VOLUME # 15 / ISSUE # 21SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

EXCLUSIVE

2017 McDowell Columns Scholar

Prize Finalists

NEWS,EVENTS,AND MORE

28 Harris Scholars Selected to Study

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THISIN ACADEMIC AFFAIRS

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CU Announces Outstanding

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McDowell Columns Building.

The Chowan University McDowell Columns Scholar Pr ize, which is sponsored by the Office of the Provost, is presented to a faculty member for his or her scholar ly and/or creative activities dur ing the previous academic year. The pr ize consists of a cash award and a book style clock, showcasing a photo of the histor ic McDowell Columns Building, and engraved with the recipient?s name.

The 2017 finalists are:

- Timothy Hayes, Assistant Professor of English- Mary Hellmann, Associate Professor of Music- Edward Snyder, Assistant Professor of History- Amy Wethington, Associate Professor of Biology- Seok Yoon, Associate Professor of Exercise

Science

The pr ize recipient will be announced at the Seventh Annual Celebration of Faculty Scholarship and Creative Achievement, which will showcase the scholar ly works and creative activities that have been published, exhibited, or per formed dur ing the 2016-2017 academic year, and provide the university community the oppor tunity to congratulate and recognize faculty for their recent accomplishments as authors, ar tists, leaders, researchers, presenters, and per formers.The celebration will be held on Tuesday, November 14 at 6:00 p.m. in the Chowan Room.

2017 MCDOWELL COLUMNS SCHOLAR PRIZE FINALISTS ANNOUNCED

CHOWAN SELECTS 28 HARRIS SCHOLARSTwent y-eight st udent s have been select ed t o receive M. Elizabet h Har r is Int ernat ional Travel Scholarships. The scholarships were est ablished t o enhance st udy abroad for st udent s. The 2017-2018 Har r is Scholars are:

Eli jah Adam s Cat her ine Arm st rong Grace Ar redondo Susan Balladares Zoe Beal Ravine Bil ly Olivia Borer Jaim e Calcagno Jam es Conley Kyle Davison Jax Eddlem an Shak ira Har r is Ashley Hernandez Sarah Hull Jerm el Jackson Ashley Ji lcot t George Kat t an Ryan Mar t in Jared Moore Sam one Morgan Ant hony Nor t hcot t Shannon Park Jacob Per r it t Wyat t Ray Gabr ielle Rodgers Olivia Sawyer Zachary Whit eJessica Will is

The group, led by M. Chr ist opher Whit e, President , w il l visit sit es in England and Scot land on May 7-16, 2018.

Facul t yAccompl i shment s

Jim Ham m ond, Assist ant Professor of Physical Educat ion, is cont inuing his doct oral course work at t he Unit ed St at es Spor t Academ y.

Mit chell Henke, Associat e Professor of Graphic Com m unicat ions, at t ended Pack Expo in Las Vegas on Sept em ber 24-27.

Bo Dam e, Associat e Professor of Physical Sciences, at t ended t he Nor t h Carolina Nat ional Est uar ine Reserve Workshop on Clim at e Change Vulnerabil i t y Assessm ent for Coast al Habit at s on Sept em ber 10 in Corolla.

Brenda Tinkham , Professor of Educat ion, host ed public school t eachers on Wednesday, Sept em ber 20.

John Davis, Professor of English, gave a present at ion on Mark Twain at t he Ahosk ie Rot ary Club m eet ing on Sept em ber 25. The t it le of h is present at ion was "Do You Know Mark Twain?"

Georgia Wil l iam s, Universit y Librar ian, at t ended a m eet ing of t he NCICU Deep Collaborat ion St eer ing Com m it t ee on Sept em ber 15 at Meredit h College.

Tom Brennan, Associat e Professor of Graphic Com m unicat ions, t ook second and t h ird place at t he Mar t in Count y Phot ography Com pet it ion in June.

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D Rachel Ph i l l i ps, Assi st ant Prof essor of Psychology, has been elect ed Facul t y Senat e President .

Monuments are the end product of a community's attempt to provide closure by preserving its collective memory for generations to come. They freeze a community's memor ies, its story, its points of view, and its values and perspectives. In other words, a monument exists to tell future generations what to remember, what to think, ideally, for eternity. I t never changes, never evolves; it is a fixed history.Therein lies the problem with a monument. I f it doesn't evolve, then it doesn't engage people whose community has evolved, has changed. Rather than br ing closure for the past, it challenges people's response to a monument in the present.While the " monument cr isis" extends beyond Char lottesville and the Confederacy -- think Columbus and " pioneers" and even Lenin -- there is value in examining the locations and

the timing of when the Confederate monuments were installed.The surge in the construction of Confederate monuments occurred between the 1890s and 1920s. For example, the statute of Rober t E. Lee in Char lottesvillle was built in 1924. This surge coincided with a per iod of increased racial violence and the r ise of the white supremacy movement. The timing of the surge appears suspicious. Were the monuments installed as tr ibutes to the Confederacy and their heroes or effor ts to venerate Civil War veterans who were dying of old age? Were they created as homages to the " lost cause," a cause deemed noble by the monuments' creators, or were these monuments, which were often built on the grounds of cour thouses, created as statements of white power and supremacy?The answer is " yes" to all of the above.

But regardless of why the Confederate monuments were created, preserving them legitimizes white supremacy, but removing them erases history -- and not just the history neo-Confederates wish to protect, but also the racism inherent in their contruction they always deny.All monuments share the history that their creators deemed important. Because this cr iter ion changes over time, controversy, and confrontation are inevitable. Consequently, this problem is not confined to Confederate monuments alone. Take the Shaw Memor ial in Boston, a nineteenth-century monument of Colonel Rober t Gould Shaw, who led the men of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry dur ing the Civil War. The memor ial tells the story of the 54th, but by focusing the light on the heroic deeds of Shaw, it falls significantly shor t of addressing the racial politics of the past and the present.There is no practical solution to the " monument cr isis." While adding interpretive resources to monuments could enr ich our understanding of a monument by providing context for both the past and present, finding the r ight balance will lead to conflict, a conclusion you can carve in stone.

All monuments share the history that their creators deemed important.

PONDERINGS OF THE PROVOST

After Who's Who Among Students in American Universit ies and Colleges announced that i t had suspended operat ions this year, the Chowan University Honors Commit tee established the Outstanding Student Award.This award recognizes up to thirty students for outstanding achievements at the University. The award is based on the following criteria:

- Embodies the at t ributes of a leader

- Academic achievement (3.0 or higher)

- Evidence of campus and/ or community service

- Exemplif ies good cit izenship

- Has made signif icant contribut ions to Chowan over the past year

- Junior or senior status

PHI EPSILON KAPPA TAPS NEW MEMBERS

Phi Epsilon Kappa tapped six new members on September 5 and 6. Those students tapped are:

- Jennifer Caird- Ethan Frazier- Rachel Judkins- Nicholas Lavoy- Harry Markotay- Bailey Zavala

Phi Kappa Epsilon, founded in 1913, is a nat ional professional f raternity for persons engaged in or pursuing careers in physical educat ion, health, recreat ion, dance, human performance, exercise science, sports medicine and sport management.

At Chowan University, Phi Epsilon Kappa serves as a recognized honor society for Sport Science majors who achieve a 3.25 or higher g.p.a. in at least ninety semester hours of coursework.

The induct ion ceremony is scheduled for March 2018.

CHOWAN UNIVERSITY ESTABLISHES OUTSTANDING STUDENT AWARD TO REPLACE WHO'S WHO AMONG STUDENTS IN AMERICANS UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES.

STUDENT AWARDS

ALL WE SHALL KNOW QUOTE?There should be a comma between DIE and SLUT. Vocative case, I tutted in my crazy head.?

Donal Ryan, Author of All We Shall Know

" Raised in Pennsylvania, Thandi views the wor ld of her mother?s childhood in Johannesburg as both impossibly distant and ever present. She is an outsider wherever she goes, caught between being black and white, Amer ican and not. She tr ies to connect these dislocated pieces of her life, and as her mother succumbs to cancer, Thandi searches for an anchor? someone, or something, to love."

THIS WEEK IN READING: THE BEST NEW NOVELSWHAT WE LOSE BY ZINZI CLEMMONS

" A young boy has fled his home. He?s pursued by dangerous forces. What lies before him is an infinite, ar id plain, one he must cross in order to escape those from whom he?s fleeing. One night on the road, he meets an old goatherd, a man who lives simply but r ighteously, and from that moment on, their paths inter twine."

OUT IN THE OPEN BY JESUS CARRASCO

" The thing people don't realize about being a history teacher, dude, it is so bor ing."

-- Amer ican Vandal

OVERHEARD

SundayOctober 1

In February 1861, the United States Congress passed an act that allowed privately printed cards, weighing one ounce or under, to be sent in the mail. That same year, John P. Charlton copyrighted the f irst postcard in the United States.

A vintage postcard of the administ rat ion building at Chowan.

A vintage postcard of "The Mit tens" in Monument Valley.

A vintage postcard of camel thorn t rees in Nambia.

Sigma Zeta Honor Society Induction Ceremony, 2:30 p.m. (Meiggs Auditorium)

Fall Break Begins at the Conclusion of Classes

CU Visit Day Advising DayMid-term Grades Due, 12 noon

Classes Resume, 8:00 a.m.

SOMETHING MORE

CHOWAN COLLEGE MONUMENT VALLEY NAMBIA

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