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Page 6 North Carolina School of the Arts What, On Earth, Is The SCA Up To? A Comment I think it can be confidently said, and with a minimum of sarcasm, that the SCA this year has been more active in almost every phase of student life than ever before. A brief list of their activities should be more than enough to convince anybody of the durability of this statement: - Refrigerator rental at a reasonable price has been instigated. - Variety Show at the beginning of the year, organized by the SCA. - Money was set aside for Black Panthers’ Breakfast Fund, to help provide a hot breakfast for un derprivileged black children. - The world- famous SCA snack bar which opened on Oct. 6, ’72, to the delight of students and to the con sternation of ‘custodial engineers’. - Funds were provided for Mrs. Johnson’s Creative Learning Center, introducing a stimulating en vironment to pre-school- age children. - In conjunction with Student Activities, a convocation was held on Nov. 1 to discuss the problem of campus security. - On Sept. 8, a motion was made that the Legendary Disney Wall Paintings be saved from eternal destruc tion, through new construction, and 10,000 hands arose to knock out the walls and carry them to a place of safety. - Applause, the new student employment agency, which has already brought more than $700 into the pockets of students. - Clifford Young I A Buckley Represents NCSA: STUDENT BILL OF RIGHTS PROPOSED We the students of public in stitutions of higher education in North Carolina asserting a fundamental right to more voice recognition in collective representation by student of ficials, do hereby submit the following recommendations and proposals to the Consolidated Board of Governors: I. We earnestly ask that the goal of a universally improved higher education be foremost in the minds of the Board members, with all vestiges of partisanship excluded from all actions and decisions. We assert that the University is not the arbiter of student morals or personal af fairs, nor is it the enforcer of societal norms. Societal pressure or third party censure attendant on coincidental identifications of student attitudes or conduct with the University does not entitle toe University to protect its image or ‘ interest though regulations. The student’s obligation is to the University as an educational enterprise, not to the University as a state agency subject to public censure. II. We entreat the Board to guarantee that Student Activity fees be considered student funds to be appropriated by duly elected representatives from the student body (restrained within the limits of the state law) and that the existence of such Student Governments and the right appropriations of student fees within the law of the State of North Carolina be immune from arbitrary judgement and veto by individual Administrations and local Boards of Trustees of the respective universitites, par ticularly student fees for campus newspapers and other publications. in. We ask the Board to recognize that the doctrine of IN LOCO PARENTIS is no longer ai^licable in University cam puses and also recognize that the students are legally adults and citizens. Furthermore, every avenue available in each University be open for students to obtain all freedoms and rights guaranteed to them as citizens of the United States and North Carolina. As citizens, members of the campus enjoy the same basic rights and are bound by the same responsibilities to respect the rights of others, as are all citizens. IV. We earnestly ask the Board to insure a uniform Bill of Student Rights, violation of which shall be subject directly to the authority of the ConsoUdated Board of Governors or one of its lesser committees established for such purposes. In the interest of preserving the rights of aU students as citizens, under toe Constitution of toe State of Norto Carolina and toe Constitution of toe United States and preventing disruption and discontent on toe University campuses, we recommend that toe following Bill of Rights be adopted: A. Among toe basic rights are freedom of speech, fre^om of press, freedom of peaceful assembly and association, freedom of political beliefs, and freedom from personal force and violence, threats of violence and personal abuse. Furtoermore, every student shall be guaran teed toe right to attend toe lec tures of his or her own choice. Speakers shall be guaranteed toe right of free speech witoout in terference by any member of toe University community, regar dless of the speaker’s politick or ideological affiliations. B. E}ach student shall have toe right to be equally represented through his Student Government officials in toe formulation of University policy. Boards making policies in areas primarily financed by students shall be composed of at least a majority of students. C. Each student shall have toe right to be represented by his student government officials 12 months per year. D. Each student shall have toe right to inquire into and be fully and honestly informed of toe reasons for any University policy affecting him, toe process by which it was adopted, and the means by which it might be changed. E. We entreat toe Board of Governors to order toat each institution in an official University publication clearly and precisely describe: 1. What information and records each institution com piles on each student. 2. The manner in which toe information and records shall be used. 3. The location and main tenance procedure of toe in formation and records. 4. Who has access to the in formation and records. 5. Under what circumstances and to whom student information and records may be disclosed. F. Provisions should be made, also, for toe periodic routine destruction of non-current disciplinary records. Moreover, and most importantly, each student must be allowed to exercise his right to see any and all information and records which have been compiled and toe ri^t to challenge toe validity and right of toe information and reconfi. G. Each student shall have toe right, in all cases of a violation of a University regulation, to be judged by an independent and impartial judiciary, at least a majority of which shall be drawn from and responsible to toe student body. Each student shall have toe right to judicial due process. No financial aid shall be removed from a student until all avenues of appeal have been exhausted in finial determination of guilt has been established. H. Each student shall have toe right to be exempt from suspension or expulsion from toe University except for an academic failure, violation of a University regi^tion where such violation constitutes a threat to the general welfare of the academic community, and where such violation has been previously stated in writing to constitute an offense punishable by suspension or expulsion. No student shall be placed in jeopardy more than once for toe same offense and no University administrator shall condone toe {dacement of any student in jeopardy twice within eitoer toe University campus exclusively or in situations involved in conflict in c^pus and civil autoority. V. We toe sixteen presidents of the Consolidated University system believe that institutional changes are inevitable and that toese changes can take place in an atmosphere designed to preserve the basic ethnic in- te^ity of toese original in stitutions, especially the predominantly black state- sui^orted institutions. We do hereby set forto toe following principles which we hold to be necessary for an orderly tran sition: A. We believe that toe best interest of toe system make it mandatory for blacks and minorities to be in decision making positions at levels of planning and policy. We believe toat special emphasis in toe areas of academic affairs, Ad missions, and Financial Aid are important, and that otoer areas also demand equal consideration. B. We believe that the stabilization of toe SAT score at a level that does not discriminate against black and otoer disad vantaged students is desirable. We recommend a uniform score on the SAT not to exceed 700. C. 1. We respectfully request an immediate reevaluation of economic policies that discriminate against all disad vantaged students by requiring a pre-enrollment fee of $100.00. 2. In view of obvious economic inequities in our statewide in come level of families among toe poor and disadvantaged, we request immediate consideration of policies that require students to pay a $50.00 intent-to-return fee. p. To foster toe conomic well being of all segments of business and industry within toe state, we respectfully suggest that a policy should be established that makes it mandatory to distribute pur chases and contracts in such a manner to insure the full par ticipation of qualified minority business and industry. Dean Hyatt States Policy On Room Search Procedures In order to make entirely clear to all students the details of proced^e for rooni March when it involves the aUeged presence of illeg^ drugs, I womd like to make toe following statement: Ejadence ^rtaiiwg to toe presence of illegal drugs is presented to toe l^an of Studrats and-or toe Adminisfrative Director by students faculty, or staff. On toe basis of toat evidence, a search warrant mav be is^ed by toe Dean of Students and-or toe Administrative Director which allow a dormitory staff member to conduct a room search It should be noted that toe smeU of marijuana smoke outside a rooni door ^ consbtute sufficient evidence for toe issuance of a warrant to search toat room for toe presence of any illegal drugs, including manji^a. A room search wiU be conducted only when the studentrs^ named in toe warrant is present in toe room. Studpte should be aware toat toey have toe right to remain silent when, m their judgment, what toey say may possibly be used against toem m a Judicial proceeding. However, toe mere presence of illegal drugs ui a dormitory room will ordinarily constitute proof of guilt in ca^s involving an accusation of possession of illegal drugs. There are two reasons why we have tried to clarify bur orocedurpd as outbned in this statement: (1) We want to make sure toat each student is fully aware of what toe procedures are and what his or her rights are when these procedures are invoked, and (2) We want to make clear that neitoer implicitly nor explicitly is anv illegal dniP hcp condoned on this campus. -Robert P. Hyatt
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