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The Decree
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NORTH CAROUNA WESLEYAN COUEGE
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D«liQda L«e, Joanna HoUaday
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Carolina Wesleyan College.
Take time to attend
spring symposium
As the 1992 North Carolina
Wesleyan Symposium ap
proaches, it is the editors’ hope
that more students will attend
than in past years. This year,
the Division of Business is
sponsoring the symposium
with its theme, “Understand
ing Life in the International
Commimity.”
It would seem that many
students would attend the
symposium this year because
a large portion of the Wesleyan
student population are business
majors. Not only should busi
ness majors attend the aimual
event, but all students should
come to the lectures and panel
discussions.
In today’s society, employ
ers are looking forintemation-
ally-minded individuals who
know what is going on in the
world. No longer is it sufficient
for individuals to know local,
state, and national news. It is
imperative for the employee
of any field to know what is
going on in the world today,
because in some form it will
affect your job and career.
The symposium is a two-
day event that students should
not look upon as a two-day
vacation. There are enormous
amounts of information that
can be used as we continue in
our college careers. Moreover,
this information will be vital
as we graduate and go into the
real world and into the work
force.
So don’t sit down and think
that there are no classes on Feb.
12-13. Go to as many events
as you can, and learn about
how life in the international
community is, and will, affect
us. We, as students, spend a
lot of money and time during
our college careers. Don’t let
something like the Wesleyan
Symposium slide by.
It might not seem important
now, but when we all look back
at what we did in our college
life, we will realize how impor
tant such events as the Wes
leyan Symposium really are.
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One myth replaces another
‘JFK’ gripping but flawed
By DR. STEVE FEREBEE
Oliver Stone’s JFK has led to
violent condemnations of Stone
from the left and the right If the
conspiracy theory is without’
merit, why are so many questions
left unanswered about John
Kennedy’s assassination? Why
can’t Stone ask these questions
without being condemned for ev
ery crime but incest?
His detractors make me more
willing to believe that the official
story is not true.
I was taking a social studies
test when the school secretary
walked in and said that the presi
dent had been shot. The next three
days were memorable for their
eerie quietness and seriousness.
Oswald’s assassination seemed
puzzling, but the papers were al
ready full of his Communist
background, so what did he ex
pect? A kind of innocent trust
Dr. Steve
Muses
disappeared from the country that
weekend. We could, it seemed,
be destroyed within.
The Warren Report came and
went before I got to college, and I
assumed tliat what I’d read about
it was true, that Oswald had acted
historical accuracy of what the
movie implies. I believe much of
what Stone shows, and reject
some. Even if some of the details
are incorrect, however, I would
not be surprised if the FBI-CIA-
Military Industrial Complex could
and would have created such a
conspiracy and cover-up. I think
we should take seriously the larger
issue which Stone raises: if we
don’t want the few with power
and money to hide the truth (or
create the truth), we have to be
Stone movie was portrayed in the
newspapers as a circus ringled by
a nut case. In college 1 read quite
a bit about Kennedy and can still
feel the pain which resulted from
realizing that I’d been sold a
Camelot lie about him. But in my
childhood he was a martyr to civil
for the ^t^^'
I cannot adequately judge the
to challenge them and ex-
p&t to pay the costs.
Stone’s ability as a director is
great; the tightly framed talking-
head shots in JFK are quite ef
fective; and the collage of actual
footage with re-made shots im
presses and holds the attention.
The acting in the movie is phe-
nomi^nal, from a slick Kevin Ba-
^ori t^a^^aming Joe Pesci; from
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Insider lets off a potpourri of steam
Hola! and welcome back to
another tour here at the camp.
Sorry I have been quiet for so
long, but Insider has been letting
all the administration’s antics fuel
that little fire in his heart, and
now the fire has grown to epic
proportions,time to explode.
First, let me mention security’s
recent interesi in their duty. The
last two weeks of schools were
prime ticket time. What s the deal
with this? You disgrace all those
who wear the badge of rent-a-
copy proudly. Need I mention
chairs on the roof? Insider’s going
to start ticketing security for
parking in handicapped zones.
Just like Insider did last year, do
you remember Mr. officer?
Final word, on behalf of all of
the soccer team, who cut that one
liuio cor.ier during hell week, “Sit
on it."’ Post script on security —
Libraries are an important part of
our educational system. They
Insider
should be protected and watched
after carefully. Maybe if you
stopped worrying about what
resident students are making too
much noise, or parking in the
wrong place, you could protect
our campus from book thieves.
Next 6rder of business, from
here on out, let it be known tliat
smoking pot is now legal, there is
no drinking age, and you can shoot
whomever you want. Why? Be
cause Insider said so. You mean I
can’t do that? Tlien why can the
R.D, in South do it? Is he above
the constituUonal law? He stopped
all visitation and increased fines
all by himself, so why can’t In
sider? Where you do you get off
messing around with the consti
tutional rights established by our,
forefathers that protect us from
tyrants like yourself? Enough said.
Oh, my gosh! Golly gee! The
walls are melting. Is it because
the heater is broken? Why do I
see all these pretty colors? Why
can I hear every conversation in
the room at one time? Because
you’re on drugs, that’s why. Is it
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