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Wi\t NORTH CAROLINA WESLEYAN COLLEGE U. S. POSTAGE PAID Permit No. 217 Rocky Mount, N. C. Non-Profit Organization VOLUME XI, NUMBER 17 ROCKY MOUNT, N. C. TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 3, 1970 Class Of ’74 Visits gtudeiit RcD. Barred Visitation Weekend for the herts. Jimmv Dixon. Ellen Par- JL From Faculty Meeting Visitation Weekend for the prospective class of 1974, will be on February 6th, 7th, and 8th, with the Steering Committee for visitation, coordinatingwith the admissions office, in charge of events. Members of the Steering Committee are chairman Tom Fredricks, Judy Johnson, Con nie Benkins, Ellen Parsley, Jimmy Dixon, Lex Roach, Tom Dyer, Ken Carter, Bob Lyda, and Mr. Lothenthal for student advisor. Expecting approximately 75 people, mostly from within a 4 to 5 mile drive radius, Tom Fredricks had this to say: “I think the programs are an im provement over last year. I hope the students will make the visitors feel at home and par ticipate as much as possible.” The activities are as follows: On Friday the students will register from one to five P.M. During that time, the Book Store will give out a free gift pack, containing implements of edu cation needed in a usual year at Wesleyan. Then, Friday night, they will witness a bas ketball game between the Bis hops and UNC at Charlotte. Saturday morning there will be a continuation of registra tion and free gift-pak giving from the Book Store. Also at that time, nine in the morning till one in the afternoon, there will be a reception in the Trus tee’s room with Dr. Thomas Collins present. President of Wesleyan, to welcome the par ents and prospective students. At quarter of two there will be two meetings held, one for the parents and one for the stu dents. Dr. Collins, Dean Moore and Mrs. Sara Alexander willspeak to the parents, while John Ro berts, Jimmy Dixon, Ellen Par sley and Bob Leyda will speak to the students. John Roberts will speak of student government at Wesleyan Jimmy Dixon will speak of ath letics at Wesleyan, while Bob Leyda and Ellen Parsley will talk about the fraternity/soro rity system at Wesleyan. Mr. Lowenthal will also be pre sent at the student’s meeting. Another interesting feature of the week end will be an opening of all dorms, Saturday, from 2 to 5:00 PM. The expected se venty-five prospective students will be housed in the dorms, in individual rooms. If any stu dents want to . participate in sharing their rooms over the week end, they are advised to sign up on the list in Dean Wilde’s office. Saturday night a dance will be held in the cafeteria and for the parents, a reception at Dean Moore’s residence. There is nothing planned for Sunday. All organizations have been asked to participate. Editor’s Note: The following article has been written in an effort to clear up misconceptions and prevent false rumors from circulating concerning the events that oc curred between Dan Davis, the Student Representative to fa culty committees, and the facul ty. Dan Davis is the student re presentative to the Faculty Meetings, and has been serving in this capacity since October 21, 1969. As such, Mr. Davis is the official liason between the Faculty and the student body and represents student interest in Faculty meetings. This past Friday some dis agreement arose as to whe ther Mr. Davis should attend a meeting of the Faculty. We spoke with Mr. Davis on Monday Feb ruary 2 regarding the events which transpired on Friday. Mr. Davis said that on Fri day morning he had received in his mail box a memo announc ing a meeting of the Faculty which was to be held that af ternoon. Mr. Davis stated that he found the memo curious for two reasons 1) the memo was issued by Mr. Brackett rather than Doctor Collins and 2) the meeting was to be held on a day other than usual meeting day- - Tuesday. “Because of these two factors,” said Mr. Davis, “I questioned various members of the faculty as to whether or not I should be present at the meeting.” “The majority of the Faculty response cent ered on the parlimentary as- Weekly News Review By JOHN HINNANT President Nixon vetoed the 19.7 billion dollar HEW Bill on the grounds that it was infla tionary. He signed the veto mes sage Monday night on nationwide TV. Despite an effort by the Democrats, a twpthirds major ity, necessary to override the veto, was not reached. The House voted 226-191, 52 votes short to override the veto. The Bill will now go back to com mittee in order to trim some of the 1.26 billion dollars added Convocations Airs Planning Project By MARY GETLEIN Three people working for Fa mily Planning Project 721, the Nash-Edgecombe County center for local birth control, came to Wesleyan’s Convocations Thur sday to present “Family Plan ning Project”. Miss Louise Cantrell was in charge of the main presentation, with Mrs. John Davis, (wife of a faculty member at Wesleyan, Dr. John Davis), a social worker, and Dr. John Thorpe, the medical director for Project 721, to ans wer questions from the au dience, after the main speech. An unusual aspect of this Convocations was that in addi tion to the question-and-ans- wer period allotted to the pro vocative question of birth con trol, there were members of the Family Planning Project to deal with questions from stu dents that might touch their lives too personally, and thus feel embarrassed to ask the people on stage. Miss Cantrell started off with a history of birth control in the ’60’s, beginning with Presi dent Kennedy’s interest in mental retardation. From a study, commissioned by the President, came the report that the real interest in mental re tardation was not to do with the fact of mental retardation, as evidenced by the mental ly retarded child, but more concern would be with the pre vention of mental retardation, with proper care of the preg nant mother and the unborn child. Another factor for birth con trol in the United States was (Continued on Page 4) to the original administration request. The failure of the Con gress, of which a majority are democrats, to override the veto is looked upon as a major po litical victory by the Presi dent. Last Monday the Supreme Court struck another blow at the Selective Service System when the court declared that the Board does not have the power to reclassify any person by declaring them deliquent be cause the person has turned in their draft cards. The Court, by a unanimous decision, rejected the suit fil ed by Florida Governor Claude Kirk. Kirk had filed for re consideration of a decision which ordered desegregation in 14 southern Districts by Feb- ruarxl_-__ The latest Harris Poll, re leased last Monday, indicated that a 52 per cent majority of the nation’s voters would per- fer a volunteer army over the present draft lottery system. The younger and college edu cated group tend to be more in favor of the volunteer army. Tuesday the Senate approv ed a modified “no knock” Bill which gives federal agents Sophomore Class Sponsors Dance Saturday night, Feburary 14th, the Sophomore class will present a Valentine’s dance from 8 to 12 in the cafeteria. The band featured is the As semblage, a group whose spe cialty is hard-rock and some soul. Cost of admission is $1.25 stag and $2.00 drag. the authority to break in a home with out-warning or identi fication if they believed nar cotics were about to be de stroyed inside. The proposal survived a tabling motion 44 to 40. U. S. jets attacked a missile base in North Viet Nam .Thurs day. This marked the first air battle over that country since President Johnson halted bomb ing over 15 months ago. The North Vietnamese at Paris call ed this “a brazen provocation by the Nixon administration”. The jets attacked after air craft they were escorting came under mlssle attack. Friday the Dow-Jones indus trial average closed at 744, the lowest level since Novem ber 1963, the day after the Ken nedy assassination. pects, ie. it was not a regu larly called meeting therefore I was not legally empowered to attend. However believing as I do in complete student parti cipation in every facet of aca demic life, I felt morally com pelled to attend.” Mr. Davis was eventually no tified that he had received in error the memo announcing the meeting, but did not find this out until five minutes before the meeting. When questioned about the reason for Mr. Davis' exclusion a faculty member ve hemently replied “No, N-O, that means No.” “Their reasoning was never explained to me rationally,” said Mr. Davis. “I heard the legal point of view but not the moraL” “This was gross mis management on the part of the faculty,” Mr. Davis added, “I should have received reason in stead of emotion. No one satis fied me as to why I was not morally justified in attending the meeting.” Mr. Davis said that at the time he feared that his posi tion as student representative was being jeopardized and that he was concerned lest this one incident of exclusion become a precedent by which he might be excluded from future meetings. “Up until the time of the meet ing I felt the faculty to be wrong morally in not wanting me present.” When asked why, feeling thus, he did not attend the meeting Dr. Davis gave three reasons “1) Because of the verbal intimidation Ireceiv- ed which led me to believe my attendance would result in ser ious repurcussions. 2) I was given a chance to show my trust in the faculty--that they would do nothing behind my back. 3) (Continued on Page 2) Decree, APO To Sponsor 'Talent' Show Benefit By JULIE ROBINSON THE DECREE and Wesley an’s Omicron Pho Chapter of Alphi Phi Omega will jointly sponsor a talent show on Fri day night, February 13, in Wes leyan’s Cafeteria for the bene fit of two Rocky Mount youths. The youngsters are Johnny Porch, the son of the service station employee who was fat ally wounded recently. Brennan Michael Griffin is the 3 1/2 year old son of the fatally injured Rocky Mount fireman. The money, which will be divided between the two boys, will go into funds already established for each. Porch’s share will be added to the WRMT fund. The other halt will go into the trust fund created by the firemen of Rocky Mount for Brennan Grif fin. The show will feature the tal ent of Wesleyan students. Some of those scheduled to perform are: Bruce Wright and Ex- semble--“The Consort Unli mited”, the Shadows of Night, Pete Page, Steve Gordon, and many others. Dave Siple of WRMT Sunday night show, will emcee the show.
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