The Carolinian [September 12, 1975]

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Sat. 9:00 p.m. The Carolinian
September 12, 1975 The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Volume LV
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Wed. Sep. 17
patio E.H.
Number 5
Bell passed, unpassed, passed again, then postponed
BY EDDIE BOWEN
Associate Mows Editor
In the weekly meeting on Tuesday
night and a special session on
Wednesday night, Senate voted down
motions which would give salaries to
the President of SGA, the Vice
President of SGA, and the Attorney
General. Salaries were also defeated
for the editor of The Carolinian the
Coraddi and the Pine Needles. A salary
totaling $440 for the Station Manager
of WUAG-FM will be up for a second
reconsideration next Tuesday.
During the Tuesday meeting.
Senate passed a motion by Giff
Mitchell (Consul - Town Students) to
accept a By-Laws change which would
give any student soliciting advertising
for any Type II publication a 10%
commission on the ad revenue he or
she brought in. The body also allotted
wages to the Carolinian secretaries, the
Carolinian business manager, the SGA
secretaries, the SGA business manager,
the SGA internal auditor. Senate
Legislative Assistants, the workroom
manager, the Judicial secretaries, the
WUAG-FM business manager, the Pine
Needles business manager, Pine
Neediest secretaries, the Coraddi
business manager, and the Town
Student Asosciation business manager.
Following the State of the Campus
address by SGA president Sean
O'Kane and a Judicial Report by
Attorney General Donna Benson,
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Senate President Barry Frasier
presented his State of the Senate
address in which he asked that the
Senators "put aside any personal
L-^nimosity" during the course of the
Senate meetings.
Under organizational
appropriations a motion to allot a
salary amounting to $300.00 per
semester to the Elliott Hall president
died for a lack of a second. The
motion was reconsidered Wednesday
night and again failed.
A motion to grant a salary totaling
$400.00 per semester to the SGA
president was defeated 12 yea to 30
nay. For discussion of the motion,
O'Kane was granted speaking privileges
to answer queries.
Mark McDaniel (Senator - Town
^Students) asked O'Kane if he were "at
any time asked about salaries during
the campaign." O'Kane responded that
he had and that "my answer was that
the subject of salaries being
controversial, I didn't think I should
be the one to decide." Mitchell
queried McDaniel as to whether he had
"any information we should hear."
McDaniel answered that he had "only
hearsay" information.
As discussion continued, Feasier
reminded the body to "consider
whether the position itself" warrented
the compensation. "If you want to
bring personal things in here we will,"
he stated. "It's going to take a lot
longer, but we will."
In answer to a query from Pam
Blackburn (Senator - Town Students)
concerning whether holding the office
of president consumed too much time
for the president to seek outside
employment. OTfan* «U that "the
job will be what you make it." "It will
take a lot of time," he continued. "I
could perform the duties of my office
without a salary," O'Kane responded
to still another query.
Continuing to answer questions,
O'Kane estimated that he spent "20 to
30 hours a week" in his office as
president.
McDaniel then moved "that if any
salaries are granted to the president or
the vice president, then each senator
be paid $5.00 per senator per
meeting." He later admitted that his
motion was only to make a point. "A
person who volunteers his or her
services should not be paid," McDaniel
stated. "What in the hell would your
constituents in/ the dorms do to you if
they found out you had voted yourself
$5.00 a week," he continued. "You'd
be hun& in the quad and shot."
Concluding, McDaniel said that "you
don't have to bribe people to run.
Good people do run."
John Lovin (Senator - Phillips)
stated that it was "obvious we can use
the money elsewhere. We can get
another concert here."
Ms. Blackburn, referring to a
referendum taken last year, observed
that "the students voted for the SGA
State of the Campus Address
(Tlie following is the text of the State
of the Campus address given by
President Sean O' Kane to the
Student Senate Tuesday.)
BY PAM BLACKBURN
Special to Tht Carolinian
"Unity. That word, 1 think, is thr>
key to a successful year and the key to
insuring the same success to future
students, who will be attending this
university. We must work together to
achieve this success. We have started
on the right foot, and with some hard
work from all of us, we will continue
on the right foot," said SGA President
Sean O'Kane as he began the
traditional State of the Campus
address to the Senate Tuesday night.
O'Kane dealt with several issues
that he believes will continue to
occupy the minds of university
students as well as the activities of his
office this year. Among these issues
are the laundry facilities, the campus
security, university athletics, the
campus bookstore, and student
participation in campus activities such
as the UCLS and Founder's Day.
The President said that although
the mandatory laundry service which
he believes most students did not like
has been discontinued, there has arisen
a new problem in that the dorm
students have not had access to
SGA President O'Kane makes plea for home for abandonned kittens.
Staff Photo by Tom Morton
enough washers and dryers. He
continued, "If students are forced to
go out to a laundromat, then an
adequate solution to the problem has
not been arrived at yet."
Referring to the work of last year's
campus security committee, O'Kane
stated his position, "I feel strongly
that this year's committee should
resume its hearings to work with our
security force to see that necessary
revisions are made in its present
policy." He also welcomed the new
campus security director to the
university. O'Kane, who is a
member of the UNC-G Soccer team,
believes that the School of Health,
Physical Education, and Recreation is
making progress toward providing
more activities and opportunities for
the students, especially men students.
He said that the SGA had been
approached for assistance in the
building of handball courts on campus,
and he indicated his support for such a
move.
O'Kane has heard many complaints
about the high prices in the campus
bookstore and explained the option of
a book rental system by which
students could rent books for a
semester and then return them to the
bookstore. The executive office has
begun research into the option,
according to the President.
Calling the University Concert and
Lecture Series "one of the best of its
kind on the entire East Coast,"
O'Kane asked the Senate and the
students to pledge their continued
support of this program which will
bring to campus such speakers- as
George McGovern and Norman
Cousins. The President also thanked
the Senate for the appropriation of
money for the Founders' Day
fireworks display and the Folklife
Institute of North Carolina.
Turning to the inner workings of
the SGA, O'Kane asked that the
Senators and others give their support
to the new Judicial system and to the
Attorney General Donna Benson and
her staff. He said, "If we are to
continue to have the right to govern
ourselves through the SGA, then we
must prove that we are willing and
capable of doing so."
"What is the State of the Campus?
I think that clearly will depend on
how hard each one of us work at our
individual responsibilities," concluded
the President.
president's salary. We can't ignore
three classes worth of public opinion,"
she said.
In response, Mitchell said that "the
margins (on the referendum) were very
slim." "This is what we are here for,"
he continued, "to give money to
organizations to help students...not to
create jobs."
Worth Hager (President Pro Tern)
stated that "the president's office is its
own reward. The president is
essentially a PR man. He gets to go to
luncheons."
With President Pro Tern Ms. Hager
presiding, the body killed a motion to
grant the SGA vice president a salary
totalling $400.00 per semester, 6 yea
to 35 nay.
Speaking for the motion, Ms.
Blackburn pointed out that the office
of vice president "doesn't receive the
kind of compensation the president
receives."
Speaking against McDaniel asked
the body what would happen if "you
picked up the Greensboro Daily News
tomorrow and read that the United
States Senate had cut off Gerald
Ford's salary and had kept
Rockefeller's." He continued, "we
must be consistent if we're not going
to look like a gang of jackasses."
A motion by Mitchell to delete the
salary of Attorney General was passed.
Attorney General Benson remained to
answer queries concerning the salaries
for the Judicial secretaries. The body
allotted $1200.00 per semester to the
Judicial secretaries.
On Tuesday night the body passed
24 aye, 16 nay and 2 abstentions to
allot a wage totalling $440.00 per
semester to the station manager of
Vice-President Frasier (left) and President Pro-Tempore Hager listen
intently as a Senator raises a question of order.
StaffPhoto by Paul Krvott
WUAG-FM. A motion was mad; by
Mitchell, and passed Wednesday to
reconsider the matter.
Kurt Beron (Senator - Town
Students), speaking for the motion
Tuesday night, stated that the WUAG
station manager was "not an elected
position and requires a great deal of
work." Continuing, he said that the
manager had to "conform to FCC
policy. It is actually a technical
position.''
In apposition, Mitchell said that
"candidates for station manager run
and are elected by the staff of WUAG.
They do run for office, they are not
forced into it. There is no distinction
between WUAG station manager and
editor of The Carolinian or editor of
the Coraddi or editor of the Pine
Needles." Mitchell continued to state
that the body was considering "the
whole principle of whether or not we
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A&T requests change
WUAG may move to 89,7
BY NANCY DAVIS
Associate Editor
WUAG-FM has applied to the
Federal Communications Commission
for permission to change its frequency
from 89.9 to 89.7.
A little over a year ago North
Carolina A & T University had a
commission of engineers conduct a
study on the feasibility of A & T
acquiring an FCC license to operate a
10 watt educational FM radio station.
The commission determined that
there was no way for this to be
accomplished unless WUAG shifted to
89.7.
According to Woody McDougald,
Technical Advisor to WUAG-FM, "we
took a look at (their proposal) and
agreed" this could be done "if there
was no cost to UNC-G."
He added that A & T agreed to pay
for the change.
WUAG filed an application with the
FCC for the change in frequency in
conjunction with A & T's application
for a broadcast license. Problems with
the cnange arose when the FCC
informed UNC-G that WUAG's
application for the change was in
"mutual conflict" with an application
already filed by the Educational
Information Corporation of Raleigh.
The Educational Information
Corporation had previously applied for
frequency 89.7 with a power of 18.5
kilowatts. According to Paul Bell,
station manager of WUAG, if WUAG
were to broadcast at 89.7 with the
Educational Information Corporation
on the air at the same frequency
"people wouldn't even get us on
campus," and added, "We're just a ten
watt radio station."
"The FCC will not grant a license to
broadcast if a mutual conflict is
there," McDougald said.
In McDougald's opinion this
conflict may leave A & T without a
radio station. "The FCC would
probably grant the first (application
received) and we would keep ours," he
said.
This conflict will have no effect on
WUAG's application for renewal of its
FCC license to broadcast, McDougald
said.
WUAG's FCC license to broadcast
comes up for renewal December 1 of
this year. Applications for renewal
must be filed 90 days in advance of
the date for renewal.
"We're in the process of filing
now," Bell said.
FCC regulations state that anyone
has 30 days from the date an
application for renewal is filed to
challenge or support it.
Bell foresees no problems with
WUAG securing renewal of its license.
"I haven't seen anyone dissatisfied
with WUAG since IVe been here," he
said.
Not very well publicized event gets warm welcome from students.
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