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(Photo by Jimmy Froneberger) Crowded, loud, rowdy, messy, destructive, out of hand and crazy. These are just some of the words describing UNCC’s great tradition of patio parties and the problems UPB, RHA and Security are having. College Bowl back Page five/Carolina JournaUOctober 24, 1978 Security tighter at patio parties By Debbie Cooper The UNCC College Bowl organization is beginning its com petitive year by organiz ing teams for intramural and intercollegiate com petition. The program involves teams of four persons each, who learn facts from several disciplines and who answer questions about these facts in competi tion. Tentative plans for the group, include traveling to the regional competition in Ten nessee and hopefully go ing to the nationals in New York. The team winning the nationals may travel to England. Gary Nelson, a member of the steering committee, stressed the FREE CATALOG of COLLEGIATE RESEARCH Over 10,000 listings! All subjects. 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Nelson said the group “needs to get ac tive participation from the students to get a good sound program.” He emphasized the benefits of belonging to the organization and participating in competi tion. These are (a) good opportunities for travel and meeting people, (b) regional and national recognition, and (c) a broadening of the depth and knowledge of the in dividual. For anyone who is in terested, a meeting will be held in McKnight Lecture Hall on Oct. 26 at 4:15 p.m. At this meeting a video tape of the Davidson College team will be shown. By Nancy Davis Celebrating the last rites of summer, the coming of spring or for no reason at all. These are reasons for some of the biggest parites on campus — patio parties. Sponsored by the University Program Board (UPB), dorm councils and the Residence Hall Associa tion (RHA), patio par ties are held on the dorm patio surrounded by the cafeteria and Moore and Sanford halls. This semester hasn’t been a very good year for the traditionally suc cessful parties according to many of the sponsor ing groups. Attendance has been up, but damages have been at an all-time high. After the Oct. 2 patio party, where Office spaces By Kim Burns A motion was made in Student Legislature, Sept. 19, asking the Black Student Union (BSU) and University Program Board (UPB) to vacate their office space in government by the end of fall semester. The motion, introduc ed by Lynne Black, Clubs and Organizations Committee chairperson, recommends “UPB and BSU be allowed to con tinue using their current office spaces until the end of this fall semester, at which time they will be expected to vacate their spaces ... that these groups be notified in writing they should be searching for alternative office space.” This mo tion was tabled back to Clubs and Organizations for further investiga tion. The big question in WATCH FOR THE OPENING OF OUR CHARLOTTETOWN MALL STORE COPYRIGHT 1977 CONTRACTORS & ENGINEERS SPECIALIZING IN EDIBLES BEER WINE SET-UPS FAMOUS HOMEMADE FRENCH ONION SOUP CHEESE PLATES SALADS SANDWICHES . 4329 EAST INDEPENDENCE BOULEVARD CHARLOTTE. NORTH CAROLINA 28205 17041 536-8926 MONTHURS 11-10 FRI-SAT 11-11:30 SUNDAY 12-9:30 MASTERCHARGE VISA AMERICAN EXPRESS a large amount of damages to the dorms and an arrest for carry ing a concealed weapon occurred, steps im mediately began to keep future incidences from happening. Jack Tyler, director of Residence Life, said after the Oct. 2 party, it was evident “we need to develop some different kinds of coverage. There needs to be advance notice given to Security and more Security staff present.” Meetings took place and plans began to formulate for the recent Oct. 12 patio party. Some of the most dif ficult problems at patio parties are keeping non students out, limiting damages and traffic. RHA was sponsoring create problems legislature seems to be when did BSU get the office space and who has the authority to take it away from them? “The office space BSU occupies was not allocated to them by my office. The space they presently occupy is with in the student govern ment office complex,” Vern Parrish, director of the Cone University Center, said. To understand how BSU and UPB obtained their office space, a little history was provided by Parrish and Jane Sigmon Dunn, vice president of the student body 1974-75. The Student Union Board (SUB), now UPB, had two offices in the student government complex. The peer counselors also retained an office there. The SUB (continued on page 11) the next party and ex plored alternatives to help out the situation. Sally Antosek, president of RHA, was worried patio parties would be forbidden on campus. “Patio parties are what the students want.” An tosek said. “We survey them time and time again and students want more patio parties.” The situation seemed somewhat helpless for RHA, Antosek explain ed. “There is absolutely no way to restrict people coming on campus ... and the damages must be paid for out of dorm funds. I see it as ex tremeties. I don’t like paying my money for damages I didn't do, but I enjoyed the patio par ty.” A last chance, so to speak, happened two weeks later when another band played before what was termed as “the biggest crowd ever.” New to the scene, however were marshals, more Security personnel and rerouted traffic. According to Walter Hall, a founder and stu dent advisor to RHA, the success of the patio party falls on the organization of Antosek. The Interfraternity Council cosponsored the dance and each fraterni ty supplied a number of members to serve as marshals. Security was on the scene early and handled traffic in addi tion to checking ID’s of students entering dorms. And by 12:15 a.m., the patio was swept up. The marshals station ed themselves at strategic locations and were on hand to in tervene if any situation got out of hand. “They were ready in case anything did happen, but I don't know of any actual confrontation,” Hall said. The Inter- fraternity Council volunteered the mar shals and clean-up crew in conjunction with one of their goals to “in crease students’ awareness of what fraternities do. It was a P.R. project by them,” he explained. Security cut off traffic access to the party ear ly. According to detec tive Mark Hawkins, there had been a pro blem at past parties with cars double parked in the "U" parking lot in front of the patio. At this party, they blocked off access to the dorms and rerouted parking to the parking deck and commuter lot by the gym. Some cars even had to. park on the road behind the gym leading to the tennis courts. The gates to the lower deck were broken, but Hawkins said the person responsible had been caught and will pay all damages. Other than that, he said they had no other reports of damage. Security’s new pro cedure was something Hall said needed to be done. Hawkins said the same, but emphasizing they were there “for safety purposes; we’re not looking to catch anyone.” Some students questioned the need for an ID and key check, but after the broken doors and elevators from previous parties, Hall was very enthusiastic in praising the successful job done by security. There were more peo ple, 16 donated kegs to add to the usual high consumption of alcohol and a heavy rock ’n’ roll band adding to the spirit of rowdiness. However, all involved parties, in cluding the students have said it was relative ly orderly. When asked whether it was the presence of marshals and Security, Hall said, “Well, more accurately, we were lucky.” EARN $13 per donation tor your plasma (may donate twice per week) $104 per month FOR INFORMATION CALL: SOMERSET LABS 1850 East Third Street 375-7383 Mon.-Fri. - 9:00-4:30
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