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THE DEBRIS ' PAGE 3 Introducing ••• INTRODUCING __ There are three girls on the Wesleyan campus of truly unusual beauty. Their features are stark and their clothes are of a simple, homey nature. One of ten recognizes them sauntering down the halls An occasional wink, a longing glance, brighten the day tor many Wesleyanites. The DEBRIS pays humble homage to the quiet stillness of their haunting Film to be Made in Rocky Mount Wesleyan being what it is, and Wesleyan Students being who and what they are, it has been decided that a new course will be offered in the fall of 1968. Not wanting to be out done by N. Y; U. and U. C. L. A., Wesleyan has decided to bring to its students a course designed to help them become cinematographers and daguer- reotypists. Yes, for those of you who didn’t catch that last phrase, Wesleyan will offer a course in movie making! And it has already been decided be fore hand what movie should be attempted first. It will surely be one of the never-to-be-forgotten, photo- ,chronographs of all time, en titled “MONDO ROCKY MOUNT”. In keeping with other ‘mondo’ flicks, this will be a documen tary type film, which empha sises Rocky Mount life in the raw (which can be a pretty disgusting matter). It will really tell it like it is! The movie will start off with a panoramic view of the bust ling metropolis (for which the film will be speeded up fan tastically) from the air. Slow ly the plane will position itself above the Rocky Mount Inter nation Airport, circling slowly while it awaits permission to land, as there are many planes leaving every minute (not too many arrive, but a myriad leave!). When the plane finally touches ground the scene must change, because the viewers can’t wait for half an hour while the plane taxies down the five mile runway to the ultra modern air-terminal! Thenext scene will feature some of the cultural aspects of the city (naturally this will be a very short scene!). Such greats as the Tank Theater, while it was still a tank, will be featured. This phase will conclude at its natural pinnacle, a world pinnacle, a world primere of some motion picuture of more than routine merit, shown at Rocky Mount’s showcase of great cultural events, the one and only Booker T Theatre (continental spelling, of course). For this performance, the price of admission has been raised to 75 cent, instead of the usual 40 cent, to keep the attendance within the uppe'r class who can afford such an exorbitant price. Next the camera will delve into the secret goings on at Wesleyan Institute of the Black Arts (that’s why all the students there get B. A. degrees). We have arrived for a real treat, it is lunch time, and the students are receiving their mid-day repast. To us it seems that the food is burn ed beyond recognition, but the students eat it as if it were what they ate every day! Here we see the students freely sit ting with whomever they want to, there is no cliquishness here, everyone treats his fel low students as if they were his brother (or sister, and be- leive me, incest is best). We slowly wind our way though the spacious campus, and after many hours of seeing wondrous sights, we find ourselves in front of the palatial mansion of the college president and his lovely wife. We dare not, but we come close to one of the windows and peek inside, to see how the hoity-toity live. What, it is the bed room-fur nished to the "T” in V>''tori- Robbery in Nash Hall Approximately 2:00 A. M. on the morning of Monday, March 2 5, Nash Hall was the scene of an unusual act of vandalisnnu Chief R. W. Downing of the Wesleyan Campus Security Force released the following statement on behalf of the col lege. Downing revealed that a small of group of unidentified female intruders gained access to the room of Miss Julia Ann Reaves. The intruders made off with a number of items, the specific nature of which has not been released. However, in vestigation has determined that the items were extremely valu able, for Miss Reaves was left without any visible means of support. Chief Downing has promised to follow up every lead and to handle the case in a delicate manner. He invites anyone knowing anything about this case to come forward. Downing promises police protection to anyone offering aii A reward of $500.00 has been rumored for information lead ing to the recovery of the items. IS WESLEYAN GOING SOFT? Calvert Extra, The Soft Whiskey, was introduced just four years ago. So far we’ve sold 183,050,268 bottles. It wasn’t hard. THE SOFT WHISKEY Interested Crowds View Advance Footage of "Mondo Rocky Mount” an furniture, well, taste WILL out. A man is known by the furniture he lives with! Having been thrilled at Wes leyan, it is time to turn to the business side of the city. We approach the most modern miracle of shopping con venience to hit the place in a long time; Tarrytown Mall. But wait, Tarrytown is burning! What a disaster! Dio Mio! Che Disastro! (That is the foreign element in the flick!). ^What will the Rocky Mounters do? Well, there is always Little Johnnies’ and the Zip Mart! Yes, Tarrytown is burn ing to the ground, but not a bit of damage is being done, the fire was set by the Rocky Mount Fire department as a practice session! Finally we turn to the people. It is festival time! How lucky for us to see the ancient rites of the “Rocky Mount Cen tennial”! Stange looking crea tures merk about, with long hairy faces, beards are every where. And the men haven’t shaved either! Fortunately, the Rocky Mounters were asked to wear authentic costumes of the period of the I860’s. Tl.is means they don’t have to change clothes from what they wear all the time anyway! And the truly great Rocky Mount po lice force is seen arresting a clean shaven face, because here in the tribal law community. 110 one is allowed to walk down the street without a beard on his face! Suddenly we realize that this city is different from all others. What is it that makes Rocky Mount stand out from the crowd? Is it the s mell, is it the fabulous bargains to be had at every shop in town, is it a touch of the past, or some haunting glimpse of the future? It is, after all, the up to date city planning, no other like it around; the railroad runs right down the center of town! That may be a problem when cars are brought into the area, and one of them wants to get across the track (ambulances have a real panic!). Let’s hope others catch on to this unique idea of railroading, it will revolution ize the megalopolis of the fu ture! Other scenes have been planned, but the Center Theater’s manager advised against them ps being too con-' troversial. He should know, he has first hand knowledge of moralistic groups in the area who would censure such a film and not let any one see it (anyone remember the ‘Golden Eye?"). But let us take heart, Wesleyan’s first home-made flick will be the acme of taste to those of its students who made it. And knowing the high level of taste here at Wesleyan, Andy Warhol had better watch out!
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