The Decree
VOL. 5, NO. 10 North Carolina Wesleyan College, Rocky Mount, N.C. FRIDAY, MARCH 30,1990
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CPCED gives aid
in job placement
Hoop champs
North Carolina Wesleyan College's intramural basketball sea
son recently concluded, with the Army ROTC Team winning the
championship. The members of the winning team are (front row,
from left): Frank Roach, Billy Sasser, Tai Husain. Back row:
Danny Ginn, Kory Webster, Brian Baker, and DeMarilyn War
ren.
By SYLVIA BROWN
North Carolina Wesleyan
College offers its students assis
tance with job placement through
the Career Planning and Co-op
erative Education Department.
This department has the stu
dents future careers at heart and
helps them to have an edge on
other college graduates.
Ms. LaRue Elliott, director of
CPCED, said, “We placc an em
phasis on career planning be
cause I think it is important for all
students at Wesleyan to have a
basic foundation in developing
job search skills and that kind of
thing that will come out of the
Career Planning Offices.”
CPCED meets the career plan
ning needs of students through
the career planning program.
“I can’t stress enough our real
desire to be available to and sup
portive of the students of Wes
leyan,” she said. “I don’t want us
to be affiliated wiih or associated
with an elite group of students.”
The CPCED provides stu
dents with assistance in the fol
lowing areas: collecting creden
tial files, career guidance, job
search skills, on-campus work
shops, descriptive literature
about employers and careers, res
ume guidance, in securing major-
related work assignments, inter
view skills, locating part-time
and temporary employment, in
terviews with propsective em
ployers, and help with graduate
school awareness.
“The ideal path for students to
follow when pursuing assistance
in career planning is the four-year
plan,” said Elliot.
“This plan takes students
through four years of planning
their futures,” said Kathy Smith,
CPCED’s assistant director. In
the freshman year students are
tested to help them find a major.
This testing collects informa
tion from every area of the
student’s life to show possible
job clusters that they fit in. Elliot
said “It is important for people as
freshmen, when they are coming
into college not be distressed if
they for instance not know what
they want to major in.”
For sophomores and juniors,
the CPCED will help students
find jobs related to their majors.
These jobs can be either an in-
Popular poet visits campus again
By DANIELLE MECKLEY
A friend is someone you’ve
known for years, someone you’re
comfortable with. A friend
understands your frustration. He
talks to you about life, death, and
sex. A friend can make you laugh
as well as make you cry. Accord
ing to the reactions of his latest
poetry reading, Roland Flint is a
special kind of friend to the
people of North Carolina Wes
leyan College.
Flint lives in Washington,
D.C. where he teaches literature
and writing at Georgetown Uni
versity. He has received several
prominent awards for his poetry
including Georgetown Univer
sity’s Edward B. Brown Award
for faculty excellence in 1972
and the Corcoran Gallery’s first
Poetry Award. On March 21,
Flint gave a poetry reading in the
Browsing Room in the NCWC
library.
Flint has been visiting NCWC
for 13 years, and can be consid
ered an old friend. On this visit,
he talked about subjects such as
sex, divorce, love, childhood,
work, and alcohol through his po
etry. The atmosphere was lively
and relaxed. His limericks were
answered by laughter and smiles.
The poems about dying love and
the death of loved-ones were
answered by sympathy and
understanding.
Carey Knupp, a freshman who
had never attended a Flint read
ing before, said she “enjoyed it,
and that it was the best reading so
far this year.”
In his introduction, Dr. Lever-
ett Smith, coordinator of the Flint
reading, claimed NCWC “likes
Roland for a lot of reasons.”
Three years ago NCWC awarded
Flint an honorary Doctorate of
Humane Letters.
Of his six books written.
North Carolina Wesleyan Col-
temship, a co-op experience, par
allel or alternating employment
“An internship often is short
term and unpaid,” said Smith. In
such a case, she said, Wesleyan
attempts to provide the students
with some form of compensation.
A co-op experience usually is
at least a semester long, is paid,
and must provide some form of
experience for the student.
Elliot said, “Often times a stu
dent will have several job offers
from potential employers by the
end of their junior year.” The key
is that a student must seek help.
Asked how many seniors are
presently seeking the assistance
of CPCED, she said, “At present
we are involved with career plan
ning for about 50 seniors but if
you were to ask me April 15, I
probably would tell you all.”
“The major factor in deter
mining employment after gradu
ation is cost but jobs are available
in any state. If a student knows of
a comany he or she is interested
in, the CPED will get in contact
with them for that student and
start the program. Most students
pursue employment near home,”
said Smith.
lege Press published one entided
. Sicily. Flint responded to his re
lationship with NCWC by saying
it is “always a pleasure to come to
Rocky Mount.”
Flint's next book. Stubborn, is
soon to be released. According to
Hint, the argument of the book is
to show a positive side of stub
bornness. He read several poems
from this book as well as from his
older publications.
Flint’s style of poetry is very
personal, according to a review
given in 1976 of his first book
And Morning. The review says
Rint “writes with an easy and
conversational flow.”
Phi Eta Sigma
inducts eleven
On March 15, North Caro
lina Wesleyan College’s
chapter of Phi Eta Sigma, the
national freshman honorary
organization, inducted the
following new members:
Marianne Bond, Judy
Boyd, Dhanna Chesson, Pat
Edmunds, Jodi Harris, Carey
Knupp, Danielle Meckley,
Christy Skojec, Amy Taylor,
Emonique Wooten, and
Katherine Wright.
Elected as officers of Phi
Eta Sigma were: Christine
Adams, president; Amy Cog
gins, secretary; and Jonna
O’Neal, senior advisor.