Serving the students of the University of North Carolina Asheville since 1982
Volume V, Number X
Wednesday, November 14,1984
Students arrested
in election caper
"DO YOU THINK I'M A NASTY GIRL?** is the musical ques
tion Steve Hagoon asks at last week's Mr./Mrs. UNCA
Pageant.
Photo by Ken Thorne
8y Penny Kramp
Two UNCA students are
set to go to trial today
to dispute charges they
interfered with the elec
toral process on election
night.
Asheville police ar
rested Student Government
Senior Senator Doug Grif
fin, 28, of 209 I-Dorm,
and John Winfield, 19, of
117-B Highrise dormitory,
for disrupting the elec
toral process at Asheville
Precinct 11, Asheville
Junior High School.
however, U.S. ilar shall
Max Wilson says the poll
officials may be the actu
al lawbreakers.
Police also arrested
George Keller of -Ashe
ville. Keller is not a
student.
Asheville police ar
rested the men after Pre
cinct 11 officials com
plained the three men dis
rupted the vote tabulation
process by attempting to
Miller battles F-policy
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By Leslie McCullough
Doug Miller, Student
Government Vice-President,
said he is willing to
go through the impeacliraent
process in order to bring
about a change in UNCA's
'F’ forgiveness policy.
t-liller, who received a
request to resign from his
position for failing to
maintain a 2.0 grade point
average, feels the policy
should be fetfoiicLive ror
current students and were
enrolled before the clause
went into effect.
*'l could have a 2.4 if
the clause were retroac
tive for me," said Miller,
The policy, which became
effective in the fall of
1982, states students who
fail a class may repeat
the course and replace the
F with the new grade.
Therefore the ’F* does
not affect the student's
GPA, but it stays on the
student's transcript, ac
cording to Edie Hathaway
of the registrar's office.
Dr. Laurence Dorr, the
vice-chancellor of acade
mic affairs, does not be
lieve the clause should be
retroactive.
"Policy operations have
to have a beginning and an
end," said Dorr.
For Miller the time lim
itations of the clause
could mean impeachment for
failing to maintain the
student government re
quirement of 2.0.
"My GPA was a 1.99 be
fore this semester," said
Miller.
Dorr believes this mar
gin is "infinitesimal."
"It seems the difference
in Doug's case is so
slight that to make a fuss
about it would be to go
against the real world,"
said Dorr.
"The students in student
government are leaders in
the academic' community who
shouldn't be squeaking by;
however, in this case the
margin is so slight it
doesn't contradict the 2,0
policy," continued Dorr,
"Is the whole thing re
ally fair?" asked Miller,
"I'm willing to get im
peached over this, as long
as in fighting for it I've
done the students some
good."
"This is disruptive for
the student government,"
adds Miller. "We've accom
plished a lot this year
and it is standing in the
way of getting things done
that need to be done."
take pictures of the tally
sheets, according to Lt,
G.B, Foster of the Ashe
ville Police Department.
Police arrested the men
at approximately 7:45 p.m.
and transported them to
the courthouse where the
magistrate charged them
with a misdemeanor and
on
$500
released them
unsecured bond.
However U.S. Marshall
Max Wilson said the men
violated "no state or
federal laws. I know they
are not guilty."
Wilson said the Republi
can party hired the men as
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SENIOR SENATOR DOUG GRIFFIN.
Staff Photo by Sylvia Hawkins
Sabo says election
Reagan's personal win
DOUG MILLER.
Phofo by Carole Bradley
By Joan Sterk
President Ronald Rea
gan's reelection last
Tuesday night marked "a
tremendous personal tri
umph," but it indicates
a dangerous decline of the
political parties, accord
ing to Bill Sabo, assis
tant professor of politi
cal science at UNCA,
Sabo said during an in
terview with a newswriting
class on Nov. 7, the vic
tory was not a victory for
the Republican Party, but
a victory for Reagan as an
individual.
Although Walter Mondale
was the "best presidential
candidate for the past two
decades," he did not make
the voters feel good, said
Sabo.
The South, influenced by
migration from the North,
voted mostly Republican,
"finally ending the Civil
War," said Sabo,
Most southerners, he
said, blamed Lincoln, a
Republican, for starting
the Civil War and have
been traditionally
Democratic,
Sabo said this political
switch is a matter of the
South stepping in time
with the music of the rest
of the nation and voting
with their ideology rather
than with tradition.
Young voters between the
ages of 24 and 35 are
"creations of the televi
sion culture" and usually
react to technology in
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