north carouna
ESLEYAN
COLLEGE
Rocky Mount, N.C.
THE
ECREE
VOL. 14, NO. 12
''Wesleyan's Student Voice Since 1984''
MONDAY, APRIL 19, 1999
47 Wesleyan
students make
‘Who’s Who’
Foily-scvcn studcnis I'roin
Soilh CaioliiKi Wesleyan College
have hccn seieeled as iialional
oulstanclmg campus leaders and
will be included in the 1999 edi
tion of “Who’s Who Among Stu
dents in American Universities
and Colleges.”
Students this year from North
CaroliHa Wesleyan College are:
Tatiana Abcmathy. Hoyt Barrett.
David Bonar, Debra Bonar. Ja
son Boone. Franz Chenet. Flora
Dumas. Harvey Edwards, Marlin
Eshieinan. Evelyn Exum. Roy
Rotts. Jennifer Foreman. Kelley
Gillespie. Vicky Gossard:
Also. Kyle Guelcher. Michael
Haake. Donnie Harris, Kristy
Alston Herring, Michael Hoppe,
Stephen Jenkins, Oscar Johnson,
Dikron Kabbendjian. Rob Kaylor,
Laura Kester, Lou Ann Latham,
JillLinzey, Desere Lundry, April
Marshall, Michael Mathis, Larry
Mims, Sean Mitchell, Kenneth
Mitchell, Jennifer Overly;
Also, Mandy Ownley, Michael
Poole, James Ragan, Wendy
Rhodes, Shawn Scanlon, Don
Sisko, Teresa Stanley, Phillip
Strickland, Mark Stubbs, Tod
Thames, Danyel Thomson,
Vivienne Vega, Edith Ward, and
Melanie F. Wilkins.
Campus nominating commit-
lees and editors of the annual di
rectory included the names of
these students based on their aca
demic achievement, service to the
community, leadership in extra-
cuiriculaf activities and potential
for continued success.
Wesleyan sets
administrative
restructuring
‘Spring Fling’ begins today
Pics in the face were popular in the 1996 Spring Fling, but a
whole host of different daily campus events will begin today and
run through April 26 during the 1999 Spring Fling. For a list of
activities, see Page 3.
‘Extraordinisf opens
annual ‘Spring Fling’
TV “extraordinist” Craig
Karges, known for his paranor
mal demonstrations on The To
night Show with Jay Leno” and
"Larry King Live,” will appear
tonight at 7 p.m. at the Dunn Cen
ter, kicking off this year’s week-
long “Spring Fling.”
The show is free to Wesleyan
students but must be picked up in
advance. Tickets to the public are
$7 for adults and $5 for students.
Karges’ one-man touring show
“Experie;nce the Extraordinary!”
was seen in more than 150 cities
last year.
“Performance,” the entertain
ment trade magazine, calls his
show one of the top five variety/
family shows of the year along
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Wesleyan President Dr. John
White has announced an admin
istrative restructunng that will be
effective May 31. though the tran
sition-to this new model will be
gin immediately as people begin
to work together to help design a
new “enrollment services" area.
With the departure of Cal
Wynkoop, vice president for In
formation Systems, and Charlie
Hutchins, vice president for En
rollment Management. "W'es-
leyan faces an opportunity (and
the necessity) to rethink adminis
trative roles and leadership areas,”
White said. “We must cut over
head costs to balance our budget.
We can make these changes with
out affecting effectiveness, and
we can improve service.”
Belinda Faulkner will become
Vice President for Operations
(chief operating officer) and will,
in addition to current duties, pro
vide leadership for the Informa
tion Systems Team.
“Belinda has been with the
College for more than a decade
of loyal service. We are very for
tunate to have her and her com
mitment to the success of the Col
lege,” White said.
Dr. Tyrone Bledsoe, current
Vice President for Student Life,
will become Vice President for
DR. TYRONE BLEDSOE
Enrollment and Student Services.
"He has experience in admis
sions work and is committed to a
model of student service.” White
said.
The new' "Enrollment Ser
vices” area will include Student
Life, the student services center,
admissions, financial aid. regis
tration. and student accounts. The
goal of this new organization will
be "one-stop shopping” for stu
dents. with many of the services
provided in the College's new
Thomas J. Pearsall. Jr.. Building.
Bledsoe, while noting the re-
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Online college survey gives Dole early edge
CollegeClub.com, the largest
online college community reports
* ^31 percent of college students
Nled believe that Elizabeth Dole
^he next President of
United States. The statistics
®nginate from a nationwide
online survey of 1,294 students
^onducted on March 24.
in aiso gained insight
cnii political preferences of
Dlar^H^i The students
wse Jackson a strong sec
ond in the race with 25 percent of
the vote.
“These figures reflect the enor
mous diversity among college stu
dents today,” said Michael Pousti,
founder and CEO of College-
Club.com. “Despite popular per
ception, college students have de
finitive and unique views on the
political scene. Moreover, in this
case, they are one step ahead of
the general population, for unlike
older voters, they named a woman
as the front-runner for president.”
The complete results of the
1,294 students polled are as fol
lows:
• Elizabeth Dole, 31 percent.
• Jesse Jackson, 25 percent.
• George W. Bush, Jr., 24 per
cent.
• A1 Gore, 20 percent.
Conducted by CollegeClub.-
com, the survey is an important
step in measuring the demo
graphic group most often over
looked in today’s political pro
cess, 18-24 year-olds who also
constitute a quarter of all adult
web users.
Pousti comments, “Our survey
demonstrates how the W'eb is fun
damentally altering the political
debate on college campuses. Can
didates increasingly realize that
the Internet is a tool they can use
that reaches far beyond the tradi
tional TV, flyer, and telephone
campaign methods.”
Founded in 1993; College
Club is the world’s largest online
community. Located at http://
www.collegeclub.com. College
Club affords students across the
' country free integrated e-mail and
voicemail.
College Club has attracted
over 500.000 registered members,
averages nearly three million im
pressions a day, and features
15,000 on-line groups from 4,000
u n i vers i ties