The Carolinian [April 16, 1981]

              The Carolinian
"Serving the academic community since 1897.
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Election Procedure
Questioned Again
By MARION ROBERSON
News Editor
The Student Government Elec-tions
Board announced the results
of the second run-off Tuesday
night. Ginnie Gardiner was elected
University Media Board Chairper-son
with 777 votes while opponent
Danny Daniel received 417 votes.
Rusty Weadon again got 733
votes out of the 12S8 votes cast for
the office of Student Government
vice-president. The remaining 505
votes were cast for Robin Manning.
For the third position in the run-off
election, Brian Berkley was elec-ted
SG president with 717, while
David Miller had 597 cast for him in
the presidential election.
But in lieu of certain violations
that occurred during the run-off.
Miller is contesting the election. The
contention is based on the following
grounds according to Miller and
various witnesses present:
1. Several students were witnessed
casting votes without having to
present a valid identification.
2. The voting polls at the Town
Student precinct opened later than
the times appointed by the Elections
Board.
3. Ballots were not available for
the students to vote, thus causing
the polls to close in the dormitory
precinct on Monday, April 13.
Miller's grounds for contention
are the same as Berkley's reasons
for contesting the first run-off elec-tion.
Miller explained that rules
were violated and the election
should be found invalid by the Elec-tions
Board.
"Voting without an I.D. is a
violation," said Miller. "If Brian
had won by a thousand votes, there
was still a violation and the election
should have been found invalid."
Miller also said that he believed
another election would be more of a
racial election rather than a
democratic procedure in which the
students would select their president
according to his potential instead of
his skin color.
"I don't want another election,"
said Miller. "Another election
would be race against race.
Therefore, that election, even if
going strictly by the book, (UNC-G
Handbook) would have wrong
moral implications when it should
be by the candidates'
qualifications."
To reach a decision on Miller's
appeal, the Elections Board meets
tomorrow at 7 p.m. in Elliott
University Center. If the election is
found valid Miller can choose to
present his case before a Student
Government Appeals Board. This
board is appointed by the vice-president
of SG, Rusty Weadon.
If he disagrees with the decision
made by the Appeals Board he may
further contest to the Superior
Court.
On the other hand, if the run-off
election is found to be invalid by the
Elections Board and there are no
more contentions, another election
will be held.
Dale Midkiff (left) swears ia the new media personnel L to R Carolinian Editor, Kendra
Smith, Media Board Chairperson, Ginney Gardiner, Coraddi Editor, Elizabeth House,
General Manager WUAG, Jill Pavey, as Vice Chancellor Jim Allen looks on.
Drinking Age Questioned
(CPS)-This month legislators are
debating making Texas the 15th
state since 1973 to raise the legal age
for drinking liquor from 18 to 21.
But if the experience of college
students in the other 14 states hold,
Texas campus administrators might
hope the legal age stays where it is.
Indeed, college administrators
around the country complain that
raising the legal age has caused
more problems for them, ranging
from increased dorm violence and
vandalism to loss of control over the
Preparations For Upcoming
Summer Sessions Begin
GREENSBORO-Over 560 cour-ses
in 34 areas of study, including
several special offerings led by
nationally recognized scholars and
other classes designed for teachers,
will be offered during the upcoming
summer session terms at UNC-G
The summer session classes will
fall into two six-week blocks, run-ning
May 19 to June 26 and June 29
to Aug. 6. There also will be cour-ses
designed for teachers and
educational officials which are
either short-term or scheduled at
mid-summer.
"This summer, we'll be having
some courses that will be conducted
by some of the nation's best known
experts in their particular fields,"
said Dr. John Young, associate
director of UNC-.G's Summer
Session. "In addition to these cour-ses,
we'll be offering several special
times for teachers and other people
who can't take classes during the
regular sessions.
"We want to make it as easy as
possible for people to have access to
the courses they need or want. In
addition to the special offerings, the
summer sessions have many courses
that would be offered during a
regular academic year."
Among the special short courses
to be taught at UNC-G this summer
are:
"Differential Education for the
Gifted and Talented," June 29 to
July 17-Dr. Virgil Ward of the
University of Virginia, nationally
recognized for his three decades in
the area of GT education, will focus
on contemporary theory and
strategies.
"The Developing Child in a
Changing World." June 15-26-Dr.
Nancy White, a UNC-G associate
professor, will lead the course,
which will focus on such subjects as
changes in family patterns,
nutrition, consumerism, and
education.
"Play, Games and Sport:
Historical and Cultural Inter-pretations."
July 20 to Aug. 6~Dr.
Roberta Park of the University of
California at Berkeley will focus on
the nature and relationship fo sport
with other human activities.
Other special courses will include:
Orff musk workshops. June 15-16
and June 29-July 10, with
specialist Ronnie Sahba;
making as an Art Medium." June
22-26. with Rebecca Humphrey
Hawking of James Madison Univer-sity;
and "Microcomputers in
Education," June 8-26, with Dr.
Theodore Hines, a UNC-G
professor of education.
Young said that a total of 569
courses will be offered during the
summer session. The listing in-cludes
299 undergraduate courses
and 270 others at the graduate level.
Some night courses are available, he
»aid, but there will be none on-
Saturdays.
Information on any of the sum-mer
session courses is available by
contacting the UNC-G Summer
Session Office at 379-5416 weekdays
from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Courses will be offered at UNC-G
in the following areas: accounting,
anthropology, art, biology, business
administration, business and
distributive education, chemistry,
classical civilization, com-munication
and theatre, dance
education, economics, education,
English, French, geography, Ger-man,
health, history, home
economics, interior design, library
science and educational technology,
mathematics, music, nursing,
philosophy, physical education,
physics^^jolitical science
psychology, recreation, religious
studies, social work, sociology and
Spanish.
Young pointed out that new
students admitted to summer school
prior to April 22 will receive
materials and instruction for com-pleting
registration. They may
complete the cards and pay fees by
mail or in person any time through
May 11.
New students admitted after April
22 may begin registration on April
27. They can pick up materials at
Forney Building on campus one day
after admission is completed.
Materials may be turned in and fees
paid through May 11. A general
registration will be held on May 18
from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Mossman
Building on campus.
Young also noted that there will
be a fee increase for in-state studen-ts
this year and the fees will be
charged according to the number to
credit hours attempted. In-state
students will be charged S29 per
credit hour attempted, and increase
from last year's S24 fee, and out-of-state
students will be charged $100
per credit hour, which reflects no
student drinking that inevitably con-tinues.
In the meantime, officials
say there's been no appreciable
decrease in drinking on campuses in
states where the age has been raised.
"There is no evidence that raising
the drinking age affects consum-ption,"
contends Dr. Gerardo Gon-zales,
director of the University of
Florida's Alcohol Information Cen-ter
and president of BACCHUS
(Boost Alcohol Consciousness Con-cerning
the Health of University
Students). Incoming college studen-ts
are simply determined to continue
high school drinking habits, he says.
"If they (under-age drinkers) want
to got it, then they'll get it."
"The drinking just went un-derground,"
agrees David Craft,
director of mental health services at
the University of Massachusetts-
Amherst. Raising the age, he says,
"just removed one set of controls."
Other administrators likewise
mourn the removal of controls they
say the lower drinking age laws
provided. For instance, students
used to be more likely to attend
college-sponsored and controlled
pubs and parties, where they would
be carded and even refused service if
circumstances warranted it.
At U. of Mass., Dean William
Field says the school even offered
bartending classes to teach students
how to tell if a party-or drinker-was
spinning out of control.
Additionally, school-sponsored
events also served non-alcoholic
drinks and foods that tempered
drunkenness. University of Texas
pub manager, Tom Owen, for one,
says students tend to drink less at
the pub because live entertainment
diverts their attention from alcohol.
But Owen predicts an immediate
decrease in pub attendance should
the Texas drinking age be raised.
Ken Burnham, U. of Mass.
residential life official, says he
knows where the students will go-to
their rooms. The number of studen-ts
who are not able to go to bars is
more than offset by the number who
drink in their drom rooms, be i
lit,
"It's obvious," Burnham told the
campus newspaper. "A tour of the
dumpsters on a Monday morning is
clearly indicative of the drinking
in the dorms on the weekend." He
adds, "There have been more in-cidents
of discipline (problems)
related to alcohol."
Dan Garvey, assistant dean for
students affairs at the University of
New Hampshire, also says dorm
violence definitely increased after
the drinking age was pushed to age
20 in 1979.
"It (raising the age) has had a real
bad effect ont he university," he
admits. "More students are getting
loaded."
Off campus, Amherst Police
Chief Donald Maia reports a drastic
increase in the number of disturban-ces
and arrests for possession of
alcoholic beverages in a seven-month
period after Massachusetts'
law change in 1979. During that
time, 65 students were arrested,
compared to 17 in the preceding 12
months.
The situation seems far different
from the results envisioned bv
legislators in the 20 states that have
either raised the age limit or con-sidered
raising it in the last eight
yean.
State legislators in Maryland,
Kansas, Minnesota and Michigan,
for example, say they aimed at
stopping high school students from
getting liquor from 18-to 21-year-olds.
But associated problems like car
accidents continue to rise, and high
school drinking rates are up, coun-ters
Florida's Gonzales, as well as
Gail Milgram, director of education
for Rutgers' Center for Alcohol
Studies. Milgram estimates 70 per-cent
of the nation's high school
seniors are "regular drinkers."
They go "to college with their habits
already formed. They'll continue
them irrespective of legal im-plications,"
she says.
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Spring
Fling
Cartoon
Causes
Conflict
By MARION ROBERSON
News Editor
During a meeting of "all in-terested
students", held in the Spar-tan
Dining Hall, David Miller, can-didate
for Student Government
president, announced his contention
of the run-off elections and also ex-pressed
discontent concerning an ar-ticle
that appeared in the previous
issue of The Carolinian.
The editorial, entitled "Thank
You, AAT," has caused tension
and problems among many students
at UNC-G. The article read:
"Well, AAT's annual UNC-G
Spring Fling is over, and it was a
roaring success. Never has there
been such a strong turnout. The
response was overwhelming as
almost everyone from our Green-sboro
neighbor showed up.
The Carolinian wants to thank
AAT for making Spring Fling such a
memorable event. Hell, it's not that
often that we can get together with
our friends from across town.
Maybe neat year we can prepare
better for their visit and make their
stay more enjoyable."
Miller, along with Neo-Black
Society coordinator, Geoff Dudley
held a meeting in the Spartan room
where students claimed that the ar-ticle
was racist and insulting to
black people.
Commented Beverly Pringle,
"The cartoon in The Carolinian was
an insult to blacks. It was saying
that all black students here are
from AAT."
Geoff Dudley, when addressing
the Senate Tuesday night said that
the cartoon and editorial were
"totally uncalled for". Dudley
inquired of the senate, "How can
you distinguish between an AAT
student and a UNC-G student?"
Other comments from concerned
students were that the editorial
assumed that AAT students were the
only black students at Spring Fling
and that the article excluded all of
the other student* like Guilford
College and Greensboro College.
Dudley requested that The
Carolinian write a retraction to the
students and an apology to AAT
State University.
On the editorial page of this issue
of The Carolinian, the editorial ca-ptains
the intentions of the editorial
and atnrl'*t4if for any misconcep-tions
or hurt feelings.
Courts Debate
Fate of
Handicapped
(CPSj-Tbc rate of all federal
college programs for helping han-dicapped
students will be in the
balance when the U.S. Supreme
Court decides the case of deaf
student Walter Camenisch, who
wants the University of Texas to pay
SI .240 a year for his sign language
interpreter.
The court two weak* ago gave the
U.S. nmeiHusai of
i to defend
Texas csassns thai schools arc
to spend saoacy to
qualified" handicapped per:
The 5th U.S. Court
decided last fall that
entitled to a free interpreter under
Section 504. but Texas disagrees
"An mstrtuttoa is not required to
lake any affirmative compliance
steps by accepting federal funds."
reads the school's petition for high
504 of that act.
federally-fueded schools can't
discriminate against "otherwise
Justice
i that it is free to forgo
if h