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Volume 10 Number 1
Fall, 1978
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Sandy, the Magician, otherwise known as Jean Sanderin, adjusts the
sword she has just thrust through the quivering throat of Teresa Hill (left)
and then blows cigarette smoke through the hole left in the unsuspecting
Teresa's neck (right). As proof of Sandy's magical prowess, no perma
nent damage was sustained.
Dorm RA
is Here
To Help
BY DONNA SWICEGOOD
The Resident Assistant on each dor
mitory floor may well be the person
new students will see the most. The
Resident assistants commonly refer
red to as RA’s are students who are
there to help the individual student with
his minor problems.
The resident assistants are selected
for their maturity, leadership, ex
perience, scholarship, and desire to
help others realize their potential for
self-development. The people who
serve as resident assistants are trained
to assist residents with personal, social
and academic problems and to inter
pret college philosophy and residence
hall policies and procedures.
The resident assistants are assigned
to each floor in each dormitory. There
is usually one resident assistant per
floor although some dormitories may
have two per floor.
Ben Sutton, business manager, has
approved allocating Belk Hall two addi
tional resident assistants and Jenkins
Hall one additional RA this term. This
brings the total to sue resident
assistants for Belk Hall. Belk Hall
previously had four resident assistants
and Jenkins Hall three according to
Mrs. Alice Vann, director of residence
hall life.
Resident assistants for the 1978-79
academic year are as follows:
PARKER HALL
BASEMENT: Jerry Harrell
1st Floor: Benny Bridgewater
2nd Floor: ReedNibley
3rd Floor: Joe Hill
4th Floor: Victor Holland
6th Floor: Craig Ammons
7th Floor: Mark Kennedy
8th Floor: Frank Kelly
WESTHALL
1st Floor South: Bob Trout
1st Floor North: John Kirchmier, III
2nd Floor South: Terry McLauren
2nd Floor North: Andre Foster
3rd Floor South: unassigned
EASTHALL
1st Floor: Micheal Matthews
2nd Floor: Brian Swartz
3rd Floor: Johnny Hawthorne
MEXON HALL
1st Floor: William (Bill) Ross
2nd Floor: William (Bill) Cowper
BELK HALL
1st Floor South: Lari Helfand
1st Floor North: Cindy Lee
2nd Floor South: Gena Gantt
2nd Floor North: Annie Marie Harrison
3rd Floor South: Susan Pate
3rd Floor North: Pam Hall
JENKINS HALL
Floor South: Andrea Tillet
1st Floor North: unassigned,
2nd Floor South: Lynn McKinney
2nd Floor North: Joy Braswell
The 5th floor of Parker Hall and the
3rd floor north of West Hall
assignments are reserved tor the
associate head residents of those halls.
The resident assistants are also train
ed to help work to create and maintain
a healthy environment for both the
academic and personal growth of
students. They also will give personal
assistance to individual students or
refer the student to someone who can
help whenever they may be unable to
provide the needed assistance.
Mild-Mannered Secretary Shows
Talent as Cut-Throat Magician
By DEBBIE SAWYER
Few members of the Chowan College
community know what talent lies
behind her columns. Would one believe
a magician?
“Sandy”, whose hands are known to
be quicker than numerous eyes, poses
each work day as mild-mannered Jean
Sanderlin, secretary to Clifton Collins,
financial aid director.
On April 9,1978, at 3 p.m., Sandy gave
a command performance to a select
group of Chowanians in a small Col
umn’s office. Her appearance was
made to show unbelievers her newest
death-defying feat.
She first asked for a volunteer from
the audience. Teresa Hill, secretary for
the Department of Housing, reluctant
ly came forth. Those viewers with weak
College Lite Can
Aid Personal Growth
By YUSUF SHABAZZ
Students attending college can ac
quire useful contributions to their
growth in personal values.
I believe that the most important con
tributions are those which relate to
academic, social, moral and spiritual
values.
The primary purpose of a student at
tending college is to learn. However, I
believe the student must have a very
personal interest in his academic pur
suit for it to be of any special benefit to
him. I believe that there must be a
special interest, because usually one
will retain only the kind of knowledge
that will enhance him personally.
Therefore, a wise student should take
courses that are a part of or related to
his personal interest. With this in mind,
any student who employs good study
habits such as note-taking, class par
ticipation and daily reviewing of sub
ject matter is more likely to achieve
academic sucess.
The second contribution college can
make to the student’s growth is in the
social context. Socially, college exposes
every student to new and certainly
broader horizons; and because of this
exposure, the student is surrounded
with an array of many cultures, ideas
and beliefs within — and of course out
side the classroom. These concepts will
specifically affect the student’s
awareness, enabling him to develop
new meaning and purpose in his life.
These contributions to the student’s
personal values may also encourage his
social growth and maturity in recogniz
ing positive values which can cause him
to make worthwhile and lasting con
tributions to society.
The third contribution is to perhaps
elevate his personal morals. Even
though it cannot be percisely predicted
how college will affect an individual
student’s morals, it can be presumed
that the student’s college experience
has a definite affect upon l.is decisions
in dealing with others, especially if
these decisions reflect his dignity and
integrity.
The fourth contribution is to enhance
the student’s spiritual values. Often
times college will expose students to a
wide variety of reUgions. This exposure
and variety may cause the student to
reflect upon and evaluate his own
religious beliefs. These reflections and
evaluations should certainly reward
any sincere student with enlighten
ment as well as new meaning and
understanding about his own religion,
primarily because the student is able to
question and compare his religion with
other faiths. These comparisons will
help him to understand himself and to
acquire a sound spiritual foundation.
In conclusion, college is a mind
broadening experience. Any student
who is sincere about his college educa
tion is certain to gain worthwhile and
lasting personal values.
stomachs were asked to leave.
“Sandy” began by locking stocks
around Miss Hill’s throat. Then taking a
razor sharp sword from her bag of
tricks, she proceeded to run it through
Miss Hill’s neck.
“Sandy” explained, “It was risky.
The first try did not pierce the tissues.
She screamed, then relaxed more, then
there was success. I could feel it
touching the spinal column. It went
alongside of it, and then through.”
As if this was not enough to baffle the
audience, “Sandy” took a long ribbon
and slid it through her victims throat.
“The ribbon was then forced through
and slid back and forth. That’s when
she made her error,” The magician ex
plained. “She talked. This resulted in
her being hoarse for two hours after the
demonstration.”
To conclude this shocking act, “San
dy” casually lit a cigarette, took a drag,
then blew the smoke through what was
now presumably a large opening in the
neck.
“Most of the smoke went completely
through the neck, however, some
escaped between the stock and the
neck. She was able to taste it. ”
Miss Hill came through the per
formance with no visable scars.
No one knows when “Sandy” will
have another performance or who the
lucky select group members will be.
Just remember when you next visit the
financial aid office, treat her with much
respect. You may be her next victim.
Cheat
Interesting People on Campus
UNIVERSITY PARK, Penn. (CH) -
The Penn State University Daily Col
legian swears the story is true. A stu
dent who was observed cheating on a
test was stopped by the proctor as he
was about to hand in the test. “Do you
know who I am?” asked the student.
The proctor said he didn’t. “Do you
know who I am?” the student asked the
remaining students in the class. And
the students said they didn’t, so the stu
dent quickly placed his test in the mid
dle of the stack of test papers and walk
ed out.
English Literature Never Boring
For Students in Mulder's Class
By RICHARD BARKLEY
On registration day for this semester
it is almost certain that Mr. Robert
Mulder’s sophomore and freshman
English classes will be the first to be
filled.
Mulder has the talent for taking dif
ficult courses such as English
Literature and making them enjoyable.
His colorful comments, quick wit, and
biting sarcasm do anything but leave
his audience bored.
Mulder has even been known to bet a
student a dollar that the student cannot
recite a poem from memory in front of
the class.
Mulder has been teaching English
here at Chowan since 1965. However,
that was not his first encounter with the
college.
“My grandparents brought me down
here the year the school first reopened
(1948). I knew then I wanted to come to
school here when I got big,” related
Mulder.
Mulder later attended Chowan in 1954
and 1955.
He observed that the attitude of the
college has changed greatly since he
went to school here.
“When I was a student here they
didn’t allow dancing on campus. We
had to go up to Franklin, Va. to dance.
And if you were caught drinking in town
you were suspended.” he recalled.
After Mulder left Chowan he went on
to East Carolina University.
“When I left Cliowan I had it in the
back of my head that some day I would
like to come back here and teach.”
After Mulder graduated from East
Carolina, he did graduate work at the
University of Mississippi and the
University of Richmond.
“When I came back in 1965 to teach it
was a fulfillment of a dream.” Mulder
said.
Mulder lives on Franklin Drive in
Murfreesboro with his son, Micky.
"I like the small town life,” he com
mented. “I can get whatever I need
right here in Murfreesboro.”
Mulder went on to say however, that
he does go to New York twice a year
and to Washington four times a year on
business for a change of scene.
Welcome Issued
New Students
By President
As we begin the 130th year in the life
and service of Chowan College, we
welcome each of you to the campus. We
anticipate fellowship, work, and growth
in association with you.
This special cation of “Smoke
Signals” has been prepared for you,
especially those who are new to the
Chowan campus. We want you to know
through this newspaper and in every
way possible that your faculty and staff
are interested in you and d^cated to
helping you find success in your college
career.
A guiding principle in all our work
and relationship is that Chowan is an in
stitution of Christian higher education
related to the Baptist State Convention
of North Carolina. This guiding princi
ple determines to a great extent the
work and functions of all of us who are a
part of the college community. The love
and support of North Carolina Baptists
have helped to make Cliowan one of the
top two-year independent colleges in
the United States.
We hope that you can and will come to
catch the “Chowan spirit” in a brief
period of time. We believe that this
special issue of “Smoke Signals,” along
with the Student Handbook, will assist
you to this end.
Bruce E. Whitaker
President
Computer
Student
Crook
BOULDER, Colo. (CH) — A Universi
ty of Colorado student is being sought
by the Boulder police department for
allegedly trying to sell secret
documents concerning computer
technology of the IBM corporation. A
former IBM employee, the student
allegedly tried to sell the information to
rival companies for $50,000. The student
unsuspectedly communicated with
undercover policemen through a series
of personal classified ads in the student
newspaper, but later disappeared
before he could be arrested.
DR. BRUCE E. WHITAKER
18 Year Olds
Drink Up
LANSING, Mich. (CH) - Michigan
has become the third state to raise its
legal drinking age, continuing a trend
which has seen no state lower the legal
age since 1973. In 1971, after passage of
the 26th Amendment granting national
voting rights to 18-year olds, 18 states
lowered their drinking ages. But more
than a dozen are now considering rais
ing the legal age.
Begining December 3, Michigan will
join Minnesota and Maine as states that
have raised the age from 18 to 19.
The problem of 18-year-olds purchas
ing alcholic beverages for their
under-18 high school classmates was
the primary reason for increasing the
age. In Michigan, alcohol related ac
cidents increased by 55 per cent among
those under 18 and by 123 per cent
among those in the 18-20 age group in
the years following the lowering of the
legal age from 21. A survey of Michigan
high school principals showed that 92
per cent favored raising the drinking
age from 18.
Campus Alumni Chapter
Otters Involvement
By SUSAN PATE
The Campus Chapter of the Chowan
College Alumni Association is an
organization which was formed to pro
vide communication between the Stu
dent Body and the Alumni.
The Campus Chapter, which was
formed last spring, will give the
students the opportunity to get involved
in the activities of the Alumni Associa
tion. As members of the Campus
Chapter, students will provide service
to the Association and the college. This
chapter gives the students a voice on
the Board of Directors of the Alumni
Association. It gives them a chance to
voice their opinions and feelings toward
what is happening in the college com
munity.
The chapter will meet bi-monthly.
Events will be planned with the associa
tion, as well as occasional socials for
the chapter.
Membership in the chapter is open to
all students who are interested in
becoming more involved in campus ac
tivities. The officers, who were elected
in the spring are Mark Jenkins, presi
dent; Ann Buche, vice-president; and
Lynn McKinney, secretary- treasurer.
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Mulder publishes his own poetry
magazine “The New Earth Review”.
The Magazine has 1,200 subscribers
from every state and eight countries.
He has had 24 short stories and 150
poems published in various magazines.
He has published five books of poetry,
the Shepherd that Stayed Behind, The
Tenor of My Song, When My Heart is
Breaking, Bom to Blush Unseen and
Backyard Cowboy.
Mulder is also editor and publisher of
a newsletter for creative writers,
“Writers Forum”. He also teaches a
creative writing class for which one
hour of Enghsh credit is given.
Asked if he would like to see any
changes here, Mulder replied, “Yes, I’d
like to see the students’ attitude
towards the administration change. I
feel President Whitaker and Dean Lowe
are blamed for policies that the Baptist
State Convention has adopted.”
Small town life and being the best at
what he does should keep Mulder here
for a long time to come.
ROBERT MULDER