The Carolinian [January 18, 1979]

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January 18,1979 iLVIII Number 27 AtUaavenftty of North 379-SM1
Cites Achievements
Wilkerson Gives Resignation Address
Ralph Wilkerson addresses Senate.
photo by Hoby Lowe
BY TERESA BRITTAIN
Staff Writer
Speaking before a full gallery at
the Senate meeting Tuesday night,
Ralph Wilkerson formally resigned
his office as President of S.G. ■
He said that he leaves the office
with a clear conscience in that he
didn't shirk his responsibility, and
he stated that he is leaving the office
in a better position than it was in
last April, when he assumed his
duties.
Wilkerson believes he had a good
record in office with the conflict of
interest legislation, in establishing
an open Senate gallery so that the
students can participate, and with
the acquisition of insurance for the
Rugby Club. Also he said that the
Student Government is now finan-cially
sound. In summing up his per-formance
in office, Wilkerson
stated, "We made some people
angry because we made them
think," and he challenged the
Senate to "continue to fight the un-finished
agenda." Included on that
agenda is planning a major concert
for the Spring, and working to bring
about a comprehensive faculty-course
evaluation.
Wilkerson expressed his gratitude
to Appropriations Committee
Chairman Randy Foster, his
cabinet, his office staff, and the
Senate, and he concluded with this
Three Students Selected for
Internship in Washington, D.C.
Three students from the Univer-sity
of North Carolina at Green-sboro
have been accepted for
semester-long internships with
federal and private agencies in the
nation's capital through the
Washington Center for Learning
Alternatives.
The students are Susan L. Kip-ping,
a senior consumer services
major from Devon, Pa.; Martha A.
New, a senior political science
major from Durham; and Melinda
C. Teague, a junior history major
from Lowell.
Melinda Teague
UNC-G's Division of Academic
Affairs became formally affiliated
with the WCLA early this month.
Established in 1975, the WCLA is a
non-profit educational program
which provides internship oppor-tunities
for undergraduate and
graduate students from colleges and
universities nationwide.
The new program will be ex-plained
in a meeting at 2 p.m. on
Thursday, Jan. 18, in Alderman
Lounge of the Elliott University
Center on campus. The program is
open to all students and faculty. At-tending
the session will be the
WCLA's president, William Burke,
who will outline the program's
academic and work requirements.
Also attending will be Ms. Deidre
Morton of UNC-G's Division of
Academic Affairs and other mem-bers
of the interdepartmental com-mittee
which governs UNC-G's par-ticipation
in the program.
The three student interns will
report for their assignments in early
February. Under the program, they
will work a minimum of 35 hours
weekly with governmental offices or
private agencies under the direction
of a supervisor from the WCLA.
The internship requires weekly
three-hour seminars which will be
taught by adjunct faculty members
from Washington, D.C. institutions
who are involved in governmental
and private agencies.
"We view this as an excellent way
to send qualified students to
Washington for internships which
are academically and educationally
sound and are closely-supervised,"
said Dr. Herbert Wells, assistant
vice-chancellor for academic af-fairs
at UNC-G.
"The WCLA program is an in-novative
response to the need for
educational programs which take
students beyond the classroom and
give them firsthand experience in
areas of their career interest. It's a
step toward broadening the ex-periences
we can give our students."
A maximum of six students
Martha New
from UNC-G will be able to par-ticipate
in any of the WCLA's
sessions, which include first and
second semesters of regular
academic years as well as summer
sessions.
Commencement
Committee Narrows
Choice of Speakers
By KATHRYN LOSEY
Staff Writer
The Student/Faculty Commen-cement
Committee meeting on Jan.
9 nominated five candidates- for
speaking at this year's commen-cement;
among those nominated
were Civil Rights activist Rev. Jesse
Jackson and columnist Sylvia Por-ter.
Dean Clarence Shipton presided
as Committee Chairman and also
present were six students represen-ting
the student body of large and
individual schools.
The nominees are as follows by
order of preference: Rev. Pauli
Murray, a North Carolina lawyer
and theologian; Dr. Hannah Grey,
President of the University of
Chicago; Rev. Jesse Jackson,
graduate of North Carolina A A T
and active in the civil rights
movement; Dr. Jack Peltason.
Political Science professor and
President of American Council on
Education and Sylvia Porter, a syn-dicated
columnist.
Many speaker nominees had to be
rejected because of funds, which
cannot exceed S3.000 and because
of illness among some nominees.
Rev. Pauli Murray has been con-tacted
and is expected to return an
answer by early next week. If she
does not accept, other candidates
will be contacted in order of
preference.
At commencement. Chancellor
Ferguson will present the traditional
address to the seniors with UNC-system
President William Friday
also taking pan in the cert
Last year's speaker was
Stohl. a newscaster for CBS.
SasaaKlppmg
Students at UNC-G who are selec-ted
can earn up to 12 hours or a full
semester of academic credit; six
hours for the internship, three hours
for the seminar and three hours for
an independent study project.
Index
Resignation Speech 2
Crossword Puzzle 2
One on the Aisle 3
Sports 4-6
Comics 6
thought, "I do not intend to fade
away. I shall return." He received a
standing ovation at the end of his
speech. David Payne will be acting
President until regular S.G. elec-tions
in March.
In other business, the Senate
heard the final report from the Ad-
Hoc Committee on Teacher
Evaluation, formed by Chancellor
Ferguson in June 1977. The Com-mittee
is composed of several
faculty members and two students ,
and is chaired by John Form by. The
Committee did not set up a system
of teacher and course evaluation,
but it made recommendations on in-formation
that is needed for such an
evaluation. They considered
students' opinions important, and
also evaluation by the teachers'
peers and by the administration.
The Committee recommended
four classifications for instructors:
distinguished, superior, satisfac-tory,
and unacceptable. The report
leaves it to the departments and
schools to develop the methods in
which to evaluate the professors.
They don't require the departments
to use students' evaluations.
Under Appropriations, the Senate
granted the EMS $1,933 for a 2-way
walkie-talkie, so that an Emergency
Medical Technician can be on call
24 hours a day to respond to any
medical emergencies on campus.
The equipment will enable them to
get in touch with campus police and
other police officers.
Also, Steve Lambert was appoin-ted
Chairperson of University
Court, Kevin Yow was approved for
the Legislative Committee, Ken
Crumbley was assigned Elections
Board Chairperson, and Walter
Pritchett was elected President Pro
tempore.
Payne, Cecil Assume Duties
BY ANDREW LING
Associate Editor
David Payne and John Cecil will
fill the positions of President and
Vice-President of SG - although it
took a special act of Senate to
suspend a by-law which required
them to run for their offices in a
special election.
This stipulation, by-law S.i.2 in
the UNC-G Student Handbook
states, "An election must be held to
fill any vacancy in a Student Gover-nment
office within fifteen days af-ter
the office is vacated." It was
waived after an hour and a half of
long debate in the Senate Tuesday
night concerning the interpretation
of Article IV, Section B.2, which
enables the Vice-President to
assume the duties of the President in
his "absence."
According to Payne this article
was sufficiently ambiguous to re-quire
a special act of Senate to clar-ify
the succession procedure. Payne
commented, "It is not clear enough
to mandate the Senate to have an
special election, Jay Butler (Attor-ney
General) and I interpreted k as
not being specific enough. We in-terpreted
it as leaving the option to
Faculty
Women
Still Get
Short End
WASHINGTON, D.C. (CPS)—
"I don't think anybody knows why
it is still this way," complains Don-na
Shavlik, associate director of the
American Council on Education's
Office of Women in Higher
Education.
Shavlik was referring to a new
survey that, once again, shows that
faculty men earn more and out-number
women faculty at all college
levels. The report conducted for the
1977-78 year by the National Center
for Educational Statistics, found
women earn $300-5000 less per year
than men.
Of the total 389.264 faculty
positions at colleges and universities
studied by NCES, 74.6 percent were
held by men. Women held only
23.4 percent.
Salary and number differences
are consistent for every faculty
rank, including lecturers, instruc-tors,
assistant, associate and full
professors. The proportion of
women increases at the lower ranks.
Things haven't changed much
from NCES's 1976-77 survey,
either. The average women's salary
has increased about $700 annually,
but men's advanced an average
SipOO. The number of women
faculty members advanced .4 per-cent.
Higher education leaders
generally weren't surprised by
NCES statistics. Although federal
and state legislation of recent years
has been aimed at narrowing the pay
and promotion gap, there's been lit-tle
"aero— the board" progress sin
ce 1970, says Suzanne Howard of
the American Association of
University Women.
Howard fads the discrimination
is part of a "whose societal
supported by attitudes
women should remain in the
hat work by'
carry the
the Senate."
Cecil, who will fill the position as
President of the Senate, indicated
that most of Tuesday night's debate
centered on different wording of the
constitution rather than any objec-tions
raised by persons who had as-pirations
for the offices themselves.
Explaining the Senate's stand on
the problem, he commented,
"Opinion is that if the special elec-tion
were held, and if somebody else
is elected, by the time the regular
election is to be held it would not be
long enough time to do an adequate
job."
Payne stated, "The ongoing work
of the Chancellor's Search Commit-tee
as well as planning for Spring
Fling" could be affected by an indi-vidual
who did not know the job.
He added, "If a special election
were to be held it would divide this
semester into three separate Presi-dencies,
and that too could have an
adverse effect."
Instead, the Senate decided that
the special election will be held on
March 21 and 22, the scheduled
dates of the regular election.
The Political
Nature of Tuition
WASHINGTON, D.C. (CPSMf
your state doesn't spend much state
money on higher education, then
chances are you pay more tuition
than students in other states. Yet if
the state government does spend a
lot on student aid programs, chan-ces
are that you're also spending
more on tuition, too. The amount
of state aid to higher education,
though, is not related to how
wealthy a state may be.
Those are the somewhat-surprising
conclusions of a series of
studies released here over the last
two weeks.
Educators were most surprised by
the two studies that showed state
funding of higher education has lit-tle
correlation to a state's wealth.
Researchers D. Kent Halstead of the
National Institute of Education and
N.M. Chambers of Illinois State
University found that some states
with tax structures that enable them
to give more money to their colleges
simply don't appropriate education
funding up to their potential. Yet
other states—most notably
Alabama, Utah, Idaho, New
Mexico, the Carolinas, and
Mississippi—have low "tax
capacities" but "above average"
rates of higher education funding.
During the 1978-79 school year,
Alaska is spending SI76 per capita
on higher education, making it the
most generous state in the union.
Hawaii has the second-highest rate,
$128 per capita.
But New Hampshire only spends
S32.44 per capita. It is thus the most
parsimonious among the SO states.
Students at New Hampshire's
public colleges and universities,
moreover, also pay the highest
average tuition rates, according to a
study by James Rusk and Larry
Leslie of the University of Arizona.
According to Higher Education
Daily, Rusk and Leslie argue that
"adjusting state appropriations (to
state schools) seems to be the major
way to affect tuition levels."
Thus students in states which
spend more per capita on higher
education generally pay lower
resident tuitions. They pay less, that
is, unless a significant share of the
%et Tuition, page 4
News Briefs
■ ANGKOR. Thailand
Cambodian forces handed the in-vading
Vietnamese forces their first
setback of the war when they were
driven out of the Cambodian port
city of Kompong Som on Monday,
according to Western analysts.
Unconfirmed reports also in-dicated
that two Chinese merchant
vessels had been spotted in the area,
presumably to deliver munitions to
the beleaguered Cambodians.
Skirmishing also continued
around the provincial capital of
Seim Reap, endangering temples
and shrines in the area.
ASHEVIl.l.r A surprising 35%
of the registered voters in AsheviUe
turned out Tuesday as to past a
liquor by the drink referendum by a
margin of more than 1500 votes.
Ashevillc became the tenth area in
[the state to OK the liquor by the
drink referendum, while only Black
Mountain and Dare County have
rejected the referendum.
A load 0/7.765 para vcasd far
(the sale of mixed drinks, while
6,091 perSOM voted against the
proposal in the 17 Athevilk precin-cts
SANTA FE, New Meaka- A i
under a New Mexico state
allow four
'9WMfli
the side effects of chemotherapy
The provision is designed to
determine whether or not THC, the
active chemical in pot, is useful in
this application. "There is con-sistent
evidence that marijuana
doses inhibit vomiting and
facilitates sleep," said George Gold
stein, an HEW representative
"There is also literature which
suggests marijuana relieves pain."
The marijuana is to be ad
ministered in capsules and
originates from the U.S. Gover-nment
Marijuana Research Facility
in Oxford, Miss.
TEHRAN. Iran--The streets of
Iran's capital were Hooded with ec
static citizens as Shah Mohammed
Raza Pahlavi abdicated his throne
Known as the "King of Kings."
the Shah arrived in Eygpt for a short
visit with Anwar Sadat Piloting an
imperial Boeing 727 himself, the
Shah's visit coincides with former
President Gerald Ford's visit to the
Mid-east country.
The abdication, which the
described as a "vacation." broughcj
an and to mounting opposition to
hat J7 year rule A tearful airport;
departure, which was restricted tc
only a handful of dose friends and
■aflhaffy officers, was a marked dif
fereace to the wild scenes ol
cxhilaratioa la the streets ol