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Beacham, Cochran, Stebbins Vie For Presidency
Friday, March 19 is the day forelections
for next year's SG A posts.
In the Presidential contest. Miss Virginia
Beacham, a Senior Social Science from
Raleigh, has cited her history of interest in
the SGA and promised to do a better job in
the capacity of president. One of Miss
Beacham's major points was at the student
assembly Monday for speeches of the
candidates was that the SGA's focus needed
redefining, “I'm angry with SGA," she said
and continued "I think its given us some fine
entertainment. t»ut that's about all."
Jim Cochran, a Junior, Political Science
major, from Newton, N.C., is the second
candidate in the Presidential race. Cochran,
who is just finishing up his term as Vice
President of the SGA this year, mentioned
the need for student polls on the UNC-A
campus to test student attitudes and
sentiments to provide the SGA with a truer
view of the needs and wants of the students.
Cochran also suggested the publishing of
minutes of SGA meetings on a regular basis,
all-campus assemblies, an increase in the
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Fines And Restrictions Levied On Hoey
Peterson Says
Rules Needed
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For Protection
Hoey for Sale? Well hardly, but some of the residents might just do it before too long. Fines and new
restri|Ctions placed on the dorm after the takeover of Lars Peterson, have caused resentment on the part
of some of the dorm residents.
Peterson, however, cites the decrease in violations in the dorm as a sign of the success of the fines.
Peterson says that he was forced into creating the fines when he found the dorm in chaos at the
beginning of his term. See related story.
The addition of new rules and
fines in Hoey Dorm is the cause
of controversy between
residences in the dorm.
Some upperclassman in the
dorm complained about noise
and damage second term and so
Curtis White was fired and Lars
Peterson replaced hme, Peterson
said that discipline in the dorm
was bad and some system of
rules were needed.
A new House Council was
elected after Peterson arrived
and they are responsible for the
new rules. Peterson, two
assistant proctors, and the House
Council enforce rules and levy
fines. Some members question
the council’s election because
Peterson nominiated the
members. Peterson said that the
suites elected the people he
nominated and that action was
quite legal according to the SGA
constitution Peterson said that
when he first came to the dorm
the residents generally were not
frieldly towards him. He said
this came about by his attempt
to remain neutrd while the
residents wanted him to react to
them in some other manner. In
Peterson’s words “I want to do a
good, fair job because that’s
what I’m paid to do.”
Discipline was the only
answer, according to Peterson,
because some residence pulled
ranks such as throwing a string
of fifty firecrackers in a persons
room in the middle of the night.
But no\y according to Peterson
“damage has been reduced
considerably.” Dan Kienker, one
of two assistant proctors, said
that “noise has been reduced
substantially.”
So far fining has been lax due
primarily to the built-in safety
device of having a give one
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Campus Bill Of Rights Recommended By Carnegie Commission
Chicago, 111., March 14. - The
Carnegie Commission on Higher
Education proposed yesterday
adoption of “BiUs of Rights and
Responsibilities” for members of
American colleges and
universities, and suggested new
guidelines for campus responses
to dissent and disruption.
At a press briefing here on a
report to be published by
McGraw-Hill in April, Dr.
Clark Kerr, the Commision’s
Chairman, said the Commission
found that, in recent years,
American campuses have been in
“the greatest turmoil in all of
their history.” Dissatisfaction
and disaffection that reflect
concerns for many current
problems in American society
and many problems faced by the
colleges persist, and are expected,
to be present on campuses for
the foreseeable future. The
Commission’s new report is
addressed principally to the
students, faculties, trustees, and
administrators of the nation’s
campuses, and recommends
procedures designed to assure
that dissent and protest on
campuses be expressed in
constructive ways and in accord
with the principles of a free
society.
Specifically, the report
recommends these three steps:
1. Adoption, campus by
campus, of “A Bill of Rights and
Responsibilities for Members of
the Institution.” A model Bill is
suggested.
2, Development by each
campus of effective measures for
consultation and contingency
planning in the event of
disruptive emergencies. In
particular, the Commission says,
“a campus is not and cannot be
a sanctuary from the general
law, and thus, must relate more
consciously and effectively with
the police than it did in earlier
periods.”
3. Creation by each campus
of effective judicial procedures:
Consideration of using external
panels and persons, and of the
general courts for certain types
of cases is suggested.
One of the difficulties in
dealing with “campus unrest”,
the Commission reports, is that
the American public seems to
show limited tolerance for mass
protect activities, even when
they are within ^e bounds of
the law. The Commission report
distinguishes between dissent
and disruption and proposes that
responses to events on a campus
be based on this distinction.
The Commission defines
dissent as: Individual or
organized activity which
expersses grievances held against,
or changes desired in, society, or
a campus, or both. The activity
is carried on within the limits of
the democratic processes of
freedom of speech, assembly,
and petition. Dissent may be
more generalized than around a
single grievance or remedy and
may have an ideological base. It
often includes proposed
solutions as well as complaints.”
The Commission’s report says
that dissent “lies at the
foundation of a university.” and
that “organized dissent and
protest activity within the law,
are basic rights which must be
protected on the campuses—as
they should be for all citizens
everywhere.”
Disruption is defined by the
Commission as: “Activity which
is not protected by the First
Amendment and which
interferes with the rights of
others. Whereas dissent relies on
persuasion, disruption is based
on coercion and sometimes
violence.” The report says that
disruption “is utterly
contradictory to the values and
purposes of the campus, and to
the processes of a democratic
society ... It must be morally
condemned and met promptly
by the efforts- of the campus
and, when necessary, by
application of the general law.”
Society’s reaction to
instances of coercion and