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Gardner-Webb Records
Record Number of
Students In Summer
School
BOILING SPRINGS, N.C...Gardner-Webb College has
enrolled a record 439 students for the first term of
Summer School, which includes Day, Evening, and Graduate
students, as compared to 431 in 1980. One of the major
factors contributing to the record enrollment in Summer
School is the growth of the Greater Opportunities for
Adult Learners (GOAL) Program, and the evening baccal
aureate degree program. Dr. Larry Sale, Dean of Con
tinuing Education and Summer School, stated, *'Our faculty
and administration have planned very carefully in order
to meet changing student needs through our Summer
School. We are continuing to improve existing programs
and diversifying our programs to meet the challenge
of the future. We are particularly encouraged by the
response to our GOAL Program and Master of Arts
in Education Program. We are anticipating a signifi
cant increase in our evening enrollment for the Fall
Semester.”
Gardner-Webb provides a comprehensive evening pro
gram with regional centers in Boiling Springs, Dallas,
Lincolnton, Morganton, Newton, Spindale, and Statesville,
North Carolina, New regional centers will open in
Dobson and Lexington, North Carolina, and Spartanburg,
S.C., effective August, 1981. The Greater Opportunities
for Adult Learners (GOAL) Program is an academic
program specifically designed to meet needs of qualified
graduates of two-year institutions who desire to earn
a bachelor’s degree in selected areas.
The Master of Arts in Education Degree Program is
offered on the Gardner-Webb campus with concentrations
in Early Childhood (K-3), Middle School (4-9), Reading
(K-12), and Physical Education (K-12). Applications for
the Fail Semester, 1981 are now being received.
On July 12, Gardner-Webb College will begin its second
Summer Enrichment Experience (SEE) Program. SEE
is a three week summer residential program designed
to provide an enriched educational experience for gifted
emerging adolescents. Academicadly gifted students who
are currently enrolled in the sixth, seventh, eighth, and
ninth grades are eligible to apply, upon recommendation
of their schools.
Registration for the Second Term of Summer School
began Monday, July 6 af 9:00 a.ra. in the Dover Chapel
on the Gardner-Webb campus. Evening classes began
July 6, and day classes began July 7. Graduation will
be held on Saturday, August 8.
County School System
To Sponsor Camp
The Cleveland County School System will sponsor a
3 week summer camp for 30 county children enrolled
in the Student Transition Program. The camp will be
girls and 12 boys will be taught reading and math skills,
have art and swimming lessons and participate in several
field trips.
The program is a federaly funded program for school
age children whose parents have moved into the county
within the last six years and meet other qualifications
for the program. In order to be eligible for the camp,
the chil^en must show a need for reading and math
enhancement. ^
Through the combined efforts of the parents and the
camp, these children will be better equiped to meet
the acidemic challenges in the classroom in the fall.
The program is directed by Dr. Micky Church and
Evelyn Chftpman is coordinator.
Beach Goers Need Not Worry About Sharks
Disturbing Vacation This Year
CHAPEL HILL..It’s unlikely that this summer will
see a repeat of last year’s high number of sharks in
the waters around Bogue Banks and Shackleford Island,
said one of the nation’s top shark experts.
And even if it does, added Dr. Frank J. Schwartz,
the odds of being bitten or killed by a shark are almost
too small to mention.
A person stands a far greater risk of choking on a
fish bone, being struck by l^htning or dying in a boating
accident.
Schwartz, professor of zoology at the University of
North Carolina at ChapelHill’sInstituteofMarineSciences,
said the many-fold increase in the population of sharks
off Bogue Banks last year resulted from a combination
of factors that occur only irregularly.
“First we had an extreme heat wave in July that
raised water temperatures at the coast above 85 degrees,”
he said. “Then there were months of prevailing south
west winds that pushed this super-heated water against
Shackleford and Bogue Banks while the hook of Cape
Lookout kept it from being carried up the coast.”
Apparently, he said, the high temperatures drove many
of the fish in the area to seek deeper, cooler water.
For two or three days, the sharks gathered in record
numbers looking for food and then swam away when they
were unsuccessful in finding it.
In the meantime, the towns of Atlantic Beach, Pine
Knoll Shores, Indian Beach and Emerald Isle prohibited
swimming after Schwartz advised the N.C. Division of
Marine Fisheries to issue a shark alerts.
Unlike the fictitious town in the book “Jaws,” which
fought to keep its beaches open even after several deaths,
Schwartz said the N.C, towns were eager to cooperate
with the state tourist board to prevent a possible tragedy.
“In every case, business was better in those towns
because so many people came to the coast in hopes of
seeing a shark,” he said, “Shark trinkets and T-shirts
sold like hot cakes.”
The single group that resisted the ban were surfers-
who had been planning a national competition at Atlantic
Beach, the scientist said. They postponed their meet
when he convinced them that the danger was real.
Only four shark attacks have been authenticated in
North Carolina since 1935, including one last summer
at Ocean Isle. More have been reported, but Schwartz
said that after investigation, those turned out to be bites
from bluefish or barracuda.
“The one thing 1 worry about on the water is not
animals, but people in boats,” he said. “They’ll go
roaring right by you with a six or eight-foot bow and
wave and not consider that their wake might swamp
you.
■T was on an eight-ton, 40 foot stern trawler once
that was almost turned over by a big wake.”
Among sea crea'ures, he said, perhaps the greatest
hazard comes from the Portuguese man-of-war, a colorful
ballonlike creature that floats on the surface while trailing
long stinging tentacles beneath it. A swimmer who
accidentally touches one can wind up in the hospital.
Schwartz said persons who see a shark near them
in the water should swim ■ or move away from it as
calmly as possible. Thrashing around may attract the
fish which is sensitive to vibrations in the water.
And since sharks can detect a minute amount of blood
and follow it to its source like a hunting dog tracfcmg
game, it’s also wise to stay but of deeper water when
you have a cut.
The UNC-CH zoologist, author of “Sharks of North
Carolina and Adjacent Waters,” has been studying shark
behavior and development for more than 25 years. Twice
a month, from April through November, he sets out a
three-mUe-long line of baited hooks near the Beaufort
Inlet to determine changes in shark population and mig
ration patterns.
He said that some 36 of the world’s approximately
400 species of sharks inhabit the coastal waters of North
Carolina, including four kinds of hammerhead, the shortfin
mako, the whale shark, the sand tiger, the chain dogfish
and even the great white shark of “Jays” fame.
Many live in wafer less than 50 feet deep.
Contrary to what many people believe, he said, shairks
are commercially valuable and can make a tasty meal
if properly prepared. Informal polls taken at the coast
indicate their flavor resembles pork chops and chicken.
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