Volume 10 Number 4
October 30, 1978
4
Ghostly Manifestations in a Graveyard
This is the time of year that anything can happen when the earthly and the unearthly come
together, especially amid the weathered tombstones of a rural burying ground.(See
related editorial on Page 2.) Photos by Scott White.
System of Prorating
Damages Explained
Day Students
Plan Active
Testing Organization
Facing Tests Itself
By ALLAN DAVIS
Residents of a dorm will be prorated
for damages done in the lounges and
hallways of their dorms at the end of
the academic year.
“Boarding students leaving before
the academic year has been concluded
will be charged for the damages that
occurred during their enrollment,”
Mrs. Alice Vann, director of residence
hall life, said.
Hallway damages will be totaled up
and prorated to the number of oc
cupants on that hall. Lounge damages
will also be totaled and prorated, but to
the number of occupants in that dorm,
Jack Hassell, superintendent of
buildings and grounds, said.
“Damages done to other college pro
perty will be charged to the guilty par
ties if they can be identified, or pro
rated to the students enrolled,” he add
ed.
Damage repair forms are filled out
each week by the head residents of the
dorms. Once the damages are repaired,
a copy of this form with the prorates
listed is given to the director of
residence hall life, Hassell explained.
If the damages occurred in a dorm
room the student will receive a copy of
this form and will be billed for
damages. But if the damages occurred
in the hallway or the lounge, the head
resident will receive a copy of this form
from the director of residence hall life
to be posted on the bulletin board.
This form will list the items that were
damaged and the cost to repair them,
Hassell said.
“The cost of the items and the labor
used to repair will be included in the
prorates.”
Residences of each hall were pro
rated for the damages which occurred
in the lounges of their dorm last year.
Broken windows, cracked vending
machine glasses, discharged fire ex
tinguishers, drapes ripped down, ceil
ing tiles knocked-out, cigarette burns
on furniture, damage to elevators and
missing furniture are just some of the
damages which were included in last
Exam Schedule
In Next Issue
The complete fall semester ex-
ominotion schedule will be carried
In the next Issue of Smoke Signals.
Examinations will begin on Fri
day, December 15 and will con
tinue through Thursday, December
21.
year’s prorates to the dorms. Jack
Hassel, superintendent of buildings and
grounds said.
The amount of lounge damages pro
rated to each dorm last year was
Parker Hall, $3831.28; West Hall,
$3227.90; Mixon Hall, $159.43; Belk
HaU, $1191.30; Jenkins Hall. $954,63 and
East HaU, $662.34.
Hallway damages were prorated to
the residences occuping that floor.
Some of those repairs included in the
hallway prorates last year were: clogg
ed water fountain; obscenities cleaned
off bathroom walls; broken exit lights;
bathroom mirrors and toilet tissue
holders replaced, ceiling tile knocked
out, januned door locks and flooded
hallways, Hassell added.
Damages for each hailway last year
were Parker Hall: first floor, $159.37;
second floor, $225.14; Third floor,
$791.27; fourth floor, $145.90; fifth floor,
$408.37; sixth floor, $151.20; seventh
floor, $254.95; eighth floor, $411.62; and
the basement, $290.
West Hall floors: first south, $146.77;
first north, $97; second south, $232.16;
second north, $145.11; third south,
$232.50 and third north, $169.68.
East Hall floors: first, $149.51; se
cond, $180.68; third, $105. and Mixon
Hall floors: first, $99.18 and second,
$189.96.
Keep Off
R-V Tract
At Night
An ordinance making trespassing on
the property of the the Roberts-
Vaughan House during the night hours
a misdemeanor was passed by the Mur
freesboro Town Council October 24.
Persons found guilty of trespassing
between 6 p.m. and 9 a.m. will be liable
to a fine of $50 or a jail sentence up to 30
days.
Dean of students R. Clayton Lewis
called this ordinance to the attention of
all Chowan students, some of whom
have in the past used this property as a
gathering place after dark.
The ordinance reads: “It shall be
unlawful for any person to make entry
into the lands and tenements known as
the Roberts-Vaughan Village Center
owned by the Town of Murfreesboro,
North Carolina, between the hours of 6
o’clock p.m. and 9 o’clock a.m. without
consent of the Murfreesboro Town
Council. Any person violating the provi
sions of this section shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor punishable by a fine not
exceeding fifty dollars ($50.00) or im
prisonment not exceeding thirty (30)
days. This ordinance shall become ef
fective upon passage on October 24,
1978.”
The council took the action to
eliminate the partying and beer drink
ing which had been observed behind the
building and in the gazebo on the pro
perty. The site will be posted to warn
citizens of the new regulation.
School Year
By SUSAN L. PATE
There are many organizations on
campus. But there is one that most of
the students know very little about.
This is the Day Student Organization.
There are approximately 87 Day
Students enrolled at Chowan this year.
These students are planning many ac
tivities for the remainder of the ’78-’79
academic year.
In the past the organization has been
very active. Last year one of their main
projects was sponsoring a faculty
basketball game. The money which was
made from this event was given to the
Heather Nelson Trust Fund.
This year the Day Students’ main
goal is to win the President’s Cup. They
also hope to get the Day Students more
organized and more involved in campus
activities. Another goal is to let the
other students know that they exist.
The officers of the Day Student
Organization are Eric Jackson, presi
dent; Jean Sexton, vice president; Cin
dy Drake, secretary-treasurer; and the
SGA representatives are Robin Minton
and Melvin Matthews.
By HARRY PICKETT
Johnny Frank Johnson stretched his
6-foot-6 inch frame, rocked back on a
chair in his basement floor dormitory,
and pulled an assorted group of track
and field medals from his bulletin
board.
“I got this one in Tennessee, this one
in South Carolina, this one ... .”
Johnson has won many track and
field medals, ribbons and other awards
for his track exploits since he joined the
Tarboro High School track team his
sophomore year. However, the biggest
gem for the 18 year-old is the medal he
received in Lincoln, Neb. this summer
in the AAU Junior Olympics. Johnny
finished fourth out of a field of 30 con
testants in the triple jump event.
Johnson, the son of a farmer, is here
at Chowan on a basketball grant-in-aid.
He will play the forward and center
positions on the basketball team, posi
tions he has played all through high
school and will compete in the discus,
long jump, and of course, triple jump
for Coach Linwood Ferguson’s
celebrated thinclads.
Head basketball coach Jerry Smith
says that with the addition of Johnson,
Chowan College could receive the na
tional exposure it has lacked for some
time now. Smith believes Johnson has
the potiential to be an All-American.
“People will look at Johnny and see
how good athletes here at Chowan real
ly are,” the coach stated.
Smith describes the 213-pounder as a
“real good kid. Personality-wise, he’s
as good as you can get.”
The coach believes Chowan was
By JAY STEVENS
LAWRENCEVILLE, N.J. (CPS) -
Camouflaged in the gentry can-
tilevered hills of Lawrenceville is one
of the most influential unknown cor
porations in America.
Critics like to characterize it as an
unchecked monopoly, a gatekeeper, a
cradle-to-grave arbiter of social mobili
ty.
Forbes Magazine, after noting the 370
acres of prime real estate, the artificial
pond, the real ducks, the $3 million con
ference center, the tasteful brick
buildings, the savvy investments, call
ed it one of the hottest little growth
companies around.
Information officer John Smith calls
it a very concerned organization, with a
lot of integrity.
The IRS calls it non-profit.
Most Americans have little to say
about the Educational Testing Service
(ETS). They know it only as a multiple
choice test that stands between them
and college, grad school, law school and
now more than 50 professions ranging
from podiatrist to CIA agent. Last year
over a million students took the ETS-
designed Scholastic Aptitude Test
(SAT). Another 800,000 sat down to one
of a battery of graduate exams.
lucky to sign the Tarboro athlete.
Johnson, who led his high school track
team to the North Carolina state Cham
pionship last spring, had a number of
offers from such colleges as East
Carolina University, the University of
North Carolina at Asheville, and
Western Carolina. Johnny said that
there were others, “but I can’t think of
them . ...”
Why did Johnson narrow his choice to
Chowan? “Because it is small and I
thought I should come to a small college
first,” he explained. “I don’t think I’m
ready for a four-year school, yet.”
Before enrolling at Chowan (College,
Johnny was a two-time Northeastern
Conference cage star at Tarboro High
School. He placed third in the triple
jump his junior year there, and wound
up as the state champion his senior
year.
Johnny, who has been active in track
for only three years, is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Walter Frank Johnson of Tar
boro.
Before endeavoring in the demanding
sport of track and field his sophomore
year in high school, Johnson said he’d
viewed only one track meet.
It certainly didn’t take him long to
catch on, because he became a state
champion within two years.
There’s only two years until all the
best athletes in the world will gather in
Moscow, Russia, to represent their
countries by competing in the XXI
Olympiad.
It took Johnny Frank Johnson only
two years to become a state champion;
with two more good years, he could
possibly be an Olympic champion.
Countless others, from pre-schoolers to
auto mechanics, were measured,
assessed, and say the critics, judged by
an ETS test.
These programs, plus grants from
government and the private sector, net
ted ETS $70 million in 1977, with a profit
margin of about $1 million. ETS, in
short, is a very successful non-profit
company.
“For too many students, the decision
to take a standardized admission test
creates a statistical shadow which
follows them through life, often without
their knowledge or control,” says Con
gressman Michael Harrington (D-
Mass).
Harrington has introduced a “Truth
in Testing” bill designed to open stan
dardized testing to public scrutiny and
control. California recently passed a
similar bill, and one is now pending
before the New York legislature.
This action comes 30 years after the
Carnegie Foundation for the Advance
ment of Teaching, the American Coun
cil for Education and the College Board
Entrance Examination Board (CEEB)
established ETS as a separate entity
chartered to construct educational
tests.
Of this triumvirate, CEEB was and is
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Student
Aid Hike
Okayed
WASHINGTON, D. C. (CPS) - In a
major victory for President Clarter, the
Congress adopted the president’s Mid
dle Income Assistance Act and, in last-
minute politicing before the Oct. 15
adjourmnent, dropped the tuition tax
credit legislation Carter opposed.
The Middle Income Assistance Plan,
offered by the president last February
as an alternative to tuition tax credits,
adds some $1.2 billion to existing
federal student financial aid programs.
Specifically, the plan expands the
government’s Basic Educational Op
portunity Grants, Guaranteed Student
Loans, and Work-Study programs. The
plan was generally pitched to middle-
income families, who presumably want
some relief from the rising costs of col
lege education.
Under the act, which the president is
expected to sign into law shortly,
dependents of families earning more
than $16,000 are eligible for work-study
grants for the first time ever. Average
grants to families earning $8,000-$16,000
per year will go up by some $200.
Tuition tax credits legislation, which
would have allowed families to deduct
up to $100 in tuition costs from their in
come taxes, passed both the House and
the Senate last week. As originally in
troduced, the bill included the tuition
costs of students in elementary and
secondary schools as well. Political ex
pediency demanded that elementary
and secondary school costs be dropped
from the bill, which was then passed as
an amendment to a larger tax cut bill.
House and Senate versions of the
larger bill, though, were different.
When the bill was referred back to a
joint conference conunittee, several
representatives insisted on attaching
the elementary and secondary school
provision to it again. An agreement
could not be reached, and while the tax
cut bill went on to passage, the tuition
tax credit amendment to it was drop
ped.
Despite the concurrent passage of the
Carter plan. Dr. Albert Alford, assis
tant commissioner for legislation at the
U.S. Office of Education, expects that
tuition tax credits may make a com
eback in Congress’ next session. “It’s a
perermial bill,” he observes, “and
there’s no doubt quite a few represen
tatives intend to sponsor one again. But
after the Middle Income Assistance
Plan, I couldn’t tell you if it (tuition tax
credits) will have the same push it did
this time.”
Viewpoints...
The bobbing up and down of a fisher
man’s cork means different things: to
the pessimist it is caused by the untime
ly winds of adversity and bad luck. To
the optimist it is the beginning of a new
opportunity, a fresh challenge, an ex
citing adventure, and the real possibili
ty of another fish for the frying pan.
Interesting People on Campus
Johnny Johnson Has Eyes on 1980 Olympic Medal
Photo by Wllllom P»opl«*
JOHNSON