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w tlj Quote of the week ... "Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad" - Christina Rossetti What's Inside The Western Carolinian News Public Safety 2 Calendar of Events....7 Classifieds 10 Voices Letters to Editor...3 & 4 Features Counselor's Corner..6 Pick of the Flicks 5 Sports From The Pressbox..8 Intramurals 9 Volume 58, Number 21 Thursday, February 25, 1993 Cullowhee, North Carolina THURSDAY Feb 25, 1993 Briefly SGA accepting applications The student government association (SGA) will be accepting applications for all positions of the 1993-94 school year through Friday, Mar. 12. Turn in applications at the SGA office on the second floor of Hinds University Center. "Weekend Comedy" showing in Asheville W.O. Gant Theater presents "Weekend Comedy," Jeanne and Sam Bobrick's situation comedy, at the Haywood Park Hotel in downtown Asheville on February 26 & 27, and March 4 & 6, with cocktails at 6:30 pm, dinner by 23 Page at 7 pm, and curtain at 8:15. $22.50 covers dinner and show with cash bar available. A limited number of show tickets are available for $8.00. For reservation or further information, call 299-3719 or 274- 7715. Art course for therapy The Asheville Art Museum invites you to register for a seven week course on art as a therapeutic tool in clinical treatment beginning on Monday, March 8,1993, at 6pm in the Museum. Each session begins at 6pm and ends at 9pm and includes a coffee break followed by aquestion and answer period. The cost of the course is $ 100.00. Members, teachers and certified health care professionals receive a 10% discount. This course is currently being upgraded to two CEU credits. To register, call (704)-253-3227. Sports management program sponsors giveaway Spend your spring break in Orlando, Florida with the Shaq. The Event & Facility Management class and the Sport Management program are sponsoring the giveaway of two tickets to the March 2nd game between the Orlando Magic and the Minnesota Timberwolves. The drawing will be held between games of the Catamounts doubleheader with Wright State on Saturday, Feb. 20. Only students are eligible for the drawing and may register at Childress Field before and during the first game of the double header. You must be present to win and must show your student I.D. to claim your prize. WCU to sponsor competition for a new outdoor sculpture program Western Carolina University is conducting a competition for its new Outdoor Sculpture Program. Applications will be accepted through Friday, Feb. 26, for the competition (hat is designed to inaugurate the new WCU Outdoor Sculpture Program. The program is a four-year project of the WCU art department with the purpose of drawing attention to public sculpture as an art form. Submissions may relate to the 1993 Cullowhee Arts Festival theme of "Civil Strife: Reflections Through the Arts and Humanities." Sculptures will be installed for a year and must be built to withstand the weather. As many as ten sculptures will be selected. Public sculpture is also the focus of WCU's artist-in-residence-program this spring. For more information, call Bill Buchanan in the art department, 227-7210. Netherlands art & gardens tour fund raiser "Hollandays of Flowers and Paintings" is a Spring Tour to the Netherlands designed exclusively for the Asheville Art Museum by Henry Fisher and Wilcox World Travel and tours. Featuring the great Dutch art museums and the famous Keukenhof Tulip Gardens, the tour is scheduled to depart Saturday, May 1 from Asheville for a 10-day journey to 12 Dutch cities and countrysides. The tour is open to the public as well as members of the Museum. The tour price is $3,145 per person from Asheville, inclusive of a $150 tax deductible contribution to the Museum. For a colorful brochure containing full tour details, contact Wilcox World Travel and tours (Tel: [704]-254-0746 or [800]- 483-5828). Students selected for education honors Colleen Vasconcellos Staff Writer The Western Carolina School of Education and Psychology named ten student teachers as Outstanding Prospective Teachers. The Outstanding Prospective Teacher designation is the highest honor that an education major from Western Carolina's School of Education and Psychology can obtain. The candidates are evaluated on teaching skills, extracurricular activities, oral and written communication skills, scholarship, initiative, and creativity. The students named are as follows: Nathan Burton of Durham, who attended West- em Carolina on a Teaching Fellows Scholarship. He majored in business and minored in special education. Janice Cowan of Cullowhee, who completed her bachelor's degree in secondary social studies education. She was named Peace College's 1990 Outstanding Graduate. Betty SueCowan of Murphy, a music education major. She graduated summa cum laude from Elon College before completing certification at Western Carolina. Mary Edwards of Charlotte, a summa cum laude graduate of Western Carolina. She has abachelor' s degree in special education. "I had worked really hard throughout my student teaching, and I was thrilled to receive this honor," said Edwards. "In the education department, everyone works so hard. To be chosen out of such a good group of people was wonderful." Ashley Harmon of Charlotte, who earned her degree in elementary education. When asked how she felt about this recognition, Harmon said, "It's nice to be recognized." Carta Hawkins of Clyde, a magna cum laude graduate on elementary education. A scholarship recipient, she was a member of two honor societies here at Western Carolina. Melanie Hockaday of Warner, a graduate of the University of Florida. She obtained certification in English at Western Carolina, and holds a master of the OPl photo by Charlts PulHam Officers of Mortar Board, senior honor society, encircle a Carolina hemlock tree. The tree was planted in memory of Kirsten Kurtgis, former president of WCU's Mortar Board who was killed in a December automobile accident. A plaque honoring Kurtigis will be placed in Killian Building. Pictured from left to right are Bob McCanless, Scott Adelman, Cassandra Barnett, Vicki Ensley, Kevin Holland and Debbie Mullins. arts degree. Kimberly Jones of Leicester, a member of Pi Gamma Mu honor society. She graduated cum laude with a bachelor's degree in elementary education. "I consider it to be an honor," said Jones. "I feel the staff and the professors are the best, and having them select me makes my education at WCU worthwhile." Allison Macauly, an honors graduate in elementary education, responded to this honor by saying, "I feel special, like they recognized me." Angela Teague, a magna cum laude graduate in elementary education. She is also amember of several honor societies. The Outstanding Prospective Teachers Selection Committee members consist of School of Education and Psychology—faculty Carol Burton, Betty Suhre, Judith Franson, Margaret Studenc, Gail Debnam, Mary Deck, LuJuan Gibson, and Mickey Randolph. Cook receives Educator of the Year Award Office of Public Information The North Carolina Society for Medical Technology has named Norma B. Cook, an assistant professor of health sciences at WCU, the recipient of its Educator of the Year Award. Cook will receive the award in March at the organization's spring convention in Myrtle Beach, S.C. The award is given annually to the educator who shows the most achievement in teaching, service, and research in the field of medical technology and clinical laboratory sciences. Nominations are submitted to the education scientific assembly of the state society, and the recipient is selected by an awards committee. As a winner of the state award, Cook is also a candidate for the American Society of Medical Technology's Sherwood Medical Professional Achievement Award in Education, a national honor given to the top medical technology educator in the nation. A member of the WCU faculty since 1976, Cook was a previous chief microbiologist at St. Joseph's Hospital in Asheville. She serves as a clinical coordinator for WCU's clinical laboratory science program, teaches mycol ogy and is at work on a textbook on mycology. Her paper entitled "Opportunistic Fungal Infections in Patients with AIDS" was published in the November issue of the Journal of Clinical Laboratory Science. Grant fills financial aid director position Office of Public Information Thomas W. Grant, a former associate director of financial aid at the University of California at Los Angeles, is the Job fair and career day offer employment James B. Bryan Staff intern The Summer Recreation Job Fair and Health Science Career Day were held last week. These events featured many of the regions leading employers. Summer Recreation Job Fair was held last Wednesday in the Grand Room of the U.C., and featured several employers from many summer camps and other recreational companies. Libby Smith, the Human Resources Coordinator for the Grove Park Inn and Country Club, mentioned that they were offering internships and summer employment in the following departments: floral shop, housekeeping, security, reservations, front desk, and several other areas. Smith went on to say that the Grove Park Inn has been represented at Summer Recreation Job Fair every year that Western has held it. She mentioned that they have hired many Western students in the past with several positions being offered permanently. Health Science Career Day was held on Thursday in the Ramsey Center. This event offered future employment for graduating seniors and graduate students receiving degrees in the Health Science field. Rob Godbey, a representative from Eastern Associates Speech & Language Services of Goldsboro, was interviewing students to work in the field of Speech Pathology .This was the first career day that Eastern Associates has been involved in at Western. "I'm impressed with the students here at Western; this seems great!" Godbey mentioned. The Career and Academic Planning (CAP) center sponsors this and many other events every year as a service to students at Western. For more information about these events, contact the CAP Center at 227-7170. new director of student financial aid at Western Carolina University. Grant began his duties at Western on Jan. 2, after the retirement of the longtime director Glenn Hardesty. Grant had worked in UCLA's financial aid office since 1986 before coming to Western. He was a system manager and assistant director of financial aid, before being named the associate director of financial aid last year. He received several administrative and professional staff awards at UCLA. He also has worked as a director of financial aid at Lewis- Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho, and as an assistantdirector of financial aid, a data processing coordinator, a financial aid counselor and a veterans benefits administrator at Northern Illinois University. A native of Peoria, Illinois, Grant earned a bachelor's degree in history from the Western Illinois University and a master's degree in student personnel services from Western Illinois. A past president of the Idaho Association of StudentFi- nancial Aid Administrators, he has made several national presentations on the computerization of financial aid records. Jamaicans earn WCU bachelor's degrees Blake Frizzell Staff Writer WCU's bachelor's degree program for Jamaican teachers was selected as one of three outstanding international continuing higher education programs in the country by the Association for Continuing Higher Education. The program began in 1970 for Jamaican teachers who are graduates of the three-year teacher education program in Jamaica. These graduates come to Western and receive a Bachelor's degree in varying concentrations within the field of education. WCU's program was nominated to the National Association for Continuing Higher Education and was selected as one of the three best three programs. Other schools which also received this award were Furman University and Oklahoma State University. Kay Hill of WCU's Division of Continuing Education and Summer School accepted the award at the organization's annual meeting in Milwaukee. She also participated in a panel discussion of "Thriving in the '90's with International Continuing Education." The award cited development and delivery of instruction in WCU's program, which advances Jamaican educators from a teaching certificate to a bachelor of science in education degree. Courses are offered in Jamaica by full-time WCU faculty members, and a summer residence on the WCU campus is required of Jamaican participants. Some of the teachers from WCU who participated are Casey Hurley, Judith Franson, Lewis Cloud, Michael Dougherty, David Shapiro, Dick Berne, James Morrow, Richard Haynes, Jeff Neff, Judith Clauss, Don Chalker, and Richard Craddock. Western and the Jamaican Ministry of Education developed program requirements to build on education and experience. The curriculum is designed to provide for the needs of the Jamaican educational system while maintaining WCU teacher education program standards, Hill said. The program has not only helped Jamaican teachers receive higher pay and additional responsibilities, but has helped WCU instructors, as well. "They gain a different kind of appreciation for what we have, and enjoy working with those teachers,"said Hill. "It has been a worthwhile program in a lot of ways." About 350 Jamaicans have completed the program since its beginning.

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: 1993-02-25
  • Date digitized: 2019-10-23
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  • Cullowhee (N.C.) -- Newspapers
  • Universities and colleges -- North Carolina -- Cullowhee -- Newspapers
  • Western Carolina University -- Periodicals
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