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VOL. 12, NO. 11 ^^Hard Facts in a Hard WorW^ North Carolina Wesleyan College, Rocky Mount, N.C. FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1997 ‘Senioritis’ epidemic at colleges By COLLEEN DEBAISE Every day, Christy McBride tosses aside her books and dreams about her summer plans to lay on Aruba’s sunwashed beaches. McBride, a University of Mis souri senior, wonders how she’ll make it through two more months of journalism classes until she dons a cap and gown for gradua tion. Not to mention, she still needs to polish her resume and line up a job for the fall. But it seems a certain afflic tion is making it ... well, hard to focus. The affliction is so com mon among graduating students, it’s earned a name — senioritis. “Senioritis is when the brain is nowhere but on the glorious day outside, the future ahead, not on what needs to be done here (Continued on Back Page) w Students not happy at housing NEW EDITORS — Following the resignation of Molly McCIuskey as Decree editor, James Bell (left) and Jamie Teachey have as sumed the positions of editor and copy editor. Bishop to speak at service Bishop Marion Edwards will be the speaker for the annual Bac calaureate service at North Caro lina Wesleyan College. The service will be held on Friday, May 9, at 7:30 p.m. in the Leon Russell Chapel. The public is invited to attend the service as well as the college’s conmience- ment exercises, which will be held the following day, Saturday, May 10, at 10:30 a.m. in front of the Braswell Administration Build ing. Bishop Edwards is complet ing his first year as the Resident Bishop in the North Carolina Con ference of the United Methodist Church. This visit will be his first to Wesleyan’s Rocky Mount main campus. As the year comes to an end, it comes time for resident students to pick rooms and roommates for the next year. The rooms and roommates are selected on a lottery system based on class standing. Seniors get first pick, etc. There were a large num ber of people who requested pri vate rooms for this coming year and many were quite dissatisfied with the result. To get a single room students had to stand in line on the morn ing of April 7 and sign a list at Student Life. Students began get ting in line at 5:30 a.m. and these students only got single rooms if one comes available. Many North Hall students were dissatisfied because they believe that they should have se niority over upcoming sopho mores that want to live in North Hall. North Hall is listed as an upperclassmen dorm. Upperclass men are commonly recognized as juniors and seniors, although sophomores are allowed in North. North resident Allan Podo- linsky was upset with the room selection process. He has had a private room his entire junior year and as a senior he does not have one even though he indicated that he would not like a roommate, “I feel that I am a senior and that I have had a private room for a year now and as a senior I should be allowed to keep it. If I do not get one 1 will move off campus next year,” said Podolinsky. This seemed to be the sentiment of many residents in the halls. Students were frustrated be cause they did not know where to lay blame. One frustrated student exclaimed “that 1 would rather live in a cardboard box on US 301” than with the roommate that she was assigned. Many students have taken care of their problems by talking to Housing, but many still have not. Holly Huber saidthat “you won’t be able to walk down the halls when room swap time comes around.” And most people agree. ‘Spring Fling’ described as best ever *^^prinje Hing 1997 is over and it se^s like it was one of the “best Spring Flings ever.” According to Tequla Moore, “More students got involved with everything this year.” It seems that all events went well but the favorite event of most students was the first annual Mr. Wesleyan contest sponsored by Sigma Phi Delta and CAB. The week had a variety of events from an outdoor field day to talent competitions and Michael Winslow. Winslow was thought to be the most entertain ing event of the week, but most students thought that it was not what they had expected it to be. Kasey Griffin said that “he was not as fiinny as I thought that he would be, he just made noise.” This seemed to be the consen sus among most all the students. They were hoping for more be cause of all the publicity that sur rounded Winslow’s show. The outdoor field day was on Friday, April 4. There were many outdoor events for students to par ticipate in. These activities ranged from the Velcro Wall, Bouncy Boxing, Jousting, and other types of “American Gladiator” type events. It was a day for students to get out and get physical with their peers. The first annual Mr. Wesleyan contest received quite a turnout. Contestants of the pageant were male students dressed in drag, they were judged on lingerie, tal ent, and evening gowns. This event had quite a large turnout and was thought to be entertain ing by most. Some of the “girls” wore quite revealing outfits for the competition and showed more than people ever expected or “wanted to see.” The talent competition also had quite a few surprises as judges were sprayed with milk, treated to a strip tease, and a piano, con certo among other “talents.” When all was over and done with, the winner was quite appar ent. Tony “Monique” Morone was named the first Mrs. Wesleyan. This shocked some students who thought that “Porsha” should have won. The week ended on April 5 with Band Day. Four bands en tertained people from 1-7 p.m. Overall, said Holly Huber, Spring Fling was “a great way to welcome Spring to Wesleyan.” i WINSLOW DISAPPOINTING?
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