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Page 2 THE WESLEYAN DECREE March 14, 1962 Editorials The Royal Nonesuch Is chapel becoming a ritual, a mere mechanical opera tion that requires nothing more of its participants than it would from a room full of robots? It s(j, why I For one reason there is not enough variety to merit the audience’s attention. Week after week it is the same old thing. Listen for prelude, call to worship, song, prayer, anthem, scripture, “sermon, ’ song benediction, postlude— then leave. It reminds us of a broken record. Lack of freshness is another reason that chapel is on the death march. After all, what is its purpose anyway? Are we supposed to get something out of it? We realize that every chapel program cannot be an act of revelation, but at least it should be aimed at sparking the audience’s attention. Trite vocabularies and generalized topics are two seri ous drawbacks in the chapel talk itselt. Does this point to the speaker’s lack of interest or preparation—or maybe both? If chapel is important enough for Dean iVIoore to send out explanatory letters to the students concerning the seriousness of cutting chapel, it should be important enough for those in charge to present a program that is well written, and delivered. In the letter it is .stated that those in charge of chapel should assume their responsibility to us. Why not give a student (or students) an opportunity to organize and present a program occasionally, one that would not necessarily have to conform to the “standard’ I There are several different directions the chapel pro grams can take : interpretive dances, plays, readings, talk ing choruses, or singing programs. However, we are cer tainly not suggesting that every program should follow along these lines but we are saying that they could be used for variation. What is most important to us is making the ])rogram that we have more effective. Chapel (as stated in the handbook) is one short period a week “when the college community unites in worship.” At ))resent there does not seem to be much “uniting” going on. Crying In The Dark In Chapel February 29, the Rev. Calvin Knight made this interesting comment: “Too often many of us are like the child who screamed, ‘There is too much dark, there is too much dark,’ and yet we do nothing about it ... It is not the superior spectators who win a game but the players in that game.” Right now The Decree would even welcome the “child ren crying in the dark.” Do we have any students interested enough in our college life and its problems to write letters of criticism to the editor? Is there no room for improve ment in any area of campus life? The place to voice your opinion is where it will be heard and do the most good. Bring it out into the open! Let us all hear about it. I agree with Rev. Knight that we need “men of action” but in this case we also need some “crying in the dark.” Where are the critical spectators? w. ‘You say you wouldn’t miss chapel and student assembly for the world?” Situation: Comedy There seems to have been a rash of minor pranks at the Women’s Dormitory last week. Ranging from an emptied fire extinguisher on third floor to misplaced name iplates, these pranks have been re ceived with “mixed emoitions.” To some the whole thing is out rageous (certainly not done in an adult mamier) and to others it is pure vandalism. Some feel that the guilty persons should pay for the damages and there are those who want to forget the whole thing. Regardless of the attitude, it is a “big to-do” over nothing. The Administration wants the expense of filling the extinguishers (another one on first floor was discovered partially emipty) paid for and they naturally want to prevent it from recurring. But somewhere along the line of diminishing authority they iiave missed their goal. What start ed out in fun, on the girls part, has turned into revenge. Letter To The Editor Efforts Misconstrued THE WESLEYAN DECREE (Published by the students of NCWC) EXECUTIVE EDITOR W'anda Exum NEWS EDITOR Grace Markham ASS. NEWS EDITOR Mary Jo Barkley SPORTS EDITOR Mary C. Hodgin CIRCULATION MANAGER Cherry Gorham BUSINESS MANAGER David Caison PHOTOGRAPHER Tony Inscore Recently a group of girls emp tied a fire extinguisher in the Women’s Dormitory. There has been a lot of controversy on the nature of this offense. This in time led up to several discussions on the purpose of going to col lege. As yet we have heard no thing from the actual partici pants. Underneath the frivolity they have a point to make: Dear Editor: We, the members of the Wesleyan Girls’ Dorm Volunteer Fire Depart ment, are seriously concerned over tlie reception witli which our ef forts to combat the fire hazards on third floor has met. It seems that our illfated^ expedition has not been considered in the same benevolent Sipirit in which it was conceived. We have sat silently by and heard our valiant attempts maligned until W'e can be silent no longer. They have been referred to as “vandalism,” an outrage, water- Vv'aSite, and -various other epithets which we will refrain from listing here. We have heard recently a nasty rumor that we are here for four years of concentrated study. We cannot express liow appalled we are by this gross misconception; we iiope to coM’ect tliis situation in our own liumble, albeit neces sarily devious, way. We have at heart tiie interests of the college community, and do not wish to see its aims of brotherhood and ifriendliness thwarted in these formative years by priggish no tions of self-righteousness. Our Volunteer Fire Department foirms the core of a haM-flighting, kindly, patriotic, and loyal group concerned with the spreading of a right Christian spirit and debauch ery. Sincerely, WVFD
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