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THE WESLEYAN DECREE
April 11, 1962
Editorials
Spotlight: The Student
Do you, the student, ever wonder what you may have
taught your instructor after a year of study together?
Too often you many tend to think that the teaching-learn
ing process is, as the phrase indicates, a one-direction
stream of intellectual effort whereby the instructor pre
pares, lectures or demonstrates, examines, corrects, and
then repeats this simple cycle of pedagory with some
variations in method.
Well, the explanation is not that simple. He, too, has
been forced to make observations, as well as adjustments,
to those whom he seeks to serve. What, then, is the image
of the Wesleyan student to one of your faculty? Let us
begin our inquiry from outside the classroom and work
our way into it.
First—and foremost—the Wesleyanite is North Caro
lina’s coolest, sweating tw'ister. Coach Bauer has never
been able to sponsor any intratnural activity—faculty and
student, freshman and sophomore—which will engage the
Wesleyanite into such fervid, intra-muscular activity as the
Twist.
Raleigh’s “Rhythm Rockers” outcoached the Coach at
the Saint Patrick’s Day Dance.
“When the music started at eight o’clock,” reported
socialite Jo Lynn Faulkner in her freshman composition
Critical Review, “so did the Twist, which has become
an accepted activity on the Wesleyan campus.”
“This twist-prevailing social event,” philosophized calm
Alton Parker, “had the band going full blast by nine
o’clock with music that should have been felt, not heard
in a graveyard.”
And thus to Joe Morgan the earlier Valentine’s Day
Dance had “an overdose of slow records in an Age of
Twisting.”
Second, on the campus grounds the Wesleyan student
always has a cheerful greeting for the fellow members of
his college community. He extends this courtesy of recog
nition and greeting to fellow freshman or sophomore,
faculty or staff member, visitor or dignitary. He is keenly
aware of the fellowship among men, and this he readily
and unselfishly extends to all who pass him; for in this
gesture, he knows, lies the key to true community and cam
pus spirit. Without it, Wesleyan would not be community,
but ur'ban aggregation in which each pursued his own pur
poses without any concern for his fellow man.
As he enters the classroom, his instructor observes that
the Wesleyan student is a student with a sense of purpose
fulness. Instructor and student have assembled over vast
distances for the academic year in the pursuit of know
ledge which, they believe, will reveal to them the richness
of the American heritage.
From Sophocles to Frost, they will search for explana
tions into the vaster mysteries of life and God. They as
semble in mass each Thursday morning to observe Chris
tian fellowship in the w'orship of God.
Within the classroom, the Wesleyan student shows a
sensible and a modest taste for dress and appearance. His
departures from the norm are outside the classroom. If the
instructor has asked the Wesleyanette into his office for
a formal interview, the exotic-smelling perfume with
many is a must. It has never raised or lowered the grade
on a theme, but has caused the groping for fresh air in the
cement-block cubicle.
However, it is within the confines of the classroom that
such deep-searching questions as, “What kind of test will
you give?,” which forces the instructor to add to the in
tellectual development of thought by replying: “The test
this time, as always, will be both general as well as
specific” and “Don’t forget to bring blue books and a
sharp pen.”
Constantly seeking to improve his notetaking so that he
may reproduce on the essay test to the complete satisfac-
Meet Joan Lambert
JOAN LAMBERTH
Letter To The Editor
Dear Editor,
It is a well known fact that bridge
has becomc a popular pastime with
students on campus. Bridge has
created such enthusiasm that I
think something should be done to
get a Bridge Club organized.
There have many complaints
abouit the card playing in the snak
bar during mealtimes and in the
lounge, but if there were a Bridge
Club on campus, there would be a
designated place and time for the
students to play. This probably
would eliminate the ibridge play
ing in the snack bar. The club could
actually plan tournaments and the
members could also teach desiring
Meet Joan Lamberth, new Presi
dent of the Women’s Dorm.
A native of Roxboro, North Caro
lina, Joan comes from a large
family. “With six brothers and sis
ters my mother never has had to
make us eat because we were al
ways fighting over the last biscuit,”
Joan jokingly said.
An active student in high school,
she w'as class officer for itwo years,
SG.\ ofificer for two years, and
Glee Club accompanist for four
yeairs.
This popular campus personality
holds the title of Queen of the Spring
Formal, an honor bestowed on her
last May, and the title of Campus
Sweetheart, for which she was
crowned 'this year at the Valentine
Ball.
Though Joan is kept busy with
her duties as secretary of the SGA,
an office she has held for two years,
and as pianist far the Wesleyan
Singers, she still maintains a posi
tion on the Deans List.
Recently she accepted a letter
from the Jaycees asking her to
participate in the local Miss Rocky
Mount Pageant.
students how to play.
I believe that there are enough
interested students on campus to
form such a club. What can be done
to get one organized?
A Bridge Player
Dear Bridge Player,
The Senate is the place to start
in your eiforts to form a Bridge
Club. See Vann Massey, (presiding
officer. —Editor
tion of the instructor the intellectual gems given during
the lecture, the Wesleyan student more often than not is
quite capable of making such generalizations as, “This
sentence pattern is frequently used and recognized by
everyone.” Thus, he misses his “A” by quite a few points.
But it is also the same mind which can and does logically
arrive at such conclusions as: “Thus (the article) re
veals men who are dedicated to the truth of Catholic
education, those who trust in God and those who work for
the betterment of the University.” And in the same vein,
the Wesleyanite also reveals a cultural sensitivity to the
arts when he writes: “The first two Sonatas, Bach’s and
Stravinsky’s, were filled with rhythmic grace and were
artistically performed.” And above all, he can (when he
wants to) find and plagiarize the accurate generalization
in his research: “All this adds up to Father Hesborgh’s
idea of probing all truths on the ground that there cannot
be a conflict in truth.”
Hippy twister and a good fellow, the Wesleyanite is be
ginning to realize the worth of his education.
Mr. Carl Helwig
THE WESLEYAN DECREE
(Published by the students of NCWC)
EXECUTIVE EDITOR Wanda Exum
NEWS EDITOR Grace Markham
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