The Decree
VOL. 5, NO. 9
North Carolina Wesleyan College, Rocky Mount, N.C.
FRIDAY, MARCH 16,1990
Culture
on campus
blooming
Wesleyan invites you to at
tend a variety of cultural events
this spring, including the NEW
Arts Performing Arts Series, lec
tures, and theatrical productions.
This Thursday, Janies Houlik
brought his saxophone to town.
Houlik has been hailed as the
preeminent master of the tenor
saxophone. From Carnegie Hall,
to Theatre Wielki in Warsaw, to
Jujiya Hall in Kyoto, he has es
tablished his virtuosity with a
concerto repxMoire drawn from a
host of important new works
written for him by today’s lead
ing composers.
Wesleyan’s free film series
continues this Friday with Smash
Palace. His Girl Friday (1940)
with Cary Grant will be shown on
April 20. The movie begins at 8
p.m. in Gravely 105.
The visiting writers series,
which has hosted Alan Gurganus
and Reynolds Price, features poet
Roland Flint on Wednesday,
March 21. The author is well-
known for his readings, as he has
performed for audiences at the
Library of Congress and Folger
Shakespeare Library in Washing
ton, D.C., the Naval Academy in
Annapolis and the Writer’s Un
ion in Sofia, Bulgaria.
In 1986, Flint was awarded an
honorary degree, the doctorate of
humane letters, from Wesleyan,
and he has been published by the
North Carolina Wesleyan Col
lege Press. He will read at 8:15
p.m. in the browsing room for the
College library.
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SAXOPHONIST JAMES HOULIK ON CAMPUS THURSDAY
BB&T donates $50,000
Officials at North Carolina
Wesleyan College announced
that the College has received a
$50,000 contribution from
Branch Banking and Trust Com
pany.
This gift is designated for the
College’s S8 million “Vision for
the Future” Capital Campaign.
John Allison, Chairman of the
Board and Chief Executive Offi
cer for BB&T, presented the gift
during a reception at the College.
He said, “BB&T is very com
mitted to making the communi
ties it serves better for our being
there. We think the best way to
fulfill that commitment is to sup
port the development of quality
education.
“Wesleyan College has dem
onstrated the ability to improve
the insight and knowledge of its
students and to make its commu-
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Ticket step-up
called routine,
not Vevenge*
By JOHN MOULTON ^
The step-up in the amount of
tickets written is simply an en
forcement of present rules and
regulations. No revenge or mis
treatment is being administered,
college officials say.
Deborah Pittman, Director of
Campus Security, said, “We are
not trying to punish people but
alter or modify behavior.”
The focal point of the tickets is
on the “illegal parking” on cam
pus. The “illegal parking” ranges
from parking in the yellow to
parking in two or more spaces.
The parking in the yellow curb
“presents a hazard to rescue ve
hicles” according to Ms. Pittman.
Another violation which is
drawing the attention of the secu
rity force is the neglect to display
a parking permit. When the
memo about the beginning of
tickets was passed out, a rush to
the Director’s office started.
Only a few tickets have been
given for this violation. Ms.
Pittman attributes this to the ade
quate notification and courtesy
tickets given to violators. The dif
ficulty of distinguishing between
visitors’ vehicles and students’
and faculty’s vehicles poses a
problem for security. For this rea
son, after 6 p.m. no tickets for
permits are written.
An across-the-board fine of
$10 exists for the violations. The
violations include parking in
handicap parking, no parking per
mit, violating a no parking zone,
parking in more than one space,
as well as other violations. An
appeals system does exist for
tickets that have been written.
And yes, there have been a few
successful appeals.
Students and faculty who use
the practice soccer fields and park
in the yellow have also been ad
vised of the policy and will be
ticketed. Security is being iair
about the tickets and is not just
tickcting the students.
Deborah Pittman stressed the
point that she is not after the stu
dents and considers herself a
“student kind of person.”
Library boosts fine
The library has increased the
maximum fine for an overdue
book to $25, from the previous
maximum of S5.
The overdue rate will still be
200 a day, and the fine will still be
cut in half if paid immediately
upon return of a delinquent item.
“We’ve had some indication
■ that a few people considered the
S5 an acceptable price to pay for
the privilege of keeping a book
out-aS long as she or he wanted,”
said AI LaRose, Director of the
Library, “and we wanted to make
this a less attractive alternative.”
'Acid Park' near Wilson quite a trip
By DANIELLE MECKLEY
Acid Park is quite a trip. Some
Wesleyan students and faculty
members have been there. The
others who have heard about it
are curious, and some want to
give it a try. Most everyone who
has been there agrees that Acid
Park is an unforgettable experi
ence.
Somewhere near Wilson, at a
crossroads only 45 minutes away
from NCWC, lies Acid Park.
Vollis Simpson built it in 1985.
He says he wanted “to make
something nobody ever seen like
it.”
Acid Park is made up of 20
four-stories’ high whirligigs, or
pinwheels, which really do move
with the wind. Life-size horses
pull wagons, stumble, and fall.
Musicians play their instruments.
Huge airplanes prepare for take
off. Simpson made these and
other creations from abandoned
trucks, farm equipment, bicycles,
highway signs, and street-light
poles.
Acid Park is most spectacular
at night because car headlights
flash back “thousands of reflec
tors, revealing that the trees sur
rounding the site have been deco
rated with bits of reflective mate
rial and sparkle like trees in a
dream,” according to Roger
Manley, a curator of outsider art
in North Carolina.
It is nearly impossible to ex
plain in words the visual impact
of Acid Park. Lcnwood Robert-
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