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NORTH CAROLINA WESLEYAN COLLEGE
Rocky Mount, N. C.
U. s. POSTAGI
PAID
Ptnnit No. 217
Rocky AAounl, N. C.
Non-Profit Organiziliofi
VOL. X NO. XXIV
FRIDAY. APRIL 4. 1969
Moore Responds Negatively warrant Quashed;
To Student Signed Petition
Charges Declared Void
Special Comm.
To Sponsor
April Formal
John Woolen, Chairman
of the SGA Social Com
mission, announced re
cently that the Com
mission will sponsor
“The Confederates” of
Shenandoah College on
April 12 at Tarry town
Mall in the 2nd Annual
Wesleyan College Spring
Formal.
The dance, he said, will
run from 10 pm until 2 am,
Permission for the un
usually late hours, he
continued, was granted by
President CollinSo
Decorations and re
freshments will be han
dled by Sarah Askew and
Danene Dabel respective
ly, while Harry Price and
Tom Snyder will set up
for the dance.
Admission will be free
by invitation. Replies,
said John Woolen, should
be addressed to the So
cial Commission and left
in the SGA office in the
Student Union.
"The Confederates,” a
noted dance band, in
cludes in its repertoire
hard rock and soul mu
sic, as well as more con
ventional dance music.
Wesleyan’s Academic
Dean, Jack W. Moore,
responded last week to the
student petition that Mr.
Hall be retained on the
college faculty by reit
erating that the decision
not to renew his contract
had been made “through
all the due processes of
the college decisionmak
ing procedure,” adding
‘I regret to tell you that
it will not be possible to
consider your request.
Presently there are no
vacancies in the English
Department and the bud
get has already been fix
ed for the next year for
faculty staff time.”
Dean Moore continued,
“Nevertheless, 1 am
passing this information
(the petition) on to Dr.
Collins.”
Organizers of the stu
dent petition announced
immediately that they
were writing President
Collins to inquire as to
what action he would take
on the petition. Said one,
“It is certainly not too
late for the college to ex
plain itself as regards
Mr. Hall’s dismissal „.
The college still has not
proved that it did not dis
miss Mr. Hall for parti
cipating in last fall’s boy
cott, and Mr. Hall dares
them to try. I think we
have a right to know.”
President Collins’ re
action to the petition had
not yet been announced
at press time.
Student organizers,
THE DECREE learned,
are threatening a “large
demonstration...if the ad
ministration does not le
vel with us.” They plan
ned the demonstration
tentatively for the morn
ing of April 3.
ELECTIONS HELD;
EDITORS CHOSEN
See
KING
DAVID”
8:15 April 3
Everett
Gymnasium
In balloting last Fri
day, Ed Smith was re
elected as editor of THE
DECREE, while Jeanie
Roberts and Eileen O’-
Grady became the new
editors of the Dissenter
and Aspects, respective^
ly. None were opposed.
Senior class officers
for the next academic
year are Roger Taylor
(President), Malcom
Shearin (Vice President),
Mary Kemp (Secretary),
and Judy Johnson (Trea
surer).
The rising juniors
chose as their leaders
for next year Thom Un
derwood (President),Bri
an Twiddy (Vice Presi
dent), Betty Jo Bryant
(Secretary), , and Shar
Grace (Treasurer).
The rising sophomores
re-el/scted Bruce Wright
as their President,
choosing also Ron Jones
(Vice President), Isabella
Thompson (Secretary)
and DECREE staffer Julie
Robinson (Treasurer).
Aspects Editor Eileen
0’Grady announced im
mediate plans to re
vitalize the magazine’s
organization and to obtain
college financial backing.
She observed, “This
school has more than
enough talent to support a
literary magazine, and it
will be my job to find it.”
Mr. Mizelle, Aspects ad
visor, Indicated his in
tention to help her in
every way possible.
In a hearing in the
chambers of Howard H.
Hubbard, Superior Court
Judge in Wilson, N.C.,
search warrants by which
evidence was obtained in
the cases of Jeff Shelton,
Herb Hall, Bob Canon,
Rick Laws, and Bruce
Harris, Wesleyan stu
dents charged with the il
legal possession of mari
juana, were quashed and
declared void last week.
The motion to have the
search warrants quash
ed was first filed on
February 4, 1969. Quash
ing the search warrants
makes the evidence ob-
Dr. Davis
To Speak
Next Week
The 1968-oy Honorsa-
ward Convocation will be
held Thursday, April 10,
in Wesleyan’s Everett
Gymnasium with Dr. John
Davis, assistant profes
sor of music, delivering
an address on student
goals and reasons for a-
chievem ent.
Dr. Sim O. Wilde, dean
of students, will present
16 awards to students
or organizations for out
standing achievement in
varied fields of endeavor.
A new award to be given
by Nu Gamma Phi, a Wes
leyan fraternity, will hon
or the college’s best
teaching faculty member,
selected by a vote of the
student body.
The Class of ’69 will
present to the college its
class gift, a modern sound
system with microphones
and amplifiers for gene
ral use by the college and
student groups.
Other awards and their
donors are: outstanding
achievement in music, the
Music Review Club of
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tained through them le
gally inadmissable.
The State gave notice
of its intention to appeal
the ruling quashing the
warrants to the North
Carolina Supreme Court.
Until the appeal is ruled
upon, said Billy Norton
of the Rocky Mount Tele
gram, the cases will re
main pending in Nash
County Superior Court.
This, he said, was be
cause the motion was
heard prior to the plea.
The question, said Nor
ton, was whether or not
the State had additional
evidence not obtained
through the search war
rants.
Should Judge Hubbard’s
rulings be upheld by the
N, C. Supreme Court,and
should the State not have
additional evidence, the
chances for an acquittal
are good, said Norton.
Olartttlial
(UanccUerf
Tom Snyder, Chairman
of the Spring Carnival,
announced that the
Freshman class wouldnot
sponsor the carnival this
year. So few organiza
tions showed interest in
operating booths for the
carnival on the scheduled
date, it was decided to
postpone it until a later
date.
Between 120 and 150
horses are expected to
be shown in the Mono
gram Club’s twenty-one
class-horse show tomor
row, April 5, at 4:00 pm
on the north side of cam
pus.
During the week of
March 26-April 4, the
Compass Club helped the
SAAB in a campaign to
raise money for the ele
vator fund, A goal of
$2,000.00 was set.SAAB
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CRUCIBLE’RECEIVES OVATION
In the production of Ar
thur Miller’s “The Cru
cible,” Wesleyan College
Theatre has made itself
dramatically respect
able. Musicals are fun,
and last spring’s “Chin
ese Wall” was abstruse
ly didactic at best, but
this production of “The
Crucible” is both emo
tionally and intellectually
didactic as well as su
perb theatre,
“The Crucible” would,
of course, be a power
ful work if it were in
terpreted stonily and
tonelessly, but Director
Anthony Dingman has, in
his choice of actors, tech
nical effects, and inter
pretations, given his au
diences a production en
tirely worthy of the liter
ary creation. Using
three - quarter - arena
staging, cutting period
costuming to a minimum,
having the cast change its
own set between scenes
and drop out of character
for the narrator s
speeches, and employing
deeply religious music
for ironic contrasts,
relief, and transitions,
made the production ex
tremely personal for the
audience and increased
the force of its dramatic
message.
Michael Dwyer as John
Proctor gave his role
great strength and power,
achieving the difficult feat
of playing convincingly a
mature character tortur
ed by an inner sense of
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Above, Keith Feelemyer as Rev. Hale pleads with
Eileen O’Grady as Elizabeth Proctor to save her
husband’s life.