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Senate
Confers
On Picking
Of Staff,
Pigs
By TAMMY McKINNON
Staff Writer
A meeting of the senate was held
Tuesday evening, with Mark
Newton presiding. It opened with
the approval of committee appoint-ments.
In the executive branch,
Kathy Porter and Jan Winfrey
became Co-Chairpersons of the
committee on University Rings,
Blazers, and Invitations; Delee An-derson,
Dale Phipps, and Lisa
Peeler were announced as members.
Jim Hyler was named Business
Manager, and Ben Watson became
the Secretary of Special Student Af-fairs.
In the legislative branch, Randy
Carlisle was named Parliamen-tarian.
Vicki Bosch was named
Chairperson of the Academic Con-cerns
Committee. Nick Diety
became Chairperson of the Election
Board. Judy Keating was announ-ced
Chairperson of the Publicity
Committee.
Jill Hubbard, the new chairper-son
of NCSL, gave a report to the
senate in which she ennumerated
their achievements during the past
year. Following her report, Linda
Benedict, Chairperson of the Town
Student Executive Board, appeared
before the senate. Miss Benedict,
who, with the other two members of
the TSEB, has decided fe hold the
town students' pig-picking con-current
with Spring Fling,
refused to answer any of the
Senator's questions regarding this
conflict. Having been asked by the
Spring Fling Committee to consider
merging the pig-pickings, she in-sisted
that the date (April 19) will
remain unchanged, that the event
will allow participation of town
students, and that it will enhance
Spring Fling rather than conflict
House Committee
To Decide Fate
Of Registration
Photo by Craig Rubin
New Senate in session under direction of Mark Newton, SG vice-president.
with it. Her report was ill-received
by the senate.
Upon Linda's departure from the
room it was pointed out that her
report was incomplete. Kevin Yow
answered her charges to the Spring
Fling Committee; Miss Benedict was
allowed two members to serve on
the committee, but failed to send
them. It was suggested at the
meeting that she has the impression
that town students do not actively
participate in Spring Fling.
Next on the agenda, the Spring
Fling Committee requested an ap-propriation
of $75 for miscellaneous
purposes, but mainly for the pur-chase
of ropes and barriers to aid
the flow of traffic around the beer
wagons and the pig-picking. Then
the legislative committee gave a
report in which they proposed that
delegates of all organizations be ac-tive
members. "Active" would
mean attending a minimum of two
meetings, though each organization
would be free to raise that
minimum. After much debate the
proposal was passed.
The business of PIRG changing
its status from a Class 4 to a Class 3
organization was discussed next by
the senate. The group approved the
Organizations Committee.
sidered by the Classification of
Organizations Committee.
Lawn Concert To
Feature Band
UNC-G News Bureau
A lively variety of band music for
a spring afternoon will be presen-ted
during the annual lawn concert
on Sunday, April 20, by the Concert
Band at the University of North
Carolina at Greensboro.
The popular event will begin at 4
p.m. in Taylor Garden of Elliott
University Center on campus. In
case of rain, the concert will be held
in Elliott Center's Cone Ballroom.
The public is invited to attend the
informal concert without charge.
Featured conductor for the
program will be Edgar Q. Rooker,
well-known local clarinetist and the
band director at Kiser Junior High
School for the past 21 years.
The 50-piece band, which is direc-ted
by Dr. James W. Sherbon, an
associate professor of music, will
also be conducted on selected works
by three student conductors, all
graduating seniors this year in the
School of Music: David Williamson
of Durham, Gary Gentry of Giv-sonville,
and Jeff Hodges of Boone.
Among the selections to be
featured will be Don Gillis's rich
composition, "Tulsa." as well as
such favorites as Rachmaninoff's
"Italian Polka." selections from
"My Fair Lady," and Bagley's
"National Emblem."
In addition to Rooker's respon-sibilities
at Kiser, he is a clarinetist
with the Winston-Salem Symphony
and the Piedmont Opera Company.
He is also state chairman of the
American School Band Directors
Association.
News Briefs
Iran Visited
Tehran • The American
hostages were visited by two
members of the International
Committee and the executive
chairman of the Red Lion and
Sun Society. Iran's verslonof the
Red Cross. The group said that
the hostages arc no longer tied up
as they were earner, and that
their rooms are "generally tidy."
They also noted that the hostages
show no obvious signs of brain-washing.
Sartre Dies
Paris • French novelist,
philosopher, and lending ex
ponent of cxistsntiabsm, Jean-
Paul Sartre died Tuesday. The 74
year-old author has been
hospitalized for treatment of a
lung tumor. Although he had
become a recluse in his later
years, he still kept in touch with
radical student movements.
Refund Sought
Wnshlagtoa - President and
Mrs. Carter are no longer
millionaires according to
documents made public Tuesday.
The Carters are seeking an in-come
tax refund of $17,000. The
major reason for the decline in
the first family's worth is at-tributed
to the coat of interest
paid on loans.
College Enrollment
to Increase in 1981
WASHINGTON, D.C. (CPS)-
The National Center for Education
Statistics, in its annual survey, is
predicting that college enrollment
will hit an all-time high in 1981
before falling to levels that could pit
four-year private colleges against
two-year community colleges in a
battle for older, part-time students.
The NCES expects 11.69 million
college students to enroll in 1981, a
record number. By 1988, however,
it sees enrollment shrinking to
11.048 million.
It projects that small private
colleges will lose the greatest percen-tage
of students. Private school
enrollment should .fall to 2.294
million in 1988, down from 2.49
million projected for 1981, and
2.478 this year.
NCES analysts predict that the
private four-year schools will have
to attract more older, part-time
students to compensate for their
losses.
Two-year community colleges,
though, have been the most suc-cessful
recruiting older, part-time
students. One reason, according to
the study called "Projection of
Education Statistics to 1988-89." is
that community colleges are usually
in urban areas convenient to com-muter
students.
Medicare
Grant
Awarded
Grecnsboro~A $1,000 research
grant for a study of the Medicare
supplemental medical insurance
market in the state has been awar-ded
by the N.C. Insurance
Education Foundation (NCIEF) at
UNC-G.
Allen D. Feezor, a Washington.
D.C. - based insurance researcher,
received the grant, according to Dr.
Joseph E. Johnson, president of the
NCIEF and head of the Department
of Business Administration in the
UNC-G School of Business and
Economics.
The research will focus on the
following points:
•The characteristics and needs of
North Carolina's over-65 consumer.
•The availability, quality, and
value of the Medicare supplemental
product available in the state.
•Identification of possible
failures in the market.
•Recommendations for ap-propriate
reforms to alleviate any
such market failures.
The grant is the third to be awar-ded
in honor of Dr. Frank J. Sch
wentker, retired professor of in-sureance
at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, for Ins scrvt
ce to the state's insurance industry.
The NCIEF was incorporated in
1971 by a group of insurance in-dustry
leaders and insurance
educators to promote and support
insurance education and research in
North i
Older, part-time students curren-tly
account for 40 percent of the
nation's two-vear colleee enrollmen-ts.
The NCES expects
two-year college enrollment to
decline "only slightly" over the next
eight, years precisely because of the
community colleges' attraction to
part-timers.
If private four-year colleges can't
compete effectively with two-year
schools for the older, part-time
students, NCES warned that "many
of them could face closure."
The agency's projections for
four-year public colleges and
universities were less drastic. It ex-pects
total public college enrollment
to fall to 8.754 million in 1988 after
a 1981 peak of 9.2 million. Public
colleges' larger base should allow
the bigger schools to survive the
coming era of limits.
Most experts' expect college
enrollments will decline because of
the dwindling number of current
school-age children. Other studies
predict enrollments will start to
grow again in the 1990's, when the
children of the post-World War II
baby boom reach college age.
Total enrollment for the 1979-80
academic year, according to NCES,
is 11.508 million, up from 8.006
million in 1969-70.
WASHINGTON, D.C. <CPS)~
The fate of President Carter's
proposal to re-institute military
registration for 19- and 20-year-old
males will be determined later this
month when the House Ways and
Means Committee takes its key vote
on whether to approve $13 million
for the proposal.
Most committee watchers expect
the measure to pass easily.
A House subcommittee has
already defeated an $8.5 million
request that would have allowed the
Selective Service System to register
women for the first time.
Even those favoring starting
registration for the first time since
1973 carefully note that a
registration system won't
necessarily lead to a draft.
"The draft will only be re-instituted
if there is a war," main-tains
Warren Nelson, an aide to
Rep. Les Aspin (D-Wl), generally
considered a congressional expert
on military personnel.
"As it stands now," Nelson adds,
"the new registration system will be
simpler and less time-consuming
than the old method."
The new system envisioned in the
bill would require that 19- and 20-
year-old males report to the nearest
post office during the month of
June or July.
Bill proponents argue that post
offices are usually quiet in those
months. Draft opponents, however.
have charged President Carter pur-posefully
deferred the registration
date until college students are on
summer vacation, and can't
organize large anti-draft demon-strations.
Substantial congressional op-position
to registration remains,
lead by representatives Pat
Schroeder (D-CO) and John S.
Seiberling (D-OH).
"Compulsory military service-except
in times of constitutionally
approved war or compelling
national emergency-raises serious
questions of propriety and indeed
legality in light of the constitutional
prohibition against involuntary ser-vitude,"
Seiberling wrote in a public
letter to the President.
Rep. James Weaver of Ohio,
another opponent, feared
registration would make it easier for
the U.S. to engage in "adventures"
around the world.
In his letter, co-signed by 38 of his
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colleagues, Seiberling worried that
registration would be a "massive in-vasion
of the privacy of millions of
young Americans."
The proposal as it now stands
would require registrants to tell the
government their name, address,
birth date, and social security num-ber.
The information would be en-tered
into computers by Internal
Revenue Service keypunch
operators. Bill advocaters say IRS
key-punchers are simply the ones
who would be available at that time
of year, that the information on the
registration forms would not be
shown to other government agen-cies.
In 1978. President Carter rejected
a Congressional Budget Office
(CBO) proposal that would
automatically register people by
compiling information from
existing government files. The CBO
report figures the Social Security
System and the IRS could provide
most of the needed information.
The report also noted that the
automatic registration system could
miss as much as 40 percent of the
eligible people, and thus create
serious political and legal obstacles
to a draft based on such an incom-plete
list.
In requesting registration, of
course. President Carter said the
point was to provide the Pentagon
with a manpower pool from which it
could either expand the size of its
forces, or replace casualties in a war
lasting several months.
A full peacetime conscription
system, however, would require
separate congressional approval.
The current legislation would
provide funds to implement
registration, a power the president
already has.
Officials emphasize that
registration will not remedy the two
major military problems that some
critics argue have undermined the
nation's combat readiness.
Military experts say too few
technically-trained officers and
enlisted personnel are staying in the
service. As a result, the armed for-ces
currently lack an adequate corps
of experienced field leaders.
Secondly, they say the low volun-teer
rate has sapped the strength of
reserve units, on which the Pen-tagon
must rely for immediate rein
forcements in wartime.
Earth
Day
Saturday
By ALAN MYRICK
Staff Writer
Earth Day 'SO. the tenth anniver-sary
of the first Earth Day in 1970,
will be celebrated across the nation
on April 22. Environmentalists
claim Earth Day began an era of ac-tivism
and progress in fighting
pollution, preserving nstural
resources and safeguarding public
health.
In Greensboro, Earth Day will be
celebrated on Saturday, April 19 ac-cording
to Don Miller of Antaeus
Food Cooperative who is helping
organize the local celebration. "Af-ter
the first Earth Day the public
became committed to a clean,
healthy, safe environment. Earth
Day 'SO will celebrate and reaffirm
that committment for the coming
decade," be said.
According to Miller, the activities
will beam Saturday at 7.-30 a.m.
with a nature walk on the Audubon
Nature Trail on Tankersley Straw,
behind Cone Hospital. Prom 10
am until 4:30 p.m. there will be in-formation
and demonstration
booth* from about IS local en-vironment
groups, st Antaeus Co-op
on 101 Paisley Street. At I p.m.
there wtB be s trip to lour A A T
State Untvcruty't new solar heated
Garret House.
At UNC-G the Envorossnsntsl
Issue* Club will bold a csssbradon
w the auad during the Spring Fung
carnival tins Saturday