STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF CHOWAN COLLEGE
CHRISTMAS GIFT—Dr. Bruce E. Whitaker, President
of Chowan, opens a gift from the Chowan College
Family at the annual Christmas Dinner in Thomas
Cafeteria. The amiable administrator received a
double-knit sport jacket from the entire college family,
and a “mink tie” from the Chowan secretaries.
Campus Security
Policy Explained
The following Campus Security
Bureau policy was approved by
the Executive Committee of the
Board of Trustees of Chowan
College when in session on
November 16, 1971.
The four students, Howard
Wayne Murphy, John Michael
Bradshaw, Mark C. Klevence,
and Andrew L. Rutherford, who
have been commissioned by
North Carolina Attorney General
Robert Morgan, wUl conduct
their duties related to the
Campus Security Bureau under
the direct supervision of the Chief
Security Officer who is respon
sible to the Dean of Students in
matters related to student
discipline and to the Superin
tendent of Buildings and Grounds
in matters related to the security
of buildings and grounds.
Students will not bear
arms except at times specifically
approved by the college ad
ministration. Under normal
conditions student officers will
not bear arms during daylight
hours. The arms of student of
ficers will be checked out and in
by the Chief Security Officer
when they go on and off duty. At
other times their arms will be
under lock and key in the office of
the Chief Security Officer. The
Chief Security Officer himself
may wear his weapon at all
times.Student officers will not
bear arms when attending
classes.
Student officers do have the
power of arrest on college
property or when in hot pursuit
off campus at any time with or
without firearms. However,
unless in an emergency, no
arrests are to be made except
under the supervision of and with
the expressed approval of the
Chief Security Officer who
operates under the supervision of
the Dean of Students.
Members of the Campus
Security Bureau are responsible
tor controlling traffic-parking,
speeding, and related matters.
Sternberg Named
SGA President
Michael Gary Sternberg
recently assumed the presidency
of the Student Government
Association.
Michael is a pre-optometry
major from Williamsburg, Va.
After graduation from Chowan,
he plans to transfer to Penn-
^Ivania College of Optometry.
Before assuming the duties of
the office of president, Michael
served as vice-president. In this
capacity he was president of the
Student Legislature. He worked
closely with the Faculty-
Relations Committee in
modifying ti curfew hours on
Friday and Saturday nights from
12:00 until 1:00.
In reacting to his appointment,
Mike made the following
statement: “As president of the
SGA there are many respon
sibilities that most students are
not aware of. I have recently
been in charge of Student
Legislature Bill I concerning
girls’ hours on weekends. This
WU was passed as of Jan. 13. This
was one of my major goals. I feel
with the cooperation and support
of students, more changes could
take place. I have found that an
orderly procedure is necessary to
get anything accomplished.
GERONIMO!
Eric Ambler might have
concoted the plot of a hijacker’s
parachuting with $200,000 ransom
from a jetliner.
Hijacking of any sort,
threatening life, is not to be
condoned; still, to bail out at
10,000 feet shows a certain verve
not ordinarily granted their
elders by members of the Now
Generation.
Meanwhile, the FBI might be
on the lookout for a middle-age
World War II parachutist with
sore ankles.—Norfolk (Va.)
Virginian-Pilot.
Volume 3—Number 8
Wednesday, January 27, 1972
Murfreesboro, North Carolina
More 'Talk-ln' Sessions Are Planned
By Student Personnel Officials
Plans have been made for Talk-
Ins, 1972. This is a series of
discussions sponsored annually
by Student Personnel. The 1972
series will consist of four
discussions on Tuesday nights,
each being only one hour in
length from 7:00 to 8:00 pjn. in
the Askew Student Union.
Each talk-in will be composed
of six groups. A group will
consist of a discussion leader and
several students, not more than
ten, who are anxious to share and
listen to ideas about the subject
being discussed.
Discussion leaders will be
asked to be extremely conscious
of not dominating tt^ discussion.
The role of the group leader will
vary according to the groups.
However, the primary purpose of
the leader will be to provide
conditions so varied views can be
presented.
Faculty and staff members will
serve as discussion leaders for all
talk-ins except the third one.
Members of our Murfreesboro
Rotary will serve as discussion
leaders since the article, “Rotary
- “The Best is Yet to Be!” to be
discussed comes from the
January 1972 issue of The
Rotarian. This talk-in gives
Chowan students an opportunity
to meet with citizens of Mur
freesboro. “Last year’s talk-in
with Rotarians of Murfreesboro
was perhaps our finest one,” said
Dean Lewis, who coordinates the
talk-in project. The talk-in with
Rotarians is Tuesday, February
22, 1972.
The first talk-in will be based
on an article from the November
9, 1971 issue of Newsweek, “The
Chinese are Coming.” This
article deals with the in
ternational complications
resulting from China’s being
voted into the United Nations and
Taiwan’s being ousted.
“Students of political science
should find this discussion of
great interest since this historic
vote cannot be viewed with in
difference,” said Dean Lewis.
TTiis talk-in is scheduled for
Tuesday, January 25, 1972.
The second talk-in will be of
special interest to students who
plan to go into the field of
education. The springboard for
this discussion appeared in the
September 1971 issue of Kappan,
“The Third Annual Survey of the
Public’s Attitudes Toward the
Public Schools, 1971,” by George
Gallup. The main problem, in the
opinion of American people in
1970, was discipline. In 1971,
finance - how to pay for the
schools - is cited most often as the
biggest problem with which the
local public schools must deal.
According to Dean Lewis at
tempts are being made to bring
Chowan graduates who are
already in the field to this talk-in.
Also, recent graduates who are
now taking education courses in
senior colleges and universities
are being solicited and invited to
return as resource person. This
talk-in is scheduled for Tuesday,
February 15, 1972.
The last talk-in should be of
special Interest to students in
terested in the behavioral
New Officers
Are Needed
Dates have been set up in order
to elect officers of the freshmen
class and members for the next
semesters Mens Council. Five
members must be elected for the
Mens Council to serve as alter
nates for the rest of this semester
and become official members for
next fall.
Applications for freshmen
class officers and Mens Council
may be picked up in Dean Lewis'
office, "hiey must be returned by
5:00 o’clock on Thursday,
January 27th. Voting will then
take place in the Student Union
on Tuesday, February 1st. Men
and women vote for members of
ihe class officers; however, only
male students vote for members
of the Mens Council. Womens
Council will hold elections in the
dormitories.
Mike Sternberg
Many Summer
Jobs Available
Now is the time to line up your
summer job, according to an
announcement released this
week by Clifton S. Collins,
Director of Student Financial
Aid.
Applications for summer
employment at Yellowstone
National Park are available in
Collins’ office. If you are in
terested, you need to file an
application immediately.
On file in the Director’s office is
a copy of “Summer Employment
Directory of the United States.”
You are invited to come in an
have a look.
North Carolina students in
terested in the PACE program
should obtain an application from
Mr. Collins’ office.
Splitting Hairs
The future of Chowan College
depends upon many things, but
most of all it depends upon you as
students. You make Chowan
what it is and what it will be
tomorrow.
I am hoping this semester will
be one to remember. Changes
are necessary to make this
successful, and we all are
necessary for making changes. I
am asking for the support of
every student, and I pledge to do
my best for creating a better
atmosphere here at Chowan
College.
Dance Slated
For Valentine's
Day, Feb. 10
The Student Government
Association has scheduled a
Valentine’s Day Dance for
February 10,1972. It will be held
in the cafeteria. The band that is
to be playing is called “OZMENT
PARK”. The admission will be
25c.
For years now, men’s hafr has
been getting steadily longer,
cascading over the ears and down
the neck and sometimes spilling
out onto the shoulders in a
manner reminiscent of clumps of
dry seaweed. But the masculine
hairline may at last have reached
the point where it has nowhere to
go but up. Among the pacesetters
in men’s fashions these days, at
any rate, the trend is toward
distinctly shorter hair.
No one who has any pretensions
to being with it is atout to return
to the crewcut look of the 1940s
and ’50s. But the full-blown male
mane is beginning to give way to
a neater hair style about .3 inches
in length. “Hair Is still long, but
not as long as last year,” reports
Jerry Spallina, who operates a
barbershop in New York’s
Bergdolf Goodman department
store. “Now it only goes about
half an inch over the collar, and
the sideburns are also shorter
than thy used to be.” Miss Aloha
Ellis, manager of Florencio’s in
Hollywood adds: “Men are
getting tired of eating their hair.”
Many middle-aged men are
getting tired of trying to look like
the kids. “I don’t have much hair,
but I was trying to grow it long
like everybody else,” says the
fashionable New York hair
dresser, Mr. Kenneth. “One day,
after a long look in the mirror,
I decided I looked more tired and
older than I was. So I cut it.” Men
science, psychology and
sociology. The article selected
for this talk-in comes from the
March 1971 issue of Playboy,
“The Roots of Radicalism.” The
authors, Bruno Betteheim and
Richard Flacks, one a
psychoanalyst and one a
sociologist, diagnose the en
vironmental factors which mold
young people into enemies or
defenders of the status quo.
Citizens of the Chowan College
community wanting to par
ticipate in talk-ins, 1972 are to
contact their head residents or
resident assistants, or in the case
of day students, Mr. Tony Fuller,
President of the Day Student
Organization, or Dean Lewis.
Students living in private homes
in Murfreesboro should also see
Dean Lewis about participation.
Dr. Hargus Taylor, Chaplain of
the College, has agreed that
students could attend one talk-in
as an alternate chapel assembly
program if arrangements are
made through the office of the
Dean of Students prior to the talk-
in.
“There is no way a student can
lose by participating in Talk-Ins,
“There is no way a student can
lose by participating in Talk-Ins,
1972,” said Dean Lewis. The
topics are relevant. Through
shared ideas participants will
perhaps develop new per
spectives. Also, talk-ins are able
to provide opportunities for
making new friends. Faculty and
staff members can see students
In a setting other than the
classroom or office. The same is,
also, true for students.
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BEWARE OF THE WRECKER—An
automobile is towed away by a Mur
freesboro wrecker by order of the
campus security officers after it was
found to be parked in an unauthorized
zone.
Bids Accepted On New
Science Building Thurs.
have found, too, that very long
hair is hard to keep clean. “I got
sick of having to spend twenty
minutes under a drier whenever I
washed it,” says on newly shorn
public-relations man.
REBELLION: Like almost
everything else these days,
moreover, hair length has
acquired ideological con
notations. Some people who grew
long hair as an act of rebellion
have cropped it for the same
reason. “Everybody has long
hair,” complains radical leader
Abbie Hoffman, whose hair has
recently been trimmed. “Today,
even the corporations haye long
hafr-my God, even the barbers
do!”
In place of the shaggy look, the
most fashionable new hair styles
for men aim for a clean, sculpted
look, with the hair tapering down
the back of the head. “It’s a kind
of blunt cut done in layers,” says
Jerry Spallina. “This is a ‘wash
and wear’ style; you just shake
your head and it falls into place.”
If it takes hold, the new ton-
sorial trends will have come not a
minute too soon for the idle
barbers who deal in “straight”
haircuts. Hollywood barber
Qaude Lewis reports that the 10
per cent of his business that he
lost to long hair is beginning to
drift back. “Long hair never
helped my business any,” he
concedes, “and personally I
never liked it. I still believe hair is
for cutting.”
Bids for the new science-
engineering facility to be built on
the campus of Chowan College at
Murfreesboro in northeastern
North Carolina were received on
Tuesday, January 18.
Dr. Bruce E. Whitaker,
president of Chowan College, said
that seven bids were received
from major construction com
panies throughout North
Carolina. He said, “I am
relieved, for there had been
predictions that the bids could
come in as high as $1,500,000.00”
From the bids received it has now
been determined that the
building cost itself will be ap
proximately $1,100,000.00.
The opening of the bids
followed by one day a special
meeting of the Board of Trustees
to emphasize the “Mission
Possible” development fund
Mrs. Bradshaw
Named Dorm
Head Resident
Chowan College recently
employed Mrs. Vanessa
Clifton Bradshaw as the
Associate Head Resident u>
Belk Hall, the largest female
dormitor/ on campus. Mrs.
Bradshaw, the former
Vanessa Ann Clifton of
Hampton, Virginia, recently
married Michael Bradshaw,
who is a member of the
college's Security Bureau.
Mrs. Bradshaw previously
served on the communication
committee to the Dean of
Admissions at Radford
College, Virginia while a
student and won second place
in the State of Virginia in
Forensics. Also among her
past highlights would be a
member of the "Singout
Hampton Roads" choir for
four years. "Chowan is for
tunate indeed to have an in
dividual of Mrs. Bradshaw's
caliber join the Chowan
College family," remarked R.
Clayton Lewis, Dean of
Students.
Mrs. Bradshaw is the
Associate Head Resident to
Mrs. Martha Rock of Boykins,
Virginia, the Head Resident of
Belk Hall.
program for construction of the
new science-engineering facility.
At that meeting, trustees heard
“Mission Possible” general
chairman, Don Matthews, Jr. of
Hamilton, report that the cam
paign has reached the two-thfrds
mark.
Several trustees, including
Chowan alumnus, Charlie
Whitley of Winston-Salem,
volunteered reports of the suc
cess of the local phases of
“Mission Possible.” Whitley
labeled the reception in the
Winston-Salem area as “won
derful.”
Under the leadership of
President Whitaker and trustee
diairman, M. E. Valentine, Sr. of
Raleigh, trustees mapped
strategy to maintain the
momentum the campaign is
receiving from across eastern
and central North Carolina and
southeastern Virginia.
The emphasis was on the
trustee personally telling the
“Chowan story” and soliciting
support from friends, business
associates and others in their
home areas.
The Executive Committee of
the Board of Trustees met on
Thursday night, January 20 for
the purpose of considering the
bids. Dr. Whitaker added, “My
own feeling is that this is a bid
‘with which we can live,’ and
therefore points up the
significance of our ‘pushing
forward’ with our current
A Parapiirase
Psalm XIX
The nineteenth Psalm sets forth most
beautifully the true relation which should exist
between God’s world and God’s word in the year
1972.
In the first six verses of this Psalm we have
natural religion: “The heavens declare the
glory of God and the firmament showeth His
handiwork. Day unto day uttereth speech and
night unto night showeth knowledge.” We have
here one of the finest personifications anywhere
in literature. One day is represented as calling
to the next day, the next day takes up the cry and
passes it on. Thus day unto day in ceaseless
procession shows God’s wondrous revelation of
Himself.
In the seventh verse of this Psalm we enter
into a new atmosphere. We feel that we are
breathing more distinctly the air of heaven and
that our feet are standing u^n the solid rock.
We read “the law of the Lord is perfect, restoring
the soul.”
Down to the end of the thirteenth verse, we
have revealed religion and the effect it produces
on action and character. Then in the last verse
we have experimental religion: “Let the words
of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be
acceptable they sight, 0 Lord, my strength and
my redeemer.”
Observe what progress we have in this Psalm:
first, creation; second, revelation; third,
generation; natural religion, revealed religion,
experimental religion. This Psalm is an epitome
of the whole Bible.
Mission Possible development
fund program to raise the
necessary funds for this
building.”
The science-engineering
facility to be built on the Chowan
campus will have eleven
laboratories equipped for lear
ning in biology, chemistry,
botany, physics, micro-biology
and anatomy-physiology; an
environmental study area;
eleven classrooms along with
departmental and faculty offices,
seminar and service areas. Each
laboratory, with adjacent faculty
office and storage rooms, is to be
fully equipped.
By design, according to plan,
this three-story, 43,000 square
foot facility, will be located to the
rear of the 125-year-old McDowell
Columns Building, long
recognized as the most out
standing landmark on the
Chowan campus. The new facility
will become the second major
classroom facility of the college
and the epicenter of a large
campus which in itself is a
natural laboratory encompassing
stream, lake and forest aboun
ding in a rich variety of native
flora and wildlife.
Chowan’s student enrollment
for the 1971-72 school year
reached its largest enrollment in
its history, 1533 students. For the
spring semester just beginning, it
has also enrolled its largest
spring term class. Students
graduating from this two-year
college are readily accepted by
senior institutions all across the
nation, in fact, are sought out by
these colleges and universities
because of the excellent records
which the transfer students have
evidenced in their work during
their last two years of college
studies.
Chairman Matthews indicated
that the faculty, staff, members
of the Boards of Trustees, Ad
visors, business firms, cor
porations and friends of the
college have now pledged more
than $661,000.00 towards the goal
of $1 million in its efforts to raise
funds for construction of the
science-engineering facility.