The Carolinian [March 21, 1985]

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Jerry Williamson
Security is misunderstood
BY MICHAEL READ
SUff WriUr
"We're probably the moat
misunderstood people on this cam-pus,"
says Jerry Williamson, head
of Campus Security, "We're just
trying to do the best job that we can
under the existing circumstances."
"They're watching me," one stu-dent
commented. "Watching every
move that I make, waiting for the
slightest infraction so that they can
haul me away." His buddy added,
"I feel like they are monitoring my
personal actions. Big Brother
lives..." Perceptions of Campus
Security like these are widespread
among UNC-G students. It is
somewhat alarming—are they real-ly
watching?! An interview with
Jerry Williamson proved that this is
a misconception. "We're not here,"
Mr. Williamson states, "to police
the students. We're here to protect
the people and the property of this
university." Campus law enforce-ment
since the late Sixties has
evolved into a highly specialized
branch of law enforcement. "You
don't see an F.B.I, agent out
writing speeding tickets. That's not
his job. You don't see a highway
patrolman out investigating crime.
That's not his job. His job is to give
speeding tickets. A campus law en-forcer's
job is to enforce the laws on
campus and to protect the people
and their property."
One of the primary means of pro-viding
protection that Campus
Security employs is a high visibili-ty
patrol. "You see police cars
patroling the campus all the time.
We have officers out there on foot.
We're not hiding behind bushes,
peeping on students to see what
they're doing. We're there to see
that something is not going to come
down where a student is going to be
harmed. We have a very low violent
crime rate on this campus, and the
reason is that we are constantly
jerrv *» miaiuevH, uumui ui i ajapaa »eeariiy, itri a primary pro-blem
security has as being aiiiuaderstood on the part of students. He
maintains that security isn't out there trying to get students—they're
trying to help students who an victims.
visible. Of course, a student can
misconstrue that and say, 'Oh, he's
watching me.' We're not watching
the students. We're there to see
that they can do what they want to
do and not be bothered."
But is it really necessary for the
police force to be so omnipresent?
There don't seem to be that many
students walking around looking for
a face to smash or a girl to rape. Mr.
Williamson assures us that it is not
the students that Campus Security
is necessarily concerned with.
F.B.I, statistics show that ninety
percent of the crimes committed on
college campuses across the nation
are by people that do not attend the
institutions. "Students are not
generally the perpetrators, they're
the victims," remarks Mr. William-son.
"All of the major problems that
we have are what we call 'spillovers'
from the city. It goes along with be-ing
an urban campus. We find peo-ple
wandering around here at night,
they're obviously up to no good. It's
a touchy situation. The Supreme
Court has ruled that these people
have every right to be on our cam-pus;
it is a public university, paid for
by the taxpayers. We can't place
these people under arrest. This is
the type of situation that calls for
surveillance.
Mr. Williamson is confident in his
assertion that the UNC-G has as
safe a campus as can be found in the
North Carolina state school system.
"So far this year, there have been
three murders in Chapel Hill. We
don't have that here. That is not to
say that we won't have it tonight,
but UNC-G is aa safe a place as you
will find in this city. In every urban
setting, there will be one pr two
areas that you will not go into late
at night. Would you expect a girl to
walk alone down Tate street at
three in the morning? Probably not.
We don't recommend that here at
UNC-G, or anywhere."
So, the next time you see three
police cars chasing someone across
the golf course, or pouring out so-meone's
bottle of Chablis, be
thankful. "It's really difficult," Mr.
Williamson concluded, "to walk a
line between providing the proper
amount of security for the campus,
which meant police out on the
streets and visible, and giving the
appearance of a police state. We
don't want to do that, we don't
want students to think: Oh, gosh,
everywhere I go there's a cop wat-ching
me.' That's not true. What
we are there for is to make sure that
they can go wherever they need to
go without having to be looking
over their shoulder. It's forever
walking a line, and it's a delicate
thing. It bothers me a lot that it has
to be that way. But it is obvious that
is is effective. We have been very
fortunate about violent crimes be-ing
committed on this campus. It
rarely occurs. Let us all be
relieved."
Senate reviews policy changes
BY DOUG BRISTOL
SUff Writer
Reporting at last Tuesday's
Senate meeting, the Committee on
legislation recommended changing
the Elections Board Policy so that
Student Government candidates
could not campaign for other can-didates.
Committee chairman Bill
Snedden explained that the new
policy would prohibit ticket
campaigning.
The Committee on Legislation
also recommended that Senator
David Brown's legislation to extend
the elections appeal period be drop-ped.
The extension of the appeals
service, during which questions on
a candidate's eligibility are decided,
was denied by the Committee on the
grounds that it was non-feasible.
In another report before the
Senate, Appropriations Committee
chairman David Nance requested
$1170 for various activities of stu-dent
organizations. All three re-quests
were approved by the
Senate. The UNC-G Student Health
Center will receive $650 for its
Fitness Festival, which will be held
from April 22-26. The Chemistry
Club received $70 to cover dinner
and travel expenses for a guest
speaker from the SBI, who will be
speaking on Chemistry and Crime..
Money was also given to the Greek
Week committee for an all-campus
dance. $550 was alloted to pay for
publicity, a DJ, security, and
refreshments. These expenditures
leave the Appropriations Commit-tee
with $1900 left to give out dur-ing
the rest of the semester.
The Senate also voted to accept
the Judicial Committee's recommen-dation
to rescind its approval ot
Felicia Smith's appointment to the
Senate. Ricardo Rodriguez, Judicial
Committee Chairman, explained
that Ms. Smith had not attended
any Senate meetings since her ap-proval
and had not responded to
notices asking why she had not at-tended.
Ms. Smith was the
representative of the School of
Health, Physical Education,
Recreation, and Dance.
In her Presidential report, Lori
Tyson announced that there would
be a conference in Atlanta on March
28-30 which she would like Senate
representatives to attend. The sub-ject
of the conference" is "Being a
Black Student on a Predominately
White Campus."
Wendell Carter, making his Vice-
Presidential report, commented on
how people felt recent Senate
meetings had been rather glum and
asked the people in the room to
smile at the person next to them.
He also reminded the Senators that
he would rule anyone doing
homework during Senate meeting
out of order and ask them to leave
the room.
The highlight of the evening was
a parliamentary workshop.
Parliamentarian Chuck Murph
made the distinction between mak-ing
an official motion and shaking
one's arm. A mock debate was also
held on whether or not a keg should
be provided at each Senate meeting.
In
This
Issue
Spring Hinii plan, page 2
Maaqueraderi page 3
Editorial* page 4
llliiiim County page I
The Grumbler page C
Stellar run page 7
Mr. Jackaoa page 8
Basketball page I
England l>inr> ... page 10
Ruggers fall page 11
Flexible Flyer .... page 12
Support
the
Arts
Applewhite and Weaver
to give readings
Short story writer and novelist
Gordon Weaver and poet James Ap-plewhite
will give free, public
readings in late March at UNC-G.
The readings are a part of the
1985 Spring Visiting Writers Series
sponsored by the Master of Fine
Art* degree writing program in
UNC-G's Department of English.
On Tuesday. March 26, Weaver
will read from his works at 4 p.m.
in Sharpe Lounge of Elliott Univer-sity
Center. A professor of English
at Oklahoma State University, he is
the author of three short story col-lections,
including 'Getting
Serious." He also is the recipient of
the "Quarterly West" novella prize
for 1984.
Applewhite, director of the In-stitute
of the Arts at Duke Univer-sity,
will read on Thursday, March
28, at 4 p.m. in Alderman Lounge
of Elliott Center. He has been the
recipient of a Guggenheim
Fellowship, and in 1981 he receiv-
Applewhite
ed the Roanoke-Chowan Poetry
Award. His books include "Foresee-ing
the Journey" and "Following
Gravity."
Gross named as
Elliott lecturer
BY DAVID BOREN
Speci«l to lh« fmroluuu*
The 1985 Harriet Elliott lecturer
is Dr. Daniel Gross, an an-thropoligist
by training, who is cur-rently
at the National Science Foun-dation
in Washington, D.C. He will
be speaking at 8:00 pm on March
26th in Cone Ball Room, EUC. Dr.
Gross' topic is on indigenous
Kples of South America, but the
jer issue he will be focusing on
is the nature of cultural identity.
Dr. Gross challenges the propen-sity
of scientists and laymen alike
to treat cultural identity as
something we carry around with us,
like baggage. In an interview on
Wednesday, March 13th, Dr. Gross
specified why he feels that the
metaphors society uses to talk about
culture are inappropriate. Rather
than baggage, tie said, culture is
more like a contract which is con-stantly
being renegotiated. Further
more, the importance of recogniz-ing
our inclination to identify
culture as baggage is important if
we are to prevent our perceptions
of cultural identity from leading us
into confusion and wrong decisions
about dealing with people.
The first step towards decreasing
society's inclination towards confu-sion,
according to Gross, is the
recognition that "cultural identity
is something that changes constant-ly.
Groups of people are always
picking up new identities and
discarding other features." In
elaboration, Gross believes that a
group's cultural identity has a lot to
do with the way people present
themselves. The problem, says
Gross, is thst society believes that
it isolates its perceptions of a group
from social and political decisions
which are being made, when actual
ly the two are inseparable. "There
are convenient ways of labeling peo-ple,
but we must recognize their in-accuracy
and their potential effect
on political and social decisions."
Drawing on his experience in
Brazil, which is extensive, Dr. Gross
sees similiarities between Brazilian
Indians and North American In-dians
before the United States was
settled. "We have attributed an
identity to these people , for exam-ple,
that they are closer to nature."
Dr. Gross uses the term "we", he
says, to denote urban society.
"There are both good and bad
results of the identity we assign In-dians,"
he continues, "because we
admire people who are close to
nature, but at the same time we see
them as less sophisticated, less
capable, and uninterested
in progress.
As a result of the cultural identi-ty
urban society imposes on Indians,
the Indians assume it, in order to
accomplish what they, as a people,
want to achieve. The example Gross
gives is the attempt of the Brazilian
Indians to exploit the perception
that they are close to nature in
order to legitimize their claims to
land. The problem arises when
society begins to make decisions
based on inaccurate perceptions of
a group's identity. Gross believes,
"in reality, identity is arrived at
through interaction, but the iden-tities
people use are tailor made. If
we perceived the degree to which
cultural identity relates to interac-tion
between peoples, then we
would more clearly understand the
goals people have."
A familiar sight in London—Westminster Abbey. For more
photographs of London, see page 10.