VOL. 3, NO. 4
NORTH CAROLINA WESLEYAN COLLECIE, ROCKY MOUNT, N.C.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1987
New policy
helps stop
vandalism
By DON RHODES
Six o’clock Monday morning.
Eleven of 17 guys poked their head
out of their dorm rooms. The rest are
rudely awakened to the fact that they
must get up. Although it takes over
half an hour, students clean the north
side of Nash Dorm. By 6:30 those
students are awake and wishing
they’d been dreaming.
This is the scenario on the first
floor of Nash Dorm. Anthony Rice,
Resident Director of Nash and Direc
tor of Student Activities, has imple
mented the cleanup plan in response
to the excessive amount of trash and
damages on the North side of the first
floor. Damages cited by Rice include
broken windows and a toilet which
was ripped off its foundation.
Nash Dorm is not alone, however.
South has had its share of broken
windows and trash, and North, like
Nash, has had its signs posting quiet
hours and visitation stolen from its
lobby.
Both Rice and Pamela Gourley,
Resident Director of North Dorm,
said that students getting drunk is the
major source of the problem. Gourley
said that while she is happy with the
situation in North, she would not
hesitate to implement a similar plan if
necessary, because she considers
Rice’s solution “positive reinforce
ment to get the results you want.”
When asked for other solutions to
the problems. Rice said that taking
away visitation privileges is still a
possibility, as well as moving people
around to other floors or other dorms.
Student response to having the
clean the hall each morning is mixed.
One student said that while he didn’t
like cleaning up after others, it is “a
just way to deal with the situation.
Something had to be done.”
No more dorm damages have been
reported.
Last day to drop
Today, Nov. 13, is the
last day to drop a full-
term class and receive a
grade of "W."
('lasses dropped af
ter Friday receive an
automatic "F."
Recruitment
of minorities
new priority
Clash of titans
A member of the Bishop's third-ranked men’s soccer team and
one of the top-ranked Spartans of UNC-Greensboro collide in the
Nov. 5 regional opener of the Division III NCAA National Soccer
Tournament. Wesleyan's 4-3 loss ended the team's most success
ful season ever. For a season wrap-up, turn to Page 3.
By HASSAN M. JARRA
An absence of women and minor
ity faculty has caused a great deal of
concern at North Carolina Wesleyan
College. Out of approximately 50 fa
culty members, only 12 are women
(25 percent), with no blacks or other
ethnic minorities with the possible
exception of one male naturalized
American of Indian descent.
A series of interviews with the
president, the academic dean, and the
chairperson of the Faculty Council,
assures that serious efforts are being
undertaken to address this issue.
The fact that there are so few
women and minority faculty mem
bers can be attributed to two things:
1) a historical pattern and values
prevalent in this area of the United
States for over a century; and 2) the
fewer numbers of women and mi
norities holding PhD’s or other ter
minal degrees.
Dr. Leslie Gamer, President of
the College, explained that Wesleyan
is an Equal Opportunity Affirmative
action employer and that his admini
stration has made it a priority to re
cruit and employ more women and
minorities to the staff.
However, he went on to say that
there are fewer women and minori
ties with qualifying degrees and that
larger universities or state institu
tions, who are more capable of offer
ing larger salaries and better benefits
have an edge in the completion for
these candidates.
Another factor the president re
vealed was that before Wesleyan did
not have the necessary contacts with
those institutions who produced or
could identify a pool of qualified
minority candidates.
The administration now plans to
build its network and contacts to
expand its pool of qualified appli
cants. The administration will ex
pand its contacts with professional
organizations to meet this objective
without sacrificing the quality of the
student's education. He said that it
would be irresponsible to employ a
person simply on the basis of race or
sex and not adequate qualifications.
This would mean putting students at
a disadvantage.
Dr. Marshall Brooks, Academic
Dean, also said that the main empha
sis should be on the quality of educa
tion. However, he said, Wesleyan i^
firmly committed to placing minori
ties in key positions in both middle
and upper management levels and on
the faculty. Dr. Brooks also said that
the first step requires an administra
tor who is firmly and deeply commit
ted to this issue. This is a quality
found in Dr. Gamer, said Brooks.
Dr. Brooks added that to change
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Wesleyan forms new Dean *s Council
By ANGELA MARTIN
The Wesleyan Community has
just given birth to another organiza
tion. The Dean’s Council wks con
ceived as a result of the college’s
divisional structure.
The Council’s function is to pro
vide a managerial framework for is
sues that affect the Wesleyan Com
munity, says Marshall Brooks, Aca
demic Dean of the College. The
Council discusses issues that directly
affect the Wesleyan Community —
from the students to the faculty. One
of the issues the Council tackles is the
problem of how to serve both the
Adult Degree Program and the Day
Student Program effectively.
‘There are four constituencies that
are the focus of the College,” said
Brooks. “The first is the undergradu
ate students. The undergraduate stu
dents are working toward a degree.
“The second is the Adult Degree
Program. In this area, students may or
may not be seeking a degree. The
third are the non-degree students,
who aren’t seeking degrees but are
taking courses for some other type of
credit. The fourth group is the public
at large, an outside source of
Wesleyan’s funding,” he said.
The main areas of these constitu
ents are the Adult Degree Program
and the Day Student Program.
“Our concern here,” said Brooks,
“ is to see how effectively we can
serve both groups.”
The two groups are different, but
similar. Whereas the Day Students
come into the College with a limited
idea of what they want to take or what
their major is, the students in the
Adult Degree Program come in with a
more general idea of what they want
to take.
“The majority of the students in
this area are older and have families.
The only time they can take courses is
at night. But the majors for the two
groups are different,” Brooks said.
This is where the second issue
comes in. Lack of classroom space
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