October 12,1994 Campus News 5 Meredith senior prepares to face the classroom News Briefs by Addie Tschamler • A biochemist ftom Chapel Hill, Martin Rodbeil, has won the Nobel Prize formedicine. Rodbeil is a recent retiree of the National InstituteofEnvironmenta] Health Sciences in RTP. Rodbeil made discoveries in the 1970s and 1980s about the earlier stages of disease in humans. He wil! share the $930,000 prize and the hon ors with Alfred G. Gilman ofTejos who made independent strides in the same area as Rodbeil. *Lt. Raoul Cedras, the Haitian general who has ruled Haiti for the past three years after he ex ecuted a successful coop to exile elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, stepped down from power Monday. President Clinton said in a nationally broad cast speech Monday night, “The job in Haiti remains difficult and dangerous. We still have a lot of work to do.” ♦R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. will introduce its new Salem Pre ferred brand of cigarettes, which was created to smell better than the stale smell of cigarette smoke. The cigarettes wiU contain a food additive in the paper of the ciga rettes, which emits a pleasant smeQ. R.J.R. will introduce the cigarettes into the military mar ket first and has made no men tion of when Salem Preferred will be available for public purchase, ••Over 1,500 airmen and 56 aircraft from Pope Air Force Base are scheduled to leave by tonight to return to the Persian Gulf to protect Kuwait from Iraqi move ments near the northern border of Kuwait. Aircraft from Seymour Johnson Air Force Base will be deployed to the gulf also, as part of a 36,000-person American force President Clinton will de ploy in hopes of ^ylaying an other Iraqi attack on the small country. by Addie Tschamler “Zealous,'' the English major said when describing herself. "Zealousfora lotofthings, life in general.'That'seasy to see. For Teaching Fellow Frances Pate, being zealous is a necessity. Just re cently, Pate has begun her observation and student teaching in English at Ath ens Drive High School. In light of this faa, Pate had to give up many of her previous activities at Meredith. In pre vious years, Pate held two offices in the Meredith Entertainment Association, worked two years with the Meredith Herald, held office as vice president of theColton English Club, served as trea surer and secretary of the Silver Shield, and maintained a class office last year. “I've tried to be an active part of Meredith." said Pate, who’s from the “home of the pickles," Mt. Olive, NC. “For the first time 1 've taught myself to say no. This semester, it’s important to dedicate my lime to ray students." But student teaching has been no break from the normal leaures and tests. Pate described her teaching ex perience as “very emotional." Lately she's been feeling anxious and thrilled and constantly wonders if she's doing the right thing, “especially after a long night of making lesson plans," Pate commented. So, why would anyone want to go through this rigorous training to be come a teacher? Well, let's go back a fewyears. Pate, whose mother and sister also attended Meredith, had two very influential En glish teachers from fourth through twelfth grade who inspired her to be come a teacher. She got to know them “year after year as teachers and as Mends,” Pate said. They gave her tough assignments, but, according to Pate, there were ben efits. She became a hard worker and learned to love English literature. Pate said that another big influence in her life has been her grandfather. “He’s given me many helpful hints because he knows what it’s like to live. 1 look up to him because he's helpful, concerned, wise, and a good spiritual role model." Pate hopes to keep teaching even after her fouryears as Teaching Fellow is over, although, “I haven't ruled out other things," Pate said. After working on the Herald and having an intern ship at the publications office of a corporation, Pate said that she began to realize that journalism is an option. She also hopes to incorporate journal ism into her teaching of English even tually. Pate said she decided to major in English because it is such a broad sub- jea. She feels that she can incorporate so many things into her teaching, such as geography, for example, when dis cussing world literature. “I can teach students how to speak and to write." Pate feels that writing is the “most wonderful form of expression. 1 think it is important that we learn how to express ourseh^es." As a teacher I^te says that she will enforce two stria rules in the class room. “Above all,’ Pate said, “I will ask that students respea others - meaning the teacher, each other, and other’s belongings. It also means not speaking out in class without raising their hands." Secondly, “students should be pre pared, prepared to take on the day’s challenges, prepared to learn or to aa out Shakespeare," or whatever it might be, Pate said. As a teacher, Pate hopes to contrib ute many things to society as a whole. “I hope to prepare students for the rest of their lives and help them become life-long learners," she said. “I hope to help them become well-rounded citi zens." Pate feels that there are many prob lems in the school today, but the great est problem, in her opinion, is student apathy. “Students don't seem to take edu cation as seriously as they should,” Pate said. In order to help rid society of this problem, Pate said she hopes to teach students in a way that will make them learn to love learning. In five years from now Pate sees herself teaching somewhere and pos sibly married. Pate said, “Hopefully I will be doing something that makes me happy, but to be completely hon- ,est, 1 can't see past next week!" Note from the Editor: I would like to take the opportunity to address an issue that has been running throi^ my head for the past two weeks. I want to apologize for the editorial about security that ran on Sept. 28.1 am making this apology for myself alone because I feel it is necessary. I stand behind all of my reporters and their right to express their opinions as they see fit in editorials. I believe that the reporter who wrote the editorial has a right to her opinion, but some fine people at Meredith, our security guads, were hurt. The reporter did not intentionally hurt anyone, and what she wrote expressed what she was feeling at the time. Her feelings cannot be wrong. I appreciate all the thii^s security does on campus, and I am sorry if anyone was hurt by the opinion expressed in the editorial. However, my reporter has a right to express her opinion, and, as her editor, I stand behind her. If the foult for printing the editorial Ues with anyone, that person is me. - Christina Peoples