Volume 10 Number 5
November 20, 1978
Defending Champs Open Cage Season
College,
Police
In Accord
By SUSAN L. PATE
Recently there has been quite a bit of
question about the relationship between
Chowan College and the Murfreesboro
Police Department.
In past years there has been a close
working relationship between the police
and the campus safety and security
office. According to Dean Clayton
Lewis, dean of students, the police
department also maintains a close rela
tionship with the student personnel
deans.
The town police are not involved with
the cars in the parking lots on campus
unless they are searching for a stolen
car.
If the police have reason to come on
campus, they usually notify one of the
deans. When they do come on campus,
they seldom if ever enter a residence
hall without notifying one of the deans
or the resident director of the dorm,
Dean Lewis pointed out.
Occasionally, the police are called on
campus, but only when the matter at
hand is both a violation of college policy
and the law, he said. An example of
such a violation is pulling a fire alarm.
“We usually try to deal with things on
campus ourselves to save court
record”, Dean Lewis said.
If a Chowan College student is
arrested downtown, the police
department normally calls one of the
deans. This is not required. Dean Lewis
pointed out, saying it is done as a
courtesy.
Dean Lewis said that when the dean
arrives at the station, he acts as an
advisor and a friend to the student. The
dean does not pay bail for the student,
but will, however, help the student
secure bond, he said.
“Ninety-nine per cent of the time we
are pleased with the way the police
have treated us and the students,”
Dean Lewis observed.
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1977-78 Eastern Tarheel Conference Basketball Champions
who open new season tonight are from left (front row)
William Bogues, Mark Murdock, Allen Porter, Robin Hoey,
Lewis Williams, Jr., Brian Armstrong and Haywood Evans
and (rear row) Manager Tandy Dunn, Greg Dawson, Ronald
Williams, Randolph Bell, William Barnes, Johnny Johnson,
Ricky Lewis, Jean Williams, Manager Harold Mask and Coach
Jerry Smith. Photo by Paul Kelly.
Students' First the Water, Then the Flames;
Blood Gift Trash Truck's Adversity Continues
Praised
Everystudent
A new column by Associate
Editor Angela Elder makes its
appearance in this issue.
“Everystudent” will present
Angie’s thoughts and musings on
a variety of subjects which it is
hoped will be of interest to almost
every student at Chowan. It will
be found on page 2.
By TIM ELLIOTT
The Red Cross Bloodmobile visit to
the Chowan campus on November 6
was deemed a “overwhelming suc
cess” by Steve C. Nelson, director of
student activities.
The goal for Chowan College was to
have 200 persons participating in the
blood program. Two hundred forty-
eight persons participated and 236 ac
tual donations were taken. Twelve per
sons were excused for medical reasons.
Among the donors were 10 members of
the faculty and staff.
“The large turnout created a few ad
ministrative problems, the major one
being the long delay while waiting in
line,” according to Mr. Nelson.
Mr. Nelson stated that the students
“were very courteous and patient. They
are to be commended for donating their
time and their life-giving blood so
unselfishly.”
By ALLAN DAVIS
Smoke gushed from the back of
Chowan’s mammoth trash truck as it
zoomed up to Thomas Cafeteria loading
dock. But this smoke didn’t surge from
the exhaust pipe, it came from the blaz
ing trash that had caught fire in the
back of the truck.
Pay Day Advanced
By JANE BRIDGFORTH
Due to some changes in the business
office, pay days will be changed from the
10th to the 5th of each month.
Some drastic changes are taking
place in financial aid for 1979-80. More
people will be eligible for a Basic
Educational Opportunity Grant
(BEOG) and Guaranteed Student
Loans, according to Clifton S. Collins,
director of financial aid. The details
are not yet available.
In response to questions by several
students who asked how to transfer
their financial aid to another college for
the spring semester, Collins pointed out
that financial aid does not transfer. He
listed four steps to follow to receive aid
at another institution in the fall:
1. Contact the financial aid office at
the institution you will be attending for
an institutional financial aid applica
tion.
2. Have a FFS or FAF sent from the
processor to the institution. The ad
dresses and fees are:
College Scholarship Service
Box 2700
Princeton, NJ 08540
Fee $3.25
Operations
ACT Student Assistance Programs
2201 North Dodge Street
P.O. Box 1000
Iowa City, Iowa 52240
Fee $3.00
3. Contact Basic Grants for another
Student Eligibility Report. Request
forms are available in our office.
4. Have us send a financial aid
transcript.
As the truck came to a screeching
stop by the loading dock on October 27
the driver William Peebles, jumped
out and grabbed the cafeteria’s water
hose and began to drown the blaze that
had erupted in the back of his truck.
After spraying the fire for a hour with
water the flames died out, Peebles said.
“The fire was probably ignited by
something dumped from a trash can in
to the truck during one of my final trash
pickups on campus,” he added.
“The trash truck was parked between
Robert Marks Hall and McSweeney
Hall when I noticed the smoke seeping
from the burning trash in the back of
the truck. So I drove the truck quickly
to the cafeteria loading dock where I
extinguished the flames, Peeblers said.
Later on that same day the engine of
the mammoth truck blew up. This
wasn’t caused by the fire, but as a
result of the damages done to the
engine when the truck was pushed into
Lake Vann by vandals on October 11,
Jack Hassell, superintendent of
buildings and grounds, said.
“We had anticipated having other
problem with the truck after it was
shoved in the lake and this is one of
them,” he added.
Bigger,
Stronger
— Smith
By HARRY PICKETT
Jerry Smith, in his first season as
head basketball mentor at Chowan Col
lege a year ago, led the Braves to a 20-8
season (the finest record in the school’s
history), the Eastern Tarheel Con
ference crown, and a second place
finish in the rugged 36-team field in
Region 10 play.
But that was the 1977-78 edition of the
Braves basketball team, a team which
won 13 games on its home court without
a loss, a team which started three
freshmen — and a team which Chowan
calls its best ever. But Smith doesn’t
hesitate to say that this team is “much
better.”
“We are bigger than we were last
year,” Smith started, “and a little
stronger physically.
“I thinii we’ll be much like we were
last year,” Smith went on, “we’ll be
much the same caliber team, but we’ll
be a little quicker, and have more depth
than last year.”
Smith’s returning players include
three all-conference choices, headed by
6-foot Wiliam Bouges of Camden.
Bogues a forward, averaged 15 points a
game last season and hauled in an
average of 12 rebounds an outing. He
was a first team All-Eastern Tarheel
selection, and second team AU-Region
10 choice.
Forward-center Ronald Williams, 6’5
of Harrells, and guard Robin Hoey 6’1
of Shelby, were both second team all-
conference choices. Williams was sick
tor most of last season but managed to
score at a 13-point clip and snatch 9
boards. Hoey averaged 11 per contest,
and shot a blistering 82 percent from
the line. Smith labels Hoey as a “clutch
man.”
Others players back from last year’s
squad include three who started in
some of last season’s games: Center
Randolph Bell, 6’6 of Currituck, for
ward Greg Dawson, 6’4 of Kinston, and
guard Allen Porter from Tarboro.
Guard Lewis Williams saw spot-duty
last season.
Smith seems to think that he had a
real good recruiting year. His top lure
was William Barnes, 6’8, 230, from
Greenville. Barnes was named to the
East-West AU^tar game in Greensboro
last July. He averaged 22.9 points and
16 rebounds per game for Greenville-
Rose High School. Greenville finished
second to state champion Rocky Mount
in Division I conference play.
Smith said that the All-State per
former will be Chowan’s back-up center
behind Bell. “He can do a lot of things,
and he’s a big strong kid, but he’s got a
lot to learn.
(Continued on Page 7)
Interesting People on Campus
Never a Dull Moment When Snake Man's Around
Roger Randall receives championship trophy after decision-
ing ODU's Tim Davidson in the 150-pound finals of the
Civitan-Monarch Tournament. Davidson is at left. Photo by
Scott Brumley.
Randall Wins Mat Crown
In Civitan-Monarch Meet
Chowan’s Roger Randall took the 150-
pound title as the Braves finished tenth
out of 16 colleges competing in the
Civitan-Monarch Wrestling Tourna
ment November 10 and 11 at Old Domi
nion University.
The only junior college in the tourna
ment Chowan scored 22 points. William
and Mary with 81 %, was the tourna
ment winner.
Randall, who ousted the number one
seeded wrestler, Frank Schaede of East
Carolina in the quarter-finals, won the
title with a decision over Tim Davidson
ofODU.
Details of the tournament will appear
in the next issue.
By HARRY PICKETT
A herpetoUgist on campus?
That’s right, Chowan has its own
herpetoligist.
What’s a heq^toligist?
A herpetoligist is one who studies
biology with most of his emphasis on
the study of amphibians and reptiles.
Brett Cullen isn’t a professional
herpetoligist, but at Chowan, he’s the
closest thing to one.
Brett, a 19-year-old freshman here at
Chowan by way of Wilmington, N.C.,
calls himself an “amateur
herpetologist”, but the students here at
Chowan affectionately refer to the red-
bearded outdoorsman as “snake man.”
Brett seemed to capture the attention
of many students here at Chowan from
the very first day of school. He told
tales of his snake hunting adventures in
the swamps of southeastern North
Carolina that captivated his West Hall
listeners, he went to all parts of Mur
freesboro asking the town’s people
where he could find cottonmouths and,
to the surprise of everyone, unveiled
two snakes, two turtles and a baby
aligator weeks later in his dorm.
Cullen later took all of his creatures
home where his mother is now the
reluctant nurse maid. He found out that
Dean Roy Winslow here at the school,
didn’t particularly care for his pets.
One might frequently ask himself,
“Why would anyone want to be a
handler and keeper of reptiles and am
phibians?” Cullen answers, “Why not?”
“Two years ago I started snake hun
ting for the excitement,” Cullen said. “I
began catching wide variety of snakes;
I became interested and I wanted to
know what kind they were.
“Usually I like to learn as much
about something as I can, so I started
reading about different snakes —
started collecting them — and breeding
them,” he explained.
Brett says he has five snakes at
home, and in the summer when he’s not
Snake Man
Friend
Photo Poul KvHy
helping George Tregembo, owner of
Wilmington’s Totemin Zoo, he’s collec
ting snakes, giving them to people and
selling them.
The Wilmingtonian says he wouldn’t
call himself a snake expert yet, but he
can recognize almost every snake in the
United States.
“I’ve got a lot to learn. I’m trying to
study up on a few diseases of snakes,
how to cure them and how to recognize
them in other countries.”
Brett tias aspirations of owning his
own serpentarium (a museum for
snakes) one day and says he wants to
“start as soon as possible.” He says he
wants to make that his main occupa
tion.
“I like snakes and everything to do
with them, I want to take care of
them,” Cullen asserted. “Some people
think I’m nuts, a lot of people think I’m
nuts!”
He says that most people, however,
have interests in snakes even if they are
afraid of them. They want to learn
about them, he asserted.
Whether young Mr. Cullen is telling
some of his tales, meeting eye-to-eye
with an Eastern diamond-back rat
tlesnake, gluing another snake poster to
his already filled wall or demonstrating
the proper techniques of catehing a
water moccasin, you can bet that he's
looking forward to his future as a
herpetoligist.
Room 234 in West Hall will never be
the same, says roonmiate Jeff Batson,
also of Wilmington, “There’s never a
dull moment when Brett’s around."