SPORTS
Vikings head
to Durham
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INSIDE
Candidates
square off
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EXAMS'
Roommates'
JOB INTEWItWsI
HEUP!
Caldwell sees ‘challenges’
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Lysistrata opens Nov. 9
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THE COMPASS
Vol. 50, No. 1
Circulation 1700
ELIZABETH CITY STATE UNIVERSITY
Countdown:
Elizabeth City, N.C.
October
Friday,
1988
By Lisa Gregory
Campus braves 48-hour water outage
On Monday, October 3, the Vi
king family began the count-
^down: over 48 hours without wa
ter.
Forty-nine, forty-eight, forty-
^ seven...
Late Sunday afternoon cam-
;pus officials discovered a bro
ken water main under Moore
iHall which was losing water at
1500 gallons a minute.
Register
by mail
at ECSU
Rene Knight
I eCSU students who hate wait-
|g in long lines have a new op-
•n this year-registration by
;il.
(For the spring semester, stu-
fnts who have preregistered by
x:ember 1, 1988, and paid tu-
on and fees by December 16,
58 qualify to have their regis-
ition packets mailed to their
me address.
' For the fall semester, students
10 have preregistered by July
, and paid tuition and fees by
gust 12 can also register by
(ncluded in this registration
cket are a class permit and an
j icially stamped book card
j ich will prevent students
,im having to stand in long
es to have their classes proc-
led or to pay tuition and fees.
Upon receiving registration
ickets, students will have to
U the Registrar’s office to con-
m their decision to return for
I i following semester.
' iccording to Tommy Foust,
* SU Registrar, the new regis-
' tion by mail system is de
fied to eliminate long lines for
’ dents to process classes and
' i tuition and fees. The system
1 allow students to register on
esignated day at a designated
le, and it is open to all ECSU
I dents.
j Students who have met the
[iditions, preregistration and
ying tuition and fees, will re-
jive their advanced class
jiedule and fee charge form,
j|Uled to their home address.
[ Jdents who do not receive the
J charge form, indicating the
lount due, should turn to offi-
11 registration.
liose students receiving fi-
jicial assitance will be re-
ji red to present documentation
{he chargers station during of-
j al registration.
ihose students participating
® he registration by mail who
e misplaced their registra-
I packet or a single card can
I reissued a new packet for a
of $10.
i
II idents who avoid preregistra-
ii will have to start as a new
j Kient by first contacting their
j sdemic advisor for course se-
■Mon. To complete registra-
•i. students will have to report
'Williams Hall at a designated
le.
!(J>is semester, about 500 to 600
ijOents participated in regis-
[(tion by mail, according to
SU Registrar Tommy Foust.
^tually 95% of students will
ister by mail, Foust said.
“The pipes were so old that we
couldn’t find them on our
blueprints,” said Roger Mc
Lean, Vice Chancellor for Busi
ness and Finance. “That’s why
it took so long for us to get
started on repairs. Because we
couldn’t pinpoint the exact loca
tion of the problem, we had to
guess at digging.”
Due to the rapid water loss
and pipe location problems, all
campus water had to be cut off
“It’s a shame we pay $3,000 a year and
can *t take showers, ” said Doles Hall resi
dent Cherry, “It’s pitiful.
early Monday afternoon.
Tempers grew short as the
first day with no water passed.
“It’s a shame we pay $3,000 a
year and can’t take showers,”
said Doles Hall resident Ronnie
Cherry. “It’s pitiful.”
Student impatience with “ad
ministration promises” grew
with each passing hour, as more
and more students found them
selves catching rides to the local
mall or restaurants to use the
bathroom.
“We had to go to the mall to
use the restroom because when
a little water finally came on,
the pressure was too low,” said
Tara Howard of Doles Hall.
“And some instructors have no
sympathy at all for us, because I
wasn’t going to dig in a dead cat
in biology lab and not be able to
wash my hands afterwards.”
“I don’t feel that the school is
doing anything to solve the prob
lem,” said Wamack Hall resi
dent Derrick Mullens, “Because
the same thing happens every
year. I think they need some
type of back up water system.”
ECSU Chancellor Dr. Jimmy
Jenkins told The Compass “The
University would be willing to
deal with instructors and aca-
demic departments on a case by
See Water, page 5.
Feelin^ Good
Photo by Richard Mclntire
ECSU student Emest Caldwell, of Thomasviile, N.C., gets into the spirit of Viking Fest,
held September 17 on campus. (See story, page 3.)
ECSU’s parking dilemma:
‘Nobody wants to walk’
By Beverly Johnson
It’s raining and you’re run
ning late for class. When you
pull into your parking lot, all the
spaces are filled.
You drive around looking for a
space, but it looks as if everyone
else got there first. You finally
find a space two parking lots
away, and you arrive at class
rain-soaked and 15 minutes late.
It’s an all too familiar sce
nario at ECSU“too many cars
and not enough spaces. The Uni
versity has about 700 legal park
ing spaces. In 1987-88, campus
security issued 1002 decals for
faculty, staff and students.
“We’re paying for a parking
space,” said ECSU Junior
Becky Calhoun, “yet there is no
guarantee we will find one.”
The shortage of parking
spaces on campus is caused, in
part, by a rapid increase in en
rollment, and by a high percent
age of drivers among students,
many of whom are commuters,
ECSU officials say.
“Nobody wants to walk, and
the parking situation is out of
hand, with increased enrollment
and the car population outgrow
ing the lots,” said ECSU Chief of
Security, James Hoggard. “One
of the biggest mistakes was al
lowing freshmen to bring cars
“One of the big
gest mistakes was
allowing freshmen
to bring cars on
campus, ”
James Hoggard
Chief of Security
on campus, because the campus
is not very large, and students
can walk to wherever they want
to go within five to ten minutes.”
Not everyone agrees, how
ever, that freshman shouldn’t
have cars.
“A car is the only means of
transportation for some stu
dents,” said ECSU Registrar,
Tommy Faust. “Elizabeth City
is not a metropolitan area where
mass transportation is easily
available.”
Students and faculty say the
parking dilemna is often aggra
vated by people parking in the
wrong spaces, including re
served and no parking areas,
Lee charts new course for V-91
By Richard Mclntire
“The radio station should be
the stepping stone for students
who want a career in broadcast
ing,” said Edith Jeanette Lee.
Lee is ECSU’s new Program
Director/General Manager of
the campus radio station. She
replaced David Linton, who re
signed to work for Warner Bros.
Records in Texas.
A native of Pittsburg, Penn
sylvania, Lee is a 1981 graduate
of Shaw University in Raleigh,
with a BA in radio, televison and
film. She has a master of arts
from Norfolk State, and is a for
mer instructor of communica
tions at St. Augustine’s.
Lee said she hopes to increase
the station’s power, and to see
more “WRVS-community inter
action.” Declaring that there’s
“room for improvement among
the disc-jockeys,” she added,
“The students and staff are ded
icated, which makes a general
manager’s job easier.”
Lee has filed an application to
the Corporation for Public
Broadcasting to help qualify Vi
king Radio for grants, to aid in
operational and programming
costs.
WRVS is a 10,000 watt public
radio station serving Northeast
ern North Carolina and Tidewa
ter Virginia.
“WRVS is more than a cam
pus station," said Lee. “We
have to cater to a target audi
ence in the region.”
Lee praised the program
ming, students, and air person
alities of the station. “Paula Sut
ton did an extraordinary job as
acting general manager.” Sut
ton is now Public Affairs Direc
tor of WRVS.
Lee said she hopes the faculty
and students will help bring
about “a new progression” at
the radio station.
I
I
Ms. Edith Lee, WRVS’s new General Manager/Program Director (front, left), discusses plans with WRVS news director Andre Smith
(front, right), Paula Sutton, the station’s Public Affairs Director (back, right), and air personaliti (Aerek Stephens).
Photo by Richard Mclntire
blocking traffic and entrances to
buildings, or parking in two
spaces at once.
“The parking lot by the ROTC
building is reserved for ROTC
personnel,” said Senior Cadet
Captain Teodore Anderson, “yet
students are parking in the re
served area anyway. Something
should be done about it.”
“More emphasis should be
placed on putting a stop to driv
ers taking up two parking
spaces,” said SGA Vice Presi
dent, Clinton Williams. “People
who park in two spaces at once
contribute to the problem.”
‘Due Diligence’
Although traffic and parking
violators can be fined, the Secu
rity Department must follow
certain procedures before they
can have cars towed. The proce
dures include a ticket, a verbal
warning, and two letters warn
ing offenders they are in viola
tion of parking rules and will
eventually be towed.
“We must follow certain un
necessary procedures before ve
hicles can be towed,” Hoggard
said.
“Towing should be used as a
last resort whenever possible,”
said Roger McLean, ECSU Vice-
Chancellor for Business and Fi
nance. “The state of
North Carolina requires that we
perform due diligence prior to
towing cars, only if they are not
parked in fire lanes, fire hy
drants, or creating a situation in
which life and property are en
dangered. Members of the fac
ulty, staff, students and visitors
should be given a reasonable
chance to comply with state and
University regulations.”
A Tougher Line
ECSU Chancellor Dr. Jimmy
Jenkins told The Compass that
the University is taking a
tougher line against parking vio
lators. “This week we began a
new program of ticketing viola
tors of parking spaces, and
warnings,” said Jenkins. Next
week more drastic actions may
be taken, such as towing.”
Jenkins said it’s important for
faculty and students to register
cars. “We need to get people
registered, because funds go to
improve the parking situation
for all of us.”
On a comparison basis with
other campuses, Jenkins said,
“I would say parking is not a
problem on our campus.”
Other suggestions for solving
the parking problem?
“We should be assigned to just
a specific lot rather than a num
bered space,” said Rosa Sa
wyer, Secretary of ECSU’s Mu-
See Parking, page 12.