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Thainboonsong collects waste water (left) and analyzes it in the lob. Photo by Jennifer Wickef
Collecting Waste
Not Wasted Effort
By JENNIFER WICKER
Collecting samples of foul-smelling
green waste is a weekly procedure for
Phaisan Thianboonsong, an interna
tional student from Thailand, who is
working on an independent study pro
ject in chemistry.
The pre-engineering major does not
care for gathering the samples, but he
does appreciate the lab experience.
“I want to leam how to be more and
more accurate,” he explained.
Waste Water Analysis, the title of
his project involves analyzing water
for the amounts of nitrogen and phos
phorous in samples from Lake Vann,
the Meherrin River, and the waste
treatment ponds next to the Meherrin
River.
“It gets boring, every week you get
the same thing. If you notice a trend
that’s good, because often you don’t,"
noted Dr. Garth Faile, Phaisan’s in
structor and chairman of the Depart
ment of Science.
“He works six to eight hours a
week, for a one-hour credit which may
or may not transfer, but he wants the
practice. When I asked Phaisan to
work with me, he had already signed
up for economics, but he dropped that
course to take this. I tried to talk him
out of it,” Faile added.
In his spare time Phaisan reads and
practices the piano and is learning
how to drive.
He is not the only student in the
department doing an independent
study; Mike Stewart, of Morganton,
N.C., is working with computers in the
physics lab.
Mike explained, “I want to leam
more about computer progranwning,
mostly home computers.”
“Last semester, I worked on a
topographical mapping program to
help geologists and geographers in
looking at an area in a three-dimen
sional way. This semester. I’m work
ing on a program where a teacher can
enter his or her grades on a diskette,
where they can not be tampered with,
Mike added enthusiastically.
Double Summer Session
Resumed for This Year
By LYNETTE FARRELL
Some students may be interested at
tending summer school at Chowan to
make up courses missed or to make
next fall’s schedule easier.
The first summer term begins May
24 and ends June 18. The normal max
imum load for this term is one
academic course and one physical
education course.
The second summer session begins
June 21 and ends July 23. Students are
permitted to enroll for two academic
courses and one physical education
course.
No room deposit or advance pay
ment is required for the summer ses
sions. Rooms and roommates are not
assigned prior to arrival on campus.
Expenses for the first term in-
cluuding tuition, room, meals and in
surance adre $332. For the second
summer term, expenses are $400.
No automobile registration tee will
be charged during the summer. All ex
penses are payable at the time of
registration.
Let's Hear It
Smoke Signals encourages all
students to submit Letters to the
Editor. If you have an issue or idea that
you would like to comment on or com
plain about, just drop your letter by the
Graphic Communications office in
McSweeny Hall, or give your letter to
any member of the Smoke Signals staff.
A special program for rising high
school seniors is being offered this
year.
Anyone interested in attending sum
mer school at Chowan should contact
Dean B. Franklin Lowe for further in
formation and application forms.
Writing Center
Provides Aid
By SANDY SPRINGFIELD
The Writing Center offers assistance
to students with writing problems en
countered in English or non-English
classes on Tuesday and Thursday
from 1 to 4 p.m. in the Special Ser
vices office in the basement of the
Whitaker Library.
The center is staffed by Mrs. Bar
bara Presnell or a qualified tutor who
will work with the student on a one-to-
one basis.
Students may come in during opera
tional hours with or without referral to
receive help with writing problems,
according to Mrs. Presnell.
Instructional materials such as
workbooks, exercises, reading and
writing aids, will be provided to assist
the student in working on his own.
Specialized assistance in spelling and
vocabulary building is also offered.
Although help will be given students,
tutors will not proofread any English
eriting assignment or write anything
for the student, Ms. Presnell emphisiz-
ed.
Edited, printed and published by students
at Chowan College for students, faculty
and staff of CHOWAN COLLEGE
EDITORS
Lynette Farrell and Jennifer Wicker
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
Wanda Bishop
NEWS STAFF
Linda Cherry
Emma Giles
Frank Gee
Carolyn Gregory
Todd Dudek
Theresa Mantas
Joe McGarrity
Katherine Warren
PHOTO STAFF
Karen Gurty
Krista Schleicher
Mike Shenuski
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Mae Woodard
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Be Careful
With Answer
To What If?
By SARAH G. WRIGHT
Director of Health Services
In Health Centers we are asked a lot
of WHAT IF questions. The following
list of questions and their answers are
some of the most frequent asked.
This list was prepared by Dr. Dean
Lovett, editor of Community College
Health Services, and was published in
his March 1982 Newsletter, Volume 12
No. 7:
• WHAT IF your roommates had what
seems to be the same illness you have
and offers you some left-over
medicine that worked well? NO MAT
TER WHAT DON’T TAKE IT, even if
you are thes same age, weight and
physical condition, and the medicine is
only a couple of weeks old.
• WHAT IF you are taking medication
and someone offers you a cocktail?
DON’T TAKE IT. Alcohol is a depres-
sent and may increase the effects if
the medication.
• WHAT IF you take medication faith
fully and follow all the directions
carefully and do not improve? Should
you see another physician? NO. Go
back to your physician and tell him
how you feel.
• WHAT IF you do not have faith in
your physician and decide to seek care
by another physician.' Tell tht new
physician EVERYTHING, the
diagnosis, the medication you are tak
ing and exactly your problem.
• WHAT IF the directions say take
one dose three times a day? ASK
whether the dose should be taken one
hour before (itnpty stomach), during,
or one or two hours after eating. Food
may influence the absorption of the
medication.
• WHAT IF the medication makes you
feel drowsy? Be careful driving a car,
operating machinery or taking ex
aminations.
• WHAT IF you can’t remember
whether you have taken your medica
tion? DON’T TRY TO CATCH UP.
Wait until the next dose is due.
• WHAT IF you have medicines left
over? THROW THEM OUT. Dispose
of them safely.
Outing
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spring down the Meherrin River and
around Mercluuits Mill.
“We will also be fixing natural foods
gathered on the trips, like cattails,
wild rice, ground nuts that resemble
potatoes, and special delicacies like
crawfish and wild asparagus. We’ll
also make different drinks, such as
summac tea; there’s so much stuff we
can make,” an enthusiastic Albright
reported.
He also noted the addition of two
lightweight aluminum canoes given to
the club by the SGA as a great ad
vantage.
“They will be very nice, when we
have to carry them, or to pick them
up to get over logs.”
“The cafeteria supplies all of the
food that we don’t gather ourselves.
We cook it over a campfire to get the
flavor of the outdoors into it,” he add
ed.
“Last year, there wasn’t much in
terest in the club, we had only a few
members. This year I want to make it
bigger and get more people in
terested,” Albright stated.
“Eve^body in the club carries his
own weight, and many of the people in
the club know a lot about different
things; for instance. Miss Rinda Metz
knows a lot about canoeing and
birds.” “She has also lived in Maine in
the wilds. Chris Rose has been in
wildlife preservation, and I have been
canoeing through Canada,” Albright
explained.
He also notes, however, “Many of
the trips have troubles, they are like
endurance tests with knee-deep mud,
fast water and snakes.
“We take first aid and snakebite
kits, we’ve had a program on
snakebites in one of our meetings,” he
added.
Members of the club also leam a
respect for keeping the environment
clean, and “we see a hell of a lot of
wildlife; great blue herons, beavers,
owls and deer,” according to Albright.
'Oklahoma!' Pleasant Diversion
Well-Done By Chowan Players
ByKENWOLFSKILL
“Oklahoma!” is just for fun. It has a
lot of song and dance, a simple plot
about love on the frontier, and a good
dose of sentimentality and patriotism,
just to make you feel good all over.
When it was first produced, in 1943,
folks in America had experienced the
Great Depression and the Dust Bowl,
and they were now united in war; they
Wooten Inducted
In Hall of Fame
By KATHERINE WARREN
Prof. Ed Wooten and the Iota Delta
Chapter were honored at the National
Convention of Phi Theta Kappa. The
convention took place in Minneapolis
March 12-14.
Wooten was inducted into the Na
tional Hall of Fame for sponsors. The
Iota Delta Chapter received an award
of excellence.
Club Notes
The weekend of February 19-21 was
the time of the annual Carolinas
Regional Convention. The place was
Greensboro, N.C. Iota Delta, Chowan’s
Phi Theta Kappa Chapter, was well
represented by its sophomore
members and several provisional
members.
The evening of Friday was filled
with the clerical details of registering,
getting into rooms, etc. Hut night,
General Session I was called into
order by Sigma Chi, host chapter, and
its president Michelle Wright.
After the meeting Iota Delta
members went to a Costume Ball in
the Banquet Hall of the Howard
Johnson’s. Iota Delta was represented
by Robin Hood, Raggedy Anne, and
Tiiree Little Pigs. We danced the night
away.
Saturday brought the General Ses
sion II. Dr. Byran Lindsay, professor
of Humanities at the University of
South Carolina gave an informative
and thought-provoking talk on “The
Short Story: Mirror ol Humanity”
Also, Fred Chappell, English Pro
fessor at UNC-G. gave ann interesting
talk.
That afternoon was full of cam
paigning, relaxation, and sightseeing
of Greensboro.
Saturday evening was the climax of
regional PTK activities. The evening
began at the 1982 awards banquet.
Awards ranging from Most Improved
Chapter, outstanding member from
The Most Distinguished Chapter
award were presented. Iota Delta
received the 1982 Travel Award tor
sending the most members the most
miles.
Later we attended the Wake Forest-
Maryland basketball game to see the
Deacs down Lefty’s Terps! However if
Iota Deltans wanted to return to Mur
freesboro, we had to pull tor Wake
Forest. Wonder why?
Departure from the game gave
Chowan’s members a wide variety of
things to do. A sing-along with PTK
members or the nightspots of
Greensboro.
Sunday came too soon. Iota Delta,
regional vice-president, presided at
the General Session in. The thrust of
the meeting was devoted to ccMnmittee
meeting reports and speeches for the
regional offices. Iota Delta mmade a
second bid for the regional vice- presi
dent. Arch rival Lees-McRae won,
however. Other officers are Phi Lamb
da: Regional President and Delta Pi:
Secretary.
With all the business taken cared of
the 1981-82 Carolinas Regional Conven
tion was adjourned. Admist PTK Hugs
Iota Delta members left for Mur
freesboro with the memories of the
best regional convention to date.
Thanks Barbara and Michelle!
Submitted by Mary Drake
andJ(riin Harris.
loved the play, and it won a special
Pulitzer F*rize.
Now, with President Reagan trying to
make “the land we belong to” great
again, after Viet Nam, Watergate, and
the freeing of American hostages in
Iran, it’s probably time for
A Critical Review
“Oklahoma!” and a nostalgic retum to
the simpler time of 1907 with its hardy
men and women to whom technology
was a delightful rumor from Kansas
City, politics were a matter of farmers
and ranchers getting along, justice was
a swift enactment of the common will,
and the central concerns in their lives
were love and the land.
It’s a pleasant, diverting vision made
enchanting with colorful and clever
songs, and with free, romping dance.
Mrs. Sandra Boyce and the Chowan
Players brought this vision to us the
week of March 23. Musical directicm by
Dr. Jim Chamblee Involved his
recruiting the faculty talents of Dr.
Hugh Middleton, Mr. Bob Brown, Ms.
Barbara Presnell, Ms. Rinda Metz, and
Ms. Carla Chamblee. Mrs. Marla
Hunnings staged the dancing, one of the
most delightful features of the
production: you could see the fun the
cast was having.
Unlike the experience of so many
amateur productions, voices here were
confident. “I Can’t Say No,” by Angela
Cockrell, “Pore Jud,” by Joe Mayes
and joined by Rick Canas, and “Out of
my Dreams,” by Lynn Copeland, were,
I thought, standouts. Jeff McGlohn, as
Will Parker, was especially convincing
and effective, as was Shahrokh
Paykamian, who was perfect tor ^
peer’s hilarious role.
It was all good fun.
Tax Cuts
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it can expect to get back roughly $4300
in tax revenues over 20 years.
The administration, which last year
announced it would perform cost-
benefit analyses of environmental and
social programs to determine if it
should continue funding them, did no
such study of the fiscal impact of stu
dent aid cuts, according to Barry
White, who oversees the student aid
budget for the Office of Management
and Budget.
The decision to cut federal student
aid was “reaUy a policy decision that
the federal government at this stage
cannot afford to spend the amount of
money that it has in the past on stu
dent aid,” White says.
In making the cuts, “We don't know
how many people it will keep out os
school.'’
Even if a cost-benefit study showed
the government was actually
defeating its oun supply-side plan for
increasing tax revenues. White was
“not sure that that is a good reason”
for spending federal money on the aid.
“The crucial point is not the numbers
government ignores the numbers,”
says Christopter Jencks, a sociology
professor at Northwestern who
authored the much-acclaimed Who
Gets Ahead?, a study of the influence of
higher education on earning levels.
The government generally uses such
cost- benefit studies to justify military
spending, Jencks observes, “and then
they put out a lot of fluff. But when you
The government generally uses such
cost- benefit studies to justify military
spending, Jencks observes, “and then
they put out a lot of fluff. But when you
press them, they say something like,
“It’ll impress the Russians.”
Howard Bowen, a professor of educa
tion economics at Carement College
Graduate School and author of Invest
ment in Learning - The Individual and
Social Value in Higher Education,
agrees that the government’s retum on
investment in colleges in general “is
better than the rate of return on
(private) investment capital.”
“When interest rates are modest,”
Bowen says, “the usual rate of return
on capital is on the order of six, seven
or eight percent annually. In educa
tion, the rate of retum is on the order
of 11-12 percent.”
Bowen’s estimate takes into account
all monies spent on higher education -
from teacher salaries to maintenance
- and the amount of wealth a college
graduate con- tributes to the gross
mational product.
College Press Service figured the
rate of retum on federal student aid
alone by comparion the cost of the aid
to the govemmint to the different
amounts of taxws paid back to the
government by aided degree and non-
degree holders.
CPS found an average annual rate
of return of 215 percent over 20 years.
SGA Spring
Movies
Apr. 14 ExcaUbur Col.Aud.
Apr. 21 The Howling Col.Aud.
Apr.p Stripes Col.Aud.
May 6 Escape From Col. Aud.
New York
$1 without I.D.
50. with I.D.
Showings at 7 & 8:15 p.m.
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