Meredith Herald
Volume IX, Issue 6
September 30,1992
Raleigh, North Carolina
News Briefs
• Senator A1 Gore spoke to
students at East Carolina Uni-
^^ersity Monday urging them to
lelp change the United States.
• Texas billionaire Ross Perot
will announce Thursday whether
3r not he will re-enter the presi-
lential race. His decision to re-
mter the race will be up to his
t'olunteers and supporters, ac-
:ording to Perot.
• Traffic was backed up for
niles Sunday afternoon on a
stretch of 185/40 in Alamance
md Guilford Counties. 72 ve-
licles were involved in at least
3 accidents. 16 people were
xeated at hospitals for minor in-
uries.
• Escaped murderer Glenn
idward Jacobs remained atlarge
Fuesday. He escaped Friday in
Eastern Raleigh by kicking out
Jie windown of a van which was
aken him back to Central Prison,
fhis was his second escape.
• A Pakistani jet crashed in
4epal killing all 167 abroad. One
American was among the pas
sengers killed.
• A 12-year-old Mississippi
)oy has filed suit to divorce his
parents, evidently prompted by
he success of the Gregory
jngsly case.
• The “new” New Yorker ap-
3eared on newsstands Monday.
It is the first edition under the
lew leadership of Tina Brown,
former editor of Vanity Fair.
• Hillary Clinton, wife of Bill
linton, the Democratic Presi-
Jential candidate, was in Raleigh
fuesday. She held a round-table
Jiscussion with area campus
lewspaper editors.
Hillary Clinton stresses the college student vote
by Traci Latta and Tracey Rawls
Hillary Clinton set forth her
agenda for education and family
values at a round-table discussion
with editors from local college and
university newspapers Tuesday at
North Carolina State University
(NCSU).
"The way I see it, my life is half
over..., but you are the ftiture," said
Clinton. According to the Arkan
sas democrat, persons between the
ages of 18 to 24 years have lowest
voter turnout rate. She stressed the
importance of voting among col
lege-age students as it impact the
present as well as the ftiture.
She also addressed the future
of education and women in the
workforce. "Choices may change,
and women will find themselves in
the workplace personally prepared.
These educational choices will
make it possible for women to do
what they need and want to do," the
Democrat said.
Clinton went on to say that as
first lady her primary focus would
be a message of change in domes-
photo by Chris Hondros
Hillary Clinton fields a question from a college-student editor while Joe Johnson
moderates the discussion.
tic policies. "I want to be the voice of
children," said Clinton.
As a college student, Clinton be
came a child advocate through her
work with legal-service groups.
Clinton said: "Family values need
to have a backbone of economic policy.
The Republican family platform is a
false debate that needs to be supported
with more than just rhetoric.
It’s sad that the Republicans attack
Bill and me, instead of the future,"
she said.
If she becomes first lady, Clinton
wants to break away from the tradi
tional role. She pictures a day when
the role is not gender-specific.
Representatives were present from
the Meredith Herald, Technician,
Duke Chronicle, The Daily Tar Heel,
Peace Times, State Critic, and Cam
pus Echo.
Security responds to student concerns
by Frances Pate
In last week’s issue, there was a
letter to the editor about a Meredith
student’s concerns about security
on campus and an experience she
had dealing with them. In response
to the letter. Chief Dan Shattuck
said he is very concerned about the
bad reports he has received con
cerning “his men” and always tries
to find out what’s going on.
If something “wrong” hap
pens, he said he wants to be the first
to know. Shattuck added that secu
rity officers are well-trained on how
they should conduct themsel ves and
are told what procedures they should
follow.
Shattuck said, "It is hard to get
people to do what you want them to
do. Everyone has their own method
of doing things.” He said he would
strive to make sure the security offic
ers did their jobs well, and more im
portantly, properly.
Responding to the article last week,
Shattuck explained what he thought
the problem was. He said that stu
dents often have to wait a few minutes
for a security officer because there are
only three security officials on cam
pus during after-curfew hours. Ac
cording to Shattuck, one stays in the
gate house, one mans Vann and
Brewer, and the other is responsible
for the “riding rink” parking lot, the
International House, Poteat, Heilman,
and Barefoot. During “peak” times a
guard may be expected to let in five or
six students at different locations and
see them all safely to their dorms.
Shattuck said a security officer,
during these hours, runs a tight sched
ule and can’t afford to wait at one
particular door. Shattuck said five
minutes is a reasonable amount of
time for a student to be expected to
get from her car to her dorm, give or
take a couple of minutes. If a student
is late getting to the dorm, the security
person is forced to leave another stu
dent waiting elsewhere. “Unfortu
nately,” Shattuck said “We can’t be
everywhere at all times."
In response to security escorts
from parking lots, Shattuck said a
student waiting for an escort should
wait in their car for a few minutes,
with their headlights on, and security
will come. Because the “liability is
too great,” Shattuck said students can
not be carried to or from their dorms.
Shattuck and his staff are doing
their best, but we “girls are going to
have to be more responsible for [our]
own security.”