The Carolinian [March 24, 1994]

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CLASSIFIEDS 15
Cornea 14
FEATURES 10
OPINIONS 4
PERSONALS 16
SPORTS 9
Three UNCG dance students bring you
to "the Verge," page 10
Big South Conference files law*
suit against Campbell, page 6
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Construction continues at the Jackson Library. The card
catalog area is currently being renovated into a state-of-the-art
computer information area.
Student found
dead in Ragsdale
Autopsy inconclusive, medical
reports may reveal cause ofdeath
From itaff reports
A 20-year-old UNCG student
was found dead Sunday in her
room in Ragsdale Residence Hall.
AresidentofRagsdale, Aimee
Erwin, a sophomore music ma-jor
from Roanoks Rapids, was
found in 108 Ragsdale byfriends
around 1:30 p.m. that day.
Friends ofErwin began to get
worried when she had not re-turned
calls or been seen since
Friday and asked a Residence
Advisor to check her room, ac-cording
to Amy Byrd, a sopho-more
in Mendenhall.
Finding the doorunlocked, the
residence assistant (RA) entered
the room, only to find Erwin's
body.
A meeting held later that
evening for residents in
Ragsdale and Mendenhall an-nounced
that there were no
marks found on Erwin's body
and that she had been fully
clothed. Susan Terrell, the resi-dence
director for Ragsdale, an-nounced
at the meeting that
Erwin might have had a heart
condition, according to Byrd.
According to the News &
Record, there had been no signs
ofany inflicted assault and fur-ther
investigation waspending.
The County Medical Exam-iner
reported that immediate
See Student, page 3
Budget reinstated
after protest at SLA
By SALLY THOMAS
StaffWriter
The Student Legislative As-sembly
(SLA) overturned its prior
decision to cut the International
Students' Association (ISA) bud-get
by 10 percent after approxi-mately
40ISA membersattended
to protest the move.
On February 15,SLAhadvoted
to cut the ISA's budget for failure
to send poll workers to the SLA
referendum.
SGPresident Michael Pearson
vetoed the legislation because ISA
claimed that ithad not been noti-fied
to send poll workers for the
referendum.
Last week, the SLA delegates
overturned Pearson's veto,
thereby cutting ISA's budget
ISA President Manish Jha
spoke on behalf of the organiza-tion.
TISA] has a history ofsending
more poll workers than required.
I n M
... We can ssnd people to your
referendum, but we need some
kind of notification," Jha said.
He said that he felt SLA had
violated its own constitution by
not sending a notice to ISA at
least two weeks before the refer-endum
was to be held.
"If we are supposed to follow
the rules, shouldn't the mother
body?" Jha said.
ISA Vice President Channa
Kurukulasuriya spoke on the
impact of the budget cut.
"The budgetcutmaybe only 10
percent, but it amounts to over
$1,000, and with that money we
doa hell ofa lot We, the students
of ISA are passionate about pro-moting
multi-culturalism. But
thatcan't be done without funds,"
Kurukulasuriya said.
Pearsoninformedthe delegates
that he considered their overturn
to be unconstitutional. He has
referred the issue to Attorney
General Steve Black.
After debate, the SLA re-scinded
the budget cut
The delegates debated an
amendment which would allow
organizations to withhold their
membership list from SG if it
would be in the best interest of
the members of the group.
In particular, the new amend-ment
would affect the Gay, Les-bian,
and Bisexual Student Asso-ciation
(GLB8A), which is pre-vented
from releasing a member's
list by its constitution.
Delegate Sammy Webb ob-jected
to the amendmentbecause
he felt there would still be ways
for people to find out who the
group's members are.
Webb pointed out that speak-ers
in SLAare often identified in
The Carolinian. Therfeore, the
nameofanymemberfromGLBSA
who spoke at SLA could become
I believe last year we sent seven, ofhis veto at last week's meeting public knowledge. Class off94 celebrates
Senior Day ushers UNCG students to alumni status
By DANG. STUART
auffWriter
Seniors celebrated Senior Day
Tuesday from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m.
at the Alumni House.
The purpose of Senior Daywas
to help studentsmake the transi-tion
from being college students
to alumni of the University.
"Senior Day is our way of say-ing
'Congratulations, you are
graduating. We look forward to
seeing you as alumni'," said
Brenda Cooper, the Executive
Director of the Alumni Associa-tion.
According to Cooper, it is an
opportunity for seniors to tour
and sse the Alumni House, learn
about the Alumni Association,
receive Alumni Association Mem-bership
for half price, meet with
Career Services CenterRepresen-tatives,
andjoin the Spartan Club
for free. It is also an opportunity
for seniors to pick up caps and
gowns, buy graduation announce-ments,
and buy class rings.
The Alumni House is a central
meeting place for UNCG gradu-ates.
It serves as a point of con-nection
on campus for alumni.
During Senior Day, seniors
voted to fill various posts. Results
ofthe election appear on page 2 of
this issue of The Carolinian.
SeniorDaybrought student* out to enjoy the
weather, free food and, for those over 21,
yeah — they got their cape and gowns, too.
unusually i
beer. And, oh.
In Opinions: Minority Studies makes for a well-rounded student, page 4
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