Campus Voice
Waldo’s Worldfc
Well you happy campers, it looks like
we’ve come to the end of another semester
and soon it will be the freedom of summer
taking over. No more cafeteria food, no
more trying to get excuses for missed
classes, only calls to the boss saying that
you are not feeling well and can’t come into
work when you really met up with this bad
lookin’ betty and you went down to the beach
for a few drinks and to walk the sleeping bag
down near the shore. But that is all in front
of us and the time to think about is now, if
there are any bad lookin’ betties within
reading distance of this paper who want to
try somthing like this, all you need is a car
and Daddie’s gold card then we can talk.
With the warm weather that has been with
us lately everything has seemed to slow
down. Everybody is fairly kicked back and
in a hurry to get nowhere any time soon.
Most of the people will kick around their
weekends at the beach. One particular poser
(I mean surfer) named Joey will be out in
the surf shreading waves like no tomorrow
and then he’s going to wake up in a puddle.
Joey is famous for his “All flash, no slash”
type of lifestyle and the search for the
remains of Adolf. I’m just kidding, Joey is a
swell surfer and an all around heck of a guy.
NOT!
Others for the summer will be doing the
same thing others did last summer, yes that
dreaded disease of going to summer school.
If you are planning to go to summer school
at Chowan remember, you get out of it what
you make of it. We used that philosophy last
summer and I’d tell you what we did if I
could just remember what it was. Some of
us will be going to summer school elsewhere
like Radford University. You shouldn’t need
two guesses on what the sununer would be
like up there. The only bad thing about
Radford this summer is that everyone
decided to go home for the summer when
they heard Mike was going to go to school
there. Summer school is usually a summer
long party wherever you go so those of you
doing that, relax, have a beer, the summer
is going to be wizard.
StiU others in the University are going to
be going down to Wilmington to see if their
band can make it in the club scenes. The
Underground will be playing in clubs in the
area during the summer before they go on to
different schools in the fall. I wish them the
best of luck in their journey and hope to be
able to see them again in the near future.
Some people must not have understood
what I was getting at when I was talking
about changes in the cafeteria. Im
plementing dark carpeting on the floor
would cover stains as well as keep people
from sliding about the drink area and
spilling food. Another misconstruction of
what was said as the overall look of the
cafetera in Richmond, I believe I referred to
it as “class”. Ambiance is also a part of
eating. If you are being fed as if you are in a
high school cafeteria, then you may feel that
you are in a high school cafeteria and act
accordingly. If you are fed as if you are in a
restaurant, then you may feel that you are
in a restaurant and also act accordingly.
Enough said.
Have any of you noticed mat tmes long
forgotten have suddenly popped up? Yes
sirree Bob, just when you thought it was
Exams
By Brett Fipps
Well it is exam time again so remember
the best way to do well on your exams is to
study ahead of time. One of the main
reasons people do not do well on exams is
that they will wait until the last minute and
try to cram a semester full of work into an
all night study and review session. The best
and only way to receive top grades on
exams is to study and review for them at
least a week in advance. Doing so will
prevent you from cramming the night
before and getting confused while you take
the exam.
Tensions, as well as frustrations, will be
flaring up during these few exam days so
let’s all show some common courtesy to our
fellow students and try to get along with
everyone. If you do not have an exam for the
next day and want to blow off some of your
anxieties, then please try to keep it away
from the dorms because you know, as well
Poge2—Smoke Signals, April 29, 1988
as I, if something is broken or damaged then
we are the ones that have to pay..
Some people believe that if they wear a
certain outfit of clothes everyday, carry a
rabbit's foot, a buUseye, or a four leaf
clover, that it will help them in their exams.
This, of course, is not true because it is just
in those peoples’ minds as a form of
psychological superstition. Still the reality
remains that if you study, review, and get a
good nights sleep before your exams then
you will probably do well anyway.
Most students feel like “If I can only get
through these stupid exams. I’ll have it
made.” This statement is not altogether the
way we should feel about exams. After all
the hard work, angers, and frustrations
caused by these exams remember that you
are only beginning to enter into the final
exam, LIFE. If you think of these petty
exams as stupid then just think of what you
will be facing when you enter the working
world. Good luck to all of you and I hope you
succeed on these exams, as well as the final
safe to send off your transcripts, WHAM!!!
“Oops, sorry about that son, guess we forgot
to tell you about that $100 cafeteria fine. For
what? Remember the time when you burped
in the cafeteria, we heard you.”
One thing that has been getting to me
lately is the rolls of faculty advisors. Some
seem to think that advisor means dictator,
wrong. The position is to help students run
the organization that they are in, not tell
them what to do and think their word is law.
Advise, do not control.
I would like to give the sports teams of
Chowan our appreciation in representing
the school for the year. They may not get the
backing or the respect due to them, but the
efforts of these poeple to take their time to
put themselves on the line for the school is
outstanding. Whether or not the team has a
winning record is not the point, the point is
making the effort. Thank you student jocks
and jockettes.
Well, I guess this is going to be about it
until my last semester next year. Boy am I
looking forward to that...NOT!!! So you
campers be safe out there during your
break, and if you can’t be safe at least t^ to
know what you did the night before. Enjoy
the sun and fun and please watch out for the
people in the white suits, I think they are
space aliens.
Happy camping,
Waldo D. Tuttle
P.S. For all you people who have made
time to come to the loft to visit and those of
you who know what it is like to be a
PIRATE, go away, I have all the friends I
want.
Everything you always
wanted to know (and
perhaps, more) about
Whitaker Library
By Sarah Davis
JUST IN CASE YOU’RE ASKED...
How large is the Whitaker Ubrary? The
answer is 30,000 square feet. How many
books does it have? It has 87,775 books. How
many people can be seated at once? It seats
250 people. How many hours is it open per
week? It is open 72 hours a week. During the
1987-1988 academic year, how many people
used the library? During the 1987-88
academic year, 58,897 people used Whitaker
Ubrary. How many books did they check
out? They checked out 18,339 books. How
much did it grow during the Year? It grew
10,000 square feet; 2,865 popular and
scholarly magazines; 2,500 books; 2169
newspapers; and 863 reels of microfilm
Aren’t you glad you asked.
Letters
to the editor
Dear Editor,
I have noticed from the last issue of the
“Smoke Signals” that Waldo has made
many or what appears to me to be absurd
comments and propositions concerning the
cafeteria. He seems to belittle the cafeteria
and not give the credit where needed.
One of the proposals made by Waldo tbatl
found unlikely to happen in a cafeteria was
for carpet to be put on the floor. I think that
with carpet on the floor there would be
tremendous stains that couldn’t come out,
and besides, carpet on the Qoor would bring
a great expense to Chowan’s budget.
I hope next year Waldo finds something
more interesting to gripe about because he
has definitely bored us with comments
about the cafeteria.
Sincerely,
Wanting to read something new
The Chowan Campus SGA elections are
once more being held on campus. And as
usual, the politics are really hitting the fan.
It seems to this student that there are
always some underlying currents of politics
that go along with anything related to
political elections, be it elections on or off
campus.
Lately, there has been some controversy
concerning the SGA elections. Several
students have applied to run for certain
positions but did not meet the required GPA
of 2.0 that is needed to be accepted as a
running candidate for an office. These
students did have a cumulative GPA of at
least 1.8. The question being raised is why
can’t they be elected if their GPA will be
above the required 2.0 by the end of the
semester?
The elections being held are for the
positions of the officers next semester. This
seems to suggest that the students grades of
this semester shouldn’t play a large role in
the election. Yes, if the candidate had
grades low enough that even the perspective
GPA would not be suitable, then I can see
the student being denied the candidacy, but
it is hard for me to believe that such a
student would remain at this institution.
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