NORTH CAROLINA WESLEYAN COLLEGE
Rocky Mount, N. C,
U. s. POSTAGI
PAID
Panail No. 217
Rocky AAounl, N. C
Non-Profil Organization
VOL. X NO. XXI
FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1969
ELECTIONS TO BE HELD TODAY
Circle K Talent Show
To Be In Gym Tonight
Tonight, March .14, the
North Carolina Wesley
an Circle K Club will pre
sent its fourth annual Tal
ent Show in the Everett
Gymnasium at 8:00 pom.
Approximately four
teen acts will be pre
sented by Wesleyan stu
dents. Their perform
ances will be judged by
faculty members. Includ
ed among the talented will
be Brian Flynn; Steve
Cordan and Eileen O’Gra-
dy; Barbara Epps, Raul
Tuttle, and Rick Houck;
Leslie Pittman, Earnes-
tine Dancey, Mary John
son, and Art Falcon; Isau
Hoshi; Bruce Wright;
Sherry Bageant; Tom
Gar low and Chick Ball;
Harry Price, Pete Paige,
Barry Lambert, Steve
Gordon, Jackie Fitz, and
Gary Christopher; Rich
ard Monk; and Malcolm
Shearin and Richard
Saunders.
While the judging takes
place, the Chamber Sing
ers will entertain the au-
dience„
Admission will be a-
dults, $1,50; students,
$1.00; and children, $.50.
The names of two ris
ing Seniors, John Roberts
and Glenn Cockrell, will
appear on the ballot as
candidates for the office
of SGA president for the
1969-70 academic year.
Visiting dorms and ap
pearing at class meet
ings, both Roberts and
Cockrell have made ef
forts to contact all stu
dents, either by personal
conversation with a stu
dent or by a speech to a
group.
‘'Making student gov
ernment relative to the
student” was the motto
John Roberts emphasiz
ed during his campaign.
His creation of this goal
was motivated by his ob
servations of SGA activi
ties during the past three
DEAN SIM WILDE COMMENTS
ON TODAY’S SGA ELECTIONS
Student governments on
most campuses do not be
gin to use their full po
tential for influencing the
affairs of higher educa
tion, Student power move
ments or needed student
pressure groups have
rarely channeled their ef
forts through student gov
ernments, Perhaps the
bureaucracy of student
government organiza
tions has been responsi
ble for this. Perhaps the
deliberative nature of
student legislative bodies
is too unwieldly to handle
reforms or crash pro
grams.
Many of the problems
of student governments
stem from the nature of
their election procedures.
Elections tend to be pop
ularity contests or offi
cers are elected as a sort
of reward for having
performed well in other
jobs. Sometimes a pres
ident or vice president
is chosen because he was
always a good boy who
never got into trouble.
No student government
officer should be consid
ered by students who does
not actively seek a posi
tion, who does not carry
on a lively campaign, who
does not present a sound
and progressive platform
for which he will work to
achieve.
No student government
officer should be consid
ered by students if there
is a suspicion that he or
she will be a patsy of
DEAN SIM WILDE
SENATE OBSERVED
by Ed Smith
At the invitation of Sen
ate members, we recent
ly attended one of the
regular meetings of the
Senate. While the pro
ceedings were very in
teresting, they were far
from satisfying.
The meeting got under
way about fifteen minutes
late when the number of
members necessary to
make a quorum, thirteen,
arrived.
The entire meeting was
devoted to a discussion
of proposed constituional
amendments which had
been vetoed by SGA Pres
ident Jess Blackman,who
called them contradictory
and unclear. One member
called the amendments
‘Bullshit,” saying that
he thought that the Senate
had much more important
matters to which to at
tend. The amendments
were directed towards e-
stablishing a summer
school SGA and towards
increasing student parti
cipation in elections and
in over-all student gov
ernment activities.
Glenn Cockrell, who
was presiding, seemed
unable to deal with the
members’ impatience. At
one point, he comment
ed that all the members
were interested in was
getting out to “go have a
beer.” Yet, while trying
to push the amendments
through, he seemed not
to understand them; he
was unable to define the
word ''inculcate a.s it
was used in the new pre
amble which he was sup
porting. Even though the
time factor was import
ant in passing the amend
ments, as the semester is
drawing to an end, the
senators seemed willing
to consign all matters
of debate to committee,
rather than working them
out on the spot.
While Cockrell seemed
genuinely concerned with
the proposed amend
ments, he seemed unable
to handle the meeting. One
member, when question
ed about the leadership
of the Senate during the
past year, said, ‘ What
leadership?”’
The members’ irrita
tion at what they obvious
ly considered a waste of
time came through at
many points.
years. Roberts stated that
he had noted no great in
terest in SGA among stu
dents. He had found him
self asking the question,
'‘What is student govern
ment doing for me as an
individual?” During his
first two years at Wes
leyan, Roberts observed
SGA from the outside as
does the majority of the
students and he concen
trated his interest most
ly on academic and so
cial life. Then as a jun
ior, he was elected class
president. His duties as
this officer, included rep
resenting the junior class
in the Senate, For the first
time, Roberts was able
to examine the legislative
branch of SGA from the
inside.
He noted that the Senate
was so '‘bogged down with
constitutional change,”
there was little chance
for concentrating on the
needs of the student. He
stated that the present
framework of govern
ment is good and could be
used to solve problems of
the students.
Then he was asked to
name the worthwhile pro
jects of the SGA this year,
Roberts was unable to re
call any particulars. In
stead, he stated that this
year the current presi
dent had attempted to ini
tiate the programs and
improvements which he
advocates. Included in
specific areas of Roberts’
concern are social func
tions, athletic program,
and food services. He
would definitely like to
see a catering service and
a greater variety of bev
erages available in the
cafeteria as well as the
revitalization of the en
tire athletic program.
To establish a more
personal relationship be
tween the president and
the student body, he would
plan assemblies for the
sole purpose of giving
students the opportunity
to air and discuss their
grievances.
He stated that the role
of the Dean of Students
was inportant as an in
termediator between stu
dents and administration.
Roberts advocates stu
dent representatives
(serving in an advisory
capacity), on the pre
sently all-faculty com
mittees.
In his closing state
ment, Roberts stressed
that the role of SGA pres
ident was not to run the
government but rather to
direct the government
with student opinions as
guidelines.
The goals Glenn Cock
rell stressed during his
campaign was to make
each student aware of SGA
activities, to create stu
dent interest in these ac
tivities so that each stu
dent would want to parti
cipate, In this way, Cock
rell hoped that it would
be possible to continue
"molding a strong, uni
fied student body.”
Cockrell feels that his
qualifications for SGA
president are based upon
his past leadership ex
perience and understand
ing gained concerning all
aspects of campus life
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Wesleyan's Library Is
Depository For
Gov't. Publications
Effective March 1,1969,
the library is an official
depository for U.S. gov
ernment publications.
The first shipment of pub
lications to be sent by the
Government Printing Of
fice should be received
in the library not later
than March 20,
Publications will be re
ceived from the following
departments and agencies:
Census Bureau, Civil
Rights Commission,
Health, Education and
Welfare Department, U.S.
Information Agency,
Justice Dept., Labor De
partment, Budget Bureau,
State Dept., and Con
gress. These publica
tions, which will be treat
ed separately (not a part
of the regular circulat
ing collection) are ex
pected to be of particular
value to the student of the
social sciences; e.g.,po-
litical science, history,
and economics.
The Wesleyan Library
is one of two depository
libraries in the Second
Congressional District of
North Carolina; the other
depository is Atlantic
Christian College in Wil
son. There are 22 depo
sitories in North Caro
lina.
Limitations both of
staff and space will ne
cessarily restrict the
number of publications
the library will receive
as a depository.