OiSn
U. s. POSTAGE
PAID
Permit No. 217
Rocky Mount, N. C.
Noa-Profit Organization
NORTH CAROLINA WESLEYAN COLLEGE
VOLUME Xn, NUMBER 18
ROCKY MOUNT, N. C.
TUESDAY, FEBRURAY 16. 1971
Administration Okays
Credit For Recruiters
si
N. C. Wesleyan To Host DIAC
Tournament On Feb. 18-20
North Carolina Wesleyan
College will host the eighth an
nual Dixie Intercollegent Ath
letic Conference Tournament
here February I8th, 19, and
20th.
The Dixie Conference is com
posed of seven teams in North
Carolina and Virginia. They
are: Lynchburg 9-2, Metho
dist 7-3, Greensboro 7-4, North
Carolina Wesleyan 5-6, UNC-G
and St. Andrews 4-6, and Vir
ginia Wesleyan 0-9,
Every year a different sch
ool in the conference hosts the
tournament with the profits di
vided among the seven schools.
This is Wesleyan’s second
opportunity to host the tour
nament in the past seven sea
sons. It is an advantage to
play on one’s home court not
only because of having practic
ed on it all of the time but
because of the fans. They play
a very important part in a game.
It is interesting to note that
in 1966-67, the last season that
Wesleyan was host, Lynchburg,
the regular season champion,
won the tournament. Wesley
an finished fourth, Five--5®ars
later Lynchburg is ■ again the
probable DIAC regular season
champion and at the time of
this publication Wesleyan is
again in fourth place.
Wesleyan has been very in
consistent this year although
this could be attributed to sev
eral factors including sick
ness, injuries, academics and
team dissention. Almost all of
these problems have been sol
ved and the Bishops are very
strong contenders for the tour
nament crown. In their last
few home games the Bishops
lost to the first and second
place teams by a total of eight
points and defeated the third
place team by five points. This
is not a team to be looked
at lightly.
The V/esIeyan Bishops have
great team boosting the best
win output in the history of the
. school. The Bishops are going
to be in the tournament and
they are going to make Wesleyan
proud simply because they are
a team that doesn’t know how to
give up.
By JULIE ROBINSON
The Student Recruitment pro
gram was given an endorsement
by the administration lastWed-
nesday as Registrar Bill Gar-
low announced the credit pro
gram for student recruiters.
The credit will be given to stu
dents who sollicit another stu
dent who enrolls for the fall
term.
Mr. Garlow outlined the two
types of credit toward tuition
and the procedure for gaining
them in a memo to the student
body last week,
I. Tuition Credit—A credit
of twenty-five dollars ($25,00)
to be applied to the account
of the student recruiter in Oct
ober 1971, Allcurrentlyenroll-
ed students who return for the
Fall Term, 1971, will be eligi
ble for this credit,
II. Alumni Fund Credit—
A credit of twenty-five dollars
($25,00) to be applied to the
account of the N,C.W,C. Alu
mni Association Natalorium
(Swimming Pool) Fund in Oct
ober, 1971. All currently en
rolled students who do not re
turn for the Fall Term, 1971
will be eligible for this credit,
PROCEDURE FOR GRANT
ING TUITION AND ALUMNI
FUND CREDITS
I. Regular Procedure—(No
limit is set on number of cre
dits each student may accum
ulate.) (A,) Each student re
cruiter must furnish a Student
. Prospect Form to the Direc
tor of Admissions prior to the
initial contact or immediately
after contact is made with the
prospective student. The stu
dent prospect forms are avail
able from the members of the
student steering committee or
the director of admissions, (B,)
Once the Student Prospect Form
is received by the Director
of Admissions it will be check
ed against the adipiissions of
fice student-contact file. This
check will be made to deter
mine if the student listed on
the student prospect form has
had any previous recorded con
tact with the admissions of
fice. (C,) If the admissions
office has made a prior re-'
(Continued On Page 3)
Sigma Omega And Sigma Phi
Delta Pass Board Of Review
Sigma Omega, a men’s so
cial fraternity, and Sigma Phi
Delta, a women’s social soror
ity, appeared before the Board
of Review last Monday to ask
for approval of their respec
tive constitutions. Each new
organization was approved. Sig
ma Omega, under the leader
ship of Bruce Wright, Joe Vin
son, Dennis Hayek, Bob Thomp-
Friday Night Power Failure
Surprises Many NOW Students
son, Marshall Old, and Jim
Keeter, nad oeen appi'uveu uy
the Senate and was approved by
the faculty on the following
Tuesday. Soon plans will be
submitted to the Inter-Frat-
ernity Council for a rush per
iod and pladge period after
mid-term break, Bruce Wright
announced that Mr. Richard
Kagey had accepted the posi
tion of Sigma Omega faculty
advisor. Sigma Phi Delta was
originally founded by Brenda
Logwood, Kathy Garrick, Vicky
Sewell, Carol DlBlasi, Anne
Matthews, Linda Williams,
Barbara Blanton, Debbie May,
Sandy Snyder, Lorrie Thomp
son, and Debbie Sink, The so
rority’s stated purpose is to
•provide more social life on
campus. Their advisor is Dr.
J, M. Purser,
By WILL THOMPSON
The moment it happened,
Wesleyan seemed caught in sus
pended animation. One second
all was the normal bustle of a
Friday night, then as if time
screeched to a halt, every
thing froze; students-bewild-
ered, were caught in a pitch-
black instant that was to last
eight hours.
At approximately 8 p.m, Fri
day evening, a short in the
underground power lines of the
college caused a black out that
may be remembered by many
for a while to come. It came
as Wesleyan players readied for
Friday night’s performance,
and as the Bishops grappled
Lynchburg in Everett Gym, che
ered on by approximately 150
students. The first blackout
was only momentary but after
only 30 seconds of restored
light, barely enough time to
sigh with relief, Wesleyan was*
plunged again into darkness.
Undaunted by this turn of
events, the Bishops’ Cagers
moved to Rocky Mount Senior
High School’s gym, where the
game began. The production of
“Three by Three” had to be
postponed until Sunday night,
and the actors and actresses be
gan the task of removing make
up in the dark. In less than
an hour’s time the parking lots
were empty and an estimated
3/4 of the student body had
abandoned the darkened cam
pus. ■
Meanwhile,^ maintenance
crews and'vEPCO Power Com
pany employees began a te-
\
dious search of the under
ground wiring to determine the
cause of the blackout, which
was localized to the campus
area only. This involved a
great deal of pumping, as the
utility pits were flooded from
the recent rains. Finally the
cause was found: a failure
in the water proofing of a con
nector box resulted in a short
which sl^ut down all power.
When the cause was found, par
tial power was restored until
repairs could be made.
Visiting freshmen, who were
on campus for the week end
were shown that life at Wes
leyan can be pretty unpredict
able, As one prospective stu
dent remarked: . . Do they
always turn out the lights this
early?’’ •
’71-72 SGA Budget Gets
Full Support Of Senate
\
The Wesleyan student Senate
approved the entire SGA budget
as proposed by Tom Snyder,
SGA Treasurer. After filing
the appropriate forms with Mr,
Floyd Sawyer’s office, the bud
get will be submitted to the Ad
ministrative Council. This stu
dent budget for 1971-72 will be
incorporated into President
Thomas Collins’ proposals to
the Board of Trustees who will
vote an the budget next May.
The budget contains a total
request for $25,100 or $38,62
per student (on a basis, of 650
students). Last year’s budget
was $1,925 under the new pro
posed budget; the rise between
the budget is $2,97 per student.
The President has previous
ly announced that tuition costs
will rise at Wesleyan next ye^r;
however, a review of the per
centage of the money given by
the school to the SGA shows
that the SGA budget represents
only 1,6% of the total amount
paid to the school by students.
Dean’s List
Recently Dean Moore’s office
released the revised Dean's
List for the fall semester. To
be included as Dean’s List Stu
dents are Bennett Connley, Dan
Turner, Ed Rampersaud, and
Molly Levine. Elizabeth Do
zier was ommitted from the
Dean’s List as published by the
decree.
To qualify for the Dean's
List a student must post a
3.2 quality point average dur
ing a semester.