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ountamhead Volume III. Number 31 and the truth shall make you free Greenville, N.C Thursday. February Id 1972 Factlty not needed on committees ByRONWERTHEIM 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 stuJent 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 subject, Rob Luisana. secretary of public relations, said that 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 concerning student committees Clay said. "I wouldn't say the faculty was apathetic, its just thai the everyday decisions of .nost oi the student government committees don't hold thai much interest for them Clay, like Luisana, said that students should be represented on faculty committees 'I feel that students should be represented on laculn committee because the descisons they make affect everyone Students should be represented on these committees . ?? voting power " Asked what he thought caused the Legislature to take awa voting power from faculty members last year, Clay answered it concerned representation on the publications board. "Adding to this, he said. "was a kind ol student paranoia on campus last year The dorm visitation problem and other problems were probably responsible -ot ' tudem Icehngs 1 uiiini eomn ei ? I when asked if he agreed withu. i utettment, 'There was a bill introduced to the legislature to sn.p rating rights on the publications I he feeling :tt that time was that published material on campus was run by students, lor students with student mone Luisana also n . taf as ,e cnew he publication! the oal) r,oarU 01 committee ol .jtUre that has had voting facult) ? ' ommentii n la) 'i statement of "s'udent I Ifll saic: slot ol students lost laith in the administutioi ias- Y" Il " K i ????? ' ? tuna; and shoving l?in ? it! i lid wl wanted to It didn't pas any attention to student opil Stating his opinion on last yeai s changes. Clay said that "much streamlining took place in student government The mood ot students had much to do with facult) voting cha- Luisana said that he saw streamlining in the sense of change "The publications hoard got stiaightened out The student government made it totally independent The board oversees the Rebel B anecr and Fountainhead According to Clay, the student l.egisla. ire has two faculty members who currently serve as advisors "The Legislature currently has 4.i student representative! I"he major standing committees are the rules committee. appropriations committee, judiciary committee and the screening and appointment committee Cla said Students file against Board By JAMES PARSONS Staff Writer Damages totaling $160,000 have been filed against the Pitt County Baord ot Flections 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 Flections 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 Block Chairman of the North Carolina State Board of Flections, considers college students to be "transient " He says that students, while at college, are onlv temporars 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 Foil anything lately? Skills course offered Brink'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 scare 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 Kalhy Hall in a case which won her the right to register to vote in Wake County. Miss Hall 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 Mall case differs from the ECU students case slightly She lived in a dormitory whereas some of the FCC students live in houses or apartments. Also Miss Hall was an individual and the ECU students are a "class" case Luisana fetal 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 than Miss Hall's Luisana feels that the odds are in favor of the students. "There have been 26 rulings in other states which allow students to register and vote in college towns he said He said. "We hope to get a decision quickly because the primary will be held on May 6 and we would like to get the students registered before then COURT DATE SET The actual court proceedings are expected to start between February 22 and February 28. "If we did happen to lose, we would appeal the decision, of course he stated Luisana believes there is no gubernatorial candidate who would back the students "Bowles would be the closest but no one could support us publicly because it would be political suicide he stated He concluded with a comment on Jim Hunt's proposal for an alternative to allowing students to register in their college towns Hunt's proposal was essentially to make the procedure for voting by absentee ballot less complicated. Luisana stated. "It would be a very poor second choice to registering By BO PERKINS Staff Writer "The two mam reasons why students tail courses are that they either don't work, or they don't work efficiently " This comment came from Dr George Weigand of ECU'l counseling center To help remedy these probeuns and several others that students often late Dr Weigand offers a course in study skills at ECU The course is .t a non-credit basis with attendance left solely up to the discretion of the student It will be offered this Spring at I p.m. fise days a ? According to l)r Weigand the course has four mam objectives (11 to help the student to learn to budget his time (2) to ;each the student how to get material from his texts (3 t ? bet loi taking exams (41 to tcavh the student how to take "good" notes There is no text required for the course The course is designed so that the sutdv material will be covered by midterm For the rest ot the quarter the student will work on reading improvement "We found that students have the most difficulty in English and math sccording to Weigand 'This is because the student is assumed to have 12 years o! background in these subjects Weigand expressed the belief that problems in these areas can b overcome if the student can be taught to do things systematically "If the student can be taught to work systematically he can cut down tremendously on time spent studying stated Weigand Part of this is accomplished by an emphasis on faster reading However, as Weigand pointed out. the ability to quickly is not to be used at all til Weigand staled that the key to (fat success ot the program was in finding the motivation of the individual "We've found that the more interested a person is in an area of study, the better he is able to work in that area " Moody goes back to school In case of an emergency, know what numbers to call What do you do in an emergency'1 Who do you cair How long will it take you to find the telephone number if you know who to cair Can you answer those questions positively In other words can you say; I know what to do, I 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 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 covet of the telephone book Ol that they would have to look up the number if needed This according to Joe Calder. head of campus security, is a lather 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 Doctoi C.F. Irons, director of the infirmary, is correct. The emergency procedure foi students is to call the infirmary, explain the problem calmly and the infirmary will then call the rescue squad. This arrangement has beei worked out due to a number of prank calls in the past However this does not mean that a student can not call the tescue squad directly it he teels 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 (aider says the jurisdiction of the campus police does not extend off campus Technically not even across Fifth Street However, Calder says, "if a case is 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 foi the campus The telephone numbers that every student should know or at least have available are Fire: 752-31'6 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 Gre.enville.) analytical training in phioeoph) learning to think ? will help out in psychiatrs "Also he said. "I hope t. go someplace where I can teach psychiairs at the medical school, teach philoy.phs at the college and have a pnate practice "I' - BCD DM buss and it would certain) be what I most enjo) doing "To me teaching iin't work, said Moody "It's what I like ? w k ti u,al you have io Ak kit i ? want to Mark Twain said something like Moods i the attitude ot the philov : artmeni in his unusual case. "Everyont . helpful m this he said "My char' K has bent over backwards ti ichedull is teaching so I can take what I net al school "In the taults .atalogue it savs tha' a (acuity member can !ak. n't) course lor credit !? . agine. not many people take them up on this "When I went t filter for m) pre-med courses he said, "no one knew what ti or how to cfetrif) undergraduate or as a graduate student "I think they finally decided I was a By PAT CRAWFORD Staff Writer After teaching philosophy at ECU for three years, Dr Raymond Moody is going back to school. Moody, a 27 year old Georgia native, plans to attend medical school to study psychiatry He first came here in 1969 alter completing graduate work at the University of Virginia "Since I've been teaching here said Moody, "so many students have come to me with academic problems I would see right away that it wasn't academic at all "These students were intelligient ? or more intelligent than other students - but would have some emotional problem "Time after time this happened he said "I felt helpless since I didn't know what to do" Moodys desire to help these disturbed students spurred his interest in psychiatry. "I remember when I finished graduate school at the University of Virginia said Moody. "I never wanted to take another course I thought I could read to learn something else, but it's just not true