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'THE STUDENT VOICE AT GASTON COLLEGE'
Vol. VI No. 1
Gaston College, Dallas, N. C.
September, 1969
Student Rights Code Adopted
Joint Statement Of
Rights & Freedom
Of Students
During the spring session of
1969 work was started at Gaston
College to form a Joint Statement
of Rights and Freedoms of
students. The student senate
selected two senators, one to be
the chairman of the committee
and the other to act as a member
of the committee. Pamela Ray
was chosen as chairman and John
Truesdale was the other senator.
These two then selected the other
members of the committee and
submitted their names for
approval to the S. G. A.
Dr. Robert Howard represented
the Administration; Mr. Don
Killian and Mr. Claude Davis were
the faculty representatives; and
the students were represented by
Pamela Ray, John Truesdale,
Bobbie Lewis, Allen Grooms, and
Larry Reid.
The committee worked
extensively on the statement and
on August 21 the statement was
submitted to the S. G. A. for
approval. Approval was given on
August 22. Copies of the
statement will be available to all
students at the opening of the fall
session. Some of the major points
of student’s rights are:
The professor in the classroom
and in conference should
encourage free discussion, inquiry,
and expression. Student
performance should be evaluated
on an academic basis.
Students should be free to take
reasoned exception to the data or
views offered in any course but
they are responsible for learning
the content of any course of
study for which they are enrolled.
Students should have
protection through orderly
procedures against “prejudiced or
capricious academic evaluation.”
Information about student
views, beliefs, and political
associations which professors
acquire in the course of their
work as instructors, advisors, and
counselors, should be considered
confidential.
Each professor, on the first day
of each quarter, is required to give
a written statement of the policies
of the classroom, including
grading procedures, number and
types of term papers, etc.
To minimize the risk of
improper disclusure, academic and
disciplinary records should be
separate, and the conditions of
access to each should be set forth
in an explicit written policy
statement. Transcripts of
academic records should contain
Freshmen
Students endure ordeal of Registration.
only information about academic
status.
Students should be free to
organize and join associations to
promote their common interests.
The membership, policies, and
actions of a student organization
usually will be determined by vote
of only those persons who hold
bona fide membership in the
college or university community.
Each organization should be
free to choose its own advisor,
and institutional recognition
should not be withheld or
withdrawn solely because of the
inability of a student organization
to secure an advisor.
Student organizations should
not be required to submit a
membership list as a contition of
insticution^ recognition.
Campus organizations should
be open to all students without
respect to race, ereed, or national
origin, except for religious
qualifications which may be
required by organizations whose
aims are primarly sectarian.
Students and student
organizations should always be
free to support causes by orderly
means which do not disrupt the
regular and essential operation of
the institution.
Students should be allowed to
invite and to hear any person of
their own choosing. The
institutional control of campus
facilties should not be used as a
device of censorship.
Students should be free to
express their views on issues or
institutional policy and on
matters of general interest to the
student body.
Institutional authorities have a
responsibility to provide written
clarification of the role of the
student publications, the
standards to be used in their
evaluation, and the limitations on
external control of their
operation.
The student press should be
free of censorship and advance
approval of copy, and its editors
and managers should be free to
develop their own editorial
policies and news coverage.
Editors and managers of
student publications should be
protected from arbitrary
suspension and removal because
of student, faculty,
administrative, or public
disapproval of editorial policy or
content.
All university published and
financed student publications
should explicitly state on the
editorial page that the opinions
there expressed are not necessarily
those ol the college, university, or
student body.
College and university students
as students should enjoy the same
freedom of speech, peaceful
assembly, right of petition and
due process that any other
citizens enjoy and, as members of
the academic community, they
are subject to the obligations
which acrue to them by virtue of
this membership.
Activities of students may upon
occasion result in violation of law.
In such cases, institutional
officials should be prepared to
apprise students of sources of
legal counsel and may offer other
assistance, institutional authority
should never be used merely to
duplicate the function of general
laws.
Other specifics of the statement
of riglits and freedoms of students
should be obtained and studied by
each student. Prior to this time
nothing substantial had been done
to help the student government or
the students to recognize their
riglits. This document helps
establish Gaston College as a
front-runner among colleges in
regards to judicial matters.
Dance I PARKING REGULATIONS
The Sophomore Class of
Gaston College will sponsor a
dance for the freshmen September
19 at 8 o’clock in the student
center. The Rivieras will be
playing for this dance.
This will be the first
opportunity for the incoming
freshmen to participate in Gaston
College's activities, and everyone
is urged to attend. Dress casually
and come prepared for an evening
of music, dancing and fun.
Reserved zones (no parking for students)
1. yellow areas
2. any space marked reserved or no parking
3. visitors parking area
No parking areas (faculty and students)
1. drivevuays
2. grass areas
3. loading zones
Citations will be issued to all violators. Fines must be paid within three days. All students
must have a Gaston College parking permit affixed to the left rear bumper of their car.
Enrollment To
Reach New High
Do students at Gaston
Community College really know
about their school? There are
many interesting facts and
opportunities unknown to the
majority of students. Some of
these are enrollment and the
unusual courses available.
This is the enrollment of the
Fall Quarter curricular programs:
College Parallel-
Day-964
Evening-224
Vocational-
Day-291
Technical-
Day-183
Total-1662
In adult education, new
industrial training, and adult basic
education we had an excess of five
thousand last year. This year will
probably exceed that figure. Some
of these courses are: Slide Rule,
Techniques for Communicating
With the Deaf, Football Watching
for Ladies (and Men), Cake
Decoration, Upholstery, and
Fundamentals of Farriering
(shoeing horses).
Any adult eighteen years old or
over who did not finish high
school and receive a diploma can
now do so in the Learning Lab.
This room is located in the
Vocational Building. Since
students may enroll at any time
and will also finish at different
times, the approximate
enrollment cannot be determined.
Approximately seven thousand
students will have enrolled at
Gaston before four quarters are
finished. Compare this figure with
the approximate enrollment of
other colleges in North Carolina;
Lenoir Rhyne-1100
Belmont Abbey-800
Appalachian-500
Gardner Webb-1400
Davidson-1022 (Oct. 1968)
Duke-8000 (Oct. 1968)
Another interesting fact about
Gaston is that it is the second
largest Community College in
North Carolina.
We hope the students at Gaston
will be a little prouder of their
school now and understand that it
is not just a little community
college on Highway 321.
Veteran^s
Association
In July of 1968, an idea
popped into the head of our friend
and counselor, 0. J. Davis:
organize a Veterans Association at
Gaston College! He started to
work, talked with some veterans,
and brought his idea into the
open. Immediately everyone said,
“0. J., you can’t organize a
Veterans Association, it will not
hold together, you can’t make a
go of it.” Less than one year later,
in May of 1969, Gaston College
presented the CLUB OF THE
YEAR AWARD to the Veterans
Association. He couldn’t make a
go of it, but in one year it was the
best club on campus.
How did the Veterans
Association win this award?
Tlirougli hard work and dedicated
members who took up the
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