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4Am e I I HIT H U i iifi ii it ill it- .A il 4 Vol. 81, No. 71 J ft ' This small portion of a dogwood limb that could be called attractive Thursday. Western Carolina PaiDer9 United Press International CULLOWHEE - Western Carolina University's student newspaper today accused the Student Senate, of trying to . intimidate it by prompting the withdrawal of financial support. "The Senate action is an affront to freedom of the press," said the Western Carolinian, in an editorial. ' Dwight Nelson, the student body president, Wednesday suspended, at the urging of the Student Senate Finance Committee, SI 2,000 in student funds allocated to the newspaper. "It is an effort to intimidate the student press and should be rejected by all freedom loving people, be they students, faculty or staff," said the Western Carolinian. The Senate group charged the newspaper with violating its own constitution by employing nonstudents. Brooks Sanders of Holly Springs, the Jim Hunt TD. folic L"fmmmmS United Press International WASHINGTON - Transportation Secretary John A. Volpe outlined plans Thursday to post armed guards at all airport boarding gates in a further bid to thwart hijacking. The new security system is expected to be in effect within six months. Volpe said the Transportation Department is drafting a proposed rule that would require operators of the 531 airports now serving scheduled airlines to have "law enforcement officers present at boarding gates on both domestic and international flights." About 123 of these airports, accounting for roughly 90 percent of the 14,000 airline flights scheduled daily, already maintain some kind of security system involving use of guards, but none covers every boarding gate. Under the present system, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) says police or law enforcement officers are stationed at domestic boarding gates only if they are told by airline agents that a prospective passenger appears to fit the federal government's behavioral profile of a potential hijacker. Security for international flights is more intense. There are now about 1 ,000 U.S. Customs officials deployed jray, wet and ... was just about all made most people want The cold and rain and sleep. funds newspaper's editor, admitted that he had hired nonstudents but said he had done so after trying unsuccessfully to employ students. Sanders said all five had been students at Western Carolina and three of them planned to re-enroll. He claimed that Student Senate objections stemmed at least in part from the publication of a New York Times editorial endorsing Senator George McGovern for the Presidency. The newspaper's support for McGovern came at the same time a straw poll showed a majority of Western Carolina's 5,500 students supporting President Nixon. "When this newspaper endorsed the Democratic Presidential nominee, great cries of anger and displeasure came from the Senate, and the executive office hinted that action would be taken," said the newspaper. "This apparently is it." Sanders said he would try to continue Rebuild faith in government Hunt urges N.C. lawmakers by Diane King Staff Writer Lieutenant Governor-elect Jim Hunt said here Thursday that the state legislature holds the key to restoring the peoples' faith in government in North Carolina. Hunt was the main speaker at the afternoon session of the Orientation Conference being held at the Institute of Government. "If we are to deal effectively with our problems, if we are to face our challenges and meet them squarely, we must first alt til Chapel Hill, North Carolina, to stay inside, huddle under the covers (Staff photo by Scott Stewart) ffrosen publication with advertising revenues. "The freedom of this newspaper is a precious thing and should be protected at all costs," said the editorial. The Western Carolina student newspaper's problems with finances places it with several other student newspapers ' in the state who have" encountered financial challenges. The North Carolina Central University "Campus Echo" was closed a year ago by order of the NCUU president after the paper had published stories favoring the maintenance of the black identity of the school. .The President's order ending funding for the paper has been debated in federal court. The case is now on appeal to the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond. The Daily Tar Heel faces a lawsuit by four students to eliminate funding the paper from the proceeds of the student activities fee. This case is still in the preliminary stages. work to restore faith in our governmental process itself, and in the officials that control it," Hunt stated. Hunt quoted a recent poll by Louis Harris that found the public confidence in the U.S. government at a "low ebb." In the survey, leaders in the legislature, executive and judicial branches of the government ranked behind leaders in the fields of medicine, finance, science, religion, psychiatry and retail business. Hunt said he believed these national results could also be used to describe the average citizen's attitude toward the state government. gates ? i at airports to help screen passengers. They are backed up by about 300 FAA employees. Volpe disclosed the government's plan in a telegnim to Senator Clifford P. Case, R-NJ, the ranking GOP member of the Senate transportation subcommittee and a leading advocate of toughened anti-hijacking procedures. The government has authority to order airport operators to take such action under the 1958 Federal Aviation Act, a broad statute empowering federal officials to assure passenger safety and to regulate air commerce. The Transportation Department's proposed rule will be made public shortly and it is virtually certain to be made final. Airport operators will have to hire the new guards, apparently with federal financial aid. Once posted, the security agents will help airline ticket agents screen passengers and be available for immediate action if necessary. It also is believed that their mere presence at boarding gates will serve as an additional deterrent to would-be hijackers. Volpe said the government's objective is to post a guard at gates 30 minutes before departure of domestic flights and one hour before international flights. Friday, December 1, 1972 I 1 T ill -rv tto mire by Greg Turosak Staff Writer A bill asking Student Legislature (SL) to hire a student attorney was announced Thursday by a special committee studying the possibility of the move. The bill details the exact procedures for hiring, firing and retaining a student attorney and a secretary, sets pay ranges and outlines the relationship between Student Government (SG) and the attorney. Before SL can take any action on the bill, the proposal must first be approved by SL's Finance Committee at its meeting Monday afternoon. The final consideration of the bill will come at a special session of SL Tuesday night. At its last session, SL appointed David Boone, Dave Gephart, Ralph Yount and Randy Wolfe to sit on the committee. Four others, David Crump, Emilia Bellows, Warren Carson and Joe Stallings, were named by Epps. Epps was a member of the committee also. The bill was written largely by Crump, who is Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. According to the bill, the student attorney will officially be known as the General Counsel to Student Government. The General Counsel will be nominated by a committee composed of the Student Body President, two students he appoints and three students appointed by SL. SL would have the right to veto such a nomination by majority vote within the next two meetings of SL following the committee's nomination. If, when the time has expired, SL has not vetoed the nomination, the committee would enter into a contract with the nominee. The bill states that the Y Bazaar opens The ninth International Bazaar, which will feature exhibits from 28 countries and local and Appalachian crafts, begins today. The bazaar will be open from 7 to 1 1 p.m. today, 1 to 1 1 p.m. Saturday and 1 to 10 p.m. Sunday. There are new exhibits from Norway, Haiti, Nigeria, Upper Volta and the People's Republic of China New items available this year include Norwegian pewter and ski sweaters, and cut glass from West Germany. In addition to the international "I believe our legislative branch has the greatest opportunity of all to really do something about this problem. "We must see to it that legislative committees fairly represent the people of our state and aren't stacked, or weighed, in favor or special interests," he said. Hunt said he feels the passage of an ethics law would help destroy the conflicts of interest in state government. He said there should be four divisions to the law: It should spell out how conflicts of interest can be avoided. It should "prohibit the use of an official position or office for personal gain." It should provide for disclosure of the officials' financial status. Most importantly, it should seek to end the serving of legislators in areas where they have a vested interest. Hunt said the legislature could also improve its own operation by: casting votes electronically as the U.S. House will do in its next session; having annual sessions of short duration, rather than the present biennial sessions; and enforcing the open meeting law enacted during the last session of the legislature. We can restore some of the lost confidence in our public officials by restoring confidence in the election process itself," Hunt said. We need some reasonable limits on the amount of money that can be spent in our state campaigns. We should also limit the amount of money that'a single contributor can make to a campaign, for all too often, we find that many people feel contributions are made now in return for favors later on." he added. Hunt concluded by saying it was the duty of the elected public officials of North Carolina to restore the people's . confidence in their state government. n G lawyer General Counsel must be a member of the Bar of the Stale of North Carolina. The Genera! Counsel would be contracted for three years, with an option to renew annually for five years. Starting annua! salary for the attorney would be from S8.500 to SI 2.000, to be increased each year by 10 percent. The secretary would start at S5.500 to $8,500 annually, and would also receive 10 percent increments up to SI 0,000. The duties of the attorney would be to "act as counsel to the Student Leg islation asks cashing by David Eskridge Staff Writer A bill to establish a Saturday student check-cashing service has been developed by Student Government (SG), according to Student Body Vice President Fred Davenport. The bill, which will allow any student to cash a check up to S25 upon showing his student I.D., will go before the Student Legislature (SL) Finance committee Monday night before being brought to a vote in a special meeting of SL on Tuesday afternoon. The SG-sponsored Saturday check cashing service will be located in the Student Stores operating from 8:30 a.m. pavilion, which will be housed in the Y building, more than 50 local and Appalachian craftsmen will have their products on display in Memorial and Gerrard Halls. A coffee house in the snack bar of the Y Building will offer continuous live folk music as well as international pastries. Prices of the international merchandise will vary, but most of th,e items will cost less than S10. Sunday night there will be a "haggle room" where bargain-seekers can try to name their own prices for items. Additions to the Appalachian crafts section this year are ironwork and Lumbee Indian displays, and batik, which Is a special method of dyeing cloth. Among the prominent Appalachian craftsmen who will be on hand are banjo and dulcimer-maker Homer Ledford and potter Charles Counts. The bazaar represents an investment of more than 520,000 in foreign crafts. r .i Outdoors When the weather was warmer, one could sit on the steps of the Y Building and do the crossword, read the newspaper or just rest and think. Colder weather has moved some of these scenes indoors. (Staff photo by Johnny Lindahl) Founded February 23. 1893 Government" and "to aid tn matters of contracts, suits, complaints, negotiations and any other activity vnth;n the scope of the legal practice a may be required by the Student Legislature." The attorney will be able to represent any student enrolled on this campus in a criminal case but s ill not be required to do so. The bill also calls for all existing laws passed by the Student Legislature to be codified before the hiring of a student attorney. service to 12:30 p.m. every Saturday .ig during the school session. An experienced Student Stores employe will administer the service and be paid a salary of S200 for the spring semester of 1973. The salary' will he paid by Student Government. A total of $5,100 will be appropriated from the General Surplus for the operation of the check cashing service. Wayne Thomas, treasurer of the student body, will be responsible for establishing procedures involving the banking questions of operating the service, including delivery of the money to Student Stores and the return of the money to banking authorities. These procedures must be approved by the Finance committee. Any student charged with cashing a bad check will be tried in student courts for committing an Honor Cod violation. He will also have his checking privileges permanently suspended, according to the bill. A student will be limited to cashing one check per SatuMay. That check will also be subject to a $2$ limit. Davenport said the service will be ready for operation at the beginning of the spring semester if it is passed by SL on Tuesday. A monthly report on the status of the service and proposed changes thatmay be needed will be provided by the treasurer to the Finance committee, according to the bill. Weather TODAY: Clearing and warmer; high in the low 50s, low in the upper 20's; probability of precipitation 10 percent today, near zero tonight H t; 51 n ' i 1 1 i i I fl
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