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VOL. 3, NO. 7
NORTH CAROLINA WESLEYAN COLLEGE, ROCKY MOUNT, N.C.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1988
Symposium to look at Constitution
How well the U.S. Constitution is
working, from the local level to the
global scale, is the subject of a two-
day series of lectures, discussions
and films during North Carolina
Wesleyan College’s 1988 Spring
Symposium, set for Wednesday and
Thursday, Feb. 17-18.
Guest speakers will include citi
zens of local distinction as well as a
judge from the N.C. Court of Appeals
and an official from the U.S. State
Department.
Wesleyan’s Spring Symposium is
an annual event which examines a
single topic of current interest. All
lectures, discussions and films take
place on campus, and admission to all
events is free.
Dr. David Jones, professor of his
tory at Wesleyan and chairman of the
Symposium, said this year’s planning
committee chose a topic inspired by
the 200th anniversary of the U.S.
Constitution, a landmark historical
document that should be reappraised
as regularly as it is celebrated.
“The occasion is the bicentermial;
the cause is our future as a nation,”
Jones said. “In the long sweep of his
tory, we see that most of the constitu
tional rights we enjoy are new and
delicate. There are many places in the
world where those rights are treated
with indifference or contempt.”
“Throughout history, civilizations
have risen and declined. But Ameri
cans are peculiarly subject to the be-
hef that they’ve been picked out by a
NEW FOLK ART COLLECTION — Dr. Leverett Smith (left), curator of the "Outside Folli Art Collection,"
views slides with Robert Lynch and Daisy Thorp, Wesleyan College gallery director, at the Rocky Mount
preview at Stonewall Manor Tuesday of NCWC's new collection, acquired from Lynch late last year.
Admissions expects good year
By MARK CRUM
After a record year of recruiting
in 1987, the Office of Admissions is
gearing up for what they hope to be
an even better recruiting year in
1988.
“At this point we have not met our
standing goal of enrolling 300 full
time students” said Carl Pagles, Di
rector of Admissions here at North
Carolina Wesleyan. In Fall 1986,
Pagles and the Admissions staff
nearly reached the 300 enrollment
mark at 286 enrollments.
This year the Office of Admis
sions will focus on primarily three
goals. First, to enroll more than 300
new full-time students for the fall.
Second, to prepare for the next five
years. This involves moving towards
a goal set by newly appointed presi
dent of Wesleyan Les Gamer of 1000
dorm students. And third, to improve
the quality and academic profile of
North Carolina Wesleyan College.
In the past few years Admissions
has seen an explosion of interest by
prospective students. Li April of
1984, prospective students numbered
around 2,500 for the Fall/84
semester. This year Pagles expected
the number of prospective students to
be aroimd 10,000 in April 1988.
Why such an increase in prospec
tive students? Pagles explained that
his staff of five admission specialists
have concentrated more on recruiting
in the North Carolina and Southem
Virginia area rather than in New Jer
sey and Florida. Also contributing to
the increase of prosj>ective students
has been the work of the Ad Hoc
Admissions committee; it has im
proved the standards and academic
profile needed to attend North Caro
lina Wesleyan College.
One problem with the increase in
prospective students has been how to
service them. With a small growth in
the number of staff in Admissions
over the past few years, the five re
cruiters in the Admissions Office are
currently given approximately 2,000
prospective students each.
Pagles says the outlook on the
Admissions firont is about the same
as last year. Expect Admissions to
enioU about 300 new full-time stu
dents.
divine destiny and are not subject to
the same historical realities as other
peoples have been.”
“We must realize that the Ameri
can experiment is not over and we
ought not to imagine that we already
know the outcome. The Constitution
can only work if we make it work.”
In keeping with his belief that the
Constitution “has to apply and work
wherever we are,” Jones assembled a
committee of individuals from the
college and the greater Rocky Mount
area to help design the 1988 Spring
Symposium.
“Wesleyan’s new administration
is intent on doing two things: one,
drawing upon the resources of our
Eastern North Carolina community
and, two, serving that community
more fully. There’s no better way to
do that than to consider in the year of
the bicentennial what it means to be a
constitutional democracy and what
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Wesleyan using
year to * revamp*
its eheerleading
By RHONDA SHARPE
The athletic department is using
the 1987-88 school year to “revamp
and inject some credibility and direc
tion to the cheerleader program,”
according to a memo issued by Ath
letic Director Mix Fox, Women’s
Athletics Coordinator Laura FerreU,
and Cheerleading Coach Jetanna
McClain.
The memo cites the following
reasons for the program evaluation:
1. A part-time coach who cannot
meet with the squad on a regular ba
sis.
2. A lack of true leadership for the
squad at this time from all areas, in
side and outside.
3. A lack of a budget from any
area.
4. No clear picture as to why the
squad exists or the puipose it serves.
5. The Dixie Intercollegiate Ath
letic Conference’s concern about
cheerleading safety and the purpose
of the cheerleading competition
within the DIAC.
6. The squad’s inability to do vari
ous cheerleading stunts and mounts.
7. A general coiKem from the
athletic department concerning the
appearance, attitude, and pCTform-
ance level of the squad.
Ferrell added that her role as
Women’s Coordinator was to ensure
that the cheerleading program devel
ops and has validity. Toward that
end, Ferrell and McClain periodically
evaluate the squad’s performance.
Fox said.
Ferrell said she is conducting a
study to see how othra- cheerleading
programs operate, what purpose
cheerleaders serve on other cam
puses, and to what extent the cheer
leaders p>erform. She plans to release
her report at the end of the 1987-88
academic school year to the admini
stration. She added that she would
like to see the cheo'leaders make an
effort to get the crowd motivated and
help develop school spirit
One result of the “revamping”
was that the cheerladra^ did not per
form in December. Ferrell and
McClain felt the squad had not pro
gressed enough to perform at the
men’s home games on Dec. 1 and
Dec. 9.
Ferrell says she wants the squad to
be in sequence with their moves,
have an accejHable ^ipearance, and
do the routines and stunts that reflect
their ability. She dissgqiroves of the
squad’s doing routines or stunts that
they can not execute accurate^.
Ferrell emphasized that his rok
was to act as a liaison between
McClain and Fox. However,
McClain emphasized Aat die final
decisions concerning poformance,
travel, and uniforms rest widi Fendl
in her cq>acity as Women’s Coordi
nator.
The “revamiMi^’’ has had odier
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