agee’s hypothesis that the
snowfall was smoke induced
The type of coal burned in the
Purdue power plants is believed
to give off substances such as
aluminum oxide, which could
have been the nuclei for the
snowflakes.
Based on “Science News”, Vol.
100, pg. 168, September 11, 1970.
By MARY
TOWNSEND
Basketball coach, William P. McCraw is the professor
I interviewed this week. McCraw teaches Hygiene and
Physical Education, and he coaches basketball and
tennis.
At old Dominion he received his B.S. in Health and
Education. At University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill he received his M.A. in Health and Physical
Education, and his M.A. in Guidance and counseling.
Mr. McCraw is married to Frances McCraw. They
have three children; Debra Lynn 12, William James 9,
and Laura Dale 6. Before coming to Chowan 9 years ago,
their home was in Norfolk, Virginia.
Coach McCraw has been a member of the Mur
freesboro Rescue Squad for about one year. He is what
you’d call a day-night member, he can be called
anytime during the 24 hour period from 6 A.M. - 6 P.M.
He is on duty every 6th day. When asked why he joined
the rescue squad he said “Mainly to be of help to people
in need, not just to be an organization. The Squad had
done some great work since its organization.
When asked “What do you think of Chowan
academically, he said: “I believe a student has the
opportunity to obtain a solid foundation for senior
college. I feel the college is able to meet the academic
needs of our students. There are some changes that need
to be made, but the college is continuously re-evaluating
its program and is doing a good job in keeping up with
the kind of world our students will face in the years
ahead”.
When asked “What do you think of the people of
Chowan? He said: “I regard the community of Chowan
very highly. Over the years I have met and known some
of the finest people in my life among this community. I
can recall boys and girls whose depth of feeling, warm
th, and friendliness, I wouldn’t trade for all the gold in
Ft. Knox. The same feeling exists for many of those with
whom I work. Oh, I suppose I don’t get along with
everybody, and I know of students I’d like to ‘Kick in the
pants”, but generally speaking they’re great.”
During the past summers McCraw has been a
graduate student at U.N.C. This past summer though,
he was employed as Murfreesboro Recreation Director,
and in addition, he taught one section of Hygiene during
the first semester session here.
When asked how did he feel about this year’s
basketball season, he said “I feel very good about 1971-
72 season. There are several good freshmen to go with a
good Nucleus of sophomores.
Having small children, his home has been, or is now,
the home of a number of “pets”. Presently they have a
dog “Rusty” who spends more time following McCraw
around the campus than he does at home. When you see
McCraw’s car, you see “Rusty” too, waiting patiently
for his master to return. They also have a white cat
called “Snowball”; and a white rabbit “Christopher”.
However they have been the “parents” of a second dog,
a number of turtles, fish and more cats, many of them at
the same time.
J'jwof
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CHOWAN CHEERERS—Members of
the college Cheerleader squad are
enthusiastic in leading the Brave
boosters at the Lees-McRae contest.
Chowan was edged in the contest with
the traditional rivals, 10-8.