3lie
NORTH CAROLINA WESLEYAN COLLEGE
U. S POSTAGE
PAID
Permit No. 217
Rocky Mount, N. C.
Noa-Profit Organization
VOLUME XI, NUMBER 4
ROCKY MOUNT. N- C.
TUESDAY, SEPT. 30, 1969
Second Parent’s Weekend Oct. 4 - 5 Elections Disputed;
October 4-5 will be Parents'
Weekend here at N. C. Wesley
an. Parents are to begin regis
tering at 9:00 Saturday morning
in the lobby of the Administra
tion Building. Saturday morning
will also feature Open House
in all departments. Parents may
confer with the faculty advisers
of their children (?)if they wish.
Saturday afternoon the Trust
ees Room will be open to all
parents who wish to discuss po
licies of the college, college
development, and long range
planning.
Of special interst to the men,
there will be a soccer game at
Students Take Places
On Facuity Committees
By DAN DAVIS
At the first in a series of
three assemblies on student
involvement, a panel consisting
of John Roberts, Bill Brantly,
Ed Smith, and Dean Wijde, voic
ed opinion and policy for action
on the issue. The Tuesday meet
ing, as well as the entire as
sembly program, was meant to
spark student-faculty-admini-
stration communications.
SGA President Roberts out
lines the general position of
his administration and its de
sire to bridge the gap by in
creasing student representa
tion on all campus committees.
He also discussed the proposal
to have the president of the
student body act as an ex of
ficio member of the ultimate
college authority, the Board
of Trustees.
The SGA suggested are pend
ing acceptance by the Board.
Enumerating the details of
Roberts’ scheme, Vice Pre
sident Bill Brantley expressed
the sentiment that the Trustees
are “grossly out of touch” with
the Wesleyan students. The
combination of students and ad
ministration is, according to
Brantly, to be actualized by
the presence of students on the
Admissions Committee, the
Student Life and Services Com
mittee, the Educational Pro
grams Committee, the Board of
Trustees, and all faculty meet
ings.
In order to represent the stu
dent voice in the area of ad
mitting new members to the col
lege community, Brantly sug
gested that one student be pre
sent at all meetings of the
Admissions Committee. He
hoped to render the scope of
the Student Life and Service
Committee more comprehen
sive by increasing the number of
undergraduate members from
three to five. Since the Edu
cational Programs Committee
is responsible for deciding the
areas of study, Brantly stated
that two students should be al-
(Continued on Page 2)
Game Room
Rules Set
Hugh Cross, Chairman of the
Athletic Commission of the
SGA, announced last week a set
of rules for the SGA’s game-
room in the Student Union Build
ing.
Cross said that allattempts to
avoid payment for playing, such
as catching pool balls or plac
ing objects in pockets to catch
the balls would be subject to
prosecution in student courts.
Fines can be imposed on con
viction, he said.
Cross also announced that
damaging the equipment in the
gameroom will be subject to
prosecution in student courts.
According to James Gill, At
torney-General of the SGA, all
SGA officials are authorized to
report offenses in the game
room.
2:00 p.m., Lynchburg College
opposing the Wesleyan Bishops,
and for the mothers there will
be a fashion show at 4:00 in
Garber Chapel.
Saturday evening activities
begin at 8 K)Owhenabanquetwill
be given for all parents at the
K & W Cafeteria at Tarrytown
Mall, Rocky Mount. After the
banquet parents may meet at
homes of various faculty mem
bers and Administrative Offi
cials for informal receptions.
Said Dean Wilde of Parents’
Weekend: “The college sees
this as recognition of the im
portance ofparents to the camp
us. It’s a day when we spend
all day honoring parents of the
students.
Assault Threatened
On the night of September 25,
several residents of South
Hall’s second floor received a
prime example of the admini
strative policy and efficiency of
the Wesleyan student- govern
ment. This was the night of the
annual dorm elections. The re
sidents were to select their
council representatives and
dorm president—an exercise
of one of the most basic de
mocratic political beliefs.
Unfortunately, the election
turned into a political holocaust.
The ballots were illegal be
cause they were not printed.
Frosh Volunteer For APO Retreat
Wesleyan’s Volunteer Fire
fighters, the brothers of Alpha
Phi Oemga Service Fraternity,
have recruited three new mem
bers for the Stony Creek Vol.
Fire Department and Rescue
Squad. The new volunteers, all
Freshmen, are Steve Earley,
Chuck Martin, and David
Smith. They have already begun
an extensive orientation and
training -program.
After the probationary period
of ninety days, these men will
have been qualified in first aid
techniques, fire control tactics,
equipment preparation and
handling, as well as in various
rescue procedures.
Nash County’s newly acquired
five acre Fire Training Cencer
located in Nashville will be the
center of this training. The bulk
fuel pit, smoke house, and pole-
house located at this central
location will enable volunteers
to experience a wide range of
fire situations while under con
trolled conditions.
Courses taught by the State
Department of Insurance and the
local chapter of the American
Red Cross will supplement
these exercises with class
room instruction.
Freshman volunteers are now
able to receive emergency calls
by means of a monitor install
ed in Edgecombe Hall. They
will also share assignments on
the daily duty roster which are
now filled by the brothers of
APO.
Wesleyan’s student volun
teers take a great deal of
pride in the fact that they : ,re
the first student organization to
actively participate in a com
munity service project which
would benefit the greater Rocky
Mount area.
Through their involvement in
the volunteer fire department
(Continued on Page 2)
The election was not conduct
ed by election commission offi
cials, but rather by ARC’S. Cer
tainly the crowning glory was
that neither knew the correct
election procedure, and some
how or other South Hall resi
dents also were to vote for
senators, without prior warn
ing. The entire episode can be
chalked up to the credit of Wes
leyan’s infamous “definite lack
of communication,” which is
steadily deteriorating.
As if this were not enough,
the second floor was not allow
ed to bear its defeat in exault-
ation. The long hours of the night
brought growing tension as the
post-election vigil wore on.
Tom Mowbray’s faction had
lost, but, he said, “We re
joiced in our attempt. Spon
taneity prevailed, and the elec
tioneers poured into the hall
to celebrate their illfated ef
forts.”
“Yet,” he said later, “de
feat was not to be the only
torch we were to bear. Our own
student government was to ren
der the final blow. First, Bob
Leyda, who holds the rank of
ARC as a paid, personal re
presentative of Dean Wilde, felt
(Continued on Page 2)
SMC Plans National Boycott
On October 15, a national
boycott of classes in schools
throughout the United States will
be held. This boycott will be
aimed at stopping the war in
Vietnam and bringing home the
soldiers stationed there. With
each month that the war con
tinues, another day will be add
ed to the boycott, until finally
the war will come to a halt.
The Student Mobilization
Committee has organized this
movement to “deny Nixon the
breathing space he wants in or
der to continue the devastation
of Vietnam.” The SMC has
planned another student strike
on November 14. Each month
that the war continues another
day will be added to that month’s
boycott of classes.
The SMC, which has helped
to organize numerous protests
against the Vietnamese War in
the past, expressed the purpose
of this “Fall Offensive” as “the
immediate withdrawal of all U.
S. troops from Vietnam.” They
advertise that “the Fall Of
fensive will show this opposi
tion in a united way,” with the
focus of the Offensive the Na
tional March on Washington on
November 15th.
Louisburg Kinetic Art Film Series Reviewed
By JIM VAN LANN
With each new generation,
new art forms are developed.
An excellent display of a mo
dern art form can be seen at
The Kinetic Art Film Series,
presented by Louisburg Col
lege. With films that range
from animation to filmed re
ports of the 1968 student riots
of Paris, this program offers
a different view of the world
and an insight into modern film
techniques.
On September 24, 1969, the
second part of this three-part
series was shown, stressing
Czechoslovakian and Hungarian
films. The program began with
an animated film fron Czech
oslovakia, entitled ET CE
TERA, portraying evoluation,
motivation, and the struggle be
tween creation and destruction,
with several stirring techniques
of animation never before used.
A Hungarian film followed,
employing a weaving of image
and music to create a mood
that was enhanced by the lo
cations photographed and the
haunting studies of Hungarian
citizens. MIRACLE was un-
doubtably one of the more mov
ing films shown.
On its heels came another
Hungarian film, called ELEGLA..
A study of deaty and futility,
of waste and destruction, and of
sorrow and sickness, the story
of the horses, who live wild
on the plains of Hungary, until
they die in a butcher’s shop,
with blood streaming over their
heads, was probably the sad
dest film presented. With an
exceptional sense of continuity
and creativity, the director ele
vated an elegy into an eulogy of
lasting memory.
After this, a Japanese film,
entitled WHAT DO YOU THINK,
was shown, contrasting modern
Japan with a more traditional
Japan. Using kinetic photo
graphy, the director incorpor
ated live photography and ani
mation into a facetious com
mentary on modern life. Easily
the most amusing, WHAT DO
YOU THINK communicated its
message in the language of farce
and satire.
After a brief intermission,
a film, named PARIS, MAI1968,
was shown, portraying the prac
tically incomprehensible bruta
lity of the Paris riots. What
one hears is often takenwith “a
grain of salt,” but the violence
and brutality depicted in the
graphic colors of reality must
be accepted for what it is. The
violence, ignorance, anddegre-
dation are so vivid, that even
the most calloused viewer re
acts with horror and sy~.pathy.
The evening was concluded
with a film of English origin,
entitled LET’S ALL MAKE
LOVE IN LONDON TONIGHT.
Clearly a dated film, for it
showed concerts of the Rolling
Stones, while Brian Jones was
still alive, this was probably
the least impressive of the
collection although if contrast
ed with a less formidable se
ries, it too would be forceful.
Concerning modern life in En
gland, the film appeared tra
gically commercial and many of
the interviews began to drag,
with a few exceptions. The film
techniques of this picture were,
in general, traditional, although
many were appealing and
tastefully done.
If one wishes to spend a de
lightful evening away from the
rigors of carefully plotted wes
terns, detective stories, and si
tuation comedies, I would
strongly recommend the third
and final part of the series of
Kinetic Art Films at Louisburg
College on the second of Octo
ber.