The Carolinian [April 27, 1976]

              The Carolinian
April 27,1976 The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Volume LV Number 46
Charges defeated
In a unanimous vote last night, the Senate Committee on
Classification of Organizations ruled that the Forensics
Association did not have to be reclassified as an organization.
Former Senate President Barry Frasier, and others brought
charges against the Forensics Association saying that they
violated their constitution because of academic affiliation. Such
affiliation would have required a change in their status so that
the organization would not have been able to receive funds
appropriated by Senate.
Final approval of the Forensics Association as a
non-academically affiliated organization is pending in Senate
tonight.
Security chief leaves force
BY JADE GORMAN
Stiff Writer
The retirement of Chief Roy F.
Alexander in August as head of
Campus Security will bring to a close
16 years of service to the University.
Reflecting on these years, Chief
Alexander declared, 'The students are
a part of me. I've always considered
the students, staff, and faculty as my
first protection and the state property
as my second protection."
When Chief Alexander came to
Greensboro in 1960, UNC-G was still
the Woman's College. Chief Alexander
claimed thafas time passed,you could
see the changes." The changes that he
has dealt with most directly involve
improvements of the campus security
and the police force here. "When I
first came," he said, "the equipment
was so poor that the girls in the
dormitories had to turn on the porch
light to let us know that they needed
us."
Today, the UNC-G Campus
Security has advanced equipment and
radios. The size of the staff has
increased from six officers to fifteen
officers, two full-time secretaries, and
one part-time secretary. Elaborating
on these advancements. Chief
Alexander said that, "Each year I
could see improvement."
Chief Alexander feels that over the
yearstherehas been a change in student
crime trends. Years ago, the more
common crimes involved peeping toms
and indecent exposure.
Today, petty thefts are
predominent. Also, he declares,
"Bicycle larceny has gone out of
sight." Chief Alexander added that
with the coming of the spring season
vandalism increases. "It's just because
the students are all hepped up and
they have to do something to fluctuate
their minds from studies and things."
Commenting on the parking
problem at UNC-G, Chief Alexander
claims that the situation was not bad
when only seniors and nursing majors
were allowed .0 have cars. "It got
bad," he said "when everybody got a
car. To alleviate the problem, I feel
that commuters, seniors, nursing
majors, and teachers should be the
only ones with cars."
Chief Alexander regrets leaving the
University btc •• •-• his job has been
very rewarding, bin he went on to say,
"You must change with the times." He
plans to retire in Cooleemee, N. C,
where he was born. He feels that
retirement will give him more time
with his family, and time to do other
things that he enjoys, such as
gardening, fishing, and playing golf. He
also expects to get a part-time job as a
security officer there.
Chief Alexander has worked for
law enforcement for nearly 27 years.
He was first a patrolman in York, S.
C, for three years. From there he
became a police chief in Robbins, N.
C, where he stayed for seven and a
half years. In I960 he came to
Greensboro. Over the years, he has
received many honors for his service*.
While serving as police chief in
Robbins. he was featured in "Chiefly
Chatter" in the Law and Order
magazine. He has received awards from
the Law Enforcement Officers
Association of the Carolina's for
"Outstanding Service as President" in
1970-71, and for "Outstanding Service
as President, Vice-President, Secretary,
Treasurer, and Board of Directors" for
the years 1952-75.
Commencement speaker slated
UNC-G News Bureau-Mrs. Martha
W. Griffiths of Michigan, who served
in the U.S. House of Representatives
for 20 years, will deliver the
UNC-G professor runs for office
BY TED LLEWELLYN
Staff Writ*.
Dr. Joe Johnson, the head of the
Business Administration department
of UNC-G, is planning to run for
Insurance Commissioner of North
Carolina.
With a Bachelor's degree in history
and a Master's and Doctorate in
business with concentrations in
insurance. Dr. Johnson feels he is well
qualified to fill the post. In fact, the
technical qualifications of
decision-making people in the
Commission is likely to be one of
Johnson's key points during the
campaign. "I would like to see
decisions made by a professional staff
rather than by political appointees,"
Johnson said in an interview with The
Carolinian.
Johnson has been with the
University since 1969. He has been an
Associate Professor since 1973 and
head of the Business Administration
Department since last fall.
Johnson's campaign will probably
revolve around the record of John
lngram's term as Insurance
Commissioner. Johnson said there are
18 challenges to decisions made by
Ingram in the courts at present. He
also said Ingram has a win-loss ratio in
such cases of "about 14-tol." He said
this has been caused because "Ingram
has not acted within the statutory
authority granted him by the General
Statutes of North Carolina."
He cited as a specific case lngram's
attempt to reform insurance rates for
young drivers. This was one of
lngram's main platforms when he ran
for office three and a half years ago.
In 1970 the Auto Rates
Administration Office came up with a
Thirty-seven Classification Plan that
would have modified but not
significantly changed the present
system under which males under the
age of 25 are the only group charged a
higher premium than their individual
driving records call for. Ingram vetoed
the plan and substituted his own Merit
Rating Plan. The Rates Office took
Ingram to court, charging him with
exceeding the authority granted him
by the General Assembly. Ingram lost
the case.
Last year the General Assembly
passed legislation requiring an
insurance plan be drawn up that would
require that no auto insurance rates be
set on the basis of age or sex. The
Rates Administration Office filed such
a plan, but Ingram modified it. The
Office filed suit again, and Ingram lost
that case when the Superior Court of
Wake County decided Ingram had
exceeded his statutory authority.
Johnson emphasized again and
again that the decisions of the
Insurance Commissioner should be
based on the work of the
professionally qualified staff of the
office, and not on the basis of political
gain.
In other areas of insurance reform,
Johnson said he favors the adoption of
the No-Fault auto insurance system.
He said that system is more efficient
but also more expensive than the
present one.
'The question society has to decide
is whether they are willing to trade off
the current inefficient system for a
more costly efficient system" and the
right to legal action, Johnson said. He
added that a threshold of
S25O0-$5OOO should be set on the
actual extent of injuries covered by
the system. Above that limit, the
injured party should have the right to
sue.
In the field of malpractice
insurance, Johnson was asked how he
would like to modify the system. "I'd
like to put it in a stump hole," he
joked.
Getting serious, Johnson said he
agreed with the recommendations of
the Malpractice Study Commission,
except for the recommendation of
eliminate the Collateral Sources Rule.
Under the present system, the defense
in a malpractice case can enter into
evidence that the plaintif had already
been compensated for his injury by
other sources of income, such as
insurance policies or his employer's
Workman's Compensation Plan. The
Commission, Johnson said, has stated
that "recovery from one source
shouldn't limit recovery from the
doctor." This would result in patients
being "paid two and three and four
times for the same injury with the cost
to society being doubled."
"The question with all systems,"
Johnson said, "is can it do the job? Is
it economically feasible?" The
question for Joe Johnson is whether
he can convince the people of North
Carolina that a political race ought to
be decided on the basis of anything as
dull as technical qualifications.
Johnson believes that Ingram will also
be in the race this year. If that is the
case, and if Johnson can make his
point clearly, then the race for
Insurance Commissioner ought to be
one of the few decisive campaigns of
the year.
commencement address for UNC-G on
Sunday. May 9.
UNC-G's commencement exercises
will be held at 11 a.m. on May 9 in
Greensboro Coliseum. Degrees at the
undergraduate, master's and doctoral
levels will be awarded during the
ceremonies.
Among others in the program will
be Dr. William C. Friday, president of
the University of North Carolina,
UNC-G Chancellor James S. Ferguson,
Mrs. Betty Anne Stanback, vice
chairman of the UNC-G Board of
Trustees, and Miss Vera L. Cooke, a
UNC-G senior from Monroe, who has
been elected to represent the
graduating seniors as a commencement
speaker.
Mrs. Griffiths, who now lives in
Farmington Hills, Mich., represented
the 17th Congressional District in
Michigan in the U.S. House of
Representatives from 1955 to 1975.
She was a sponsor of the Equal
Rights Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution, and helped guide its
passage through the House in the 91st
Congress.
Mrs. Griffiths, now a practicing
attorney, received her B.A- degree
from the University of Missouri and
later obtained her J.D. degree from the
University of Michigan. She was
admitted to the Michigan bar in 1941.
In 1955, she was admitted to practice
law before the U.S. Supreme Court.
From 1949-52, she served in the
Michigan State Legislature She was a
judge and recorder of the Detroit
Recorder's Court in 1953, and was the
first woman ever to hold that post.
She also served as a member of the
Detroit Election Commission.
She has been the recipient of many
honorary degrees. Presently, she serves
on the board of directors of the
National Detroit Corporation, Chrysler
Corporation, Burroughs Corporation,
Consumers Power and the American
Automobile Club. She also is a
member of the board of trustees of the
fund of Henry Ford Hospital in
Detroit.
Touring troupe will perform
UNC-G News Bureau-America's
only touring company with a
repertory of both classic and modern
plays will appear in Greensboro April
29-May 2.
The Acting Company will perform
three plays on four nights in UNC-G's
Taylor Building theatre.
Die Acting Company will present:
April 29--"The Robber
Bridegroom." This uninhibited story
of a bandit chief and the beautiful
daughter of a wealthy planter is based
on a novella by the noted Southern
writer Eudora Welty.
Psychic counseling introduced here
BY RANDOLPH SIDES
Staff WriUr
The past, present, or future, good
or bad, is of great interest to Joyce
Sammons and Arlan Andrews of the
Para Science Institute of Greensboro.
The Para Science Institute was
organized and licensed in November,
1975 to provide psychic counseling
services for the residents of
Greensboro. According to Ms.
Sammons, her clients since then have
included men and women, college
students, and professional people from
all areas.
Psychic counseling, depending to a
great extent on ESP, has long been
considered the work of evil spirits.
Many people have been tried and
convicted of witchcraft for practicing
the art of predicting the future.
'Tart of the problem," said Ms.
Sammons, "is that people are hesitant
to get involved with anything they are
sceptical about. People still associate
our work with the practice of
witchcraft and the work of evil
spirit.."
The actual practice of psychic
counseling, as done by Ms. Sammons,
involves first a few minutes of
meditation. Then, the subject is
handed a stack of cards and asked to
shuffle the cards while thinking of the
questions he wants answered. When
the subject feels the cards have
"absorbed" his questions, the
counselor lays them on the table face
up and begins to interpret them.
The symbols on the cards were
invented by the Para Science Institute,
but any symbols understandable to the
counselor could be used. "I am
currently working on a set of cards
with hieroglyphic symbols on them,"
said Ms. Sammons. "I believe that
these might more accurately represent
the subject's emotions and thoughts."
After the initial interpretation of
the cards, several cards are removed
from the deck and the subject is asked
to reshuffle the cards. "The second set
of cards," Ms. Sammons explains,
"relate only to the most serious of
foremost thoughts in the subject's
mind. It enables me to get a clearer
picture of the thoughts without "the
interference of the smaller matters on
his mind."
The Para Science Institute believes
that everyone has some psychic
ability. There is some factual evidence
to support this.
Duke University recently
completed a study on ESP and other
mental powers. The study concurs
with the institute's opinion. There is
an exhibit now on display in Raleigh
showing the results of the study with a
speaker on Thursday nights to explain
the results and answer questions.
'We hope the results of this study
will convince people that they posses
psychic powers themselves, to some
extent. This is what our business is
founded on, and the results of this
study should bring wider acceptance
of the work we do here" said Ms.
Sammons.
If you haven't heard of the
Institute, don't be surprised. Their
only publicity is by word of mouth
and an occasional public appearance.
"We don't ask people to come
back, either" explains Ms. Sammons,
"because they come here originally to
expose a problem. Once we expose
this problem, and hopefully offer
some steps toward solution, we
encourage the person to solve the
problem themselves. If they are not
able to do so, or want further advice,
however, we welcome them back."
This reporter was surprised at the
accuracy of the counselor'ss
predictions, but not too happy with
one of them. According to the cards,
this reporter has no future in
'publications"!
April 30-"The Way of the World."
Often cited as the finest example of
the English comedy of manners.
May l-"Arms and the Man.
Bernard Shaw's classic comedy is
about a soldier who has more stomach
for chocolate creams than for calvary
charges.
May 2-"The Robber Bridegroom."
The Acting Company's production
of 'The Robber Bridegroom" has been
nominated for two Tony awards. Patti
LuPone who plays Rosamund in the
play has been nominated as Best
Featured Actress in a Musical and
Aired Uhry has been nominated for
writing the Best Musical Book.
Curtain time for each of the plays
is 8:15 p.m. Ticket information can be
obtained by calling the Elliott
University Center box office at
379-5546.
The Acting Company was founded
by the distinguished producer-director
John Houseman, whose long list of
credits includes an Academy Award
for his performance in 'The Paper
Chase." Under Houseman's artistic
direction, the classically-trained
company has toured its repertory from
Broadway to California, and has been
widely praised for its technical skill
and its ensemble playing.
Now in its fourth year. The Acting
Company has been called "the finest
repertory company in New York City"
by the New York Times. The St. Louis
Post-Dispatch described it as "a lesson
in how repertory should be handled."
Most members of the company
attended the Drama Division of the
Juilliard School in New York (in fact,
the company was formed from the
first graduating class), where a unique
four-year training program was created
for them by Houseman and the
European teacher-director Michel
Saint-Denis.
There were acting classes, voice
classes, movement classes and
academic disciplines. The students
learned how to fence, juggle, tumble
and do the dances of other centuries
and cultures. They learned how to
breathe all over again, and how to
articulate properly.
Much of the training was designed
to free American actors from the
stereotype of "realism only" brought
on by plays of the '40s and '50s.
Actors, trying to achieve the necessary
realism, embraced an introspective
way of working known as "The
Method," by which they recreated the
emotions and memories of the
characters they portrayed.
"We were told to strike out the
text, paraphrase, do anything to keep
us from being mechanical," said
Michael Kahn, who taught and directs
The Acting Company, but who was
brought up on the Method.
'The training is based on the idea
that if you can do classical plays, you
can do the other kinds of
plays-although the reverse is not true.
I think it gives the students truth and
honesty, and also a lack of fear of
words, an enjoyment of words."
Free concert
scheduled
Tomorrow is the last day of classes,
and to celebrate the welcomed
occasion, Elliott Hall Council is
sponsoring a concert. "Glass Moon"
will play in the Quad from 3-5:30 p.m.
In case of rain, the concert will be held
in Cone Ballroom from 1 -3 p.m.
The performing band, "Glass
Moon," uses guitar, keyboards, bass,
drums, and flute with
three-and-four-part harmonies. They
have appeared with such bands as
Bertha, Atlanta Rhythm Section,
Sugarloaf, Kiss, Blue Oyster Cult, and
J. Ceils Band. They have made
appearances at many colleges
throughout the southeast, especially in
North Carolina.