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VOL. X NO.14
JANUARY 10, 1969
GREEK SYSTEM
CONTINUES
GROWTH
Fraternity life has
come a long way at Wes
leyan since the first,
small groups started or
ganizing and moving to
wards achieving official
recognition as a part of
the Wesleyan community.
First came Alpha Phi O-
mega, the campus service
fraternity. The efforts of
the brothers of Alpha Phi
Omega brought to Wes
leyan the realization that
fraternities and sorori
ties could be an integral
and creative part of its
campus life.
In the spring of 1967,
social fraternities were
approved by Wesleyan’s
Board of Trustees, and
Nu Gamma Phi and Al
pha Delta Chi came into
being. Sponsoring open
and closed dances and
Summer Emp ’L
Directory Comes
The 1969 Summer Em
ployment Directory has
recently been received by
the Wesleyan College Li
brary and is available for
use by students in the li
brary.
The Directory con
tains up-to-date informa
tion on 80,000 summer
job openings throughout
the United States and Can
ada. It is designed to
serve as a liason be
tween prospective em
ployees seeMng summer
jobs and employers.
Camps, state and national
parks, resorts, hotels,
and other places of em
ployment are listed, with
pertinent facts about
each.
participating in such
campus activities as the
Annual Circle K Talent
Show, the fraternities had
as their goal setting the
pace of campus social
life. The fraternities al
so entered into campus
and community service
projects, including Nu
Gamma Phi’s help in re
storing Rocky Mount’s
Braswell Park and Alpha
Phi Omega’s building and
placing park benches in
the pines and near dormi
tories on campus. Nu
Gamma Phi’s winning the
Dean of Students’ Award
for outstanding service
in 1968 is evidence of
the fraternities’ contin
uing dedication to service
as well as to sparking
campus social life.
Alpha Delta Chi and
Nu Gamma Phi, occupy
ing third floor of South
Hall, contributed to in
ternal morale by furnish
ing their lounges, includ
ing installing wall-to-
wall carpeting and tele
visions. Holding frequent
open houses, sing-ins,and
open discussions in their
lounges, the fraternities
endeavor to contribute to
the life of the entire stu
dent body.
While the size of pledge
classes is limited each
year, the fraternities try
to interest the most crea
tive members of each new
freshman class in contri
buting to campus life
through membership in
the fraternities. Pi Epsi
lon, Wesleyan’s sorority,
will be interested in in
volving dedicated, crea
tive women in their so
cial and service activi
ties.
Rush Starts
Miss Ann Thomas Gill,
1968-’69 Wesleyan
Homecoming Queen.
The Interfraternity
Council announced re
cently the regulations for
fraternity and sorority
rush period, which will
begin January 12 and con
tinue through midnight of
January 11.
Bids will be sent out
by the fraternities and
sorority on Monday, Jan
uary 20, and rushees must
pledge a fraternity or so
rority by 5 pm Tuesday,
the 21.
Pledge period, which
can last a maximum of
eight weeks, will follow,
featuring closed dances.
keg parties, and coffee
meetings. The period, ac
cording to fraternity and
sorority regulations,can
not include any cruel or
unusual “hazing.”
The Interfraternity
Council will handle all
sending of bids to pro
spective pledgees.
Wesleyan’s fraterni
ties include Nu Gamma
Phi, Alpha Delta Chi,and
Alpha Phi Omega. Pi Ep
silon, Wesleyan’s first
sorority, was organized
this fall.
Friends Of Library
Organizing Here
Mr. Alva Stewart, Head
Librarian, announced last
week that Friends of the
Library, an organization
dedicated to promoting
the best interest of the
Wesleyan library, had
been formally organized.
At the organization’s
first meeting on Dec. 2,
Dr. Cordts was elected
Temporary Chairman and
a Constitution and By-
Laws were adopted. Per
manent officers will be
elected in a meeting sche
duled for late January.
Mr. Stewart said that
emphasis is now primar
ily on the growth of the
group. Memberships are
scaled from $1.00 yearly
memberships for stu
dents to $1,000 life mem
berships. Memberships
are available both to the
general public and to
members of the Wesleyan
Community. Dues paid
before Jan. 31 entitle one
to charter membership in
the group, Mr. Stewart
stated.
With alumni participat
ing, Wesleyan is one of
the smallest colleges in
North Carolina to have
such a group supporting
its library, Mr. Stewart
said.
With the beginning of
the membership drive for
Friends of the Library,
Mr. Stewart sees great
chances of growth in sup
port of the library’s pro
grams and in its services
to the public and to the
Wesleyan community.
Writing in this week’s
“Faculty Forum,” Mr.
Stewart explains his goals
for expanding the li
brary’s services. These
goals include purchasing
a self-service, coin-op-
erated photocopier, ex
tending library hours,
and expanding the refe
rence services of the li
brary.
Hearings
Scheduled
The cases of three
Wesleyan students, Jeff
Shelton, Herb Hall, and
Bob Canon, and of two
former Wesleyan stu
dents, Rick Laws and
Bruce Harris, charged
with possession of
marijuana have been call
ed twice but granted con
tinuances in Rocky Mount
District Court.
A hearing was
scheduled for January
9 in Rocky Mount Dis
trict Court to determine
whether or not there was
enough evidence to have
the cases bound over to
Superior Court in Nash
ville.
At press time. Dean
Wilde said that as far
as he knew lawyers for
the students and former
students, all of whom are
charged in connection
with possession of
m arijuana,' were not plan
ning to ask for another
continuance of hearings.
MARIJUANA
GOOD OR BAD?
Pot ... grass ... loco-
weed ... bo bo bush ...
reefer ... Mary Jane are
all strange names for the
drug marijuana; however,
they are names from the
vernacular of those who
use the hallucinogenic
drug. Being a hallucino
genic drug, marijuana
causes distortions of im-
perception, and
hallucinations within the
user. Marijuana is made
from the resin extracted
^om the cannabis plant.
This resin is pulverized
and rolled into a cigarette
BY MARSHA WHITE
shaped smoking device.
The effects, through
smoking, are felt in a very
few minutes and may per
sist for as long as 12
hours.
Only within the past 60
years has marijuana been
used in theUnited States.
Although it is not a nar
cotic, it has been label
ed as such for control
purposes. It is controll
ed under the Marijuana
Tax Act of 1937. Import
ant features of this act
are: (1) registration of
the dealers, (2) special
taxes, (3) special order
forms and recordkeeping
provisions, and (4) pro-
hibitons and severe pen
alties for illegal posses
sion and trafficking in the
drug. Possession of
marijuana is considered
a felony by law.
The number of mari
juana users in the Unit
ed States today is un
known; however, from
statistics released by the
law enforcement agencies
in the past two years,
the number of people ar
rested for the possession
of marijuana has risen
100%. According to a
pamphlet,“ Drug Abuse”,
prepared by Smith Kline
and French Clinical Staff,
users are “urban ghetto
dwellers and middle-
class young adults ...
(who) turn to drugs out of
despair, hopelessness,
and powerlessness.”
Mostly college students
compose the latter group.
It is estimated that ap
proximately 15% of col
lege students experiment
with marijuana, most of
them giving it up after 1
or 2 tries.
The possible effects
when abused are excita
tion, dilated pupils, drow
siness, talkativeness, and
laughter. It appears that
the use of the drug gives
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