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THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER
OF CHOWAN COLLEGE
APRIL 1990 VOLUME 18, NUMBERS
Jackson Inauguration
set for April 24
Trumpets
to summons
procession
Trumpet voluntaries from the
second balcony of McDowell Col
umns building will summons the
procession of robed faculty and
visiting dignitaries down the tree-lined
walk through the heart of the campus
for the official inauguration of Dr.
Jerry Francis Jackson as Chowan’s
twentieth president on April 24. This
important day in the history of the
college will conclude with discussion
and debate about the future of
education in a symposium chaired by
Dixie Goswami of Clemson Univer
sity, who also directs the nationally
known Bread Loaf School of Writing
at Middlebury College, Vermont.
Goswami is the recipient of Clemson’s
Faculty Award for Excellence in
Research Teaching and Service, 1989,
and recipient of SAMLA’s Award for
Excellence in College Teaching,
1987. She recently co-edited
Reclaiming the Classroom; Word
Processing in a Community of Writers;
Writing in Non-Academic Settings.
Jerry and Carolyn Jackson will
begin the day by greeting delegates,
dignitaries, visitors, faculty, and
students in the President’s Dining
Room. From there participants will
robe and process to the front of Mc
Dowell Columns Building for the
inaugural convocation. Dr. Thomas E.
Corts, president of Samford Univer
sity, will be the keynote speaker.
As president of Samford, Dr. Corts
heads Alabama’s largest privately-
supported institution of higher learn
ing, one of the nation’s largest
Southern Baptist universities. He is a
graduate of Georgetown College and
holds the master’s and Ph.D. degrees
from Indiana University. An author of
numerous journal articles who is in
high demand as a speaker, Dr. Corts
has served as president of the National
Fellowship of Baptist Educators and
member of the Executive Committee,
Foundation for Independent Higher
Education.
The inaugural ceremonies will begin
at 10:30 a.m., and will include Dr.
Corts’s keynote address. A musical
highlight of the ceremonies will be
trumpet voluntaries performed by
Barry Bauguess of New Bern and his
five-piece brass ensemble. Bauguess is
one of the top three classical baroque
trumpeters in the nation, and his en
semble has garnered many awards.
Dr. Jackson will deliver his
inaugural address following greetings
from the state of North Carolina and
the town of Murfreesboro; from the
students, faculty, alumni. Board of
Visitors, and Board of Trustees of the
college; and from the Baptist State
Convention of North Carolina.
Following luncheon on the Campus
Green, a symposium entitled,
“Educating for the Twenty-first Cen
tury,” chaired by Dixie Goswami of
Clemson University, will begin at
1:00 p.m. in the Turner Auditorium of
McDowell Columns building. The
symposium will consider such topics
as directions in education, how to get
students working at college level, and
how to compensate for poor reading
and writing backgrounds among
today’s students. The floor will be
open for discussion and questions.
Also participating in the symposium
will be Jack Murrah, president of the
Lyndhurst Foundation and member of
the Board of the Center for Documen
tary Studies at Duke University.
Murrah has been on numerous
national educational committees, in
cluding the Review Panel for the
Department of Education’s proposal
for five-year funding for the National
Center for Reading. Joining Goswami
and Murrah will be James Kirkland
and Patrick Bizzaro of East Carolina
University. Kirkland, who has direc
ted freshman composition at ECU for
fifteen yeara, has traveled widely with
Bizzaro, former director of ECU’s
Writing Center and presently chair of
that school’s Writing-Across-the-
Curriculum, to consult and conduct
workshops. Most recently Bizzaro has
consulted with Burroughs-Wellcome
on writing for business and industry.
Also on the panel will be Dr. Connie
Eble, professor of English at UNC-
Chapel Hill, well-known linguist, who
teaches a course on Black dialect at
UNC, and was a consultant for the
PBS series History of the English
Language. Eble will discuss black
dialect.
Throughout the inaugural day there
will be opportunities to visit an art
exhibit featuring the Chowan Art
Department’s permanent collection
and a photography exhibit sponsored
by the Department of Graphic Com
munications. The Archival Collection
of Chowan College will also be on
display from 2:00-4:00 p.m., in the
McDowell Room of Archives and An
tiquities in Whitaker Library.
An Inauguration Conunittee chaired
by Dr. Dorothy Hill, English Depart
ment, will coordinate the day’s ac
tivities.
Student Development
sponsors Alcohol
Referral Program
By Karen Uberti
Student Development at Chowan
College sponsored an Alcohol
Referral Program on March 13, 1990.
Students who violated the college’s
policy on alcohol were required to at
tend. However, others who were in
terested in learning about the effects of
alcohol were welcome.
This program was started in 1984.
There are an average of ten persons
who must attend the lecture which oc
curs once every month.
Linda Tripp, the speaker during the
program says, “I feel that the program
is educational rather than disciplinary.
I believe that anybody could benefit
from attending.”
Some startling statistics were told to
the students. For example, fifty per
cent of all automobile accidents that
are fatal to drivers are caused by drunk
See other contest winning photos inside
On March 13, 1990, Mr. Gatewood, Mr.
Sowell and Mr. White gathered to judge the
photos. By process of elimination they came up
with the winners. The entire process took over an
hour. The staff of Smoke Signals would like to
thank them. Mrs. Eason of the Computer Center
is commended for her work on the certificates—
a job well done. Last but not least, a special thank
you to those who took the time and entered the
contest.
First Place Winner
Scenic, Freshmen Division
Photo by Marc Demaaijer
Records Management Class
takes on-campus field trip
drivers. One third of all pedestrians
who are killed are done so by drunk
drivers. Twenty-five percent of all
North Carolina drivers have been
drinking, two percent are legally
drunk. Finally, there are thirteen
million alcoholics in the United States.
The BAC (blood alcohol content)
level in North Carolina in which a per
son is considered legally drunk is .10.
There has, however, been discussion
of reducing that level to .08.
The program consists of an in
troduction, a true/false quiz,
discussion, a film, and an evaluation
of the Alcohol Referral Program.
The program is extremely in
formative and interesting. The next
program will be held next month. The
date will be posted in the campus
calendar.
The Records Management class of
E*rofessor Patricia B. Edwards was.
able to see first-hand how students’
records are maintained in the
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as well as how they were kept in the
early I800’s when all records were
written in long-hand. Students were
able to see how technology has
Got a gripe
about Chowan?
Did you know that there is a college
committee that meets monthly to listen
to your gripes and problems? It is
called the Faculty/Student Relations
Committee and is composed of
faculty, staff, and students.
The next meeting will be Thursday,
April 19, in McSweeney Hall, Room
105. Mr. George Hazelton is the
chairman of the committee in case you
would like to contact him, but it is not
necessary—JUST COME TO THE
MEETING with your campus gripe!
Alpha Beta
Gamma initiates
new members
The Beta Tau Chapter of Alpha Beta
Gamma inducted nine new members
during a candlelight ceremony held in
Marks Hall Auditorium, Thursday,
March 1, The service was conducted
by current officers, Janerose Kinyan-
jui, president; Lori Jones, secretary-
treasurer, and Kevin Johnson, projects
chairman.
New initiates were Darlene Artis,
Robert Bazemore, Whitney Cuth-
bertson, James E. Harrison, Sherry
Lynn Morse, Jill D. Overton, Greg
Rollins, Chris Stallings, and Amy Un
derwood.
The initiates and several business
faculty members enjoyed dinner and
fellowship at a local restaurant
following the ceremony.
Alpha Beta Gamma is a National
Business Honor Society established in
1970 to recognize and encourage
scholarship among college students in
business curricula. To achieve this
goal. Alpha Beta Gamma provides an
opportunity for the development of
leadership and service, and in
tellectual climate for exchange of
ideas, lively fellowship for scholars,
and stimulation of interest in con
tinuing academic excellence.
Mrs. Renee Drake and Ms. Patricia
Edwards serve as the club sponsors.
changed from recording records in
long-hand to other methods of keeping
and controlling records to what the
procedures are today using electronic
computef equipment.
and Mrs. Betty Rose, assistants to the
Registrar, conducted the tour-lecture.
Records Management students also
toured the office of the Secretary to the
Faculty, where Mrs. Marion Foster
demonstrated the Scantron machine
(grades students’ papers elec
tronically) the Canon Hi-speed Copier
(copies 50 pages per minute) that can
also enlarge or reduce linages, the
folding machine that folds at the rate
of several dozen documents per
minute, and the offset machine with
plate maker and conversion, which
sets plates for the offset machine.
Mrs. Betty Godwin, administrative
assistant in the Admissions Office,
demonstrated the signawre machine,
which electronically records an almost
perfect facsimile of President Jerry
Jackson’s legal signature. Mrs. God
win also demonstrated her computer
equipment and showed students how
with the merge feature, the computer
will address envelopes automatically.
National
Library
Week ’90
“Reach for a Star. Ask a
Librarian.” is the theme of National
Library Week—April 22-28.
Whitaker Library is staffed with
librarians who are trained to help you
find the answers you need. Celebrate
National Library Week by visiting
your library, asking questions, and
learning more about the resources
available for you.
During National Library Week
bookmarks displaying the theme will
be given to students and drawings for
prizes will be held. Students may
begin registering for prizes April 16.
Drawings will be held at noon each
day April 23-27.
The following prizes are to be
awarded:
Monday, April 23—T-Shirt
Tuesday, April 24—Free Meal (The
Pizza Inn)
Wednesday, April 25—Free Meal
(The China Garden)
Thursday, April 26—Poster
Friday, April 27—Poster
printing as many “originals” as
needed—all of these tremendous time
savers in terms of man power (or
“wo-man” power).
-Mrs. Peggy Hare, Student Loans —
Officer, demonstrated her electronic
typewriter that has some word
processing capabilities, explaining
that technology is advancing so rapidly
that this machine, which she has had
only four years and which has about
326K of memory, has now been
replaced with one that has much more
memory and even more word
processing capabilites.
Mrs. Catherine Wood, Reference
Librarian in Whitaker Library, gave a
tour-lecture of the record-keeping
facilities used there. She demonstrated
and explained the differenc* in
microfilm and microfiche for reducing
images and storage and how these
documents are read and can be copied
on photocopying machines. Students
also saw movable shelving for storage
that saves a great deal of space. Mrs.
Wood stated that these shelves are
moved about manually, but that elec
tronically operated movable shelves
were also available.
28 students included
in Who’s Who 1990
The 1990 edition of Who’s Who
Among Students in American Junior
Colleges will include the names of 28
students from Chowan College who
have been selected as national out
standing campus leaders.
Campus nominating committees and
editors of the annual directory have in
cluded the names of these students
based on their academic achievement,
service to the community, leadership
in extracurricular activities and poten
tial for continued success.
They join an elite group of students
selected from more than 1,400 in
stitutions of higher learning in all 50
states, the District of Columbia and
several foreign nations.
Outstanding students have been
honored in the annual directory since
it was first published in 1934.
Students named this year from
Chowan College, and their
hometowns, are: Janice Morgan
Askew, Eure; Polly Denise Babb,
Roanoke Rapids; Caron D. Bailey,
Clayton, Delaware; Robert Thomas
Bazemore, Cofield; Julie Anne Best,
Rich Square; Juliet Sellers Brooks,
Kinston; Joudy Lynn Council, Ivor,
Virginia; Whitney Leigh Cubertson,
Murfreesboro; Rupal Desai, Mur
freesboro; Dana Lee Goins,
Harrellsville; Wendy Marie Holland,
Burlington; Hunter Allen Hopkins,
Louisa, Virginia; James Russell John
son, Charlottesville, Virginia; Lori
Patricia Jones, Twenty Nine Palms,
California; Janerose Wanjiku Kinyan-
jui, Nairobi, Kenya; Holly J. Larsen,
Leesburg, Virginia; David Scott
Lewter, Murfreesboro; Lori Denyse
Nold, Burlington; Christie Faye
Parker, Harrellsville; Randy Troy
Perry, Virginia Beach, Virginia;
Rebekah Scott Resor, Chilhowie,
Virginia; Jerod James Rose,
Seaboard; James M. Rumbold, III,
Elizabethtown; Atsuko Shimowada,
Ibaraki, Japan; Jonathan Harris
Taylor, Vanceboro; Jennifer Louise
Towell, Springfield, Virginia; Ken
neth R. Traino, Marlton, New Jersey;
Thomas Franklin Wilkerson, Raleigh.
Spring
Festival
Plans
By Ken Traino
Chowan College’s Spring Festival
will be held April 17-21, 1990. The
Student Government Association has
planned a varity of events for you, the
students, to enjoy. From the famed
“Jello Wrastlin” to a semi-fomial
dance Saturday night, everyone should
find something to enjoy. The students
that will stay on campus will have one
of the best times of their lives. SGA
has planned so many wonderful ac
tivities that most of you won’t know
what to do. The following is a
schedule of events for the week of
April 17-21, 1990. A reminder to all,
all events are subject to change
without notice at the discretion of the
Student Government Association.
There will be more details about
these events as Spring Festival nears.
Take note of the posters and signs as
they are posted.
See Festival Schedule Inside.