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THE DECREE
FRIDAY. APRIL 9, 1965
SditOiiaU
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
Let’s Clean Ourselves Up
Recently it has come to our attention that certain
individuals in the women’s residence halls have been dis
playing some rather unladylike behavior in the parlors
which borders on being of a passionate nature. Couples
have actually stooped to to induling in certain affecionate
actions which as we all know, have certain overtones and
connotations of sexual immorality. It is indeed a shsUne
that individuals cannot force themselves to cast aside
such petty, public displays of passion and either devote
themselves to the more serious intellectual pursuits of
college life, or at least make an attempt to exercise their
banal behavior in one the more secluded spots on cam
pus, provided, of course, that the area is properly policed.
There are many members of this college community
who are genuinely concerned over the moral state of these
misdirected individuals who are doing all that is in their
power to rectify the situation before it grows out of pro-
portic n and someone becomes hurt by the more vulgar
aspects of reality. Remember the unofficial school motto:
‘‘We must shelter our students at all costs.” One enter
prising housemother has indeed become so shocked at
this pi^sent state of affairs that she has requested the
Dean of Students, a recognized authority on campus
morals, to come to the resident hall to lecture on this very
subject. How could we have allowed ourselves to be lured
and seduced to such depths by the material world? And
not. is this morally dangerous, it also leaves a dark brown
taste in the mouths of those innocents who have to witness
uncontrolled actions. What would a member of the Rocky
Mount community think, he or she be visiting the resi
dence hall at 12:00 midnight on Friday or Saturday night.
Indeed, what would they think should they ever happen
tc hear that such things go on out here! Students actually
kissing each other—what a gross insult to our scholastic,
intellectual goals! One faction of the fair city has already
branded our psychology department as a Communist
organization, therefore we simply can’t allow the con
ditions to exist which would even suggest any other re
grettable circumstances.
Let’s clesin our campus up! Let’s remove the few
remaining bushes, curtains, and trees on our campus
which 1 might even remotely be conducive to such go
ings-on. Let’s pass a rule in true Wesleyan* tradition
stating that any couple seen kissing on campus will re
ceive two warnings and then be suspended and three in
stances of holding hands will constitute one kiss, in order
to give our rule some flexibility. Let’s pass our own
speaker ban law stating that anyone who has used
vulgar language (such as “sex”, “female”, “male”,
“kiss”, “make-out”, will be immediately sentenced
to read the entire works of James Fenimore Cooper. Let’s
include in our orientation program a plan to induce
asexuality in the new students in order that in four years
we may be rid of this nuisance once and for all.
Yes, friends, it can be done. We have already taken
steps in the right direction, and with our firm foundation
and proper legislation based on our principles we shall
indeed overcome!
Grubs On Our Campus
I have noticed, at first with amusement and then with
annoyance, several editorial cartoons which have app>ear-
ed in the Rocky Mount newspaper fairly recently de
picting the apparent degeneration of good dress and
appearance in college students. This (I hope) was intend
ed to refer to college students on a national level, but
while it does this it also contains undesirable local over
tones. I would at this time like to point out to the car
toonist and staff several factors which should have been
considered before such material was printed.
In the first place, what makes them think that such
dress is entirely new to the American college scene and
do they justify the sloppy, rough-shoulder appearance
of how many citizens who are not in college? colleges have
always had their share of individuals who did not dress
in accepted conventional fashions (and here I could easily
launch into a discussion of “convention,” but I won’t)
and they always will. In the early 1950’s there were com
plaints of students who attended classes in T-shirts and
blue jeans and I shall refrain from even commenting on
racoon coats and the like. No, gentlemen, this problem is
not in any sense of the word new nor is any more in
tensified than it ever has been.
In the s^ond place, you are falling victim (perhaps
intentionally) to a method which is all too easy to make
use of for any sort of propaganda; that of making osten
sible the traits and habits of a group which represents,
at best, a slim minority of those individuals involved.
Your cartooiis do not depict the general state of affairs
of student appearence on this or any other campus and
I, among others, resent such an analogy being drawn in
the first place. It is not just and it is not good policy..
In closing I should like to challege you or any other
citizen of Rocky Mount to visit the NCWC campus (or
the ECC campus, or the UNC campus, or the Ehike cam
pus, or ACC, or Louisburg, or Penn State etc. etc.3 and
after doing so be able to say that they saw an unkept
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Poems By Troll
Loneliness — a state of being-
o r not-belng - but more im
portantly , of mind
Being in a room crowded with
people or«a subway—yet alone
No-one knows--but you and I,
So we laugh, in voices not
heard
Why?
Who can tell? but loneliness
itself.....
If it could talk.
fVZ WbtZTHAU -—- JU5T
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appearance m over 5% of the student body. If yop have
no faith in the principles, morals, and good judgment of
the future citizens of our country then I suggest that
after taking a good look at the more mature individuals
of our society, you begin a massive campus litter campaigli
to rectify the situation.
I Sit —
As if a stranger in a new
world sippint my beer
And watching
The young waitress—
With eyes like a soft breeze
Over a faraway ocean
The two in front--
Proving that spring is here
Spring?—Yes ,„but
Perhaps it will snow
What difference? slush, ice,
but beauty...
Beauty
is it?
Letters To The Editor I
The Editor
The Decree
North CafoTina Wesleyan College
Rocky Mount, N, C.
Dear Mr. Editor:
Thank you very much for your
editorial on the Dixie Intercol
legiate Basketball Tournament
held at North Carolina Wesleyan
College. I agree with the first
two paragraphs and hope that
in the future we will be able to
profit from past experience.
But I must take exception to
much of the remainder of the
editorial. In the first place, my
own personal opinion is that the
citizenry of Rocky Mount and
the surrounding area do care
about what goes on at the col
lege. They show this not only
through their annual support pro
gram, but also by the interest
exhibited through attendance at
the various activities sponsored
by the college.
Secondly, I should like to
answer some questions posed by
you to which your reply was
“...No- No, they did not!” “How
many merchants were contacted
to promote the tourney in town?’ ’
I do not know what you mean by
“contacted to promote.” butpos-
ters advertising the torunament
were posted through Rocky
Mount, pinetops. Red Oak, an^
even in Spring Hope. In addi
tion, two Rocky Mount establish
ments handled an advanced ti
cket sale. “How much did you
hear about the tourney on the
local radio or TV stations?”
All three local radio stations
were contacted and all made
announcements. Don Smith of
Channel 9 Greenville and Nick
Pond of Channel 5 Raleigh an
nounced the tournament the Wed
nesday evening prior to the
tournament, and Channel 9 gave
the nightly results. “Did any
one contact the Chamber of Com
merce, sent to each of the par-
merce, or the Merchants Asso
ciation?” I have in my office
a copy o f the letter Mr. Hugh
Sawyer, pres6ftt Executive Vice
President of the Chamber of
Commerce, sent to each of the
participating colleges welcoming
them to the community. In addi
tion, programs sold by the junior
class contained advertisements
purchased by various Rocky
Mount merchants.
Finally, we appreciate the
efforts of The Decree to cover
the sports- events all year. In
fact, the conference is most con
scious of publicity. Several of the
participating colleges had pub
licity people here who received
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Editor-in-Chief Ed Lewis
Assistant Editor Duffie Monroe
Sports Co-editors Steve Hall
Fritz Smith
Layout Editor Marilyn Spence
Photographers Tom Davis
Ray O’Kelly
BUSINESS STAFF
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Circulation Manager John Hendricks
Mailing Carolyn Moss
general staff
Claire Anderson Jolly Alligood
King Fun Ho Dodie Waters
Tom Inscoe Aileen Parker
Alyce Nixon Bob Kirkman
Doiig Windes Doug Groseclose
passes. The staff of The De
cree received two passes (one
photographer and one reporter)
and The Annual photographer
one pass. The local paper had a
reporter present, the Raleigh
paper was informed of the re
sults each night, and the results
were called in to the AP wire
service nightly. To repeat my
self, we are aware of free pub
licity.
Certain aspects of the tourna
ment were apathetic but a clari
fication of certain facts, again
in my opinion, reveals the apathy
to be more within our college
community than the surrounding
community.
Sincerely,
Raymond E. Bauer
1965 D.I.A.C. Tournament Dir
ector..
Dear Dr. Bauer,
I greatly appreciate your let
ter and applaud the fact that at
last someone has decided to chal
lenge me on some of my views.
Without criticism it is hard to
assess exactly where you stand;
'this can lead to undi^sirable con
sequences—and once to which I
myself have upon occasion, fallen
astray.
As to the body of your letter,
I must admit that I was a bit
hasty in some accusations in the
editorial. It was written in
passionate disgust at what no
one can claim was not a la-
raentable situation. Granted,
most of the apathy in this situa
tion does lie within the college
community ( a thing against which
I have fought all year, in vain),
and I think I devoted no less
than 1/3 of the editorial to the
students themselves. Another
1/3 was directed to public re
lations and publicity aspects of
the campus ( and in this area
I admit I must recant), and a
scant two lines to the citizens
of Rocky Mount, perhaps I was
justified in doing this and per
haps not . However’the fact
remains that very few Rocky
Mount citizens, showed up. I
fully realize that the school re-
cieves a generous annual sum
from the Rocky Mount area but
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