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The News Argus February 1997 Page 2 AMY Phipps - Editor-in-Chief Danielle Prophete. - News Editor SHARONDA WiLCOX - EnTTERTAINMENT EDITOR MONICA Alexander - Sports Editor Douglas Clark, Jr. - Chief Photographer Dr.Valerie S. Saddler — Adviser Waning Leadership? Imagine my surprise and disappoinimeni upon reading an Associated Press article in the Jan. 27 issue of the Winston-Salem Journal which noted the absence of Winston-Salem State University Student Government representation at an important meeting of the Association of Student Governments (ASG) on Jan. 25, 1997, in Chapel Hill. At this meeting delegates from 11 of the 16 schools in the University of North Carolina System prepared to lobby state and national representatives on student issues and debated how to implement affirmative action. At this meeting, ASG members planned a trip to Washington, D.C., on April 5 to lobby with members of the United States Students Association for welfare reform, more funding for higher education and other important issues. However, none of WSSU’s four eligible delegates attended this important meeting. The AP article explained that the ASG is made up of four elected student leaders from each of the 16 UNC schools. It should be noted that after repeated attempts over the course of a week and a half to contact WSSU’s SGA officers, the News Argus has been unable to identify these four delegates. I have personally left messages which no one has returned. The SGA’s adviser. Dr. Barbara O’ Neal, says she does not communicate with the UNC System on matters such as these and was unable to help the News Argus unravel the mystery. What has happened to our leadership? Certainly school and work schedules can be demanding, but anyone who agrees to hold such a position of authority should be sure his/her schedule allows for the time and commitments involved. If not, we need someone else to do the job. If logistics, such as lost mail or miscommunication, are responsible, then why is the News Argus getting the runaround? What makes the situation worse is that now members of the public who read the AP article probably perceive WSSU’s student government leaders as students without interest in the student body’s welfare and with poor leadership qualities. Is that the image we want for our school? I think not! - Amy) Phipps, h(L ^rviewsTDiran .rguSiSith^tudentmc^papei® uegffitafc^Uniyeryty^g^eTwek un^rouSiiOT^siw^acult fnis6rat(M§| c^encouiraged to share their; ideas and opii lb ^staff,' swentsand^ sh^d be written aiidj ^radin‘kngth;; iThe wntcr.must? ^iving'^their name.ltelephdni iTnumbeifahd^epmlin^oniihe^^ of the.' leuw; '•V''>«■ no; more; than ;>and cl^t^jj^e News'Argus bfficc^is.locat^18j ^ HallPaaerM)ni^5b^2327 ISSUES G flnSWERS ARGUS MAILBAG Pinning Ceremony Changed? Since the Nursing Program has been in existence at WSSU, one of the proudest moments in a student nurse's life is the pinning ceremony. When a student nurse receives her/his degree, she/he also receives a pin as a symbol of her/his commitment and achievement in her/his profession. Dressed in her/his best formal white uniform, the student nurse commits her/himself to serving others by reciting the Florence Nightingale Oath, while holding a latern. This oath is the nursing equivalent of the Hippocratic Oath taken by medical doctors. This ceremony is a touching and emotional time for the new nurse. It is witnessed by family and friends as they join the nurse in celebrating the start of a new career. Traditionally, here at WSSU, this ceremony is held the night before commencement. Last year, in K. R. Williams Auditorium, a standing room only crowd witnessed the pinning ceremony. However, this year without input from the nursing or medicial technology students the ceremony has been moved until AFTER the May 10, 1997 commencement ceremony. The students were told that the pinning ceremony could not be held the night before graduation because Chancellor Schexnider has prior commitments. With all due respect to the Chancellor, is it not possible for him to attend his commitment and the pinning ceremony? Can't both events take place at the same time? They will be held in two different places. Fellow Rams, we do not feel it was fair to wait until the last minute to inform the students (we were informed on January 16) about the decisions concerning the ceremony with no prior notification. We are disturbed about this matter. We just want the student body to know about this situation! Concerned WSSU Students COED Visitation by Danielle A. Prophete It’s 9 p.m. on Thursday and you want to see something on cable. Wilson Hall is the only WSSU dorm with cable, so naturally you go there to see the movie. After calling up a male friend to tell him you are coming over, he tells you to come to the side door. When you go to the side door, you have to sneak down the hall to the room. Why? Isn’t Wilson Hall a coed dormitory? Isn’t the purpose of a coed dorm to provide the residents the opportunity to live and cooperate with each other? “You still have to set some limits,” said Interim Director of Housing/Residence Life, Pasche Patton. “Being a coed dorm doesn’t excuse students from obeying the rules.” So what do “ the students” want STAFF WRITERS MONICA ALEXANDER KESHA BOWDEN CHERYL CASH DOUGLAS CLARK JR. DAVID FULTON DANIELLE PROPHETE in a good coed visitation policy? “Twenty-four hour visitation,” is what some students want. While others say that they don’t necessarily need 24 hour visitation, more of them say they definitely want longer visitation hours on the weekend. “If you have to sit here on a Saturday with no classes and you can’t have visitors until 7 p.m., you have nothing to do all day,” said Danielle Thrower, a freshman music major. “I feel like we ought to be able to travel as freely as we would like in Wilson Hall. For heavens sake, it s a coed dorm and I think we are mature enough to handle it,” said Sharonda Wilcox, a sophomore mass communications major. “I could understand not having coed visitation 24 hours during the week. JERMEL WIGGINS SHARONDA WILCOX VINCENT WOODY LAYOUTSTAFF DOUGLAS CLARK, JR. DANIELLE PROPHETE but I don’t see a problem having it on the weekends, because a lot of people’s roommates go home anyway. That would give us the opportunity to have friends visit” “This is the first year that housing has been in charge of coed visitation (SGA was formerly in charge), so we are working on getting the best program, but the ball is in the students court,” said Patton. “Students need to start showing some responsibility for their actions. About two coed violations a week reported to the housing office.” It seems that students are making it difficult to get the old policies changed. You can’t allow your mates to live with you, your friends to live with you or allow drinking and marijuana usage to go See Coed, Page 3 SHARONDA WILCOX VINCENT WOODY COPYEDITORS MCM 3312 NEWS EDITING CLASS
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