The Compass Monday, April 23,2001 9
Student Health Services Has New Doctor
Cylea Seabrook
Contributor
There is a new on-campus physician.
With over eight years of experience
in the medical field. Dr. Barber, a na
tive of Trenton, North Carolina, is ful
filling his dream by becoming a uni
versity doctor.
Though he presently resides in
Durham, North Carolina, Dr. Barber
will be working at the University in
Student Health Services on Mondays
from 1:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m., Tues
days from 8:00 a.m. until 8:00 p.m. and
Wednesdays from 8:00 a.m. until 12:00
p.m.
Barber says that while working in
health services, he plans to transform
the infirmary to an advanced medical
center so that students will not have to
leave campus for medical assistance.
Barber works with various pharmaceu
tical companies so he can provide in
expensive medicine for patients.
He also plans to up-grade the cur
rent laboratory, be able to draw blood
and hopefully acquire an electrocar
diogram machine, which is a non
invasive test that records the electrical
activity of the heart.
His advice to students is to exercise:
"Not only is it good for the body, but
for the mind because it relieves stress,"
he says smiling. Dr. Barber expressed
that he feels welcomed and very at
home with the help of faculty, staff and
students.
He is a graduate of the University of
North Carolina School of Medicine
where he obtained a degree in biolog
and graduated Sununa Cum Laude.
He currently operates his own weight
loss center in Hillsbourgh.
TfrBarber
Photo by Inger Parker
Guide to Happiness During Your College Years
Lost in the current obsession to get
into the best university is something
most adults readily admit, at least in
hindsight: It doesn't matter so much
where you go to college, but what you
make of the experience.
So how to make the most of it?
It turns out there are a whole range
of concrete ways students can improve
their experience," said Professor Light
who teaches at the John F. Kennedy
School of Governement at Harvard.
1. Meet the faculty. Your job is to get
to know one faculty member reason
ably well and get the faculty member
to know you reasonably well. If you
do nothing else do that. On the most
opportunistic level this means that at
the end of four years -two semesters
each-the student has eight professors
to write recommendations for jobs or
for graduate school. But more impor
tant, the relationship makes a student
feel more connected to the institution.
2. Take a mix of courses. Nearly with
out exception, the students in the study
who were struggling were taking noth
ing but large introductory courses that
were needed to complete their degree.
The trouble is introductory courses
range across so much material they of
ten fail to offer students anything to
sink their teeth into. So when it comes
time to choose a major, students don't
know what really interests them.
3. Study in groups. Students who
studeid on their own and then dis
cussed the work in groups of four for
just once a week, understood material
better and felt more engaged with their
classes.
4. Write, write, write. Choose courses
with many short papers instead of one
or two long ones. This means addi
tional work-more than 12 hours a week
versus fewer than 9 or about 40 per
cent more time-but it also improves
grades. And the more writing, the bet
ter.
5. Speak another language. Foreign
language courses are the best-kept se
cret on campus. Many students arrive
with enough skills to test out of a
college's language requirement. In
short, foreign language courses com
bine all the elements that lead to more
learning and more engagement.
6. Consider time. Students reported
that they did not succeed when they
studeid the way they had in high
school, squeezing in 25 minutes in a
study hall, 35 minutes after sports prac
tice and 45 minutes after dinner. Grades
and understanding improved when
they set aside an uninterrupted stretch
of a few hours.
7. Hold the drum. Students often
ummer Safety Tips You Should Kno
Heather Malone
1. Wear sun block to avoid sunburn.
The sun damages the skin cells and
can cause skin cancer.
2. Wear sunglasses. Your eyeballs can
get sunburned too. Light colored eyes
are more susceptible to sun damage.
3. Drink plenty of water to stay hy
drated. Soda and some teas contain
caffeine, which dehydrates the body.
Step into some shade or go in
doors. This helps to prevent sun burn
and J\e^t stf9k9., , , c ) i '. l ; i j 13
5. If you're drinking alcohol, stay out
of the hot sun. Alcohol dehydrates the
body and staying in the sun dehydrates
the body even more.
L. 6. Never drink alcohol then swim or
13
drive a boat.
7. Never swim alone. If you get a
cramp, or get into trouble, nobody
will be there to help you out of the
water.
8. If you're driving, don't speed to
get where you want to go, and stop
frequently to stay fresh and stretch.
If you start to get tired, STOP! Rest
for the remainder of the day, then
start again the next day.
9. Do all of your strenuous activity
durpg t^^ C90I parts of th^^day,
in the early morning or during the
evening.
10. If you're playing sports, be sure
to wear the proper safety equipment,
and drink plenty of fluids.
flounder in college because they do
not have the same social or family sup
port network they had at home. Those
who get involved in outside activities
even ones not aimed at padding a re
sume or graduate school application
are happiest. Joining a band for ex
ample can get one involved in pep ral
lies and football games and introduced
them to a diverse range of students.
What goes on in situations outside
of class is just as important and in some
situations, it turns out to be a bigger
deal than what happens in class. Very
often an experience outside of class can
have a profound effect on the courses
students choose and even what they
want to do with their lives. So students
make a concious effort to make the most
of your entire college experience.
Information for this article was ob
tained from the Harvard Guide to Hap
piness from the New York Times.
New Fitness Center Open
in Elizabeth City
Brian Gray
bgray21@hotmaiI.com
The Fitness Warehouse is a new gym
located in downtown Elizabeth City
that provides the most current work
out equipment and competitive single,
familiy, stvident and corporate men.-
bership and rates.
Tlie thew, gvfn bffers aerobics, ster;
1 ,t (f t ) T u ),), vf.f I j y
ODics, yoga and kickboxing class
and Stairmaster are all synonymous
with quality.
The Fitness Warehouse is co-owned
and managed by thn
members: Sam Blood-
Markham and ECSU
Owens. The gym has :
staff of 13, including w, :
aeroDics, yoga ana KicKDc^xin'g^classe.: ^' fes^onal bodybuilder.
In addition, there are also powerlifting The Warehouse ope.
sessions offered. Equipment such as
Hammerstrength, Lifefitness, Cybex
a.m. to bp.m
and closes at 9:30 p.m. N .
Friday, and is open on S?
■immunity
' Donnie
L^nt, Bean
■; dgeable
;edpro-
' O'ee ’'
5:30 a.m.
lay tlirough
rdav from 8