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VOL. 9, NO. 4
North Carolina Wesleyan College, Rocky Mount, N.C.
FRTOAY, OCTOBER 29,1993
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Symposium puts
focus on economy
MICHAEL SANSEVmO ... AT HOME IN SOUTH DORM
South Hall R.D. sees
progress in programs
By CECILIA CASEY
After three years of being the
Resident Director of North Caro
lina Wesleyan College’s South
Hall, one might wonder why
Michael Sanseviro has stuck
around so long. The answer is
that for him it was the only way
to accomplish everything that he
wanted to get accomplished.
“When I got here three years
ago I was told that there was a
high turnover rate for the R.D.
position and most R.D.’s only
stayed for a year. I knew that this
meant that any good ideas people
had for here they would never be
able to see them through ” he said.
“I had things I wanted to do
and I decided to take the time and
get them done. Plus which, it
makes a tremendous difference
when an R.D. stays more than
one year because it gives the stu
dents a sense of stability and con
sistency to see the same face. So
I made it my personal goal to
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Strategies on economic growth
for the 1990’s and beyond will be
the focus of a symposium at North
Carolina Wesleyan College on
Nov. 5, sponsored by Centura
Bank, Wesleyan College, and the
Rocky Mount Area Chamber of
Commerce.
Gecffge Gilder, noted author,
economist, and entrepreneur, will
be the featured speaker for “Strat
egies to Inspire Growth,” a sym
posium on economic develop
ment fcff eastern North Carolina.
Gilder has written important
books, such as Wealth and Pov
erty, The Spirit of Enterprise, Mi
crocosm, Life After Television,
and Telecosm. He is also a ccm-
tributing editor of Forbes and
Forbes ASAP and a ftequent CMi-
tributor to a variety of publica
tions, including the Wall Street
Journal, American Spectator,
National Review, and a variety of
electronic business publications.
A senior fellow at the Discov
ery Institute in Seattle, Gilder
studied at Harvard under Hrary
Kissinger and later taught as a
fellow at the Kennedy Institute
of Politics. In 1986, President
Ronald Reagan gave him a White
House Award for Entrepreneur
ial Excellence.
“We are living in times of great
change, many of which will have
a tremendous imp^t on economic
development,” said Dr. Leslie H.
Gamer Jr., president of N.C. Wes
leyan. “This symposium is de
signed to bring people togethw
with leaders in the field to dis
cuss practical strategies that can
inspire economic growth and help
us improve the quality of life in
North Carolina.”
“This symposium is designed
to provide a vision of tomcKTOw’s
workplace in our part of the
world,” said Robert R. Mauldin,
chairman and chief executive of
ficer of Centura Bank. “We will
cover some of the critical eco
nomic develoi»nent issues today,
such as ediKaticm, entrepreneur
ship, and the rapid growth of tech
nology and their impacts cm our
communities.”
Morning sessions at the sym
posium include opening remarks
by Mauldin; a panel discussion
on “Enterprise Creation and Ex
panding Economic Opportunity,”
featuring Martin Eakes of the Self
Help Credit Union and Bob
Luddy of the Governor’s Entre
preneurial Board; and a discus
sion by John Doman of the Pub
lic School Forum on “Challenges
in Rural Education.”
“Strategies That WcHk” will be
the topic for a panel discussion
featuring Walter Sprouse, of the
Randolph County Economic De
velopment Corp., Robert
Womble, coordinator of the Busi
ness Location Services Group for
the law firm of Poyner and
Spruill, and Margaret Klutz,
mayor of Salisbury. The sympo
sium will conclude wth a “Strat
egy That Will Woik For Eastern
North Carolina,” by Dr. Gamer.
“We are excited about bring
ing together this many experts in
the field of economic develop
ment,” Mauldin said.
The symposium will be at the
Student Activities Center at N.C.
Wesleyan College. Seats are $50.
Call Sherry Johnson at (919) 442-
5 111 for reservations.
Students falling in love with Paris
(Editor’s Note: The follow
ing letter to Wesleyan students
was written by Tara Schreiber,
who, along with Muriel
Damiani, is spending the fall
semester in Paris, France,
studying at the Sorbonne. Their
arrangements were made by
Karine Sparrow-Ginter, coor
dinator of Study Abroad at
North Carolina Wesleyan. Tara
and Muriel will receive credit
at Wesleyan for their study in
France.)
Greeting from Paris!
We have now been in Paris
for exactly one month. We both
live with French families in
charming apartment buildings,
and work about 12 hours a week
cleaning their houses for our
rooms.
I have my own studio apart
ment on the sixth floor, one floor
above my host family. I live in
the center of Paris, almost in the
Jardin de Tuilleries (Tuilleri.es
Gardens) and the Louvre is across
the street. The Avenue des
Champs-Elysees is about a five-
minute walk with the Arc de Tri
umph in plain view.
My neighborhood is full of
brasseries (bars), sidewalk cafes.
and many boutiques (including a
Laura Ashley and Gucci). Walk
ing through my neighborhood is
like leafing through the pages of
a French history book: it is full of
historical sites and monuments.
Muriel lives on the sixth floor
of her family’s ^artment build
ing. Looking our her window one
can easily see the white 19th cen
tury church of Sacre Coeur (a
church on the top of a hill of
Montmartre that overlooks the
whole city of Paris). Her apart
ment building is across the street
from a park dedicated to Louis
XVI.
A five-minute walk down the
street brings you to Galleries
Lafayete, the largest department
store in Paris. The Opera is stra
tegically located and works well
as a meeting place for Muriel and
me.
We are both enrolled in classes
at the Sorbonne, one of the oldest
leaming institutions in the world.
Our classes are taught entirely in
French. The classes are a melting
pot of students from around the
world. Iranians, Mexicans, Swiss,
Finns, Swedes, Israelis, Span
iards, Italians, Norwegians, Ger
mans, and of course Americans
fill the classrooms.
From Monday through Friday,
we have an hour of phonetics lab
fi-om 1:30-2:30 p.m., giving us
time in the morning to work for
our families. Our regular French
language and civilization class
meets froni 3-5 p.m.
Most of our weekends are
spent visiting museums (Louvre,
Musee d-Orsay, Orangerie), his
torical sites (i.e. Napoleon’s
Tomb, L’Arc de Triumphe, La
Defense, Chaeau de Vincennes,
Place de La Concorde, Opera,
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