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Student Newspaper of Saint Augustine’s College
Raleigh, N. C.
December 1999
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Editorial 4
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Volume 8 Number 2
Enrollment determines second commencement
By Annette Hinkson
Staff Writer
The seniors as well as
underclassmen need to discuss what
they want do about the issue of a
second commencement. The
students that may finish in
December need to decide whether
they want to experience the feeling
of Boyer 011 versus the Convention
Center.
According to an administrative
official, the problem with having a
December commencement has
nothing to do with the way the
administration feels,instead it
depends on the amount of students
enrolled at St. Aug’s.
According to Academic Affairs
out of the graduating class of May
1999 there were 33 adult learners
from the Gateway Program, ofthe
242 total graduates.
“This is the first time since we
have had this program, we were able
to have graduates,” said Dr. Maurice
Taylor, College Provost.
At a senior class meeting last year,
seniors did not want an on-campus
ceremony. There isn’t a big enough
area on campus to hold as many
family and guests as the civic center
holds. Taylor’s question is where
should we hold graduation in
general not just in December.
The question that everyone at
the meeting was concerned with was
where would graduation be held if
it was moved on campus? These
seniors were not trying to hear what
Taylor had to say about an on-
campus ceremony.
See Enrollment page 8
Cymbal set stolen from college chapel
By Traci Ethridge
Editor-in-Chief
Due to the recent break-in, the
College Chapel can no longer
remain open for the students 24
hours a day. During the Fall Break
vacation, someone broke into the
Chapel and stole a set of cymbals
worth approximately $519.
Father Logan, the College
Chaplin, was the first to discover
the theft.
“Around Oct. 19'*', I realized
that the cymbal set was stolen right
from the stand,” said Logan.
“There is really a lack of respect for
this sacred place.”
Logan had planned to make a
lot of changes with the Chapel, and
one important one was to leave it
open at all times so that students
could feel free to pray and meditate
whenever they felt the need.
According to Logan, many
students have expressed a genuine
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Photo by Bnon Anim-Addo
The cymbals that were stolen were located in the stands of the church with the other Instruments.
interest in coming to pray at the
Chapel, and leaving it open was a
way to meet the spiritual needs of
the students.
There have been attempts to find
out who the thief was, such as an
email which was sent to the faculty
and staff. It states that many of the
musicians on campus have been
generous enough to allow their
cymbals to be used and now they
have stolen.
The lack of respect on behalf of
the students goes beyond just the
theft in the chapel. Logan says that
on different accounts, he has caught
students behaving ungodly-like in
the chapel. This is just further
reason for the chapel to be locked.
“Students used to complain
about the chapel being locked,” said
Logan. “So I tried to arrange it
where it could remain open , but
then these sorts of things happen.”
Logan has decided not to alert
the campus police in hopes that the
perpetrator would bring the cymbals
back to the Chapel. He hopes that
the person would realize the wrong
they have done and try to right it.
Logan would like to beleive that
he has reached the students and
showed them the way of God since
he has become Chaplin. Logan is
more concerned with the welfare
of a troubled student over the
amount of the cybal set.
“Something like this directly
affects the students spiritually,”
said Logan. “It’s not the money,
but the fact of stealing from God’s
House.”
Logan will continue to minister
to all the students at St. Aug.’s as
much as possible, but he feels that
more students should be
concerned with these types of
actions because it raises the
question of where our campus
community is headed.
“I wanted it to become a
campus ministry, but in order for
this to happen all students must
take the Lord seriously.” said
New Dean, Security to provide students new opportunity
Photo by Brion Anim-Ado
Chief Twitty is willing to work with students to get them job opportunities.
By Harold Freeman
Staff Writer
Campus Security needs new
recruits and is working with Student
Affairs to create a program that will
use students as liaisons for their
department and possibly others, said
Byron Bullock, dean of Student
Affairs.
Despite having an active criminal
justice department, which produces
quality prospects in this field,
Charles Twitty, chief of Campus
Police says there is a lack of interest
in employment with his
department. Unlike many other
institutions, St. Aug’s does not have
a joint partnership between the two
departments, so there is no program
in place to maintain security
personnel or provide students the
opportunity for experience.
But Bullock says this is going to
change.
“This is very important to me,”
he said. “We need to get students
actively involved.”
Bullock’s main focus is to keep
the students happy. Twitty’s
responsibility is to keep students
safe, and he says with Bullock’s
cooperation, the department looks
to be headed in the right direction.
“Students know better than we
do about what’s going on (here) on
the yard,” Twitty said. “We depend
totally on the people we serve.”
He said that idea of creating a
cadet force to handle the patrol
aspect of campus policing would
create a channel of communication
between Campus Security and the
students it serves. He also said that
students don’t have a complete
understanding of what he and his
officers do.
“People have to understand, the
job is 95 percent security and 5
percent policing,” he said. “If
someone wants to work with our
department in order to arrest people
and write countless speeding tickets,
then this is not the agency for
them.”
Twitty said the cadet force will
allow students the opportunity to
view the yard as he does, creating
respect for the job he and his officers
do to keep everyone safe.
He also said that good students
make his job easier, and he
appreciates that.
“The students here are good,
they pretty much police
themselves,” he said.
Stan Elliott, the criminal justice
instructor in charge of internships,
says the responsibility of working
with Campus Security would be
good for the students and that he
would support such a program for
internship credit.
“It would be good for students
to experience it first-hand and find
out for themselves,” Elliott said. He
added that he would be more than
happy to support the program.
For now, Dean Bullock plans to
conduct an internal review of
Campus Security in order to assess
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