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Vol. 70, No. 6
May 2005
Elizabeth City, N.C.
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New textbook marketed to collies nationwide
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first ever CIAA
baseball
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Royalties will go
to Memorial Fund
By Toby Tate
Editor- in-Chief
A new World Civilization book,
combining critical thinking with
historical documents, will be
added to Elizabeth City State
University’s curriculum for GE
140 and 141 starting in the fall
semester.
The 200 page textbook, titled
“The Razor’s Edge; Sharp
Thinking in World History,”
written by Dr. Glen Bowman,
associate professor of history and
coordinator of World
Bowman
Civilizations,
will be
published
this summer
and
marketed to
universities
nationwide.
“It’s
different
than most
readers,” Bowman said. “There
are other books that have
documents, but not many that
emphasize critical thinking. It
also helps answer questions like
what is justice, what is goodness.
Apartheid, marriage, etc.”
The questions the book asks will
be answered using documents
from different cultures all around
the world, such as the Middle
East, Asia and Africa.
“The questions will all be
answered with historical
documents and look at a couple
of different views for each
question,” Bowman said.
The marriage chapter will
include something from the
Koran as well as from
Communist Chinese philosophy,
making comparisons of different
culture’s answers to the same
question.
The book will be available
nationally for purchase this
summer, and will be published
by Kendall-Hunt Publishing, a
publishing house that focuses
See Book on page 2
The colorful cover
of “The Razor’s
Edge: Sharp
Thinking in World
History ”
gives a hint of the
colorful content
inside.
Cover courtesy
Kendall-Hunt
Publishing
All-star
challenge
team
makes
final four
ECSU places 3rd
outof64HBCU’s
By Kim Lilly
Staff Writer ,
During the week of Marph 31-
April 4, 2005, the ECSU Honda
Campus All-Star Challenge team
made it to the final four in the
le'" HCASC National
Championship Tournament held
in Orlando, FL. According to its
u
The national
tournament was
a great
opportunity for
us to represent
our institution.
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website the Honda Campus All-
Star Challenge is a question and
answer game played between
two teams of four players each.
A team may play with no fewer
than three players and a team of
three may be completed to four
players between halves.
The types of questions include
Toss-Ups, worth 10 points each,
and Bonuses, worth a stated
number of points, from 20 to 30
each. Teams must correctly
answer a Toss-Up in order to be
given a chance at a Bonus. Points
in the game are scored by
correctly answering the
questions asked by the
See All-Star on page 2
Painting the Big Picture
Dr Tunde Afolayan lends a hand to 9-year-old Sheep Harney student Alicia Alcantar.
Photo by Toby Tate
Artist teaches good citizenship
Local kids leam how
government works
By Toby Tate
Editor-in-Chief
Seen in The Daily Advance 4/27/05
Teaching kids to see the big
picture is what Tunde Afolayan,
executive director of Artszone,
hopes to accomplish with the
new mural project painted by 4"’
and 5"' grade Sheep Harney
Elementary School students in
the school’s science center.
The eight foot by twelve foot
mural took two weeks to paint
and was finished on Thursday
and presented to the school on
Friday, April 22, with the school
board, parents and the media
present. The painting will be
installed in the school’s media
center.
Tunde, a local artist and adjunct
professor at Elizabeth City State
University, says the mural will
help students illustrate the role
of citizens in their local, state
and national govenmient.
“The mural portrays their own
ideas about government,”
Afolayan said. “A lot of the ideas
will use Elizabeth City as a
backdrop. They are learning how
to be good citizens.”
Before beginning the mural, the
children had a chance to visit the
municipal building, where
Mayor Bell presented them with
literature concerning the
different roles of government in
America. Afterwards, the
students also visited the
courthouse.
The mural was part of two-week
model arts residency designed to
infuse art into curriculum
contests in Social Studies,
Language Arts, Reading and the
Arts. The painting focuses on the
concept of patriotism through
See Mural on page 2
ECSU
crowns
new king,
queen
Gist, Ricks elected as
school representatives
By Carla Layton
Staff Writer
The new faces representing
Elizabeth City State University
graced the ECSU campus on
Friday, April 15 at the SGA Gala
held in Bedell Cafeteria when
Mr. Jedadiah U. Gist and Miss
Carleta Ricks, both rising
seniors, were officially crowned
Mr. and Miss Elizabeth City
State University.
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I feel like I
worked hard and
that my efforts
showed. Being
chosen by my
peers says a lot.
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“I was shocked because I didn’t
win Mr. Popularity or Mr.
Photogenic. So I didn’t think my
chances were high,” said Gist.
Having become Mr. and Miss
ECSU, Gist and Ricks take on
the responsibilities of serving as
assistants to one another,
attending workshops, as well as
school related programs, and
serving as ambassadors of the
university.
“I was very excited, I feel like I
worked hard and that my efforts
showed. Being chosen by my
peers says a lot,” said Ricks.
Contestants competed in the Mr.
and Miss ECSU Pageant, held on
See Crown on page 2
Davis’ Golf Classic helps put spotlight on ECSU Foundation
Chancellor M ickey
Burnim follows
through on a swing at
the Clifton Davis Golf ^
Classic on April 23.
Photo by Rich Harvey
Celebrities tee off at
Albemarle Plantation
By Toby Tate
Editor-in-Chief
Giving a boost in visibility to
the Elizabeth City State
University Foundation, Clifton
Davis, actor and ordained Baptist
minister, made his way to
Elizabeth City for the Clifton
Davis Celebrity Golf Classic,
held each year to help raise
money for the foundation which
serves as the custodian of
contributions made to ECSU
from privately owned
businesses.
The classic was held on
Afolayan
Saturday,
April 23, at
t h e
Albemarle
Plantation
golf course
and
included
sports
celebrities
such as
former New York Giants football
player Bobby Taylor, several
foundation board members.
Chancellor Mickey Burnim and
Davis.
Those who wished to participate
could do so for $600 for a four-
member golf team, $200 for a
single player, or $25 to attend
only the awards/auction/gala
dinner dance on Saturday night.
The annual classic not only
serves as a fundraiser for
foundation scholarships based
on need and merit, but also sends
a percentage of its profits to the
Elizabeth City Boys and Girls
Clubs, said Interim Executive
Director LaTanya Afolayan.
“We exist to shepherd the
resources that come into ECSU,”
Afolayan said. “We make sure
that the money goes to whoever
is supposed to receive it.” The
donor decides which department
they want to donate the money
to, she said.
Mr. Abdul Rasheed, a 1971
graduate of ECSU and chairman
of the foundation, said the
fundraiser has helped raise a lot
of money for the school.
“It has become a very profitable
ftindraiser for the foundation,”
he said. “It has raised money that
we can put back into the
university.”
Rasheed said Davis has been the
main force driving the fundraiser.
“Clifton Davis has been the
energy behind the classic,” he
said, “so it was named for him.
He was here working with us
(ECSU) for a short time, and so
he started the classic using his
name to make the foundation
more visible in the community.”
The ECSU Foundation, a
501(c)3 organization, was
founded on Feb 2, 1971 to
provide educational assistance to
ECSU students, to support
faculty and to secure the
operational needs of the
university, as well as to create
privatized housing for students.
See Classic on page 2