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NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL TJNIVHRSITY
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
FINAL EDITION
Newspaper Reinstated
After over two years of ex
ile, the CAMPUS ECHO, North
Carolina Central Universi
ty's student newspaper has
returned as a full function
ing student organization.
The funds for publication of
the paper were temporarily
suspended in the fall cf 1971
by theUniverityfe Chancellor
Dr. Albert N. Whiting.
Whiting, in statement fol
lowing the suspensiogreport
ed that the stand taken by
the editor and staff was in
violation of state and uni
versity policies and in his
opinion did not represent the
views or opinion of a major
ity of the university's stu
dents .
A meeting was held between
Whiting, CAMPUS ECHO editor,
Jae Joyner, and student gov
ernment president, Harvey
White.
An agreement could not be
reached at that meeting and
subsequent meetings proved
equally unproductive.
Whiting later announced that
funds were permanently sus
pended and both Joyner and
White filed a class action
suit against Whiting and
sought a temporary restrain
ing order to keep the paper
publishing until the issue
could be resolved.
The case was filed in U. S.
District Court in Greensboro
where Jud^ Eugene Gordon de
nied the restraining order
and later decided in favor of
Dr. Whiting.
The case was appealed by
Joyner and White and in the
U. S. Court in Richmond, Va.
in the spring of 1973, the
court decided in their favor.
Due to procedural and tech
nical problems, the paper
was unable to begin publica
tion until March of this
year.
Harvey White, then president
of the Student Government
Association, has graduated
and is now working mPrince-
ville. North Carolina as the
town's city manager. White
was unable to be reached for
comment.
Jae Joyner, then editor of
the CAMPUS ECHO, is still at
North Carolina Central and
was re-elected unanimously
as this year's editor.
Joyner, a native of Rocky
Mount, North Carolina, is a
senior Elementary Education
major and will be graduating
in May.
In an interview with Joyner,
he was asked what his feel
ings were about the rein
statement of the paper.
Smiling and leaning back,
Joyner chuckled and gave this
comment, "It has been a long
time since we've had a paper
on this campus and it is long
overdue. For 2 years iVe re
viewed the events in my mind,
searching for a valid reason
for the suspension and I've
yet to find one. I'm glad
someone has finally seen that
a mistake was made and it was
corrected".
When Joyner was asked what
some of the problems are, he
said "You wouldn't believe
the problems weVe run in to.
It took several weeks to get
furniture in. We've never
had any typewriter worth
anything, so we had to order
some.
It took several days to get
an exact figure for the bud
get and get approval to be
gin spending.
We have not been able to get
the IBM equipment back that
we used to set the copy be
cause one piece of it was
not in the state and it
would have taken about (6)
weeks to get it.
We've always had a problem
with recruiting staff mem
bers and because there has
been no paper in to year,
it is even more difficult
now.
To make matters worse, we
don't even have paper, pens.
pencils or any other general
office supplies."
Joyner had this to say about
his plans for the remainder
of this year.
"With the help of people
like Debra Swann, Floyd Jen
kins, Robert Nixon and many
other new people, we may be
able to get out three papers
this semester.
We've bought sone typewriters
and we'll be getting other
equipment before the year is
over. A lot of what we al
ready have needs to be up
dated .
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