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Miss Anna Belle Crouch, professor emeritus of
speech and English, shows her delight over being
inducted into the Order of Lux et Veritas at the
President's Annuol Banquet in August. Crouch is
one of the eighteen charter members inducted into
this high honor.
English 101 essay..
Smoke Signals, November 6, 1987—^Page 3
College life not what expected
Matt Cereno li a freshman from
Boston, MA. The following is his
comparison paper for E^Ush 101.
I had this idea, an idea that I was
going on to an important part of life, a
part of life that was to be the best I was
ever to experience. Then, after a month
of this life, reality struck, and it turned
out to be a great disappointment.
So many images filled my head that I
can’t remember half of them. Everyone
I talked to told me college life consisted
of beer, sex, and parties—in any order
you wanted. I had actually experienced
this life anyway, even before setting
foot on the Chowan College campus. I
had gone to older friends’ colleges and
received first-hand experience of this
famous college life. I also found out
pretty quickly that it was exactly what
they said it would be.
I found out quickly what the key to
surviving at Chowan was: go away
every weekend you can. I go to the
University of Maryland almost every
weekend. The way they live at
Maryland is the ideal college life. The
place gets rockin’ every night. At least
one fraternity is having a party on any
given night. Some parties actually
begin at 2:00 a.m. and continue through
the next day. Chowan doesn’t have any
on-campus parties, unless, of course
it’s sponsored by Dean Lowe and
consists of shaking hands with a bunch
of old people who act sincerely in
terested while munching on homemade
cookies.
At Maryland, if you’re not interested
ina frat party, you can walk downtown
to a number of clubs and bars. These
places are usually packed to the limit
with a long waiting line as well. These
clubs are merely college parties with a
couple of bartenders. Granted, Chowan
has Sandy Shores open on Thursday
nights, but that place is not fun for
everyone. Not only do they have no
variety of music, but more importantly,
what do you do on the other six nights?
When I travel to Maryland, I spend
the weekend in an apartment with four
girls. The majority of people who at
tend the university live in apartments.
The only rules in an apartment are
“don’t tear down the walls” and “be
courteous to your roommates.” To
compare these living conditions to
Chowan, I would have to tell you what
I’ve been told about Maryland dorms.
The all-one-sex dorms can have visitors
of the opposite sex from 8:00 a.m. till
2:00 a.m. But who stays up to see if he
or she left? The coed dorms, of course,
have no such rules.
People drink openly, mainly because
no one is around to get you in trouble.
Chowan has no drinking (a $50 fine)
and visitation one night a week from
8:00 p.m. till 11:00 p.m. This is, of
course, only with the lights on, one foot
on the floor, and the door open. Getting
caught means another fine. Getting
caught twice results in suspension.
After experiencing the Chowan life
for a month, my images were shot to
pieces. I’ve come to the conclusion that
this school is ridiculous. A more ap
propriate word is unrealistic. A famous
question around campus is, “Why’d
Chowanna go there?,” and the famous
answer is, “I don’t know.” This is not
my idea of the famous college life.
New look for yearbook
Order of Lux et Veritas
Members serve college for 25 or more years
By Randy Oglesby
By Randy Oglesby
Eighteen veteran Chowan College
professors, administrators and staff
members with 25 or more years of
service to the college have been in
ducted as charter members into the
Order of Lux et Veritas.
They were inducted at the
President’s Annual Banquet, which was
held earlier in the semester as Chowan
opened its 140th year.
The Order of Lux et Veritas was
established to give recognition to
current and former employees who
have given 25 or more years of service
to the college
At the banquet, a Chowan watch and
certificate were presented to each
charter member beginning with
President Bruce E. Whitaker and Mrs.
Esther Whitaker, professor of religion,
who both came to Chowan in 1957.
Other current employees who
received the honor include Mrs. Betty
Batchelor, professor of English who
came to Chowan in 1961; Dr. James
Chamblee, music and chairman of the
Fine Arts Department, 1959; Mrs.
Patricia Edwards, business, 1961;
James Garrison, athletic director, head
football coach and professor of health
and physical education. 1958.
Also Jack Hassell, director of
physical plant, 1960; Jerry Hawkins,
health and physical education,
psychology, head baseball coach,
assistant football coach, 1958; Thomas
Ruffin, Jr., business, 1957; Mrs.
Frances Sanford, housekeeping, 1962;
Warren Sexton, history and chairman
of the Department of Social Science,
1959.
Mrs. Elizabeth Sneed house
keeping, 1957; Ben Sutton
business manager, 1961; L.M. Wallace,
Jr., business, 1958; and the Lux et
Veritas member who has served
Chowan the longest, William Sowell,
printing technology, 1955.
Why the unusually high number of
professors who have given so many of
their productive years to the college?
According to Coach James Garrison,
who’s tenure at Chowan is approaching
30 years, there are several reasons. A
small town atmosphere conducive to
raising a family is one important
reason, along with the acceptance he
and his family received from the
community.
After two or three years in the
coaching program, Chowans’s football
team started to win, which contributed
to coach Garrison’s pride in his job.
Developing a good athletic program
was another reason for his stay. This
challenge was something that
Garrison, formerly an assistant coach
at Gamer Webb, had wished for.
Coming to Chowan gave him the op
portunity to do this without the
pressures and lack of job security found
in many of the bigger colleges.
According to coach Garrison,
“Coming to Chowan and the challenge
of developing a good athletic program
contributes a lot to having security and
also the security with my family of not
having to move.”
The Chowan family hopes the number
0^ members inducted into the high
honor of Lux et Veritas will continue to
grow in the future.
Yes, its a sad fact that even though
yearbooks are provided for us at no
extra cost, many students don’t even
bother to pick up their copy of the
Chowanoka. In fact, only about two-
thirds of the yearbooks were picked up
last year. Part of this lack (rf interest
may be attributed to the absence of
color pictures.
Well, have no fear because the 1988
yearbook is going to be something to
look forward to. The new Chowanoka
will be about the same size as last year,
but with more excitement and design
creativity. There will also be more
visual emphasis on campus life.
However, probably the biggest im
provement will be the addition of color
pictures this year.
For those d you who didn’t kno!W,.t:)^ r
Chowanoka is printed on campus by the
Department of Graphic Com
munications. Student and faculty
pictures, as well as any other color
photos for the yearbook will be scanned
on the department’s new laser color
separator. The entire yearbook will be
printed on the new Heidelberg two color
offset press that was installed earlier
this year. In fact, everything except the
cover and binding process will be done
on campus.
Members of the yearbook staff seem
pleased with the new direction that the
Chowanoka is taking. The new year
book will relate more to the school year
and the students. Instead of just being a
pictiu-e book, it will strive to capture
the true spirit of the 1987-88 school year.
According to staff member Richard
Perry, “by putting the yearbook photos
in color, it should give the students an
incentive to pick up their yearbooks and
read them, hopefully giving them more
pride in the school.” Richard also
added, “ the Chowanoka will have a
surprise theme this year, one that will
relate to the 1987-88 school year.”
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The yearbook staff encourages
everyone to pick up their copy of the
1987-88 Chowanoka at the end of the
spring semester.
Monday
November 16,1987
Advrser/Advisee
Day
Wednesday
November 18,1987
Individual
Conferences
November 16-20, 1987
Spring Pre-Registration
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Chowan Mutual
Concert Association
Wednesday
December 2, 1987
Fadnatin Rhythm
Time 8:15 p.m.
Thursday
February 25, 1988
Unda Maxey, Marimbist
Thursday
April 21, 1988
Alex Markov, Violinist
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