Volume 14, Number 1
Chowan College, Murfreesboro, North Corolina 27855
October }4, 1982
New Travels &
New Leaders
Editor & Leaders Confer
Editors and student government officers face some of the same challenges in their respective fields. Andy
Jackson, Editor of The News-Herald, chatted recently with Chowan's SGA officers for 1982-83. From left, Jackson,
Gus Kefalas, President; Bruce Thomas, Vice President; Kevin Thompson, Treasurer.
On The Road Again
Willie Nelson's record On fhe Road Again might be considered the theme for Chowan's Admissions Office.
Covering the Eastern seaboard from Connecticut to Florida, they tell the Chowan College story. Lynn Gruber and
Paul Traywick help Libbie McPhoul load up for a trip that will result in members for the Class of 1985.
Homecoming Festivities
Highlights Weekend
A car parade and funeral procession,
complete with a hearse, casket,
preacher and mourners, will kick off
Homecoming activities Thursday.
Mel Paris, parade marshall, said the
car parade will form on Vance Street
behind IGA and proceed down Main
Street and back to campus. Dr. Bruce
E. Whitaker, Chowan’s president, and
Murfreesboro Mayor Billy Hill will ride
in the lead car.
Paris said the Homecoming Court
will ride in antique cars. Two high
school bands, Mufreesboro and
Ahoskie, will march in the parade. A
number of Chowan football players will
be on a float.
The parade will circle Squirrel Park
before disbanding. The funeral proces
sion for Chowan, opponent, Mon
tgomery Community College of Bel
Aire, MD., will proceed to the site of the
bonfire. I)r. Earl Parker, professor in
the Department of Religion and
Philosophy, will conduct the mock
funeral. Tom Gale is serving as the
funeral director. A pep rally by
Chowan’s cheerleaders will follow.
Friday’s activites include “Anthing
Goes” in Squirrel Park from 3:30-5:30
p.m. and Homecoming banquet for the
Homecoming court at 6 p.m. in the
President’s Dinning Room.
All students will be invited to a pizza
party from 8-10 p.m. with Milton’s pizza
going for 25 cents a slice. Disk jockey
Bruce Dowdy of K94 will spin records.
Satiu"day, forteen area high shool
marching bands from North Carolina
and Virginia will begin competion at 9
a.m. Chowan Stadium. The sponsor of
Band Day is the division of Music
within the Fine Arts Department.
Professor Bob Brown said bands
from Nansemond-Suffolk and North
Stafford will represwent Virginia.
North Carolina bands are Mufreesboro,
Ahoskie, Manteo, Willianston, Weden-
ton, Tarboro, Washington, Greenville,
Northampton, Gates County, Per
quimans County, and Southern Nash of
Rocky Mount.
The band selected as Band of the Day
will perform at halftime. This band will
be selected from either Division A (up
to 60 members) or Division B ( over 60
members). The winner of the other
division will present the pre-game
show.
Alfmini activities Saturday include
reception at 10:30 a.m. on the brick
plaza by McDowell Columns and on Col
umns third floor porch after the game.
The alunmi luncheon is scheduled for
11:45 a.m. in the President’s Dining
Room.
Rotary Exchange Student
By Linda Cherry
Susan Ankers is the Foreign Ex
change Student from England this
year. She is from Lancashire, which is
about 210 miles from London and as she
explained, 30 miles from Liverpool,
where the Beatles came from.
This is her first time in the United
states and she says she really likes it.
“The people are much friendlier here
than they are in England, it’s easier to
make friends, Sue explained.” “People
in England are not as outgoing as boys
and girls I meet here. I have loads of
friends here, it’s fantastic, real
ly ! ’’Miss Ankers feels very lucky being
an international student because she
made friends with many Americans as
well as many International students.
Sue Ankers likes the social here,
spending much of her time in the Stu
dent Center she plays pool, table tennis
and roUerskates.
America is very different to her than
England. She thinks many of the words
are different. When Sue first came here
she wondered “What on earth are these
grunts people are saying, uh uh and uh
huh?” She later learned from two
friends that ‘uh uh, was sort of no, ”
and “uh huh was sort of yes.” The
young lady says we have different
words for foods too. “What you call
cookie we call tea biscuit,” She ex
pressed, “What you call biscuit we call
tea cakes; What you call candy bar we
just call chocolate, what you call potato
chips we call crisps, and what you call
french fries we call chips. ”
When asked if she thought the food
was much different Susan said yes.
“For example she remarks, in England
for an evening meal we have meat,
potatoes and a vegetable. You have sort
of those hamburgers and hot dogs. I like
the chili, I never tasted it before.” Sue
also told me she had just recently tried
her first fast food, at McDonalds, which
she really liked.
On December 31, 1981, following an
interview at the Cathedral Rooms in
Blackburn England, Susan was given
an opportunity to spend twelve months
studying at Chowan College. This was
made possible by a link between the
Rotarians of Blackburn and those of
North Carolina, who agreed to provide
scholarships for two students each
year.
Sue’s major sporting interest is bad
minton, which she spent three years on
the school team and the final year as
captain. She participated in many
sports at school and elsewhere, in
cluding squash, volleyball, netball,
roUerskating, ice skating and cross
country. She also plays classical quitar.
These things help her to stay busy nor
but she also scheduled to tour North
Carolina and speak to many Rotary
Clubs about England.
Miss Ankers thinks North Carolina is
very nice but she expected it to be
dryer. She commented, “there is so
much green.” It is also ten to fifteen
degrees warmer here than in England,
she informed me, but she likes it that
way.
Susan will not be returning home until
May for summer break for her shorter
breaks she is accepting many invita
tions from other students to go home
with them for the holidays. She wants to
try to get around and see as much of the
states as she can while she is here.
Being away from home this English
girl does miss her family. But she feels
she has made many new friends and
has adjusted well. She has no regrets
“For me, to spend this year in the
states is a opportunmity that falls upon
only a tew,” Susan Ankers expressed.
Chowan will meet Montgomery in the
2 p.m. football game. The Homecoming
queen and freshman princess will be
namded and crowned at halftime.
“Pocket Edition” will provide the
music for the Homecoming dance from
9 p.m. to 1 a.m. in Lakeside.
The SGA is sponsoring Homecoming
activities. Chairman Lisa Torrence,
Lorrie Boone, Marcia Taylor, Ken
Clary, and Dr. John Davis, professor of
English, and Sylvia Nicks, director of
guidence and counseling, SGA ad
visors.
The candidates, selected by the
residence halls and Day students,
freshamn listed first, include Belk-
Marci Laura Loux, Hockessin, Del.;
Kimla Dawn Byerly, Virginia Beach,
Va. Columns- Azelia Maria Hailey,
Southern Pines; Angela Faye Scar
borough, Manteo Day Student- Georgia
Ann Askew, Ahoskie; Donna Ruth Buf-
faloe, Conway East- Lisa Mae Jones,
Chesapeake, Va.; Robin Lynette Wall,
Chespeake, Va. Jenkins-Donna Carol
Vaughan, Weldon; Robin Renee
Grimes, Ashland, Va. Mixon- Mia Ann-
nette Parker, Comp, Alison Gray
Roberts, Richmond, Va. Parker-
Tracey Lynn Hughes, Frederickburg,
Va.; linda Anne Marie Cherry,
Franklin Park, N.J. West- Joanne
Alane McGillivray, Hockessin, Del.;
Marion Leigh George, White Stone, Va.
Campus
Enrollment
Dips
By: GATES
Enrollment for the fiscal year of
1982-83 is down just slightly from last
year. This year’s student body is a
variety of all people from many dif
ferent places.
The Chowan student body is made up
of 1064 full time students, which is a stu
dent carrying twelve hours or more.
There are fourteen special students
which brings the total of the student
body to 1078 students for the yerar of
82-83. There are ninety foreign students
from twenty-five different countries.
Chowan’s most foreign students come
from Jordan.There are seventeen Jor
danian students at Chowan. Greece
ranks second on the foreign scale.
The population of the Chowan College
is made up of 735 full time males and
329 full time females. This means for
the people who are interested in figures
that there are 2.25 males for every one
female. This is good in that an average
male would meet most of the females
enrolled before the year is out. And as
for the females there is a wide variety
of males to choose from during the
academic year. As the semester goes
on the student body of Chowan College
will pull together like a family to help
each other on studying for tests then ex
ams.
On a state by state break-down, four
teen other states besides North
Carolina, parents have sons and
daughters attending Chowan College.
Additionally, two territories, Puerto
Rico and Micronesia are represented at
Chowan College.
Financial Aid: Two View’s
From Department of Education From Other Schools
By Edward M. Elmendorf
Deputy Assistant Secretary
for Stndent Financial Assistance
Newspaper, radio, and television
reports of substantial cuts in Federal
financial aid to college students have
triggered a barrage of phone calls to
the U.S. Department of Education in
Washington, D.C.
Callers, both students and parents,
are (rften confused by misleading or in
complete information. Many have ex
pressed fear that the government has
let them down; that college is no longer
aKordable.
it is true that student financial
assistance programs have undergone
considerable change in the past two
years. There have been some reduc
tions. Most of their changes, however,
reflect an effort to return the aid pro
grams to their original purpose, which
was to help students cover the cost of a
college education - not to carry the
whole burden. A successful return to
original intent will help ensure the sur
vival of these aid programs for future
students.
Federal financial assistance is divid
ed into three categories. “Grants” are
awards of money that do not have to be
paid back. “Loans” are borrowed
money which a student must repay with
interest. “Work-Study” provides the
chance to work and earn money to off
set college costs while attending
classes.
The Pell Grant Program is one of the
best known of the Federal student aid
programs. Formerly called the Basic
Educational Opportunity Grant, Pell is
often the first source of aid in a
package which may be composed of the
Federal and non-Feaeral sources. In
the 1982-83 school year, 2.55 million
students share $2,279,0^,000 in Pell
Grants.
The U.S. Department of Education
uses a standard formula to determine
who qualifies for Pell Grants. The
Department guarantees that each par
ticipating school will receive the money
it needs to pay Pell Grants to eligible
students.
The Supplemental Educational Op
portunity Grant provides another
mechanism for making awards to
students. SEOG is different from the
Pell Grant in that it is managed by the
financial aid administrator of each par
ticipating college. Each school receives
a set amount of money from the Depart
ment and when that money is gone,
there are no more SEOG funds for the
year.
In 1982-83 the Department of Educa
tion will provide 440,000 students with
$278,400,000 in Supplement Educational
Opportunity Grants. Students will get
(CPS)-College officials and students
predicted grevious shortages of finan
cial aid this fall.
What they’ve gotten instead are less
severe shortages, but even more
grevious quantities of delays, confusion
and anger over financial aid, a check of
campuses across the country reveals.
The result is that, even as classes
open, many students still don’t know if
they’ll be able to afford to go to college
this fall.
“I really don’t know what to do,” says
Doug Haas, a second-year student at
the Community College of Denver.
Now two weeks into his fall semester,
Haas is still waiting to find out if he’s
eligible for grant money and for getting
his work-study position back.
“I guess I’ll have to fall back on my
dad if everything else fails,” Haas says.
“Either that or I’ll have to drop out.”
Northwestern University grad stu
dent James Finney “applied for a loan
over a month ago and (I) haven’t heard
anything. As a matter of fact. I’m still
waiting for an appointment just to see
how much longer I’ll have to wait.”
Finney consequently doesn’t know
how to mold his class schedule because
he doesn’t know how many part-time
jobs he’ll have to get to muster Nor
thwestern’s $2600-a-quarter tuition.
Moreover, “it means not going to school
at all next quarter if it (aid) doesn’t
come through.”
“For this fall’s financial aid ap
plicants, there’s one word that’s first
and foremost in thier vocabularies
confusion,” summarizes Bob Aaron of
the American Council on Education in
Washington, D.C.
Aaron and administrators at many
campuses say students are confused
about the amount of federal aid that’s
available. If they know there’s aid
available, they’re confused because
they can’t get any frwn their campus
aid offices, which are still waiting for
the U.S. Department of Education to
send them paperwork that normally
reaches campuses in April.
“The good news is that financial aid
programs haven’t been cut as severely
as the Reagan administration plann
ed,” deadpans Dennis Martin, assistant
director of the National Association of
Student Financial Aid Advisors.
“The bad news is, in terms of the ap
plication, administration and delivery
processes, this has been the most con
fusing summer ever.”
During the summer. Congress finally
allocated $1.3 billion in emergency
funds to federal aid programs, bringing
the total to $3 billion, a four percent
decrease from last year’s levels.
Washington has delayed telling in
dividual colleges just how much money
they’ll have to allocate to their students
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