VOL. 2, NO. Z
THE VOICE OF WILKES COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Wilkesboro, North Carolina
WCC
OCT. 14, 1968
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The members of the staff are: left to right — Jean Parsons, Volree
Richardson, Louis Poteet, Mr. Don Redding:, Steve Harvel, and
Pansy Lyalls.
SGA Begins Work
On Wednesday, October 2, the
Student Government Association
met at Woodlawn School to hold
its first meeting of the ‘68-‘69
Fall Quarter.
This year’s SGA is headed by
Louis Poteat as president and
Steve Harvel as vice-president.
The rest of the SGA staff is
composed of Jenn Parsons, Pansy ,
Lyalls, Janice Pierce, Ronnie
Triplette, and Volree Rich
ardson.
Mr. Don Redding is acting as
advisor to the SGA this year.
Mr, Redding is associated with
the drafting department in the
Technical Division.
This year’s SGA has pledged
itself to a year of hard work and
an “open door" policy allowing
any interested member of the
student body or faculty who wishes
to attend the meeting be present.
“The Cougar Cry* plans to have
a reporter present at all meetings
to keep the students informed of
all SGA activities. The student
body is encouraged to support
their student government and
participate in it as fully as pos
sible.
At this meeting plans were pro
posed for a Leap Year Dance to
be held at C.C. Wright School.
Since this is Leap Year, girls
have the unique priviledge of
inviting the boys of their choice!
Committes were set up to in
vestigate budget presentations
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NEW CAMPUS
TO BE READY
BY WINTER QUARTER
The latest word from Presi
dent Thompson is that the WCC
student body will DEFINITELY
begin the first day of the winter
quarter (1968-69) in the buildings
of the new campus. According
to Dr. Thompson, the delay in
moving is due to the fact that
the minimum charge for electri
cal service to the campus is
$1500.00 per month. To pay out
this amount in electrical bills
per month for only limited use
of the facilities was considered
to be economically impractical.
Therefore, it was decided not to
move until the whole complex
is completed.
The WCC campus will be the
result of a great deal of planning
and foresight. This will be very
much apparent when registration
and classes begin in the new
buildings. The different regis
tration, business, and adminis
trative offices, as well as the
classrooms, are laid out in such
a way that there will at all times
be a free flow of student traffic.
WCC, having buildings with
more than one hundred and tw6
thousand square feet of floor
space, is the fifth largest com
munity college in the state. The
building complex is situated on
a seventy-five acre tract with
thirty acres in the front and
forth-five acres to the rear of
the building.
A small portion of this forty-
five acre “backyard" will be
used for student parking, with
room for more than six hundred
vehicles. The student parking,
being at the rear of the building,
will be hidden from the view of
a visitor approaching the campus.
The parking area will be well-
lighted, by “ground clearance
lights," thus avoiding the build
ing glare that sometimes is pro
duced by convention al pole-
mounted lights.
The entire building complex,
with the exception of some of
the shops, will be electrically
heated and air conditioned. An
other example of good planning
is the fact that the electrical
heating-air conditioning system
can be easily converted to a
natural gas system if electricity
should become unavailable or
impractical.
There is also to be a public
address system that is conpletely
automatic in that no matter where
a person happens to be within the
buildings, if he can hear his name
being paged he can answer with
out moving or pushing buttons.
The classrooms are extra
large, all with different color
schemes. Varied color schemes
are even planned for the lavator
ies.
The library is also very large,
with room to comfortably seat
two hundred students. It will have
an immediate capacity of some
twenty-five thousand volumes. As
a part of the library, there are
to be several audio-visual booths
that will be connected to the
“dial-information" system. This
system will be such that the
student can dial a code number
for just about any information
needed. For instance, if he needs
information on a particular his
torical event, he just looks up
the code number for that event,
and by simply dialing the number
a taped voice will present the
information via the student’s ear
phones.
In the domed building between
the classroom-science building
and the business-administration
building, there will be a large,
comfortable student service cen
ter. Within the center there will
be a variety of vending machines,
coin and bill changing machines,
and infra red ovens for heating
sandwiches. There is also to be
a full time hostess on duty to
assist the patrons. Chairs and
tables will be available, and the
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