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Opinions and E«iitorials
Meals discontent
due to poor food
Why is it so hard for a
Wesleyan student to get off
the meal plan?
According to the rumor, it
is very difficult to get off the
plan. Maybe students are
afraid even to try because
they think it is almost an im
possibility. The rule states
that the student must get
written permission from a
physician to stop paying to
eat in our lovely cafeteria.
According to the student
handbook, each resident stu
dent must eat in the campus
cafeteria at a cost of $1,660
per academic year. When
faculty, staff, or visitors eat
here they are charged the
hefty sum of $3.50 a meal.
Even though the food is "all
you can eat," the price still
seems too steep for the
quality of food that-^we are
receiving. This is probably
why some professors bring
their own lunch. Some stu
dents do not eat every meal
in the cafeteria for the very
same reason.
The college may be reluc
tant to let students off the
meal plan because they lose
their income of $1,660 per
student. If the students
here at Wesleyan do not
like the food they are pre
sently receiving, then ±ey
should voice their opinion.
Then maybe something will
be done to improve the
food's quality!
If nothing is done, we will
find more and more stu
dents trying to get off the
meal plan, more students
cooking in their rooms, and
more students dissatisfied
with the food they eat. One
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Council issues open letter
The Faculty Council 1987-1988
thanks the Faculty for its support,
and expresses, on the Faculty’s
behalf, our appreciation for the
time and work of this year's
Council, especially that of the
chairman, Dr. Kenneth Finney.
We accept our responsibilities.
We asked the continued support of
our colleagues.
Faculty Council is that elected
Ethics, values in business
firmly centered on results
By MELVIN BARNES
Ethics and values in business
toward the year 2000 was the topic
for discussion by Dr. Rex Tucker
and William K. Silber in Gravely
Hall as part of this year's Spring
Symposium.
After Silber gave a brief history
on the U.S. economy as it relates
to business and entreprenuership,
Tucker commented on the ethical
side of entreprenuership.
"Profit maximization begins
with shareholders who take the
risk and the money," he said. This
Verbal, writing skills
as needed as degree
How to put your college edu
cation to work was the topic of a
special presentation at North Caro
lina Wesleyan College by Laura
Ellis, marketing officer and man
ager of training for Planters
National Bank in Rocky Mount.
Ellis addressed key employment
issues in her talk to freshmen
enrolled in the newly formed Lib
eral Studies Seminar, a year-long
'orientation course designed to help
students adapt to college.
"A college degree does not
guarantee satisfying employment,"
Ellis said. "It takes more than a
piece of paper to enter the job
market Communication skills are
your most valuable employment
tools. Without the ability to ex
press yourself verbally and through
the written word, employment
opportunities will be limited regard
less of your major," she added.
"Students need to choose a
major carefully and not select a
course of study which they believe
would be an easy entree into the
work force," Ellis said. "Workplace
needs are changing rapidly, and
students need to be versatile if they
expect to be employable."
Ellis is involved with college re
cruitment and the training of bank
employees. Her presentation con
cluded a series of career-planning
activities offered in the Freshman
Liberal Studies class.
view was seen in a handout by
Milton Friedman entitled "The
Social Responsibility of Business is
to Increase Its Profits."
According to the pamphlet, the
results are what count, not just the
responsibility to customers, suppli
ers, and stockholders. Business in
communities should be loyal to
health, profitability, and provide
goods and services on a long-term
basis as a form of a contract to
society.
Silber commented on the value
side of business. Good and bad
users of services do create oppor
tunities for a new business or entre-
prenuer to focus on those things
needed to put them in the best
position in society, he said. This is
called "Strategic Ethics." The eth
ics and moral value of common
goods competes against the human
understanding of getting ahead
whether it be lie, cheat, or steal, he
said.
To conclude the lecture, Silber
implied that the process for reach
ing good relationships with society
is the traditional way of doing
busines, good service and quality.
"One should do unto others
what you would have them do unto
you," he added.
body through which the Faculty
most clearly exercises its collective
influence and persuasion. It ad
vises, and is advised by, the Dean.
Through the Dean, as well as
directly, it advises, and is advised
by, the President. The chairman of
the Faculty Council is a member of
the Education Committee of the
Board of Trustees, and attends
meetings of the Board of Trustees.
Faculty Council is thus instrumen
tal in communicating the mind
and temper of the Faculty to this
essential governing body.
Faculty Council is entrusted
with leadership. As a ways-and-
means committee, it brings before
the Faculty such topics for reflec
tion and action as it finds ne
cessary and appropriate. As a clear
ing committee for certain matters
affecting the College as a whole, or
the Faculty in particular, it defines
and shapes issues, thus establishing
an initial vocabulary for their
formal consideration.
Faculty Council represents,
takes direction from, and carries
out the will of the Faculty. It lis
tens to the administration. It keeps
itself informed of concerns impor
tant to, and affecting, students.
In March each year, seven
members of the Faculty are elected
by a simple majority of the Faculty
to serve on Faculty Council; an
eighth member, the Council’s imed-
iate past chairman, completes the
body. Five of the eight must hold
tenure. Members are, as a group,
representative of each academic
division within the College.
Faculty Council 1987-1988:
Dr. Linda Flowers, Chairman; Dr.
Christian Carstens, Vice Chair
man; Dr. Emily Meredith, Secre
tary; Dr. Kenneth Finney, Past
Chairman; Dr. Raymond Bauer,
Dr. Arch Sharer, Dr. Jacob Owens-
by, and Dr. Richard Watson.
Respect privacy
Dear Editor:
Could you please print this in
the next issue of our school
newspaper. The students need to
realize to keep their business to
themselves and stay out of eveiy-
one elses’s business.
To whom this may concern:
The best business in any line of
business is to have some business of
your own.
But if you have no business,
then make it your business to leave
other people's business alone!
PDDK
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