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a 2IJun919,1985ITechnicianlNawa News Students cite various reasons for withdraWal Ken Stallings News Writer Fourteen percent of fall 1983 freshmen discontinued studies at State. according to Brenda Rogers of the Office of Institutional i Research at State. photoby ma Wooiard The study further concluded that a larger proportion of 1983 freshmen blacks withdrew than did freshmen whites. Freshmen taste life Rogers said that the differences were not statistically significant. Each school in the university will host incoming freshmen this month. The traditional three-day Of those students who withdrew, black students’ academic orientation seminars provide the new students with a chance to sample university life firsthand. performances were significantly poorer than expected. Rogers said. During this time freshmen will be introduced to the various academic and social facets of . Of those students polled. 84 percent of blacks said that their University life. actual academic performance was lower than their expected performance. Only 58 percent of white students had lower actual performances. Rogers added that 95 percent of these black students felt that grades were very important in their college careers. According to Boulevard has long ‘ histOryi the poll these students placed great emphasis on their academics while at State. ' environments George Crockett On November 14, 1924 The built one of the first three These students added that their extracurricular generally positive. Staff Writer Raleigh Times reported that houses to occupy the 53005400 were surveying had begun for a blocks of Western Boulevard. The students said that they were generally disenchanted with Since its construction, the three-quarter mile western out- reports that the new two-lane the faculty. These students did not feel that the faculty wanted to area surrounding Western Boul- let from the city to relieve highway was being paved at develop a good working relationship with them. evard has seen some dramatic traffic on Hillsborough Street. that time. Rogers added, however. that the students felt that the faCulty . changes. Bob Woodward, who in 1927 (See Western, page 3) were interested in the students’ academic performances. Rogers could not give any reasons for these students' low performances. She said that no follow-up study was likely at present. The study also polled withdrawing students of all four academic ‘STUDENT classes. These students listed housing problems. large campus size, ' dissatisfaction with courses and the impersonality of the campus as reasons for their withdrawal. « SUPPLY . Students, in general, seem to agree that the faculty were too impersonal, the study concluded. Students tended to withdraw from the University because of academic factors instead of extracurricular factors. 308'“ will be closed _ STORE for inventory on these days: —June 26—r—June 27 une 28 l Picnic with Don Murray’s. WE WILL REOPEN MONDAY Feed a family of four special includes: 1 pound or barbeque. 1 pint of cole slaw, 1 pint. of JULY tst! potatoes. 1 whole chicken, ' and 1 dozen hushpuppies. Phone 832-9100 for take out. Book Buy-Back will REMAIN OPEN from 8-4 in the Stu- Don Murray’s Avent Ferry Road gent Supply Store Lobby. Mission Valley Shopping Center June 19. 1985/ Technician / Nm3 Professors produce award— winning series Jim Shell Walden concurred that by adding from one to one and Walden said that his method would probabaly not be News Writer one-half cent per ounce to the price of detergents incorporated into this state's policies because the containing phosphates his estimates show that present administration would tend to view the extra Dr. Michael Walden of the department of economics expanded waste treatment facilities for their clean—up price for phosphates as a tax. and the governor is and business, and S. Reese Edwards of the department could be financed. opposed to any tax increases. of agricultural communications. recently won a $2500 This system “allows people to a choice while the price second place Champion Tuck Award for a series of radio compensates for any possible side effects.” Walden said that instead of calling the price increase programs they produced last October. Walden pointed out that people use the products a tax he would characterize it more as a “user fee" since The Champion Tuck Award is given by the Amos because they are useful and that they may not be aware the revenue would be directly aimed at financing Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth of possible harmful side effects. The price increase for phosphate removal. College1n an effort to promote reporting thatimproves the product overall would be about 10 percent. and the The revenue collected would be used to finance new the public’s understanding of issues relating to business consumer could decide if the extra money was worth the plants to help remove phosphates from water supplies and economics. product's usefulness. as well as to expand existing plants. The award-winning programs focus on the use of Last year Walden took his findings before public phosphates in detergents as an economic issue. The hearings on the phosphate detergent question. The radio program is called “The Economic problem was how to pay for removing phosphates from Environmentalists generally favor a complete banning Perspective" and is sponsored by the Agricultural the water once they had been flushed into the of phosphates while representatives of the detergent Extension Service. environment. industry are anxious not to have the prices of their North Carolina has not yet banned the use of phosphate products raised. The five-minute show is aired weekly and can be phosphate detergents. although bills concerning this Walden admits that it’s a tough question because. heard locally on stations WPTF and WCPE. The topic have been proposed by state lawmakers in the “there is adebate even in the scientific community as to programs are heard on 150 stations in a surrounding past. how harmful phosphates are." five state area. Western development mirrors State’s history more permanent housing and (continued fi'om page 2) evard there are no buildings, Purchase of land for Vetville House of Sleep Furniture only fields. began the encroachment into the named the area McKimmon Store was in the 3900 block and which it was known “was a substantial business for From 1899 till 1970 there was black community of Method. Village. by “Western Boulevard was one which is one of the oldest until 1976 when McKimmon that location at that time," of the first four-lanes in this a Catholic orphanage on Extension Education Center was according to Nazareth Street. Price Street. communities in west Raleigh. Murray. area," State Archivist Maurice according to Murray. This move built and the Village was re- Marian Batey, a retired school . Toller said. which parallels the boulevard was presented a dilemma for the named King Village. principal who has lived at the east of Nazareth Street, It was in the 19508 that the According to Toller. parts of named for Father Price who landowners: whether to main- corner of Nazareth and Price for Western Boulevard remain un- tain their hemes and their pace of development began to 25 years, said that Mission developed founded the orphanage, accord- increase along Western Boule- Valley Shopping because a great deal ing to Elizabeth Murray. community or sell out for the big Center and of the land along the boulevard bucks offered. vard. Some of the first buildings Motel were built eight or 10 is owned by the state of North Murray'said that the site of built in the ’508 included the years ago. Until that time. the Carolina. the early country store in front In the early 1960s State State Veterinary School and main feature of that area had An aerial photograph proba- of Pullen Park was occupied by a replaced the quonset huts with House of Sleep Furniture Store. been a putt-putt golf course. bly made shortly after the succession of businesses be- construction of the western tween about 1943 and 1959, outlet shows only a solitary cow including Park Cemetery. Club barn along the east end. The Bonaird. Club Carlisle. WNAD TV and WKIX radio and Town photograph also shows the I E CREAM North Carolina Central Peniten- and Country Store at the tiary sited north of the present present location of the 7-11 store penitentiary. on Ashe Avenue. The Governor Morehead “I remember the Club Bonaire School for the Blind and State well; I used to go there with my were other state-owned pro- dates," Murray said. She also perties along the boulevard. said Park Cemetery was proba- SALE In 1927 “all that was on the bly an animal cemetery since highway was a country store on Pullen Park at one time had a the right side coming out in zoo. front of Pullen Park and State An early business along sheep barns on the side of the Western Boulevard was Raleigh 3-4 pm road just east of the new Potato Chip Company, estab- building (McKimmon Center) by lished in the 1930s at the corner Wendy’s." Bob Woodard said, of Western and present day lst Floor Student Center who adds, “the land across the Kirby Street. highway from Pullen Park was a In the late 19408 housing for cow pasture belonging to Smith State married students and Dairy.” their families was constructed A mid-1930s aerial photograph between Gorman and Method PER of State campus, Western Boul- streets on the north side of evard and land to the south Western. shows nothing south of the' “The housing consisted of ' 10¢ scoop railroad tracks except quonset huts. and since most of Thompson Gym and athletic the married students were fields and, where Reynolds Coli- WWII veterans.