Lady Braves Nip COA, 57-56
Chowan College’s womeii’s
basketball team nipped College of the
Albemarle 57-56, for its third win of the
season Feb. 21 on the Braves’ court.
Chowan settled down in the second
half after trailing at intermission, 34-19.
The Lady Braves worked the ball,
looking for the open shot. They also
tightened up on defense and began to
cut into COA’s lead.
With three minutes left, the deficit
had been cut to five points, 50-45.
Baskets by guards Jo Ann Light and
Nancy Williams narrowed the margin
to 5049. Chowan switched to man to
man defense, resulting in a steal and
layup by Williams to give Chowan the
lead, 51-50.
In the closing minute, COA fouled
Chowan deliberately three times. The
three Braves, Williams and forwards
Cindy Downs and Cathy Somers con
verted for two points each time for the
57-56 victory.
Williams led Chowan with 26 points
and Downs added 14. Williams was also
the team’s leading rebounder with 10
followed by forward Mary Franklin
with nine.
In other recent games, Chowan lost to
North Carolina State JV’s, 90-35; East
Carolina JV’s 58-51; and Peace, 107-41.
Chowan’s top scorers were Nancy
Williams with 10 points against NCSU
and Cindy Downs with 20 and 14 points
against ECU and Peace.
Chowan plays its final regular season
game, at home Monday at 6:30 p.m.
against Christopher Newport College.
Students Voice Opinions
On Equal Rights Amendment
By VERA LAMBERT
There are many students in Chowan
College whose ideas differ in certain
areas. I thought it would be a good idea
to choose a topic and ask around for
various opinions.
What do you think about Equal Rights
for Women?
Tammy Bates—For a woman to have
equal rights as a man it would include
every aspect of jobs and duties. For
myself, I am not satisfied that the jobs
offered now consider if you are black or
another race or if a person is male or
female. Jobs should be granted ac
cording to a persons capability.'
Sylvia Bratton—To a degree. Female
and Male have the same mental
standards, however Males should be
superior over Female when it comes to
the physical well being.
Becky Bridges—I don’t see why we
shouldn’t have equal rights. They want
us to do things for them, why can’t we
do what we want.
Neal Brown—1 think it’s impossible
to have equal rights for men and
women. If the equal rights bill is
amended, women would be drafted,
into the army fighting side by side with
men. It also means Equal facitities so
therefore you no longer have restrooms
labled men and women.
Joyce Charles—I think equal rights
for women is great. I don’t see why we
can’t be equal to men after all, we can
do about anything men can do. I think
women should be allowed to recieve the
same salary a man receives because
sometimes a woman can do or does a
better job than most of the “so called
men, do.” If men think that a woman’s
job is in the home and have kids they
are wrong and shouldn’t need to think
twice. I’m not saying that women should
not have children. I am simply saying
why should women stay at home and be
a miserable housewife, when she feels
that she could be doing something more
constructive,
Walter Donnell—I think everyone
should get a fair chance, we are all
equal. If women meet the requirements
for a job, she should have it.
Terry Fuller—I’m for it and against
it. I think a woman should go out and
work in some way than stay home, ex. a
part time job.
Ralph Hodnett—People say they are
for equal rights, but to a certain. If
women expect to have equal rights it
has to be for everything and not just the
things they want.
Cecelia Hood—I am for the Equal
Ptights Admendment. I think a woman
should get the same amount of pay if
she does a job as well as a man. I have
yet to see a rule anywhere that says a
woman should quit her job to stay with
the kids. Why can’t a man do it
sometimes.
Ches Jacobs—I believe in equal
rights for women to a certain point.
Hiis degree contains the elements of a
proposed equalized society, this will
never be because women could never
do the things that would equal a man.
Mary Leigh Humphries—I don’t see
anthing wrong with being a housewife. I-
don’t believe in women working in
rugged contruction jobs.
Matmen
Bring Home
More
Victories
Chowan matmen traveled to Rock
ville and Baltimore, Maryland over the
weekend to wrestle three opponents.
The Braves scored two-'victories
against one defeat. Chowan defeated
George Washington University 31-18
and Catonsville Community College 31-
15, but lost to Montgomery College 41-9.
Freshman Dan Kraft ran his dual meet
record to 12-1 with three victories. Also
scoring three victories was Sophomore
Kevin Dalton. Winning two matches for
the Braves were freshman Doug
Grower, Steve Redmon and George
Campbell.
Chowan’s season record stands at 6-8
with two home matches remaining.
Drug Policy Upheld
Taken from: Kransnow v. Virginia
Polytech Inst. & S. Univ., 414 F. Supp.
55 (Virginia) U. S. District Court. W. D.
Virginia. May 21, 1976.
Court upheld constitutionality of
University prosecution of student under
the Virginia Tech student life policy
Congratulations!
To The Braves
Wrestling Team
For Making
The Nationals
which allows university officials to take
disciplinary action against students for
“unlawful use or possession of drugs
whether or not on university property.”
The court ruled that students enrolled
in State- supported institutions acquire
a contractual right for the period of
enrollment to attend, subject to com
pliance with scholastic and behavioral
rules of the institution, and to dismiss
for violation there of, provided the
dismissal is not arbitrary or
capricious; and that persons granted
the privilege of attending institutions of
higher learning may be required to
possess and exhibit superior moral
standards, which may be set by the
institution. Court also ruled that
although off-campus acts pertaining to
drug possession may create an
irrebutable presumption that those
acts detrimentally affect the univer
sity, such presumption is not con
stitutionally infirm.
Rena Id Jones—It should be approved.
They have as much rights as a man if
they are able.
Jackie Leris—Women should have
the same powers to reason as men,
because mentally women have the
same capability in human society as a
man.
Doug Long—Yeah, but I don’t think
women should do hard labor jobs, for
instance truck drivers and construction
jobs.
Larry Mickins—I am 100 percent sure
that women don’t want equal rights,
because when it comes to talking, who
can out talk a women. And that’s all a
woman can do, talk.
Lucy Myatt—I think that it should be
so to a certain extent.
Wanda Richardson—Some of it is
good and some of it is bad. If a woman
does the same job a man does, she
should get the same salary not less
because she’s a woman.
Bobby Riddick-If that’s what the
women want it’s all right with me.
Susan Rowe—If a man and woman
are competeing for the same job it’s
who has the best qualifications that
determine who should get it. I don’t see
how everything can be equal. If the
Lord wanted us the same he would have
made us that way. Men and women are
here for different purposes and not for
equal gain.
Calvin Washington—Mentally but not
Physically.
What do you think?
Plans Being Made
For New Gym
By NANCY SULLIVAN
Is there a new gym in site within the
next several years? The answer, yes.
At a glance the present gym looks like
an old airport hanger from the first
world war. But it is not, it serves as the
gym for Chowan College. Though the
present gym is outdated, it has not out
lived it’s usefulness. The present gym
serves as a house for intramural men
and women’s basketball teams, gym
class and locker room for the football
team. The two rooms inside the present
gym which now contain the weight
room and the practice room for the
wrestling team, were classrooms not
long ago. But it is time to move on to
bigger and better things.
The proposed gym was formulated by
a committee who chose to go to
surrounding colleges, such as Campbell
College, to receive ideas on the design.
The proposed gym is a critical need to
the college. It will be located over by
the baseball field and contain many
improved facilities over the present
gym. The proposed gym will not be
built within the time of the present
freshman and sophomores. It will take
a few years of planning. The cost of the
proposed gym is approximately two
million dollars. The money will be
raised by fund raising projects and of
course any donations made toward the
building of the proposed gym.
The proposed gym is a good idea and
will come about at the right time. At
the present, the gym that is on campus
will serve the college community until
the new one is built. It is a step into the
future and one that will bring about a
great change for the better. It should
make the alumni of Chowan College
proud and glad to be an alumni.
Smoke Signals, Monday, March 7, 1977 — PAGE 3
Liverman Leads
Baslcetball Stats
“Li’tle Abner”, the president of
the local FFA chapter talks with a
friend. He is trying to figure out
which girl won’t give him a
knuckle sandwich when he ask
her to go for a ride in his daddy’s
pick-up truck.
Student
Center Is
Outdated
By KENNETH L. PRESTON
There’s a place that we go to on
campus.
Where we the students can have fun,
too bad it’s equipment is old and
decrepit,
And it’s keeper is always on the run.
The Student Center is supposed to be
a place where the students can go to
have fun and relax, but how can you
have fun if the equipment is old and
beat up. Student Center Supervisor,
Steve Nelson explains “that if the
students took bietter care of the
facilities that are available to them and
stop breaking up those that we have
then maybe we’ll be able to save up
eiough money so that we can afford to
buy new equipment and better our
facilities.”
Out of all the students enrolled here
at Chowan College only about three
hundred of these students know the
location of the Student Center building.
Those who do come to the center think
that it’s the best place to come to look at
television, seeing that it’s the only place
on campus where the students can go
and watch their programs in color. I,
myself, feel that the center could use a
couple of new items such as another
television set for those people who don’t
like to look at sports or whatever the
others may be watching.
Also more pin ball machines and
UUiard tables are needed. At one time
the center had an “Air Hockey” table.
Mr. Nelson states “that the only thing
we own is the FoosbaU machines; all
the others belong to a company that we
rent them from.
Mr. Nelson tried something that
made a pretty big hit with some of the
girls on campus. He called it “Ladies’
Night.” Ladies’ Night was an event
where all the games available to the
students in the Student Center were
free to all girls and their dates. The
event was such a success that Mr.
Nelson is planning on having it again in
the future. Although the facilities in the
Student Center may seem a little beat
up and old, we, the students, still have
to face the fact that it’s the only place
we have to go for fun and games.
Forward Joe Liverman of Silver
Spring Md. is leading Chowan College’s
basketball team in three scoring
categories. He shares one with forward
Ron Lamb, who is second to Liverman
in the other two categories.
Liverman has scored 326 points for a
15.5 scoring average. Both are team
highs. He has the sixth best scoring
average in the district. He shares the
field goal accuracy mark with forward
Ron Lamb at 52.3 percent. Lamb is also
the second leading scorer with an 8.4
average, followed by center Todd
Mathias with 7.4. Lamb follows
liverman with 185 total points while
center Jerald Jojoier is third with 144.
Lamb tops Chowan in rebounds with
6.0.
In free throws, Mathias leads the
Braves with 46 out of 65 attempts for
70.8 percent. This is ninth best in the
district. D. Deese is second to Mathias
with 69.7.
As a team, Chowan is averaging 46.3
from the floor, 69.1 from the foul line,
and 29.9 rebounds. Chowan’s record is
3-19. The Braves have lost to five of the
top seven district teams, mostly by
margins of seven or eight points.
Limits Of Dissent
Chowan College Department of Fine
Arts and Roanoke-Chowan Tech are co
sponsoring a presentation of Lipsitz’
dramatization of the 1958 Greensboro,
North Carolina trial of Junius Scales,
entitled “LIMITS OF DISSENT.” The
play will be given at the Courthouse in
Winton on Tuesday evening, March 8 at
8:00 P.M. ADMISSION IS FREE.
Seating capacity of the courthouse is
limited so make plans to arrive early.
One interesting feature of the
dramatized trial is that the jury will be
composed of local citizens who will
render their verdict based upon the
same testimony presented in the
original 1958 trial. Other presentations
around the state have been en
thusiastically received and because of
its earlier success the North Carolina
Humanities Committee has refunded
the .Carolina Theatre Company for a
second tour of the production.
A Reinactment of the
Famous Trial of Junius Scales
Between October 6 and November 22
a unique attempt was made to combine
the insights and impacts of the arts and
the humanities in North Carolina.
Through an NCHC grant made to the
North Carolina Arts Council, a
dramatization of the 1958 trial of Junius
Scales was presented in 13 North
Carolina communities. The drama was
excerpted from the transcripts of the
actual trial by Professor Lewis Lipsitz
of the political science department at
UNC-Chapel Hill.
As a college student during the 1930s,
Scales became disenchanted with
capitalism and joined the Com
munist Party. Eventually he became
diairman of the North and South
Carolina branches of the party. In 1955
and again in 1958 he was tried under the
Smith Act as a member of an
organization which sought the over
throw of the government of the United
States. He was convicted in Middle
District Court in Greensboro and later
went to prison after losing an appeal to
U.S. Supreme Court by a 5-4 decision.
Scales served 15 months in prison
before President Kennedy commuted
Iris sentence after extensive public
outcry.
The trial deals with important legal
and moral issues such as the extent of
our first amendment freedoms of
speech and assembly as well as the
justifiable limits of dissent in a
democratic society. The play last 90
minutes. It will be introduced by a
scholar in the humanities who will
place the trail’s issues in legal and
historical perspective for the audience.
Following the play, the humanists will
discuss with the audience the fun
damental value issues implicit in the
drama. An interesting feature of the
project is the use of local citizens as
jurors to bring mock verdicts. While the
original jury convicted Scales in less
than an hour of deliberation, these
contemporary juries have been either
hung or, more frequently have returned
a verdict of not guilty — reflecting our
society’s changing attitudes toward
dissent.
Audiences have been uniformly
enthusiastic. Several times people had
to be turned away as the courtrooms in
which the play took place could not
accommodate everyone.
The play was produced by the
Carolina Theatre Company under the
direction of William Dreyer.
PLACE — HERTFORD COUNTY
COURTHOUSE, WINTON, NORTH
CAROUNA
TIME — TUESDAY, MARCH 8,1977,
8:00 P.M.
ADMISSION—FREE
LANGUAGE — Words
Written language today consists of
some 500,000 words listed in unabridged
dictionaries, ten times the number
quoted by Samuel Johnson in 1755 in one
of the early dictionaries of the English
language. However, of these half
million words less than ten percent are
used in daily conversation by most
people. — ISIDORE LEVINE,
“Quantity Reading: An Introduction,”
Jnl of Reading, 5-72
Those underclassmen, if they do not know the dance steps, they
make up their own.
The local hop was rocking smoothly until the “Back Street Maradures” appeared out of gasoline fumes that preceeded them. On discovering that several members of the
“Speedshifters” were at the dance the Maradures put up their fists to protect their turf.