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Permit No. 217
Rocky Mount, N. C.
VOLUME XI NUMBER 14
ROCKY MOUNT, N. C,
Non-Profit Organization
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 14, 1970
Library Hours Extended Dorm ‘Condition’ Check
Loan Service Announced
Due to requests from a num
ber of students late in the fall
semester, the library will ex
tend its week end hours be
ginning Saturday, February 6.
Effective this date the library
will be open from 1-4:30 p.m.
each Saturday during the winter
semester. The library will con
tinue to be open Saturday morn
ing from 8:45 a.m.-12 noon.
Friday night hours will be dis
continued, with the library clos- _
ing at 5 p.m. each Friday.
Sunday hours will remain the
same: 2-5 p.m. and 6:30-10
p.m.
In announcing the addition of
Saturday afternoon hours, lib
rarian W. Stewart stated,
“Student response to these
hours as expressed through
their use of the library will
determine whether Saturday af
ternoon hours will be continued
for the indefinite future.”
Mr. Stewart also announced
that inter-library loan services
are available. He recommended
that students notify any mem
ber of the Wesleyan College
Library staff and chances are
Pi Epsilon
Rush Begins
During the week of January
11 through January 16, Pi Ep
silon Sorority will have its se
cond rush week. Sunday, Jan
uary 11, all girls interested in
rusning were urged to attend a
tea in the faculty lounge. For
the remainder of the week, par
ties will be held by invitation.
Bids will be sent out Mon
day, January 19. The Rushees
will have until Tuesday, Jan
uary 20 at 5 o’clock to ac
cept the bids. Pledge period,
which will follow, will include
numerous service and social v
activities.
good that the item requested
will be in your hands within a
week or less.
The Wesleyan Library has
access lO the In-Wats service
offered of the North Carolina
State Library, whose purpose is
to expedite inter-library loan.
In some instances, the book
requested is mailed to the bor
rowing library tae same day
the request is made. In other
cases, the time elapsing be
tween date of request and date
received is a week. In a few
cases, tnis time may be as long
as two weeks. All mailingcosts
are assumed by the Wesleyan
Library.
Requests for periodical ar
ticles needed by a student should
be made at least a week be
fore the article is needed. Pho
tocopies of articles are supplied
at the rate of 10 cents per
exposure; most libraries-have
a minimum charge of $1.00 for
photocopy service. In most in
stances, an article requested
by a Wesleyan student can be
obtained from an academic li
brary in North Carolina.
Students are invited to sub
mit requests for books and ar
ticles not in the Wesleyan Li
brary at any time.
Causes Council Action
By JIM VAN LA AN
Dean of Students, Sim O.
Wilde, stated Friday concern
ing the announced investigation
of dormitories, “It’snotaroom
search, it’s a room check.”
Marjorie Hagins, Resident
Counselor of EdgecombHalland
also the official in charge of
the investigation, added her ve
hement agreement to Wilde’s
statement, saying, “This is not
a room search.”
“The major purpose of the
room check,” scheduled to oc
cur between the 15th of January
and the 1st of February ac
cording to Dean Wilde, “is to
see if the condition of the rooms
will cause damage or injury to
college property.”
When questioned concerning
the form signed ^y students at
the beginning of the year report
ing the condition of college
property in their rooms, Wilde
answered, “I guess we thought
that, even though the students
had signed a card, we needed
to inspect the situation now.”
“What happened is the Dir
ector of Housing, Mrs. Hagins,
said to me that there was evi
dence that the mattresses were
on tlie floor,” Dean Wilde re
sponded to questions concerning
the search’s need.
Wilde continued, "“we were
shocked last spring to find the
conditions of the rooms. Be
cause of the way the rooms
were kept, it resulted in dam
age.”
“We proposed to the Busi
ness Office that we would check
the condition of the rooms per
iodically. We should have about
four a year,” Wilde added in
further explanation of the cause.
Mrs. Hagins defended the
general inspection, explaining,
“There is a lot of difference
between a room search and an
investigation. We’re not check
ing up on any students at all.
This is just a routine inves
tigation.”
In response to the question
concernii^ the lack of a defi
nite date for the investigation,
Mrs. Hagins stated, “I can’t
set a date, because I just don’t
know what will happen. It’s just
between those dates because I
don’t know when I'll have a
chance.”
Wilde added, “I had in mind
that Mrs. Hagins and an ARC
would check each floor at their
convenience. It would be im
possible to check while all the
students were in their rooms.”
He also gave the assurance
that “there will be no search
of trunks, drawers, closets, and
so forth.”
In discussing the reactions
of the students to the announce
ment of the room check, Wilde
said, “I don’t think they are
really reading the memo.
They’re carrying achip on their
shoulders. Their attitude is that
what ever the administration
does, it is going to hurt them.
It’s almost as though they’re
looking for an excuse.”
Wilde also stated, “There
isn’t a student here who can
claim that their privacy has
been violated under the sanc
tion of this office.”
Wilde concluded by saying,
“This may be a situation in
which the students may be push
ing me into a position they don’t
want, where I would have to
declare the dorms official re
sidence halls, with full respon
sibility for their care on the
shoulders of the students and
I don’t think they want that.”
Theatre Department Announces One-Acts
By JIM VAN LAAN
Wesleyan’s Theatre Depart
ment announced last week that
the rehearsals for the one-
act plays, which will be pre
sented on January 29, 30, and
31, are underway and are pro
ceeding satisfactorily. The
plays, “A Morning After the Fig
Tree Bloomed,” “The Hundred
and First,” and “The Sandbox,”
will be presented in the Ex
perimental Theatre at Wesleyan
and will provide an opportunity
for the public to view the mo
dern trend in drama and thea
tre.
These plays are designed to
provide drama students with the
chance to learn various acting
and directing techniques from
first-hand experience. The di
rectors, Sheila Glover, Ann
Bland, and Bob Bronough, chose
their casts from a number of
Weekly News Review
There has been a “signifi
cant increase” of communist
activity in the northern most
area of Viet Nam. A U. S. hel
icopter was brought down, the
1,433rd of the war. Some of
ficials point to this stepped up
activity as possibly a prelimi
nary move for a Spring offen
sive when the weather improv
es.
Joseph A. “Jock” Yablonski,
who was , unsuccessful in his
campaign for the presidency of
the United Mine Workers was
found shot to death along with
his wife and daughter. No valu
ables were taken and police of-
Nu Gamma Phi Elects
Officers For New Term
Nu Gamma Phi recently an
nounced the list of their new
officers for the Spring Term,
of 1970. The officers are: Ro
bert C. Leyda, President, Tho
mas G. Dyer, Treasurer, Wil
liam David Walker, Secretary,
Craig Gross, Chaplain, Jim
Gill, Warden, and Galen Heaps,
Historian.
Nu Gamma Phi concluded
their announcement by stating,
“We wish to make our sin
cere offer of our services when
needed by THE DECREE. We
also hope for a semester of
continuous cooperation between
your office and our Fraternity.”
ficials said no motive had been
uncovered. The F.B.I. began
investigating the slaying last
Tuesday.
The secret inquest into the
death of Miss Mary Jo Kope-
chne opened last week. Senator
Edward F. Kennedy was the
first to testify about the death
of the young secretary whodied
when the car she and Kennedy
were riding in plunged into a
pond-on Choppaquiddick Island,
Massachussetts.
Vice President Agnew con
tinued his good-will tour, visit
ing Nepal, Afganistan, and oth
er central Asian countries.
The Kansas City Chiefs floor
ed the Oakland Raiders 17-7
in the American Football lea
gue bowl game and the Minne
sota Vikings smashed the
Cleveland Browns 27 to 7 in
the National football league bowl
to give berths in the Superbowl;
Wesleyan students who attend
ed the auditions held before
the mid-semester break and are
presently holding rehearsals
four nights a week in the Ex
perimental Theatre.
The first play, scheduled to
be presented in the performan
ce is “A Morning After the Fig
Tree Bloomed,” directed by
Ann Bland, which depicts indi
vidual dilemna within the envi
ronment of disillusionment,
“He,” played by Jim Van Laan,
finds himself searching for the
joys of innocence despUe his
wife’s perpetual attempt to keep
him within her world of super
ficiality. Miss Bland contrasts
“She,” portrayed by Barbara
Koehnlein, with the Messenger,
characterized by John Crump-
ler, in an attempt to openly
display the conflict of “He,”
stressing emotional dilemna
with the dilemna of the society
and environment surrounding
the inner-self of the individual.
“The Hundred and First”
is a one-act play, satirizing the
institution of welfare in its
present state, while at the same
time providing an insight into
the nature of people. Bob Bro
nough, who is directing this
play, has the largest cast as
well as the second slot in or
der of production. On the most
obvious level, “The Hundred
and First” depicts the strug
gles of Sam Morris, as Mr.
Stochstill, to have his family
placed on the list of New York
City’s hundred neediest cases,
his infinite arguments and con
flicts with his family, and his
humorous misadventures with
representatives of society.
Stochstill’s family is played
by: Juuy Johnson, his wife,
Ethel, Martha Polley, as Mary
Agnes, Stochstill’s daughter, Ed
Hardy, his son. Tommy, and
Barbara Epps, as his mother.
The other mejnbers of the cast
include: Sean Moran, Nancy
Philipps, DaveSiple, Linda Wil
liams, Paul Tuttle, Joe Vinson,
Anne Laughner, and Ronnie
Dean.
The final play for the produc
tion is “The Sandbox” by Ed
ward Albee, under the direction
of Shiela Glover. “The Sand
box” is a farcical comedy con
cerning death, people, and cli
ches and stars Miriam Leyda
in the role of Monny, Maria
Gargano as Grandmother, Jim
Van Laan as Daddy, Robert
Thompson portraying the Young
Man, and John Hornaday as
the Musician. Glover’s pro
duction of “The Sandbox” is de
signed to appeal to the emotion
al senses of the viewers, mak
ing them laugh at their lives’
contradictions.
Working with the directors
are Mr. Tony Dingman, pro
ducer and head of the drama de
partment at Wesleyan, and
Scenic Designer Rick Houch,
a Wesleyan senior who is de
signing the sets for each of
the three one-acts. The pri
mary concern of the directors
at this point is to rehearse
the plays sufficiently, but not
to over rehearse. Despite the
poor facilities and the lack of
money, January 29th should
provide an entertaining even
ing.