Suit due about parking ^h©ss club
University parking regulations
may be changed soon, one way or
another, as two different facets of
university government are
presently working on two
different approaches to the
campus parking problem.
On one hand, Jerry Hudson,
head of security, has submitted to
Mr. Moelchert, vice-chancellor of
business affairs, a plan to revise
parking regulations,
Hudson says that this
recommendation includes a
change in parking fees. This
entails a charge of a flat fee, for
example, $3, plus a nominal
charge per month instead of the
$12 rate charged now,
Hudson is also hoping that
parking fees will be applied
equally to students and faculty.
The plan proposes a look at
present and future parking lots
and the problems they may bring,
plus a consideration of the legal
hassle of the collection of ticket
money on campus as opposed to
county collection.
According to Hudson, the
proposal has been recieved in the
Executive Committee with general
agreement, and he looks forward
, by charlotte porter
to its eventual passage. Moelchert
was unavailable for comment, but
left word that since the proposal
is still in committee any
discussion of it would be
premature.
On the other hand, Stan
Patterson, SGA president, plans to
file suit in University Court
against the discriminatory
university parking policy.
Patterson says that students
pay more than the faculty while
the faculty gets choice parking
spaces. He hopes to have parking
on a first come, first served basis,
with the exception of reserved
spaces for handicapped students,
Patterson will be consulting the
SGA attorney general within the
next week to draw up the suit. He
cautions that it may be a matter
of weeks before any action is
taken.
The UIMCC Chess Club got off
to a fine opening (P-K4) last
Wednesday night in the Parquet
Room, More than forty people
made a move to join, with varying
degrees of skill. Syntax? What's
that? You'd suspect that people
joining a chess club would be
fairly good. Not true, I was there.
Playing a game before the
meeting started, some guy said
something about Nimzo Indians,
which I had always thought were
a tribe along the upper Amazon.
Turns out it's an opening move.
Oh well.
Picture all these people playing
chess all over the place and Ralph
Cook, who was subsequently
elected club president, trying to
bring up some business. With
people halted in mid-move, Tom
Lucas of the Math Department
read the proprosed constitution
which was discussed and passed
by the assemblage for submission
University senate
The University Senate of
UNC-Charlotte held its second
meeting of the year last
Wednesday, Sept. 20, in the
Parquet Room. This meeting was
much more productive than the
first one.
Chancellor Dean W. Colvard
opened the meeting by asking for
nominations for office of
President pro tern of the Senate.
It came as no surprise when Dr.
Loy Witherspoon was
unanimously elected. (Being the
only person running made him a
sure thing.) Following a few short
words about the Senate in general,
Chancellor Colvard gave the gavel
to Dr. Witherspoon, the new
■ President pro tern.
Among items brought up by
Dr. Witherspoon was the election
of an Executive Committee for
the Senate. Following a short
nomination and election. Senators
Sigmon, Josephson, Williams,
Jamgotch, and Patterson were
elected. The formation of the rest
of the Executive Committee,
which basically consists of
committee chairmen, was
postponed until committees could
by jim pappas
be formulated.
Other items of Interest brought
before the Senate were mentions
by some faculty members that the
students lacked two or possibly
more representatives to the
Senate. The present student
Senators plan to fill the vacancies
soon. The Senate also decided it
would be in their best interest to
meet in a smaller room. One
Senator commented that for a
meeting this size the Parquet
Room resembled a "bowling
alley."
_ by jay eaker
to the SBG for approval. Officers
elected in .addition to Ralph
Cook were Bob Whaley as
Vice-President, and Doug Agnew
as Secretary-treasurer. Tom Lucas
was appointed as faculty advisor
and dues were set at $1.00 a
semester.
President Cook urged all those
present to tell their chess-playing
friends about the club and
encouraged all players on campus,
whatever their degree of skill, to
come to the club's regular
meetings on Wednesday nights at
7:30 in the Parquet Room.
Most people seemed interested
in having a simultaneous
exhibition match, and October 4
at 7:30 in the Parquet Room was
set as the date that local expert,
Ken Collins would come on
campus and play fifteen games
simultaneously with anyone who
pays a dollar. The club is starting
a list on a first come - first served
basis.
There was also a great deal of
interest in having a UIMCC
tournament to uncover the best
player on campus. Plans are for
this event to be held in about a
month or so.
Back to the second paragraph,
after my opening move, I was
impressed by the fact that even
duffers like myself could step in
and play without being ridiculed,
laughed at, or worse. Having
always been afraid of social
ostracism, I was very much
relieved when the dude I was
playing let me get away with a
draw.
The advantage of having a
chess club on campus is that you
can always get a good game and
improve your skills without
having to run around asking
people, "Do you play chess?" It's
also nice to have some tolerant
person to play with.
Legislature quick, quiet
page three/the journal/september 27,1972
I think that I shall never see...
The semester's second meeting
of the Student Legislature passed
quickly and quietly on Monday,
September 25. It was called to
order in Room 209 of the
University Center a little after the
suggested meeting time of 11:30
A.M., as a few legislators seemed
to have rushed to the meeting
somewhat slowly. The initial
attitude of the legislators was, in
fact, light-hearted and indifferent,
and remained so throughout the
meeting. Vice-President Roland
Gentry's several disciplinary
attempts provided a little interest,
but no real change in legislative
dynamism.
The business of the day began
with Gentry's call to order and a
roll check by the secretary. (A
minor mystery evolved when one
legislator answered the roll but
was later not to be found. It was
only a minor mystery.)
Next, President Stan Patterson
presented his report. He informed
the Legislature that the probe Into
the student activity fees was
continuing, and that he was
planning to petition the student
Attorney General In an attempt to
erase the parking fee
discrimination between faculty
and student cost. According to
Patterson, the journey of the
Student Bill of Rights continues,
now that it has been submitted
with a few revisions to the
General Administration of the
Consolidated University.
The two vacancies in the
Student Superior Court wilt be
filled during the next week.
Patterson added, by presidential
appointment. Anyone wishing to
fill those positions should contact
President Patterson. Finally, Stan
added that elections would be
held on Thursday and Friday,
September 28-29, and that
anyone wishing to help at the
polling places should contact
Marty Beam, the elections
chairman.
The next order of business was
the Vice-President's report.
Roland Gentry's brief and timely
remarks dealt mainly with
legislators who might fail to
realize the significance of
meetings being scheduled at fixed
points in time.
The report of the Judicial
Committee followed. Chairman
Richard Butterfield reported on
the continuing investigations into
the status of some campus
organizations. Approximately
fourteen appear to be dead or
dying, and they have two weeks
to report to the Committee before
their charters are terminated. A
motion to add Charlie Herndon to
the Judicial Committee passed
unopposed.
The Finance Committee report
was presented late in the meeting,
and out-of-order, a.s Chairman
Boone Wayson was preparing it
during the session. (V-P Gentry
noted the sin orally and Wayson
was quick to repent it.) There
were two main developments
reported by Wayson: one, the
Black Student Union's latest
budget of about $7000 has been
entirely rejected, which will
by pat miller
require submission of a new
budget; and two, the Finance
Committee passed a new by-law.
The law was also presented to the
Legislature as a formal motion,
and passed unopposed. It requires
that all organizations receiving
money from the SBG send
monthly financial reports to the
Committee until they have
exhausted their allocations.
No other committees reported;
in the old business it was learned
that the getting-more-bulletin-
boards effort is continuing.
During new business a motion was
made that would require each
legislator to join at least one
standing committee instead of the
presently required two. The
motion was decisively tabled until
the next session, as according to
law.
That completed the crucial
business of the day. The meeting
adjourned at 12 noon, and
everyone seemed pleasantly
astonished at the 25-minute
duration. Nothing had happened.
There had been one threat of
excitement, when halfway
through the session a glass ashtray
slid noisily across the legislative
table. V-P Gentry asnwered the
interruption promptly with an
alarming smash of his faultless
gavel, but this climax quickly led
back to the former calm. After
the session was adjourned, one
was left only with the hope of
more exciting (and significant)
things to come.
journal photo/max street