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Vol. 69, No. 1 Circulation 2,200
Elizabeth City State University
Elizabeth City, North Carolina
October 9, 2003
Students search for parking and try to be on time to morning classes.
Damion O. Lewis
Parking problems plague campus
ECSU
ranked #1
Jamica Ashley
jamicaOl 17@hotmail.com
Staff Writer
Elizabeth City State Univer
sity ranks first in the U.S. News &
World Report survey in the category
of public comprehensive universities
in the South.
There are 324 schools ranked
in four geographic regions of the coun
try: North, South, Midwest and West.
Each region offers ten placement cat
egories for the schools.
The category of Pomprehensive
Colleges - Bachelor’s is designated
for those institutions that focus on
undergraduate education and offer
fewer than 50 percent of their degrees
in liberal arts.
Factors that contribute to a
school’s rank include, faculty re
sources, student selectivity, alumni
giving, and financial resources.
Following close behind ECSU
in the ranking is Winston-Salem State
University, with the University of South
Carolina in Aiken at #3, and West Vir
ginia University Institute of Technol
ogy at #4.
Mario Bradley
Venom36@collegeclub.com
and
Toby Tate
popgun62@yahoo.com
Staff Writters
As of Sept. 15, 936 student
vehicles at Elizabeth City State Uni
versity have received parking decals,
enabling these vehicles to be parked
on campus. An informal Compass
survey has determined that many
more students have yet to purchase
their parking decals. However, stu
dent parking will only accomodate
970 vehicles.
Mrs. Willa Lamb, the Com
muter Student Coordinator, addressed
some actions that were taken in at
tempts to correct the parking di
lemma.
Isabel
damages
ECSU
Susan Correll-Hankinson
sbcorrellhankinson@mail.ecsu.edu
Editor
Hurricane Isabel caused de
struction throughout the northeastern
region of North Carolina Thursday as
she made landfall on the Outer
Banks with sustained winds reach
ing as high as 85 miles per hour and
gusts in excess of 105 mph.
Isabel’s attack resulted in 3
deaths in North Carolina, thousands
of uprooted trees, suspended utility
service, structural damage to build
ings, flooding, and a staggering
amount of debris strewn across the
area.
Angelique Jones, of Edenton,
was killed as a tree crushed her car.
A utility worker from Newport and an
other motorist from Franklin County
were also killed.
Uprooted trees were the main
source of damage from the storm.
Friday morning Elizabeth City State
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Students speak out about
dorms that are too hot and
too cramped. Pg. 4
Lyceum
Series pre
sents Con
nection,
performing
various Jazz
ensembles.
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Channel 22 airs new
sports program Pg. 6
“The Commuter Club saw that
there was a parking problem and we
meet with Campus Police last fall
about problems with parking,” said
Lamb. She also mentioned that the
Office of Campus Police was commit
ted to begin work on parking expan
sions.
“They said they would expand
by Jenkins Hall, which they did. They
also expanded the parking spaces by
Lane Hall, “ said Lamb. “ However, the
Commuter Club was told they would
be expansions behind Griffin Hall,
McLendon Hall, and the Fine Arts
Complex.” Mrs. Lamb is uncertain if
all the space expansions have been
made yet.
“There are currently enough
spaces for everyone, but not always
where staff and students want them
to be,” said Mr. Gregory Magee, P.E.,
Director of Design and Construction
at ECSU. ” We try to provide parking
on campus for all of our needs.”
“There will be a total of about 140
new spaces before mid-semes
ter...100 additional spaces will be
added behind the infirmary, and 40
spaces will be added to the existing
lot behind the School of Education,”
he adds.
The new lots will be located to
ward the outer edge of campus, and
pedestrian traffic will be able to flow
easier from one place to the next via
new walkways.
According to the Office of Cam
pus Police, all students enrolled at this
university who own cars need parking
decals, a temporary parking permit,
or a visitor’s pass. Also, all vehicles
on campus must be registered with
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ECSU restructures
campus
Toby Tate
popgun62@yahoo.com
staff writer
The on going construction
throughout the ECSU campus, which
began in 2000 with the $3.1 billion
Higher Education Bond Referendum,
will continue with the facelift in an ef
fort to help increase enrollment to
3,000 by the year 2008.
The referendum, voted on in
November of 2000, brought $46 mil
lion of the $3.1 billion slated to North
Carolina’s community colleges and
universities, though an additional $50
million is needed for further construc
tion.
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University Drive the morning after Hurricane Isabel hit Elizabeth City.
Rich Harvey
First
Student
Body
meeting
proves
successful
DeTra Stith
depot9@hotmail.com
Copy Editor
The first Elizabeth City State
University Student Government Asso
ciation Body meeting of the 2003-
2004 school year was held on Tues
day, September 2, in Moore Hall. Be
fore the meeting began the DJ hyped
up the crowd with music from Nas and
Kelis, Busta Rhymes and Pharrell,
and Juelz Santana. At 2:30, the meet
ing began with the introduction of SGA
officers and representatives, while
“Step in the Name of Love,” by R. Kelly
Rich Harvey
Newly elected SGA officers: Shanyell Parker, James Futrell, Danielle Harrigan,
Damiyon Sledge, Linwood Creekmore, and Carl Seward.
played in the background. The order
of the introductions went as follows:
Willie Gilchrist, Mr. ECSU; Cleantha
Samuel, Miss ECSU; Shanyell
Parker, Attorney General; James
Futrell, Treasurer; Damiyon Sledge,
Corresponding Secretary; Danielle
Harrigan, Recording Secretary;
Linwood Creekmore, Vice President;
Carl Seward, President.
Seward greeted the crowd with
a welcome and introduced the cheer
leaders.
“Carl’s speech was very informa
tive because he addressed issues
about getting involved, and his presen
tation was very formal,” said Natasha
Yancey, a junior.
The cheerleaders performed two
routines, the first one was a cheer and
chant, and the second one was a cho
reographed routine to Sean Paul’s “Get
Busy.”
“The crowd seemed to respond
to us well, and they seemed excited,”
states Aletea Joosten, a member of
the cheerleading squad.
Once the cheerleaders cleared
the stage, the football team quickly
made their way to it, with Justin Ford,
and Carlos Smith commenting on the
way the football games will be played
this year.
“This year things are going to
be different,” said Ford, while his com
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The money is being used to
build a new University Bookstore, a
Student Center for study and recre
ation and a new Physical Education
facility, among other things.
Several buildings such as Will
iams Hall are also being renovated,
receiving new air conditioning sys
tems, electrical systems, bathrooms
and windows. There will also be new
dorms constructed, one featuring 4-
bedroom suites with a private bath.
According to Mr. Gregory H.
Magee, P.E., Director of Design and
Construction for ECSU, the renova-
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Making
college
count:
Freshmen
unleash inner
monsters
Destiny Edwards
dmedwards@mail.ecsu.edu
Staff Writer
Elizabeth City State University
students met in the Floyd L. Robinson
Auditorium on September 4 to attend
the Making College Counf Seminar as
a required part of their Freshman Semi
nar class.
Angela Ray, a University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill graduate and
a Mahogany Dime Productions rep
resentative, addressed the freshmen
at the seminar, which was subtitled
Unleash Your Inner Monster.
Ray defined the “inner monster”
as one’s potential to be a success
and she outlined various habits to
achieve success both in and out of
the classroom and on the job. She
also urged the students to join clubs
and other extracurricular activities, but
to make sure they find time to study.
“There are 168 hours in a week,”
Ray said.” The average college stu
dent takes eight classes.. .with an av
erage of two hours per class; that's
16 hours a week spent in class. Aver
age in another 16 hours for work, clubs
and other extracurricular activities.
Now, we’re going to assume that you
all get the full 8 hours a night [of sleep],
which is 56. Subtract all that from 168
and you get 80. That’s 80 hours a
week that you can use to study."
“It helped me a lot with manag
ing my time and academics and with
meeting new people,” Spanyelle
Hatch, a freshman Computer Science
major, said. She also found the semi
nar interesting and informative.
“The students were vivacious
and full of school pride. They re
sponded really well to my lecture,”
Ray said after the seminar ended.
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