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THE DECREE
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1974
We Could
Kill God Again
There is a new director of Development on campus now
and needless to say his arrival does not include the excess
hope and bally-hoo the campus and friends of the college
subjected itself to on the arrival of our last short-lived
Director. Great. The college and its friends should not
allow the addition of one new and promising
administration to turn on everyone to rose colored glasses.
Mr. Hutcheson has a difficult job ahead of him to be
sure. This newspaper has no idea as to what is involved in
the area of College Development but to classify any
individual as a Savior of an institution is a sad mistake.
Two things happen. First, the person who is billed as
“Savior” gets a lot of pressure on his shoulders. Second, all
the other campus administrators could possibly
unconsciously decide that since now, miraculously,
everything is fine, the others lose interest in their
quasi-development chores. Everything here is about the
business of developing something isn’t it?
So what do we do? What should we do now that we have
all decided that Mr. Hutcheson is no a “Savior”, but a hard
worker who will do the job with vigor and ability? We help
him. We do not hinder him by setting impossible goals and
we do not leave him stranded alone to bear his cross. The
different administrative agencies must co-ordinate their
efforts and possibly should consult the new Development
Director to possibly find ways to become more productive.
One way that would soften the Directors’s work would
be if more people know that there was a N. C. Wesleyan
College tucked away in Rocky Mount behind a bunch of
pine trees. This is done via P. R. (Public Relations)! It is
essential that this college get its name in the minds of
North Carolinians. Chowan College, in direct competition
with this college in the never-ending quest for students,
has its own radio program on Sunday nights on WEED.
That’s like a Dean Smith Show on WCAR, The UNC
student radio station. Why is there not a NCWC program
on Rocky Mount stations? Our basketball games were once
aired but not anymore. The PR releases around here carry
so much weight that when a student is elected President of
the SGA, tapped into Omicron Delta Kappa, and
appointed Associate Editor of a campus newspaper, it
doesn’t even make his hometown paper. That is not the
fault of PR here, but perhaps illustrates that Wesleyan
seems unimportant outside the limits of the wall.
What does this all boil down too? Perhaps the new
Director of Development’s first chore should be to develop
the college’s image in North Carolina and should make an
all out effort to make Wesleyan known not only to people
with money and companies with grants to give, but to the
general poplace. It is the general populace who has kids in
need of a place to go to school, and that’s what we need.
Maybe we need to fight for a four-year med school ;. .
that would get newspaper space, or perhaps the
Administration should come out with a positive position on
Streaking. UNC-Chapel Hill made CBS, State, Duke, St.
Andrews, Chowan, and others made the News and
Observer. But one thing is clear. We need to become a
household word.
If aU else fails we could kill God again. We need
Students, not bluehaired ladies with $1,000 to give.
Daylight Saving Time
Tried And Found Wanting
OFFICIAL STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF
NORTH CAROLINA WESLEYAN COLLEGE
Editor-in-Chief Charlie Rogers
Associate Editor Tom Hardison
Business MGR Charlie Rogers
Circulation MGR BobLauranzon
Sports Writer “Smokey” Cameron
Typist Peggy Verkler
Photographer Jay Van Hoose
Adviser Mr. Bruce Van Blarcom
Columnists: Tom Hardison
Reporter: Donald Williams
Business Address: Box 3056, Wesleyan College
Rocky Mount, North Carolina 27801
PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY WESLEYAN STUDENTS
Opinions Published Do Not Necessarily Represent
Those Of Wesleyan College
WASHINGTON, D. C.-The
great unknown factor about
winter daylight saving time is
what good does it do?
Unfortunately, we know all too
well the harm it does, and the
hazardous, disruptive incon
venience it causes so many,
young and old alike.
However, when the Presi
dent asked the Congress for
year-round daylight saving
time last November 8th, ap
parently not enough people
across the nation seriously con
sidered the consequences. In
stead, the stampede started,
with most being convinced that
here was a great and good thing
to do—a way to save energy
painlessly and to help us
through the energy crisis.
Legislation to bring it about
was promptly introduced and
sailed through both Houses of
Congress and was signed into
law by the President. Only a
few stood up to be counted
against it when the roll was
called, and it passed 311-88.
Consequently, in double-
quick time all Americans were
forced to start going to work or
school with headlights gleam
ing or flashlights shining
through the gloom of the
pre-sunrise rush hour.
The question remains, what
good does it do?
The White House fact sheet
of last November could only say
that winter daylight saving
time might save some oil. Even
today after we’ve been blessed
with a month and a half of dawn
patrol breakfasts and rush hour
traffic, John Sawhill, Deputy
Administrator of the Federal
Energy Office, recently admit
ted on Capitol Hill that “we just
don’t know” if any energy is
actually being saved by the
current experiment.
When the legislation to
establish winter daylight sav
ing was debated in the House of
Representatives, the Commit
tee which proposed the bill
admitted in its Reports to the
House that “no studies have
been carried out and no
information is available which
establishes with certainty that
an overall reduction in energy
consumption will directly result
from the year-round obser
vance of daylight saving time.”
Accordingly, it was impossi
ble for me to support such
nebulous legislation just on the
off-chance that it might save a
little fuel—no one knew how
much—while creating many
other problems, and so I voted
against it.
Nevertheless, the ayes had it
and winter daylight saving time
became law with a Presidential
signature on December 15,
1973, and went into effect on
January 6, 1974.
The backers of this turn-
back-the-clock idea said it
would be a safety measure, but
the statistics on the children
killed or injured on their way to
school through the dark of
night, and other problems crea
ted, tell a different story.
Claims were also made that
year-round daylight saving
time, rather than just during
the summer months, would
result in less confusion, but the
reverse is plainly true. Parents
have been forced to radically
alter their schedules to get
their children to school. And
schools have found it necessary
to move back their opening
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the audience, providing the
first real chance for it to collect
its wits. He assumes that we
condemn the assassins for what
they have done, but asks us to
consider certain other points.
We should thank them, for
example, for facilitating the
ultimate separation of church
and state by eliminating this
(presumably) power - hungry
priest. And besides, with whom
can we really identify, this
“martyr” Becket or the as
sassins? In principle, it is
difficult to argue with what we
must take to be van Blarcom’s
implication—that we destroy
more than we create, and hence
we must identify with the as
sassins.
But can we not also identify
with this Thomas, portrayed in
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Rooms will be available in
residence halls for students
who wish to live on the
Wesleyan campus during the
four-week period and all college
facilities will be open to them.
Commuting students may also
register in the improvement
program.
For further information
write to: Admissions Office, N.
C. Wesleyan College, Rocky
Mount, N. C. 27801.
this production as a cowering,
seemingly befuddled lackey?
Somehow, we wonder what the
king feared from him, and in
this also we see ourselves,
either indifferent or cowardly
in the face of injustice. This
man is no martyr; he is pathe
tic. So we are both the as
sassins and the Archbishop.
Destruction proceeds while fail
to act to end it.
Van Blarcom must be con
gratulated. His bold production
has stirred more than the usual
discussion of a WCT play. We
must also appreciate the
willingness of the cast to be
subjected to such choreogra
phic contortions and applaud its
physical endurance. It enacted
the director’s interpretation
effectively. Cathy Crismon, Liz
Martin, Patti Thompson and
Lynda Land as members of the
chorus, and Gail Shearer, Mary
Glenn Swanson, and Bettie
Garrick, the priests, are due
special praise. Olga Korbut
would have been impressed.
Finally, several random
thoughts: there were about
twice as many students in the
cast as in the audience on the
night I was there. And thus I
am told that there is “nothing
to do” on campus. I must also
assume that the usual Decree
reviewer was out of town for
these performances. You all
missed an impressive ex
perience.
hours—thus causing confusion
there.
Much of business and indus
try have also been adversely af
fected. It all adds up to more
confusion and frustration, not
less, and no observable bene
fits.
Proponents of winter day
light saving time claimed there
would be less crime with people
burning daylight instead of
electricity in the afternoon, but
we haven’t heard of any sudden
outbreak of law and order
caused by daylight saving time.
Like too much other legisla
tion passed down through the
years, this whole question has
been decided on the basis of
what might happen, but didn’t.
And so, without further ado,
the hasty action taken should
be reconsidered. For every one
it might please or help, there
are many others it will continue
to displease and harm.
Why do we have to wait til
mid-summer to get a report
from the Secretary of Trans
portation on the vague ac
complishments of a scheme
which was tried and found
wanting during World War I
and World War II, as well as
since January 6th of the
crisis-ridden year 1974.
We’ve had enough experi
mentation. Winter daylight
saving time should be repealed
—for our children’s sake, if not
for ours.
VANCE MIZELLE
Mizelle Plans Tour
Vance Mizelle, Wesleyan
English Professor, will conduct
a tour to several European
cities this summer. The trip
will start in New York and
include tours of Berlin, Munich,
Nuremberg, Hamburg and
Prague, Czechoslovakia. This
tour will take place in August
and last two weeks at an
approximately cost of $750.00.
All interested persons please
contact Mr. Mizelle on campus
or call 442-6876.
“Once the citizen loses his
sense of personal responsibili
ty for the welfare of the na
tion—of participation as an
active, loyal citizen—we shall
indeed be destroyed from
within.”
—Sen. Karl Mundt