Pog« 2 — Smoke Signals, Friday, December 5, 1980
EDITORIAL OPINION
Student Input Needed
It’s time that the students start making some suggestions about
how they want their money spent.
In past years, Chowan’s Student Government Association has
made all of the decisions concerning spending for student ac
tivities. Of course, SGA representatives’ views are suppo^d to
reflect the views of those they represent, but few people, un
fortunately, have any knowledege or concern about what goes on
in the SGA.
Although the SGA has always done a fairly good job of sup
porting activities in the best interest of the students, student
government tends to support only very traditional, very accep
table, and veiy customary projects and events. The problem with
“typical” activities is that they are often very boring.
Now is the time for some new and liberal ideas from the student
body. Because of apparent unconcern by SGA members, there has
been a noticeable back of fresh ideas this year. Attendance at the
meetings is deplorable, to say the least, and the SGA legislative
branch does not seem to know what its duties and responsibilities
are.
There is a slight chance that the SGA will have money left in its
budget at the end of the first semester. The association will have
si^nt nearly $12,000 toward student activites, yet many students
will tell you that they feel SGA has done nothing to benefit them.
Movies and dances simply are not enough. The SGA members
must start taking their positions as representatives seriously and
come up with some ideas to benefit Chowan students. Finding and
creating activities is no easy job, but with a concentrated
cooperative effort, it is indeed possible. ~
S^dents can do their part by keeping watch on the SGA and
noting how their money is spent. Students have the responsability
of seeing that money is being spent wisely, and their ideas are be
ing sufficiently heard.
With a budget of $24,000 a year, the students of Chowan could
finance a world of activities for themselves. With thoughtful, con
cerned planning, and good insight into the needs and wants of the
student body, the 1980-81 SGA could.be the best and most suc
cessful ever. — GREG BASSETT
Support the Teams
A talented and hard-working group of young men and women
take to the court as the 1980-81 Braves Basketball season gets
underway. But talent and hardwork alone can’t ensure a tram’s
success.
Support from the student body is needed in order for victory to
be achieved and support does not mean just sitting in the stands
and watching. Support means encouragement; encouragement to
out-hustle and out-play the opposing team. Support means en-
thusism for your team when it’s ahead and continuing that en
thusiasm even when it’s behind.
To some people, supporting a team means being a fair-weather
fM, cheering only when your team is ahead, and suddenly falling
silent when the opposite team has the upper hand.
But being a fair-weather fan is not the answer. Support should
be shown when your players enter and leave the court, when they
score a goal, and when they prevent the opposition from scoring a
goal. Even if your team encounters a few obstacles in the form of
losses, continue to support it in the hopes of keeping the en
thusiasm that is sometimes nowhere to be found if a team is ex
periencing a sub-par season.
Finally, support means equality. Equality in the sense of being
equally supportive of both the men’s and women’s teams. For-
some odd reason, the men’s basketball team often has more in at
tendance than does the women’s team.
It would be unfair to say this is di^rimination; in all probabili
ty, it is a lack of interest. Be fair. Give the women’s team as much
support as is given the men’s team. And most of all, give both
teams more support.
Remember, success is achieved only through hard work, effort,
and above all, support. So get out and support the men’s and
women’s basketball teams. They deserve your help as much as
they work to give Chowan a good name.—BELINDA ELMORE
The Time Is Now
The end of this semester is near and a lot of students are still
trying to pull up their grades. There is little time for that now but
one thing may help pull up that final grade.
Exams are coming up and, to most students, that means trou
ble. There is one way to solve that problem. By studying now,
students will do better later. Nothing is accomplished by cramm
ing a complete semester into one night.
It is a proven fact that gradual studying is better than cramm
ing for an exam. If students start now and study about thirty
minutes a night for each class, they will learn more in the long
run. Then, the night before the exam, read over the material a
couple of times and get a good night’s rest.
By using these studying habits, the material is stored in what is
called the long term memory. It’s better to get the brain familiar
with something than to overload it.
In the end, things will work out for the best on the final grade
card. It will also save a lot of time and frustration. Try it, maybe it
will help. After all, what wiU it hurt to try.
-BEUNDA ELMORE
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Rich Foods
Can Pile On
Poundage
By SARAH G. WRIGHT
Director of Health Services
The holiday season is fast ap
proaching. During this time of year you
will find rich foods tempting and
pounds of extra weight added rapidly.
Why not begin now to lose any extra
weight you might have so the holidays
can be more enjoyable.
Since you need 15 calories per pound
of body weight to maintain your present
weight, you can use this as a formula to
figure your individual calorie need.
To maintain a weight of 120 pounds,
multiply this by 15, which will give you
1800 calories per day.
One pound may be lost each week by
leaving off 500 calories each. day. So if
you are in the habit of eating a candy
bar each day, try leaving it off. This
will make a big portion of the 500
calories.
The following tips came from Health
Watch which is distributed by the North
Carolina Medical Society as a public
service.
• Drinking warm beverages 15-20
minutes before meals will reduce the
amount of food you eat and slow down
your speed in eating.
• Take a tew moments to relax
before your meals. Although this is not
generally stressed in diets, it is a pro
ven medical fact that anger and anxiety
stimulate your nervous system,
thereby increasing your appetite.
• Chew slowly! Weight-watchers
recommends chewing between 20-50
times per mouthful to slow down the
amount of food you consume.
• Try “resting" throughout your
meal. Get involved in a conversation or,
if you eat alone, put your fork or spoon
down frequently during your meal. This
will'slow down your eating and curb
your intake as well.
Another trick to eating less is serv
ing the sweet or starchy foods first.
Tasting sweets or starches more quick
ly satisfies the "craving” people have
for food. Also, by using a small serving
of these more fattening foods, you un
consciously serve less.
• Write down everything you eat for
two weeks. Try to record the time you
ate and your frame of mind as well.
This will let you see exactly how many
calories you consume and will help you
break bad habits while reducing your
weight.
• Try to eat ONLY when you are
hungry. If possible, don’t eat your last
meal after 7 p.m.; your metabolism
slows in the evening hours and calories
aren’t burned up as fast. The result is
added weight. This is also the reason
doctors and dieticians discourage
eating t>efore bedtime.
Footnotes
By BIIXTHWEATT
One weighty subject that we students
daily encounter is that of habits.
Habits are patterns of living that may
operate beneficially or they may be
detrimental to our maturity. Allowing
us to perform a significant number of
actions, habits require no expressive or
conscious effort of thought.
Beginning in the brain’s short-term
memory, habits enter the brain’s long
term storage center after several
responses of thought and feeling. All
habits are learned, however, and to
verify that these traits are inherited is
wrong.
Enabling us to learn new things,
habits free our minds to respond to new
problems and challenges in, life.
Developing new and more apdkopriate
habits of thinking, acting, a{t& feeling
is bound to cultivate our lives.
Once established, however^ they lock
us into fixed patterns of behavior.
As Donald Schroedei; of The Plain
Truth succinctly admi^ “Good habits
and bad habits are tonned essentially
the same way. The b^ain never totally
‘forgets’ bad habits, although they may
drop out of dominance in one’s life
through lack of use, or if replaced by
another, it is hoped, better habit.”
Bad habits are restrictive and crippl
ing and serve as obstructions to our
human potentiality and maturity.
Perhaps many of us here at college
are captives to bad habits. Breaking
these vices take strong character; but
it is impossible to change these vices
without taking that initiatory step.
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By JEFF PISHNER
Parker Hall President
It is a great privilege for me this year
to serve as President of Parker Hall. So
far it has been a trying, but very suc
cessful year for me and the rest of the
280 residents of Parker Hall.
I am proud to say that Parker Hall
has achieved some of the highest
honors a dorm could win so far this
year. Parker Hall captured the dorm
decoration contest for Homecoming for
the first time in the nine years it has
been in existence. The Homecoming
contest showed a great amount of par
ticipation by the residents. If it wasn’t
for the participation of so many, this
feat could not have been accomplished.
A great many hours went into the
preparation and painting of the lobby
and making the banners, it was a lot of
time consuming hours. Two days before
Homecoming, the campus wide room
decoration competition was held. There
were some 20 rooms entered into the
contest by Parker Hall, with Derrick
Stoneham and Drew Kilbourne coming
away the winners in Room 708, Out of
144 rooms in Parker, about 50 have been
painted by residents of their respective
rooms. I need say, Mr. Hassell and
Chowan College, we at Parker Hall
have tried to do our own share to save
the coUege money on painting rooms.
The championship intramural team
was from the great 7th Floor, known as
the “Wild Bunch” with an 11-0 record.
Two of the other top four teams came
from Parker Hall. The other two teams
are the very tough 8th Floor and the
Basement/lst Floor. They both fought
their way to the semi-finals and cham-
Oregon St.
Holts KAOS
As Harmful
CORVALUS, OR (CPS) - Oregon
State’s student Activities Committee
voted recently to stop the playing of the
game K.A.O.S. (Killing As an Orgainiz-
ing Sport) because it was “potentially
harmful” to the student body and the
rest of the community.
The committee ruled that the na
tionally popular fad would be
dangerous if allowed to proceed during
the fall term.
“We felt that it could scare a lot of
people,” says Tom Lindstrom, co-
chairman of the committee. “People
are up in arms around here about it.
We’ve had a lot of rapists and other
criminals roaming around. It wouldn’t
be safe.”
OSU’s Experimental College had
helped organize a K.A.O.S. game on
campus, using student funds.
Under the game’s rules, students —
who are called assassins — are provid
ed with a victim’s class schedule and
physical description. The victim is
usually followed by the assassin who
tries to make a “hit,” usually with a
soft rubber dart. If the hit is made suc
cessfully, the victim is knocked out of
the game, which proceeds until one
assassin is left. That person, of course,
is declared the winner.
But when the game was brought up to
the committee earlier this month, its
members unanimously believed it
should not be played until it could be
revised. For instance, Lindstrom says,
if students could take out the shooting
and stalking and instead emphasize the
positived elements, it’s very likely the
game could be permitted during the
winter term.
“I told them (some students who
organized it) if they could glorify the
good things about the game, it could
receive a more positive reaction,”
Lindstrom says.
He adds those positive aspects in
clude the chance for students to meet
each other, and become good freinds.
“But those things are overshadowed
by the test for survival, the shooting,
and the bad feelings it leaves. We’re a
conservative campus and we won’t
stand for that,” he says.
pionship respectively. Participation in
the intramurals program was very im
pressive by Parker Hall residents.
Parker Hall’s improvements have
not come only in intramurals. Par
ticipation in general has improved a
great deal. Parker has not been noted in
the last couple of years for great spirit
and dorm participation, but so far this
year I would say we put that theory into
the ground. The spirifthiS'year .is a
complete turnabout'fftrfrf IS^ygSf. The
freshmen of Parker Hall have shown
great enthusiasm, spirit, and participa
tion this year and look to be a very pro
mising group of young men.
My dorm council consists of Vice
President James Tillis, Secretary-
Treasurer George Jarrett, freshman
socir.l co-chairperson Dean Singletary,
and social co-chairperson for
sophomores, Colin Heinritz. We have
performed together quite well this year
and do not expect to let up.
Sure, people always say they don’t
want to live in Parker because it’s so
far away from the other dorms and
Squirel Park, but with the new Jesse
Helms Center open now, my fellow
students, we feel a lot closer to campus
than the rest of you. We at Parker are
surrounded by the athletic fields, the
tennis courts, and beautiful Lake Vann
with its natural surroundings. Parker
Hall wins iut in the long run. Many of
the residents at Parker Hall serve on
many of the varsity athletic teams,
which makes Parker that much more
special to live in.
Parker Hall has held two very suc
cessful open dorms this year and we are
planning many more. Our grand Ac
tivities Weekend, held on November 14
was a tremendous success. We held a
dance, showed a movie, and had
numerous other activities suitable for
everyone. I forsee the rest of the year to
be a very good one.
Also, we have a good chance of winn
ing the coveted President’s Cup this
year and will be fighting to the very end
to get it,
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’>1- hope the other dorms on campus
will enjoy their dorm as much as we at
Parker Hall nave this year. Parker Hall
has made a great change in its identity
as a place to live for the better of each
individual at Chowan College. Hopeful
ly, this is the start of a dynasty for us at
Parker, and we are going to do
everything in our power to keep it that
way.
Coffee
and
Doughnuts
Thomas
Cafeteria
8 p.m. - 12 m
Thursday
December 11
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