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VOL. vm—NO. 7 ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROUNA TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1967
LINDA PRESTON, a senicr Ptyebolonr major, ia shown beinc Photo by Norton
crowned as Wesleyan’s first Homecoming Queen. Kay Lips
comb, the reigning Miss Missletoe loolis on.
Student Government Association
Wesleyan Holds First
Homecoming Week-end
Accepted By
The Student .j)-7eranient
Association of North Carolina
Wesleyan College was recently
informed that it had been ac
cepted as a member of the
Southern tJniverslties Student
Government Association. The
Association is an organization
designed to act as a link of
commuiication between the col
leges and universities in the
southeastern part of the United
States.
Operating as an organization
whose purpose is “to serve the
students of the southeast and to
assist student leaders of its
member institutions to better
serve their own studentbodies”,
SU3GA acts as a medium of
exchange of ideas and ex
periences related to student
government between its many
member schools.
Some of the many services
included in membership in
SUSGA include advisement of
ways to improve student
government on the basis of past
experience by other member
schools, to assist various
schools in better defining their
student governments in terms of
role, organization, function, and
operation, and to assist member
schools in obraining top quality
entertainers through an Enter
tainment Bureau which works in
conjunction with ten prime na
tional agencies.
Melvin Gay, president of the
Wesleyan SGA feels that mem
bership In SUSGA is one of “the
best things that has happened
to student government at North
Carolina Wesleyan College”
and says that he “is extremely
SUSGA
happy that Wesleyan has been
selected as a member."
One of the first aids to better
student government received by
NCW shortly after its ac
ceptance for membership is
a handbook on student govern
ment. The handbook, printed
in the form of essays on stu
dent governments in institutions
of various sizes, offers insight
into the interworkings of stu
dent government associations
which have proven themselves
to be outstanding.
Topics covered in the hand
book include phases of student
government ranging all the way
from organization to the legal
Raleigh-Governor Moore today
urged college students inter
ested In State government to
apply for the 1967 Summer
Internship Program.
In announcing the 1967 pro
gram, Moore stated that 25
North CaroUna college students
will be selected to participate
in the 11-week program. Stu
dents will attend an orienta
tion program and then work for
10 weeks In selected State de
partments while attending even
ing seminars on the campus
of North Carolina State Uni
versity.
To be eligible, students (1)
must have satisfactorily com
pleted three years of college,
(2) must be residents of North
aspects of student judiciary and
discipline. The booklet, if put
to proper use, can be a in
valuable aid in uncovering
weaknesses In the Wesleyan
SGA and strengthening them.
Wesleyan becomes the fifth
North Carolina school to be ac
cepted for membership in the
organization. Other SU3GA
member schools in the Tar-
Heel n^ate are Catawba College,
Mars Hill College, Pfeiffer Col
lege and St. Andrews Presby
terian College.
A total of 97 schools in nine
states are members of the or
ganization.
Carolina, and (3) must current
ly be enrolled in a college
or university either within or
outside the State,
The State Internship Program
will begin June 6 and continue
through August 18. 1967. Stu
dents will be paid $75.00 a
week while employed.
Governor Moore stated that
he had again asked the Insti
tute of Government to be re
sponsible for administering the
Internship program. The In
stitute has been participating
In the program since It was
established In 1962. Students
will be selected for the pro
gram by a committee that In-
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Two basketball games, a
dance featuring the crowning of
Wesleyan’s first homecoming
queen, and the return of many
former students to campus were
the featured activities as North
Carolina Wesleyan College ob
served its first Homecoming
Week-end on Friday and Sat
urday, December 16 and 17.
The weekend was touched off
by the Wesleyan-Washington &
Lee basketball game on Fri
day night. There were thrills
aplenty as the Bishops dropped
a 1-polnt hair-raiser to the
General s from the Old Do
minion.
Saturday afternoon the scene
remained the same but the em
phasis shifted from the Wes
leyan basketball team to a more
mature version of the game as
the faculty and alumni battled
it out. While this game fea
tured gasps for breath, blisters
and aching backs, it lacked
none of the tension of the pre
vious nights encounter. At the
end of regulation play, both
teams claimed vi«-toiy, either
morally or physically, but all
those who witnessed the clash
agreed that It should be con
sidered a draw and the gallant
ath letes retired to a steaming
bath and a long linament soak.
The high point of the week
end’s activities was the Home
coming Dance and the crowning
of the Homecoming Queen, Miss
Linda Preston, a senior psycho
logy major from Huddleston,
Virginia, and the presentation
of the Queen’s Court.
The members of the court
were; Dale Plxley, Jeannie
Dickenson, Teddi Wall, Arlene
Frye, Allen Ragsdale, JoAnn
Blow, and Claire Anderson.
Music for the dance was pro
vided by the Inmates, a group
from Raleigh. The dance, al
though headliner Mary Wells
was unable to be present, and
as it turned out, no replace
ment for her could be had, was
termed an overwhelming suc
cess by all those who were
present.
other activities during the
week-end included an alumni
banquet on Saturday night and
the annual Alumni Board of
Directors meeting held on
Saturday morning.
In view of the apparent suc
cess of this Wesleyan’s first
atten^t at staging a Home
coming Week-end, students and
alumni are in agreement that
it should become an annual
affair.
The Wesleyan Social Com
mission, working in conjunction
with the Alumni Directors,
handled the arrangements for
the week-end and are to be
congratulated for a job well
done.
On January 21, the Sophomore
class is sponsoring a mid-exam
blowout. The dance will spot
light the Embers from Raleigh,
a local group known nationally
for popular recordings. The
dance will start at 8 P. M.,
Saturday evening. Admission
cost Is $2.50 per couple, pre
vious to the dance, and $3.00
at the door. Tickets may be
purchased from John Porter,
class president. The theme
of the dance is bon vovaee.
HAROLD SUTTON, forward, lias contributed greatly to the
Wesleyan basketball success thus far this season. The freshman
has averaged about 10 points per game, has been a stalwart
rebounder, and has been the man Don Scalf calls upon to
stops the opposition’s big scorers ail year long.
Governor Announces
Summer Program