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MOOr*"* VOL. 7—NO. 10 THE DECREE FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1966 Frosh and Jr. Re-elect Officers Due to various circumstances, the President and Vice President of the Junior class and the Vice- President of the Freshman class were forced to resign from their positions. In assembly on Tues day, February 15, nominations were made for these offices. For the remainder of the week, these nominees went about urging their classmates to support them in the upcoming election. On Fri day. February 18, the members of the Freshman and Junior class cast their votes for their new officers. Nann Brown, from Arlington, Virginia, was voted to become the new vice-president of the Freshman class. Nann is also on the Social Commission, a mem ber of the Dissenter staff, and a member of the Decree staff. Debbie Pazin, from Miami, Florida, now assumes the office of secretary of the Freshman class. Debbie is a member of the band here at Wesleyan, is a Sunday School teacher in the training school, and sings in the choir at First Methodist Church in Rocky Mount. Tim Isaacs was elected to lead the Junior class as President. Tim, from Monravia, Maryland, is a member of the Aspect staff, the Bruits, sings in the chapel choir, and plays on the soccer team. A1 Stallings, the new vice- president of the Junior class, is from Roanoke Rapids. A1 is pre sently membership chairman of the Circle K, is an active mem ber of the Wesleyan players, and yet, finds time to study enough to make Dean’s list. SENATE NEWS student Blasts S.G.A., Campus Club, Suggests Changes At the February 15th meeting of the Senate, Tandy Fitts, a Wesleyan Sophomore, spoke to the group concerning his views of the Social life on the campus. Fitts, taking his ideas from a dis cussion in a Wesleyan speech class, suggested that a lack of cooperation among campus clubs and organizations caused the campus social life to be lacking. In view of the fact that the Social Commission’s budget is somewhat limited, he mentioned several organizations which would provide free enter tainment. According to Fitts there are many government em ployees who will speak at colleges and universities free of charge. Senators, Peace Corps represen tatives, representatives of foreign countries were sug gested. Following the speech by Fitts, a question and answer period was held. The primary controversy seemed to center around the (Con’t on page 4) Players Present By: Larry Boothe The new concept of philo sophy concerned with the “death of God” exposed to Wesleyan stu dents in October, 1965, and to millions over network television in early February has kindled quite a few varied reactions, mostly, it seems, hostile. The conflict stems from gen eral audience interpretation of the production. Dr. James said that it was “meant as a dra matic device of imagining a world without God and to suggest the reasoning which might go on in such a world.” Although this was the purpose, it was not, it seems, the outcome! The purpose of the first pro duction, presented during a cha pel service last fall, was, it was generally assumed, to stren gthen faith with the device of making the student think. This was done by presenting the views and Important points through a lament, or an eulogy for God. It could not be said that the program was a total success, but everyone will admit that it has had the greatest influence upon the individual to consider Re ligion, as such, and this parti cular viewpoint of it. It has been the greatest out of class influ ence ever produced on this cam pus, which forced the student to think, to attempt to rationalize, and to realize that such a pro blem exists. The purpose of the second pro duction has been somewhat blur red by the criticism and gossip about it. Dr. James said of it in general: “It seemed to me a good opportunity to interpret this radical movement.” The fact that Dr. James utilizes theobseruous imagination instead of a logical explanation may well have been a handicap since mass Imagina tions will wander! Besides at tempting to explain the movement itself Dr. James wished to in terpret the philosophy and with It revitalize the searching for an explanation. The second pro duction was designed for the ed ucational purpose of showing a Religious Experience. Although it tried to reproduce the effects of the first production, and the first reaction was that It had, in fact, done so, it was soon rea lized that somewhere a mistake had been made, and quite probably several mistakes! First was the fact that although CBS agreed to the requests Wes leyan made upon it, not many of these were observed. The num erous (but I suppose necessary) and frequent cuts hindered the ef fect and interpretation of the news cast. In a letter to Dr. Thomas A. Collins, Wesleyan’s President, Mr. Ronald S. Bonn, Associate Producer of the “Cronkite Evening News” stated “Let me reassure you again that the Requiem will be accompanied by an explanation that this is not a teaching, either by the school or by Dr. James, but an effort to stimulate the imagination.” This explanation never appeared. Mr. Bonn also said; “although this particular subject is cer tainly intellectual in nature, we expect to be able to translate it into terms the viewer will be able to understand.” Although Mr. Bonn made this statement much of the criticism has been associated with the general pub lic not being able to Interpret and understand our concern and relationship with the movement. What should have been a hint to the question of expressing our relationship with the philosophy was Bonn’s statement that audi ence reaction to the poem was also a prime target for CBS. In other words, they stated be- fore-hand that impact was very important to them and we should have realized that impact meant slanting and alterations. (Con’t on page 4) Potpourri: A Bill Of One Acts This weekend, February 25-26, a bill of one acts under the title potpourri will be presented In Garber Chapel. Three sep arate one act plays will be pre sented, each under the direction of a theater student. The first play, under the direction of Betty Bridgers, en titled “Corridors of the Soul”, “Corridors of the Soul,” under the direction of Betty Bridgers (left) will be one of the feature presentations of the Wesleyan Players this weekend when they present “Potpourri: A Bill of One Acts.” Shown above are (right) Brenda Lewis, Ivan Ricks, and Bill Stellhom. (Photo by Boothe) 'Death of God’ Presentation Lacks Promised Explanation Inter-Faith Commission Presents Series Of Lectures On Sunday evening, February 20, a first of a series of dis cussions on the “God is Dead” theory was presentedby the Wes leyan College Inter-Faith Com mission. Roughly 275 people listened as Dr. Ralph James and Dr. Gordon Finnie discussed the problem at hand. The program started as Dr. James Interpretation but ended as Dr. Finnie incorporated his views of why Dr. James’ in terpretation was open to criti cism. Dr. James, with the un derstanding that much of the gen eral misinterpretation is to be found in the definition of the movement itself, attempted to explain exactly what Altizer’s concept of God was, and how it was to be interpretated. Dr. Finnie disagreed with James and Altizer. He not only claims to have read more on the sub ject but also that James does not understand fully. In follow- *lng up Dr. Finnie said James only dealt with a small part of Altizer’s theology and that he took It out of context and ela borated on it. James pointed out one in teresting fact though, that Al tizer was recently critized at a conference in Atlanta for being too Christian in his theology. This coming Sunday evening, February 27 at 6:30 p.m. in Gar ber Chapel Mr. Bruce C. Pea cock, a prominate insurance exe cutive of Rocky Mount has accepted the invitation to speak to the student body in length why he, as a layman, feels so strongly against Altizer’s theology and also why he feels that a church affiliated school should not pre sent this theology to its student body. This will constitute the second of a threi^. part series of lec tures concerning Altizer’s and Wesleyan’s stand on the “Death of God”. The Inter-Faith Com mission recommends that you, as a student body, attend this second lecture enabling you to have a firm understanding of the coming debate on Sunday evening, March 6. is an abstraction of the work ings of the inner self. More specifically, it expresses the conflict between the emotional self and the rational self of a man in his dealings with his en- viornment (or better, his concern for his female friends). The play itself is as far away from the realistic as has ever been done. The characters are Butch Dupuy, Bill Stellhorn, Jeff Wilson, Ivan Ricks, Brenda Lewis, Caro line Estes, Eidith Nurse, Reggie McKinney, David MacNamee and Cliff Syler. Tne second play, the “im movable Gordons”, directed by Ray O’Kelly is a comedy, or better, a farce. It reveals the efforts of a son in his endeavor to get his family to move out of an area faster becoming in dustrialized to one more suited for existence. The friction arises from the obstacles the family create as reasons for not wanting to move. The cast are George Speak, June Herring, Lorrie All- igood, Tom Butler, and John Wooden. The thir(J and final produc tion, Sean O’Caseys, Irish Folk Comedy, “The find of the Be ginning” is being directed by Tom Hinte. Diane Mallalieu, Brian Sterns and Donald Dare are fea tured in this one act. This is the first time a Bill of One Acts have been produced. It is being done with the hopes of establishing the one-acts on a regular basis for the winter season. There are usually three plays a year and it Is now plan ned to have the second or winter play a Bill of One Acts and will also be used to give qualified students the opportunity to direct. NCWC To Be Evaluated For Accreditation April 17-20 are the dates slated for N. C. Wesleyan College to be visited by the examining Com mittee on Accreditation, of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. The six-member board will tour the campus, meet ing with faculty, administration, and students. The purpose of their visit is to evaluate the quality of this institution to de termine if we qualify for accre ditation by and membership In the Southern Association, one of the set regional accredltating associations. Visiting the campus will be Dr. Francis Bonner, chairman, from Furman University, Presi dent Robert L. Mills of George town College, Kentucky, Dean Charles Ashmore, of Converse College, Dean Frank Logan of Wofford College, Mr. Carol Guenzel of Mary Washington Col lege and Mr. Lee A. Barclay from Alabama College.
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