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VOL. 3, NO. 11
ROCKY MOUNT, N. C., MARCH 13, 1963
bi-weekly—$2.00 YEARLY
March Chapels
To Deal With
Race Relations
The Chapel messages at
Wesleyan for the month of
March will address them
selves to the Uieme, “A Chris
tian Approach to Race Rela
tions.”
This series of speeches has
been planned by the Chapel.
Committee in response to stu
dent requests made to the In-
terfaith Committee through a
student poll.
On Thursday, March 7, Dr.
W. W. Finlater, pastor of Pul
len Memorial Baptist Church,
Raleigh, North Carolina, gave
a forceful talk advocating
church efforts to promote in
tegration. He is in great de
mand as a college speaker
and is an advocate of a liberal
approach to social conscious
ness on the part of young
churchmen.
On Thursday, March 14, the
program will be presented
by Rev. Ralph Fleming, min
ister of Westover Methodist
Church, Raleigh. Mr. Flem
ing is strongly interested in
the area of Christian social
conscience, and he is vice-
president of the North Caro
lina Annual Conference Me
thodist Commission on Chris
tian Social Concerns.
On Thursday, March 21, Dr.
Willard Gatewood, professor
of History at Wesleyan, will
present the historical situa
tion, relating it to social
change and the church through
the past decades.
Rev. Charles Hubbard, mm-
ister of the First Methodist
Church in Wilson, will speak
on Thursday, March 28. He
was minister at University
Methodist Church in Chapel
HUl for the past nine years
where he worked closely with
student groups on campus.
He was guest minister at
Wesleyan in April, 1961. He
is currently the President of
the Conference Commission
on Christian Social Concerns.
After hearing these dis
tinguished ispeakers, this live
ly topic will be discussed by
'Student groups on campus.
Student recommendations for
themes for a month next fall
and spring semesters should
be given to Chairman Frances
McGee of the Interfaith Com
mission, or any member of
the commission.
For Research Project
Gatewood Receives Grant
DR. WILLARD B. GATEWOOD
The Harry S. Truman Li
brary Institute for National
and International Affairs has
announced that Dr. WiUard
B. Gatewood, Chairman of
tlie Division of Social Sciences
and Associate Professor of
History at Wesleyan, is the
recipient of a Research Grant
to istudy affairs of the Tru
man Administration.
Dr. Gatewioiod plans to use
the grant to carry out initial
research in the Harry S. Tru
man Library in Independence,
Missouri, from July 25 to
Admissions Releases
Financial Aid Data
In this school year of 1962-63,
163 students (51.1 per cent of
the student body) are receiv
ing financial aid in the form
of scholarships, loans, and
and work assignments, com
pared with 87 students (43.6
per cent of the student body)
who obtained similar aid in
1961-62, when college-adminis
tered loans were not available.
Ten Wesleyan Awards in tlie
amounts of $1800 each for four
years will be granted to rising
freshmen in 1963 on the basis
of competitive examinations
given on January 12th, Feb
ruary 9th, and on March 2nd,
I6th, and 23rd. '(Please pardon
the error on page 4, col. 2,
of the February 27th Decree.
The article should have stated
that the coming examinations
are open only to prospec
tive students.) Five Wesleyan
Awards worth $900 each for
two years are open to grad
uates of junior colleges. In
addition, 25 to 30 other schol
arships and awards of from
$100 to $500 annually are
available.
The state maintains a schol
arship loan fund for prospec
tive teachers, and many banks
have tuition loan plans. Under
the National Defense Student
Loan Program, a student may
borrow up to $5,000 during
his college career.
Qualified students with spe
cial abilities may be employ
ed as student help in academic
departments — math, English,
lab assistants, etc. — or in
clerical jobs, according to the
need's of the college. Many
students earn from 200 to 300
dollars annually in the cafe
teria, snack bar, and library.
Students also fill positions
at the switchboard, power
plant, athletic field, mainte
nance department, and as bus
drivers.
Those carrying a full aca
demic load may work a maxi
mum of 20 hours per week.
Freshmen should not attempt
work unless absolutely neces
sary.
Prospective and enrolled
students seeking aid should
contact the Financial Aid
Committee and fill out an
application. No qualified stu
dent should be denied the
opportunity to attend college
because of lack of funds, so
the committee wiU do every
thing possible to help deserv
ing students work out satis
factory solutions to their fi
nancial problems. Recipients
are expected to maintain high
academic and social stand
ards — students attending on
scholarships must keep a C
average. All awards are sub
ject to annual review.
It is estimated that in 1963-
64, 210 students, or 46.7 per
cent of the student body, will
receive financial aid.
Testing Service Included
College Adopts Guidance Program
Wesleyan has Initiated and
will expand a well rounded
guidance program in order
to aid each pupil in examin
ing, evaluating, and choosing
realistic personal goals and
to facilitate the adjustment
of the College to the student
and the adjustment of the stu
dent to the College and to life.
The Guidance Program in
cludes the following services:
Orientation: AU new stu
dents participate in various
classes and activities design
ed to acquaint them with
their new environment and en
able them to make a smooth
transition from high school to
college.
Testing Service: A battery
of aptitude and achievement
tests is administered to all
new students in order to pro
perly place them in their claiss-
es and to identify those in
need of remedial studies. Ad
ditional measures of interest,
attitudes, personality, and in
telligence are available for
administration upon request
from the student, or members
of the faculty and staff.
Counseling Service: In addi
tion to the faculty advisors,
trained counselors are avail
able to help students with
their educational, vocational,
and personal problems.
Vocational, Occupational and
Educational Information Ser
vice: A Library of occupa
tional, vocational and educa
tional information is being
accumulated. Current infor
mation is available for study
by the students to aid them
in making informed vocation
al choices.
Placement Service: The Col
lege will make every effort
to place their graduates by
providing information regard
ing employment opportunities,
arranging interviews with pro
spective employers, and by
furnishing the necessary rec-
ordis and recommendations re
quired.
Ron Sherron, Director of
Admissions, notes that the
first three areas of the new
Guidance Program are now
in use. The Information Ser
vice will begin with the first
graduating claiss in 1964.
August 31, 1963.
The grant program is ad
ministered by the Truman Li
brary Institute and is made
possible by contributions from
the Rockefeller Foundation.
Each year the Institute selects
outstanding research scholars
from all parts of North Ameri
ca and invites them to utilize
the research facilities at the
Truman Library in Independ
ence. Selection is made in con
sideration of scholarly achieve
ment in individual fields of
study.
The library houses all the
papers of former President
Truman and many documents,
letters, and official corre
spondence of top officials in
the Truman Administration.
Mr. Truman maintains his
offices in the library building,
and he takes a personal in
terest in aU research that is
being done.
Dr. Gatewood feels that
“one of the fascinating things
about the project is the oppor
tunity to talk at length with
Mr. Truman, to use his papers,
and at the same time to ar
rive at any historical conclu
sions that the research war
rants.”
Dr. Gatewood will be work
ing on the general topic, “The
Fair Deal and Social Issues.”
He plans to explore the Tru
man Administration’s efforts
in the fields of federal aid to
education, civil rights, and
health insurance. He hopes
to have time to investigate
President Truman’s social phi
losophy and determine the ex
tent to which the Fair Deal
was a continuation of the New
Deal in tlie handling of social
issues. The research done this
summer will be the foundation
of a future publication ex
ploring all facets of Truman’s
socio-economic program.
Dr. Gatewood has been at
Wesleyan since 1960. Prior to
this he taught at Ea'st Caro
lina College in Greenville and
at East Tennessee State Col
lege in Johnson City, Ten
nessee. He graduated Phi
Beta Kappa from Duke Uni
versity in 1953, and he re
ceived his M.A. and Ph.D.
degrees from Duke in 1954
and 1957 respectively.
Dr. Gatewood has written one
book, Eugene Clyde Brooks:
Educator and Public Servant
(Duke Press, 1960), and he
has contributed to the North
Cai'olina Historical Review and
to The Georgia Review. He
is currently engaged in re
search work for another book,
which he hopes to have com
pleted by June or July, 1963.
Students Give Views
On Drinking Issue
By BILL HARTLEY
It is a well known fact that
drinking has become a major
pastime in American life. A
division in American society
between drinkers and non
drinkers can easily be seen.
There are those who drink
and remain in control of their
senses afterward and those
who go under the clasisifica-
tion of potential drunks.
Some students seem to think
that Wesleyan is the cause of
some of the latter, i.e., drunks.
In a recent dormitory sur
vey 137 students (both male
and female) were asked to
give their thoughts on the sit
uation at Wesleyain in view of
the present college attitude
toward drinking. One third of
the students felt that:
(1) If the Wesleyan College
community took a more liberal
attitude toward drinking on
campus by allowing drinking
at certain times and places
on campus, the problem of
students drinking without com
mon sense would be eliminat
ed to some degree.
(2) The puritanical attitude
toward drinking at Wesleyan
encourages bad drinking habits
among those students who
drink.
(3) The places that the Wes
leyan students have to go to
drink off campus encourage
bad drinking habits.
To get an indication of the
students who would like to
lift the drinking ban at Wes
leyan completely, the ques
tion, “Do you think the drink
ing ban at Wesleyan should
be lifted and Wesleyan allow
drinking on campus?” was
asked. Only seven per cent
of the students contacted
answered this question in the
r.ffirmative. Because this ques
tion was aimed at the student
who is more quick to act than
to think, it was asked in this
point blank manner. Since the
percentage that answered this
question “yes” was very low,
the college community should
take seriously the thoughts
of the 30 per cent that feel
the present attitude of Wes
leyan College on drinking are
not ideal.
It appears these 30 per cent
have shown that they don’t
have a “let’s drink and the
devil have the hind most”
attitude. This fact shows that
their thoughts merit consider
ation.
If a community is concern
ed with the effects of its rules
on all students and not juist
a part of the community, the
community members should
question the merit of even
a traditional view.
To face reality, students
who wish to drink are going
to drink regardless of the
ideological standpoint of the
community. In essence, it is
their right to drink if they
feel so moved as long as they
don’t threaten the ideas of
social order of the community
in which they live. At Wesley
an, students who drink have
certainly respected the views
of the Wesleyan community.
However, this point of view
only places the social ideals
of the community in a posi
tion of importance.
Isn’t there another angle
from which to look at this
question? If the social views
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