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VOLUME SIX
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29,1970
editorial
SAGA
NEEDS
CHANGING
page 4
NUMBER 6
Board of Trustees at UNCC
New disruption policy approved
by susie sutton
When the consolidated
university disruption policy was
passed in 1969, the Board of
Trustees agreed to review it within
a year.
The year was spent in
discussing the controversial policy
by a committee of students
faculty, administrators and
trustees.
They found the old policy was
both too cumbersome and did not
delegate sufficient authority to
the chancellors since it depended
on the president for execution.
In the policy modification
according to Victor Bryant, as he
addressed the trustees October 26
at UNCC, the trustees took into
consideration that they were
appointed to represent the people
of North Carolina, and that they
had delegated certain duties to the
university president and the
campus chancellors. He also stated
that the policies concerning to the
students must be fair.
The new policy as accepted
Monday leaves the determination
of guilt and punishment of
students and faculty accused of
disruption up to the Chancellor.
Punishment will 'be
administered according to the
alternatives of the courts, the
student-faculty judicial systems
and a hearing committee
appointed at the beginning of
every school year.
The hearing committee will
have the responsibility of
determining guilt and
Student Body President Alan Hickok discusses new disruption policy with visiting UNC campus
presidents prior to Trusttes meeting, (photo by tom alsop) )
recommending discipline, but the
chancellor has the final say.
Appeal to the university
president, the board of trustees
and the appropriate courts is not
excluded by the policy.
These hearing committee will
be made of from 3 to 5 students;
and 3 to 5 faculty members. The
chancellor is required to get the
concurrent opinions of a quorum
of the committee.
Trustee William B. Harris of
Raleigh proposed an amendment
to the modified policy stating that
if there were a threat of repeated
disruption by an individual then
the time factor would be
important, and there wouldn’t be
times to call a quorum of a
committee.
But Bryant’s characterization
of this new disruption policy, as
“A document forged in the anvil
of discussion.”, proved correct as
the policy was voted in by an
ove rehelming majority, after
noting the opposition of Tom
White who was prevented from
attending by a previous
engagement.
Chairman Deese of the
committee that agonized over the
changes said that he doubted that
the trustees have been students on
college campuses since 1960. This
was a critical -date according to
Deese, for since that time, “the
pursuit of education is not a
privilege but a legal rigid.” Deese
defended a faculty-student
hearing committee, as opposed to
summary suspension by the
chancellor, for disruption. He said
that it protected the university
from misjudgement of a
chancellor, that it aided and
protected the chancellors and the
legal consideration of procedure
was a necessity.
The trustees were presented
with the enrollment figures for
the six campuses. The total
enrollment of UNC is 45,001
students. UNCC grew most
percentage wise with 31.9%
increase in students. UNC-CH
grew 10.3%.
Committee reports on the
needs of other campuses proved
that other schools have parking
problems. Reporting that
Greensboro had a parking
problem, Mrs. Stewart B. Warren,
who was making the report
acknowledged that UNC-G was
not as bad as UNCC, since one
student told her, “it might take
me four hours to find a place to
park.”
Concluding the financial report,
the finance advisory committee
chairman, W. Lunsford CreW
announced that he was satisfied
that “the operation is about as
cheap as it can be done.”
Bomb threat,
cover for bust?
SAGA on firing line
Journal reporter, Linda McCarley, on assignment to investigate SAGA complaints, interviewed Mr. W. L.
Ernest, SAGA Food Director. Her stories can be found on page 5. (photo by mike smith)
At 9:30 Tuesday night, the
UNCC campus operator received a
call from a male with a shaky
voice.
His message was simple; “I
cannot identify myself, but I
advise that you evacuate the
dormitory buildings. There has
been a bomb planted in the
buildings set to go off at a quarter
to ten.
She immediately called the
campus security police who told
her to call the dormitory resident
managers, Mrs. Edith Glover and
Mrs. Myrtice Jones.
The women immediately
relayed the message to the
buildings’ residents.
The operator then called the
Dean of Students, Donald McKay,
and director of administration
Silas Vaughn. Upon McKay’s
arrival at the school, he said the
security guards searched both
Moore and Sanford dorms.
The search proved fruitless, and
by 10:15 the students began filing
into the dorms.
The word of a bomb scare
spread quickly and students
gathering their coats and
possessions sped down stairway*
to the dorms court yard whet®
they milled aimlessly about.
Girls clad in nightdresses wet
furnished coats by the Men °
Moore Hall. Students piled
cars parked close by trying to g®‘
warms Security guards wet
instructed not to open any nto^
buildings thus preventing studen
refuge in from the cold.
The students were clutch>^^
possessions that incluo®,^
everything from guitars to the’
flasks, which were passed arouf^
Students were doubtful of
validity of the bomb threat. Th®
laW
a”
were no fire trucks, no county
enforcement officers, nor was
effort to clear the intmeth*
dorm area of students for safe i
measures. „|
As one student put h " ^
think it was a cover-up f®”^
(drug) bust.” j,
Whatever the incident was
scared people. Girls from
Charlotte area, packed to
home, for the night. j
The switchboard was
since all the students were
parents and friends to tell fh
not to worry.
the