Chowan College, Murfreesboro, N.\>
February 9, 1979
Dean Lowe Elected
To Accrediting Body
By WILLIAM HOBSON
Dr. B. Franklin Lowe, Jr., dean of the
college, has been elected to member
ship of the Commission on Colleges of
the Southern Association of Colleges
and Schools.
The association is the chief ac
crediting agency for private and public
elementary and secondary schools as
well as colleges and universities in 11
southeastern states. Its purposes in
clude preparing statements on the stan
dards of membership in the association
for colleges, conducting on-campus
visits and evaluations of colleges apply
ing for membership, and preparing
lists of institution... which meet the stan
dards of the association. The commis
sion encompasses some 600 member in
stitutions.
Dr. Lowe came to Chowan in 1964. He
was named to his present position in
Feb. 1969 after serving as acting dean
for eight months, and has served as a
member of the association’s visitation
committees. Lowe is a graduate of Fur
man University, Southeastern Baptist
Theological Seminary and Emory
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DR. LOWE
University, where he received his
Ph.D.
College president Bruce E. Whitaker
congratulated Lowe upon his selection
to membership of the conunission.
Don't Look With Naked Eye
Eclipse of the Sun
Will Be Visible Here
By DOUGLAS DUGGAN
On Monday, Febnwry 26, 1979, just
about all of North America will see
either a partial or full solar eclipse. The
total eclipse will run a path across the
United States starting in Oregon, then
to the Hudson Bay area and on to
Greenland.
For this part of the country, the par
tial eclipse will be at mid-day. Here in
Murfreesboro, the eclipse will start at
10:50 am, the totality of 53 percent will
be at 12:07 pm and end at 1:23 pm.
Never should one look at an eclipse,
unless it is at totality, with the naked
eye. There are several ways to view
the sun and be safe. One method is to
look through an arc-welder’s number 14
shade. Another way is through a double
thickness piece of Ught struck and fully
developed black and white film. It is
NOT safe to use smoked glass, color
film or even sun-glasses.
The most popular safe method is the
pin hole projection type. This can be
done in your room or outside. It in
volves putting a pin hole in a piece of
cardboard and placing a sheet of white
paper about one foot back from the
board. Through the reflection of the
hole on the paper, you will be able to
view the sun’s disc and all that is in
volved in the eclipse.
If you have a telescope, you can
observe the eclipse in several ways,
too. The first and most popular way is
your projection screen. Second is
through a filter protected lens on the
telescope. Last is through a filter pro
tected camera, either attached or
separated from the telescope. Be
careful when looking through the pro
tected lens because you can not tell if or
when the lens may crack and your eye
is exposed to the sun. When using the
camera, be careful here for the same
problem, also the heat intensity of the
sun may damage the mechanisms in
the camera.
If you wish to photograph the sun
through the telescope, here are some
tested camera exposure settings. Use a
shutter speed of 1/125 of a second at f/8
when using ASA 64 color film. If using a
camera not attached to a telescope,
then use a number 5 neutral density
filter on a telephoto lens. Whatever
your set up is, make sure you use a
tripod.
For the duration of the eclipse, pic
tures taken at 5 minute intervals will
record the best series through the
height of totality.
The last total eclipse in this area was
February 15,1966 and the next one will
be March 30,2033.
Gym Goal
75 Percent
Attained
By CINDY LEE
The $1.5 million goal, set by Chowan
College trustees and advisors on Sept.
11, has been reached in pledges and
gifts toward the cost of construction of
the new gymnasium-physical education
center.
The announcement was made by
Chowan's president. Dr. Bruce E.
Whitaker. He said that Chowan has now
reached 75 percent of its original goal of
$2 million through its “Accomplishing
Our Mission” program. He pointed out
that due to inflation the building will
now cost $2,150,000.
“But our task is not over,” Whitaker
added. “We must now apply ourselves
with all diligence to raising the final
$650,000 to complete the campaign and
make the urgently needed new
gymnasium-physical education center
a reality for our students.”
Whitaker said the main motivation
for providing the new facility is to meet
the needs of Chowan’s students. The
present gym was built when Chowan’s
enrollment was under 300, but the col
lege now has some 1,000 students.
He said the new facility will also meet
a need in the area for a facility that will
accommodate large groups for
cultural, religious and civic events.
The features of the new gymnasium-
physical education center, according to
Whitaker, include three full-size
basketball courts, two classrooms,
weight room, mini-gym, three handball
and paddle tennis courts, and an Olym
pic size swimming pool.The facility will
provide 63,000 square feet of space and
seating for up to 5,000 people.
The building, which is under con
struction, is scheduled to be opened by
January, 1980. “The new gymnasium-
physical education center will round
out the facilities called for in the cam
pus master plan,” Dr. Whitaker noted.
He said the building is the last major
facility to be constructed for the
forseeable future on Chowan’s campus.
$1,000 Grant Given
Chowan By Sears
A $1,000 grant to Chowan College is
among grants totaling more than
$48,000 which have been distributed to
privately supported colleges and
universities in North Carolina by The
Sears-Roebuck Foundation, according
to a spokesman.
The North Carolina colleges and
universities are among more than 1,000
private accredited two-and four-year
institutions across the country which
are sharing in $1,500,000 in Sears Foun
dation funds for the 1978-79 academic
year. Funds may be used unrestricted
ly as the colleges and unversities deem
necessary.
Interesting People on Cannpus
Bertha Likes Chowan Atmosphere
By CINDY LEE
Some of us have had the chance to see
her in a carbar. Most have seen her
dressed like all the rest. Who is this
woman roaming campus in her native
dress?
Her name is Bertha Mokake from
Great Soppo in Buea-Cameroon located
in Central West Africa. The Carbar is a
type of dress worn in her country. It
puUs over the head and is gathered
slightly, it is loose enough to keep cool
in the summer and has enough nnaterial
Federal Tuition Loans
To Students Proposed
To Expand College Aid
DIGGING DEEP — Terry Francey goes into his sock for the last few coins
to pay his overdue book penalties and remain eligible to take his final
exams in December. A/\rs. Doris Taylor waits patiently for the cold cash
before crossing his name off the delinquint list. Photo by Randy Stogner
Clocks Help To Cut
College Energy Cost
Bertha in notive dress gets in a little book work
to keep you warm in the winter, ac
cording to Bertha.
She is a sophomore pre-nursing ma
jor. She hopes to continue her studies at
Atlantic Christian College in Wilson, or
Emory University in Atlanta, Ga. to
receive at least a masters degree.
She has practical experience in nurs
ing and mid-wifery in her country .She
is now working every other weekend in
the Chowan College Infirmary.
Bertha likes living in the United
States, especially in this area. “I
generally love Murfreesboro, especial
ly the people. Occasionally I talk to the
senior citizens of the area. I find the
people are very friendly, making my
studies more successful.”
She has found American college life
to be quite different from that in her
country. The rules of the colleges of
Cameroon are very strict. Very rarely
are guys allowed in the girls dorms, ac
cording to Bertha. They are not allowed
to stay away from classes more than
three consecutive times or they are
suspended. The girls must sign out to
leave campus, giving the time expected
to return, where they are going and be
accompanied by a senior student.
Senior students in Cameroon are given
much respect; Bertha does not feel that
is so here.
“Cameroon students give professors
too much respect, so relationships are
not good,” Bertha said, “I have found
this is not so at Chowan. I have found
that the student-professor relationship
is extremely good."
She is involved in several activities
here on campus. She assists with the
Weekly Study Labs with Western
Civilization 101-102 and Zoology as well
as being a member of The Baptist Stu
dent Union and the Sociology Club.
By ALLEN DAVIS
Clocks help to conserve energy for
the future on the Chowan College cam
pus.
These clocks are programed to turn
the heating system of the academic
buildings and all the residence halls ex
cept Parker Hall on and off.
“The heating systenjs for the
academic buildings are programed to
operate for three hours in the morning
to knock the chill off the buildings,”
superintendent of buildings and
grounds Jack Hassell said. “Once the
chill is knocked off, the buildings are
heated by the occupants’ bodies.”
All residence halls temperature is
kept at 72 degrees between 6 p.m. and
12 p.m. by a continous operating
heating system. After the system has
operated for that time span, it will click
off but maintain a 68-degree
temperature. At 5 a.m. the system will
operate continuously to heat up the
buildings until 10 a.m. and then cut off.
The temperature will remain at 65
degrees until the cycle starts again at 6
p.m.
This clock-regulated heating system
has saved 50,000 gallons of fuel oil and
nobody has suffer because of it, Hassell
explained. “The only problem en
countered is with people altering the
thermostat in the dorms. Each resident
advisor should take the responsibility of
controlling the thermostats.”
Rooms in Parker Hall have separate
heating units in them. These units are
controlled by the student occupants
who, Hassell said should be energy con
scious.
Hot water in Parker is heated elec
trically before the peak hour. “The
peak hour is the hour that the greatest
energy demand is made by the public,”
he explained. “Our clock is set to heat
the water before the peak hours of 6
a.m. to 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.”.
About 1,000 lights have been removed
from around the campus. The removal
of these lights saved energy and the
cost of buying replacement lights ac
cording to Hassell. Chowan College is a
member of a National Energy
Organization based in North Carolina,
he added.
Everybody can help to conserve
energy by turning water off after using
it, switching lights and other electrical
applicances off when possible and
wearing enough clothing to stay warm.
Any suggestions anyone has should be
passed on to superintendent of
buildings and grounds Jack Hassell. Or
if someone soots an area where light is
being wasted, one should report it,
Hassell said.
“Sweden uses only % of the energy
we use in this country and they have a
colder climate,” he pointed out.
Last year Chowan used 4.25 million
kilowatt hours which was estimated to
cost $3.75 per kilowatt hour. The elec
tric bill came to about $158,000 for that
year.
With the addition of Parker Hall to
the campus in 1972, but before Carrie
Savage Camp HaU was completed,
Chowan used 4.006 million kilowatt
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Parking
Regulation
Amended
By SUSAN PATE
Steps have been taken to eliminate
some of the parking problems which
arose during the fall semester.
Beginning this semester all residents
in East, West, and Mixon will have
their cars assigned to the two parking
lots in front of East and Mixon Halls.
All residents of Belk and Jenkins will
have their cars assigned to the lot in
front of Belk and Jenkins.
This permits all residents to park in
the lot in front of their dorm as long as
there are available spaces. If there are
no available spaces, the cars will have
to be parked in the lot behind Jenkins.
Cars which are illegally parked (in the
middle of the parking lot, for example)
will be ticketed.
Last semester, some of the residents
is West, East, Mixon, Belk and Jenkins
had to have their cars assigned to the
parking lot behind Jenkins. The reason
for this is simply because the parking
lots in front of their dorms had
previously been filled. This presented
problems, because many of these
students parked in frount of their
dorms, which was illegal parking,
unauthorized cars. Therefore, students
with cars which had been registered for
these lots complained and illegally
parked in the middle of the parking lots.
According to Dean Lewis, this policy
change for parking may not prevent il
legal parking, but it should eliminate
complaints about having nowhere to
park in assigned lots.
Kennedy
Plan Open
To Sophs
By JULUN WEISS
WASHINGTON, D.C. (CPS) - With
the price tags on both public and
private college degrees more than
double what they were in the mid-
iiztles, there’s been no shortage of
plans to cope with the crunch. The price
of education is, for the first time since
1945, becoming an effective deterrent to
enrolling in college. So Congress, is
expected to debate — once again —
ways of making education easier to pay
for, if not ways of niaking it cheaper.
The debate will be different this time
around, for Congress enacted President
Carter’s Middle Income Student
Assistance Plan last year. Though it
was defeated in favor of the Carter plan
in October, a tuition tax credits bill will
be introduced. In this session, it will be
challenged by another alternative form
of financial aid. Sen, Edward Ken
nedy’s tuition advance fund (TAF).
Kennedy, who worked out the idea
with the Boston University President
John Silber when debate over tax
credits and the Carter plan stalled last
spring, says TAF would cover tuition
costs “in a comprehensive fashion.”
People at the sophomore leval or
above could ap|>ly tor as much as .$3000
a year under the TAF scheme. The col
lege would testify that the applicant
does indeed attend, and Washington
would give the school money, plus $1000
for expenses. Then “they (the students)
rather than their families or tax
payers” would be responsible of re
paying the government.
The schedule for re-paying the loans
could be spread out to avoid over
burdening those struggling to find jobs
after graduation.
As Kennedy sees it, current aid pro
grams reach only about one of every
five college students. TAF, he says,
would have an even broader scope than
Basic Educational Opportunity Grants,
(BEOGs, which afford a maximum
$1500 a year per student). The senator
adds that more and different kinds of
aid are needed because college and
bank loan terms are “prohibitive”.
His idea, moreover, stands a good
chance of becoming law. Kennedy’s
normal clout is even bigger in this case,
since he’s a member of the Senate
Education Committee, and has already
gained support from some of his com
mittee colleagues. Senators John
Durkin(I>N.H.) and George McMovem
(D-S.D.) also support the plan.
Kenney’s bill sets aside $4.5 million
a year for the fund, on the condition it
stays solvent. It stipulates that, to be
eligible for TAF aid, a student must
carry a “reasonable” course load, be
under 35 years of age, and be in good
academic standing after freshman
year. A student can withdraw a max
imum of $15,000 over three years. After
graduation, the student pays the money
back to the Internal Revenue Service.
The sucess of the tuition advance
fund, though, rides on how much
residual support tuition tax credits
legislation has, and on how much in
terest the very topic of financial aid re
mains after last fall’s pasMge of the
Middle Income Student Assistance Act
(MISAA). At that time, President
Carter warned that the U.S. could af
ford only one type of financial aid ex
pansion.
Tuition tax credits legislation, as it
stood when it died in a conference com
mittee, allowed parents to deduct cer
tain amounts from their income taxes if
they had a dependent in college.
Specifically, they’d get the credit for
up to 35 percent of tuition costs, as long
as they didn’t exceed $100 in 1978, $150
in 1979, and $250 in 1980.
But the house version of he bill would
have given credits for pre-college
education as well as for college educa
tion, and the Senate, which wanted to
limit credits to college tution, refused to
compromise.
Chief supporters of the credits pro-
prosal are still Republican Senators
Wiliam Roth (Delaware) and Bob
Packwood (Oregon), and New York
Democreat Daniel Moynihan. As Roth
said last March: credits “would simply
allow taxpayers to keep more of their
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