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-Page 2. .THE DECREE, Welcome THURSDAY. SEPTERffiER 30, 1965 LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS Freshmen The "DECREE welcomes you to Wesleyan College. You are now in a community where you generally will be treated as an adult and you will be expected to act as an adult. Most of you will find that you have the opportunity to regulate your own time: to spend this time attending cliKses, studying, playing bridge, par ticipating in the various C£impus activities, or relaxing in one of our local (but unmentionable) clubs. No longer will you have Momma and Daddy to tell you what and what not to do—instead you must decide for yourself. Take advantage of this freedom. Get the education that the college offers. This is an education that you don’t obtain by attending all your classes and passing all your courses. This education comes from tasting all the various fruits offered by your professors, offered by all the clubs and activities on campus, and offered by the community. Don’t neglect any of the areas. Wesleyan is a small liberal arts college dedicated to providing a liberal education. Get this liberal education. In the classroom think critically about what your professor says. Don’t accept his ideas as Gospel. Most teachers vastly prefer intelligent criticism to dull stares. Never memorize something if you can’t under stand it. Too many students survive the first year or two of college by cramming isolated facts in their heads without relating them. Then when the same stu dents face advanced junior or senior courses, they find that pure memorization is not enough. Above all, keep up with your assignments. That last minute cram ses sion for a final doesn’t always work. Ask some of the sophomores rep>eating a course. On the campus don’t join this or that club just be cause it’s the thing to do. Try to participate in those activities which will give you some lasting satisfaction and sense of achievement. Whatever you choose, don’t give up when the going gets rough. Any activity now or any job you have after graduation will have its ups and downs, and you will find that only by accepting both will there be any gain. Find something of interest outside of the immedi ate campus. Everyone needs to get away from school occasionally. A release from the grind of academic life can serve a very useful purpose. There are many op portunities for recreation outside the college limits. Each person can find something to satisfy his indi vidual tastes. Use this outlet. Finally, don’t sink into the sea of complacency and listlessness that often characterizes the college student. NCWC is your school. The college is what you make it. The administration and the faculty can only do so much. The real worth of our college is determined by you, the student. RCK THE DECREE Official Student Newspaper of North Carolina Wesleyan College Printed bi-weekly in Tarboro, N. C. Circulation: 1,006 I ■ M • B M Business Address: Box 3146 N. C. Wesleyan College Rocky Mount, N. C. Lorre Allig«od Lyn Attkisson Bill Bradshaw Nann Brown Sherry Bageant Bill Carmines Ron Crouch Suzl Cochran Barbara Crawford Faye Cooley Brenda Creech Carolyn Daughtry Sally Edward Laura Funk Bobbl Gaskins Nancy Grider Sharon Goff Doug Groseclose Lea Horne Joyce Homan Ann Hubbard King Fun Ho James Hogan John Jenks Sarah Jones Wylie Jones Linda Kandounas Charles Kemp Brenda Lewis Bill Lehman Linda McAdams Pat Moore Alyce Nixon Edith Nurse Ray O’Kelly Cynthia Patton Alice Powell Lu Payne Martha Pitt Dale Pixley Maggie Poole Mary Ann Proctor Nat Railey Nancy Stuart Nancy Stallings Chris Shipley Bob Smith Bryan Stearns Cindy Swindell Phyllis Thompson Val Van Winkle Jeff Wilson Wanda Wise NEWS STAFF Supervising Editor Tom Inscoe Co-editors Duffie Monroe Bob Kirkman Sports Editor Tom Davis Layout Editor Anne Van Wasoner Photographer Tom Davis BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager Shelton Nickens Circulation Manager John Hendricks Mailing Carolyn Moss GENERAL STAFF "You Me^N TD e>AY You've’ 5pgAiN' FK$NCH - I'M 6LiPPO5gPT0 TAIN‘ , S/*A^/rS//'VA\e HOUg — I HAP F/^BNCH LAST The President Speaks I would like to take this opportunity to publicly thank Chairman Joe Boling, Co-chairman Melvin Gay and the other members of the Orientation Committee for the fine work while they have done during fresh man Orientation Week. Due to their fine planning and the wonderful cooperation of the entire committee, this has been the most successful orientation program in the history of the school. Seldom during my association with Student Government have I seen twenty-five people work as hard and as diligently toward the sucr cessful completion of a common goal. This committee gave up a week of their summer vacation for one rea son; to make the freshman class a part of the Wesleyan Community. I hope that all freshmen will realize this and leam from their example. Orientation is only a small part of Student Gov ernment and I hope that the orientation committee members and all other students will realize this. One successful week does not make a successful year. Onlv by the coordinated efforts of the entire student body can we continue this fine work. We, the officers in Student Government, can not possibly do all the work; we must have your help. I hope that all of you will find your place in the SGA so that 1965-66 will go down in the books as the finest in our history. Guy Turner, SGA President THE DECREE, Its Policy On any college campus, the newspaper will serve two basic purposes: first, to present a coverage of the news and second, to comment on this news. As a news media this year the DECREE will use the “beat” system in order to canvas the community. A staff representative has been assigned to each de partment and to the various campus offices and clubs in order to gather the news as it happens. This repre sentative will periodically check on his “beat” and write stories as the facts arise. This system should pro vide both thorough and accurate coverage of news. For commentary on the news, the Editorials, its columns, and the Letters to the Editor will provide opinions on issues of importance. In the Editorials will be presented the positions of the paper on these issues. As was the p>olicy of last years’ paper, criticism will be given when it is needed and praise given when de served. Through these columns and Letters to the Editor the DECREE intends to provide diversity of opinion, not necessarily that of the editors, from which the reader may sample. NCWC is beginning a new academic year with a new Dean of Students, a new Student Grovemment, and a much enlarged student body and faculty. There are going to be many demands on this organization. The newspaper hopes both to provide adequate cov erage and ample commentary on these challenges to the college community. RCK Potpourri By Doug Groseclose It Is a shame that everyone in the United States, especially those between 16 and 25 years of age, cannot go to Viet Nam, Viet Nam is a very small country 15,000 miles from the U. S. mainland. Why does the government find it necessary to send our soldiers there? Sure ly this insignificant stretch of swampland is not worth dying for! Most of us say, “if we don’t fight those communists they will take over all of Southeast Asia.” Did you know that Most of the so-called “viet Cmig” have never heard of “communist ” or "communism?” Unfor tunately, these people are be ing supplied by Red China, and, in the eyes of the United States, they are wrong. Why do we Americans catch our breath every time we hear the word “communist?” Max well Taylor and Henry Cabot Lodge have both said that a socialistic government would work far better in Viet Nam than an American-type govern ment would. The war in Viet Nam is a civil war; whether we waiif to recognize that or not Is a per sonal decision. Now, to return to my first question, is it necessary for Americans to die in the Viet Namese civil War? It most def initely is, The U. S., for the past 20 years, has taken on the job of global policeman, and has tried to help settle all arguments fair ly. Although we have not al ways succeeded in this mission, the rest of the world now needs the u. S. in this capacity. Viet Nam is tenable, and for this reason, we must be prepared to defend It completely. We can’t shirk this duty by saying “our rulers have no money to spend on public education . . . because all their resources are already placed to the account of the next war.” (KANT) A Plea From The Freshmen -copied from an official u. S. Government bulletin- In promulgating your esoteric cogitations, or articulating your superficial sentimentalities and amicable, philosophical or psy chological observations, bew»r4 of platitudinous ponderosity. Let your conversational communica tions possess a clarified concise ness, a compact comprehensi bleness, coalescent consistency and a concatenated cogency. Es chew all conglomerations of flat ulent garrulity, jejune babble ment and asinine affectations. Let your extemporaneous de- scantings and unpremeditated ex- patiatlons have intelligibility and veracious vivacity, without rho- domontade or thrasonical bom bast. Sedulously avoid all poly syllable profundity, pompous psittaceous vacuity, ventrhoqulal verbosity, and van- lloquent vfpldlty. Shun double- entendres, prurient jocosity, and pestiferous profanity, obscurant or apparent. FIELD DAY With Metliodist [Sat., October 9, 1965
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