Central Piedmont Archives
Not a member yet
1526 research outputs found
Sort by
The Spark, Volume 35, No. 3
No full textThe Spark interviews Dr. Nicholas Gennett, Vice President of Student, Staff and Organizational Development at Central Piedmont. William Walsh (Program Director for Finance and Economics), Sally Andrews (International Business Center and Corporate/Continuing Education), and Richard Zollinger (Program Director for International Business) hold a symposium on the European Economic Community, sponsored by Phi Theta Kappa. Draft counselor responds to The Spark’s write-up about the draft counseling that took place in March at the Student Life Center. Central Piedmont celebrates Earth Day with annual festivities, such as a tree-planting ceremony and Phi Theta Kappa selling veggie pitas.CENTRAL
PIEDMONT
COMMUNITY
COLLEGE
May 1991
VOL. 35 NO. 3
I Taylor 205 P.O. Box 35009 I
End-of-the-Year Wrap-up
With Vice-President Gennett
by Terrie Bentley
Co-Editor
Editor's note: In September THE
· SPARKinterviewedDr. Nicholas Gennett
Vice-President of Student, Staff and Orga~
nizational Development. THE SP ARK
talked with him again in April to see what
has changed in one year at CPCC and to
see what is planned for next year:
SPARK: "How far has your role
in this institution evolved?"
Gennett: "A lot. It has evolved
more than I would have dreamed possible
when I came in July .... In many ways as
I look back over the time since you and I
first talked I am amazed at how fast this
institution really moves . . . in terms of
poljcy d~isiol!§, activities . . . .Much faster
than the community college where I was
working before I came ....
"You have to remember that this
area called Student, Staff and Organizational
Development was only a year old
when I assumed the Vice-Presidency. What
~ad happened was the organization was put
mto place a year before the person who
occupied my position retired. Well, naturally,
as you would expect ,a person just
"The first priority of the
college is to protect the
courses to make sure that
students are able to complete
their program ... "
prior to retirement is more of a . . . .
moderator or shepherd and puts off making
a lot of decisions about directions ... well
that pretty much determines what the successor
has to deal with. So when I came
here, a lot of things were waiting for the
Vice-President to come in and make decisions
.... "
. S: "What was your biggest disap-pomtment
this year?"
. G:"Ithink:mybiggestdisappoint-ment
is that the timing of the reorganization
~f (this deparbllent) occurred at the very
tune when funds were cut back froni the
state and that if the reorganiz.ation had
taken place a year or two years before the
funds would have been liere in order for' that
to happen. For example .. . we know we
•
need more counselors but the dollars simply
aren't there. So I know that's the di~
tion we have to go but my disappointment
IS I can see the solution but I can't get to it." ,
S: "Well, what programs will be
cut?"
G: " ... We're looking at all the
programs at this college and trying to figure
out ... which are the programs (which)
needs have changed so that we can
strengthen (some) areas .... So things like
professional development, part-timers, increased
hours of service, materials and supplies,
~uipment, all of those kinds of things
are bemg cut to a bare minimum in order for
us to protect people's jobs and services to
students."
S: "What about classes, like individual
courses that someone needs to
graduate ... ?" ·""'-==-:=,...,..,_,..- : nae WI nsc puority o
~ college. The first priority of the college
1s to protect the courses to make sure that
students are able to complete their programs
... "
S: "What about new students
coming in the fall? Will they be able to
enroll here?"
G: "Yes, but it's going to be
tougher fo~ them ... because what's going
to happen IS a couple things: Number one,
... we've had record enrollments this year.
Therefore, more students will be coming
back next year and they'll pre-register before
freshmen come in. In addition to that
we 're going to have, I think, a lot of studen~
who've started at four-year schools who
could not afford to continue to go there.
Th~y'llcomeinastransferstudents. They'll
register early. Plus the fact that I think
we 're going to have a larger freshman class
this c~oming fall then we had even this
fall.So what's going to happen is that we'll
be able to accommodate the freshmen ... but
they're going to have to register as early as
they can in order to get what they want . . .
"
S:"Switching away from the budget
... "
G: "Sure."
S: " In September when I interviewed
you, you mentioned student accessibility
in two ways: in teaching and in
leadership training of college students, and
there was supposed to have been a leadership
retreat in April ... what happened to
it?"
G: "That's been rescheduled. I
don't have the date although you can get
that from Mr. (Ross) Surphlis in Student
Please see Dr. Gennett page 5
Please Re~ycle Our Paper
. . Photo by Troy Brailey
William Walsh, Program Director for Finance and Economi • Sall
together with Richard Zollinger Program Direct i In cs: al~· ~drews, ~ International Business,
on the European Economic eom:nunity sponson:b ~ ;:nat~t usmess_ (not pictured), held a syrnposiwn
omicsystemto owe in _' y eta appa.onAprill7.AndrewsexpectstheGennan
Business Instructors Speak
on Europe '92
by Thomas Henkel
Staff Writer
Phi Theta Kappa sponsored a
symposium a]?out the impending
consolidation of the European Economic
Community ( "Europe '92") on April 17 at
1:30 p.m. in BR 120. F.cpnomically, the
community is a kind of twelve-country
"United States of Europe."
At the meeting were Richard
Zollinger ,ProgramDirectorfor International
Business; Sally Andrews of the International
Busin~ Center and Corporate/Continuing
~ucatmn; ~ William Walsh, Program
DrrectorforFmanceandEconornics. All are
from Central Piedmont Community
College.
Said Zollinger, America and N<Xth
Carolina are in bad shape, deficit-wise.
However, this state's debt has been
drastically reduced to 1 trillion
passes annually.
. Therearefivetimesasmanyfarmers
m Europe as there are here, plus, they have
half the land area that we possess for
agriculture. In France, the European
b~basket, as in most other EC countries.
fal'Qlmg is subsidized ten times more so
than here. Both sides agree, a trade war ·
wou~d be foolish. ''Try to think of it,"
Zollinger suggested, "as company against
company~ not country against country."
. With_ the rest of Europe having to
bad ~ut therr Eastern neighbors, there is a
credlt crunch. Redevelopment and
_economic restimulation is a huge struggle,
and some fmancial systems may absorb
others. Andrews expects the German system
todo best. Switzerland, Sweden,andFinland
are unaligned, buta previously non-member
nation, Austria, has applied to the EC.
~corporating a neutral country will be
difficult Also on the waiting list is Turkey
the southmt flank of NATO. '
SomeEuropeansurgecaution while
America wonders if it can compete. Under
Thatcher, Great Britain had been a reluctant
participant in continental economics, but.
n?tes Walsh, even though Major resembles
his predecessor, that country now has no
choice but to join the crowd. With the ghost
of the second W arid War finally exorcised,
Europe can get doivn to the business of
business and prosper.
.....
2 May 1991 The SPARK OPINION
From the Editor's Desk
Men: Women can· get along -
without you (relates to some more than others)
by Melissa Sims
Co-F.ditor
Whyisitthatmen never think women
are going to know anything about cars or
electronics?
About three months ago, I went into
Circuit City to buy a cassette player for my
car. I walked in. I knew what I was looking
for. I found iL No poblem.
But none of the salesmen were
intezested in helping me. I followed them
around. "Excuse me, excuse me. . . "
Reluctantly, one of them acknowledged
that I wanted to buy something and that he
was going to make an easy sale, without
ever having to help me select the stereo
system. So anyway, I bought the player.
I got home and asked my dad if he'd
install iL He agreed, but told me I needed to
go back and buy a wire harness. So I went
back the next day and asked the salesman
(the same one who'd so graciously helped
me select the perfect audio system for my
needs) where I could get a wire harness. He
let me know, in a manner that told me I'd
asked a really stupid question, that I would
have to go outside and around the building
to the installation garage. This is where the
nightmare begins.
I strode purposefully into the garage,
hoping the installatign men wouldn't
determine that I was "ignorant" about car
stereos. Well, as soon as I hit the doorway,
they all turned (perhaps a sixth sense told
them that here was someone to talk about)
and congregated into their little "male"
groups.
Yes, I was intimidated. They were
looking at me, smiling, nudging each other,
but not one of them moved to ask what I
needed. So I picked out my "victim" and
approached him. When told what I needed,
he asked if I'd just bought a cassette player.
"Yes," I told him.
it?"
He grinned. "Who• s gonna install
"My dad."
"So you need a wire harness, huh?"
Here is where my thoughts must
. interjecL Had I not just told him that I was
there for a wire harness? And this guy was
standing there, grinning like an idiot,
because he must have thought/ was stupid.
Afttt I got my wire harness, and a
few other things he told me I needed, but it
turned out I didn't need them at all, I left. I
wanted to run from there, crying, but I ·
didn't, since that's probably what they
expected me to do. I just left.
This isn't about me and my wire
harness. It's not about me and my car being
overdue for an oil change the very next
month. And it's not about the three flat tires
· I had this month. I had similar ordeals
getting all those things dealt with.
It's about men and the way they·
discriminate against women. It's about the
way they assume we know nothing. It's
about the way they don't bother to teach us.
It's about the way they take advantage of
us. It's about the way they treat us like
we'regoodforonlyafewthingsthatwillgo
unmentioned here. It's about the way they
think we couldn't possibly survive without
them.
Men, I've got some disturbing news
for you. We can get by without you always
being there when we're in trouble.
And I, for one, intend to prove it.
"'-- f.r fl.. ;"t -0-e
.1 s\W, l'lr. 3..W ~ - .... ,
-- ::--:::::::~
~
From the Editor's Desk
Throw Education Governor Out;
Get Education In
by Terrie Bentley
Co-F.ditor •
On April 20, I saw Pwnp Up the
Volume on video. And while I could do a
review of it, I've decided to do something
bigger. So if you want to see this excellent
movie, see iL lean 'tmake you do it through
a review.
Everyone's talking about budget
problems, drug problems, school spirit
problems, and et cetera poblems of our
high schools, colleges, and unive.rsities.
Heck. there are even guns and drugs_ in ·
elementary schools. What can we do about
all this junk?
Some say education works. Well,
we've been doing the education stuff for
some time now and iroblems have only
worsened./ think, and for a disclaimer I'll
say that it doesn't really matter what I say,
anyway, because ... Well,justbecause. But
/ think the problems lie in the fact that we
aren't doing enough. The United States has
one of the lowest voter turnouts in the
Western world, and yet we scream to the
heavens that the right to vote is our privilege
for living in a free country. So it is. So why
don't we vote more?
When I turned 18, I was proud to
stand and wait my tum to go into the voting
booth. I vote. Why? Well, for the simple
fact that/ like to. I like to know that when
my candidate wins, I helped. And, for the
opposite end, when my candidate loses, I
know I at least helped some. But yet, some
older adults never vote. To quote someone,
"One vote can't help much."
Maybe one vote can get our
"education governor" out of office so some
help can come to the schools. HereatCPCC,
according to the Spring Quarter Forum Dr.
Shaw held on April 10, things at this school
will -get pretty dam bad before it gets any
better. This really stinks. You know, you
come to college to get ahead in life and then
some politician behind a desk trips you on
the path to whatevez you want to do.
But I think I know what I'm going to
do. I'm not going to trip. I'm not going to let
them trip me. How? Dunno. Without telling
you who to vote for, I'll just say that we, as
voters, can throw slightly-~. lying blackhaired
governors out into the real world,
where schools have to fight for the paper to
copy tests on, and where the desks students
have to use are unfit for firewood.
Without further ado, I'll end my
slightly angry editorial. I was going to write
a "happy" editorial saying bye-bye to those
who might graduate in May. But somehow,
I'd bet, some of you might be back, because
the school just canceled the last class you
needed to graduate because of bu~get
problems.
GoingbacktoPwnpUptheVolume,
Christian Slater was right. We can change
this world We can. Maybe the politicians
who have been in office for more than 18
years can't, but we can. We can. See ya.
The Kurds' History an.d the Gulf Aftermath
by Abdinur Mohamed Ali
.
Kurds are Aryan people who live in
parts of the Soviet Union, Turkey, Iran,
Syria, and Iraq. Kurds have been ruled by
the Turks' Ottoman Empire since World
War I. After WWI when the Ottoman
Empire collapsed, Western countries
pledged to give the Kurds independence.
But up to now, independence is nowhere to
be seen for the Kurds. They have been
betrayed many times by the West.
Nevertheless, Kurds have never given up
hope for self-determination.
There have been numerous uprisings
· in Iraq as well as the neighboring countries
of the Kurds minority. Those uprisings
were always brutally suppressed by the .
ruling governments, such as the gassing of
the Kurds by Saddam in the 1980's. As a
matter of fact, the conflict between the
Kurds and those ruling regimes is an ageold
problem.
Recently, the focus of the media has
been on the Iraqi Kurds. When their
revolution against ~addam failed, they
became easy targets for the Iraqi Republican
Guards. As a result of that, they are now
flooding the borders of Turkey and Iran.
The dream of the Kurds for political rights
is shattered once again .
The plight of the Kurds in Iraq looks
bleak at this present time. We cannot close
our eyes and ears to this anguish. Finally, .
after years of ignoring the Kurds' suffering,
~ West is helping. The United States and
her Western allies have pulled their heads
from out of the sand and spoken against the
brutality of Saddam toward the Kurds.
The efforts of the United Nations
and the United States to provide a safe
haven for Kurds sustain the millions of
lives. The ultimate goal of this operation is
to bring peace and stability to that region.
However, for negotiations to take place
between Saddam and the displaced Kurds
in Iraq, there has to be a third party. But no
one Western country wants to take part in
any negotiations to weaken Saddam's
credibility.
A lot of people, including me, believe
Saddam Hussein cannot be rehabilitated. If
he retains control over the Kurds, he will
still be Saddam. Nevertheless, the U.N. and
the U .S, still have the obligation to keep the
blood-stained hands of Saddam away from
the Kurds.
~
....__
LETTERS May 1991 The SPARK 3
Draft counselor charges SPARK writer was biased in article
Dear SPARK:
I am writing in reply to John
Fullagar's article "James Pittard- Draft
CoWlselcr?" in the March edition of THE
SP ARK. I hope to clear some of his
misrepresentations of our talk and of draft
counseling in general.
I approached the Student Activities
Center near the beginning of the Gulf War
with the idea of giving a presentation on
draft law. A draft did not necessarily seem
likely at the time, but since it was possible,
we agreed that students should have a chance
to be informed about the draft process. A
presentation was planned for February 1.
Only two students showed up, so
I decided to forego the pi:esentation and talk
with them individually. . ·
One student wanted to join the
military, but he could not meet the weight
requirement He wanted to know if a draft
could help him get in. I explained that
Earth Day music
too loud
Dear SPARK,
I find it ironic that those in charge of
the Earth Day observance on campus April
18 would allow the music to be amplified so
loud that I couldn't shut it out several
buildings away even with the windows and
doors closed. Talk about noise pollution!
I'm offended by the arrogant attitude that
says, "You're going to hear this music
whether you want to or not." We no longer
tolerate smokers polluting the air in certain
places, but when it comes to loud music
shattering the peacefulness of a beautiful
spring afternoon we just shake our heads
and feel impotent If those responsible for
turning up the volume full blast have so
little respect for the rights of others, then
our planet is indeed in trouble.
LM _,,. -Mitchell Hagler,
~ Assistant Dean,
Arts and Science
Parking blues
Dear SPARK,
I have one simple suggestion that is
guarant.eedtoincreue thenumbecof parking
spaces available to students on campus.
LEARN HOW TO PARK! I cannot count
how many times I have seen cars so
carelessly parked that they intrude into the
neighboring slot Granted, the ~ are
narrow, but it doesn't• more than a few
seconds to back up and try again if you pull
in over the line or at an angle. No one is in
that big of a hurry! Some consideration for
other students when parking would go a
long way toward curing this school's
parking woes.
Respectfully Submitted,
Jeffery C. Smith
medical requirements for service apply
during the draft just as they do now. That
student left
11le other student had general
questions about how the draft might work
and his options in the face of a draft I
described registration, the lottery system,
deferments and exemptions. I also described
illegal options such as civil disobedience ·
and draft dodging, along with the penalties
which would be incurred in pursuing them.
My counseling is based on
assumptions that I think most people share:
that life decisions proceed from beliefs,
whether implicit or explicit; that it is best to
make those decisions fully informed; that
clarifying beliefs allows one to act
deliberately, instead of acting in fear or in
haste; and that until one can act deliberately,
it is best to keep options open.
The student at the meeting had not
heard about conscientious objection, nor
did he know to ask about it until I mentioned
it In addition, CO status was the only
authority on draft law in the U.S. The
Selective Service System itself uses
NISBCO for consultation. I was familiar
enough with the. book that I could look up
anything I did not know. I had been in touch
with theNISBCO office, and they felt I was
qualified to give presentations.
John Fullagar arrived shortly after
we had started. When I asked him, he said
that he was there as a reporter. He was
interested in this issue because while he
was in the service, he had worked in an
office that processed conscientious objector
I gave the student a copy of a worksheet
entitled "What Do I Believe About War?"
an adaption by NISBCO (National
Interreligious Service Board for
Conscientious Objectors) from the Selective
Service System's Form 150.
I explained two things when I gave
him the worksheet: first, that though the
worksheet was geared toward those who
thought they might be conscientious
objectors, the three-step process on the
second page was appropriate for anyone
(such 38 this student) who wanted to clarify
their beliefs about participation in war. The
three steps are 1) to describe one's beliefs,
2) to describe where the beliefs came from,
and 3) to describe how the beliefs affect the
way one lives.
For John Fullagar's response,
please see page 4
Second, I explained that the student
would do well to begin the work of clarifying
his beliefs about participation in the military
now. The work of clarifying beliefs may
· takemonths,ifnotyears,anditmayinvolve
extensive research c.- counseling with a
religiousleaderorsomeoneelse the potential
draftee trusts ....
option which required immediate
exploration. Not to have informed the
student about this option would have been
negligent on my part ·
I emphasized that if a draft
occurred, the student needed to contact a
draft counselor such as myself, since the
laws could change as they passed through
Congress. I also recommended that he let
me refer him to a preenlistment counselor if
he thought seriously about enlisting.
I came to the February 1 meeting
with a NISBCO book, Draft Counselor's
Manual, which explains the Selective
Service Act as amended to the present,
along with the SSS forms for various
procedures. NISBCO is the · foremost
·tterpes article:
or fact of life?
Sour grapes
Dear SPARK,
I would like to thank Beth. Smith
· for writing the article "Have you seen me?"
·(Spark,April, Vol. 35,No.2). Yousee,Iam
the woman who posted those notices. What
I did was not out of malice but out of
concern for any women who might have the
misfortune of becoming involved with this
man.
broke up with me the night he told me he
had herpes. 11le reason he gave was that he
didn't know "where our relationship was
headed" and that he had been seeing
someone else foe the past month.
I would like to urge everyone (not
just women) to please be careful about the
partners they choose. I thought
Inside CPCC, Spring Quarter, Volume 6, Number 18
No full textInside CPCC highlights Central Piedmont's band director, Bill Hanna, as well as the development of the Advanced Technologies Center. Central Piedmont begins to offer Black History courses and states its intention to grow past Central Campus. Central Piedmont counselor and educational consultant Cathy Jones shares suggestions on how to make decisions about college.Spring Quarter, 1991
CPCC
MAGAZINE
New Job Skills-In Less 1ban a Year
Students to Work in Factory of the Future
NCNB]oins Search for Minority Instructors
Oops! Mistakes Teens Make in Choosing a C,ollege
Volume 6, Number 18
IMAGINE NORTH CAROLINA
WITHOUT ITS
COMMUNITY COLLEGES
Who would train our nurses? (Today, over half of the state's registered nurses were trained at community colleges.)
Who would train firemen and policemen? (Today, about 95% of fire service training and 80% of basic law
enforcement training takes place through community colleges.) ./
Who would help us attack our adult illiteracy problem? (Today, that training is free through
community colleges, including 700 workplace classes at business and industry.)
Who would retrain our workers and educate our computer technologists, our engineering
technologists, our hotel-restaurant professionals? Who would offer affordable preparation for
transferring to four-year colleges and universities?
Without Central Piedmont Community College and the other 57 colleges in the North
Carolina system, this state would fall far behind economically, socially, educationally.
But we are in serious danger of finding out just how much things would change
with a weakened community college system. The level of funding for
this state's system is 34% below the national level. Because of that,
some colleges aren't able to offer the services their
communities need. It's happened in Charlotte, where
students have been turned away because there isn't
enough m ney for all the classes needed.
Four former governors and a host of other citizens have
banded together to make a difference: North Carolinians for
Community Colleges.
What can you do to help? Call or write North Carolinians for
Community Colleges. Show your support for the colleges that
have supported our economy for the last three decades.
North Carolinians for Community Colleges
P.O. Box 194
Winston-Salem, N .C. 2 7102
919-761-0711
On Our Cover
CPCC students (from left) Terry Clark,
Kimberly Boger, Keith Grimes and Jeff
Anthony learn more about their heritage
during a visit to Charlotte's Afro-American
Cultural Center.
Spring Quarter, 1991
Volume 6, Nwnber 18
Fay Vogelbacher, editorial assistant
Peg Robarchek, contributing editor
Karen Lands, contributing writer
Mike Myers, contributing writer
Barbara Russell, contributing writer
Ann Wicker, contributing writer
Janice Cromar, graphic designer
Tom Covington, contributing photographer
Mike Slade, contributing photographer
© Copyright 1991 by Central Piedmont Community
College. For reprint rights, contact Community
Relations, CPCC, P.O. Box 35009, Charlotte, N.C.,
28235
CPCC is an equal opportunity/ affirmative action
institution.
Dr. Ruth G. Shaw, President
Published by :
am CENTRAL PIEDMONT
~ COf.AMUNITY COLLEGE
10,000 copies of this public document were printed at a
cost of 10.75 registration, include a secretary, a
UPS worker, a jeweler, a
hotel piano-bar player,
a UNCC prof, a retired
gent or two ...
There's Marty
Travis, 74, small and
wiry, with sharp, chiselled
features which
always leave a shadow
somewhere on his face.
He caresses notes from
his saxophone beside
Aaron Spears, 17, who
recently graduated from
East Mecklenburg High School. Aaron wears a
sunburst tie-dyed shirt, neon chartreuse shorts,
and sockless sneakers.
At infrequent breaks, cello-voiced Marty
talks and Aaron absorbs. Us Marty talking about
his big band one-night gigs when they slept three
to a bed, or of all night, sit-up train rides?) 'We
were the best of our day."
You get the feeling Marty's words don't
change much with each
retelling. Aaron Spears
cocks his head, slides
over closer, and comments
only with a raised
eyebrow or nod or grunt
The veteran and the kid.
There are retired
symphony players, an
ex-I1I'L band member, a
real estate agent, and a
full-time CPCC student.
a class as it is a team, and teams need all positions
filled. So class attendance records are simple:
1 OOl/o most every class, though some have to
squeez.e in the practices.
Llke the piano player in the necktie. He plays
while half-standing, hunched over the keyboard.
He talks fast at music rests. " ... just moved here
from Colorado Springs .. ." He pounds nimbly,
obeying Hanna's barked orders.
Who he is and why does he wear a tie to a
largely t-shirt and jeans class? " ... Dr. William Sut-ton
... neuropsychology ... on a lunch break ... gotta
get back to my office ... for afternoon appoint-ments,"
he says between chords.
The band swoops into St. Louis Blues and
17 feet join director Hanna's in marking the beat.
Three or four ponytails flop in unison on the allmale
band.
Part conductor, part ringmaster, Bill Hanna
has been at CPCC about a year. The other 56 years
have been punctuated with stops beginning at
Wagram, NC, then to Davidson College for a history
major, the anny, Indiana University for a music
major, New York clubs, one-night stands with the
musical greats, pit orchestras, funerals, weddings,
dances, the Charlotte public school system ... roots
no deeper than the tread on the tires of his remembered
1941 Plymouth sedan, black, rebel flag in
back,412.
There he is in an all-night diner with warm
watered-down beer in a Styrofoam cup, bent
cigarettes, haze, the diner waitress asking
wouldn't he like to try a piece of cheny
pie for dessert. The juke box,
too loud, commands Fly
Me To The Moon.
Hanna's sparse
curly @:ey beard is an extension
of his sparse curly@:ey
hair, and ifhis face were seen
up-side-down, his forehead would probably look
like a grin.
Hanna's teaching method is part wave-thetrombone-
like-a-club, and part shout-over-themusic.
He imitates each instrument with "tad-datdoo"
to punch out the sound and beat he is after.
He throws in an occasional twirl oflittle dance steps
that aren't learned outside of Myrtle Beach.
Now he flits across stage, barely missing
music stands and instrument cases and chairs as
he sucks in and swivels and moves. He switches to
the piano (he plays guitar and violin also) swaying
his whole body in an exaggerated beat. Then he
bounds to the second row, trailing a kind of
warmth in his wake, to the horns now playing with
full lung power. He joins in, cheeks bulging until
they're red, eyes scrunched shut, head back. .. Who
is he playing with this time? What is he hearing?
Where is he nCNI?
Motion. Always, motion.
Tony Naples, 66, thinning on top, thickening
in the middle, seived as a musician in World War
II, playing horn for Mickey Rooney and Bob Hope.
He played in Germany for 4 1 /2 years with boys
Continued on page 12
Ritua(
Symbol
&
Spirit
The pathos of poverty
and the color of culture are
blended in Evie Chang Henderson's
art exhibit from her
trip to India two years ago.
Ritual, Symbol & Spirit, "India ," a gouache painting by Evie ChaR.g Henderson
on display at Queens Gallery,
1212 The Plaza, March 18-April 1, is a body of
work representing the many contrasting images of
modem day India
In 1988, the CPCC art instructor received an
Emerging Artists' Grant from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg
Arts & Science Council for Educational
Study in India on a Fulbright Seminar.
"My India visit was an intense experience,"
Arts Festival · Exhib~s. music, drama and
dance by visiting artist from North Carolina's
community colleges. Feb. 19-20. Queens
College. Free. 342-6618
Dance Central Winter Concert - Feb.
22, 23 and 24. Pease Auditorium. 5
adults, 3 CPCC students· and children
under 12. 342-6982
Master ~ - Pianist William Chapman
Nyaho. March 7. Free. 342-6618
Piano Recital - Visiting Artist William Chapman
Nyaho. March 8, 8: 15 Pease Auditorium.
Free. 342-6618
An Evening of Gilbert and Sullivan -
CPCC Visiting Artist Jackie Culpepper and
baritone Todd Munday with the Charlotte
Symphony Orchestra. March 15, 16, and
17. Grady Cole Center. 332-6136
said Henderson, who has seived as chairperson of
the Charlotte National 1990 Juried Exhibition
and president of the Guild of Charlotte Artists. "It
has been difficult sorting imagery to adequately
describe the experience.
"For this show, I've attempted to blend
images of folk culture with the color and decorativeness
of Indian art through symbols."
Auf Wiedersehen!
Get a first-hand look at the art, architecture
and history of Germany on Central Piedmont's
summer art trip.
The 16-day trip,~t•:-Toe
group then travels' to BremeI).1 Lubeck, and the~
Baltic Sea witn.._ a three-day stop in Berlin. They ----- will also visit the Harl2 Mo..._untains, Hildesheim,
Wurzburg, Krefeld (Charlott?ssiste~) anj,_ _,,
Dusseldorf, said--E~th Ross witp.,,,thhxifJ~ . ,....,. - ~ ~
lege's Art Department. ?
Cost of the trip is ~ 14 ~r , ~
person from Charlottt:Th~ ;; ~ f.
posed dates of the trip are~ r
during the last part of :;;_'
June or the first part of
July. -
Want to go? C ~7
Eliz,abeth Ross as soon¾lS' </
possible at 342-646 / /
334-6078, r/
Stmies by Karen Lands
FadOrJ'
o theFuture
wth 1.5 million worth of software and hardware to
the CIM lab housed on the first floor. Other
major partners in the Advanced Technologies
Center are Kodak-Verbatim, Hitachi, Apple Computer,
Bendix Heavy Vehicle Systems and
4
Update on
Partnerships
+ IBM engineer James Smith is on loan to
CPCC from IBM's Manassas, Va., plant, to help
the college build a simulated, computemed smallscale
factoiy of the future.
Smith and CPCC are first-year participants
in the IBM Manufacturing Industrial Fellowship
program, designed to improve the competitiveness
ofU.S. business by promoting Computer Integrated
Manufacturing (CIM).
CPCC was one of 11 schools selected to host
IBM fellows this academic year.
Toe factoiy in CPCC's Advanced Technology
Center will feature IBM computers and controls,
which will link commercial manufacturing and
inspection tools with an automated handling system.
In a CIM factoiy, computers do the repetitive
tasks while workers use advanced skills in computer
technology and analysis.
Toe ClM factoiy-laboratoiy will be used for
courses on statistical process control, quality
control, material handling, process planning,
production planning, robotics automation and
an introduction to computer integrated manufacturing.
+ CPCC is teaming up with auto manufacturers
to deliver better training in automotive technologies
to area high schools.
Six area high schools in October received a
computemed car from CPCC and General Motors.
The cars went to those schools where automotive
teachers took training at CPCC to upgrade their
knowledge of computemed engines.
CPCC also donated a complete Toyota air
conditioning kit to 10 Charlotte high schools offering
automotive technology. That equipment,
which was donated to the college, will allow high
school students to study late model air conditioning
systems and practice on one of three major
types of computemed engines: those with carnuretors,
throttle-body fuel injectors and port-type
fuel injectors. Students will also learn how to use
hand-held computers that hook up to cars to
diagnose problems.
This winter, CPCC and GM will offer specializ,
ed electronics training, an advanced electronics
course, to high school automotive instructors.
Jobs in a Huny
You don't always have to spend years getting
college-level job training.
In three to nine months, you can complete a
certificate in new job skills in more than a dw.en
areas at Central Piedmont. That's one to 10
courses, after which you11 earn a certificate.
"In North Carolina, we know that one out of
10 people who attend a community college do not
graduate," says Dallas Garrett, dean for business,
health and technology programs at CPCC. "Many
come in and get the courses they need and then
leave."
CPCC offers both basic and advanced certificates
in a variety of areas, including:
• Paralegal training
• Insurance
• Transportation (sales, traffic, operation,
physical distrtbution or safety)
• Business
• Criminal investigation
• International business
• Commercial air conditioning design
• Automotive driveability certification
• Diesel vehicle maintenance
• Electrtcal installation
• Basic machine tool operation
• Auto body
• Residential carpenuy
• Graphic arts (various certificate programs
in areas including commercial
screen printing, electronic publishing
and typesetting, offset press, copy
preparation technology and printing
• Automotive (various certificate programs
in areas including suspension
systems, brake systems, and automotive
electrtcal specialist)
Want to know more? Call the college's Welcome
Center, 342-6719, and you11 be directed to
the right person.
CALENDAR
Ji:Jving Ahead -March seminars sponsored
by tbeSmall _Business Center. Business managemer,
l,sa1es and marketing, export aware~
ntemational trade, getting the best from
your employees. Tuesdays, 6:15-9 p.m. Main
branch, Public Library. Free. 342-600::J
A Woman's Place is in the Worfd -International
Career Opportunities for Women conference
~sored by 1he CPCC International
Business Center. March 1. Cone Auditorium,
UNCC campus. For registration information,
call 342-6543 or 547-2407
TraPe{ 1.'ipsfor the BusinessJndividual -
lntemafiooal Business Center seminar. March
1fglid 13, 6-9 p.m. Myers Park High School.
$25.342-6543
5
Black
History
Stories by Barbara Russell
Leaming Lessons
from the Past
Where have you been? Where are you going?
Someone once said that people who don't
learn from the past are doomed to repeat it
At CPCC, the community can learn the
lessons of the past in Black Histoiy I and II, two
courses which have been revived.
Fall quarter was the first time CPCC offered
black histoiy in a couple of years, according to
Winston Edmonds, director of Trio programs and
an instructor in humanities and social sciences.
Edmonds has found that students sometimes
project their present-day frustration onto
past events - and that makes for lively discussions.
Toe students take a much more militant
JXJint of view," Edmonds said, explaining that the
pre-Civil War abolitionist movement- an attempt
to do away with slaveiy by working within America's
JXJlitical system -garnered few sympat:hirers
among his students.
"Most African-Americans have attempted to
work within the system," he said. 'That just does
not seem to be working. At this JXJint they're feeling
we've tried for 200 years to work within the
system. Given the incremental nature of how our
government works, it's not effective."
Black History I
covers the time from
precolonial America up
through the Civil War.
Black History II goes
from Reconstruction to
the present-day civil
rights stn.JWe. The 5-hour
classes may ~ taken separately
- the first quarter is
not a premiuisite for the second.
Because of that,
Edmonds said, Black Histoiy
II starts with a quick recap of
the events and issues discussed
in the first course.
CPCC students Teny Clarie and Jeff Anthony viewwiAjiuAmeriam Cul1ural Center exhibit
,,, , , ... ' ' " ' , ,, , ,, ',, ,, ' , ,, ,,,, ,,, ,,, ,,, ,,, ... ,,~ ,, , ,,,
.,,,. .,, ,,,,, ,,, //, , ,,,,, ,,, ,,, ,,,.,, ,,,,,.,.. .,. .,, .,, ,, .,, ,, ,,. //,I' / / / /.// .,,.,,.,,. , / / / ~ ,I' ,, / _ //, /
6
/// ,,~/ '/// /// -'/// ,,,,/
,,, ........ , ............... ...... ..... , ,,,, .... ,,
"I've really been
pleased with the students
I've had," he said.
' '' ' ' ' ''' ',, ' '' '' /(JI , / / / // / / / , / ,// /
NCNB He~s in Search for Minority Role Mode~
CPCC wants to draw on the tremendous talent
that minortty professionals have to offer, and
NCNB wants to help by recruiting some of its staff
members to teach at CPCC.
"If you're focusing on trying to develop
strong role models for your minortty students,
you need strong minority faculty ," said Dr.
Shirley Luckadoo, assistant to the vice president
for education.
But one stumbling block to recruiting minority
instructors is salaiy. CPCC teachers must have
at least a master's degree, and professionals with
master's degrees can make more money in business
and industry than in education.
CPCC's cooperative effort with NCNB is
designed to put some of the company's minortty
professionals in the classroom.
'We're blessed at NCNB to have been able to
recruit a number of very talented, highly educated,
Help! If You c.an Read,
You Can He~ Others Learn
When Jane Fonda taught Robert DeNiro
how to read in the 1989 movie "Stanley and lrts,"
she used the Laubach Way.
While Hollywood helped the stoiy along, the
movie conveyed the real-life thrtll that tutor and
student can feel when the literacy lessons begin to
take hold.
CPCC teaches volunteer tutors to work
with students at the college's four ABLE (Adult
Basic Literacy Education) cel}ters in Charlotte.
All it takes is a minimum six-month commitment
and a genuine desire to learn how to
tutor. In return, you'll get a 10-hour training
session, a volunteer newsletter, in-service workshops-
and a beginning reader who'll look to
you for guidance and encouragement.
Tutors are the heart of the program, which
often uses the slogan, "Each one teach one."
Actually, some tutors teach more than one
student; in its last annual report, CPCC had 234
tutors and 400 students.
The CPCC instructors encourage tutors to
w ideas - reading aloud to the student for 5
minutes at each session, for example, or set-bright
minority professionals," said James
Sommers, NCNB Corp. executive vice president
who serves on the CPCC board of trustees and
is chairman of the CPCC Foundation board.
Likely subject areas for the NCNB instructors
include banking, business, marketing, economics
and math, because the majortty of them
have a business background, Dr. Luckadoo said.
Classroom schedules and business schedules
would be coordinated to minimire the instructor's
time away from work
If the recruiting program works at NCNB,
CPCC officials hope to expand it, Dr. Luckadoo
said. 'We hope this would be a model."
Companies or minority professionals who
want to know more about the recruitment program
can call Dr. Shirley Luckadoo at 342-6462
or Dr. JamesWingate at 342-6730, 8 am.-5 p.m.
weekdays.
ting realistic, short-term goals, like how to read a
bill or food package labels. The tutor volunteer
newsletter and o
Untitled
No full textOil on canvas painting of a brown shelf holding several containers of yellow and purple pansies
The Spark, Volume 30, No. 2
No full textIi CENTRAL
PIEDMONT
COMMUNITY
COLLEGE
TAYLOR HAL'L 205, P.O. BOX 35009 MAY 1990 VOL. 30 NO. 2
DR. SHAW'S FORUM
Photo by Mary Murchison
Dr. Ruth Shaw chats with students Carol Freeman, PTK President, and SPARK editor
Scott Friddle after her Spring Forum on April 11. In the right background is student
Abda Alexander.
JIM BYRNE : VISITING
ARTIST AND MURAL
CREATOR
Angelina C. Korinis
Photography Editor
Jim Byrne has been CPCC's visiting
artist since September 1988. He
has a bachelor's degree from the
University of Illinois and a master's
degree in Fine Arts from the University
of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill. He has taught in Chapel Hill as
well as at CPCC.
More specifica-lly, Byrne is a
visual artist , a faculty member of
our college, even though he does
not teach specific courses of art.
While here, he has chosen to deal
with art on an educational level by
talking about it in art classes and by
having workshops.
Each one of us has a different understanding
than others. Byrne's
objective while in this program is
not so much to share his own work
but to share his understanding of
art. A question that many people
ask artists has to do with the mean-
, ing of their work. They want to
know the message the. artist is
trying to get across. Most of us
make an effort to understand and
analyze art. As Picasso has said, we
may not try to understand the singing
of a bird, but we feel we must
understand a painting. According to
Marso!, analyzing art may not be a
good idea as it eliminates its
chances. She believes that art is
about mystery. Therefore , a rational
meaning is not always feasible.
Through his work, Byrne is interested
in "creating a psychological
encounter with the viewer that
deals with larger issues of human
spirit and power." He attempts to
convey a sense of compassion
which he feels is one of th <',._ -
, ' · ,t ..
est and most posl}w~ings
that exis'" • abstraction t, I
specific issu ·
look deepe1
ledge and
grasp the
Byrne befa
does, tc;>o . ._. _______ __.
Scott Friddle
Editor
Attendance at Dr. Ruth Shaw's
Student Forum for the Spring quarter
was up from previous Forums,
due in part to better publicity in
April.
The Forum, on April 11 , began
with an update by Dr. Shaw on
issues brought up at the winter
forum.
The first topic . addressed was
Earth Day, 1990. At the previous
forum, Dr. Shaw was asked what
CPCC had planned for Earth Day
this year, but at that time no concrete
objectives had been established.
By the spring forum, however,
many plans had been made ,
according to Ross Surphlis, Director
of Student Activities.
The week of April 17-20 was designated
as CPCC's observance of
Earth Day, I 990. Recycling cans
were to be placed around campus .
for paper, plastic, and aluminum
cans. Wednesday , April 18, was,-in
effect, to be CPCC's Earth Day. On
the 18th, a band played and local
environmentalist Barbara Webster
spoke.
SISSU :
troversial Science
location
raational Peisl)'.ecti
ots & fri
Later, at the forum , Ross Surphlis
was asked if the recycling cans
would be a permanent fixture on
campus. He answered by saying
that it had not been discussed, but
could be looked into.
At the winter forum, one student
said that his instructor had supposedly
instated the new grading
policy in mid-quarter. Dr. James
Wingate , Vice-President of Education,
announced that there had
·been some confusion but said that
now, "Instructors are very clear
about the new grading policy."
This qew policy does not go into
effect until the beginning of fall
quarter. (See page 7 in this issue for
(Continued on page 6 ) .
..,,. ay, iv1ay i 8: 1 D:00 am to 2:30 pm
HARDBOUND OR PAPER
WE BUY ALL BOOKS HAVING A NATIONAL
~ RESALE VALUE ~
~ - . ~
$$$$
J
•
Page 2
FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK
ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS:
C RIGf-fr
1qqo \)
. How Long Will It Last?
Scott Friddle
Editor
The 80's were years of decadence,
material possessions,· and convenience.
Whatever was quick and easy
was the rage, no matter if it meant
that billions of tons of plastic and
styrofoam were filling our landfills.
Only. now are· people waking up
One topic on a lot of tongues is
Earth Day 1990. Many of us are
concerned about what is happening
to our world. The general public is
showing an increasing awareness of
the barely-restricted destruction of
our environment. Almost every institution
from elementary schools
on up to big corporations is involved.
to what is actually happening. ~==::=:JJrz:::::::::l
_Global warming and polluted water ~ ... - ~~~J J ~ ,,--
have become more of a reality than •~ / hu,,
ever. Some hazardous waste sites ,,\ _ -~:=i<C~ ~ } l~i)J~ -(1_
are unsafe, and companies are _ ~
actively seeking new places which 'I
could possibly become contami- ((1J,wt.;oMdL£.' 7/IE t?l&,11 btif2! t:>[ EIIR:tff Dlt'(
nated and make nearby residential • r' )\
As a result of the first Earth Day
on April 22, 1970, some good
things happened, including, but not
limited to, the birth of the Environmental
Protection Agency. In the
two decades since that time, however,
the general public has practically
ignored the environment. In
the early 70's, environmentalists
were looked at as eccentric, treehugging
radicals.T he 70's were
areas uninhabitable in the future. Is OVeR.. 0,nd place ·,s 51-ilL a. duvY' pl
Everyone wants to become involved.--------------'-----------------
· years of political turbulence and
the aftermath of the Vietnam -conflict
; people did not have time to
think about what they could do
to _l!np_rove the environment.
-Recycling has become trendy." As a
matter of fact, anything having to
do with saving the environment has
becometrendy . - -- - - --- ·--
Let us not make environmental
concern just a fad, something to
occupy our fancy for awhile. Let
us make it an everyday fact of life.
Three years from now, how . involved
will you . be? Make it a part
of your life and stick to it. Your
future and the Earth's future depends
on it.
Editor's Note: THE SPARK welcomes opinions to the contrary from both students and
staff on any material in this publication, including cartoons and advertisements, as well
as opinions stated in articles. .
Please address all responses to THE SPARK, 205 Taylor Hall, .- CPCC, or mail to
. PO Box 35009, Charlotte, N.C. 28235.
STAFF
Editor ... ..... ..... ............ Scott Friddle ,Typesetter ..... ............ .Mary Peronto
Assistant Editor ....... ... Perry Bridgeman Student Publications
Advisor ..... .............. Mary Murchi0n
Photography
Editor ......... : ............ A.1f8elina Korinis Director of
Student Activities. .. .Ross Surphlis
A.dvertisi"8
Editor ......... ............. Beth Smith
Staff Writers ............... Abdinur
Staff Phnt
Mohamed Ali
Perry Bridgeman
Peter Bustetter
Gary L. Ecklund
Kerry Fowler
Scott Friddle
Angelina C. Korinis
II ••
THE SPARK is a news publication
rmanced by student
activity fees and written and
published by student journalists
for the CPCC community.
It is not an official college
publication. Any view- .
points expressed should not
· be interpreted as representing
ofr1eiarCPCC positions.
1.etters to the Editor should
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Dear Editor,
I was recently at Dr. Shaw's
Student Forum where she addressed
student . concerns. She
talked about how she supported
Earth Day and MayDaze, which was
fine . However, I have one problem
I would like you to look into for
me. Why were she and her administration
absent from our Earth Day
celebration? 11 s e supporte it so
much, why wasn't she there?
Could you also find out if she will
be attending MayDaze or was that
just lip service, too? She said she
would be at one of the booths; will
she be there?
This is not good public relations.
Sincerely,
Dear Concerned,
Dr. Shaw was contacted person.
ally by THE SPARK and assured us
that her absence on Earth Day was
unavoidable. There had been a longstanding
engagement that she was
obligated to attend that day .
Dr. Shaw also said that she would
be at May Daze but could stay only
a brief time as she is flying to New
-ex1co- at l~ p.m. o a encl- lier ·
son's graduation.
Sincerely,
Perry Bridgeman
Assistant Editor
A Concerned Student ( Name Withheld by Request )
KEYSTONE
CPCCs student liter--ctry arts magazine, KEYSTONE, will be
taking submissions for the Fall, 1990 issue soon. If you wish to
make a submission, please follow the guidelines listed below:
NIIS&:
Thi• catqory i.cllNlea both ftcUon
end non-fictloa. Naalaua length per
piece i ■ ,000 word• . lo .:,re tha• J
entrie• per writer vHl M ac::ceptff
tn thie category. Su'-1t two coplH
of uch ••uKript. typed ■N dottble•
paced. Photocopies ■ re accept•llle.
The vriter'• uae should NOT be on
the •nuacrtpt ■ • At.tech a JxS c...-d
to each entry with the title. writer••
na.. addreaa. and telephone nu.be..-.
Please keep a COPJ o( your work
becauae no ..,.uacdpta ■ ill be
returned.
ilt:
lhie categof"J includes any kind of
artwork (llne drawi ngs . vashea1
photography . 1 t thol,nphy. etc . )
suitable for black and vhite l"eproduction
and no l a rger tha• 16 x 20 .
HaxiMUC ntaber of entr i e ■ per person
in this cate1ory i• S. The arti ■ t' ■
naae should NOT be on the artwork,
4 ' oossible . Each entry should be
., ied by • Jx5 card with
·,t's naae , address , and
, her. Artwork vi 11 be
·'le artists durin& the
•• possible .
Thia c ■ teaorr ■ lw inc:lu4es Nik•
.,... expitriae11tal to.... Naxtlfflth
ta 40 1 i.es. No ..,..e than S
ntr le■ per writer vll t H -.:ceptN
t• thaa catqory. s-•~t tlflO tJ~
copte■ of each poea. Photocopies are
acceptable. TIie poet'• uae should
110T be on the poftllll . A )a5 card ahould
be attached to each poe11 vlth the title,
poet' ■ neae , atktresa alMII telephone
nuaber. PleaH keep • copy or yoar
work becauae "° •maecrtpt• vUl H
ret11rned .
CfJll!IAL lll'OIIIATl°':
You aust be • registered CPO:: studCftt
durina at least one of the folloving
quarter- ■ to be eligible: Fall, 1989 ,
Winter- ,and/or- Spr-lna , 1990. All work
su~ttted aust be pr-evtous ly unpvbllshed
. The vr-itP.ra/arttats retain
all rights to their work . The ~entat
he release: date for the KEYSTONE
i ■ ■i d-October, 1990 •
\.DLINE:MAY 18
·ormation contact: Mary Murchison in Taylor 205
Monday • Thursday 342-6665
INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES
Human · Replica· Without Soul: ROBOTS
Abdinur Mohamed Ali
Staff Writer
Scientists in our century are close
to creating a true thinking machine.
While computers can operate within
the parameters of a program, some
robots can break through this barrier
and can even learn from experien
ce. Walking and talking, mechanical
man has become reality. These
robots are designed to have arms,
legs and brains.
The robots have hands and grippers
which can move either mechanically
or electrically. Since the
shape of most robots mimics the
human figure , their arms and hands
are designed to work as human
appendages do. A system of geometry
is used to put the robot hand
in the right place . A stepper motor
is also used to move the wrists and
shoulders of the robots. This motor
produces rotational forces. These
forces are converted to linear forces
or vice versa in order for the robot
to achieve degrees of freedom.
These changes enable robots to
manipulate their hands to reach different
angles.
The balance of the limbs of the
robots is also based on geometry
and matrix. Before the robots take
any steps, they have to do dozens
of computations within a second
using horizontal and diagonal lines
on the ground. Robots do not learn
to walk like a small child, analyzed
information guides their steps. High ·
speed electronic signals rush
thro ugh robot wires to pro cess
every situation like the central nervous
system of human beings.
Senses are as important fo r robots
as they are for human beings.
Robots are designed to use their
senses at their utmost. A scientist
named Norbert Weiner explained
that the importance of the human
brain depends on the programs it
processes. With the help of Artificial
Intelligence, robots don't have
to wait for commands to be sent
through a keyboard anymore.
It is not difficult for an intelligent
· robot to answer an individual negatively
if he gives a robot a funny
facial expression. Robots using television
cameras process each image
as horizontal and vertical lines and
then digitize it. Within a fraction of
a second, the real image appears in
the robot brain after matching it
with hundreds of preprogrammed
instructions.
As technology developed , robot
size has shrunk. Robots take the
same space and radius to move in a
as a human laborer while working.
With the major technical advances
being made in robot design , the
application of robots has skyrocketed
in many fields today. In the
future, these robots could be used
in many hazardous jobs where
human lives could be endangered.
Robot implementation could be
one of the most fascinating outcomes
of new technology.
Hoar,ie Sandwiches ·.: Onion Rings:. ·•
~
Fresh Vegetables Crisp Salads · -
.Uf kl1'M M, IE'S REST AURANt ACR,OSS THE STREET FROM CPCC , ,
. , REGISTRATION CENTER .
C'OME JOJN US FOR .BREAKFAST, LUNCH, OR DINNER
Experienced horseman to offer riding lessons for
children and adults. Horses available for pleasure .
_!i~ir!g or trail rioing, English or Western style.
Call Steve Mullis at Little· Mexico ·stables ..
Day: 704-342-6423 Night: 704-385-9690
Visitors Weicome!
ii
~
_____________________ ...
SOUTH AFRICA: The Beginning
of a NEW ERA
P. Charlie Masunda
International Student from Zaire
"AMANDLA" "NGAWETHU! "
("Power" ), ( "It is ours")
"AMANDLA" "NGAWETHU!"
("Power''), ( "It is ours")
These are the words that Nelson
Mandela, the African National Congress
leader, shouted, punching the
air before thousands of blacks ,
whites, Indians ... from every corner
of South Africa . They came to
hear him, after his spending a little
more than a quarter of a century in
jail for voicing his discontent about
Apartheid.
Every person at the stadium was
filled with emotion . The oppressed
South Africans had been waiting
for their leader with hope that he
would have the solutions to their
problems. They seemed like the
children of Israel waiting for a messiah
to take them out of Egypt ,
where they spent about 400 years
in slavery. Moses was regarded as
savior, one who had all the answers ·
from God.
Though Mr. Mandela is out, the
evil system of Apartheid will have a
long way to go before it can be
dismantled, because it gives those-in
power security , solace and an idea
of self-complacency.
Hopefully , history will prove me
wrong · on the following point : Nowhere
in the world have the people
_in power relinquished their politi-cal,
economic, or social privileges
at will, especially those ruling in a
despotic system.
The South African people have
realized that changes do not take
place at will. To calm the black majority,
the South African minority
have made promise after promise to
~hange their system. These promises
remain unfulfilled. South Africans
have realized that "justice too
long delayed is justice denied," as
noted by Ma!1in_ Luther King.
In that vein , Mr. Mandela, has re~
assured his people that he will never
make any concessions with the
minority regime. He feels the satanic
system must be extirpated and
not reformed as they are speculating.
South Africa is a rich - country, .
and could become a very strong nation
if black and white could work
in harmony. It must avoid the mistakes
made by many African countries
which have resulted in disastrous
situations such as hunger,
wars and dictatorship. Vivid examples
are found in Ethiopia,
Liberia , the Ivory Coast, Morocco ,
Zaire and Sierra Leone, to name
· just a few.
Alf Africans must join hands and
help destabilize the dictatorships
that are going on there.
We must be allowed to enjoy our
freedom as human beings. Demo~
cracy does not happen by chance ;
people must work and sometimes
die for it.
"A MAND LA!" "NGA WETHU!"
- $. s s s s s s s s
Page 4 ·
_(conoc:pJ I.JETI
CAREER OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE
Part time and full time positions available. Flexible hours.
We will work with your school schedule.
We are one of the nation's leading gasoline and convenience
store retailers seeking qualified, ambitious, career-oriented
personnel to be part of our marketing team. We offer growth,
responsibility, and offer competitive wages and attractive
benefit packages, insurance, company-matched savings plan,
and paid vacations.
WE ALSO OFFER AN EDUCATIONAL REFUND PLAN
Applicants must be mature, responsible, at least 21 years of age
for Managerial positions (Company policy) and 18 or older for
cashier positions, and neat in apppearance.
If interested ca.11334-4532 between 8am and 5pm Mond ay - Friday ..
Ask for Don or Tim.
-
Equal Opportunity Employer
M /F/H
There were counselors, students and graduates of CPCC sharing information on offerings at
CPCC. Pictured are Mark Helms, College Ttansfer counselor, talking with 9th grade student
LaTonya Ervin "and her mother Vernetta.
Betty Williams conducted a careers workshop.(Not pictured.) Margaret Ross, Minority
Recruiter, hopei that this will become an annual event so that students and parents will be
better exposed to programs that are available at Central Piedmont. (Photos and information
courtesy of Margaret R=.)
NEW CAREERS AVAILABLE FOR WOMEN AT CPCC
Women can be successful machinists and electricians and draw better
· paychecks, too! You can prepare for these and other nontraditional careers
available to women through the Wider Opportunities for Women project at
Central Piedmont Community College. Call 342-6532 for information on
how you can get in the program.
STUDENTS: WE HEAR YOU!
Students, CPCC is listening to
you with full attention . You are important
to us. Your thoughts and
id eas regarding campus diversity are
at the top of our priority list. On
Monday, March 26, 1990 , there was
a student forum conducted to
gather information regarding student
perceptions on campus diversity
. In this meeting many student
concerns and ideas were heard by
the Campus Task Force on Cultural
Diversity and vising Kellogg Leadership
Fellows .
The Kellogg Leadership Fellows
were mid-level managers from other
community colleges around the
country which have experienced or
anticipate experiencing some of the
same problems we have at CPCC.
The Campus Diversity Task Force
was established in January , 1989 ,
by Dr. Ruth Shaw, President of
Central Piedmont Community College.
As stated in the . TASK
FORCE ABSTRACT, the purpose
of this task force is to prepare a status
report on CPCC's climate , programs,
policies, and procedures as
they relate to minority students, to
develop institutional recommendations
that will improve minority
participation and achievement at
CPCC, and to assist college
responsibility center managers in
eve opmg an imp emen mg specific
plans for diversity in their areas .
The committee is made up of representatives
from CPCC's administration,
staff and student body.
As a result of the exchange, the
Kellogg Fellows developed and presented
a report of commendations
and recommendations to Dr. Shaw
and the Task Force on Campus Diversity
. The report follows:
(The Kellogg Report, along with
the Task Force's findings and recommendations
will be used in the
development of a final report that
will be presented to Dr. Shaw.)
The Campus Task Force would
like to take this time to thank students
who participated in the
forum , and encourage those who
were unable to attend our last
meeting to let us know their
thoughts and feelings as they pertain
to this topic. We are also interested
in hearing from you if
you wish to take a more active role
in the implementation of solutions.
We hope to organize another Student
Forum where you may express
your feelings to the Task Force and
to other students. A date for the
next focus group has not been set
at this time.
Once again we thank you for
your active involvement and we
look forward to hearing from you.
Copies of the Kellogg Fellows' recommendations
can be obtained
from members of the Campus
· Diversity Task Force . Task Force
Members are:
Dr. James Wingat e, Chairman
TE 31 8
Brenda C. Blackwelder GA 313
Winston Edmonds LRC Ml 0
Ellanor L. Graves TE 401
Phillip S. Harrison MS 207
Wilma A. Hood SL 11 l
Wright Hunter SL 123
Ca,.th_y W. Jot}e§ SI,,, 164
Sylvia K. Li ttlejohn TE 506
Philip B. Mauldin SL (A)
La Shawn M. Pulkowski VE 111
Tel. No. 342-3690 (H)
George A. Timblin SL (I)
Claude T. Williams SL (B)
LaShawn Pulkoski
Campus Diversity Task Force
Ed Martin, counselor in High School Completion, raffled door prizes.\
Page 5
rfASK FORCE ON CULTURAL DIVERSITY FINDINGS
The Kellogg Leadership Fellows appreciate the opportunity to participate
in the activities of the Task Force on Cultural Diversity. As a result of our
interaction with students, faculty and administrators during the last two
days, we ·present the following observations. Our commendations address
positive qualities that we hope will be strengthened. Our recommendations
consist of areas, which if addressed, will foster greater student persistence
and success.
COMMENDATIONS:
' 1. In general , students express a positive attitude about the college.
2. Students feel that the college provides opportunities to be exposed to a
multi-cultural environment.
3. Students seem to feel that the quality of instruction is good at CPCC.
4. Students feel that remedial programs help to prepare them for entrance
and success in college-leve
With Grace Upon Heathen
No full textPrint of the Virgin Mary dressed in blue. She floats above and to the left of the demon. The composition is set against a yellow background. Edition 12/20
The Spark, Volume 28, No. 2
No full textII CENTRAL
PIEDMONT
CONVv\UNllY
COLLEGE
TAYLOR HALL 205, P.O. BOX 35009 FEBURARY 1990 VOL. 28 NO. 2
DR. SHAW'S FORUM
c
2
::,
E
E
0
l.,
c
0
E
-0
IU
0:
Scott Friddle, Editor
Perry Bridgeman, Assistant Editor
Attendance at I'r. Shaw's winter
quarterly forum was extremely disappointing.
There has never been a
lack of students with grievances
they want addressed. but it seems
that many will not avail themselves
of the opportunity to discuss
their problems and try to bring
about some sort of solution.
The forum began with an update
on issues brought up at past forums.
Dr. Shaw discussed the pending
extension of library hours during
February. This amounts to eight
hours more on the weekends, which
~ is on a trial basis. If turnout warrants
the extension, then it may be
implemented on a quarterly basis
during the last month of the
quarter.
this issue.) The floor was then turned
over to students for a question
and answer session .
A DAY FOR STUDENTS!
Dr. Shaw also brought up the fact
that a new grading policy has been
approved by the Board of Trustees.
This change will become effective
at the beginning of Fall Quarter ,
1990. Along with the grading policy
changes, an academic progress
system will be implemented . This
en tails penalties for excessive withdrawals
and excessive failures. (Full
information on these changes can
be found on pages IO and 11 of
A Student Activities employee
brought up the fact that a lack of
funds has caused problems, and he
wondered if there was any study
conducted on the feasability of raising
the student activity fee. Dr.
Shaw stated that it had not been
looked at, but could be studied
easily. At present we have one of
'the lowest student activity fees
in the community college system
and it could be easily raised.
Perry Bridgeman
Assistant Editor
The Student Government Association
(SGA) executive officers
continue their quest to improve student
life at CPCC. Elected fall quarter
, these six officers are: Darrell K.
Helms, President; Dean Eason , Vice
President ; Yvonne Powell, Secretary
; Daniel Palmer, Treasurer; Greg
Kiser, Parliamentarian ;· Daniel L.
Barrier, Information Officer.
Since they are halfway into their
terms, a report on what they are
doing is in order. When these officers
met January 8th, among the
issues discussed were: the creation
of a faculty advisory council, which
can act as a resource for future
SGA officers; rewriting the SGA's
constitution and having a Student
Appreciation Day .
Creating a faculty advisory council
for SGA would provide student
government with a continuity that
has not been present in the past.
Instead of new officers having to
start their administration from
scratch, they would have a few fa-culty
members who could bring
them up-to-date on past SGA accomplishments
and assist these new
officers in setting their own agenda.
This idea is still in the planning
stage, but the SGA hopes to have
created this council by the end of
Winter Quarter .
Changing the SGA's constitution
and by-laws is an arduous task that
has not been attempted since 1984
when some parts of it were revised
and expanded . First drafted in
1974, the constitution is somewhat
vague and ambivalent in places and
does not ad dress some issues that
its writers fa iled to anticipate . The
SGA officers have spent long hours
trying to alleviate these problems
and are to be commended for their ...,,
efforts. A reading of the revised g-
1990 constitution took place on ° CT February 5th. The document is . ..,
available to all students for review ~
and anyone who wonders about -;,
specific policies regarding student .1
affairs is urged to go to the Student i Activities
Center and read it. ' _, L
Once again, the problem of p rking
was addressed. Or. Shaw noted
that satellite campuses are in the
lcontinued on page 13~
The last item the SGA wants to
implement is of spec;ial note to all
!continued on page 13)
SGA officers : Seated, left to right: Greg Kiser, Parliamentarian; Daniel Palmer. Treasurer;
Daniel L. Barrier, lnfor-Ip,1tion Officer. Standing: Darrell K. Helms, President; Yvonne Powell.
Secretary; Dean Eason, Vice-President.
...
r
Page 2
FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK
NORIEGA: WHAT HAPPENS NOW?
Scott Friddle
Editor
Manuel Noriega is finally in custody!
So now, what is the United
States going to do with him? President
Bush says we will prosecute to
the fullest extent of the law , but
will the case hold up in court?
Noriega 's defen se attorney contends
that pro secutors do not have
a snowball 's chance in hell of convicting
him. Would you like to
know why? The United States is
the reason .
At one time the United States
supported Manuel Noriega. This all
started with Noriega 's involvement
with the CIA during his early military
career . The CIA fos tered
Noriega, taught him most of what
he knows, and took him into confi-dence
after a relatively short period
of time.
Though he had access to information
that the United States needed
for covert operations, the CIA also
knew that the man was potentially
unstable. When CIA ties with
Noriega were severed, they should
have taken steps then to ensure that
he would not pose a threat to the
U.S., but , obviously, they did not .
If the defense is allowed to introdu
ce government documents, we
may risk the exposure of sensitive
information . If this is not allowed ,
_ then we risk letting Noriega get
away with hein ous crimes. Any
guesses as to what may happen? Let
me put it this way: People have
been silen ced in the past. ls there
any reason to believe it co uld not
happen this time?
Editor 's No te: THE SPARK welcomes opinions to the contrary from both students and
staff on any material in this publication, including cartoons and advertisements, as well
as opinions stated in articles.
Please address all responses to THE SPARK, 205 Tay lor Hall, CPCC, or mail to
PO Box 35009, Charlotte, N.C. 28235.
Photos by Douglass B. Azar
Great jazz concert on January 11 in the Bryant Building.
GREAT JAZZ!
Dow!las B. Azar
i' i y assignment was to take. pictures
of the jazz concert in the
keeping the group in rhythm with
his skillful drum playing.
Bryant Building, but it turned out
-------------------------------. to be one helluva treat. CPCC
Well, just when I thought to myse
lf, "These guys are something
else," Bill threw us a curve . It was
aimed at Steve Jones, with CPCC's
in structional telecommunications.
Steve was invited up to sing a song
or two , and , boy , d id he ever. What
he -san~ 'was- an ehioti'drtcr1Iy h'ai'getl •' I,
version of "Georgia On My Mind."
NEW CAREERS AVAILABLE FOR WOMEN AT CPCC
Women can be successful machinists and electri cians and draw better
paychecks, too! You can prepare for t hese and other nontraditional careers
available to women through the Wider Opportunities for Women proj ect at
Central Piedmont Community Co llege . Call 342-6532 for information on
how you can get in the program.
STAFF
Editor ... .. ..... ... ..... ...... ... Scott Friddle Staff Artist ....... .... ...... :. William Bullock
Assistant Staff Cartoonists ......... ,.Douglas B. Azar
Editor ..................... ... Perry Bridgeman
Photography
Joe Cathey
Doug Williams
Editor .. .. .... ........ ... ..... A ngelina Korinis Ty pesetter ..... ...... .... ..... Mary Peronto
Advertising Student Publications
Editor .... ... ...... ... ... .. .. . Beth Smith Advisor ...... ... ... .......... Mary Murchison
Advertising Director of
Assistant ... ...... .. ... ...... Mary Peron to
Staff Writers ... ...... ... : .... A bdinur
Mohammed A li
Douglass B. Azar
Jill Bolick
Perry Bridgeman
Peter Bustetter
Linda J. Ferguson
Scott Friddle
Angelina Korinis
Nancy J. Smith
Staff Photographers ...... Douglass B. A zar
Troy Brailey
Linda J. Ferguson
Angelina Korinis
Troy Perry
Nancy J. Smith
Student Activit ies .. .. .. Ross Surphlis
THE SPARK is a news publication
financed by student
activity fees and written and
published by student journalists
f or the CPCC community .
It is not an official college
publication. Any viewpoints
expressed should not
be interpreted as representing
official CPCC positions.
Letters to the Editor should
be sent interoffice to Tay lor
Hall 205 or through the U.S.
Mail to THE SPARK, CPCC,
P.O. Box 35009, Charlotte,
N. C. 28235.
in st ru ctors Bill Hanna on the piano
and Jimmy Duckworth on the gui-tar
played flawlessly. They were
backed_ up with §O_Jl)e J1ea Y~1Y
bass playing by Tom Hildreth. Tim
Gordon on the alto sax, and Matt
Kosma playing tenor sax are, without
a doubt , among the best saxophone
players I have ever heard .
James Baker had no troub le at all
Was it a good con cert? No, it was
great! The nex t t ime these guys get
toget her, no one will have to ask
me to go .
FIND OUT
WHERE
-YOU'RE GOING
BEFORE YOU
GETTHERE.
COMPUTERIZED
CAREER PLANNING
~ ' ----·_...
_ .._..._,.. __ .,_.....
r~~=1:.:
~lr~~ i _
~-.... - ..... .-. - .__.____._.~
The Student ~ ; ploym; ;;; & Career
Planning Center, Garringer 239 342-64631
c__ _ ____________________ _ ___ J
+
Page 3
BLACK HISTORY AWARENESS
...
"N' <
c:i
The Martin Luther King, Jr., birthday celebration held January 11, 1990, in Pease Auditorium.
DR. KING'S
BIRTHDAY CELE-BRATION
Abdinur Mohamed Ali
Several hundred people observed
Central Piedmont Community ·
College's annual celebration of the
birth of Dr. Martin Luther King,
Thursday , Jan. 11 , 1990, in Pease
Auditorium.
Mr. Don Steger, Assistant City
Manager of Charlotte and guest
speaker, emphasized that we should
att~n;ip.t 1..,to,1 :~11-~Y ,--,t;l;te ;ideas ,of Dr . r'
King fo current situations and eliminate
the invisible walls that separate
society.
A large number of students, staff,
members of the culty and visitors ·
attended the commemoration . The
MAKE EXTRA CASH!!
Earn dollars for yourself or your
student organization by posting
commercial ads or py running an
on-campus table event. For further
information call: CPN Inc. (Central
Time) at (800) 669-7678.
NAT'L SPECIAL EVENTS FIRM
SEEKS SEASONAL LABOR.
THEATRICAL EXP. HELPFUL,
NOT REQUIRED. GTD. MIN. OF
$5/HR. TO START. CALL
372-3111 FOR INFO.
program was arranged by the AfroAmerican
Cultural Club.
Mr. Steger was welcomed by Dr.
James Wingate, Vice-President for
Education at CPCC. Dr. Wingate
was introduced by Anthony D.
Testman, a member of the AfroAmerican
Culture Club . Other
speakers included Duree Jones,
Delores Parker, Kimberly Boger and
Edward Martin . Rev . Claude T.
Williams delivered the invocation
and closing prayer. The musical
selection was by Dawn Watson .
The celebration of Dr. King's
birthday is one of the most important
events of Afro-American
Month. '
CONTEST
In conjunction with the Black Heritage
Month Celebration , the AfroAmerican
Cultural and Advisory
Commission is sponsoring a "I
Know Black Heritage Contest." The
questionnaire is available at the
Student Activities Office, VE 111.
The contest winner will be announced
at the Black Heritage Program
on February 21 , 1990, in
Pease Auditorium. Questionnaires
are to be returned to the properly
labeled box located in the Student
Activity Center no later than
February 19 , 1990, at 5 p.m.
GOOD LUCK!
Doris Lindsey
Fast
Turnaround
Service -~§,-,. Speedy Competitive
Prices!
• Typesetting
• Resume Specials
• Business Cards
• Wedding Invitations
• FAK
Mon - Fri 8:30 - 5:30
Saturday 9:00 - 3:00
Printing
• High Speed Copying
• Full Bindery Services
• Complete Printing Facility
• Notary Public
-13-7-5--8-34_9__,I l0o/oOFF
WITH THIS AD 1400 E. Morehead St. ·
. BLACK HERITAGE · EVENTS
The Afro-Ameri can Youth Committee in conjunction with the Afro-American
Advisory Committee will sponsor the fo llowing events during February,
Black Heritage Month.
2/1/90 Black Her itage Contest Begins
I 0: 30 a.m. - 11 :30 a.m. A-A YC discusses
"The Black Family". (Pease Conferen ce)
2/6/90 11 :30 a.m. - I :00 p.m. A-AYC "African
Dance and Song" . (Bryant 140)
2/8/90 10 :30 a.m. - 11 :30 a.m. A-AYC "Education
and Government". (Pease Conference)
2/ 19 /90 Deadline for Black Heritage Contest
4 :00 p.m. (Student Activity Center)
2/21 /90 African Artifact display (Pease lobby)
Black Heritage Program 11 : 30 - 1 p.m.
(Pease Auditorium)
2/22/90 10:30 - 11 :30 a.m. A-AYC discusses "Blacks
and Whites on Campus" . (Pease Auditorium) .
2/27 /90 10:30 - 11:30 a.m. A-AYC discusses "Drug
Abuse in Society". (Pease Auditorium)
A-AYC - Afro-American Youth Club
Doris Lindsey-Green
BLACK HISTORY MONTH
February 14, the date on which
the abolitionist orator and journalist
Frederick Douglass was born
in 1817, is commemorated as a focal
point of Black History Week.
This observance, started and sponsored
by Carter G. Woodson, founder
of the Association for the
Study of Afro-American Life and
History in 1926, has been expanded
for the e·ntire month of February .
Black History Month is widely
marked by- schools, churches, libraries
and other groups to emphasize
the contributions of Blacks in the
development of the United States.
In keeping with the observance of
Black History Month, CPCC students,
faculty and staff are challenged
and encouraged to check out
and read books and other materials
about African-American history.
The following books are from the
CPCC Library:
Branch, Taylor. PARTING THE
WATERS: AMERICA IN THE
KING YEARS 1954-63. New
York , Simon and Schuster, 1988 .
E185.61 B79141988
Cagin , Seth and Dray , Phillip. WE
ARE NOT AFRAID: THE STORY
OF GOODMAN, SCHWERNER,
AND CHANEY AND THE
CIVIL RIGHTS CAMPAIGN
FOR MISSISSIPPI. New York ,
MacMillan , 1988. El85-93.M6
.C34.1988.
Harding, Vincent. THERE IS A
RIVER : THE STRUGGLE FOR
. FREEDOM IN AMERICA. New
York, Harcourt, 1981. El85 .615
H28
Murray, Pauli. SONG IN A WEARY
THROAT: AN AMERICAN PILGRIMAGE'
New York, Harper ,
1987 . El 85 .97 .M95 .A3 ,1987
Weatherby, W.J. JAMES
ARTIST ON FIRE. New York ,
Donald L Fine, 1989. PS3552 .
A45 294 (McNaughton Collection
.
Jean McDuffie
STUDENTS. YOU KNOW WHO THE BEST TEACHERS ARE.
DO YOU WANT EVERYONE TO KNOW? REWARD A
GOOD T EACHER BY FILLING OUT THIS FORM.
AND GI\'ING IT TO: MARGERY ORELL.
. CIF: ~-ULATION DESK. CPCC LIBRARY.
I THINK THIS TEACHER IS THE GREATEST. _________ _
WHY'.' -----------------------
MY NAME IS
____________ PHONE _____ _
(IF YOU WOULD RATHER WRITE IN THE NAME OF A
LIBRA RIAN. COll,NSELOR. SECRETARY. ADMINISTRATOR.
OR A:-J"Y OTHER EMPLOYEE AT CPCC. PLEASE FEE~
FREE TO 00 THAT TOO!>
11
-t
Page 4
AIDS IN THE SPOTLIGHT Photos by Nancy J . Smith
Peter Bustetter
You wake in the middle of the
night to answer the infamous " call
of nature." The trip to the bathroom
is one which you have probably
made a thousand times before,
so you do not bother turning
on the hall light. Everything is going
smoothly when, suddenly , you
hit something. The pain from your
foot is excruciating. Looking
through the tears forming in your
eyes, you notice that you ran into
the vacuum, which someone failed
to put up after vacuuming the hallway.
How many of us have been in
situations where we think we knew
the way, only to run into something?
The AIDS epidemic is one
situation where many people have
traveled down the "hallway" only
to run into the painful reality of
the AIDS virus. The "light" which
is often left off could have prevented
the agony of AIDS. The "light"
or "AIDS awareness" is still overlooked
by a great number of people.
AIDS is often viewed as a disease
which affects only the homosexual
or the intravenous drug user.
This view has played a major role in
the increase of heterosexual AIDS
victims.
What can you do to protect yourself
and also help to protect others
from the AIDS epidemic? Is either
"safe sex" or total abstinence the
complete answer to the AIDS question?
Maybe you should turn on
the "light" to AIDS awareness to
find the answers to these very important
questions.
Many of us have heard of the
term "safe sex." What does "safe
sex" mean and how does it apply to
us? During the 80's, press coverage
of the AIDS virus covered the pages
of many popular magazines and
newspapers. The government also
published information on the virus
in the form of the "Surgeon
· General's Report on Acquired Immune
Deficiency Syndrome." The
term "safe sex," because of its wide
publicity, has taken on a range of
various meanings.
The term "safe sex" is best defined
, however , in terms of attitude
and awareness. The learning of how
AIDS is transmitted and then
applying that knowledge is what
the term "safe sex" means . The
attitude of ignorance is the vehicle
by which the term gains the complete
opposite meaning. Sex is not
"safe sex" if the proper precautions
are not taken seriously.
The application of the term "safe
sex" in its proper context or the
misuse of the term has had profound
effects on the lives of many
individuals. In the May, 1989 issue
of Ms. Magazine, two authors gave
their personal thoughts about the
use and misuse of "safe sex" in the
young professional scene of New
York City. The author of the article
"Nice Girls Do," saw the effect of
safe · sex as a way of promoting
what she called the "New Morality"
which sought the limiting of an individual's
sexual freedom.
The other article which was titled
"Fearless Flying," expressed the
view that many of her friends, even
with the awareness of safe sex
techniques, chose not to apply
them to their sex lives. The author
told of her complete amazement at
their careless approach toward the
threat of the AIDS virus.
The choice of abstinence is an option
some take rather then wading
out into the unsure sea of sexuality.
The influences upon this choice
range from religious beliefs to fear
of acquiring the AIDS virus.
In the magazine "Essence" (Jan.
1989), the author gives examples
of the sexuality choices individuals
have made. Abstinence was given
as the choice of two individuals in
the body of the article. The first
case told of a, student who chose
abstinence not" because of his fear
of AIDS but because of his religious
beliefs. The other person based his
choice on the fear of catching the
AIDS virus. Both individuals who
chose abstinence claimed that they
didn't feel any sort of loss sexually
because of their decision.
The decisions _about our sexuality
often are not looked upon as a
major con cern. Paying bills, exams
or maybe what to get your boyfriend
or girlfriend for Valentine's
Day might seem more of a concern
right now as we enjoy the benefit
of good health in the "Spring" of
our lives.
However, the continued ignorance
of AIDS may one day be the
stumbling block of your health and
and eventually your life. Do not be
caught in the dark about AIDS
awareness. Make the choice to learn
about AIDS so that you can decide
what is best for you.
Or. Stephen Keener, Assistant Health
Director, Disease Control and Epidemiology,
Mecklenburg County Health Department,
was one of the speakers at the World AIDS
Day assembly on December 1.
Left to right: World AIDS Day assembly organizer Jenny Tolson, of CPCC's Special Services
Department, Mr. Henry Finch, Executive Director, Randolph Clinic; Board of Directors,
~et!olina AIDS Project, and Vaughn Luckadoo of CPCC's Huma ~L-.l[;j,.<J .~Partyi
R. KAY WILLIA.i\1S, M.D.
GYNECOLOGY & GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY
1012 S. Kings Drive
Suite 624
Charlotte, North Carolina 28283
Telephone 377-6848
GET PAID TO STUDY
IF YOU: WE OFFER:
• Are over 18 • Top Pay
• Have Transportation • Paid Holidays
• Have a Phone • Paid Vacations
• Have No Criminal Record • Free Uniforms
• Have a High School Education • Flexible Hours
CALL 525-0330
-+.
PTK members at the New Member Orientation on ~anuary 9: left to right, front row:
Deborah Gordon, Tina Redmon, Carol Freeman and Barbara Self. Back row, left to right:
Don Biltcliffe, Bryan Hoover, Claudia Devoe, Wade Brewer, Jeannie Deel and Greg Alford.
0
-0
..c c..
From California to the Fiji Islands, from the Black Forest
to the China Sea, these FLAVORS are made for you and
me ...
CROSS CULTURAL COOKIN' - satays, grills, pizzas,
vegetarian , pasta , salads , sushi, seafood , dim sum, tapas ,
primi, priatti, ... and on and on!
334-6114 WE DELIVER! 2222 E. Independence (near Merchandise Mart)
Experienced horseman to offer riding lessons for
children and adults. Horses available for pleasure
riding or trail riding, English or Western style.
Call Steve Mullis at Little Mexico ·stables.
Day: 704-342-6423 Night: 704-3 85-9690
Visitors Welcome!
Page 5
FICTION READING AT
PEASE AUDITORIUM
Jill Bolick
Staff Writer
On Monday, January 22 , at 7:30
p.m ., the English department and
Student Activities sponsored a fi ction
reading at Pease Auditorium .
The speakers for the evening were
Roy Parker , an advanced creative
writing instructor at CPCC, and
Gail Galloway Adams, a short story
author. Joe Barwick , Head of the
English and Foreign Language
department, opened with a welcoming
speech. Irene Honeycutt , CPCC
Cre_ative Writing instructor, introduced
the speakers.
Besides teaching, Parker is a
published author whose first novel,
THE FINAL FOUR, was critically
acclaimed in THE WASHING TON
POST and THE NEW YORK
DAILY NEWS. Parker is currently
at work on a second novel, DARK
RIDES THE ANGEL. In it, he explores
the shadowy world of international
drug smuggling. Obviously
on a roll , Parker even has a third
book in mind, HEAVEN INCORPORATED.
It will tell the story of
a teacher discovering a direct link
to heaven through her home computer.
Numerous awards attest to Gail
Galloway Adam's proficiency as a
writer. Her short story collection,
THE PURCHASE OF ORDER,
won the Flannery O'Connor Award
for Short Fiction from the University
of Georgia. Her story " Inside
Dope" won the Texas Institute of
Letters Award for Best Short Story.
Adam's fi ction writing was cited as
Distinguished in the BEST AMERICAN
SHORT STORIES OF
1987. It also enabled her to receive
fiction scholarships to Duke University
and to Bread Loaf . Writers '
Conference.
The first sp
Inside CPCC, Winter Quarter, Volume 6, Number 1
No full textInside CPCC introduces the new Dean of Careers Group, Dallas Garrett. A feature article takes a closer look at Club Football at Central Piedmont. An alumni update features the creator of the Hugo the Hornet mascot, Jerrell Caskey. A focus article highlights Maggie Patton, Janice Cromar, and other Central Piedmont graduates. This issue also includes a year-in-review looking back at Central Piedmont's accomplishments throughout 1989 and a newsmakers section with other notable accomplishments and figures from the Central Piedmont community.On Our Cover
CPCC Alumnus Jerrell
Caskey with one of his
best-known and most
popular creations, Hugo
the Hornet. Inside, get to
know Jerrell, who has
worked with some of the
biggest names in the
country, from NASCAR's
Darrell Waltrip to singer
Hank Williams, Jr.
Photo by Tom Covington
Winter Quarter, 1990
Volume 6, Number 14
Mike Myers, editor
Fay Vogelbacher, editorial assistant
Peg Robarchek, contributing editor
Dawn Cotter, contributing writer
Roy Parker, contributing writer
Peggy Rynk, contributing writer
Ann Wicker, contributing writer
Janice Cromar, graphic designer
Tom Covington, contributing photographer
Mike Slade, contributing photographer
Craftsman Printing Company, printer
© Copyright 1990 by Central Piedmont
Community College. For reprint rights,
contact Fay Vogelbacher, CPCC, PO.
Box 35009, Charlotte, NC, 28235
CPCC is an equal opportunity institution.
10,000 copies of this public document
were printed at a cost of 4,954 or
49¢ per copy
Ruth G. Shaw, President
Fast Facts
Of 101 nations at CPCC, Japan's rank in number of students:
Number of organized sports at CPCC:
CPCC's rank of NC colleges in National Guard, Reserve enrollment:
Percent of CPCC students already having four years of college:
Daily mileage of CPCC off-campus mail delivery route:
Students using CPCC's laser disc library reference system daily:
• Martin Luther King Holiday-Jan. 15.
• Alumni Association Ski Trip-Jan. 1990- call for information-342-6089.
• Registration Spring Quarter Classes- Jan. 31 & Feb. 1, Feb. 5-8. Final
Registration March 1 & 5.
• Forum: The Day Care Dilemma. Feb. 13, 6:30-8:30 p.m. - Pease Auditorium -
Free. Call Margaret Kelley, 342-6210 for details.
• Dance Central Performance-Feb. 23 & 24, 8: 15 p.m.; Feb. 25, 2:30 p.m. Pease
Auditorium. Free. Call 342-6618 for details.
• Spring Quarter Classes-March 7-May 24.
• Easter Holiday-April 13-1 6.
• Registration Summer Quarter Classes-May 9 & 10; May 14-1 7. Final
Registration June 4-5.
• Summer Quarter Classes-June 7-Aug. 9.
• First Short Summer Session-June ?-July 10.
• Final Registration Second Short Summer Session-July 9-10.
• Second Short Summer Session-July 11 -Aug. 11.
• Registration Fall Quarter Classes-Aug. 1 & 2; Aug. 6-9. Final Registration
Aug. 28 & 29.
• Fall Quarter Classes-Sept. 5-Nov. 20.
• Thanksgiving Holiday- Nov. 22-25.
• Registration Winter Quarter 1990-91 Classes-Oct. 31 & Nov. 1; Nov. 5-8. Final
Registration Nov. 26 & 27.
• Winter Quarter 1990-91 Classes-Nov. 29-Feb. 27.
• Christmas Holidays-Dec. 20-Jan. 1.
Neanderball
In Club Football, CPCC tlwught
'Club' was part of equipment
Column by Mike Myers
"CPCC Chops NC State"
"CPCC Pins Army, Marine Corps"
"CPCC Outpoints Duke"
ou've never seen these
headlines in the local
papers. When it comes to
CPCC sports, coverage
generally isn't.
But there was a time .. . oh, yes.
Some middle-timers (the college
is only 26 years old) were sitting
around a dead TV at the Student
Activities Center the other day
remembering when we'd pack a row
or two at Myers Park High School
stadium for Club Football matches
with Duke or State or St. Paul's
National Guard Football Club
(Fayetteville).
Club Football was supposed to
be more fun , less serious jousting,
long on enthusiasm and short on
organization.
But Club Football didn't reckon
on the likes of CPCC's Chunky, The
Pharaoh, and Minimoose.
These warriors, whose bodies
started to surrender long before their
minds had , thought football was all
about clobbering and being hurt and
helping others hurt. 'Do unto others
as you hope they will be too sore to
do unto you,' they seemed to live.
Someone with the soul of a poet
called that team the CPCC Outlaws
and it stuck. Observer sports editor
Bob Quincy said if the Mafia ever
sponsored a football team, the
Outlaws would be it.
Chunky had legs that would make
a grand piano blush. Sure, the legends
have grown like kudzu over the
years, but some thought he slowed
up on sweeps on purpose. He liked
to give defenders a chance to catch
up and take a c rack at him. His speciality
was dragging. He drug players
'til he looked like those pictures
of coolies carrying mounds of bricks
on their arms and shoulders and head.
Chunky loved a crowd.
The Pharaoh played defense
(opposing coaches: "Let my people
go"). He didn't so much play defense
as toy with it. Someone remembers,
"Pharaoh was playing defensive
guard-and-tackle one game-we
were short a man- and the referee
thought it was OK to hold behind the
line of scrimmage, so some ape from
Chapel Hill sat on Pharaoh's face
and wouldn't get up. Pharaoh bit him.
He got up."
To say Minimoose had no class is
not a comment about his character
but of his academic involvment at
CPCC. The clue was he'd get the
sequence of initials in "CPCC" mixed
up, but he could hit. Smush is a better
word. He caused sounds never
since heard on a football field .
Quarterback Jay Thomas looked
like a character out of
TV's "Cheers," or
"Mork and Mindy,"
which he went
on to become.
He's now
L.A.'s #1
disc
jockey.
At the
games,
most of the
yelling came
from the fie.Id.
Most of the
groans came from
the stands. Neanderball.
Rules were loose and officiating
down-right dangling.
The story goes once Davidson
was behind 42-0 at the half
and refused to return for the second
half, saying we took the term
"club" too literally- while imprints
of Chunky, the Pharaoh, and
Minimoose danced on their heads.
The colors were black and gold.
They should have been black & blue.
We didn't need a fight song.
Coach E.F. Fesperman remembers:
"The kids needed a coach. I
was a policeman off-duty and had
played for the Charlotte Clippers,
coached the WFL Charlottte Hornets
and hung around the Charlotte
Chargers. In club football we had
some quality players, let me tell you.
Hell, I'll start 'em again if you get me
the money."
At CPCC, "can't recru it" is not a
damning label hung on the coach
but a statement of policy. All intercollegiate
players must carry 12
hours of studies, same as the ACC,
but there are no scholarships, no
study halls and no tutors.
Those who designed the NC
Football Club Association back in
April , 1975, breeched some strange
bedfellows that included Virginia
Commonwealth, Rock Hill Community
College, and Western Carolina. We
dominated. The league endured
three seasons.
Cheerleaders made their own
outfits and porn-porns. Players furnished
their own pads and pants.
Most borrowed those from the WFL
New York Stars, a semi-pro
team that had moved here as
the Charlotte Hornets before
folding. The college furnished
jerseys that matched somewhat.
Practices were held
after work at the playground
across from Charlottetown
Mall.
Once we were beating
East Carolina and they
ran in some varsity players
on us (against the
Story by Ann Wicker
e should have been
named 'Jack', as in 'Jack
of all trades.'
But 'Dallas' fits nicely for
a former farmer and cattle rancher
who prefers Justin boots with 1 1/2"
heels to loafers.
Dallas Garrett has been a computer
repairman, a football coach, a
high school teacher and a farmer.
And now, appropriately enough,
Garrett brings CPCC his considerable
talents, wide-ranging interests
and friendly smile as the Dean of the
Careers Group.
As dean, he is responsible for over
60 career programs. He will be
heavily involved in the shaping of the
new Advanced Technologies Center
as well as the operation of that stateof-
the-art facility, working with major
industries in the area. Students, he
explains, will get hands-on experience
Dallas Garrett
2
Dallas of AU Trades
New Dean of Careers Programs
brings experience in aR fiRuh
on exactly the same type of equipment
used by industry in order to prepare
them for all sorts of technology jobs.
"It opens all kind of possibilities,"
Garrett said. "We will have numerous
partnerships with major industries
with the availability of the latest hardware
and software on a consignment
basis. This means the hardware and
software will be changed every two
or three years so we can provide
appropriate up-to-date training."
From computer aided design systems
to complete work cells, the
new center will "reflect all kinds of
things that are happening in technology,"
Garrett said.
Garrett has been advisor in the
set up of more than 20 advanced technology
centers around the country.
His goal is for CPCC to become the
southeast center for advanced manufacturing.
Garrett always seems relaxed and
unhurried. He is soft-spoken, yet
commands total attention as he did
recently in explaining the new building
to the Board of Trustees.
"We will assemble a factory of the
future the likes of which Charlotte
has not seen."
He came to CPCC last summer
from Daytona Beach Community
College in Florida, where he was
Dean of Technologies. A native of
Indiana, he decided to move south
for the same reason so many others
do-warmer winters.
After graduating from
Wayne State University in 1962 with a
degree in Industrial Education,
Garrett wanted to teach and coach
at the high school level-and pursue
his dream of owning a farm.
Starting with about 4 acres, he
eventually had a farm of over 400
acres, and was farming about 1,000
acres in the vicinity, all while carrying
a full school load.
According to Garrett, advanced
technology and farming go hand-inhand
these days- a great deal of
the grain and livestock operation at
his farm was automated, using sensors
and television monitors.
"Farming has automated so much.
It incorporates all the same principles
of automated industry," he said.
He taught at the high school level
for five years and then taught
CAD/CAM for 16 years at Washtenaw
Community College in Ann Arbor,
Michigan. He remembers he "provided
coffee and cookies for my students
every morning. I knew some
of them came to school hungry but
some of them just needed to talk.
They needed a place to go where
they felt comfortable. I created a
student-faculty lounge to ensure that
faculty and students could get to
know each other."
He has also kept track of a lot of
his students over the years. They
often write to him about changes in
their lives.
"I used to tell them, they weren't
done and I wasn't done until they
had a job."
He decided to move south 10
Dean Dallas Garrett, right, visi ts with a student in a CPCC technology lab
years ago. By that time he was
involved in administration at the
community college level. He had
served as a division chairman for
Engineering and Computer Technologies
at Lorain County Community College
in Ohio and as dean of Business
and Technology at Triton College in
Chicago.
Garrett and his wife, Kemwyn
Ann , have five children, ranging in
age from 18 to 27. In his spare time,
he likes to collect Indian arrowheads
and other artifacts. He laughs as he
describes his other long-time hobby,
collecting butterflies.
"I'd go from one day out in the field
trying to be as gentle as possible
with butterflies ," he said, "to punching
thousand-pound cows the next.
"I love outdoor activities, swimming
and other water sports," he said . "But
mostly I'm tied to my job- recreation
to me is studying a new curriculum. "
He is a proponent of the CORE
curriculum .
"That is something that I've presented
to over 100 colleges across
the country. It basically is the recognition
that virtually all of our students
need a common core of information ,"
he said . "For example, under manufacturing
, I would ideally list 10 or 12
programs with 75% of the course
work the same and then each would
have five to seven courses which
are their specialty courses.
"Lorain County community College
grew over 500% in the Engineering
Technology area as a result of
adopting the CORE approach. That's
significant, going from 400-500 students
to almost 3,000. It's a marketing
technique, but it's realistic. "
He feels that CPCC may need to
break some programs into smaller
units.
"These days almost everyone is
working ," he said . "I would guess
some 80% of our students work full
time. We need to get away from the
traditional two-years-to-finish idea."
He continued , "With most people
working , it takes three to five years to
complete a degree. And some people
come to CPCC just to take one
or two courses related to their work.
This isn 't a junior college- it's a community
college- we're here to serve
the students' needs, whatever they
are."
Although there were times when
he considered going into farming full
time, he has always ended up back
in education. He feels his interest in
people is one of the things that has
kept him at the community college
level .
What does he want people to know
about him?
"Most of all I want them to feel I
listen to them and hear them. I listen
because I'm genuinely interested in
people and their interests. I feel it is
very critical to match student interests
with realistic careers that won't disappear
in a few years. •
Continued from page 1
rules) and finished with an entirely
different team. But how do you
prove something like that? The
appeal process was instant: loudest
voices take all.
The Outlaws played one benefit
game over an Easter weekend at
Myrtle Beach against The Fraternal
Order of Police. It was billed as The
Fuzz vs. The Freaks. The police knew
some of our players through on-duty
associations. "After the game," says
Zack Outen , now a bartender at City
Grill, "we did more damage to Myrtle
Beach than Hugo."
A different CPCC team even
played in a bowl game. 11-21-1970.
Tobacco Bowl. Worth College,
Fayetteville. 0-44.
The Observer printed a color
photo. You can look it up.
Could club football at CPCC lead
straight to the NFL?
Astonishingly enough , it did for
22-year-old Curtis Leak, a fleet, 5-
foot-11 halfback for the Outlaws.
Curtis averaged 37.5 yards per ru sh
through the first three games one
year in an 11-0 season. Soon afterward,
Leak signed a pro contract with
the Houston Oilers of the National
Football League. Don't know what
happened ...
As they talked in the Student
Activities Center, the TV almost
became a pot-bellied stove, and the
couch potatoes were old-timers sitting
around it swapping yarns. Behind
them was a dusty display case which
shimmered with 2 trophies from those
days (Food Services has 22). The
late afternoon sunlight took on a
hazy tint about the color of a faded
newspaper c lipping .
Back to those headlines at the
beginning of this story: CPCC did
recently beat NC State in a judo meet,
also beat Army and the Marine Corp
in another meet, and one of our
fencers beat Duke in a dual duel.
What have I left out? I'd like to have
what you remember from that time,
especially photos. PO Box 35009,
zip 28235; or phone 342-6666. •
3
Story by Roy Parker
hen CPCC alumnus
Jerrell Caskey heard
the name of Charlotte's
new NBA basketball
franchise, he smiled.
Memories of his childhood flashed
before him. He could see himself
standing beside a hot, dusty, dirt
race track, watching his dad roar by
behind the wheel of Lil' Hornet, a
midget racer.
Jerrell was only seven when his
dad built the car on their farm in
Faith, N.C., near Salisbury. Yet he
quickly learned to draw the black and
gold bug that adorned Lil' Hornet's
burgundy hood. And draw it he did
- on practically everything he
owned, textbooks included.
So it was only natural for the farm-
Designing Man
The creator of Hugo the Hornet
lwlm frut to his child-like wonder
boy-turned-artist to bring Lil' Hornet
to life again. In September 1987,
while driving in his pickup truck on
the way to his farm home in Gold Hill,
Jerrell dusted off the memory. A late
fall afternoon sun flashed dappled
shadows on the truck seat where he
had placed a blank piece of paper
beside him. Glancing back and forth
between the road and the paper, he
outlined in pencil what would become
the Charlotte Hornets' logo and mascot,
now known affectionately as Hugo.
But Jerrell Caskey, "J.C." to his
friends and family, didn't become an
overnight success just because of
Hugo. Quite the contrary. His career
blossomed after years of study,
patience, hard work, and a personality
trait that he readily points to as
his real reason for success.
"I think like a child," he said with
a smile. He paused, tapping the toes
of his cowboy boots lightly to the
rhythm of the country music playing
on the radio in his office. "When we're
real young, we're highly creative; our
world is a playground of fantasy. But
as we grow up, most of us lose our
imagination. It seems to fade. Reality
builds walls that slowly close in
around us."
Yet Jerrell has managed to avoid
that confinement. CPCC commercial
art instructor Evie Henderson agrees.
"I'll never forget the day I walked
into an art class in 1973 and heard
clucking," she said. "When I looked
in the back of the room, I could see
that ,Jerrell had a live chicken on a
string leash."
Evie asked for and got a rather
simple explanation. "Uh, the chicken
here, Ms. Henderson," Jerrell
explained in his heavy southern
drawl, "leaped to freedom from a
Graduate Jerrell Caskey surrounded by some of the products he's designed
"'it,,
Photo by Mike Slade
flatbed truck filled with cages holding
hundreds of its family and friends
- right in the middle of Independence
Boulevard. Must've been
headed to the slaughterhouse. If I'd
left it in the road , poor thing would
be a chicken pancake by now."
Jerrell found the chicken a home
on a nearby farm. It lived long enough
to see him graduate from CPCC in
September 197 4 with an associate
in applied sciences degree in commercial
art and advertising design.
Fresh out of CPCC, he landed his
first job at Screen Scenes, at-shirt
screen printer. He set up an art
department and began to design art
for the burgeoning new industry.
In 1975, C.W. McCall's song
"Convoy" hit the airwaves and rushed
to the top of the charts. Jerrell went
along for the ride , designing at-shirt
that depicted a bear smashed on
the front of a Peterbilt truck. It sold
over 25,000 shirts.
From there it was one hit shirt after
another and J.C. 's reputation grew.
Soon he found himself flying to New
York, designing clothes for Wrangler
Jeans, Buccaneer, Windjammer, and
the National Football League, to
name just a few.
His work attracted attention; so in
1979 with the help of a financial
backer, he knew he was ready to break
out on his own. He formed his own
t-shirt company, Action America. In
36 months, Action America's sales
mushroomed to over 6 million a year.
Problems with packaging, freight,
pricing and credit forced Jerrell to
shut down the business in 1985. By
then though , he'd already established
a national reputation in the
sports industry, especially NASCAR
racing. He could design it all: uniforms,
cars, truck transporters, t-shirts, caps,
pins. You name it, J.C. designed it.
Meanwhile, Rick Hendrick's
headlong plunge into NASCAR racing,
fielding not one but two teams
the first year with racing stars Geoff
Bodine and Tim Richmond , gave
birth to Hendrick Sportswear. The
new firm began contracting with
Jerrell to do design work.
The results were spectacular.
Jerrell was named Creative Director
of Hendrick Sportswear in
November 1986.
Shortly thereafter, Rick Hendrick
teamed up with George Shinn and
two other partners to launch
Charlotte's new NBA franchise in
C g
g,
> 0
0
E
i2
>.0
0
_g
CL
Graduate Jerrell Caskey with his favorite creation, Hugo the Hornet
1987. With his foot in the door, Jerrell
had the opportunity of a lifetime.
"Seeing someone wearing something
you've created is a thrill ," he
said. "There's not a day that goes by
that I don't see the bug somewhere,
hanging on the glass of somebody's
car, on at-shirt, a poster, a decal or
whatever.
"And I owe much of what's happened
to CPCC. I love CPCC. Ever
since I graduated , I've always
employed students from Central
Piedmont. I go back every year and
look for that special person to help
train, to give 'em a start. CPCC provides
the best technical training of any
commercial art program I know of." •
Jerrell Caskey has designed for ...
Wrangler Jeans, Walt Disney
Corporation, NFL Properties,
NBA Properties, Busch Gardens,
Sea World , Charlotte Hornets,
Orlando Magic, Minnesota
Timberwolves, countless colleges
and universities; country
music singers Conway Twitty,
Loretta Lynn, Willie Nelson,
Hank Williams, Jr., and Kenny
Rogers; the Hee-Haw television
show; NASCAR race car
drivers Tim Richmond, Darrell
Waltrip, Geoff Bodine, Ken
Schrader, Dale Earnhardt,
Richard and Kyle Petty, and
many others; professional
wrestling stars Tally Blanchard
and Arn Anderson (the Brain
Busters), Hulk Hogan and many
others; NASCAR corporate
sponsors Tide, Folgers, Levi
Garrett, GM Goodwrench,
Wrangler and Peak; and Pro
Rodeo corporate sponsors
Winston and Coors ... just to
name a few!
5
C
Story by Dawn Cotter
om - the quintessential
nanny, chauffeur,
den mother, cook, maid
and governess. All
these jobs take patience, skill, love.
But when the kids go, what then?
The woman who has put her
career goals or intellectual development
on hold to raise her family has
been labeled an empty-nester. Like
some melancholy bird hanging over
a nest thick with cobwebs and wet
with tears, this person's life work is
done. Right?
Wrong!
The term "empty nest syndrome"
Maggie Patton and friends
£
0)
C
~
0
E
,£
>D
"' 0 2 Q_
6
Moving Fonvard
Tlwse empty nest years open
new doors for many women
has been used to connote a woman's
feelings o
Exterior view of Advanced Technology Center, looking down the quad
No full textColor image of the Advanced Technology Center building with unidentifed people clustered in different groups. Looking down the quad towards the Learning Resource Center (LRC) and the current Bank of American tower in the background
Inside CPCC, Summer Quarter, Volume 5, Number 16
No full textInside CPCC highlights landscape and grounds supervisor Eddie Howell and shines alumni spotlights on Frances Knox, Theresa Johns, Barbara Shestko, and Chris Bramlett. It also includes a focus article on the College Experience program for high schoolers, a feature article about the fitness and recreational classes offered at CPCC, a newsmakers section with a list of accomplishments from members of the CPCC community, and a brief article on how Inside CPCC won first place in the newsletter category of the National Council for Marketing and Public Relations 1990 Paragon Awards.On Our Cover
Technology and nature
may sound like strange
bedfellows. But at CPCC,
the two complement one
another. Pictured on the
cover is the college's new
Advanced Technologies
Center, surrounded by the
greenery that makes the
campus so appealing.
Who's responsible for the
greening of the CPCC
campus? Find out a little
about Eddie Howell on
the facing page.
Photo by Tom Covington
Summer Quarter, 1990
Volume 5, Number 16
Fay Vogelbacher, editorial assistant
Peg Robarchek, contributing editor
Virginia Brien, contributing writer
Dawn Cotter, contributing writer
Terry Hoover, contributing writer
Mike Myers, contributing writer
Ann Wicker, contributing writer
Janice Cromar, graphic designer
Tom Covington, contributing photographer
Mike Slade, contributing photographer
Craftsman Printing Company, printer
© Copyright 1990 by Central Piedmont
Community College. For reprint rights,
contact Community Relations, CPCC,
PO Box 35009, Charlotte, NC , 28235
CPCC is an equal opportunity institution
10,000 copies of this public document
were printed at a cost of 2,
342-6534 or 342-6568.
• "Run for Your Wife"-Summer Theatre-July 11 - 21 , Pease Auditorium, 7,
342-6534 or 342-6568.
• Summer Registration-Final Registration for Second Short Session, July 9 and 10.
• Fall Quarter Registration-Current students register July 30 and 31 ; regular
registration Aug. 1, 2, 6 - 9; final registration Aug. 28 and 29; telephone
registration July 30 - Aug. 29, 342-6970.
• Dance Central Outdoor Concert-Aug . 3, Music, and dance performance on the
faculty parking deck (top level), free, 342-6982.
• Winter Quarter Registration-Current students reg ister Oct. 31 and Nov. 1, Nov.
5 - 8; final registration Nov. 26 and 27; telephone reg istration Oct. 29 - Nov. 27,
342-6970.
• Opening of Advanced Technologies Center-Fall, 1990.
NoSurplUe
One of Nationk Top Groumh Care
Pros Oversees CPCCk Gardens
Column by Mike Myers
n 1980, professional grounds
care in America took a giant
step forward by establishing
standards for their highest rating:
Certified Grounds Manager.
In the ten years since, only 24
people have reached that pinnacle.
CPCC's Eddie Howell is one of them.
That accomplishment takes on
perspective when you consider
there are probably over 1,000 major
parks in America, 2,000 university
campuses, 3-,000 large turf service
companies, 5,000 office complexes
and industrial parks, 8,000 golf
courses and countless schools and
churches ... but only 24 Professional
Grounds Managers.
Eddie, CPCC's landscape and
grounds supervisor, grew up in
Southern Pines where his choices
were "to work in the tobacco fields or
pull weeds at a golf course." He
chose the golf course. He went on to
graduate from Forestry at NC State.
Don't confuse Eddie's qualification
tests with your "identify five
trees" cub scout project: 8 months of
preparing 400 pages of documentation
to support answers to 7 examinations
for the 7 levels of research .
If you see Eddie, you might congratulate
him - but don't walk on
the grass to do it.
Westchester County airport terminal
in Connecticut is smaller than
Taylor Hall 's gym floor and dance
studios. On my one pass through
there in the dead of last winter, the
poorly formed line of hope-to-be
passengers was clogged, deep and
grumpy. I noticed a stranger staring
at my luggage tags.
"Oh. CPCC. I went there."
She was middle aged. She was
dressed for rumpling night travel on
a commuter line that squeezes in
every person and bag possible. And
she wanted to talk about CPCC.
"How are Irene Honeycutt and
Dave Flanagan and Marshall
Maddox and Macy Creek? They
helped me, ya' know."
No, I didn't know but I could tell
I was about to know.
"CPCC offered me opportunity."
Then a tale you've probably run in to:
Interrupted schooling. Child. Dissolved
marriage. Dead-end job. Killing time.
CPCC. Opportunity. New hope.
That led to a lead job in a drug
addiction program in Brewster, NY,
where she works to this day. She
had followed up CPCC with UNCC.
"My son went to CPCC before
Eddie Howell
transferring to Chapel Hill ," she
called out over her shoulder as her
line started moving out.
No big gushing testimonial. No
rags to riches story. Nothing over the
rainbow And maybe no one in all of
Brewster, NY, knows CPCC exists.
It doesn't matter. Leave the
chest-thumping to Ivy League
schools and those with huge PR
staffs. Still , Brewster, NY, is better off
because of CPCC and the unknown
grad. If that sounds corny, so be it.
It didn't seem so cold as I went
into the night to follow the snow
fence to my plane. •
Story by Dawn Cotter
hen climbing a ladder, it
is important to place
your feet firmly on the
first rung , securing it at
the bottom before climbing to the top.
For Frances Knox,
Theresa Johns, Barbara
Shestko and Chris Bramlett,
CPCC became the
first rung . Now in various
stages of law school or law
careers, these women
shared similar experiences
at Central Piedmont as they
sought the education , guidance
and self-confidence
needed to give their dreams
shape and reality.
Juggling the demands of
husband , family and income
has not been easy for Frances
Knox.
It took her four-and-a-half
years to complete her 2-year
associates degree in Liberal Arts
at CPCC.
"I was seven months pregnant
when I started at CPCC and working
full-time at Knox, Knox & Freeman
as a legal secretary," said the
petite, soft-spoken woman casually
curled up on the sofa of her spacious
Lake Norman home.
Although it is the day before the
first of five final exams at Wake Forest
University School of Law, Knox
and her husband, attorney and former
Charlotte Mayor Eddie Knox,
had been planting lilies at the
entranceway to "Knox Landing. "
She is happily family-oriented , but
unerringly focused on her career as
well - as evidenced by the daily
140-mile round trip to Wake Forest.
"I'm lucky now I have a supportive
husband and no financial worries
but back then I was a single, working
mother going to classes at 8 a.m.,
noon and after work. I had to attend
classes around my job ," she said. "I
think flexible scheduling is one of
2
Legal Eagl,es
CPCC Is First Rung Up Ladder
of Success for These Young Attorneys
CPCC's greatest strengths. There are
so many people who work shifts or
don't have the time to attend a fouryear
college. They can't just drop
everything to go back to school. "
After graduating
from
CPCC, Knox attended
UNCC, receiving her
undergraduate degree in
child psychology. During
this time, she was
divorced , then married
Eddie Knox, former twoterm
mayor of Charlotte
( 1979-1983) and unsuccessful
candidate for
governor in 1984. Campaigning
with her husband
, having a young
son , Scott, at home,
and working in the
Knox offices as a
paralegal put the dream of law
school on hold until 1988 when , at
the age of 40, she was accepted at
Wake Forest University School of
Law.
"I'd always wanted to go but, like
so many women , I got side- tracked ,"
said Knox, as she strolled through
her back garden on a peaceful
spring morning. "But what was really
the catalyst was an accident case I
was working on at the office. An
insurance adjuster wouldn't pay any
money to some really deserving people
and I was furious.
"In discussing it with my husband
, I said that if I were a lawyer I
would definitely sue the insurance
company. Eddie said, 'Don't just
talk. Do something about it. ' So I
did ."
She has completed her
second year at Wake and is
spending the summer
clerking in District Court in the
morning while continuing to work in
the Knox offices in the afternoon.
"When I went with one of my
professors to interview for the clerkship,
it suddenly hit me. You're really
going to do this thing. You're going
to be a lawyerl"
A 6 A A 6
Thirty-five-year-old Chris Bramlett
is already a lawyer. The newest
member of Duke Power Company's
Legal Department, Bramlett is also
an example of a woman having to
go the circuitous route to achieve
her goals.
An animal lover, she went into
pre-veterinary medicine at NC State.
She completed one year before
dec iding that neither the profession
nor the large university were for her.
"I had always wanted to go to
Davidson," said the Concord native
during a lunch outside the Duke
Power Building. "But I didn't think I
had a chance to get in back then.
For one thing, I didn't have the
money and I didn't feel I had enough
to offer. I knew I'd have to sell myself
to the college through study in my
field as well as by hard work in a
related area."
All this occurred along with a
failed first marriage and a son, Justice,
born in 1978.
Amid the lunchtime crowds
enjoying the warm sunshine of
uptown Charlotte, Bramlett appeared
the epitome of self-confidence in her
blue linen suit, pearls and tortoiseshell
glasses.
"I 'd always wanted to be a
lawyer and I decided that the best
way to start was to go to CPCC and
get into a law-related field like Police
Science," said the slim, auburnhaired
Bramlett, who also worked
full-time as a Belk's security guard
manager for six years.
"The job gave me a chance to
get into the courts regularly, to get to
know lawyers and judges and to
study the inner workings of the legal
system. It also provided a salary."
Although focused on her career
goals, Bramlett admitted to a decided
lack of self-confidence after leaving
NC State. As a bewildered freshman,
she said classes with 500 students
weren't unusual. She liked the relaxed
atmosphere at CPCC, as well as indi-vidual
attention by the instructors.
"I liked the small classes. There
was a lot of promotion of self-esteem,
a lot of hand-shaking and c lapping
on the back," she said. "People like
Andy Nichols, Leon McKim and
Bobby Coggins in Police Science
told me I could do anything I wanted
to do.
"There is a lot of discussion at
that school. Talk. Talk. Talk. Instructors
go to breakfast or lunch with you
and help solve problems or discuss
future plans and how to achieve
them."
After graduating from CPCC,
Bramlett remarried in 1983 and was
accepted at Davidson in 1984.
When she started there, so did her
son - in kindergarten at Davidson
Elementary.
Graduating from Davidson Phi
Betta Kappa in Political Science, she
went on to law school at Wake Forest
and graduated in 1989.
Bramlett and her family have
settled down in the old brick manse
of Calvary Presbyterian Church in
Davidson, just blocks from the college.
An animal lover stil l, Bramlett
has collected an unplanned
menagerie that includes cats, dog,
baby squirrel , guinea pig and - at
one time - a praying mantis.
Chris Bramlett's domestic
vignette is far from the mind of Barbara
Shestko, a Charlotte native and
Harding High School graduate, who
completed her second year at the
University of South Carolina School
of Law in May. Currently living with
her husband, Lt. Michael Shestko, at
the Air Force Base in Minot, North
Dakota, she is looking forward to the
time - about two years away -
when she can practice law as an Air
Force attorney.
"When I graduated from high
school I really didn't have the money to
go to college, so one day I just up and
enlisted in the army. For three years!"
Continued on page 11
3
Story by Virginia Brien
hen it makes all that
noise, I think it's going
to die on me," Andres
Guzman joked as a
drawing of CPCC's Kratt Hall materialized
bit by bit on his computer screen.
Andres, a senior at Myers Park
High School, and South Mecklenburg
senior Mike Gray sat at their
stations in the CPCC computer lab,
musing over how long it takes to
draw scales, grids and symbols by
hand, the way most high school
drafting classes start out.
"One of the advantages ( of Autocad)
is you can always go back and
change (a drawing). If you have a
small detail, you can zoom it up,
make it as big as you want. " Andres
moved a pen across a light-sensitive
pad to register a command, such as
"mirror" or "array," and the stairwell
at the end of the building tripled in
size. '"Mirror' flips something over,"
he continued, "and 'array' repeats it
so you don't have to draw the same
window over and over."
If learning shortcuts for drafting
seemed appealing to Andres, a
senior at Myers Park High School,
you can imagine how he felt when
he learned CPCC and the Charlotte
Mecklenburg Schools had a program
that offered a kind of short cut
between high school and college.
Known as the College Experience,
the program allows high
school seniors to take classes at
CPCC at no charge, and earn high
school and college credit at the
same time. Once students graduate
from high school, they can apply
their college credits toward an associates
degree, certificate, or college
transfer program.
While they are at CPCC, high
school seniors learn with other college
students and are expected to perform
college-level work. "No one knows
you're in the program, so they treat
4
College Experience
Program Puts High Sclwowrs
on Fast Track to College
you the same way," Andres said.
The College Experience got its
start in 1985 as another cooperative
effort between CPCC and the Charlotte-
Mecklenburg Schools. The
goal was to offer yet another way
for high school students to
one
position;
you're
always
moving"
broaden their horizons. ~ ,._
"Most participants ll:~)1..,v~
are above average,
college-bound students,"
said Dr. Tom Griffin, a CPCC
was the way
she described
it - the music
she chose for
the dance was
untraditional:
dean.
For instance, Andres is enrolled
in a technical class, but it's in preparation
for a profession or four-year
degree. "I'm leaning toward engineering.
I'm going to UNCC next
year, then I'll see what field I want to
go into," he said.
But for many students, short
term interests get them into the College
Experience, rather than a
meticulously mapped out career
plan. For instance, Lara Conklin was
simply "not about to take gym at my
high school."
Besides being adamantly
opposed to working out in what she
called "sweat rooms," Lara was
interested in taking ballet. "I was
determined to do it, if they had a
program or not," she said.
Lara was persistent in seeking
alternatives where few seemed to
exist. She learned that her guidance
counselor was willing to work with
her on enrolling in a dance class at
CPCC, and that her principal had
even majored in ballet in college.
" ... they find stimulation,
new friends, and a taste
of real world expectations
and responsibilities."
By spring, Lara was doing plies
and releves in CPCC's Ballet Ill -
and still thinking about alternatives.
For instance, although she used ballet
techniques in the first dance she
choreographed - "You're never in
Pink Floyd's
"Trial of the
Worms. "
"Ballet is
thought to be
so socially
acceptable.
It's ladies in
mink stoles,
not 'hey, man,
we're going to
the ballet,"' she
said . "But if you're
going to choreograph
something,
it should be music
you can feel, not
what you think the
audience will be
expecting from
you."
Lara Conklin takes ballet at CPCC instead of
the standard physical education classes at
her high school.
One of the things which appealed
to Lara about her last instructor was
that she gave such frank criticism.
"People who take ballet should be
very objective," Lara said. "Go in there
and have an open mind. It helps you
so much when they tell you what
you're doing wrong."
Being willing to look at their own
shortcomings and taking responsibility
for what they learn are probably
the biggest challenges faced by
students in the College Experience.
"Nobody is behind you pushing
," Andres reflected. "If you want
to make a good grade, you have to
perform. It shows me I have to go in
ready to work."
College schedules also take
some adjusting for students used to
having classes back to back, five days
a week. For example, advanced
Autocad meets only once a week: a
55-minute lecture followed by four
hours of drafting. As laborious as
looking at a computer all afternoon
can get, Andres said, "Most of the
time is hands-on experience, which
is good. There's only so much you
can learn looking at a teacher drawing
on the board."
Bill Stublaski, a senior at Providence
who signed up for Physics II
at CPCC, said, "Sometimes it can be
a hassle when you have to stay late
working a lab. The College Experience
is really not an easy way out. I
wanted a challenge to help prepare
me for college material. Most of the
labs at high school are short and
you really don't get in depth with
them."
"If you want to make a
good grade, you have to
perform. It shows me I
have to go in ready to
work."
For Bill, staying late to finish
physics lab work meant staying on
South Mecklenburg senior Mike Gray works
along side college students in CPCC's Autocad
lab.
campus until five or six in the
evening. But it was one of the few
ways he could make the time to stay
on Providence High's track team.
The College Experience was
also a radical shift from other classes
Bill had taken at CPCC, including
ten credits earned in courses like
weekend backpacking and field
biology taught in the Okefenokee
Swamp.
... high school seniors
learn with other college
students and are
expected to perform
college-level work.
"The c lasses I've taken before
were more fun c lasses and there
wasn't a lot of homework or tests .. .
There was no book work involved,"
he said. "In physics you really have
to put forth an effort to study the
material and get to know it."
Not all classes offered through
the College Experience are as tough
as Physics II. Dr. Griffin pointed out
that seniors can choose from topics
such as Russian, piano, advanced
data processing, jewelry making,
American politics, and the North Carolina
legal system. Students can
enroll in vocational or occupational
programs at the college, or in liberal
arts courses which are part of CPCC's
Associate in Arts Degree Program.
Transportation from the high
school to CPCC and from CPCC to
home is provided for students who
need regular transportation, if they
make the arrangements with their
home school. And best yet, students
pay no special fees to participate in
the College Experience; the program
is paid for through the state educational
system.
Whether students select
Advanced Shorthand or Creative
Writing , Real Estate Law or Fundamentals
of Air Conditioning, Heating,
and Refrigeration, one thing remains
constant throughout the program.
Succeeding in the College Experience
takes initiative from start to finish,
Dr. Griffin said. He pointed out
that students must navigate unusual
schedules, secure permission from
their principals, and most important,
make the commitment to do college
level work.
Bill Stublaski, a Providence High School
student, in the physics lab at CPCC.
"In return, they find stimulation,
new friends, and a taste of real world
expectations and responsibil ities,"
Dr. Griffin said.
"I've done a lot of growing up this
year," said Hera Bandy, a Garinger
senior enrolled in Computer Programming
II. "It's a lot different from high
school. If you miss a day it's kind of
hard to catch up. The grading system
is a lot different, too.
"(How you do in college) is your
own will."
"A lot of people are impressed
when I tell them I'm taking classes at
Central Piedmont, giving the extra
effort," Bill said. "The basic reason I'm
going is to help me further my education.
Physics, the electronics behind
it, will hopefully give me an extra
boost in school when it really
counts."
To enroll
in The College
Experience, call
your high school
guidance
counsellor.
•
5
Story by Terry Hoover I 've belonged to health clubs
and spas in the past, but I
like coming here better. The
people are nicer and the
atmosphere more relaxed. The
equipment is a little fancier at the
spa, but I'm motivated to work
harder here because I get a lot of
attention from the instructor."
Abda Alexander,
weight training student
"I've belonged to various health
clubs over the years. But they
don't care about you and your
progress and don't bother to take
the time to show you the correct
way to do an exercise or explain
Budget Spa
Reany to Shape Up? CPCC
Offers Best Deal in Town
why it's important to do it correctly.
I learn so much more here."
Linda Mosley,
aerobics student
"The on-campus classes are
convenient for me. I live on the
west side and I can be here on
I- 277 in just a few minutes."
Ernestine Johnson,
yoga student
"As a full-time student, I like taking
a fitness class at CPCC because
it fits into my regular class schedule
so I know I'll get here every
week. I can 't always get to a spa."
Kibreab Woldehawariat
"The price is right! And as a
nurse, I use the things I learn in
my yoga classes to help the stroke
victims and rehab patients I work
with every day."
Alice Mazurick
The mirror doesn't lie for you anymore
and neither does your straining
waistband.
But your bank overdraft is as large
as your hips and the thought of joining
a spa and exhibiting your flab in
front of those Tom Cruise look-alikes
and Jane Fonda wanna-bes is
enough to send you scurrying back
to the fridge for the Fudge Ripple.
Or maybe you're just tired of feeling
guilty a