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PAGE 4 — THE DECREE — FEBRUARY 4,1994 OPmClAL SrVOENT NtiWSPAFER OF fiOflTH CAROUm WKSIMYAN COLLEOE Editor-in-Ch ief — Patricls Bran nan S'taiT— C€cttia tyatt CaN?.v, A latt F^Uon Kimberiy Curseen, Matt Harlvriger. Marie Lenane Advisor— Clirfe Lal.onde The Decree i«r located in *fie Haitlee. ttuilding. N«rth CaroUi>a Ws>lcyan Coltcfjc; 5400 WeJcjan Blvd., Rotky Mount. VC 27it(H. Weokij stKft ttieetiujis arc ftettf Tbursdaj a( 4:30 p.m. in the Dccree Re-pobHtyHoB of any matter l>crct» without the cxpi-css co»>«it nf thel^horial Buard farbkhJen. The Decree is composed and printed bj’ tlie H«pe Cntciprisi;. QpiDiuns ptiliiishcd do uot necessarily roflect tftosc of Nurtli Carolina Wcsleyatt 'ollt^e. Involve the students in Wesleyan’s plans Wesleyan is being rocked with the winds of change for the second year in a row. Last year. Academic Dean Charles Bennett, who resigned dur ing the summer, proposed nu merous changes to the aca demic agenda. This year president Dr. LesUe Gamer has announced his “Vision of Wesleyan” and “The Wesleyan Advantage. Once again the students are being left in the dark about what lies ahead for the school. In the past few weeks there has been meeting after meeting dealing with “the fu ture of Wesleyan.” On Jan. 27 a meeting open to all stu dents was held to present the future to the student body. This meeting finally brought the students an opportunity to gain information on the proposed changes and, more importantly, to ask questions about the plan. Still too much of the school’s action takes place, or is planned, without the stu dents knowing or being in volved. A prime example is the fact that The Decree has been informed that their advisor will not receive “released time” for advising the paper. The problem is that nei ther the advisor or anyone on the staff of the paper was con sulted in this decision. While the school may have some good reasons for cutting the advisor’s “released time,” the fact that they did not contact any of the students on the staff is a concern. This makes the future of the paper uncer tain. This from the school where, “The student comes first.” The administration may have the idea that the stu dents don’t care. There are some students that really don’t care, but for those stu dents that do care, the oppor tunity to voice their opinion must be made available. The students have the right to know what is being planned for the school that involves them. Students are concerned with what the fiiture holds for Wesleyan. If students have this concem they should show it. The administration should acknowledge this concem by allowing the students more opportunities to voice their opinion. Letters to the editor policy The Decree accepts only signed letters to the editors. Unsigned letters will not be printed. Letters need to be placed in the campus post office and marked “Decree” or placed in the Decree office in the Hardees building. Letters must be received by Friday of the week prior to the next issue in order to be printed in that issue. The Decree reserves the right to edit or reject letters for grammar, libel, or good taste. HUi#, . e Message can overwhelm art Thiladelphia’ flawed but good By DR. STEVE FEREBE Picasso’s Guernica, Sinclair’s The Jungle, and few other ex amples illustrate a successful fu sion of political fervor and aes thetic genius. But usually didac tic messages overwhelm and sub merge art. Such is the case with the movie Philadelphia, written by Ron Nyswaner and directed, by Jonathan Demme. Andrew, a successful lawyer (played by an astonishingly con vincing Tom Hanks), claims that his firm fired him because he has AIDS. His lawyer Joe, an ambu lance chaser advertising on televi sion (played with his usual ear- Dr. Steve Muses nest intensity by Denzel Wash ington), recognizes that Andrew was fired because he is gay. Joe reluctantly and only partially overcomes his own homophobia and wins the case for Andrew, who dies at the end with his lover Miguel by his side. The movie lacks focus. Nyswaner and Demme try to make too many points: gay people can be good lawyers; gay people love each other and have fami lies; homophobia is rampant and hurtful; both AIDS and homo sexuality lead to civil rights con cerns; AIDS attacks all people, not just promiscuous homosexu als; AIDS is awful, but people live with it. The movie also comes dangerously close to reinforcing th6 irrational connection some people make between homo sexuality and sickness. Tlie movie has one transcen dent cinematic moment. When Andrew, tired and wasting from the trial and the disease, croons and dances with his IV-drip ma- chine to Mara Callas singing “La ’ imma Morta” from the opera Andrea Chenier, only a stone (Continued on Page 5) Eligibility policy explained Dear Editor: Recently I have received sev eral complaints about the current eligibility policy of the IM-REC office regarduig participation of students who have played college basketball in the past. I would like to clear the air about what the policy is and shed some light as to why the policy is in effect. Before I begin, though, I would like to make it very clear that NCWC Intramural-Recreational Sports Handbook is available to any student or faculty/staff mem ber at the IM-REC office located in the Student Activities Center. The handbooks are also distrib- Letters to the Editor uted to the team representative at aU organizational meetings. Eligibility is specifically cov ered on page 3 of the handbook and is divided into four impor tant sections. I will reiterate the two most controversial regula tions: First, Rule 5, section C states that any participant who has received a varsity letter from NCWC or any other college or university will not be eligible to participate in their respective or related sport that they earned their letter until the completion of a one-year non participation period; Second, Rule 5, section D translates that varsity athletes who have fulfilled their non-participa tion period for the given sport are deemed “ringers” with a stipula tion of one ringer participating per team. This means a couple of things. For instance, a player who com pleted the athletic season last year but does not play for the team (Continued on Page 5)
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