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rAUt, I — 1 HK UKCKKE — NOVEMBER 11,1988 ClK Beetle OFFICIAL STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF NORTH CAROLINA WESLEYAN COLLEGE Editor-in-Chief — Don Rhodes Arts and Entertainment — Mike Trubey Contributing Editor — Dell Lewis Photographer — Margaret Culver The Decree is located in the Student Union, North Carolina Wesleyan College, Wesleyan College Station, Rocky Mount, NC 27801. Policy is determined by the Editorial Board of The Decree. Republiciation of any matter herein \vith6ut the express consent of the Editorial Board is strictly forbidden. The Decree is composed and printed by The Spring Hope linterprise. Opinions published do not necessarily reflect those of North Carolina Wesleyan College. Maybe Japanese could fill wish list Well, well, well! Now the Japanese want to buy us. That’s amazing considering the college was about to close its doors just a few years ago. Les Gamer adamantly de nies that we will be sold, but why did Chairman of the Board, J. Phil Carlton, stale that the board would listen to any offer? I wonder if Presi dent Les has been told every thing. Gamer did say that we would consider a Japanese/ American exchange, but how much money would that bring the college? I suggest that we work out some sort of deal whereby the Japanese get to send 400 to 500 students and have some control over the curriculum, and in return, they give us some new facilities. First on our wish list has to be a pool, and the next thing should be a golf course. The Japanese love the sport so much that they will spend their lunch hours shagging balls form the top of their of fice buildings. Of course we would need some new dormitories, and these should be spx;ctacular, indeed. We might as well re quest a fraternity row, also. And, what the hell, give Daisy her museum, and stock it with oriental pieces. We can even construct a new administration building, complete with an office for the Pres, thereby allowing us to convert Bellemonte into a clubhouse for the golf course. In the meantime, we sug gest that students consider developing a taste for sushi, sake, and haiku. ECO 1938 □ % Energy fills their pages Books probe new worlds By STEVE FEREBEE I like receiving one of those little pink package slips in my mail box because I know Christine has books for me. I tell her I want a big box of money, but actually I buzz over to my office to see what books have come. I wait until I’m home to open the books, so I have time to examine them. Feeling and hearing the endpa pers give a bit when I randomly open the book a few times to limber the back, I am enveloped in the sound and smell and sight and feel of an un explored book. Recently I bought this over-sized art book with hundreds of paintings by Edgar Degas. This is a book you hold on your lap, bathing in Degas’ shimmering aquamarines and stark lights as dancers glide in and out of shadows and ordinary women stretch and lean across canvases. Degas’ vigorous handling of color and line seems more obvious in this collec tion than in other reproductions. Degas paints for adults; his dancers are sometimes lumpish and his ap proach is mercilessly realistic. I buy picture books such as this one when I can; the worlds witliin are essential to my education. In a catalogue of discounted books I found Weird Tales, a collec tion of horror short stories reprinted from 32 years of Weird, a pulp peri odical pandering to the glistening- slime-and-creeping-monsters fans. In these stories people fall into black orifices and feel cold hands on their necks and confront gigantic fears from their closets. ‘“As I suspected,’ he said gravely, ‘They were soul less.’ “ In the last year of publication, 1954, in Everil Worrell’s “Call Not Their Names,” Shalimar, Merlin, Uncle Byron, and Madame Margoli wallow in a mishmash of evil beings lurking about in a Philip Marlowe scene. Readers delight in the fun of horror, in being the incredulous cynic overcome by primordial fears, and in chuckling at an unexpected twist in an old plot line. The binding is cheap, the paper is thin, the illus trations are spotty; but this is a book begging to be read for the sensory roller coaster effects. Then, just this week, arrives a book I’ve been expecting for months. Hours in a Library by the Victorian writer Sir Leslie Stephen is acUially a blue-green, four-volume 1984 fas- (Continued on Page 3) Decreets quality of journalism criticized Editors Note: This letter ar rived on Oct. 26. We were unable to run it in the last issue. Dear Editor: In the Oct. 14 issue of The De cree, there appeared on the front page an article captioned “Students begin using activity center.” In the article, I am not only misquoted, but given credit for statements about a subject that the reporter and I never even discussed. Let me first point out the misquotes. First misquote: “The primary purpose of this ac tivity building is to fulfill the needs of the college community.” My statement to the reporter was that the activities building was in tended to serve the needs of the stu Letters to the Editor dents, including providing office space for the Student Government Association, work and meeting space for student organizations, and office space for the Student Life staff. By using the word “community” in the article, it implies that the building was not constructed to meet the needs of the students, but to serve equally all segments of the college. This is not true, nor is it correct that I made that statement. Second misquote: Following this sentence in the ar ticle, “Some students and professors say the activity building should have opened by the beginning of this school year,” I am credited with (Ray Kirkland, however, said) “that Oct. 3 was the designated date for the stu dent activity building to of>en.” As I indicated in the interview, the origi nal construction schedule did call for the building to be ready for occu pancy prior to the beginning of the Fall Term as “some students and pro fessors” said; however, the delay in the completion date resulted primar ily from increasing the size of the building. Now the most disturbing part of the article. I am credited with saying “the building was built because there were no places for noncompetitive student activities; that many students who are not involved in sports com plain that they are frequently “kicked out” of the gymnasium by the basket ball or volleyball teams; that this shall no longer be the case with the new facility.” Mr. Rhodes, availability of the gymnasium was not discussed in my interview. If it had been discussed, and if I had commented on the gym not being available for “noncompeti tive student activities,” I can assure you that I would not have said stu dents were “kicked out” of the gym nasium. I would appreciate having these errors acknowledged in the next is sue of The Decree. Ray Kirkland Poor English, attitude discredit publication Dear Editor: In the editorial on page two of our last issue, Vol. 4, No. 4 (Friday, Oct. 28,1988), you urge f>eople who have “a problem” with something in the paper to “write a letter to the editor.” I respond herewith. First, I am struck by the poor quality of the English in many of the articles in all of the issues I have (Continued on Page 3)
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