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NORTH CAROLINA WESLEYAN COLLEGE
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Permit No. 217
Rocky Mount, N. C.
Non-Profit Organization
VOLUME XII, NUMBER 16
ROCKY MOUNT, N. C,
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1971
Prospective Freshmen Visit President, Dean Meet Senate,
Wesleyan Campus Feb, 5-7
North Carolina Wesleyan
College will hold its annual Pro
spective Freshman Visitation
Days this week end, February
5th, 6th, and 7th. This will
mark the third year that Pro
spective Freshmen have visit
ed and the turnout is expected
to be around 65 students. These
students will be treated to a
week - end of entertainment
planned by the Wesleyan Inter-
Club Council.
F'ollowing registration on
Friday night and Saturday mor
ning, the prospective class of
’75 will be able to tour all
dorms during Saturday after
noon’s Open House. Nash Hall
will sponsor a reception with
food and live music in the lob
by Saturday afternoon. Satur
day night the guests will be able
to attend the One Act plays
in the Experimental Theatre
and a party in the Student Un
ion. The party will feature
two bands, “The Abrevs” and
“Our Favorite Rock & Roll
Band.” The week end will
conclude Sunday morning with
a worship service in Garber
Chapel, sponsored by the In
terfaith Commission.
Many Feel Issue Unresolved
; I I
Teacher Block Petition
Investigated By Senate
N. C. Wesleyan students in the
Teacher-block program learn
ed recently that their petition
was being investigated in the
Senate, Ed Gunter, Senate Pre
sident, stated that the petition
was being reviewed and that
Dr. Sim Wilde and other tea
cher-block personnel would be
asked to come before the Se
nate to discuss the issue,
Shar Grace, a member of
the block program, presented
the petition January 18 on be
half of her fellow student -
teachers. Not all of the cur
rent members of the program
have signed the petition which
asked for cpmpensation for
meals which are missed while
the student-teacher is at his
school and re-embursement or
cotnpensation for mileage dri
ven between Rocky Mount to
Roanoke Rapids or Weldon. The
business office has decided to
reimburse the students for their
meals, but, nodecisionhasbeen
reached on the mileage costs.
Previously, the teacner-
block program placed its stu
dents in schools in Rocky Mount
and the nearby areas, but this
year Wesleyan College was in
structed by the North Caro
lina Department of Public Ed
ucation not to do so. The State
Department of Education noti
fied Wesleyan that certain area
school systems had not comple
tely adhered to all provisions
of the Civil Rights Act. Since
Wesleyan students cannot go
into Rocky Mount to teach, they
have been sent to the nearest
areas, Roanoke Rapids and Wel
don.
After farther discussion in
the Senate, the petition will be
withheld until members of the
Teaching-block can accumulate
mileage figures and costs. After
such facts are presented, the
Senate will discuss with mem
bers of the Education division
how these cost may be shared.
Students listen as President Collins explains the Administra
tion’s justification for- the faculty cuts in last Monday’s open
Senate meeting.
Dr. Collins receives questions from students.
By JULIE ROBINSON
President Collins met with
the Student Senate last Monday
to discuss the details that
prompted the non-renewal of
the contra-’ts of Mrs. Ruth Smith
and Mrs. Jean Mann. Presi
dent Collins came to the Senate
"upon the request of the Sena
tors. The open meetingwas at
tended by over one hundred
students and approximately a
dozen faculty members.
Senate President Ed Gunter
began the meeting by asking the
President to explain the Ad
ministrative positive. Dr. Col
lins responded stating that the
college is in a strict financial
situation and quoted the figures
that made it necessary to cut
the two positions. He also re
viewed the events of the meet
ing with the four students who
had presented the petition re
questing the reconsideration for
renewal of the two faculty con
tracts.
Dr. Collins outlined the steps
that had resulted in the stu
dent enrollment decline and ex
plained that the problem
that this college faces is not
an exclusive one. He cited
the reasons for the national
enrollment decline in private
colleges.
Dr. Collins stated again that
the final decision concerning
the contract renewals had not
been made, and that should the
students enrollment figures
change sufficiently, the two in
structors would be re-hired.
The President then entertain
ed questions from the floor.
A student asked Dr. Collins
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Team Members Quit; Dean’sLislReleased;129Qualify
Tournament Upcoming
“The Battling Bishops” of
North Carolina Wesleyan Col
lege are now battling to save
the rest of the team. Last week
tri-captain, Jerome Brown,
stated that he was leaving the ■
team along with Bob Denig and
Anthony Allen. Though com
plete reasons for the withdraw
als were not made clear, Je
rome Brown stated that he had
no regrets ever leaving the
team. The withdrawals stem
from a dispute over who would
be allowed to be photographed
with the team last January 24.
Members of the team had re
ceived word to cut their hair
and be clean shaven if they wan
ted their pictures taken. How
ever, after the pictures were
taken, Coach Chancey called the
team together and told them that
he was only kidding about call
ing team members “hippies.”
Though no one on the team has
hair longer than what is cur
rently fashionable. The coach
stated that he was sorry if any
of his remarks had given that
insinuation.
Earlier in the week, Man
ager Stan Gray was asked to
shave off his mustache. Gray
was told that if he did not shave
this mustache, he would not be
able to go to the Harrisonen-
burg or Lynchburg games. Gray
was later told that he could tra
vel v/ith the team and keep his
mustache.
With less than a month be
fore the Dixie Intercollegiate
Athletic Conference Tourna
ment to be played at Wesley
an, the Wesleyan Bishops need
“inner strength, not dissen-
tion,” said Stan Gray.
The Fall semester of 1970
produced more Dean’s list stu
dents than any previous semes
ter in the history of Wesley
an College. Out of approxi
mately 600 students that at
tended Wesleyan duringthe Fall
term, 129 had a quality point
average of 3.2 or better. Five
students, Shannon Bailey, Ti
mothy Coggins, Deborah Jen
nings, Isabelle Thompson and
Linda Winston, had a perfect
4.0 average.
Those students who made the
Dean’s list are; Michael Arm
strong, Anne R. Bailey, Shannon
Bailey, Brenda Baker, Nan Bat
tle, Connie Behnken, John Be-
ier, William Blair, Monnie Bess
Boone, Marshall Britton, Nan
cy Bradsher, Martha Brooks,
Barbara G. Brown, Donald Bun
ker, Sue Butts, Gilbert Chich
ester, Gary Christopher, Shir
ley Clay, Timothy Coggins, Da
vid Cole, Mary Conner, Doug
las Cooke, Rose Cook, Daniel
Crumlish, Linda Daniels, Myra
Dean, Carol DeBlasi, Mason
Dorr, Arlan Doughty, Eliza
beth Ellis, Terry Everett, Bon
nie Faircloth, David Forrest,
Barbara Frazelle, Christy Ful-
comer. Mason Gamage, Mary
Ann Gardiner, Robin Gulick,
Carl Harris, Robert Hartley,
Thomas Hartsock, Dennis Ha-
yek, Martha Hemingway, Ed
ward Hill, Jeffery Hoagland,
John Hornaday, Thomas Howell,
Margaret Ives, Deborah Jen
nings, Barbara Johnson, Mar
tha V. Johnson, Robert Kelso,
Joseph Kermon, Phyllis Lamm,
James Lang, Catherine Lawton,
Betty Lee, Rebecca Lucas, La
wrence Luhn, Sue Luter, Ran
dolph McDonnell, Gail Mabe,
Deborah Manning, Walter Mar
shall, Elizabeth Martin, Frank
Matthews, David Megill, Kath
erine Merritt, Linda Midgett,
Linda Miles, Sally Mirse, Ca
rolyn Moody, Sean Moran, Don
na Noell, Elizabeth Notting
ham, Robert O’Keef, Marshall
Old, Donald Papke, Phyllis Pat
terson, Deborah Pearce, Bren
da Pepper, Marvin Pittman,
Joyce Porch, William Racek,
Dwight Rigsby, Julia Robinson,
Patricia Sayers, Christine
Scott, Edward Sewell, Roland
Shaw, Celia Singhas, Deborah
Sink, Virginia Slusher, David
Smith, Thomas Snyder, Wayne
Souza, Elizabeth^ Speake,
Helen Steiner, Maryann Stief-
fen, Joyce Sumner, John Sut
ton, Phyllis Sutton, Ann Tar-
kenton, Mary Tetterton, Isa
belle Thompson, Katherine
Thompson, Edward Tripp, Tho
mas Underwood, Yvonne Van
Keuren, James Van Lann, Pa
mela Walton, Charles Waters,
Phyllis Webb, Marylee Weiss,
Carolyn White, Nancy Wei-
ferich, Dorothy Williams, Lin
da Winston, Sue Wooten, Bruce
Wright, Molly Levin, Virginia
Massey, Edward Rampersaud,
and Richard Shannonhouse.