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