October, 1986
The Compass - page 7
PEOPLE
Big brothers/sisters
make college life better
New students at ECSU,
faced with late study hours,
time demands, dorm life and
new friendships have a new
program designed to help
with these changes.
Dr. Leon Whte, Vice Chan
cellor for Student Affairs
said, “The new program is
called the Big Brother/Big
Sister Program and is impor-
tant to establishing
relationships and exchanging
information among stu
dents.” White also said that
the program is open to all
freshman and transfer stu
dents. He encourages anyone
who is interested to contact
the office of Student Affairs.
Darrin Adams, a freshman
Criminal Justice major from
Norfolk, Va., said, “Having a
Big Brother has made me feel
more comfortable.”
''Having a big brother has made me feel
more comfortable.
Darrin Adams, Freshman
According to participants
in the program, there is a new
type of spirit that flows from
student to student since the
initiation of the program.
Mary James, a Big Sister in
the program said that until
the program she thought that
freshmen were unimportant
to her and she felt no initia
tive to get to know new stu
dents.
By Pam Brown
Co-Editor
The Big Brothers and Big
Sisters for the program were
selected based upon their
grade-point averages and
demonstrated leadership.
The Puzzle ^
ACROSS
1 Judgment
6 Lassoes
11 Brimless caps
12 Worn away
14 Negative prefix
15 Powerful
person
17 Fork prong
18 Tiny amount
20 Wanders
22 Hindu cymbals
23 Der)
25 Olive-green
flycatcfier
27 Symbol for
tellurium
28 Church official
30 Baby's
playthings
32 Smooth
34 River in Siberia
35 Firearms
storehouse
38 Ardent
41 Sun god
42 Language of
ancient Rome
44 Withered
45 New Deal
agency: init
47 Black and blue
49 Tattered cloth
50 Transgresses
52 Mercenary
54 A continent:
abbr.
55 All
57 Glossy paint
59 h^ollifies
60 Jewish festival
DOWN
1 Continued story
2 Teutonic deity
Answers to puzzle on p. 2.
3 Snare
4 Mix
5 Bar legally
6 Restoration
7 Either's partner
b Vessel
9 Redact
10 Lawmaking
body
11 The Good Book
13 Erases: printing
16 Declare
19 Rise and fall of
ocean: pi.
21 Mediteranean
vessel
24 Merrymaking
26 Small stoves
29 Pertaining to
the
kidneys
31 Kind of beer
33 Domestic
inhabitants
35 Got up
36 Spoliation
37 Dwell
39 Rubber on
pencil
40 Royal
43 Baseball team
46 Pilaster
48 European
51 Female relative:
colloq.
53 Young boy
56 Concerning
58 Coroner: abbr.
COUiGE PMSS S£RVICE
© 1904 United Feature Syndicate
The Big Brothers and Sisters
are encouraged to provide an
academic thrust for the new
students.
Although the main focus of
the program is on new stu
dents, upperclassmen benefit
from the opportunity to serve
the university and make new
friends.
The transition to college life
may present some problems
that contribute to a student
deciding to drop out. This new
program is expected to help
those students and the pro
gram’s goals are clear
according to White, who said,
“Data in terms of withdra
wals from ECSU will be used
to measure the effectiveness
of the Big Brother/Big Sister
Program.”
According to Whalen
Joyner, a Big Brother, the
program should continue to
improve, expecially as fund
ing increases. Funding could
provide awards to those in the
program who excel academi
cally aiid provide incentives
for participation.
The Fall Freshman Tal
ent Show attracted a full
house in the Moore Hall
Auditorium. Students saw
their classmates model,
sing, dance and even play
the harmonica.
James Hardy, a
20-year-old freshman mu
sic major from Goldsboro,
brought the house down
with his renditions of Li
onel Richie’s hits.
Kermit Griffin awarded 16-
week music internsfiip
International Music and
Sound EXPO in Chicago.
This honor carries a $1,000
scholarship with it.
Griffin is the son of Rev.
and Mrs. Franklin Griffin
and a 1983 graduate of
Northeastern High School.
He is an honor student at
ECSU, a member of the
marchng, concert, and
jazz bands; president of
the Music Industry Asso
ciation Student Chapter
and was selected for the
1986 edition of Who’s Who
Among Students in Ameri
can Colleges and Universi
ties.
Kermit Griffin, a senior
Music Industry Studies
student at ECSU, has been
selected as an intern with
MIDCO International in
Atlanta, Ga. MIDCO Inter
national is a major whole
saler, importer and ex
porter of musical
instruments and acceso-
ries. Griffin’s ihternship
will begin January 12,
1987, and will last for 16
weeks.
The Elizabeth City na
tive was also honored as
the National Association of
Music Merchants
(NAMM) Scholar at the
Photo by Kevin Cox
Kermit Griffith and Dr. Willie
Sullivan, Chairman of Music
Department
Capt. Alan Fisher instructs ECSU cadets. Pictured are
(from left to right): Cornelius Warren, senior from Gold
sboro; Edward Deans, a senior from Murfreesboro; Leon
Hall, a senior from Scotland Neck; Rodney Haggins, a se
nior from Goldsboro; Capt. Fisher; Alvin Smith, a junior
from Kinston; Victor Williams, a senior from Kinston;
William Ponce, a junior from Elm City; and Mark Step
ney, a senior from Edenton.
The ECSU ROTC program
which began here in March,
1981, with 63 cadets now has
an enrollment of 182. To build
and sustain interest in the
program has required the ini
tiation of new programs.
Cadets are no longer lim
ited to just the classroom, but
can gain “real life” military
experience through summer
programs such as Airborne
School, Air Assault School,
and Basic and Advanced
camps. There are specialty
teams available including the
Color Guard, the Sabre
Team, and the Recondo
Squad. Two new teams in
clude the Drill Team and the
Ranger Team. Each of the
units teaches the cadet about
a different aspect of military
life.
Major Allen or Captain
Fisher at the Department of
Military Science should be
contacted for more informa
tion on ROTC.
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ECSU professor works witli NASA project
By Robin Sawyer
Associate Editor
While summer means vaca
tion for most educators. Dr.
Bobby Joe Lewis, Associate
Professor of Biology, spent
his summer doing research at
NASA During the Summer
Faculty Research Fellowship
Program. The fellowship was
sponsored by the National
Aeronautics and Space Ad
ministration (NASA) and
American Society of Educa
tional Engineering (ASEE)
at Johnson Space Center,
Houston, Texas.
Although Lewis was one of
thirty-six individuals who at
tended the program from
June 2-August 15, research
work was done indepen
dently. Upon arrival, each
participant was given a list of
research projects which are
presenting problems for
NASA. From this list, the par
ticipant must do extensive
reading before actually
choosing the project that he
or she is capable of complet
ing. Lewis said, “For the first
year person, it’s hard be
cause you want to be working
while you’re reading.”
The project Lewis chose
was screening and testing dis
infectants that may be con
sidered for use in “instituting
the Microbial Decontamina
tion Control Plan”for the
Space Station of the 1990’s.
The project involved two
phases; a non-experimental
phase and an experimental
phase. The first part was to
search for literature on the
different kinds of disinfec
tants. The remainder of the
non-experimental phase in
cluded finding out the names
of the companies who man
ufacture the disinfectants, ob
taining permission to test the
disinfectants, purchasing
samples of the disinfectants,
and recording all of this infor
mation. With this work com
plete, the final step was to
catalog the physical and qual
itative characteristics of the
disinfectants along with the
chemical compositions of
each disinfectant by per cent.
Lewis laughed, “You had to
know a lot of chemistry. Al
though my minor was chem
istry, I had to go the library,
especially for some of those
long organic compounds.”
During the experimenta
tion phase of the research,
Lewis was able to test four
different disinfectants
against one microorganism.
The procedure included pre
paring a culture medium, ac
tivating the microorganism,
exposing the microorganism
to the disinfectant, maintain
ing an incubation period, and
recording his observations
and results. Although he
worked alone, his work was
supervised by Robert M.
Irbe, Ph.D., an employee of
Northrop Laboratories, Inc.,
and his Johnson Space Center
colleague, Duane L. Pierson,
Ph.D. Northrop Laboratories,
Inc. is contracted by NASA
for certain areas of research.
As a direct result of his re
search, Lewis is currently
preparing a report to be pub
lished by NASA. The paper
will aid NASA in its search for
an economical procedure
which can be used to further
test disinfectants for the
Space Station, which accord
ing to Lewis, is tentatively
scheduled for some time
around 1990. Lewis will also
be giving a seminar to his de
partment and plans to give
seminars at other places as
well.
Lewis feels his experience
at NASA may benefit the uni
versity in two ways. First,
there is the possibility of fu
ture research projects for
NASA being conducted on the
ECSU campus. He remarked
that, “If there is an institutio
nal committment by ECSU to
carrying out a research pro
ject, NASA will work along
with the university in allow
ing a faculty member that
NASA has used in the sum
mer to carry out a research
project here.”
Another benefit is the op
portunity for sophomores, ju
niors and seniors to investi
gate and participate in
similar research projects.
Lewis’s summer at NASA
did not give him visions of
space travel. He noted that
many of the current astro
nauts did originally join
NASA as research personnel.
For now however, Lewis is
content to spend his summers
in the research lab. Maybe
one day though, he will be va
cationing in space.
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Dr. Bobby Lewis, associate
professor of biology at ECSU.