The Compass Tuesday, March 29. 1994 7
The Compass wins
6th national award
photo by ]amie Jordan
At left, Dominick Allen, a sophomore and SGA Attorney General, speaks
during a February campus forum on "Interracial Relationships," while Leslie
Metzger, a senior history major, looks on. At the far right is Brandon Scott,
freshman class president, and, in the background Eric Walton, a senior history
major.The forum was sponsored by The Concerned Black Awareness Counsel.
ECSU's TV Station
to be broadcasting
by Spring, 1995
By Scott Lawrence
ECSU's new TV station will be
fully operational by spring of 1995,
according to Marsha McLean,
Interim Television Operations
Manager.
The station will be housed in the
Telecommunications Building be
hind Johnson Hall, McLean said.
The building is currently being
rennovated to accomodate the
station.
Initially, the station will broad
cast its programs from the
University’s radio tower, via a TV
antenna connected to the tower. The
station's initial range will be five to
seven miles, McLean said. Later on,
however, the University will hook
into Aldephia Cable, which will
extend the station’s range
throughout Northeastern North
Carolina.
University officials plan initial
programming to center around
educational programs and on-
campus athletic events, McLean
said.
The new station will also serve as
a laboratory for communication
majors interested in careers in
broadcast journalism, according to
Dr. Linda Callahan, Chairperson of
the Department of Language,
Literature & Communication. The
station will allow students to work
on programming, production and
on-air narration.
Callahan and McLean have
scheduled "a series of meetings" to
decide what new courses will be
added to the curriculum . for
communication majors.
The television station will be
eventually housed in the new Mass
Communication and Fine Arts
building, after the building is
completed, McLean said.
The University's first video
conference center is also expected to
be complete by spring, according to
McLean. The $300,000 center will be
set up on the second floor of the G.
R. Little Library.
This center will enable students to
take classes taught at other
campuses in the UNC-system.
Video conferences can also be
broadcast over the University's
television station, McLean said.
"The new TV station will be
invaluable to the University," said
McLean, "in expanding the horizon
for providing high quality education
through telecommunications."
The Compass, ECSU's student
newspaper, has received a first place
award from the Columbia Scholastic
Press Assocation (CSPA)for issues
published in 1993.
This is the fifth first-place award
the publication has won since 1987,
according to Stephen March, faculty
advisor for The Compass. Last year
The Compass won the pretigious
Medalist Award from CPA, with
972 out of a possible 1,000 points.
Judges in the national contest of
college newspapers evaluate student
publications on depth reporting,
fairness of news coverage,features,
editorials, lay-out, photography
design and overall style.
Judges praised The Compass for
style and content. In a critique
accompanying the award one judge
wrote of The Compass,
"You've got a lively looking and
reading newspaper. I get a real
sense of enthusiasm. Overall yours
is one of the more enjoyable papers
I've read this year. There's lots of
life and people in it."
To improve the publication judges
recommended recruiting more
student staff members to increase
the number of issues each semester
and expanding the coverage to
include more features "especially
about non-scholastic athletic
pursuits, such as faculty who run or
play tennis."
Judges also recommended
improvements in some stylistic
areas, March said.
The Compass received especially
high marks on features.
Your bodies rest across the world
Your souls are here today
And when I come to visit
you beg of me to stay.
You whisf>er peace. I’ve found at
last
In Youth I'll never leave.
Through your tired eyes read my
name.
Your aged heart doth grieve.
And though the writing tells of
those
Who gave beyond the call.
Too many still, have not read
The writing on The Wall.
Forty seven west, the fourteenth line
Your permanent engraved place.
Only shows your given name
entertainment coverage and
editorials, which judges said were
fair, suggested "possible alterna
tives to the problem" and avoided
personal attacks.
"We’re proud of this award," said
March." The staff and editors of
The Compass deserve a lot of credit
for their hard work and talent."
March said The Compass' six
CSPA awards really pay off when
former staff members go out into the
marketplace to get jobs.
"Employers see that the students
have worked on an award- winning
paper and they are impressed,"
March said. "This enhances the
students'credibility in the job
market."
March said former staff writers for
The Compass are working in nearly
all areas of communications,
including broadcast media, public
relations and print journalism.
"Many times former students
come back and say they got their
start on The Compass," March said.
"When I hear things like that, it
makes all the hard work
worthwhile."
The Compass is published by the
University's Department of Lan
guage, Literature & Communica
tion, Dr. Linda Florence Callahan,
Chair. March is an assistant profes
sor in the Department.
The Columbia Scholastic Press
Association, a department of
Columbia University in New York
City, has been evaluating student
publications since 1925.
But I can see your face
21 August of 68
Your smile heeded not the call.
For there today amidst the names
Your smile is on The Wall.
Too many days I reflect upon
The day you took your flight.
Too many nights I relive that day
I can't forget that sight.
And yet my eyes still see the past
Today on you they fall.
And in the future they will ever
Read the writing on "rhe Wall.
Samuel Shaw
(Dedicated to the memory of: Alfred
Bailey, Jr.)
Poetry
Writing On The Wall