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EDITORIAL OPINION
Ballot Box Stilled
There’s an old saw that goes, “Suppose they had a war and
nobody showed up?”
Well, we don’t exactly look on Chowan’s Student Government
Association as a battleground (although there have been some
spirited sessions in the past couple of years), but the thought
behind the query is the same.
An election for 1981-82 SGA officers was scheduled for March 18
and only one candidate showed up. Consequently, SGA President
Sharee Atkinson was forced to postpone the elections indefinitely.
Smoke Signals commends Freshman Class President Jeff
Horne for offering his candidacy for the presidency. Horne has
been a hardworking, active and innovative class president. We
believe he could be an effective SGA head.
However, what has happened to the rest of the student body? Is
there not one single person on campus who aspires to a role in
shaping student affairs policies?
There are plenty to be found who are only too willing to voice
complaints concerning what other persons who were willing to
assume resoonsibilitv mav have done, or not done.
The SGA is, or should be, the voice of the students. Should it
cease to function, for whatever reason, there would be no channel
open to keep the administration informed of student opinion. And
without input from the student body, who knows what steps might
be taken without regard to student interest.
We believe that on an active, involved, interested campus there
should be at least two candidates for every SGA office,Jf not
Freshmen, we call upon you. Let us hear your response. Sfiow us
that you do have a sense of responsibility. Show us that you do
have pride in yourselves and your fellow students. — STAFF
In response to the well-taken criticism by Mr. Lewis in his letter elsewhere on
this page, we’d lilie to point out that word of the postponing of the SGA elections
was received from Miss Atkinson well after the normal deadline for news copy.
Because of the importance of this announcement, we broke the deadline to get the
news in the paper, reserving comment until this issue.
Hop, Skip and Jump
To Improved Health
Student Forum
By MARIE s. ELLIOTT
Assistant Director of Health Services
How to help Chowan College students
keep well has become one of the main
concerns of the Infirmary staff. We are
constantly searching for new and better
information to pass on to you.
A book published in 1976 has recently
come to our attention. It is a well-
written and entertaining book full of
good advice on how to stay healthy. T is
The Hop Skip and Jump Way to Health,
by Curtis Mitchell and is a Simon &
Schuster Pocket Books publication.
Part one gives the background for a
perfect exercise;hop skip and jump to
health, what exercise does, and how
one’s body functions.
Part two outlines a personal skipping
program and points out things one
needs to know, tests for fun and fitness.
and some famous skipping programs
and steps.
Part three tells the special benefits of
rope jumping. These include a faster
way to lose weight and use of the jump
rope to protect one’s heart.
Paragraph one of chapter one
reads,” We don’t wear out we rust out,
according to Dr. Theodore G. Klum. ‘I
am convinced that one who sits and
waits for death to come along will not
have long to wait.’” The author then
goes on to say that this rusting process,
called atherosclerosis, already afflicts
most adult Americans to some extent
and even young people are in danger.
Anyone who is concerned and wants
to begin a program to preserve his
health can find Hop Skip and Jump to
Health, by Curtis Mitchell in Whitaker
Library.
Footnotes
ByBILLTHWEATT
To restore bodies, minds and spirits,
take a vacation. A vacation usually
means a week away from work or a
summer month when not in college.
This change in routine is a definite
time when the average adult can rest. If
rest is not what you want over your
vacation, then carry on with something
else.
Things to do on a vacation are
countless. Present-day vacationers
oftentimes choose to travel. Car, rail,
plane and boat have made it possible
for us to travel to almost any place we
choose. And the tourist industry is quite
prepared to greet us.
There really are many interesting
places to go. In fact, the National Park
System was masterminded to provide
deserving vacationers a sure-fire dose
of rest and enjoyment. The government
has set aside 270 such areas here in the
states.
Places close to Chowan College that
vacationers may want to see are
numerous. These include Cape Hat-
teras, Cape l,ookout and the Wright
Brothers National Memorial.
Cape Hatteras offers beaches, dunes,
and birdlife. A lighthouse overlooks the
“graveyard of the Atlantic,” a scene of
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beaches, dunes, salt marshes and a
lighthouse also.
The Wright Brothers National
Memorial is the site of Wilber and
Orville Wright’s first powered airplane
flight. As part of the National Seashore
Parks, it too is located on the Outer
Banks of North Carolina.
The neighboring states of Virginia,
Tennessee and South Carolina also are
rich in natural wonderlands, famous
sites and places for many kinds of
recreation. Florida must also be
mentioned because it attracts large
numbers of vacationers.
Remember, however, that vacations
are for fun and rest. It would be self-
defeating to return home and have to
recover from an exhausting vacation.
Privacy
(Continued from Page 1)
Meador, an ACLU lobbyist in
Sacramento. She foresees “a
cooperation among government
agencies to exchange information
about individuals. ”
Across the country, a Maryland
couple has gotten a bill introduced in
their state legislature that would allow
parents to see their children’s “con
fidential” records as well as directory
information.
Currently, Maryland law and the
Buckley Amendment bar disclosure of
student transcripts to anyone but school
authorities, but Beverly and Jerome
Kamchi contend the laws violate their
rights as parents of a dependent child.
“Without access to my son’s grades, I
do not have the option of counseling him
and encouraging him,” Jerome
Kamchi says. His son, Mark, has
refused to tell his parents his grades
since he entered the University of
Maryland two years ago.
The ACLU’s John Roemer dosen't see
the Kamchi case as very important,
however. He observes the state already
allows scholarship sponsors to see
grades.
“I would suspect they could require
release of transcripts to parents under
that same idea,” Roemer says. “But I
wouldn’t call this an invasion of
(students’) rights offhand.”
Neither Roemer or John Shaddock of
the ACLU’s national office know of
other legal challenges to privacy laws,
but they say that the looming presence
of the Selective Service has spread the
issue around the country.
No Checks will be cashed
in the Chowan Bookstore
after May 1,1981.
However, money orders, and of
ficial bank checks will be
honored.
Praised Again
Dear Editor:
I have just finished reading your
editorial on how your paper is alive and
well despite the absence of Greg
Bassett. AUve,yes; well, no.
To me it is obvious that Bassett’s
expertise in newswriting is sorely
missed. As I sit here looking over an old
copy of “Smoke Signals,” I can see 6
stories written by Bassett on the front
page.
As Harry Pickett commented in his
letter to the editor in the last issue of
Smoke Signals, the Chowan Community
has lost an effective reporter who was
taken for granted.
I am not knocking the staff of Smoke
Signals. I know they work hard on the
paper while trying to study. But you
must realize Bassett was busy writing
5-7 stories an ISSUE while trying to
keep his grades up.
It is a shame that some of the work
load couldn’t have been taken off of
him, for the paper lacks the zest it
contained.
Sincerely,
Kelly Reynolds
Clips No Longer
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As a student of Chowan College, I feel
I must write to express my opinion of
our student newspaper. Smoke Signals.
Somehow, the paper should be better.
Chowan’s Graphic Communications is
reknowned for its technical work and
educational benefits. Why can’t the
student newspaper be just as good?
Why must we Chowan students have
a newspaper which contains stories of
little or no value and is hopelessly
boring? A paper as bad as Smoke
Signals is not only worthless to the
student body, but it is also useless in the
recrutiting of potential Graphic
Communication Students.
The shame is all of this is that I used
to consider Smoke Signals a good and
credible newspaper. During the first
semester I was pleased with the paper
and went as far as sending clips of that
innovative column called “Scoop” to
friends at other colleges.
What happened to “Scoop?” I
wonder if the “holy administration”
clamped down on this “scoop” person.
The column was most interesting; it
was rich with veiled criticism and in
formation.
I can’t say whether Greg Bassett, the
former news editor, who the editor of
Smoke Signals is wasting editorial
opinion space on, is the cause for the
sudden decline of the paper. I do know
however, that Bassett would never
write asinine editorials about the
beauty of Squirrel Park and Lake Vann
in the winter when there are other
significant issues on the campus.
I’d like to know how the editor feels
about no one running in the student
elections, rather than hear her defend a
newspaper that cannot be defended
honestly.
A disgusted reader of Smoke Signals,
Christopher A. Lewis
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