VOL. 11, NO. 10
North Carolina Wesleyan College, Rocky Mount, N.C.
FRIDAY, MARCH 15,1996
Search for Dean nearing end
By KAROLYN BRAUN
Months of searching will come
to an end by the end of next week
when President John White an
nounces North Carolina Wesleyan
College’s new Vice President for
Academic Affairs and Dean of
the College following a visit to
the campus by three finalist can
didates under consideration by the
search committee.
Bob Bussom, the current Vice
President and Dean, has held the
position for three years after
agreeing to serve “temporarily”
for one year. The search for his
successor was delayed by the res
ignation of College President
Leslie Gamer because Bussom
felt the college could not afford
also to lose a vice president.
With the induction of White
this year, the search began last
fall to replace Bussom. A Dean
Search Committee was put to
gether consisting of eight people
— si.x faculty members and two
students, headed by Dr. Kenneth
V. Finney.
The committee conducted a
nationwide search, receiving and
reviewing 121 applications. Af
ter a month and half of reviewing
applications, 17 applicants were
picked and out of those seven
were selected for interviews. Out
of the seven, the final three can
didates were chosen.
The three candidates are arriv
ing within the week to be shown
around the campus and will be
talking with the committee and
students. Their names were not
made public, but the committee
COMPUTER LAB GROWING MORE POPULAR FOR STUDENTS — AND TfflEVES.
Students line up to surf ^Net
By MOLLY McCLUSKEY
We’ve all seen them. That
group of people who seem to have
their bodies permanently seated
in front of the library’s comput
ers. We used to call them nerds.
But these people aren’t doing
homework. They’re surfing the
Internet.
One girl said to her friend
when leaving the library computer
lab, her eyes glowing, her limbs
in the beginning stages of atro
phy, “I can’t wait to come back
tonight.”
Technoloev seems to have
swept NCWC. However, the
drawbacks remain. The first is that
there are only so many comput
ers. Students who were on e-mail
take time away from not only their
studies but away from the people
who were waiting for use of the
computer with more nobler
means.
So what happens now'? Night
after night, students wait for com
puters in the library or in the com
puter lab. The computer lab often
has more people during free time
than it would during a class. The
distinction is a hard one to make.
It seems as though more people
said each candidate possesses an
earned doctorate, an excellent
record of teaching, a substantial
body of scholarship in a core dis
cipline of liberal arts, and have
been tenured.
They were also selected for
their demonstrated strong leader
ship abilities and strong commit
ment to the practice of liberal edu
cation as a moral enterprise as
well as a “sound, bold vision of
liberal education especially as it
relates to general education and
the freshman experience.”
The Vice President for Aca
demic Affairs and Dean of the
College is the chief academic of
ficer of the college and respon
sible for administering the aca
demic program. The vice presi
dent reports directly to White and
serves on the President’s Council
with the other college vice presi
dents.
Scott Cuviello, one of the stu
dents on the search committee,
said “this decision will affect
North Carolina Wesleyan’s future
for the next four years.”
Series of thefts
strikes campus
in recent weeks
are visiting the librar>' simply for
the Internet. Librarian Kathy
Winslow sees nothing wrong with
this.
“The Internet is a resource.
Several times student find some
thing on the computers we
couldn’t have found otherwise,”
she says.
How then do we determine
who is using the Net for home
work purposes and who isn’t?
“We really can’t,” Winslow
confesses. “We can, however, de
termine who has been on-line and
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By KIM CURSEEN
North Carolina Wesleyan Col
lege has been plagued by a series
of thefts, victimizing the Com
puter Lab, Honors Lounge, and
Bookstore.
The Computer Lab has been
the target of two crimes. In the
first incident, over a weekend in
February, a monitor, keyboard,
and mouse was stolen. Professor
of Computer Science Leo Bishop
said the computer was taken
through an unlocked window.
The Rocky Mount Police De
partment investigated the crime
but have no suspects. Bishop said
it is the responsibility of Campus
Security and his lab assistants to
make sure the windows are
locked. Following the incident,
the labs have now been secured
with restraints.
Asked how the $2,000 com
puter would be replaced. Bishop
said “We will not be able to re
place the computer until the next
budget year.” He said the cost of
the computer is less than the
school’s insurance deductible, so
the theft will have to be absorbed
by the computer department.
The second incident in the
Computer Lab took placc on
March 4. Two individuals were
seen running to and through the
east exit of the Braswell Building
at 3 a.m. by a cleaning staff mem
ber who was clocking in. Bishop
and Kim Sparks both said that
two computers were stacked near
the east exit of the Braswell Build
ing. The computers had been
taken from the Computer Lab.
Campus Security was notified
and Rocky Mount police are in
vestigating, but do not yet have
any suspects. Sparks said the col
lege “has been looking into doing
advance security of that area.”
According to two anonymous
sources related to the Bookstore,
an incident of monetary theft took
place before Spring Break. Book
store manager Rachel Dix con
firmed that an incident had taken
place and is currently being
handled by the campus judicial
process.
But she refused to give any
details of the theft and said the
judicial process was confidential.
She also refused to comment on
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