The Compass
Friday, May 9, 2003
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2003 HONDA
CAMPUS
ALL-STAR
CHALLENGE
Shannon Penn
Contributor
On March 27-31 Elizabeth City
State University was one of 64 Histori
cally Black Colleges and Universities
to compete in the National Champion
ship Tournament of the 2003 Honda
Campus All- Star Challenge (HCASC).
The event took place in Orlando,
Florida at the Hilton Walt Disney World
Resort.
The competition is a question and
answer game played between two
teams of four players each. Points are
scored by correctly answering two
types of questions asked by the Mod
erator, Toss-Ups and Bonuses. A player
must first correctly answer a Toss-Up
question in order to get the opportunity
to answer a bonus question. The Col
lege Bowl Company, Inc provides the
official answers for the competitions.
The field of 64 competitors was di
vided into eight divisions with each
named after a famous African Ameri
can. The Divisions were Scott Joplin,
Phyllis Wheatley, Alexander Crummell,
Mary Church Terrell, Benjamin
Banneker, Crispus Attucks, Madame
C.J. Walker, and Andrew “Rube” Fos
ter. Each team played every other team
in its division, and the two teams with
the best records from each division
advanced to the second round. The
competition continued in the traditional
one-game elimination tournament for
mat until the championship, which was
played the best two-out-of three wins.
Florida Agricultural and Mechanical
University defeated South Carolina
State University to capture its record
fifth HCASC championship.
The ECSU squad was comprised
of Kimberly Hoggard, Khory Perry, Sh
annon Penn, and Team Captian
Clayton Knight. They won four of its
seven games, defeating Bethane-
cookman College, Voorhees College,
Xavier University, and Talladega Col
lege giving the Vikings their best record
since 2000.
“I was very pleased with the team’s
performance. It was obvious to our op
ponents that ECSU was a strong com
petitor.” Said team coach, Mr. Derrick
Wilkins. “Although we would have en
joyed winning the championship,
watching the team represent ECSU in
such a positive manner allowed me to
see we had a team of champions.”
With its current players eligible to
compete next year, ECSU looks to im
prove on its record and return to the
dominant form it displayed in the past.
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Campus News
STUDENTS BREAKFAST
WITH THE DEANS
Maishia Parrish
Staff Reporter
Elizabeth City State University Breakfast With the Deans Program held
its second annual gathering. Both faculty and students knew what they were
walking into, students with questions and concerns and faculty members
with answers.
The event was hosted by Ms. Willa Lamb the Commuter Service Coordi
nator. The breakfast forum began at 8:00 am and ended at 9:30 in the Blue
room of the Ridley University Center. The Commuter Student Program fos
ters to the students who live off campus. This event was open to all students
with questions, concerns, or those interested in getting to know their advi
sors.
The purpose of the breakfast forum was to establish better communica
tion between the students and faculty. Students were encouraged to come
with personnel concerns and questions. The setting was informal so that
students and faculty would feel more comfortable.
Students representing several different majors attended the forum. There
was representation from advisors from the School of Arts and Humanities
and the School of Education and Psychology.
Teresa Bridgers, a senior at Elizabeth City State University, voiced her
concerns on behalf of some of her fellow classmates. She talked about how
students are having problems with advisors and said she was happy to find
out about the breakfast forum. “Some students are intimidated by some of
their advisors,” said Bridgers. “This forum allows students to address prob
lems in a different setting, but a comfortable one,” she added.
Associate Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs, Bonita Ewers, and other
students discussed the possibility of getting a mentor program. The key fac
tors in this program would be the upper-class men who would carry a role as
a mentor to a freshman; some students feel it would be a good idea for the
freshman. “If not the mentor program maybe a forum with upper-class stu
dents to interact with freshman,” said Bridgers, who was very interested in
improving communication between students and faculty.
Acting dean of Education and Psychology, Dr. Claudie J. Mackey, and
Dean of the School of Arts and Humanities, Dr. Jose Gil, were two advisors
who attended the forum. “I always receive students, I have an open door
policy. Students can always come to me and get feedback,” said Dr. Gil.
Senior Shanyell Parker, a junior, attended the breakfast forum. Parker
said she thought the breakfast forum was a great program, “It should expand
and have more students and faculty but it should be publicized more and
more representatives from every department.”
“The students enjoyed the setting last year,” said Ms. Lamb, “The deans
like to intermingle with the students and we got a lot of positive feedback.”
Ms. Lamb plans on continuing the program and hopes that the deans and the
students continue to participate in an event she says is very needed. “In the
future we look forward to more attendance and we need to make certain
there’s a cohesive connection between students and academic family.”
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ECSU IS TOM
JOYNER
SCHOOL OF
THE MONTH
Office of University Relations
and Marketing
Chancellor Mickey L. Burnim is
pleased to announce that Elizabeth
City State University will be a Tom
Joyner Foundation School of the
Month in June 2003. The Tom Joyner
Foundation Scholarship Fund for His
torically Black Colleges and Univer
sities is a very successful program
that has yielded millions of dollars for
selected HBCUs. Since its inception
in 1998, approximately 50 HBCUs
have been selected as schools of the
month. All of the funds (100%) re
ceived on behalf of the selected in
stitutions are given to that institution.
ECSU Institutional Advance
ment will lead the effort to raise funds
along with the Tom Joyner Founda
tion now through June 2003. During
the month of June, The Tom Joyner
Morning Show, a nationally-syndi-
cated radio show, will feature ECSU.
The Tom Joyner Show airs Monday
through Friday mornings on syndi
cated radio stations. In the Hampton
Roads/Elizabeth City area, the show
is aired on 105.3 FM, between 5 a.m
and 9 a.m., M-F
As part of the Tom Joyner Morn
ing Show, special live broadcasts
called The Tom Joyner Sky Shows
are aired on selected Friday’s dur
ing a given month.The Sky Shows
include entertainment along with all
of Tom Joyner’s regular programs.
Thousands of fans attend these
shows, often times standing in line
for hours ahead of show time. The
locations of the sky shows are tied
in with large-scale community or re
gional events. The regular radio
shows and the live sky shows for the
entire month of June 2003 will fea
ture ECSU.
The Tom Joyner Sky Shows
scheduled on Fridays in June 2003
are:
6/13 Houston, TX (as part of the
Juneteenth celebration)
6/20 Charlotte, NC (as part of the
Queen City RMB Festival)
6/27 Chicago, IL (as part of the
“Taste of Chicago” Festival)
More information will be pro
vided as it becomes available. The
ECSU contact is LaTanya Afolayan,
Director of Major and Planned Gifts
in the office of Institutional Advance
ment, ldafolayan@mail.ecsu.edu,
335-3966.
www.ecsu.edu
NEW DORMS TO BE ERECTED ON CAMPUS
Jamal Williams
Staff Reporter
Housing arrangements
have changed for the 2003 fall se
mester due to the building of the
new residence hall. On March 4,
Elizabeth City State University
held its groundbreaking ceremony
for its new residence hall. This
progress for the university comes
with sacrifice for some students.
The changes, starting next
fall, are as follows: the New
Women’s Dorm located in the
back of the campus will be an all
girl freshman dorm, Mitchell Lewis
Hall and Bias Hall will be co-ed and
house as many as three students
to a room, Butler Hall will remain co
ed, and Doles Hall along with Hugh
Cale Hall will remain female dorms.
Housing for the Complex will remain
the same.
Although these are major
changes, many students are not
completely aware of what is going
on. Shkia Grant, an ECSU junior,
was not aware of the housing
changes, until I spoke to her about
them. “I really didn’t know anything
about this,” she said. Shkia is not
the only student left in the dark about
the changes.
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As well as not knowing about
the housing changes, many stu
dents do not agree with these
changes. They feel that housing
should just wait until the building is
complete. Ja’tamme Jones, an
ECSU junior, feels that making up
perclassmen females stay in
Mitchell Lewis Hall or even Bias Hall
is unfair. “Mitchell Lewis is nasty
and they should not make girls stay
in there, and Bias is for freshmen
girls, why would they give the New
Dorm to freshmen?”
In a meeting held in New
Dorm, Mr. Boyd, the head of hous
ing, discussed his reason for plac
ing the new freshmen females into
New Dorm. “We want our new fresh
man to start off with a good experi
ence,” said Boyd.
The new resident hall will be
built where the campus bookstore
used to be. The building will be three-
stories and contain 55,000 square
feet. It will include two, four, and
six person suites with a total ca
pacity for 198 students. The
building was designed by the Clark
Nexsen Architecture & Engineer
ing of Norfolk, Virginia, and will be
constructed by McKenzie Con
struction Company of Elizabeth
City.