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Vol XX—Issue 4 Thomas Nelson Community College Feb. Ö, 1989 SGA President To Ask TNCC Board to Close ^ Down Student Press \ Alvin Pettaway, President of the TNCC Student Government Association. announced on Thursday, January 26, 1989, that he wilt be asking the TNCC Board to do away with the student publication known as The Nelsonite. To replace the student newspaper, he will suggest a bi-weekly publication from the Dean of Student Services office and a national publication. This announcement was made during a meeting with the present editor-in-chief of the student press,--Cecelia Elaine Salisbury, lis. Elsie Lewis. Student Activities Technician, Carl Stodghill, Chairman of Student Council, and Beth Burns, the SGA Secretary. Pres. Pettaway stated that since this action will take place after Mrs. Salisbury's graduation, it should not be taken as an action directed against her personally. The action is more a response to the difficulty of obtaining a responsible level of volunteers to do the work of publishing the paper on a consistent basis. None of the positions on the student newspaper offer the incentive bf a scholarship Minority Students Recognized by National College Board Recently a national publication from The College Board listed some former Thomas Nelson students in the Talent Roster of Outstanding Minority Community College Graduates. Those listed were Debra harsh from James Store, 6arnell Scott, and Mar dell Cooper from Hampton, and Ruth Binns, Agnes M. Bogle-Brown, Elton A. Clark, Georgia M. Ebron, 6arry Harris, Alvin i . Lankford, Sherrl S. McAdams, and Dreamle S. Newsome, all from Newport Newsi U i k .,'• :, : u'^i as the offices of president and vice-president of SGA do. There are no for-credit classes offered to support the student press. Is there a problem? Well, at the present time The Nelsonite is without an assistant editor. That means that no one is in training to take over the job of Editor-in-Chief. Eliminating The Neknnifp will mean that the $5,000 which is budgeted for the paper's publication expenses can be used somewhere else in the $92,000 Student Activities Budget. Eliminating The Nelsonite will also mean that Thomas Nelson Community College will no longer offer those students who wish to pursue communication careers a chance to gain the valuable experience available to student journalists. It could also mean that the voice of the individuals within the student body will be weakened. Unless there is a drastic change in the number of students who are willing to show that Freedom of Speech and the Student Press are important to them, Thomas Nelson may be one more place where the student is quelled. Photography Students in Richmond Exhibition Seven of Thomas Nelson's photography students exhibited their work in the main gallery of the Medical College of Virginia, part of Virginia Commonwealth University in. * Richmond. The students are Donna Clark, Richard Donzell. Sandy Hillerson, Robert Joyner, < Cathy Layton, Mike Ray bur ne, and Alice Webb. The exhibition was held during the month of December. Student Newspaper Faces Crisis "It is a very real crisis," said the Editor-in-Chief of The Nelsonite. Cecelia Elaine Salisbury, when asked about the announcement made by SGA President. Alvin Pettaway, concerning the closing of the student press. "If a committed group of students does not come forward, the student newspaper will be in grave danger. You can't really say that Alvin is shutting down the Press," the editor said. "It is more like it is dead and just waiting to be buried," she added. Those who read the paper regularly have been quick to notice that it is the editor's name that appears on most of the columns. What some have not known is that those stories which carry no by-line are usually her products, too "Having your name in print has gotten to be no big deal for me, " Cecelia said. "I just think it gets boring for people to constantly see my name on all of the work. It is the long hours of layout, typesetting, photography, paper-work, and other behind-the-scene work that take the time and energy." She added, "It's fortunate that we have had some good cartoonists, because I don't do cartoons." To compound the problem, Cecelia is a full-time student, a part-time tutor, and a full-time parent and spouse who recently became a full-time grandparent. But the problem of the press is going to get worse. Cecelia is headed for VCU where she has been accepted as an Honors student. She said that unless someone comes forward to train for the next year, she will not have any encouraging words for the College Board, and will have no reason to refute the SGA's request. Is it too late? According to Cecelia it is not too late for the issue to turn around. "If enough people come forward who are really sincere, there is plenty of time," she said. "Right now it is up to the student body to show an interest." The bottom line is that it is put up or shut up forever t)me!. SAU V P f f m l n i BECAUSE « IT'S FREE! BSU Assists in NNPS A iter school Program by Davtd Pirker The Baptist Student Union of Thomas Nelson Community College is currently working in the Newport News public schoof tutoring program. Students from Thomas Nelson, as well as Menchville and Ferguson High Schools are serving as tutors at Dunbar-Erwin Elementary School in downtown Newport News. The tutors work with second graders for an hour on Tuesday afternoons. According to Mike Haywood, who is on the staff at the Peninsula Baptist Association, the program has been successful for three main reasons. Haywood believes, "It helps the second graders improve their reading skills. It helps us as volunteers to know that we can work with somebody and be of help, and it's fun!" For more information about this program contact David Parker, BSU president at Thomas Nelson'. The BSU office is in Room *226 in Griffin Hall, , >
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Title | The Nelsonite vol. 20, no. 4 |
Title.Alternative | The Nelsonite, February 8, 1989 |
Subject | Newspapers |
Description | The Nelsonite student newspaper was published, with some gaps, from 1968 through 2007. |
Publisher | Thomas Nelson Community College |
Date | 1989-02-08 |
Category | Student publications |
Coverage | United States; Virginia; Hampton |
Type | Text |
Format | application/pdf |
Identifier | nelsonite_19890208_20_04.pdf |
Rights | © 1989 Thomas Nelson Community College. Copying allowed only for noncommercial use with acknowledgement of source. |
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Transcript | Vol XX—Issue 4 Thomas Nelson Community College Feb. Ö, 1989 SGA President To Ask TNCC Board to Close ^ Down Student Press \ Alvin Pettaway, President of the TNCC Student Government Association. announced on Thursday, January 26, 1989, that he wilt be asking the TNCC Board to do away with the student publication known as The Nelsonite. To replace the student newspaper, he will suggest a bi-weekly publication from the Dean of Student Services office and a national publication. This announcement was made during a meeting with the present editor-in-chief of the student press,--Cecelia Elaine Salisbury, lis. Elsie Lewis. Student Activities Technician, Carl Stodghill, Chairman of Student Council, and Beth Burns, the SGA Secretary. Pres. Pettaway stated that since this action will take place after Mrs. Salisbury's graduation, it should not be taken as an action directed against her personally. The action is more a response to the difficulty of obtaining a responsible level of volunteers to do the work of publishing the paper on a consistent basis. None of the positions on the student newspaper offer the incentive bf a scholarship Minority Students Recognized by National College Board Recently a national publication from The College Board listed some former Thomas Nelson students in the Talent Roster of Outstanding Minority Community College Graduates. Those listed were Debra harsh from James Store, 6arnell Scott, and Mar dell Cooper from Hampton, and Ruth Binns, Agnes M. Bogle-Brown, Elton A. Clark, Georgia M. Ebron, 6arry Harris, Alvin i . Lankford, Sherrl S. McAdams, and Dreamle S. Newsome, all from Newport Newsi U i k .,'• :, : u'^i as the offices of president and vice-president of SGA do. There are no for-credit classes offered to support the student press. Is there a problem? Well, at the present time The Nelsonite is without an assistant editor. That means that no one is in training to take over the job of Editor-in-Chief. Eliminating The Neknnifp will mean that the $5,000 which is budgeted for the paper's publication expenses can be used somewhere else in the $92,000 Student Activities Budget. Eliminating The Nelsonite will also mean that Thomas Nelson Community College will no longer offer those students who wish to pursue communication careers a chance to gain the valuable experience available to student journalists. It could also mean that the voice of the individuals within the student body will be weakened. Unless there is a drastic change in the number of students who are willing to show that Freedom of Speech and the Student Press are important to them, Thomas Nelson may be one more place where the student is quelled. Photography Students in Richmond Exhibition Seven of Thomas Nelson's photography students exhibited their work in the main gallery of the Medical College of Virginia, part of Virginia Commonwealth University in. * Richmond. The students are Donna Clark, Richard Donzell. Sandy Hillerson, Robert Joyner, < Cathy Layton, Mike Ray bur ne, and Alice Webb. The exhibition was held during the month of December. Student Newspaper Faces Crisis "It is a very real crisis," said the Editor-in-Chief of The Nelsonite. Cecelia Elaine Salisbury, when asked about the announcement made by SGA President. Alvin Pettaway, concerning the closing of the student press. "If a committed group of students does not come forward, the student newspaper will be in grave danger. You can't really say that Alvin is shutting down the Press," the editor said. "It is more like it is dead and just waiting to be buried," she added. Those who read the paper regularly have been quick to notice that it is the editor's name that appears on most of the columns. What some have not known is that those stories which carry no by-line are usually her products, too "Having your name in print has gotten to be no big deal for me, " Cecelia said. "I just think it gets boring for people to constantly see my name on all of the work. It is the long hours of layout, typesetting, photography, paper-work, and other behind-the-scene work that take the time and energy." She added, "It's fortunate that we have had some good cartoonists, because I don't do cartoons." To compound the problem, Cecelia is a full-time student, a part-time tutor, and a full-time parent and spouse who recently became a full-time grandparent. But the problem of the press is going to get worse. Cecelia is headed for VCU where she has been accepted as an Honors student. She said that unless someone comes forward to train for the next year, she will not have any encouraging words for the College Board, and will have no reason to refute the SGA's request. Is it too late? According to Cecelia it is not too late for the issue to turn around. "If enough people come forward who are really sincere, there is plenty of time," she said. "Right now it is up to the student body to show an interest." The bottom line is that it is put up or shut up forever t)me!. SAU V P f f m l n i BECAUSE « IT'S FREE! BSU Assists in NNPS A iter school Program by Davtd Pirker The Baptist Student Union of Thomas Nelson Community College is currently working in the Newport News public schoof tutoring program. Students from Thomas Nelson, as well as Menchville and Ferguson High Schools are serving as tutors at Dunbar-Erwin Elementary School in downtown Newport News. The tutors work with second graders for an hour on Tuesday afternoons. According to Mike Haywood, who is on the staff at the Peninsula Baptist Association, the program has been successful for three main reasons. Haywood believes, "It helps the second graders improve their reading skills. It helps us as volunteers to know that we can work with somebody and be of help, and it's fun!" For more information about this program contact David Parker, BSU president at Thomas Nelson'. The BSU office is in Room *226 in Griffin Hall, , > |
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