Obtaining Degree Urged;
Advantages Are Outlined
By D.H, NICHOLSON
With more than 50 percent of
the first time Freshman
enrollments in higher
educational institutions now
being recorded (Fall, 1972) at the
junior and community college
level, it is evident to even the
casual observer that the two-year
college is an important and a
vital component of the total
academic scene today. It is alsc
evident from the preceding fad
that there is an increasinf
awareness by students, by of
ficials in both the two-year ant
four-year colleges and univer
sities, and by officials in industry
that the associate degree is both a
practical and a viable measure of
a student’s progress. If he holds
such a degree from his stay at a
junior college, he has demon
strated that he can achieve pre
arranged goals. The associates
degree, for this student, has
become tangible proof of earned
recognition for the completion of
a particular program or
curriculum in the various
disciplines, and this proof (or
evidence) states much about the
student’s own stamina and
motivation. It also states that the
student has been tested under fire
and found to be able to meet the
initial challenges encountered in
his efforts to become as
productive an individual as ac
cidents, abilities, and cir
cumstances will allow him.
Of course, another clear ad
vantage of the associates degree
has already been discussed
Reception Set
For Honor
Roll Students
President Bruce E. Whitaker
has announced that a reception
will be held in his home, Thur
sday, February 8, at 8:00 p.m. All
students who made President’s,
Dean’s and Honor’s list are in
vited. Members of the faculty and
administration will greet the
students who are being honored
by this reception. Light refresh
ments will be served following
the reception. As in the past,
President Whitaker once again is
striving to show his appreciation
and interest for those students
who have achieved academic
excellence here at Chowan. All
invited students are urged to
attend.
NEW FORMAT
This issue of SMOKE SIGNALS
is being published in a smaller
size than usual. The tabloid
format Is introduced with the
hope that it will provide more
reading ease, and it will also
serve as a training tool for
students in the Graphic Arts
Department.
D. H. NICHOLSON
earlier in this column: that of
easier transfer to senior college
and universities. When a student
earns his two-year degree, he has
a clear-cut advantage over his
peer in the two-year college who
has not earned it. For instance,
grades and courses, generally,
transfer with greater ease, and
the degree holder is more con
fident of receiving the best ad
vantage in an increasingly
competitive college market. He is
in a more flexible position when
he talks with a senior college or
university admissions officer.
In essence, the advantage of
holding the associates degree so
much outweighs the disad
vantages that the student should
not consider leaving Chowan
(Allege unless he first earns his
‘sheepskin’. For a student to
transfer without such a degree is
analogous to the person climbing
a ladder who cuts off the rungs
under him. He has nothing to step
back to if he encounters troubles
further up. SO, GET THAT
DEGREE!
May May Take
Wife's Name
After Marriage
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Leg
islation that would allow a
woman to keep her maiden
name after marriage and a
man to take his wife’s name
has been introduced in the New
York Assembly.
The bill, sponsored by Assem
blyman Antonio Olivieri, D-
Manhattan, would authorize
couples applying for a mar
riage license to state at that
time whether they intend to
adopt Uip last name of either
partner, to keep their own
names or to use a combination
of the two.
The names stated on the ap
plication would become the le
gal names of the two after the
wedding.
Talk-ln Sessions Planned
Dean of students, R. Clayton
Lewis, has announced that a
series of group discussions—
“Talk-ins”—has been started and
will continue throughout the
semester.
The “talk-ins” are informal
group discussions of con
temporary, controversial topics.
They are held in the Askew
Student Union. Six faculty
members will lead six different
groups in the discussions.
On January 30 the topic of
discas.sion will be Hugh Hefner
and his philosophy on pads.”
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STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF CHOWAN COLLEGE
Wednesday, January 31, 1973
Murfreesboro, North Carolina
Chowan Receives Large
Gift from Local Banic
Chowan College has received a
“substantial contribution” from
the Tarheel Bank and Trust
Company to aid its “Mission
Possible” development fund
program to raise $1 million
toward construction of a new, $1.2
million science-engineering
facility.
“This is a significant gift to
‘Mission Possible,”’ remarked
Ben Sutton, Chowan’s business
manager. He said the con
tribution will cover a five-year
period.
The Gatesville-based bank has
offices in Winton, Murfreesboro,
Lewiston and Ahoskie, Sutton
noted. “The bank is located in an
area from which Chowan realizes
its major gift support. Both
Chowan and the bank are making
On February 13 the discussion
will be center^ around an article
from Newsweek entitled “Living
with Crime.”
February 20’s discussion will
cover the hot topic of abortions.
On February 2is, the discussion
will be centered around Tran
scendental Meditation.
The discussions begin at 7:30.
Anyone and everyone is invited.
TVy your hand at intellectual
discussions; come to talk-in and
listen and be heard. Who knows,
you may be America’s next
Walter Cronkite.
SNOW BLANKETS CAMPUS—Historic McDowell
Columns is pictured in the seven inch snow which fell
just prior to the opening of the spring semester. The
snowfall was one of the largest recorded in recent years
in northeastern North Carolina.
a major economic impact on the
area,” Sutton stated.
Sutton added that Chowan
draws many of its students from
the area covered by the five of
fices of Tarheel Bank and Trust
Company. He called the bank a
“good neighbor” in its support of
Chowan College.
Also thanking Tarheel Bank
and Trust Company was
Chowan’s president. Dr. Bruce E.
Whitaker. “The Tarheel and
Trust Company has joined other
area banks, business firms and
friends of the college in the
Chowan College “Mission
Possible” Program to provide
financial undergirding for the
new science-engineering facility
now under construction on the
Chowan campus. It is a source of
satisfaction to me personally that
a “local” bank recognizes the
worth to the people of our area of
the program, progress, and
service of Chowan College as the
representative institution of the
private sector of higher
education in North Carolina.”
He continued, “In behalf of the
Board of Trustees of Chowan,
The Board of Advisors and all of
us who live and work on the
campus of this beloved college, I
express oiu' genuine appreciation
and sincere gratitude to Chair
man J. K. Wyatt, Executive Vice
President Robert E. Lee, and the
members of the Board of
Directors of the Tarheel Bank
and Trust Company for their
expressed concern, interest and
support. To them and all our
friends, I pledge, in behalf of the
Chowan College community, that
we will undertake to get all of the
educational mileage possible out
of each dollar we receive.”
Summer Jobs
Now is the time to line up
summer jobs.
Information concerning
summer jobs is being posted on
the bulletin board next to Mr.
Collins’ office.
North Carolina students who
are eligible for financial aid and
need a summer job may want to
see Mr. Collins about a job
through PACE.