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MAY 10,1996
NCSSM Senior class
officers elected
Newly elected SGA officeers ifmm left) treasurer Darice
Wong, secretary Neda Burapavong, and president Katie
Hobbs. Vice-president Jay Raval is not pictured
' '' ^ ■■ Carolyn Chu
Rajesh V.
Swaminathan
for class of
1997 were held on April 2,1996 in
the PEC. The student body elected:
Katie Hobbs-President, Jay Raval-
Vice President, Neda Burapavong-
Secretary, and Darice Wong-Trea-
surer.
All of the elected officers held
leadership positions at their previ
ous hi^ schools or through extra
curricular activities. HoUis, lor ex
ample, was class president in the
seventh, eighth, and ninth grade at
Wayne Country Day School. Hobbs
then went to Eastern Wayne High
School before transferring to
NCSSM. Next year, Hobbs wants to
increase student body participation
by forming student conunittees with
other SGA officers.
Raval has also held leadership
positions in his cultural youth gtoup
outside of school. At Enloe High
School, he was captain of both the
Lacrosse and Rugby Teams. In ad
dition, Raval was a student council
representative and helped plan
school atriiviUes. Raval said he was
honored to w elected vice presi
dent and commented that he, ‘looks
forward to discussing new, innova
tive ideas with the otl^ SGA mem
bers next year to make NCSSM a
better place,”
Burapavong was the vice
.president in the ninth grade and.
I»esident in the tenth grade of High
Point Central before transferring to
Salem Academy. She has served as
a junior representative this year and
has been elected to serve as dorm
representative for the upcoming
year Burapavongfs plans are to.
Ipublicize all the vital issues that
come to the SGA,t and to write a
newsletter each semester for the
student body.
Wong has begun her leader
ship roles here at NCSSM. She is
one of the founders of a poetry
club, the Red Moon, and is cur
rently its Inter-Club Council Rep
resentative, Wong wants to ensure
that all the money is distributed as
equally as possible between the
clubs and other SGA sponsored
organizations.
Regional testing held
Adam Tarleton
Staff Writer
NCSSM recently held regional test
ing for prospective juniors of the
class of 1998. The testing was con
ducted m eight sites across the state
on consecutive Saturdays, February
10andl7.
Approximately 835 students
participated in the testing, said
Sandra Jackson of the NCSSM ad
missions office. The students took
an algebra test, an abstract reason
ing exam, and a writing test. Stu
dents and their parents also attended
an information session led by mem
bers of the NCSSM administration.
Current NCSSM students and par
ents answered questions from pro
spective students and their parentss,
The application deadline for
incoming juniors was delayed one
week Iduc to the fk:t that so many
school systems across the state were
closed because of the snow,? said
Jackson. The original deadline was
January 15.
Science and Math students react
Debbie Won
Staff Writer
While Science and Math
students are generally found
at the School of Science and
Math, about twenty of them
can sometimes be found at the
E.K. Powe Elementary
School. At the beginning of
the school year, junior Clara
Holzwarth, with the help of
junior Holly Landry, coordi
nated the big brother / big sis
ter program at E.K. Powe with
NCSSM students.
As a member of the Inter
act Club, one of NCSSM’s
service clubs, Holzwarth tu
tored at Powe. As she noticed
that many teachers there
seemed short of hands, she
also noticed that many stu
dents here had an interest in
and a lot of enthusiasm for
helping children but did not
know about opportunities to
do so.
Holzwarth, accompanied
by senior David Nelson, ap
proached lowana Hagler, E.K.
Powe’s guidance counselor, in
hopes of setting up a way for
S&M volunteers to assist E.K.
Powe teachers through spend
ing time with the children.
Students from Duke and NC
Central had already been serv
ing Powe as big siblings and
tutors for the past year and a
half.
Hagler then extended the
opportunity to NCSSM. The
big brother/sister program
was designed for older stu
dents to serve as role models
for children who, according to
Holzwarth, “need someone to
look up to.”
“A lot of these kids are
from the inner city, and a lot
of parents don’t have enough
time [to give them the atten
tion they need],” she said. “I
guess this can be our way of
giving something back to the
community.”
Each big brother/sister
was assigned to a child be
tween the grades of kindergar
ten and fifth. What they do
with the child ranges from
participating in class activi
ties to working on comput
ers, and from playing
games to reading. Time
spent per week with the
child varies with individual
siblings depending on their
own schedules.
Before NCSSM stu
dents were allowed to par
ticipate in the program,
Holzwarth and Landry had
to draw up a charter to be
approved by Hagler. Once
this was done, roughly
twenty NCSSM students
have been going to Powe
regularly for anywhere
from half an hour to six
hours a week.
There is a distinction
made between tutors and
big brothers/sisters al
though they virtually share
the same responsibilities.
However, tutors focus more
on helping the children
with school work, whereas
NCSSM Holds College Day '96
Sara Vance
Staff Writer
NCSSM’s annual College
Day was held on March 30
from 8:30 to 11:30 in the
school's P.E.C. College
Day is an opportunity for
juniors, who were re
quired to attend the event,
to investigate the aca
demic offerings of some of
the nationfs colleges and
universities. Over 100
different institutions were
represented, with a wide
variety of liberal arts and
technological institutions
present.
College Day has been
a part of NCSSM tradition
for ten years. Guidance
.counselor Ollie Burrell said
of the event, "This is a good
opportunity for students to
communicate with colleges
they might not otherwise
come into contact with. It's
also a good way to get finan
cial aid information about
colleges."
In addition to a session
on financing a college edu
cation, students also at
tended small group sessions
with their guidance counse
lors regarding other college-
related miscellany, such as
SAT scores and letters of
recommendation. Six of the
colleges represented - N.C.
State University, Duke Uni
versity, UNC-Chapel Hill,
Wake Forest University,
Davidson College, and
the Georgia Institute of
Technology - held formal
information sessions.
Most colleges, how
ever, had displays and
brochures available at
tables in the P.E.C. Re
cruitment officers,
alumni, and present stu
dents from the schools
were out in full force to
field questions and dis
tribute information about
their schools. The repre
sentatives were helpful
and well-prepared, and
College Day 1996 proved
to be a successful event.