Page 2 — Smoke Signals, Wednesday, August 25, 1980
EDITORIAL OPINION
This issue of Smolie Signals is unique in that it is the last one prepared by toe
outgoing editor and, at the same time, the first one for which the advancing
associate editor assumes a degree of responsibility in preparation for the coming
year. E^ach one independently wrote an editorial of welcome to new students the
thrust of which turned out to be remarkably similar. However, as each
represented the thinking of a different editor — one male, one female — one black,
one white — one newsperson of wide experience and one a relative beginner — the
faculty advisor felt that'this similarity is meaningful and recommended using
both.
'Experience' Chowan!
WELCOME TO CHOWAN! The staff of SMOKE SIGNALS
would like to wish you all the very best of luck in the upcoming
year.
The SMOKE SIGNAI^S is published every three weeks by the
students in the Graphic Conununications Department. The
students are not professionals, they are learning the business so
mistakes will be made. We try to make the paper as interesting
and as accurate as possible.
As a student at Chowan, we are asking you to get involved and
help us. Only you can make the news. The paper is for you and
your enjoyment. Let us hear from you.
We like to hear from our readers. If you have anything of in
terest to other students, write to the editor. The paper is written
by the students for the students. Anyone can write for us. We do
ask that all material be signed and in good taste. We will edit let
ters with vulgarity so we ask that all letters be clean.
This is a special edition just for your information about Chowan
and the surrounding area. We hope you will find some helpful in
formation in this edition about the activities and organizations we
have to offer. Chowan is what the students make it so get involved
and experience the “Chowan Experience.”
We hope you have a good year here and enjoy Chowan. Good
luck and may the year be a very memorable one. We at the
SMOKE SIGNALS wish you a lot of luck. We are expecting a good
year with the paper and only you can make that come true. We
look forward to working with you. GOOD LUCK!! — BELINDA
ELMORE
Welcome
To all returning students, faculty, staff and administrators —
and particularly those of you who are new — the entire staff of
Smoke Signals wishes to extend best wishes for a good, productive
133rd year in the life of Chowan College.
This special edition of Smoke Signals was prepared just for you,
and we hope you enjoy it. The purpose of this first publication, or
as we call it, “The Back-to^chool Edition,” is to aquaint you with
the campus community, its activities, organizations and func
tions, and to assist you in starting your new fife in Murfreesboro.
For many of you new freshmen, this is somewhat of a frightning
period in your young lives. Perhaps this is the first time away
from Mom, Dad and your old high school “gang.” You’re worried
about the transition, all the horrible tales of “hard-nosed” and
“inconsiderate” college professors, the college term paper, and
the probability of making your first “F.”
/irf’bf^tfie above is surely enough to make one cringe. But at
Chowan, everyone is strictly an individual — not a number like at
large universities. The college is concerned with your total
development through physical, spiritual, social and individual
growth. Because of our size, there is more of a chance for student-
facuity relationships. And all staffers are always ready to assist
any student having academic difficulty or personal problems.
Don’t hesitate to ask for help if and when a crisis arises
Smoke Signals, also, encourages all prospective students to get
involved in the “Chowan Experience” this year, because only you
caii make the news. And we‘11 be right on top of it.
We feel Smoke Signals is an effective college medium for in
forming a wide-variety of students. Last year we were proud to
receive the rating of Medalist in the Columbia University Jour
nalism Competition in New York, which meant we finished in the
first — place category from a field of the nation’s top junior col
lege papers.
The primary objective of this newspaper is to serve you, the stu
dent, staff and administration, as accurately and as informatively
as possible, remembering that the TRUTH is what you want. We
hope the paper can become at least a means of entertainment
when nothing else is available.
We urge all readers to submit letters to the editor involving the
campus community. Should you see ways to improve certain
areas on campus, or ways that you see which could improve the
journalistic qualities of Smoke Signals, we suggest that you voice
your opinion. We advise, however, that all suggestions be of good
taste, and rid of all vulgarity; such crude expressions will not be
published. Also, all letters must be signed
Students, accept Chowan for what it is. It certainly can’t com
pete with the larger universities as far as your social hfe is con-
cered, but you can’t find a better place for your first two years of
academic study. Bear with the Student Government Association
this year, because members will be attempting to make life more
satisfying.
It’s up to you. Make things happen constructively. Become in
volved in extracurricular activities, hit the books diligently every
evening, become friends with all members of this small conununi-
ty, and things should go reasonably well for you. Please don’t sell
yourself short.
Again welcome, and good luck. — HARRY PICKETT
Edited, printed and published
by students at Chowan College
fw students, faculty end staff of
CHOWAN COLLEGE.
1979-80 Stoff
Harry Pickett Editor
Belinda Elmore Associate Editor
Dean Lowman News Editor
NEWS STAFF
Menford Grisewould Penelope Jones
Nancy Keen Barbara Parker
Shelly Jankosky
PHOTO STAFF
Rondy Murphy Bill Williamson
Nancy Thierry
Greg Bassett
Kathy Fisher
Janet Herzing
J. P. Leong
junii
College Press Service
“uresr eomoN, riks, just off th6 pResses/ chock full of
ouRmuABie FORecAsrrsi"
Differing Viewpoints Expressed
On Potential Enrollment Decline
Infirmary
Use, Rules
Explained
By SARAH G. WRIGHT
Director of Health Services
Now your college years have
started. We hope they will be happy
and healthy years. If you have a
health problem, please come by Penny
Infirmary so that we may help you.
Has your doctor treated you for any
serious illness since you mailed your
medical record to us? Then you should
add this information to your medical
record which is on file in Penny In
firmary.
Penny lafirmary Information
(1) Nurses are on duty 24 hours daily
ly in Penny Infirmary. A registered
nurse is on duty from 7:30 a.m. to 4
p.m. daily, Monday through Friday. A
licensed practical nurse is on duty at
night, Monday through Friday and on
call during weekends.
There are twenty-five beds in Penny
Infirmary. Students too ill to attend
classes or go to the cafeteria for
meals should remain in the Infirmary.
Consultation Hours
(Monday through Friday)
7:30a.m. —9:30a.m.
10:30a.m.— 11:30a.m.
l:30p.m.-3p.m.
6 p.m.— 7:30 p.m.
(2) After consultation hours at night
and on weekends: the nurse on duty
will not unlock the doors to the in
firmary unless the student, head resi
dent or resident assistant calls before
leaving the dormitory.
(3) DO NOT KNOCK OR BANG on
the outside doors. This can be very
upsetting to ill people in bed in the In
firmary.
(4) Doctors: There are four doctors
in Murfreesboro.
Dr. A. A. McLean, 220 Wynn Street
Monday through Friday 9 a.m. — 12
noon and 2 p.m. — 5 p.m.
Saturday and Wednesday 9 a.m. —
12 noon.
Dr. Roy D. Flood, Beechwood Blvd.
Dr. John A. Holland, Beechwood Blvd.
Dr. Melvin L. Clayton, Beechwood
Blvd.
Monday through Friday 9 a.m. — 12
noon and 2 p.m — 5 p.m.
Thursday and Saturday 9 a.m. — 12
noon
(5) Emergencies at night are
treated at Roanoke Chowan Hospital
in Ahoskie. The student is responsible
for all doctor bills unless accident-
related. Prescriptions may be filled at
the three local drug stores at the stu
dent’s expense.
(6) Excused Absences for illness:
The student must come to the in
firmary before the class from which
he is seeking an excuse meets.
If he is at the doctor’s office and
misses a class, he may bring a note
from the doctor’s office and an excuse
will be written. The Infirmary will not
write an excuse for classes when a
student sleeps through the class.
(7) First Aid treatment, cold
medicines, etc. are furnished by the
Infirmary.
(8) The Infirmary telephone:
Day Nurse
8 a.m. to 4 p.m. 398-4140 Ext. 248
7:30a.m.to4p.m 398-9655
Night Nurse
4 p.m. to 7:30 a.m. 398-4357 or
398-9655
Bite
The
Bullet
By KATHY FISHER
i.fuess the first thing I shMdd do is
iwcome you all to Chowan College.
The returning students already know
what this place is all about. For the
new students, well what can I say, —
you'll be finding out soon enough so I
won’t spoil the experience for you. I
spent two years of my life here and I
both enjoyed and despised it, if you
know what I mean.
Whatever you do don’t get
discouraged and leave in the first few
weeks. Give the place a chance. It
nnigM not seem like much or be too
Challenging for some of you, but it’s
well worth your while to stick around.
In the two years I was here I met
some great people that I’ll never
forget. In fact, that was about the
number one reason for my returning
for my second year. I just couldn’t
bear the thought of not seeing some of
my new-found friends again.
Also there’s plenty to do around
Chowan and the surrounding area, you
are just going to have to look for it. If
it’s not there, make your own enter
tainment — within reason of course.
The lifestyle of Chowan is just what
you make it. If you sit around the
room complaining that there is
nothing to do and wait for something
to happen, it’s gonna get a little bit
boring, I t>et.
But if you get some folks together
and plan your own activities, there
will always be something to do. I can
guarantee that. The choice, of course,
is up to you, but if you want the advice
of an old pro, all I have to tell you is
"Go for it!!” If you don’t, you will
miss out on some of the best times in
your life.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (CPS) - The
National Center for Education
Statistics, in its annual survey, is
predicting that college enrollment will
hit an all-time high in 1981 before fall
ing to levels that could pit four-year
private colleges against two-year com
munity colleges in a battle for older
part-time students.
The NCES expects 11.69 million
students to enroll in 1981, a record
number. By 1988, however, it sees
enrollment shrinking to 11.048 million.
It projects that small private col
leges will lose the greatest percentage
of students. Private school enrollment
should fall to 2.294 million in 1988,
down from 2.49 million projected for
1981, and 2.478 this year.
NCES analysts predict that the
private four-year schools will have to
attract older, part-time students to
compensate for their losses.
Two-year community colleges,
though, have been the most successful
recruiting older, part-time students.
One reason, according to the study
called “Projection of Education
Statistics to 1988-89,” is that communi
ty colleges are usually in urban areas
convenient to commuter students.
Older, part-time students currently
account for 40 percent of the nation’s
two-year college enrollments. The
NCES expects two-year college enroll
ment to decline “only slightly” over
the next eight years precisely because
of the community colleges’ attraction
to part-timers.
If private four-year colleges can’t
compete effectively with two-year
schools for the older, part-time
students, NCES warned that “many of
them could face closure.”
The agency’s projections for four-
year public colleges and universities
were less drastic. It expects total
public college enrollment to fall to
8.754 million in 1988 after a 1981 peak
of 9.2 million. Public colleges’ larger
base should allow the bigger schools to
survive the comming era of limits.
Total enrollment for the 1979-80
academic year, according to NCES, is
11.508 miUion, up from 8^006 million in
1969-70
★ ★ ★
WASHINGTON, D.C. (CPS) - A
study by the American Council on
Education (ACE) predicts that the
widely-expected drop in national col
lege enrollment, due mostly to the
decrease in numbers of the tradi
tionally cdlege-aged population, could
be reversed. To reverse it, the ACE
says, adniinistrators must start
recruiting students outside the 18-24
year-old age group. Yet the council
did not tell the colleges exactly how
they should recruit “non-traditional”
students.
The ACE says that if current enroll
ment trends were to continue in the
1980s, college population could decline
by more than 797,000 students. Yet the
ACE study predicts that if the institu
tions effectively recruited more non-
traditional students, they could enjoy
an enrollment increase of at least 3.5
percent by the year 1990.
Judith Stich at the ACE says the im
petus for the study was the “gloom
and doom” predictions of many col
lege administrators.
“We decided to take 12 or 13 bits of
conventional wisdom of where enroll
ment was going,” Stich reports, “and
see how they matched up with the
data available.”
The facts, Stich relates happily,
didn’t match the predictions.
Although the study avoids making
recommendations of how t implement
recruiting programs, it does report
that increasing the enrollment of
young people from lower- and middle-
income families could in itself result
in an increase of 566,000 full- and part-
time students.
The study pmnts out that 14.5 per
cent of the women aged 18-34 present
ly go to college. Yet, if schools in
crease that percentage to 17 percent
they could enroll 1,230,000 more
students. If they improved recruit
ment of men aged 35 to 64 by a mere
.6 percent, they would boost enroll
ment by another 314,000.
The ACE also hoped high schools
could improve their graduation rate to
80 percent, from the current 75 per
cent. And if the percentage of high
school drop-outs who take tests for
high school credentials could be in
creased, the study says, college enroll
ment could potentially go up by
105,000.
TTie study reports that the major
With the beginning of the 1979-80
school year came the start of a new
cliapter in each of our Uves. We went in
to our first class of the year full of ap
prehension and emerged not only with
our heads reeling from all the rules and
instructions we had received, but with a
feeling of excited anticipation over the
year ahead.
Those first, Idw busy ^♦'eeks found us
filling our endless forms for the “White
House”, trying to get our schedules
changed and rearranged, and getting
acquainted with the new people with
whom we would be spending the rest of
the year.
We came together as a group of
separate individuals, each with his own
unique personality and potentials, and
mergad to form one body — a single,
student body composed of individuals
all working toward a common goal,
and, in the process, sharing a part of
themselves with each other.
We came together as different in
dividuals, each of us unique in his own
way, yet each of us a significant, think
ing, aware, and creatively prodwctive
person in his own right. We each had
our own set of capacities and poten
tialities to develop, experience, and ex
press, and we struggled to keep a part
of our individuality, even while striving
to conform to the rest Of the body.
Each of us, with our own needs, long
ings and aspirations, began to search
for and find our place in the body, and
as we filled the special place, we came
to feel a sense of fullfillment and
belonging. We gradually became
vaguely aware of all the hidden op
portunities and possibihties awaiting
our discovery during the coming year.
It was a year of growth and new ex
periences; and with each day we
became just a little bit closer to each
other and to the goal toward which we
were all working. We each had a special
changes in enrollment will be in the
increasingly-popular two-year col
leges.
“Recent trends show that the real .
shift,in market shares (enrolhnent) is
not so much a public vs. private
(school) phenomenon as the result of a
differential growth rate between two-
and,four-year institutions,” the study
suggests. “The shift in market share
to the public sector is due to the
preponderance of faster-growing two-
year institutions in the pubfic sector.”
influence on the lives of those around us
as we partied and laughed together in
the dorm. We learned together, side by
side, and each one of us made his own
contribution to the flavor of Chowan.
As we began to let our barriers down
to those around us, we found that our
friends liked and respected us for what
we were, and we could accept each
other without reservations.
The days were filled with hectic ac
tivity as we rushed to and from our
classes, pushing our way through the
halls just to get into our next class
before the bell rang. But we always
managed to find a few, quiet moments
now and then to just sit and talk to each
other, for those were the times which
gave us encouragement and inspira
tion.
Our friends played a very important
part in our lives as we worked to ac
complish and achieve the goals we had
set for ourselves. The time we spent
together provided many fond memories
that would stay with us forever, and as
the year ent on, we realized how much
we meant to each other.
Within these months lie many
memories — memories of joy,
memories of sorrow, disappointment,
and pain, but most of all, memories of
relationships. The smiles, the tears,
and the love we shared are all reflected
in our faces.
We spent ten precious months
together, sharing our lives with each
other, and, for the most, we were one.
We came to have a better understan
ding of ourselves with each passing
day, and when it was all over, we looked
back and knew without a doubt that the
past year had been an outstanding suc
cess. This was a year that will long be
cherished, and each one of us filled a
role that cannot, and will not be
duplicated.
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