NOVEMBER 1992 VOLUME 20, NUMBER 2
■THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER
OF CHOWAN COLLEGE
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To defend Region X title
Chowan undergoing
Braves gearing up for new season accreditation process
By M Biddlecomb
As the weather becomes cooler,
things will be heating up at the
Jesse Helms Center. The Chowan
men’s basketball team is ready to
defend its Region X title against all
ft)es. Coach Bob Buike and the
Braves have beai at woik since
eariy October fine tuning their skills
for the school’s final campaign at
tiie Junior colege level.
The Braves will have a differmt
k)ok this year with the loss of six
staiters fnm last years 25-8 squad.
A loss of this much talent would
cause many coadies to push the
panic button, but Coach Buike sees
ttiis as an on going process of
mDvfing new talent to the forefront
“The temis ‘rebuilding’ or ‘tran
sition’ are not to be used at this
level,” Buike stated, “we are sim
ply reshaping the temi by mixing a
few new faces with returning play-
ere in order to achieve the sane
result.”
The result has been an averags
of 25 wins per season over the past
12 years and 300 victories under
coach Buike. This seascxi should
be no different fiom the years past
as Chowan fields what is pnob^y
its largest team ever with an aver
age height of 6’5”. Among these
layers is a pool of talent that will
I^ace ttie Braves among the top
contenders for the Region X cham
pionship.
The team will be based around
three returning sofrfiomores who
saw considerate amount of iky
ing time last seascxi. Sophornote
Albert Telfair returns to t^e over
the shooting guard postioa Last
year during his fresltmen appren
ticeship, Telfair scorched the nets
Coach Bob Burke gives instructions to the team during a break in the
action.
The Braves provide exciting play in Hebns Center as they meet some cf
the best teams in the region.
fiom outside while averaging 10
points per game. With the loss of 3
point maricsman Andy Kelly to
Clemson, Telfair seems poised to
step in as a dominant 3 point
shooter.
The Braves also have size and
experience returning under the
ba^eL Algernon Moore (6’6, 215
lbs.) averaged 7 points and 4 re-
boimds and will be a force to be
reckoned with this year. Joining
Moore will be Ka-Ron Edmunds
(6’7, 200 lbs.) who has proven to
te an aggressive rebounder and
inside scorer.
Futher down the the roster it is
clear to see that the Braves are not
as inexperienced as some may
think. Red shirt sofiiomore Troy
Dollyhigh, Marie Stinson, Bemaid
Powers, and Roy Hendereon re
turn to the team with prior knowl
edge of the team’s system. In Janu
ary, sophomore Melvin Brooks will
become eligible along with Der
rick Wall. The soptomorc, Wall,
is a transfer fiom the U.S. Naval
Academy.
With the departure of Damell
White and Corey Baker, the Braves
will have some big shoes to fill at
TVip to Nation's capitol interesting, entertaining
By Todd Lucado
On Monday, November 9th,
Chowan students and faculty be
gan boaiding a charter bus at 5:00
am for a fiin filled day in the na-
tiwi’s capitoL The bus pulled out
of Chowan at 6:00 and bra excite
ment was fdt by all as we knew we
were going to make the best of
times. The lau^iter and jokes were
a big part in the 5 hour bus ride.
As the bus pulled off at a rest
station before 1-95 to let the pas
sengers stretch, many ran to the
bathrooms or to grab a soda. Some
were a Me mesmerized by the
Hvis Presley look-alike behind the
counter. What an experience that
was!
Later on around 9:30 or 10:00,
everyone seemed to revive firom
their morning grumpiness, and
COTiversations were started.
Around 11:300 the bus arrived
at a traffic jam, as many cars were
headed for work or lunch. We
pulled iqj in front of the Lincoln
Memorial at noon and were
dropped off to see the Vietnam
Memorial as welL Since Veterans
day fdlowed on that Wednesday,
ceremonies were being held as each
name of the wall was announced.
Friends and families of P.O.W.s
were in awe as flowers were draped
up and down the wall Emotions
rang out as the televised ceremony
broadcasted live. By now our time
at this location had expired and we
mrnif Hfifiif
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The White House was one cf the places visited during theWashington visit.
were due back on the bus.
After everyone boarded once
again, ttie bus maneuvered througji
the streets of Washington to cwie of
the most popular j^aces: The Air
and Space Museum. Students were
given m^ of the mall area and
were told to be back around 5^X).
Next, students were released on
their own to visit Washington, D.C.
Some experienced a culture shock
fiom the homeless in the street,
trying to keep wann by buikling
fires in the p^ trashcans.
Some students headed to the
Hard Rock Cafe for lunch and tee-
shirts. The new Star-Trek exhibit
was jammed with people trying to
see autographs and even the actual
ears worn by Spock.
The Natural Museum of His
tory was visited by a lar;ge number
of people. There were things to see
here such as a t»rd devouring a
tarantula, or the gems and preciois
stones of the wonderful Hope
Diamonds.
As the day ran on and the sun
began to set, we all collaborated in
fiort of the Museum before board
ing the bus. A bagged dinner was
{TOvided by the school and was
During the week of November
15th through 18th a Substitive
Change Committee will be at
Chowan College in preparation for
Chowan’s candklacy to a Level II
accredited school. This will up
grade our current two year Associ
ates Degree program to a four year,
Bachetor of Arts Degree program.
The degrees availaWe will in
dude: Printing. Physical Educa
tion, Religion, Business Admini
stration, Music, Education, Art,
Sdences, and a new addition of
Liberal Arts.
The Liberal Arts Degree will
not be as stractured as the tradi-
tiaial fidds of study. The degree
will indude 124 cr^t hours with
guidelines in English, Language,
and math, and balanced with dec-
tives chosen by the student and his
advisor. This gives the student the
opportunity to chose a cross-sec
tion of courses.
For this accreditation the com
mittee will be reviewing faculty,
staff and student records and cre
dentials. Also included will be
records in Chowan’s financial
records, financial aid, lilxary fa-
dlities and s’.i'xx)rt Thev wiD be
interviewing the faculty and stu
dents to get a view of life on cam
pus.
They jdan to mingle with the
students during the four days in
cluding meals in the cafeteria.
This is a historic event for
Chowan College and the culmina
tion of years of rigorous prepara
tion.
the point guard position. Coach
Burke is optimistic about finding a
replacement to run the Chowan
offense. During the eariy part of
the season, freshmen Ron Ajim,
Dannell Richardson, and Mike
Johnson will be called upon to
contribute to the Brave back court
“November and December will
be a period of firxling an effective
back court combination,” Burke
said. “By January our positions
sfiould be stable as we enter corv-
ference play.”
This season’s schedule is not as
spread out nationally as in the past
Most of the opponents will come
from the Carolina-Virginia area.
The number of games has been
reduced fiom 31 to 25. However,
the Braves will still travel to Flor
ida and participate in the Pepsi
NTT in Ckala, Florida on Novem
ber 26-28. This nationally ac
claimed tournament features some
of the fiercest junior college com
petition in the country. Here the
Braves wiU be challenged right
fiDm the start as they face Daytona
Beach Community College. Like
Chowan, Daytona Beach also
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Homecoming Queen for *92
Anita Gaskins, escorted by her father, showed surprise when it was announced
that she had been named Queen for 1992. More photos from the Homecomng
weekend on inside pages.—Photo by D. Griffin
Many students enjoy
pUgrimage to N. Y.
haiKted out fro the ride back to
Chowan.
Many tried to sleep on the ride
back, but Joanie Hanson’s book of
jokes kept everyone in laughter. It
was obvious tlM there would be no
rest OT the way back. After a
seemingly quick ride home, the
bus arrived on Chowan campus at
9:30.
We would all like to send a great
many thank yous to the Junior class
for [banning this trip and ^nsor
Gilbet Tripp. If not for the hard
worlc and planning, rxxie of this
would have been possible.
By Noel Mitchell
We left Murfreesboro about
11:00 at ni^ We had almost
thirty people. Some of us knew
five or six others, some knew two
or tfuee, and some (like myself)
knew none, but we had one thing in
common: we had all made up our
minds to experience the weirdest,
most diversified plk» in America.
When the bus parked on forty-
sixth street in Manhattan, the sun
was brigJiL Even after being on the
bus all night, nobody wanted to
sleep. Everybody put up their bags,
ma^ took a shower and went out
Some went shopping. Others saw
sights. The rest wound up God
only knows where, but everybody
enjoyed themselves. I guess most
of us got arourxl four hours of sleep
that night, just enough to stay rested
in order to go for twenty hours the
next day. We dkl that for four days
straight, aiKl nobody seemed to
mind.
I guess the most of us had been
to lar^ dties before, but we all
acted like we fiad been stuck out in
the country for much too Iraig
(indeed we had) and had been
turned loose in Concrete Story-
land. We must have looked the
part We would be walking down
the street either looking straight up
or gaping at a bizarre shop, or a
transvestite, or wtiat looked like a
certain five car crash with a police
unit right in the middle, or some
otfier imagined feature of the Big
Api^e. That’s why we hardly slept
we loved looking at all that wild
stuff more than we hated looking
in the minor at the bags under our
eyes.
Out of all the things we k»ked
at up there, I think the strangest
thing most of us saw was within
ourselves. It was like at first we
were a little uncertain about what
we were doing. We wanted to be
there, but we were sort of worried
about getting lost, or getting
mugged, or feeling very mudi out
of place in a dty so different to us.
But all that changed pretty doggone
quick. By the time we had been
there dght hours, we had stopped
thinking about what we would like
to do and started talking about what
we were going to do. Even when
we went to bed, we knew what we
were going to do when we got up.
We got to the point where we
thou^ of the dty as a j^yground
instead of a jungle. New Yoric no
longer intimidated us; we used it as
we pleased. In short, we quickly
went from feeling like strangers to
feeling right at home. We didn’t
expect that and it really surprised
us.
I think aU of us would agree that
going up there was the best thing
we could have done with fall break.
It opened our minds to a kind of
existence that we had never cor
rectly imagined; one where peofie
can live on top of each other, all
doing their own thing, with no one
getting in anyone’s way. Most of
us still agree that we would not
want to live there, but we also
agree that it should be visited as
often as possiWe. If 1 can get on
that bus, I will surely be there in
October on 1993.