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North Carolina Wesleyan College, Rocky Mount, N.C.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6,1998
Office of Academic Affairs vital to campus
By CAMERON BATCHELOR
The Office of Academic Af
fairs is an essential part of
Wesleyan College. If you don’t
know why, you could be missing
out on some great opportunities.
Dr. Robert Trullinger is the
Vice President of Academic Af
fairs and of Adult Degree Pro
grams, which means he is the
Chief Academic Officer. Dr.
Trullinger and his staff are in
charge of dealing with all things
that have to do with academics at
Wesleyan. This includes the Reg
istrar, Academic Services Center,
Internship and Career Center,
Adult Degree Program, Academic
divisions, and library.
The Registrar’s Office is an
important part of the Academic
Affairs. One of its duties is to
send out a interim report every
five weeks and a final grade re
port at the end of the semester to
every student. The Registrar also
keeps and maintains the academic
records of students. Also upon
request, a student’s academic
transcript may be provided by the
Registrar.
The Academic Services Cen
ter consists of four different ser
vices: Tutors’ Crossing, LD Con
sultation, English as a Second
Language, and Graduate Place
ment.
Tutor’s’ Crossing is a place
where students can go if they need
tutoring in a certain subject like
Biology or if they just need help
in proof reading their English pa
per. LD Consultation is special
ized to give LD students the help
they need in order to succeed at
Wesleyan.
The English as a Second Lan
guage program helps teach and
tutor ESL to international students
and others who do not quite fully
understand English. Graduate
Placement is aimed at seniors and
their future career plans. This pro
gram can help with things such
as finding a job or testing for
graduate school admission.
Wesleyan’s Internship and
Career Center is designed to help
each student choose which career
is best for him or her and also
possibly get some job experience
by participating in internships.
The Adult Degree Program helps
those people who already have a
career to reach higher goals.
Dr. Trullinger has worked at
Wesleyan since April of 1996.
Since he began his job here, he
said, “the College has just moved
a tremendous distance in the last
two years.”
The growth in the number of
students and the extracurricular
activities were two examples he
mentioned. Dr. Trullinger also see
Wesleyan College going to a
“great place” in the future.
The Academic Affairs Office
and Wesleyan College have fu
ture plans also. These plans are
reviewing the Curriculum which
includes the general education
courses and majors and also the
comprehensive writing program
that will be studied to see how to
better a student’s writing. Some
new things that will also begin at
Wesleyan College in the future
include career exploration, intern
ships, a new January term (which
will start next January), and travel
studies.
The Academic Affairs Office
plays a big and important role at
Wesleyan and as the college
grows, so will this department.
So if you have not taken advan
tage of the academic services,
maybe you should.
Hartness Center opens
By STACm MILLER
An old building that no one paid attention to has now been
transformed in the Hartness Center.
It is equipped with “Billy Bishop’s Powerhouse Grill”
with more food choices, clean bathrooms, and offices for the
yearbook and the newspaper. In addition, there is a computer
lab, a TV area, a pool table, and a lounge area.
When asked what he thought about the Hartness Center,
Jeff Viveuao replied, “I like it, it is an atmosphere that we
have needed for a long time.’^ Jeff went on to say that more
pool tables or air hoqkey games would be nice because of the
number of people who want to participate. Another student
said, “I like it. It brings a modem outlook to Wesleyan’s
campus.”
Overall, people ape pleased with the new Hartness Center
because it provides more to do. It will bring new activities
and hopefully more opportunity for students to interact with
each oAer. ^
Construction to start soon
on new residential suites
By CAMERON BATCHELOR
Construction on the new resi
dential suites, which will be built
on the north end of campus, will
probably begin this month.
The plan is to have this con
struction completed by this fall.
The two new buildings will each
house 20 new suites. Each floor
will have 10 single rooms for a
total of 40 new dorm rooms.
Mrs. Belinda Faulkner said,
“There will be two separate bath
rooms on either end of the hall
that will provide two showers,
four sinks, and two toilet areas
for 10 people.” So while each
room will not have its own bath
room, the bathrooms will have
plenty of space for everyone and
will be easily accessible.
These new suites will also have
many of the comfons of home.
There are plans for each floor to
have a kitchen/eating area so stu
dents who are tired of the cafete
ria can stay home and cook. Also,
access to cable TV, phones, and
the computer network on campus
will be available.
Mrs. Faulkner said the cost of
these single residential suites will
be the same as a single dorm
room, cuixently $2,900.
The college plans to continue
to build two of these kinds of
residential suites every year,
growth permitting, until there are
a total of nine buildings. All of
the buildings will be constructed
in the same area as the first two.
with convenient parking and ad
joining roads leading to campus.
These offer something to think
about for students who might
want to live in a nice single room.
Those who would like to apply to
live in one of these new suites
next year should go to the Hous
ing Office for more information.
Rowdy floor slapped with community service
By CHRISTINE TATUM
Imagine coming back to school
after being away for a weekend
to learn you’ve been slapped with
13 weeks community service.
That’s what happened to sev
eral of the second-floor dorm
dwellers at Indiana University’s
McNutt Delgado Hall, who dis
covered their rowdy floormates
had gotten into trouble again —
and everyone was going to pay.
At fu^t, the guys on the floor
chalked up their disciplinary prob
lems to a nit-picky resident assis
tant.
Overturned trash barrels. Bro
ken beer bottles. Shouting at all
hours of the night. Hairy soap in
the shower. The R.A. wrote ‘em
up for it all.
Then there was the incident
when someone decided it would
be funny to download porno
graphic photos of women from
the Internet and use them to make
posters announcing an upcoming
hall meeting.
“That was a really stupid thing
to do,” said John Warieka, the
floor’s governor.
Housing administrators said
the same thing when they ordered
the entire hall to complete 250
hours of community service. Be
cause no one admitted making the
posters, everyone on the hall —
whether they were involved in the
scheme or not — had to endure
the punishment.
“It’s a tough rule we have
here,” said the residence hall co
ordinator Amy Cornell. “If no one
steps forward, everyone has to
assume responsibility.”
It’s a rule that has come back
to haunt the hall again. Because
no one fessed up to any of the
trouble that broke out one recent
Friday night, all 49 residents on
the hall are divvying 1,300 hours
of community service.
For each resident, that boiled
down to about two hours of vol
unteer work a week for 13 weeks.
“Even my next-door neighbor,
who never comes out of his room,
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