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THE DECREE
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24^ 1964
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Cure Worse Than III
It was a late fall evening, that time of year when the
leaves turn scarlet and orange and fall with death-like
pallor to the receiving bosom of the earth. TTie athmos-
phere bore a slightly sinister touch. Two long, low, three
story buildings menancingly faced the almost deserted
street emitting an occasion ominous sneer. The police car
was pulled against the curb and its tensed occupant stood
behind it, staring over the steell-blue barrel of his 30-06
at the stranded semiquite sullenness of the cold, red
brick, brick. At length, the disruption was quitited, p>eace
was restored and the car crusied off to some ofther des
tination.
Harlem? R prison riot? Desperiate crimals being
appreheneded in a desolte section of some large city?
No—Wesley an College; men’s residence halls and their
student o ccupants, Riot? Uprising? Cross burning?
Pantie raid? No—just a few fellows letting off a little
steam, and not much at that. Whay the arsenal? No one
knows.
This situation actually took place last week on Tyler
Drive, between South and Eldgecombe Halls. In the past,
a word from the proper authority along with a warning
were all the ingredients needed to restore order. But
now, apparently, things have changed. Two students
have become so monstrous and uncontrollble that a high
powered rifle (a very dangerous and lethal weathepon in
the hend ofa nor an exp>ert( must b edisplayed to restore
and control. We, how our champus has changed! We’re
being placed in the catageorl larddened criminials and
are to be death with a crime.
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Letters To Editor
DEAR FACULTY:
Students are generally in alarm
over mid-semester averages
which they have received. In
most cases it does not pertain
to one grade, but to all grades
received. The Faculty from out
ward appearances seem to be
united in trying to scare the
student^ body into action.
There is no doubt that there
exists a lazy attitude amongst
the Wesleyan student body as a
whole. The question is what steps
should be taken to bring about
increased enthusiasm. Has the
faculty accomplished this by unit
ing in trying to scare the stu
dents into work? I don’t feel
that the Faculty’s action has
accomplished anything more than
scaring the students for a short
period of time.
Students in many classes are
graded for the total semester on
one, two, or three tests. No in
centive for day to day work in
such cases. The student simply
occupies a seat in class, crams
for the big test, and hopes he
has amassed enough facts in two
nights to show he knows a whole
semester’s work.
When the faculty works harder
by giving pop quizzes and an
nounced quizzes, there is more
incentive, more class participa
tion, and much more learned.
In such cases the student is
driven to keep up with his fellow
students during each class where
in the other case many feel they
can catch up the night before the
exam. This also bears out the
difference between objective and
subjected grading on the part pf
the faculty. I feel that all facul
ty members want to be objective
in their final analysis of a stu
dent’s work. Yet, how can they
if the semester’s average is de
termined by two test.
We students that give a damn
feel the same way you do re
garding the lazy attitudes on our
campus. We hope you will honor
these suggestions In this regard
and work with us to promote
academic interest and interest
in the school.
Name Witheld by Request
DEAR FRESHMAN:
This will be in answer to your
letter regarding the recent burn
ing of the yearbooks. We “im
mature” upperclassmen had a
definite purpose in our actions
when we burned our yearbooks.
I speak for many upperclassmen
when I say that I want a much
improved annual when I graduate
from Wesleyan, and you as a
Freshman should also want
something of higher quality. I
have read many college and
high school annuals and the Dis
senter is by far the worst I
have seen. If, as you stated,
the Dissenter represents Wes-
Leyan, then we have some of
the worst representation avail
able. You ask me why I burned
my annual; because I want better
representation in future issues
of the Dissenter, and I want
something, a good yearbook in
this case, that I can look at
with pride years after I have
graduated from Wesleyan.
David W. James, ’65
Famous Fables
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Great
Silver
Floor
BY; Doug Groseclose
Once, long ago, a town decided
to build a great and beautiful
hall costing almost as much as
the rest of the whole town. The
hall was build so that the towns
“great” athletes could exhibit
their skills to the towns-people.
Now, the floor of this hall was
made of pure silver, and since
this was many years ago, it
only cost $7,450. But , it cost
about $2000 each year to polish
the great floor, so all the ath
letes were required to wear
a special type of rubber-soled
shoe to prevent tarnishing.
On night a group of roving
gypsies set up camp by the great
hall and preceeded to put on a
play inside. Well, of course their
boots and hardsoled shoes scuf
fed and tarnished the floor, not
to mention the huge scratch they
left there. They placed tables,
and chairs, and metal wrenches
on the floor, and also disturbed
the athletes’ practices. This
caused a great animosity to
rise between the gypsy leader,
Davidus Batchelli, and the head
athlete, Donato Scalfus.
The townspeople tried to stop
further occurrences of this type
by petitioning their King to hold
the town meetings only In the
permanent grandstands. They
likewise, petitioned the Pope to
let them hold their worship in
this same area since the church
was to small. The Pope, of
course, said this was sacrile
gious and the King ^ not wishing
to risk excommunication,' told
the townspeople they would have
to meet and worship on the great
silver floor.
And so, the great and beauti
ful silver floor was stepped on,
scuffed up, kicked, scratched, and
tarnished into oblivion.
THE END
The
Mousetrap
Revisited
BY: Lynda Johnson
It Is astounding that a school
the size of Wesleyan would have
such a well-qualified group of
actors and actresses. In pre
vious years there have been a few
outstanding personalities in Wes
leyan theater, but never before
has there been such an aggre
gation of acting talent in a single
production. This play had more
of a professional air than any
others I’ve seen on campus.
I cannot have but the greatest
praise for Pat Brown’s interpre
tation of the lead role of Mollie
Ralston, Each action seemed to
be in character - a glance, a
scream, a single word—all were
mastered and fitted Into the con
test of the play.
Donald Pare was totally delight
ful as Christopher Wren, although
the part might have been a trifle
overplayed. Even If It was, the
part added much interest and
humor to a production which
might otherwise have been un
bearable dull,
I do not know what the ob
ject is in putting on a play here
at Wesleyan, If the object is en
tertainment, I believe the choice
of plays must become more sel
ective and discriminating, I en
joyed the production because of
the excellent treatment of the
subject material, but I feel that
the acting was much better than
that to which the play was en
titled, The plot was too “Cliche”,
thecholceof djaracters was un
believable, _ and tH% dialogue, in
Instances, was corny and flat, I
feel that Wesleyan has the ac
tors and acffesses” to put on a
first rate entertaining produc
tion and should not have to be
restricted by a bad plot and bad
writing.
Congratulations, cast and crew.