SPORTS
Basketball
i; wrap-up
— pages 6,7
INSIDE
Juggling a job
and school
— page 8
Education
'family affair'
— page 9
Godspell preview - page 4
More sports - pages 6, 7
COMPASS
Vol. 50, No. 3
.Circulation 2000
ELIZABETH CITY STATE UNIVERSITY
Elizabeth City, N.C.
Friday, March 3,1989
i
New system to ease
textbook shortages
New Committe
to address book
shortages soon
By Tammy Riddick and
Robin Sawyer
“ Effective next semester, a new
ystem of requisitioning and ordering
^ks should relieve ECSU’s inveter-
te problem with textbook shortages.
‘ Under the current system, the
Campus bookstore orders textbooks in
idvance, based on requisitions sup
plied by departmental chairpersons,
W a computer list of students in the
Registrar’s office.
' Virtually all observers agree that
tie current system needs revamping.
Since my second semester here at
'iCSU, I’ve been without abook for at
'^st one of my classes every semes-
:jr,” said ECSU junior Connie Moore,
'n Early Childhood Education major.
‘ “ForEducationalPsychology,I’m
Wll without a book. For Movement
“ducation, I received a book on Feb-
®iary 14, and in World Civilization II,
m still without a book,” Moore
Ided.
Moore said she worried that text-
X)k shortages would affect her grade,
don’t get to do my reading assign^
ents and I’m notable to follow along
ith classroom discussions. Since I
)commute, it’s hard to get someone
se’s book when they need to study
id read just as I do.”
At times, book shortages are a
problem,” said Dan Pearce, Chairman
of the Art Department “Problems with
book shortages should be worked out
between faculty in need of books,
departmental chairpersons, the Office
of the Vice Chancellor for Academic
Affairs and the bookstore manager.”
Under the current system, academic
chairpersons collect book requests
from individual instructors and then
compile a departmental requisition,
according to Dr. Helen Caldwell,
acting Vice Chancellor for Academic
Affairs. The chairpersons then for
warded these requisitions to what was
Dr. Edward lanni’s office. (lanni.
Assistant Vice Chancellor for Aca
demic Affairs, resigned in 1988, and
his position has not yet been filled.)
From there, the requisitions went
to Pedro Holley, bookstore manager.
Holley said campus book short
ages are caused, in part, by depart
ment chairpersons’ either underes
timating the number of books they
will need or failing to complete de
partmental requisitions adequately
and students failing to return their
books to the bookstore.
“For this semester, the requisition
for Educational Psychology was for
20 copies of the text,” said Holley,
“but there were two sections of Edu
cational Psychology, one with 34 and
the other with 31. We had an inven
tory of 53 books, which creates a
shortage. “
Some chairpersons defended their
requisitions, however, saying that they
were submitted adequately and on
time. “We did request an adequate
supply of books,” said Dr. Henry
please see BOOKS p. 10
Whooosh!
Photo by Richard Mclntlre
Viking Guard James Eaton can taste the two points he scored
against the Falcons of St. Augustine’s. Eaton’s bucket helped
push the Vikings to a final 107-106 victory January 24th. More
roundball action and the rest of the sports on pages 6 and 7.
Abernathy to speak
in Founder’s Day
Assembly at ECSU
pomecoming Concert cost $22,789;
SGA President ‘regrets’ selection
By Travis Manuel
Last semester’s EU-Roger Trout-
man-Zapp concert cost the Student
Government Association $22,789,
SGA President John Sawyer has re
vealed.
“We spent $9,000 on EU and
$7,500 on Roger Troutman,” Sawyer
said. SGA spent “over $1,100” pay
ing students to work at the concert
The rest of the money went to miscel
laneous things like printing tickets,
Jantmin'
refreshments and paying the fee to the
agent who took care of concert nego
tiations.”
Last semester SGA Vice President
President Clinton Williams said the
Oct 29 Homecoming lost so much
money that it “jeopardized SGA’s
ability to function.” Williams blamed
the failed concert on a “lack of student
support," and refused to reveal the
amount the homecoming concert lost
to The Compass. 'I’m siting for
all of SGA on this.” Williams said.
“It wasn’t that SGA didn’t want to
disclose the amount” Sawyer said.
“We couldn’t because Mr. McLean
had all the information.”
Many ECSU students criticized
SGA’s decision to hire the bands,
which were unpopular on campus.
Sawyer said he now regrets the
choice of bands.
“If I had it to do over I would have
had a big party instead,” Sawyer said.
“In order to plan a good concert at this
school you need a professional staff
person to devote about a year of his
time to this.”
SGA’s Homecoming Committee,
headed by Clinton Williams, began
working on getting a band at the be
ginning of the semester; however SGA
officials did not announce the bands
please see SGA page 10
By Florencestine Jones
The Reverend Dr. Ralph David
Abernathy, an internationally ac
claimed Civil Rights leader, will be
the keynote speaker during the Uni
versity’s March 3rd Founder’s Day
celebration.
Abernathy, who was at Martin
Luther King Jr.’s side when he was
shot and who held King as he died,
helped King lead the struggle for Civil
Rights in America.
“If Dr. Abernathy were in a movie,
he would definitely get an Oscar for
best supporting role in the civil rights
struggle,” said ECSU Chancellor Dr.
Jimmy Jenkins, “because he was the
undisputed friend and confidant of the
Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King.”
“I hope the students will come out
and suppOTt this Founder’s Day pro
gram b^ause the Reverend Dr. Aber
nathy is truly one of those individuals
who made it possible for them to en
joy the liberties that I am sure they
take for granted,” Jenkins said.
Jenkins said Abernathy “inherited
the leadership of the Civil Rights
struggle after the assassination. He
tried to remind people of King’s sac
rifice for America. He wanted Amer
ica to be a better place for everyone.”
Following King’s death, Abernathy
began working on King’s plans for
the Poor People Campaign in Wash
ington, D.C. This nationwide cam
paign to mobilize the poor ultimately
resulted in legislation which provided
food stamps, health care, day care
centers, and other social programs.
In 1956, Abernathy organized the
Montgomery Bus Boycott and he and
King led the boycott for 381 days—
which marked the beginning of
America’s postwar Civil Rights
movement.
Abernathy was attacked and beaten
during this struggle, and his church
and home were bombed. King and
Abernathy were jailed more than 40
times for their quest to achieve Civil
Rights.
Jenkins said Abernathy’s appear
ance at ECSU for Founder’s Day is
appropriate because “on the national
scene there seems to be a loss of
momentum for a push for equality,
and equal access to the American
Dream. Reverend Abernathy repre-
“IfDr. Abernathy
were in a movie, he
would definitely get
an Oscar for best
supporting role in the
civil rights struggle”
Dr. Jimmy Jenkins
sents the pillar of the Civil Rights
movement of the 60’s and 70’s.
“It seems appropriate that he would
come to ECSU to recognize our prog
ress and to remind us of our long way
we have yet to go, if the dream of Dr.
King is to be a reality.”
Jenkins said The ECSU Founder’s
Day Celebration provides “an op
portunity to reflect on our past, and to
nourish our roots, and remind stu
dents, faculty and administration of
from whence we have come.”
Added Jenkins, “This Founder’s
Day represents the kick off Founder’s
to our Centennial.”
The University celebrated its first
Founder’s Day under the administra
tion of Dr. Marion Thorpe. The Uni
versity has celebrated Founder’s Day
ever year since then.
“Founder’s Day is a retrospect of
our history and heritage,” said Dorothy
Smith, Chairperson of the Univer
sity’s Founder’s day committee. “The
theme is ECSU: a struggle of achieve
ment and excellence.”
Ms. Jean Sims, Co-chairperson of
the committee said Founder’s Day
also allows relatives of former found
ing fathers to visit the campus.
‘The Bias family brings back many
memories, “ said Sims. “Getting to
meet families and see them excited
about our university excites me. The
preparations are hard work, but in the
end, everything is worth it.”
Abernathy, a native of Alabama,
received his bachelor’s degree from
Alabama State University, and his
master’s degree from Atlanta Uni
versity. He is the recipient of more
than 300 honors and awards from
governments and universities, and
human rights organizations.
Campus-wide poll to allow students
a voice in new food service contract
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Photo by Richard Mclntlre
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Sea^4 The^ung ladles got to strut their stult during the halftime show Febnjary 4th when ECSU
hosted St. Paul’s in the R L- Vaughan Center.
By Cheryl White
ECSU students dissatisfied with
the food in the University’s cafeteria
will soon have the opportunity to voice
their concerns to the administration.
Gourmet Food Services, which
operates the University’s cafeteria,
plans a campus-wide poll to deter
mine what changes ECSU students
would like in their daily menu, said
SGA President John Sawyer.
The company’s food service con
tract with the University will expire
July 31, according to Mr. Roger
McLean, Vice Chancellor for Fiscal
Affairs.
"I think the campus will be in favor
of some changes, as long as they know
they’re getting their money’s worth,”
said Clinton Williams, SGA Vice
President.
The projected poll comes in the
wake of a January 12 meeting be
tween an ECSU cafeteria committee
and Nathaniel Goldston, President of
GSI in Atlanta. The ECSU committee
visited to “voice concerns” about the
cafeteria, according to Mr. McLean.
"Students will be given a choice
about the new contract before it is
signed,” said McLean, who attended
the meeting along with Dr. Leon
White, Vice Chancellor for Student
Affairs. Student representatives were
John Sawyer, Clinton Williams, Reg-
“Students will be given a choice about the
new contract before it is signed/’
Roger McLean
gie Carson, and Angelia Nelson.
“Company representatives were
very receptive to our ideas,” said
Carson. “That pleased me because
though we went there with complaints,
we were all thoroughly heard out Our
students took some initiative, and now
we will probably get results.”
Carson, who originally pursued the
topic as a Junior class project, said
widespread disenchantment on cam
pus with the present menu prompted
him to approach Chancellor Jenkins
abouttheproblem. White and McLean
organized the trip to Atlanta.
Said Dwayne Collins, ‘There
should be seconds anyway if the qual
ity remains the same. We’re entitled
to that”
White said that changes in the
cafeteria’s menu “are still to be ne
gotiated,” based on the results of the
poll.
“Students will be given a choice in
the polls so that the University will
know what factors to negotiate when
the present contract expires.”
^ite said that GSI decides the
menus, hires the staff, “and four to six
times a year they come by and check
on things in the cafeteria.”
Student concems include com
plaints about small portions, the lack
of second servings, and lack of vari
ety.
“If they can feed us like that on
holidays why can’t they do it every
day?” asks Richard McIntyre.
“Students are still hungry after they
eat,” said Sawyer. “We need more
meats to accommodate the students.
Also, the desserts need to be more
attractive.”
McLean said, “Students pay about
$3.04 a day fw three meals.”
According to White, students will
have to pay more, to get more food.
“The cost for seconds will go up to
twice the present amount” White said.
Gourmet Services is the largest
black owned foodservice management
company and the 21st largest black
owned company in the nation. Gour
met Services provides meals for 21
campuses in 16 states, including
Hampton University, as well as Eliza
beth City State.