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EDITORIAL OPINION No Place for Vandals It’s appalling to see such vandalism and disorder at a college with the religious reputation and demeanor that Chowan College has. The altercations which have arisen on this campus recently constitute without doubt an alarming scene. Do the students who unveil such immature escapades learn these rituals at home, or do they feel that it is mandatory that they become the school clown and find that destroying and molesting school property a funny venture? In our opinion, we think it’s degrading and shows a lack of in telligence and a flimsy excuse for a college student. If one doesn’t take pride in the school which one attends, he should leave, and thus relinquish all ties with the institution. It will save the school a lot of money and the student a lot of embar rassment when dealt with by the authorities. -H.P. Parking Proposal Everyday we hear complaints about the problems with parking. Many times we have gone to our cars and have been blocked in by someone parked in the middle of the parking lot. Upon our return it has been difficult to find a space to park. We have a suggestion to help alleviate part of the problem. We feel each student should be assigned and paid for before the begin ning of the fall semester (or the student’s first semester). Return ing students could select and pay for parking spaces before the end of the spring semester (same process as room selection). A registration deadline should be set and students requesting space after that will be assigned on a first come, first serve basis. We know that this would not rid us of the problem entirely. Although we feel that our suggestion could make the parking situation less hair- raising. C.L.&D.S. Summer Jobs Available In State Intern Program Chowan students who are planning to look for sununer jobs may just be eligi ble for one of atlout 125 state govern ment internships being made available this summer. “Thousands of students have gained better insight into the workings of government through the internship pro gram over the years,” said Frank Eagles of Wilson, chairperson of the North Carolina Internship Council which was created by the General Assembly in 1977. The council approves projects and also screens and selects students of the Summer Internship Pro gram sponsored by the Department of Administration’s Youth Involvement Office. About 125 students will be placed in 13 diffrent state agencies for 10 weeks, from June 4 to August 10. To be eligble , a student must be either a North Carolina resident who has completed two years of study at a college or university or one year of study in a technical institute or community col lege, or an out-of-state student having completed the same studies in a North Carolina educational institution. In addition to a regular 40-hour work week, interns will participate in seminars to learn more about state government and how it works. Applica tion deadline is February 29. For ap plications or Information about specific Internship openings, contact your campus placement office. For addi tional information, contact the Youth Involvement Office, Suite 115, Howard Building, 112 West Lane Street, Raleigh, N.C. 27611 or caU 919/733-5966. Educator Attacks Jargon (CPS) — The way University of Cinn- cinatti's Dr. John McCall sees it, he’s just “taking some proactive steps to enhance the University’s output with simpler input on the part of facilitators.” In other words, he wants the University to start saying what it means. McMall is one of a burgeoning number of educators who have begun an active attack on “jargonization.” In plain English, “jargonization” means the use of specialized, complicated terms for everyday activities. Educators are worried that such speech may make functional illiterates out of still more people. Some even fear that jargon could be used by powerful special interest groups to “bend the truth without even lying.” Thus, an unoffical movement to stamp out jargon is taking form, and its proponents include not only English teachers, but those who are often most guilty of “language pollution,” ad ministrators and government officials. While some doubt the use of jargon can be harnessed (Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Thomas Postlewait says fighting it is “about as wise as the charge of the Light Brigade:), others are optimistically taking the first steps against jargon. McCall has begun by levying 25 cent fines against University of Cincinnati administrators and deans who use the words “input” of “feedback” in other than their accurate, technical meaning. Furthermore, if the offending word is on multiple copies, it results in an adit- tional one cent fine per copy. That’s just for January. In February, the targets are improper usages of “hopefully” and “proactive,” McCall warns. McCall says his plan is working. Already an administrator recessed a meeting briefly to conduct a fine from another administrator who reported an “input.” One dean sent McCall a dollar as advance payment for four mistakes he felt certain he would make. McCall himself has been fined for a sentence in a letter he co-signed: “It is also worth noting that course work in English as a second language is offered for students whose academic progress might be enhanced by supplementing their communicative skills. Meanwhile, the New York Times reports that the National Council of Teachers of English operates a thriving committee on Public Doublespeak. The committee urges its members to watch their own language, as well as that of their students. The NCTE also awards annual Doublespeak trophies to promi nent jargon-users. President Carter has also asked government officials to write their documents in clear language. U.S. Education Commissioner Ernest Boyer is keeping the faith by conducting clear- writing seminars for key staff members. The man who popularized this war on jargon, broadcaster Edwin Newman, is reportedly booked months in advance in his nation-wide lecturing tour. Newman, who wrote two books on the subject, speaks, of course, on the language. N. Y.Trip Planned In March The English Department is planning a trip to New York for the first weekend of March. The trip includes tours of publishing houses, Broadway shows, and other points of interest in the city. The bus will leave Murfreesboro at 11 p.m. Wednesday, February 28 and return at approximately 8 p.m. on Sunday, March 4. The cost of the trip is $90. This in cludes transportation, hotel room, bag gage fees and all required tours and museums. LEHERS TO Exception Taken To Critic's Charge Dear Editor: After reading the letter from a “Sophomore critic” in your pre- Christmas issue, I was somewhat disturbed at item #2 of the letter. It stated: Faculty Omnipotence — the faculty can bypass any procedure they wish to get what they wish, regardless of student requests. Most of the movies reserved by students for weeks according to proper procedures, were bumped at the last minute by the drama department to MHA to make room for a rehearsal. I cannot comment generally on “faculty omnipotence.” As a new facul ty member myself this year, I am lear ning of campus policies as time pro gresses. However, I can comment on this event in particular. There was one policy I did learn early, but one with which Mr. Hitchings seems unfamiliar. The policy regarding scheduling of campus events says that the calendar kept in the public relations office is the official calendar of the campus and whatever event is scheduled on that calendar FIRST (or a particular place and time is the one that has precedence. If our critic would like to review the campus calendar for the fall semester, he would find that NOT ONE STU DENT MOVIE WAS BUMPED for a play rehearsal. The fact of the matter was that play rehearsals were schedul ed first on the calendar (far in ad vance) and therefore took precedence. When it came to the attention of the drama department that some rehear sals were interfering with movie show ings in Columns (that had not been placed on the campus calendar in ad vance) concessions were made both by students and the drama department in the spirt of compromise. It seems to me that the problem in this case was not faculty, but students, who “bypassed proper procedures.” But perhaps there is a lesson to be learned from all this. Had I known earlier that students wanted to use the stage on some evenings for movies, some rehearsals would have been changed. But I did not receive a call or note beforehand, when something could have been done. I learned about the “upset” much later when nothing could be done about it. In the future I believe open communications and following established procedures would be to the advantage of us all. Sandra Boyce Director of Drama Students' Vote Right Upheld WASHINGTON, D.C. (CPS) - In the early fall of 1976, 545 students from Prairie View A & M University attemp ted to register to vote in Waller County, Texas. But county registrar LeRoy Symm allowed only 35 of the students to actully vote. Last week, however, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Symm had wrongly disqualified many of the other students. The court’s decision is expected to nnake it easier for students all over the country to vote where they go to school. Specifically, the court said local voter registration offices cannot require col lege students to meet different eligibili ty rules than those the rest of the populace must meet. The U.S. Dept, of Justice, which took the students case, said Symm “singled out a particular group — students living on campus... — and has placed an extra burden on them that he does not impose on non-students.” Symm refused to recognize students as residents unless they proved they owned property, had farnily in Waller County, or worked. Texas law defines residence only a “fix ed place of habitaion.” THE EDITOR Writer Recants Part of Letter Dear Editor, I wish to clarify a statement I made about the drama department in the last issue of the Smoke Signals. I stated that the department shifted the location of the campus movie to make room for rehearsals — it was an erroneous state ment. The students whom I talked to believed that they had filed for the Col umns Auditorium in time to reserve it, when in fact Ms. Boyce had proper priority to the building. Exactly where the mistake occured I can’t determine; both the student body and drama department felt they had followed pro cedure when only the drama depart ment had been on record as doing so. I regret discovering this mistake too late to correct before being published and accept responsibility for it. However, despite my erroneous statement in this case, I still feel that there is little to pre vent the faculty from overriding stu dent requests and this should be cor rected. Sincerely, Wilson W. Hitchings SGA Voting Scheduled For Feb. 28 By SUSAN PATE Elections for the 1979-80 SGA officers will be held Wednesday, February 28. Nominations can be submitted at the SGA office, which is located in the Stu dent Center. The SGA office is open from 1:30 to 4 on Monday and Wednes day, and from 2 to 4 on Friday. Nomina tions can also be submitted at Mrs. Vann’s office, which is located on the bottom floor of Columns. The deadline for nominations is Fri day, Febuary 23. The offices open for nomination are as follows: president, vice president, secretary, treasurer, historian, social co- chairperson for men and social co chairperson for women. Iranian Student Deported SAN ANTONIO, TX (CPS) - Though the Carter administration began its program to deport Iranian citizens stu dying in the United States in anger over the Jan. 2 violent demonstration ot Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi’s mother’s Beverly Hills Home, the only subsequent deportation action to date has been against a student at San An tonio College. Hossein Jahanfar, 29, is suspected of participating in the Beverly Hills riot, in which 35 were hurt and eight were ar rested. Jahanfar was jailed on $40,000 bond after leading a peaceful protest march on Jan. 17 to the Alamo, in San Antonio. The marchers were jeered at along the way by students and local residents, to whom Jahanfar retorted through a bullhorn, “Help us stop the shah from coming to the United States.” Immediately afterward, the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) arrested him, saying his visa expired Dec. 31, and that he had not re-enrolled for this semester at San-Antonio College. While Jahanfar is the first arrested for deportation since the CalUonua disturbance, the Carter administration has tried to deport Iranians — especial ly those studying in Texas — before. Last year, for example, the INS had the Houston police arrest one Medhi Mashi, a student at Galveston College for demonstrating without a permit. Mashi’s jail stay forced his absence from class, and he eventually had to drop a four-credit physics course. But as a result, Mashi passed fewer than 12 credits that semester, and thus was subject to deportation. On Dec. 11, though, the Fifth U.S. Cir- cut Court of Appeals reversed the deportation order against Mashi, say ing Mashi had been forced to drop the course only because the INS kept him in jail 12 days without a hearing.Immigra- tion laws, the court said, were no* designed to deport foreign students “in the middle of a diligent and successful college career because they are forced to drop one course in the final weeks of one semester.” Some of the Iranians, moreover, leave the United States to go on to big ger things. Ibraham Yazdi, a former professor at Baylor University at Waco, is reported to be in line for a high-level position . Edited, printed and published by students at Chowan College for students, faculty and staff of Chowan College Susan Pate — Editor Harry Pickett — Associate Editor News Staff Daniel Bender Kathy Fisher Cindy Lee Jane Bridgforth Charles Hitchcock Fran Morrison Allen Davis William Hobson Sandra Perry Tim Elliott Paul Kelly Donna Swicegood ( ^ Compus Poperbcick bestsellers 1. My Mother, Myself, by Nancy Friday. (Dell, $2.50.) The daughter’s search for identity. 2. The Women’s Room, by Marilyn French. (Jove/HBJ, $2.50.) Perspective on women’s role in society: fiction. 3. The Thorn Birds, by Colleen McCullough. (Avon, $2.50.) Australian family saga: fiction. 4. Centennial, by James A. Michener. (Fawcett/Crest, $2.95.) Epic story of America's legendary West: fiction. 5. Doonesbury’s Greatest Hits, by G B Trudeau. (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, $7.95.) A mid-seventies revue. 6. All Things Wise and Wonderful, by James Herriot. (Bantam, $2.75.) Continuing story of Yorkshire vet. 7. Daniel Martin, by John Fowles. (Signet, $2.95.) English playwright influenced by Hollywood: fiction. 8. The Amltyville Horror, by Jay Anson. (Bantam, $2.50.) True story of terror in a house possessed. 9. The Immigrants, by Howard Fast. (Dell, $2.75.) Italian immigrant’s rise and fall from Nob Hill: fiction. 10. Dynasty, by Robert S. Elegant. (Fawcetty'Crest, $2.75.) Saga of dynamic Eurasian family: fiction. This list was compiled by The Chronicle of Higher Education from infor mation supplied by college stores throughout the country. December 31 J
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