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P««it No. 217
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Hon-ProTit Organization
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VOL X NO. XXV
FRIDAY. APRIL 11, 1969
Blackman Looks Back COLLINS REAFFIRMS RIGHTS;
CALLS SPECIAL CONVOCATION
BY MARSHA WHITE
The administration of
Jess Blackman as SGA
president could be
characteristically called
the “adminstration of the
loner,” Because Jess
chose to be a loner dur
ing his term of office,
no judgement about his
job based upon concrete
accomplishments could
be fairly made„ These
accomplishments, al
though seemingly small in
number, clearly outweigh
their number in their im
portance to the student
body.
As Jess talked about his
past administration, he
noted that his goals for
this year pertained to
three areas which need-
SGA President Jess
Blackman
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Acquisition of this
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students and faculty. The
library has had a Re-
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several years.
ed attention: food ser
vice, house cleaning, and
maintainence.
He stated that when he
took office, he had noticed
situations which existed
in these areas which
needed attention and had
to be eliminated before
the SGA could function ef
fectively and the students
participate wholeheart
edly.
Although Jess was of
the opinion that little pro
gress has been made in
these areas, he knew that
the attention of the mem
bers of the administration
v/ho could initiate change
in these areas has been
focused upon these situ
ations. Furthermore, af
ter hours of confronta
tion, Jess has stirred the
administration to the
realization that students
want change.
Working alone, Jess
stated that he had reach
ed reasonable com
promise with the adminis
tration by using a method
which eliminated bad pub
licity for the college; yet,
probably created basis
for the apathy of students
during the year. When
Jess began working this
year, he noted that
“generally, student con
cerns did not seem
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PRESIDENT THOMAS COLLINS
Faculty Cuts Classes
Dean Moore announced
last Saturday that the
Wesleyan faculty and ad
ministration had ap
proved for the next aca
demic year a schedule
which will abolish Satur
day classes.
Under the new
S(hedule, a copy of
which can be obtained
from Dean Moore’s of
fice, classes will be
‘‘scrambled” instead of
having ‘Tong” Tuesday,
Thursday classes.
The faculty voted 16
to 4 (6 abstaining) to eli
minate Saturday classes,
but voted 14 to 8^(4 ab
staining ) to have “long”
Tuesday, Thursday
classes instead of the
“Scrambled” schedule.
These recommendations,
however, were straw
votes, according to Dean
Wilde.
The revised schedule
was set up by the Aca
demic Dean in consulta
tion with the Division
Chairmen, according to
Dean Moore.
Rusk Appears Here
BY ED SMITH
Dean Rusk, former
Secretary of State for the
Kennedy and Johnson
administrations, spoke in
the final Convocations
program of the 1968-69
school year last week.
Emphasizing that he
spoke from the opinion-
making, not from the de-
cision-making, point of
view, Mr. Rusk warned
against what he sees as
a revival of isolationism
by the Nixon adminis
tration, pointing to the
bitter experiences that,
he said, always follow isc-
lationistic policies-- ex
periences of only yester
day: “If you smile when
1 say ‘only yesterday,’
...you will know tiiat I
mean tomorrow.”
Advocating a foreign
policy that is a mixture
of retaining defensive al
liances and the maxim,
‘live and let live,’he said,
“The survival of man is
now an operational prob
lem facing the govern
ments of the world.*’ Ac
cept that fact, he con
tinued, and then have a
lively debate as to how
to work with it. ‘Tt is
simply too late in history
to pursue an attitude of to.
tal hostility.”
He said, however, I
am confident inthe long
run... that man is ac
curately called ilQOQ-
sapiens.”
Mr. Rusk concluded, “I
don’t sell short the
American people.” Deny
ing on the basis of his ex
perience the truth of the
maxim about power’s
corrupting, he added, I
do not believe that power
has corrupted the Ameri
can people.”
Mr. Rusk spoke also at
a meeting following the
convocations program.
DEAN RUSK
Wayfarers Sing Tonight
The Social Commission
completes its schedule of
concerts tonight with the
presentation of “The
Wayfarers,” a folk group,
in Wesleyan’s Everette
Gymnasium,
“The Wayfarers” first
premiered in San Fran
cisco in 1963. They are
Ray Bleuin, Corky Hart,
and David Hull. Their
recordings are put out by
RCA.
If folk music is the
“word” of our times—
a times getting to know
its sources, its future,
and itself—then “The
Wayfarers” may well be
its voice. Blending the
past, present, and fu
ture, the comic and the
tragic, the specific and
the universal, into a whol
ly new vision of what folk
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In a meeting with stu
dent leaders last week,
Wesleyan President Col
lins agreed to call
a special convocations
meeting “to re-open lines
of communication be
tween students and ad
ministration.”
The April 10 evening
meeting, he said, will be
held in the Wesleyan Stu
dent Union Building. He
indicatedthat at the meet
ing all major administra
tive officers (includ
ing the President, the
Comptroller, the Aca
demic Dean, and the Dean
of Students) will answer
students’ questions about
college positions, po
licies, and plans.
President Collins told
the DECREE that his
calling the special meet
ing was proof in action of
the continuing Wesleyan
tradition that students are
to be “treated and re
spected as responsible,
adult members of the col
lege community.”
The decision to call the
special convocations
meeting was reached.
President Collins said,
in a meeting with
Ed Smith, Robin Rawl
ings, Glenn Rhodes, Elia
Harrell, and Bruce Har
ris, on April 3,
These students told the
DECREE that, on the
basis of the President’s
decision, they were no
longer supporting a stu
dent demonstration pre
viously scheduled for A-
pril 4. The special con
vocations meeting, they
said, “would give the
campus community an
ample 'chance to discuss
its problems in private-
rather than in public.”
At press time these stu-
dens expected no public
demonstration.
Lubeck Chorus
Visits NCW
The municipal chorus
of Lubeck, Germany, per
formed at Wesleyan last
week. Their appearance
here is part of a three-
week tour of eastern
United States which will
take them to Florida this
week and later on back
up the seaboard to West
Virginia.
The LUbeck Chorus in
cludes in its repertoire
programs of sacred, pop
ular, and folk music from
many lands.
Under the direction of
Herr Klohs, they sang
songs of their hometown,
American folk songs, and
comedy numbers, con-
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