Fall Semester Examination Schedule Published
Student Record
Method Review
ByD. H. NICHOLSON,
Registrar
When a student is admitted
to Chowan College, the
Director of Admissions and
the Admissions Committee
feel somewhat confident 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
on the 3.0 system or 9 and 18 on
the 4.0 system in regular at
tendance 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
accepted meaning among
collegiate registrars and
admissions officers at the
various institutions of higher
education, each institution,
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.
Again, as was mentioned in
some of the first aritcles in the
SMOKE SIGNALS, the
general rule which most in
stitutions follow concerning
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 in
stitution 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
admisision 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
confidential character
references (discussed in the
last issue) from college of
ficials and others, will help the
admissions officer from the
best profile of the prospective
student.
When looking at the tran
script, 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 ac
credited institution of higher
education providing the in
stitution 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 Compostion
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 ad
missions 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 num
bers at various two-year and
four-year colleges may be
different, the courses 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
acceptable, that is, at least a
“C” average on “all” work
attempted, 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?
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 completion 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 in
troduced in earlier articles, it
will emphasize the im
portance of completing work
already started at Chowan
College in order that the
student may realize the values
of direct transfer agreements
with other colleges.
Last Issue Published
Until Spring Term
By RICHARD JACKSON, Editor
Due to the fact that semester exams are ap
proaching at a frightful pace this will be the last
publication of Smoke Signals for this semester.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank my
hard working staff. They have shown much in
terest and cooperation and is through their efforts
that this paper has been successful. Never in my
life, have I worked with a more enthusiastic
group.
I would also hke to express my appreciation to
the faculty members who have contributed ar
ticles and to the students at large, who found out
that if you turn in a story, it really does get
printed.
The Smoke Signals staff has attempted to make
this newspaper more student oriented than it ever
has been. We can only accomplish this goal with
the cooperation from all students. If you wish to
become a member of the staff, we meet every
Wednesday at 4:15 in McSweeney Hall. If you
can’t become a staff member but would like to
contribute to the paper, write your article and
give it to any staff member or bring it by Mc
Sweeney Hall. If you’re not willing to do either,
then don’t complain if the paper is not quite what
you want it to be.
In closing the editor would like to wish you the
best of luck on your exams and a very happy
Christmas vacation.
STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF CHOWAN COLLEGE
Volume 4—Number 5
Wednesday, November 22, 1972
Murfreesboro, North Carolina
Popular Play Set Nov. 28th
1
Scenes from Piay
Henry Antrobus (Malcolm Groome) threatens the
eternal mother-figure, Mrs. Antrobus (Susan
Genis). Mr. Groome is a native of Greensboro.
Michael Dwight Smith of Chicago is cast as the
Antrobus family’s pet mammoth in “The Skin of
Our Teeth.” His costume is crafted from wigs,
fur, feathers, wire and raffia.
Eternal fishwife Mrs. Antrobus (Susan Genis)
chides her husband (Homer Foil of Raleigh) at the
4,000th Convention of the Honorable Society of
Mammoths on the Boardwalk at Atlantic City.
Gaily-clad conveeners (1. to r., Tom Kindle,
Richard Peterson, Mark Clifford Smith) taunt
them from behind.
The Fortune-Teller (Eren Ozker) predicts the
arrival of the flood at Atlantic City. Costume is
woven from dyed rope.
North Carolina’s touring
professional theatre will bring
its thirtieth anniversary
revival of Thornton Wilder’s
“The Skin of Our Teeth” to
Murfreesboro on Tuesday,
November 28.
The performance will be
held in McDowell Columns
Auditorium and will be
sponsored by the Clio wan
College Student Union.
Tickets for the 8:00 P.M. show
will be available in advance.
“The Sin of Our Teeth” was
written in 1942, six years after
Wilder had surprised New
York theatre audiences with
the bare stage of “Our Town”
It is wild and wacky Pulitzer
Prize-winning fable of the
Antrobus family, a modern-
day Adam and Eve, and their
struggle against flood, fire,
pestilence, war and
depression. The Antrobuses
reach ultimate survival only
by “the skin of their teeth.”
The play employs slides,
moving sets, multi-colored
lights and costumes made
from ropes and bones to
create an atmosphere which
shifts rapidly from the comic
to the serious.
The Murfreesboro per
formance will conclude the
sixth week of Carolina
Repertory Company’s ten-
week fall tour of “The Skin of
Our Teeth” and William
Shakespeare’s “Twelfth
Night”. The company’s
repertory also includes “The
Wonderful 0”, an original
musical adaption of James
■niurber’s book.
Last spring’s first ten-week
tour of THE WONDERFUL O
covered 7,100 miles of North
Carolina highways and
produced seventy-four per
formances, including twenty-
nine in public schools and
three in state correctional
institutions, CRC brought
family entertainment to over
35,000 North Carolinians,
many of whom had never seen
professional theatre.
The company has enlarged
its staff, tripled its repertory
and added a guest director for
the 1972-73 season. CRC Ar
tistic Director John Haber will
direct THE SKIN OF OUR
TEETH. Approximately half
of the members of the cast are
North Carolina natives or
have received theatrical
training in the state.
First Car Rally Success
With Dunbar As Winner
Purgatory Coffee House
Held on Thursday Nights
Thirty-two cars participated
in the first event of the
Qiowan Motor Sports Club on
Wednesday, Nov. 15. Headed
as the Road Runner Rally I,
the event started and ended
under the Meherrin River
fridge.
The time-speed-distance
event took drivers and their
navigators over both dirt and
paved roads in Hertford and
Northampton Counties. At
about midway the driving
distance, one official check
point timed and gave penalty
points to those reaching the
station.
Only seconds separated
first, second, and third place
winners who were awarded
cash prizes of $20, $15 and $10
respectively.
Winner in the exciting event
New Course Offered
The Social Science depart
ment will offer a course in the
spring semester entitled
“Social Problems,” It is the
first time this course has been
offered and will be taught by
Professor John W. Gosnell.
Students will choose a
particular problem which they
are interested in and do in
dependent research on it and
share their findings with other
students.
Topics which will be studied
include crime and
dehnquency, the abuse of
drugs, alcoholism, mental
illness, minority relations,
poverty, suicide, polution, and
social conflicts.
The course will include field
trips such as a visit to a state
mental hospital and a trip to
Washington, D. C., to talk with
congressmen about these
problems.
The “Social Problems”
course will be a sequel to
“Introductory Sociology,”
which is given each semester,
and will be offered in addition
to “Marriage and the Family”
next semester.
was Michael Dunbar whose
time was only twenty-four
seconds off the perfect timing
established by the rally
masters.
In second place was Steven
R. Simpkins who scored a
thirty-second overtime with
only sbc penalty points.
Third place award went to
Barry Bradberry whose
complete zero of the check
point syation gave him no
penalty points and only a
second loss than a minute
from perfect timing.
Every car that left the
starting line returned even if a
few were miles off the
directed course. One car
missed an important turn and
came within fifteen miles of
Elizabeth City, completely
unintentional on the part of the
rally makers.
Road Runner Rally I was
sponsored by Chowan’s
recently activated Sports Car
Club and conducted by Benny
Marks and Bob Mulder,
charter member and sponsor
of the organization.
Complaining about “nothing
to do?” Are you tired of the
same-old-thing? Do you need a
break from studying? Do you
want to get out of the dorm
and go somewhere quiet to
think or talk? Do you want
some good food-at an inex
pensive price? Then
"I Do, I Do"
Presented Here
By MARY VANN
Columns stage set the scene
Nov. 3 for the presentation of
the acclaimed Broadway
musical play, “I Do, I Do,” a
comedy about the trials and
tribulations, and the joys and
sorrows suffered by a couple
during their 50 years of
marriage. The play starred
Don Grillery and Lesley
Stuart who are also husband
and wife in real life.
This play has been on tour
since mid-September as a
production of Gingerbread
Productions, Ltd. Starting
'from New York they have
toured the midwest to Min
nesota and then south to
Texas. Now they are on their
way back to New York, and at
this printing should have
completed the tour.
Purgatory Coffee House is the
place to spend your next
Thursday night.
At the St. Barnabas
Episcopal Church every
Thursday night from 7:30 til
11:00, you will find the relaxed
and friendly atmosphere of
college students getting
together to talk, eat, or
perhaps just to think. This is
Purgatory.
Sponsored by the St. Bar
nabas Episcopal Church,
located across from Parker
Hall, and coordinated by Rev.
Ckjoper, Purgatory has been in
operation for the past three
years. Its main purpose is to
provide an informal place for
us-the Chowan students-to
go.
Purgatory offers en
tertainment, which is supplied
by the students. This is
spontaneous and very in
formal. Perhaps you can sing,
play the guitar, or have some
other talent that you would
like to share. Purgatory is
looking for talent to perform,
so come out and give it a try.
Other entertainment includes
the occasional showing of
short films. Plans are also
being made this year to do
some short skits. On
November 16, an out-of-town
band will be performing-so
plan now to come on this
special night.
So the next time you would
like to spend a quiet evening
talking or just thinking in a
relaxed atmosphere, stop in at
Purgatory.
Surfing Group
Plans Trips
The Chowan College Surfing
Association has begun to
make plans for surfing trips.
Some members are planning a
trip to Hatteras during the
Thanksgiving holidays. A trip,
possibly to Florida, is being
considered for the Christmas
vacation.
At a recent meeting, Delbert
Melton, club president, ex
pressed dissatisfaction with
the low attendance at
meetings. Because of this, the
club activities may have to be
limited.
Other officers of the Surfing
Association are Mike
Albertson, Vice-President;
and Venessa Holder,
Secr^tary-Treasurer. The
advisor is Dr. Bruce Fryer.
Membership dues are $2.00
and meetings are held every
other Tuesday in Marks Hall