Peer counseling opens
page five/the journal/october 10.1972
-in closet
campus news
Robbie Griggs and ten or so
other UNCC students have, at
present, succeeded in forming
what is known as a committee for
peer counseling. In the works for
nearly a year now, the group Is
now ready for "action.” The need
for peer counseling is evident, as
90 per cent of the counseling
done today is peer counseling and
this university, until now, has had
none.
Sponsored by the Human
Sexuality Committee, Peer
Counseling is an information
counseling center featuring school
and community Information and
usually difficult to find stuff on
subjects like abortions, drugs, and
the like. Also, they offer an
academic counseling service with
the goods on courses and
professors.
Soon there will be a phone
counseling service, but, thanks to
Ma Bell, it seems the counselors
have a line into their office and
even a number assigned
(597-2001), but at this date- no
telephone. Great? However, when
the phone is in you will be able to
call the counseling office and talk
with a counselor from the privacy
of your own room about whatever
bothers you. They are there- use
'em.
The eleven plus people in peer
counseling have attended training
sessions led by the professionals in
the University Counseling Center.
When training is complete, the
Counseling Center makes
evaluations of the trainees, the
students evaluate themselves, and
the final decision is left up to the
Human Sexuality Committee.
Weekly, the counselors meet
with the people in the Counseling
Center to bring each other up on
the latest methods and
Information on counseling and
otherwise get It together. The
counseling group is also backed by
the university doctor. Dr. Bill
Davis, who just happens to be a
good dude. We're In good hands...
Counseling officially begins on
October ninth. The office will be
open Monday through Friday
from one until 6 P.M. There are
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open meetings of the group every
Wednesday In the counseling
office at 11:30 A.M. They need
volunteers, so all interested people
are urged to attend.
To get to the Peer Counseling
Office (broom closet?), you walk
In the front door of the union, go
down the corridor past the SBG
office and turn left. Walk a few
steps and turn down the first hall
which, again. Is to the left. Go to
the end of this hall, being very
careful to avoid the maintenance
supplies and piles of other junk,
and turn right.
There you will find a door
blocked by a sink making it nearly
impassable for a large person.
After squeezing through the door,
you will find yourself in the
counseling office. If these
directions seem strange and
difficult, they are. Thank you,
administration.
If you have a problem and the
directions are too intricate or you
left your Journal at home, just
stand In the union and scream.
Someone will come and get you.
Senate still
organizing
Legislature discusses elections
The Student Legislature met in
a brief session Monday, most of
the business focusing on the
elections recently held on campus.
President Stan Patterson
reported on the election results
and some controversy that had
arisen from them. The
controversy has stemmed from
the wording of the yearbook
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ballot and a complexity in the
run-off for senior class president.
The parking suit has been
submitted to Tom Myers, SGA
attorney general; Dennis Rash,
Dean of Students; and University
Court Chief Justice E.L. Rogers
for polishing and consideration
before action is taken.
On the financial scene, the
student bank reported that
business more than doubled
Sunday, causing the bank to close
early. The bank plans to increase
funds to prevent another such
occurrence.
The vice president then made
his report on the elections and
runoffs. There will be a runoff in
the college of social and
behavioral sciences, between
Kenny Lowenstein and David
Brown. The runoff for senior class
president will be between Kenny
Johnson and Charles Bridges. C.
F. Warren has resigned from the
SGA, leaving open a post in the
(College of Architecture. Election
dates for the runoff elections
should be posted by the time of
publication.
The Judicial Committee
reported that 14 organizations
have made no reports, and their
charters will be terminated if no
response is made soon. A motion
to recharter the Engineers Club
was introduced and passed.
The Ways and Means
Committee report was approved
unopposed.
New legislators will assume
office on October 9, 1972.
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The Senate meeting that
occurred on Wednesday, October
4, was the kind of session that
could shake one's faith in
representative government. It
makes a reporter wonder what
might happen if those being
represented cared about what was
going on.
So this reporter's objectivity Is
already compromised. To salvage
the remainder of this report it will
be necessary to simply present
without additional comment the
record of the Senate's remarkable
business on October 4.
Apparently, the 11:30 session
was the third continuation of the
Senate's first meeting. As such, it
continued the progress of Senate
self-organization -- a little bit. For
instance, item number one on the
agenda was completed quickly
and succe^fully, with Chairman
Witherspoon announcing the
appointment of Ed Hopper as
parliamentarian. Hopper later
served forcefully in that capacity.
Item number two was deferred;
Witherspoon was not yet ready to
appoint a permanent secretary.
Then the chairman launched into
an Executive Committee report
which served mainly to defer
three more items on the agenda.
The election of committee
members did not take place, the
election of associate justices did
not take place, and the
Amendmerit for Article Five was
discussed but not acted upon. (It
may seem appropriate that the,
Amendment deals with
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simplification of Senate election
processes.)
One series of elections was
satisfactorily completed. Named
to committee chairmanships
unopposed were Douglas Orr,
Long Range Planning; Ron
Young, University Affairs; Robert
Conrad, Finance; and Stephen
Fishman, Personnel.
And there were two motions
successfully carried. One proposed
by Stan Patterson established that
Senate Committee membership
will be open-ended and of variable
size, with Senators being given
their first preference on
committee choice. Non-Senate
membership on the committees is
still up in the air, having been
earlier deferred.
The other motion dealt with
the date of the next Senate
session. There was less discussion
on this motion than on the first
(it somehow required a lot), and
at one point Parliamentarian
Hopper exclaimed that the
discussion was "floundering,"
which indeed It was. He prompted
the Senate to name a motion
upon which to act, which they
did, which definitely established
Monday, October 16, seven p.m.,
as the next meeting time.
Thus the Senate floundered to
completion of the agenda. There
were seven definite decisions
made, against four deferred items.
Numerically, the session was a
success. Any further analysis
might lead to editorializing of the
most scathing quality.
Election results
Commuter Dorm
Totals Totals
Grafxl
Totals
Additional Monies For Yearbook
For 132
Aganist 218
Undeclared Majors
Judt Ward 4
Jeff Mitchell g
Social And Behavioral Sciences
Andelt McCoy lo
John Lyle 13
Kenneth Lowinstein 19
David Brown 9
Humanities
Jane Sigmon 46
Mary Keyhoe 5
Michael McLain 9
Sanford Hail President
Barbara Mintich
Grace Cobrane
Kathy Moose
Moore Hall President
Phil Nesbitt For
Against
Dorm' 72 President
Sally Garr
Kathe Reynolds
Freshman Class President
Charles Marus For 50
Against g
Commuter Representative
Alfred Liner 155
James Killiam 221
Gary Gross 191
David Holloway 193
Debbie Maynard 240
Terry Fulbright 259
Jamie Stemple 218
Senior Class President
Lucia T. Tompkins 14
Kenny Johnson gg
Charles Bridges 32
Engineering Representative
Jeff Warren ^3
Richard Floush 5
Student Media Board
Claudia Finkenaur iqi
Hope Collins 159
131
315
263
533
18
18
22
26
8
9
46
23
18
22
65
32
66
15
18
112
20
27
32
75
35
32
75
35
81
24
81
24
103
56
103
56
105
31
155
40
165
221
191
198
240
259
218
2.
21
37
16
90
69
17
6
30
11
75
246
176
415