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VOL, 1, NO. 9
NORTH CAROLINA WESLEYAN COLLEGE, ROCKY MOUNT, N.C.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1986
Presidential Search Continuing
By JODY PARADIS
With the February 1 deadline
drawing near, the members of
the'North Carolina Wesleyan
College Presidential Search
Committee have begun sorting
through applications with the
hopes of beginnign actual in
terviews sometine in March.
J. Phil Carlton, chairman of
the committee, informed the
Decree in a recent telephone in-
'terview that “well over one-
hundred applications from over
twenty different states” had al
ready been received, and that
“all committee members had
. been forwarded a copy of each
one for review.” The process of
“weeding out” the applicants is
not an easy task and can be very
time consuming. '
“I would want to be clear that
while on July 1,1986 the office
of president will be vacant we
will take as much time as is
needed to select the right per
son.” Stated Carlton. If a new
officer is not found by July 1,
1986, the Board of Trustees will
appoint one on an interim basis.
Dr. Allen S. Johnson, faculty
council chairman informed the
Decree that “we are receiving
applicants from a wide variety
of people and it is a great chal
lenge to arrive at the group that
will be best for questioning.”
According to Carlton, the
committee is expected to meet in
approximately two weeks to
begin group review of the appli
cations.
Wesleyan Plans
To Offer Minors
Starting In Fall
By ANGELA PITTMAN
The Minors Program propos
al, which is now being intro
duced at North Carolina Wes
leyan, is a plan that allows each
academic department offering a
major the option of presenting a
minor as well.
“Each academic department
will be permitted to offer a mi
nor if that is their choice,” stated
Dr. Stephen Fritz, Dean of Wes
leyan.
Dr. Fritz said that the Curric
ulum Committee, headed by Dr.
Chuch Acekerman, has re
viewed several proposed minors
those in the Department of
Criminal Justice, the Depart
ment of Mathematics, and the
Department of Religion and
sent them to the faculty for ap
proval.
According to Fritz, the Cur
riculum Committee will meet
next month on February 10.
Fritz also expects that next
month all departments wishing
to propose minors will have
them in, though he does not
know which particular depart
ments will be doing so. Howev
er, several academic chairmen
said that their departments will
be requesting minors. The I^-
partment of Computer Studies,
the department of history, the
department of politics, the de
partment of English, the de
partment of psychology the de
partment of music, the depart
ment of physical education, and
the department of biology are
among those which will be
proposing minors while the de
partment of education will not
be.
With faculty confirmation the
minors approved of this spring
will go into effect for fall semes
ter.
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WESLEYAN STUDENTS WORK IN COMPUTER LAB
Computers Play Big Role
By MARK CRUM
Computers play a big role at
North Carolin Wesleyan Col
lege in ■ administrative and
teaching purposes. Word pro
cessing, financial management,
and scheduling are the primary
uses, but the system at Wes
leyan can handle much more.
The IBM System 34, which
Wesleyan currently owns, has
15 terminals, three printers, and
storage space for 128 megabytes
of information. The IBM Sys
tem 34 is protected from abuse
by a user ID and password sys
tem. “Ninety percent of the pro
grams used for administrative
purposes were written by the
data processing staff here at
Wesleyan,” sayd Lionel Bishop,
Director of Data Processing. Bi
shop also said that the software
produced by the data processing
staff at Wesleyan is valued at
approximately $250,000.
In the future the System 34
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Four Students Plead Guilty To Break-In
By REGGIE PONDER, JR.
and CHRIS LALONDE
P'our Wesleyan students en
tered guilty pleas to misde
meanor charges ofbreaking
and entering, larceny, and in-
jury to personal property in
Nash County District Court on
February 4. The charges stem
fro incidents occuring early on
the morning of February 2, in
cluding a break-in at Belmont
Country Club.
William Crawford, Kenneth
Bowers, Scott Preston, and
Timothy Duffy, were each giv
en a suspended sentence of not
less than six months and not
more than two years by judge
Albert S. Thomas, Jr., accord
ing Dean of Student Life Ca-
rleton McKita. According To
McKita, the sentence was sus
pended on five conditions.
The students must work 100
hours in community service,
pay court costs, make restitu-
tuion for all damages, serve
five years supervised proba
tion, and spend 24 hours in
jail. McKita and soccer coach
Tony Ferrell appeared with
the students; all members of
the Wesleyan Soccer team, at
the trial.
The college was scheduled to
begin individual hearings
Wednesday after The Decree
went to press. “They will each
have a formal hearing in my
office to determine what ac
tions the college will take.”
The students were arrested
by Nash County Sheriff’s dep
uty Danny Manning on the
Wesleyan campus at 2:30 pm
February 2. Manning first
came to Wesleyan in response
to a complaint concerning the
vandalism of campus security
chief Jim Van Roekel’s pickup
truck.
Van Roekel filed charges of
injury to personal property,
according to the Nash County
Clerk’s office. Jim Wedes, re
presenting Belmont Country
Club, filed charges of breaking
and entering and larceny.