The Decree
VOL. 6, NO. 4 North Carolina Wesleyan College, Rocky Mount, N.C. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2,1990
Day includes
dedication
of library
PEARSALLS VISIT WESLEYAN — Dr. Les Garner (second from left) is joined by members of the
Pearsall family, Elizabeth, Thomas, and Mack, during the Founder's Day celebration last week.
(Photo by Joanna Holladay.)
Eleven students awarded
A.J. Fletcher Scholarships
Eleven North Carolina
Wesleyan College students are this
year’s recipients of the AJ.
Hetcher Scholarship, awarded to
students who are outstanding
musical performers and have ex
celled academically.
Seven students received a
$1,000 scholarship and four re
ceived a $500 scholarship.
This year’s $1,000 recipients
are: Lori Briley, Tara Chavanne,
Alyssa Cooper, Gene Gillikin,
Michael Hawkins, Temple Hite,
and Melissa Joplin. The $500 re
cipients are Shindana Bowen,
Lorena Segura, Peter Tuerk, and
Anne Yates.
These students are particularly
active in ensembles and all musi
cal activities. They serve as a core
group which provides the foun
dation for a quality musical group
and they, as a group, attract the
interest of other students. Their
musical abilities enhance the
music on campus, and the campus
not only benefits from their talent,
but also the Rocky Mount com
munity.
Lori Briley is a junior who is
majoring in music. Her husband is
Carl H. Briley, Jr. of Rocky Mount.
Tara Chavanne, daughter of
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North Carolina Wesleyan Col
lege celebratedFounder’s Day and
dedicated the Elizabeth Braswell
Pearsall Library Building last
week.
The library, constructed in
1966, has undergone extensive
renovation in the last six months,
funded by a significant contribu
tion from the Pearsall family to
the $8 million “Vision for the
Future” Capital Campaign.
Physical improvements to the
building include the installation
of air-conditioning, new carpet
ing, lighting, furnishings, equip
ment, and resource materials.
Wesleyan’s library now partici
pates inanational and international
inter-library loan subsystem which
provides direct computer access
to the holdings of most significant
libraries in the southeast, as well
as access to holdings of the state
library and Dialog information
services.
There will be two named rooms
in the library—the W. Carl Noell
Reading Room and the Vivian
Braswell Music Library.
Following the dedication cer
emony Thursday, Mack Pearsall,
College trustee and president of
Pearsall Operating Company, de
livered the keynote address.
Pearsall stressed moral Uteracy,
as weU as cultural literacy, as es
sential in the classroom.
“Fix your eyeson the individual
student,” he challenged the faculty
and staff. “Instill in them a com
mitment to lead and to serve.”
Following the keynote address,
the Algernon Sydney Sullivan
Award, the college’s highest rec
ognition for service to the College
or community, was presented to
Richard H. Bamhardt.
Bamhardt, president of Prop
erties, Inc., is a College trustee
and serves on the executive com
mittee for the capital campaign.
He has been instrumental in the
success of the Rocky Mountphase
of the campaign, which has raised
more than $5 million.
A native of Charlotte,
Bamhardt graduated from Geor
gia Tech with a bachelor’s degree
in industrial engineering. He is a
member of First Presbyterian
Church, and serves on the board
of directors of Community Min
istries, Inc., and Peoples
Bancorporation.
College President Dr. Les
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Institute says college students low on ethics
College-aged people are less
ethical than any other group of
people, aLos Angeles-based think
tank claimed Oct. 12.
People 18 to 30 years old have
fewer ethical values than earlier
generations, the Josephson Insti
tute for the Advancement of Eth
ics claimed.
Young people lack honesty,
personal responsibility, and re
spect for others, the institute said
in a summary of other polls, ar
ticles, and about 40 original in
terviews.
The results, claimedresearcher
Michael Josephson, indicate “a
meaningful, demonstrable... dis
cernible disintegration” in moral
standards.
Students vehemently disputed
the charge.
“I disagree with that,” said
Jennifer MacCallum of Provi
dence College in Rhode Island.
“So many people here are very
concerned for other people. We
don’t protest issues, we actually
go out and do something about it”
Indeed, at about the same mo
ment Josephson released its study,
7,(X)0 students from around the
nation gathered at the University
of Illinois to plot environmental
efforts. Half of Dartmouth’s stu
dent body turned out to object to a
studentnewspaper’s verbal attack
on Jews. Yale students protested
anonymous verbal attacks on
blacks.
“Those things are very rel
evant,” admitted Josephson, “but
I don’t think it will change the
thrust of how we characterize the
generation.”
“I think maybe we have dif
ferent morals and different values
than the last generation,” added
Oklahoma State University’s
Daryn Casey, “but there’s not a
lack of morals.”
Even those seemingly behind
Josephson think he’s overstated
the case.
“I don’t see rampant amoral-
ity,” said psychology professor
Stephen Davis of Emporia State
University in Kansas. His survey
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