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PAGE 2 THE DECREE Editorial to As this newspaper endorses Humphrey for Presi dent, we are encouraged to note that the latest opinion polls indicate that a great number of Americans of con science and good will are giving their support t Humphrey’s candidacy. ^ We have three reasons for endorsing Humphrey s candidacy; first, he is, oddly enough, a politician of honesty and courage, when most politicians of national calibre find smooth doubletalk and cold calculation the safest policy; second, he is a reasonable liberal and the only alternative to the present fascist mania for “law and order” ( a concept which is a poor cover for repression and inaction); finally, the man is too good and too competent to be turned ungratefully out of public office. We believe that Humphrey’s courage and strength, and the rectitude of his policies, are the only reason able political alternatives to which the American elec torate can turn when confronted by Nixon’s sophistry and spinelessness and Wallace’s paranoid fascism. Ed Smith Editor^s Mail Dear Editor: I’m beginning to believe that someone is attempt ing to incite a riot around here. First appears the Proclamation, which seemed almost to be say ing “don’t put beans in your ears,” and then the Founder’s Day Convoca tion address which took much the same tone in at least one place. I’m be ginning to expect a peti tion to appear advocating, changing the name of the ' school to N.C. Berkeley College. As Dr. Jenkins pointed out, the militants are a minority. Most of us at Wesleyan are of the con servative majority - we gripe quietly about the food witho ut thinking how difficult it must be to cook a hot meal for 700 people; we complain si lently about the clocks without realizing that someone has been trying for several weeks to fix them; we grudgingly ac cept college rules with out consciously admitting that we realize that in or der to receive the benefits of a college education we must sacrifice some of our freedoms; and we ac cept unquestioningly with no fear at all a procla mation which could con ceivably affect our free dom of expression (which is necessary for “the quest for truth”) if not at present then sometime in the future. Yet even if the mili tants are a minority,they still deserve to be heard. At present, I feel that Wesleyan has little or no problem with this minor ity for it is generally be cause of lack of commun ication that trouble arises. And they do have a way to be heard as long as the grievance committee is inexistence and so long as the paper remains uncensored and as long as they can com municate with the faculty and administration. It just seems odd - it seems unfair that “They” can have the right to tell any one what he is or is not allowed to do off campus. Certainly our campus life can and should be regu lated, for we are merely temporary boarders, but when this regulation ex tends to our off campus life, just where does it stop? Should we laugh or cry? Sincerely, Catherine Simpson ■pROCLAMAtiblyj (Continued from Page 1) The College recognizes the freedoms of its stu dents (such as going to the bathroom as long as one does not exceed the maximum of twice a day), but what is really import ant is the freedom of vi siting fat cats (no agita tors, mind you, but care fully selected friends of the college). PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY WESLEYAN STUDENTS. OPINIONS PUBLISHED DO NOT NECESSARILY REPRESENT THOSE OF WESLEYAN COLLEGE. Official Student Newspaper of North Carolina Wesleyan College EDITOR,..., Ed Smith BUSINESS MANAGER Tom Mowbray ADS MANAGER. .....John Hinnant CIRCULATION MANAGER Jim Price Of FICE MANAGER Julie Robinson EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Keith Feelemyer PHOTOGRAPHER Baxter Smith Business Address: Box 3146, Wesleyan College, Rocky Mount, N. C. ACULTY ORUM 6 y Gregory Hall Copping out is fast be coming our favorite sport. Some authorities believe that in a few years it may very well replace baseball as our national pastime. The nuances of this ancient game are le gion, but our discussion will cover only a few. The founder of Copping Out is said by one group to be Cain of “Am-Ij My-Brother’s Keeper” same; but another school holds that the first Cop Out was Satan, who finding divine duty and love too strenuous decided to set the style and pave the way for all future Cop Outs. His contributions to the game were and still are remarkable , especially his method of inciting others to cop out. His subtle sophistry has been adopted by many of our leading ministers under the guise of “right rea son” or “cooling it” (or as some say - compro mise). Admittedly some of these ministers are themselves duped by the seeming wisdom of older, grayer heads who pro fess the political insight of experience (or as some say - mellowing). But enough of history and basic philosophy. What we are really in terested in is how one plays the game.The rules have naturally evolved over the centuries until at present the game is as competitive a sport as any other. Conceive of a sample game played by A,B,C, and D. First there must be a commitment to some cause, say help ing a mutual friend find employment. Now the competition begins, and the object is to see who can Cop Out without the other players’ knowledge. A starts by bluntly turning down the friend’s application for a job, giving for his ex cuse that B, C, and D, as well as the rest of the alphabet, just “are n’t ready” for this yet. B,C, and D immediately see through this obvious Cop Out, and A. is ban ished to the local Kiwanis Club. B then tries his hand by claiming that he cannot give the friend a job because this would be another form of “En mity” or the friend might demand too much pay or B might be robbing the friend’s friends of a good man. B has used what is commonly referred to as the “triple-talk” Cop amazingly impressive to the novice. But C and D are not novices, and they immediately place B a- board a raft and send him out to sea (some claim that he has been asea for years). Next we have C, who has no job to offer but knows a certain T who does. Now T has a work COMMENTARY by Catherine Simpson She put her teacup care fully on the table. (Sigh). “I don’t know what this college is com ing to. The poor, mis guided, mixed-up people. Don’t they realize how much they owe us? How can they act this way to ward us? I mean, after all, it is because of us - because of our dream of a community college these twelve years ago that Wesleyan even exists. We created it and we have kept it in existence throughout these years with our funds. We have given it all the money we could and even the land it is built on. And just look at the advantages the students have in the city - why, they should be thankful for all the things we have done for them. And they complain. Why, when we were students we spent all our time be hind the books - we stu died every minute. They just have it too easy these days. They don’t know how lucky they are to be here in Rocky MounL There’s money in Our Town, and don’t they get enough to help keep them going? We give them money every year - what more do they want? What could they possibly want besides our money? Yet what do we get as thanks? Now I don’t mean by this that the only rea son we provide them with money is to get something good in return, but cer tainly they owe us a lit tle more. Oh, sure, we got a little help during the drought with the dam and the pumping station, and we get a little each year with the blood drive, but what is that in com parison to the money we give them? And then they turn around and ask what we have done for them!! Now I ask you: what kind of stupidity is that? We created them and gave them sustenance - we gave them money - what more can they possibly want? Why, when we were growing up we would have gotten down on our knees to thank someone for giving us money! Yet what do they do? They support the Ne gros’ boycott of our stores. It can’t be our fault after all we’ve tried to teach them. It must be that Liberal, “progres sive” education they’re getting, Wesleyan should have remained a commun ity college. Why, just look at the rules - those child ren are allowed to come and go as they please and stay out ’til all hours of NOVEMBER 1, 1968 force of perhaps two hundred people and thir ty of these are from the friend’s neighborhood, and only tw^enty-nine of the thirty earn their pay by cleaning out toilets. The friend is a funny kind of a friend: he does n’t want to spend the rest of his life cleaning out toilets. But T will not let him work up front. The friend then decides that he won’t trade with T anymore, and this is where C comes to the de fense of T, Poor T has been put upon; he should have the right to hate the friend, but the friend ought to still love T, D is not sleeping, how ever, and H spots C’s Cop Out in spite of C’s claim that T is a good churchman and has des perately tried to com municate with the friend (oddly enough MW was able to). C, realizing that he has lost, in despera tion points out that T may cut off contributions to D’s firm. C is straight way dispatched to the Land of Vintage Liber als, D stands alone, for his was the last and subtlest Cop Out, He sacrifices the friend in the name of other members of the friend’s family. He “cools it,” he does not “rock the boat,” he com promises, The reason for his victory is apparent; he is an unconscious Cop Out, hence innocent. How ever T has a son (little t), who will someday take over T’s business. And little t doesn’t like the friend or his family and he’s already looking for ward to a much bigger building with many more commodes. Is it any wonder that we all like Copping Out? What other game offers such deep involvement, such appeal to the imagi nation, such pleasant re wards. Campus Flic: Fahrenheit the night and drive cars. And look what it’s done to them - they’re all drunks now - and atheists. Don’t you remember their being taught that God was dead? It’s so shocking! It must have a lot to do with all those mis guided, carpetbagging Yankees and their high- flown ideas on civil rights. They’re a bad in fluence on our young sters. They have no right to bring their silly, lib eral ideas down here to confuse and corrupt the less staunch among us. We had no trouble until they came down herewith their misplaced ideas of what’s right and what’s wrong. They don’t live here; they don’t under stand the situation, yet they try to solve it.And they dupe our own college students! I tell you, som^ething has got to bc done!”
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