The Carolinian [March 30, 1978]

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March 30, 1971 Volume LVD Number 36 The University of North CaroUaa at Greeasboro Please Cal! Oar Hotfaae: 379-5041
WilkersonWins!
1,373 students went to the polls yesterday Stuff photo by EUm <
BY RICH INNES
In the closest Student
Government Presidential election in
recent history, underdog candidate
Ralph Wilkerson won a stunning
victory over candidate Steve
Lambert, winning the election by
the slim margin of 3 votes.
Lambert, the favored candidate
throughout the election, received
695 votes to the 698 received by
Wilkerson.
"You can overcome tne odds if
you really try hard," said Wilkerson
after the election returns were
tallied. When asked what would be
his initial concern as Student
Government President, he said, "I
want to combat apathy. I want to
prove to the students that I will
carry out what I promised in the
elections."
Wilkerson also plans to lower
student activity fees, but he
emphasized that he does not want to
financially harm student
organizations. "I want to give the
full time students a break, and at the
same time try to preserve the
organizations." Wilkerson said one
way to lower fees will be prevent
Elliott University Center from
adding a new wing.
Student reaction to the election
results ranged from "utter dismay"
to "I'm very happy." Rick Helms
said, "I don't see any way we (the
students) could have lost. Either
way we would have won. Both of
them are very Tine candidates."
Lambert intends to finish out his
term as town student senator, but is
not sure if he will serve in student
government next year. "I'm going
to keep Ralph honest in his
presidency," said Lambert.
An official re-count of the voting
will be conducted today, according
to Bonnie Osborne, chairman of the
elections committee.
Other candidates for the student
government -and media positions
received a varying number of votes.
David Payne, running for the office
of vice-president, received the
largest number of votes with 1.202.
John McCann, running for
Carolinian editor, received 1,088
votes. Jay Butler, for the attorney
general received 1,177 votes;
Laverne Totten for EUC president
Pornography Opponents Take A Stand
(CPS)—The University of North
Carolina Fine Arts Series cancelled
the "Second Annual New York
Erotic Film Festival" at the request
of William Malloy, Student Affairs
Director. Malloy feared. legal
problems, adding "To have an
entire movie of explicit sex ... I just
don't think it is appropriate."
According to the Wilmington police
attorney, viewing of the film by a
person under 18 would be the prime
legal liability.
When "Deep Throat" played on
the UCLA campus, it attracted a bit
more than the 5,000 people who
payed their dollar for the Nov. 4
showing.
It raised the ire of California
Congressman Robert Dornan who
threatened to fly to UCLA and
personally protest the film. Dornan
didn't show, instead firing off
letters to the UC regents. Now,
regents are determining how to stop
further showings of such movies on
UC campuses.
UCLA isn't the only campus
where community members and
administrators are setting up
decencyy standards for students.
Showings of "Deep Throat and
other movies and the staging of such
plays as "Equus" are resulting in
actions ranging from indecent
exposure charges to elaborate film
review procedures.
The self-appointed moral watch-dogs
find their actions easy to
justify. Right to Decency, Inc., is
combatting a "slimy plague of
smut" when they protested the
showing of "Illusions of a Lady" at
Mesa College in Colorado. A
professor from Lehigh University,
where phone calls and letters
followed a screening of "Throat,"
claims that "Lehigh, as an academic
institution, has some responsibility
to ensure that any activity it
promotes meets mimimum
standards of decency, artistic
integrity or scientific validity."
Congressman Dornan points to
funding as a base issue, suggesting
that UCLA was "allowing our
young people to be corrupted at
taxpayer's expense" and that
UCLA could lose millions in
endowments as a result of showing
"Throat."
Whatever the reasoning, it usually
brings about new policies. The most
common reaction is establishment
of a review board, a complicated
move since it involves setting up
definitions of obscenity that often
conflict with notions of academic
freedom.
At Wright State University in
Dayton, Ohio, this took a year and
a half. In Oct., '76 the
administration nixed the screening
of "Throat." A student caucus
group formed to protest, filing suit
against the uiversity. The university
filed to settle out of court and
negotiations began.
The plaintiffs came up with a set
of obscenity guidelines that the
University rejected, saying they
were "out of hand." The
administration then issued their set
of proposed guidelines.
Negotiations were not successful, so
the caucus formed a counter
proposal, which President Robert
Kegerreis termed "frivolous"
Last month, a compromise was
finally reached with the
establishment of a review
committee, composed of equal
numbers of students, faculty and
administration. Upon request, they
will review and determine the
obscenity of a film or play.
Guidelines "do not apply to
University academic research,
classroom related instruction and
sponsored student educational
endeavors.
"Throat" sparked a fusilage of
phone calls and letters to the Dean
of Students office at Lehigh
University in Bethlehem,
Pennsylvania last December. Dean
William Quay said the origin was an
organized protest from a religious
group who had no affiliation with
the University. This month, a
committee has been created to
Bailey, Barnes
Highlight UC/LS '78
F. Lee Bailey, who rose to
-national prominence as a lawyer for
he defense of Patty Hearst, and
loted critic Clive Barnes are but two
>f the names that will highlight the
1978-79 season of the University
Concert and Lecture Series.
The performing arts will also be
kvell represented, with the Russian
Dance Festival, Ferranie and
Icicher. the New York City Opera,
nd the Murray Lewis Dance Com-pany
all providing the cxciiemem of
he live performance for Green-sboro
audiences.
The Moscow Philharmonic
Iprchestra. conducted by Dimitri
Cetaenko. will perform in the
jreensboro Coliseum as a part of
he series.
"As an array ol cultural events
nd speakers, this year's season
^hould be one of the strongest yet."
ys Cliff Lowcry. director of
RJCLS. "The events themselves
reflect a mixture of American and
international tastes and we'll be
featuring one of the world's finest
orchestras—the Moscow Philhar-monic
OrcheM ra."
Student financial support of the
rie*. which amounts to SI I .SO per
ill nmt iiyiifiiHi mhtn limn
student activity tees), will not be in-creased
this year, according to
Lowcry. Rather an additional cost
will be passed on to Greensboro
residents attending the events. Ad-ditional
funding for the series is
necessary. explained Lowery.
because certain state funds are no
longer available.
The series has been divided into
two complete programs of music,
dance drama, and lectures. Seasons
memberships for either Series
Blue or Series Green will COM $35
each for new members. A com-bination
membership, which allows
the holder to attend every event in
both series, costs $60. Additional
membership information can be ob-tained
by calling the Aycock
Auditorium Box Office. 379-5546.
between 1 p.m. and 5:30p.m. daily.
The UCl S season membership
campaign will run through April 28
with 1.000 memberships being of-fered
in each series. Season mem-bers
also Mill be entitled to attend
the annual spring opera production
by UNC-G's School of Musk and
theatre division and the seven
student ensemble performances in
the School of MUSK'S Aycock
Series.
All performances will be held in
Aycock Auditorium on campus,
unless otherwise indicated, and are
scheduled to begin at 8:15 p.m.
Series Blue consists of:
•Sept. I. Emanuel Ax-Brilliant
young Polish-American pianist
whose performances of classic
works have earned him inter-national
acclaim.
•Oct. 21. New York C its
Opera—"The Barber of Seville."
one of the world's most -performoi
operas, presented by one of th.
nation's finest companies.
•Oct. 22. Trinidad Folk FeMival
(War Memorial Auditorium)—A
dazzling presentation of the dances
of the Caribbean performed to the
traditional sound of steel bands.
•Nov. 2. Royal Winnipeg Ballet
and OrcheMra—The inter-nal
tonally -acclaimed ballet com-pany
of Canada accompanied by its
m n orchestra.
•Nov. 4. Merce Cunningham
Dance Company—A radical new
vision of modern dance
choreography presented by the
revolutionary Cunningham Com
panv.
review film series programs, and
other public events, guidelines are
yet to be formed.
Nude scenes in the play "Equus"
came under attack at »jew Mexico
State University (NMSU) in Feb.
Controversy began when the
Evangelical Ministerial Fellowship
of Las Cruces complained about the
scenes to city police and the NMSU
president.
"Equus" nude scenes would
violate an indecent exposure statute,
said District Attorney'Lalo Garza,
who threatened to bring criminal
charges against the actor and actress
involved if the scenes were
performed. A restraining order that
would prevent arrest of the two
students was requested by the
ACLU. Judge Howard Brat ton
granted a temporary injunction,
ruling that application of the
indecent exposure statute would
represent a 'strong possibility of
First Amendment violation.' The
temporary injuction is expected to
be permanently effective.
Students heading film committees
are obviously not pleased when their
film choices are shot down. Film
selections are usually based on
student surveys, and controversial
films are popular.
"Throat" is 'by far the most
popular film shown on college
campuses', according to a New
York agency that rents X-rated
films to universities. "Erotic Film
Festival" ranked high on a student
survey of film preferences.
Chuck Heller, Lehigh SAC
president, probable speaks for a
majority of activity planners in
explaining their film policy: "The
key to the SAC is to provide diverse
activities for students, not decide
their morality. In supplying movies
and lectures, we leave it up to the
individual to decide for himself
whether or not to attend. As long as
activities are popular, we fed we're
doing our job."
received 1,167; Betsy Lane for
Town Student Executive Board
president received 1,109; Bob
Keenum for chairperson of the
University Media Board received
1044: Ric Marshall for Coraddi
editor received 1,088, Keith
Kolischak for editor of Pine Needles
received 1,077; and Waverly Jones
for chief marshal! received 1.086
votes.
jaaypttote ay Larry grwSma
President Elect Ralph Wilkerson responding to questions by Carolinian
eoitor Rich lnnes.
"Richard Griffiths,
For WGBG News33
BY JOSEPH CARTER
Staff Writer
News about news. There is a
difference betweeen a redio
announcer who reds press releases
during news broadcasts and one
who researches his own stories. In
order to investigate and interview
for his broadcasts, Richard
Griffiths wakes every day at 4:30
A.M. (his roommate will Verify the
time), so that he can be at work
before 6 o'clock. Last month
Griffiths was selected as news
director—while still a student—for
radio station WGBG, a former
country and western station that
went contemporary last year.
The former news director of
campus station WUAG. Griffiths
saw the news program develop from
five taped broadcasts per week to
forty-seven live spots a week. While
at WUAG Griffiths organized
AACongressional Profile," which is
a series of interviews with persons in
Washington, D.C.. and Griffiths
has completed ten of the thirteen
"Profiles." Griffiths was also the
columnist for Th Carolinian, prior
to accepting his new position.
The NC Board of Nursing
recently released the results of the
nursing examinations, which
showed only 47*5% of the A A T
University nursing students passing
the exam. On Tuesday Morning
before I talked with him. Griffiths
had already interviewed Dean
Naomi Wynn at the A & T Nursing
Program about the scores, and she
claimed that there was pressure to
close their program in favor of the
academically superior UNC-G
program, due to the HEW mandate
that duplicate programs be
eliminated within the University
sy«em. The NC Board of
Governors have warned the A & T
program that two-thirds of their
students must pass the examination
by 1981. in order to remain open.
And by 1983. three-fourths must
pass.
Whle on the road to his office, his
interview with Dean Wynn was
already included in the noon
broadcast. Griffiths showed me the
WGBG broadcasting station on
West Wcndover Avenue; he then
filed the nursing controversy story
with UPI. -For his prestigious
position as news director, his office
is decorated in academic drab, and
Griffiths works at a desk made of
two pieces of pressboard supported
bv concrete blocks.
Petition Requests
Counselors' Removal
H\ sir.VE PHILLIPS
Staff Writer
A petition bearing the signatures
of 133 Guilford Hall Residents and
one Staff Member was presented to
Residence Life Dean Shirley Flynn
yesterday afternoon. The petition
asks that Residence Life Staff
Member Allen Ungcr and hit family
be moved from the dorm next year.
"We heard rumors that Allen
would be back." explained Don
Wilson an organizer of the petition.
"We don't fad that his attitude is
conducive to that of a residence
hail." Wilson supports Me claim by
pointing out that all but one resident
signed the petition. Wilson feel* thai
Unger has no con—ctioai with
Guilford Hall since he handeo over
his Counselor's position to Jack
Murphy in October.
"There's no point in he and his
family taking up rooms and our
kitchen when they no longer have
anything to do with the dorm."
Wilson added.
"There's nothing personal
involved," said another resident
who signed the petition. "We have a
housing shortage as it is. Last fall
people were tripled. It Means
uudents should have priority over
lomaoat who's not constacted with
Guilford. If there's a problem
Klllwri Life should provide a
Richard Griffiths, WGBG Newt
Griffiths did not gci the job as
news director in the normal
American way (in fact, he is not an
American) by being the legitimate
child of a balloon -brained movie
star or politician. He didn't even
have to sell his vote or kill anyone.
Late last fall, he had been badgered
by Dr. John Jellicorse. the Director
of Communication and Theatre, to
apply for an internship at WGBG.
and finally he began working
Saturday mornings as an intern.
When the old news director left the
station for higher waves. Griffiths
applied and recieved the position.
He now broadcasts the news at
7:00. 8:00. 10:30 AM and 3:30 PM
at 1400on the AM dial
While I was still interviewing
Griffiths, the A A T nursing
controversy was Mill being
investigated. Griffiths believes "It
will be a source of conflict...there is
more there than meets the eye.'"Jn
the news ai the source of
journalism, the reporter sees
something, then interpret* it and
tell* other people through *
medium. Of course the journalist
flavors the information this his
opinion. Griffiths commented thai
prim journalism—as in newspaper*
does not inject personalities in ihe
new*, but in radio broadcasting
venous problem* arise because
"'people lend to regard you as a
person." They inierprei the ne*» **
given from a personality, which
Griffiths considers ' unionists**
but H ha* become a mu*i to succeed
Mihebuatncs*."