The Decree
VOL. 5, NO. 5
North Carolina Wesleyan College, Rocky Mount, N.C.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28,1989
Team asks SGA
to flnance rings
SMASHING SUCCESS — College trustee Dewey Weaver recent
ly entered the campus the hard way, crossing U.S. 301 and crash
ing through the brick wall around campus. (Photo by K.A.S.)
Campus racism comdemned
Steve Ferebee, Christine
Adams, and Melinda Joplin at
tended the National Collegiate
Honors Council convention in
New Orleans Oct. 26-29.
At the convention, the South
ern Regional Honors Council
overwhelmingly passed this stu
dent-generated resolution;
“Because of the frightening
resurgence of racial incidents on
college campuses across Amer
ica, the Southern Regional Hon
ors Council strongly condemns
all forms of racism and racist vio
lence. We also condemn all dis
crimination based on race, greed,
color, gender, physical chal
lenge, or sexual preference.”
NCWC is a member of the
Southern Regional Honors Coun
cil.
By D.A. LENTZ
James Anderson, a member of
the 1989 North Carolina
Wesleyan Baseball team, re
quested money for National
Championship rings by appear
ing before the SGA during its
open meeting Nov. 13. After
winning the 1989 Division III
National Championships, the 23
members of the baseball team
“brought national recognition to
the college,” Anderson said.
Anderson and his teammates
had hoped to receive 10k gold
national championship rings for
their efforts. The team has or
dered 27 rings from the Balfour
company. Twenty-three of the
rings are for the players, three are
for the coaches, and one is for the
team’s trainer. Each ring is ex
pected to cost $295, for a total
cost of $7,965 for all 27 rings.
“Most of us don’t have the
money needed to buy the rings,”
Anderson said, and so the team
had hoped that the college would
pay for them. The college, how
ever, declined because of a lack
of funds.
The Wesleyan baseball team
Ciompi Quartet plays tonight
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North Carolina, Wesleyan
College’s NEW Arts Series pres
ents the Ciompi Quartet tonight.
The group is one of the na
tion’s finest chamber music en
sembles, devoted to the perform
ance of the masterworks for
string quartet from all periods.
The quartet performers — Bruce
Berg, Claudia Bloom, Jonathan
Bagg, and Fred Faimi — are
members of the faculty at Duke
University, where the group has
been in residence since 1965.
Renowned as the premier quartet
of the South, the Ciompi Quartet
performs frequently in the South
east and throughout the nation.
NEW is an acronym for Nash-
Edgecombe-Wesleyan, repre
senting an invitation to all area
residents to attend local perform
ances by a variety of talented
musicians. This year’s season
consists of four additional con
certs. These performances begin
at 8 p.m. in the new Student Ac
tivities Building, with the final
concert held outdoors.
Season memberships for the
NEW Art Series are $25 and may
be obtained through the Col
lege’s Development Office (977-
7171, ext. 223). Individual per
formance tickets will be available
at the door for $10 each.
is raffling a donated bicycle, sell
ing tee-shirts and bumper stick
ers, and performing “Hit-a-
Thons” in order to raise funds for
the rings. An anonymous mem
ber of the team wrote a letter to
The Decree, urging the college to
reconsider supplying the rings.
Anderson asked SGA to consider
whether or not they could help
pay for the rings.
Anderson gave an estimated
cost of $6,500, which would pay
for 22 of the student’s rings. Jay
Quigley, SGA Treasurer, told
Anderson that he would have to
check the SGA budget to see
whether or not SGA could afford
to pay for the rings. Quigley
added that he would get the latest
printout of the SGA budget from
Ray Kirkland. Some of the SGA
SenatOTS suggested paying a por
tion of the cost.
Eric Jarman, another member
of the 1989 Wesleyan Baseball
Team, had conducted a poll of six
other colleges, all of which had
paid for their baseball team’s
rings, Anderson said. Anderson
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“THE HOUSE OF BLUE LEAVES” — Sara Schutz and Alan
Felton pay homage to the televised Pope in the Wesleyan
Players’ recent production in Coltrane Theatre. A review of “The
House of Blue Leaves” is on Page 3. (Photo by K.A.S.)