On Campus
Mid-Week Party
Outrages Students
by Dave Snyder
Within a week after
Dean of Students Bill
Loftus pooblished his "ad
monishments" explaining
v^y midweek parties are
banned, a Chamber of Com
merce party on the Belk
patio last Thursday night
outraged students working
on projects due before
Fall Break.began the next
day. Music from the rock
'n' roll band could be
heard in the library m-
til they stopped playing
at 10:15 p.m.
Both College Presi
dent Bun Perkinson and
Loftus received telephone
calls conplaining about
the noise. SGA President
Charlie Brown was among
three people vrtio called
Loftus.
"We can't have any of
these double standards,"
Loftus said.
To add to the double
standard, the party fea
tured ^ array of liquor
bottles and a keg of
beer, also prohibited by
Student Life policy as a
drug "traditionally"
abused.
The Chamber of Com
merce booked the site
through administrative
personnel vAio approved
the event without check
ing with Loftus in Stu
dent Life. Loftus feels
confident that in the
future a system can be
Violence Awareness Week Planned
continued frwipage 4
Guild will begin displaying
poems, sculpture, paintings
and other works related to
relationships.
On Monday, October 26,
the Psychology Club will
sponsor a lecture given by
Anne and Micheal Doolen.
Anne is a counselor for
battered women at the
Southeastern Family
Violence Center, v^ile
Michael is director of the
Laurinburg Mental Health
Department and also helps
with an abusers counseling
group. The lecture will be
concerned with power and
control in relationships.
On October 27, the Law
Club will sponsor a lecture
concerned with the legal
aspects of violence in
relationships. Mary
Mcihoney, with the Lumbee
River Legal Services will
speak.
Wednesday, October 28,
Women in Dialogue will
sponsor a discussion on
date rape given by a St.
Andrews graduate, Janice
Maney, vrtio is the
coordinator of the Rape
Crisis Center in
Hendersonville, N.C.
"We are trying to get
as many clubs involved as
we can," said Anne
Leist-White. "Hopefully,
each club will sponsor a
xerox handout on a
relationship violence
topic. I feel having a
week for thought on this
inportant topic will make
people realize that it
comes much closer to home
than we realize. People
that have experienced
relationship violence often
feel that it is their
fault. We hope to clear up
these kinds of
misconceptions."
In conjunction with
the activities, SAGE 101
professors are going to
encourage students to
attend the Monday night
lecture.
"I feel that many
students have been affected
by some facet of
relationship violence but
are not aware of it," said
Maggie Johnson. "There are
many myths and
misconceptions floating
around about this topic-we
hope to clear this up
during our awareness week."
The coordinators sent
out a survey to females
living in dorms on canpus.
"Out of 342 questionaires,
we calculated results from
212. 40 girls answered yes
to the question 'Have you
ever been slapped, pushed,
shoved, hit, etc. by a
person you were dating or
seeing?' 55 answered yes to
the question 'Have you ever
had sex with anyone you did
not want to have sex
with?,' said Johnson.
"However, these answers
delt with incidents that
could have occured in the
past, and not necessarily
on canpus."
established which re
quires that all such
events, "in theory, any
way, " are processed
through the Student Life
Office to avoid conflicts
with student policy.
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In addition to
Awareness Week, a
fund-raiser will take place
in November. This includes
a round robin volleyball
tournament sponsored by the
classes of assistant
professor of business and
economics Jack Ferren.
Each
dorm will have a boys
volleyball team. The
winner of the tournament
will play the girls
volleyball team. There
will be a small admission
fee to the game and all
proceeds will go to the
Southeastern Family
Violence Center.
Also in November,
counselor at the center
Anne Doolen, and director
Caroline Bishop-McLeod will
conduct a seminar to teach
people how to handle crisis
calls ahd give necessary
skills for those who want
to do volunteer work or
internships at the shelter.