The Student Newspaper of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Volume XVI, Number 12
Charlotte, North Carolina
Thursday, September 11, 1980
photo by Bob Madry
The 49ers lost 8-1 in soccer action against UNC-CH last night. More details on page 8.
BSU Office
Issue Resolved
By Chip Wilson
Carolina Journal Staff Writer
After continued discussions and
tablings in previous meetings, the
UNCC Student Legislature passed a
motion allowing the Black Student
Union to continue to occupy offices
within the Student Government com-
piex.
The legislature, acting as an Ex
ecutive Committee of the whole, also
turned down an earlier proposal that
would have evicted the BSU from the
Cone Center offices.
During a presentation by Executive
Committee chairperson Leah Wil
liams, several legislators and
students in attendence requested that
some immediate action be taken.
Rex Little, vice-president of BSU
said “We’ve been trying to set a
calender of activities while you have
been giving us a lot of bull.”
Legislator Rick Van Pelt added,
“This thing has been dragging on all
summer. Let’s debate or table it for
the whole year.”
At a previous meeting, chairman
Joel Gilland announced that the
legislature’s Executive Committee
handles all matters concerning alloca
tion of student government office
space. In order to provide input from
all members, however, the legislature
moved into Executive Committee of
the whole and decided to allow the
BSU to continue to occupy the of
fices.
One word in the proposal raised a
number of queries from the represen
tatives. The first line would have
given the BSU “permanent” occupa
tion of the office facilities. This was
objected to by several members who
said it would not be fair to BSU
members to restrict them to the Cone
Center, since other office space may
become available in the Reese build
ing.
BSU head Mike Kemp disagreed:
“We understand that any student
group will have a low priority for of
fice space in any building except the
Cone Center. It would be fallacious
for you to think we could get space in
the new Reece building.”
Other legislators refuted Kemp say
ing that office allocations are handled
on a year-to-year basis. The word
“permanent” was then removed from
the proposal, after an amendment of
fered by Laurah Van Poole was ap
proved.
Eleven legislators voted for keep
ing the BSU in the Cone Center
Eight members voted against the pro
posal and three abstained.
Rape Awareness Emphasizes Safety
By Teresa Skipper
Carolina Journal News Editor
Beginning Monday,September 22
through Thursday September 25
RHA, Campus Police, and Residence
Life will sponsor a program on rape
awareness.
Director of Residence Life, Jackie
Simpson, and Chief Randy Lingle,
chief of campus police at the Universi
ty of California at Riverside, will con
duct the lectures. They will be held at
different points and times on cam
pus.
Simpson and Lingle developed this
program when they were colleagues
at Western Illinois University. Since
that time the program has grown and
has been presented over 200 times to
various high schools, colleges, and
professional organizations.
Simpson felt that early in the year
was a good time to impress students
with safe habits so they will not find
themselves in a potentially dangerous
situation. “Rape is the 2nd fastest
rising crime in the U.S., and it hap
pened to 62,000 women last year,”
Simpson said. “We just want to make
students aware of it. We don’t want
to make them paranoid.”
When a rape occurs, people often
want to help but do not know how.
The rape awareness program will give
the same philosophies to R.C.’s,
R.A.’s, Health Center, campus police,
and the students, so that if a rape did
occur everyone would be working in
the same direction.
Inside..
The Politics of the
Democratic Conven
tion seemed to over
shadow logic...
. . . Page 4
Simpson says 70 percent of rapes
occur between aquaintances, and the
“date rape” is one of the most com
mon of these. The date rape is also the
most prevalent on the college cam
pus.
Monday, Sept. 22, 3-5 p.m.—Campus
Police (closed)
9 p.m. — Residence Life Staff (closed)
Tuesday, Sept. 23, 7-8:30 p.m. —
Phase II, & III — Community Room
Coach George An
tonelli explains the
finer points of Cross
Country .. .
. . . Page 9
(Open to public)
9:00 p.m. — Sanford & Moore Halls,
Sanford Lounge (open to public)
Wednesday, Sept. 24, 9 p.m. — Scott
Hall, Holshouser Hall, & Phase I,
Holshouser Basement (open to public)
Thursday, Sept. 25, 12:30-2 p.m. —
Commuter Life Program, Cone
Center in ARC Lounge (open to
public)
2:30-4 p.m. — Health Center (closed)
Former 49er Chad
Kinch Remembers
UNCC and looks to
the future . . .
...Paged