Volume 12 Number 4
Chowan College, Murfreesboro, NC
November 10, 1980
Chowan Students feast at Mixon Hall's Pig Pickin' on Saturday October, 25. Hundreds of students attended the
day long festivity. (Photo by Brett Martin)
Seventh Floor's "Wild Bunch” Team
Goes Undefeated to Football Crown
Forced to Pay
Movie Projector
By GREG BASSETT
Parker 7th Floor men’s flag-tootball
team, undefeated in season play with
an 11-0 record, outscored 1st Floor
Parker 35-13 to win the coveted
Assembly Bowl on October 22 and to
claim the men’s football title.
The women’s champion was 2nd
Floor Belk, who rolled past 2nd Floor
Jenkins in toe Women’s final by a score
of 20-13.
“I owe our victory to teamwork,”
said Kelly Reynolds, 7th Floor Parker’s
team coach. “I didn’t tfiink we had that
much of a chance to go all the way. We
knew 8th Floor would be the team to
beat because they had a lot of returning
sophomores who played welHngether
last year.”
Reynolds said his team won because
of “good team effort” and its “liigh
spirit.”
“The guys from 7th Floor knew how
to use strategy,” said Student Activities
Director Colin Steele,” and that made
all the difference. TTiere were other
teams as talented as them, but they
weren’t as skilled with their plays. ”
Steele noted that 7th Parker only had
two standout performers, sophomores
Woody McDaniels and Dwight
Mangum.
With an 8-1 record, 2nd Belk was one
of the most awesome of the women’s
teams. According to Steele, 2nd Belk’s
weapon was Linda Bridges, the
women’s league high scorer. Steele
described Bridges as “fast, quick, and
all over the field.” Steele said that with
the help of quarterback Harriett
Reimer, Bridges scored six touchdowns
in one game alone.
In the Men’s football skills competi
tion, the punting contest was won by
Charles Newton; the passing winner
was Joe Crowder; Nick McKeown won
the place kicking contest; while Terry
Smith was first in the kick-off category.
Simmons
Named
Chowan College mathematics pro
fessor, Carl Simmons, has been nam
ed to the 1980-81 edition of WHO’s
WHO IN THE SOUTH AND
SOUTHWEST.
According to the editors, “the 17th
edition contains more than 19,000
names. The persons sketched in this
volume represent a broad spectrum
of achievement in virtually every
significant field of endeavor. Included
are executives and officials in
government, business, education,
religion, the press, civic affairs, the
arts, cultural affairs, law and other
fields. This edition also includes
significant contributors in such fields
as contemporary art, music and
science.”
“This 17th Edition represents our
editors’ attempts to recognize par
ticular merit and to satisfy reference
interest — to record the latest and
the continuing accmnplishments of in
dividuals involved in all significant
fields of endeavor in the South and
Southwest.”
Simmons received the B.S. from
Union University and M.A. from
West Virginia University. A Jackson,
Tenn. native, he taught math at
Greenbrair Military School before
craning to Chowan as professor of
Mathematics in 1963. He was named
chairman of the math department in
1970.
In the women’s football skills com
petition, Debbie Humphrey won all of
the events by forfit.
Steele conceeded that the officiating
had not been that good for football, but
noted that most of the referees were
inexperienced. He predicted the of
ficiating to be much improved in
volleyball and basketball competitions
later this semester.
Currier. (Photo by Greg Bassett)
"Blood Sucker” Lives
"Draculo"
Smoke Signals is pleased to have the
expertise of English Department Chair
man, Dr. Ken Wolfskill, as a critic for
the student production of Dracula. He is
noted for both his ability to write as well
as act. We appreciate his services.
By KEN WOLFSKILL
Count Dracula, that terrifying and
enchanting bloo^ucker from Tran
sylvania, came back to life during
the week of Halloween in Sandra
Boyce’s fine production. Every time
he returns, I go to his castle (in this
case. Columns Auditorium) to see
luscious, feline women and
vulnerable necks, to watch the
Count’s smooth seductions, and to
hear the great corny lines.
Dracula is a unique villian, a
classic in the literature of the Chris
tian world, because his evil, though it
threatens our very souls, is so attrac
tive. For one, he’s more interesting
than the normal folks who try to do
him in: he’s poetic and self-
possessed, and he wears such nifty
clothes when the boys around him
wear Botany 500s and Weejuns. Also,
his evil is lust (well, sure it’s a lust
for blood, or bloodthirstiness, but you
have to admit it’s sexy), and lust is
one of our favorite vices. But, more,
this friend, whose hypnotic powers
are almost totally irresistable, would
like for his victims to become will-
less in his power, and that
sometimes seems a nice option to the
responsibilities that beset us under
the Christian notion of free will and
Steele said the football competition
had its good sides and bad sides this
fall.
“I was impressed by the student
interest in participation in intramurals,
siad Steele, “the degree of ability was
high.”
He noted however, tfiat poor sport-
manship was also a problem and one of
the disappointments of the season.
making right choices. Despite his vir
tues — natty clothes, a great accent,
full-time devotion to possessing
women, and a philosophy free of
moral choices — he has to go so that
Haggar slicks, prosaic diction, and
moral proprieties may flourish. It’s
only right that he be destroyed, but
we can be grateful that, through the
play, we could escape our conformity
for a little while.
And we know he’ll be back.
This time he appeared in the body
SGA Not
For New
By GREG BASSETT
Student Government Represen
tatives learned at their October 13
meeting that the SGA would not be
forced to pay for a $475 movie projector
bought by the college with student
government funds.
According to SGA President, Sharee
Atkinson, college officials decided to
pay for the projector out of the school’s
general fund. She said, however, that
the new projector would belong to the
SGA.
The subject of the movie projector
first came up at the body’s September
10 meeting. Miss Atkinson explained
then that the SGA had been ‘ ‘informed”
by the administration that it would
have to pay for a new projector. To the
displeasure of many SGA members, the
legislative body was not permitted the
opportunity to vote on the purchase.
Two projectors are used to show the
weekly SGA sponsored movies. It was
determined that one of the projectors
was causing sound problems and should
be replaced. Miss Atkinson, said she
had been told by the administration
that college president Bruce E.
Whitaker had approved the projector
purchase under general funds. Later
she was told the SGA would have to foot
the bill.
Neither college business manager
Ben Sutton, who over sees all of the
college’s spending, or Phil Royce,
Chowan’s public relations director,
could be reached for comment at
presstime.
Fire Request Denied
Also at its October 13 meeting, the
SGA voted not to donate $500 to the
Murfreesboro Fire Department and
Rescue Squad. The request for the
money had come at an eariier meeting
and was tabled at the time so more
research could be made on the request.
Miss Atkinson said she believed the
fire and rescue services should have
requested a donation from the college.
The feeling of the legislature was tfiat
Scores Drop
WASHINGTON, D.C. (CPS) r- For
the 17th straight year, average
Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores
have dropp^, according to a new
report from the College Entrance Ex
amination Board, which helps ad
minister the tests.
High school seniors who took the stan
dardized tests during the 1979-80
academic year — this fall’s college
freshmen — had average verbal scores
of 424 and average math scores of 466,
compared with averages of 478 and 502
in 1963, when the downward slide
began.
Average scores for last year’s college
freshman class were 427 on the verbal
exam, and 467 on the math. The
students who are this year’s juniors
averaged 429 and 468, while this year’s
seniors had a verbal average of 429 and
a math average of 470.
of Frank Underwood, who was thrill
ing to watch. With his polished cape
maneuvers and awesome voice, he
controlled every scene he was in —
and one he was not in: you could
have forgotten that Rhett Coates (as
Jonathan Harker, a reluctant victim)
was acting, as the Count drew him
from twenty feet away and finally
discarded him like a tedious book;
you could feel his presence as Ber
nard Ingram, playing Renfield,
Dracula’s deranged servant, though
student government money should be
spent to benefit the students directly,
rather than contribute to local groups
who serve the college as well as others
in the area.
$200 To Band Day
Chowan’s annual Band Day com
petition will go on as planned, thanks to
a $200.00 donation given by the SGA to
help finance the event which attracts
numerous high school bands from
North Carolina and Virginia.
The total cost of the event was
estimated at $1,200, with a private
source having already donat^ $800
towards the day long affair. Band Day
has been attended by students and local
residents in large numbers during the
past years.
Mark Douglas made the motion to
give the $200 toward Band Day.
By FRANK GEE
Where is the Chowan Offense? Why is
Chowan’s defense collapsing in the
fourth quarter? Our chances for a berth
in the “Junior College Bowl” are nil or
none, on the results of the Lees-McRae
and Hudson Valley games. Two teams
that we should have beaten.
In both games Cllhowan went into the
final quarter leading 14-6 and 12-0, only
to give up in the fourth quarter in the
last two games of the season.
I’ll divide the season into two stages
or parts since Chowan plays a ten game
schedule.
First part (first five games: 5-0-
0)... Chowan appears to be an
unbeatable force scoring 95 points to
the oposition’s 20, averaging 295 yards
to 160, achieving 73 first downs to the
opponents’ 40, punting 29 times while
they punted 41, and the ability to defend
against the pass, thrown in with three
shut-outs and a number lour ranking in
the Junior College poll.
Second part (last two games: 0-2-
0)...Chowan is out-scored 36 to 26,
averaging just 200 yards while sur
rendering 2K yards, collecting 20 first
downs to the opponents 27, punting two
more times then the opposition, and the
most glaring statistic of all, is ttiat
Clhowan gave up 240 yards in the air, of
which 207 came in the second half or
last quarter. The defensive line has put
up a strong rush and has totaled nine
sacks in those last two games, so the
problem points to the defensive backs.
In the first part of the season
Chowan’s secondary was probably one
of the best in the nation with hard- hit
ting Kenny Phillips, William Barrett,
Arthur Washington and Norman Har
bour. Our Back-ups, Craig Lovett,
Samuel Hill and Lestroy George, whom
you could hardly call back-ups because
they would be starting on almost
anybody else’s team, are more than
capable to play.
all alone on the stage, was clearly
flipped over by the disapproving
master. That’s credit to Rhett, Ber
nard, and Mrs. Boyce, but it’s also
credit to Frank’s powerful per
formance.
Dracula had his match in Van
Helsing, the scientist with the bag of
garlic and crosses. Unfortunatly, Tim
Kelly, who wrote this version of
Dracula, wasn’t interested in
characters other than Dracula and
Renfield, so Van Helsing’s personali-
Monpy Running Low
SGA's Treasurer Diane LeBreux
reported at the October 27 regular
meeting that SGA’s budget is
disapearing fast, with a total of
$3,746.16 left in the coffers for the rest of
the semester.
Both Miss LeBreux and Miss
Atkinson explained that the SGA gave
$2,500 toward the annual community
concerts which feature symphony in
strumentalists. Miss LeBreux
described the community concert
donation as “our big civic duty,” while
Miss Atkinson noted it was customary
for the student government to con
tribute to the concert.
Representative Karen Carlough
called the concert donation
“ridiculous,” saying she felt the
amount was much too large.
The Champs from Parkers' 7th Floor pose for their victory picture. (Front
row, from left) Tony Nicely, Woody McDaniels, Dwight Mangum, Kelly
Reynolds, and Mike Aral. Second row: Grant Mannes, Lou Albertson, Tim
Wallace, Buffy Hipp, Lowell Sumney, Kyle, Kent Prater, Brad Proctor,
Anthony Tomlinson, Jeff Pishner, Bill Powell, Terry Smith, and Jim
Comes to Life in Chowan Theater Thriller
Frank Underwood displays his amazing stage presence in "Dracula". (Photo by Brett Martin)
Braves See Short Slump;
Drop Two Straight Games
So what is the problem? Are they giv
ing up too much ground when they play
off the line-of-scrimmage (10-15 yards)
and conceding the short pass?
As evidence; Lees-McRae completes
four out of five passes attempted and
Hudson Valley goes eight for ten, for a
combined passing percentage of
80%...all in the last quarter. Is this due
to the lack of offense which forces the
defense to stay on the field most of the
time? The defense’s problem is short
lived; it only happens in the last
quarter.
The offense is a different story. The
biggest problem is the inability to sus
tain a long drive.
Of the 35 possessions, Chowan has
scored on four of them...and the most
first downs that happened only three
times). The scoring drives all came as
a result of a turnover two fumbles and
two interceptions which ts-ali good and
wU that Chowan can capitalize on oppo
nent’s mistakes, but the crux of the
game is a sustained drive, and how do
these drives come about? They start at
the point of attack and that point is the
linemen’s domain.
The five prime men in the offensive
line are Deon Douthett (It), Jeff Speight
(Ig), Greg McDaniel (c), Wayne
Jackson (rg), and David Dean (rt). A
starting five with the greatest potential
to be a superior blocking unit which
they demonstrated in the first five
games, these five men control the line
of scrimmage and dictate the outcome
of the game. Right now the unit lacks
timing and cohesiveness.
If Clhowan could overcome these
obstackles which have plauged the
Braves in the last two games, and with
the personnel that Chowan possesses, it
could be the No. 1 team in the nation.
This can happen only if these specific
units, as the facts bear out, re-
esbtablish themselves and their winn
ing ways in the final three games.
ty is not very remarkable; fortunate
ly, Jeff Davidson, who played Van
Helsing, was interested in the part
and gave it fine strength so that his
victory over the powerful and elusive
vampire seemed justified and right.
Some of the best scenes involved
Dracula’s wives (Sharon Sydnor,
Becky Hinzman, and Garnet Moore).
I’d enjoy being assaulted by three
women, but not these! They were
clearly after a man’s body, indif
ferent to his soul or personality. Cold
women, these!
Becky Brasie, as Lucy Westenra,
on whom Dracula has nefarious
designs, has a schizophrenic role that
she played very well, changing from
the innocent fiancee engaged to all-
American Arthur Holmwood (Joe
Mayes) to enchantress and seduc
tress fiancee to Dracula.
Some of you think Bernard Ingram
was acting, some of you don’t. I per
sonally don’t think the role of bug-
eating madman was a test of Ber
nard’s acting ability, but the per
formance was, as you know,
delightful; here is a role and a
character you won’t forget.
Other sound, supporting acting was
done by Greg Lowe, Kim Mandra,
Janice Gallion (one of the most con
vincing of the troupe). Bob Lum
pkins, Penny Jones, Darlene Keene,
and Debbie Humphrey. They, with
the fine organ mood music and the
angular set and its mysterious doors,
helped to make Ms. Boyce’s produ-
tion a horrifying delight — or a
delightful horror.