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Page 2—Smoke Signals, Thursday, October >4, 1982 Edited, printed and published by students at Chowan College for students, faculty end staff of CHOWAN COLLEGE Linda Cherry R.B. Gates Alison Gray B, J. Lewis EDITOR Wanda Bishop NEWS STAFF Micheal Mayo Joe McGarrity Pam Nobles Mike Shenuski PHOTOGRAPHY STAFF Greg Tutwiler Mario Salogo Kevin Wilbourne Walter Williams Johnny Barnes Koren Gurty Jeff Melton Doug Grahm Mark Owensby GUEST PERSPECTIVE By: Dr. B. Franklin Lowe, Jr. Dean of the College On 15 October, we will have completed one-half of the current fall semester. Just about one week thereafter, each student will receive a mid-term grade report. This particular report does not become a part of the student’s permanent record. It is designed to inform the student, together with his advisor and parents, of his progress and course standing at mid-term in the semester. Many students will be pleased and justifiably proud of their achievements. These fiave learned to balance their time wisely. They have developed good study habits. They are on the way to success - but they have not yet arrived! I would encourage these students to persist in their academic endeavors, and at the same time remind them that the level of difficulty in their classes is much more likely to increase than to decrease. Other students wil be disappointed and perhaps discouraged when they review their mid-term grades. Some will be disappointed in themselves, realizing that they have not given their t)est effort to their studies and knowing that their grades do not reflect their ability. Some few students will feel that they have made an honest effort, and will be disappointed that they have not been able to achieve better grades. Some, in frustration, will try to blame others (faculty, staff, or fellow students) for their failures. It is my hope that those students whose grades are less than satisfactory will use the mid-term experience to spur them on toward success. I would offer the following suggestions for the benefit of those students who are seriously interested in achieving academic success; 1. Budget your time wisely. Schedule your studies for those periods of time when you are mentally most active and alert. For example, too many students put off their studies until the late evening or even early morning hours. Very few of us can honestly say that we are at our best at such times. 2. Seek help when you need it. Take advantage of the opportunities provided through the math learning lab, laboratories in the Department of Business, the writing lab and tutorial service available through Special Services. Remember that ^'bur professors are available to assist you on an individual basis. Every teacher keeps at least ten hours per week reserved for conferences with students. If you have personal problems that interfere with your studies, consult with the Director of Counseling, the Cfiaplain or any member of the faculty-staff with whom you feel comfortable. 3. Make a wise choice of friends. Good friends are persons who are mutually supportive of each other. A person who insists on taking you away from your studies is not a friend, nor is a person who insists that you do those things that are contrary to your system of values. 4. Make a wise selection of other activities. It is the desire of Chowan College to educate the whole person - mind, body, and spirit. Choose those activities that will complement your academic pursuits, not detract from them. Get some exercise. Practically everyone feels better and is more alert if he exercises the body as well as the mind. Budget time for these activities around your studies. 5. Study! Study! Study! There is absolutely no substitute for this activity, nor is there any acceptable excuse for a student’s not engaging this activity. All the help and individual attention which are so readily available are of absolutely no benefit if the student does not engage in persistent, consistent, conscientious study. Most of you have heard me say it Ijefore, but I say it again both for emphasis and in the hope that some who didn’t quite believe before might do so now;Every student should plan to sudy on an individual basis approximately two hours outside of class for every hour spent in class. To do less than this is to court academic disaster. It is my desire, and indeed it is the desire of all of us on the faculty-staff, that every student enrolled at Chowan College have a successful academic experience. Be the best student and the best person you are capable of being. VfelcomeDock Alums News From College Press Service Mander Munching Spree Spoiled UNIVERSITY PARK, PA (CPS)-A 20- year tradition of eating live salamanders has finally come to an end for a Pennsylvania State University fraternity. Members of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity have bowed to pressures from their national office, the state fisheries commission, and a local animal rights group to stop their annual spring tradition of swallowing the tadpole-like creatures. "We used to eat salannanders as part of the annual Bowery Ball each spr ing,” confesses Mike ^gda, a fraterni ty member. “But we let it get around too much last year and it caused a lot of controversy. Now we’ll just have to do without it.” The trouble started last spring when a reporter and photographer from the Penn State Daily Collegian attended the Bowery Ball, an annual campus party, and witnessed fraternity members devouring live salamanders. After the story broke in the newspaper, a local animal rights group, Trans^pecies, complained to the fraternity’s national headquarters. In the meantime, the state fisheries commission charged the fraternity with violating state laws by breeding its own salamanders in a basement pool. “We used to have around 400-500 (salamanders) in a pool in the base ment,” Sagda recalls. “But we’ve stop ped that, too.” The national fraternity has also made it clear that the practice of “munching ‘manders” must come to an end. “If the undergraduates attempt this kind of activity next year,” warms Robert A. Briggs, director of charter services for the Phi Delta Theta na tional headquarters, “not only will they face possible suspension from their charter, but expulsion from member ship in Phi Delta Theta.” “I would guess that something like that (munching ‘manders) is a very isolated incident,” says Jack Anson, ex ecutive director of the National Inter- fraterrnity Conference. “I’ve certainly never heard about it at any other cam pus.” “No, it’s certainly not a tradition with the national fraternity,” adds a spokesman at the Phi Delta Theta head quarters. “I know the group has been sanctioned, and as far as we’re con cerned the matter is resolved. ” “I’ve eaten one salamander since I joined,” Sagda says without noticeable depression, “but that was enough. I think the record is around 40 or sometfiing, but the guy who did that spent the night in the hospital getting his stomach pumped.” Student & Pig Split GAINESVILLE, FL (CPS)- A Univer sity of Florida student who literally fried his pet guinea pig has begun serv ing an unusually tough jail sentence for cruelty to animals. UF math major George Schiro is ser ving 60 days and paying a $198 fine for abusing his pet Albert, who has since been taken away from him by the court. Police arrested Schiro earlier this summer after one of Schiro’s dorm neighbors reported hearing the guinea pig screaming. The neighbor, Ruth Rose, says she’s heard the butterscotch-colored rodent scream in pain before, and had seen Schiro throw Albert against a wall once. Besides putting Albert in a hot pan because the creature, according to Schiro's testimony, refused to play with him, Schiro forced the animal to take showers with him. “When he was brought in (to the Alachua County Humane Society) he just shivered and shook, like he was wondering, ‘What’s going to happen to me next?“ recalls Margo Duncan, Humane Society investigator. The animal’s feet were “scabby and bloody,” she adds. Albert was underweight and suffered from ab dominal swelling, probably the result of the showers, she says. Albert himself, now adopted by another Gainesville family, is “happy and doing just fine,” Duncan reports. “All his hair has grown back, and he comes when his name is called. He’s coming out of it all very nicely.” The Florida case was the second re cent instance of students disciplined for abusing animals. A Penn State fraterni ty was threatened with abolition last month for holding annual salamander- eating contest among its members. Getting Tough On Campus OT- r You'Re PaRr OF iT. aBoUT THe gcoHoMV ftOCKY MT>4. HtWg).NtA ■•0X Press Service BALTIMORE, MD (CPS) - Colleges and universities are getting much tougher on misbehaving students, ac cording to a study just released by the University of Maryland. The study shows that administrators are suspending 40 percent more students per year than they used to, are tightening disciplinary procedures, and making it easier to bring students before disciplinary boards. Based on a random survey of some 150 colleges, the study says 7.8 students per campus were suspended during the 1980-81 school year, compared to 5.5 students in 1979^0. There was also “a clear trend to increase the severity of sanctions” against students, says Dr. Scott Rickard, vice chancellor of student affairs at the University of Maryland- Baltimore and director of the survey. “Our reseach,” he adds, “indicates that administrators think there are too Trivia 1. When did Chowan first open its doors? 2. What was its name then? 3. When was the name changed to Chowan College? 4. Did Chowan close during the Civil War? 5. Who was Chowan’s first president? 6. How big was Chowan’s first class? 7. How many students enrolled this fall? 8. What was the score of Clhowan’s opening game this season against ECU JV’s? 9. Did Chowan close during World Warn? 10. Chowan students come from how many foreign countries? Department of Education (continued from Page 1) up to $2,000 a year under this program. Grant programs are designed to help most needy students get a college educaton. The Pell Grant, in particular, is targeted to help those students whose families earn less than $13,000 per year. Grant aid is not meant to cover all college costs but is expected to be combined with a reasonable con tribution from the student’s family and individual self-help, generally in the form of loans, private scholarships, and work. Another type of student financial assistance is the College Work-Study Program. Designed to provide on or off- campus jobs for undergraduate and graduate students who need financial assistance, Work-Study is usually managed by the college Financial aid administrator. Some 950,000 students will receive $528 million under this program in 1982-83 A great deal of publicity has been generated lately on federal student loans, particularly the National Direct Student Loan Program. Although all colleges do not participate in the NDSL program, 3,340 of them do. This pro gram makes available low interest (5 percent) loans that students must begin repaying six months after completing school (either by graduating, leaving, or dropping below half-time status). Up to 10 years is allowed to repay the loan. Application is made to a school’s finan cial aid administrator who manages the loan fund. The fund is a revol"ing ac count, designed to allow a school to con tinually make new loans as existing loans are repaid. About 800,000 students will recieve NDSLs in 1982-83; 10,000 more than 1981-82. Play Set By Maria Salaga The Crucible is a play about the Salem witch trials in the 1950’s. It in tails nineteen people being put to death. By rumors that they were practicing witch craft. The play will be presented in November. Miss Boyce declares it will be a success. She selected people willing to commit their time and energy to the play. Miss Boyce chose the Crucible because its one she has always wanted to do. It is a demanding play and she feels she has the right students for the parts. Of equal importance are the people who prepare the sets and costumes. Performances will be given on the evenings of November 3-6 .with a matinee at l:l§ wNpye(pl?er?,ij g'u, Boost the Braves From Other Schools (continued from Page 1) under the slashed programs. Florida State University, for exam ple, didn’t get its “look-up tables” for determining how much it could offer in GSLs until mid-July, though it usually gets it in June, complains FSU’s Ed Marsh. FSU still has “no official word” on how much it can give out in Pell Grants. “We haven’t received our final allocation,” confirms Michael Hal- loran, aid officer at the University of Southern California. “We anticipate losing about a half-million dollars in funding.” Martin says SEOG and College Work- Study awards, normally made in April, probably won’t happen until September this year.” Most schools, he adds, are running about two months behind in awarding Pell Grants. The result, says Northwestern’s aid director Andre Bell, “is a fair amount of hysteria and confusion this year.” The reason for the delay are subject to speculation. Indeed, Sally Kirkgasler of the Dept. I of Educatiopn calls the delays in SECXl and College Work-Study awards “overestimated,” and claims Pell Grants are “ahead of schedule.” “As far as schools not knowing how much their appropriations are,” she says, “ we sent out tentative letters in April, and un August schools were given the authority to draw on half that amount if they wanted to.” EDITOR’S NOTE: One of the biggest questions facing college students today is the question of financial aid. In at tempt to answer some of the questions, Smoke Signals is carrying two stories. One of them was furnished by the U.S. Department of Education and the other by Colleeiate Press Service. We would like to express our thanks to Mr. Cliff Collins, Chowan’s Financial Aid Of ficer, for his assistance in unraveling some of the mysteries of financial aid. Collins says, concerning the state ments by Sally Kirkgasler, As of September 17th, colleges did not know how much money they would receive in SEOG and College Work-Study awards for 1982. Tentative awards in the past have been at times larger than the final award and at other times, smaller. Not true planning can be34 done with ten tative awards.” Additionally, Collins said, Chowan received the Pell Grant Payment Schedule for 1982-82 during the week of September 5th. “Therefore, I do not understand how Pell Grants are ahead of schedule”, says Collins. Trivia Answers 1.''bct. 11,1848 ^ 2. Chowan Baptist Female Institute 3. 1910 4. no 5. Archibald McDowell 6. 11 young women 7. 1078 grand total enrollment fi069 total fulltime equivalency) 8. 7-7 9. yes 10. 25 Hoping For The Best many procedural rules” protecting students against disciplinary sanctions. “During the decade of the seventies, students due-process provisions were implemented extensively.” Student Affairs officers told Rickard’s reseachers that the rules had become “overly legalistic, cumbersome and too technical.” As a result, “many campuses are examining this so it is quicker, simpler and more accountable,” Rickard summarized. “They clearly want to maintain the necessary due-process rules to protect student rights, but many campuses feel it’s gone beyond what’s necessary.” The increase in the number of suspensions may, in addition to the effect easier disciplinary procedures, be due to move violence on campus. The survey found the number of physical assault cases among students increased by 75 percent between 1979-80 and 198(^1. ATTENTION TAXPAYERS I Your tax dollars, like | your paycheck dollars, I don’t stretch as far as | they used to. * Give your state * I government your best | ideas on how to stretch I tax dollars further by | calling * U4iste'Une * 11-800-662-7952 I I Toll-free in North Carolina ^ Governor's Office of Citizen Affairs Capitol. Raleigh, N.C. 27611 If you applied for any form of finan cial aid for this academic year, you are somewhat aware of the confusion that has existed this summer. There have 'been delays for first one reason than another. In his attempt to get the government on its feet. President Reagan asked Congress to reduce ther funding for stu dent financial aid. As a result some of the following happened; 1. The number of Pell Grants pro cessed per week was reduced. This sav ed overtme pay during the peak time. Therefore, many students still have not received their Student Aid Reports. 2. Guaranteed Student Loans are based on need if the family’s adjusted gross income is over $30,000. The chart for figuring need was not released until late May. Therefore, the processing of these loans was delayed. In past years processing began as early as March. Today College Foundation has not com pleted processing the applications they received in June. 3. Colleges still do not know how much money they have for NDSL, SEOG and College Work-Study. 4. The official Pell Grant Schedule arrived during the week of September 5. If the above did not cause enough confusion. Congress on September 10 over-rode President Reagan’s veto of a Supplemental Appropiations Bill. This added funds to the Pell Grant and SECX} programs. Therefore, as soon as we receive a new Pell Grant Payment Schedule, we will have to revise the award letters of all Pell Grant reci pients who are affected by the addi tional funds. If all goes will, we hope to have awards for this year finalized by November 1. It is now time to start thinking about next year. Already the federal ad ministration is causing delays. The need analysis forms (FFS and FAF); have no been printed due to things the government is doing to reduce funds. Instead of the forms being available in November, it now appears that they will not be available until sometime in January. Although this may cause some delays, I feel that the funding for federal financial aid programs for next year will be the same as it is for this year. ^ampus Paperback Bestseller^ 1. The World According To Garp, by John Irving. (Pocket, $3.95.) Outrageous story of T.S. Garp. 2. Real Men Don't Eat Quiche, by Bruce Feirstein. (Pocket, $3.95.) A hilarious guide to masculinity. 3. Thin Thighs In 30 Days, by Wendy Stehling. (Bantam, $2.95.) How to tone up and thin down. 4. Cu|o, by Stephen King. (NAL/Signet, $3.95.) Another tale of horror from the master. 5. E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, by William Kotzwinkle (Berl^y, $2.95.) Novel of the popular film. 6. The Soul 01 A New Machine, by Tracy Kidder. (A'^on, $3,95.) Behind the scenes at a computer company. 7. The Hotel New Hampshire, by John'irving (Pocket, $3.95.) Utest novel by the author of "Garp." 8. What Color Is Your Parachute?, by Richard Nelson Bolles (Ten Speed Press. $6,95.) Career and job guide. ® Complex, by Colette Dowling. (Pocket, $3.95^Uncovers the roots of women's inner conflicts. 10. Color Me Beautiful, by Carole Jackson (Ballantine, $8.95.) A how-to book for women. MtMMifNX/IIMcauMry It
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