volume vii, number 6
October 18, 1971
Election contested
Long-time student politician
Ed Wayson - outpoUed Dean
tluncan to win the vacant Student
Body Vice Presidency in fall
elections held September 30 and
October 1. Wayson’s 373 votes
overly doubled Duncan’s 144
Votes. The Vice President’s slot
Opened up when Stan Patterson
(then V-P) stepped up to fill
deposed President Charlie
Sutton’s unserved term.
Vicky Hinson perhaps set a
bend Nixon could follow on the
Supreme Court. She became Chief
{^ustice of the Student Supreme
kourt by her leading vote tally of
288 votes. Other judges on the
Court were elected, also: Bob
tJavis (9249), Tom Alsop (267),
gi^Foster (181), and Ron Young
Tom Duley’s 74 votes was
enough to win the Freshman Class
resident’s seat, over Scott
Alison’s 36.
James Cuthbertson (78) beat
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Charlie Herndon (41) for Moore
Hall President in another race.
Herndon offered some allegations
about the elections’ validity (See
Letters, page 2), but was told by
the Regulations Committee that
the election stands as held.
Several run-off contests
remain, although the date has yet
to be set by the Elections
Committee. Sally Garr (101) and
Annie Howell (57) will face each
other for the Sanford Hall
Presidency. Bob Anderson (330)
and Aubrey Hilliard (426) will
square off in a run-off for a
Business Administration
representative.
Other representatives elected,
followed by their constituency,
were: Tim Pate (8), Architecture;
Ron Young (64), Social and
Behavorial Sciences; and, David
Hinshaw (120), Charles Fagan
(89), Jane Sigmon (136), David
House (97), R.B. Butterfield (78),
and Karen Nelson (118),
Commuter Representatives.
SGA dumps Goldigger
by Charlie peek
The SGA, swollen with newly
ccted members, battled
^tensively over the still
“''published 1971- 72 Goldigger
'heir October 4 meeting.
^fter much lengthy debate and
Parliamentary confusion, a
ption to proceed with the
printing of the UNCC handbook,
defeated.
: In the day’s only other
„ Portant vote, the allocations for
''lr®®rleaders was cut from
>000 to $540, and plans were
ade to seek additional funds
irw the Athletic Department.
Eddie Bernson, who was
j,PP°inted under Charlie Sutton to
jj, Pl'ah the Goldigger, brought the
52 I’®" onto the floor to allocate
Drn ^ to recommence printing
•n f®'^''res that had been halted
n August. Bernson could not give
tha for the delay other
that his funds were cut off.
Newly elected speaker pro tern
David Lazenby contested the
breakdown of the budget, noting
that the total travel costs included
items not related to the
publication of the Goldigger,
specifically Bemson’s trips
concerning the “going-away
party” for Mrs. Jones and Mrs.
Glover.
President Stan Patterson
questioned the reduction from
3500 copies to be printed to 2000
copies. Bernson had planned to
distribute 1000 copies to
Dormitory students and 1000
copies to commuters.
Patterson said that this plan
constituted an inequitable ratio.
Confused debate followed
often interrupted by
newly-elected vice-president Ed
Wayson’s attempts to guide the
legislators into proper use of
parliamentary procedure.
The final vote however
defeated the motion.
When asked about what steps
he would now take to get the
I
lOURiBAL
Responsibility for all
No university can succeed
unless each part of the school -
students, administration, and
faculty — fulfills its
responsibilities.
This is the opinion of Physics
Professor Terrill W. Mayes, newly
elected president of the loci
chapter of the Association of
American University Professors
(AAUP).
Mayes is concerned primarily
with strengthening the role of the
faculty in curriculum matters,
such as graduation requirements,
credit for courses, grading, and
academic programs.
But Mayes sees each group in
the university as equally
important in ensuring a good
institution. “If any group fails to
fulfill its responsibility,” he said,
“the whole university suffers.
“Part of the problem now is
that when one part fails, there is
really nothing that can be done,”
he continued. ‘‘The
administration can’t do for
students what they should do for
themselves, just as the faculty
cannot handle administrative
work.”
Mayes believes that there is a
need for each group to define
clearly its areas of responsibility.
The faculty, he feels, should
decide curriculum matters. The
administration should be in charge
of business aspects and
appropriating funds for university
programs or buildings. Students
should control student affairs.
“There should be as much
input from all sources as
possible,” Mayes said, “but the
group responsible for certain
functions should be held
accountable for those
responsibilites.
“Each group has rather distinct
areas where its interest lies, and
where it is best able to make
decisions.”
Goldigger published, Bernson said
that he had no immediate plans.
I’ll just have to sit down now and
think it out, he said.
In a motion concerning the
cheerleader’s budget, Legislator
Charlie Spriggs recommended that
SGA allocations for that
organization be trimmed from an
original figure of $2,000 to a
more conservative $540. Spriggs
expressed optimism that the rest
of the money needed for the
operations of the cheerleaders
could come from the Athletic
Fees which this year amount to
close to $33,000. Spriggs cited
such schools as UNC-Chapel Hill,
N.C. State, Davidson, and J.C.
Smith as examples of institutions
whose Athletic Departments
subsidize their cheerleader’s
funds. In addition to the $540, to
be used for uniforms, the
cheerleaders are expected to
resubmit a budget for traveling
expenses to the SGA.
Nixon and graham. . . the big day Friday at the Coliseum saw many UNCC students
‘Used admission to the event. A new campus group, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, had
o/q* for a protest inside the Coliseum, but few of their members made it past the barricades
Secret Service men and local police forces. It was quite a dishonorable day. . .
Journal photo/wllcox
Mayes believes that students
should be consulted in decisions
made by faculty and
administration.
“I trust the students, but I
think our problem is that there is
not enough participation with a
large number of students.
“Students on our campus don’t
seem to take enough interest in
what goes on. They don’t look
after their own interest enough. It
seems to me that on matters
where they should be interested,
that interest is lacking.”
Faculty participation, as well
as student participation, needs to
be increased, Mayes feels.
“This is a difficult time for the
faculty. We are in a transition
period,” he said. Until a few years
ago, the faculty was organized as a
whole. Almost all faculty business
was decided in regular faculty
meetings.
“This worked fine as long as
there were relatively few faculty
members. But as the faculty grew,
it became harder to get a
consensus. There was more
debate, especially on trivial
matters. Important decisions were
put off,” Mayes explained.
At present, the individual
colleges are the basic units of
faculty decision-making. Each
college makes its own decisions in
matters relating to that college.
“The problem now,” Mayes
said, “is that there is a lack of
coordination between the separate
colleges. There is coordination
among the various deans, which
works well. But there is none
among the rest of the faculty
members.”
The faculty is in the process of
drawing up a new faculty
constitution which, Mayes hopes,
will solve many of the
communication and
decision-making problems.
The AAUP itself is not directly
by sharon deck
changes. Nationally, the AAUP
deals with problems of academic
freedom, tenure, and due process
in conflicts between faculty and
administration. The AAUP also
has “a student rights committee,
which looks after student freedom
and due process for the student.
If a specific situation arises,
however, where a professor or
student asks for assistance, the
AAUP will enter the situation.
“The AAUP has no real
power,” Mayes explained, “but
they can bring things into the
open. Sometimes that solves the
problem.”
Guidelines have been set up by
the AAUP for action in various
situations. Almost all institutions
accept these guidelines.
If the situation is not resolved
to the satisfaction of the AAUP,
the administration of the school
involved is officially censured, and
notification of the censure is sent
to every AAUP member. This
makes it difficult for the
offending school to hire qualified
personnel.
The AAUP is a faculty
organization. Although it will aid
students, it does so only in
breaches of academic freedom or
due process. The AAUP holds,
and Mayes agrees, that students
should protect their own rights
wherever possible.
This year the AAUP 's
concentrating on putti g
automatic procedures into the
system so that faculty and
students are given a chance to be
heard and the right to appeal to
an appropriate appeals board.
They also want to insure that
there is an adequate hearing for
students who have actions taken
against them without due process.
Also planned is a study of the
distribution of faculty salaries, to
see how salaries vary from
department to department and
among the various institutions in