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Caudle and Keniel Lead Freshmen
By Margaret Ross, Staff Writer
Freshman class officers were
elected on September 19. Miss
Freshman and four Student
Government Association
Representativeswenealsoelected.
Clyde Caudle, president, is from
Wingate, N.C. He plans to major
in Business Marketing. Caudle is
a member of the Charm Club,
Union County Marketing
Education and Piney Grove East
Baptist Church.. He enjoys
shopping and dancing.
Lenny Kiniel, vice-president, is
from Eastwood, N.C. He plans to
major in Secondary Education.
Kiniel, is the president of Bickett
Hall and a musician for the Gospel
Choir. Hishobbiesincludeplaying
basketball, volleyball, spades and
synthesizer.
Todd Childs, corresponding
secretary, from Jacksonville, N.C.
He is a Psychology major who
enjoys football, basketball and
baseball.
Ellis Named To
National Pan
Hellenic Board
by Joyce McMillan
Tezra O’Nay Ellis, a
senior English major from
Cleveland,Ohio,hasbeennamed
the^second vice president of the
National Pan Hellenic Council,
Incoiporated.
Ellis represents the eight
undergraduate Greek
organizations when she goes to
speak at the regional and local
council meetings.
Herduty is mainly to take
theconcemsoftheundergraduate
chapterstothemeetingsinvarious
locations throughout the sate and
beyond. Ellis has traveled to
representtheCouncilin Virginia;
Tommy Baggett, treasurer, is from
Jacksonville,N.C. Heplanstomajor
in Accoun tin g and is a member of the
NAACP. Baggett received the J.
CrawfordMemorialScholarship.His
favorite hobby is barbering.
James Perry, sergeant of arms, is
from Rock Hill, S.C. He is a Mass
Communications major who enjoys
collecting posters, pictures and key
chains.
Portia Krone, chaplain, is from
Ablemarle, N.C. She is a Sociology
major. Krone is an University Usher
and on the Student Union Activities
Committee. Sheisin the Who’s Who
Among American High School
Students.
Katrina Grant, SGA
representative, is from Kannapolis,
N.C. She is planning to major in
Business Management Grant is a
memberoftheyearbookstaff,Mozik
Models, Queen City and the band.
South Carolina; and Nashville
and will travel to Kansas City in
January for the Executive Board
meeting.
Of her traveling
experiencesandencounters,Ellis
said“networkingisimportantand
there is nothing like it, it’s very
important”.
Ellisalsoholdsthepositon
of treasurer for the WSSU Pan
Hellenic Council. She will hold
the position of second vice
president for two years.
Ellis’ ambition is to be a
newspaper or magazine editor.
Goode Receives
Urban League
Scholarship
Press Release
Ki.y Goode, a 1989 National
Urban League/Grand Met Essay
Contest scholarship recipient,
resides in Belews Creek, North
Carolina. A full-time student at
Winston-SalemStateUniversity,
majoring in Intermediate
Herhobbiesincludereading,track
and spending time with friends.
Jimmy Stockton, SGA
representative, is from
MooresvilIe,N.C. He is planning
to major in Business
Administrationandisthetreasurer
ofBickettHall. Stocktonreceived
theOneStarBasketballAcademic
Scholarship. His hobbies include
basketball and football.
Karen Boyd, SGA
representative, is from Winston-
Salem, N.C. She is planning to
major in Early Childhood
Education. Her hobbies include
cross-stitching, reading and
exercising.
Other officers are Toni Allen,
recording secretary; Tonya
Wilson, parliamentarian;
MaryettaRevels,MissFreshman;
and Vincent Thompson, SGA
representative.
Education, she achieved a 4.0
average during the Spring ’89
semester. Shemaintains an overall
average of 3.68. Ms. Goode
receiveda$ 1 ,OOOtuitionassistance
award in recognition of her
compositionentitled“HowDoYou
ThinkEducationShouldChangeto
Help People From Different
Cultures Understand Each Other
and Live Together Peacefully”?
Prior to resuming her academic
studies, she was active in the North
Carolina Homemakers
Association, having won their
scholarship for two years
consecutive years. In private life,
Ms. Goode is married to the Rev
JerryGoode,pastorofFaithofGod
Church in Walkertown, North
^ohna. Sheservesassongleader,
Sunday school teacher, and has
producedchildren’sChristianradio
programs for over ten years. She
IS also affiliated with the Tarheel
Association of Stoiytellers, Inc
socializing in biblical stories>
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Eugene "Mercury
Morris Speaks T
Student Body
by Craig Thomas
One of the National
Football League’s greatest
running backs recently
appeared on the Winston-
Salem State University
campus. Eugene Edward
“Mercury” Morris gave a
lecture on his bout with dnig
addiction on Tuesday,
November 14that7:30p.m.in
the Kenneth R. Williams
Auditorium.
Speaking before a
crowd of WSSU students,
faculty and community
citizens, Morris presented an
interesting and informative
speech on why people do the
things they do. “I’m not here
to talk about drugs,” he said.
“I’mheretotalkaboutchoice.”
With that topic in mind, he
went into detail and shared
with the audience his lifestyle
before, during and aftertheuse
of drugs.
Itisimportanttorealize
thatthereisreallynosuchthing
as drug abuse, only “self-
abuse,” Morris explained.
“Cocaiane in itself is not
dangerous—the choice to use
itis. Cocaineisnotanabusable
item, but a person is.” Morris
was all-too-well familiar with
hissubjectmatter,forhespoke
from personal, painful
experience. In 1976 he began
using cocaine as a form of
relieffi-omheadachesresulting
in a neck fracture he suffered
three years before.
Unfortunately,whatstartedout
as only an occasional use soon
transformedintoanundeniable
habit, and his obsession with
the drug left him almost
penniless.
He hit rock bottom on
August 18,1982 when he was
jumped to pag^