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‘Mark Twain' Show
presented In Columns
Mark Twain is alive and well and per
formed in Murfreesboro earlier this
week!
Television personality Ken Richters
brought his one^nan show “Mark
Twain On Tour” to the campus for one
performance in McDowell Columns’
Turner Auditorium on Tuesday, Oc
tober 2.
The program was made possible by
the Student Government Association
and the Fine Arts Department, co
sponsors. As a cfflnmunity service, ad
mission was free.
The production, which began it’s
yearly tour in September with a series
of performances in Boston and New
York, has been presented nearly 700
times in the past six season. This
winter, the show will be presented for
the first time in Alaska. In May, 1985,
the production returns to Europe for a
number of lectures and performances.
Real “Mark Twain”
Bom Samuel Langhome Clemens at
Hannibal, Mo., in 1935, the celebrated
humorist spent his 75-year life in a
variety of jobs, including steamboat
pilot (the call “mark twain” signaled
channel depth on the Mississippi
River), reporter, editor, publisher, and
traveling lecturer.
He kept a lavish mansion in Hartford,
Conn., but fought bankruptcy triggered
by bad investments through lecture
tours started in 1893.
Twain, most widely known for The
Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and Adven
tures of Hnckleberry Finn, has been
called “an outrageous prankster and a
gloomy pessimist.” With virtually no
subject too sacred to comment on, his
opinions on education and politics are
(rften quoted:
Miss Paffe
joins faculty
in typography
By NORRIS HENDRIX
Miss Betsy Paffe, a Chowan graduate
in the Class of 1980, has been appointed
to a faculty position in the Department
of Graphic Communications, and began
her responibilities at the beginning of
this academic year.
The new professor, who replaces
Mrs. Patsy Marks, transferred to
Rochester Institute of Technology after
completing her studies at Chowan, and
received her baccalaureate degree
there in May, 1982.
A native of High Point, Miss Paffe ac
cepted a position with a specialty prin
ting operation in Winston-Salem follow
ing her graduation from RIT, and was
responsible for the company’s typeset
ting department.
In her new position at Chowan, Miss
Paffe will be teaching both beginning
and advanced Typography.
“It could possibly be shown by facts
and figures that there is no distinctly
native criminal class in the United
States.. except for Congress.”
“In the first place, God made idiots.
This was for practice. Then he made
School Boards.”
Touring for Six Years
Richters has been touring with this
unique one-man production for the past
six years, following nearly three years
of research into Mark Twain’s public
and private life. The actor is in his late
twenties and spends “nearly three
hours” in make-up application to com
plete the transformation to the elderly
Twain.
A familiar face to television au
diences around the country, he has per
formed in films, and on a number of
network television shows. Some of Mr.
Richters’ recent credits include “The
Dawn of Summer,” “Soap,” “Happy
Days,” “Search for Tomorrow,” and
“Johnny We Hardly Knew Ye” for NBC
television. He has appeared as Mark
Twain for AT and the Bell
Telephone, on the Public Broadcasting
System, and before members of Con
gress in Washington, D. C.
KEN RICHTERS
RICHTERS AS TWAIN
Friday, October 5, 1984
VOLUME 14
NUMBER 1
► STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF CHOWAN COLLEGE
Homecoming to highlight
"Chov^an Spirit Week 1984
If
The traditional Homecoming Day on
October 28 will serve as a climax to
“Chowan College Spirit Week 1984”, ac
cording to Mrs. Diane Reichard, Direc
tor of Student Activities. The week will
be filled with games, music, shows,
movies and the annual Homecoming
football game and should prove to be
one of the biggest weeks of the college
year.
The Homecoming Parade will be
staged on Thursday evening, October
25, beginning from Helms Center’s
south parking lot at 5:00 p. m. The
parade route will include a trip down
Murfreesboro’s Main Street with a
return to the campus by the main en
trance. Various clubs and organizations
will have entries in the parade, along
with the cheerleaders and the college
stage band.
Band Festival
On Saturday, October 27, beginning
Portraits
are made
A total of 738 students, faculty and
staff members had individual portraits
made for the 1985 edition of the college
yearbook earlier this month. A profes
sional photographer was on duty the en
tire week of September 17, in Robert
Marks Hall auditorium, to make
photographs for the yearbook, ac
cording to faculty advisors of the
publication.
Proofs of the portraits will be shown
in approximately two weeks, at which
time orders will be received from those
persons wishing color enlargements.
Each person will also be requested to
select the pose desired for inclusion in
the yearbook.
According to members of the year
book staff, 45 of the college’s 54 full
time faculty members had their por
traits made, along with 44 staff
members. A total of 649 students had
portraits made, and will be included in
the forthcoming edition of THE
CHOWANOKA.
at 9:00 a. m., the annual Marching
Band Festival will begin with competi
tion among high school bands from
throughout the northeastern section of
the state.
The Festival, under the directorship
of Professor Bob Brown, will be held in
the college stadium with free admis
sion. The group receiving top honors
will perform at halftime of the football
game and be recognized as “Band of
the Day.”
Chowan’s 1984 Homecoming Queen
will be crowned during halftime ac
tivities of the football game by Presi
dent Bruce E. Whitaker, who will also
announce the freshman princess. Can
didates for the Homecoming Court will
be nominated by campus residence
halls and the day student organization,
with elections to be held in Lakeside
Student Center on Wednesday, October
17.
The traditional Homecoming football
classic will pit the Chowan Braves
against the strong Potomac State Cata
mounts of Keyser, West Virginia.
Other Activities
According to Mrs. Reichard, other
activities already scheduled for “Spirit
Week 1984” include a Pep Rally and
bonfire on Thursday, october 25, im
mediately following the Homecoming
Parade. At 8:00 P. M., on the same
evening, the movie “Twilight Zone”
will be shown in Turner Auditorium of
McDowell Columns.
“TFC” will provide music for the
Homecoming Dance, scheduled in
Lakeside Student Center on Saturday
evening, October 27. Admission to this
event is free, with semi-formal dress
being required.
Special Efforts
Special efforts are being made to
make “Spirit Week 1984” a success,
says Mrs. Reichard. The Student Ac
tivities Director has volunteered her
services to assist any residence hall,
club, or department in planning other
activities.
The necessary forms to become a
part of the special week may be obtain
ed from the Dean of Students’ office, or
at Lakeside Student Center.
Court election scheduled
All persons nominated for the 1984 Homecoming Court face a
busy schedule during the coming weeks as they prepare for the
"big day on campus. The first meeting of the Court nominees
will be held in the Conference Room of Lakeside Student Center
on Monday, October 8, at 6:30 f*. M.
On Monday and Wecnesday, October 15 and 17, the nominees
will be introduced to the student body during assemblies in
Turner Auditorium of McDowell Columns.
The election of the Homecoming Court will be held in Lakeside
Student Center on Wednesday, October 17. The polls will be
open from noon until 2:00 P. M., and will re-open from 4:30 until
6:45 P. M. Results of the election, and the names of the 1984
Homecoming Court, will be posted in the student center the
following day.
'Showdown '84' campus forums
on presidential election slated
Aiming to help students cast a better
informed vote on Nov. 6th, the National
Student Campaign for Voter Registra
tion (NSCVR) has announced plans to
organize simultaneous forums on the
Presidential elections at over 100 cam
puses on Oct. 21.
The campus detabes, collectively titl
ed “Showdown ’84”, will be held im
mediately before or after the nationally
televised debate between Walter Mon-
dale and Ronald Reagan. The Presiden
tial debate will also be aired on large
screen televisions during the events.
“Students are strongly concerned
about the issues, but are often unin
formed about the candidates’ positions
on those issues and the implications of
those stands,” observed Gary Kalman,
a senior at Clark (MA) University and
NSCVR chairperson. “These forums
are designed to augment this cam
paign’s personality politics with
substantive discussion on the issues.”
The campus debates will feature pro
minent individuals analyzing campaign
issues such as the arms race, the
economy, civil rights, the environment,
women's issues and education polocy.
Co-sponsors with NSCVR of the
debate include Project Vote, Southwest
Voter Registration Education Project,
Human SERVE, United States Public
Interest Research Group, United States
Student Association, The Difference,
American Association of University
Women, Public Citizen, Environmental
Safety, and the Children’s Foundation.
The National Student Campaign for
Voter Registration is a non-partisan
organization which conducts voter
registration and voter education cam
paigns across the country. A project of
the student-directed Public Interest
Research Groups, NSCVR was founded
this February at a conference of 1,500
student leaders from 42 states.
Students interested in organizing
“Showdown ’84” debates at their cam
pus should contact NSCVR at (617)
357-9016.
Help us help you
Checking credentials for registration
Dr. B. Franklin Lowe, Jr., (right) Dean of the College, checks identifica
tion cards and registration admission cards of students eqlering Marks
Hall to register for fall semester classes. Students were admitted to the
building at certain time intervals and according to their lost initial to
eliminate waiting in line for long periods of time. Good weather prevail
ed for the registration day and almost every student reported no dif
ficulties in registering for their classes.
Students respond to the col
lege experience in a variety of
ways. Some freshman find
Chowan to be stressful because
it is too different from high
school. Others find being away
from home, their parents and
hometown friends a source of
stress. Although some stress is
necessary before personal
growth can occur, stressful
events can be seen by a college
student as challenging or
threatening.
When Chowan College is seen
as a challenge, stress is thought
of as a sense of competence and
as an increased capacity to
learn. Students who see
Chowan as a threat sometimes
think they are in a helpless
situation and experience a
sense of loss.
Symptoms commonly
associated with college-related
stress are the inability to do the
quality of work expected by
professors, the fear of
academic failure, the worry of
not being able to measure up to
the expections of parents or
one’s self-image, and the
tendency to be overly critical of
people and conditions within
the environment.
A measure of distress among
college students is indicated in
the dropout rate. Educators
estimate that 50 percent of the
people who enter college in the
United States do not finish col
lege four years later. Students
who feel a mismatch between
themselves and their college
wish to leave. They want to
distance themselves from the
source of stress.
Part of the maturing process
is learning to cope with stress.
Professional people discover
ways to perform under
stressful conditions. Successful
college students develop their
own strategies for achieving
their personal goals and career
objectives.
■The reduction of stress
begins with the individual being
“big enough” to take control
over his/her education and life.
Freshman should expect to
confront the following situa
tions in college:
1. A feeling of greater isola
tion in college than in high
school;
2. A greater diversity of
social, economic and religious
backgrounds in fellow students
than in high school;
3. A greater range of teaching
styles by college professors
than by high school teachers;
4. A tendency for grades to be
based more on written work
than on class performances;
5. Less feedback about
academic progress than in high
school;
6. Greater competition for
grades and positions of leader
ship in college than in high
school; and
7. A greater personal respon
sibility for managing time.
Given sufficient time, most
freshman will develop a sense
of control as they become more
independent. Independent
students make their own deci
sions and control their lives.
They understand the environ
ment in which they live and
make the necessary ad
justments. They can
distinguish between important
and trivial issues and do not
waste their time on mean
ingless and self- destructive ac-
tivites.
To become independent,
students must analyze
themselves, analyze “the
system,” and accept the best
that Chowan College has to of
fer. The approach for becoming
a successful student can be
summed up in four words—
HELP US HELP YOU.
Students who are having
problems adjusting to Chowan
College are urged to seek help
from the following persons;
their faculty advisors; their
professors; their coaches; their
resident assistants; Mrs. Linda
Tripp, Director of Counseling
and Career Development;
Dean Earl Dilday, Associate
Dean of Students; Mr. D. H.
Nicholson, Registrar; and Dr.
Hargus Taylor, Chaplain.
Students who are ex
periencing academic concerns
should see someone in Special
Services about receiving help
through a tutor. Special Ser
vices is located on the ground
floor of Whitaker Library.
There are many sources of
help available to students at
Chowan College who will let us
help them. The bottom line
reads-HELP US HELP YOU.