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People The Western Carolinian 9 Wednesday, April 22,1987 Margaret Ciites' People In The News RADIO ELECTIONS The results of elections for the positions of Business Manager and Program Director for WWCU- FM are has follows: Beth Young will serve a second term as Business Manager and Anthony Green is to be Program Director for the 1987-88 school year. Beth is currently a sophomore, and vice- president of Alpha Epsilon Rho, the National Broadcasting Honor Society. Beth has also won a $500.00 scholarship from the honor society. Anthony Green is a rising senior and is the 'Master G for those who listen to WWCU from 1-3 p.m. daily. Besides his involvement in fhe radio station, Anthony also plays in WCU's marching band and is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. He says that he does plan to make changes in the current programming of 91-FM. BETH YOUNG WCU ART STUDENTS Jerry Ammons, Susan Sanford Shippey, Steven Piemont, Unda Owens, Jeffrey Richards, and Kevin Kirkpatrick have been selected to participate in an exhibit sponsored by the Ashevilie Art Museum Auxiliary. The mediums on display will be Photography (Jerry A), Print (Susan S.), Studio Glass (Steven P.), Figure Drawing (Linda O.), Painting (Jeffery R.), and Mixed Media Drawing (Kevin K.). Works from students at Warren Wilson College, UNC-Asheville, Mars Hill College, Brevard College, and Appalachian State University will also be on exhibit at the Ashevilie Country Club. The exhibit will run through June, 1987. NEWARK'S NEW ARK Kea Tawana, a self-taught structural engineer, is trying to find a place to put her ark. The officials in Newark, N.J. are trying to have theeighty-ton ark torn down, but Tawana wants to move it to Perth Amboy NJ. Kea came to the United States from Japanasa child, and she plans to use her ark to sail to Japan "to pay last respects to my mother and sister", who were killed in a bombing raid in World War II. KEA TAWANA MUSIC BY WEST Western Carolina University music professor John West will present a recital of saxophone music Thursday, April 23, at 8 p.m. in the recital hall of the Music-English Building. West, an assistant professor of music and director of bands at WCU, will present a variety of works for saxophone and piano Including Concerto for Alto Saxophone by Alexander Glazounov; a transcription of Bach's Sonata No. 6 for Flute; Bemhard Heiden's "Sonata"; a "Sonatina" by Lex van Delden; and "Remembrance", a short contemporary piece for saxophone by Anthony lannaccone. Barbara Dooley, piano, will be the accompanist. The recital is open to the public, and there is no admission charge. WQpi FY ON T.V. Angela Wortey, a graduate student at WCU, made an appearance on "You Can Be a Star", featured on the Nashville Network. mmi—y—x i ooked on a feeling" -Aline from a frl )%, Jl llJi pop song and a cliche frequently used by reformed addicts to explain attraction to their drug of choice. No, this won't be one of those diatribes evangelizing about the horrors of drug addiction. I won't cite statistics enumerating wasted lives, describe opportunities lost or mourn broken promises and abandoned hopes. Instead, I wish to discuss the human need for intimacy, connectedness and a sense of self-worth and look at the methods we choose to pursue these needs. Yes, I am going to touch upon the area of may include clubs, organizations, hobbies, exercise, friendships, projects, drugs/alcohol, phone calls, bull sessions, snacks, sex, music, movies, etc. These activities serve to meet emotional needs. We want to feel good about ourselves and these activities may help usto feel good. Some may also have by-products such as guilt, anxiety, fear, depression, etc. As I promised, I will try to avoid making value judgements by condemning some activities, while extolling others. However, I do hope you will consider the ways you choose to meet your emotional needs ad your reasons for making these choices. Most of us enter social situations hoping to be rt ....hooked on a feeling" Counselor's Corner substance abuse, but I am more interested in our attempts to feel good about ourselves and to relate to other people. Each of us desperately desires to be somebody! Most of us daydream about doing that special something or receiving that extra reward that signifies life has been time well spent. This is part of the quest for meaning in life. We search to find our worth in the world and to be nurtured and cared for. Most of us find groups to affiliate with and seek a variety of activities to center our lives around. These liked and accepted. There is nothing quite like being loved, and on some level each of us yearns for that. Ideally, we have some notion of what love is all about gleaned from the care and concern of our parents or family. Unfortunately, many of us had to settle ofr much less; which may result in skepticism about the ability of people ot really care. Our expectations may be no higher than a hope that others will be attracted to us or at least hold us in fond regard. We each deeply fear rejection and abandonment and may be merciless in our self- appraisals of our appearance, behavior, or attributes. What does all this have to do with activities, school, drugs, hobbies, etc.? These activities are all vehicles we use in the hope of connecting with others and receiving love, or in striving to be worthy of the care and concern of others. Certainly there are motives other than the quest for love and emotional support for our choices of vocations and avocations. But significant weight must be placed on our desire to care forourselves and the hope that others will care about us. I previously spoke of a need for intimacy. Perhaps intimacy does not have the same drive status of sex, hunger and sleep and should be placed higher on the human need hierarchy, after the more fundamental needs are satisfied. In any event, as social psychologists have noted humans are social animals. We are relationship oriented. Even the hermit is reacting to others. As commumication theorists have aptly (if ungrammatically) noted we "cannot not communicate" (double negative courtesy of Watzlawick, Beavin and Jackson, Pragmatics of Human Communication). Even the student avoiding your gaze on the way to class communicates most eloquently. Choosing not to respond to a letter from a loved one is certainly a profound communication. Our choice of activities is also an attempt to define ourselves in relationship to others. Relationships are primary to our awareness of ourselves as unique individuals and serve as outlets for expressing our inner experience. Our emotional experience is our own whether we are in the company of others or alone, but most of our thoughts and feelings are made in our awareness of relationship to others. It is my preference to be fully present with those I care about. By being present I mean to be aware of my thoughts and feelings and to be willing to express them in a way thatestablishes relationships. This may not always be pleasant; as being open to looking at an sharing my life with others will inevitably result in a variety of reactions and experiences. To be fully human is to feel pain, See HOOKED FEELING page fourteen Toni Jackson -Miss OES 1987 By ANDREW DAWKINS EDITOR IN CHIEF IrVC: WHY DID YOU ENTER THE MISS OES CONTEST? TJ: I grew up participating in pageants. I have done quite a few. This was, however, my first pageant here at Western. I felt I wanted to represent OES, I felt it would be a big honor. I wanted to play a part in what goes on in the lives of Black students here on campus and I felt that my being Miss OES would help in that direction. I see a need for unify among the Black students here. We make up a small percentage of the overall student population and we need to be united. I wanted to be Miss OES to help in that process of unity. WC: ANY SPECIFIC PLANS TO ACHIEVE THIS UNITY? TJ: None just yet. But I would like to have more functions for Black students in an effort to achieve this. WC: HOWDO YOU FEEL NOWTHATYOU ARE MISS OES? TJ: This is great. This has been the most important pageant for me. I am now in a position to work with OES in its efforts to provide Black students with a sense of unity here on campus. I've had so much support also. This is the first time that my father and my boyfriend Skip (Nelloms) were present at a pageant and saw me win. Everyone was there, all the Black students who came out to support the pageant made it a great experience. IrVC: YOU'RE A RTV MAJOR. WHY DID YOU CHOOSE THIS PARTICULAR FIELD OF STUDY? TJ: I originally wanted to study medicine, but when I came for interviews here at Western someone suggested that I should consider Television. This person felt that I would be good in that area. I liked the idea. My Biology 101 experience was not exactly smooth and that made me rethink my career plans. I would like to be a newscaster, with my ultimate goal being to become a TVtalkshow host like Oprah Winfrey. WC: WHAT DO YOU CONSIDER YOUR STRONG POINTS? YOU COME ACROSS AS SUCH A STRONG PERSON. TJ: I consider myself a very nice person. I give "I admire anyone who is not afraid to try. I admire anyone who has the gumpshun to try. Failure, to me, is not wanting to at least try." everybody else the benefit of the doubt. I am outgoing and I try to be nice to everybody, to a point. I never half step. I do my best and I'm very ambitious. WC WHAT IS YOUR PHILOSOPHY ON LIFE? TJ: I believe that good things happen to good people. I also believe that if you do something bad it comes back to you doubled. WC: DO YOU HAVE ANY BIG DREAMS, HOPES, WISHES? TJ: There are people who are very money See MISS OES Page Fourteen Edwin Carlton Photos Faces of a Queen Ton! Jackson, Miss OES 1987-88, caught in various moods. Has there ever been a blind date which was successful enough to provide inspiration to the millions of would-be match-makers of our society? Despite the bum rap this ritual has recieved, the blind date continues to flourish as a means for getting couples together. Because of this obsession with "fixing up" our friends, I feel that some instruction is needed to help prevent nights of frustration and misery. First, to the match-makers of our world, be considerate of your friends and potential victims. Blind dates are not meant to be just a way to find another couple to go out with or a way of finding someone to go out with your cousin who happens to be visiting the same weekend of an important social affair. When making the arrangements, take into consideration the tastes and idiosyncrasies of all involved. For example, if your best friend The blind date S&M Column has never found short people particulary attractive, the twin brother of the short dude on "Fantasy Island" is not a good choice. A helpful check list in finding that "someone special" is as follows: Physical appearance: would your friend find the green hair cool or revolting? Intelligence level: is constant reiteration of Mendel's Laws of Genetics endearing or a source of pain to your victim? Personal habits: would your friend be embarrassed if his/her date decided to clip his/her toenails during intermission? Now, on to the newly met and perfectly matched couple, what do you do with this stranger in the way of fun? First, apply an extra stroke of deodorant before you go out. Then, when you do actually get to meet yourcompanion for the evening, make sure that you aren't alone. Meet in a bar, or at a party. With a public meeting you can dump the nerd if you want and not be to conspicious. If you make it beyond the initial greeting, then sit back, try to relax, but don't share your family history, yet. Good topics of conversation are college experiences, and band playing, other bands and concerts, and pets. Keep the conversation light and funny; it is much easier to like someone who is not drowning in their own problems and is funny than someone who is on the verge of a major emotional breakdown. If blind dates were always a complete and total mess, they wouldn't still exist....so have fun, don't pick up any embarassing social issues, and flirt a little. Alpha Lambda Delta The WCU Chapter of Alpha Lambda Delta, National Scholastic Honor Society for freshman college and university students, will hold its initiation on Sunday, April 26. Students will be initiated into the society which recognizes superior academic performance by freshmen. Students must have obtained a B or better average to be named for membership. There are 210 Alpha Lambda Delta chapters throughout the United States. The society was established in 1924 at the University of Illinois and now has a membership of over 325,000. In addition to providing national leadership conferences for chapter members and advisers, the society awards fourteen $3,000 fellowships to members for graduate or professional studies. The advisers for the WCU chapter are Dr. Bonita Jacobs and Dr. Terry Nienhuis. The chapter president is Sally Alewel from Murphy. Those students to be initiated are: Lisa D. Abel, Michael M. Barnhill, Linda M. Bidenhamer, Diane M. Capps, Susan H. Cribbs, Margaret F. Crites, Amy R. Crutchfield, Leslie E. Greer, Calista A. Hall, Jo Anna M. Haney, Sandra L. Humbert, Enka A. Hohannesen, KimberlyC. Laney, Julie A. Long, Jennifer Martin, Erin H. Millner, Bndgette L. Parker, Michael B. Parker, Angela G.m Patane, Tamera F. Pullium, Edward W. Reiger, Jr., Angela K. Roberts, Kimberly Tara Smith, Melanie D. Sparks, D'Armond L. Speers, and Wendy F. Weaver. Mortar Board News The WCU Cap and Gown Chapter of Mortar Board initiated twenty-nine new members on Sunday, April 12 at 3:00 p.m. in the Catamount Room of the UC. Mortar Board is a national senior honor society recognizing students for their outstanding accomplishments in scholarship, leadership, and service. All students who are selected have at least a 3.0 grade point average, participate in campus and community activities, hold several leadership positions, and have records of service to the University and community. Students are chosen in their junior year to be members in their senior year. The students inducted were: Billy Joe Adams, Pamela Boylan, Angela Burns, Jucy Carter, Judy Garland Carver, Lydia Michelle Clark, Cheryl Lyn Contino, Dorothy P. Hagedorn, Gary R. Harris, Dirk Van Helder, Franklin Paul Koonts, Rome Randolf Lamont, Gretchen Cara Ledford Julie Amanda Ledford, Pamela M. Lull, Kelly Martin, Elizabeth Mary McDonell, Myra Elizabeth Melton, Angela Kaye Moore, Jacqueline E. Moore, Dana A. Mosteller, James Pennington Mundy, Jr., Jeanmarie Rampolla, Lisa Ann Reinhard, Michael John Roepke, Milady Ruth, Tracy Dianne Scott, Steven Weir Sizemore, and Vonda B Smith.

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: 1987-04-22
  • Date digitized: 2019-04-09
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  • Pages: 14 pages
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