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Gardner-Wfebb GJlege
APRIL 26, 1988
BOILING SPRINGS, NORTH CAROLINA
“The Big Apple”
GWC Style
Recently, Professors
Keith Griggs, Wallace Carpen
ter, and Don Kemerait of the
Broyhill School of Management
at Gardner-Webb lead a group
of approximately 40 students
on a business- educational
trip to New York City.
This annual event is
sponsored by the Broyhill
School of Management and takes
place during spring break of
each year. This year, the par
ticipants attended a seminar
at the New York Stock Ex
change , toured the Commodity
Exchange,Federal Reserve Bank,
United Nations, and Con Edi
son. Other places visited
included the Statue of Liber
ty, Empire State Building,
Rockfeller Center, Metropoli
tan Art Museum, and Central
Park.
Following each active
day, participants took in a
bit of New York night life
including eating at famous
restaurants, seeing Broadway
plays, and taking a cruise
which included dinner and a
Broadway review. The week was
filled with many planned acti
vities while at the same time
allowing ample free time for
additional sight seeing and
shopping in famous New York
stores.
The following excerpts
from student comments demon
strate the general feeling of
all participants:
-"The campus New York trip was
well worth taking and I would
encourage any student to try
to go."
-"The highlight of the trip
was the Broadway at sea."
-"The trip was wonderful. My
wife and I hope to go again
when our finances allow it."
-"Touring China Town and
Greenwich Village was interes
ting to me because we were
informed of some of the his
tory of the migration of the
Chinese into New York."
-"Above all, the most fascina
ting experience for me was the
Commodity Exchange and the
Stock Exchange."
-”I found the Broadway plays
to be very entertaining; a
wonderful way to learn about
the arts."
The annual visit to New
York is a program that is con
tinually growing in interest
and attendance. Plans are
already underway for a 1989
visit. For those interested in
attaining more information
about this program, please
contact Dr. Keith Griggs or
Wallace Carpenter at Gardner-
Webb.
Handicap
Awareness Day
By R. Shawn Lewis
April 27th is Handicap
Awareness Day here at Gardner-
Webb College. This event is
not a national event, but in
stead is the result of a de
sire of students in the Sign
Language Studies Department to
help non-handicapped people
realize what is like to be
handicapped.
Handicap Awareness Day
will include a display center
which will house information
on handicaps. The center will
have representatives from sev
eral institutions that spe
cialise in the handling of the
handicapped such as the North
Carolina School of the Deaf.
The displays will be located
upstairs in the lobby of the
C.I.D. building. Downstairs in
the C.I.D. building, an obsta
cle course will be set up.
This will not be a normal
obstacle, but instead will be
designed to simulate different
handicaps such as blindness,
deafness, and crippledness.
Participants in the course
will not go unrewarded for
their efforts. Each partici
pant will receive a nominal
prize and will be eligible for
grand prize drawings at the
end of the day. These prizes
have been donated for the day
by area merchants.
The events of Handicap
Awareness Day will run from 10
a.m. to 4 p.m. Faculty, stu
dents, and members of the com
munity are invited to come and
enjoy and learn from the acti
vities of the day.
IN THIS ISSUE
NY TRIP PG.l
HANDICAP AWARENESS...PG.1
DYKEMAN PG. 1
FRENCH TRIP PG.l
EDITORIALS PG. 2
DISCRIMINATION PG. 2
TAKE ONE PG.3
FISH TANK PG.3
WHAT HAPPENS? PG.3
A TEST PG. 3
DIAMOND DOGS PG.4
R.P.M PG.4
PREDICTIONS PG.4
Writer Visits
Campus
By Melissa Brown
Successful writer Wilma
Dykeman visited Gardner-Webb’s
campus on Wednesday, April 13
to speak before students of
Dr. Joyce Brown and others
interested in writing and
literature. Mrs. Dykeman’s
most significant success is a
novel entitled The Tall Woman
which is considered to be a
classic among modern Appala
chian literature. Most of her
works are centered around the
southern Appalachian moun
tains. She teaches creative
writing at the University of
Tennessee and a summer course
in Appalachian literature at
Berea College in Kentucky. Be
sides, fiction she has been
successful at journalistic and
PR writing. Mrs. Dykeman spoke
with encouragement as she ex
plained that "all writing is
creative writing." In explain
ing the importance of making a
written work memorable through
individuality and use of
unique ways of expression,Mrs.
Dykeman displayed through-her
delightful personality and her
choice of words the very char
acteristics about which she
spoke.
The French
Connection
By Melissa Brown
Drs. Charles Andrews and
Bob Morgan will be leaving for
Europe with a group of faculty
and students on the day after
graduation. The group of ten
will take the new Piedmont
flight directly to London,
where they will spend a couple
of days. Then they will go by
train to the English Channel
and take ferry to France where
they will spend six days in
Paris. Afterward, the group
will head back to London for
another night and then home.
The trip will offer an oppor
tunity to learn about culture
and especially to experience
the significance of art and
literature in France and Eng
land. It will be an enjoyable
educational experience for
everyone going and a great
chance for the travelers to
further explore their inter
ests .