February 17, 1970
The N. C. Essay
Page 2,
EDITORIAL
In the last issue of the Essay
one of our campuses most serious prob
lems was attacked: the problem of
theft and vandalism. The article
was in the form of a letter to the
Editor and because of repeated in
accuracies the Essay has done some
research and will attempt to give a
more complete picture to our read
ers.
The Administration here is very
concerned with the problem of theft
and some very definite measures have
been taken. Over the Christmas
vacation, the new dorms were broken
into and many items including a bi
cycle, a watch, and some jewelry was
taken. As has been the policy, the
local police were notified but in
this instance a definite clue was
available and the thieves were app
rehended. They were juveniles and
were sent to juvenile court. They
were in no way connected with the
School. One of the most difficult
problems the police run up against is
definite clues to warrant an arrest.
Another measure which the ad
ministration has recently taken is
the regulation concerning proper
identification on campus. Everyone
on campus is now required to either
have a school ID card or a visitor's
permit. Otherwise, they are in dan
ger of being forced to leave the
campus. This policy is not un
common at schools and universities.
In fact, the Juilliard School in New
York City will not allow persons to
enter the buildings without proper
identitication. This is an unfor
tunate but necessary precaution.
Another step the school has
taken to prevent these burglaries
is the investigation of a new lock
system for the Sanford and Moore dorm
itories.
Two possibilites are being dis
cussed, First, all of the present
locks could be replaced by similar
locks but with new master keys. This
would cost around $4,000 and would
involve waiting 90 days for delivery
of the locks. The other possibility
is the maximum security locks similar
to the ones on the main office and
music studios. Keys for these locks
cannot be duplicated except by the
manufacturer and then only with
special written permission from the
pruchaser. Students would have to
pay $20 key deposit which would be
refunded at the end of the year pro
vided the key was not lost. If the
key were lost, the $20 deposit would
be used to buy a new lock, not to re
place the lost key.
The statement that our adminis
tration is not concerned about campus
thefts and vandalism is an absurdity.
To name only a few items that have
been stolen from the school proves
(Cont. on page^)
WARD STATFJ4EMT
AVERY CASE
LliTTIiieS
from DAvid t'utor
I fail to see any genuine humor
in the state of the NCSA at present,
unless that maybe in itself, it is a
joke. The cartoon, or whatever it was
(Earning Your Letter in the Arts), on
the front page of the February 9 issue
of the N. C. Essay involving the use
of my supposedly funny, or flat out
"brown-nosing" the administration by
the m.C. Essay or an individual, in
an ass-kissing compensation for ray
"letter" in the February 2 issue of
this paper. Ot if it indeed was
supposed to be funny, perhaps I should
spend m^ free time drawing droll little
sketches directed, toward various
students' incredibly sentimental
attachment to this farm, or knock
what good anybody may have obtained
here.
1 state honestly that I try not
to say anything I don't really mean
(say nothing detremental until I am
justly provoked by seme wrong), and
definitely not in a written letter
to be published. I mean everything
I said in that letter, and I think
that if students or a piblication
in this school can waste the valu
able time to plan and publish a
direct cutting stab at someone per
sonally for his individual views
(for I have rw idean what the real
reason was behind it, so I suppose
this to be it), then I can only
add the act to the long list of
absurd achievements of this com
bination hospital and reform school.
"The guy can't even take a
joke!", is the immediate and un
imaginative stock response to what
I've just said. And I'll certainly
reply that I can take a joke, if I
am sure if it ^ a joke, know the
reason behind it, and know exactly
what it is aimed at and making light
of (meaning, simply, that one has to
understand a joke to fully enjoy and
appreciate it) in lieu of my per
fectly serious position. Therefore,
again, I can only believe that it is
not a joke at all, but a very weak
and childish stab at some of my
(Cont. on page 4)
CLOSED
On Monday, February 2, I received
a request from Frederick Avery, asking
that the decision of the Judicial
Committee in his case be reviewed.
(The decision of that Committee was
to suspend Mr. Avery for the remainder
of this semester, with the provision
that he be automatically readmitted
in the fall semester.) Since that
time I have reviewed the case thor
oughly and have spoken with all of
the members of the Committee, and on
the basis of violation of regulations
to which Mr. Avery fully admits the
decision of the Judicial Committee
will stand and the matter will not be
reopened.
Of almost paramount importance
to me in this case was the fact that
Mr. Avery was one of the group of
students who a year ago pledged to
use his best efforts to assist other
students in clearing drug usage
from the School of the Arts. The
Administration of the school for its
part accepted this pledge in good
faith, with the proviso that, if
the students' efforts failed, it would
have to deal with this situation to
the best of its ability. The regula
tion on drugs was developed jointly
by the Student Government and the
Administration. In Mr. Avery's case,
he violated the regulation and
flaunted his pledge to aid in the
efforts to clear up the situation.
I hope that in reading this
all students in the school will draw
the absolutely correct inference that
the Administration is dedicated to
clearing drug usage from the
school community. So long as the
laws in these matters are what they
are, we shall abide by them. There
is no question whatsoever in our minds
that to free the school of this
influence will be to make a better
school of the North Carolina School of
the Arts, both so far as the institu
tion is concerned and so far as every
individual student is concerned.
Some 140 students signed a
petition, requesting the reopening of
the particular case of Frederick
Avery. Because of the general
interest in the student body and
because of Mr. Avery's interview with
members of the N.C. Essay staff, I
am using this means to inform them
that the case will not be reopened.
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