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FACULTY/STAFF NEWS

Benjamin Thorburn Attended the North Carolina American Choral Directors Association Fall Conference on Octo-ber 7-8 in Charlotte.

Linda Miles Attended the IACBE Regional Conference at William Carey University on Octo-ber 13-14.

Shannon Williams Attended the IACBE Regional Conference at William Carey University on Octo-ber 13-14.

Jacqueline Bates Attended a workshop on Excellence in Undergraduate Edu-cation in June in Asheville, North Car-olina.

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John Davis Attended the Mark Twain and Youth Conference at Elmira College in New York on October 6-9.

Spring 2016 Dean’s List To make the Dean’s List, a

student must have a semester

GPA between a 3.25 and 3.79.

The students listed below

made the Spring 2016 Dean’s

List:

Makya Alexander

RaeShawnte Allen

Kiana Alston

Marquez Alston

Ashleigh Ardis

Antoinette Armstrong

Monique Arrington

Carlos Arroyo Gonzalez

Victoria Baez-Quiroz

Ann-Nesha Bagwell

Ryan Baker

Susan Balladares

Brandon Ballard

Ulysses Bates

Eric Batts

Zoe Beale

Janae Belt

Tyler Bembry

Tyrell Blythe

Tori Boals

Sara Bolton

Pamela Bond

Alyssa Born

Wilhelmina Bradley

Perla Bravo

Za'Quera Brinkley

Jazzmyn Brunson

Nyland Bryant

Brandi Burgess

Onyx Burns

Jordan Butner

Marendy Cannon

Jamilia Carlyle

Brittni Chase

Suraya Chase

Whitnee Cheek

Courtney Clark

Ieshia Clark

James Conley

Haley Cooper

Waddell Cotterell

Amber Cunningham

Angel Curtis

Donielle Davis

Brianna Delancy

Alexander Dendy

Lindsey Denne

Marquise Dixon

Tenciah Dixon

Micaea'La Dorsey

Michael Dowling

John Downum

Bobbi Dunlow

William Edwards

Cindy Ehrich

Leslie Escobar

Blake Eure

Issa Farhoud

Juanta Farmer

Charlotte Fennell

Raven Finley-Flowers

Jeremy Fischer

Faith Fleming

Tia Fleming

Ethan Frazier

Christian Funes

Demetria Futrell

Nicholas Gaffney

Arrington Gavin

Rebecca Gayheart

Sarah Ghaffoor

Isaac Gibbs

Xavier Grady

Princess Chauni Green

Farid Hajizada

Carneal Hall

Kaila Hardin

Jelesa Harris

Jennifer Harvell

Milana Hendricks

Melissa Hernandez

Adriea Herndon

Malik Hicks

Anesha Hill

Denzel Hines

Maria Hurtado

Mackenzie Imamura

Allen Jackson

Angelique' Jackson

Kierra Jacobs

ShyKaela Johnson

Theron Johnson II

Kirsten Jordan

Rachel Judkins

Adi Kaliakperov

David Knight

Ravelly Koume-Ngonda

L'leah Laing

McKaela Lane

Derrick Lassiter

Moesha Lassiter

Jodie Lawrence

Friends of Music Artist Series

The Friends of Music at Chow-an University will hold its next Artist Series on Sunday, Octo-ber 16, at 3:30 p.m. Murfrees-boro Baptist Church will host the concert.

The performers are violist, Den-nis Krasnokutsky, and Serbian

pianist, Maja Rajković. The concert will feature music by Johann Sebastian Bach, Sergei Rachmaninov, Svetislav Božić , and Chris-topher Cook.

This event is free and open to the public.

Khyla Leake

Dejuan Lee

Garrett Lee

Torrion Lee

Joshua Lemmon

Mesha Le'Sane

Fernando Lewis

Montel Lewter

Roderick Lindsey

Juan Lopez

Marco Lujan

Anna Makhneva

Yeawah Mambu

Bria McNair

Dayona McNeil

Jamie McNicholas

Jasmine Miles

Alisha Mobley

DeShawn Monroe

Jacob Moore

Samone Morgan

Chelsea Murphy

Adara Necaise

Demetrius Newberry

La'Quan Nixon

Tiffani Parker

Carlondra Parson

Dacian Patterson

Chala Perry

Chynnah Pope

Jaleel Price

Anthony Prince

Louis Proulx

Lauren Rice

Elijah Richardson

LaTavia Riddick

Gabriella Rivera-Garcia

Chantel Roberts

Forrest Robinson

Sha'Tasea Robinson

Denis Roule

Donya Salman

Benjamin Schuch

Nalinie Setal

Terrain Sharp

Shakir Shomari

Avontia Shumaker

Harmony Smith

Teonia Smith

Madison Spain

Morgan Spencer

Rashard Spencer

Christopher Spruill

Shakemia Stephenson

Jameil Thomas

Shataya Titus

Caitlin Turner

Dalles Turner

Jessica Vallejos

Aleeza Walker

Evelyn Walker

Jasmin Washington

Lydell Washington

Norman Webb

Deon White

De'Quan White

Jayquane White

Sierra White

Richard Whitted

Joanne Williams

Milan Winrow

Lewis Woodard

Stephan Woodard

Allandria Yancey Sullivan

E'monie Young

Luis Zequeira

I read literary fiction, which is

novels about ideas, complex issues,

the human condition, etc. Literary

fiction is also novels that focus on

the beauty of writing itself. The

prose is so beautiful, so thoughtful,

that the words roll through your

mind for days, sometimes weeks or

months, much like a song that gets

stuck in your head.

Literary awards, like the Man Book-

er Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, the Bai-

ley’s Women’s Prize, the National

Book Award, and many others, bring

well-deserved attention to literary

novels.

This week the National Book Award

Foundation announced its fiction

Academic Events

Something More

National Book Award for Fiction will be

announced on November 16.

Ponderings

Televised presidential debates have been an important part of

American elections since 1960. The sup-posed purpose of presidential debates is to give voters an opportunity to hear where candidates

stand on the issues and to help voters make a decision about whom they will vote for in No-vember. Below are great de-bate quips:

Gerald Ford: “There is no Soviet domination of East-ern Europe.”

Ronald Reagan: “There you go again.”

Ronald Reagan: “l will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political pur-poses, my opponent’s youth and inexperience.”

Mitt Romney: “I went to a number of women’s groups and said, ‘Can you help us find folks,’ and they brought us whole binders full of women.”

Donald Trump: “Where did you get this?”

finalists, narrowing its longlist from

ten to five. To be eligible for the

award, a book must be written by an

American citizen and published by

an American publisher.

The 2016 finalists are:

Fiction

The Throwback Special by Chris

Bachelder

News of the World by Paulette

Jiles

The Association of Small Bombs

by Karan Mahajan

The Underground Railroad by

Colson Whitehead

Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline

Woodson

The longlist finalists are:

What Belongs to You by Garth

Greenwell

Imagine Me Gone by Adam

Haslett

The Portable Veblen by Eliza-

beth McKenzie

Sweet Lamb of Heaven by Lydia

Millet

Miss Jane by Brad Watson

The award winner will be announced

on November 16.

The Man Booker Prize

is awarded to an author

whose work was pub-

lished in Britain and

was first written in

English. Until 2014,

the prize had been lim-

ited to writers from

Britain, Ireland, the

Commonwealth, and

Zimbabwe.

The 2016 Booker finalists are:

The Sellout by Paul Beatty

Hot Milk by Deborah Levy

His Bloody Project by Graeme

Macrae

Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh

All That Man Is by David Szalay

Do Not Say We Have Nothing by

Madeleine Thien

The longlist finalists are:

The Schooldays of

Jesus by J.M. Coetzee

Serious Sweet by

A.L. Kennedy

The North Wa-

ter by Ian McGuire

Hystopia by David

Means

The Many by Wyl

Menmuir

Work Like Any

Other by Virginia

Reeves

My Name Is Lucy Barton by

Elizabeth Strout

The winner will be announced on

October 25.

Sunday

October 16

Alpha Chi Honor Society

Induction Ceremony, 2 pm

(Vaughan Auditorium)

Sunday

October 16 Friends of Music Artist Se-ries, 3:30 pm (Murfreesboro Baptist Church)

Wednesday

October 19

Fall Break Begins at the

Conclusion of Classes

Monday

October 24

Classes Resume, 8 am

Monday

October 24 Pre-registration for Spring Semester Begins

Tuesday

October 25

Last Day to Drop Classes

with a W

of the

Provost

Who’s Who Among Students

It is time to nominate students for

Who’s Who Among Students in

American Colleges and Universities.

Criteria for nominations include:

Junior or Senior status

Scholarship ability

Active participation and leader-

ship in academic and extracurric-

ular activities

Citizenship and service

to the university

Potential for future

achievement

Please forward nominations

to Patsy Taylor at

taylop@chowan.edu.

is October 11th

To earn this honor, the chapter must meet several cri- teria to include at-tending and presenting at the national convention and sponsoring an oncampus academic program.

Council:

Delta Award for in-crease in membership

Alpha Lambda Delta Receives Awards

Alpha Silver Award for invitees’ ac-ceptance rate.

The Chowan University Chapter of Alpha Lambda Delta had an exceptional year in 2015-2016. It re-ceived from the National

a contemporary black community in Southern California, Brit Ben-nett’s mesmerizing first novel is an emotionally perceptive story about community, love, and ambi-tion. It begins with a secret.” Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

The Mothers by Brit Bennett “A dazzling debut novel from an exciting new voice, The Mothers is a surprising story about young love, a big secret in a small com-munity—and the things that ulti-mately haunt us most. Set within

Novels of the Week “The story begins with two half-sisters, separated by forces be-yond their control: one sold into slavery, the other married to a British slavery. Written with tre-mendous sweep and pow-er, Homegoing traces the genera-tions of family who follow .”

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“Is there anyone available to take my sh*t tonight

7pm 10pm in the lab?”