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Permit No. 217
Rocky Mount, N. C.
Non-Profit Organization
VOLUME XI, NUMBER 2
ROCKY MOUNT, N- C.
TUESDAY, SEPT. 16, 1969
Attorney General Gill
Supports Closed Trial
SGA To Share Wealth
“The good thing about a
closed trial is that discre
tion and fairness are used in
considering the consequences
of the verdict,” stated Jim
Gill, Attorney General of
North Carolina Wesleyan Col
lege, in defense of a closed
court system. Gill also said-
that a closed trial can prove
beneficial to the defendant by
restricting bad publicity in a
controversial case.
ETS Announces
Nat’l Teacher
Examinations
PRESrCETON, College se
niors preparing to teach sch
ool may take the National
Teacher Examinations on any
four different dates announc
ed recently by Educational
Testing Service, a nonpro
fit, educational organization
which prepares and admini
sters the testing program.
New date for the testing of
prospective teachers are:No
vember 8, 1969, and January
31, April 4, and July 18, 1970.
The tests will be given at
nearly 500 locations through
out the United States, ETS
said. The Bulletin of Infor
mation for Candidates con
tains a list of test centers,
and information about the exa
minations, as well as a Re
gistration Form. Copies may
be obtained from college
placement officers, school
personnel departments, or di
rectly from National Teacher
Examinations, Box 911, Edu
cational Testing Service,
Princeton, New Jersey 08540.
A faction against the newly
formed Brazilian Government
declared that they would ex
change U. S. Ambassdor C.
Burke Eibrick for fifteen poi-
tical prisoners taken by the
Brazilian Government. Later
on in the week Eibrick was
returned after being pistol-
whipped by his captors.
Dr. James A. Pike, a for
mer Episcopal Bishop of
California, was found dead on
a ledge in a kneeling position, ^
two miles from the Dead Sea.
He was killed after he ap
parently fell from a cliff
above. Pike was presumed
dead after searching parties
gave up looking for him in the-
Dead Sea area.
The U. S. has so far ho
nored the cease-fire declared
by the Viet-Congand the North
Vietnamese in observance of
the death of North Vietnamese
President Ho-Chi-Minh. South
Vietnam has rejected the
truce. Further complications
On open courts, the Attorney
General said that they were
personally humiliating to the
defendant. “Most times an at
mosphere of a circus is found
in open courts. An the gossip
seekers are there, and the
crowds often influence the jury
in a case. If a lot of the de
fendant’s friends are in the
court room, they could alter
the verdict in the case.”
‘ ‘The one good thing about an
open trial is that the defendant
has a chance to clear his
name publicly, as in a case
of slander.”
Gill also said that the ma
jor disadvantage of a closed
court is that the public is un
aware of the proceedings of the
trial and cannot understand
the workings of the court.
“The court can also get a bad
image of someone who is con
victed in a closed court ses
sion tells his friends that his
rights were violated.”
Attorney General Gill con
cluded by saying, “The fresh
men don’t have to be cautious
all their lives, but they just
need to use a little common
sense. I’d rather scare them
to death, than ever see them
in the court room.”
James Ranney
And Gearhart
Are Promoted
Four faculty members at
N. C. Wesleyan received pro
motions and six others were
granted tenure by action of the
Board of Trustees at its an
nual meeting held here on the
will follow because of the Am
erican desire to honour the
cease-fire.
Premier Kosygin on his way
to the Ho-Chi-Minh funeral
conferred with Prime Mi
nister Indira Ghandia. He talk
ed with Mr. Ghandi for 50
minutes while his plane was
refueled. He said, as report
ed by the New York Times,
“Our relations are progress
ing steadily and will be fur
ther strengthened.”
The Indian Government sent
Foreign Minister Dinesh Singh
to Ho Chi Minh’s funeral.
A Cuban note accusing a
Mexican diplomat stationed in
Havana of spying for the U. S.
Central Intelligence Agency
was rejected by Mexican of-
ficals. The Cubans requested
that Mexico, the only Latin
American nation with an em
bassy in Havana, turn the di
plomat over to Cuban offi-
cals wavering his diplomatic
emmunity.
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Right;
JESS
BLACKMAN,
former SGA
President
Rocky Mount: Thomas J.
Pearsall was elected new
Chairman of the Board of
Trustees of North Carolina
Wesleyan College and Guy
E. Barnes vice chairman at
Dean Moore
Announces
New Faculty
George Corlett Armstrong
and his wife. Dr. Aun Hiken
Armstrong, will join the fa
culty at N. C. Wesleyan
in September, according to an
announcement from Dr. Jack
W. Moore, academic dean of
the college here. Each will be
come an associate professor
of humanities.
Dr. Armstrong brings to N.
C. Wesleyan twenty years of
teaching experience in drama,
speech and literature. She
has taught acting at the Stage
craft Theater School in Glen
coe, Illinois; English and hu
manities at Kendall College
in Evanston, Illinois; and
speech and oral interpreta
tion at Roycemore School for
Girls, also in Evanston. For
the past ten years she has
taught drama and English at
San Francisco State College’s
graduate school.
Following his coUege stu
dies, Armstrong joined the
faculty of San Francisco State
College as drama instructor
and has taught there contin
uously since 1956, rising to
the rank of associate profes
sor of drama. He partici
pated in interdisciplinary hu
manities courses including
painting, film, literature,
drama and poetry. His spec
ialty is 16th, 17th and I8th
century English and modern
world dramatic literature.
He holds membership in se
veral professional theater
associations, is on the Board
of Directors of the Grace Ca
thedral Players and is techni
cal consultant for the St. Al
dan’s Auditorium. He receiv
ed th James D. PhelanAward
and a Merit Award for Design
while studying at the Califor
nia school of Fine Arts.
Dr. Irving E. Gray, Profes
sor emeritus at Duke Uni-
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Former Student Govern
ment President Jesse Black
man announced Friday that the
SGA and the Administration
had finally reached a settle
ment in their negotiations con
cerning the revenue from the
pool tables in Wesleyan’s Stu-
the board’s Annual Meeting
here Friday, May 16. E. E.
Adkins was reelected secre
tary. All are Rocky Mount
residents who have long been
prominent in civic and Wes
leyan affairs.
Newly elected Board Chair
man Pearsall, a prominent
Rocky Mount businessman and
former Speaker of the House
of Representatives, succeeds
Luther W. Hill of Tarboro,
who has served as Wesleyan’s
board chairman since October
1956. Mr. Hill has led in the
growth and developement of
the Methodist senior college
from its establishment to its
fully accredited stage today.
Dr. Thomas A. Collins, Wes
leyan’s president, reported
the election of Judge J. Phil
Carlton of Pinetops; Hon.
Allan Barbee of Spring Hope;
A. Leroy Jameson of Wiiiiam-
ston; and the Rev. Dermont
J. Reid of Henderson to the
Board of Trustees.
dent Union. Wesleyan’s Busi
ness Office will divide each
monthly check for the pool ta
ble income, giving seventy-
five percent to the SGA anci
twenty-five percent to the col
lege.
The Administration agreed
to establish a separate account
in the college Business Office
in the SGA’s name. This ac
count will be a continuing ac
count with each year’s balance
being carried over to the next
year, enabling each new ad
ministration to begin the year
with a slight advantage where
expenses are concerned. The
SGA’s share will be deposit
ed to the account within five
days after the receipt of the
check, as the Administration
guarranteed.
The Administration also
guarranteed that the Business
Office will insure that all
withdrawals against the SGA
account would be paid prompt
ly within the monthly account
ing period.
The SGA, in return, agreed
that the SGA President would
appoint an advisory committee
to cooperate with the Dean of
Students to determine the dis
tribution of the SGA’s per
centage of the revenue.
Finally, the SGA consented
to make the above proposals
retroactive to cover the money
presently in a bank account
off campus, giving the Admini
stration a share of the re
venue received -from the re
creation room last academic
year.
Pranksters last week chose the flagpole, located prominently in
front of the Administration Building, as the object of their ac
tivities.
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News Summary
By DON HENCHEl
Pearsall Elected
Board Chairman