From The Editor
Guest Editorial
To begin with, I would like to wish
everyone a Happy New Year. Now
that the holidays are over, routines are
now again starting new. Once again it
is the paper’s desire to inform you of
any events happening. If anyone has a
comment or suggestion please feel free
to drop me a letter. Our drop box is
located outside room 405 in Hayes
Hall. No comments will be over
looked. I wish to all a safe and produc
tive new year here at Wilkes Com
munity College.
Thank you
Editor-in-Chief
Brian Elledge
January
Birthdays
January is the first month of the
Gregorian calendar which our mod
ern calendar is based. The most
famous event in January is New Year’s
Day, but there are also many birth
days in the month as well. The most
famousjanuary birthday is that of Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr. on the 17th.
Listed below is some other famous
(and not so famous) birthdays in
January.
9 - This day would have marked
Richard Nixon’s 82nd birthday.
10 - Rock singer. Rod Stewart,
turns 50 today.
17 - The man who wanted the tur
key to be the USA’s national bird
(Benjamin Franklin), celebrates his
289th birthday anniversary today.
20 - Like the Energizer Rabbit,
George Burns keeps going and going,
and clebrates his 99th birthday today.
26 - Hockey player, Wayne
Gretzky, turns 34 this month.
27 - Today marks the anniversary
of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s
239th birthday.
"Faculty members...shall be
assigned no more than 25 hours per
week of a combination of contact and
office hours.” The 25 hours only cov
ers two of the five faculty respon
sibilities. I for one find it terribly
difficult to accomplish all of the nec
essary "instructional related work
(lecture and lab preparation, test
writing, paper grading, etc.), pro
fessional development, and college
and community service” that is ex
pected, in the remaining 15 hours of a
40-hour workweek. We indicate in
the Student Handbook that a student,
in order to be successful, needs to
spend 2 hours outside of class for
every hour spent in class. A teacher
spends more than 2 hours outside of
class for every hour spent in class... 18
to 24 contact hours, 36 to 48 hours in
instructional preparation, for a total
of 54 to 72 hours per week. Not bad
for a teacher who only has to work 25
hours a week.
My personal schedule for the fall
quarter had 28 contact hours, 8
different lecture and lab preparations,
2 of which I had never taught before
and 2 others with new books, all of
which required new lecture prepar
ation, new tests, etc. My Monday
went from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., 12 hours
with 8 of them in class. My Tuesday
went from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., 13 hours
with 7'/i of them in class. 1 had 3
sections of a course, with 16 students
in each one. Those 48 students each
handed in 10 one page assignments
and a 5 page research paper; that’s 720
pages of reading just for those three
classes. And I was, "only required to
work 25 hours out of a normal work
week” to accomplish all of this. I did
the very best job I could...was 1
pleased with what I accomplished
...not at all! But like most of the
faculty, I did what I had to do.
This is just an example of what most
of the faculty had to do.
The journalism staff is
working diligently to com
plete the 1995 yearbook.
Students who would like
to assist the staff in
completing the yearbook
should come to room
405 Hayes Hall in the
afternoons.
If you haven’t placed an
order for your yearbook,
you need to do so this
week.
W '» I
Ye Host Happenings
Hello Wilkes Community College. We are the Ye Host Club. Our club is an
organization dedicated to the service of our students, our school, our commun
ity, and the hospitality industry. It consists of students enrolled in the Foodser
vice Specialist, Foodservice Management, and the Hotel and Restaurant Man
agement degree programs.
Here’s what’s going on;
Officers for the 1995 school year are as follows:
President Sue Parks
Vice President Todd Somers
Secretary Elcheva Parks
Treasurer Chuck Ford
Publicist Jerry Sink
Congratulations to the 20 members who received the Ye Host Scholarship for
the winter quarter.
Penny Woodard, Greg Owens, Donna Owens, Chuck Ford, Hazel Dancy,
Will Melton, Debbie Childress, Sue Parks, Christine Reynolds, Everette Miller,
Amanda Marze, Scott Miller, Elcheva Parks, Brenda Barlow, Cheri Elliott, Todd
Somers, Mike Vaught, Jerry Sink, Keiko Yammamototo, Holly Marsh.
Planning is underway for our annual trips to the North Carolina Restaurant
Association show in Charlotte, NC and the National Restaurant Show in
Chicago, 111.
-Jerry Sink