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PAGE TWO THE DECREE MARCH tAO(^P^l.vTy 'S J ^ FtATW£R^\v^ ‘ FAtC 04- Sot \£Ty ACULTY ORUM BY C„ V. Mottershead About a month ago a student told me he was thinking about entering the Peace Corps. After I expressed my hopes that he be accepted, he said he was concerned about his career following his tour of duty. He was not too excited about jobs re lating to foreign affairs or international eco nomics. One observation I made was that in many cases the Peace Corps provides excellent experience for our own war on poverty. The problems in ghetto living and poverty farm ing in the United States are in many ways similar to the problems faced in underdeveloped coun tries. Moreover, a deep understanding of Ghana, Algeria, or Peru could prove invaluable in help ing to solve the problems of our poor. For example, in many cases it is the revolu tionaries of the underde veloped countries who really understand the na tion’s problem. In most cases, however, the United States and other Western powers try to maintain priviledge class in power, and fail to fol low any meaningful policy which will - relieve the economic burdens of masses. Likewise, ghetto or tenant farm leadership is rediculed or rejected by the authority and very few meaningful reforms are enacted. One of the main rea sons for this hostility be tween reform and author ity is the lack of under standing and communica tion between these two elements. The enormous cultural as well as eco nomic gulf between the rich nations and poor na tions is almost as great as that between the ghet to and Madison Avenue, or between the tenant , farm and suburbia. In addition there is the aspect of absentee dom ination. There is the ha tred of and jealousy toward foreign ownership of industry, of oil fields, and even of their educa tional and technological know how. In the U. S. (Continued on Page 3) COMPASS CLUB ORGANIZED “Service is man’s most honorable and profitable endeavor” is the motto of a girls service club newly formed on campus during the past few weeks. Under the leadership of President Susi Crawford, the Compass Club, the women’s college organi zation of Pilot Club, International, now has forty members. The other officers are: Vice-President, Marsha White; Secretary, Kathy iiall; and Treasurer, Isa belle Thompson. The Board of Directors of the group are Sara Askew, Julie Robinson, and John nie Coughlan, This weekend the Com pass Club in co-operation of SAAB is beginning a campaign to collect pen nies for its SAAB eleva tor’s fund. Also they are sponsoring a booth in the carnival. More projects are planned for the re mainder of the year. The club has a dinner meeting each Tuesday evening at 5:30 in the Day students lounge. Hall (Continued from Page 1) Dean Moore stated that “Mr, Hall was not of fered a contract for teaching next year be cause it was felt he was not the right person to teach on our English fa culty.” Dr. Teagarden told us that the administrative procedure for recom mending the renewal or non-renewal of a faculty contract begins with a recommendation by the faculty member’s De partment Head, which goes to his Division Chairman, which goes to Dean Moore, then to President Collins, and is finally decided by the Board of Trustees. At any point, he said, the recom mendation can be re versed; his recommenda tion, he told us, was to renew Mr. Hall’s con tract. As his recommen dation went directly to Dean Moore, we asked the Dean at what point the recommendation to the Board of Trustees had been reversed. He com mented, “I don’t think we should split the decision making process,” adding that, ' There are many issues on this campus that the students can at tack that will have better results than trying to ap point teachers,” “We are constantly striving to find the best faculty members for our educational program,” Dean Moore related, “The primary considera tion of hiring or rehiring any faculty member is his professional competence to meet our particular needs.” There are many secondary considera tions, such as the faculty member’s background, his interest in student projects, the kind of team member the person m akes in working with his colleagues,and the “image he would project in his local community,” Dean Moore said. Students’ opinions play a part in the recommen dations of faculty mem bers also. “We never take anything at face value,” Dean Moore said, telling us that the student who is making the incrimina tory remarks is consid ered carefully. When we asked him whether or not anyone had ever suggested students’ dislike as a reason for his dismissal, Mr. Hall told us that all that he had heard was an informal remark from Dr, Tea garden that some student 'Complained that it was hard to catch me in my office.” Dean Moore responded negatively when asked what the reasons were for not renewing Mr, Hall’s contract. He stat ed that professional ethics would not allow him to talk about any faculty member’s competence, either to students or to other faculty members. “To debate the ques tion publicly would be very difficult,” said Dean Moore, continuing, “He (Mr. Hall) would be push ed into a corner,” and the results “would destroy In the undercover controversy about Mr. Hall’s dis missal among faculty, students, and administration members, we have been able to discover these facts' 1. ), Dr. Teagarden, who should be able best to eval uate Mr. Hall’s performance as a teacher, recom mended that his contract be renewed; 2.), either Dean Moore or Dr. Collins reversed the recommendation to the Board of Trustees, which implemented the Ad ministration’s recommendation in its final form- 3.), when Dr. Collins notified Mr, Hall that his con tract would not be renewed for the next academic year, no reason was given for the non-renewal; and 4,), the only official criticism that has been leveled at Mr. Hall has been for his participation in last fall’s boycott of some Rocky Mount merchants. As no one who has the facts is willing to give any more information to us, we must conclude from these facts that Mr, Hall did not dissatisfy either his faculty superiors or the administration in his teaching methods and that he was dismissed on account of his participa tion in the boycott. We could not criticize such an administrative de cision, especially in view of Wesleyan’s precarious financial position, except for the fact that last fall the administration repeatedly pledged in public that no fa culty members and no students would suffer at college hands for their participation in the boycott; the break ing of such a public pledge makes Mr. Hall’s dis missal public business. The DECREE and the Wesleyan Student body want to know why the college administration broke its public pledge and why it thinks that it can get away with it, and paternal double-talk and smiles will not serve as an explanation. Letter to the Contemplating the re cent SGA Presidential campaign, allow ije to say that I feel a great sense of pride over the conduct of the Wesleyan student body as a whole. Never have I seen such a dis play of both interest and enthusiasm with regard to any school issue. It became apparent that the majority of the students were deeply concerned with the future of the SGA as well as the col lege itself and, in that respect, openly gave their support to a candidate. Both Mr. Roberts and Mr. Cockrell made an effort to talk with their voters, individually as well as in groups, thus giving the him.” The Administra tion, he said, will in this case therefore have to seem like the “bad guy”, who is unjustly not re newing a faculty mem ber’s contract, and the reasons, he told us, must appear to be solely those of Mr, Hall’s involvement in the boycott. It is true, according to Dean Moore, that there has been much outside pressure demanding that Mr. Hall be fired for his participation in the boy- students ample opportun ity to raise questions. There seemed to be a strong interest in the platform of each of the candidates in addition to the sincerity of both men. Although, to an extent, both office seekers were supported by their “friends,” many stu dents who were unfamil iar with the candidates actually took the tim e to think before choosing their man. In many cases even “friends” were di vided, due to their senti ments. Issues such as qualifications, previous experience and perform ance, character, and aca demic standing were brought to the attention of (Continued on page 3) cott and his racial views. However, he said, the col lege has refused the de mands ever since they first began. The boycott was dis cussed in the Wesleyan chapter of the American Association of University Professors, In the two- hour session, according to Dean Moore, no ques tions were answered which dealt with the pro fessional ethics or com petence of Mr. Hall, ®li etite Official Student Newspaper of North Carolina Wesleyan College editor Smith BUSINESS MANAGER ,...Tom Mowbray ADS MANAGER John Hinnant CIRCULATION MANAGER. .....JoelMartin manager Julie Robinson editorial assistant Marsha White PHOTOGRAPHER Baxter Smith PROJECTS DIVISON MANAGER....... John Dorsey Business Address: Box 3146, Wesleyan College, Rocky Mount, North Carolina PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY WESLEYAN STUDENTS. OPINIONS PUBLISHED DO NOT NECESSARILY REPRESENT THOSE OF WESLEYAN COLLEGE^
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