VOL. 11, NO. 1
North Carolina Wesleyan College, Rocky Mount, N.C.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22,1995
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EXTERIOR IS ALMOST COMPLETE FOR FINE ARTS CENTER. (PHOTO BY KEVIN CORBETT.)
Fine Arts Center scheduled
to be finished in November
By KIMBERLY CURSEEN
rhe multi-million-dollar Dunn Fine Arts
Center is expected to be finished in the first
week of November and the road and parking
^ot should be finished this month.
The contractor is expected to be finished
with construction by S^pt. 30. The carpet, and
le stage rigging will be completed by late
October.
Wesleyan
selling off
radio station
The Board of Trustees will have their first
meeting in the Center in October.
“A Day for Wesleyan,” an annual fundraiser
for the College, was held on the Center’s side
walk Tuesday. Volunteers were given a sneak
preview of the center during the day.
Founder’s Day will also be held on Oct. 26
in front of the Fine Arts Center.
The Dunn Fire Arts Center will officially
open in January.
By GREG PURCELL
One of the many sounds of the
Wesleyan campus has been si
lenced. Radio station WESQ is in
the process of being sold because
college officials said it was cost
ing too much money with no real
educational kick to it.
It was at the May 5 meeting of
the trustees that the closing of
WESQ was decided. Former sta
tion manager Jerry Glass said that
“the trustees decided to stop fund
ing effective Aug. 1.”
One of the former DJ’s, Joe
Oravec, said that he is “mad. I
miss it terribly. The more I did it,
the more that I liked it”
Oravec added, “I was thinking
of going into radio as a career
because of all the experience that
I gained from WESQ.”
If you flip through your radio
dial you still hear the sounds of
90.0 FM, but it is because of the
Friends for Down East Public
Radio. The Friends and the Col
lege have gone through a long
process to get the license trans
ferred to th^ Friends of Down East
Public Radio. The license still be
longs to North Carolina Wesleyan
College.
Dr. John White, president of
the College, said, “It is my hope
that the Friends for Down East
Public Radio will be successful
in their desire to receive the trans
fer of the license and to preserve
public radio in Rocky Mount.
“It is unfortunate that the col
lege has had to face the reality
that the operation of WESQ had
to be closed. And that reality was
in part financial and in part re
late to the overall mission to the
college,” White said.
“The station and its manage
ment tried very hard to be both a
student station and a community
NPR station and in many ways
those two dimensions did not co
exist well,” he added.
Wesleyan thrives on teamwork
By DR. JOHN WHITE
As I write this article, my son,
X uidrew, and I have just returned
from the gym where we watched
a suspense-filled women’s vol
leyball game against Meredith
College.
Something occurred during
that game which reminded me of
why I chose to come to Wesleyan
as your new President.
After winning the first g^e,
the Battling pishops fell behind
in the second, and after a few
minutes were behind 0-12. Most
teams, at this point, might have
folded, deciding to write off the
game and put energy into the next
game to preserve a win in the
match. The Wesleyan team, how
ever, did not quit. They kept their
composure and seemed to call up
resources deep within. Their ex
cellent coaching, hard work at
conditioning, and mental tough
ness began to pay off
When the score reached 8-12,
the crowd, realizing the women
were putting up a tremendous ef
fort, grew louder. We tied the
game at 14 and went onto win
17-15. Needless to day, the
Meredith team was mentally and
physically exhausted. The next
game was played with the same
intensity and teamwork on the
part of the Wesleyan women, and
wfe won the match 3-0.
There is a powerful message
in the victory we achieved tonight
over Meredith College. The
women who played their hearts
out showed "us that it takes a team,
working together, to make a dif- ^
ference.
Oh, there were some great in
dividual efforts, and I wouldn’t
want to diminish those contribu
tions. Yet, pulling together on the
court and neither being intimi
dated nor demoralized by the
other team moving out to an early
lead made the difference.
When Dianne and I arrived on
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DR. JOHN WHITE