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Page 2 THE WESLEYAN DECREE Tuesday, May 19, 1964 Editorials To The New Editor Again the time has come for the Decree’s Editor to render his pen to the new Editor. It seems impossible that this year and 15 issues of the Decree are now past and not future. We have shared joy at being able to “break” news and disgust at having to write a paper at the last minute. Yet, looking back, it has been a con structive year for all. As was done last year, and will be done in all future years we hope, we reprmt those words left by Miss Wan da Exum, Editor of the Decree, 1961- 62, to her successor. We feel that she has said in a way that no one can sur pass, our own feelings. “It’s an honor to be the executive editor, a position of pride that you will feel. However, soon the criticism will come because you will be expect ed to be above reproach, incapable of making mistakes, while all the time you are only human — no different from any other student. You will be faced with controversial issues—what to do? If you take a stand you will be labeled as preju diced or even termed a radical. If you don’t, you will be called a coward, afraid of public opinion. You might even get to the place you are afraid to trust your own opinion. You will begin to look on your edi torial privileges with mixed emotions. Just when you have patted yourself on the back for writing a good editor ial, the sting of unexpected reprimand penetrates. Foresight comes slow and hai'd and the lack of it is no small thing. You can drop a bomb shell and not even realize it. ‘Why was that one small word, revenge, in the story?’ You know now that it should not have been printed, but it’s too late to change. You can’t explain it away, and ‘I’m sorry’ just doesn’t seem appropriate. Even though you are called down by your fellow students and adminis tration you must not lose faith. Never resort to the position that all criticism is petty, malicious and of no conse quence. You are in a predicament commonly refered to as ‘learning the hard way.’ There will always be the pressure of the next deadline and along with it the realization that you have got to get the paper out on time. Stories have to be written. It doesn’t matter that little has happened in the last two-week period that is not stale news and you are piled high with one-line announcements. It doesn’t matter that the sports program is still in its first phase and the game you were depend ing on was cancelled. It doesn’t mat ter that there are no social fraternities and sororieties to depend on and that the social commission hasn’t sponsored a dance or anything. Stories have to be written and a deadline met. Yours is the final responsibility. When a reporter comes to you with ‘I can’t’ you will have to. No tangible rewards, it is a part of your position. However, knowing all this, you wouldn’t trade places with anyone else on campus, because you are doing something that no other student can do quite in the same way. You are Editor of the Wesleyan Decree.” LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS The Pseudo Adult World “Eighteen million American teen agers growing older in a world they didn’t make—a world overpopulated and underfed, ovei-organized and yet disorganized, impersonal and self-in dulgent, machine-tooled, purposeless, yet filled with unrealized possibility and in danger. If coming to an apo- calypic end—have settled a new world of their own. They have established a colony Out There in Teen-Land, a kind of pseudo-adult world. It is not a young world, if youth means daring and imagination, idealism and individualism, skepticism and icono- clasm . . . They feel and are made to feel that they are a race apart, a minority in an alien land. Thus, they cling with fierce pride to a private set of folkways that seem (mysterious and confounding in the extreme to outsiders. These folkways create pressures to conform and in hibit the individual as insistently as those in the adult world, but they give the teenager an illusion of choice. Paralleling that adult work, Teen- Land is built on security and its great est concern is for safety. The cost of safety is uniqueness of personality and the measure of it is membership in the herd.” This was written by Thomas B. Mor gan of Esquire Magazine. It seems to be so very appi'opriate at the end of school year, especially since some of us will be leaving this “pseudoadult” world and entering into the immaculate structures of the reality and illusory adult world. Who cares to be a pseu- domorph? Who cares if our immatur ity and disparity has us by a ring in our noses? Who cares if our action are disparaging? Who cares if we have strayed from the herd? We don’t. We intoxicate ourselves with this idea at any rate. We completely repress the idea of “growing up.” It’s a real pain to face reality. We would much rather destroy ourselves, and even more ex citing . . . each other. Why study? It’s much easier to get drunk. Why bother recalling the good in people? It’s more in vague if we dispense with that. It takes a real effort to be a man—^but who has the energy? It takes a human being to praise the good he sees—if he could only open his eyes that wide. What does it take to make us sick of ourselves? —L.W. UfBlpgan ifrm Official Student Newspaper of North Carolina Wesleyan College. Printed bi-weckly In Nashville, N. C. Circulation: 2,275 SI MEMBER editor—winni stine assistant editor—libby wallace business manager—vann massey assistant business manager—bruce sharer general circulation manager—jerry stockdale campus circulation manager—ray robinson coliunnists—ray o’kelly dodle waters sports—david reeves bookkeeper—ann overman staff writer—romiie arrington ARC Jobs Now Being Considered All students interested in ap plying for a position as assist ant Resident Couniselor are re minded to pick up application forms in the Director of Stu dent Life’s office. Requirements for this posi tion include -a 2.10 overall average and at least sopho more status. Both male and female stu dents are eligible. 1 tio '' PfokL THEM CAEP5 FA6-T6I?^ GUNTH£I? — I c^OT A RNAL eXAM TD TAK? IK A F^W M|NUT^5. V Outpost National Conventions By RAY O’KELLY Tlieodore White in his book The Making of a President: 1960 paid little attention to tlie actual happenings which took place on the floor of the con ventions. In respect to import ance White was just in doing so. The floor convention is one big pre-planned circus. It may appear to the viewing audi ence that delegates are influ enced by the campaign demon strators who march through the aisles shouting and waving handsomely printed signs. T.V. audiences miay also be disillusioned to think that they are witnessing spur-wf-the- moment decisions on the part of tiie campaign delegates, but in reality the delegates decide which way they will vote long before the roll call. Delegates are obligated to vote according to their state’s primary result if they hail from a state that has a pri mary. This does not tie their obligation to their state’s can didate if a second and third baUot should arise. When a candidate can’t get a majority of the votes on the first ballot, which is very dif- fucult for any candidate to do, then the isecond ballot which is a run-off may prove havoc even to a presidential hopeful who has accumulated numer ous primary votes. State dele gates often change candidates after the first ballot. Such was the fear that John Kennedy faced in the 1960 Democratic Convention. It is interesting to note that tlie most popular presidential hopeful is not openly entering any primary; he can com fortably watch the fireworks from his White House office. Although the Democratic Presi dential candidate is quite evi dent, there is still going to be an interesting floor fight be tween Wallace and Johnson supporters. The Republican convention is going to be wild! From the latest G.O.P. reports the coun ty precinct leaders choo>se Goldwater, the state Republi can leaders choose Nixon and Lodge, and in the non-partisan poles the up and coming fig ure is Scranton. The two party figureheads, Harry and Ike, will attend the conventions. They will probably speak only on the party plat forms. In 1960 Harry had to eat his words after his presi dential choice was not chosen. Ike wUl probably try to avoid the same difficulty; Ike will te non-partisan. Tiie posters are being print ed. Cordial letters are being sent from “hopefuls” to all of tlie state party leaders. Mach ines are organizing for their big literature and gab cam paigns. Reservations for the convention seats are being made. Plans for television operations are being arranged to give the viewing audience the best efficient ishow possi ble. The wheels are tunning, tlie cogs are meshing, and the two party giants are planning tlie big-show details. The days are fleeting, the heart beat pat terns of presidential hopefuls are just a bit irregular . . . the U. S. waits to isee what might possibly be turning points in history. Miss Bowman To Teach In French Dept. Miss Carolyn J. Bowman wUl become an Assisant Professor of French at North Carolina Wesleyan College according to a recent announcement by Col lege Officials. A native of Hickory, N. C., Miss Bowman earned the B.A. degree at Lenoir Rhyne Col lege, and the M.A. degree at Duke University. She has done graduate study at the Univer sity of North Carolina and the Institute d’Etudes, Avignon, France. She is a Cum Laude gradu ate, a member of Mu Sigma Epsilon Honorary Scholastic so ciety, and a winner of the Frencli Essay Award, Services du ConseUler Cultural, in 1957. She is a member of the Mod ern Language Association, and the American Association of (Continued on page 5)
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