VOLUME # 15 / ISSUE # 23OCTOBER 13, 2017

EXCLUSIVE

Alpha Chi Inductees Select Faculty Mentors

NEWS,EVENTS,AND MORE

Cultural Arts Week Begins Monday,

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Patsy Taylor, Alpha Chi Faculty Mentor.

The for ty-three inductees of the Alpha Chi Honor Society have selected a distinguished faculty/staff mentor, who will be recognized at the induction ceremony on Sunday, October 22 at 2:00 p.m. in Turner Auditor ium.

They are:

Jennifer Place, Chair, Depar tment of PsychologyPatsy Taylor, Associate Professor of MarketingRussell Johnson, Assistant Professor of EducationRachel Phillips, Assistant Professor of PsychologyPamela Woodard, Assistant Professor of Cr iminal JusticeShannon Williams, Associate Professor of AccountingJill Awuni, Assistant Professor of ReligionJames Hammond, Assistant Professor of Physical EducationThomas Collins, Professor of Spor t ManagementNancy Altstatt, Assistant Director of Admissions ConsultantRichard Todd, Assistant Database AdministratorMar i Wiles, Minister to the UniversityCynthia Nicholson, Dean, School of Ar ts and SciencesLewis Nicholson, Chair, Depar tment of Cr iminal JusticeThomas Brennan, Chair, Depar tment of Communications Ar tsChr istopher Stagl, Associate Professor of Graphic DesignChr istina Rupsch, Dean, School of Fine and Applied Ar tsAshley Doane, Associate Professor of PsychologyTrey Gilliam, Associate Professor of ReligionJ Brabban, Professor of ReligionJennifer Newton, Assistant Professor of Graphic CommunicationsCarolyn Modlin, Professor Emer itus of EducationDavid Ballew, Associate Professor of HistoryGregory Taylor, Professor of HistoryEdward Snyder, Chair, Depar tment of HistoryCor ina Wack, Associate Professor of BiologyShannon Lassiter, Assistant Director of Admission for the Adult Degree Completion Program

ALPHA CHI INDUCTEES SELECT FACULTY/STAFF MENTORS

CULTURAL ARTS WEEK BEGINS MONDAYThe School of Fine and Applied Ar t s is sponsor ing Cult ural Ar t s Week beginning Monday, Oct ober 16. The follow ing event s are scheduled for Thursday, Oct ober 19:

- 11:00 a.m . - Pet er Muir , Graphic Com m unicat ions Leader (Vaughan Audit or ium )

- 1:00 p.m . - Ali Rogan, Glass Ar t ist , Workshop in Fused Glass (Green)

- 2:00 p.m . - Pet er Muir , Workshop in Graphics (Horner )- 5:00 p.m . - Opening Ar t Recept ion and Gallery Talk : Ali

Rogan,The Sacred Walk of Art (Green)- 5:00 p.m . - Dean Shost ak , Glass Arm onica Per form ance (Green)- Theat er Post er Exhibit ion: The Hist ory of Theat er at Chowan,

Present ed by Professor St eve Harders (Green)

Facul t yAccompl i shment s

Rachel Phil l ips, Assist ant Professor of Psychology, at t ended t he Int ernat ional Hum an Fact ors and Ergonom ics Societ y Annual Meet ing on Oct ober 9-13 in Aust in, Texas.

Syble Shell i t o, Direct or of Academ ic Success, received a chapt er grant f rom t he Alpha Chi Nat ional College Honor Scholarship Societ y. The grant w il l be used t o suppor t t he Chowan Universit y St udent Research Conference, which is co-sponsored by t he Nor t h Carolina Phi Chapt er of Alpha Chi.

Georgia Wil l iam s, Universit y Librar ian, has been invit ed by t he Sout hern Associat ion of Colleges and Universit y Com m ission on Colleges t o par t icipat e in a regional t rain ing

workshop designed for l ibrary/ learning resources peer evaluat ors.

John Dilust ro, Associat e Provost and Professor of Biology, has accept ed a posit ion on t he Board of Edit ors for Southeastern Naturalist, which is a peer -reviewed journal.

Frank St ephenson, Direct or of Upward Bound, received not if icat ion in May t hat t he Unit ed St at es Depar t m ent of Educat ion has approved t he Upward Bound Program for f ive years. The award for 2017 is over $400,000.

Li nda M i les, Dean of t he

School of Business,

at t ended t he I ACBE

Sout hern Regional

Conf erence on Oct ober

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"Moron," which has been repeated often on the news recently, was coined in 1910 by Henry H. Goddard, an American psychologist and eugenicist.

Goddard, fascinated with intelligence and convinced that feeble-mindedness was inherited (the result of a single recessive gene), published a study on the heredity of feeble-mindedness. Entitled The Kallikak Family, the study examined two intelligent strains of this family (real name not Kallikak): one "good" (normal) and one "bad" (defective).

Out of his research, which he later admitted was flawed, he introduced a new measurement for intelligence, replacing "feeble-mindedness" with "moron," a word he borrowed from a Greek root ("moros") meaning "dull" or "foolish."

With this replacement, psychologists placed individuals with cognitive

disabilities in three categories: "idiot," "imbecile," and, the least severe, "moron."

As an eugenicist, Goddard believed, as his colleague Harry Laughlin explained, "the character of a nation is determined primarily by . . . the hereditary physical, mental, and moral temperamental traits of its people." In other words, Goddard believed "better breeding" would create a better American.

Thus, Goddard perceived morons as a serious threat to America. He wrote in 1912:

"The idiot is not our greatest problem. He is indeed loathsome. . . . Nevertheless, he lives his life and is done. He does not continue the race with a line of children like himself. . . . It is the moron type that makes for us our great problem."

With immigrants arriving at Ellis Island

every day, he and other eugenicists feared there were "morons" among them. In 1913, he sent assistants to Ellis Island to identify "morons." When he reported that forty percent of Jews and immigrants from southern and eastern Europe qualified as morons, he commented, "it is never wise to discard a scientific result because of apparent absurdity."

As a result of his work, as well as other contributing factors, the United States began implementing laws and policies that led to the sterilization of people and the establishment of immigration quotas for people from southern and eastern Europe. Meanwhile, individuals from northern and western Europe, such as James Reston, Mary Anne MacLeod, and Karl Dane, slipped into America.

Goddard advocated for both sterilization and immigration quotas because he believed an America filled with morons was unfit for democracy, which is a similar concern Donald Trump expressed in 2014 when he tweeted a cartoon circulating on social media that featured American founding fathers with the caption: "I keep thinking we should include something in the Constitution in case the people elect a moron."

"An interesting cartoon," Trump tweeted.

Indeed!

" I keep thinking we should include something in the Constitution in case the people elect a moron."

PONDERINGS OF THE PROVOST

If you plan to at tend college between July 1, 2018, and June 30, 2019, you should f i ll out your Free Applicat ion for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) as soon as possible!

When f i ling, avoid these common errors:

- not complet ing the FAFSA form

- not using the correct website

- not f i lling out the FAFSA form as soon as it is possible

- not f i ling the FAFSA form by the deadline

- not get t ing an FSA ID before f i lling out the FAFSA form

- Not using your FSA ID to start the FAFSA form

- not using the IRS Data Retrieval Tool ( IRS DRT)

- Not reading def init ions carefully

- input t ing incorrect informat ion

- not report ing required informat ion

- not signing the FAFSA form

CHOWAN HOSTED WORKSHOP FOR

NORTHEASTERN NC EDUCATORS

Thirty-f ive educators in northeastern North Carolina were invited to Chowan University on September 20 to address and discuss common issues in a collaborat ive workshop.

Following an int roduct ion from Dr. Brenda Tinkham, Associate Provost for External Relat ions, and a welcome from Dr. M. Christopher White, President , the workshop began. The workshop included an open dialogue period about legislat ive and policy updates and an opportunity to collaborate with colleagues.

Sonya Rinehart of the Department of Public Instruct ion served as the workshop's facili tator.

FOR THE CURRENT FAFSA, WHICH HELPS DETERMINE FINANCIAL AID FOR THE 2018-2019 ACADEMIC YEAR, STUDENTS USE 2016 INCOME AND TAX INFORMATION.

IT'S FAFSA TIME

THE REMAINS OF THE DAY QUOTE?If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights that you are no doubt capable of."

Kazuo Ishiguro, Author of The Remains of the Day

" Both the most autobiographical and the most exper imental book, the narrator finds herself haunted by the story of her older sister, who died a mere two hours after bir th. A fragmented exploration of white things - the swaddling bands that were also her shroud, the breast milk she did not live to dr ink, the blank page on which the narrator herself attempts to reconstruct the story - unfold in a powerfully poetic distillation. As she walks the unfamiliar, snow-streaked streets, lined by buildings former ly obliterated in the Second Wor ld War, their identities blur and over lap as the narrator wonders, 'Can I give this life to you?'"

THIS WEEK IN READING: THE BEST NEW NOVELSTHE WHITE BOOK BY HAN KANG

" In Smith's Winter, lifeforce matches up to the toughest of the seasons. In this second novel in her acclaimed Seasonal cycle, the follow-up to her sensational Autumn, Smith's shape-shifting quar tet of novels casts a merry eye over a bleak post-truth era with a story rooted in history, memory and warmth, its taproot deep in the evergreens: ar t, love, laughter."

WINTER BY ALI SMITH

" Should the provost get the urge to press the key that erases all Jenzabar data, Jay Howell and John Dilustro have been instructed to tackle him."

OVERHEARD

SaturdayOctober 14

Thanks to today's sprawling hardware havens, i t is easy to assume that the do-it -yourself home-improvement phenomenon is relat ively new. However, i t really began in earnest during the postwar, baby-boom years.

The Do It Yourself TV program that premiered in the UK in 1957, taught men everything they never needed to know about doing jobs around the home.

First published in 1951, the Better Homes & Gardens Handyman's Book included "cartoonish" drawings of a husband and wife complet ing projects.

Popular Mechanics published an i llust rated Do- It- Yourself Encyclopedia in 1955. It was writ ten in "simple" language for the ent ire family.

CU Visit Day Advising Day Pre-registration for Spring Semester Begins

Last Day to Drop Classes with a W

Alpha Chi Honor Society Induction Ceremony, 2:00 p.m. (Turner Auditorium)

Homecoming

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