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The MOUH' Decree The Voice of A/or/fi Carolina Wesleyan College Vol. vra No. 5 THE DECREE Monday, November 28. 1966 X' Jr Poet Robert Mezy Visits Campus MEMBERS OF THE Wesleyan faculty and student body are shown as they work fa the Mobile Radioisotope Lab. The Lab will be ou campus until December 2. Photo By NORTON Students Receive Instructions In Mobile Radioisotope Lab Several Wesleyan students in the Science Division are cur rently participating in a short course in the handling of radio isotopes as a part of a spe cial program of the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies, a unit of Oak Ridge Associated Universities. A mobile radioisotope lab oratory, one of three in op eration by ORINS, has been on campus since November 18 and will remain through Decem ber 2. The laboratory staffed by an instructor for the lectures as well as a teacher for the laboratory courses. ORINS operates the mobile units to meet the needs of colleges that do not have fa cilities to present courses in IS the handling of radioactive ma terials. Since 1948, the Special Train ing Division of the Institute, under contract with the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission, has been providing basic and specialized courses in* radio isotope techniques to scientists from all over the world. In 1958, the Commission con ceived the idea of a mobile laboratory for use by the In ternational Atomic Energy Agency in Europe, Asia, and Central and South America. The Special Training Division designed such a laboratory and two units were built and given to IAEA. The following year, the Division obtained a unit of its own for use in this coun try, and two more units have been added as the need and demand for on-campus training has grown. Today, the three units visit about 40 colleges during the academic year, and provide training in the use of radio- (Continued on page 5) Robert Mezy, American poet and lecturer, was on campus November 22 for an all-day visitation to classes and an evening poetry reading session. The visit was the first of two performances in the Poetry Circuit Series for 1966-67. Mezy, a native of Philadelpia, has recently began to receive acclaim as a poet and translator. His poems appear in several recent anthologies including Chad Walsh’s Today’s Poets. Kessler’s American Poems, and the College An thology of British and American V erse. Mezy published his first book. The Love maker, in 1960, and White~~Blossoms earlier this year. The Lovemaker won the Lamont Poetry Prize for the year 1960. In addition, Mezy has pub lished The Mercy of Sorrow, a small book of translations from the Israeli poet Uri Zvi Greenberg, and is currently translating the Spanish poet Hierro for a volume to be released soon. He first began publishing poe try in 1954 at the age of 21. Since then his works have ap peared in Kenyon Review, The New Yorker, Botteghe Oscure, Partisan Review, Harper’s, Liberation and many other periodicals. Besides writing poetry, Mezy has been active as a lecturer, having given readings and lec tures at nearly a hundred colleges and universities throughout the nation. He has also taught at Western Reserve University, Fresno State College, the University of Iowa, Memphis State University, the University of Buffalo, and Franklin and Marshall College. Mezy did his undergraduate work at Kenyon College and the University of Iowa and spent a year studying at Stanford as a Poetry Fellow. Plans For Homecoming Under Way The Social Commission and Alumni Committee have an nounced plans for the 1966 Homecoming slated to begin Friday, December 16. To kick the homecoming festivities off there will be a basketball game with Washington and Lee Fri day, December 16, in the gym nasium. On Saturday the social acti vities will begin with a faculty- alumni basketball game. The game will be preceded by a meeting of the Board of Directors at 10 that morning. The highlight of Homecoming day will be the dance Saturday night, featuring Mary Wells. The event will spotlight the crowning of our new Home coming Queen and her court. The queen will be selected from the four classes. On The Inside . . . Wesleyan Band: A Review —page 3 Reporter Tom Mowbray reviews the history and highlights of the N. C. Band. Wosleyan Traffic Problem —page 4 Editor Ronnie Crouch, in his ccriumn Around Campus, takes a close look at the Wesleyan park- uig problem. Basketball Preview —page 6 Ace sports writer Tom Davis offers an in-de|^ look at the Bishops basketball team prior to the opening of the 1966-67 season. n— WiMMiiim mi THE WESLEYAN CHEERLEADERS for 19c6- 67. Front row (I. to r.) Susan Harris, Arlene Frye, Barbara Nelson, Jeanne Wzrd, Lynn Adams. Back row: K«y Lipscombe, Lois Lambdin, Barbara Crawford, Judy Tortaf- sky.
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