The Register, 1985-02-22

              now it is spring semester 1985 and his job ending is shortcoming we the students have asked ourselves mary times what would the ag ed department be like witl out him we can see the department slowly sinking our heat in the sand without his inspiration for the students ih.;r we wondered what the school of agriculture would be like without the department of agricultural education does it mean that n.c state will be the only universi ty in the state of n.c to have a four-year ag ed program offered the students also viewed how the loss of the ag ed would affect other depart ments of the school of agriculture that included home economics food ser vice animal science plant science landscape architec ture ag engineering and ag economics which is virtually the whole school of agriculture most important what would become of this university's title without the woids agricultural without the word agricultural we are not ag gies we are no more than a large technical community col lege concerned aged students moved from his office and position of associate pro fessor of agricultural educa tion to an adjunct professor and still had the same number of classes to instruct more in fact a downgrade to say the least but we were glad to have him back upon our return in the fall semester 1984 we were disap pointed to find dr purcelps office cleared of all of his books magazines and papers and on the desk and a sign of another instructor later we found out that dr purcell was in fact still on staff in the department but his office was across the hall from the main although dr purcell seem ed to have all these obviouo stumbling blocks and deficien cies in his path he succeeded in winning the hearts and respect of all who know him in an at tempt to help him climb this jagged mountain last spring we tried to talk to the head of this great institution to see if any light could be shed on the situation the light was in deed shed in fact the power was cut off our aggie spirits were dampened as we thought the situation was becoming hopeless toward the dust of the semester all we could do was to hope and pray fice dr purcell had been lucky jr a senior from plainsfield n.j donna baldwin e senior from greensboro robin stamps doby a junior from lyn chburg va letha young a senior from franklinton charlz henry a freshman greenville and daniel wynne jr a senior from williamsburg va other cast members are cindy garren a graduate student at unc-g and david hargraves eric gorman and trischia war rock theatre students at greensboro college this fast paced powerful touching and hilarious kaleidoscope of constantly shifting scenes moods and im for reservations or tickets call the paul robeson theatre at 379-7852 from 9 a.m to 5 p.m daily ages recreating the world of a great american woman and artist is being directed by dr h.d flowers ii executive director of theatre r paul thomason is the technical director d.e coffey is costumer linda s west is designing the lights from greensboro valeria welch a freshman from daytona beach fla mary holloway a freshman from new edition to greensboro is coming in march e wendover & lindsay street big deluxe regular fries & apple turnover 2.09 just show student i.d offer only good at hardee's on east wendover ave across from southern bell no coupon imceuary any purchase special good after 3 p.m and all day saturday & sunday free medium soft drink with fat boys album fat boys and whodini's escape currently rank among the 10 best-selling black music albums **★*★★★* new edition whose new edition album ranks number two on billboard magazine's top black albums chart and whose mr telephone man is number one on the singles chart will appear in concert on sunday mar 3 at 5 p.m in the greensboro coliseum appearing with new edi tion will be two additional groups whodini and the fat boys new edition consists of five young performers ricky bell 16 years old michael bivins 16 years old bobby brown " 15 years old ronnie de voe 16 years old and ralph tres vant 16 years old the groups burst onto the music scene a year and a half ago with the single candy girl which topped charts in five countries including the united states tickets for the concert are 10 and are on sale at the coliseum box office and all ticketron outlets all seats are reserved candy girl led to four more major hits concerts numerous magazine cover stories and television ap pearances the group has also actively supported three public service projects a nationwide stay in school drive learn to read campaigns and the march of dimes walk america as the new york city spokesgroup friday february 22 1985 the a8j register page 7 aged students question instructor's release editor of the register cont from page 3 hardeeir robeson county he began teaching in the agricultural education department fall semester 1977 how can one conduct research of any kind when one's efforts are slantered for trying to accomplish the things that will enchance and facilitate to the betterment of the students department the school and the university research when the majority of one's time is consumed in teaching 90 percent of the classes and courses offered in the department each semester in 1984 dr purcell was chosen for the young alum nus award from the national alumni association 1983 he was the recipient of a&t's national alumni association recruitment award and outstanding leadership award in 1983 he also received the a&t student organization advisors award and national vocational agricultural teachers association award he receiv ed from the ag-ed associa tion for outstanding devotion to services an award in 1985 when dr clark was in danger of losing his position in the architectural engineering department last spring his loyal students took the case in hand these dedicated a&t students wrote articles and picketed in front of the dowdy building those students stuck together and stood firmly on the issues they felt were right they did not want one of their better instructors in their department dismissed well it seems as if the students of the agricultural education department will have to perform a similar act to preserve the teaching pro fession and position of dr ar thur purcell dr purcell received his bachelor's degree in agricultural education from a&t in 1968 his master's in agricultural education from a&t in 1972 advanced certificate in 1974 from university of illinois urbana-champaign and docorate from the same university he is a native of on the dawn of last spring semester many students in agriculture were shocked as well as appalled by the news that dr purcell would not be here when they returned in the fall many wanted to know why a man of dr piircell's character willingness and ability to communicate and get hansberry's life story the point across to the students was being released they wanted to know why a man who as president of the gate city alumni chapter at a&t helped to raise 22,000 last year which undoubtedly helped in decreasing the large university debt was leaving after further investigation of this matter by concerned students a reasonable conclu sion of the matter at hand had been derived it was apparent that dr purcell was about to be released of his position due to the ending of his contract all that was needed to remedy the problem was for the chair man of the agricultural education department to re quest the dean of the school of agriculture to reinstate or give dr purcell another con tract however instead the real task seemed to be eluded and a nonsubstantial and im material justification was given the reason seemed im aginary in a sense dr purcell supposedly did not conduct any research now we ask you how can one conduct