The Decree
VOL. 6, NO. 13
North Carolina Wesleyan College, Rocky Mount, N.C.
FRIDAY, APRIL 26,1991
Crime rate
increasing
on campus
BIG BROTHERS/BIG SISTERS DIRECTOR AL HOLLEY TALKS TO A FULL CROWD
Big BrotherslBig Sisters forming
new chapter at Wesleyan College
North Carolina Wesleyan
College and Big Brothers^ig
Sisters of Nash and Edgecombe
Counties, Inc. are joining forces
to help the youth in the commu
nity by establishing a North
Carolina Wesleyan College Big
Brothers/Big Sisters branch under
the umbrella of the two-county
chapter.
Wesleyan students will be
matched one-on-one with students
from Baskerville Elementary
School who have been selected
for the program primarily because
they are at high risk of under
achieving or dropping out of
school before completing high
school.
The program will work with
parents, students, adult volun
teers, teachers, counselors. Big
Brothers/Big Sisters staff, and
others not only to keep these “at
risk” students in school but to help
them make school a rewarding
experience.
Each college student will be
well oriented, trained, matched,
and monitored. Each match will
be required to spend two hours
per wedc together for one school
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By SONU SAINANI
Student at North Carolina
Wesleyan College have witoessed
sevoal cases of vandalism, lar
ceny, and theft (Mi campus during
this semester.
Personal belongings of stu
dents — money, jewelry, and
books — have been found miss
ing. A number of cases of com
munity damages have also been
reported.
On Friday, April 5, larceny of
a change machine in Nash was
reported. Security and Student
Life are currently investigating
the matter. Sources said a meeting ,
was held on April 17 but no par
ticular person is suspected.
“It is either someone from
Nash or someone that was let in.
With the new lock system, it is
certain that if the person was not
a resident, he was let in by
someone*in Nash,” said Pamela
Derrick, Associate Dean of Stu
dent Life.
The students who live in Nash
have not reported any particular
person they suspect. One student
said he strongly suspects that
someone who lives in Nash is re
sponsible. Deborah Pittman, di
rector of Security, has asked stu
dents to be free to call Student
Life if they have any information.
She has assured students that no
one’s cMifession will be revealed.
But most of the residents of
Nash are more concerned about
the $20 they have to pay to com
pensate for the canmunity dam
age. “It is unfair that I have to
pay the money. I wasn’t even on
campus when the event occurred,”
fusses sophomore Raymond
McDaniel, a Nash resident
Pittman has requested students
to report immediately to Security
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Students recognized at convocation
North Carolina Wesleyan
College awarded its outstanding
academic performers in the 1991
Honors Convocation held ^nil
17 in Russell Clu^l.
Matthew Oliver Dyson re
ceived the Algernon Sydney
Sullivan Award and Christine
Renee Adams received the
President’s Cup Award.
The Student Life Organization
Award went to the Black Stu
dents’ Association, and the Sarah
Alexander TuUoss Award went
to Jonna Joy O’Neal. Lorena
Elizabeth Segura won the Pilot
Club Leadership and Service
Award, Carl A. Turner won the
James R. Hailey Leadership and
Service Award, and Jerry Joplin
won the Pi Kaj^a Phi piofessor
of the Year Award.
Centura Bank awards went to
Cayla Bentley Wampler, highest
GPA, senior, NCWC native, and
to Carol Renee Stansbury, highest
GPA, senior, transfw.
Division awards went to the
following individuals:
Humanities Division —Terri
L. Evans, freshman writing
award; Kay Marley Watson, se
nior English award; Joyce Darnell
Odom, religion/philosophy
award; Melissa Joplin, W.C. Reid
band award; and Anne Yates,
Helen Merriam Thorp music
award.
Business Division —Cayla
Bentley Wampler, business ad
ministration outstanding senior
award; Alice S. turner. Wall Street
Journal award; Robbie Keith
Barnhill, outstanding senior ac
counting award; Amy Babette
Coggins, computer information
systems award; and Pierre A.
Gc«ia n, outstanding food SCTvice
and hotel management senior
award.
Education Division —Amy
Faith Seate, NCAE student pro
gram education award, and Mar
garet LeFon Culver, physical
education award.
Mathematics and Science Di
vision — Jeanne Baker Cook,
American Institute of Chemists/
N.C. Institute of Chemists Foun
dation award; Sonu Sainani,
Chemical Rubber Company
award to the best student in
freshman chemistry; Jeanne
Baker Cook, chemistry award;
and Douglas A. Lentz, mathe
matics award.
Social Sciences Division —
Brian Scott Hendricks, outstand
ing history major award; Lynette
‘ D. Bigney, John Paul Jones his
tory award; Christine Renee
Adams, justice and public policy
award, criminal justice; Karen
Elizabeth Mooring, justice and
public policy award, legal studies;
Margaret LeFon Culver, psy
chology award; and Willa Gray
HoUoman, sociology award.
Cooperative Education and
Career Planning Division —
William Robert Baker, Jr., coq>-
erative education award, alterna
tive experience, and Christy
MMene Spain, coq>erative edu
cation award, parallel experiwice.
Adult Degree and Summer
School Division — Gregg Allen
Presnal, outstanding Evening
College student award.