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Committees. he following}: alendar, Con-|; s, University - Recruitment, | ' owships and ; ition, Teacher vey and Gene} | Williamston > idcrest Foun given annua @ 1 manageme ” 25S. - swith ita $7 Vielvin Moc?! eldcrest. 7 nemenagety comer: Circulation 8,500 This issue - 20 pages Fountainhead EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY GREENVILLE VOL. 51, NO. 5¢ 20 MAY 1976 Serving the East Carolina Community for over fifty years Legislature affirms constitution By DENNISC. LEONARD News Editor The Student Government Association Legislature voted Monday night to include the office of Vice-President into the newly revised SGA Constitution. Legisiators Kevin McCourt and Don Rains led the lengthy floor debate calling for the inclusion of the vice-president and they amended the proposed Constitution via the wording of the existing one. Greg Pingston, SGA vice-president, stated the purpose of the office and showed concern over the abolishment of his eiected office. “The office is only as good as the person in it, and in the past the vice-presidents didn’t do anything,’’ said Pinaston. “The new Constitution is too central- ized with the power being with too few people, but it is a good Constitution now JANET POPE First Annual Cow Moo Award Recipient Cox recovering from accident Pope sweeps Cow Moo Award that the change has been ratified, plus it makes the legislative branch more power- ful which is something that has been needed for quite a while.”’ According to Ricky Price, SGA speaker of the house, the issue wasn’t that big, the vice president was discussed in committee, and the Legislature simply did not have a two-thirds majority to abolish the office. One big issue that came out of the Monday Legislature was that the newly revised Constitution faced its third reading and was acoepted by the Legislature by a unanimous vote. Now that the Constitution has been approved by the Legislature, the revision will be placed before the student body next fall to be voted on by a referendum and if affirmed will go into effect next January following SGA elections. According to Price, the new Constitu- tion is full of innovations and improve- ments over the existing one. First a Senate wilt be comprised of all Janet Pope, FOUNTAINHEAD layout girl ?, was awarded the First Annual Cow Moo Award at the first annual Cow Moo Awards ceremonies Wednesday night. There were three runner-ups to the award, but Pope took all honors by a landslide. This coveted Award is a retroactive award that will be given to the deserving staff member each year. Pope won an assortment of «prizes. that coincided with the highly sought award and promised to continue the tradition by milking the paper for everything possibie ‘The Moo Award is going to be great to take downtown with me and knowing me that will be the only person with me,’’ said Pope And from a final statement from the coveted winner, ‘Yeah, Tise, who are the Allman Brothers?’ The Cow Moo is a novelty on the staff and has a strong resemblance to Elsie the Cow and Pope. Good luck Pope! Jeannie Cox, who was struck by a Car while crossing Tenth St. on her bicycle at College Hill Drive, has regained full consciousness, according to her roommate Sandy Cannon. Cox was unconscious at Pitt Memorial Hospital for five days following her accident on Monday, April 26. Miss Cox was taken home to Raleigh by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Luther Cox, 4100 Live Oak Road, Monday, May 10. According to Cannon, 609 White Dorm, Cox was semi-conscious by Friday and was fully conscious by Sunday, May 2. ‘She had trouble remembering names and faces at first, but her memory is now improving,’’ said Cannon Cox has trouble moving the right side of her body. According to Cannon, the only time she uses her right side is during exercises campus Clubs and class presidents to serve as a ‘“‘clearing house’ for ail campus activities. The Senate will carefully coordi- nate and plan campus activities so that there will be no conflicts in scheduling and Clubs can operate on a more efficient basis with representation in the SGA. Secondly, the new election system outlines the election procedure that SGA elections will follow. This new system will have elections being held in January at the first of the Spring semester. All elections will be held at the same time and acoording to Price, it will make the student government a more unified body. A third innovation of the Constitution is that it will change the existing financial Structure. The budgeting process will begin in February and will last to the middie of March. All organizational budgets will be submitted at this time. The legislature will spend from March until the end of school to work on the individual budgets and this will provide a much more efficient system of budgeting A fourth improvement will be the implementation of a Board of Inquiry under the judicial framework of the SGA. The Board of Inquiry will consist of public defenders that wil! hear and try to solve all complaints with students, the university, the SGA, and community problems. The chairman of the board will be titled the Ombudsman and this system is presently becoming a new innovation in a lot of cities. A fifth change of the Constitution is to appoint the treasurer instead of being an elected position. The advantages of this appointment will enable the SGA to retain a professional treasurer with good qualifi- cations and experience. Acoording to Price the Constitution will provide a more powerful Legislature and Cut back the power of the President and will guarantee a more effective student government. Pitt County taxing ECU students By DENNISC. LEONARD News Editor This week ECU students have received property tax discovery letters from the Pitt County tax commissioner calling for these students to pay property taxes on their automobiles if they are registered in the student's narne The student: are being taxed under N.C. general statutes that state for property taxation if a person maintains residence longer in one county than another, then that person must pay property taxes in that county According to Phillip Michaels, Pitt County tax supervisor, the two places where the student lives, property is taxable for the place one lives the longest. This student taxation is the first time that students have been liable for tax payment to the county and according to Michaels they are setting a precedent ‘We feel the students are taxable and it is legal, therefore we are setting a precedent,’’ said Michaels. JEANETTE COX If students choose not to pay the taxes then they do face legal consequences. ‘We have listed the property tax with the state, so the tex bill would be against them until it is paid. There are outside tax collectors who are authorized to collect the taxes and the tax bill can be sent to another county.’ ‘The city attorney feels that we are both legal and are headed in the right direction.’ The county tax office received all registration information from the ECU traffic office concerning auto registration The problem of double taxation has been considered and according to Michaels double taxation should not occur if students would follow their taxing pro- gram. A student is liable for personal property taxes in Pitt County if they have lived here for six months and one day Tim Sullivan, SGA president, has been working with the SGA jegal advisors to see what legal loopholes can be used to get out of paying the tax. So far there have been none found and the legai advisors have not been very heipful My advice to students is that they Should comply with the information they have received, but not pay any taxes until this issue is Geared up,’’ said Sullivan William Grantmyre, attorney for Blount, Crisp and Grantmyre, noted some cases in a telephone interview where the resident of one county had to pay taxes in a another county because they had listed property there ‘The students should go to the tax collector's office and try to work out the problem and after exhausting these remedies should obtain legal aid if they are dissatisfied,’’ said Grantmyre. Many students still face possible taxation by their home counties and from Pitt County. More than likely the issue wil! be unresolved before school is convened NORTH CAROLINA ’ : an 51, NO. 59/20 MAY 1976 EditorialssCommentary VP back Ina12th hour effort, led by SGA vice-president Greg Pingston, the Legislature has added the vice-president post to the proposed constitution. The proposed constitution had struck the vice-president position out in a reorganization of the executive branch of the SGA aimed at adding efficiency. But Pingston, who obviously believes in looking out for ‘‘number one’, helped lead a drive that added the vice-president post onto the now constitution. So, Pingston, who was elected in March, is assured of keeping his position till next March. The new constitution would have done away with Pingston’s position early next fall. The original proposed constitution deleted the vice-president post for good reason—mainly because it is not needed. This year proved that when the SGA managed to function six months without a vice-president. The duties of the vice-president are practically non-existent, particularly in the new constitution since all duties are spelled out and delegated io certain areas of authority. Pingston is apparently very capable and has done an exceilent job so far. We have no doubts he will do a good job the rest of the ear. j The problem is the SGA has changed the entire constitution, which hopefully will stand for years, simply to accommodate one person this year. The question of whether a vice-president is needed is a long range question and not just one for here and now. A constitution should be constructed for long range service, not for a year or two. And, the proposed SGA constitution, except for the vice-president clause, is well written and should greatly improve SGA efficiency. If implemented fully, the proposed constitution could improve SGA operations many fold. Adding the vice-president position back will not improve that efficiency. In fact we think it will only hurt it. |The proposed constitution is a good one -- adding the vice-president post does not help it though. “‘Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without government, | should not hesitate a moment to preter the latter.’’ Thomas Jefferson Editor-in-Chief--Mike Taylor Managing Editor—-Tom Tozer Business Manager—Teresa Whisenant Production Manager—Jimmy Williams Advertising Manager—Mike Thompson News Editor--Dennis Leonard Entertainment Editor--Brandon Tise Features Editor-Pat Coyle Sports Editor—John Evans Assistant Sports Editor--Janet Hoeppel Assistant News Editors--Cindy Broome and Jackson Harrill Layout--Janet Pope, Elizabeth Kennerly, Lynn Caverly and Marian Moylette Prootreader--Diane Harris Circulation--Jimmy Wade and Les Miller Composer Typist-Alice Leary Assistant Typist--Jeanette Coats Ad Sales-Mary Ann Vail and Vicki Jones Ad Layout--Susan Quinn and Steve Michaels Fountainhead is the student newspaper of East Carolina University sponsored by the Student Government Association of ECU and appears each Tuesday and Thurday during the school year. Mailing address: Box 2516 ECU Station, Greenville, N.C. 27834 Editorial Offices: 758-6366, 758-6367, 758-6209 Subscriptions: $10.00 annually for non students. AFTER STUDYNG YOUR CAREER OBJECTIVES AND YOUR EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND AND APNTUDE, My ADVICE ROSCOE |S "PUNT"! Outlook interesting For students who will still be around next fall, the year promises to be an exciting one. The long awaited Med School may finally get cranked up and admit students, possibly as early as next January. The coming year will mark the final 12 months ECU will be a member of the Southern Conference. In fact rumors abound about possibly a link-up between ECU and a half dazen other large schools in the region in a new athletic conference. Those rumors could turn into reality in the next 12 months. On another athletic note, the football Pirates will be going for two in a row over UNC-Chapel Hill. And, hopefully the Pirates can finally beat Appalachian, a team that has tamed the Bucs two years running in Boone. Around campus the addition to the art building should be completed during the next 12 months and work on the expansion of Ficklen Stadium should begin. New SGA buses should be rolling early next fall, so student mobility will be improved. In the SGA the new constitution will give that group a new look and should improve student government greatly. And, SGA president Tim Sullivan, just a junior, will more than likely seek reelection for a second term, becoming the first president to do so, in the coming year. Over in Spillman, speculation of finding a new chancellor to replace Dr. Jenkins will begin. Jenkins must retire in a couple of years so just who will get that job will be open to speculation as the year progresses. These are just a few of the things to look for. And if only one-half of them develop, it should be an interesting year. Successful year A sign on a managing editor’s desk we once worked under Claimed it was a newspaper’s duty to ‘‘print the truth and raise hell.”’ Going by those guidelines, we think the paper can claim some success this year. Overall it has been a year of expansion for the campus paper. The size of the paper almost doubled, the staff expanded, advertising revenues were up considerably and so was total cost. Through the expanded size there has been more coverage in the news, sports, features and entertainment sections of the paper. Coverage, while limited on. some occasions, has been good. Editorially at least the paper took a stand, which is an improvement over past years. You may not have liked our editorials, but at least you knew where we stood. So, we printed the truth, as we could find it, and raised hell every chance we got. And by that it was a successful year. All accompe writer’s will be p Forum. The | on file i be ava students Four quest fr« from pt writer w and avai ell FOUNTAINHEAD/VOL, 51, NO. 59/20 MAY 1976 3 "Forum Students pay taxes but most cannot vote Student sees taxation without vote in city To Fountainhead : On May 17, | received a letter from the good city of Greenville’s tax supervisor. It stated, ‘'It has come to the attention of this office that property described below was not listed or was listed at a substantial understatement of value with Pitt County during the listing period etc.’’ Actually | had no idea | was responsible for paying taxes in Greenville other than the sales tax. The Greenville Tax Super- visor informed me my '72 Dodge was taxable in the city of Greenville. He said that since | had not listed it, the tax office had listed it for me. In a slightly bewildered state i asked why, after 3 years as a student at ECU, the city finally got eround to taxing my car. | have had a car in Greenville the whole time. He said he had been tax supervisor for 3 years and this was the first year that it had come to his attention that a lot of students were not paying taxes on their cars in Greenville. He was very vague on the question. A point | felt was rather amusing was that they appraised my car at twice what | paid for it. Hell, if they think it’s worth that much Pil sell it to them. Next | proceeded to the elections board. FRANKLY SPEAKING... .by phil frank URE CHANGE! KATHY WANTS TO GO TO FORT LAUDERDALE OVER SPRING BREAK - BECAUSE THERE'S A RESEARCH LIBRARY THERE!” eaenndail © COLLEGE MEDIA SERVICES: BOx 9411-BERKELEY CA 94709 FORUM POLICY All letters to the Editor must be accompanied by an address along with the writer’s name. However, only the name will be printed with letters published in the Forum. The letter writer’ s address will be kept on file in the Fountainhead office and will be available, upon request, to any students. Fountainhead will, upon personal re- quest from a letter writer, withhold a name from publication. But, the name of the writer will be on file in thie editor’ s office and available upon request to any student. All requests for withholding a name must be made in person to the editor. Any letter received without this in- formation will be held until the letter writer complies with the new policy. Sullivan hits student taxes To Fountainhead : On the matter of Pitt County taxing ECU students - including those living in dormitories -- for property. Every citizen of this county must pay his or her taxes, so the question is not why, but where. If, as Pitt County seem to state, we must pay our taxes here, where we reside for nine months out of the year, then they have had a change of heart and decided that we are residents here as well. We applaud their positive decision. Of course, this is not what they had in mind. But, if the courts uphold that students can be assessed for property here in Pitt County, then we will fight in court for the right of students to be considered Pitt County residents...and voters. There is a Pandora’ s box over the issue of taxation without representation. The powers-that-be in Pitt County have opened that box. Tim Sullivan | thought it was only reasonable that since | was expected to pay taxes in Greenville as well as my home town, | be allowed to register to vote in Greenville. Of course | got the old run around, | was told that paying taxes in Greenville did not make me eligible to vote in Greenville. Hell, | wonder what does. The taxes on my car were paid long before | received my letter from the city of Greenville, but in my home town. | have nothing against paying taxes in Greenville if they will allow me to vote here. Students spend millions of dollars in Greenville, paying the 4 percent sales tax of which 1 percent goes to the city of Greenville, students have to obey the laws and ordinances of Greenville, students are forced to obey Greenville’s often incompe- tent police, and now expected to pay taxes. With ail that students do for the city of Greenville and now expected to do it seems they would be given the normal input to government guaranteed by the constitu- tion, the RIGHT TO VOTE. Kirby Harris P.S. Why should students be treated as second class citizens? SGA work on phone situation highlighted To Fountainhead: While you printed an article on the telephone company’s decision to print up a phone directory for both dorm and day students, | wanted to repeat the message for all those students who want to take advantage of a sevice which we've all deserved for a long time. Several months ago the SGA Legisia- ture had a resolution opposing the 20 cents free for directory assistance. The reason was simple: students, who don’t have their numbers printed up, would be unfairly picked out. At this time, the phone company stated it would issue a dorm directory. After that, there was criticism that this ‘service’ discriminated against the day students. A legislator wrote to Fountain- head, and just recently the phone company relented and stated that it would include day students. Tim Sullivan and the executive officers at SGA agreed that to help make sure students got their directories, SGA would handle distribution in the Fali. Enough SGA student helpers have been promised to make sure no student is inconvenienced in obtaining the book. This is important: all students will have their name printed in same directory once, unless they apply late (after mid- September). Those day students who already will have phones by August 1st, will be listed in the city directory. Those day students who get phones between August 1 and mid-September wil! be listed in the student book passed out by SGA. Those dorm students who get phones between August 1 and mid-September will be listed in the student book. Each dorm phone can have two people listed if the extra charge is paid, and several names can be listed for a day phone if the charge is paid. Tim’ s Community Relations Secretary, Kim Taylor, is in charge of making the front and back cover of the book. On the inside will be several important phone numbers. If you know of a number that should be included, piease contact her at the SGA Office, 758-6611, at Mendenhall! Student Center. Ray Hudson Secretary of Student Welfare Union committees lauded To Fountainhead : Programming from the Student Union has been fairly good this year, but we feel one of the truly outstanding performances of the year belongs to the Special Concerts Committee. They have programmed good taient for various tastes, and consistently Special Concerts has more than bridged the gap between Major Attractions and this year’s virtually non-existent Coffeehouse. They have presented us with rock, jazz, folk, country-rock, inspirational and blue- grass from September to May: Monty Alexander, Tom Rush, Morningsong, Leo Kottke, Gene Cotton, Jericho Harp, the Bridge, Randy Matthews and Seeds, and a fine Bluegrass Festival. The conflict that prevented Michael Murphy from perform- ing was ne* the fault of the Special Concerts Committee, for they had made al! their arrangements. Chairperson Daniel Prevatte and the committee members have represented the students well and fulfilled all of the responsibilities of the Special Concerts Committee for this year. Congratulations on a well-programmed season Sam Collier Suzanne Maskery Sherry Aligood Debbie Hines Helen Moore Robert Maxon Steve Englesby Richard Cook 4 FOUNTAINHEAD/VOL. 51, NO. 59/20 MAY 1976 ashatieas nasa eM pana ty NANDA ELL DAL LEED LIDDELL LALLA LAL LAD IDLING Overseas travel bargains are presented ‘By DIANE AUERBACH (CPS)—Overseas travel makes for con- fusion. It’s planned that way. Tell an airlines rep you're planning a trip to Europe and immediately frank talk is discarded and jabberwocky trotted in. if, beneath the morass of obscure rules and jargon, your ticket pusher knows where to tind the bargain basement fare, he won't let on. This means you may jnadvertently pay three times as much for your flight to Europe as the person sitting in the plane seat next to you. Standard fares: Standard fare flights overseas will make poverty your standard fare for the rest of the trip. These fares are always the most expensive and primarily designed for businessmen who aren't picking up the tab anyway. For instance, a round-trip ticket from New York to London, purchased during the heavy summer tourist season, costs a whopping $767. That pricetag is immutable; all major international airlines, with the exception of maverick loelandic Airlines, are legally required to charge exactly the same fare. Youth fares: Those high fares have emptied a lot of planes flying to Europe. So in an attempt to lure aboard young passengers, the airlines recently revived international youth fares, touted as a savings bonanza for anyone under 22. Unfortunately youth fares easily win second prize for the worst deal around. Round-trip fare from New York to London, leaving the U.S. during the summer, costs $465. Compare that price to loelandic’s youth charge of $410 and Air Canada’s charge of $376 for the same trip. Although !celandic and Air Canada youth fares are reasonable for people planning lengthy stays in Europe-up to a year--there are better bargains to be had. APEX: A favorite with travel agents, the Advance Purchase Excursion Fares (APEX) are designed for people planning REKKEKKRKEKKKKKKK KKK * Sister Mary * *Palm reader + Advisor * She'll advise you on all problems. * * t * She's helped thousands, why not you? Hwy. 1/ Soutn ui Washington, 3 946-9330 oi Rk keke KKK KK KKK Kk >> BARBEQUE Wad BEEF TIPS Green salad - & Taters tex = $2.95 Prone 730-9506 cem rerip we 706 Evens $2: + reves 000 11 02 53!, FOUNTAINHEAD CLASSIFIEDS | cseranemnensesseoecsseth an European adventure of 22 to 45 days. APEX flights are available to anyone regardless of age, but require some foresight. Unlike youth or standard fares, you must shell out a non-refundable deposit of 25 peroent of the price of your ticket to reserve a seat, and pay the full fare no later than two months before takeoff. Travel Group Charters: A better bargain than APEX flights can be found in Travel Group Charters (TGC). Under this system, organizers of TGC flights sell seats to the public at large, provided the purchaser buys his ticket 65 days before departure and is prepared to leave Europe on a specified date. Cancellation clauses for charter flights are complex. Your best bet is to purchase sorne charter flight insurance through your local travel agency. Your policy will protect you from losing your ticket money if either you or the charter organizer bows out of the deal. TGC prices vary slightly from organizer to organizer, and may also go up to 20 percent higher than the minimum price quoted, depending on how many seats the organizer manages to sell for your flight. need it. furniture appliances cars, boats sporting If it's for business or personal use, Greenville Mini compartments from 5' x 10' for $15.00 per month up to 10’ x 30’. 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Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., 20008. Affinity Charters: By far, the best way to get to Europe is on an affinity charter flight arranged through your university. Under this deal, an organization ‘‘rents’’ a plane and crew from one of the major airlines and then splits the cost of the rental among the members of the organization making the trip. Disadvant- ages in the affinity charter racket are the same as those on the Travel Group Charters—-early bookings, limited, speci- fied departure dates and the possibility of cancellation hassles. Yet these drawbacks need storage space ? your personal extra space and warehouse Storage has 5'x 10’ 10’ x 10° ee x outdoo 10’ for June store. 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