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              The Carolinian
December 3, 1974 The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Volume L1V Number 23
Senate exhonorates Royster in all-night impeachment
STORY BY PAM BLACKBURN
PHOTOS BY BILL HUNT
Greg Harris, the prosecutor.
Senate, in last Tuesday's session,
found Freshman Dorm Coordinator
Roslyn Royster of Gray Hall not
guilty of three impeachment charges
and two specifications on each charge.
The lengthy proceeding that ended
with the acquittal of Ms. Royster at S
a.m. Wednesday also revealed that at
least some dorm coordinators have
never taken the oath of office required
of SGA officials. There was a last ditch
effort by TS Senators Cliff Mitchell
and Nancy Davis to make the oath an
issue in the vote on the last charge
against Ms. Royster, conduct
unbecoming an SGA official.
The charges against Ms. Royster, a
junior from Raleigh, included also
abuse of power and negligence of
duty. The specifications on the abuse
of power charge were issuance of
illegal and excessive campuses and
undue threats and threats of removal
from the dorm. Under the charge of
negligence of duty were the
specifications of failure to be impartial
while chairing a dorm meeting and
failure to spend enough time in the
dorm.
The specifications under the charge
of conduct unbecoming and SGA
official were obstruction ofjustice and
misrepresentation to the Senate. The
last two specifications grew out of the
initial appearance of Ms. Royster
before the Senate and the investigation
by several senators of the charges
brought to the Senate by President of
the Dorm Coordinators' Association
Betty Godfrey November 7.
SGA Attorney General Cherie
Flynn presided at the impeachment
hearing with Executive Secretary of
Honor Court Greg Harris acting as the
Senate's prosecutor. Kevin Moore,
former TS Senator, defended Ms.
Betty Godfrey testifies for the prosecution. At the podium is Cherie Flynn
who presided and Kathy Krinick, acting as parliamentarian.
Loopholes found in policy
Vice-president
statement
On November 26, 1974, the
Special Session of the Senate on
Impeachment met to hear the case of
Roslyn Royster. Roll was taken and
34 members were present. The
procedure as stated in the temporary
impeachment policy was followed.
The prosecution moved to dismiss
charges I.A.I., I.B.I., II.A.,B.,and C,
and III.C. The motion was accepted.
The findings of the Senate were that
Roslyn Royster was not guilty of all
charges and their specifications.
Therefore, she is completely
exonerated and all rights and
privileges of her office remain
rightfully hers.
Ford hails arms agreement
President Gerald Ford held a
news conference in the Fast Room of
(he White House last night. It was his
first appearance before the assembled
press corps since his return from the
Far Fast and his meeting with Soviet
Communist Party General Secretary
Lenoid Brezhnev.
Many of the questions asked of the
President dealt with foreign affairs.
However, some concerned the state of
the nation's economy. While offering
no new programs, as some
congressional critics have demanded.
Mr. Ford called upon ihe Congress to
act swiftly on those proposals he has
already made. "Our greatest danger"
the President remarked, "is to fall
victim to the more exaggerated
alarms" be sounded about the state of
the economy.
In the realm of international
diplomacy. Ford said that he and
Brezhev have put what he termed a
firm ceiling of 2400 nuclear missiles
and bombers on the aims capacity of
the two nuclear superpowers.
The Chief Fxeculive said that the
agreements on arms controls will not
necessarily mean a cut in defense
spending. Ford conceded that the
current inflationary spiral might well
lead to an increase in military spending
in the next fiscal year. He also said
that he would attempt to build
American forces to the ceilings
established in the agreement, and that
it may cost more money in the future
to maintain nuclear strength at those
levels.
Later it was revealed by UPI that
the latest Soviet-American arms
limitation agreement may well contain
several loopholes, one of which
concerns the "throw weight" of
nuclear missiles. The "throw weight"
refers to the capability a missile may
have for carrying more than one
warhead. The agreement does not
restrict, to any particular level, the
throw weight of Soviet or US missiles.
Thus, both nations could increase their
throw weitght capacity without
violating the summit agreement.
When asked what discussion the
two leaders had had concerning the
current Mi ddle East situation, the
President said only that he and
Brezhnev "came to an agreement to
make ... a maximum effort to keep
the negotiations going." The President
continued by saving that such an
effort did not "preclude a ftneva
conference" on the subject among the
international community.
In other developments in
Washington yesterday, Democratic
Senator Mike Mansfield, leader of the
majority party, said he and his staff
are considering the possibility of
supporting an increased tax on sales of
gasoline, as a means of curbing energy
consumption. The President has
repeatedly opposed such a suggestion.
Also, former Senator Eugene
McCarthy said that he is weighing the
possibility of making a bid for the
White House in 1976 as an
independent. It was McCarthy's
campaign effort in 1968 that led
Lyndon Johnson to decline
consideration of the Democratic Party
nomination.
Meanwhile, Texas Senator Lloyd
Benson says that he will have an
announcement concerning his
Presidential campaign plans after the
first of the year. Yesterday he called
the field of candidates "wide open."
That field will reportedly soon contain
former North Carolina governor Terry
Sanford.
Royster.
Ms. Flynn reminded the Senators
that the proceedings were very serious
and that a person's credibility and
possibly her reputation were at stake.
She said, "There will be no monkey
business."
Harris in his opening statement
pointed out that the impeachment
trial might do Ms. Royster justice by
ending the "malicious rumors" that
have spread on campus. Harris also
said that the motives of those who
brought the charges and the emotional
state of the dorm were irrelevant.
Moore said that the events for
which Ms. Royster was impeached
were isolated events, if they happened
at all. He called Ms. Royster, "one of
the best DC's this campus ever had."
Relating to the charge of abuse of
power and, specifically to threats of
removal from the dorm, the first
prosecution witness was Gray floor
adviser Anna Villani, a sophomore. Ms.
Villani, in response to prosecution
questions, said that Ms. Royster had
threatened to have her removed from
the dorm if she did not "straighten
up."
One incident which Ms. Villani
related occurred at an APO party given
for Gray during which, Ms. Villani
said, Ms. Royster told her that if she
(Ms. Villani) decided to take her name
off a petition of support for Ms.
Royster, then Ms. Villani could expect
not to be back in the dorm second
semester. Ms. Villani said that she had
second thoughts about the petition.
Ms. Villani said, "I was very
intimidated and felt threatened by her
words." She also said that on other
occasions Ms. Royster had threatened
her with removal from the dorm
within 24 hours, if Ms. Villani did not
make certain decisions as floor adviser.
This incident was related to a staff
meeting in the dorm.
Moore, in his cross-examination of
Ms. Villani, asked the floor adviser
about an incident involving a fire drill
which the dorm was to have and of a
water fight proposed with a male
dorm. Ms. Villani did not answer
questions about the fire drill and wate
fight.
'Dat's all, folks!
The next issue of The Carolinian
will be published on December 10.
This will be the final issue for the
semester. All items for the December
calendar, etcetera, and campus briefs
must be submitted to the Cary office
by noon, December 6.
History endowment awarded
UNC G News Bureau - Dr. Jane
Deliart Mathews. associate professor
of history at UNC-G has been awarded
a fellowship from the National
Endowment for the Humanities to do
a year of study and research on a new
book.
The book which Dr. Mathews is
planning to write will be entitled
Public Patronage and Black Culture:
Tlie Negro and the New Deal Cultural
Projects.
Dr. Mathews will be on a one year's
leave of absence from UNC-G, from
Jan. 1. 1975 to the following January,
during the period covered by the
fellowship.
During the first six months of her
fellowship. Dr. Mathews will be doing
research at the National Collection of
the Fine Arts, a branch of the
Smithsonian Institution.
At the National Collection of the
Fine Arts, she will be studying black
art in the 1930's. During the latter
part of the year, she will be
interviewing black artists and others
who were associated with various New
Deal cultural projects.
Dr. Mathews earned her Ph.D. at
Duke University and specializes in
American social and cultural history.
She is the author of a book entitled
The Federal Theatre, 1935-39: Plays.
Relief and Politics.
She has long been interested in
public patronage of the arts in the U.S.
and is conducting long-range studies in
this subject area. In December, she will
present an academic paper at the
Chicago meeting of the American
Historical Association on "Modern Art
as Communist Conspiracy: Cultural
Exchanges and Congressional Censors
in the McCarthy Era."
In 1968 and 1969, she did a report
having to do with public patronage of
the arts in the 1960's for the
Rockefeller Foundation and the
Associated Councils of the Arts. The
focus of the report was on artistic
freedom and public accountability.
Dr. Mathews has been a member of
the UNC-G faculty since 1971. She is a
member of Phi Beta Kappa.
Gray's Dorm Coordinator Rosyln Royster and Council for the Defense Kevin
Moore ponder over testimony being given during the impeachment trial last
Tuesday night. Ms. Royster was eventually found innocent of all charges.
Ms. Villani also said that she did
not remember the events surrounding
the campusing of Marsha Mangum, a
freshman in Gray.
Ms. Villani quoted Ms. Royster as
saying that she (Ms. Villani) w ould be
"asked to leave." Moore questioned
whether or not those words
constituted a threat.
The second prosecution witness
was Gray floor adviser sophomore
Laura Taykto, Ms. Villani's roommate
who was present at the staff meeting
in which Ms. Villani said that she was
threatened by Ms. Royster. At the
staff meeting Ms. Royster and the
advisers discussed a conflict within the
dorm which according to Ms. Taylor,
involved dissatisfaction of some girls.
Ms. Royster asked the advisers not to
discuss the matter with the freshmen.
Ms. Taylor said that she did not
"honestly remember" the alledged
threat made by Ms. Royster to Ms.
Villani.
TS Consul David Coe was the
prosecution's third witness. Coe was
present at the APO party during which
Ms. Villani said she was threatened by
Ms. Royster with removal from the
dorm if she removed her name from
the petition of support for Ms.
Royster.
See HOUSE page 4
Campus to vote
on student salaries
Students will go to the polls today
to vote on several constitutional
changes and on the salaries and wages
of SGA officials and staff.
Those who go to the polls in the
Dining Halls for dorm students and in
Elliott Hall outside the Robot Room
for town students will vote for or
against salaries for Carolinian editor,
Coraddi editor, Attorney General,
Chairman of Honor Court, Executive
Secretary of Honor Court, Vice
Chairman of Honor Court, Pi ne
Needles editor, SGA President, SGA
Vice President, SGA Business Manager,
Dorm Coordinators, TSA President
and WUAG-FM Station manager.
A salary is a monetary
compensation paid on a monthly basis
out of Student Activity Fees. Aw age
is a monetary compensation paid on
an hourly basis out of Student
Activity Fees.
Also on the referendum for
consideration by students are wages
paid to personnel in the various SGA
departments. Voters will vote for or
against wages for Carolinian managing
editor, news editor, features editor,
business manager, advertising manager.
Parking enforcement to tighten
The Campus Police Department
will be more strict in the enforcement
of parking regulations on campus in
the future, according to Director of
Security Services Jim Blevins.
Due to the extremely crowded
parking situation since the beginning
of the semester, the police have been
lenient in the issuance of tickets for
violations of illegally parked cars,
especially for parking in undesignated
spaces and for parking in areas for
other types of parking permits,
indicated Blevins.
The Campus Police have received
complaints from students and faculty
who have been unable to get out of
their parking spaces because their cars
were blocked by illegally parked
vehicles, said Blevins.
There have also been reports of Hit
and Run accidents where illegally
parked cars were struck by cars
attempting to get out of the legal
spaces.
The crowding has also created a
situation where fire fighting
equipment and other emergency
vehicles could not move freely through
areas in which they needed to go in
order to perform their functions.
Effective immediately, parking will
only be permitted in spaces
specifically marked or designated as
parking spaces. Additionally, vehicles
must be parked in spaces designated
for their type of parking permit at
times when parking permits are
required, said Blevins.
The university now has several new
temporary parking spaces available.
Vehicles bearing "A" and "C" permits
can now park at the College Park
Baptist Church at Aycock Street and
Walker Avenue (spaces marked in
yellow only), the A & S Bicycle Shop,
1619 Spring Garden Street, and the
new lot at Stirling Street and Oakland
Avenue. There is also a new lot for
vehicles bearing "B" permits at the
corner of Forrest Street and Walker
Avenue.
Illegally parked vehicles will be
issued parking ordinance violation
notices (two to five dollar penalty
depending on the violation) and may
be towed at the owner's or the
operator's expense.
photo editor, three secretaries, and
sports editor. Also to be voted on are
the wages of the Coraddi managing
editor and bookkeeper; the Pine
Needles assistant editors, head
photographer, business manager and
secretary; the judicial secretary; the
SGA internal auditor, secretaries,
legislative assistants and workroom
personnel; the TSA vice president and
business manager; and the WUAG-FM
program director, music director, news
and sports director, and production
manager.
The proposed constitutional
changes are to replace the SGA
executive secretary with the
Legislative Liasion Committee and to
make the position of SGA business
manager appointed rather than
elected.
Also on the ballot is a
constitutional change defining a town
student senator's constituency as those
town students who are alphabetically
assigned to him.
Seniors only will vote for twenty
outstanding seniors from a list of 66
nominees whose names wer*
submitted by members of the
university community.
Polls will be open today from 9
ajn. until 6 p.m.
Students show
new art work
An exhibit ot works by
undergraduate and graduate art majors
at UNC-G is now on display in the
outer gallery of Weatherspoon Art
Gallery.
A total of 66 works of various
media ranging from weaving to
painting and sculpture may be seen.
The pieces were chosen by a student
screening committee from more than
100 submitted.
Many of the works are for sale.
Information about them is available at
the desk in Weatherspoon Gallery. The
show will remain up through Dec. 15