The Compass
Monday, November 25, 2002 6
( MORE COLLEGE NEWS )
TELEVISION SERVICES ECSU’S BASEBALL TEAM:
HELPS REACH THE PUBLIC ARE THEY THE BEST?
KerryAnn Cummings
klc90@hotmail.com
At Elizabeth City State Univer
sity, there are many ways of spread
ing information throughout the cam
pus and the community. The Depart
ment of Television Services, run by
Elvin Jenkins, the Interim General
Manager, and Melba Brown the
director, is one of the many ways of
spreading Information. The office
hours are Monday through Friday
8:30 a.m. until 6:00 p.m. and on the
weekend hours vary.
The interest in Mass Communi
cation on the campus of ECSU is
growing, with the establishment of a
new Mass Communication degree in
the Department of Language Litera
ture and Communication that began
this fall. The Television Services is
necessary to complement the needs
of students seeking more and better
knowledge of the field of communica
tion and a job in either television or
radio.
The new program includes
classes where students learn about
the theory of mass communication
and then apply that knowledge in
Television Production.
“ECSU channel 22 is a very vital
tool for both the University and
Pasquotank county communities,”
stated Melba Brown.
Television Services is respon
sible for the operation of cable chan
nels 18 and 22. The station is not
broadcasting original programming:
however, that is in the making. Chan
nel 22 is vital because it dissemi
nates important events and other
activities throughout the Elizabeth
City community. ECSU also uses the
station to recruit students and its
image.
Television Service functions
under the Department of University
Relations, which is responsible for
the marketing and promoting the
university.
“The Department of Television
Services assures that all of its pro
gramming is of moral standing and
educational value,” says Brown.
The department’s objectives will
help create quality programming for
ECSU channels 18/22 while also
increasing and maintaining school
morale. It also provides a network of
media industry contacts for students.
For more information about Television
contact Ms. Brown at (252) 335-
3985.
Jason Mitchell
jymitchell @ hotmail.com
Is the baseball team the best
athletic team at Elizabeth City
State University? Pitcher James
Gentry believes so.
“ECSU baseball team feels we
are the best squad on the yard.
We don’t feel we get the respect
we deserve, but we definitely feel
we are the best squad on the
yard,” said Gentry.
Sports fans believe that truth is
In the statistics.
Last season the baseball team
was 12-4 in the conference and
19-14 overall winning the CIAA
conference championship.
Does truth also lie in the bat?
Head Coach Terrance Whittle
does not plan on falling off from
truth and recruiting two heavy
hitters, Brian Boles and Deron
Chase.
“I’m extremely confident. I
know I put the work in and as a
team we put in the work so that we
can produce a winning team and a
winning ball club and get to the
level they were as last year and
advance further than that,” said
Boles, a Junior College transfer
from Chesapeake College in
Maryland.
Boles feels he is adapting
well to the ECSU program by .
being around older players who
have shown him the ropes.
Chase transferred from
Wilkes Community College. He
said that the transfer process was
difficult and made him have to
earn his spot and make a name
for himself. Chase spends many
hours working out in the pre
season to get prepared for the
regular season.
“My view is the season never
ends. Throughout the entire year I
go at it hard; I never stop trying to
better myself no matter what it
looks like outside or what day it is.
I’m always trying to better myself,”
said Chase.
This is the attitude ECSU’s
baseball team must possess if
they plan to be back-to-back
conference champions. James
Gentry, Brian Boles and Deron
Chase all hope to one day be
professional baseball players.
IMPROVED ECSU RECORDING STUDIO OPENS
Toby Tate
tobvnlaura@inteliport.com
The new state-of-the-art Eliza
beth City State University recording
studio, operated by Professor Tho
mas R. Harrison and located on the
2nd floor of the Fine Arts building, is
now open for business.
In a recent interview in the Fine
Arts Complex, Professor Harrison
share details about the studio, his
move from Los Angeles and how he
became an ECSU faculty member
five years ago.
Working with a multi-platinum
selling record producer is the stuff of
dreams for most musicians. For
Thomas Harrison, professor of Music
Engineering Technology, it was a
dream come true.
As a teenager in Colorado,
Harrison played guitar in a local
band, a band soon to be discovered
by producer Jeff Workman while
recording a demo in a local studio.
Workman, producer for such bands
as Queen, Motley Crue and Journey,
was a major influence in Harrison’s
life as a budding engineer.
Harrison soon found himself
going to college at the Denver School
of music and majoring in commercial
music. His main instrument was
guitar.
“My goal was to be a guitar
player,” says Harrison, “and when I
graduated from college, that’s exactly
what I was, a guitar player.”
One week after graduation, he
moved to L. A. and joined another
band. When the band eventually
ended up in a studio, Harrison found
himself more and more interested in
what was going on behind the studio
console, not just in front of the micro
phone. He decided to make his
interest known to the engineer, and
wound up as a second engineer.
“Second engineer basically
involves making coffee, going for
Chinese food and setting up micro
phones,” Harrison says with amuse
ment. After Greg DeAngelo, of the
80’s rock group White Lion, built a
studio in his backyard, Mr. Harrison
found himself working with such
famous engineers as Michael
Wagner as well as big name artists
such as Metallica and Ted Nugent.
And if there wasn’t enough
already on his plate, Harrison de
cided it was time to go to graduate
school at Cal Tech from which he
received his teaching certificate.
Afterward, he began teaching high
school music. While teaching, Mr.
Harrison wanted to keep his foot in
the door of the recording studio, so
he worked nights and weekends as
a record producer.
Thumbing through a trade
journal for college professors, the
Chronicle of Higher Education,
Harrison saw ads for professorships
at various universities, and on a
whim began applying, not knowing it
would actually land him a job.
“I was just doing it for the prac
tice,” he says.
One of these jobs was for
Elizabeth City State University. That
was in 1997. The rest is history.
“This job is the perfect mix of
two loves; teaching and engineer
ing,” says Harrison. But there is also
the requisite paperwork and equip
ment maintenance “but you have to
take the good with the bad,” he
says.
The ECSU studio, by Professor
Harrison, is equipped with the latest
state-of-the art technology, such as
computer-controlled hard disc
recorders, and has a large recording
room with an isolation booth for
vocals or solo instruments. It even
features remote access recording
from the university auditorium.
Harrison and his students record
school projects and commercials.
For students entering the music
program, Harrison emphasizes
ability.
“You need to be more than a
singer in the church choir if you want
to enter the music program,” he
says.
He says it also involves being
knowledgeable in music theory. In
the case of guitar players, he says
they need to know chord structure.
What happens once you are in
the program? Professor Harrison
says, “You can’t just go do your
homework and shut the book. You do
the same homework on Tuesday you
did on Monday. You have to practice
every day. You never finish.” '
It may all sound daunting, but
Harrison says, “It is hard work, but
it’s also fun!’
Though small, the program, is
improving every year.
“We have decided as a group [of
faculty members], that we are not
going to sacrifice quality just to make
the program bigger. We would rather ^
be small and good than big and
mediocre”.
Any advice from Professor
Harrison to potential students? “You
have to be a special kind of crazy
person to major in music.”
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PROCEEDING IN SXUDENX COU RT
Antoine Rascoe
Dr. Anthony Brown’s office is one
with great space and looks out onto
Weeksville road. This day, his phone
rings and he quietly excuses himself
from the topic at hand in order to take
the call. After he finishes continues with
the conversation.
Dr. Anthony Brown is the Interim
Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs and he
begins most of his days dealing with
student judiciary affairs.
Brown says that peer court is
important because it allows students to
assume roles of leadership.
“Peer court is really all about stu
dents being able to make decisions
based on logic and judicial principles.
Students come on campus and they may
not have learned how to deal with other
students,” says Brown.
About six percent of students the
university’s students experience disci
plinary action. The number has de
creased over the last three years. The
student judiciary system is made up of
an Attorney General, who is elected by
the students; the Attorney General picks
a Chief Justice and two students from
each class, who make up the rest of the
panel. There is a particularly court for
every situation all in which involves
students.
“Most students do not know about
the student judiciary system because
no one informs the students about it,”
said Lotitia Tann, a junior psychology
major.
A lot of students on campus know
nothing about the judiciary system
unless they have experienced it for
themselves. Most students feel that the
peer system is a great idea.
‘Talking to your peers makes you
feel calmer and relaxed at the thought
that your peers may be able to relate to
you more than those that are not of the
same age,” said Tann.
Some students who may not have
learned how to deal with and resolve
conflicts with other students now have a
shared responsibility with faculty and other
students as a result of serving on the
court.
“Student courts should be a final j
alternative if the student cannot resolve
their own grievances,” says Brown.
The Office of Student Affairs is of the
opinion the key function of the court is to
help students interact and resolve non-
academic problems.
“Peer court is a community. It is a
way to help the community learn and grow
at the same time,” said Brown.