Women:
Student Lounge
Belongs To You
The student lounge belongs to you to enjoy. How you
enjoy it, is really up to you. You may play cards, foos-
ball, spades, and many other games within the
limitations of the lounge rules.
Students are in the lounge for a number of reasons,
but mostly for relaxation and enjoyment of going to the
lounge. We all enjoy going to the lounge, whatever the
reason may be.
Every effort has been made by Bob Priest and the
Administration to make the lounge even more en
joyable for students. The lounge was recently painted
with brighter colors, and, sofas in the lounge were
reupholstered. The lounge is kept clean at all times; we
even had a couple of record hops and bands durmg
school hours.
All these things that have been done for students, yet
we still have abusers — yes, abusers. Abusers who cut
the $185.00 reupholstered sofas. Abusers who talk and
laugh out loud and disturb other people. So listen,
abusers, the student lounge belongs to you! Won’t you
please help us take care of it.
JAMES “PERBIE” PIERCE
Innocents In
Washington, D.C.
Southeastern Com
munity College is now
focusing on how to do
more td serve the mature
woman (over 25) of
Southeastern North
Carolina. By offering
programs and services
they want to get to know
“The Woman” better and
to learn how SCC can
better be of service to
them.
“Women’77” was a
patchwork of presen
tations, films, small -
group discussions, and
just plain getting
together. On March 1,
1977, Southeastern
presented their first
program which began at
9:00 a.m. in the
Auditorium and aided at
3:15 p.m.
Various film showings,
topics of discussions and a
variety of speakers were
presented. Ms. Dottie
Crouch, Regional Coor
dinator, North Carolina
Council of the Status of
Women, gave the Keynote
Address. Mr. Jerry Miller
gave a discussion on
“Parent Effectiveness
Training”, a field in
which he holds a cer
tificate. Dr. Mason
Matthews, who is in the
psychology department at
Pembroke State
University, discussed
“Emotional and Physical
Changes in Women.”
Sarah Koonce, along with
Freda Bullard of SCC,
presented ‘‘The
Economics of Being a
Woman.” Mrs. Bullard is
now the Business
Department Coordinator
at SCC. Representing the
school itself was a panel
of current mature women
students at SCC. They
were Louise Worthington,
Helen Hawkins, Carolyn
Gurkin, and Annie Coston.
The group presented the
topic “Returning to
College.” Other speakers
were Margaret Fonville
of Wilmington and Carol
Eliason of Washington,
D.C. Mrs. Eliason is
currently the Director of
the American Association
of Women in Community
and Junior Colleges’
Center for Women’s
Opportunities in
Washington. D.C.
There were 70 par
ticipants for the sym
posium on March 1. There
was a Day Cara program
set up for parents with
children. The orogram
was a success, and plans
for the future “Women
‘77” program are being
made. Students wishing to
contribute ideas for future
Women Symposium
Today men are ex
changing roles with
women and taking on
their responsibilities,
which were commonly
called “homely chores”
because women were
always staying home
doing the cleaning. But
men are capable of the
same loving tenderness
and toughness as well as
life at home duties.
Both single and married
men share in decisions
that affect their wives and
children, without
smothering their in
dividuality. They play and
learn with their children
without forgetting their
parental roles. Men take
on household duties, such
as actually washing
dishes, cleaning family
laundry, ironing, and
shopping for groceries
without loss of
masculinity. Gradually
there is a closer
relationship with their
wives.
Many of the men do and
like the arrangements in
the home, because some
of the women are career-
minded. These women
have strenuous schedules
which interfere with being
a housewife every day. In
raising children, men
have a source of pleasure
and challenge to be
shared wi an equal basis
as women. Generally they
get a feeling of confidence
in their warm home
situation.
With men in new roles,
there has been a closing of
the communication gap
between spouses and-or a
close companion; in this
way, you fully exchange
ideas and feelings, and
enjoy a better sexual
relationship. Instead of
taking turns talking or
simply exchanging
directives, men seem to
have authentic con
versations with their
wives, children, and - or
companions. When couples
are able to understand
each other’s expressions
both won’t just go through
the motions, but will
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should contact Julie
Stocks, Laurel Sneed, or
Susan Wood on the SCC
campus.
Ann Brown
become emotionally
looser in sex and become
closer together. Also, men
are more senitive to a
woman’s feelings and
understands her moods
quite differently now.
Also, other very im
portant functions men
perform today are being
the single parent to a
young child, knowing how
to cope with and raise a
child, and dealing with
problems that do arise
frequently. Being a single
parent calls for constant
supervision (which is
impossible), forever
emphasizing to be
careful, instilling morals
into the child, and using
discipline when you are
disobeyed.
The father will have to
learn to be sensitive to his
child’s feelings of
jealousy, and getting
uptight if the father shows
too much attention to
anyone else, including
women friends. This is
due to his very depen
dence on his father and
being defensive to anyone
who intrudes.
During moments
together, the father will
have a get-to-know and
understand one another
sessions. In which the
question arises of the
child not having a mother
like the other kids do. The
father doesn’t want to tell
a lie or evade the truth, so
the father simply and
calmly explains things the
best way a father knows
how. In time the father
will see the child’s sense
of security and per
manence develop, and
both will deal, relate, and
take care of each other,
and really love each other
as a mother would love
her daughter.
Emma Lesane
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to cut adult education
courses and other smaller
activities due to the lack
of money.
Southeastern Community
College is very fortunate to have
two such dedicated men as Bob
Priest and Dan Moore on its
staff. These two fine faculty
members took time on the recent
Spring break to add to the
education of the S.G.A. and
make the education one of total
enjoyment. Traveling with 8
female and 1 male student, in
addition to what seemed to be
tons of luggage, these two fine
persons kept turning chaos into a
smooth running tour.
Our departure from S.C.C. on
Monday, Feb. 28th was the
beginning of our education. 14
avid farewells to friends and
much picture taking, we were off
on the first leg of our journey,
the stop - over in Raleigh. In our
state capital we were introduced
to debates, law-making, and
vote casting. Our local
representatives arranged a
grand tour of the State
Legislature Buildings and the
great debate was the ERA.
Early Tuesday afternoon we
continued on our trek north and
a stop over in Richmond, Va. for
the night.
Arising early Wednesday
morning we continued on to
Washington and here we really
“got educated.” Dr. Moore
What McCarter is
saying is that he feels that
if there is not enough
money to fund everyone
at their earned level, then
all systems should be
treated equitably. Almost
everybody goes to public
schools, but the funding
for the university and
community college should
be treated equally. We’re
not asking for more
money, just equality.
Herbert Bell
never got lost, at least he always
said he knew where he was, and
we were so confused we could
not prove him wrong. We toured
the city until late afternoon in
the van and located the places of
interests we were to later tour on
foot.
There were many places seen
and many things accomplished,
but space and time will only
permit the highlights to be
recorded;
Our first night in Washington
consisted of attending the
Kennedy Center and being en
tertain^ by the New York City
Ballet. But the real tour started
early on Thursday morning and
it seemed that we never stopped
until we left Washington on
Friday.
We visited the National Fish
Aquarium, Archives Building,
Space and Aeronautics, Library
of Congress, Capital Building,
U.S. Supreme Court,
Smithsonian Institute, the
memorials and monuments,
King Tuts Tomb, the White
House, and a night tour of 14th
Street and its “seamy”
characters.
On Friday we left the Nations
Capital and headed back for our
second visit to Richmond, Va.
Good fortune was with us on our
tour, because our greatest
highlight occurred in Richmond.
We went to hear “The New
Virginians", one of the greatest
non - professional singing groups
in our nation today.
Late Saturday we were all
back at Southeastern. Mr. Priest
and Dr. Moore had kept us all
together, wet-nursed us when we
were sick, kept any violence
from errupting and were still
speaking to all.
Our trip was a good trip and an
educated one, but most of all a
happy one. We want to thank you
Dr. Moore and Mr. Priest (the
innocents), but most of all,
thanks to all the people who
made the trip possible.
Men In New Roles