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''torth Caroiiiia We?iievan Coikse Rockv .Vfciont. North Carolina 27804 NEWS & OPINION October 13 1(ln OPINIOX: Successful Step Show Prompts New Questions Ov’fr Cancellation of Last Year’s NC Wesleyan Productior essica-( jqnes han )raernuthe:icxe:sinadv™a; i-iKt vear.Vfaionev. amemberof Alnha chanr? m nnf or f :y Jessica D Janes Oecr»e Gomion Editor Ai 'his poini. • am inini: o ;nauiae :n he use or imnnjper sneach— please bear v:th me. iei:au,se ‘!' na' put I /Uf "here: 'iow 'hat >he Admmistniiuin :ni',ws ihal a ounch ol' dlacit Piriple win jatlier ;n one 'ietlina anci a)mpete •viihiiiii ictina rheir iuppf)sedlv irue is- >ence—jnc.rant— vill >iCWC officiais inai!;^ iei .he ■ jreek Life oraani/jiion.s lav-i -heir own Step Show’ hy ::ie lell not ’ Aiterail. on Sepremfier 2J':hh—ieven monih.v atrer ^iC'S '. Greek Lie iirjanizations ynooseti ^heir Step Show ;dea—Eliza- Teih ■ Jty ifate '.’niversin' hefd ;ls D'j'vn East Vik.na Step Show" :n 'he Dunn Center. The ECSL .Step Show vas 'he same a.s she ht;w proposed to the '’(T Wasieyan .iiiministration la.st year by mastermmds .Vfarrm Hiil and Licey ■Vfaloney. f was in the same buiiriina *ith ihe same aiuiience. ■s i fair'’ Hell no. and ; pensonailv believe that the schwi .knew it wasn'i :air which is why they gave ."^CWC iiuiients a chance to purchase their lickets at >:.00 a pop. which is cheaper The Decree )t 1 , rwd fur the ■.tmfriuiut'' Staff Comrihuton Anitiony DeGreccrio Msttn©/v Esteriirie Ron Fitz'y'/5ter Enka Stallings Grace Wallace Shannon Williams Staff Writers Kelvin Clark •AnantJa Landi Clyde Peeie Jr. Sean Riccio Hannan Srriith Jessica Smith Sports Editor Trevor Seibert Opinion Editor Jessica D. Jones Email: JJaaiMS^H.ncwr. «rfu Asst. Managing Editor 'Cn-.st.^e Werfelnnan Managing Editor ^essica Bowen Enwl: Je23107a^rt.»:we.»du Faculty Advisor Dr, Wiliiarn Grattan S'-a.?i/we(i i=^:ore- 3e5-'33e The Detree office is on the fint floor cfthe Hartness Cettur. Copyright PoJicy The Decree holds die oopynght ot every article ami grjptuc for f)ne-ame anrf future piiblicatKMi at the discretion of the editonal hoard. ,Suhmis.iion implien agreement with *»5i policy. Editorial Statement Commemary/opmion and letters lo the editor repre^t the individual auihor’i views, and not necessarily those of .North Carolin;! Wesleyan College, die Decree staff or die Decree advisor. Submission.s tr. suggest an art.cle. or iubmit an opinion piece or letter m the editor, ;end an atiaii attachment tMicros.ift i*«ord> »): WJ-irattan«incwc.edu. Note that die t>ecree siaff diecks all siihmisiiion.s for accaraty and eriiN m accordance wirh accepraWe grammar and pimctuanon as wella,sAPSryle Corrections The Decree cnrrect.s misokes of substance If you »o«W iKe m request a correctioii, iend an emaif m WXiran»«iia»c.edii, or call 9J5-53« han )rdernu the ackets in odvano; '■ i.iiO'or piirchiLsina 'iie tickets .K 'he door H. Since ihe school aihnvs iiudents io purchase any Dunn Center event ticket rbr ive ioilars.' believe hat 'iC .Vesieyan itudents shouldhave ioiten :nto the Step Show rbr ftes. Let’, backtrack for the newcomers ■11 'he MOVC population and go over a ; couple of -TJasons why NCWC admin istrators would not allow Gnsek Life Organizations lo .lave a step show. i—Dr Vann Mewkirk. Vice- President of Institutional Re.search and Planning, was paraphrased :n die >lairh 2()06 issue of the Decree as saying that idministrators .Tti.sed questions over 'he size and iU:Ength of the secunty lietail that the organizers had planned tD employ, noting that the step show would i’lave attnicted cinwds fem Rocky Mount -and the surrounding area, in addition to students from NC Wesleyan and the competing schools, F.A.CT: The Rocky Mount comrau- nm/ and tile surromiding areas in addinon to students from .VC Wesleyan and the competing schools were at nhe Down East Viking Step Show. J wenr ro the step show and I alone counted four police officers, numerous ■'Iwuncsr' wpe kidies and gentlemen, who played crowd control {You knott. keeping people feom standing in the walk way; and Qxi only knows how man> other people who help maintain order. WTien f asked a polit:e officer ex actly how many officers were patrollitiii the event, he replied with, "We have enough^’. So ray question is; What the hell is enough? Either way. ladies and gentlemen, the event was'still peace ful. On September 26,1 held a phone interv iew with Susan Autrey fora the Dunn Center who continned that, there 'vere only six Rocky .Mount Police Offtcei:s and that EO; also brought their own campus secunty (which explains the ■'bouncer' type ladies and gendemen. who played crowd control;. Just .for die record, please rake note that during another phone inten/iew Ll Larrv Woodley irora the Rocky .Vfount Police ^ Department .suggested thd-e should be at least eight police officers at an event -No matter the lack of security guards or tJie extreme amount of ECSU'i i-ampus security, there were no acts of violence, or acts of vandalism reported. Last vear .Vfaioney. a member of .Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. Inc.. predicted the non-v'ioience if Step Shows when he ■laid. "We re not Bloods or Crips. We're organizations about community service and scholarships." -—Last year Dr. NewkJrfc said that a ■stnailer ewnt with college groups Irom around ilie state would .have been prererable, hACT: NCWC Greek Dfe Organizations were thinking very BIG bj drawing groups as far as Florida A&M and Virginia Commonwealtli. as well as local ^jchoois such as Wake Forest and NorJi Carolina StaOi—but what w wrons with iiat"' For anyone tliat did not go, please note that the Dunn Center was packed with so many people: WTio'® Ki sav that Tom. Dick, and Harry .sitting in the first row were not from- Florida A.iM or .AAX or .NortbOt State ’ Aftkjr ail. the Down East Viking Step Show was promotiid with ceievision commercials. -Tidio advertisements, and f although, we don t care tor its new .sty le i the step .show was adverti.sed on .Facebootcom and Caxtonly kniws what other coikge- friendly websites. lii addition. Elizabeth Cty State University is ^5 minutes from .N’orfoifc. So would the NCWC adrtiini.stra- ton have been “concemed“ if all of Hampton Roads, Virginia showed up at ita back door, after ail. ECSU's radio stations are the same radio stations as that of Hampton Ri^ads! The.se same radio station.s—103 Jamz. 92J, 104,5. 88.9—did advertise for the Down East Viking Step Show and Unked eoileges such as Mortblk State Unrvmity. Old Do- tiiimon tTniversity. Christopher Newport UriTwr;jnj Th^- _ i Correction; Staff writer Sean Riccio’s name was mijispelled in the last 11 ts,sue of the Decree due to an editing I error by the faculty advisor University. TheCoflege of William and Mar^.. and Hamptoa University. All those school.s have an active Greek Life and two of those collets are His&Dricaliy Black Colleges and UniverHties. Hell, the host. ECSU, is a historically black college. 3-^THE BIGGEST ISSL1 OF THE^f .ALL) MONEY!!-!! Dr.Newfcirk: said that the .students canceled the event iifter the admiiustratioti encouraaed the oi^anizers to scale back and lower the costs. FACT: The NCWC Greek Life event was tffcost more than 36.MO with primary fund.s coming from SG.A and Greek Council. a.s well a& money used out of SG.A's contingency money. However, after seeing the Etenn Center ,s Vlinges .Auditorium packed K> its fun capacity (U02—a sell oai. I concluded tiiat money was irnieed macfc that ftiday nigfit So had ±e xbod given NCWC’s Greek Life Organizations the chance to put on the event. F believe they would have been ju.st as happy (if not more so i as the people who collected the money for th£ Down East Viking Step Show. ,\s a matter of fact Shelia -Vlartin. executive director of the Dunn Center, coniirmed that the Dunn Center has booked The Down East Viking Step Siiow—apin—for September 21, 2007. Some money had to have been maie if ECSL"s -Administration has signed a contract w ith the IXinn Center to allow for the "Big Event" ta occur once aaain. For die heff of it. let’s play math ematicians. Say the Dunn Center was sold out and die audience was filled with nothing but NC Wesleyan students: L202 times frve dollars equals 56^10 that would have been made that night WMcfa implies that everyone involved monev wise would have been paid back with ten (foUars made. Next math probiem; say the event was sold out and everyone attending ordered their tickets in adWnce; 1.202 times ten dollars equal SI2,020 that would have been made that ni.sht. This again implies that the school would have doubled their money-^oint blank and simple. Last math problem: say the event was sold out and every'one attending paid for their tickets at the door 1202 times fitieen ckillars eqtiais SI8.030 thrit would have been m.aii; that nigiiL That is triple the money used to get the whole Step Stow off the ground. Let's not fxget the fact that the masterminds also w anted Co include veates. meaning thev would have received a cut of that profit as well. Basically, what [ am saying is that there is no reason financially that the school cotiM not have supported tfieir NCW'C Greek orgam/atixts in developins a Step Show worth our while, .And i far as prize money—tJie prize nroney wotild not have been the i,,,sue. .sinmi,(,^„ ladies and gentlemen, the ttLv have been made back! SoagafflIwiHbefaoUen*.H, repeat my original question. S ^mistratonsfcnowabuncbofRi^' People can gather m one settin»J‘ compete without actin- their ofticials tinally let the Greek Lifr ! zatior^ have their own Step Sho?*^ ^TienitisaHsaidanSi, am very pis.sed off that tf^ N'OV’f .Administration tnists --omskiers",rt* than they do then own studeaorgj to The Dumi Center and vandalize J tear down our only buildm. large eZ to hold a large body of peopfc; wnen- it comes to suidents that live J function at NC Wesleyan, it's a prob) What makes me mad about the whole situation is that I bet you mc Adrmnistration’s response vv-iUbe "We -don t have a say in who The Dunn books in their facility, because own it ft is merely on our c nothangm.ore,-ha: Nothing mote to, place where we hdd otr SGA meetiiits, almost all events for FreshnKn OrieDia- tion Week, plays put on by .N’GVCs Theater department. Cj\i, and Stubi Activities events. Visiting Writer's s®, Graduation, President's welcoming dinner fix fte fiisshmen. athletk baiKjm and God only knows what else, NCWC might claim they don t have a say, but! find that hard to believe, especially siim almost every activity requiring a I'aije venue ocxurs in that building. So- when it is all said and done, I will sit back with the rest of the concerned student body waiting fertile nes.t heap of e.-Lcuses to pass on by. PROFESSORS from pg 1 make germtone jewet> and wOTfc on other ca^aft and decorating projects. She is proud to say that her 15-pound Calico cat, .Abigail, won a recent beauty pageant A Tarboro native. Dr. Daphne O Brien will teach writing courses as well. She earned B..A, and M,A, degrees from N'C State and a Ph,D, from UNC-Chapel HiH; her .specialty is American literature pre-1900. Over the y ears, besitfes te^hing writing. Dr. O’Brien has served as a freelance writer and editor, working on academic boofcs and journals for Oxford University Press, UNC Press well as clients in archeology, engineering and medicine. Ste lives with her hasband, Michael, and. son. Anderson, in a 180-year-old farmhouse in Edgecombe Country. Her family operates Fishing Greek Row'er Farm. Carl Lew is, a 19-year veteran of the Rocky .Mount police depart- nient, ha.s taken an early retirement from the force to pursue hi.s interest in teaching full-time. The Rocky -Mount resident has been appointed an assistant jrofessoF a[ justice studies after years of serving as an adjunct instructor. An .VCVVC graiiate, be holds a masters ckgree in cnminal justice fhxn East Carolina and he is working toward a Ph.D. in business administration with a criminal justice concentra tion at North Central University'. His teaching and research interests iiKlude manageoKnt of police pursuit liability; criminal investiga tions. and critical thinking skills in policing. WTien not at w ork. Lew is enjoys surfing C^in the ocean, not online”) with his wife, Jackie, an assistant professor of accounting at .N'CVr’C. Lewis likes to play golf and carve duck decoys and he supports nature conservation efforts such as the National .Audubon Society. The NC Wesleyan music program has been revived with last spring’s appointment of professor Freshman Amanda Sagadraca catches up on sctaci wrkSr“ P era the NCWC Commuter Lounge, which opened this fail in the space that used to house the Powerhouse Grille. Gene Heavner. a native of Lin- colton ("near CharIotte'’j. Heavner earned BA (Pfeiffer University) and ^JM (Appalachian State) degrees in music education with specialties in instrumental music and choral directing. He was employed for one year at Edgecombe County' Public Schools prior to comins to NC Wesleyan, w here, this sen^ster. he teaches music appreciation, instrumental ensemble and a class fcx the Wesleyan Singers, Besides - teaching. Heavner will help the Admissions office in its recruitment efforts, with the goal of strengthen ing the college s music program. HeavTKT enjoys camping and other outdoor activities, and tlu^ years ago, he took a cross-country trip on his motorcycle. Dr, Molly W'eise has joined the Education and Social Science Division as an assistant profes sor of sociology. Dr. Weise is a political sociologist who focuses on voting behavior and the impact of soaal structure and culture; other academic interests include family sociology' and sociology of health and illness, .A native of Jamestown, New York, and a graduate of SvTacuse University, Dr, Weise now' considers herself a Texan, having earned an MS in human development and family studies from the University of North Te.xas and a Ph,D,—she defended her dis sertation in early September—from Texas Women's University. In iier free-time, she likes to travel by train, study architecture and histoiy of the South, and spend time with her dog, Lola, and cat, Choo Choo. Before grad school, she was an amateur bodybuilder, Si,\ NCWC professors left the college after the 2005-06 school year; Drs. Kaye Campbell and Kevin Moberiy, both of the English Department; Tom O’Connor (justice studies); Sydney Pamsh (chemistry'); John Perry (math); and John Poft'enbarger (political science).
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