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Campus and Local The Western Carolinian 2 Thursday, September 18, 1986 Mountain Heritage Day Barbara Carter and Barbara Coulter, co-chairs of the Western Carolina University volunteers for the American Red Cross Blood mobile, recently were hostesses at an appreciation tea at the WCU chancellor's residence to honor the work during the year just completed and to plan for the 1986-87 blood drive. Among those attending the session were,left-to-right, Mrs. Carter; Mrs. Coulter; Mary Knedler, WCU volunteer; Pauline Fitton of Swannanoa, regional blood services chair; Carol Nelson of Asheville, chair of volunteer services; and Nellie Wiley, WCU volunteer. Western Carolina University donates the most of any unit in the 28- county, three-state region served by the Asheville American Red Cross Chapter. Professor to Lead Workshop Dr. Jane Hall, Assistant Professor at Western Carolina University, has been chosen to attend and lead a workshop at the North Carolina Association forThe Education of Young Children's conference in Winston-Salem. The conference will be held October 2-4. Dr. Hall has been chosen for her expertise in the fleld of children and the family. She has been present at the conference for the past five years. Dr. Hall has recently attended the North Carolina Day Care Association conference in High Point. The theme of the conference is A Gift To Children: Time to Grow. Dr. Hall will lead a workshop entitled The Angry Learning Center: How and Why. The workshop will focus on how to create a classroom environment where children can express feelings in a healthy manner and the reasons why an angry comer is just as important as a housekeeping corner. The workshop will involve working with children ages 0-5. If anyone is interested in attending the conference, contact Dr. Hall in the Belk Building at 227-7230. Come rain or shine, Western Carolina University's 12th annual Mountain Heritage Day will beheld Saturday, September27, rekindling the traditions of Southern Appalachian life. More than 50 storytellers, stringbands, dance groups and traditional craftspeople have accepted invitations to take part in the program. An additional 200 craft and food booths will also be along the midway in what is shaping up as the biggest Mountain Heritage Day celebration yet. With the completion of the new Liston B. Ramsey Regional Activity Center and its 17,000 sguare feet of floor space, the outdoor music, clogging, contests, exhibits and mountain merrymaking can now be moved indoors with a minimum of disruption. Mountain Heritage Day drew more than 35,000 visitors last year and indications are the celebration will be as large or larger this year. More midway booths offer a wide variety of handmade mountain crafts and traditional foods - ham biscuits, cider, lemonade and Cherokee fry bread, to mention a few. The ma i nstays of Mo unta i n Herita ge Day - th ree stages of traditional mountain music and dance and folk artists demonstrating such skills as tatting, carving, soap making, weaving and even moonshining - will be back. There will once again be storytelling, ballad singing, a puppet show, shape-note sings and contests for all ages. There will be a five-mile run, horseshoes, canned and baked goods contests, a chainsaw contest, beard and moustache contests, a fashion show of old-timey clothes for women and children, a cat show, a dog show, an old truck and car show, a tobacco-spitting contest and tots of games just for kids. Other features include a circuit-riding preacher, an organ grinder and monkey, a medicine show, additional puppet shows and a program on dealing with the "Heritage of Good Health". The whole day concludes with an evening football game between Western Carolina and Newberry College at 7pm. There will be more traditional demonstrators and musicians in and around the WCU Mountain Heritage Center this year thanks to a supporting grant from the North Carolina Arts Council, according to Mountain Heritage Day officials. In addition to the demonstrators and performers, the Mountain Heritage Center will feature the major exhibits "Coverlets: New Threads in Old Patterns" and "Migration of the Scotch-Irish People". Smaller exhibits include a selection of photographs including rare early color photographs of Franklin Roosevelt dedicating the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, recent LANDSAT satellite photos, a giant mural rf IheoW «to Tannery, and a disptay-cf some of suthor ^n wSda^nSht' Somber 25, Western «ll SstWSTecdoand Annual Cherokee Spotljg featuring Cherokee crafts demonstrator^ Little>Mm Cherokee, Consuela Blankenship and the Big Cove Traditional Dancers. . KH The Belk Building stage line-up this year has Bill NichoK returning as the master of ceremony with performances by Harry Cagle a^ *»Ctomtry Cousins, the Suzuki Fiddlers, Tuckaseegee Band, Cullowhee doggers, the WNC Duto.rner Co lective Stoney Creek String Band, Appte DumphrLoggers and Smooth Dancers, and Macon Old Time String Band. The fashion show, moustache contest and winners of the dog show are also scheduled for the Belk stage. Exaected around the Mountain Heritage CeneraTeGHfoS Williams of Stecoah Mike Rogers oSobWiTsvUte the Wauka Mountain Boys of North Geo°S Doug and JackWallin of Sodom Laurel, the Me Bovs Bluegrass Band from Rabun Gap. SoSla Ray hSS from Beech Mountain Stanley Hfck of'vllas, Frank Promt Jr. of Watauga County, Marv Jane Queen of John's Creek, Hamper McBee of Monteagle, Tennessee. rrnhnm Also the Snowbird Dancers from Graham County Ben Entrekin and Sam White, Kate Rogers from the Ellijay Community, Martha Wachacha, Alan Stftom Canton, Mary Greens, Eric Olsen of Boone and Barbara Reimensnyder. Craftspeople will include Nolan Beaver, carver; Carroll Gibson, basket maker; Frances Bryson, tattina- R O. Wilson, shingle splitting and log work; George Goings, oak baskets; Evelyn Raby, soap making- Hayes Lossiah, Cherokee blowguns; Bea Hensley, ironsmith; Lloyd Owls, stone carving; Bob Reed arrowheads and spearpoints; Dan Reed, Cherokee pottery; Mattie Pearl McGaha, cornshuck crafts; and Kate Rogers, mountain herbs The traditional "Sacred Harp" and 'Christian Harmony" sings will feature song masters James Dooley, J.B. Parker, Quay Smothers and Homer Smith. Mountain Heritage Day begins around 8 am, but most of the actMty really cranks up around 10 am when the music begins and the midway booths open. There is no chargeforadmission to Mountain Heritage Day or any of the entertainment events, except the football game. Close parking is at a premium and comfortable shoes are a must. Special parking is available for handicapped persons. For more information, contact Doug Davis, telephone (704) 227-7234. State and National Learning How To Learn. In response to concerns about retention — especially about first-year attrition — the students service department at St. Lawrence College-Saint Laurent (Ontario) is reaching beyond its traditional role of simply providing support services. The college is "getting into the educational delivery business," according to Kathy Freeman, a counselor in the student service department. The school is offering a course called Becoming a Master Student, which has been made compulsory for all first-year business and technology students. "Test and notetaking, time management, memory techniques, and reading provide the 'meaty' subject matter of the course," Freeman says, "but what the instructors look for as an end prpduct is a behavioral change in their students - seen in the way they communicate, approach and solve problems, and begin to take responsibility for their education." Some students consider an how-to-study course more appropriate for the junior high level and resist the idea. "The students who have the greatest change to make are the most vocal," says Freeman. "They are also the students who give us our greatest sense of satisfaction when we see positive changes, and the success they realize as they make their way through their first year at college "We talk a great Oeal about success in this course. We encourage goal-setting, visualization of the attainment of those goals and the relation of their 'job' as a student to those goals." The student service department also offers a course called Job Readiness Preparation which "attempts to emphasize the importance of job- finding skills and to give the graduating students additional practice in marketing themselves." "From all indications, the course is long overdue," says Freeman. "Students report that they enjoy topics discussed and the chance to evaluate themselves in an interview situation on videotape, and are prepared for the questions which may be asked of them." At the end of the course, the students receive an up-to-date, corrected resume. Both courses are team-taught, primarily by student services counselors with help from interested faculty. "Genuine interest in students and a willingness to try new methods to encourage student success are important prerequisites for Involvement in either of these courses," Freeman says. "It is exciting to contribute in a fairly direct way to student success, but it is even more exciting to observe students making educated, responsible choices to ensure their own success." (CONTACT: Kathy Freeman, Counselor, Student and Campus Services, St. Lawrence College-Saint Laurent, 2288 Parkedale, Brockville, Ontario, K6V 5X3, Canada; Ph: 613/345-0660.) Tuition Agreements in the Northwest. More than 1,400 Washington and Oregon students who plan to attend public colleges in their neighboring state this fall can expect to pay the same tuition rate as local residents, thanks to a new agreement proposed this summer by higher education officials in the two states. A total of 600 community college students and 800 college junior, senior and graduate students are expected to participate. The agreement has been designed to be financially balanced between the states. Seven years ago, Oregon and Washington signed the first reciprocal tuition agreement. That pact affected a few hundred students who either were seeking specialized education programs not offered in their home state or access to nearby schools just across the state line. "Although we have had a tuition reciprocity agreement with Oregon since 1979," says A. Robert Thoemy, executive director of the Washington Higher Education Coordinating Board, "this agreement substantially increases the number of participating students and institutions. "The success of our program with Oregon makes it a model for the sharing of resources and the provision of greater student access to higher education," he says. "We are pleased to offer such a broad range of opportunities to students." "I have been involved in the negotiation of reciprocity agreements since 1979," says T.K. Olson, executive director of the Oregon Educational Coordination Commission, "and I believe this to be the most comprehensive document developed between any two states." (CONTACT: Oregon State System of Higher Education, P.O. Box 3175, Eugene, OR, 97403.) College Life Conducive to Headaches CARP Convention of World Students On October 11, 1986, the Collegiate Association for the Research of Principles will hold the main assembly of its annual Convention of World Students. The third of its kind and the first in the U.S., the feature events will begin at 12 noon at the Jacob Center, Manhattan, New York. Students from 70 nations will be attending this year's festival, which begins October 9 and ends October 16. In addition to the main convention, the international students will participate in a world student Olympics, a rally at the UN, and a symposium on current issues. The theme of this year's convention is "New vision: Creating a New Student Movement," with the intention of forming two task forces. One will deal with the problem of drug abuse. The other will seek to organize a world student service corp. 7000 students are expected to attend this year's convention. Coors Veteran's Memorial Scholarship Fund GOLDEN, Colorado - Adolph Coors Company recently awarded 123 college scholarships totalling $501,000 to the winners of the 1986 Coors Veterans' Memorial Scholarship Fund. The Coors Veterans' Memorial Scholarship Fund was established by the Golden-based brewer in 1985 to provide college financial aid to the sons and daughters of American veterans. More than 6,000 applications were submitted in 1986, and scholarships were awaraed to students in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and Taiwan. The 1986 recipients include 20 seniors, 36 juniors and 67 sophomores. Seniors will receive a one-year scholarship totaling $2,000, juniors will receive a two-year scholarship totaling $3,500 and sophomores will receive a three-year scholarship totaling $5,000. In addition to the $501,000 provided by the brewery in 1986, Coors distributors raised more than $530,000 to award local scholarships to dependents of veterans or to support local veterans' organizations. Information on the 1987 Coors Veterans' Memorial Scholarship Fund will beannounced early next year. DURHAM, NC-Headaches may occur more frequently among college students than the rest of the population, according to a Duke University Medical Center neurologist, who offers advice about how to prevent and cure headaches. "Stress causes the majority of headaches, and college students are among the most susceptible part of the population because they are often harder workers, more compulsive, more intense and over-achieving," said Dr. Marvin Rozear, Duke assistant professor of neurology. "The people working hard to make it to the top are the ones getting the headaches." Eating right and getting enough sleep are the best ways to prevent a headache. A nap oran over- the-counter pain reliever are the best ways to get rid of a headache. "Isolated headaches that occur infrequently are hard to prevent, and it's probably not worth the effort." Rozear said. "If you have frequent headaches, maybe you should change your lifestyle." Sometimes it's simply a matter of finding out what triggers the headache and avoiding it. If you get a headache aftrer eating chocolate, then cut out the chocolate, he advised. "On days I miss lunch, it's automatic - I get a headache," he said. "If I eat lunch, I don't have that problem." If headaches occur often enough to interrupt your life, and the usual remedies don't help, it may be necessary to see a doctor. "Any headache that lasts more than 24 hours should cause alarm and result in medical attention," he said. It Is also a good idea to seek medical attention for headaches that: - Last over 24 hours in an accelerating pattern, increasing in frequency over the months and weeks. - Consistently begin in the morning and are associated with head movement. - Are accompanied by any neurological dysfunction such as visual disturbance, weakness, numbness, memory loss, passing out or seizures. -- Occur for more than a few days following a head injury. Ninety-eight percent of headaches are caused by stress and worry. The rest are caused by allergic reactions to food, inflamed sinuses, head injuries and brain tumors, he said. There are two kinds of headaches: vascular, in which the blood vessels in the head go into spasm, dilating and throbbing; and tension, in which the muscles attached to the head contract. Most migraine and hangover headaches are the vascular type, and most others are tie tension type. Rozear said the "migraine personality" is typically an "ultra-compulsive, perfectionist, over- achieving, perfect-citizen type who never misses a chance to do his duty and acts in a perfectly acceptable way. Although there is a strong tendency for several members of the same family to get migraines, environment probably plays a stronger role than heredity, he said. "Noone has ever found a headache gene," he said. "Many migraines are likely a personality trait," he said. "If you grew up in a family where the reaction pattern was to say 'I have a headache,' you may react that way also."

The Western Carolinian is Western Carolina University's student-run newspaper. The paper was published as the Cullowhee Yodel from 1924 to 1931 before changing its name to The Western Carolinian in 1933.

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  • Date original: 1986-09-18
  • Date digitized: 2019-03-29
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  • Pages: 16 pages
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  • Cullowhee (N.C.) -- Newspapers
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