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P«9«2 EDITORIALS Every year about this time the average American male begins to feel depressed and Is overcome by the strange feeling that someone Is watching him. At first he cannot place Just what Is wrong, but he Is sure that something Is In the air. Along about Thanksgiving It begins to dawn on him. Tax paying time Is Just around the comer, and sure enough his intuition was right — someone is watching him. It Is about here that the depressed feeling is replaced by a high fever and an upset stomach. This hard-working, earnest, sincere, average American realizes that he soon must give up a large sum of his past year’s eranings. When viewed objectively the American tradition of paying taxes as a sort of rental fee for living in the country and using Its faci lities seems to be a very good thing. In fact, one must concede that without our form of taxation there is a very distinct pos sibility that the country could not have survived. But, like most things which operate on a large scale, the U.S. taxation method has its faults. While it Is true that the money we pay in taxes each year is dispersed in such a way that there is an ample supply for defense, about half enough for educational purposed, and a great deal too much for poverty and medicare, there are many areas in which our money Is Just plain being wasted. Dally we read of elaborate parties thrown to honor visiting degnataries from foreign countries, all the way from President DeGaulle (who doesn’t like us anyway) to the Maharaja of Podunc. It seems that somewhere along the line politicians have gotten the idea that the only way to win friends and influence countries is to wine and dine them. Actually there Is no record avaUable which shows that we have won an ally Just because he liked the year of our champagne. These parties may range from $1000 to $20,000 or more in costs. This means that it Is possible for from 10 to 15 taxpayers money to go towards an all-night blow-out! Recently a group of sailors in Norfolk, Virginia decided to have a party in honor of their ship. For the party they ordered a cake weighing 2 tons and costing in the neighborhood of $25,000. It seems such a pity that countless men sweated so long so that their money could be spend on a cake to honor a piece of metal. Our President is currently on a tour which is costing us about three taxpayers money per day (plus an additional $200 for a paint Job for his limousine). One must rightly wonder if this money will ever pay any divldents. In many Instances the taxpayer -taxspender relationship re sembles Halloween. It is indeed not absurd to say that countless taxpayers are being tricked i in that their tax money eventually treats a lot of politicians and governmental officials to a helluva good time. BRUITING ABOUT The Decree LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS (THE DECREE wishes to thank Miss Kanarco for giving us per mission to print this letter which was originally intended solely lor the Bruits.) Dear Bruits: When I started typing the first draft of my comments on grad uate school, I determined that I would try to avoid any rhetorical stance that would have everyone say: “Who is she trying to Impress? One year at graduate school and every word is a cita tion.” So, I’ll Just make my com ments, proof this letter for any comma splices, and hope that my remarks sound sincere. I like it here. Every day I gult at least ten times, but then ‘-'^PUS -ft keU You sent fO|2,ME?" ! POTPOURRI ! BY ; DOUG GROSECLOSE' I remember that I have a paper on Emerson to finish and two classes to teach tomorrow. You see, after a feW weeks the fear abates. The "Grim Reaper” does not stalk the halls of graduate school unchallenged. Yes, some don’t make it. But most of the graduate sttidents who didn’t come back this year were tired. They didn’t flunk out. They just, gave up. Others of us miy be mustered out, between here and the “degree.” But in spite of it all, most of us enjoy graduate school. I am speaking as a grad uate assistant now, but I think that those students who take a full load of work, and don’t teach, have the same basic reactions. Con^t. (Bruitiiig About) page 5 As I sat and listened to the chapel speaker on October 20 I thought, “How can we possibly have had so many terrible speakers in chapel this early in the year?” It has been a real chore to stay awake during all the services so far this year (with the exception of-Dr. James’) because the speakers iiave been so poor. Does the 'AdmnistratiOn think we want to hear about the “year that King Hezia died” every week? Are you moved by stories from' “Guldeposts” about preachers getting killed in rum bles? Who is stupid enough to stand in betw'een two' gkn'gs on the verge of a rumble ■ anyway? It is apparent to methatsorws- thing needs to' be done to i^di- cally alter the type of chapel speakers we have.'Who is on the committee th&.t chooses these speakers? Are any students asked their opinions? Are the ones asked members of the MSM or BSU? These are a few ques tions I have about chapel speakers. I realize that students have not “been around” long enough to know many good feakers, but I certainly could id several who are much bet- THE DECREE Official Student Newspaper of North Carolina Wesleyan College MEMBER Business Address Box N. C. Wesleyan College Eklitor Ronnie Crouch Rocky Assistant Editw John Graham Busineae Manager George Watson Feature l5ditc» Anne Van Wagoner Circulation Manager Tess Ledford Photographer Baxter Smith Coliunnists Doug Grosclose Fritz Smith Hal Lloyd Tim Isaacs News Staff Tom Mowbry Lynn Ament Ed Smith Bill Roberts Stephen Smith Jimmy Perry Rufus Riddick Karie Naylor Marsha Sutton Donna Thompson Connie Mwray Betty Willoughby Sport» Edited Tom Davis Harrell Pratt Dan Davis Advertifiing Staff Jeiry Winberry A1 Home CirculHtion Staff Tony DeMnth Bruce WiMae ter than the ones we have suf fered through this year. One speaker made a remark about students reading books in chapel, what reaction would he expect from a group that MUST be there and MUST listen to his rendition of the ole’ time re ligion? If- the Administration thinks we are children why don’t they hire - a few “Thursday School” teachers to come before chapel a-nd tell uC.all the Bible stories we should know? We are not •juvehlles and dO not deserve to be treated" as ■ such, we. are at least .worthy of an interest ing chapel speaker'once in a while. ■ I cannot help but wonder What the •Administration thinks we get out of chapel '* servicesi, when the speakers: are 'talking on -a fourth-grade level., Is this what college students want? I certain ly hope not, or I have vastly underestimated my fellow stu dents. The speaker on October 20th made a point that ipost in tellectuals throw aside religion; I do not agree with him. It is true that the general population of American churches is not drawn from college graduates, but this is a rejection of formal- Friday, October 28, 1966 Committee Discusses the Draft St. Louis, Mo. - 0.P.) - A faculty-student committee on Se lective Service at Washington University has been appointed and charged with examining the im pact of Selective Service’s ac tion upon the University com munity, determining faculty and student opinion on relevant is sues, and preparing recommen dations for University action. Fifteen members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences have approved the committee’s re commendations that the Uni versity report class standings to the Selective Service System up on the request of the student. Resolutions of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences: Clearly, in some ways, cur rent Selective service policy in terferes with the principal func tion of a university. We fear that continued dependence upon class-standing lists will fore stall students from attempting difficult courses, intensi^ the race for grades, and thus frus trate the educational process. Although we regard grades as a rough measure of student per formance, we question the effi ciency of such use in determin ing a class-standing list, espec ially in the freshman year. When we use grades to de termine such matters as entrance into graduate school, we are chiefly interested in per formance within a major field rather than the total performance in all subjects throughout a col lege career. Used conservatively, there is little doubt about the value of grades. But selective Service asks us to go beyond these careful procedures. It asks us to bal ance, for example, a poor show ing in chemistry with a strong performance in English and then to place the sutdent in a pre cisely ranked relationship with the rest of his class. What class rankings mean, we do not know for sure. Con sequently, this University and others are actively considering the adoption of other indices of student performance. Such experimentation is es sential to the continued improve ment of the university, even though it conflicts with theproce- dures proposed by Selective Ser vice. This conflict indicates to us the dangers of using grades, grade point averages, and class standings for purposes for which none of them were ever inten ded. Of course we realize that this use of class standings must be considered in terms of its Con't (Potpourri) page 8 Con't (Committe) page 8 DECREE POLICY In the last issue of the DECREE, dated October 14, a complete listing of SLA trials, including names, charges, and findings, was printed. At that time the policy of the DECREE concerning the publishing of this information was carried in an editorial. Since that time a certain element of the Wesleyan student body has voiced disapproval of the practice for one reason or another. It seems that there now exists two opposing views relating to the practice. Those who object to our printing these trial results do so on the grounds that theyarebadpublicity for the school. They contend that such information appearing in our school paper tends to made us show up unfavorably in the eyes of those who live out side our campus. Furthermore, they contend that it is no more than adding “salt to the wound” of a person convicted of an offense by the SLA and that it does a tremendous injustice to an individual found not guilty. The other view is that SLA trials and their findings are of concern to the student body and the information pertaining to them should be made available to the students. Since the DECREE Is the medium for student information, they feel that it is the best means available for making results of these preceedings public knowledge. Of the two opposing views, the DECREE favors the latter. It shall be our policy to print the results of all SLA action. It is not our intention to give the world outside our campus an unfavorable impression of us, nor do we wish to do any individual an injustice. We simply intend to compile and relay to the students that information which we feel is important for them to have. R.G.C.
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