The Decree
VOL. 8, NO. 10 North Carolina Wesleyan College, Rocky Mount, N.C. FRIDAY, MARCH 26,1993
WESQ gets
program
director
Dimitri Ferrell joined the col
lege and WESQ radio station this
Monday as Program Director.
Ferrell holds a bachelor’s de
gree in communications from
Temple University. While he is
coming from his home town of
Philadelphia, he lived and worked
in Rocky Mount from 1986 to
1990.
His television experience in
cludes WNCT-TV in Greenville
and WFBE-TV (now WRM-TV)
in Rocky Mount. His radio expe
rience includes WDAS-AM and
WHYY-FM in Philadelphia and
WVSP-FM in Rocky Mount. At
WVSP, he was the Dkector of
News and Public Affairs and the
producer and host of a classical
music program, “Cadenza.” He
is presently working part-time at
WHYY-FM, one of the public ra
dio stations in Philadelphia.
Ferrell also brings a wealth of
knowledge and experience in jazz,
classical music, and public radio
to WESQ. His father was a jazz
musician, and it was not uncom
mon for Nat King Cole or Can
nonball Adderley to stop by
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II
Allen wins
presidency
unopposed
SHOWTIME — Comedienne Wanda Sykes-Hall entertains stu
dents in Doc’s during a performance on Feb. 24., sponsored by
the Campus Activities Board. CAB activities during the coming
week are Spring Fling ‘93. (Photo by Chris Taylor.)
By ELLEN STANTON
Tommy Allen had no problem
winning the election for Student
Government Association Presi
dent on March 17—he and Dawn
Romano, incumbent candidate for
SGA Treasurer, were the only stu
dents running for those respec
tive offices.
The race for the vice presi
dency was close between Patrick
Brannan and Chris Brandt, with
Brandt prevailing as victor. In the
contest for SGA Secretary, Tonya
Rouse won over Tammy
Minchew. President-elect Matt
Snyder will round out the five-
member Executive Board by tak
ing over as Campus Activities
Board President
Andr5 Clanton defeated Tif
fany Clay to become the junior
class president, and Julie Salked
was elected as vice president.
Elections for all vacant posi
tions, including senior and sopho
more class officers as well as the
judicial board, will be held April
7. Petitions are currently avail-
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Briefs
Choir approved
The NCWC Gospel
Choir was recently ap
proved as an official orga
nization. For more informa
tion, contact Kirk Oldham.
Director resigns
Josie Williams has de
cided to resign as Director
of Admissions to pursue a
Master’s degree. Her resig
nation will take effect this
summer.
Students welcome Clinton’s call to service
By CHARLES DERVARICS
(CPS) — Asking the nation’s
youth to join him in “a great na
tional adventure,” President
Clinton has outlined a broad-
based service program that even
tually would offer up to 100,000
college students a chance to get
education aid in exchange for
community work.
“National service is nothing
less than the American way to
change America,” Clinton said
March 1 at Rutgers University in
New Brunswick, NJ. His speech
was greeted with loud cheers by
the students who packed the
university’s gymnasium.
Among other tasks, students
in the service program would help
rebuild neighborhoods, clean up
the environment, and counsel
children, Chnton said. In the pro
cess, they would earn tuition
vouchers or forgiveness of stu
dent loans and set in motion a
new national commitment to ser
vice.
Students also would have an
option to repay college loans by
deducting a percentage of their
salaries after graduation.
Some details of the program,
such as how much of a stipend
community volunteers would be
paid and how much of their col
lege loans would be forgiven,
have not been worked out yet.
The president likened his pro
gram to the GI Bill after World
War n and the Peace Corps in the
1960s. One difference is that
Clinton said his program would
allow for substantial local au
tonomy.
“We make progress when
people and their government work
at the grassroots in true partner
ship,” he said. “I want to em
power young people and their
communities, not empower a new
bureaucracy io Washington.”
Clinton provided only modest
budget details of his proposal,
which would cost an estimated
$7 billion during the next four
years. It would begin this year
with a “summer of service” for
1,000 young people who would
receive leadership training, woik
at jobs throughout the nation, and
then meet at the end of the sum
mer for a Youth Service SunmiiL
The government would fund
tl^ million summ^prpgi^
through the president’s short-term
economic stimulus package an
nounced last month. Clinton
asked students interested in this
program to send him a postcard
at the White House marked “na
tional service.”
The White House envisions
25,000 students participating in
service programs in fiscal year
1994 at a federal cost of $400
milUon. This figure would grow
to an estimated 100,000 students
in fiscal year 1997 at an annual
cost of $3.4 billion.
Students generally would trade
one or two years of community
service for financial assistance
wifli college. A cap will be set on
the loan amounts that will be for
given by the federal government.
The initiatiye would include
not only college students and
graduates, but teenagers as well.
The White House said about
\
35,000 secondary school students
could participate in the program
and earn vouchers for their future
education.
“When people give something
of inv^uable merit to their coun
try, they ought to be rewarded
with the opportunity to further
their education,” Clinton said. The
president later made the case for
his program to a nationwide au
dience on MTV.
Clinton said he the program
probably would be built on many
existing community programs but
also would allow for some “en
trepreneurship” in which students
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