TgRTDAV NOVKTVmER 12,
Automobile
Overturns
On Campus
At approximately 11:30, Friday
night, November 5th, a 1956 Ford
overturned at the corner of Ty
ler Drive and the front entrance
to the campus.
None of the three occupants,
sailors from Massachusetts,
were injured.
An eyewitness to the accident
stated that the car came by
North Hall heading toward U. S.
301. After nearly colliding with
one automobile parked in front
of the dorm, the car made the
corner of Tyler Drive but hit
the curb, spun around, and turn
ed over near the fountain. The
car speed at the time of the ac
cident was estimated at 40 mph.
DECREE
PAGE 5
Pres. Collins Debates
On Speaker Ban Law
Recently Dr. Thomas A. Col
lins and Dr, A. C. Jordan of
Duke University appeared on Ra
dio station WRMT in erder to
debate the controversial house
bill 1935, the so-caJled “speaker
ban.” The following text is Dr.
Collins’ statement during the de
bate and represents his position
as sjiokesman for tfie college
community,
“Although I am an educational
administrator now, I am a Meth
odist minister first and always:
therefore, necessarily, I am per
sonally opposed to communism
and all it stands for as anti-
God, anti-individual rights and
anti-American.
If I believed that the speaker-
ban law hurt or hindered com
munism in any way I would have
to support it. This law does not
harm or hinder communism one
iota. You do not defeat com
munism by descending to its tac
tics or its level. This law does
not really limit communism or
communist speakers. Instead it
lends an aura of dignity to any
nuisance speaker who might be
brought in by foolish protestors.
There are already other laws
on the statute books of North
Carolina which restrict com
munists in classrooms or on
college campuses. These are op
erative and clearly legal. This
law does create indignity for
those who must try to adminis
ter it. They must embarrass the
Innocent to determine their in
nocence. Many intelligent dedi
cated Americans will not accept
an invitation accompanied by this
interrogation. Would you like to be
N. C. W. C. Students
Form ‘Confidentials’
The “Confidentials” from left to right are Bob Toth, Butch
Dupuy, Jimmy Home, and Kim Chamberlain.
(Photo by Boothe)
As almost everyone in South
Hall kno'vts,, the sounds of a newly
formed band have been heard for
the past several weeks. Bob Toth
has been trying to form a band
for quite some time, and he now
has succeeded.
The four piece “rock n’ roll”
band is made up of Kim Cham
berlain on electric bass, Butch
Dupey on saxaphone, Jimmy
Horne playing drums, and Bob
Toth playing lead guitar, Doug
Wood is featured singing sev
eral songs, but the band gen
erally harmonize together and do
the singing.
They have chosen the name
“Confidentials” and have been
playing recently at a local club.
It takes time, experience and
practice for a band to matera-
lize, but they are hoping by
this summer to go on the road.
They expect to play in Rocky
Mount, Enfield and possibly Rich
mond this year. Both Bob Toth
and Butch Dupey, the latter be
ing known around the Rocky Mount
area for playing bands, have had
past experience. Last year both
Bob and Kim Chamberlain did
some playing with the “Electras”
and the “Countdowns”,
S
asked by a friend“Are you a
thief? Are you a criminal? Are
you a communist?” Only in Am
erica have we established a wor
thy tradition of accepting a man
as innocent until proven guilty,
and this law presumes guilt in
many cases. A Duke law pro
fessor, Dr. Van Alstyne, states
that the speaker ban law is un
constitutional on its face for this
reason and because it provides
no penalty for violation.
The real issue is infringe
ment of delegated authority. The
100 supported colleges are hon
orable citizens of North Carolina
who understand the meaning of
citizenship, Americanism, and
their accepted responsibility.
They are appointed to govern
and make policies for educa
tional institutions. They deserve
the rights which accompany these
responsibilities. These honest
citizens are responsible to the
legislature, they are responsive
to the people of North Carolina.
Trust them with the responsibil
ity for which they have been
chosen. This trust has been ab
ridged by the legislature through
the speaker ban law, which was
hastily written and hastily enac
ted without the careful study
which usually preceeds such leg
islation.
The committee on colleges of
the Southern Association has spo
ken Its mind in this difficult
matter. The committee on col
leges is composed of intelligent
college presidents, deans and ed
ucational administrators, not lib
eral crackpots. They are commu
nist, nor sympathetic with any
thing that would weaken Ameri
ca. They have devoted their ca
reers and their lives to this na
tion’s improvement and the ade
quate preparation of its youthful
generation. I know what respon
sible academic freedom means.
When they say the law violates
trusteeship and jeopardizes the
accreditation of our colleges,
this^ moves me to agree. When
the legislature of Alabama, which
no one has regarded as liberal
or sympathetic with communism,
rejects a speaker ban law, as
they have done only this month,
when every other state which
- considered such laws rejects
them, I cannot believe it is a
good law for North Carolina.
There are many other scholarly
and academic reasons which
might be presented if time per
mitted.
Freedom of study and inquiry
must be protected if American
freedom is to remain strong
and free. I know the American
student mind well enough to say
you can trust the vast majority
of students today. They are in
telligent, well trained, serious
toward their new responsibility,
and they will reach reasoned de
cisions if given the facts.
For .these and many other
reasons I say we should amend
the speaker ban law so as to
return collegiate decision mak
ing In North Carolina to the trus
tees and college administrators.
This has been their i*esponsibil-
ity in this nation for more than
300 years very successfully. Our
colleges will then be in good and
American hands.”
LIBRARY
(Continued from page 1)
1956, they, with the former Mat
tie May Braswell, gave 200 acres
for a campus for the proposed
college.
The college now has more than
25,000 volumes and is adding to
the carefully selected library at
the rate of approximately 4,000
volumes each year, construc
tion of the new building will re
lease eight much needed class
rooms now being used f'^’" the
library.
$15,000 Grant
For Faculty
A grant of $15,000 for faculty
development at North Carolina
Wesleyan College has been made
by the Knapp Foundation, Inc.,
according to an announcement
made by Dr, Thomas A. Col
lins, president of the liberal
arts college here.
The grant will make possible
an increase in the college’s sup
port of the scholarly activities
of faculty members. It will j^ro-
vide additional funds for atten
dance at scientific and academic
meetings and seminars. Re
search activities for teaching
enrichment will also be eligible
for support from the grant -
$5,000 being allocated for each
of the next three years.
In making the grant, C. E.
Stouch, president of the New York
based foundation, expressed en
thusiasm in the program for fa
culty development at the new
Methodist college. He said he
hoped that the grant “will give
you a ‘ good send off In encourag
ing your faculty members to con
tinue their research and other
scholarly activities as outlined
by you.”
Dr. Allen Cordts, director of
development, who submitted the
proposal said, “I consider this a
most significant step forward in
the development of North Caro
lina Wesleyan College. It will
help to support faculty scholar
ship until adequate permanent
endowment funds can be accumu
lated for such purposes.
A Thought
To Ponder
Life is a mere spit in the ocean
Of joyous but dead eternal motion
Where man is consumed by his
own
Disillusion
in itself holds his
That life
Restitution
By RPHC
Frosh Featured On
'Wesleyan After Dark’
Butch Dupuy a Freshman from
Rocky Mount, has taken over the
“Wesleyan After Dark” radio
program on WEED, 1390, on Mon
day, Wednesday, and Friday at
9:00 p.m.
On the air. Butch runs a ser
ies of interviews with Wesleyan
students, makes dedications,
plays current popular releases
and gives the news of the cam
pus, from social events to local
gossip around the dormitories
and Student Union.
Butch has had previous ex
perience in radio broadcasting
by working on the Rocky Mount
High “Radio Broadcasters Club’
in cooperation with WEED.
A music major, Butch plays
the saxaphone with “The Four
Kings”, a Rocky Mount band,
plus playing and singing with
“The Confidentials”, a band
made up of four Wesleyan stu
dents who play in the local col
lege area.
Butch hopes to further his ed
ucation in music by recording
one or more of the twelve songs
he has composed. At the pre
sent, he is in the process of
planning to cut a record with
“The Confidentials” for the near
future.
Butch Dupuy emcees “Wesleyan After Dark.”
(Photo by Boothe)