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PTK Plans
To Send
20 to D.C.
By HARRY PICKETT
Club members of Phi Theta kappa
will attend the organization’s national
conventior. during the week of March
21-23 in Washington, D.C., according to
Iota Delta President Freddie Davis.
Chowan’s chapter will send ap
proximately 20 members to the annual
convention this year. Last year the
PTK convention was held in Kansas
(3ty, Mo., where Davis, treasurer Ross
Newcombe and sponsor Edward
Wooten represented the school.
The theme for this year's assemble
is “A Time for Truth: America’s Need
for Governmental Renaissance.” Thig
year’s group will emcompass some
from three to four thousand students
who’ll have the chore of coming up with
a theme for next year, and electing new
PTK national officers.
“The convention brings people and
ideas together,” Davis said of PTTC pur
pose. “You learn a lot from other clubs,
such as ways to get involved in your col
lege as a whole.”
At last year’s convention, the trio met
Phi Theta Kappians from every state in
the union, visited the Nelson Art
Gallery, toured the Truman Library,
took in a ballet, and were spectators at
a Kansas City Royals baseball game.
This year’s group will visit the
Smithsonian Institute, Washington
Monument, State Capitol and go to a
Waishington Bullets basketball game.
Vice-president Walter Mondale is a
guest speaker, and President Carter
has been invited to speak to the junior
college students.
Davis and the club members are
eagerly waiting for the trip. According
to the president, there hasn’t been as
much excitement involved in the club in
recent years. “There’s a big difference
from last year’s club,” Davis revealed.
“Last year the club was inactive. The
officers just had a name, that’s all.
They didn’t try to promote the club.”
Proof of the chapters improvement
came just recently when it was named
runner-up as the most improved
chapter in the region. Iota Delta also
received second place in the Travel
Award competion in Ashville at the
Regional Convention.
The club has had several fund raising
projects thus far, such as a couple of
doughnut and hotdog sales. March 15
PTK will sponsor the first annual PTK
softbaU tournament, and Davis said it
should be a success.
On March 13 Iota Delta will initiate
approximately 30 to 40 students. Of
ficers will be chosen in May.
Gog Merely Hoax
DEKALB, IL (CPS)—The president
of the Northern Illinois student govern
ment says his announcement that he’d
forbidden student officers from talking
to reporters from the student paper was
a hoax. The hoax, said President Jim
McDermott, was to illuistrate how in
complete coverage by the NIU Nor
thern Star was.
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1980 Regional Champion Chowan wrestling team from left (first row) Earl
Sheppard, Charles McCook, Brian Meek, Doug Saunders, Lewis Johnson,
Kenny Barbour, Russell Moore, (second row) Don White, Ricky Griggs,
Joe Bass, Jeff Cristos, Lawrence Blackwell, Steve Miltsakakis, Mile
White, (third row) Coach Steve Nelson, Mike McGinnis, Mike Rosamilia,
Bill Corser^ Jerome Mitchell, Mark Davis, David Leman, Andy Galarza,
Henderson Ware, Mark Davidson, Jeff Armstrong and Manager Joni
Graham.
Wrestle
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used their depth and mounted yet
another tournament for fifth-year head
coach Steve Nelson.
Nelson calls this year’s success a
“team effort”, in paving the way to a
12-0 record. “We really had excellent
depth. When one wrestler was injured,
the one who took his place either did as
well or even better,” he explained.
The regional championship was the
first for Chowan in any sport in the
school’s history. The wrestling pro
gram has steadily climbed since
Nelson’s arrival in 1975 from Western
Carolina.
His first Chowan team was 0-13, but
has since been crowned the Mid-
Atlantic Champions six times, has had
13 national qualifiers, and the 1979 team
finished its campaign ranked 16th by
the National Junior College Athletic
Association.
The Braves closed their regular
season defeating Montgomery, 30-12;
Newport News Apprentice School,
40-14; and Longwood College, 57-0. It
was the third straight winning season
for Chowan and improved on its 11-6
mark of last year.
Nelson feels this year’s showing will
enhance recruiting next season, where
he returns eight of his top 10 wrestlers.
Chowan Players Present Veteran Cast
In Wilder's ‘Our Town' March 26-29
By SHELLY JANKOSKY
“Our Town”, a beautifully simple
play about life in a small town, will be
presented by the Chowan Players
March 26-29 in Daniel Recital Hall.
This Pulitzer Prize-wiiming play by
Thornton Wilder is one of America’s
best-loved plays. Simply set in a typical
American town around 1900, it portrays
the boy-and-girl-next-door as they fall
in love, marry and share the happiness
and pain of life and death.
The pivotal role of the Stage Manager
is po^ayed by Professor Kenneth
Woifskill, who has many acting credits
and was a drama minor as an
undergraduate himself.
The leading roles of George and Emi
ly are acted by Joe Mays and Laura
Askew, who is making her fourth ap
pearance on a Chowan stage.
George’s parents are Aubrey Cuthrell
(Walter Hollander in “Don’t Drink the
Water”) and Penny Jones. Emily’s
parents are played by Rhett Coates
(Axel McGee in “Don’t Drink the
Water”) and Cathie Pickens.
Others in the cast include Becky
Brasie, Kevin Cole, Deno White, John
Sullivan and Darlene Keene, who also
will be remembered from last fail’s
production of “Don’t Drink the Water”,
and Caroline Stephenson, Bernard In
gram, Hal Austin, Eddie Butler, Sandra
Brown, Hope Boyce, and Bill Gambrell. ■
Members of the stage crew include
Bruce Walbert, Robert Lesesne,
Kimberly Mandra, Jay Hilton, Warren
Sexton, Jr., Lisa Rossboro, Greg Ben
ton, Darlene Keene, JamiUe Aceves,
Eddie Butler, Denise Reynolds, Steve
Whittemore and Fran Morrison.
Mrs. Sandra Boyce, director of the
Chowan Players, says of “Our Town”,
“this is the play I’ve always wanted to
direct.”
Modem critics have called the play
“hauntingly beautiful”, “the life of any
town, of any human from the cradle to
the grave”, and “as comfortable as an
old shoe.”
Performances are scheduled at 8
p.m. Wednesday, March 2fi through
Saturday, March 29, with a matinee at
1:30 p.m. Thursday, March 27. Daniel
Recital Hall seats only 175 persons so
tickets should be obtained early. Stu
dent tickets will be on sale daily in
Thomas Cafeteria for $1.
Scenes from “Our Town” will be
presented at assemblies on March 17
and 19.
Miller Retains Post
By HARRY PICKETT
An impeachment hearing was held
Monday, February 25 for charges held
against Student Governament
Associatim historian Bemie Miller. By
a majority, the legislature defeated the
motion to expell the so{diomore.
Miller was charged with conduct
unbecoming of an SGA officer, ac
cording to SGA president Mike Burke.
Burke, however, would not reveal the
nature of Miller’s offense.
Under the SGA constition. Article m,
Sectimi I, an officer “shall have and
maintain a good conduct record.”
Because of his involvements, Miller
was stripped of his associate head
resident job at West Hall.
As her duty, Cindy Gray, SGA
auditor, motioned for Miller’s im
peachment. Burke seconded. After a
brief discussion, ttie legidature voted
by secret ballot and later the decision
was accepted by President Bruce E.
Whitaker and Dean Clayton Lewis,
dean of students.
Burke, who called for the closed
proceedings, said he was disappointed
that the impeachment hearings had to
take place, but noted “I am pleased
with the results.”
Job Hopes
For Grads
Better Now
EAST LANSING, MI (CPS) -
Despite economists’ fear of a deep and
long-lastipg recession, ttie 1980 college
graduate stands a one-to-two percent
better chance of landing a job than 1979
grads, according to a new Michigan
State University survey of large em
ployers. Students with bachelors
degrees are going to be more actively
recruited than those with master and
doctoral degrees, the survey also found.
“We hear a lot of talk about a
recession,” comments MSU Placement
Director John Shingleton, “but college
grads are in good shape for two
reasons. First, grads are being hired by
companies for the long run. We’re not
talking about positions that will go up
and down. Second, if there are goinfi^
be in cutbacks (in personnel during^H
economic slowdown), they’re going To
be in the blue collar ranks.”
Shingleton’s study was a survey of 471
employers across the country.
The results convinced him that the
heaviest recruiting will be in ac
counting, aerospace, electronics,
retailing, the military, and by the
petroleum industry.
Most employers, though, said they
were more interested in recruiting
students with bachelors degrees than '
those with associate, masters or doc
toral degrees.
Shingleton also discovered beginning
salaries will be up seven-to-eight
percent over last year. Thirty-four
percent of the employers surveyed said
starting salaries they offer are
negotiated during the hiring process,
while the remaining two-thirds of the
employers set salary levels before
applicants walk through the door.
Even education degrees, until
recently considered express tickets to
the unemployment line, are more
valuable in the job market, the survey
found. Demand for matt, science,
industrial arts and special education
teachers is especially strong.
The University of Wisconsin, for
example, announced three days after
Shingleton announced his findings that
it had placed 77 percent of its 1979
education graduates in teaching jobs.
Only two percent of those graduates
willing to relocate didn’t get jobs.
The Michigan State study confirmed
that relocation is a major factor in most
hiring decisions. Most companies said
convincing graduates to move is their
most difficult recruitment problem.
The majority of job opportunities this
year seem to be in the south-central,
north-central and south-west regions of
the country.
Loan Defaults Cut
Washington, D.C. (CPS)--The
government’s effort to chase down
students who default on financial aid
loans have reached a new stage of
success. The U.S. Office of Education
reports that $42 million in 218,000 bad
Guaranteed Student Loans (GSLs)
were collected in fiscal 1979 compared
to about $10 million in 1977.
Befte Midler Admired Joplin Too Much To Try To Imitate Her
By Peter Klem
(CPS)—Bette Midler’s hallmark has
always been her versatility. She can
sing anything: nostalgic renditions of
old chestnuts from the thirties and
forties, early rock classics, ballads,
blues, even country music.
And now she’s tried something else:
acting. As the lead in 20th Century Fox’s
"THE ROSE," she plays a high-stnmg,
self-destructive rock singer of the late
sixties with such verve and intensity
that she seems a shoo-in for an Oscar
nomination. But her performance is
more than that. It’s probably the most
electrifying screen debut since Barbra
Streisand’s in "FUNNYGIRL"
The happy fit of actress and role,
though, almost never happened.
Midler, fw one, didn’t think much of the
role when she first read it. “1 didn’t
like it particularly,” she
recalled at a recent in
terview in Los Angeles. “I thought
the language was too rough. I’m very
scholarly under all this, y’know?”
She wasn’t too happy about a role that
could be so easily traced to its less-
than-subtle similarity to the life of
Janis Joplin. Although the filmmakers
insist Joplin’s life was only the in
spiration for a script about the stresses
inherent to rock 'n roll superstantom,
there’s enough onstage drinking and
pathetic urges to please old, undaring
families in the film to keep the charges
cf sensationalist grave-robbing alive
for a long time.
Midler says she ultimately accepted
the role because it would be a personal
departure for her.
“The thing I’ve always tried to do in
my career is not to do the expected. As
it turns out, this was just as unexpected
as anything could have possibly been. If
I had played the Queen of Poland, it
couldn’t have been any more shocking
to people who know me.”
She figured that differences in vocal
style and appearance would make it
impossible to Impersonate Joplin
anyway. “1 really did try to stay away
from (imitating Joplin)...I was a big fan
MIDLER
of Janis’s, and I didn’t think I could do
justice to her memory.”
If she wouldn’t imitate Joplin, did she
base the role on her own experiences?
"1 was never in as much pain as that
diaracter. I’ve been in the soup, but
I’ve never been so far down that I really
couldn’t see any way out.”
Several scenes in the film, however,
sure look like allusions to Midler’s own
life. In one sequence she visits a
transvestite night club. She tears
through a men’s bathhouse looking for
her boyfriend in another scene.
Midler, whose career took an im
probable turn up while working at the
Continental Baths in New York, con
fesses she asked herself, “Did they put
that in there because they thought I
would like that?” The screenwriters
assured her the scenes were in the
script before Midler was even con
sidered for the role.
And protests that her and Rose’s
outlooks were different didn’t prevent
Midler from getting oddly emotional
when discussing the character. At one
point in the interview, when she
discussed Rose’s barely-filmed
relationship with her parents, Midler
became so tearful she couldn’t continue
talking.
She recovered quickly, though,
saying, “I’m really tired. I need a year
off.” It was a line from the film.
Does she want to take that year off to
go back home, to parade her success
like Rose wanted to?
“I used to want to go home a lot, and
show’em all, but then there came a
point where I didn’t need to. It didn’t
make any difference. They would
always say I was the same, no matter
how many years would go by, no matter
how much weight I’d lost, no matter
how wierd my hair was.”
Home for Midler, now 33, was
Honolulu, where she was “the only
Jewish girl in an otherwise Samoan
neighborhood.” A role in the film
“Hawaii” inspired her to leave for New
York. She struggled there for six years,
working her way up in the cast of the
theatrical version of "Fiddler on the
Roof." She left the show for the
nightclub circuit, the Continental Baths,
and finally the records and revues that
made her famous.
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Instructors needed
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She wouldn’t mind going back to live
shows for awhile. “It keeps me alive.
It’s great stimulation.”
There’ll be more films, too. “I’d like
to do a comedy, a comedy with music.
I’d like to play someone who gets to
smile a lot, and tell jdces, and wear
scanty clothes, bleached blonde hair.”
There might be television work as
well. One of her favorite performances
so far was a special for cable TV she did
called "The HBO Show."
“That had soipe real tacky moments
in it,” she recalls fondly. “I loved that.
I’d like to do another one for them. They
let you go on for hours. It’s a lot like
British TV. They’re just filthy on
British TV. They encourage you to say
filings you would never get away with
on American television. I loved that
show.”
In Concert at
Sunday March 16
at 7:30 p.m.
States
— formally McDonald
Adnnission is $3.00
for Guys
and the Ladies
get in
free
March 30
Sunday
Guy's Nife
Dreamer -onall
girl rock-n-roll
band.
$3.00 admission for the Ladies.
From 7:30 to 8:15 p.m. — Free Beverages for the guys.