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THE DECREE
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1972
EDITORIAL Dear Chief
Recently signs popped up around the Student Union
pertaining to the availability of applications for fresh
man class officers, junior class officers and for day
student senators. This, in itself is not an oddity, but
what makes it an oddity is the datei- November. For
almost the entire first semester the two classes and
day students have had no representation or no leader
ship.
The junior class has no representation, for one
reason, because last spring no one chose to run for ^
the offices. But why the new attempt at an election
has taken so long to come about is what should bother
the student body.
Freshman have no officers because there has been
no election. Someone decided that the Freshman need
ed some time to get to know one another. Now, in
November, somebody has decided its time for that
election to take place. Evidently the Freshmen know
each other now. Who decided to wait this long? The
Elections Committee Chairman? No, because since
Rich Kershner was elected Vice - President of SGA
there has been so such chairman. The decision
was made by the President arid Vice - President of
SGA, Wilbert Harrison and Rich Kershner respective-
'ly, because, according to Mr, Kershner, “Wilbert and
11 took it upon ourselves to do it ourselves.”
The executives of student government, since they
could not find a student willing to be Elections Chair
man, have, in their way of thinking, become the Com
mittee, So it seems that Wilbert Harrison and Rick
Kershner decided to wait almost a whole semester
before giving freshmen any chance at class leadership.
If the Vice-President and President of SGA now con
sider themselves to be the elections committee this
column would then assume that it was also their deci
sion to wait almost a full semester before staging an
ele^lion for day student senators.
When asked why the day student senate applications
have taken this long to be available, Mr. Kershner re
plied;
“In the case of day student senators, day student
(elections) are held late this year because... we did
n’t have any kind of compiled record of how many there
were; how many were full time day students. We had
a listing of how many were day students, which caus
es confusion as to whether you have two or three sena
tors for the amount of day students there are. Many
of the day students are part time which doesn’t qualify
them for representation,”
Mr. Kershner must stand corrected. First of all,
if the SGA did not have an accurate count as to how
many day students there are it must only be because
they did not try to find out or because they did not
know where to find out, Mr, Kershner must stand
corrected further in his statement that special day
students do not have the qualifications for representa
tion, This column realizes that Mr, Kershner knows
they have representation, but it is by “fulltime equiva
lency” that they are represented, That is to say, if two
special day students are taking six hours each, they
then become, for senate elections, equalto one student
since their total equals 12 hours, the basis for being
a full time student. So, it seems, the reason that
elections for day student senators have not been heW
because Mr. Kershner and Mr. Harrison, in their new
and added capacity of Election officials, did not find
out the Number of day students after “flill equiva
lency” is taken into consideration until now. But it
cannot be because the “compiled records,” as Mr,
Kershner put it, were not available.
According to Mr, William Garlow, NCW Registrar,
the information has been available for some time.
When Mr, Garlow was asked if it were possible that
student government officials did not have the resour
ces to find out how many day students are enrolled
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It is hoped, by this column at any rate, that now that
the national presidential elections are over and that
all the signs and billboards of both candidates no lon
ger obscenely hang everywhere that members of our
student government will now turn their attention and
energy away from national elections and focus it instead
on student government at Wesleyan.
Dear Chief,
We feel that it is about time
for a few eyes to be opened
around here. The dorm situa
tion is ridiculous. We are told
by our own Bishops’ Law that
the male students are more ma
ture and can take on more re
sponsibilities than the “help
less” females; “The upper-
class men’s residence is oper
ated with a minimum of regula
tions and restrictions on in
dividual freedom of students.
This is done with the full ex
pectation that residents of the
hall will exercise maturity in
their judgment concerning their
behavior. All upperclassmen
are expected to be fully aware
of and abide by the regulations
of the college and the Residence
Hall Council and to accept their
share of responsibility for the
operation of the residence halL
(Quoted from page 31 of ’71-
’72 Bishops’ Law)
Should we, the female spe
cies, follow their example?
Should we wreck our bath
rooms? Should we rip our
phones off the walls? Should we
threw cherry bombs in our com
modes? Should we break our
washing machines so they will
wash for nothing? Should we
throw our trash out the win
dows? Should we break into
the candy machines? Should
we be so responsible as our
Bishops’ Law says our males
are? Should we sit idly by and
let their immaturity go unno
ticed as it has repeatedly in
the past?
We love you guys but we feel
that whether or not we have
gained our freedom, we have
better shown our maturity. Now
we want our reward!
Respectfully,
Patti Kern
Verna Wentz
Dear Chief,
It has come to our attention
that there has been a change
made in the function of North
Hall Dormitory CounciL The
way in which we found out about
this change is our major con
cern in writing this letter. The
change which so disturbs us is
the fact that the ARC’S now have
have the power to administer
punishment to any girl they
find breaking a rule by issuing
a penalty slip to her, stating
her punishment. The ARC’S
are not required to take any
case to the Dorm Council. The
major complaint, we have as
Dorm Council members, is the
fact that we, as a council, were
not told about this when it
came into effect. This is to
say the Deans told the ARC’S
the power they now have to ad
minister penalty slips but made
no mention of it to the council
members. To the best of our
knowledge we were the first
two people out of the six on
dorm council to hear anything
about the change and this did
not come from the Dean’s writ
ten or verbal account of the
change.
A third member of the Dorm
Council was confronted by one
of us about the change. Toge
ther we decided to discuss this
change, administered from the
Dean’s offices, with the whole
Dorm Council at our last meet
ing. The Council decided the
change unfair to the girl who
commits an infraction. The
Councilhas metwith the Deans.
What will come of it, we don’t
know.
Again, to state our purpose in
writing, this letter is to tell
the student body in what man
ner such a change has taken
place. The ARCs knew their
position as administered from
the Dean’s office. The Coun
cil was not advised by the
Deans of any change in their
functioning power. Maybe the
Deans felt if we didn’t know
about the change, we wouldn’t
object if by chance we found
out later. The point is, we the
Council, do object. Maybe this
is not their reasoning behind
not telling us about the change.
The disturbing fact to us is,
the Deans did not in anyway
inform us, the Council, of the
change.
Sincerely,
Sheryl Tillett
Susan Gillis
Council Members North Dor
mitory
Summer Sabbaticals Set
NEWS BUREAU—Two N. C.
Wesleyan College faculty mem
bers, William Vance Mizelle
and Dr. Rexford F. Tucker, have
been granted summer sabbati
cals for 1973, according to an
announcement by Wesleyan
President Thomas A. Collins.
Mizelle, assistant professor
of English, will attend the Uni
versity of Salzburg, Austria,
during the July - August re
gular summer session studying
the German language, its his
tory and literature. Prior to
entering the university Mizelle
will travel in Europe to gather
material for future writing and
research applicable to group
studies. May Term projects
and tours which may be includ
ed in Wesleyan’s curriculum.
Dr. Tucker, assistant profes
sor of religion and sociology at
Wesleyan, plans to attend a
regular summer session at a
university in North Carolina for
study in social theory and re
search. His summer studies
Circle K
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nosed an M. S. patient his
life becomes a day to day hor
ror by not knowing when the
disease will strike him next.
The progression of M. C, is
unpredictable. An M, S, patient
never knows atwhattime he may
go blind, loose his balance or
lose other forms of physical
control,
Circle-K at Wesleyan in co
operation with Circle-K Inter
national will be working to com
bat the crippling disease of Mul
tiple Sclerosis, This pastweek
declared as M. S. Week, by Ma
yor John Minges of Rocky
Mount, is a beginning, A be
ginning through research, that
will lead to the abolishment
of our disease before it becomes
our childrens’ disease.
will be designed to expand of
ferings in sociology at Wesley
an pursuant to preparing a com
posite major in the field.
Dr. Tucker expects his re
search eventually to result in a
better balanced sociology cur
riculum at Wesleyan, there
by offering the students a wi
der selection in the discipline.
Homecoming
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all students, but since organiza
tions on campus have plans for
Friday night we feel that
attempting to stage an event
that night would not be worth
while. We are looking into
the possibility of having some
sort of event Thursday night if
it meets the approval of our ad
visors and if money is avail
able.”
Soon an itinerary of schedul
ed events for the week-end will
be available for the student
body.
THIS WORLD
OF OURS
Many public, school^ and c(»l~
lefie libraries have prepared and
distributed lists of books on pol
lution, f^ncouraae yttur library to
do so, and net a copy of the list,
Read about eadogy more often—
it is a very important aspect of
our tvitrld today. The better in-
formed we are as individuals
about ecology, the better our
chances of savinf* our environ
ment.
ttxtz
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