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VOL. 10, NO. 11
^‘The truth is out there.,,”
North Carolina Wesleyan College, Rocky Mount, N.C.
FRIDAY, MARCH 17,1995
Trustees name DePauw dean
as Wesleyan’s fourth president
DR. JOHN B. WHITE
...New Wesleyan President
Dr. John B. White, of
Greencastle, Ind., has been
elected as North Carolina Wes
leyan College’s fourth president.
The College’s Board of Trust
ees announced Dr. White’s elec
tion following its Feb. 24 meet
ing.
White is currently Dean of
Academic Affairs at DePauw
University, where he has served
for the past 18 years. President
elect White is also professor of
philosophy and religion at
DePauw and has been honored as
Professor of the Year five times.
“Dr. White will make a splen
did president,” said Leon A.
“Lindy” Dunn Jr., chairman of
Wesleyan’s Board of Trustees.
“He is a superbly talented person
and will provide excellent lead
ership as the College enters the
21st century. We are extremely
pleased to have such a supremely
qualified person as our next presi
dent.”
White holds a Ph.D. in Reli
gion from Duke University, where
he was elected into Phi Beta
Kappa. He earned a Master of
Divinity degree from Duke,
summa cum laude. His under
graduate degree is from Emory
& Henry College, a United Meth
odist Church-affihated institution.
White served as Assistant Di
rector of Admissions and Coor
dinator of Academic Advisement
at Emory & Henry from 1975-
76. He went onto become Assis
tant Professor of Religious Stud
ies at Kansas Wesleyan Univer
sity, where he taught until he
joined the DePauw faculty in
1977. In 1981, White became
DePauw’s Faculty Development
Coordinator. He was appointed
Associate Dean of the University
in 1985, a position he held for
five years before assuming his
current post as Dean of Academic
Affairs.
Mack B. Pearsall, a Wesleyan
Trustee and chair of the Presi
dential Search Conmiittee, said,
“Colleges are undergoing funda
mental changes that will create
opportunities for institutions that
have bold, effective, and innova
tive leadership. John White is just
such a leader and we look for
ward to the dawning of a new era
in Wesleyan’s history.”
Dry Wesleyan awash in alcohol use
By AMY LYNN BRAYTON
Drinking on college campuses
is being brought out into the open
more. A recent study done at
North Carohna Wesleyan College
indicated that in the 1994 fall se
mester 30 percent of all write
ups were alcohol-related, accord
ing to Pam Gourley, assistant
dean of Student Life.
In an anonymous survey done
in South Hall, the freshman dor
mitory, it was found that out of
89 residents, only four do not
drink.
Michael Rouse, RD of South
Hall, said about this survey, “It
does not surprise me.”
He said, “I feel that students
today, regardless of age, drink in
excess and irresponsibly. I did not
drink like the students today when
I was an undergraduate student.”
His reason, he said, was because,
“I felt I did not have to be intoxi
cated to have fun.”
Deborah Pittman, director of
security, says the biggest prob
lems with drinking on campus are
“underage drinking, vandalism,
and juvenile behavior.” After all
that has happened with alcohol
related write-ups she has found it
“hard to view the students as
adults.” Pittman says “the issue
is not how old one is, but how
responsible one is.”
During the random door to
door survey done in South Hall at
Wesleyan four questions were
asked. Have you ever been writ
ten up for alcohol? If so what
were the consequences? Do you
think drinking at Wesleyan is a
problem? The last was just ask
ing for additional comments. Of
the people surveyed there were
eight females and nine males. ITie
ages ranged from 18-21. Out of
this group there was a total of
four write-ups for alcohol, two of
which were for one person.
Many students say there is a
small drinking problem on cam
pus. One 18-year-old from New
Hampshire said, “We do it a lot,
but no more than any other col
lege. Unless people are really ob
noxious there is no need for a
write-up.”
The one student who was writ-
ten-up twice did four hours of
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Finney gets second
Leadership Award
Dr. Kenneth V. Finney, pro
fessor of history at North Caro
lina Wesleyan College, has won
the 1995 President’s Leadership
Award, his second leadership
award during his 22-year tenure
at Wesleyan.
“The central focus at Wesleyan
is on good teaching and good
scholarship,” said Dr. Herman E.
Collier Jr., Wesleyan’s interim
president. “Professor Finney’s
project is a rather creative ap
proach to enhancing his effective
ness as a teacher, while making
the study of history more appeal
ing to his students.”
For his Colonial Latin America
course, Finney plans to use this
monetary award to produce a
needed supplementary text that
would enable students to grasp
the reality of the culture and his
tory at that time. He will endeavor
to create a series of biographical
“slices” of key historical figures,
focusing on a key event in their
lives.
These biographical sketches
will be collected into a workbook
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Trustees increase
tuition five percent
DR. KENNETH FINNEY
By KIM CURSEEN
North Carolina Wesleyan
College’s Board of Trustees will
raise tuition by five percent for
the 1995-96 academic year.
The increase in tuition will be
$628 according to tiie announce
ments setit out by the school to
the parents of students. The hike
in tuition is due to inflation and
sky rocketing prices of services
that the college has to provide.
Some are concerned that the
increase in tuition is due to the
new Fine Arts Center .Wesleyan.
currently has under construction,
but the Dunn Center is funded by
a capital campedgn that is sepa
rate firom the college’s operating
budget.
Wesleyan appears to be in tune
with the pulse of {Mivate colleges
across ttie nation. According to
USA Today’s Dennis Kelly and
Tatnmara Henry, private colleges
are on average increasing tuition
by five percent to six percent for
the next academic year. Private
schools have freedom to raise tu-
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