The Carolinian [November 8, 1977]

              The Carolinian
November S. 1977 Volume LVH Number 14 The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Please Call Our Hotline: 379-5041
Chairwomen
Resign From
EUC Group
BY VALERIE PUTNEY
Staff Writer
Chairwomen of two Elliott Cen-ter
committees resigned last week.
Barbara Grant, a sophomore
majoring in Interior Design,
resigned as head of the Fine Arts
committee effective Oct. 26 because
of lack of time.
Julie Becknell, a junior biology
major, resigned her chairmanship of
the Films committee October 24,
citing various reasons.
There was no connection between
the two resignations. EUC President
Jeff Vance is temporarioy chairing
both committees until replacements
can be found.
Memos were sent to all 55 EUC
Council members announcing the
two openings. (Applications for the
positions are being considered
presently, and new chairmen will be
announced this week.) Only Counci
members who have served at least
four months are eligible for these
jobs.
"Barbara Grant has been
gracious enough to continue
working on the Student Film
Festival—the major project of the
Fine Arts committee this year," said
Vance. "I was very surprised when
she resigned."
The Film Festival was conceived
by Barbara last year, when she first
joined the Fine Arts committee. She
got financial support from EUC and
moral support from Media instruc-tor
Bob Mandigo; students from
Guilford, Elon, A & T, and Green-sboro
Colleges as well as UNC-G
may submit films for February
judging.
However, because of time
pressures and financial need, Bar-bara
found it necessary to give up
her other duties. "I really felt bad
about having to resign," she said.
"But with working in the Print
Shop and Main Desk (at Elliott
Hall) and taking 19
hours—something had to go."
Priorities were also a con-sideration
in Julie Becknell's
resignation. "My energies were so
concentrated on the Film commit-tee,
I didn't have time for other ac-tivities,"
she explained. "I was
carrying a lot of the burden, and it
was too much for me to handle. I
was neglecting my studies, too."
She admitted she wasn't doing a
very good job.
She said she thought about the
job offer for a long time before ac-cepting
it last spring. "I thought it
would be fun and interesting, and I
could get more involved...But 1
didn't know anything about running
a committee."
EUC sponsors two retreats during
the summer tohelp orient new
chairpersons to their duties. Because
she was also an orientation coun-selor
for Residential College, Julie
had to miss the second.retreat, held
at the beach three day's before
school opened.
During the summer, she lived at
home and took over the committee
from Kathy King. "It was different
then," she said; "I wasn't taking
any classes, and had more time."
She wished the former chairperson
had spent more time advising her.
Julie never felt clear about her
duties, and communications broke
down when six members joined the
committee this fall. "I felt my way
along," she said. "It was very
frustrating and painful."
This semester's EUC movies, and
half of next semester's were booked
by the previous chairperson. Julie
was responsible for receiving ship-ments,
selling tickets, depositing
receipts and making sure programs
ran smoothly. Often, they didn't.
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Misappropriations Questioned
H.S. Odom, Director of the Physical Plant.
BY RICH INNES
No prosecutions have resulted
from an investigation undertaken by
the Campus Police into the alledged
theft or misuse of certain state
properties, according to H.L.
Ferguson, Vice Chancellor for
Business Affairs.
The items under question in-cluded
some copper roofing from a
building on campus, a 1968 Dodge
pickup bed, an unknown number of
surplus air conditioners and some
surplus gravel from the area of the
Physical Plant. Mr. Art. Lea, for-mer
Acting Director of Security,
who completed the investigation,
said he could not find an validity to
the allegations.
The investigation was begun un-der
former Director of Security
Newton Beck, who had received a
complaint through one of his men
that there had been a case of "inter-nal
misappropriation of funds" by
G.R. Rumsey, utilities superinten-dent
of the Physical Plant.
"Some things had come to his
(Mr. Beck's) attention that might
have involved some fairly high level
positions," said Vice Chancellor
Ferguson. "I told him it didn't mat-ter
who might be involved, to just
go ahead with it. I realized that
there were potentially some very
serious'mplications to this, and I
knew it should be looked into."
The investigation began with the
disappearance of several sheets of
12 in. wide copper roofing more
than two years ago. According to
Mr. L.L. Allison, building superin-
Program Held For Prospective Students
BY MALINDA C. WALKER
Staff Writer
A special visitation program,
"Operation 82," was held at UNC-G
on November 4 for high school
seniors interested in attending the
university next fall. Approximately
250 students from North Carolina
and surrounding states attended the
program. Parents were also invited
to visit, participating in their own
guided tours of the campus, student
organizations and academic depar-tments.
Chancellor James S. Ferguson
and Student Body President Randy
Sides began the orientation program
by welcoming the visitors in Aycock
Auditorium. After the initial
welcome, students attended a recep-tion
in Cone Ballroom (EUC),
where special exhibits were set up.
The exhibits featured represen-tatives
of, and material on,
academic departments, services to
College Republican Group
Active At UNC-G
BY LONNIE BARNES III
Staff Writer
"And We Haven't Heard Of You
Either." Upon seeing these words
one begins to wonder whether or
not he will ever become known on
campus. But don't be alarmed. This
is only a saying of the College
Republican Club at UNC-G,
According to club spokesman,
Bobby Pugh, College Republicans is
an independent college
organization. It has its national of-fice
in Washington, D.C., and is
broken up into different state
organizations. From there, the State
organizations are broken down into
the various school organizations.
The UNC-G College Republicans is
a part of the National College
Republican Party. The National
College Republican Party works out
of Washington, D.C., and is in-dependent
of, but works in conjun-ction
with, the National Republican
Party.
The College Republican Club
plans to be very active this year.
Pugh states that, "first we had a
regional party- North Carolina is
broken up into about six different
universities and back about a month
ago, the Wake Forest Club, which is
in the same region as UNC-G, spon-sored
a cookout which UNC-G,
Carolina, Wake and some of the
other colleges attended. The State
Convention was held just three
weeks ago at Meredith College in
which we debated several issues and
adopted a new constitution. As far
as upcoming activities, I hope I can
get one or two speakers for this
semester. Next spring hopefully I
can get some more speakers,
possibly some fund raising for the
party and in the spring, the state
convention is coming up where we
will elect new state officers and then
Bobby Pugh
take care of run of the mill party
business."
Concerning the election of a
Republican President, Pugh believes
that the next Republican President
will be elected in the election year of
1980. Pugh also believes that
Watergate has not ruined the
students, offices and various
organizations on campus, and
allowed students to question and
visit with UNC-G officials and
students.
Students then split up into groups
of six to ten, and were taken on
tours of the campus. These tours in-cluded
a visit to a residence hall and
n lunch in the cafeteria.
One such group, led by Mark
Newton, a freshman here at UNC-G,
toured the campus introducing
the students to various buildings
and campus areas while allowing
them to ask questions about the
university. Said Newton, "We're
trying to make a good impression on
the students, to give them an idea
what UNC-G is like. I'm an out-of-state
student, and this is a good idea
for both in-state and out-of-state
students. I enjoyed leading the tour,
but at first the girls didn't ask
questions. By the time the tour was
over, they were pretty interested."
The group visited Cotten Dorm
before ending up in Mendenhall
Dorm for a question and answer
session led by the Student Orien-tation
Committee.
Student questions ranged from
what classes to take, to the
male/femal ratio on campus. Diane
Kerny, a senior from Garinger High
School in Charlotte, N.C. commen-ted,
"I like this, it's well orgain-zed."
Annelle Morcock, also from
Charlotte, said "I'm just looking,
but UNC-G is a possibility for
school next year."
The Student Orientation Commit-tee,
with the Admissions office,
organized the tours and orientation.
According to Don Thompson, a
member of the SOC (Student Orien-tation
Committee), "Everything it
going really well, the students have
gotten a good impression of UNC-G,
and we hoped we answered most
of their question." A similar
visitation program is scheduled for
the spring, also to be called
Operation '82. involving orientation
of high school seniors interested in
UNC-G.
tendent of the Physical Plant, "It
has not been recovered." Alledgedly
the roofing was put on the garage of
Mr. Rumsey. The director of the
Physical Plant, Mr. H.S. Odom,
said that he and Mr. Lea had been
out to look at Mr. Rumsey's garage,
without his knowledge, and had
found no such copper roofing.
According to Mr. Lea, "the cop-per
was actually stolen from the
Physical Plant."
Initially the Campus Police,
looking into reports that a Dodge
truck bed was missing from state
grounds, were not able to find the
item listed on a state bid sheet (all
State properties must be listed on a
bid sheet before they can be sold or
disposed of)- Director of Business
Services E.S. Wilkinson explained
that he was being given "the wrong
fiscal year to look into."
After further investigation Mr.
Wilkinson found that the truck bed
in question had been entered on a
later state bid sheet and that
payment for the truck was made in
the proper manner.
Allegedly some gravel that was
ordered to place around a boiler
tank near the Physical Plant was
hauled to a driveway near Mr. Rum-sey's
home. The Carolinian contac-ted
Mr. Rumsey in regard to the
gravel, at which time he said that it
belonged to a contractor and that he
did not know anything else about it.
After being told that Mr. Lea had
found that the gravel was placed on
a road near his house, Mr. Rumsey
said, "they put it. on Dairy Road,
way above my house." According
to Mr. Lea, "Mr. Rumsey told them
(the contractor) he had a road that
they could put the gravel on out by
his house. But it had nothing to do
with the state."
Mr. Rumsey's comment to The
Carolinian shortly thereafter to "in-sist"
that any contact the newspaper
would have with Physical Plant em-ployees
would have to be in his
presence.
The question of the whereabouts
of several air conditioners that were
allegedly taken from the Petty
Science Building is still unresolved.
According to Mr. Rucker, a
Physical Plant employee who is in
charge of entering state property on
bid sheets, "I don't know what
happened to them. If it was any
good at all a surplus air conditioner
would go through me."
Grievance Committee
Continues Investigation
BY RICHARD HODGES
Staff Writer
Last year a supervisor of the
Housekeeping staff of the Physical
Plant resigned. This was the result
of a long dispute between the Non-
Academic Employees Grievance
Committee and the Administration.
The Grievance Committee
charged that the supervisor, Harold
Hensley, had used discrimination in
selecting area supervisors of the
Housekeeping staff. The Committee
went on to state that the supervisors
actions were demoralizing to
Housekeeping employees. In the
middle of the controversy, Hensley
resigned and asked to be tran-sferred.
He was granted his transfer
John Gut
to another department of the
Physical plant.
Chairman of the Grievance
Committee, John Gam, says that
tension is still high despite the tran-sfer.
One source feels that H.S.
Odom, the chief administrator of
the Physical Plant has become
estranged from the employees by the
incident.
At about the same time as the
Housekeeping affair, problems
arose in the Security Department.
Officers began having problems
with former director Art Lea. When
asked to hold a meeting so that the
officers might discuss these
problems, Lea refused. The officers
then decided to ask the Grievance
Committee to step in.
Gam approached Mr. Lea and
requested that a meeting be held to
resolve the differences. The request
was denied. The committee then
went to the Vice Chancellor for
Business Affairs, Henry Ferguson.
Feeling that their grievances were
not being given the proper atten-tion,
they took the matter to Chan-cellor
James Ferguson. Chancellor
Ferguson redirected the committee
back to Henry Ferguson who finally
granted the meeting.
According to John Appel, the
security representative for the
grievance committee, the grievances
were not considered at the meeting
because the officers who had made
the complaints were afraid to sign
their names for fear of retaliation
from the administration. '
Most of the problems that caused
the campus police to approach the
grievance committee were resolved
when Jerry Williamson was appoin-ted
acting director, according to
several sources within the depar-tment.
The grievance committee, active
since 1970, consists of fourteen
members from non-academic em-ployee
groups. Representatives are
elected for a term of one year.
Chairman Gam has been
described as dedicated and hard
working. He feels that the major
problem affecting employees at
present is the lack of workers
assigned to certain tasks. The result
of this lack, according to Gam, has
put pressure on all the other em-ployees.
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i—News Briefs
Veto
WASHINGTON- President
Carter vetoed his first bill Satur-day,
a piece of legislation which
would have authorized $80
million for the Clinch River
nuclear breeder reactor.
After returning the legislation
to Congress, Carter said approval
of the project would imperial ef-forts
"to prevent the
proliferation of nuclear
weapons" around the world.
President Carter also said that
the project would saddle the
United States with "a large and
unnecessarily expensive project
which, when completed, would
be technically obsolete and
economically unsound."
The battle over the CUnch
River project has become a sym-bolic
fight concerning the
development. It is a government-industry
project at Oak Ridge.
Tenn designed to demonstrate
OB a large scale the breeder
process.
Arms Race
WASHING IUN— Even
though President Carter predic-ted
on Oct. 2 that there would be
a new SALT agreement within a
few week Si defense officials said
Saturday it is very unlikely the
Soviet Union and the United
States will reach an agreement
this year on a new Strategic Arms
Limitation Treaty.
While the Soviet Union has
agreed to some limitations on
their new Backfire bomber, the
-U.S. made it clear that the fine
print is not yet set. Therefore, the
defense officials do not know if
these limitations are
enough.
Terriorism
BONN. WEST GERMANY-A
letter for the Red Army Fac-tion,
a West German urban
guerrilla group, has threatened to
blow up Lufthansa airliners la
fiight.
The letter stated. "After the
assassination of our fighting
comrades at Stammhtm Prison.
'we shall attack the Fascist-capitalist
go»atamaat of (Weal
German chancellor)
Schmidt wfcere it will be
painful for him.
"Fot each comrade
assassinated, we shall Mow up a
Lufthansa plane in flight."
Korea
WASHINOTON— The
United States has made an offer
to discuss a federal H romm lav
dlctmam against Toagsum Park
in exchange for information from
him about the Korean laflueace-of
a deal
Jaworaki.
of aa iateraal
riomt ia> animation, said be
for Park.
la the report seat to Coagraas
by the administration Saturday,
confirming that the Justice
Department a seeking WIBJIIIII
of Parks ladktmem Carter said
the South Korean government
seat the U.S. last week "aa tav
portaat aew proposal" oa the in
tarrosatioe of Park
"Oar gin warnami are ia the
of active aad defecate
he said, but he ad-it
was pramarari to give
aay detatss of the talks