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VW^UME XI. NUMBER 15
ROCKY MOUNT, N. C.
TUESDAY. JANUARY 20, 1970
Southern Bell Investigates
Cases Of Telephone Fraud
By JULIA ROBINSON
Dean of Students Sim O. Wilde
Jr. announced last week that
Wesleyan College was among
twenty colleges and universi
ties in North Carolina whose
students were involved in a
long-distance telephone fraud.
Dean Wilde said that Mr. Ro
ger H. Allred, Security Offi
cer Southern Bell Telephone
and Telegraph Company, said
that the fraud usually occurs
when students charge calls to
unauthorized numbers or to
fraudulent telephone creditcard
numbers.
Dean Wilde stated, “We are
urging Mr. Allred to prosecute
any and all of our students
who are guilty of such fraudu
lent telephone calls as provided
by North Carolina law. In addi
tion, we are asking him to re
port to us the names of any
students involved so that we
may prosecute them under the
laws of our Student Government
Association. Fraud of~this na
ture will be interpreted under
the SGA Constitution as theft
nd students so convicted will
ace possible suspension from
the college.”
Dr. Kilgore Announces
Changes In Chemistry
IFC Pledge Period
Begins January 20
By PARA RODENHIZER
The Interfraternity Council
held its annual Rush Week Jan
uary 11-16. During this week,
parties were held for prospec
tive pledges of Alpha Delta Chi
and Nu Gamma Phi fraterni
ties and Pi Epsilon sorority.
The week began Sunday, Jan
uary 11, with interested stu
dents meeting with the Inter
fraternity Council. Here the
pledge rules were given to the
students.
Pi Epsilon launched its week
of recruiting by openingAlice’s
Restaurant in the teacher’s
lounge Monday night. During
this time girls interested in
pledging went to the “psychede-
licized” room and met sisters
of Pi Epsilon, dressed as “hip
pies.” Wednesday evening an
open house was held serving
Russian tea and cheese fon
due. On Friday evening a party
with the theme of a casino
was held- at the Boat Club of
Rocky Mount to further enable
the girls and sisters to get to
Icnow each other.
Nu Gamma Phi spokesman.
Pete Welsh, said that their fes
tivities began Monday evening
with an informal open house in
the fraternity’s lounge on third
floor of South Hall. Tuesday
night, an informal stag smoker
was held with free beer and
food at the Pizza Inn. Wednes
day night a semi-formal party
was held at the Rocky Mount
Boat Club. The fraternity in
vited girls dating Phi broth
ers to attend the party to meet
the prospective pledges. The
fraternity’s advisor. Dr. Kil
gore, and his wife were present
also. Thursday, a stag smoker
was again held at alumnus John
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By MARY GETLEIN
The Chemistry departmental
Wesleyan has now accepted a
complete “awakening” of the
general requirements and po
licy of the department in the
hope ofattracting more students
to the aid of the department,
in order to promote more in
terest in the general field of
science, and in order for it to
be more helpful in relating
to scientific problems of today.
Dr. John Kilgore, head of
the department, explained
Tuesday in an interview, the
basic changes due for the de
partment. Most specifically, the
changes have to do with two
areas of improving and up
grading requirements for ma- '
jors in the chemistry depart
ment and, secondly, that of pro
moting and strengthening the
non-major students’ interest in
courses offered in the chemis
try department.
The most radical change for
graduates. Dr. Kilgore said,
“is that of basic graduate re
quirements being changed.” He
then went on to explain that a
B.S. in chemistry was design
ed mostly for those people who
were going on to graduate work
in science, while a B.A. de
gree is designed for a “liberal
arts education in science.”
There will now be a broad
er emphasis for B.A. students
for example, a one year Bio
logy course, never before part
of a chemistry degree; a two-
track option in physics or math;
a lessening of emphasis on the
math part of the degree, which
results in a less mathematical
degree.
The fore mentioned specifics
will do several things for the
student. One, it provides a
“framework for the pre-med,
pre-dental students,” it being
their responsibility to pick up
needed courses in Biology.
Secondly, it offers a possi
bility as Dr. Kilgore put it,
a “B. A.T.” degree, that is a
little more than the average B.
A. degree. With the system as
it is now set up, it offers
“good possibilities” for a dou
ble major, with biology majors
taking three additional courses.
Third, it fulfills all require
ments for secondary school
science teacher, excluding, of
course, education courses
needed.
Dr, Kilgore then switched the
subject from present changes
in new courses to hopes for
courses in the future. One was
a further change for science
majors and the other a pos
sible change for the non
science-oriented student at
Wesleyan.
“We are trying to make some
contacts,” said Dr. Kilgore,
“and trying to work out some
sort of program where a stu
dent could take this (major
offering) and finish up his work
in a hospital in medical tech-
Weekly News Review
By DONNHENCHEL
For more than 30 months the
Nigerian Civil War has persist
ed and after, the deaths about
two million of its people, the
war came to an end. The an
nouncement of capitulation
A. B. Lewis Speaks At
First Convocation
By MARY GETLEIN
The “Ecology of Poverty”
was presented in Wesleyan’s
Convocation on Jan. 15 by A.B.
Lewis, National Treasurer of
the N.A.A.C.P,
Before he began to speak,
Mr. Lewis explained that while
he knew very little about eco
logy, he knew a lot about pover
ty, and would try to tie the two
together.
He began with a brief his
tory of mechanization in the
United States, stating that with
the start of the Industrial Re
volution, the beginning of or
ganized work on a massive
state. This, then, brought about
the never-before-realized pro
blem of massive ownership and
massive workership. Thework-
er in the factory was dependent
on his boss for his job, which
left him in a insecure position,
for his livelihcod rested upon
the wishes and demands of
someone else.
Mr. Lewis went on from this
to point out the three ways the
underprivileged and discrimi-'
nated against have gained equa
lity with the owners. The three
ways were the right to vote, the
right to organize, and the right
to get an education.
“The right to vote has been
the biggest single denial in this
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came as Brig. Phillip Effiong,
Biafra’s chief of staff asked
hs people to “lay down their
arms and put an end to the
bloodshed.” President Nixon,
in conference with Britians
Prime Minister, Wilson, agreed
to send 10 milliondollarsworth
of food and medical supplies to
avert a mass starvation in Bia-
fra. As a reply, General Jaku-
bu Gorvon, Nigeria’s leader,
said that all foreign nations
offering aid could keep their
money. He said he wouldn’t ac
cept aid from people who had
been party to the loss of so many
lives. The solitary airplane that
left Biafra was forced to evade
machine gun fire and panicky
mobs as it took off from the
airstrip at Uga. Itwas only pos
sible that 45 people could be
taken aboard the aircraft. Re
ports from inside Biafra told
of mass starvation and whole
sale death. Its a pity that the
mass offering of food and med
ical supplies have had to wait
until the bloodthirsty defeat of
Biafra. Perhaps this will final
ly awaken those who have ig
nored this problem so long.
Israeli jets raided the out
skirts of Cairo for the second
time in a week. The raid was
purportedly viewed by Egy
ptians in the capitaL The jets
struck nine miles from the city.
The planes also bombed Egypt’s
largest military base about 25
miles from Cairo.
The head of the Soviet For
eign Ministry’s press depart
ment said at a news conference
that the U. S. would be wel
comed at an all-European se
curity conference, but went onto
critize the North Atlantic
Treaty nations for trying to
complicate the holding of the
security conference.
nology. The student would then
be granted a B.A. in chemis
try from Wesleyan, and would
also be a registered medical
technologist from the other
school participating.”
There are no basic changes
for the nonscience-oriented
student at Wesleyan who has to
finish his requirement in
science, to graduate; to him
goes the recommendation that
he take Chemistry 10, Physics
10; 11, 12; Chem 11, 12; and
Biology 1, 2.
“However,” continued Dr.
Kilgore, “we seriously consi
der putting in a general semi
nar, one-hour course, for stu
dents who need to pick up an
additional hour here and there.”
Such a course would be an
“open” course, meaningproba-
bly no pre-requisite upon en
tering, but starting at second-
semester freshman and on up.
There are two reasons for
such a course are: one—to ful
fill needed hours. (Divisional
requirements for a student, if
enough were taken) and two--
the staff can’t afford to spend
anymore than one hour a week
on a general course.
The purpose of such a course
would be to “build up a plain,
lively, interest in science, with
the application of science with
out going through the theory of
the subject.”
“Of course, you cannot ex
pect to learn anything about i
science without going through
the theory first, but if it’s
structured simpler, itwillmean
more to the non-science-major
student,” Dr. Kilgore went on to
explain.
Such a course would be a
seminar-type course which
might talk about topics that
are in the minds of people, emo
tionally, but that they have no
real scientific knowledge of.
(Some examples. Dr. Kilgore
gave were cyclamates; smok
ing; drug addiction; air and
water pollution.)
“Through the plain collection
of data and the learning of how
to interpret this data,” Dr.
Kilgore finished, “students
could understand, scientifical
ly, some of the vehement pro
blems of today.”
Dorm Check Cancelled;
Forms Fulfill Purpose
Dr. Sim O. Wilde, Dean of
Students, has announced that
there will be no room check
conducted as previously stated
by Mrs. Marjorie Hagins, Di
rector of Student Housing.
The room check, orginally
scheduled, was to be conducted
as a result of an agreement
between the Business Office
and the office of the Dean of
Students due to the damage in
curred to the rooms and furni
ture last spring. The room
check has been cancelled be
cause the dorm council of North
Hall officially objected and
pointed out to the Dean of Stu
dents and the Director of Stu
dent Hous ing that the form which
all dorm residents were re
quired to complete two months
ago was designed to replace
the room inspections.