the
March 3,1977
Asheville, N.C. 28804
Volume XII, No. 14
nSHER RESIGNS
SUMMIT POST
By FORREST REID
Tony Fisher resigned the position of
Summit editor on Feb. 23, after consider
ing the action for about a week.
Jean Hutchison, Summit business man
ager, was immediately named acting edi
tor by Dean of Students Paul T. Deason,
and the Publications Board approved the
decision in its meeting of Feb. 25.
Fisher, a senior, is currently student
teaching at Asheville High School. “Stu
dent teaching is about an eight hour a day
responsibility, ’ ’ said Fisher, and more of a
drain than he had anticipated. Though he
completes his student teaching soon,
Fisher will be carrying a course load next
term which will not afford him a signifi
cantly greater amount of time that he could
devote to the Summit.
Time is a significant factor in putting
together the Summit, as there are two dead
lines to be met prior to the end of the
second term, one on March 21 and one on
April 18. Fisher felt that he did not have
the time to devote to the meeting of these
deadlines with quality material.
Another consideration in Fisher’s de
cision was personnel. Fisher lost his copy
editor at the end of first semester, one of
the photographers resigned for academic
reasons, and his head photographer gradu
ates at the end of the term.
Fisher also discovered that there is more
to the position than making and collecting
assignments. An editor must exercise a
supervisory function, directing and chan
nelling the energies of the staff. Fisher felt
that functioning in such a supervisory
capacity required a type of personality that
he did not possess, and one he had no
desire to adopt. This, coupled with the
academic pressures and the personnel
problems, led to his decision to resign.
Fisher suggested in his resignation that
Ms. Hutchison be made editor, since she
“seems to have the time to do this job, and
professes a desire to be editor. ’ ’
AUSTIN, BRANHAM
WIN TOP OFFICES
Angela Calos and Doug Fleck, Co- Marshalls of the 50th Anniversary
Homecoming Dance.
Homecoming Dance
Draws Large Crowd
Photo and article by Tim Barnwell
The Grove Park Inn was the site of
UNC-A’s Homecoming Dance and Fifti
eth Anniversary celebration on Saturday
night, Feb. 19. The dance drew an un
usually large crowd, which Chief of Se
curity Gene Ray estimated at over five
hundred. The room was so crowded that
many guests could not find a place to sit or
dance.
We were priviledged to have two find
groups perform at the dance, and these
entertainers kept the evening moving
along smoothly. The majority of students
seemed to enjoy the music of “Sugar-
creek’ ’ and many felt that they were one of
the best bands we have had at the various
UNC-A dances. Everyone enjoyed the
performance by the black dance group, the
“Dance Masters,” although they seemed
to be lacking in coordination and timing on
this particular evening.
The beer amazingly lasted all evening,
which was a notable feat in itself, but the
cups and canned soft drinks were gone by
the middle of the event. Despite this mis
calculation, the students seemed to fare
rather well.
Student Government president Randy
Kindley introduced the Homecoming
By FORREST REID
The results of the 1977 SG Spring
elections held on February 16 are easily
reported. Pete Austin was elected as the
New SG President. Bill Branham was
elected to the Vice-Presidency. The new
senators are John Covey, John Furek and
Steve Harvey. Brynn Brown, Beth Pen-
land, and Richard Davis are the new Junior
Senators, while David Sharpe, Gary Stone
and Sammy Kent were elected as Sopho
more Senators.
It’s so easy to tabulate results.
Explaining the elections themselves, for
this year at least, is a little more difficult.
Monday, February 14, Elections Com
missioner Randy Luquire was scheduled
to take all applications for SG Office to the
Registrar’s Office, to determine whether
or not all candidates for office met the
academic requirements set forth by the SG
Constitution. Luquire did not do so.
On February 15, one day prior to the
scheduled election date, Vice-President
Furek took the applications for office to
the Registrar’s Office. After checking
records, the registrar informed Furek that
many of the candidates were not qualified
Childhood Symposium Planned
Humanities Committee, that the grant pro
posal had been approved. The grant will be
matched by loal fnds to meet the total
project cost of $7,370.
Six sessions are scheduled during the
three-day program. They include:
“Childhood in 18th and 19th Century
North Caroling.”
“The Black Child in North Carolina.”
“The Appalachian Child.”
“Attempts of Society to Meet the Needs
of Children in North Carolina.”
“Children and Health.”
“The Family and Government Involve
ment.”
Panelists and speakers participating in
the symposium will be announced later.
Dr. Trullinger said.
Court, and then Pam Adams, a former
UNC-A student, announced the names of
the Co-Marshalls. Doug Fleck and Angel
Calos won the honors and the band played
a song for the Court members. Also on the
Court: Joan Adams, Dennis Bostic,
Louise Duarte, Liz Harris, Steve Harvey,
Tony Hennessee, Phil Oakes, Charles Par
rish, Frosty Sinclaire, and Gwen
Summey.
The North Carolina Humanities Com
mittee will award the University of North
Carolina at Asheville and the Buncombe
County Child Development Department a
$3,463 grant to present a three-day sym
posium at UNC-A.
The program, titled “Childhood in
North Carolina, Then and Now,” is
scheduled for May 4-6 and is in line with
the Humanities Committee’s theme of
Traditions in Transition; Communities,
Priorities and Public Policies.
Dr. Robert S. Trullinger Jr., assistant
professor of history and director of UNC-
A’s Humanities Program, will serve as
project director.
Dr. Trullinger was notified by R. Oak
ley Winters, executive director of the N.C.
to run, as they did not meet the academic
requirements. Two candidates for Senior
Senator, one candidate for Junior Senator,
and one candidate for Sophomore Senator
did not have the hours required to hold
office.
Furek was also informed that two can
didates for the SG Presidency, Patrick
Ochsenrider and Marcus Kindley, did not
meet the requirements to hold the office,
while Pete Austin’s status was question
able, due to an incomplete in one course.
According to the SG Constitution,
(Amendment 3, Bill 16 of the 1974-75 SG,
approved by the Student Senate on Oct.
14, 1974, as an amendment to Article IV,
Sections I & II) “The President and Vice
President shall be elected not later than
two weeks before the end of Term One of
Spring Semester. Candidates for these of
fices shall also be required to have re
ceived credit for six semester hours at
UNC-A for two consecutive semesters
prior to the time they take office.” (Em
phasis added.)
Marcus Kindley had not been enrolled
at UNC-A the Spring Semester of 1976.
Patrick Ochsenrider is a part-time stu
dent who just enrolled this semester. The
disqualification of these two candidates
was obvious and uncontested.
But according to a strict interpretation
of the constitution, Austin was qualified to
run for office, provided his incomplete
was satisfied by the time he took office, if
elected.
However, upon hearing the news. Elec
tions Commissioner Luquire called a
special meeting of the Elections Commit
tee. The Committee decided not to take a
chance and recommended that the elec
tions be postponed one week.
President Kindley, also concerned by
the information, called a meeting of the
Judicial Board. The Judicial Board recom
mended that the elections be postponed
until Friday, February 18th, giving Can-
Cont’d on p. 3 col. 1.