Page 2 —SMOKE SIGNALS, November, 1992
Smoke Sig^ials
The Student Newspaper of ChoMOn College
Editor Marty Grebing
Photography Editor Mailc DeMaaijer
Sponsor Dr. Brenda Gordon
Staff Writers Jeremy Rodgeis, Lee Sedbolt, Todd Lucado,
Noel Mitchell, Alfied Biddlecomb, Lee Stephens,
Jim Marriott, Lisa LeweDen, P^gy Fuller
Photographers Jeremy Rodgers, Bobby McMahon, Tonya Mitchell,
Joanie Hanson, Michael Martin
Typesetting/Printing ....Jonathan Davis, J. Michael Martin, Todd Lucado
Artists Ed Home, Bicnca Villatnar
Smdtc Signali u pufaluhed mnhly during the school yur, SepKmlxr through
April, by the Gnfliic Communkatiani Deptnmcnt d Oiowan CoOege. b ii wrinoi nd
edited Oiowai student and anphuues infoiiniiion for the studenu of Chowan College.
All I^cOcrs to the Ediior nmitt Ix signed and addicised to: Die Editor, Smoke Signals,
Csnfus Mail Roam. Owwai College, Murfieesboio, N.C 27855.
A Farewell
from the Editor
Marty GreMog
Editor
Well, here we are- the last issue of Smoke Signals under
my command. I must say it has been interesting, and even
enjoyable at times. I really hate to leave the paper like this,
but circumstances beyond my control (mainly laziness) have
prevented me from accepting the position of editor for one
more semester. I need to take it easy this spring so I can round
up my Associates with no sweat
I believe I’m leaving on a good note, though. I’ve always
wanted to put out more than a little 4-page issue, and by golly
we did it. Thanks to our new wonderful staff and an
underappreciated printing department an 8 page Smoke Sig
nals was possible. Be sure to tell them how you feel about this
issue - they worked hard for it
Like I said, it’s a tearful good-bye, but with all the new
faces woridng on the p£^3er, not to mention our new sponsor.
I’m sure I’ll be leaving you in good hands. There are some
great new ideas floating around and I think the paper will go
in wild and fantastic directions next semester.
Normally a fieay, no-holds-barred, one-sided, biased edi
torial, written by yours truly, would follow in these spaces.
However, this last one aji^jears to be too hot to handle, so I
willingly cut it from the lineup. However, it will stiU be
available upon request to those who wish to see it, but I will
ask that it not be made public.
For my last words, I gleefully leave you with a few choice
thoughts from the new Big Cheese. I hope you will give him
as much attention as I received. Wth that 1 bid you farewell
(gee, I feel like Johnny Carson. Except taller).
A Letter from
the New Editor
Welcome to your school new^japer. My name is Lee Seabolt
and I will be taking over the job of editOT fw next semester. First
I’d like to say thank you to all those who have contributed to our
paper In the past I hope that you will continue to woric with us to
make this paper the best it has ever been.
Now for some quick notes about your new newspaper foimaL
This spring our paper will be taking on an entirely new look. I
would appreciate your patience, but most of all your honest
feedback, as we go through the trials of forging a new path.
This spring’s paper will include some new columns, but most
importantly, it will have a new purpose. That purpose will be to
keep you the student informed of happenings around campus, in
our community, in our country, and around the worid, as well as
to better serve and entertain you. This is your newspaper and I
want to know, every step of the way, what interests you. Any input
you have may be addressed to the Smoke Signals Box 90. If we
all wwk together, I know we can make this an award winning jjaper
that is not only impratant to have, but fim to read.
There, now that my short soapbox stint is completed on to more
exciting news. First, there is still a lot of room for new repwters,
cartoonists, ad sellers, layout artists, and photographers. One
thing I’ve noticed about our staff,which is no fault of anyone, is
that it is very subuijjan, white middle class. We have no minority
reporters or photogrwjiiers whatsoever. This cc«cems me fw the
simple reason that to represent all of the school in the newspaper,
it’s best to have staff members from every background. The last
thing I want to do is sell anywie’s interests short So please, if you
think you have something to say, say it Our voices have been held
in for far too long. From this point forward we need to look at our
college ccxnmunity and constructively addites its problems. We
can, no we will , make a difference.
Now for some lighter news. Our paper will frwn this point
forward contain no less than nine featured columns: a new rtx)vie
review. Letters to the Editor, a featured cartoon strip, new video
picks, a current events brief, new music exclusives, a club news
column, a faculty and student profile, and a student voices section.
These in addition to sports reporting, hard news reporting, action
photography, crosswotd puzzles, coming eyents calendars, great
artwork, and much mere, shoukl combine to give us the best paper
we have ever had at Chowan Cdlege.
I look forward to wtxking with and hearing from all of you and
I thank you for this oppcHtunity to serve our college community.
Your new editor,
Lee C. Seabolt
The Smoke Signals Staff
welcomes your comments, suggestions,
and contributions.
If you have something to send in,
simply address it to:
Smoke Signals,
Box 90
and drop it in the campus mail box
inside the
Braves Den.
The Bass-ics of Rock-n-RoU
Reggae in Murfreesboro
By Jeremy Rodgers
On November 5th, one Thurs
day night at eight o’clock, Chowan
College was visited by a raggae
band by the name of, “Moving
Parts.” It was definitely a night
with mixed emotions.
The band played in the “Braves
Etea” (The previous outdoor loca
tion was carxxled due to the rain.
“Moving Parts” is made up of four
people who blended together to
cieate a very clean, quinessentially
raggae sound. They were heard
deqj into the night playing origi
nals and covers varying fk>m, ‘The
Dead,” to Ziggy Matley. They
showed all the friUs necessary to
constitute a good raggae band;
swaying dreadlocks and a deep laid
bade groove.
The sad part is that there were
iK)t many people to support and
appteciate this gathering of talent
1 feel that I can synpathize on ac
count of once participating in a
hard core band that had to play in
front of a pncppie crowd. The
turnout and reactions of the audi
ence were much less than the b^
deserved. I had to ask myself what
caused this pathetic turnout Per
haps it was the rain, or the change
in location-if only the ones that
did come weren’t so scared and be
wildered to see a band much unlike
Garth Brooks, or maybe they just
had to woik, ‘TTie Ni^ Shift.”
Well, let’s not be too hard on the
student republic of MurfreesboiD...
it had to be the rain.
Once the fashionably late
showed up, the night was in fiiU
swing, or as lull swing you can get
with a handful of people. Th^
who were young and liinber enou^
to get into this music will agree to
having a good time. But in essence
the night ended disappointedly; the
people returned to their rooms to
listen to country, the band left
playing the blues.
By Jim Marriott
I’ve decided to take this time to
talk about a little thing called Rock-
n-Roll. As I tread the halls and
sidewalks of this gteat institution,
I can’t help but notice that a lot of
the cars here contain extraordinary
sound systems. ,You’ve all heaid
them, they cruise along pumping
out enough bass to shatter win
dows. But what ever happened to
treble?
Now I appreciate bass as much
as the next guy, I just happen to
ttiink it’s not the be-all and end-all
of music. There was a time when
bass was used to help the rest of the
hand keep beat TTie beat was a
starting i^ace for musicians. Frran
here the front maa usually a singer
or guitarist would mke off and
make the magic that is music.
The trerxi toward bass, arxl I’m
not talking about just rap here- the
metal scene is infected too, has
cost modem music. The focus on
ihythm rather than melody seems
to irxlicate a lack of creative talent
in today’s artists. It has become
out of fashicMi to try new sounds.
In the past music has been an ever
changing force.
In the Sixties there were thiee
very different variations of con
temporary music; soul, folk nock,
ard early heavy metal The Seven
ties saw the rise of southern rode,
disco and early progressive the
Eighties gave birth to the urban
sounds of rap and techno, as well
as the merger of metal with main
stream rock. The Nineties have yet
to find anything new. All this
decade has managed to do is bring
bade the styles of the past and add
a stTMig beat
Take for instance Melissa
Ethridge, great performer and
songwriter, but she’s another Joan
Baez or Janis Joplin with a kickin’
ihythm section. Another good
examjJe is Nfctallica- Black Sab
bath on bass steroids. Like the
Blade Crowes, tty Lynard Skyn-
ard with fewer guitars and more
bass. You may want to tiy this test
Ml your favorite new band: turn
dovwi the bass and crank up die
treWe and see if tiiey don’t sound a
whole tot like someone from your
musical past.
This tiend has been a long time
coming and it won’t stop over night
but I’m sure that the Nineties wiU
produce a new sound for Rock-n-
Roll. It’s just like the old song
says, “Rock-n-RoU will never die.”
Current Events
The United States elects BID Clinton as the next President after
twelve years of Republican White House rule. Clinton took 43%
of the popular vote and 357 ekctoral college cotes. Current
President, George Bush, took 38% and 168 electoral collc^e votes
while H. Ross Perot managed 19% of the pcpilar vote but no
electoral votes.
Professed homosexual Keith Meinhold was reinstated to the U. S.
Navy by court orfcr on November 10, 1992. This marks the first
time an openly homosexual service member was reinstated to
active duty.
Oakland Athletics pitcher Dennis Eckersley became the first
relieft pitcher in eight years to recieve the American League's Cy
Young Award on November 11, 1992.
Russian president Boris Yeltsin took anotha step towards democ
ratization by allowing citizens to possess theft detenents such as
legalized tear gasses and hunting rifles. This represents the first
time in 75 years that the Russian people have had the right to bear
arms.
—^By Lee C. Seabolt
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1 ornaclo stn/ces witness claimed that a tree sliced one-fourth cf a brand new trailer completely cff. Here, a hint of naturi
destructive force is evident as a garage was UteraUy ripped from its foundation and smashed into the groun
—Photo bv Joanie Hanson
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