The Student Newspaper of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Volume XVI, Number 20
Charlotte, North Carolina
Thursday, October 9, 1980
Chair Quits
By Chip Wilson
Carolina Journal Staff Writer
Before new members were sworn in
to the Student Legislature, Chairman
Joel Gilland announced that he was
resigning and the first new business
was to elect a new leader.
The legislators chose Barry Brown,
current head of the Ways and Means
committee, to take over the chair.
Brown as selected from a group of
four nominees including Laurah Van
Poole, Senior Class President,
Speaker Pro Tempre Leah Williams
and Rick Barger, Scott Hall represen
tative.
Brown received the needed majori
ty of 17 votes on the second round of
the roll-call selection.
Gilland told the legislators that he
had been in student government since
his freshman year and “the time had
come to step down.” He also said he
“didn’t want to get into the
reasons’’why he resigned his position.
While Gilland’s announcement was
sudden, the legislators took five
minutes to caucus and to name
nominees. All candidates expressed
confidence they would be able to fill
Gilland’s role, and stressed that any
of the nominees were qualified for the
position.
Brown, who is currently the com
muter representative, was first ap
pointed to the legislature in the fall of
1979. He was elected in last weeks
election.
In an interview, Brown said he
Photo By Debbie Miller
Gilland
would work closely with Gilland in
the transition between new chairman.
He added that he would work closely
with the Ways and Means committee,
after he resigns as chairman of that
group next week.
New legislators and members of the
Student Court took their oaths of of
fice at the start of the meeting. One
newly elected court justice, David
Clark, was not present at the
swearing-in ceremony.
Student Body President Ron Olsen
also addressed the legislature, repor
ting on the recent meeting of the
UNCC Board of Trustees.
He told the legislators that action
on a official policy of distruption of
school activity was delayed. He said
copies of the proposed rule (No.58)
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G. Gordon Liddy
American Views
Distort Reality
By Chip Wilson
Carolina Journal Staff Writer
“If I am disillusioning you I am do
ing you a favor. Look in the diction
ary and you will see that illusion is a
false concept of belief.’’
With the distorted views the audi
ence had of America and life itself as a
theme, G. Gordon Liddy sponsored
by UPB, began another lecture Tues
day to another group on his
50-campus tour to promote his latest
book, Will, and to enlighten listeners
on his role in the Watergate scandal.
Liddy, who directed the famous
1972 break-in of the national Demo
cratic office building, hit upon several
topics of interest to young people in
cluding the Iranian crisis, the draft
and the importance of receiving a
good education.
The man who is famous for holding
his hand on an open flame until his
skin was charred, stressed his points
at the UNCC gathering by quoting
Latin literature and applying events
of ancient history to current Ameri
can problems.
Referring to the taking of hostages,
Liddy said that Julius Caesar was
once faced with the kidnapping of his
envoys, and killed or enslaved any
person connected with it. “I’m not
saying I would do the same thing to
the Iranians, but I like the mindset.”
The man who plotted to kill news
paper columnist Jack Anderson, de
fended his clandestine actions of
breaking in the office of Daniel
Ellsberg’s psychiatrist, as necessary
for national security. (Ellsberg, a
defense analyist, released “The Pen
tagon Papers,” detailing American
defense strategy in Southeast Asia,
to the New York Times.)
One student asked Liddy why he
would kill Anderson, “who was only
doing his job.” in writing about
covert activities of the C.I.A.
Liddy responded by comparing his
plot to military battle: “If you put the
uniform of your country on someday,
and have to fight an enemy, you
would kill him, even though he is do
ing is job.”
The man who watched, from a near-
by hotel room, the arrest of five
Watergate burglers, said there is no
such thing as living in a risk free
society.
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Toxic Shock Syndrome
Tampon—Caused Deaths Hit Home
By Renee Wright
Carolin* Journal Staff Writer
The death last week of a 20-year-old
Rock Hill woman is the latest in a
series of fatalities caused by Toxic
Shock Syndrome (TSS). The victims
of TSS are primarily menstruating
women under the age of 30.
The sudden onset of TSS may lead
to dehydration, shock and heart
failure before test results can come
back from the lab.
Procter and Gamble removed its
Rely tampon from the market when
tests revealed that Rely users were
eight times more likely to develop
TSS than users of other tampons.
Doctors are urging women to use
tampons only intermitantly or to
switch to other forms of protection as
3 preventive measure.
The disease is rare in the absense of
tampon use.
The Rely brand has never been sold
on the UNCC campus—mainly due to
popularity. The bookstore had
tried to order them in the past but
was unable to get a supply.
Toxic Shock Syndrome was first
recognized in 1975. It is caused by the
Maryland Women
Protest Product
College Preu Service
COLLEGE PARK, MD
— About a dozen female
students at the Univer
sity of Maryland were so
disturbed about reports
that Rely tampons may
cause a fatal illness call
ed toxic shock synu. ome
that they threw the tam
pons out of the sixth
floor window of their
dorm.
They had gotten the
tampons for free in an
orientation packet pro
vided by the 13-30 Corp.
of Knoxville, Tn.
Sophomore Mary
Brown explained the
protest was against the
university, which should
have warned women of
the potential harm.
Richard Stimpson, direc
tor of resident life at the
campus, countered, “I
don’t know that the
university would neces
sarily see that as its
responsibility. It was a
free distribution. No one
was made to take them.”
staphylococcus aureus bacterium
commonly found in abscesses and
skin wounds. Doctors at the Center
Bob Hanggi, a spokes
man for the 13-30 Corp,
noted that “we’ve asked
universities to take the
tampons out of the
(orientation) kit wher
ever and whenever possi
ble.”
Nevertheless, it was
not a serious problem, he
added, if only a dozen of
the 4,000 new women
students at Maryland
threw the tampons
away.
for Disease Control in Atlanta spec
ulate that the bacterium may have
mutated recently into a more potent
toxin.
Since January, 345 cases of TSS
have been reported, including 2€
deaths. 96 percent of the cases were
found in women, 95 percent of then
menstruating and almost all using
tampons. Officials at the CDC
suspect that the actual number o:
'‘ases may exceed 2,000 per year.
The symptoms of TSS start
suddenly. They include diarrhea
vomitting, high fever, head and
musclar aches, sore throat and 8
sunburn-like rash followed by scaling
especially on the palms of the hands
and the soles of the feet.
Loss of fluids can lead to dehydra
tion which can develop into shocl
within 48 hours. The kidneys anc
heart may fail due to the severe drop
in blood pressure. The disease usually
runs its course within a week.
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