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THURSDAY, OCT. 28, 1971 THE LANCE Help Needed With Primary Date And Student Vote Role PAGE THREE In the upcoming North Caro lina p r 1 m a ry elections, ab sentee ballots will not be al lowed, therefore many North Carolina students will not be able to use their newly attain ed status as voters. The Duke delgation to the North Carolina Student Legis lature is presently trying to change this, they have sent letters to seven potential gu bernatorial candidates in the state, along with Governor Scott and the Speaker of the House, Phil Godwin, asking their help in getting absentee ballots al lowed in the May primary. The method for getting the change involves getting the General Assembly to suspend its rules when considering the restruct- Ing of higher education at a special session convening on October 26. The delegation from Duke asks that students from across the state write to their repre sentatives from home or those in the district in which they go to school urging them to suspend their rules and con sider this vital question. A list of addresses Is available on the Lance door in the student center. The representative from this district is Mrs. Mary Odom, Scotland High School, Laurinburg. If letters cannot be mailed before Saturday they should be sent to the Legisla ture Building, Ralei^, North Carolina. These students feel that this is a vital and impor tant issue to all North Caro linians since it would make it more feasible for 200,000 citizens to vote. Only by uni fied student support of this issue, can something of mean ing be accomplished. This is a real opportunity for students to have some positive punt into governmental system. Your help is needed: it is feared that many day laborers and students will be denied opportunity to vote in this Senate Reviews Problem Of Bicycles, Security Bicycles on campus was the main subject at discussion at the Senate meeting held Monday night. Susan Whltford, president of Granville Dorm, proposed that the Senate discuss the pro blem of the Increasing number of bicycles oti campus. She brought up the fact that acci dents and near accidents were occurring between cyclists and wheel chair students and In some cases between cyclists and pedestrians. Dean Decker mentioned that he had observed a number of cyclists riding a- round at nl^t without ll^ts or reflectors. The Senate then decided that the subject would be referred to the traffic com mittee, and the committee would be asked to report back to them by the next Senate meeting on Nov. 8. David Beale, President of Mecklenburg, put forth the question as to why it was so hard to locate a security officer at night. Dean Decker responded to the question by stating that the security patrolmen were patrolling on foot and were out of radio contact during certain times I of the night, especially between the hours of 10:00 and 12:00. Dean Decker said, how ever, that the college was In the process of modifying its pre sent communication system by replacing the present one-way portable radios that the patrol men carry with two-way radios. Dean Decker silso said that in case of a security emergency that people should call the al ternate numbers. Dave Beale also proposed that the health center supply birth control devices to students. It was then revealed that the health committee was in the process of considering the proposal. WE THINK WE’VE GOT SOMETHING GOOD AT OUR PLACE. WE’D LIKE TO SHARE IT WITH YOU. Come on in. We’ll be 9^^^ to serve you THE HONEY CONE DRIVE-IN Spring’s primary election If the primary election day is not changed from Tuesday to Satur day. Each student can help, if he is a resident of North Carolina, by writing his state represen tative and senator urging the primary election date be re turned to Saturday. The state legislature is in special session this week. Its primary business is restruc turing higher education. But the legislature also can consider the primary election issue if enough demand is generated. Your letters can be effective on this issue because already other groups and interests are urging the change. Contribute to this momentum with “your” appeal to “your” representative. Names and addressed of re presentatives and senators are posted near the post office, the office of the Lance, and other locations on campus. Lower income day laborers, others tied to the clock, stu dents, and traveling persons can all be penalized by the Tuesday primary date. This is parti cularly true for students since state law prohibits absentee voting in the primary. The cwily way students can vote in the state primary Is by traveling home. A Tuesday date is pro hibitive. Help yourself, as well as others, by writing today. Ask your representative to change North Carolina’s primary back to Saturday, Poetry Contests (Continued from Page 1) Awards will consist of: (1) $100 for first place in each area, (2) $50 for second place in each area. Recognition and additional awards will be given for submissions with subse quent rankings. Deadline for entering the $1,- 600 Kansas City Poetry Con tests Is Feb. 1, 1972. Top prize in the ninth annual event is the Devins Award, $500 cash and publication of a book-length poetry manu- -sn script by the University of Mis souri Press. Hallmark Honor Prizes of $100 each will be a- warded to six poets for indi vidual poems. Only full-time undergraduate college students are eligible for the Hallmark prizes. Kansas City Star A- wards of $100 each will go to four poets. Sharp Memorial A- wards of $25 each will go to four high school pupils from Missouri or a bordering state. Winners will be announced May 1, 1972 at the final program of the 1971-72 American Poet's Series For contest rules, send a stamped, self-addressed busi ness envelope to Poetry Con tests Directors, P. O. Box 5313, Kansas City, Mo. 64131. New Book Will Stress Minority Graduate Help PRINCETON, N.J. - “Gradu ate and Professional School Op portunities for Minority Stu dents”, a reference book about academic and special assist ance programs offered by 900 graduate and professional schools for Black and other mi nority-group students, is now being distributed to many col lege guidance counselors. The book, published by Ed ucational Testing Service with the support of the $55,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foun dation of New York City, con tains Information on programs and services tailored for mi nority-group students, now un der-represented in the nation’s graduate and professional schools. All Information Is pro vided by the 900 schools Includ ed in the book. For example, each entry de scribes a school’s admissions standards, fee waiver and fi nancial aid programs, and any fellowship programs for Blacks or other minority groups. If a school actively recruits stu dents from minority groups, that fact is Indicated. Some schools also give the percent age of such students currently enrolled in their institution. Plans call for distributing more than 17,000 copies of the book free of charge during the coming academic year to Black, Mexican American, and Puerto Rican students and stu dent organizations, to libraries, and to college and graduate school counselors. “Graduate and Professional School Opportunities for Minor- ity Students was first published two years ago by the Harvard- Yale-Columbia Intensive Sum mer Studies Program to Im prove communications between minority groups and graduate- level institutions. The most re cent edition also had support from the Luce Foundation. Mrs. Louise D. Stone is editor of the third edition of “Graduate and Professional School Opportunities for Minor ity Studetns. Mrs. Stone, a fea ture writer for Contact, a mi nority employment magazine, was formerly a columnist for the Washington Afro-Ameri can, Chicago Daily Defender, and the Washington Post. She has also been a tutoring assist ant in the Washington, D.C. an ti-poverty program and a media specialist in advertising. A graduate of Colby College, Mrs. Stone attended the New York School of Social Work. She is the wife of Chuck Stone, a journalist and author of several books on the Black experience in America. Mr. Stone, who once served as a spe cial assistant to Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, is now director of minority affairs for ETS. The current edition is en dorsed by the Graduate Busi ness Admissions Council, the Graduate Record Examinations Board, and the Law School Ad mission Test Council. Testing and research programs spon sored by these groups are con ducted by ETS, a nonprofit ed ucational measurement and re search organization. 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