VOL. 8, NO. 11 North Carolina Wesleyan College, Rocky Mount, N.C. MONDAY, APRIL 19,1993
Pro-life abortion forum stirs controversy
By KIMBERLY CURSEEN
“The Silent Vote” forum, held
on March 26 in the Student Ac
tivities Center, featured the key
note speaker Mike McHugh, a
Pro-Life activist and pastor from
Grace Church, Essex Junction,
Vermont.
The forum started out with a
sonogram video, showing a fetus
at difference stages of develop-
Wesleyan
does well
in contest
By BONNIE CROSS
If you invite Chris Farmer to
play golf, and he says, “I don’t
think I can do that,” go right out
and buy the Hole-in-One plaque.
That’s the consensus of the mem
bers of Rho Alpha Psi Chapter of
Phi Beta Lambda who proudly
watched Chris walk away with
First Place in the Computer Con
cepts event of the State Leader
ship Conference, held at the Ra
leigh Hilton, April 2-4.
While waiting for his event to
be announced, Chris worked hard
to convince his teammates that
he had litfle or no chance to place.
So much for his ability for pre
dicting the future.
Chris was one of the N.C.
Wesleyan College representatives
at the conference, along with
Frances Bellamy, Chris Brandt,
Bonnie Cross, Eileen Draper,
April Lane, Jessica Sage, Chris
Whitehead, and advisor Dana
Ford.
One of the purposes of Phi
Beta Lambda is to develop lead
ership qualities in college students
in the Business Curriculum. Each
year students come together to
determine the best of the best,
jRrst on the state level, then at the
national level, by taking tests on
subjects in various areas of busi
ness.
Friday was North Carolina’s.
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ment in the womb. The tape ex
plained the development and be
havioral actions of an unborn fe
tus.
After tlie tape, McHugh spoke
about the Pro-Life movement and
the “guilty conscience of
America.” He said this “guilty
conscience” is because “most
people emotionally know it (re
ferring to an unborn fetus) as the
life of a child.”
Also in the course of his argu
ment for Pro-Life, he said every
third child bom is aborted each
year. McHugh referred to abor
tion as killing a person, and he
said the purpose of the Pro-Life
movement is to save the life of
the unborn “child.”
According to his Pro-Life
viewpoint, nothing but an act of
God “should” take a life. How
ever, McHugh did point out that
PIE IN THE EYE — Resident Director Steve Brummett of
Nash Hall slaps a pie in the face of Edgecombe RD Sue
McCormack (above) as part of SNC AE’s pie throwing con
test held March 31 during Spring Fling. Dean Charles
Bennett (below) was also a popular t&rgdt for the fundraisii^
event (Photos by Chris Taylor.)
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he is not a radical Pro-Lifer; he
feels an abortion is justified if the
mother’s life is in danger.
McHugh noted that he also would
support the French abortion pill
RU-486, on the condition that sec
ond and third trimester abortions
be outlawed.
McHugh pointed out in his ad
dress that Roe vs. Wade, a Su
preme Court decision that upheld
was not a legislative act, arguing
that it was a judicial decision and
not necessarily law. He in fact
called it “one unrestricted judi
cial act.”
McHugh’s organization, the
American Rights Coalition, helps
women sue abortion clinics for
malpractice and helps operate
EDAL, an organization that helps
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Convocation
recognizes
achievement
Emonique D. Wooten won the
Algernon Sydney SuUivan Award
and Judith K. Boyd was presented
the President’s Cup Award dur
ing the Honor’s Convocation on
April 4.
Other awards presented dur
ing the convocation were:
Freshman Writing Award —
Joyce F. Debroux.
Religion/Philosophy Award
— JoAnne D. Stegall.
James Headlee Memorial
Band Award — Thomas Parker.
Outstanding Foreign Language
Student — Stephen L. Gardner.
Wall Street Journal Award —
Gregory N. Flowers.
Outstanding Senior Account
ing Award — Jacquelyne G.
Leggett
Computer Information Sys
tems Award — Neal Latta.
Outstanding Food Service and
Hotel Management Senior —
Kaori Suzuki.
Physical Education Award —
Chris Cash.
NCAE-Student Program Edu-
catk>n Award — Kristie M. War-
len.
Biology Award — Julie A.
Duerler. •
^oican Institute of Chem
ists/North Carolina Institute of
Chemists Foundation Award —
Kimberly Gail Rehner.
Chemistry Award — Sarah
Lynn O’Brian.
Chemical Rubber Company
Award to Best Student in Fresh
man Chemistry — Matthew J.
Snyder.
Mathematics Award — Janet
Bowen Beaman.
Psychology Award—Bobbie
Shane Robinson and Harriet H.
Bullock.
Outstanding History Major
Award — Judith K. Boyd.
John Paul Jones History
Award — Christy L. Skojec.
Justice and Public Policy
Award-Criminal Justice — Brian
Dew.
Justice and Public Policy
Award-Legal Studies — Cynthia
Diana WilUiams.
Justice and Public Policy
Award-Politics — John Edward
Heame.
Sociology Award — Jodi
Anne Harris.
Co(5)erative Education Award,
Parallel Experience — Sarah
Lynn O’Brian.
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