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Program advisory committee created
Editor's i.urn The following it memo mm by
ECU's President Leo W. Jenkins to ell university
faculty members
Because ol the increasing need to coordinate
program development with financial resources,
we have established an Advisory Committee on
Piogram and Budget Implications. This
committee, composed ol Robeit L Molt
(Chairman), and Clifton G. Moore, Edwin
Monroe. Robert W Williams, Albert R Conley
and John M Mowell, will review all program
and course proposals that clear the curriculum
committees, the faculty senate, and the
graduate council after the beginning of the
winter quarter.
I ask youi cooperation in making additional
changes lor improvement of our academic
program Specifically. I would appreciate your
consideration of the following propositions to
the end that those that are found feasible can
be implemented through established machinery
of the university As you can see. some of the
propositions are appropriate for individual
consideration, some require action of
policy-making bodies, s me can be
implemented by administrators They have
listed as one package to initiate a
comprehensive view of the situation.
1. Discontinue courses that are not basic to
degree programs or general education
requirements. Offer courses that customarily
have small enrollments less often, after advising
students that this will be done. If offering
courses less often causes hardships tor some
students, be more flexible in making
substi utioris in program requirements
2. Reduce the total hours required for a
bachelor's degree from 190 quarter hours to
180 quarter hours and do not encourage
students to take more hours than necessary
Re-examine degree programs which require
students to take more quarter hours than the
university generally requires
3. Increase the maximum number of hours
that may be transferred from other institutions
and applied toward graduate degrees
4 A 400 level course and a 300 level (or 200
level) course on the same topic could be merged
into one 300G course, thereby reducing the
number of courses and eliminating very small
graduate courses Consider the merger of as
many courses as is feasible within the limitation
that at least fifty percent of a graduate
student's work must be in course open to
graduates only.
5. Close undergraduate courses that do not
appear likely to enroll at least 20 students when
the preregistration analysis is available
6 Encourage credit by examination in
undergraduate courses and independent study
in undergraduate courses
7 Do not propose new programs and courses
unless you can balance costs and savings in your
own department or school Curriculum
proposals should now specifically Include'
information that will eventually be studied by
the Advisory Committee on Program and
budget Implications in determining whether or
not it will recommend to me that nev. programs
and courses should be offered
n e University is large and complex Some
of you may wish to suggest other propositions
for consideration Your contribution! will be
appreciated and thoroughly examined
Volume III. Number 18
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and the truth shall make vou free'
Greenville, North Carolina
Tuesday. Decemhei 7, l"l
Judgm Issums injunction
Abortion ads allowed
(Stsff Photo by Ross Mann)
ROB LUISANA, ECU voter registration oVive chairman, dscunas protJerrs in afaaantBe
voting.
Absentee ballot burdens voter
"The absentee ballot is just a pain in the
neck
So saiJ Rob Luisana. ECU voter registration
drive chairman, in commenting on the recent
ruling that allows students to vote by absentee
ballot in then hometown.
Absentee ballot voting allows a person who
is away from his hometown to vote and return
his ballot to his hometown where it is opened
and counted on election day.
"This kind of voting is a lot of trouble
commented Luisana. "The ballot must be
notarized before it can be counted, the ballots
themselves are hard to get and thev must be
returned to the town 21 days before the
general election
Absentee voting puts an unusual burden on
the voter
Voting by absentee ballot won't affect ECU
students very much according to Luisana.
"Most of the students won't even go to the
trouble to write home for a ballot. Lots of
students who live in distant states or distant
areas of North Carolina haven't had contact
with their hometown in two or three years.
They simply won't take the time and trouble to
write off and get a ballot
Luisana anticipated a better leaction to the
fact that the primary election day has been
moved from Tuesday to Saturday This ruling
was made after several organizations
complained that a Tuesday voting day
discriminated against the working man and
student who could not always get to the polls
and vote.
In commenting on the effect of this ruling
on the national level Luisana stated that it
would probably allow more of the middle and
lower class to vote.
"On college campus , the change of the
primary day from Tuesday to Saturday should
account for a massive student vote. But if the
absentee ballot is used very widely the vote will
be scarce he explained.
At the present time no ECU student can
register to vote in Greenville unless his parents
live in Greenville. Luisana said that this ruling is
being challenged in order to allow college
students to vote in the town where they attend
school.
"Chapel Hill is the only city in the state
where college students are being registered to
vote added Luisana. "The Board of Elections
in Orange County interprets the election rules U
they see fit and they view the college student as
an eligible voter in the county
Luisana expressed optimism for the future
of 'he student vote at ECU. "I feel that we have
a fifty-fifty chance of voting in the May 3
primary election. I definitely feel that we will
be able to register and vote in Greenville by the
November election
courses dropped
Plans are now underway to phase out all
Italian courses from the ECU curriculum
following winter quatct.
The move, (caused by lack of student
participation) according to provost Robert
Williams, has broughi disappointment from
members of the faculty. It has caused some
problems lor students who had planned to use
Italian to fill General College language
requirements.
The courses intiated in the fall of 1970 were
drawn up by Dr. John Costa, one of the two
professors now teaching Italian on campus. "I
am disappointed of course that the program is
going to be discontinued stated Dr Costa,
"but circumstances beyond my control have led
to the decision
"These circumstances, as far as I know were
caused by curriculum requirement changes in
the different departments
The two major departments that had
furnished students for the Italian program were
the muck and math departments.
Dr. Pignani, chaiiman of the math
depaitment, expressed disappointment in the
move because he feels that there ate students
especially in the math field that need to take
Italian. "Werecommend Italian to many of the
students registering in our depaitment states
Dr Pignani. "especially those who have taken
Spanish in high school
Dr. Pignani explains that this
recommendation is made due to the tact that
there is so little material available in the
mathematics field written in Spanish.
"Of approximately 300 mathematics
journals published only about 10 even
recognize the Spanish language, he said, "and
for this reason there is very little research
material available in that language
Fall quarter only Italian 1 and Italian 3 were
taught. Italian 2 and Italian 4 are being taught
this quarter after which the program will be
discontinued.
According to Dr. Williams, this type of move
is natural for a course that lacks student
interest.
"If a course does not show student interest
said Dr Williams, "then it is not economical to
offer it and the course is stopped
"The course was started last yeai at the same
time that we began Russian he continued,
"but didn't seem to catch on
Asked if there was any possibility that the
course might still be continued he said he didn't
believe so.
"If student interest was to show an increase
there might be a possibility he said, "but we
would have to look at who the students were
and whether they need the course or not
Richmond. Va (CPS)-US District Judge
Robert R Merhige. Jr . in issuing what, in
effect, was a temporary injunction against the
state of Virginia, declared here last week that
he would "not hesitate" to bar Virginia from
any attempt to restrict college students' rights
to free speech and press
Merhige's statement came during hearings on
charges brought by 15 students of George
Mason College that the state had sought to
pressure them into keeping abortion counseling
advertisements from the 'Broadside the
student newspaper of the four-year satellite
campus of the University of Virginia located in
the suburbs of Washington Abortion
counseling advertisements in college papers,
usually for agencies in New York City that refer
to out-patient clinics under the newly
liberalized New York abortion statute, have
created furor in at least five states during the
past year.
Virginia Civil Liberties Union (VCLU)
�lawyers Michael L Fayad and Philip J.
Hirschkop said that the issue arose from a
Virgii ia law that says "any persons by
public ion. lecture, advertisementor in any
other manner encouraging the procuring of
abortionshall be guilty ol a misdemeanor "
The offenses are punishable by a year in jail and
a fine of up to $1.000
The continuation of the hearings and a final
decision by Merhige are being delaed until the
Virginia State Supreme Court decision whether
to hear an appeal from Jeff Bigelow. a member
of the collective publishing the "Virginia
Weekly the alternative paper for the
Charlottesville community and the University
of Virginia, who was arrested and convicted by
Circuit Court for violating the abortion statute.
According to Linda Cayton. Assistant Editor
of the Mary Washington College "Bullet" and a
member of the Board of Directors of the
VCLU. the student paper at the women's
campus of the University of Virginia will also
join in the suit against the state next week She
said that the "Bullet as in the "Broadside"
case, was threatened by college administration
figures with a fund cut-off if further abortion
counseling advertisements were run.
The ACLU attorneys entered as evidenci- in
the conattutional hearing a letter from Virginia
Assistant Attorney General William G
Broaddus to George Mason Chancellor Lorin A
Thompson "It has come to my attention the
letter said, "that a New York advertising service
is seeking to place advertisements in college
newspapers advertising the availability of
abortions in New York City I (ask) that you
encourage your editors to keep this statute
should a similar advertisement be placed with
ECU aids in area progress
By HORACE WHITFTELD
Staff Writer
"All organizations need information for
planning and development said Robert
Ussery, director oflnstitutional Research, "and
research is a major aspect in finding the
answers
Institutional Research, located in Rawl
Annex, serves as a primary resource center,
supplying technical and advisory assistance to
all aspects of the university
According to Ussery. Institutional Research
spents most o( its time responding to requests
from within and outside the university. The
office supplies information to the State Board
of Higher Education, the Department of
Housing, Education, and Welfare (HEW), and
other state and national organizations. But it
also serves departments and individuals at ECU
who need their services
The office spends the remainder of its time
conducting independent research Such projects
in the past have included a comprehensive
study of transfer students at ECU. and various
surveys of student attitutdeson different issues
"Institutional Research does not have a
policy making function said Ussery. "We
supply information and very rarely do we make
recommendations
But often, information collected does affect
university policies. Last year, when class cuts
were abolished for sophomores during fall and
winter quarters. Institutional Research
conducted a survey.
"We found that there wa no significant
change in academic performance of those
involved Ussery stated "Subsequently the
faculty senate abolished the ruling on cuts
Two years ago. Institutional Research aided
the nursing school in finding a method for
projecting scores on the nursing board exam
There are five areas on the exam A student's
scholastic record is reviewed, her score
projected, and she can be advised in any area in
which she is deficient.
"Here, courses were examined in a research
manner said Lssery. "and the results used as
an advisory tool. And we've been doing this
with a high degree of success
The office also conducts research into basic
economics of academic programs By analyzing
statistics, such factors as the dollar cost per
credit hour, or the cost to produce a degree
may be determined.
Signigicant too. is continuing research into
the relationship among all facets of the
university When one department changes its
curriculum, all others are involved
"When the School of Business wanted to
change its course requirements, we had to
study the distribution of course load demand
in other departments Ussery stated "Such a
study was necessary to allocate resources
your paper The mere fact that abortions may
be legal in New York does not mean that
publication of such in violation ol Section
18.1-63 of the code ol Virginia may be made
with impunity
The student complaintants entered as
evidence a letter from George Mason Dean of
Students Robert Turner, taking note of an
abortion counseling ' placed in the paper in
spite of warnings The letter said, "this type of
advertising is not to be printed in any future
editions as long as the law remains pail of the
code of Virginia "
Eco-courses
planned
New curriculum in envuonmental health is
planned to begin spring quarter
The expansion of courses will include
Introduction to Environmental Health,
introduction to Air and Water Pollution. Food
Sanitation, and Watet Supplies and Waste Water
Treatment
The establishment of the new environmental
health program was made possible by a ls4b.2(J5
grant from the Health. Education and Welfare
Department.
Construction of the ECU Allied Health
Building is now underway Russell Miller,
chairman of the environmental health program
at ECL hopes to move into the building by
February at the latest The building is located
across from Pitt Plaza
The main job offerings for those who have a
bachelor of science (BSl degree are inspection
of public and private water supplies, sewage
disposal systems, food processing and serving
concerns. Also, industrial hygienists are on large
demand for industrial plants.
According to Miller, job offerings in the
environmental health field are rapidly
increasing "Environmentalists are playing an
increasing roll in industrial organizations.
Specialists are bemg hired by private companies
to see that working conditions are improved
he explained
National statistics show that the number of
environmentalists needed in 1980 will be
537.000 The projected number to fill these job
openings is only 3�000.
Miller said that because of the increasing
demand for environmentalists, more programs
for environmental health are being developed
throughout the country
"Those with B.S. degrees m environmental
health work primarily on the local level
explained Miller "State levels usually rcqunc a
master IMS: degree "
Miller obtained his B.S. and MS degrees
from East Tennessee State University, which
was the first IS. institution to of'tei the MS
degree in Environmental Health
The ECU program now underway will be
toward the B.S degree in Environmental
Health
71Q demonstrators arrmttmd
March to Raleigh halted indefinitely
By FRANK TURSI
Assistant News Editor
More then 110 black demonstrators were
arrested in Greenville last week on charges of
parading without a permit and impeding traffic
The arrests which took place on Monday.
Tuesday and Wednesday (November 2� & 30
and December I) were a part of the continuing
protest by the black community in Pitt County
and Eastern North Carolina against the fatal
shooting of a black farm worker by a white
highway patrolman four months ago
The demonstrators planned a 80 mile march
to Raleigh hut were stopped before leaving the
city limits.
The greatest number of arrests occured on
Monday when 62 people were arrested
Another 31 were arrested on Tuesday and 20
more on Wednesday.
The demonstrators were found to be in
violation of the city parade ordinance which
states that a permit must be granted 72 hours
before a "parade" The demonstrators had not
applied for that permit
Golden Frinks, state field secretary foi the
Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
(SCLO said that the reasons for the marches
were to raise the issue of police brutality in Pitt
County and to protest the killing of
William Earl Murphy, the black farm worker
"This is not just a black ntm said Frinks.
"it is black and white cause We invite all people
back into the cause "
TRIP TO RALEIGH
Frinks and the demonstrators planned to go
to Raleigh to present Gov Scott with a list of
demands
These demands consisted of:
1) Gov Scott recall and retrain police
officers and state troopers
2) No officer be allowed to carry firearms
into a courtroom
3) Bond for a first offense misdemeanor be
limited to $500
4) Gov. Scott fire the patrolman who shot
Murphy. William Day.
5) A Small Claims Office be set up where
persons can bring claims of police brutality.
On each day of the marches, the
demonstrators gathered at St Gabriel's Church
on W 5th Si and were arrested by Greenville
police
Police Chief E. Glenn Cannon said that he
had talked to Frinks Tuesday and offered to let
the demonstrators line up in rows of twos and
march out of town, but Frinks refused Cannon
then offered to provide the marchers with
police bus to drive them to the city limits, but
again Frinks refused
"We had agreed on no signs because it is a
violation of the ordinance, but they brought
the signs and they wete arrested said Cannon
"I'm Chief and I'm going to enforce the
ordinance he said
CANNON REFUSED
Cannon said that he had given Frinks every
chance to get out of Greenville, but he was
refused.
"He doesn't want to get out said Cannon,
"he wants a confrontation "
The number arrested last week biuigs the
total number of blacks arrested in Pitt County
since the shooting of Murphy to 800