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The Student Legislature voted
to sponsor a student discount
program at its Monday, Dec. 8
meeting.
The program is directed by
the American Student Discount
Corporation of Chapel Hill and
will go into effect immediately
in Greensboro.
Discount cards are now on
sale in the College Union office.
The organization is com
posed exclusively of students.
The program entitles the hold
ers of Student Consumer Cards
to 10 to 25% discounts from
participating businesses.
Student Consumer Cards are
sold for sl. The Student Legis
lature, as the sponsoring or
ganization, will receive 25% of
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Long-Hairs Win U
Schools Scored Fo
(AC LU)--Federal courts in
Wisconsin, Illinois, Massachu
setts, Indiana and Alabama have
declared that students cannot be
excluded from school merely on
the basis of their hair length.
The rash of favorable decisions
in CLU ' long hair" casescomes
after several years of largely
unsuccessful efforts to convince
schools and courts that long hair
is a form of express ion, protected
by constitutional guarantees of
free speech and privacy.
The Wisconsin decision is
prasently being appealed by the
school officials to the U. S.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh
Circuit. A fayorable ruling there
would affect many other pending
cases.
In argument before the Cir
cuit Court in October, Wiscon
sin CLU Attorney Sander N.
Karp argued the Williams Bay
short hair requirement is "dis
cipline purely for the sake of
discipline . . .the first step on
the road toabsolute conformity."
NO DISTURBANCE
Here, as in other cases, the
student's grooming did not dis
turb the school's 'discipline, de
corum or learning atmosphere,"
the CLU contends. The school
therefore had no business inter
fering in an ' intimately personal
matter."
In declaring the hair ban
unconstitutional, the Federal
District Court had stated, "It
is time to broaden the consti
tutional community by including
within its protection younger
people whose claim to dignity
matches that of their elders."
The Court continued, "So far
as education of young people
In obedience is concerned, it
is important for them to ap
preciate the present vitality of
our proud tradition that although
we respect government in the
exercise of its constitutional
powers, we jealously guard our
freedoms from its attempts to
exercise unconstitutional
powers."
A similar ruling by the Fed
eral District Court in Chicago
was not appealed by the suburban
high school involved. As a re
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MIG To Try Impeachment
Edgerton Refuses To Resign
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PHIL EDGERTON
sult, a 17-year-old was permitted
to register for the fall term
despite his shoulder-length hair
and mustache. Illinois CLU At
torneys Jonathan Smith and Bur
ton Joseph represented the youth.
PREJUDICE
The Federal District Court
in Boston ordered a Marlboro
student's suspension, voided and
wiped from his record saying,
there was no reason for the
suspension, "except possibly the
principal's personal prejudice."
Citing Heraclitus, the Court ob
served that "from different tones
comes the best tune." Attorney
Daniel Levenson represented the
ooy for the CLU of Massachu
setts.
The Indiana case Is being ap
pealed by the CLU there because
although the Federal District
Court recognized that long hair
is constitutionally protected
"symbolic speech," it held that
the youth's appearance had "di
rectly caused disturbances and
disruption of the educational
process." The Court therefore
declined to void the student's
suspensin.
DISRUPTIONS
ICLU points out there was
"no evidence (of) any kind of
action which could possibly be
considered a disruption of the
academic process." The entire
evidence came from a teacher
who said students had "looked"
at the long-haired student, one
or two hesitated to join him as
Guilford
Art Show
A display of paintings, draw
ings, and original prints of 23
artists from the New England
area is now in the Union.
All artists represented are
prizewinners and have works on
display in public and private
collections in the U.S. and abroad.
The show is sponsored by the
Old Bergen Art Guild of Bayonne,
N.J.
Monday, December 15, 1969
Phil Edgerton, Vice-President
of the Men's Inter-dormitory
Government, has been asked to
resign his MIG position due to
his part in an incident involving
the presence of a woman stu
dent in a men's dormitory suite
on Homecoming Weekend.
David Mahaney, speaking on
behalf of the MIG officers, made
the request Tuesday night, Dec. 9.
Edgerton told THE GUIL
FCRDIAN that he refused tocom
ply with the request "on the
grounds that there are issues
in Ihis situation that need to be
brought out into the open."
He explained, "I feel that men
students can best be served by
this issue being made public."
In making the resignation re
quest, Mahaney reportedly told
Edgerton that his resignation
a lab partner and the teacher
himself felt a "strain."
The case, now before the
Seventh Circuit, is handled by
Attorneys Craig Pinkus, David
L. Allison and Thomas W. Ross.
Two recently reported federal
cases in Alabama support the
rights of college as well as sec
ondary school students to wear
their hair as they choose. In
the college case the Federal Dis
trict Court said exclusions of
long-haired students violates the
14th Amendment prohibition of
"classification upon an un
reasonable basis."
HAIR BLOCKED
In the high school case the
student had violated the school's
dress code by wearing his hair
blocked instead of shingled or
tapered. The Court called the
requirement "utterly un
reasonable," ruling that "until
one's appearance carries with it
a substantial risk of harm to
others, it should be dictated by
one's own taste or lack of it."
Other federal suits ha"e been
filed in other states. In one,
Michigan CLU Attorney Douglas
Hillman recently won a
temporary order returning a stu
dent to school while his case is
pending. In another, Michigan
CLU Attorney Norton Cohen is
representing students from seven
school districts in a class action.
A temporary restraining order
was denied in this case.
Additionally, ACLU affiliates
are pressing many long hair
cases in state courts and before
administrative bodies.
One recent state victory was
scored by the Greater Philadel
phia CLU. The court pointed
out that school's regulation of
hair length extends beyond the
school and regulates private life.
Therefore, reasons for a haircut
requirement must be especially
"serious." The court found no
such " serious" reasons.
Attorney Robert Lentz handled
the CLU's case.
would lessen the extent of con
troversy and embarrassment.
Mahaney said that since Ed
gerton refused to resign, im
peachment proceedings would
take place.
According to the MIG Consti
tution, officers may be expelled
by a vote of two-thirds of the
male student body.
The incident involving Edger
ton occurred after an R.A. re
portedly heard a woman's voice
in suite C-31 in the 1968 Men's
Dorm.
The R.A. asked Edgerton to
watch the door while he sum
moned the head resident from
the Homecoming Dance.
After the R.A. left, Edgerton
allegedly informed the occu-t
pants of the suite concerning
the impending arrival of the
head resident.
Martha Robertson, the woman
student involved in the offense,
was sentenced to disciplinary
tion by the Judicial Board of
WSC on the charge of being pres
ent in the men's suite.
AVERY AND DAVIS
Moulton Avery and Evan Davis
were convicted by the MIG and
given reprimands on charges of
having Miss Robertson in the
parlor of the dormitory suite.
THE TRIAL
At the beginning of the trial
defendants Avery and Davis re
fused to confirm the charges.
Later in the trial they ad
mitted their guilt.
According to reliable sources,
the defendants admitted guilt in
an attempt to establish a test
case to determine the validity
of the present rule.
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Power Goes Off;
Men Throw Litter
Eggs, bottles, and trash cans
were thrown onto the court
yard of the 1968 Men's Dorm
on Sunday night, Dec. 6, after
a power line transformer "blew
out" and the dorm lost its e
lectric power.
Landrum Cross, head resi
dent of the dorm, explained that
tensions coupled with the dark
ness must have caused a few
individuals to lose control.
The debris remained in the
courtyard for two days.
The maintenance staff was ask
ed not to clean the debris since
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THE FOLLOWING IS A
LIST OF THE OFFICERS OF MIG
DAVID MAHANEY-President
PHIL EDGERTON-Vice Presi
dent
TOM JOHNSON- Secretary
Following are excerpts from
the MIG Consititution explaining
membership and impeachment:
Article III: Membership
Section A: All male resident
students are members of the
Men's Inter-Dormitory Govern
ment and as such they are en
titled to attend all regular meet
ings of the Men's Inter-
Dormitory Government.
Article IX; Removal of Of
ficers and Representatives
Section A: The failure to
maintain no less than a cumu
lative academic average of 1.00
will automatically discharge a
representative or an officer from
his duties.
Section B: Any representative
who fails to attend two con
secutive Men's Inter-Dormitory
Government meetings without ap
pointing an assistant to repre
sent his section or floor is
automatically removed from his
representative position.
Section C: Any Officer or
representative of the Men's
Inter-Dormitory Government
may be expelled from the
body by two thirds vote of the
total membership.
Section D: Any charge
brought against an Officer or
Representative of the Men's
Inter-Dormitory Government
must be presented before the
Men's Inter-Dormitory Govern
ment and any Officer or Rep
resentative subject to expulsion
shall have the full opportunity
to defend himself.
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it was not due to normal activ
ities.
Dorm officers, including Clint
Clampltt, president, later clean
ed the courtyard.
Cross expressed the opinion
that the incident is especially
tragic because money might now
be lost that had just been appro
priated by the trustees to im
prove the grounds of the dorm.
According to Cross, no charges
have been filed against those
participating in the outbreak due
to a lack of information and co
operating witnesses.
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