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louisburg college
Vol. XXVIII No. 3
The Great Pie Throw Page 8
November, 1980
COLUMNS
Louisburg, North Carolina 27549
De hart On Colorado
By Linda Floyd
Allen De Hart is known to
Louisburg College as our admini
strative director of public affairs
and professor of psychology, but
he is known to North Carolinians
as much more. He has written for
a number of national publications
and is involved in many state and
national organizations, --^uch as
the American Psychological As
sociation, the National Wildlife
Federation, National Parks and
Conservation Association, the
National Entertainment Con
ference, and the State Arts
Council.
In addition to his professional
activities, he is active in mountain
climbing, backpacking (having
completed the 2100 miles of the
Appalachian Trail in 1978), and
White Water expeditions. One of
his most interesting adventures
last June was a raft trip on the
wild and turbulent Colorado River
in Arizona.
De Hart accompanied the Paul
Winter Consort and a group of
musicians, geologists, and bio
logists on the 280 miles of the
spectacular river. The musicians
were recording a new album
called “Consorting with the Grand
Canyon.” His trip was made
possible with a grant of $1,500
from the Living Music Foundation
to be one of the log-keepers of the
expedition. He received the award
based on his outdoor sports
experience.
He and the group of forty-four
men and women explored and
hiked into side canyons, examined
Indian petroglyphs, presented
daily musical workshops - all in
addition to rafting the river.
"There was a vast temperature
change," he said, "sometimes the
river was 55 degrees and the air
temperature was 110 degrees in
side canyons.
They spent their last night on a
sandy, treeless island near Lake
Mead, called Scorpion Island.
"We were preparing for our last
musical workshop and much to
our surprise a rare thunderstorm
came over the Nevada desert," he
said.
De Hart explained it this way.
"The winds wrapped dark clouds
into angry wrinkles, lightning ran
neon patterns across the sky and
thunder shook our fragile pro
montory. Silhouetted against the
lightning was the cello bow,
piercing up feverishly into the
storm. We were mesmorized by
the momenl; the music became
louder, tempestuous, reaching a
crescendo as rain began to fall on
the drums, recorders, guitars,
oboes, and euphoniums."
The next morning de Hart said
he wrote a song titled. Storm Over
Scorpion Island, which the
Consort later set to music and will
be included in the album.
De Hart is also known around
camjDus as a guide and adviser for
the Appalachian Trail and White
Water Club composed of stu
dents, alumni and faculty.
A'
V,
Circus Of The Stars
Here At Louisburg
College
Tammy Horton
Louisburg College Is having Its
first talent show of the year. The
show will be held November 18 in
the auditorium, and it will present
the varied talents of students,
faculty and staff at 8:00 p.m. that
evening.
Applications to be in the show
are now available all over campus;
almost every office has copies of
the applications. Auditions for the
show are taking place on the
fourth and fifth of November, so
everyone with a talent to show
should be practicing up now.
Some of the probable judges
for the event are Judge Hobgood
and Martha Hobgood, Fred John
son of The Franklin Times; V. A.
Peoples, mayor of Louisburg;
Sara Scoggins and T. H. Pearce.
The M.C. for the show is none
other than Dean Craig tutu
himself. They will be serving
refreshments there also. The
opening number of the show will
be "Tomorrow'' from the Broad
way musical, "Annie".
There will be a top prize of
^50.00. Sfecond prize will be
525.00 and the third prize will be
>10.00. Come on out! Don't hide
your talent under a bushel basket.
Who knows, maybe you'll win.
And if you don't want to
participate, come on out and
enjoy watching the fun. See you
there!
Loujsburg College Gets New Computer
Louisburg College has two
TRS-80 microcomputers. The mi
crocomputers are put out by the
large^it microcomputer company
in the world, called the Tandy
Radio Shack-80. The micro--
computers are composed of five
major parts: video display, ex
pansion interface, cassette re
corder, keyboard unit and disc
drives.
The keyboard unit consists of a
set of "chips", a tiny wafer having
thousands of microscopic circuits;-
besides, this is why the TRS-80 is
called a microcomputer. The
microcomputer runs tapes on a
television screen that can be seen
by the human eye. It is a thousand
times faster than a cassette
recorder.
You can communicate with the
microcomputer by typing in a
command on the keyboard. The
language used is called Basic
Language. It is stored in chips,
which is like storing information in
a printed dictionary. Only, this
information can be erased or
changed.
The best way to communicate
with the microcomputer is to say
the "right thing at the right time."
This process is called program
ming. The computer will answer
any question you ask, from the
bottom of your feet to the top of
your head; furthermore, it will tell
you if you have misspelled a word.
The microcomputer also makes
up programs and records them on
a disc providing you "say" the
right thing. This piece of
equipment is so amazing that it
even plays Galaxy II and back
gammon. The question many
students might have concerning
the microcomputer is, "How can I
learn to operate or use the
mocrocomputer?" That question
is not that hard to answer.
The microcomputer is used by
the administration and directed by
Prof. Walter McDonald. It is also
available to students through a
computer course called the Daily
Processing Course. This course
teaches students how to operate
the mocrocomputer; the course is
taught by Prof. Zack Cox.
Students now taking the course
say that it is very enjoyable to be
in the room with the mocro
computer; therefore, the micro
computer is happy when friends
are around.
Lab hours for the Daily
Processing Course are as follows:
Mondays and Wednesdays from
11:00 A.M. - 1:00 P.M., Fridays
from 11:00 A.M.-4:00 P.M.,
Tuesdays and Thursdays from
12:00-1:00 P.M. and 2:30
P.M.-4:00 P.M. Prof. Cox en
courages students to take the
course, or at least come by room
112 in the Main Building and see
this amazing computer. Prof.
McDonald said, "In later years to
come every college will have a
computer; in fact, each instructO!
and professor will have a mic o
computer in their office.