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VOL. 9, NO. 2
North Carolina Wesleyan CoU^e, Rocky Mount, N.C.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 4,1993
Wesleyan
joins NCSU
for lectures
N.C. State University in Ra
leigh offers one of the most com
prehensive and impressive Lead
ership Development Series in the
country, and through an agree
ment between NCSU and N.C.
Wesleyan College, Wesleyan stu
dents can participate;^in this se
ries.
Students who participate in the
series will receive a certified tran
script from NCSU documenting
their participation. Wesleyan will
also certify a student’s participa
tion in the series on the Co-Cur
ricular Transcript.
This year there are 46 mod
ules being offered on various top
ics ranging from negotiation to
goal setting to effective man
agement Most modules are of
fered during both the fall and
spring semesters. Modules begin
at 6:30 p.m. and end at 9:30 p.m.
and are held on the fourth floor
of the Student Center at NCSU,
All modules cost $5. The
PLUS 25 Refund is available for
students who attend more than
five sessions. Any module cost
over $25 is refunded upon request
at the end of each semester.
For more information about
the NCSU series or about lead
ership development programs and
opportunities here at Wesleyan,
contact Michael Sanseviro at 985-
5256 in the Hardee’s Student
Union.
Damage fines
cause tension
within dorms
GET ON BOARD — Pi EpsiltHi sorority was among the campus
organizations participating in the Student Government
Association’s annual “Get on Board Day” Sept. 12. Organizations
trying to recruit new members included the Greeks, CAB, Col
lege Republicans, Decree, and the Dissenter.
Student apathy bothers
administration, SGA
By PATRICK BRANNAN
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Student government and the
administration are both bothered
that Wesleyan students are not
taking advantage of opportunities
to get involved.
Dr. Nancy Van Kuren, dean
of Student Life, says, ‘There are
so many possibilities and so many
opportunities here.’’ Yet students
are not t^kmg advantage of what
is open to them.
The SGA constitution provides
21 direct senate seats ranging
from the five executive board of
ficers to three senators at large.
This provides almost everyone an
opportunity to run for an office
that sits in the senate. TTie consti
tution states that every student is
a member of SGA if they aie “en
rolled for credit and attending on-
campus courses.”
Yet attendance by students at
SGA meetings is poor. The fact
that SGA members volunteer their
time and receive nothing in re-
(Continued on Back Page)
By JIMMILYN ROSSON
Conflict over whether Wes
leyan College has the right to
charge community damage
against students of a residence
hall has created tension on cam
pus between students and resi
dence hall directors.
Freshmen residents in South
Hall got a taste of community
damage when a window was bro
ken during the first two weeks of
this semestCT. Since no one ad
mitted to breaking the window,
all residents of the dorm were re
quired to pay the fine.
“I just don’t think it’s fair to
make us pay for someone elses’
actions,” said freshman Wendy
Wojcik. Her feelings were shared
by many other students.
“It puts us in a bind,” said
sophomore Glynis Cureton. “Ei
ther we have to turn in our friends
or we have to become detectives
to figure out who did it, so we
won’t be fine.”
Some students thought that
community damage was a ploy
to get mrae money.
“You don’t think (community
damage) ever amounts to any
thing. Trust not where the money
goes. I’ve seen too many things
at this college that never get
fixed,” said senior Stewart Crank.
The administration does not
see community damage as a mat
ter of turning in friends or of ob
taining money. Michael San
seviro, resident director of South
Hall, thinks that charging ev
eryone is the only way, until an
individual can be charged.
“I don’t like charging people
that have nothing to do with it
But it is really the only fair way. I
have to assess everybody equally
until I know otherwise,? he said.
Junior Torsie Judkins agreeds.
“Community damage is good for
the school as long as we don’t
know who did something,” she
said. “I really don’t like commu
nity damage, but I know it’s
something the administration has
to do.”
Director of Housing Cheryl
McKenzie equated community
damage with learning responsi
bility.
“All doors to the dorms are
locked. If anyone is in the build
ing, it is because they are resi
dents or have been let in by a
(Continued on Back Page)
Author Kaye Gibbons returns to Wesleyan
By CECILIA CASEY
Author Kaye Gibbons returned
to North Carolina Wesleyan Col
lege recently to give her second
reading in the Visiting Writers
Series, the first of tiie fall semes
ter and the third of the Eleanor
Hoyt Smith Memorial Reading
Series.
The first Smith Memorial
Reading featured Rol^d l^t in
1988. The second reading fea
tured Reynolds Price in 1990. Dr.
Leverett T. Smith introduced the
series by explaining that the Smith
Memorial readings were in
memory of his mother, who
worked in what is now the Eliz
abeth Braswell Pearsall Library.
“She loved the excitement of
a reading. I think it is fitting that
, ^ a, l^dy ^ shpuld be rea^ng in
memory of a lady,” Smith said.
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Gibbons read from her latest
book. Charms for the Easy Life.
She started by saying that her sto
ries were about little people
speaking big things. Then she
went on to say, “I’m very, very
h^py to be home.
“The story I’m reading tonight
is about three generations,” she
said, “with the oldest generation
based on my maternal grand-
mb&er.’^
The story was about a wom
an’s narration of the life of her
mother and grandmother who
practiced homeopathic medicine.
At the start of the reading. Gib
bons described events and the
complex emotions surrounding
and responding to the death of
her father.
Next, Gibbons skipped ahead
in the book to when the narra
tor’s nwther was 35 “and missed
her first date” because of a her
mit who had developed a large
boil on his neck and sent for the
grandmother to remove it.
After the hermit and the grand
mother talk^ about some meth
ods used to remove boils, such as
getting a blind dog to lick it or
using the urine of a faithful wife,
the grandmoflier cut open the boil,
€ontinued on Back P^e)