The Decree
VOL. 6, NO. 7 North Carolina Wesleyan College, Rocky Mount, N.C. FRIDAY, JANUARY 25,1991
President
makes two
staff changes
Two new senior administrative
appointments have been made at
N.C. Wesleyan College.
Fred Moore has joined the
college as Assistant to the Resi
dent, and Belinda Faulkner will
serve as Director of Administra
tion. They will both serve as
members of the President’s
Council management team.
Moore will assist the president
in planning, financial analysis,
development of management and
management support systems, and
in representing the College to its
constituents.
Moore holds JD and MBA
degrees from the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He
practiced law at Petree Stockton
& Robinson, one of North Caro
lina’s oldest and largest law firms,
before accepting the position at
Wesleyan.
Moore’s wife, Susan, will be
the associate pastor at First
Christian Church in Rocky
Mount She is a graduate of Duke
Divinity School. They have two
children, Allison and Stephen.
Faulkner has served the col
lege for five years, most recently
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'Fast Track'
effort gets off
to quick start
jiiit
Marching for peace
Cecilia Casey and David O'Neill were among more than 20
Weselayn students and faculty, joined by community members,
who held a rally for peace last Saturday afternoon and took a short,
march around campus. Some of the political views differed, but
support for the troops was honest (Photo by Joanna Holladay).
By DHANA CHESSON
This semester. Student Life
and the Learning Resources
Center, along with the help of the
Academic Dean, the Registrar,
and academic advisors, have in
troduced Fast Track, a new pro
gram aimed at helping students
witii study skills and raising their
GPA.
The idea of the program came
from Pam Derrick, Dean of Stu
dent Life, and Dr. Marshall
Brooks, Dean of Academics,
along with the help of students
who wanted better academic
success.
Although anyone can be in
volved in the program, students
who were suspended, and many
who are on probation are required
to join Fast Track.
There are basically three steps
in which the participants must be
involved. First, the student needs
to meet one of the counselors,
Sarah Shutt and Debbie Schoeder,
for “an assessment of their study
skills.” Secondly, the student
meets with Dr. Morrison to set
up at least two hours a week of
tutoring in the courses in which
they are struggling.
The last part of this “contract”
deals with the student’s working
with his or her academic advisor
to set a minimum GPA to work
towards and any scheduling
problems they might have this
semester.
There is a lot of enthusiasm
for this program. Freshman
Stephanie Palarino explains, “I’m
looking forward to going to some
of the workshops like time man
agement and test-taking that I am
signed up for.”
Another freshman involved in
the program shows even more
hope in the program and says,
“My first semester I was just go
ing to class to be counted present.
I was really lost. But I hope
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Forum says King would not favor Gulf war
By MARION BLACKBURN
No one knows how the death
of Dr. Martin Luther King af
fected the American civil rights
movement, or how he might re
spond to war with Iraq. But panel
members who gathered Monday
evening at N.C. Wesleyan Col
lege to discuss these questions
said he no doubt would object to
violence in any situation.
“We would see a man who was
in despair, who was lonely, who
suffered, who would ask how
America waged a war on the day
of (his) birth,” Mary Smith,
community relations resource for
Consolidated Diesel, said.
Smith joined four Wesleyan
community members to discuss
how King would respond to
American issues were he alive
today. The panel overwhelmingly
agreed that King, a vocal oppo
nent of the Vietnam war, would
be outraged that America was
using violence to setde the Persian
Gulf conflict.
“I’m afraid the three words that
hit me are failure, frustration, and
fear,” Dr. Hugh Corbin, assistant
professor of education, said.
“If he had lived through the
last 20 years he would feel frus
tration at the image, the token,
the failure,” Corbin said. “I’m not
sure what King would say about
us watching a war step by step.
That would be something for
JCing to comment on.”
Wesleyan President Dr. Leslie
Gamer said that King would be
appalled by Iraq’s invasion of
Kuwait, and at the ravages
Kuwaiti’s have experienced since
the assault But I^g would not
get tangled up in the politics of
why we are in the Gulf, Gamer
said.
“He would object to the tac
tics of settling our dispute with
Iraq,” he said.
Corbin added that for King, a
“turn to non-violence was the only
we^n available.”
“Non-violence can touch a
man where the law cannot reach
him,” Judy Boyd, a student gov
ernment association member,
said. Silence and apathy are dan
gerous traps, she added. ‘Tacit
acceptance of evil is tantamount
to its perpetuation,” she said.
Panel members agreed that
King would not be satisfied with
the status and condition of
American blacks in 1991. Boyd
suggested King would center his
work on breaking the poverty
cycle, leading the working poor.
“Poverty erodes the will and leads
to hopelessness,” she said.
Daiyl Whitaker pointed to the
alarming rate of black-on-black
crime. One out of 21 black males
wiU be murdered, and 96 percent
of those deaths are at the hands
of other blacks. The rate for black
women is similar to that of white
men: about one in 120 will be
murdered. One of about every 600
white women wiU be murdered.
“King would lead protests ...
to stop the trafficking of drugs
into our neighborhoods,”
Whitaker said.
“It has been my experience that
I don’t live in a society like that
of Martin Luther King. There
were laws that said he couldn’t
eat at a restaurant with whites, or
drink from a water fountain that
whites drank firom, or stay in a
hotel where whites stayed.
“These things have changed,
but... am I free?” he said. “If King
were alive, would he be satisfied
with just that?”