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Volume XII; Number 23
The Student Newspaper of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Charlotte. North Carolina
February 22, 1977
Most favor classroom smoking ban
By Steve Bass
Chancellor D.W. Colvard established
a ban on smoking in classrooms effective
February 7. The ban, which stated
smoking was banned in all “enclosed
spaces where instruction takes place,”
has been received with general approval.
The ban was established after a petition
was signed by 2,600 students during
registration. The petition was then
presented to the University Senate
(composed of faculty, staff and student
members) which passed a resolution
calling on Chancellor Colvard to establish
the ban.
Ken Sanford, Director of Campus
Information, said, “1 haven’t heard of
any negative response whatsoever. Tire
Charlotte News called me the other day
and asked me to see if the ban was
effective. I took a tour of campus and 1
didn’t see anyone violating the rules. I
did see one professor standing in the
doorway of his classroom smoking and
lecturing, but I wouldn’t call that a
violation as he was not in the classroom
proper.”
“Chancellor Colvard sent a
memorandum around asking faculty
members what the general reaction to the
ban has been,” said Sanford. "Tlie
response was favorable. I think it is
working out just fine.”
Dr. Douglas Orr, Vice Chancellor for
Student Affairs, concurred witli
Sanford's opinion. “Except for Mike’s
editorial (Carolina Joinnal editor Michael
Evans) most of the response I’ve heard
has been positive. I teacli one course and
I’ve heard a couple of students grumble
about the ban. However, most students
in the class were in favor of the ban; they
had already requested that no one smoke
in the room. In short. I’d say that most
of the faculty and students I’ve come in
contact with welcome the ban as an
excellent decision.”
Doug Lerner, student Attorney
General, said most of the comments he
has heard dealt more with the method by
which the decision was made. “Well,
there hasn’t been a lot of negative
feedback about the decision itself, most
people seem to like it. Many people think
there should have been a campus wide
referendum on the issue. In my report to
the Student Legislature, I plan to make a
motion that a referendum should be held
during the spring student elections. The
decision was good, the method used could
have been improved.”
Media heads talk about new system, finances
Carolina Journal photo bv I-lsa IjOnev
By Brad Rich
The addition of the new
cashier/secretary position has vastly
improved the system of checks and
balances on the funds of the various
media. To find out how the business
managers of the media feel about the
new system, each of them was asked to
state the financial state of his
organization.
Max Street, Sanskrit business
manager, said the literary magazine was
given $11,297.00 at the beginning of the
school year, and had $2,795.00 left from
last year. The $2,795.00, though, had to
go toward paying a $3,747.00 printing
bill owed by last year’s magazine.
Street said Sanskrit is “right on
target” financially. He said, “Our printer,
George Mitchell of Washburn Press, has
agreed to keep us on budget. That’s a big
aid. One problem we had in the past was
tlie printer quoting us one price, then
having it go up with no substantiation.
Now, last time I think it was right almost
to the penny...in fact, I think it was
actually lower.”
Street said the magazine probably
has more than enough money to put out
the next issue without changing any line
items on the budget.
He said this year’s allocation of
$11,297.00 was adequate “on a sliding
scale. Prices usually go up after the first
of the year. ^ our second issue is usually
more expensive, but we allocated more
for it in our budget.”
Carolina Journal photo by Pete Meuser
Max Street. Sanskrit Business Manager
Street thinks tHe new system
utilizing the cashier/secretary is a great
improvement. “It makes things a lot
easier,” he said. “There is less hardship
on the students. If Beth (Griffith, editor)
^or I'had a lot of tests, or had to work or
'something, and couldn’t get the check
requisitions in on time, we’d only have to
wait 24 hours for the checks. Last year,
sometimes if you were a day late, the
checks wouldn’t come in for another
week.”
Carolina Journal co-editor and
Pete Meuser, Darkroom Coordinator
business manager Michael Evans
described the newspapers financial
situation as “optimistic.” The Carolina
Journal was given $21,000.78 in student
fees and projected $10,000.00 in
advertising revenue. Evans said this was
adequate, providing the advertising
manager brings in enough money. He
said, “We’re on target; this academic year
we’ve had two fine advertising managers.
Therefore, there is a strong possibility we
will reach our advertising projection.
When projecting advertising revenue,
there is always one overpowering
question: Is your advertising managef(s)
going to be able to produce the projected
revenue? So far we have over $8,000 in
advertising revenue this year.”
Evans said the new system is
definitely better than the old one. “We
are still a long way from developing the
completely autonomous student
activities fund office. When the office is
complete, we will have near perfect
accountability of student activity fees.”
Pete Meuser, Darkroom Coordinator,
said he has about $310.00 left from his
original budget. “This should be enou^,
if everything goes smoothly as it hasn’t
done in the past,” Meuser said.
Meuser said he hasn’t started
working on next year’s budget yet, but it
shouldn’t be as high as this year’s. “Most
of the money will probably go to a
general repair budget,” he said, “for
tanks, reels, etc. — things that tend to
wear out fast.”
Meuser also thinks the new
requisition system is a great
.improvement. “Now somebody has
control of the books. At least somebody
knows where the money is going. Right
now, the best thing we could do is carry
through with what’s been started,” he
said.
WVTN'/WFAE business manager
Carleen Lawing was somewhat less
optimistic. The station was allocated
$24,000 at the beginning of the year.
Lawing said right now they have “enough
money to get on the air, but beyond that
1 don’t know.”
She said she has “no quarrels” with
the new system, but thinks “it would be
nice” if the checks were sent to the
station instead of being, mailed directly
out.”
“I think the computer system needs
to be improved,” she said. “Its too
complicated. Some transactions date
back as far as a month. They should
handle each transaction as it comes in.”
Debbie Merrill of Rogues ’n Rascals,
said the yearbook received $18,000.00
this year, and it wasn’t nearly enough.
“To put out a good book, we need about
$25,000.00. As it is, we’ve got enough to
put out a book equivalent to a high
school yearbook.”
Merrill said the yearbook currently
has about $9,000.00 left in the budget
and is expecting between $1,300.00 and
$1,500.00 in advertising revenue.
Carolina Journal photo by Pete Meuser
Carolina Journal photo by Lisa Lanev
Debbie Merrill of Rogues ‘N Rascals
interest that additional improvements be
made as the need for them arises. As one
media worker was heard to say, “The
system is far form perfect, but it is the
best we’ve developed so far. At least we
get our checks on time.”
Carolina Journal photo by Pete Meuser
Carleen Lawing, WFA E-Business Manager
She thinks the new system of
working through the cashier/sccretary
could be improved. “It is too picky
about receipts,” she said.
The general consensus appears to be
the new cashier/secretary system has
eased some of the burden of keeping the
media books in order. Teresa Douglas,
who was hired to fill the position, has
shown herself to be an able and efficient
worker, and the office’s location in the
new Commuter Lounge is much more
convenient to the media than the
Business Office in Reese Administration
Building.
All the Business Managers agreed
that the system is an improvement over
the one used in the past, but expressed
Michael Evans, Carolina Journal Business
Manager and Co-editor