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Hassell checks plans for new Graphic Communications Center with President Bruce E. Whitaker and Herman
Gatewood, chairman of the Graphics Communications Department, prior to official ground-breaking May 1. {Staff
Photo)
New Look
Next Fall
-Hassell
By JENNIFER WICKER
“If everything goes well, the campus
will look a little different next fall,” ac
cording to Jack Hassell, superintendent
of buildings and grounds.
“Replacement of the (football)
bleachers has been started, and we're
getting ready to start building back
boards at the new tennis courts,”
Hassell reported.
“We’re building a building for
storage, but it will also serve as a
backboard for the tennis courts. I was
concerned about a single wall blowing
over, since it would have to be 12 feet
high.
“It was just as economical to build a
building, since a straight wall standing
alone is very dangerous,” Hassell add
ed.
Practice equipment for the football
field will be stored in the building, along
with maintenence equipment for the
tennis courts.
“We are also going to put bathrooms
in this building, nothing elaborate, just
practical.
“We have also started work on the
golf driving range, which will not be
completed, but will be ready for
physical education classes next fall,”
Hassell said.
A parking lot to serve both the in
tramural fields and the driving range is
planned, and Hassell added enthusiasti
cally,“we are going to add more brick
walks, planters, and the new Graphic
Communications building should be
under way.
“I hope we will have the back dam
built for the canoe pier, and we might
possibly make a lower lake, below Lake
Vann.”
Ginger Beasley's Song
Earns Ovation and Prize
By WANDA BISHOP
Ginger Beasley was awarded first
place in the student talent show April
22. She sang “Out Here On My Own” ac
companied by Dirk Rhodes on piano.
The first place prize was $25. Ginger
was given a standing ovation following
her performance.
Second prize of $10 was given to “The
New Wavers’; ,Lafi(Jrick McCl?in, Keith
Myers, Felicia Jones and Kynette
Williams. They performed a dance
routine to “Sugar Hill.”
“Continental Express” took third
place performing “Must Be The
Music.” Their prize was $5. The band
members include Ray Johnson, An
thony Ferebee, Mike Diguglielmo, Jeff
Ervin and Dirk Rhodes. Lead singer
was Arvy Perry and the backup girls,
Felicia Jones, Vanessa Hinton, and
Judy Lingard.
Other contestants were The Chowan
Dancers, First Impression, Judy
Lingard, Top Hat, The Muppeteers,
Lola Peebles, Bernard Ingram, George
Welch and Legend. Coach Colin Steele
was the M.C. with help from John
Odom.
Other activities of Spring Festival in
cluded the informal dance held in the
BEASLEY
Lakeside Center April 20. Music was
provided by “Staircase”. The movies
“The Howling” and “Stripes” were
shown during the week.
Also, on April 23 “Anything Goes”
was held in Squirrel Park. Music was
provided by “Legend.” This was follow
ed by “Dinner On The Green.”
Stone Hall's Future
Unanswered Question
.^1' Resident
Positions
Announced
By JENNIFER WICKER
The names of the resident assistants
for the 1982-83 school year were an
nounced on April 26 by Roy Winslow,
associate dean of students.
They are assigned as follows:
Belk 1st South — Karen Gurty
Belk 1st North — Tammy Kiver
Belk 2nd South — Shelia Artis
Belk 2nd North — Jeannie Brinkley
Belk 3rd South — Wanda Bishop
Belk 3rd North — Alison Roberts
Columns 4th — Linda Cherry
Jenkins 1st South — Laura Sykes
Jenkins 1st North — Sherri Ward
Jenkins 2nd South — Robin Grimes
Jenkins 2nd North — Cynthia Forrester
East 1st — Tom Moncure
East 2nd — John Farmer
East 3rd — William Clark
Mixon 1st South — Mark Ferguson
Mixon 1st North — Eric Rooney
Mixon 2nd — Keith May
Parker Basement — Scott Gregory
Parker 1st — Rodney Anderson
Parker 2nd Richard Michaels
Parker 3rd — E. W. Fulcher
Parker 4th — Mike Scaglione
Parker 6th — Blake Cromer
Parker 7th — Darryl Bryant
Parker 8th — Mickey Milita
West 1st South — Ronnie Wall
West 1st North — Jay Perdue
West 2nd South — Bill Hylton
West 2nd North — John R. Carter
West 3rd South — Mark Robinson
West 3rd North — Charles Rippon
Alternates — Barlenda Johnson,
Kevin King, Kevin Riggins and Matt
Brown.
Education
'82 Budget
Cleared
WASHINGTON, D.C. (CPS)-After
more than a year of haggling, Congress
has finally approved a federal higher
education budget for fiscal year 1982.
The House and Senate are just star
ting conunittee work for the fiscal 1983
budget, which would fund programs
from October 1, 1982 through Sept. 30.
1983.
Congress’ final budget for 1982
devotes about $5.5 billion to postsecon
dary education.
Though Bob Aaron of the American
Council of j Education called the, .final
budget "the first milestone for Con
gress to block the president on educa
tion,” it also represents an 18 percent
cut from the 1981 federal college
budget.
Of the 30-some postsecondary pro
grams administered by the federal
government, only one — a program to
provide institutional funds for meeting
discretionary “special needs" — en
joyed a budget hike over 1981 levels.
The increase of 3.7 percent was con
siderably below the inflation rate.
Aid to land-grant colleges under the
second Morrill Act was the only federal
program to get the same amount — $2.8
million - for 1982 as it got in 1981. Two
federal programs were not funded at
all.
The cuts, however, were far less
drastic than President Ronald Reagan
proposed in his 1982 budget proposal,
delivered in February 1981.
By KATHERINE WARREN
The question of Stone Hall becoming
a 24-hour study center is still
unanswered. Dean B. Franklin Lowe
Jr. reported that no further action has
been taken on the proposal.
The Freshman Class proposed that
Stone Hall be used for a 24-hour study
center so students will have a place to
study together after midnight. Current
ly, the Student Center closes at 11 p.m.
and the dormitory lounges close at mid
night.
The Freshman presented favoring
petitions with 641 signatures to college
officials.
If the plan is adopted, the upper level
of Stone Hall would consist of four
separate study areas and a restroom.
Two lounges and one restroom would
make up the downstairs.
The Freshman Class has agreed to
College President's Inaugural Speech
Flunked as Frosh English by Computer
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help with the renovation and make
monetary contributions. The supervi
sion of the facility would be the respon
sibility of student using it with security
making hourly checks.
The Ad Hoc committee on the Future
Use of Campus Facilities has come up
with these possible alternate options:
extending center hours; extending
visiting hours in dormitory lounges; or
taking the apartment currently oc
cupied by the Ballances and making it a
study area.
Meanwhile another use for Stone Hall
has been suggested.
“The art students have made a re
quest for the use of Stone Hall for a per
manent Art Gallery,” said Dean R.
Clayton Lewis.
The future of Stone Hall remains
uncertain while the committee con
tinues to explore the feasibility of this
plan.
FORT COLLINS, CO (CPS)-The
same computer that instructs freshman
English students at Colorado State Uni
versity probably wouldn’t pass univer
sity President Ralph Christofferson if
he was enrolled as a student.
Using the computer to evaluate his in
augural address of last fall, English in
structors found Christofferson’s prose
didn’t have the clarity or concision
needed to pass freshman expository
writing.
Ralph, as instructor Kate Kiefer
calls the computer, helps instructors
analyze student essays for errors in-
grammer, spelling, syntax, puncution
and clarity.
“The students come in and write
essays on one of six terminals,” Kiefer
explains. “Usually they enter a rough
draft first, run it through the 16 pro
grams for analysis, then re-write the
piece based on the computer’s sugges
tions.”
Ralph’s suggestion to Christofferson
were unkind. “Consider shortening
your average sentence length,” the
computer responded when shown the
president’s speech. “Your average is 30
words, which is very high. A good
average would be 16-22 words.”
Ralph was especially critical of one
57-word sentence in the address.
LITTLE
THOMAS
Kef alas Wins, Pledges
"More Interesting" SGA
By LYNETTE FARRELL
Gus Kefalas, of Glen Allen, Va., was
elected Student Government Associa
tion president on Tuesday, April 20.
Kefalas previously served as a
member of the SGA at J.R. Tucker
High School in Richmond, Va.
Kefalas says that the biggest issue he
will concentrate on next year will be
trying to make things a little easier for
Chowan students. He wants things to be
“more interesting, and not so boring.”
Other officers elected include Bud
Thomas, vice-president; Barbara Lit
tle, secretary; and Kevin Thompson,
teasurer.
Thomas lives in West Hall and is from
Kilmarnock, Va. He gained previous
experience with leadership as president
and captain of his high school band.
Little, of Mount Gilead, was president
of Future Teachers of America in high
school.
Thompson, from Raleigh, has served
as a hall representative of Parker dorm
and as a member of a special events
conunittee.
Another objective of Kefalas is open
ing of Stone Hall as a 24-hour study
building. He also wants better and more
flexible hours in the cafeteria, library
and the gym. “They are here to serve
us and meet our needs, and not the
needs of the adminstration,” Kefalas
said.
Another of his concerns is a clear-cut
conduct of the judiciary process.
He wants students to know punish
ment for specific “crimes” beforehand.
He expressed his concern for un
fairness evident when “one person gets
slapped on the wrist” for doing
something and then someone else gets a
more serious punishment for the same
offense.
Voter turnout this election indicated a
lack of interest by in the campaign of
the student body less than 350 students
voted.
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of students out of the military as a
negative. “The military needs citizen
soldiers just as badly, if not more, as it
does the people who make the service
their career.”
The military needs the so-called “in-
and-outers” to “fill all the spots at the
bottom that long-term personnel
wouldn’t be interested in.”
“In the military, it’s critical to have
the average citizen represented. We
need people in there who aren’t depen
dent on the military for a career.
They’re the ones in a position to blow
the whistle without risking their
livelihood.”
Bachman says the program he asked
seniors about would be preferable to a
draft “even though the draft is much
less expensive. Anybody who thinks
about the draft to save money is think
ing in out-dated, inequitable terms.”
In addition, the computer admonish
ed the president to stop using abstract
phrases like “institutional inertia” and
“intellectual myopia.” A person would
need 18 years of education to be able to
adequately comprehend the speech,
Ralph calculated.
Although Christofferson, who could
not be reached for comment, may not
be over-joyed by Ralph, Kiefer reports
that “students reaction has been ex
tremely positive. We started the pro
gram last fall with 38 students, and this
semester we have 140 students par
ticipating. Almost 70 percent say they
would like another call using the com
puter.”
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DEDICATION -- Professor Linda Tripp (second from left) smiles happily as she is escorted by Mary Parker, editor of
the Chowonoka, to be honored with the dedication of the Chowan yearbook at the annual Honors Day program
April 30 in Helms Center. President Bruce E. Whitaker awaits her approach as faculty department heads applaud,
(from left) Dr. Garth Faile, Mrs. Geraldine Harris, Thomas Ruffin, Daniel Surface and Warren Sexton. (Staff Photo)