Underachievers
Improve In Academics
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“We take students with C and D
averages who have the potential to become
A and B students in college prep courses
such as algebra and foreign languages,”
said Mrs. Hymes. “We also pick students
that have A’s and B’s in courses like wood
working and mechanics, who are not on a
post-secondary tract.”
The Upward Bound program consists of
two components-the regular academic
year and a residential session. During the
academic year, students attend tutorial
classes for communications (English,
reading), mathematics, and career
counseling. Each class is taken one day
per week in the afternoon.
The summer session provides the
students with an on-campus experience
devoted to in-class development of skills.
Upward Bound students must attend
math, science, and communication classes
during the session. The students live on the
campus for six weeks, thereby getting a
taste of what college life is like. They also
participate in workshops designed to in
crease their interest in music, drama, and
art. Visits to cultural events or places are
also a part of their summer experience.
All Upward bound students are required
to have passing grades in academic
courses. “We consider passing to be a
grade of C or better,’ added Mrs. Hymes.
Students are also required to bring their
report cards to the Upward Bound office at
the end of each quarter.
As a way to motivate the students, the
WSSU program has instituted a system of
rewards for scholastic achievements. “We
have three sets of awards for our students.
Students who improve their performance
by a letter grade are allowed to choose a
group activity to attend. Those individuals
are then sent a letter of congratulations
from the Upward Bound staff.”
Students receiving an A in any academic
at WSSU of the course in which the A was
received. A letter of congratulations is
then sent to the student from the depart
ment chairperson.
“Our superstars (honor-roll) receive a
letter of congratulations from the
Chancellor’s Office. These people are
highly motivated and usually do well in
college. Overall, our rewards give our
students added incentive to do well and it
also give WSSU exposure to our students
who can be recruited to college here.”
This policy seems to have worked well
because 30 Upward Bound students have
enrolled at WSSU since 1976. Six of these
students have graduated and 14 are cur
rently enrolled.
Despite the success rate. Upward Bound
students have shown in improving their
grades in high schools and obtaining en
trance into college, the WSSU program is
in jeopardy because of “Reagonomics.”
Upward bound is funded through the
Trio Program of the department of Health
Education and Welfare (HEW). Currently,
there are 444 Upward Bound programs
throughout the naiton. President Reagan’s
proposed cutbacks would bring the
number down to 175.
Although Congress is currently not in
favor of cutting the budget on educational
programs, there is a possibility that the
Upward Bound program at WSSU will end
as of June 30. “Unless action is taken one
way or the other, we will not have the
funds to operate after June 30,” stated
Mrs. Hymes, “that is the date that current
funding runs out.”
“We have submitted a new proposal for
the 1983-84 program year. Right now we
are waiting to see what is going to happen.
If Reagan’s budget is approved, we don’t
know whether our program will be
eliminated or if it will continue,” Mrs.
Hymes added. “Now is the time of the year
that we devote to recruitment of new
course have the opportunity to participate
in the group activity. Their names are also students. So we’re working on that.”
forwarded to the department chairperson
On The Yard:
CAREER PREP SEMINARS SET
Delta Sigma Pi Fraternity, Iota Phi
Lambda Sorority and the Co-operative
Education Department are co-sponsoring
a series of career preparation seminars
for all interested students. The sessions
will be presented from 3:30 - 4:30 in the
Green Room of the K. R. Williams
Auditorium. Dates and topics are:
April 7- How to Become Self-Employed
April 14 - Positive Mental Attitude
April 21 - Communication Skills in the Job
Interview
Aprill 28 - Job Options for Liberal Arts Ma
jors
Little Miss
AKA Pageant
The Gamma Lambda Chapter of Alpha
Kappa Alpha Sorority, INC. will sponsor a
Little Miss AKA pageant on Sunday, April
10, at 3:00 p.m. The pageant will be held in
the Green Room of the Kenneth R.
Williams Auditorium. The ages of the little
girls entered range from 4 years old to 7
years old. Admission is $1.00 and tickets
may be purchased from any member of
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.
University Image: Students
Can Help It Or Ruin It
by Connie Lowery
Each year many Winston Salem State
University students fail to realize that they
can enhance or ruin the reputation of
themselves as well as the university
through their actions.
Whether a student is supported by self,
grants, parents or guardians is not impor
tant. The point is that some students fail to
realize the main purpose for being enrolled
in the university. That purpose is to learn,
to benefit oneself as well as upgrade the
university.
We want to be a part of the “best school”
and we can help to accomplish this by
making ourselves the best. By doing so it
strengthens our university’s academic
rank. When we bring ourselves down, the
university’s reputation suffers also.
Through the semesters, a percentage of
students do not meet requirements,
academically or otherwise. Therefore,
they are cast into an unfavorable light and
so is the university.
The role of the student is a very serious
one and should not be taken lightly. When
as student falls short of this requirements,
academically or p>ersonally, he not only
cheats himself, but also parents, instruc
tors, administration and staff as well.
When a student brings embarrassment
• to himself, it hurts the entire university.
Motivation is slowed down as well as
achievement of the student, thus, often
times causing a student to be placed on
academic probation or completely drop
out of school.
When the statistics of the university
were released, they showed that the
academic performances of many students
were low. Therefore, the over all academic
standards of the university were lowered.
It is therefore, more important than can
be stressed, that students live up to the
standards, academically and p>ersonally
set for them.
Winston-Salem State University is a
school that members, faculty staff and
students can be proud of, but only through
each individual’s actions can this be done.
We are proud of our school - Is our school
proud of us?
Off The Yard:
Bluegrass
Convention
of
to
Gk>spel Exposition
Extravaganza
The Betal Iota Chapter of Alpha Phi
Alpha Fraternity, Inc. will be host to its
annual Gospel Exposition Extravaganza.
The Extravanganza will play a vital role in
enabling the student body, faculty, staff,
and community to experience spiritual
awareness and growth. This special ser
vice will be held on Sunday, April 10, at
6:00 p.m. in the Kenneth R. Williams
Auditorium. Everyone is invited to attend.
Eva Richardson
The East Lincoln Optimist Club
Denver, North Carolina, is preparing
present its 21st Annual J. E. Mainer
Memorial Fiddlers and Bluegrass Conven
tion Saturday, March 19,1983, at the Rock
Springs School in Denver, North Carolina.
Beginning at 5:00 p.m. Saturday with
concerts on stage and competition starting
at 7:00 p.m. More than 50 Old Time and
Bluegrass bands will be competing for the
$1,000 in cash and trophies that will be
awarded to the winners of the various
categories of comp)etition.
All proceeds will be used for the various
projects of the East Lincoln Optimist Club.
The Rock Springs School is located on
Highway 16, midway between Newton and
Charlotte at Denver, North Carolina.
The Old Time Fiddler’s Convention is
one of our largest fund-raising projects.
We are soliciting your support to make the
public aware of this event that after 20
years has become a tradition in our town.
We are confident that with your help and
support this fund-raising effort will be a
tremendous success again this year.
Library Presents
Watercolors
During March, the Art & Music Depart
ment of the Forsyth County PubUc Library
presents watercolors by Muir Stewart.
WSSU Nursing Students Contribute
To Rainbow House
The Student Nurses Association of
Winston-Salem State University con- The facility will provide a supportive
tributed $50 to the Rainbow House of setting where parents can privately share
Winston-Salem. The money will be used to their thoughts and concerns with each
buy a house at 419 S. Hawthorne Rd. and other. Addditionally, Rainbow Hoiise will
convert it into the Rainbow House. Ex- reduce the travel and room costs that are
p>ected to be in op>eration by late 1984, the often a burden for these families,
structure will provide lodging for families Winston-Salem State s student nurees
of chronically ill children who do not live in participated in the project because of their
the Winston-Salem area. It will be located frequent contact with chronically
near North Carolina Baptist Hospital. children.
Muir Stewart is a native of Glasgow,
Scotlant. He studied architechural design
at McIntosh School of Design in Glasgow
and Edinburgh Collge of Art. As an ar
chitect, Mr. Stewart has designed
numerous commercial office buildings in
Europ>e, Africa and the United States.
Currently, he is a member of the depart
ment of Architecture and Fine Arts at
Auburn University in Alabama, where he
teaches Architectural Design and Draw
ing.
Mr. Stewart has been drawing all his
life, and has concentrated in watercolors
for six years. He is affiliated with the
Auburn Arts Association and has exhibited
in galleries throughout the Southeast.
The public is cordially invited to view
this ejiibit during the library’s regular
hours.
Admission is free.
Prof. Studies
Computers
Dr. Kerr says she has been interested in
computer science for a long time and
chose to pursue the retraining opportunity
because it is difficult to find Ph.D.’s in the
field. A niember of the WSSU faculty since
1971, Pr. Kerr says she is known as a
“Retrod” in the department because of
her years of service.
The program is predicated on the princi
ple that the many connections between
mathematics and computer science will
allow the trainees to learn a great deal of
computer science in a relatively short time
and to become cap>able of doing a first rate
job in teaching a large portion of the
undergraduate computer science cur
riculum.
According to Dr. Arnold Lockett, vice
chancellor for academic affairs, Dr. Kerr
is one of only 30 p>articip>ants selected from
among more than 160 “highly qualified”
applicants. He says all expanses - tuition
and subsistence - will be p»id by the Sloan
Foundation.
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