Media Board Meets to Approve,
Reject Candidates for Leadership
The Media Board met Monday
to approve candidates for heads of
the various media.
Candidates for the editorship
of Rogues 'n' Rascals were the
first to be considered.
The team of Terry Fulbright
and Kathy Mauney for co-editors
were first subjected to the
scrutiny of the board.
Mauney read the quaiifications
of the candidates. She had heid
various positions with yearbooks
during her high school years and
was copy supervisor for the
yearbook at Marcelle College. This
year, Mauney, a sophomore, is
working with Rogues 'n' Rascals
in the ad department.
Fulbright has worked with the
Rogues 'n' Rascals for the past
two years, first as class and sports
editor for the pink annual and
then as managing and associate
editor under Tom Alsop.
Fulbright and Mauney stated
that they wanted to put the book
out in the spring, that they would
take steps to have an adequate
number of copies, and have the
office and the files open to all.
The team was asked how they
could cover both semesters of the
year and still put out a yearbook
at graduation. Fulbright said that
if they put out the book in
paperback, they wouldn't have to
send it to the printer's quite so
early; or, they could print the
book in hardback and put out a
supplement later that could still
come out the same time as the
yearbook.
This was quite confusing to the
board, but Fulbright managed to
explain it to the satisfaction of
the members and interested
persons in attendance.
Bill Keith, a candidate for the
editorship, was the next to be
considered. Keith is presently
working with the yearbook as the
business manager. Fie had
extensive experience in high
school and had attended various
workshops to help him become
familiar with photography, design,
layout and with the
representatives of all the major
yearbook companies.
Keith refuted Fulbright's claim
that a quality yearbook
adequately depicting student life
could come out in the spring. Fie
asserted that he would put the
yearbook out in the fall.
When the vote came Keith was
approved unanimously and
Fulbright and Mauney were
approved with one dissention.
Sanskrit was the next
publication to submit candidates
to the board.
Walter FI. Young, a member of
the Rogues 'n' Rascals staff under
Tom Alsop, was the first to be
considered.
Young, a senior who was
supposedly to graduate in August,
said he was going to stay at school
and pick up a second degree.
According to the Sanskrit
constitution, he said, a candidate
for editorship must have served on
one media, and he cited his
yearbook experience. His
intentions for the book were
vague, but he said he hoped to
print four issues. He admitted that
he had no experience with the
local printers of the literary
magazine.
Young immediately came
under attack from members of the
board who asserted that he, as a
law enforcement major, had no
experience with a literary
magazine and nothing in his
background that even remotely
connected him with the arts.
Young said that he would pick
a staff of English majors and BCA
students to help him decide what
to put in the book, but one board
member asserted that by doing so
he was depending on other people
to do his job for him.
Young soon began to attack
the magazine, asserting that it
doesn't relate well to students and
that he wouldn't have given 75
cents (the relative cost per issue)
for the last issue of the magazine.
Jeffery Beame, present editor
of the yearbook, came under
consideration next since he will
seek re-election.
Since his qualifications had
already been established, he was
asked why he sought the post
again.
Beame stated that he enjoyed
doing the work, and that the next
issue, delayed due to Christmas
vacation and personal problems,
would be out very soon.
In response to a question
asking what the students would
lose if the literary magazine was
abolished, Beame answered that
what is going on creatively and
artistically would be lost to the
students.
The candidates were sent out
of the room and tension mounted
before the vote was taken.
Finally, one member cleared the
air by stating flatly that Young
had nothing in his background
that would qualify him as editor
of a literary magazine.
The vote in favor of Jeffery
Beame was unanimous; one
person voted in favor of Young,
so his candidacy was disqualified.
Candidates for the position of
WVFN station manager were the
next to be interviewed.
Frank Burke, one of the
candidates, said present station
manager Jim Yates, was stranded
in South Carolina, so Yates began
to speak on Burke's behalf.
Burke, he said, had been with
the station for about two and a
half years, two as business
manager. Yates spoke highly of
Burke's involvement with every
aspect of the station, his research
into FM, and the help Burke has
given to Yates through the year.
Burke at this point came in out
of breath, having evidently just
escaped from South Carolina, and
while he caught his breath Dick
Wyzanski, another candidate for
the post, stated his qualifications.
Wyzanski stated that he had had
administrative experience in high
school, that he had held different
jobs, that he was named music
director last week, and that he
planned to carry through the
programs already begun at WVFN.
Burke stated that in his role as
business manager he had had some
control over the operation of the
station and was familiar with
purchasing the equipment needed.
At the vote, Burke was
approved unauimously and
Wyzanski was approved with one
opposing vote.
Journal candidated were
approved next.
Alan Jones, who had submitted
his name for the editorship, was
not present at the meeting.
Chairman Mike Aldridge told the
board in his capacity as Journal
co-editor that he considered Jones
unqualified, since Jones, a
photographer, had submitted no
work to the paper all year, had no
conception of the work involved,
and no experience in working
with the staff.
Aldridge said that to approve
Jones would be a detriment to the
newspaper.
Co-editor candidates Jim
Smallridge and Jane Ross were the
next to be questioned by the
board.
Ross is presently news editor
of the Journal and has an
extensive background with
professional newspapers.
Smallridge has worked closely
with the Journal in a variety of
capacities, including writing,
business, and slave to the editors.
The Ross/Smallridge team was
approved; Jone's candidacy was
rejected.
Joe McCorkle was approved for
the position of Sanskrit business
manager.
The board voted then not to
reopen nominations where only
one candidate was running, and
the meeting drew to a close two
hours after it had begun.
Colvard - Mathis Memos Show
Salary Battle Not Over Yet
The Journal recently had an
opportunity to review the memos
between Chancellor D. W. Colvard
and Humanities Chairman William
Mathis concerning the debate over
the inadequacy of the faculty
salaries in the Department of
Humanities.
In a six page memo to Mathis,
Colvard said that the "findings of
our analysis....raise a question
concerning the validity of the
allegation of discrimination."
Colvard pointed out that:
- the second highest raise in
1973-74 went to a Humanities
taculty member
of the twelve people who
received raises of $2,000 or more,
^°were in Humanities
" of the 61 people who
received raises of $1,000 or more,
21 were in the Humanities, and
that four out of the five highest
raises went to Humanities
members
— the total faculty salaries for
1973-74 were $4,337,507. Some
25 per cent went to the faculty
members, who comprise 27 per
cent of the total faculty. Colvard
asserted that the Humanities
faculty had received some 27.3
per cent of the total raises in
1973-74.
Colvard also made some side
comments about the fact that
some of the Humanities faculty
members who had had
considerable raises were In the
group that visited him to present
the list of Humanities grievances.
"It Is the purpose and policy of
UNCC to recruit the most capable
persons available in all disciplines
within the constraints imposed by
the university budget," Colvard
said, hinting that in some cases
the university budget could be
made more flexible.
In closing, he promised to
continue studying the situation.
In Mathis' four page reply to
the Chancellor, the chairman
stated that he had consulted with
ranking members in the college
and that "we are in agreement
that some of your memorandum
appears not to address the basic
issue."
Mathis pointed out that the
major concern was the gap in the
average Humanities salary and the
average university faculty
member's salary.
Mathis reminded Colvard that
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the trend showed that things in
Humanities were getting worse
instead of better.
"Twelve of the 14 points in
your memorandum address
themselves to the question of
'discrimination against the faculty
in the College of Humanities' in
granting salary increases. That
they do prevents their being
germaine to the issue which was
apparently not well
communicated — the widening
gap between the College of
Humanities average salaries and
the university average salaries by
rank. At no time was there
intention of levelling an
accusation that there had been
active negative discrimination
against Humanities, only
that
there appeared to be a built in
system tor perpetuating or
increasing inequities."
In closing, he refuted the
chancellor's attack on the faculty
members who had received raises,
assuring him that they were acting
in the interests of the entire staff.