The Carolinian [February 27, 1975]

              The Carolinian
February 27, 1975 The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Vorumn LTV Number 34
New staff selection method
brings changes to dorms
Dean Shirley Flynn receives petitions from Guilford Dorm Coordinator Mark Dionne. Staff Photo by Chuck Houska
Dean Flynn visits Guilford,
residents may need to move
BY CHUCK HOUSKA
Staff Writer
"I'm only here to get your input....
not to tell you to leave the dorm,"
said Shirley Flynn, dean of Students
for Residence Life.
Dean Flynn spoke to the residents
of Guilford Dorm Tuesday afternoon
concerning the future of the dorm.
She outlined the plans of creating a
Graduate Center there for the 1975-76
academic year. According to Dean
Flynn an area of housing is needed for
older students to live and work.
"Older students want to be with other
older students," said Dean Flynn.
A graduate student, Mitchell
Washington, of Guilford was opposed
to the idea of segregating
undergraduates from graduate
students. "In life, people are going to
have to live with people of different
ages, and they might as well get used
to it now." said Washington.
Dean Flynn told the residents of
Guilford that their dorm was under
consideration for the Graduate Center
because of "nice little rooms for
studying"
When asked why other dorms
weren't as suitable, Dean Flynn said
that Guilford had a basement which
could be more easily converted into
study areas.
"Although we are talking about
using Guilford for the Graduate
Center, we have not ruled out other
possibilities." said Dean Flynn.
During the meeting Dean Flynn was
presented with a petition asking her to
consider the fact that the residents of
Guilford don't want to be moved to a
new dorm. The petition had over 1000
signatures.
Dean Flynn told the residents that
their petition would be considered
along with their views.
The residents of Guilford told Dean
Flynn that Guilford was the only male
undergraduate dorm on that side of
campus and that it would be wrong to
relocate it. One student went to the
extent of stating that he would refuse
to live anywhere else.
After hearing the resident's
feedback. Dean Flynn told the
residents that she was impressed by
their unity and said that she would
keep them informed.
BY CATHY KRINICK
In response . to a Student Senate
request, a student-administrative
committee has developed a new policy
for the selection, training, and
supervision of dorm coordinators.
The major change proposed by the
new policy calls for the selection of all
dorm coordinators by the Residence
Halls Student Staff Selection Board,
composed of faculty, administrative,
and student representatives. Presently
the dorm coordinators are elected by
either a dorm or campus-wide vote.
The Board will also be responsoble
for the selection and assigning of
assistant staff members in the
Residence Halls. Another provision of
the policy changes the names of dorm
coordinators to residence hall
coordinators.
The Selection Board will be chaired
by the dean of students for Residence
Life. As chairman, Dean Shirley Flynn
will select a faculty member, and a
residence hall administrator,
counselor, and graduate assistant to
serve on the Board.
Student members will include
representatives from the Senate and
the offices of the SGA President, Vice
President, and Attorney General. Each
of these offices will have one
representative except the President's,
which will have both an executive
cabinet and a non-cabinet
representative.
The proposed policy outlines the
duties and responsibilities of the
residence hall student staff as well as
the selection method. In addition, a
procedure for dealing with complaints
against a student staff member has
been drafted.
The measure should come before
the Senate in the near future. If
adopted, this policy will delete from
the SGA Constitution, By-Laws, and
Regulations all mention of dorm
coordinators and resident advisors.
The proposed policy would then
become an administrative policy under
the Office of the Dean of Students for
Residence Life.
According to the preface of the new
policy, any changes in it would have to
be approved by a concensus of the
dean of students for Residence Life,
the Vice Chancellor for Student
Affairs, and the president, -/ice
president, and attorney general of
SGA before said changes could be
implemented.
The proposal also includes short
sections on the philosophy of the
residence hall and the philosophy of
the residence halls student staff. These
sections are designed to give
prospective staff members a better
concept of their job and to alert the
students as to what they can and
should expect from their residence hall
coordinator.
Ms. Madeline Bombeld, house
counselor in Jamison who served as
the chairman of the committee that
drafted the policy stated. "I'm very
excited about it (the new policy). I
think it's a very good beginning for a
new system."
Ms. Bombeld went on to say that
the new system should result in a
better trained and better qualified
group of people.
See "DORM" Page 4
Students want referendum
laundry vote on Tuesday
BY CATHY KRINICK
A referendum on the campus
laundry service will be held on March
4 from 9:00 a.m. !o 5:00 p.m.
The ballot for the referendum will
present to the students the following
questions:
1) Should the compulsory laundry
service be abolished?
2) Should the laundry service be
made optional at the discretion of the
individual student?
Students will also have the
opportunity to add any comments,
either pro or con, that they may have
about the laundry service.
Each student will vote in his
designated precinct. Residents of
Moore, Strong, Phillips, Hawkins,
Ragsdale, Mendenhall, Weil, Winfield.
Jamison, Bailey, Hinshaw, Cotten,
Gray, and Coit are to vote in the
lounge in the Dining Hall.
Residents of North Spencer, South
Spencer, Guilford, Mary Foust,
Grogan, Cone, and Reynolds are to
vote in the North Spencer Tunnel.
Town Students are to vote in the
area outside of the Ben bow Room in
Elliott HaU.
SGA President Jim McAbee stated,
"I hope that the response to the
referendum will be as positive as the
response to the petition was. This
referendum will be used as a lever in
dealing with the administration in the
area of reform of the laundry system."
He added, "I believe strongly that
the time is long overdue for action on
this particular issue. Student opinions
on the laundry has been polarizing for
some time and is now at a crucial
stage. We've got to begin to act while
the students are strongly in support of
our actions."
This laundry referendum was
initiated by petitions circulated among
the student body at the end of last
semester. Over 1500 signatures were
obtained, constituting roughly 25 per
cent of the undergraduate student
body.
UNC-G professor develops test to determine food values
Program
Friday, February 28, the
Student-Faculty Media Board will
give a presentation entitled,
"Financing the Media, What Is the
Best Way?" at the Presbyterian
House. Dinner will be served at
5:30. Charge for the dinner is 75
cents per person.
BY KURT BERON
Striking Staff Writer
(Editors Note: This article was
submitted by Mr. Beron before the
strike began.)
Though no one would consider food
to be a minor thing, it has often been
described as one of the elements in a
game of life. The element of the
"game" has been incorporated by
UNC-G anthropologist Dr. Thomas
Fitzgerald into a new test of people's
food habits.
Fitzgerald, who will be co-chairing a
symposium on "Applied Aspects of
Nutrition" at the International
Congress of Applied Anthropologists
in Amsterdam, Holland on March
19-23, made the game because
"nutritionists are constantly looking
for ways to get better information
about foods." He said, 'The usual way
is to send people a questionaire about
the foods they eat or test them by 24
hour recall. These are not completely
valid because they are in an unnatural
situation.
'This test is slightly more natural,
less threatening, and also kind of fun.
If you ask someone in the community
what beverages they prefer, they're
not going to say "I drink a cocktail
before dinner" because that's not what
you would say to a nutritionist in that
context."
With Fitzgerald's game, composed
of a board with seven places numbered
from +3, +2. to -2, -3 and cards with
pictures of food on them, people are
asked to place their favorite foods on
the higher numbers, foods they are
indifferent to on "0." and foods they
dislike on the lowest numbers. They
are also asked to rank foods by the
amount of times they eat those foods
and how healthy they think those
foods are for them.
"If you've got something like a
cocktail," Fitzgerald said, "people are
not as likely to be intimidated since
they're not really saying 'this is my
cocktail.' This is like a projective test
- a game."
He believes people will put down
food cards where they honestly believe
•'R,y g". since they do not consider
themselves as being judged by the
nutritionist.
After this is completed, the
nutritionist uses a mathematical
formula to score the person's
selections, and is then able to compare
the different food habits of different
groups, such as blacks and whites or
the poor and wealthy.
The symposium at which Fitzgerald
will be presenting his game and a 25
page paper on "How to Study Food
Behavior in a Cultural Context" will
be composed of 11 people from
several countries including Columbia,
Holland, and the United States.
"I don't think the food problem is
getting better," Fitzgerald said. "I'm
not a pessimist, but I don't think it's
getting better. There is more emphasis
on food right now, and nutritionists
are doing a great job. But there are not
enough (nutritionists) to educate the
number of people. Most of the dietary
surveys indicate that even in the U.S.
our diets are not improving."
The reason for this, he believes, is
that Americans have moved away from
the rural life where people had gardens
and natural foods "and they had
accessibility." In the cities, he said,
"people's lifestyles are changing and
there is a lot of stress in our lives. All
these things interact," he continued,
and this, he believes, is causing
nutrition to become an ever increasing
concern for our society.
Senate discusses "Carolinian9 strike
clerical wages in effect for February
In Tuesday night's meeting, the
Senate passed a motion to continue
paying the clerical help that had
received wages in January for the work
done in February.
The personnel who will be paid for
February are SGA secretaries, SGA
workroom manager, legislative
assistant, "Carolinian" secretaries,
"Pine Needles' secretary, Judicial
secretary. Business managers of
"Carolinian," "Coraddi," ' Pine
Needles!," TSA, and SGA, and the
"Carolinian" Advertising Manager.
Guilford consul Cliff Mitchell
moved to delete the "Carolinian" Ad
manager from the list of those being
paid wages for February since the Ad
manager of the "Cary" had gone on
strike. It was pointed out that the
payment would be for work already
done in February, and Mitchell
withdrew his motion
The Senate also passed a resolution
appropriating S750 to SGA to bring
the Joe Droukas Band to campus for a
three hour concert to be held April 10
from 8:00-11 00 p.m. in the Quad.
A motion was made by Cliff
Mitchell that the Senate extend
support and help to Editor Pam Smith
in her efforts to continue to produce
'The Carolinian." This resulted in a
discussion over whether this motion
would interfere with 'The
Carolinian's" right to freedom of the
press. Also debated was the fact that
the word "support" could be
construed as monetary support.
Mitchell withdrew his motion, and
TS senator Cynthia Broom moved to
thank Ms. Smith for realizing her duty
to t,he student body and to further
thank her for her efforts to continue
publishing the "Cary.' This motion
passed.
In other action, the Senate passed a
resolution urging Chancellor James
Ferguson to act on the Student Bill of
Rights before the end of this
semester, A resolution of best wishes
to his wife was also passed. Mrs.
Ferguson is recouperating from
surgery in Wesley Long Hospital.
Under appointments, Brian Bama
was approved as TS consul. Cynthia
Broom, Barbara Hardy, and "Kap"
Sink were approved to the Internal
Senate Committee on Senatorial
Absenses. An Ad-hoc committee on
TS affairs was formed to help Dean
Shipton with a survey. Appointed to
this committee were Chairperson
Cynthia Broom, David Bout well,
Adrian Whitney, Mary Maxwell, and
Melinda Murphy. Dr. Thomas Fitzgerald has to teat food