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The official Student newspaper of North Carolina Central University, Durham, NC 27707 Friday j October 22, 1982
SGA Congress amends
Election Board rules
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These nursing and health education students building will be dedicated Sunday, Nov. 21.
seem pretty excited about the upcoming (Photo by Alex Rivera)
dedication of their building. Central’s newest
Play aiming for competition
By Marion McKinney
The NCCU drama department’s production of Wole
Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman, has passed
the first hurdle on its way to the American College
Festival at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
The play, performed here last week, has received a
favorable critique from two judges screening it for
regional competition.
Linda K. Norflett, chairwoman of the drama depart
ment, said that both judges, Bob Thurston of UNC-G
and Don Wolfe of Wake Forest University, com
plimented the production. “Thurston was impressed
with the ensemble and the care taken in producing and
staging the play. Wolfe enjoyed the script more than
Thurston and is planning to include it in Wake Forest’s
next drama season,” she said.
This is the second time that a Central drama produc
tion has been entered in competition. During the 79-80
season, NCCU’s production of Everyman placed ninth
in regional competition, with drama student Herhe»t C.
Eley receiving a nomination for an acting award.
Competition officials will notify Central in December
or early January if the play has been accepted for the
regional competition to be held in Greensboro at UNC-
G in February. The first place finisher in the regional
contest will go to national competition at the Kennedy
Center in the Spring.
By entering this production, Mrs. Norflett hopes to
develop and enhance NCCU drama department’s
reputation as an regional and national influence in col
legiate theater and theater education.
By Edwiif Horsley
Last night NCCU’s Student Congress approved two
amendments to the Student Government constitution
which give the Election Board the authority to in
vestigate all elected officals.
The amendments direct the board to report to con
gress any elected officers found lacking the required
number of hours to hold office; the congress might then
move to impeach officer.
The amendents will be added to next year’s “Eagle
Eye Handbook.”
The admendents are the result of a charge by election
board members earlier this semster that junior class
president George Jackson was not qualified td hold his
office because he is not a junior by earned hours.
The charge prompted SGA Vice-president James
Webb to write a proposal to admend present articles of
general elections in “The Eagle Eye Handbook.” After
the proposal was endorsed by Vice-chancellor of Stu
dent Affairs Roland L. Buchanan, Webb then took it
before congress.
There had been some ambiguous wording in articles 7
and 8 of the handbook concerning general elections and
the duties of the Election Board.
Article 7 did not specify the number of hours a can
didate seeking a class office must have either while run
ning or after being elected. The article did state,
however, that the SGA president and Miss NCCU had
to qualify as seniors during the year that they held of
fice.
The SGA vice-president could be qualified as either a
junior or a senior.
Article 8 concernig the duties of the Filection Board
made the SGA president, vice-president and Miss
'.NCCU the only elected officers that th’e board could in
vestigate prior to their taking office.
' The ambiguity of articles 7 and 8 allowed Jackson to
remain the head of the junior class, even though he is
not yet a junior.
Besides the two amendments passed Thursday night,
Webb who is the president of Student Congress plans to
introduce other handbook amendments concerning the
election of Miss Homecoming and the open visitation
policy.
The controversy over Jackson’s qualifications had
been resolved before the amendments were passed.
After his own investigation and a meeting with Assis
tant Vice-chancellor Roger Bryant, Buchanan ruled that
Jackson was qualified to remain in office because he
was eligible when he ran for office last March and
because present handbook guidelines do not require him
to be a junior in order to hold office.
Much of the controversy centered around vague and
ambiguous wording in the handbook. Commenting on
the handbook, Buchanan remarked, ‘%j»eEe are a lot of
descrepencies that need to be cleaned up.”
One of the disputed passages is article 7, section 9
which reads: “all candidates for class officers or class
representatives shall satisfy their financial obligations to
the University and shall have a cumulative average of
2.0. These candidates shall include class president, vice-
preident, treasurer, secretary and class queen.”
Because this passage does not specify the number of
hours an elected officer must have before taking office,
Buchanan found no reason to conclude Jackson was un
qualified.
The only article in the handbook which does discuss
class hours necessary for holding office is Article 9 per
taining to the election of Miss NCCU.
A subsection titled “Election Rules and Regulations’’
says, “Candidates seeking election to class offices must
satisfy the qualification hours of that class,” but it does
not specify the class for which the candidate must
qualify.
Another source of confusion in the passage involves
the time by which the candidate must have earned the
appropiate number of hours. It is not clear whether the
passage refers to the number of hours the candidate has
when he files for election, the number of hours he has
earned by the time he takes office, or the number of
hours he attains by some unspecified point during his
term of office.
The amendments pas.sed by the student congress are
aimed at clarifying this passage.
Buchanan said that although members of the election
board believed they were within their university con
stitutional rights in investigating Jackson, there was
reason to question whether the board’s investigation
went beyond its authority.
Proctor to deliver speech at
NCCU Founder’s Day
Dr. Beverly A. Nichols Chairman of the home economics at
N.C. Central University, will represent the university in a
preliminary effort to establish ties between NCCU and
universities in Egypt. She will visit Cairo Oct. 22 and Nov.4.
By Veronica M. Cogdell
Dr. Samuel D. Proctor, holder of the Martin Luther King Memorial
Chair in the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers University, will be
the principle speaker of the Founder’s Day program scheduled for Friday,
Nov. 5, at 11:00 a.m. in B.N. Duke Auditorium.
Proctor, a native of Virginia, is an Alumnus of Virginia Union Universi
ty, Crozer Seminary, and Boston University, where he earned a doctorate in
ethics. Proctor has done graduate study at the University of Pennsylvania,
at Yale University, and at the Harvard Institute for University Administra
tion.
Dr. Proctor, also presently the senior minister of the Abyssinian Baptist
Church in New York City, began his career as a minister in the Pond Street
Baptist Church in Providence, R.I., in 1945.
He was appointed dean at Virginia Union University in 1949. He served
as president of the university from 1955 to 1960 and president of North
Carolina A & T University from 1960 to 1964.
He also held administrative positions with the Peace Corps in Nigeria and
in Washington from 1964 to 1969, with the National Council of Churches,
with the Office of Economic Opportunity, with the Institute for Services to
Education and with the University of Wisconsin.
He is the author of “The Young Negro in America 1960-80,” published
in 1966.
Founder’s Day commemorates the late Dr. James E. Shepard, who
founded N.C. Central University, then called the National Religious Train
ing School and Chautaugua, in 1910. Dr. Shepard served as president until
his death on October 6, 1947.
Fraternities give to the community
By Jeffrey Campbell
The brothers of Ebony Alpha
Ebony service organization raised
$150 for the United Way from a
dance held last Thursday. The
highlight of the dance was a contest
to see which student could do the
‘smurf’ dance the best.
George Jackson, student chair
man for the United Way on campus,
said, “We issue a challange to all
other organizations to join us in our
campaign to help the United Way.”
Saturday the members of the
organization, along with a group
from Duke, are doing a project to
help weatherize the homes of the
elderly and low income families in
Durham. The project is being spon
sored by Duke Power and the
Durham Housing Authority.
Other organizations are also do
ing their part to become active in
community affairs.
On October 16 the brothers of the
Alpha Phi Omega National Service
Fraternity visited the Community
Living Program for mentally retard
ed adults.
The Community Living Program
consists of small residences that pro
vide care for persons who are men
tally disabled, but can develop self-
help skills and be taught to par
ticipate in community activites.
During their visit, the brothers
painted four rooms of the home, as
well as providing the residents with
an exciting evening of different ac
tivities, including a cookout.
According to Joseph Brown,
public relations chairman for the
service fraternity, this is just one of
the many service projects to be
sponsored by the group this year.
Founder’s Day—which is planned by a committee of students, faculty
and staff members headed this year by Dr. Tyrone Baines, vice chancellor
of university relations—will be the last Founder’s Day in the tenure of
Chancellor Albert N. Whiting, who will retire in June, 1983. Whiting will
have served as the institution’s chief administrator longer than anyone since
Shepard.
Music will be provided by the NCCU touring and concert choirs, along
with the NCCU band.
Lori Grier, Miss NCCU, and Duane Howell, president of SGA, will be
program participants.
The traditional wreath-laying ceremony is scheduled at the founder’s
statue in front of the Hoey Administration Building immediately following
the program.
The wreath-layers are members of the NCCU Alumini Assoc., SGA,
Faculty Senate, the brothers of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity and other
organizations in which Dr. Shepard was affiliated.
SGA hears gripes
By Marion McKinney
SGA officials listened to business administration majors’ grieveances
Tues. Oct 19, to develop proposals to try to resolve the bind that many
business students are facing this year.
“ I realize that the business school is up for accrediation. That should be a
major concern for the university,” said James Webb, SGA vice-president.
“But students should not have to carry all the load while the business school
is ironing out its weaknesses.”
Between 35 to 40 students attended the meeting held in the B.N. Duke
Auditorium. Webb said that the complaints that students listed were being
dropped from class in the middle of the semester; that prequesite courses
for the business degree were not spelled out clearly in the handbook, that
advisors were not giving out correct information; that students are having
to change majors or concentrations because of lack of facilities and/or in
structors; that many full-time students have been reduced to part-time
students as a result of being dropped from class; and that course are now
being made available when Webb said that the business school should
provide some means of assistance to those students who have lost their full
time status because of being dropped from class.
Also Webb said that the advisors should be more aware of their actions
when advising students. Also Webb suggested that the business school
should allow the students to either take the courses in summer school, or be
granted to take the course at another school.