Volume Il, Number 31 Faculty not needed on committees By RON WERTHEIM Staff Writer Is the student government push to get voting power on faculty committees a case of “wanting their cake and eating it too?” Not according to Tommy Clay, president of the SGA. On the subject of the student legislature's move last year that disallowed faculty votes on student committees, Clay said, “I don’t see any real conflict here. The majority of student committees don’t need faculty.” “The idea that the student government as a body feels is most important is that everyone concerned is represented at all levels. The faculty is not really interested in much of what is done on these committees,’ Clay said Asked his opinion on the subiect, Rob Luisana, secretary of public relations, said that Students By JAMES PARSONS Statf Writer Damages totaling $160,000 have been filed against the Pitt County Baord of Elections by 16 ECU students “The suit is a direct result of the Board’s refusal to register students when they meet voting requirements,” stated Rob Luisana Luisana is Chairman of the Steering Committee of the Pitt County Voter Registration Drive The Pitt County Board of Elections refuses to register college students whose parents are not residents of Pitt County. The decision by the Board has been primarily based on whether or not the student is a true resident of Pitt County Alex Brock, Chairman of the North Carolina State Board of Elections, considers college students to be “transient.”’ He says that students, while at college, are only temporary residents REQUIREMENTS North Carolina law states that a person must meet four basic requirements in order to register to vote in a county. The individual must have lived in the state for one year and in the county for 30 days. He must also be literate and must not have any definite plans to leave the county According to Luisana, “If students meet the time and literacy requirements and have no definite plans to leave, then by law they should be allowed to register Luisana and some others involved in voter registration across the state have called for he agreed with Clay’s statement. ‘The faculty doesn't really care. They wouldn't come if they were asked to.” “In my opinion,” Luisana continued, “students should be allowed a vote on most faculty committees. In cases where both students and faculty are affected it should be a dual system, with both having a vote.” Luisana also said that there were some things he felt best left in the hands of faculty and administrators. “I think some things like curriculum schedules and some administrative functions should be left up to faculty and administrators Students should have a say when it comes to things like pass-fail grading and class cuts, though.”” Questioned as to whether he felt the faculty was apathetic conceming student committees Clay said, “I wouldn't say the ile again Brock’s resignation. Luisana terms Brock’s decision on student residence as “an attempt to disenfranchise students.” The students involved turned to the courts only after a “final” decision to their appeal had been handed down by the Board. The three-member Board adhered to the Brock decision The major objective of the suit “is to allow students to vote here.” said Luisana. “The large amount of money involved is primarily to seare off other boards from practicing discrimination against students elsewhere,” he stated. “We don’t really expect to receive that much.” The attorney for the students is John Brooks. He was chosen because he had been involved in a case similar to this one previously Brooks represented Miss Kathy Hall in a case which won her the right to register to vote in Wake County. Miss Halil was a student at Meredith College in Raleigh but her parents lived in Tarboro. The case is being appealed to the North Carolina Supreme Court now by the board of elections involved The Hall case differs from the ECU students case slightly. She lived in a dormitory whereas some of the ECU students live in houses or apartments. Also Miss Hall was an individual and the ECU students are a “class” case Luisana feels that because some students live in apartments, “their case should be even stronger than the Hall case.” He also states that because this case is a ‘class’ case, “involving just students,” it would be stronger /n case of an emergency, know what numbers to calf What do you do in an emergency? Who do you call? How long will it take you to find the telephone number if you know who to call? Can you answer those questions positively? 1 know what to do, | know who to call and I can find their phone number in just a few seconds As a result of the case involving a girl living at one of the sorority houses who needed emergency medical treatment (reported in In other words can you say; Feb. 3 “Fountainhead”) a spot survey was made to find out if emergency telephone numbers were available where needed. Since the case leading to the survey involved a sorority house, sorority and fraternity houses were called Of 13 houses called only four had the numbers of police, fire and ambulance posted near the telephone. The others said the numbers were listed inside the cover of the telephone book or that they would have to look up the number if needed This according to Joe Calder, head of campus security, is a rather serious situation He feels that everyone should make it a point to find out who to contact for any kind of emergency On the first page of the 1971-72 ECU Student, Faculty, Staff Directory there is a list of the numbers that every student should have available for any kind of emergency. In addition to those, students should have the number of the Greenville Rescue Squad The number listed in the directory for ambulance is the campus infirmary. This according to Doctor C.F. Irons, director of the infirmary, is correct. The emergency procedure for students is to call the infirmary, explain the problem calmly and the infirmary will then call the rescue squad. This arrangement has been worked out due to a number of prank calls in the past. However this does not mean that a student can not call the rescue squad directly it he feels the time saved may be important Calder says in an emergency the rescue squad is the place to call. He says the Greenville squad is one of the best and fastest in the country. “Sometimes when we have called them the truck will be on its way before we get off the radio,” he says As for students living off campus, whether in sorority or fraternity houses or in private apartments calling the campus police in an emergency may be time wasted. Calder says the jurisdiction of the campus police does not extend off campus. Technically not even across Fifth Street. However, Calder says, “if a case 1s not too far off campus we sometimes help, “but going strictly by the book off campus may as well be in another town.’ When asked why the campus police had no means for emergency transportation in medical cases, Calder explained that there were not enough such emergencies to warrant such an expenditure for an ambulance or something similar Chief of Campus Police John Harrell said that in the twenty years he has been with the campus police he can remember only about a dozen cases serious enough that a regular police car could not be used. And again both Calder and Harrell pointed out that the city rescue squad has provided excellent service for the campus. The telephone numbers that every student should know or at least have available are Fire: 752-3116 Rescue Squad: 752-2316 Ambulance (through the infirmary) 758-6841 Police: 752-3141 Campus Police: 758-6150 Infirmary: 758-6841 Sheriff: 752-3180 © Personal doctor: (if you have one in Greenville.) s { ountainhead and the truth shall make you free’ Greenville, N.C faculty was apathetic, it’s just everyday decisions of government committees don’t hold that interest for them.” Clay, like Luisana, said that students <} id be represented on faculty committees “| { r a The } that students should be represented 4 a committee because the descisions th ak tudent r stud th affect everyone. Stud and a 4 " represented on these committees vot tior th r power Asked what he t} Legislature to take away faculty members last year, Cl it concerned representat i nistration last I sentatives ding publications board Adding to th he j yea n hing and Fi W ees are tle “was a kind of stude last. year. 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