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Q&A - Assistant EIC
Hello Wesleyan Community,
It is great to be back for
another year.
First I would like to
welcome all the new freshmen
to campus and hope they
all have a wonderful and
successful year.
This year 1 have taken on
the role of assistant editor for
The Decree. Right now, I am
working to create editorials
that will allow students to send
feedback. The feedback that I
receive will be published in
the next edition of the paper.
I hope this helps in creating
a better way for the students
to have a voice on campus
issues.
Phil Jones, Assi.staiit EIC
If you have any opinions
on school issues please
send them to me via email
(pcj ones@nc wc. edu).
I will try to include as much
feedback as possible.
Thanks and best of luck to
everyone this year.
Sincerely,
Phillip Jones
Assistant Editor
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[Top 5 Things About Freshmen
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[pressure and many things that they must go through. Here we give
[five things that they endure during the first year;
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[1.) Begging advisor for no 8:00 classes.
i2.) Learning to manage time wisely.
[3.) No parents; more responsibility.
[4.) The dreaded Freshman 15!
[5.) Friendship building.
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[to this list, please send your ideas via email (Dciones@ncwc.edii'>
lor my campus mailbox (3691). All the new ones will be put in the
[next edition of the paper.
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EIC’s Corner
New Beginnings
By Kim Noble, EIC
For the students who are
returning, welcome back!
For those students who are
new this year—welcome!
I hope all of you had a
wonderful summer and are
ready or looking forward
to a successful school year.
The Decree is looking forward
to a great year. We have a
wonderful staff that is on the
move to make the newspaper
the voice of the students, not
only here at the Rocky Mount
campus but also the campuses
at Goldsboro, Raleigh, and
Durham.
This year we plan to have
more issues, more information
about what is going on
here at Wesleyan, and more
coverage of what is happening
at the other campus sites.
There will be more
opportunities for the Wesleyan
Community to take part
in the paper by surveys,
letters to the editor, or
just submitting an article. ^
Our approach with the
newspaper will be different
as we begin to focus on
what is happening here
on campus and in the
Rocky Mount community, f
We will also have *
advertising to allow
students to hear from local
businesses.
Although we will have
articles about things
outside of the Wesleyan
campuSj the papers first
responsibility is to the
college. Therefore, the
issues on campus will
receive first priority.
Again, welcome back
for a wonderful and
successful school year.
Kim Noble, Editor-in-Chief
to
We look forward
hearing from you.
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Considering the Secret oj'Joy
One of the diverting
features about my summers
is that I never know quite
where they will lead me. This
summer I agreed to two weeks
of child care; I would go to
New York City and take care of
a friends 12-year-old daughter.
I didn’t know that this
covenant meant spending days
and nights worrying about
five teenaged girls - because
evidently they always travel
in pacb. And I didn’t know
that my body would wear out
while my spirit would lift.
As my friend left for
the airport, she told me that
several of her daughter’s
friends “hang out” at the
apartment. “Get ready for a
lot of noise,” she advised me.
Only now do I realize why
Mom smiled so mischievously
and waved so happily as she
flew away to her vacation.
I’ve known my young
friend all her life, we love each
other, and we are comfortable
with each other. But in a
moment of silence after her
mother left, we stared at each
other, wondering what we were
doing. “Do you want to go .
■ . I began. The phone rang.
That was the last quiet moment
for the next two weeks.
The apartment filled
with laughing and singing
and magazines and forages
into the refrigerator and
microwave. I knew that they
were going to a party that
evening, but I didn’t know that
9,000 fingernail polish colors
and decals would precede the
trying on of 9,000 outfits.
Irrelevant to the extreme, I
read a book and occasionally
commented on a color scheme.
I admit I expected to be
a cool parent, but as I watched
these innocents flock into
the party later, I remembered
my own teenager parties and
wanted to lock them in until
they went to college. But we
survived, and after delivering
elated girls to apartments all
over the city, my friend and
I even sat relatively quietly
for a few minutes before the
post-party phone calls began.
The next day was museum
day. For some reason today she
found it impossible to wake up,
so mid-afternoon had arrived
before we all arrived at The
Guggenheim. Again, in a pack
of flesh and fashion. I am always
astounded at the sophistication
of young New Yorkers. They
of course do not want their
adults to see their interests.
but I listened as they talked
in staccato bursts of insight
about various pieces. I had just
moved on to maybe my second
piece when they had finished
the entire museum and were
ready to refresh. We josded
our way through the streets to
a coffee shop where they flirted
with the waiter. Mercilessly.
Over the next days I went
to silly movies, a children’s play
that I didn’t understand a word
of, clothing stores in which the
manikins looked like Britney
Spears (only more lifelike),
video stores, CD stores, the
park, skating rinks, cookie
stores, hamburger stores,
candy stores, other people’s
apartments. The sheer intensity
of it all flabbergasted me. My
quiet professor’s life looked
alternately blissfully peaceful
and moronically empty.
The climax was to be the
July 4th fireworks show at the
harbor. These young girls have
been profoundly affected by the
September 11th attack. [I note
that they have all read about
Islam - without the sanction of
a state legislature.] They leave
flowers at various still-fresh
and still-heartbreaking citizen
memorials on the streets of
their city. Their world is less
stable; even though because
they are so young, they have
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