The Carolinian [March 14, 1985]

              This week
Spring Break
in the Bahamas
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Dean Johnson
was elected President of EUC
in the run-off.
Essay contest
Black History Month is over, but the Black History Month
Committee is sponsoring an essay contest around the
theme, "What Black History Month means to me." The
grand prize is $50. The deadline is March 18, and enteries
should be brought by the Carolinian office in Room 201,
EUC.
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'Star Wars' discussed
OH a itory idea? Call u. u 379 5762
BY LORRIE J. CAREY
Staff WrtUr
"The space weapons program is
claiming national attention as a ma-jor
point of contention in arms
negotiations between the Soviet
Union and the United States," says
Mack Arrington, UNC-G Alumnus
and Advising Coordinator of the
UNC-G Peace Fellowship. In
response to this situation, the UNC-G
Peace Fellowship is sponsoring a
High Frontier/Space Weapons pro-gram
with two of the nations
foremost authorities on the space
weapons issue. The program will
highlight crossfire between Lieute-nant
General Daniel Graham,
Founder of the U.S. Space
Weapons Program and campaign
advisor to President Reagan, and
Dr. Robert M. Bowman, former Air
Force Colonel in charge of Advanc
ed Space Programs Development
and President of the Institute for
Space and Securities Studies.
General Graham will be speaking in
support of "Star Wars" space
weapons defense system and Dr.
Bowman will be speaking against
the system.
The program will include an in-troduction
by Dr. Samuel Levering,
a registered Washington lobbyist
and founder of the Friends Commit-tee
on National Legislation. The In-quiry
Panel includes Marilyn Braun,
Coordinator of the Greensboro-
Guilford Emergency Management
Assistance Agency; Dr. Gerald
Meisner, Professor of Physics at
UNC-G; and Mr. Ben Sternberg, a
former Military Assistant in the Of-fice
of the Secretary of Defense.
The timekeeper will be Mr. Roy
Schartzman of the UNC-G Depart-ment
of Communication and
Theatre.
The "Star Wars" weapon system
debate will be held in Odell
Auditorium at Greensboro College
at 7:30 pm on Thursday, March
28th. The auditorium has a capaci-ty
seating ability of 900. People are
encouraged to come early because
seating is limited.
Major interest has been express-ed
by the media about this event.
United Press International,
Associated Press, N.C. News Net-work,
local T.V., radio, and
newspapers are planning coverage
of this major event.
Peter Anderson, Student Coor-dinator
of the UNC-G Peace
Fellowship, is excited about the up-coming
program. In reference to
the "Star Wars" debate, Anderson
says, "This program represents a
goal which the Peace Fellowship
has been striving to obtain. We're
an organization that tries to repre-sent
both sides of the issue in an
educational and open atmosphere.
I encourage all students at UNC-G
to come to the Peace Fellowship
and express their point of view on
social and political issues."
The "Star Wars" debate is the
concluding event of a day of educa-tional
activities concerning nuclear
weapons issues which will be held at
UNC-G. The Peace Fellowship is
naming March 28th, the day of
these events, THINK day.
Peter Anderson would like to
thank the Educational Enrichment
Committee of Greensboro College
for providing Odell Auditorium; the
Institute for Space and Security
Studies; and High Frontier, Inc. for
their cooperation in helping the
UNC-G Peace Fellowship sponsor
this special event. Phonothon successful
Twenty UNCO student organiza-tion!
solicited more than $83,000 in
pledges in the 1985 National Alum-ni
Phonothon, which ended on
February 28 after 19 nights of
telephone fundraiaing on behalf of
the University Annual Giving
Program.
In all, more than 5,000 pledges
totaling $133,000 were made. Both
figures represented new records for
the phonothon, which has been an
annual event at UNC-G since 1979,
according to Gaye M. Barbour,
director of annual giving at UNC-G
and the Phonothon's coordinator,
who cited student participation as
a major reason for the success.
"This year's phonothon has been
a tremendous success, and we're
grateful to everyone, both to tnose
who participated as callers and
those individuals who made
pledges," Ms. Barbour said. "We
contacted over 10,000 people and
almost half of them made pledges to
the University.
"Student participation was at an
all-time high this year and some of
the groups manned the phones for
several nights as they worked
toward winning some of the prizes
that we were able to offer. The stu-dent
and alumni participation was
just invaluable and we wouldn't
have succeeded without their help."
This year, 6,232 pledges were
made totaling $133,000, and 10,486
alumni were contacted during the
phonothon. The previous record for
a phonothon came in 1983 when
4,164 pledges totaling $109,119
were made.
The total for the 1984 phonothon
was $87,317 with 3,283 pledges.
Previous were: 1982, $101,291 from
4,342 pledges; 1981, $101,603
from 4,606 pledges; and 1980
$84,830 from 4,007 pledges.
Records of totals for the first
phonothon in 1979 indicated that
4,088 pledges totaling around
$71,623 were made.
Ms. Barbour reported that UNC-G
alumni, faculty and staff and
friends of the institution were
responsible for soliciting pledges
amounting to $36,314 (27 percent).
Twenty student organizations
received pledges totaling $83,753
(63 percent). Corporate matching
gifts made up the remaining
$13,933 (10 percent).
"These totals are all the more
significant this year because we had
to cancel the first night of the
phonothon due to a snowstorm,"
said Ms. Barbour. "We had plann-ed
the phonothon for 20 nights but
we were only able to call on 19 of
them."
Two student organizations com-peted
for top honors during the
event in an effort to win two $150
cash awards. Gamma Sigma Sigma,
a service sorority, received the prize
for most time donated to the
phonothon and the Alpha Delta Pi
social sorority earned honors for the
most money pledged. Each group
had pledges amounting to more
than $17,000.
Dott Matthews Lowe (Class of
'43) worked as a volunteer during
17 nights of the phonothon, accoun-ting
for pledges of approximately
$11,200. Over the seven years ol
the project, Mrs. Lowe has con-tacted
enough alumni to account for
over $100,000 in pledges-or the
equivalent of one entire phonothon.
Once again, she was the project's
top pledge solicitor and received ap-proximately
$200 in gift certificates
which were given as prizes by local
merchants.
The totals raised by UNC-G stu-dent
organizations in this year's
Alumni National Phonothon were
as follows:
Alpha Delta Pi $17,944.47
Gamma Sigma Sigma $17,195.63
Competitive Scholars $9,246.92
Phi Mu $6,360.18
Chi Omen $6,267.60
Alpha Chi Omega $4,648.76
Golden Chain $4,183.84
Alpha Kappa Alpha $3,901.00
ANS $3,152.84
Delta Sigma Pi $2,098.00
NASW $2,053.10
Alpha Phi Omega $2,049.84
Intervarsity $1,978
Kappa Alpha Psi $658.00
PEGS $653.92
Residential College $539.92
EUC Council $874.84
Home Economics Students
$316.00
SNCAE $216.00
Lambda Chi Alpha $16.00
Senate reimburses Nance
after election controversy
BY STEVEN NINIVAGGI
N«w> Editor
The Student Government Senate
finished up matters on the David
Nance controversy, Tuesday night,
by reimbursing him the $52,50 he
spent before being disqualified to
run for SG President. President
I .nn Tyson apologized to the Senate
for what she called a misinterpreta-tion
of a statement she made the
previous meeting. Many members
believed she was criticizing Student
Forum when she complained how
much time it took up with Senator
Nance's election eligibility. Tyson
claims she was merely criticizing
Senators Nance and Casstevens use
of Parliamentary procedure that
night in order to get Senator
Casstevens re-appointed to a
committee.
The Judicial Committee submit-ted
its report on Senator Felicia
Smith's absences, and they
discovered she was not actually a
Senator. Miss Smith had been ap-pointed
to the sett but never sworn
in as a Senator. Therefore, the Jud-icial
Committee finally decided that
they could not disqualify Miss
Smith. President Tyson admitted
she had never talked with Miss
Smith about her appointment.
Senator Bemetta Ghist, the one
who was responsible for contacting
Smith, was vague as to whether she
talked with her or simply left a
message. The appointment of a
Senator to fill that position will be
considered in the coming weeks.
The final order of business, this
week, was a proposal made by the
Committee on Legislation. They
proposed to strike a clause in the
trial Constitution which would take
the final say on Elections Board in-terpretation
away from the At-torney
General. The Amendment
met lengthy debate, and was fin-ally
tabled for future discussion.
T/VN AND BLACK AND BLUE-Members of the UNC-G Rugby team
took a break from the rigors of practice last week to mug for the camera
while competing at a rugby tournament in the Bahamas. The ruggers may
have acquired fresh tropical tans but they lost to the Freeport Men's Club.
For all the wild and wooly details, see the story on page 9.
Novelist Card featured
at Stellarcon 10
to 11 p.m. Saturday, and 9 a.m. to
4 p.m. on Sunday. UNC-G students
with valid ID's will be admitted
free.
Although best known as one of
the stars of Buck Rogers,
Christopher has had a successful
stage, film, and television career.
He won the prestigous Clarence
Derwent and Theater World
Awards for his Broadway role in
Noel Coward In Two Keys and was
featured in Castor and Cleopatra,
with Rex Harrison and Elizabeth
Ashley. His films include SHE.,
with Omar Sharif, Voices, and
Space Raider*. His most recent role
is as the villain in the soon-to-be-released
Wizards of the Lost Planet.
He has been a guest star on many
prime time television series, in-cluding
Simon & Simon, T.J.
Hooker, MeClain's Law, Cannon,
and Harry O. On daytime television
he created the roles of nasty Noel
Douglas on The Edge OfNight and
Earl Merrick on Love Of Life,
Other events at the convention
are an art show, a costume contest,
live cabaret entertainment hosted
by "Dr. Karl Sayagain," and a
Dungeons & Dragons tournament
and other gaming, demonstrations
by the Society for Creative
Anachronisms, and Dr. Who and
Battlestar Galactxca rooms. Prat
films and videos will be played con-tinuously
and a special Schlock
Theater will feature some of the
worst science fiction movies ever
made.
fjMjftj to UM Caraltaiftj.
Stellarcon 10, a festival
celebrating science fiction and fan-tasy
with films, games, entertain-ment,
and guests including Thorn
Christopher, who played "Hawk"
on the television series Buck
Rogers, will take place Friday
through Sunday, March 22-24, at
UNC-G.
Along with Christopher, other
speakers will include KM. Meluch,
Orson Scott Card, MA. Foster,
Allen Wold, Gregg Keizer, Wes
Ives, David Datton, Gary Smith, Ian
McDowell, and Walter Myers. Miss
Meluch has written three well-received
novels and is a UNC-G
alumnus and one of the founders of
the Science Fiction and Fantasy
Federation, the UNC-G student
group which sponsors Stellarcon.
Card, a novelist and short story
writer, has won the coveted John
W. Campbell Award for Best New
Writer.
Tickets and information are
available by writing Stellarcon 10,
c/o SF3, Box 4, Elliott Center,
UNC-G, Greensboro, N.C. 27412.
The festival will open at 1 p.m. on
Friday with registration at Elliott
Center, where all events will take
place. The admission fee will be $12
if preregistered for the convention
weekend, $15 at the door for the hill
weekend, and $6 for one day will
cover all lectures and events, and
movies will be free. Hours are
through 11 p.m. on Friday, 9 a.m.
'Who will win the N C A A ?'
BY DE BEST
Sparta Mat
The NCAA tournament begins
this Thursday and as usual
everyone has an opinion on who is
going to to be in the final four. The
consensus is Georgetown in the
East, but from there predictions
vary widely. If you disagree with
the forecasters below, turn to page
7 and make your own predictions.
De Beit
Commuter
Georgetown
N.C. State
Memphis St.
OIK
Uptet
N.C. A & T over Oklahoma
Dana Temple
Mendenhall
Georgetown
St. Johns
Memphis St.
UNC
[/past
Auburn over Purdue
Paul Attintti
Commuter
Oklahoma
Kansas
UNLV
Uptet
Nevada Reno over State
John LaMuraglia
Commuter
Memphis St.
St. Johns
Georgetown
Michigan
Uptet
Texas over El Paso
Mike WhitfleU
Bailey Hall
Memphis St.
Georgetown
St. Johns
UNC
Uptet
A & T over Oklahoma
Mike Chandler
Commuter
Georgetown
St. John's
Memphis St.
LSU
Uptet
Miami of Ohio over Maryland
Phyllit Kennel
Colt
N.C. State
Duke
UNC
Georgetown
Uptet
Depaul over Syracuse
David Puih
Cotten
Carolina
Georgetown
St. Johns
Oklahoma
Uptet
Marshall over Virginia Comm
Marty Coward
Commuter
Georgetown
Michigan
Lousiana Tech
St. Johns
Uptet
ODU-SMU
Lou Pantuoteo
Commuter
Georgetown
N.C. State
Memphis State
UNC
Uptet
Navy over LSU
Mike Stewart
Gulltord
Georgetown
Louisana Tech
Michigan
Ariiona
Uptet
Va Tech over Temple