The Decree
VOL. 6, NO. 6 North Carolina Wesleyan College, Rocky Mount, N.C. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7,1990
Christmas package going to troops
By JAMIE STUMP
North Carolina Wesleyan fac
ulty, students, and staff may be
facing the exam crunch and an
ticipating Christmas vacation, but
they have not forgotten their fel
low Americans overseas.
On Nov. 26, announcements
from the Student Health Center
Get ready
for exams
next week
By DHANA CHESSON
Relax. Exams are next week.
This should be the easiest week
of the semester. In theory, all pa
pers and revisions have been
written, all homework has been
turned in, all assignments have
been read, and leaming new ma
terial is over.
The only thing college students
should have to do during exam
week is eat, sleep, exercise, study
and review ,a lot, and then take
the finals. No problem.
But in reality, most students
on the NCWC campus don’t feel
this way about exam week. Many
students see exam week as a time
to panic and become stressed out
rather than a time of relaxation.
Because many students don’t
feel they have mastered the ma
terials in the courses, campus
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were sent to the Wesleyan com
munity regarding the shipment of
goods overseas. Items requested
included toiletries, games, cards,
hard candy, non-perishable
sweets, flyswatters, notepads,
pens, envelopes, Christmas cards,
and monetary donations to cover
postage fees.
The announcements met with
generous response from many
members of the Wesleyan com
munity. Dr. Quinan donated
money, for example, and South
Dorm donated various toiletry
items.
Janice Stump, the campus
nurse and coordinator of the
project, shipped the first care
package on Nov. 30 and plans to
ROYAL COUPLE —Pierre A. Goria II and Jill Harris were
crowned King and Queen of the 19909 Homecoming Friday night.
(Photo by Tom Livers.)
send another package this Friday.
“We will accept packages for
Christmas until Friday to ensure
delivery by the holiday,” Stump
said. Items and donations may be
placed in Stump’s mailbox, at the
switchboard, or under the Christ
mas Tree in the Student Health
Center.
Student Health workers will
accept items and donations for
after-Christmas shipping
throughout the year.
“There is still time to show
someone overseas that you care
and that Wesleyan cares,” Stump
said. “Make it a Merry Christmas
and Happy New Year in the Per
sian Gdf.”
Homecoming
activities held
at Wesleyan
Homecoming Week started off
a busy series of activities on
Monday, Nov. 26, with Pi Epsilon
Sorority’s Pizza Eating Contests.
The contestants had various
events to go through, but at the
end David O’Neill and Greg
Weddel came out as the champi
ons, winning a dinner for two at
JK’s Restaurant.
The Black Student Association
sponsored comedian Don Reed
on Tuesday Night, Nov. 27. In
the Student Activities Center,
Reed had a crowd of about 60 in
hysterics with his impressions of
E.T., Popeye, and old Kung Fu
movies.
During lunch on Wednesday,
Nov. 28, coffeehouse singer
Robin Greenstein performed
original songs as weU as songs
well known by the audience. This
event was sponsored by NCAE.
The bonfire on Thursday night,
Nov. 29, was cancelled because
of rain, but a pep rally was still
held in the SAC multi-purpose
room. Barefoot, a band composed
of students Peter Tuerk, Jim
Slakie, Alissa Cooper, and
Tommy Lee, played at the pep
rally and performed songs by
Jimmy Buffet and the Beatles.
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College gets $110,000 grant for project
, North Carolina Wesleyan
CoUege has received a $110,000
grant for a Multicultural Class
room project from the Z. Smith
Reynolds Foundation, Inc., of
Winston-Salem.
With this grant, the Dail and
Nancy Holderness Center for
Education of the College will be
able to help make schools in Nash
and Edgecombe counties more
effective in meeting the educa
tional needs of children from di
verse socio-economic and cultural
backgrounds. The project is a
collaborative effort between
Wesleyan, local schools, parents,
and the community.
Wesleyan believes its com
mitment to education in the re
gion extends to public schools,
where it can play a critical role m
helping teachers to respond to the
increasing social, cultural, and
economic diversity of the students
in their classrooms.
The Multicultural Classroom
project is a program of intensive
teacher-staff development and
school-based intervention which
will be nurtured by the College
and will receive technical exper
tise and support from the faculty.
Fomided on the premise that
all children can learn and that
many students enter school with
different intellectual and social
strengths, the Multicultural
Classroom project involves se
lected "teacher-leaders" from the
school districts of the city of
Rocky Mount and Edgecombe
and Nash counties.
These leaders will be involved
in intensive workshops and
leaming expaiences to enhance
their ability to better sCTve all
students, and to assist them in de
veloping expertise on the dynam
ics of multicultural classroom
teacher.
These teachers will serve as
models and mentors in their own
schools, helping fellow teachers
devise new strategies for meeting
the changing needs of a diverse
student body.
The primary goals of this pilot
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