SPORTS
Vikings’
Hopes Still High
—page 6
INSIDE
Ihe Power of Music:
ECSU's New Band
Director
—page 3
Surviving
After
Kuwait
—pages
Butler Dorm Renovations
—page 3
‘Heart and SouF
Rhythm Nation review—^page 6
Vol. 52, No. 1
r.irculation 2000
THE COMPASS
ELIZABETH CITY STATE UNIVERSITY
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Lisa Bonet (left) and Alisa Robinson appear to be enjoying them
selves at the Sept. 22 Fish Bowl game against Norfolk State.
Robinson will be crowned Miss ECSU this Friday night during the
Coronation Ceremony in Williams Hall. Bonet was first runner up in
, the Miss ECSU contest.
ECSU buys acreage
on Weeksville Road
By Cindy Blount
In a move Chancellor Jimmy Jen
kins calls “The crowning jewel of my
administration,” ECSU has acquired
38 acres that adjoins the southern end
of the campus.
The property, which the Univer
sity acquit^ for $750,000, increases
the main campus from 69 to 107 acres.
The KermitE. White Graduate Center
sits on 41 acres, and Roebuck Sta
dium has 25 acres.
“The new property will open up
the possibility of the growth and de
velopment of the next forty years on
campus,” Jenkins said, adding that
since the land abuts the new complex,
“it is a logical extension of the cam
pus.”
The University plans to close the
current entrance off of Halstead Bouli-
vard by the administration building,
and open a new entrance “about half
way between the new administration
and the graduate center,” Jenkins said.
Jenkins said the University’s first
building on the land will be a new
dorm, with construction to begin in
Elizabeth City, N.C.
Thursday. October 11,1990
Gantt assails Senator Helms
during Sept. 19 visit to ECSU
By Kimberley Robinson
U.S. Senate candidate Harvey
Gantt brought his message of hope
and the need for political change to a
wildly enthusiastic crowd at ECSU
September 19, in Moore Hall Audito
rium.
“I’m not a stranger to this Univer
sity,” Gantt told the cheering, chant
ing students. “If you’ve ever regis
tered to come here, if you’ve ever
worked in the early childhood lab, if
you’re ever labored over your chem
istry book in the science complex,
then you’ve had something to do with
Harvey Gantt.”
Gantt, an architect and former
mayor of Charlotte, designed the
University’s early childhood build
ing, the new science complex, and the
new administration building. His visit
to ECSU was part of a tour through
eastern N.C.
“I’m running against Jesse Helms,
and I intend to win,” Gantt told the
crowd.'There’s going to l>e a fresh
breeze in North Carolina. We’re going
to put aside all of this negativism that
we see in Jesse Helms. We’re going to
ignore all the television ads that are
designed to tear people down. We’re
going to put aside the fear tfiat Jesse
Helms talks about And we’re going
to talk alx)ut a new day in North Caro
lina, where we’re going to bring people
together. And have them live out their
lives to the fullest potential.”
Gantt, a Democrat, stressed the
importance of education, the environ
ment, and the rights of women and
minority meml>ers. And he criticized
Senator Helm’s records on these and
other issues.
“We are running on protecting
'Tm running against Jesse Helms, and
I intend to win. There's going to be afresh breeze
in North Carolina”
Harvey Gantt
education, protecting the environment, our issues are right, and you are going
improving health care, and paying to be behind us.”
more attention to the lack of jobs, and Gantt also promised to work to
the problem of crime,” Gantt declared, ensure educational opportunities for
“I toow we are going to win because students.
“I’m going to do my best to be
there for you,” he said, “to get those
student grants and loans when you
need them. I’m going to be there for
you, and my door will be wide open
for you.
“I know that your education is one
of your most important things to you.
We need to invest more in you be
cause we are depending on you to do
well for this country.”
Gantt said he would “work on
economic development in eastern N.C.
please see GANTT pA
m
U.S. Senate candidate Harvey Gantt poses with a group of supporters during his September 19 visit to the
campus. The visit was part of atourthrough Eastern N.C. Gantt said he would work on ensuring educational
opportunities for students, promising, ‘Til be there for you.” phoio by M»rk Moni,
six months. The University’s new
Mass Communication and Fine Arts
building will be also constructed on
the land.
“Construction on the Mass Com
munication and Fine Arts building
will begin January of 1992,” the Chan
cellor said. “Money for that building
has been set aside in the biennial
budget.”
Jenkins said he was especially
excited about the new aquisition,
because the University has been Uying
to buy that particular piece of land for
over forty years.
“I can remember that we wanted to
buy the land when I arrived as a fac
ulty member, 19 years ago,” he said.
Jenkins said that although many
individuals helped the University get
the land, he would single out N. C.
Speaker of the House Joe Mavretic
(D—^Edgecomb) as having been es
pecially helpful.
During a visit to the school,
Mavretic asked what he could do to
help with the growth of the Univer
sity, Jenkins recalled. “I told him we
needed that land.”
III»Htr»tWm courtesy of ChHiiccllor Jenkins
Ban on smoking now in effect
By Uchenna Bulliner
The University’s ban on smoking
went into effect October 1, according
to University Attorney Alice Bynum.
After that date smokers will have
only three places to light up on cam
pus—the back lobby of the Kermit E.
White building, the lobby on the first
floor of the administration building,
and students’ dormitory rooms.
The University’s Board of Trus
tees approved the no-smoking policy
at their March l>oard meeting. Since
then, ECSU officials have l>een iron
ing out the thorny details of how l)est
to implement the policy—the first of
its kind in the UNC system.
“The Board of Trustees told us to
be assured that we had policies in
place to enforce this ban before imple
menting it,” Bynum said. “We also
asked the administrative council
members for suggestions concerning
the enforcement of the policies, or any
modifications needed. And what we
came up with was a designated smok
ing areas.
“We came up with that because we
feared visitors and donors involved in
the tobacco industry would be affected
by the ban. So we were trying to
accommodate them.”
The no-smoking ban is to prepare a
healthy environment for the students
as well as the employees, Bynum said.
Penalties will range from a warn
ing for a first infraction, to suspension
for repeated violations.
Bynum explained that one part of
the difficulty in coming up with pen
alties was that there were three differ
ent catgories of workers on this cam
pus.
To resolve this problem, the Uni
versity established that the penalties
for employees “will be based on the
personal conduct section of the State
Personnel Manual.
“Student violators will be governed
by the rules governing student behav
ior as outlined in the Student Hand-
txx)k.”
Bynum said she didn’t anticipate
problems in enforcing the ban, “be
cause whenever the need arises I can
resort to the state personnel manual,
which is constitutionally sound.
Students who see instructors smok
ing should “report them,” said Bynum,
“because we aren’t able to be every
where.”
Supervisors should also report
violators, Bynum added.
University officials decided to
implement the policy because smok
ing “is a health hazard for people who
do not smoke,” Bynum said. “Memoes
have been sent out to all faculty and
staff members about the ban.”
please see BAN p.9
ECSU takes a harder line on fighting,
vandalism and other rule violations
Elizabeth City State University
ECSU increased its main campus by more than a third with the purchase
of 38 acres adjoining the campus's southern boundary. The shaded
area marks the new land, which will “create new possibilities of creative
growth and development,” according to Chancellor Jenkins. The Uni
versity’s new $3 million dormitory will be built on the land, as will the new
$7 million Mass Communication and Fine Arts Building.
By Kimberley Robinson,
Rebecca Smithson
and Miracle Perry
The first week of school, an ECSU
football player threw a lx)ttle through
a window of Womack Hall men's
dorm..
As punishment the student not only
had to pay for the window, he was also
sent home for the semester.
The student learned the hard way
that as far as rules are concerned, the
University isn’t playing around.
“The University is enforcing more
rules than in the past,” said George T.
Mountain, ECSU’s Chief of Security.
Non-students used to have ready
access to the ECSU campus after the
security gate closed at 6 p.m., said
Mountain: however, currently oriy
students and individuals accompanied
by students are allowed on campus.
‘The officer on duty screens the
cars by stickers,” saidMyrtle Johnson,
of theECSU security department “TTie
sticker indicates to them that you are
a student
“The only exception to this is m the
case of parents,” Johnson continued.
“Parents must tell the officer where
they are going. Then they will be
admitted to pick up their child. No
other admittances are allowed.”
Johnson said the University plans
to log in and log out licence plates
numbers.
The University will also enforce
rules on fighting, according to Dr.
Leon White, Vice Chancellor for
Student Affairs.
“If you are found fighting, you go
home,” said White, “if you cannot
prove you are a victim.”
“We’re in arural area,” said White,
“and usually we don’t attract people
who are looking for trouble. The ma
jority of our students are for educa
tion, and do not fight.”
White said that in the past fights at
ECSU “have not t)een students, but
people coming from off campus. And
now that we are no longer allowing
off-campus students in our dances, we
have not had any fights this semes
ter.”
The University will also take a
harder line on vandalism, said Moun
tain, who cited as an example the
University’s “Crime Stoppers” pro
gram. The program offers a reward of
up to $200 for “information leading to
the apprehension and conviction of
any individual involved in the theft or
destruction of university property.”
Under the program, callers may
remain anonymous, and all informa
tion will be considered confidential.
ECSU students did approximately
$25,000 worth of damages to Wom
ack Hall last year, according to Roger
McLean, Vice Chancellor for Busi-
please see RULES p.9
Compass places first
in national contest
By Albert C.F. Woodley
For the third year in a row. The
Compass, ECSU’s student newspa
per, has won a first-place award in the
Columbia University Scholastic Press
Association Contest
The award, for issues published
during the spring semester of 1989,
was accompanied by a “college news
paper critique” in which judges pre
sented a detailed analysis of the stu
dent publication.
Judges in the national contest
praised The Compass “for doing a
good job in reporting on such issues
as the smoking ban and co-ed visita
tion rules, which were covered in an
objective, professional manner.”
“Your publication is filled with
lively, interesting stories presented in
a professional manner,” the judges
continued. “Many features hit the mark
quite well and paint a clear, meaning
ful and accurate picture of the profiled
subject.
“Excellent leadership has l>een
provided by the adviser and the edito-
please see AWARD p.9