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PAGE 4 ^^ECSuTooTJu^perb^ THE COMPASS MAY 11, 1970 Where are The Students? Alpha Kappa Mu Convenes The general feeling of some 70 occupants of the new girl’s dorm during the dates of the 26th, 27th, and 28th of March was that ECSU’s food was up- perbl! During their stay on our campus these visitors en joyed Slater’s Food Ser vice. And they had no thing but words of com pliments about the food served here, * Who were these stu dents and why were they living in our new girl’s dormitory? ECSU, this year was priviledged to have been chosen for the side of the Alpha Kappa Mu Nation al Honor Society Con vention. Though our campus was deserted because our stu dents had gone home for the spring vacation, the convention was enjoyed by all. Herbert Davis University Center’s New President Herbert Davis recent ly assumed the position of President of the Uni versity Center. Mr. Da vis has established him self as a determinedlead- er and worker by attend ing many meetings and conferences for the bet terment of campus life. Some of them are; Uni versity of Kentuck, Con ference of Student Unions; Duke University, Student Volunteer Program Con ference; East Carolina University, CUEBS Con ference; and Indiana Uni versity, South East Di vision Union Programs Conference. For the up coming 1970 -71 school year, Mr. Da vis ciles his primary goals as; (1) creating a more active student body through a wilder range of programs offered to the students; (2) encouraging all interested and in dustrious people to join the varied committees and positions and; (3) to in troduce an intense stu dents awareness, partici pation and attendance of all programs of the Un ion. With Mr. Davis’ ex perience through travel and leaderships duties, we are looking forward to a vibrant and very pro ductive year of the Uni versity Center’s activi ties. Cleo Lancaster A number of 150 per sons visited our campus for the convention. And it was fortunate that we were able to house many of them in our new girl’s dormitory. The new girl’s dormi tory had recently been completed but had not been occupied by any ECSU students. And dur ing the convention the dormitory was occupied by both males and female. Colleges and universi ties represented were many. To name a few of these: Kentucky State College, Savannah State College, South Carolina State College, Virginia State College, Virginia Union University, Nor folk State College, and Xavier University. The first general ses sion of the AK Mu member was held in Moore Hall Auditorium. The program opened with greetings from Dr. Thorpe. Mr. Javon Bro thers, the president of ECSU’s chapter also gave greeting to his fellow AK Muans. Miss Esther Selles, a student representative from Texas Southern Uni versity and the National Assistant Secretary, gave a response to the welcome addressed which were given by the host school. ECSU saw to it that the visitors had a sufficient amount of time for the business side of the con vention as well as the social side of the con vention. An official reception was held in our beauti fully decorated Univer sity Center. A recreation hour, a dance and a social hour were given in the University Center too. The theme of the con vention was “Academic Excellence and its rele- Sigma Rho Sigma Honor Society Sigma Rho Sigma Honor Society for Social Science majors has recently been re-activated. The advis ors for the Honor Socie ty are Mrs. Yvonne Har ris and Mr. Timothy Wa- mack. The Society aims at promoting high scholar ship excellence among persons in Sociaology and History. To become a member of Sigma Rho Sigma Honor Society a person has to be per suing a Bachelor of Science in Sicial Science or a Bachelor of Arts. The person has to be at least a Sophomore in class rank. A 3;00 cum ulative is required for initiation. Sigma Rho Sig ma observed initiation week April 27 - May 1, 1970. Intiates for mem bership for the 1969-70 school year are Alfred Carter, Senior, Edward Joyner, Senior, Charles Moore, Junior, Queen Moore, Junior, Virginia Darden, Junior, Calvin Nunnally, Sophomore, Robert Ward, Sophomore, vance to Social Change . And this theme served as the topic for a panel discussion in which the participants were from various chapters. It was actually amazing the way the au^ence participated too in the discussion. During the second gen eral session, Mr. Corn elius King, the National Vice President repre senting Southern Univer sity, gave a very asound- ing address. The members of Alpha Kappa Mu were privil edged to have as their speaker. Dr. James Farmer, during the con vocation session. He was enjoyed by all. He touch ed the minds of those who listened. At any type of con vention there are com mittee meeting. So it was with this convention. There were many meet ings, all whose purposes were to present reports on last year’s convention, keep the present con vention going smoothly and to make plans for next year’s convention. Members of our local planning committee for the convention were Dr. Floyd B. Holley, Mr. Ja von Brothers, Miss Dolly Gibbs, Miss Margaret Gregory, Dr. Anne M. Henderson, Mr, Arthur L. Jefferson, Miss Evelyn Johnson, Mr. Glenwood Mitchell, Mr. Benjamin Speller, Mr. Jimmie Sut ton and Dr. Ernest Fin ney, the chairman, 7 7 77 “Where rlid we get ihe names of ihc days of the week?” From the old English language: Sunday—Sunnandaeg (day of the sun) ; Monday—^^onandapS (day of the moon); Tuesday — Tiwes- daeg (from Tiw, the god of war); W ednesday — Wodnesdaeg (from Odin, the god of storms) ; Thurs-. day — Thuresdaeg (day of Thor, the god of thunder) ; Friday—Fri- gedaeg (day of Freya, the goddess of marriage); Saturday — Sater- daeg (day of Saturn, the god of time.) APG Prat Approved Alpha Phi Gamma Na tional Honorary Frater nity for Journalism stu dents and students inter ested in the Journalism profession has recently been established on the campus of Elizabeth City State University, Alpha Phi Gamma has as its charter members and official officers the following; President, Samual King, Vice Pre sident - John Spencer, Secretary - Geraldine Cox, Treasurer - Ka - Esbia Phillips, Bailiff - Robert E. Ward, Lillian Riggs, Denvel Sutton and Velma Roundtree are members. Mr. Leonard Ballou and Mr. Lawrence Sugg are Faculty Advis ors. The Charter members are expected to be offi cially installed on or be fore May 5, 1970. This Fraternity is coed. One of our distinguish ed guest speakers who recently spoke here pos ed this embarrassing question to his small au dience, "Where are the students?” Many times this ques tion has passed through my mind when I have ob served the “small” at- tendence of students to special programs or to any program, for that matter. One can only speculate about the student s acti vities when they fail to at tend programs of enrich ment. These programs (a great number of them) are BLACK instituted and BLACK organized for the cultural development of black students. You BLACK STU DENTS are tomorrow’s leaders. As leaders of tomorrow, why not come and listen to what lead ers of today have to say to you? They are BLACK peo ple with much to say. They are humans like you, they have sought and are still seeking what you seek-freedom. Students, why not bud get your time and become more attendant so that Moore Hall Auditorium will not seem akin to a cemetary during assem blies and other worthy programs. You are constantly cry ing for black awareness and black culture, yet you will not appreciate the opportunities knocking daily at your door. You have black culture in these programs, so why Kappa Delta Chapter of Kappa Delta Pi, a Nation al Honor Society in Ed ucation, initiated four Seniors and one Junior into its ranks during a ceremony held Wednes day evening, April 15 in the University Student Union Building followed by a dinner at the Holi day Inn. The seniors included Mrs. Beatrice Scott of 706 Factory Street in Eliza beth City a major in early childhood education and secretary to the Human Relations Council; Mrs. Brenda H. Creecy, a ma jor in business education from South Mills; Javon Brothers of 824 Parson age Street in Elizabeth City, an art education ma jor who is active in a number of campus and community activities; and Golden Webb, a health and physical education major from Creswell, North Ca rolina. Miss Clemmie Archer, an early child hood education major from Winton, was the on ly Junior, In order to qualify for membership, the students had to have a minimum cumulative average of 3,35, have completed at least 60 semester hours not take advantage of them an appreciate them. Exhibit your black a- wareness and black pride by attending the black or iented programs provided by your university. A Concerned Black Student Education Enrichment The Basic Education and Enrichment Program is one of the vital pro grams on our campus. The program is design ed to help students who are weak in a particular area of learning. To aid freshmen in becoming acquainted with their new environment is one as pect of this program. The Basic Education and Enrichment Program is under the leadership of four outstanding indi viduals who work dil igently with the problems of the freshmen. Through their leadership ser vices, students can fulfill their academic require ments. I have found the pro gram very rewarding. The method of using fel low students as tutors is very effective. This helps the students avoid conflict with the generation gap. Even if a student does not have to worry about his grade point average, the program provide en richment that will further expand his knowledge. The main objective of this program is to aid freshmen in order that they can improve their academic standing. Rochester Baker of work, be enrolled in the Teacher Education Program, and have de sirable personal quali ties. Each of the prospec tive members also pre pared a research paper which was read and de fended at the time of initiation. Topics for the papers were “Motivation and the Instructor” by Miss Ar cher, “The Integration of Art in the Kindergarten Through the Third Grade Curriculum” by Bro thers,” A Modular Sche duling Approach to Office Education” by Mrs. Creecy; “Kindergarten - An Integral Part of the Educational Program” by Mrs. Scotland “Do School and College Health and Physical Education Pro grams Contribute to Gen eral Education?” by Webb. The National Organiza tion for the Society, which was founded in 1911 at the University of Illinois, maintains its headquart ers in West Lafayette In diana. Dr. Edna L. Da vis, Chairman of the Mu sic Department at ECSU serves as Counselor to the local chapter. Five Initiated Into Kappa Delta Pi Honor Society
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