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MAY 25, 1965 THE DECREE PAGE #3 Letters To The Editor Gorgey To Join Faculty the boys out for baseball given their all this year, it seems a shame that their efforts should have been in vain. This college has one of the most beautiful and well-kept ball diamonds in the state, but almost nobody to play on it, and never more than 20 at a game to see it used. Once again the favor ite descriptive word for the stu dent body here rears its ugly head. APATHY. How is it that a college with a growing student body, which includes quite a few good athletes, is unable to field a basketball team that has more than the barest required number of players? Sure, only nine guys can play at one time, but a few • substitutes never hurt anybody. As it now stands, the Bishops have disbanded for the rest of this season, and it is doubtful if we will have another season for quite a while. Nobody likes to play on a losing team. True, but this year’s team did not have to be a loser. There was a nucleus of good ballplayers on the squad, and twice their number sitting the season out. Some of these people were prevented from play ing because of academic stand ing. Hogwash and phooey! I have ; found that a person participating on a team will do all that he can to keep up his grades so that he can continue playing. The time spent practicing and .playing the game is not used by others to study, why so should it be so for those wish to play. If these people want to play on a team, then they should be al lowed to. Shape up, administration! If you are going to field a team and schedule schools who back their athletics to the fullest, then give your own teams some support. We’d like to have a winning season too. FWS LETTER TO THE EDITOR cords these observations may be some what incomplete. It is nevertheless my intention to br ing out some aspects of this con troversy ( If I may) that have not been aired. In fact, there was at least one student who entered under the 1962-63 bulletin who graduated last year without having to pass the sophomore Proficiency ex amination s. These exams are binding uoon others graduating this semester under that same bulletin. Without further .pressing this pointj Let me ask a few ques tions. Why are these tests ad ministered? Are they college abi lity tests? Are they aptitude tests? I think not. Spelling is an ability that if not mastered in early years will always be a problem to the individual. I have never known an individual who increased his spelling ability while in college. My own ex perience has been a decrease due to preoccupation with scho lastic matters. If this supposition that spelling is an early learned trait is wrong,I stand correct ed. Would it (hen be too much of a disgrace to put a non credit course in the new cata log for spelling? (Phonetic Der ivations #31 would fit the stere otype nicely) I see no reason why a memorization of 690 words ( you can miss 10) is a criteria for a degree... It seems a “game”. ( One faculty member was heard to call it just this). Now consider the more sane of these “hurdles.” Is a spon taneous composition of time con fined proportions a valid test of one’s rhetorical ability? Agreed, it shows one’s self-dis- cipline. Yet one can hardly at tain levels of sophomore stand ing without having experienced the disciplined examination that some professors relish. A timed composition is not an indication of one’s aptness at expressing himself on paper. It is very Award and did not pass the com- Dr, Lasflg Gorgey will be ^is coming, Wesleyan will poTition'h^ro7th7proficL”ncy an Assistant Professor of expand the offerings in Political Test. At least two people re- Political science at North Caro- gcience and International Rela- ceived B’s in Freshman Com- lina Wesleyan College in Sep- position and did not pass the tember, according to announce- written portion. At least one ment from President Thomas A. person received an F in Fresh- Collins. man composition and passed both Gorgey, a native of Budapest, portions. This person was not Hungary, was graduated with required to pass these tests, honors from the Royal Hungarian Let me further opinionate Military Academy. He earned this letter by stating that per- the Master of Arts degree at the centage wise the faculty and ad- University of Virginia, and the ministration cannot pass this test ph. D. degree in Foreign Af- to a greater degree than the stu- fairs in Virginia in 1964. He has dents. This I think is a very taught in the Social Science Di- reasonable challenge since the vision of Alabama College for preponderance of faculty mem- the past two years, bers are M.A.’s and Ph. D.’s. He served with the Hungarian (administration members of col- Army during World War n, was lege level included.) made a prisoner of the Russians Please do not distort the in- for more than five years. Fol- tent of this letter it is not in- lowing his release he was not tended to be sarcastic or in- permitted to complete his aca subordinate. Rather it’s purpose demic work for the doctorate in is to gain a greater degree of law. He worked at a variety of tions. Gorgey and his wife, also a native of Hungary, are now nat uralized citizens of the United States. They have two small children. Mrs. Gorgey is now teaching German in public schools in Alabama. Gorgey was reared in the Reformed Church (Calvinist tradition) of Hungary. conceivable to me for one per- Dear Editor, g^jj (.q a better theme Two letters in your Aprii hour than another per- 9th and May 15 th issue dis- jg very conceivable cussed randomly the problem of Sophomore Proficiency Exami nations. To this random rambl ing I wish to add some of my own observations. As I am not ac-. cessible to administrative re-. for these persons to spend thirty minutes more and show reversed results. Let me deal with facts. At least one person received the Freshman Composition LE MAN ON CAMPUS 1 m *TD PfZOF FDK W/Wy OFmMtaHTRJL ASS(6^^-‘ FA« 1^515, COKeiPgRATiONt^£LP — * gam constancy for academic stand ards at Wesleyan. The reader will please ack nowledge that the writer of this letter did pass both of the Pro ficiency Tests the first time and was not required to. Very sincerely. Name withheld by request for fear of unvoiced “reprisals” Summer Emloyment Opportunities SCOPE, a Directory of Sum mer Opportunities for College Students in Community Service, offers student summer jobs. There are 96 organizations af filiated with SCOPE with more than 27,000 openings listed in the Scope booklet available in the DECREE office. Voter education projects in the south, tutorials and community action in the North, government employment and summer work camps; these and others are included so that interested college students will be able to make an informed de cision about their summer’s ac tivity. Fully half of the openings listed are local projects in which students with summer jobs or summer classes may participate. Published by the U. S. National Students Association, SCOPE is written to aid college students in obtaining summer employment in a position to which they are best suited and will find the most enjoyment. Pick up your free copy of SCOPE in the newspaper office anytime during the day or consult an editor of the DECREE. Wesleyan Gets Grant North Carolina Wesleyan Col lege announced today a grant from the National Science Foun dation. The gre.nl of $1,700 is for the purchase of undergrad uate instructiojial scientific eq uipment, according to Dr. A. W. Sharer, Chairman of the Science Division. This project is to be under the direction of Margaret A. Bird, AssistantProfessor of Bio logy, who prepared the project description in physiology. She v*ill use these funds, with matching funds, to develop a new course for biology majors. This is the first grant to the new college from the National Science Foundation, according to John T. Wilson of Washington, deputy director. PROFESSOR GORGEY jobs, until he fled in the winter of 1956. Entering the United States, he learned English well enough to return to graduate school, and complete his doctoral program at Virginia. THE BUSY CORNER FARM THE BUSY FARM by FELIX As if confused as those confronting it The meeting ground of five roads were . . . with sand and gravel strewn Not knowing which would lead to where I sat a moment pondering there . . . This parody of my desires. I had by now fancied myself as being a horsepowered Frost, deciding “which would make all the difference.” Thus not knowing where I was going— I stopped to ponder where I was at. Attentions subsequently shifted from the tragedy of the road . . . To the blazing bam that had blasted me with its individualistic whiteness, as I had overcome the last hill. I sought myself, and questioned my own analogy . . . this confusion . . . this human indecision . . . Had not been borne upon itself. These swerving vehicles had been avoiding this bam, which threatened to impale. A sage had taken it upon himself to make of this instrument of labor and toil a monument I searched a moment amidst the fireworks of Pennsylvania Dutch Vlockwork and neatly constructed signs . . . reminiscent of the Great God Burma . . . and squarely between the eyes was struck by universal meaning; Learn from the mistakes of others . . . you haven’t the time to make your own . . . Elipses couldn’t have been more properly placed in unrealized significance. Sitting at this gravel swept corner in the midst of this foolery, I puzzled. For I was indeed in the midst of what this Oriental Camel rider had dubbed by frequent ensign . . . THE BUSY CORNER FARM Thus he labeled his microcosmic womb What idiot could have the outright balls to think himself Godly enough to display such ironic tmderstanding? What is wrong with frustrated people who build Busy Corner monuments unto themselves is that . . . They are part of a society whose problems rest on the fact that they haven’t the time to find their own truth and are forced to accent the platitudes of fools whose uncopyrighted platitudes are plastered on Barns, and Railroad Bridges, and Bathroom Walls.
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