Page 2 — Smoke Signals, Friday, October 26, 1979
EDITORIAL OPINION
Hit-and-Courfesy
Hit-and-run. It’s not a nice subject but it does happen. If you
can’t park your car in front of your dorm, where do you park it? In
case some of you haven’t noticed, most cars are too big to put in
your pocket or in your room. It’s a really bad feeling when you go
to get in your car and someone has hit it.
As college students we should have more respect and considera
tion for our fellowman. If the problem gets too bad, we could
always hire someone to sit and watch the parking lots. It would
look pretty bad if college students had to have someone to watch
out for other immature and irresponsible students.
Although some can afford new cars there are others who can’t,
and seems as though the people who can’t afford nice cars are the
ones that get hit. Sure, their car may not be much but to them it is
all they have, and nine times out of ten they can’t afford to have it
fixed.
Most people with older model cars do not carry insurance for hit
and nui. This school has no insurance on the students’ cars and
will take no responsibility for any damages done. Last year the
problem really got out of hand and one student’s car was burnt.
Several students had sand, sugar, or water put in the gas tank,
causing most of the engine to be cleaned and costing a lost of
money.
If anyone thinks hitting a car and just leaving it is funny, please
ask some of the victims how they feel about it. The words you may
hear might not be too pleasant. If you see anyone hit a car, please
report it to your head resident or to the security guard. No one has
to know who reported it.
If you hit a car yourself, please leave a note giving your name,
dorm, and room number. After all, your car could be next and how
would you feel if your car got hit and did not know who did it? It is
not a very nice feeling at all. —Belinda elmore
Journalistic Feelings
We are appalled that some Student Government Association
members would stoop so low as to say this year’s Smoke Signals is
a sheet full of “yellow journalism.” That’s definitely not fair.
What spurred such an upheaval between Smoke Signals and the
SGA was the coverage given to the orgainization Oct. 1, when
Vice-President Nancy Loy and Social Chairperson for Men Greg
Kaserman argued over guidelines within the constitution govern
ing a quorum of the legislative body. Kaserman protested that the
orgainization should not hold the meeting because the needed two-
thirds of the legislative body did not show. The result left Loy cry
ing, and Kaserman stalking from the room in a rage after Presi
dent Mike Burke continued the session.
Because we covered this meeting and detailed the incidents of
our leaders, we’ve heard nothing but unfavorable statements
because of our coverage. Many feel that mention of those accounts
should never have been published, but how can a conscientious
reporter sit and not report on such a big issue. If anything, the
stoc)t.had an influence on the representative body of SQA; a(>
cordiflg to one officer, because at the government’s next mieeting
on Oct. 15, the room was packed with SGA members, not an empty
seat in sight.
What disturbs us most is being hailed as persons who do not care
for anothers feelings.” Whether the reporter cares for the feelings
of another is not the thrust of the issue, what is significant,
however, is that he fulfills a mission: to report on the events which
take place before him.
A reporter will never be a good one if he closes his eyes and ears
to issues that may hurt others’ “feelings.” He has a responsibility
and an obligation, not only to his paper but to his readers who
want to know first hand the accounts of developments which take
place, whether it is Washington or Chowan College, the public
deserves to know.
Walter Cronkite, anchorman for CBS News, says it best: “Our
job is only to hold up the mirror-to tell and show the public what
has happened, and then it is the job of the people to decide whether
they have faith in their leaders of government. We are faithful to
our profession in telling the truth. That’s the only faith to which
journalist need adhere.”
Smoke Signals is only a bi-monthly student newspaper, but that
doesn’t mean it can’t be professional in content. Our objective is to
report the news, not make it. So don’t expect us to turn our heads
when newsworthy material confronts us, because we won’t and we
wouldn’t be worthy of being called JOURNALISTS if we did.
We might remind the SGA, as newspaper people, we too have
feelings. But we can not neglect our responsibility of informing
thepubUc. -HARRY PICKETT
Edited, printed and published
by students at Chowan College
for students, faculty end staff
of Chowan College
Harry Pickett — Editor
Donna Swicegood — Assistant to the Editor
Dean Lowman — News Editor
News Staff
Greg Bassett
Belinda Elmore
Kathy Fisher
Pattie Bolgosono
Doug Cowart
Janet Herzing
Menford Grisewould
Charles Hitchcock
William Hobson
Photo Staff
Dennis Loon
Bob Lumpkins
Steve Sanders
Shelly Jankosky
Barbara Parker
Randy Stogner
Larry Stukes
Check Up
On Your
Habits
By SARAH WRIGHT
Director of Healtli Services
Have you taken inventory of your
habits lately? Years could be added to
your life or subtracted, depending on
your daily habits. Do you smoke, sit too
much, drink alcohol, use drugs, or eat
improperly? Is your seat belt fastened
when you travel?
Your lungs are kept clean by tiny
hairlike structures called Cilia. This
helps ward off infection. The Cilia is
paralyzed by cigarette smoke. Smoking
speeds up your heartbeat. Smoking is
the major cause of lung cancer, chronic
bronchitis, emphysema, and con
tributes to coronary artery disease. The
risk of a heart attack is much greater in
a smoker than in a non-smoker, about
twice as great.
One who sits too much and exercises
too little is a good candidate for a heart
attack. Why not improve circulation,
lose pounds and save gasoline by
walking everywhere possible. Walking
twenty minutes a day is an excellent
exercise habit to acquire.
Alcohol does not have any food value,
but one ounce of alcohol has about 200
calories. Alcohol’s irritating effects to
the mouth, esophagus or stonnach may
cause cancer. An alcoholic often has an
enlarged heart leading to congestive
heart failure. Everyone knows how
alcohol damages the liver in the form of
cirrhosis or cancer. Then there are
stomach ulcers from too much alcohol.
Another major killer by alcohol is the
car accident caused by the irrespon
sible drinker.
Americans take a pill for everything,
sometimes becoming dependent on
them. Then there are the people who
take drugs for kicks. All drugs have
side effects, so think before using
drugs.
The weight can be kept down if we are
willing to leave off sugars, starches and
fats. Don’t munch junk food, but try to
eat three balanced meals. Learn to
enjoy the nice raw salads and fruits.
By following a few basic rules, life
can be healthier and longer.
A healthy person is a happy person.
Shortage
Prompts Suit
By Students
TOWSON, MD (CPS) - The”annual
dorm room shortage has been par
ticularly severe this fall, and, in what
may be a harbinger of a more resolute
student attitude about dorm over
booking, a Towson State University
student is suing the administration for
breach of contract.
Around 100 Towson State students
found there were no rooms open to
accommodate them this fall. Ap
proximately 40 women who had
reserved dorm space were temporarily
housed at a motel about three miles
from campus, while 60 men are still in
apartments about five miles away.
Student government Vice President
Michael Burns claimed the dorm
shortage is tantamount to “breach of
contract”, and went looking for a
student who would be willing to sue the
university on those grounds. Freshman
Nancy Gamut ultimately agreed to
have her name used, despite fears the
university might retaliate in the future.
Terry Smith, director of Auxiliary
Services for the university, said the
shortage happened because there were
fewer dropouts than usual this year.
Between 100 and 130 students who
reserve rooms typically don’t return in
the fall. The university normally takes
about 100 more reservations than the
dorms can accommodate to com
pensate for the no-shows.
But that policy, Burns claimed in a
letter to the school paper, was
“detrimental...to those who expected
rightly to be housed on this campus,
and were forced to either live in slums
— and slums they were — or find off-
campus housing, with only days
remaining before school commences.”
The displaced women were moved
back onto campus the week of Sep
tember 17, but into dorm basements
and hastily-converted study rooms.
Camut, whose name will represent all
the displaced students, wae given space
in a converted study hall. She
speculated that others refused to put
their names on the suit because of
apathy. “The r|ason I came forward,”
she recalls, “was because...! knew the
(overbooking of rooms) would happen
again.”
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By FREDDIE DAVIS
Phi Theta Kappa President
Phi Theta Kappa is a recognized
honorary scholarship society whose
object is to promote scholarship, to
develop character and to cultivate
fellow^p among the students of both
sexes in the junior colleges of the
United States.
Phi Theta Kappa was formed at
Columbia, Missouri in 1918. Its chief
purpose was to give merited
recognition to the outstanding students
in junior colleges. For a junior college
to be eligible for a chapter in Phi Theta
Kappa, it must offer two years of
college equivalent to the freshman and
sophomore years of a fully accredited
four-year college. The college applying
for membership in the fraternity must
also be a member of the American
Association of Junior Colleges and of
a regional accrediting agency, or ful
fill the requirements of the Ex
ecutive Committee.
In 1957 Chowan College submitted a
petition for membership in Phi Theta
Kappa. Shortly after, its application
was approved and its chapter was
assigned the name lota Delta. The
establishment of this chapter at
Chowan signified greatly its academic
growth. It also symbolized the purpose
of the institution, to develop the mind of
an individual to its greatest capacity.
lota Delta now consists of 35 mem
bers and is sponsored by Professor Ed
Wooten.
To be eligible for membership in Phi
Theta Kappa, one must be a regularly
enrolled student who has a B average or
maintained a quality point ratio of 3.0.
He must have completed one full
semester of college work with a
minimum of 15 hours. Twelve of these
hours must be in courses leading to a
recognized degree in a fully accredited
imiversity or 4-year college. Fur
thermore, he must be of good moral
character and possess recognized
qualities of citizenship as judged by a
faculty committee.
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Cure for Dreaded Discomania
Discovered in Rock and Roll
By DEAN LOWMAN
Trumpeters, prepare to sound
“Taps.” The beaded fad called disco
is dsong slowly!
Over the past six years, the plague
called disco has spread across the
world, infiltrating the minds of both
young and old with its overbearing
drum beat and its repetitive lyrics.
The afflicted have been seen wander
ing aimlessly into dank buildings
which house huge amplifiers and
flashing lights.
In these arenas, masses gather in
anticipation of yet another disco high,
as if their continuous intake of germs
provided by the radio were not
enough. Dressed in yards of silk,
satin, or tacky polyester, the diseased
obtain a sense of meaning from life by
flailing their arms, shaking their
bodies up and down, or bouncing their
hips over various parts of someone
else’s anatomy.
It is interesting to note that while
most diseased people seek a cure for
Woman: Chemical Description
Symbol: Wo
Accept Atomic Weight; 115 pounds
Occurance: abundant wherever man is found; seldom exists in the free state.
Physical Properties:boils at nothing; freezes at any minute; melts when properly
handled; very bitter if mistreated.
Chemical Properties: very active; possesses strong affinity for gold, platinum and
precious stones; able to absorb great amounts of expensive food matter; turns
green when placed next to a better specimen; ages rapidly.
Uses: highly ornamental: useful as a tonic under certain conditions; an equalizer
in the distribution of wealth; probably the most powerful income-reducing.
agent.
C^utioi: highly explosive in inexperienced hands.
Variation: basic structuraare patemed after those of the original model. (Eve-but
there are many isotopes and configurations; will vary from “WOW”to
“reject.”)
MARGULIBS
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their illness, these “disco freaks” con-
tiue to feed upon the source of their
sickness.
However, a cure for this plague of
“discomania” has been available
since the early fifties. Commonly call
ed rock and roll, it utilizes in
struments ranging from the Indian
sitar to the Moog synthesizer to pro
duce myriad of sound. The dosage
may be either large or small and is
usually administered aurally.
The antidote is available in many
forms (e.g., progressive, acid, folk,
new wave, pop, southern boogie, coun
try or instrumental) and is found in
music stores and concert halls around
the world.
Disco sufferers should take heed,
however, as “rock” music frequently
puts more than three words together
coherently. It suggest that the acute
discomaniac should ease into rock and
roll gradually. Start with some mellow
pop like Billy Joel or Neil Young
before attempting to grasp the music
of Led Zeppelin or the Rolling Stones.
Otherwise, the discomaniac may
suffer from complications such as
acute withdrawal from reality or
severe depression as his mind may not
be able to withstand the transition.
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JIMMY YOU CLOWN-
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WITH THAT
BOLb VISION ,
FOR THE 1980 S,
HE DESERVES
TO BE
PRESIDENT AGAIN,