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September 1995
Editorial Comment
I WILL BE YOUR NEXT SGA PRESIDENT
By Roger A. Harris
Call this claim arrogant. Call it con
ceited. Call it an experiment in socio
cultural response to stimuli. It really
doesn’t matter what you call this claim
because its premise is based on an ir
refutable fact: FSU students do not
vote. Let us review the facts.
Think back to last semester’s Mr.
and Miss FSU pageants. Virtual un
knowns (by popular opinion) won their
respective crowns not by talent or style
alone, but more significantly by orga
nizing a pool of voters that cast their
ballots on their behalf Orlando Ceville
(Mr. FSU) organized a contingent
from ROTC and Kenyatta Morrisey
(Miss FSU) made sure her supporters
showed up and did the right thing: vote
for her.
FSU’s spring semester student en-
Dear Editor,
I want to address an issue that has
been a subject of confiision to me and
other veterans here at Fayetteville
State University (FSU), since the in
troduction of the student “R„ grade
policy, offered by FSU’s Student Sup
port Services Program. This policy is
unique because not all universitites
offer it; yet, it has given many deter
mined students at FSU a second chance
to pass certain courses with a grade of
rollment was 3,925, yet no member of
the Student Government Association
(SGA) or the Student Activities Coun
cil (SAC) was elected with more than
69 votes! . What this means is that
SGA President Wayne Hodges, with
69 votes, was elected by 1.75 percent
of FSU’s student population; SGA VP
DeLise Hopson, with 68 votes, 1.73
percent; SAC Program Director Tonia
Johnson, with 63 votes, 1.60 percent;
Senior Class Queen LaShitia Cherry
(who didn’t even campaign-she was
a write-in candidate), with 6 votes,. 17
percent; Junior Class President Tiffany
Banks, with 2 votes, .05 percent. The
math may be wrong but the numbers
are correct (I helped count the ballots).
Freshman students, please let these
numbers be a cursor to you to get in-
“C„ or better in order to maintain good
grade point averages as well as tran
scripts.
Veterans at FSU are encouraged to
participate in this program too. Veter
ans are also offered a repeat policy
through the Veteran Administration
(VA), but it requires a failing grade,
which must be recorded on the stu
dent’s academic transcript. Like the
FSU repeat course policy, you can only
repeat a course once.
volved as they point a crooked finger
towards a very ugly fact: most of your
upper classmates don’t give a damn.
The one consolation to this comedy of
truth is that all of the students men
tioned above are highly competent and
credible. But do we not care enough
to continue our real life pantomime as
the idiots with the loaded gun (one
bullet, Barney Fife-style).
Make the connections. When asked
to participate in establishing the cre
dentials for our next chancellor (re
cently appointed Dr. Willis McLeod),
no one (and I repeat no one) showed
up to represent (not a diss to those who
did show up, but in my mind’s eye a
less than one percent turnout equates
to a no show). Affirmative action and
civil rights are being ripped apart be-
The confusing issue is that, if vet
eran earns the “R„ grade by complet
ing the required amount of hours with
an appointed tutor in addition to his or
her regular class, the VA will view this
as a course he or she claimed to have
taken during the semester, but in fact
did not. Therefore, the student must
reimburse the VA the cost of this
course for this time period. The stu
dent does have a choice of dropping
fore our slumbering eyes; being de
stroyed even as you read this word.
Yet, we can’t relate our apathy at this
level to its effect on this very real cir
cumstance—a circumstance that threat
ens to sterilize our ability or opportu
nity to be free.
But I’ve solved the puzzle, gang!
Based on the historical fact that FSU
students can’t, don’t, or won’t vote
(whichever applies to you). I’ve se
cured the ballots of 500 students (ap
proximately 12 percent of the student
population by last semester’s numbers)
who will unequivocally vote for me.
What this means is that no matter my
views, opinions, qualifications, or
what I can do to help or harm your stay
at FSU, if you do not get involved in
the election process, I will be your next
SGA president. Nuff said.
the “R„ for an “F„ which will be re
corded on his or her transcript. It is his
or her option and dilemma.
During my inquiry about this mat
ter to the upper levels of the VA, I was
informed that not all universities offer
this policy, so guidelines had not been
written to accept it. All universities are
not run the same, so why does the
uniqueness of FSU’s “R„ grade policy
present a problem of acceptance for the
VA?
The Bronco^’
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