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THE COMPASS
Vol. 50, Na
Circulation 2000
ELIZABETH CITY STATE UNIVERSITY
Elizabeth City, N.C.
Friday, December 9,1988
"We won!"
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Photo by Richard Mclntlre
The ECSU men’s basketball team, along with coaches Mackey and Kelly, Chancellor Jenkins and many other Viking enthusiasts,
celebrate after winning the Second Annual ECSU Tip-Off Tournament December 3.
EU-Zapp concert leaves SGA broke
By Travis Manuel
Although SGA officials won’t
disclose how much money the EU-
Roger Troutman-Zapp concert lost
ECSU during homecoming week,
they admit the loss may jeopardize
SGA’s ability to function.
“Because of a lack of student sup
port, the Homecoming show has left
SGA with a deficit of thousands of
dollars,” said SGA Vice President
Clinton Williams . “Because of this,
SGA can barely operate.”
Neither Williams, nor SGA Trea
surer James McMillan would reveal
the actual loss \oThe Compass. “I am
speaking for the entire SGA on this,”
Williams said.
SGA’s records of the amount of
"If the University is ever going to grow we
must have the full support of the student body
first."
- SGA Vice President Clinton Williams
money lost during the Homecoming
concert “would fall under the defini
tion of public record”, as defined by
North CaroUna law,” according to
Edward O’Neal, an attorney with
Twiford, O’Neal and Vincent in
Elizabeth City.
The North Carolina law defines
“public record” in part, “as all docu
ments, papers, letters which record
the transaction of any public business
by an agency of North Carolina gov
ernment or its subdivisions.”
According to North Carolina law,
NCGS 132-9 , “Any person who is
denied access to public records for
purposes of inspection, examination
or copying” may seek relief in the
General Court of Justice. The court
“shall have jurisdiction to issue such
orders.”
Approximately 67 students at
tend^ the Homecoming concert, held
Saturday night Oct. 29 in the Vaughan
Center. Although tickets were $10
each, several students said they were
Students say 'no'
to free condoms
By Monique Thomas
Despite the AIDS scare and the
irevalence of sexually transmitted
diseases, ECSU students don’t ap
pear to be very interested in receiving
free condoms.
In September, a campus fraternity
wd sorority launched an effort to
distribute condoms on campus, but
student sponsors of the effort say
''nly a minority of students took
advantage of the availability of free
i^ondoms.
**In this time of AIDS and other
^TD’s (sexually transmitted diseases)
response could have been a lot
heater,” said Wylia Slade, of Sigma
Gamma Rho sorority.
Slade, along with Troy Miller, of
j^ppa Alpha Psi fraternity, spear-
bded the drive to make condoms
‘vailable to ECSU students.
“The idea began as a committee
^rvice project,” said Miller. “We
“gured what better place to start than
campus.” Slade said her interest
® the project grew out of a conversa
tion she’d had with ECSU nurse Ms.
Robertson.
“She said she gets in a lot of free
'■ondoms, but the students are em-
^•^^sed to come over and pick them
up. And she told me there was
several cases of venereal diseases on
campus. We wanted to do something
about it, because there is a problem
here, not just on campus, but in Eliza
beth City as well.”
Slade said she and Miller put
posters up on campus, to let students
know about the free condoms.
“After we started passing out con
doms, people started calling us The
condom couple,’ “said Slade.”A lot
of guys were coming to our rwms
because they thought we were giving
them out there, and we told them Aey
would have to go the infirmary.”
Miller and Slade passed the con
doms out at the infirmary on Tues
days and Thursdays.
“The initial response was good,
said Miller, “but as the project went
on, it began to decline.”
Slade said that their project ended
after Dr. Leon White, Vice Chan
cellor for Student Affairs, said that
condoms should be dispensed by a
member of the infimiary.
“We agreed with Dr. White, said
Robertson, “because of the issue of
confidentiality.”
please see CONDOMS
page 10
"And a doll..
I^iDto by L«im»a Pearcc
This young lady was somewhat reluctant at first but finally
decided to tell Santa what was on her Christmas wish list. Santa
was the star attraction at the laboratory school Christmas party
December, 1.
Board okays new
major for art dept.
Studio art degree to attract students
admitted to the concert free of charge.
Williams said the low turn-out
was due to a lack of ECSU student
support. “A building cannot stand
without support,” WilUams said.
“If the University is ever going to
grow we must have the full support of
the student body first. We cannot
anticipate people from various com
munities to support this University if
theUniversity family is not involved.”
SGAPresident John Sawyer could
not be reached for comment.
SGA officials did not announce
the band that was to play at the con
cert until the week of homecoming.
When asked about the band by Ihe
please see SGA page 10
By Dwayne Collins
The University of North Carolina
Board of Governors has approved a
Bachelor of Arts Degree in Art for
ECSU’s Art Department, ECSU
Chancellor Dr. Jimmy Jenkins has
announced.
The new major, which the Board
of Governors approved October 21,
will offer students a major in studio
art, with a concentration in drawing,
painting and/or sculpture.
“I’m excited about it,” said Dr.
Jenkins, of the new major. “It is a
special drawing card for students.”
ArtDepartmentChairman Dr. Dan
Pearce said he was “more than over
whelmed,” when he learned the new
major had been approved.
“When Dr. Caldwell called and
told us about the new major, every
one was very excited,” said Pearce.
“This is something the Art Depart
ment has been trying to get for many
years.
Pearce said the new major would
greatly strengthen the department “by
allowing us to prepare people for
careers in art, plus training people to
teach in public school.”
“We have moved into a newly
renovated building,” saidPearce, and
we will have five new studios, crafts,
sculpture, ceramics, graphic arts, and
a general painting studio. “It’s going
to be a stronger program with more
intense study in studio art,” he added.
Students who pursue the new
major will begin getting “hands on
experience” their freshmen year,
Pearce said, by taking courses in
drawing. The new curriculum will
include courses in design, drawing,
painting, sculpture, photography,
printmaMng and ceramics.
In addition, majors will be able to
choose to take electives in advanced
photography, advanced studio, the
ory of contemporary art design, inte
rior design, jewelry and fibers.
Courses in art history will also be
offered.
“I’m overwhelmed with joy about
the new program,” said ECSU art
major Denise Brown.
“I feel the new program will bring
more students to ECSU,” said art
major Lisa Doxey. “because before
art education was all that was of
fered, and not everyone wanted to
"Our institution will
be the only one that
offers a four-year art
degree in the 16 county
area served by
Elizabeth City State."
Dr. Jimmy Jenkins
teach. Now they have studio art.”
Pearce said that the students pur
suing the new degree will be en
couraged to develop a professional
portfolio which will help them get
jobs after they graduate.
Pearce said the new major had
been proposed in the late 1960s by
Dr. Vincent de Gregorio, who was
then Chairman of the Art Depart
ment. “Dr. de Gregorio has been
working hard on getting the major
since he began teaching here,” said
Pearce.
De Gregorio retired as chairman,
and has since returned to ECSU as a
visiting professor of art.
According to the University’s
written request to authorize the new
program many citizens in north
eastern North Carolina have “ex
pressed interest in” a studio art pro
gram. “The need becomes significant
when one realizes that ECSU is the
only four-year public institution of
higher education in northeastern
N.C.,” the report states.
The request for authorization also
points out that the nearest public
institution with a similar art program,
ECU, is 108 miles southwest of
ECSU, and adds that “ECSU would
serve students in northeastern North
Carolina, southeastern Virginia and
adjoining areas.”
“Our institution will be the only
one that offers a four-year art degree
program in the 16 county area served
by Elizabeth City State,” said Chan
cellor Jimmy Jenkins.
“ECSU’s art department helps
round out the curriculum of the Uni-
versity,” said Chancellor Jenkins.
please see ART page 10
New communication
system debuts in Jan.
By Craig Avondo
The plarmed January installation
of a “digital switch” in Doles Hall
marks thecompletion of the firstphase
of a federally funded project, which
will ultimately provide ECSU with a
campus-wide communication sys
tem.
The new system “will allow the
entire university to communicate
electronically witti theoutside world,”
said Shelton Spence, Telecommuni
cations Maintenance and Equipment
Supervisor of ECSU’s Information
Systems.
The federally funded program,
“Telecommunications Project,” will
encompass voice, video and data
transmission, which will be used to
support information processing. The
project will give the University its
own independent communication
system.
“The new digital switch in Doles
Hall will accommodate voice and
data communications networking
throughout the campus. The means
of transmission is through an under
ground conduit system that will con
tain voice, video, and data lines,”
said Spence.
The new program will give ECSU
the capability to receive educational
programs via satellite from outside
the campus, or distributed from other
universities, nationwide.
“ECSU has been receiving pre
recorded cultural programs from
Howard University,” Spence said.
“With the new system theUniversity
can receive these programs live, and
the audience can interact or ask ques
tions through an open phone line with
Howard University.”
Spence said initially three build
ings at ECSU will have these video
capabilities: Student Services,
Johnson Hall and Moore Hall.
“The video capabilities would
allow classes, faculty, local busi
nesses and citizens to view a variety
of programs that will be made avail
able to be viewed live,” Spence said,
“because of the new system’s poten
tial.”
The new system will also expand
the local cable and education chan
nels that can be received on campus.
Special new phones, adapted to the
conduits, will be added to offices in
the administrative and academic
buildings. The dorm phones will not
be affected, however.
The system will allow two or
more computer networks to commu
nicate or exchange information,”
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