In Registrar's Office
Student Records
Are Confidential
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By D. H. NICHOLSON
Registrar
A problem of continuing con
cern for the college student today
is the confidentiality of his
permanent records in the files of
his college or university. This is a
problem because so few students
-eally understand the con
fidential nature of their records'
ind-or the role of the college or
jniversity in keeping the records
confidential. With a definite
ncrease in the number of
lyernmental and private
ncies which are making
hands for more information
bout students for various
easons, most institutions of
igher education have developed
ery definite and, therefore,
ather firm policies concerning
he release of information about
heir present or former students,
Afith the preceding in mind, the
■est of this column will be
ievoted to a summary of the
»licy of Chowan College which
Dertains to student records and
he obligations of the College to
he maintenance and availability
)f these records.
Registrar Responsible
The Registrar here at Chowan
as he is elsewhere, is responsible
tor the maintenance of all per
manent records of students,
oresent or former, of the College.
He is also generally responsible
for the release of any information
to agencies outside his office,
including other departments of
the College; the student; other
educational institutions; local,
state and federal agencies;
prospective employers; or
commercial enterprises.
Since student records in the
Registrar’s office are considered
personal and confidential, most
information therefrom will be
released to sources outside of the
College only upon the written
request or consent from the
student, his parents, his guar
dians, or his next of kin. However
the following information may be
released to prospective em
ployers, credit investigators,
insurance companies, govern
mental agencies, either in
writing or orally on the phone,
without consent of the student:
name of a particular student;
recorded home and local ad
dress; dates of attendance; his
degree, if any, and date granted;
his curriculum
In addition to the preceding
general policy concerning
disclosure of information about
the student’s record, other
BOOTLEG CIGARETTES
ARE CONFISCATED
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) —
Two agents of the Maryland
Tobacco Tax Unit have con
fiscated a record number of
bootleg cigarettes being
transported through Maryland
to New York City.
Some 15,600 cartons of ciga
rettes were confiscated at 11;30
p.m. Thursday by tobacco tax
agents W. W. Jefferson and H.
A. Duke.
Albert Manislalle, 54, and
Lawrence Mangane, 29, were
charged with illegal
transportation and illegal pos
session of cigarettes not bear
ing Maryland tax stamps. The
two Brooklyn, N.Y., men are
being held in Somerset Coiuity
jail in lieu of $20,000 bond each.
educational institutions may be
furnished class standing, grades,
reports on disciplinary actions, if
these reports should exist.
Generally, transcripts (copies
of the student’s official
educational record) may be
obtained only by the student upon
request to the Registrar, within
the guidelines established by the
Registrar and published in the
Chowan College Catalog and the
Student Handbook. The tran
script with the seal of the college
and the signature of the
Registrar is never sent to the
student but directly to the ad
dress of the agency or institution
to which the student is making
application for one reason or
another. If the student wants a
transcript for himself, his will be
without the official seal and the
Registrar’s signature.
Student Is Protected
Another area of growing
concern and importance is that
related to investigative agencies
and their increasing demands for
information about present or
former students. We at Chowan
College, feel that we must do
everything to protect the student
and to insure his right to privacy.
Therefore, when processing
confidential forms, or other
matter, for possible employment
with governmental agencies or
private institutions, if it becomes
event that disclosures of in
formation not otherwise
releasable will be in the best
interest of the student, the
student will be notified at the last
known address and requested to
make his desire known as to
whether or not the information
will be disclosed. Impetus for the
release of possibly derogatory
information must originate with
the student, his parents, or his
guardians. In cases where the
present or former student is in
volved in a court proceeding,
and information is requested by
some party for the proceeding,
this request will be honored only
with the student’s consent or a
subpoena from the court.
To local, state, and federal
agencies such as the FBI, the
SBI, to local and state police
officers, to the Civil Service and
Military Intelligence, et cetera,
all academic and personal in
formation, other than that in
formation identified above, may
not be released except under
approval and supervision of the
Registrar . It is assumed that the
Registrar will have authorization
from the student concerned if the
former feels that the release
would result in the student’s
being placed in an unfavorable
situation or if that release would
jeopardize the integrity of the
College.
Upholds Privacy
In general, the policy of
Chowan College concerning the
maintenance and availability of
student records is one planned
and executed to uphold the
privacy of the student’s records
and to insure the integrity of the
school.
In the next issue of SMOKE
SIGNALS, we will look at the
importance of the transcript and
what it states about a prospective
transfer student. How does a
senior college or university
admissions officer use it to
determine the admissibility of an
applicant from the junior
coUege?
STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF CHOWAN COLLEGE
i^OKE Smis
Volume 4—Number 4
Wednesday, November 8, 1972
Murfreesboro, North Carolina
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Ministerial Alliance Will
Operate New Rap Center
VISITS CHOWAN—The “Copy Cat,” a picturesque river boat from Washington, D.
C., visited Chowan (or as near as it could get) during the recent Homecoming
weekend. A reception for the Homecoming Court and other dignatiries and college
officials was held on board the ship while it was docked in the Chowan River at
Winton.
Eugene Platt Reads Poetry
By MORGAN STAFFORD
The contemporary poet Eugene
Robert Platt appeared last week
in Marks Hall with the reading of
his poetry. In hearing of his
Dr. Fryer Active Teacher;
Has Many Interests, Talents
By STEPHEN BOWMAN
Well known to most' students
^ho take Western Civilization, is
Or. Bruce Fryer, an active young
«acher with a wide range of
nterests. His life has a more
•ecent beginning than other
jrofessors interviewed in this
series, but it is nevertheless an
nteresting life.
Dr. Fryer was born on October
>9, 1941 in Pottstown, Penn
sylvania, the son of Lewis and
Dorothy Fryer. His father is an
auditor and his mother is a home-
^aker. He has one sister, Judith,
^ librarian in Collegeville,
Pennsylvania.
Dr. Fryer grew up in Pottsville,
a large northern industrial town,
and in 1959 he graduated from the
Pottstown High School. He
continued his education at
Juniata College in Huntington,
Pennsylvania and in 1963
received an A.B. Degree in
History, From there he went to
Wake Forest University in
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
and graduated in 1964 with an
M.A. Degree in History Thesis
and Study of the French
Revolution of 1789. Dr. Fryer
then attended Indianna
University in Bloomington, In
dianna, where he graduated in
1972 with a Ph.D. in Rumanian
History, He also received an East
European Area Certificate in
1972. While working his way
through college he did everything
from construction work to
operating a refreshment stand.
The education he received in
both working and going to college
is paying off now that he has
begun to teach. In 1964, as an
instructor in History, World
Civilizations, and Western
Qvilization, he began to teach at
Campbell College in Buies Creek,
N. C. Dr, Fryer taught at Camp
bell College from 1964 to 1966 and
again between 1969 and 1970 as an
assistant professor of History and
Western Civilization.
In 1970 he came to Chowan
College and is now professor of
History and Western Civilization
here. Dr. Fryer is Coordinator of
European History Program and
the Program Chairman for a
conference involving the Social
Science Departments of the
seven North CaroUna Southern
Baptist Colleges.
Dr. Fryer is well-learned in
foreign languages and can
fluently speak Rumanian and
French, He can speak German
and can read Latin, Russian, and
Serbo-Croation with the help of a
dictionary.
Dr. Fryer is single and lives in
an apartment in Murfreesboro,
He has many hobbies and in
terests. He enjoys reading,
traveling, building furniture,
music, concerts, hiking, and is
now studying classical guitar in
Norfolk. Although he is the ad
visor for the Chowan College
Surfing Association, sur
prisingly, he does not surf.
He thinks highly of Chowan. “I
think it is possible for students to
get a very good education here. A
great number of our students
don’t have enough confidence in
themselves and they give up.”
Dr. Fryer wishes that Chowan
was a four-year school so that he
could watch the students
develope more fully.
He enjoys teaching. “I like
working with people and ex
changing ideas. I wish students
would feel more free to speak.”
Dr. Fryer says that there are
some very good things about
Chowan. “I like it here.”
oncoming appearance I knew it
would have to be the highlight of
the year for the literary aspect of
Chowan College. I was wrong.
Mr. Platt stood waist deep in
ego to read his already forgotten
unforgetables, but before his first
reading he insulted our in
telligence by defining a limerick.
The reason being was that no one
at a junior college knows what a
limerick is. The first poem
coincidently was a limerick
spiced with a bit of humor to get
our attention, we have all ob
served many times from a pull
pit.
Mr. Platt then started on a
series of poems dealing with the
death of his father. The first was
a bit unique although the last few
were ruined by the preoccupied
wonder the listener received of
when the final farewell of his
father would come.
After these poems Mr. Platt
gave us the wonderful privilege
of applauding whenever we
pleased. The reason again being
that anyone who goes to a junior
coDege does not have any taste in
poetry to know good from bad
and therefore it is necessary to
coach them. So when Mr. Platt
said we could applaud we did so,
but not for the sake of good poetry
but only to feed his hungry ego
which detracted so much from
the few valued words he had to
offer.
The last three poems by Platt
were much better and much
different than those in the
begirming. They were dealing
with the shores of Kitty Hawke
and along with his reading he was
accompanied by a friend on
guitar. The guitarist, John
Lawrence was from the Manteo
So my advice to all the poetry
lovers here at Chowan (Allege is
that if the chance arises to see the
poet Eugene Robert Platt, do so.
The you will be well acquainted
with the difference between good
poetry and bad.
Reading Is Well Attended
By JAMES MOORE
Some eighty students and
faculty members gathered in
Marks Hall auditorium at 8:30
October 25 for a reading by the
poet Eugene Robert Platt. A
native of Charleston, Platt now
works at Clarion State College in
Pennsylvania. Following an
introduction by sophomore
Dianne Bowen, Platt read
selections from this three books
“Coffee and Solace”, “Alleghany
Reveries” and “Six of One, Half
Dozen of the Other”. Among the
audience’s favorites were
“Carolina Sands I” and
“Carolina Sands II” and “Outer
Banks Explanation,” along with
Feeling that many of their
fellow students would like to have
a place on campus to which they
could go to discuss problems,
concerns, gripes, etc., with an
interested and concerned
student, the Ministerial AlUance
of Chowan College will begin the
operation of a “Rap Center” on
Monday, November 13, The
Center will be located in Room 14
on the ground floor of Whitaker
Library. Center “hours” will be
maintained, with individual
members of the Alliance
responsible for particular hours
each week. A schedule will be
posted on the Center door.
Chaplain Taylor, advisor to the
Ministerial Alliance, has drawn
up the following guidelines for the
members of the Alliance who will
be operating the Rap Center.
They are reproduced here—along
with a tentative schedule of
Center hours—in the order that
the campus community may be
aware of them.
1. Be present in the Center at
the time(s) you are responsible
for its operation. If you cannot be
present during the hours
assigned you, let Chaplain Taylor
know this in advance, if possible.
If an emergency arises—
necessitating your leaving the
Center for an extended time—
leave a note on the door in
dicating the time you expect to
return.
2. It is Imperative that there be
no excessive noise or commotion
in the Center, or in the hallway
outside! You are located near
faculty offices where a quiet
atmoi^ere must prevail.
3. Most students who come by
the Center will not have serious
problems to discuss, but only be
looking for a “sounding board”
for their ideas, pet gripes, etc.
Some students will want to
discuss personal problems of a
really serious nature. In either
case, those operating the Rap
Center must observe the
following:
a. Keep no records of in
dividual conversations, unless
the person with whom you talk
indicates that he would like to be
referred to someone else. In this
case, merely note the general
nature of his problem or concern,
and pass this information on to
Chaplain Taylor for referral.
Be sure to keep any con
fidence with which you are en
trusted! Don’t discuss with
others—including your fellow
Alliance members—those con
cerns which are brought to you by
persons coming to the Rap
Center. If a student "brings a
problem to you which—in your
opinion—needs attention beyond
what you are equipped to give,
suggest that he talk with
Chaplain Taylor; or, ask if you
may bring the matter to the at
tention of the Chaplain, In any
case where you are uncertain
about what to do, bring the
matter to the attention of
Chaplain Taylor,
c. Just as you are not to
discuss specific cases with your
fellow students, you must not do
so with faculty-staff personnel,
except Chaplain Taylor as in
dicated above,
4. The Rap Center must not
become a convenient place for
bull sessions.
5. The Center is not to be in use,
prior to 8:00 a.m. nor later than
6:00 p.m., Monday-Friday.
Got a problem? complaint?
concern? See you in the Rap
Center.
MINISTERIAL ALLIANCE
Rap Center Schedule
MONDAY
9:00-10:00 a.m.
10:00-12:00 noon
1:00- 2:00 p.m.
3:30- 4:30 p.m.
TUESDAY
11:00-12:00 noon
1:00- 2:00p.m.
2:00- 3:30p.m.
3:30- 4:30p.m.
WEDNESDAY
9:00-10:00 a.m.
11:00- 1:00p.m.
1:00- 2:00 p.m.
3:30- 4:30p.m.
THURSDAY
9:00-11:00a.m,
11:00-12:00 noon
1:00- 2:00p,m.
2:00- 3:30p.m.
FRIDAY
9:00-10:00 a.m.
1:00- 2:00p.m.
Joe Wynns
Billy Dunkley
Mark Morris
Billy Dunkley
Julian Parker
Ed Pittman
C.J. Bordeaux
Tommy Speight
Julian Parker
Billy Dunkley
Mark Morris
Tommy Speight
Tommy Speight
Julian Parker
Ed Pittman
C.J. Bordeaux
Joe Wynns
Ed Pittman
B5U Group Attends
Retreat at Ridgecrest
On November 3-5, the Baptist
Student Union-Campus Christian
Fellowship went to Ridgecrest
Baptist Assembly for the annual
fall convention. BSU groups from
all over the state gathered in the
mountains for a weekend of fun,
fellowship, and inspiration. Dr,
Bodie from the American Baptist
Seminary was the guest speaker
for the weekend.
On November 1, the BSU-CCF
began a ministry to a small rest
home in Ahoskle. Visits are
planned for once every two
weeks. Members will present
devotional programs, sing, and
lead in recreation.
Earlier in the semester the
group went on a retreat to Bath,
N. C. Kay Huggins, Director of
Students Works of the State
Baptist Convention, was present
to discuss summer work op
portunities for students. Chaplain
Taylor lead the group in a Bible
study on the Sermon on the
Mount.
Each Wednesday morning at
7:15, the BSU-CCF holds a
prayer-breakfast in the cafeteria.
A faculty or staff member is in
vited to lead in a morning
devotion and prayer.
On November 13, the BSU-CCF
will sponsor a panel discussion
with the religion professors. Rick
Traylor, Director of the Baptist
Youth Corps will be at the
November 20 meeting to discuss
the Youth Corps program.
Meetings of the BSU-CCF are
held on Monday nights at 7:00 in
the Askew Student Union.
‘Civilizafion’ Films
The filmstrip, “Civilization,” is
a spirited and scholarly journey
through sixteen centuries of the
history of Western Man. The film
is currently being shown every
Sunday at 3:00 and 7:00 in Marks
Hall Auditorium, The series is
divided into 16 series in which two
series are shown every Sunday.
The films altogether last 1 hour
and 40 minutes under the
direction of Mr. Green.
The topic of each series are as
follows:
1. The Frozen World
2. The Great Thaw
All
3. Romance and Reality
4. Man-The Measure of
Things
5. The Hero as Artist
6. Protest and Communication
7. Grandeur and Obedience
8. The Pursuit of Happiness
9. The Light of Experience
10. The Smile of Reason
11. The Worship of Nature
12. The Fallacies of Hope
13 Heroic Materialism
14. Rising Expectations
15. New Art Forms
16. Science and Technology:
Madness or Miracle
poems inspired by the author’s
father.
Platt was accompanied on the
guitar during three of his
selections by John Lawrence of
Manteo, who also sang several
ballads he has composed.
Lawrence related an anecdote of
how his father once rode up the
front steps of the present Mc-
Dowell-Columns Building on a
mule and deposited his mother in
the front hall much to the con
sternation of Miss Eunice Mc
Dowell, the head resident of that
day.
The audience agreed that they
enjoyed both Platt and Lawrence
and hoped to see them again
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HOMECOMING IS OVER—Members of Chowan’s maintenance department
dismantle a float which was used in the recent Homecoming observance, thus
marking the end to another successful observance.