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PAGE TWO THE DECREE APRIL 11 1969 LUBECK (Continued from Page 1) eluding their program with the “Exodus theme. The Liibeck Chorus is on tour for three weeks every year. They have previously travelled in Canada, Turkey, and most of the countries of Europe. The Chorus is made up of amateur sing ers of every background and is supported by the City of Luoeck as well as by the federal West German government. Coeds Flag For Safety College girls, on summer break, are being employed as “flag women,” by road con struction contractors in North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyo ming and British Columbia, ac cording to the National Safety Council. X'STANCE A Editorial ACULTY ORUM By: DR. ALLEN F, CORDTS Seventy lars! That money! All billion dol- is a lot of those zeros billion begin- current numb the mind, so let us knock off just one and make it seven billion- one-tenth of the sum, one little dime out of each one of those dollars—and try to reduce this to under standable terms. That one-tenth is equi valent to about two dol lars for every man, wo man, and child in the world. Two good Ameri can dollars would buy enough food to fill many empty bellies in India or Biafra. But we’ll get closer to home. That one- tenth is equal to about$35 foreveryman, woman, and child in the U. S, A, Even at our high prices, if carefully managed, that one-tenth would feed all of us—all 200 million of us-for probably five weeks. Look at it another way. That one-tenth means $1,000 a head for every college and university student in the U. S. A. If our struggling college had that much per student handed to us, our financial problems would evapor ate. And if we could count on it year after year, we’d probably never have to raise tuition again, and maybe could even reduce it (unheard of!) Since I never deal in such large sums (except in dream - like writing such as this) I don’t know how far that one-tenth would go to revitalize our crumbling cities or to assure adequate nutrition and health care for all our children or to strengthen our overworked, over wrought, and under financed system of pub lic education or to build decent dwellings for people now living in shacks--but it would sure help if it were available for such purposes. If— The seventy mentioned at the ning is the Federal fiscal year bud get for the Department of Defense. The late President Eisenhower warned us al most a decade ago about the grip of the “military industrial complex.” Can that grip be pried open just enough to take out that desired one-tenth? The human cry is getting louder and louder to do just that. More and more citizens are exclaiming: “We’ll pay the surtax from here on out, but meet some of these human needs—let us spend more of our vast resources for life and the living instead of death and destruction,” My guess is that this same cry is heard in other lands- - that Russians, Germans Egyptians, Jor danians, ’ and people everywhere are saying (or at least thinking) that the quality of life is more important and that living living fully—and enjoying the good earth’s re sources— is certainly better than dying. In spite of all the help lessness and hopeless ness, this shines through. More people everywhere are pleading that human measures be applied in all the complicated de cision-making which af fects their lives. People everywhere are becoming stronger in their convic tions that high-sounding phrases such as ‘‘anade quate deterrent’ ’, “se cond-strike capability”, overkill”, and the like, ad nauseum, all fall on very deaf ears when ad dressed to a hungry child. If there is any single great cause in our tur bulent world, it is this: that we strive in each generation to bring for ward these human mea sures by which tojudge the soundness of our ac- BLACKMAN (Continued from page 1) :o mean much to adminis tration.” Hetriedto con vince the officials that they needed more in formation before making good decisions concern ing the students; however, representation on either Board of Trustees and/ or Administrative Council was denied. For instance, when Jess confronted the Administration with com plaints concerning the food in the cafeteria, he was told by an infrequent visitor that the food was “top-notch,” Finally after convinc ing the adminstration that students are interested in decisions made which af fect them, Jess has been allowed to serve as a member of the Adminis trative Council for ap- The Editor takes this opportunity t o explain to his constituency, the Wesleyan student body, his ac tions in recent days: , t “Many of you know that I, with some of my friends planned a demonstration here to coincide with Dean' Rusk’s visit to campus in order to take advantage of the publicity attendant on Mr, Rusk’s visit to Wesleyan. We had been driven to considering such a tactic not out of adolescent impatience but out of frustration accumulated over three or four years’ work with a college administration which seemed largely to stand in the way of some phases of our de velopment—particularly in the question of our being responsible, adult members of the college community. V/e were fully aware of the problems that could follow as the results of such a demonstration, but we believed that the good results would outweigh the bad. We hoped, nevertheless, that the threat of a demon stration would be enough to make the administration hear us seriously. And so it turned ott in Dr. Collins’ granting Thursday’s special assembly. Thus we were able in good conscience to call off our demonstration. Whether or not we bargained correctly will have been seen in the attendance figures for the Thursday evening assembly, in the questions that students pose to their administrative officers, and in the dialogue that we hope will ensue. If the students ask properly pointed questions, offer properly creative suggestions; if the administration keep s its cool and answers questions not defensively but openly; and if both sides show understanding as well as constructive criticism, then we will havedonethe students a service. We hope.” proximately a month. This Council now consists of six members, the president of the college, the director of the col lege, dean of the college, dean of students, comp troller, and president of the SGA. This accom plishment grew out of one of the many conferences Jess had with the mem bers of this group. Since the election of the new SGA president, John Roberts, he too has ac companied Jess to the confrontations to present complaints tothe individ ual members of the group. Jess emphasized that a- long with every complaint dealing with the problems concerning his goals, there has been a reason able suggestion. Jess hopedthat decisions con cerning the pool table money and maintenance will be made within the next few weeks. He stressed his feeling that “there are ways of work ing these problems out.” Jess concluded that groundwork had been laid in these areas so that more progress can be made next year if newly elected officers want to continue work. He stated that his greatest com- (Continued on Page 3) LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Sir: 1 would like to thank the DECREE for its ob jective coverage of the facts in the lead story of March 28, 1969, and I appreciate Mr, Ed Smith’s telling editorial. I would like to thank Mr. Robin Rawlings for his concern, his hard work, and the petition. Need less to say I am deeply appreciative of the 285 who signed (and my thanks also to those who would have signed but were a- fraid it might hurt me). I feel like bragging; any time nearly half the stu dent body sign a petition for a teacher, he must be fairly competent. I’d rather have you on my side than all the business communities and all the administrations in the world. My thanks also go to Dr. Jack Teagarden, who did not copy out when ask ed about the recom - mendation and did in fact “split the decisionmak ing process,” His re commendation definitely proves to me that my competence is not really in question. He is after all my chairman and the only Ph. D, in English on the faculty and the only man on the faculty with his years, of experience in teaching English on the college level. I believe these things qualify him to judge ability. There are a good many other professors who have stuck by me, offer ed to recommend me, and extended many other kindnesses: Bond, who was with me on the boy cott; Mottershead and King, who were there at the school board meet ings; Dingm an, who directs a damn good play; and gutsy Bob Hawk, who won’t be back next year either. And there are others. Believe me, I have not lost any battles here. Perhaps I can be backed into a corner and des troyed, but 1 doubt it. I doubt if any man can be destroyed when he has so many on his side. Actually I have won: won the trust' of the black man, the ad miration of my students, the understanding of ray colleagues, and the self- respect, which for a while I thought I had lost. Thank you, Greg Hall tions and plans; that we concern ourselves more and more about the quality of life everywhere—in short, that we work and struggle to become more human. ttvtt Official Student Newspaper of North Carolina Wesleyan College editor Ed Smith BUSINESS MANAGER ....Tom Mowbray ADS MANAGER John Hinnant CIRC ULATION MANAGER Joel Martin 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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