October 17, 1991
THE COMPASS
continued from p.l
I nation ball, the parade, the step
£ or any other Homecoming ac-
.. said Rodney Robinson, an
'P’ of ECSU and member of the
! Council, “especially since
W Centennial celebration.”
[jfcOpreseniedaUstoffivede-
ds *at the Greeks wanted ad-
ced before they would agree to
Ion campus.Thedemandswerei^a
«isionoftherulesconcemmgGreeks
W off campus activiues(accord-
«fto the 1991-92 ECSU Student
jubook, Greek organizauons can-
H cnonsor off campus activities
^approval from Studenl Af-
lit)- better dance dates for renting
Hall for Greeks—allowing
Lg fraternity and sorority mem-
aLto the dance without paying;
'iifiration of the Greek plots on
.pus that were destroyed m 1979;
redistribution of funds profited
'>kihe step show.
two Pan Hellenic Councils
aiijjjd to address those issues in
'Hlher meeting on Tuesday Oct. 15
Student Affairs and SGA.
meeting got off to a rough start
“jtri a representative from Omega
jPhiFratemity insisted that all non-
• sks present should wait outside
t ^ (),5 two Pan Hellenic Councils
pedtheir differences. However this
waved aside, and once the meet-
" fgotunder way, the different groups
" y discussing ways to restore
i^rowding
continued from p.l
' Istudents also say that tensions and
(I’dflicts are heightened when they
to share cramped quarters.
“We can’t work together if every-
^;is not considerate of the others,”
yd one student, who shares a room
ih two others. “And that leads to
Iisiration and violence.”
: The new dormitory will be built on
{: 38-acre tract on Weeksville Road
gf University purchased last year,
IcLeansaid.The four-story,400,000
laris-foot dormitory will house 200
Jehis.
\ward
: continued from p.l
“It’s always a pleasure to see that
Kofpraise for something you work
Homecoming.
By the end of the emotional meet
ing which saw a number of near alter
cations as well as one Greek walking
out, it was decided that the coronation
will take place in Vaughan Center at
7pm and would be followed by the
step show at 11pm. After the step
show there will be a predawn dance in
Williams Hall that will last until Sam.
The cost for the step show and dance
is S7.00. The profits from the two
events will be split in half by SGA and
the Greeks. A defeated SGA also
agreed to allow free tickets for the
first 30 visiting fraternity and sorority
members of each organization and all
others after that will get in for S3.00.
No deals were cut for non-Greeks.
In addition to the profit sharing and
entry discounts for visiting members,
the Greeks were also promised a
reevaluation of the rules concerning
off campus activities and a sum of
$186 toward for the restoration of
each organizations plots that the
Greeks say were valued in excess of
S5,000 when they were destroyed in
1979.
The Greeks agreed to participate as
planned on Friday night under the
understanding that Dr. White will
provide them with a written and signed
statement on Monday for all of the
promises made.
Also remaining on the schedule for
Homecoming 1991 is a toga and pa
jama party in Williams Hall tonight at
10pm, the game between ECSU and
Bowie State at 2pm on Saturday and
the Homecoming concert on Saturday
night which will feature Shabba Ranks,
Tony Terry and Ex-Girlfriend.
hard on and have a passion for,” said
senior Mark Morris, an English/News
Media major and co-editor of The
Compass, “but the best thing about
receiving our fourth award is it lets us
feel secure in the fact that we’re doing
our job.”
Senior Craig Avondo, a Computer
Science major and co-editor for the
paper added, ’The awards are worth
-all the hard work and long hours, but
we can’t stop now for anything less
than first place is a step backwards ”
T0 improve the publication, judges
recommended more frequent issues,
greater stylistic consistency, more in-
depth hard news stories, more use of
original graphics, and less “posed”
photographs.T/ze Compass is pub
lished by the University’s Department
of Language, Literature and Commu
nication, Dr. Anne Henderson Chair
person. Stephen March serves as the
publication’s faculty advisor.
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Nikki Etheridge and several other Vikinqfanstriedtobeat the heat hiding under anumbrella as theywatched the rival game between ECSU and
Norfolk State Sept. 28 at Foreman Field in Norfolk, Va.
NCATF.
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takers who received their education
training at ECSU.
ECSU ’ s education department has
uied to solve the problem of unpre
pared students taking the NTE by
screening students before they are
allowed to take the professional knowl
edge portion of the test, to be be
administered Oct. 26.
“We U'y to control as best we can
those who we feel are ready to take the
NTE,” said Hedgebeth “We recom
mend those who we think are ready
because their performance is accred
ited to us.”
Not all education majors are
pleased with this practice. Some stu
dents who have failed the department’s
initial screening test have gone to Old
Dominion University to taketheNTE.
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“It frustrates me to go here four
years and then be turned down for
taking the test,” said one ECSU edu
cation major, after the education de
partment refused to issue him a book
let containing the application for the
test.
At least two other schools in the
UNC System also screen students for
the NTE—Winston Salem State Uni
versity and Fayetteville State Univer
sity.
“We make an effort to prepare
students for the NTE,” said Lelia L.
Vickers, Division Director of Educa
tion at Winston-Salem State.
Vickers said students are given “a
pre-test,” prior to taking the profes
sional knowledge section of the test.
If students do not pass this lest, they
are placed in a curriculum review
course, which they must successfully
pass before being recommended to
take the NTE, Vickers said.
At Fayetteville State University,
Dr. Clarence White, Coordinator of
Testing for the School of Education,
said, “We give booklets (which con
tain applications to take the test) only
to those students who meet the cut-off
for the NTE screening test; the others
have to get them on their own.”
The NTE is divided into four sec
tions; batteries one and two deal with
general knowledge and communica
tion skills; battery three measures
professional knowledge; and a fourth
section measures the specialty area.
The requirements of core batteries
one and two must be met before a
student is eligible to take the profes
sional knowledge and specialty area,
according to the University’s Hand
book for Teacher Education. ,
Parts one and two are administered
to sophomores who want to enter the
education curriculum. Students must
pass the professional knowledge sec
tion before they are allowed to begin
student teaching.
ECSU’s score on the general
knowledge portion of the NTE has
fluctuated between 79.2% and 89.8%
from 1986 to 1990; scores on the
communication section have dipped
below 70% twice in the same period,
according to Murray.
The N.C. State Legislature has
established four criteria for NCATE
accreditation: a 70% pass rate on all
sections of the NTE, state approval of
all programs, certifications of a fac
ulty’s teaching methods, and a 95%
success rate in the initial certification
program or ICP. The legislature took
this action following recommenda
tions from the 1985 Task Force on
Teacher Education, formed by Gov
ernor Jim Hunt.
Murray said that the State Board of
Education has not yetdecided whether
a teaching program must pass each
category, or whether approval will
hinge on a “holistic overview,” add
ing that “this is still in debate.”
The University began working on
NCATE accreditation last year. An
NCATE team visited the campus Oct.
14 through Oct. 15 to make recom
mendations in preparation for the
official visit in the fall of 1992.
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