Students aren't the only athletes on campus. Professor Carl Simmons,
head of the Mathematics Department, is shown taking a bead on the
basket in the annual faculty-student basketball game.
Conference Champs
Add Five Hoops ters
ByJOESWIFT
With recruits coming in at 6’1”, 6’5”,
6’6”, 67”, and 6’8”, expectations for the
1978-79 basketball season are running
high for Coach Jerry Smith. The five
North Carolina recruits will be added to
the eight returning players to defend
the Eastern Tar Heel Conference
Championship.
After putting 40,000 miles on his
car, Coach Smith, last year’s Coach of
the Year, is very pleased with the
Some Bylines
Gone Forever
New Chowanians may wonder in the
days to come why they don’t see many
of the bylines on stories in this issue of
Smoke Signals appearing in later ones.
The explanation is quite simple. The
contents of this “beginning-of-school
issue” was prepared by members of the
1977-78 staff as their last assignment of
the spring semester. The production
and press work was done during the
summer.
Those staffers who were sophomores
graduated in May and have gone on to
college or to jobs. Those who were
freshmen remain, as upper classmen
and their bylines will appear frequent
ly, along with those of new staffers, in
the issues to come.
Braves wrestling team finished season at o high level
after a slow start. Members of the team are (front
row) Mike Copperthite, Garland Moseley, Doug
Crowder, Mike Ferrera, Roger Randall, Sam Clark and
Joey Stallings: {rear row) Chuck Allsbrook, Ray Don
nie Upton, Terry Howell, Danny Allen, Randy Miller,
Ramon Collins, Dan Kraft, Roger Brown, Croig ond
Coach Nelson.
recruiting program. Along with the
recruits. Coach Smith has added the
North Carolina J.V. team to the
schedule.
Among those players returning are
three All-Conference players, forward
William Bogues, forward Ron
Williams, and guard Robin Hoey. Also
returning is All-Conference nominee
Allen Porter, along with Lewis
Williams, Greg Dawson, Ted Rudder,
and Randolph Bell.
The new recruits include one player
from the State 4A high school cham
pions and two from the runner-up team.
Steve Cantrell, a 6’7” forward from
Rocky Mount Senior High's titlists, is
looked on as a big forward who moves
equally well with or without the ball.
William Barnes, 6’8” center, and
James Hawkins, 6’1” guard, were fac
tors in fine season’s record of Rose
High of Greenville. Barnes averaged
22.9 points and 16 rebounds per game.
Hawkins is described as a floor leader
with great court sense and
maneuverability.
Another center, 6’6” Johnny Johnson
from Tarboro, is expected to provide
strength on the boards. He also excels
in track as a long jumper and triple
jumper.
The fifth recruit is Jean Earl
Williams, 6’5” forward from Bertie
Senior High in Windsor. Another player
who is equally adept with or without the
ball, he is a consistent shooter from 12
to 16 feet outside.
Carter Hears
Student Point
of View
WASHINGTON, D.C. (CH)-
Members of Congress, their staff, and
even President Carter heard the stu
dent point of view on a variety of issues
last spring as about 350 college student
lobbyists from around the country
swarmed over Capitol Hill.
The occasion was the joint lobbying
conference of the National Student Lob
by and the National Student Assocation.
The two groups moved a step closer to
merger as the membership of each of
ficially passed a “corporate agreement
pursuant to merger” and passed a six-
point statement of purposes for the
new, combined organization. The final
merger is expected to be implemented
in August when the groups meet again.
After attending workshops on the
various legislative issues facing con
gress and learning some actual techni
ques of lobbying, the students kept ap
pointments with their senators and
representatives. The tuition tax credit
was the hot issue of the day, and the
NSA-NSL position is to favor increased
financial assistance to middle-income
students rather than a tax credit.
The group also favors the creation of
a separate Department of Education,
along with the provision that students
are guaranteed a certain number of
seats on a proposed national advisory
board for the department.
NSA-NSL lobbyists also are pushing
for an extended deadline date for the
ratification of the EAR, increased
youth-employment legislation and
more appropriations for disadvantaged
students.
Several members of the NSA-NSL
leadership were able to get a short ap
pointment directly with the President.
Carter also opposes the tax credit bill
and the students were pleased when
Carter pointed at his desk and told
them, ‘ ‘The tuition tax bill stops here.”
Wrestlers Finish
Fast for Good Year
By JANE BRIDGFORTH
Chowan’s 1977-78 wrestling team may
have started the year out with a low,
but it finished with a high.
Because of injuries and academic dif
ficulties, the team entered the
Christmas break with a 3-4 record.
Spring Semester, the team regrouped
and gave Chowan its first winning
season in Wrestling. The dual meet
record was 11-6 with wins over Hamp
ton Institute, Norfolk State, George
Washington University, and Duke
University JV’s. The team was
undefeated in junior college competi
tion. The Braves placed third in the
seven-state Mid-Atlantic Junior College
Regionals behind Middlesex, N.J. and
Keystone, Pa. Regional championships
were earned by Mike Farrara (142),
Roger Randall (ISO), and Dan Kraft
(158). All the regional champions
scored at least one victory in the Junior
College National Championships with
Mike Ferrara finishing in the top eight,
nationally.
The squad was led by two-time Mid-
Atlantic Regional Champion, Kraft
(20-5); sophomore Ramon (Hollywood)
Collins (17-9); and two freshmen from
Rancocas Valley, N.J., Ferrara (23-5)
and Randall (21-6-1). Other lettermen
were sophomores Mike Copperthite
(4-17), Doug Crowder (5-18), and
freshmen Garland Mosley (6-8), Donnie
(Country) Upton (7-10), Terry Howell
(5-6), and Danny Allen (7-16-1).
Expected to return in 1978-79 are:
Mosley (126), Joe StaUings (126), non-
letterman, Ray Enoch (134), also a non-
letterman, Ferrara (142), Randall
(150), Upton (158), Howell (167) and
Allen (heavyweight), as well as non-
lettermen Joe Stallings (126) and Ray
Enoch (134).
When asked how he thought the '78-79
year would be, compared to '77-78,
Coach Steve Nelson said “I expect it to
be as good.”
Psychology
Freshman Predicts
Dodgers In 1978 World Series
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ (CHl - "Los
Angleles will win the 1978 World Series
in four games,” predicts Rutgers
freshman Ted Karmilovich.
A psychology major who claims to
have ESP abilities, Karmilovich ac
curately predicted in the Rutgers stu
dent newspaper last semester the exact
score and outcome of the 1977 World
Series.
Karmilovich calls himself a men-
talist, someone who uses his psychic
talents for entertainment purposes, like
Kreskin. "I can read people's thoughts
only when they concentrate on a
specific thing," he said, "but I cannot
read their minds. So it doesn’t help me
get the answers to tests."
P’irst realizing his talent about five
years ago in high school, Karmilovich
is constantly working to improve his
unusual ability by practicing with ESP
cards which are used to test clair
voyance. Karmilovich says everyone
has ESP abilities but that they have to
be developed.
Meanwhile, Karmilovich is paying
his way through school by performing
at shows and making predictions. He
forecasts that Dallas will beat Oakland
in the 1979 Super Bowl by a score of
23-20, that New York Mayor Edward
Koch will be impeached by the end of
his first term, that Billy Carter will
have his own TV show, and that there
will be a tragic plane crash at Kennedy
Airport the first week of April.
Smoke Signals, Fall 1978 — PAGE 3
Art Shows
Displayed
At Chowan
By DANIEL BENDER
Art exhibits at Chowan? You’re
kidding! That is what many freshman
students say during their first semester
at Chowan.
The exhibits are displayed on the se
cond floor of Daniel Hall in the art
gallery. Douglas E. Eubank, head of
the Division of Art and administrator of
these shows stated the purpose of the
art shows is to give the art students and
all students a chance to see different
processes. Other purposes are to give
students ideas and a chance to ask
questions of persons in the personal art
shows, about how they use certain
techniques.
Eubank reported he is seeking a
Photography exhibit, a weaver and a
pottery show and workshop. He said the
show has had every traveling show
from the North Carolina Museum of Art
in Raleigh and now he tries to get per
sonal art shows.
From Sept. 3 to 29, Nancy Walker will
show her drawings, paintings, and
prints. Nancy Walker is an instructor at
Pembroke State University.
Frans Van Baars, from Oct. 3
through 27, will show his recent water-
color paintings. Eubank said Baars is
well known In Eastern North Carolina.
Baars teaches at Coastal Carolina Com
munity College in Jacksonville, North
Carolina.
In December Miriam Humphrey, a
graduate of East Carolina University,
will display her recent drawings. They
will be displayed from Dec. 2 to 21.
A1 Swain will exhibit his lithographs
and silk screen prints from Jan. 15 to 31.
Swain is a graduate of Chowan now stu
dying at Oswego (N.Y.) State Universi
ty ■
Paul Hartley, an instructor at East
Carolina University, will show his
drawings and paintings Feb. 4 through
24.
During March the gallery is filled
with a show of high school students in
the vicinity.
In April, the Ninth Annual Chowan
Art Show will exhibit the works of
Chowan College students.
Tax Act Will
Allow $250
Tuition Credit
(CH) — The proposed College Tuition
Tax Relief Act, which would allow a
taxpayer to take a $250 credit for col
lege tuition paid, has met mixed reac
tions from the higher education com
munity.
A survey by the National Association
of State Universities and Land-Grant
Colleges showed that roughly one-third
of its members favored the tuition tax
credit, one third opposed it and one-
third wanted to explore other ways of
reducing the burden of college ex
penses.
Why should anyone in higher educa
tion be opposed to a measure that would
make it financially easier to attend col
lege? Because, say opponents, it would
cost the government over $l-billion and
take away from funds that might be
spent even more benefically for higher
education. “There are traditional ways
of spending that much money in the
form of loans or grants that would t>e
more effective,” says Larry Horton, an
official of Stanford University, an in
stitution that is on record as opposing
the proposal.
But Sen. William Rother (R-Del.),
who introduced the bill, says it would
give a break to middle-income tax
payers who face a tuition expense and
would not be a replacement for other
forms of aid to higher education.
The proposal has Senate and House
support but is opposed by the Carter ad
ministration.
BEATLES
KENT, Ohio (CH) - “History of the
Beatles” will be an experimental three-
credit course at Kent State University
next quarter.
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Tailback Lloyd Bell carries boll for gain os Braves down Liberty Baptist in years at Chowan. With only three starters returning, the coaching staff
early 1977 gome. Chowan finished with on 8-3 record, marking up the faces a big rebuilding job this year.
100th victory for Coaches Jim Garrison and Jerry Hawkins in their 20