VOL. 9, NO. 7 North Carolina Wesleyan CoUege, Rocky Mount, N.C. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10,1993
Concerns
discussed
at forum
By MARIE LENANE
Twenty students turned out
Nov. 10 for the first “Meet the
President’s Council” forum of
1993 in the Student Activities
Center to discuss issues concern
ing the students of North Caro
lina Wesleyan College.
The issues ranged from the
management of the new weight
room to the need for better light
ing on campus.
The six members of the
President’s Council — which in
cluded Vice President of Institu
tional Development and
Fundraising, Tim McDowell;
Dean of Student Life, Dr. Nancy
Van Kuren; Vice President of Fi
nance, Belinda Faulkner; Vice
President Fred Moore, and Vice
President of Academic Affairs,
Dr. Bob Bussom — along with
nine members of faculty and staff
nearly equaled the number of stu
dents in attendance.
“We try to promote student in-
volvement.”^tated Tonya Rouse,
secretary of S.G.A. and the
forum’s mediator, “but when we
actually provide students with an
opportunity to take their concerns
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GRANT AWARDED — Daniel G. Gall (above), visiting professor
of chemistry at N.C. Wesleyan College, has received a $2,000 grant
from the Burroughs Wellcome Science Faculty Scholarship Pro
gram to complete his study of greenstone artifacts at the archaeo
logical site in Moundville, Ala. (See Page 4 for story.)
McDowell pulls plug
on WESQ program
By PATRICK BRANNAN
and KEN LEONARD
North Carolina Wesleyan
College’s radio station, WESQ,
was taken off the air for 45 min
utes Wednesday night after a
caller complained about profan
ity.
Vice President of Develop
ment Tim McDowell pulled the
plug on Jason Decker’s “Cool
Punk, Alternative, Progressive,
Whatever Type Show” from
Yearbook’s
small staff
struggling
11:15 p.m. until midnight after
receiving a telephone call at home
fi-om a member of the commu
nity.
McDowell said the caller was
upset about language being used
on Decker’s show. He said the
caller had a t^ recording of the
program and was going to report
to the Federal Conununicafions
Commission about the violation
of profanity regulations.
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By CECILIA CASEY
The 1993 and 1994 editions of
the Dissenter, the yearbook for
North Carolina Wesleyan Col
lege, will be out this year in spite
of the enormousness of the task.
All the layouts, writing, ar
ranging, gathering of pictures,
compiling of names, and other
jobs that must be completed will
be done by only a few people.
There has been some concern
on campus that there would be no
yearbook this year, or that the
yearbook should be canceled.
Problems from last year, such as
editors leaving, missing equip
ment, lack of assistance from the
student body, and having to move
into a new office made the al
ready difficult job of producing a
yearbook just that much more dif
ficult, staff members said.
The Dissenter’s editor. Junior
Jessie Johnson, explained some
of the problems she has encoun
tered producing the yearbook.
“The main hardship is that
there are not enough students
working on the yearbook. Out
side of personal satisfaction what
are we going to give people for
working on the DissenterV she
said. “Thanks to Dr. Vivienne
Anderson, the editors have credit
through independent studies, but
that can go just so far. I think if
we had five or six more people
on our staff the people would re
ally see a difference.
“This is supposed to be fun
and more like a hobby, instead
it’s like a full time job. Last year
I spent over 20 hours a week on
the Dissenter, this year things are
better because I have more help,
but we are still working very
hard,” Johnson said.
Because of having no staff last
'year and having to fight a seem
ing lack of interest from organi-
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Internet part of information highway’
By MICHAEL MEAD
There has been a lot of talking
in the news about an information
highway.
This “highway” would bring
many resources together. These
resources will include EMail, in
terconnected libraries where digi
tal information can be shared, and
people. This “highway,” which
will actually be a very large net
work, will use multimedia and
interactive technologies to en
hance its usefulness.
But there is an information
highway now. It is called the
Internet.
It does everything the pro
posed new information highway
will do, without the multimedia
and interactiveness. This Internet
connects most colleges and uni
versities with government re
search institutions and other sci
entific networks.
With access to the Internet, a
person can talk in real-time with
another person anywhere in the
world though the use of the key
board for free. This same person
can send EMail to any other per
son that has an address on the
Internet. EMail nonnaUy takes
less than 10 minutes to send, and
there are several million people
with addresses on the Internet.
A person who is new to the
concept of the Internet can think
of it as a huge library. If you need
information, you can put a request
out on the Internet, or search
through any of its databases. You
are sure to find something be
cause there are over 1,000 data
bases on tlie Internet.
If you are interested in what is
current with your favorite hobby
or your major, you can gain ac
cess to the Internet’s electronic
journals. These journals are writ
ten by professionals in their fields.
North Carolina Wesleyan Col
lege does not yet have access to
the Internet. A1 LaRose does say,
“Access to the Internet will be
recommended for the budget for
next year.” However the likeli
hood of this being ^proved with
out support from students, fac
ulty, and staff is slim.
Some students and faculty are
aware of Internet and its advan
tages. LaRose says, “In the fore
seeable future Internet will be the
primary means of exchanging
professional information — the
sheer volimie of information will
dwarf any single institution.”
Carl Wynkoop points out the
importance of Internet to students
and faculty. “Internet will help
turning students to the technol
ogy of networking. Internet will
give faculty access to otho- schol
arly institutions,” he said.
Pat Brannan says he will use
the Internet to “meet other people
on the Internet’s boards (where
people of the same interests con
verse and leave messages on cur
rent topics), and research topics
for papers.”