VOL. 2, NO. Z THE VOICE OF WILKES COMMUNITY COLLEGE Wilkesboro, North Carolina WCC OCT. 14, 1968 DEFINITE: i V ..»W' ^ ^ P 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 (Continued on Page Four) 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 (Continued on Page Four)

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