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The Compass
March 2
AROUND THE REGION
Cervical health awareness month
Cory Alexander Hunt
cahunt@mail.ecsu.edu
Staff Writer
January was Cervical Health
Awareness Month, a national initia
tive to empower women across
the United States through health edu
cation and proper medical care.
Cervical cancer is one of the
most common forms of cancer world
wide and also one of the most treat
able. If detected and caught early,
cervical cancer is 100 percent cur
able. The American Cancer Society
estimates that 13,000 women Will be
diagnosed with cervical cancer this
year and almost 4,400 will die from
it.
The main focus of this national
health initiative is to increase Ameri
can women’s attention to early de
tection and health care.
Cervical cancer is a problem for
many women who either do not take
advantage of the procedures that de
tect it or do not have access to the
health care they need once the dis
ease is found.
“We don’t get our Pap Smears
like we should,” said Beverly Shan
non RN, an ECSU staff nurse.” Afri
can-American women are less likely
to get their yearly physicals.”
There are also many risk factors
for acquiring cen/ical cancer like smok
ing, never having had a Pap Smear,
having more than one sexual partner
or having human papilloma virus (geni
tal warts). The best way to detect the
cancerous cells is the Pap Smear,
which involves scraping cells from the
cervix. The cells are placed on a slide
and then checked for abnormalities.
The Pap Smear is the key to lower
mortality rates and low occurrences
of late stage cancer discoveries.
Cervical cancer affects all
ethnicities but it occurs more in Afri
can Americans, Latinas and Vietnam
ese. Also women who are uninsured
or under insured, like those in rural
areas, are at an extremely high risk
for acquiring this disease.
Last month the Elizabeth City
State University student services di
vision provided free Pap Smear tests
and cervical cancer education for the
female students on campus.
This was the first year that the
new staff participated in this obser
vance. “The goal of these monthly ob
servances is to increase health
awareness and promote (student)
wellness,” Shannon said. Students
were informed via the ECSU Website
and e-mail. When asked if the day
produced a large turnout Shannon
said, “We had a full day.”
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these,” said ECSU student, Andrew
Vinson.
As each person in the diverse
crowd that had assembled at City
Hall lent their voice in unison to sing
the anthem, it was truly clear the Dr.
King’s Dream, although it had not
come true, was much closer to real
ity today than it had ever been during
his lifetime.
“The idea of this event is to mo
tivate each of us to live as if Dr. King
would have wished for us to live, and
though we may not posses his tal
ents, we each have talents that can
be used in helping to make his dream
our reality,” says Dr. Glenda Griffin.
Programs
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a lot of priorities that have taken place
above us. They (Facilities Manage
ment) are getting things together and
I am hoping to have our facilities up
and running right away,” Talbert Gray,
W18BB-TV’s general manager, said.
The MBC programs include
“Gospel Video Countdown,” “Ameri
can Black Forum” and various sports
programs and also Historically Black
College and Universities (HBCU) bas
ketball and football games. The sta
tion currently airs programming from
Annenberg/CPB (Corporation for Pub
lic Broadcasting) in the mornings.
“These programs are all edu-
cation-based and vary in subject from
history to math to literature to the so
cial sciences and more,” said Ms.
Melba Brown, Television Services Co
ordinator. The programs will not fea
ture vulgarity, profanity or sexual situ
ations.
One new program in the line
up is “Karaoke Tyme” which will fea
ture people singing karaoke. “This will
give people a chance to come out and
show the public what they have,” Mr.
Greg Sampson, WVRS host of
“Karaoke Tyme.”
“Healthy Views,” the first new
original series of the station, will fea
ture health information including eat
ing right, exercising, healthy weight
loss and many other health-related
issues.
ECSU TV is working with a
local business. The Fitness Ware
house, and ECSU’s Wellness Cen
ter to make this program a success.
“Fitness is a different life
style. Make it your life-style,” Sam
Bloodworth, co-owner of The Fitness
Warehouse, said. He also wants
people to realize that consistency (in
fitness) is the key. The station hasn't
designated a host for the show.
Other planned shows will in
clude “The Chancellor’s Chair,” with
host Chancellor Mickey L. Burnim,
and “Academia Profiles.” The
Chancellor’s Chair will include discus-
sions about University issues.
“Academia Profiles” will highlight the
accomplishments of the ECSU fac
ulty and staff members. All programs
are slated to begin airing this month.
Vending Drugs
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“They (the students) just tell me
that they lost it (their money) and I
reimburse them,” Stokley said.
Pepsi is currently attempting to
create the same type of “slush fund”
so students will be able to quickly and
easily reclaim lost money from their
hiachines as well.
The ECSU campus has more
than fifty Pepsi and Lance vending
machines. Pepsi rents the drink ma
chines to the university and Lance pro
vides the snack machines.
“It’s a shame there are no Coke
products,” Mark McKinley said. Some
students believe having a variety of
products to choose from would bring
better service by putting two separate
vendors into competition for student
dollars.
Danny Stallings, who manages
the Pepsi machines on campus, said
that there have been two or three in
stances of vandalism, all occurring in
residence halls. The machines had
to be completely replaced, costing
$2500 a piece.
Stallings and Ms. Doraine
Spence, Director of Auxiliary Services,
say that the machines have become
jammed by the insertion of items other
than money into the money slots.
Stallings said bent coins, metal disks
(from an electrical box) and paper clips
have been "a big problem” by jamming
the machines and causing the next
user to lose his or her money.
The machines are serviced
weekly, which seems to fit most stu
dents’ needs. Some machines, such
as those in The Complex, run out more
quickly because there is much more
pedestrian traffic there.
“Two out of the four times I’ve
been there, the machines were empty,”
Jennifer Pride said.
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do with arrests on the ECSU cam
pus. The Clerk of Courts office pro
vided access to the name of the al
leged offender and the accompany
ing reports. Hudgins was unavailable
for comment.
The Compass was made aware
of the Mitchell-Lewis incident be
cause of a student complaint to a
Compass reporter that the police were
coming into the dorm late at night with
drug dogs and devices that detected
smoke. The student said that this
was an intrusion. Other students who
live in the dorm were asked about drug
dogs being brought into the dorms,
but have not corroborated this story.
“There were no dogs used in this
particular situation. We would not
bring in dogs without a good reason,”
Beamon said.
“We are not here to harass the
students. We just want to make ECSU
a safe place for the students,” Beamon
said. “If a law is broken in front of a cam
pus police officer it is his duty and re
sponsibility to arrest the persons in
volved.”
Another ECSU student who lived
in Bias Hall was arrested for the pos
session of a small amount of marijuana
and is facing charges through the
university’s student court.
“I’m sure most of the students
know that possession of marijuana is
illegal, but some students display an
attitude that suggests its [possession
of marijuana] is not a big deal,” Beamon
said.
Asked if he had a message for
the students on campus, Captain
Beamon said, “Marijuana is illegal; it is
an offense that we will make an arrest
for.”
Of the students and staff mem
bers surveyed 55 percent said that they
use or know someone who uses mari
juana and 26 percent know someone
on campus who sells drugs.
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