VOL. 9, NO. 12
North Carolina Wesleyan College, Rocky Mount, N.C.
FRroAY, MARCH 25,1994
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CONVOCATION HONORS STUDENTS — Winners of Student Life Awards during the Honors
Convocation were (from left) Pete Widell for Sigma Pi fraternity, Shannon Johnson, Tonya Rouse,
and Patrick Brannan. The March 20 ceremony in the SAC honored students for academic accom
plishments and their service to the community.
Brandt elected new president
in campus wide SGA elections
By KIMBERLY CURSEEN
The results of the Student Gov
ernment Association elections are
in, and current SGA Vice Presi
dent Christian Brandt has been
elected President.
Other elected officers are: Vice
President, Traci Dixon; Treasurer,
Audra Ader, Senior Class Presi
dent, Tim Lock; Commuter Board
Rep., Tammy Michew; Sopho
more Class President, Aslsya
Manzangio; and Senators at
Large, Terrell Adgers, Shareda
Smith, and Greg Percell.
The voting began at 5:30 p.m.
until 7 p.m. in the dorms on March
16. Voting was also held in the
Administration Building.
Brandt, who was also election
coordinator, said it appeared the
voting among the student body
was up from last year. He was
pleased with the turnout, but spe
cific numbers were not available.
When asked about how he felt
Convocation
recognizes
excellence
about the elections and results he
replied enthusiastically with,
“Great, I think they will do a great
job,”
The elections woe reopened
before spring break due to the
lack of participation by the stu
dent body. At the time many of
fices were left without any candi
dates and some candidates were
unchallenged. The office of Jun
ior Class President is still un-
fiUed.
By CECILIA CASEY
North Carolina Wesleyan
College’s annual Honors Convo
cation, held on March 20 in the
Student Activities Center, rec
ognized outstanding students for
their academic accomplishments
and their service to the commu
nity.
Opening with prayer from
Rev. E>r. Rexford F. Tucker and a
greeting from President Dr. Leslie
H. Gamer Jr. to parents, staff, and
faculty. Gamer said “for indeed
as we honor students this aftCT-
noon we are celebrate your
contributions as well.”
Then Gamer introduced Senior
Class President Bridget A. Clancy
who introduced Assistant Profes
sor of Business Administration
Cal Wynkoop as a warrior of busi
ness, friend, and father figure.
“When you hear experiential
learning you think of him. His
teaching concepts deal with the
idea of shared experience and self
actualizing. Sounds simple
enough, but when you leave his
class your head kinda hurts,”
Clancy said.
Wynkoop started his address
by talking about the beautiful
spring day and deciding to go out
to recess. He took off his jacket
and stepped off the stage while
saying “I want to come down a
little bit because we are out to
recess now.”
Wynkoop then talked about
baseball and choosing up sides
and divided the audience into
Duke on the left side and Caro
lina on the right. He then pointed
out that “Boy did we have a real
knack of dividing people. My
sense is that we continue to di
vide people. It occurred to me
that I run into some real prob
lems when I started to divide the
world into two pieces, because
all of the sudden I started getting
winners and losers.”
He used this to make the point
that instead of letting the world
be one or the other, yes or no,
look for a third alternative, look
for the maybe, take a risk and do
something new so you don’t have
to divide.
Humanities Division Chair Dr.
Paul DeGategno presented the
following awards: Freshman
Writing, Robert R. Bowen; Se
nior English, Melinda C. Hux and
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Freshmen class aims sights high in survey
More college freshmen have
hopes of obtaining advanced de
grees after they get their four-
year degree than ever before, and
women are more likely than men
to aspire to the highest possible
degrees such as doctorates, ac
cording to findings in a sweeping
survey of this year’s freshmen
class.
The 28th annual survey of
entering college freshmen, con
ducted by the Higher Education
Research Institute at the Univer
sity of California-Los Angeles,
also found that competitive pres
sures and stress among freshmen
are at aU-time highs. Tlie survey
was completed last fall by
220,757 first-year students at 427
colleges and universities, and was
sponsored by the American Coun
cil of Education, a Washington,
D.C.-based higher education as
sociation.
Sixty-five percent of the fresh
men surveyed in 1993 plan to pur
sue a graduate degree after they
finish college, the survey found.
In comparison, 55 percent of the
freshmen polled in 1992 and less
than 50 percent of those polled in
the early 1970s had indicated they
wanted to pursue education be
yond the four-year degree.
More importantly, researchers
found, was the fact that for the
first time ever in the survey
women were more likely than
men to seek all major types of
advanced degrees (master’s, doc
toral, medical, and law) than men;
27.3 percent of the female first-
year students indicated they
wanted to pursue termini de
grees, compared with 25.8 per
cent of the men. In 1967, three
times more men than women had
planned to pursue a doctoral,
medical, or law degree (26.7 per
cent vs. 8.5 percent).
“To close such a g^ in a rela
tively short span of two decades
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