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PAGE 4 — THE DECREE — JANUARY 29,1993 Tlie Decree OFFICIAL STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF NORTH CAROLINA WESLEYAN COLLEGE Edifor-in-Chief— Nicote Cox Assistant Editors—Cecilia Casey, Delioda Lee, Gene Meiton Advertising Manager — Lisa Jones Staff — Brad Barnes, Jennifer Beemer, Kim Curseen, Ken Le»iard, Dan Moynihan, Ellen Stanton Photi^raphers—Beth Sherrard and Chris Taylor Advisor — Dr. Margee Morrison The Decree Is located in the Spruill Building, Nwtli Carolina Wes leyan College, 3400 Wesleyan BlvL, Rocky Mount, NC 27S01, Policy Is d^rmined by :tiie Editoriat Board of 7£e i)ecrM. iRe>publication of any ■ matter herein without the express consent of the Editorial Board is strictly forbidden. The Decree k conposed and printed by the Spring Hope Enterprise!^: Opinions publislted do: not: necessarily reflect tilose of- North Carolina We^yan College. Show your concern by being informed In any society, change occurs, members of soci ety have the option of im mediately dismissing the change because it is such, or attempting to understand the change and work with it. We have seen a lot of changes take place already this year, in our world, our country, and especially on our campus. We have new conflicts across the globe, a new president in the White House, and new policies and procedures being implemented at NCWC. While we have generally attempted to un derstand the changes tak ing place on our planet and in our nation, many have dismissed the changes tak ing place at our college simply because they are changes, without attempt ing to understand them. A prime opportunity to attempt to understand the changes at NCWC took place on Dec. 7 when Dean Bennett held an open fo rum to discuss his plans for the college. This forum was very poorly attended by stu dents, particularly when one looks at the ratio of how many students claimed to want to chal lenge the dean to how many students actually fol lowed through and at tended. Those who did at tend had a chance to ques tion the dean, and unravel the truth behind the mangled grapevine. They heard of the changes, and wanted to understand. They now may form a valid opinion. Unfortunately, those who have not attempted to understand the changes will still form an opinion, and reject change because it means breaking comfort able habits and changing familiar patterns and open ing one’s mind. While we do not have to agree with every change that takes place at NCWC — because certainly there are many we can take is sue with — we have an obligation to inform our selves, and to try to under stand other points-of-view. If we are truly here to get an education, after all, then we will form educated opinions and not dismiss what we don’t try to un derstand. Besides, once the change occurs, we will have to un derstand it anyway, and live with it. And after all, change can be good. IKP ONIV OUKAWJ W'UlMvfe- Young singer was king Elvis left stamp on rock By DR. STEVE FEREBEE While I was standing in line to buy my Elvis stamps, I noticed that most of the other people were of my parents’ generation, the ones who expressed paiticular horror at the kind of image he projected. In fact, several age groups stood in line. I grew up with the silly 1960’s Elvis movies and only later dis covered the “real” music which he recorded in the 1950’s. (I mean, anyone who thinks a song like “Viva Las Vegas” ranks with “Jailhouse Rock” is not a rock and roll fan.) Although I knew he had a “bad” reputation (and we used to know for sure what that meant), the image from the mov ies was hardly rebellious or threat ening. In fact, it was silly and even boring. I remember laugh ing outright when he would sud- Dr^ Steve Muses denly break into song and a full band would appear out of door ways to help him serenade his lady love. So why did I find myself in line on his 58th birthday trying to buy commemorative stamps? Why were all of these older people giggling as if they were playing hooky from thek real lives as they waited to buy stamps? First of aU, Elvis could sing. Second of all, he could move. Last summer, I bought the five-CD collection of 1950’s Elvis songs, and I was surprised at the amount of good music he put out. His voice had a gospel-like clearness if he wanted it to, and it had a gruff blues-growl if he wanted it to. He was a good boy and a bad boy all in one. The famous Ed Sullivan waist-up-only appear ance is only one instance of his raw power to excite his audience with smoldering sexuality. When he curled his lip, shook his ducktail, and swiveled his hips, he announced (a decade before John Kennedy and Bob Dylan) that a new generation was a-com- ing. In fact, it was here. It could have been someone else — Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Muddy Waters, Little Ricbi^rd. But Elvis was the enter tainer who got caught up in the newly developing media splurge. He was also a white man who helped white America understand (Continued on Page 5) PP is really devious business By KEN LEONARD Wouldn’t it be nice to work in a company charged with putting itself out of business, but with no accountability to make sure you were making any progress? What a racket. You’d be able to rake in the government money for the education contracts while still making money from your pri mary business. Let’s give your company a name. Planned Par enthood. Founded by racist, borderline- Nazi Margaret Sanger to promote abortion (with the stated purpose of eliminating the blacks and poor,’ aldng With’ “othei' Undesiir- ables”), this group today provides contraceptive and abortion “ser vices” to the community. Besides paying customers, they have government-supported ones, because they have lobbied hard for government support of their cause. Also, they get a great political hot-button issue, because many cities have allowed PP to write sex education programs, supposedly to reduce sexuality. Naturally, the organization • 'quickly said that this w^' a lost - cause, and aU they could do is make it safer. If we gave General Dynamics (making of the F-16 fighter-bomber and Tomahawk cruise missile) the mission of end ing world conflict through edu cation, they’d probably issue a similar report. In some areas, PP has its “What is an orgy?” campaign go ing. Allegedly, if a child is not asking his parents that question, he is at risk for AIDS or some other horrible fate. When critics say that “What is chastity?” is a more appropriate question and would work better, PP claims that ■ ■' • (Continued on Page 5)
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