VOL. VI, NO. 10
THE UNIVERSITY OF N. C. AT ASHEVILLE
TUES., MARCH 2, 1971
Summit to Receive Support from the SGA
Bulldogs Move into
Tournament
March 2—3
for the story ... see page 5.
The Summit, UNC-A
yearbook faced severe financial
crisis until several weeks ago
when the SGA agreed to take up
a share of the economic burden
and help the annual out of the
red.
The annual publication began
this year with a balance of
$4,296.53 and outstanding bills
equalling $7,890.21.
The Summit's allotment of
Student Activity Fee money for
the first two terms, plus the
money raised from book and
photography sales has been used
toward paying off the bill. Up
until the time the SGA agreed to
help out, the staff still owed
$890.00 before even beginning
paying for the cost of the annual
for this year.
The operating cost for this
year’s Summit working on a
minimum photography budget,
requires that at least $3,000.00
be raised from ads. So far, only
$300.00 has been made for ad
sales.
Ad sales for the Summit have
gone poorly because most of
Asheville’s bu siness
establishments and those of the
surrounding areas compute their
advertizing budgets beginning in
January, according to Summit
Editor, Mary Alice Joyce. The
staff for the Summit wasn’t
established until November of
last year, making it very
difficult, at best, for the
Business Manager to sell ads at
the end of last year.
Miss Joyce acquired her
position as Editor near the end
of this year’s first term. She
says, “I had no knowledge of the
poor management last year or
the debts which are facing us
now. We are doing the very best
we can to make ends meet and
turn out a good yearbook. I am
working with a very good staff
of cooperative, hardworking
students. Our sole disadvantage
is money.”
It would be a simpler
problem, however, if the sole
disadvantage were indeed
money. There is, however, added
to the financial difficulties as
well as compounding them, a
three-year contract with Delmar
Publishing Company. The
Summit is at last, in the third
and last year of the agreement.
Both last year’s and this year’s
staffs have been dissatisfied
cheifiy with what has been cited
as an inability to communicate
with the area representative of
the firm.
There has also been
dissatisfaction with the way the
mechanical operations have been
run. The Summit, however,
would have to pay an additional
$300.00 to improve the
conditions. Contract
negotiations will have to take
place next year if the Summit is
(See ''Summit... "page 3)
SGA Presidents to
Attend Conference
Ballard Leaves WUNF;
Cites Frustration and
Compromise as Causes
Carl Ballard, Chief Engineer
of WUNF resigned his post
recently. His reasons, presented
in his letter of resignation to the
campus radio station all point to
overwhelming frustration.
He was frustrated with the
slow progress of WUNF. The
station has had to postpone its
becoming an FM radio station
innumerable times. The
postponements have been due to
an inability to prove financial
solvency to the FCC. The
inability to prove financial
solvency lies in tlie shaky
financial position the station
finds itself in.
When WUNF was first
approved by the Student Senate,
a budget was proposed allocating
roughly $500.00 a term to the
station. The Senate was later
influenced by the discovery of
certain facts, and decided to
fund the station each term as it
saw fit. The station, allegedy
received almost no funding at all
until almost the end of first term
when it received less than
$500.00 due to overspending on
the part of the other SGA
committees.
WUNF, now at tlie mercy of
the Student Senate, without any
funds which it can count on
with any complete certainty,
finds itself unable to approach
the original plans to become an
FM station.
Ballard pointed the contibual
struggle which the operation of
WUNF has been. He did not
count the struggle worth the
rewards.
Personality conflicts have also
plagued the fledgling station and
caused at least some of Ballard’s
frustration and anger with the
station. He added in his letter
that he had compromised his
honor too many times.
Rumor had it that the major
part of the operating equipment
WUNF was using at the time was
Ballard’s and that his departure
would mean the closing of the
station.
This is not true, however,
WUNF will continue its present
mode of operation. The
members of the executive board
of WUNF will in the meantime,
look for a replacement. They
will also continue to strive to
accomplish their original aim.
WILMINGTON-The student
body presidents of all six
branches of The University of
North Carolina will be on the
campus of the University at
Wilmington on Thursday, March
4, for a symposium on student
government and campus
activities.
Bob Wiard, president of the
UNC-W Student Government
Association, will act as host and
will preside over the symposium,
which will begin at 11:30 a. m.
in Sarah Graham Kenan
Memorial Auditorium.
Each president will give a
brief summary of student
government activities on his
campus, and questions and
discussion topics will be
accepted from the audience. The
purpose of the event, Wiard said,
is “to inform our students on
what is happening on otner
campuses and on how other
students think and feel.”
The symposium is open to all
students, and a special invitation
is being extended to alumni of
all six institutions. Those
attending will have an
opportunity to meet and talk
with the student presidents at a
brief reception following the
symposium.
Participating in the
symposium in addition to Wiard
will be presidents Tom Bello of
UNC-Chapel Hill, Cathy Sterling
of N. C. State University, Bill
Coonan of UNC-Asheville, Alan
Hickok of UNC-Charlotte and
Lindsay Lamson of
UNC-Greensboro.
Other student government
officers from the six campuses
are also expected to attend.
i
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A new convector oven for the UNC-A kitchen has brightened
both morale and efficiency for the Saga Unit. Baker Louise Me
Morris, above, is now able to offer home-baked deserts which had
been cancelled out earlier this year due to lack of oven space.
Bad managing and lack of equipment have plagued Saga this
year, according to Food Service Director, Roger Fry, and the
Administration has granted Saga an extension beyond the original
March 1 deadline set for contract negotiation for food services on
the UNC-A campus.
Earlier this year, the Administration, responding to student
complaints charged Saga with breach of contract. Facts later
proved that both Saga and the Administration had breached the
contract regulary since its signing. The Administration had failed
to pay Saga for its services time after time. Other points in the
contract were vague.
Although Chancellor Highsmith has stated that he is
moderately “pleased” with the improvement in Saga's services,
there has been no statement of the position of Saga for next year!