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VOL. 3, NO. 10
NORTH CAROLINA WESLEYAN COLLEGE, ROCKY MOUNT, N.C.
FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1988
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Wesleyan gets
contemporary
art collection
BREAKFAST FOR PRESIDENT — Dr. Leslie Garner speaks to the more than 75 town and county officials
from Nash and Edgecombe County who turned out to honor Garner at a breakfast Tuesday at the Carleton
House, organized by Rocky Mount Mayor Fred Turnage. Garner will be inaugurated April 6 during a two-day
inaugural celebration that includes a dinner, musical celebration, displays, reception, and symposium.
Time running out to get aid
Time is running out for college fi
nancial aid for the fall.
Rick Simon, associate dean of ad
missions and financial aid at North
Carolina Wesleyan College, has pre
sented mini-workshops on financial
aid throughout the Nash-Edgecombe
area over the past several months. In
them, he tells parents and students to
move quickly and deliberately.
“It’s urgent that students inter
ested in financial aid consider the
possibilities available to them soon,”
he said. “We suggest that the smdent
contact the office of financial aid at
the institution they’re considering at
tending. That office would have more
details on the various grants, loans,
work-study opportunities, and pro
grams unique to the college.”
The first step is to make a decision
on which college to attend. People
have to be smart consumers when
shopping for a college, Simon said,
and be aware of the advantages and
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By DELL LEWIS
North Carolina Wesleyan has re
cently acquired the Robert Lynch
collection of Outsider Art — perliaps
one of tlie most important collections
of contemporary folk art in the coun
try.
The collection consists of over
300 pieces as diverse in medium as in
form. With an appraised value of
over $250,000, the various paintings,
sculptures, and furniture represent an
important step in Wesleyan’s
growth. According to Dr. Stephen
Fritz, “The college has really ex
panded into those areas in which a
good college should expand into. We
started the Wesleyan College Press
this year and now we have an art
collection.”
Fritz reports that the colloge is
currently seeking donations to raise
the $30,000 needed to acquire the
collection and an additional $30,000
to cover the immediate cost of cata
loging and care of the works. It is
because of Lynch’s desire to see the
collection kept intact, rather than
profit from its sale, that Wesleyan
has been able to acquire the entire
collection at such an affordable
price.
“People at the college have
known Robert Lynch for years,” said
Fritz. “Sometime last year he became
interested in finding a permanent
home for the collection in order that
it might be kept intact,” Fritz added,
“Dr. Gainer wants the college to as
sume a greater role in recognizing
culture of the region.”
Dr. L.T. Smith serves as curator
of the collection. When asked what
appeals to him about this collection,
Smith replied, “The first appeal lies
in the artists represented in the Lynch
collection. They are all eastern North
Carolinians. Secondly, I think they
represent all the different cultures of
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Dorm survey prompts
discussion of concerns
By MIKE TRUBEY
On March 23, Steve Cohen, An
thony Rice, Barry Gilliespie, Tina
DeLaine, and the Nash Hall repre
sentatives discussed possible solu
tions to key issues in the Nash Hall
student survey.
Many solutions were proposed
but only the open house hours for
Nash dormitory were temporarily
changed. The issues that received the
most attention were room swapping,
summer storage, and open house
hours.
As of April 1, Nash residents will
be testing new open house hours for
the remainder of the semester. TTie
new hours are for Friday and Satur
day from eleven in the morning to
two in the morning. An umiamed
source stated that Nash dorm re
ceived this because the Hall took the
initiative and made sure that people
responded to the survey.
In the past room swapping was
held only once a semester. The pro
posal the group came up with would
make it possible for a student to swap
whenever he wanted to but for a fee.
This would deter smdents from mak
ing switches whenever they wanted.
The group thought that the money
made from this would probably be
put into student activities.
Storage in the dorm is also a prob
lem, especially for the student who
lives far away. The dorms are not
equipped for big furniture and other
big items. On Monday, Matt Dyson
sent a memo out stating that a storage
place in the city is giving a discoimt
to Wesleyan students. Interested stu
dents should contact Dyson by April
25.
Editor’s note: As we go to press
only Nash Dorm has completed a
survey.
GROUNDBREAKING — Turning the first shovels of dirt Monday for the new student activities building
between the power plant and chapel were (from left) Rocky Mount Mayor Fred Turnage, Wesleyan trustees
John I'erebee and Reese Bailey, college president Dr. Leslie Garner, Student Government Association
president Lesley Freeman, and campus minister Dr. Carleton McKita.