VOLUME # 16 / ISSUE # 6FEBRUARY 16, 2018

EXCLUSIVE

The Brown Lady Issues Call for Submissions

NEWS,EVENTS,AND MORE

Peterson to Serve as Chowan's 23rd

President

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THISIN ACADEMIC AFFAIRS

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Communication Arts Students Earn

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The Brown Lady was first published in 2013.

Would you like to see your name in pr int? The Brown Lady, Chowan University's award-winning creative and academic magazine, wants to publish the best work of Chowan Students!

The editor ial board welcomes a wide var iety of creative and academic work: poems, shor t stor ies, shor t works of creative nonfiction, shor t plays, academic essays, ar t of all types, music (digital recordings), and even shor t films.

This is a fantastic oppor tunity to share your work with family, fr iends, and colleagues that also looks great on a resume (especially if you?re consider ing graduate school)!

To submit your work, please do the following:

1. Go to www.chowan.edu/BrownLady.2. Scroll to the bottom and click the ?Click Here to

Submit? button.3. Create your free login and enter your contact.

information (if you haven?t already done so in the past).

4. Submit your work in the appropr iate categor ies (poetry, fiction, academic essay, etc.)!

The deadline for submissions to appear in Volume 7 (2019) is Apr il 15, 2018.

All submissions will be reviewed by the editor ial board, a mixture of faculty, staff, and students who all work together to create this award-winning magazine.

THE BROWN LADY ISSUES CALL FOR 2019 SUBMISSIONS

KIRK PETERSON TO SERVE AS CHOWAN'S 23RD PRESIDENTChowan Universit y 's Board of Trust ees announced Thursday m orning t hat Dr . Kirk E. Pet erson has been appoint ed t o serve as t he school's t went y-t h ird President .

This w il l be Dr . Pet erson's second t enure at Chowan, having served in var ious posit ions f rom 2004-2010, including Associat e Provost . Dur ing his t im e at Chowan, he led t he SACSCOC reaf f irm at ion ef for t s, developed t he Universit y 's f ir st graduat e program , creat ed t he Perspect ives program , developed a use plan for t he renovat ed Reed Hall, and est ablished a new facult y m ent or program .

Pr ior t o com ing t o Chowan in 2004, Dr . Pet erson served as an Assist ant Professor at Gardner -Webb Universit y. He lef t Chowan in 2010 t o serve as Provost at Urbana Universit y and lat er as Urbana's t went y-second President .

Facul t yAccompl i shment s

Bo Dam e, Associat e Professor of Physical Sciences, present ed at a Sem inar in Coast al Issues at East Carolina Universit y on February 13. The sem inar was sponsored by t he Coast al Resource Managem ent Program .

Georgia Wil l iam s, Associat e Professor of Inform at ion Science, at t ended a m eet ing of t he NCICU Library Collaborat ive Grant St eer ing Com m it t ee at t he Universit y of Mount Olive on February 16.

Pam ela Woodard, Assist ant Professor of Cr im inal Just ice, at t ended t he 10t h Annual Conference on Higher Educat ion Pedagogy at Virgin ia Tech on February 14-16.

Rachel Phil l ips, Assist ant Professor of Psychology,

at t ended t he 10t h Annual Conference on Higher Educat ion Pedagogy at Virgin ia Tech on February 14-16.

Kevin Misenheim er , Assist ant Professor of Managem ent , at t ended t he 10t h Annual Conference on Higher Educat ion Pedagogy at Virgin ia Tech on February 14-16.

Will iam Met calfe, Acquisit ions Assist ant , at t ended a WMS Migrat ion m eet ing at Meredit h College on February 14.

Mit ch Kelly, Inst it ut ional Assessm ent Coordinat or , at t ended a Gat eway t o Com plet ion workshop in Raleigh on Tuesday, February 13.

Linda Hassel l , Associat e

Prof essor of Li brary

Science, at t ended a

WM S M igrat i on meet i ng

at M ered i t h Col lege.

The best novels I read in 2017:

#10 - Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin (translated by Megan McDowell)

#9 - Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was by Sjón (translated by Victor ia Cr ibb)

#8 - The Vegetarian by Han Kang (translated by Deborah Smith)

#7 - Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett

#6 - The Birds of Opulence by Crystal Wilkinson

#5 - Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson

I lifted my head to look up into the changing leaves, thinking how at some point, we were all headed home. At some point, all of this, everything and everyone, became memory.

Set in present day Brooklyn, the

story is told in the voice of August, who is home br iefly for her father 's funeral. Upon her return, she encounters an old fr iend, and this encounter takes August on a journey back to her childhood.

After the death of her mother, August and her father and brother moved to Brooklyn from Tennessee in the 1970s. There, she joins a tr io of gir ls to form a quar tet. These fr iends share " the weight of growing up gir l in Brooklyn," picking each other up when one fell.

As August struggles to come to terms with her mother 's past, she dreams of a better life, as do her fr iends: " Everywhere we looked, we saw the people trying to dream

themselves out. As though there was someplace other than this place." Eventually, all four fr iends are drawn apar t by their dreams and their family circumstances.

Jacqueline Woodson's prose is stunningly poetic:

When we had finally become friends, when the four of us trusted each other enough to let the world surrounding us into our words, we whispered secrets, pressed side by side by side or sitting cross-legged in our newly tight circle. We opened our mouths and let the stories that had burned nearly to ash in our bellies finally live outside of us.

This novel is a homecoming story and coming-of-age tale. I t is a novel of gir lhood and fr iendship. I t is a novel about color and class. I t is a novel that captures the adolescent yearning to become something and someone. I t is a novel of time and place. I t is a novel that is hear tbreaking and hopeful. More impor tant, it is a novel that lingers on the myster ious force of memory: " I know now that what is tragic isn't the moment. I t is the memory."

Another Brooklyn is a novel that lingers on the mysterious force of memory.

PONDERINGS OF THE PROVOST

Ten students in Chowan's Communicat ion Arts programs will receive awards in the collegiate compet it ion of the annual Print ing Industry of the Carolinas (PICA) Awards Banquet in March.

Best in Show: Moment Subscript ion Box by Shelby Barlowe, Gabby Wilson

Best of Category: Miscellaneous, Specialty or Novelty Entry Tit le: Moment Subscript ion Box Students: Shelby Barlowe, Gabby Wilson

Award of Excellence: Screen Print ing: 2 or More Spot Colors, Text i le Entry Tit le: 3 Shades of Me - Kay Student : Kayla Davis

Award of Excellence: Digital Print ing: Ink Jet Rigid Entry Tit le: Gym in a Box Subscript ion Box Students: Marquis Kee, Elion Ijames, Davonte Graves, Jordan Loud-Charles Best of Category & Special Judges Award: Digital Print ing: Toner Entry Tit le: Proverbs Poster Series Student : Evelyn Walker

Special Judges Award: Digital Print ing: Toner Entry Tit le: PGSF Poster Design Student : Melany Garcia-Lopez

Award of Excellence: Digital Print ing: Toner Entry Tit le: Bauhaus Tribute Poster Student : Samantha Reece

TRUTH IS NOT WHATEVER AN INDIVIDUAL CAN GET PEOPLE TO BELIEVE

- "There is cooling and there is a heat ing and I mean, look - i t used to not be climate change - i t used to be global warming. That wasn't working too well, because it was get t ing cold all over the place. The ice caps were going to melt , they were going to be gone by now, but now they're set t ing records, so okay, they're at a record level." What part of this statement do you unpack f irst?

- Yes, there is a good t ime to about gun violence. It 's now. We should have talked about it on October 1, 2017 and June 12, 2016 and Apri l 16, 2007 and December 14, 2012 and November 5, 2017 and December 2, 2015 and Apri l 3, 2009 and July 20, 2012 and October 1, 2015 . . . never m ind . . . we are not going to talk about it .

PART OF PICA'S MISSION IS TO PROTECT AND AND PROMOTE THE COMMON INTEREST OF THE PRINTING INDUSTRY AND TO HELP MEMBERS PROSPER THROUGH EDUCATION.

PICA AWARDS

MIDWINTER BREAK QUOTE"The family is raised - the work's done. That can't be it, can it?"

Bernard MacLaverty, Author of Midwinter Break

"A Long Way from Homei s Peter Carey's late style masterpiece; a thr illing high speed story that star ts in one way, then takes you to another place altogether. Set in the 1950s in the embers of the Br itish Empire, painting a picture of Queen and subject, black, white and those in-between, this br illiantly vivid novel illustrates how the possession of an ancient culture spirals through history - and the love made and hur t caused along the way."

THIS WEEK IN READING: THE BEST NEW NOVELSA LONG WAY FROM HOME BY PETER CAREY

" Aside from his trusty piano, Alfred Busi lives alone in his villa over looking the waves. On the night before receiving his town?s highest honor, Busi is wrested from bed by noises in his cour tyard and then stunned by an attacking intruder? his hands and neck are scratched, his face is bitten. Busi can?t say what it was that he encountered, exactly, but he feels his assailant was neither man nor animal. The attack sets off a chain of events that will cast as a shadow on Bus's career, imper il his home, and alter the fabr ic of his town."

THE MELODY BY JIM CRACE

Frances Cole: " Julia asked, 'what is a groundhog' and Ghassan said, 'we eat groundhogs in Yemen.'"

Scott Parker : " I thought Ghassan couldn't eat pork."

OVERHEARD

SundayFebruary 18

Benedict Arnold's name is synonymous with t reason. During the Revolut ionary War, he began the war in the Cont inental Army, but later defected to the Brit ish Army. A plaque commemorat ing his last residence is located in London's Marylebone neighborhood.

Aaron Burr, the third Vice President of the United States, was t ried for t reason in 1807. He was turned in by his co-conspirator, General James Wilkinson. He was acquit ted.

Thomas Dorr was convicted of t reason against a state, Rhode Island. He led an uprising against the governor of the state in 1842. He was pardoned in 1845.

On January 30, stone-faced Democrats refused to clap during the State of the Union Address, leading some to suggest their react ion was " t reasonous."

President's List and Dean's List Dinner, 6:00 p.m. (Thomas Dining Hall)

Hobson Course Begins, 6:00 p.m. (Vaughan Auditorium)

Honors College Visits Virginia Stage Company at Wells Theatre

Graduation Application Deadline

CU Visit DayOutstanding Student Award Ceremony, 11:00 a.m. (Turner Auditorium)

SOMETHING MORE

AARON BURR THOMAS DORR DEMOCRATS

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