The Carolinian [February 14, 1985]

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Nance Will Dispute Decision
BY DAWN ELLEN NUBEL
Aewctatc EdiUr
Last night UNC-G Superior Court
met and decided David Nance, can-didate
for Student Government
president, was not eligible to run for
the office. This decision overturned
the Elections Board's decision that
Nance could run for office.
Current Student Government
President Lone Tyson and ex-
Student Government President
Kim Theriault brought the case
before Superior Court. To run for
Student Government president, the
constitution states a candidate must
Elections News
have served two semesters in Stu-dent
Government. The Superior
Court defined a semester as two
weeks after the first day of classes
to the last day of classes, declaring
Nance ineligible. He has served as
a Senator since September.
Lorie Tyson said, "I am very hap-py
with the decision. The decision
said to me that Superior Court is
looking at the new Student Govern-ment
constitution and supporting
its attempts to qualify leadership.'
David Nance was outraged by the
decision. He commented, "I think
this is a conspiracy against someone
who is truly trying to represent the David Naaee
students' viewpoints. I feel my
rights as a student of UNC-G, and
my constitutional rights, have been
violated. What I witnessed tonight
was a blatant violation against my
rights as a citizen of the United
States and a student of UNC-G."
Tyson said. "It's a sad situation
someone had to be caught up in, but
it's a situation that had to be ad-dressed
now with the new constitu-tion
so these things won't happen."
Nance doesn't believe his
followers will let him down. "I think
the students who supported me will
keep supporting me. I've put out
lots of money and effort and gotten
lots of student support. If these six
people on Superior Court win over
the majority at UNC-G, it will be
truly indicitive of the power and
manipulative control exercised by
the Student Government of UNC-
0."
Attorney General Kent Williams
and President Lorie Tyson stated
Nance can appeal this decision with
the Chancellor by route of Vice
Chancellor Allen's office.
Nance says he plans to fight the
ruling. "We're going to TV stations
and radio stations. We'll picket.
Wa're going to exercise any
political control we can find in
Greensboro. If this won't work we'll
take it to a lawyer."
Student Forum Breeds Controversy
BY DAVID PUGH
rr.tur*. Editor
Candidates for student office
stole the spotlight from other
business Tuesday night when the
Student Government Senate con-vened
to hear their platforms and
campaign rhetoric.
The delate grew hot as various
political factions jockeyed for posi-tion
in the various races at stake
next Wednesday and Thursday. The
most notable controversy surround-ed
the eligibility or ineligibitity of
presidential candidate David Nance.
Nance has come under heat recent-ly
following an appeal made by S.G.
President Lorie Tyson to the
Supreme Court following a ruling
made by the Election Board in favor
of Nance. Tyson and former S.G.
President Kim Theriault challeng-ed
the board's decision, calling it "a
misrepresentation of the
constitution."
In an apparent attempt to
distance himself from Tyson's ac-tions,
Mike Stewart, the other can-didate
for the office of S.G. Presi-dent,
said that he and Nance "were
friends" and that they had "main-tained
rapport throughout the elec-tion."
Stewart, working from a
carefully prepared text, also said
that he and his campaign "party"
were not responsible for the
controversy.
Following the candidate's forum,
Senior Senator Jeff Johnson, a four-year
veteran of Student Govern-ment,
presented documents he
claimed were proof that Nance was
indeed eligible. Tyson, when ques-tioned
following the forum, said
that the length of time served by
Nance was not the issue and
reiterated her stance that the con-stitution
had been "mis-interpreted."
In an apparent move to calm ten-sions,
Senator Rita Nagel delivered
a short statement to the entire
senate chamber expressing her con-cern
about Student Government
credibility among the general stu-dent
population. Saying that she
"questions the integrity of a Stu-dent
Government which gripes
about low student turnout and then
eliminates competition between the
candidates."
"This past week, I've seen a lot
of energy generated in this cam-paign,"
she added. "I've seen a lot
of fire and if that's eliminated, I
don't think there's going to be much
of a race at all."
In other action during the forum,
tempers flew when the candidates
for Carolinian editor took to the
small stage at the front of the
Senate chambers, with the main
controversy stemming from an
alleged breach of trust following an
editorial staff meeting at the
student-run newspaper.
The controversy occurred after
Dawn Nubel, the paper's Associate
Editor and a supporter of the in-cumbent
editor, Mark Corum, ask-ed
challenger Eric Hause, the cur-rent
News Editor, about his ability
to bring about some of the changes
he claimed to envision lor the
Carol.nian. Nubel's question
specifically involved a statement
Hause had made at an editorial
board meeting held Monday at 3
p.m. During his presentation to the
Senate, Hause had alleged that cer-tain
shortcomings existed in the
Carolinian's treatment of various
special interest groups on campus.
Ms. Nubel responded to this charge
by bringing up a statement that
Hause made at Monday's meeting,
during which Hause had been
discharged from his position as
News Editor for not fulfilling the
duties spelled out in the Caroli-nian's
constitution. When discharg-ed,
Hause was already under proba-tion
for that infraction.
"Mr. Hause." Ms. Nubel said, "I
remind you that you were News
Editor this year and that we [the
Editorial Staff] have had complaints
about you not giving groups
coverage, which you, as News
Editor, were responsible for giving
those groups. And when we had a
meeting about that (problem), you
said that one of the reasons (for not
giving the coverage] was that you
felt you could hardly handle the
news page."
"I'm sorry, Ms. Nubel," Hause
said, "but I am under the impres-sion
that yesterday's meeting was
something among the editorial
board and not to go beyond there."
After the Senate meeting, Hause
refused to comment while Corum
said that editorial board meetings
are open and that they are posted
on the newspaper's production
board. He added that if "Eric had
wanted to bring any defense [to the
editorial meeting] he could."
In other business, the Senate
elected Senator Buck Buchanan to
the position of President Pro-Tern.
Reasons Behind Power
Outage Traced
BY SARAH FUELLEMAN
Staff Wrtur
The entire UNC-G campus was
without electrical power For an
hour Sunday morning after a squir-rel
climbed onto a Duke Power
Company pole located on the corner
of Shaw and Forest streets by way
of a wire leading from a nearby
house. When it reached the pole it
was electrocuted with about 23,000
volte causing a "short circuit with
his body, which blew Borne fuses,
and that's what put the campus out
of power." according to Davis Lum-pkin,
Director of Physical Plant.
"Duke Power owns that pole, and
their people came out right away to
correct the problem. It took a little
over 45 minutes to restore power.
I understand they have the squirrel,
and it's a real mess," he went on.
"They had it in the truck already
when I arrived, so 1 didn't see it, but
they said its fur was as sleek as a
face."
In all essential buildings on cam-pus
(dorms are not considered
essential), there are backup
generators, which switch on
automatically when power is lost. A
utilities crew then goes to each
building and checks to be sure all
generators are reset once power is
restored. That takes about 2lfi
hours.
The steam plant, which provides
heat to all campus buildings. In this
case, however, there was some con-fusion
as to whether or not its
generator had kicked on properly.
With the onset of smoke coming out
of the building, the fire department
was called. "It turned out to be just
smoke, but to be on the safe side we
brought in the fire department,"
said Superintendent of Utilities
Saunders.
Mr. Lumpkin plans to speak to a
Duke representative about preven-ting
a reoccurrence of power
failure. "It's not the first time this
has happened, but we'd like it to be
the last." His plan calls for placing
a "rat shield type device" on each
of the power lines coming into pole.
This would prevent a small body
(like a squirrel) from touching a
"live" line and a "ground" at the
same time. Lumpkin admits that
the potential problem with this
solution is that water from the can-like
shields "will drip down onto
signs below, and cause problems
that way. It's something we have to
work out." According to Saunders,
this type of failure, which occurs
"periodically," cannot happen with
the system the campus uses to Bend
out power. Duke's power is on
poles, and as soon as it reaches cam-pus,
the lines are buried.
Gil Fray, David Doyle and Jeff Weichinger of F-Art
UCLS Events
Slated For Feb. 20-21
Performances by Japanese
dancer Satoru Shimazaki on
February 20 and by baritone
William Parker on February 21 will
be presented in Aycock Auditorium.
Both events will begin at 8:15 p.m.
Ticket* will be available at the door,
or they can be reserved in advance
by calling the Aycock box office,
379-6646, weekdays from 1-5:30
p.m. The programs are sponsored
by the University Concert and Lec-ture
series.
Shimazaki is currently on a U.S.
tour of solo performances and is on
leave from his position as guest
artist-in-residence at Washington
University of St. Louia. He studied
the dance of Japanese master
Hichio I tn from 1968-71. He came
to the United States in 1971, where
be studied with Merce Cunningham
Martha Graham and Maggie Black.
He also received private perfor-mance
coaching from 1981-82 in the
repertory of Isadora Duncan.
His UNC-G concert will feature:
"The Seasons" and "Shimazaki
Tango" by Shimazaki; "Preludes V,
VI and X," "Tone Poems I and II,"
"Ave Maria," "Pizzicati," "Three
Symphonic Etudes" and "Ito
Tango," all by Michio Ito; and
"Revolutionary" by Isadora Dun-can.
The program is jointly spon-sored
by a grant from the N.C. Arta
Council and the National Endow-ment
for the Arts.
Baritone William Parker has per-formed
in New York four times dur-ing
the 1984-85 season, including
the N.Y. City Opera's production of
Mozart's "The Magic Flute." Dur-ing
his career as a singer, he has
performed with opera companies in
Boston. Washington D.C., Chicago,
and Seattle. Abroad, he haa toured
major music centers including Lon-don,
Amsterdam, Paris and Vienna.
He records for EMI and New World
Records.
His UNC-G program will include:
"Seven Songs from Opus 35" by
Robert Schumann, "Five Songs" by
Henri Duparc, "The Andree Ex-pedition"
by Dominick Argento and
"Four Songs" by Charles Ives.
EUC Burglary
BY ERIC HAUSE
Nawa tailor
Chief Horton of Campus Securi-ty
released information concerning
a break-in at Elliott Center Tuesday
morning. The burglary occured in
the game room ofEUC and resulted
in the vandalism of several video
machines.
"At this time, the case is still be-ing
investigated by ourselves and
the Greensboro Police Depart-ment,"
said Horton.
The break-in happened sometime
between 5:30 and 6:00 a.m. Tues-day
when a housekeeper saw a
white male leaving through a win-dow
of the game room. The
housekeeper notified his supervisor,
who in turn called Campus Security.
Upon arrival at EUC. police
found six video machines that had
been broken into. Approximately
$200 had been removed from the
machines.
The burglar gained entry to Elliot
Center through a window in the
upstairs Ferguson Lounge, by
removing a window pane. The
suspect then worked his way
downstairs to the game room,
removing molding and windows
from several locked doors along the
way.
The culprit also attempted to gain
access to the game room stereo,
which is enclosed in the change
booth, by using a pool cue to break
the surrounding glass case.
The housekeeper then arrived,
apparently surprising the suspect,
who then fled the scene through a
broken window and out the then-unlocked
main doors of the North
Wing of EUC.
Chief Horton said the Greensboro
Police were called after he had been
notified. They blocked off the scene
and took fingerprint*. Horton also
said that Greensboro Police have
placed detectives on the case.
No assessment of the damage to
Elliott Center Itself has been for-thcoming
from the physical plant as
of Wednesday, although close to ten
glass panes were broken.