VOL. 9, NO. 3
North Carolina Wesleyan College, Rocky Mount, N.C.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15,1993
NCWC to hold Alcohol Awareness Week
North Carolina Wesleyan Col
lege will join in celebrating the
tenth anniversary of the introduc
tion of National Collegiate Alco
hol Awareness Week during the
week of Oct. 25-Nov. 1.
NCAAW is a chance for Wes
leyan students to learn about the
negative consequences of alco-
Edgecombe’s
McCormack
flying high
By CECILIA CASEY
Edgecombe Hall is quite pos
sibly the best resident hall at N.C.
Wesleyan College, thanks to
Edgecombe’s high-flying, popu
lar Resident Director Sue
McCormack.
In her second year as resident
director and assistant director of
Campus Activities, McCormack
has enjoyed her work and time
spent with resident students.
“Fm here because people chal
lenge me, and I enjoy seeing and
helping people grow and matu^j”
she said. “For.jne succe^Sy^s
knowing that I’ve ma^^,posi-
tive change in someone’s life, and
what better position to accomplish
this than as a resident director?”
At the college whose motto is
“The student comes first,”
McCormack has been used as a
guide to what qualiti«s a good
resident director needs to have,
such as valuing the students she
lives with.
“I hold everyone in high re
gard. I see everyone as an adult. I
think I’m fair, at least I strive to
be fair,” she said. “I want to be
remembered as a good listener,
as a positive person with lots of
energy and enthusiasm, yet at the
same time as someone who is
down to earth.
“I think mosdy I would like
people to see my involvement
with the campus and with com
munity service, and see that they
can become just as involved,” she
added. “I believe in giving 110
percent of yourself in everything
you do, because what you get out
hoi abuse and begin to develop
responsible lifelong decision
making processes. The main goal
of the week-long campaign is to
increase student awareness of the
physiological, psychological, and
general life effects that are natu
ral consequences of alcohol
abuse.
The psychology club is spon
soring Alcohol Awareness Week
at Wesleyan. A major compo
nent of the week is a challenge to
all students to abstain from alco
hol use throughout the week. One
recurrent message is: “Take a
Stand, Take the Pledge: Dead is
Dead, Drive Sober.”
SUE McCORMACK PREPARES FOR FLIGHT
of something is what you put in.
So if you give 110 percent, you
get 110 pe^Rt. It’s assimple as
that.”
One of the most important job
benefits for McCormack, even
above money and vacations she
says, is her contact with her resi
dents.
“It always seems that if I’m
down or feel like quitting, that a
true quality student comes my
way and makes me see that my
life and goals here are not in
vain,” she said.
McCormack graduated from
N.C. State University with a de
gree in parks, recreation, and tour
ism management She was a resi
dent advisor while at NCSU. For
three years she served on many
committees for Resident Assis
tant selections and trying, and
was very involved with the NCSU
Department of Housing.
“Both my roommate and my
self decided to ^ply and we were
both accepted for positions. It was
a good opportunity to learn about
management and responsibility,”
she said. “I worked for N.C. State
Housing and two other jobs as
well while I went to school. I
heard about the position here at
Wesleyan through Nelson Coo
per. We graduated together, so
he gave me a call.”
McCormack’s biggest, and
best loved, hobby is flying.
“My greatest accomplishment
was getting my pilot’s Ucense. I’m
among a unique group of indi
viduals: I’m one of the few people
who have a small pilot’s Ucense,”
she said. “Someday I will have
mybwnpl^e.” '
For the students who accom
plish abstinence for the entire
week there will be tee-shirts
awarded, depending on SGA
funding.
On Wednesday, Oct. 27, at 7
p.m. A.L.E. will present “What a
Fake I.D. Will Cost You.” On
Friday, Oct. 29, there will be
video presentations throughout
the day in Doc’s.
Other informative literature
and educational events will be
available throughout the week.
Promotional materials listing
dates, times, and places for these
events will be posted throughout
the campus.
College paying
more attention
to commuters
By PATRICK BRANNAN
North Carolina Wesleyan’s
new Student Life associate in
charge of commuter affairs, Ben
Hamrick, wants to “instill a de
sire for ownership (by commut
ers) and bring them a sense of
ownership.”
Commuters Tammy Minchew
and Dawn Romano, along with
one-time commuter Marie
Lenane, see communication as the
major problem facing the com
muter students and the school.
Romano sees communication
as the most severe problem.
Romano thinks the problem lies
in the fact that the school does
not send mailings to the proper
addresses. She says there is not
necessarily a lack of communica
tion, but claims many of the mail
ings go out to incorrect addresses.
In her case, many items from the
college are sent to her home in
New Jersey.
Lenane was a commuter in the
fall of 1992 and claimed that she
“felt excluded” while she lived
off-campus. She received no in
formation about events happen
ing on campus. These were some
of the reasons that caused her to
move back onto campus.
Hamrick says the school is
looking into the address situation.
The school is investing in a new
computer system that will allow
for multiple Mdr^sses to be kept
on file for each student With this
new system he hopes to begin a
monthly calendar and newsletter
to all commuter students.
Hamrick is also looking to
form a Commuter Student Asso
ciation, which was to meet this
Friday at noon in the BB&T
room.
Tammy Minchew is the SGA
commuter representative and
hopes that the Commuter Student
Association will help her deter
mine what to take before the SGA.
She also hopes that she can “en
sure that the commuters have a
voice.”
As another attempt to improve
communication, Hamrick is in-
vestigaiing the possibility of com
muter students having mailboxes
on campus. Romano and Lenane
both agree that mailboxes would
help improve communication.
Romano also sees a need for lock
ers for commuter students.
Hamrick welcomes and wants
comments from students, com
muter or resident, as to what can
be done to address some com
muter problems. He can be
reached in his office, located in
the Student Life Office across
from Doc’s and the cafeteria, or
by calUng 985-5257.
“Students do not realize that if
they just speak up, in the right
way, that things will happen,” he
said. ■