TUSEDAY, FEBRUARY 1. 1972
THE DECREE
PAGE 3
FliOM THE CaCUMR FILE
WILL THOMSON
Editor’s note: This week’s
Circular File is reprinted from
the January 26, 1971 issue of
the DECREE. Mr. Thomson
is currently on vacation.
While gazing into my micro
scope in lab the other day, I
noticed a great similarity be
tween the colony beneath my
gaze and this community we
The Brotherhood
of
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Wishes to thank the
many members of the
Wesleyan Community
that made our Rush
Week possible and
particularly—
Mr. and Mrs.
Donald Cole
Mr. and Mrs.
Charles M. Harrison
call Wesleyan. Some of the cells
sit passively about, moved only
by .;tie general cui-rent oi the
water; some are constantly
scurrying, bumping headlong
into this and that while some
sit rooted to one spot, running
their multi-filimented mouths.
Some cells ooze from one
source of food to another,
engulfing anything that might
get in the way, while others
spin and turn in one spot as
if unsure of which way to go.
They are sexually (and asex-
ually) active, if only for the
single purpose of prolonging
their kind, and they react in
different ways to changes in
their environment. These tiny
organisms have' no cares for the
affairs of the outside world and
are, in most cases oblivious to
even their immediate surround
ings, When alarmed, certain
species bristle with protective
cilia while most merely with
draw into a protective sheath
or even ignore the obvious
danger. Throughout their lives
they are the prey of other, big
ger organisms but, except for
a few exceptions, they never
have evolved protective sys
tems: their saving'grace is
their fecundity, a fecundity we
do not share. I wonder
sometimes what some greater
Being is thinking as He peers
through His lens.
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BV TOM HARJDISON
I can remember, after my
Mother died how the whole fa
mily was all around me for a-
while. The uncles and aunts
were all there and my grand
mother and all these relatives
I haven’t seen since. And it
wasn’t so bad. I really didn’t
have time to think about it. And
when the funeral was over and
everybody packed up and went
home and my Father went back
to work I thought I would be
alone but I wasn’t, I got some
goldfish.
I kept them in my rooni, on
a little table right next to the
bed and all day I would talk to
my goldfish, lounging around in
the water, not having the slight
est ideawhat Iwas talking about.
It was pretty bad when my Mo
ther died, but the goldfish kept
me company for awhile. But
one day I camehome from school
and they were dead, too. I
really don’t remember what oc
cupied my time then. I just
learned to accept that death
is a very final thing.
It was the same way when my
father died, too. Except I
didn’t have his hand to hold
during the funeral. All the re
latives were there again, sorta
a family reunion or something,
I suppose.
And after he died I got a new
er car and that kept me busy.
And trying to keep in high sc
hool. I suppose I got over my
father’s death the same way I
got over my mother’s. Sort of
just came to terms with it. I
mean, what do you do?
Somebody’s always leaving.
Dying, or just walking out of
your life or growing up on you
.... or you grow up on them.
All kinds of things happen. And
they are very very sad. And
to me there are two kinds of
sadness. The kind you can’t do
anything about, like when some
body dies. The kind that you
just . . , what did I say, sort
of come to terms with. And
then there’s the kind of sad
ness that is very real and
very final, but at the same
time is very very vauge. Like,
somebody leaves but you could
see them again , . , but you
don’t know if you should. And
what to do about the leaving.
You just never know if you can
get it back, and you don’t know
what to do with it anyway. It,
or the person, or whatever just
goes away. Slowly. And not
very finally,
* * *
Not too many Saturdays ago
I was in Ptaleigh and after a
«or#
You look
tnortiPied,
Oedipus.
lam.GortT I just
^ound out that IVe
killed my fathei'...
and iVe married
my mother f
Have you
considisred
divorce?
No,nor...the punishment
o¥ my double crime
must be severe ff I
think ril blind myselP
and go into wandering
exilef
Can you think
oF anything
more
painPul ?!
you could
fecome a
lifetime member
in Spiro Agnew's •
golfing
gallery.
About Campus Drug Usage
(Continued From Page 2)
it to be, even at the cost of sus
pension of students who are not
willing to accept our counsel
and the guidance of college
regulations,
DECREE: Did the college, or
any official of the college, ini
tiate the action against Nick
Belleti?
Collins: I do not have abso
lute information as to the na
ture of informants known to the
Rocky Mount City Police autho
rities, but I am assured that
no official of this college ini
tiated the action with regard to
Mr. Nick Belleti. Had we had
certain information on which to
act, we should have taken action
as a college to protect the inte
grity of the college commu
nity.
I do not know the source of
their information, but it is my
understanding from reliable
sources that the information
originated off this campus and
was not furnished by a member
of theWesleyancollege commu
nity. However, we shall co
operate 100% withcivilauthori-
ties as I indicated in my open
letter to the student body im
mediately after the arrest oc
curred.
DECREE: Do you have a final
word on this subject. Dr. Col
lins?
Collins: Every member of
the Wesleyan community, inclu
ding each student, shares some
responsibility for any defects
which octur on campus.
Students share responsibility
for problems known to pre
vail and have the right (and the
obligation) to use his or her
powers of persuasion and judg-
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night of rather fitfull sleep
I finally got up and made it over
to The Player’s Retreat. I
wanted a beer. And I wanted
to figure out what to do about
some things. I sat up at the
bar, under the dark red lights
of the place and I felt sudden
ly that it was night. 1 finally
got my beer and as I turned it
up I saw, or noticed, I suppose
for the first time, tliat behind
the bar there were all these big
tanks of fish. Goldfish, bass,
and something the barkeeper
called a Jack Dempsy. There
they were. Fish.
But I’m a little old for fish
now and I can’t afford a new
car and I don’t even know why
Pm telling you all this. I
guess I found my new solace.
Maybe I’ll start writing again.
Four Professorc
To Leave Campus
(Continued from Page 1)
tracts for the faculty positions
for 1972-73 will be released
during the first two weeks of
February.
The administration has indi
cated that such items as pay
increases, promotions, and the
granting of tenure will again
be considered this year, follow
ing last year’s bilateral agree
ment to suspend these consid
erations.
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