The Carolinian [March 26, 1981]

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March 26,19S1 VoiymcLX Number 38 The University of North Carolina at Greensboro CalOor HotBot: 379-JM1
Spring Election Results Tabulated
Run-Offs Slated for Next Week By MARION ROBERSON
Newt Editor
Three run-off elections for
Student Government President,
Vice-President, and Media Board
Chairperson will be held next
Tuesday and Wednesday, March 31
and April I.
The Elections Board announced
the results of the Student
Government elections
approximately 2:45 this morning.
Brian Berkley will meet David
Miller in a run-off for Student
Government president; while Rusty
Weadon and Robin Manning
continue to campaign for the office
of vice-president. For Media Board
Chairperson, Ginnie Gardiner and
Pete Walker will compete in a run-off
election.
According to Section I of the By-laws
of the Student Government,
A.f.3., "To win an election, a
candidate must obtain a simple
majority. A simple majority is
obtained when a candidate receives
one-half plus one of the total votes
cast in the elections."
The results of the election showed
that the candidates for the offices to
be included in the run-off did not
receive a simple majority. For
president, Brian Berkley received
338 votes of the 1422 cast by UNC-G
students. David Miller, his
opponent in the run-off, received
545 of the votes cast for that office.
Of the 1374 votes for the office of
vice-president, Robin Manning got
434 and 437 determined Rusty
Weadon a candidate in the run-off
election.
Ginnie Gardiner, receiving 560
will meet Pete Walker with 432
votes in the run-off elections. There
were 1377 votes tabulated'for Media
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David Miller and Brian Berkley, run-off candidates for
Student Government President, congratulate each other
after hearing Wednesday night's results.
Randall Austin received 191 votes
for SG vice-president."
Even though Walker, who
competed in a run-off last year for
editor of The Carolinian, and
Gardiner will meet in the run-offs.
Board Chairperson.
Again, according to The Student
Government by-laws under the
Elections Board, section A.I.6.,
"in all run-offs, the winning
candidate must obtain a plurality of
the votes cast." (One half of the
votes cast plus one).
"I can't believe how close this
election is," commented Robert
Day, one of the students who
volunteered to help tabulate votes
with the Elections Board. The other
candidates for president was a tight
race. Kelley Chandler edged Dale
Midkiff with 286-246 votes. Rodney
Eikr placed third with 309. while
Danny Daniel ran a close race to
Walker with 382 votes, while
Walker received 432 vote*.
Stacy Smith was elected Attorney
General, receiving 744 votes of the
1321 votes cast for the position.
Peter Hoover, the incumbent
Attorney General for. SG, closed his
term with 544 votes.
"There are no sour grapes," said
Hoover, commenting on the results
of the race and his feeling towards
Ms. Smith. "Stacy and I have
worked together in Judicial and I
don't have any hard feelings about
the election results."
"I'm happy I won," said
Elizabeth House, coraddi editor for
1981-82. "I, was pleased with the
overall turn-out," "Bricks"
continued. "It was more than last
year."
House stunned Tim Maroney
with 833 votes, while he carried 431
for Coraddi'editor.
While the contested positions, SG
president and vice-president, SG
Attorney General, Media Board
Chairperson, and Coraddi editor,
stirred curiosity among the
candidates who knew of the
competition they had to overcome Vi
the other positions, even though just
as provoking, brought a sense of
security.
Bill Murray walked away with the
most votes for the entire election-
1174. His unopposed position
totalled 1189 votes, the remaining
were write-in tabulations. Murray is
the new EUC Council president.
Kendra Smith, also running
uncontested, received 1172 votes for
the position of Carolinian editor. Of
the 1192 votes cast for the
editorship, 20 were also write-ins.
Larry Parker, the elected
Chairperson of University Court,
received 1066 with 17 write-in names
for the position.
Albert Sneeden, Jackie Faw and
Charles "Chip" Wells were elected
Town Student Executive Board
officers. Sneeden received 243
votes, Faw, 223; and Wells, 22
votes.
The Board members selected for
TSEB include Konrad Kernanes,
Carole Greer, and Duncan
Chapman. There were many write-ins
on the TSEB Board Members
ballot of which only seven members
can be chosen.
Along with selecting officers for
next year, students at UNC-G voted
on a referendum to make the
following changes in the Student
Government Constitution:
1. (Handbook, page 141) Amend
Article III, Section 2C, 2 to read.
"A consul shall serve as a proxy in
the absence of the senator, and shall
assume his/her senator's seat should
it become vacant, with notice to
his/her constiteuency."
2. (Handbook, page 145) Amend
Article IV, Section 2A, 5 to read:
"The president of Student
Government shall present a State of
the Campus Address to the senate at
the discretion of Senate in
concurrence with the SG president
no later than the third (3rd) senate
meeting of each semester."
3. (Handbook, page 145) Amend
Article IV, Section 2A, 8 to read:
"The president of Student
Government may establish an
Executive Advisory Board
composed of the heads of each
senate-recognized organization, to
advise the president on matters
he/she deems necessary."
The referendums passed with
votes of 800-162, 846-114, and 854-
111, respectively.
Approximately 13% of the
student body elected officers and
passed the preceding referendums-
1469. Of this figure, 1152 of them
reside on campus and the other 317
are town students. Compared to last
year, the voter participation more
than doubled.
Even though elections are a time
for disappointment for some
students, it is also a fine time when
others rejoice. But overall, they are
a new beginning for the university as
a unified entity.
Run-off elections will be held
Tuesday and Wednesday of next
week and the students of UNC-G
have a job to do-elect the candidate
of your choice.
PhtMobyCntiHiMn
After a long week of campaigning, Ginnie Gardiner
reflects everyone's sentiments by taking a short rest
while awaiting election results.
Freeze Creates Uncertainty
(CPS)--The Reagan
administration's 45-day freeze on
processing applications for federal
financial aid has virtually paralyzed
most college student aid offices, but
promises to cause even more
problems for students during the
summer, according to various aid
officers.
They predict students, when they
are informed of how much aid
they'll be getting for the 1981-82
academic year, will probably be
getting much less than they had
anticipated. Because of the delay
caused by the freeze, however,
students may not hear until the
summer, when they may not have
enough time before the start of fall
term to scrape together money from
other sources.
As a result, some administrators
expect there may be an exodus next
fall of students from private colleges
to less expensive public colleges.
The uncertainty prevalent in most
financial aid offices since President
Reagan proposed massive cuts in
student aid programs-including
Pell Grants (formerly Basic
Educational Opportunity Grants),
Guaranteed Student Loans, and
National Direct Student Loans-was
replaced by a more urgent,
frustrated atmosphere last week
when Secretary of Education Terrel
Bell announced the freeze.
Bell said the government would
process no more Pell Grant
applications until Congress acted on
his proposals to change the
eligibility requirements for the
grants.
But because Pell Grants help
determine what other kinds of
financial aid students can get. the
freeze has effectively stopped the
awarding of all federal aid during
this, the busiest time for assembling
aid "packages," say* Dallas Martin
of the National Association of
Student Financial Aid
Administrators.
Colleges arc adopting two
different strategies to cope with the
emergency. Oat is to wail until it's
settled. The other is to, as ooc
administrator put it, "go through
the motions." Both, aid
administrators say. do Stile more
than delay tat affects to tht frttae
until the summer.
"Going through the motions"
■lows aid office* to continue to
construct aid packages for students
even though the packages will
probably fall apart during the
summer, says Joanne Eberle, aid
officer at Lehigh University. Until
the summer, all anyone can do is
wait, she says.
"We can't do much now in the
way of estimating awards or
projecting effects on enrollment,"
agrees Norman Beet, director of
Ball State University's aid office.
"But we'll be pushed into high gear
over the summer, between
processing awards and talking on
the phone to students and parents
who are worried they won't get
enough money to go to school in the
fall."
Beck says the time between a
student applying for aid and getting
the aid can normally stretch to three
or four months.
A school screens aid applications
in late winter, forwards the
survivors to the federal government
for review, and finally hears of the
fate of each application in March,
April and May, Beck explains.
Then his office scrambles to
complete the aid package with
money from other sources. The
student usually hears about the final
package in late May or early June.
But this year, most students won't
learn their fates until just a few
weeks before the beginning of fall
term. For those students who
receive less from the government
than they requested—and many
students will get less if the
President's budget cuts are
approved-those last few weeks will
be nothing less than "havoc" as
they try to find the rest of the money
they need in time, Eberle says.
Nevertheless, some schools prefer
"going through the regular
motions" to "sitting in a golding
pattern," notes University of
Virginia associate aid director
James Ramsey. Thus his school is
forging ahead and assembling aid
packages just as it did in March of
last year. The difference is that this
year the packages are temporary, he
says.
He expects he'll "have to go back
to the drawing board" when the
government belatedly announces its
aid awards in the summer.
"Right now we're sending letters
on the assumption that students
will receive the full amount
requested from the government,"
Ramsey notes. "But we're adding a
warning that these projections are
only temporary."
Moreover, Ramsey adds that for
the first time he can remember UVa
is offering students "two or three
hundred dollars less than they
need."
-School Song
Deadline Near
By ALEC PETERS
Staff Writer
The deadline is April I for
submission of entries in the
School Song Contest being
sponsored by the Student Musk
Educator's National Conference
(SMENC) UNC-G chapter. A
prize of $200 is to be awarded to
tht writer of tht winning entry. It
is being furnished by SMENC.
the Office of the Chancellor. Phi
Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity,
and Mu Phi Epeiloa Fraternity.
Those wiehing to enttr should
keep certain points ia mind:
-lyrics moat be original, tune
should be original, but an
existing tune may be used if it is
public domain and if credit is
given to the composer. -
-tune should be fairly short,
perhaps two verses with refrain,
-tune should be appropriate-hymnlike.
.
-if tht song is written by more
than one person, they shall split
any prize money,
-entries should have name,
address, and phone number
attached on a separate piece of
paper- this will help ensure
impartiality ia judging.
Entries may be left at tht Mate
Desk EUC anytime before April
I. If you have any antsttnat,
please call Alec Peters at J7f-
5192 or Bread* Emott at 379-
7111
He worries that bills for tuition
may arrive before aid packages can
be revamped in the summer, and
that "this is going to cause a lot of
hassles for students who panic that
they can't pay the bills."
Other administrators don't see
much reason to go through the
motions. At the University of
Washington, aid officer Catherine
Dyson avers, "We can't decide how
to deal with it until summer. We
can't recruit actively because we
can't offer potential students
money."
Adds the University of
Wyoming's Delbert Smith, "We're
in a holding pattern. We can't even
judge next fall's enrollment."
To ease students' worries, many
schools are divising temporary loan
plans specifically tailored to help
meet the first tuition bill of the fall.
Virginia's Ramsey notes his school
has a good reputation for "covering
such immediate needs," and is sure
he can uphold the reputation as long
as students repay the loans within a
few months.
Beck says Ball State has already
begun a plan to provide temporary
financing to students, which means
"there'll be a problem in cash flow,
obviously at a cost to the institution.
But we have to do it," he
concludes.
None of the aid officers contacted
for this article by College Press
Service, however, had much hope of
making up all the money lost if the
Reagan cutbacks are approved.
"There simply aren't enough
university funds to make up the
difference," Eberle says, voicing a
common lament. She adds that most
schools' top priority will be to
provide for the currently-enrolled
students, usually with temporary
Senate Passes
Parking Resolution
By RENEE WEADON
Staff Writer
At the regular Senate meeting on
Tuesday, march 24, a resolution was
passed concerning parking
regulations for students during
exam periods. The resolution
requests the suspension of all
parking limitations around campus
during final exam periods.
The resolution has been
mandated to Mayor Jim Melvin and
Police Chief William E. Swing. The
resolution reads as follows:
WHEREAS Exams are an
important time in each student's
school career and have a large
impact on the student's grade point
average;
and
WHEREAS Each student deserves
the right to use all of his/her
allotted exam time;
and
WHEREAS A student may have
two exams occurring within close
proximity of each other;
and
WHEREAS The two to four hour
parking spaces around the UNC-G
campus are utilized by town
students during the exam periods;
and
WHEREAS Moving a vehicle to
avoid a parking penalty could cause
a student to have to leave an exam
before the allotted time and cause
him/her academic hardship.
THEREFORE LET IT BE
RESOLVED that the UNC-G
Student Government mandate
Mayor Jim Melvin and Police Chief
E. Swing to suspend all regulations
that place time limits on parking
around the UNC-G campus during
final exam periods.
MANDATES: Mayor Jim Melvin
and Police Chief William E. Swing.
Along with approving the parking
resolution, the Senate discussed
problems concerning snow days.
Senate members considered dees
attendance and other related
problems. A further discussion of
this topic will occur at the next
Senate meeting.
Mr. Frank DeMark, director of
ARA Dining Services addressed the
Senate about changes that have
occurred under his administration.
Senate meetings begin at 7 p.m.
every Tuesday and are open to ail
interested persons. Increase To Come In
Scholarship Fund
edol to The CarsHatae ••( omnetition for
If a two-month loan isn't
sufficient, "students art going to
have to make fast daritioni about
staying hart or withdrawing," she
mourns.
While that may sound harsh. Ball
State's Beck predicts a large number
of studonis at private schools like
Lehigh are' going to have to
contemplate transferring to leas
expensive public colleges.
Considering the squeeze on students
from rising tunions and ihrinhaag
aid, Wtahingino's Dyson cans the
migration to slate schools
"inevitable ."
Special
SAN RAFAEL. Cafaf. -President
Reagan's proposed S9.2 billion slash
in Federal student loam and grants
over the next five years will at least
in part be off-set by increased
support from the private sector,
according to Daniel J. Caasidy.
president of the National
Scholarship Research Service
(NSRS).
Cassidy noted that corporate
support to education last year
approached the SI billion levd.
mart than double the 1450 minion
pcmpaniri contributed ia 1973.
Estimating that corporate
donations in I9S1 wil increase by
approxjmatdy 15 pet cant, or about
SI50 aaUnon. Casaidy observed tins
Competition existing
. scholarship funds, as a result, will
increase substantially in coming
months," Cassidy noted, adding
that the trend is already becoming ■
clearly apparent at the organization
he heads. NSRS. which ipw inn—
in providing computer -generated
nan of scholarships. Idlowships.
grants and mans thai best meet the
educational and occupational goals
of applicants, has experienced a
two-fold increase in inquiries since
President Reagan's proposed
budget cuts were announced, he
Noting that last year over $130
million in available educational
funds went unclaimed. Caasidy
concluded that generous
educational grants still si ill he
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