Library Recieves $40,000
The
MOON‘S
The long awaited construction
of a library for the college has
been assured of an early start
with the gift of $40,000 recently
given Wesleyan by Miss Vivian
Braswell and Mr. and Mrs. Tho
mas j. Pearsall.
President Thomas A. Collins
announced these gifts to the Board
of Trustees at their recent meet
ing. Collins said that the $20,000
from Miss Braswell and the equal
amount of the Pearsalls will be
added to donations from founda
tions and other individuals to
match requirements for a Fed
eral grant.
If the requirements are met,
the college hopes to receive Fed
eral assistance sufficiently large
to assure the letting of building
contracts this winter.
The library, designed by Lash-
mit, James, Brown and Pollock
of Winston-Salem, will follow
the Colonial design of the cam
pus. It will contain more than
17,000 square feet of usable space
to house more thkn 60,000
volumes.
Located between the adminis
tration building and Nash Hall,
the structure will contain read
ing rooms, periodical rooms, a
reference room, staff offices and
preparation areas, faculty study
rooms, and seminar rooms.
President Collins, in his Col
lege Bulletin report of January,
1965, said, “we need many things,
but at the summit of our needs
to achieve excellence is the per
manent college library.”
The projected cost of the li
brary has risen from $350,000
in 1963 to $450,000 now. This
rise is due to the expansion of
the student body, and the ad
ministrations desire to provide
the best in facilities not only
for the present, but for the for-
seeable future as well.
The gifts from the Pearsalls
and Miss Braswell continue their
generosity to the college. In
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Decree
VOLUME 7—NO. 4
THE DECREE
Varied Issues Face Senate
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 12, 1965
New Sportswear
Ruling Passed
After much discussion a re
vision of the “Athletic attire”
regulation has finally been made.
The new rule reads as follows:
“Good taste in dress Is
expected of all students
at Wesleyan. Proper
sportswear may be worn
in the Student Union
building, excluding the
cafeteria, between the
hours of 2:00 p.m. and
closing. This attire may
also be worn in all dor
mitory parlors at any
time. Such attire is in
appropriate and not per
mitted in classrooms and
academic areas. It should
be held in mind that each
member of the college
community will be an ef
fective representative of
Wesleyan by exercising
appropriate habits of
dress in terms of
CLEANLINESS, DECEN
CY, and NEATNESS. It
is hoped that appropriate
dress standards will be
achieved through educa
tional processes rather
than through arbitrary
specifications.
New members were recently
added to the Senate. These are
Ann Hubbard and Allen Rags
dale from Nash Hall and Whit
Blackstone and Gus Gee from
Edgecombe Hall.
The Constitution, Rules, and
Grievance Committees members
were announced. On the Consti
tution Committee are Chair
man Richard O’Neal, Della Rea
ves, Blaine Adams, and Melvin
Gay. The Rules Committee is
composed of Chairman Hal Dixon,
Dana Dickens, carl Alderman,
Ann Hubbard, and Katrina Koby-
larz. On the Grievance Commit
tee are Katrina Kobylarz, chair
man, Jimmy Bass, Whit Black-
stone, Jimmy West, Kay Lips
comb, and Lea Horne.
The problem of cashing checks
on campus was brought up. Sev
eral Senate members expressed
displeasure at the present policy.
However, there will have to be
more discussion with higher au
thority before any change can be
made.
A form was presented for the
Food Service committee. This
form stated that the committee
will act as a sounding board for
student criticisms concerning the
cafeteria. It will meet bi-weekly
and special meetings may be
called by the chairman when
necessary. The Food Service
Committee will be a permanent
committee of the Senate and the
;^resident of the Senate shall at
the beginning of each year appoint
the members to this committee
until such time as the Residence
Hall Councils shall be organized.
Della Reeves - chairman, Terri
Conway, Alice Ervin-North Hall,
Bob Cairns, Billy Duke-South
Hall, are the members of the
committee for this school year.
Mary Walden, Carol Holleman-
Nash Hall, Jim Hogan, George
Speake-Edgecombe, are the tem
porary members.
A suggestion, was made to or
ganize a Traffic Regulations
Committee to be composed of stu
dents who would distribute park
ing tickets. The money received
from parking fines would go to the
Student Government Association.
The matter was referred to the
Student Life and Services Com
mittee.
The Senate discifssed the current
system of selecting the students
to receive the Leadership and
Services Awards. It was the gen
eral consensus that the students
nominate, the Senate members
make final selections from these
nominees, and the Faculty ap
prove the recipients. The Student
Life and Services Committee wil?
now review this plan.
At the Novembe r 8 meeting
of the Senate, a letter written
by President Collins was read
which explained that the recent
revision of the “athletic attire”
clause was not law but rather
a recommendation by the Senate.
President (iollins added in this
letter that any change made in
what is considered college law
must be approved by an author
ity can not become law until
the administration approves it.
Therefore, the regulation as
printed in the “Bishops’ Law”
is still in effect.
It was added after the read
ing of the letter that it is doubt
ful that this regulation will be
approved. The phrase “this
attire may also be worn in all
dormitr’■y parlors at any time”
has bee- criticized by the ad
ministration.
Efforts will be made in the
near future to define that powers
of the Senate more clearly in
order to prevent a repetition
of this type of confusion.
Dr. Batchellor instructs Bill Barto as preparations for
“The Little Foxes” wind up. This production of the Wes
leyan Players can be seen November 12 and 13 at 8:15
p.m. in the college gymnasium. Tickets are $1.00 for
Wesleyan students and faculty and $1.25 for other.
(Photo by Boothe)
Drs. Gates, Elliott
Present Papers
than mere decoration.
Dr. Gates, who is chairman of
Wesleyan’s newly created De
partment of Modern Languages
and professor of French, has
North Carolina Wesleyan’s
professors. Dr. Warren E. Gates
and Dr. Philip E. Elliott, will
present papers at the 35thannual
meeting of the South Atlantic
Modern Language Association
meeting at the Biltmore Hotel
in Atlanta Thursday through Sat
urday, Nov. 4-6.
Dr. Gates’ paper is concerned
with the French author, Marcel
Proust, while Dr. Elliott’s deals
with the English poet, Alfred
Lord Tennyson.
Dr. Elliott, associate profes
sor of English, has as his sub
ject “Unity and Imagery in the
Idylls of the King.” It is a
study of the recurrent patterns
of imagery in the famous poem
and the structural unity which
is gained thereby. Dr. Elliott
contends that the imagery is an
integral part of the design rather
entitled his paper, ‘‘The Doc
trine of Alimentation in Proust
and Tolstoy.” It deals with in
voluntary memory triggered by
taste sensations.
Tolstoy, a favorite author of
Proust, had an elaborate theory
of the moral effects of lavish
foods. Proust’s famous novel,
In Quest of Lost Time, relates
a chain of recollections triggered
by tasting a bit of pastry dipped
into a cup of limeflower tea.
Dr. Gates contends that Tolstoy*
may have contributed the model
which suggested this theme to
Proust. Scholars have devoted
much time in searching out this
model.