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PAGE 2 — THE DECREE — APRIL 28,1989 OFFICIAL STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF NORTH CAROLINA WESLEYAN COLLEGE Editor-in-Chief — Don Rhodes Arts and Entertainment — MikeTrubey Contributing Editor-— Dell Lewis Pliotograpiier — Margaret Culver The Decree located in tlie Student Union, Is'ortli Carolina Wesleyan College, Wesleyan College Station, Rocky Mount, NC 2780L 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.Decree is composed and'prin\.tA\iy The Spring Hope Enterprise. Opinions published do not necessarily rellect those of North Carolina Wesleyan College. Give change a chance “I am an athlete. I’m in excellent physical condition, but I haven’t been condi tioned well enough to walk two hundred yards to the gym and back. And the walk to the cafeteria is a real bitch, also. By the way, I only came to college to play sports. Who goes to college to get an edu cation, anyway?” That sounds pretty ridicu lous, doesn’t? You might think that only a basketball player from UNLV would make a statement like that, but unfortunately, that is pre cisely what many athletes were arguing last week at the Forum on the College. One student who complained about the inconvenience of the extra distance to the ath letic facilities next year was asked outright by Dean Mar- ron how far he had to walk to the soccer field at Lock Haven before he transferred. It turns out that he had to walk several times the distance from Nash Hall to the gym. Why are so many people complaining about the changes in the residence halls? It’s really very simple. They just don’t like change. That is perfectly understand able, and no one should be embarrassed to admit it. In this instance, however, there is nothing to be afraid of. Change is uncomfortable, but sometimes it works out best in the long run, and this is one of those times. President Gamer and Dean Marron want residence life to grow and mature. This year there are only 21 graduating seniors on campus. The prob lem is the retention of stu dents, and the in-house re search conducted this year shows that 95 percent of the resident students will remain in school if they make a 2.0. The President’s Council believes, and national statis tics seem to agree, that put ting the freshmen in one co educational dormitory will help them maintain that grade point average. In addition, coed dorms, on the average, have less vandalism. That in itself warrants further consid eration. Give the President and the Dean a chance on this one. If the experiment works, resi dence life will flourish and the entire college will benefit. Some thank yous due At the end of the year it is appropriate to thank all of those people without whom publication of this newspaper would have been impossible. First, I would like to thank my reporters, David Payne, Dell Lewis, Greg Strehmel, and Terrie Roberts. I would also like to thank my two regular columnists. Dr. Steve Ferebee and Mark Brett. In addition, I would like to thank Marg Buehler, our pho- mi EteT Vision iUNlC, y.SHWAlR,cxfe y CORRECT P LO neqotia tionsforpal ESimiftHAUTOKOMV A teacher*s struggle Learning how to let go tographer, as well as the staff of the Spring Hope Enter prise. They, to use an old cli che, have gone above and be yond the call of duty. Last but not least, I would like to thank the faculty and staff of N.C. Wesleyan Col lege, especially Athletic Di rector Mike Fox and Dean of Student Life Joe Joe Manon, for without them, there would be less news. — Don Rhodes By DR. STEVE FEREBEE Teaching presents a paradox which I always think about at graduation. When we teach a stu dent we presume to know more than he or she knows, but our goal is to make sure that person leams how to survive without the teacher’s constant aid. Teaching doesn’t do the stu dent any good if she becomes dependent on her teacher’s pres ence. I don’t mean that we don’t explicitly remember what teach ers say to us. I, for example, often judge my classroom methods and general behavior by asking my self “What would Miss Buchanan do?” She was my Mil ton and Renaissance teacher in graduate school. Miss B was close to retirement when I came along, and she was one of those teachers who seemed to be so full of knowledge and wisdom and patience that I felt I had to force myself into her life before she disappeared. In and out of the classroom. Miss Buchanan taught me a great deal — and not only about writ ers and writing. She is what I call a pragmatic humanist She lis tened to my ideas carefully and responded as if I were an intelli gent peer assisting her in her pur suit of knowledge. But if I were wrong or galloping into a dry canyon she would look me straight in the eyes and rein me in with an emphatic but kindly “No.” She knew the art of filling the Dr. Steve Muses student with enthusiasm for his own ideas and of guiding in the right directions. Then she knew when to let him run on his own. I often think of her in the middle of a class when I’m domi nating too much, not assisting students to think for themselves and make their own mistakes. A teacher can lecture in a one-sided affair with his own ideas; she can provide no direction at all, hop ing that from the anarchy will arise a useful idea; or the teacher can present ideas that need the student for completion. Read Plato’s dialogues sometime; think about the Socratic method sometime. I don’t think of myself as par ticularly smarter than other people, though I may be more knowledgeable. What Miss Buchanan had that I am still trying to gain is enough confi dence in myself to let students pursue their own ideas but also enough to know when they need my help. My knowledge doesn’t do my students much good if I use it to block theirs. The longer I teach the more I (Continued on Page 3) Wesleyan takes part in legalization debate By DAVID PAYNE The debate over legalization of drugs is a very heated one. How the country feels about this debate is one thing, but how the administration at North Carolina Wesleyan College feels is some thing else. President Leslie Gamer feels that he is “not qualified as an expert” to state whether he is for or against the debate. He says that he is willing to hear both sides of the argument, but until then he will not give a personal opinion about legalization. When asked how the legaliza tion of drugs would affect col lege life, he responded by saying that it would “make our jobs tougher” and that there is “no place for drugs on college cam puses.” Gamer went on to say that legalization would “pose significant problems” on cam pus. President Gamer feels that if drugs were legalized, discipli nary action would be basically the same as it is now for alcohol. Presently, whether you are under 21 or over it, you cannot drink in (Continued on Page 3)
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