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Serving the campus com- munity for over 50 years. With a circulation of 3,500, this issue is 8 pages. Fountainhead ON THE INSIDE Children's rights, p. 2 ELP review, p. 5. B-ball schedule, p. 7 Vol. 52, No. 26 East Carolina University Greenville, North Carolina 13 July 1977 Snackbar closed until fall By CINDY BROOME News Editor The Mendenhall Student Center snack bar is closed during the summer due to lack of business, according to Tom Hoover, Food Service Director of Servomation "There was no traffic said Hoover. "It was a mutual closing between us and the university The electrical appliances are turned off, said Hoover, and the university is saving money on the utilities bill. Servomation operates the snack bar, according to Paul Breitman, Associate Director and Business Manager of Menden- hall. "They use a part of our building said Breitman. "Mendenhall doesn't operate the snack bar. "The closing is an effort to conserve money said Breitman. The summer operating hours at Mendenhall are from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m said Breitman. ? Back to school ECU COED gazes out, from Whichard building obviously thinking about a vacation following the four-week summer session. Photo by about something other than returning to school. Maybe she's thinking Pete Podeszwa Warren: Inadequate lighting "handicap ss SGA working to install, improve lighting By CINDY BROOME News Editor The SGA is working on a project to install more lighting near women's rooms and to correct faulty lighting on campus, according to Reed Warren, SGA vice-president. "We want to identify the problem and look into the financ- ing said Neil Sessoms, SGA president. " It' II be very expensive said Sessoms, "but I doubt it will be SGA-funded "Apprc nately half the women stud, ts we talked to during our campaign mentioned the inadequate lighting said Warren. "I feel it's the responsibility of the SGA to try to oorrect this problem Warren plans to confer with Cliff Moore, Vice Chancellor for Business Affairs, about the situation. "The escort system doesn't work said Warren. The men and women's dorms are too far apart fa the escat system to do much good, accord- ing to Warren. The lack of adequate lighting near the women's dams has been a "handicap" to the women students, according to Warren. "The girls who are going to Mendenhall Student Center and the library at night alone are chancing it said Warren. ?Sometimes they can't get a friend a roommate to go with them he said. "Instead of giving rape lectures, the lighting should be improved so there would be less possibility of a rape said I Warren. Warren said the main interest is the women's dams, both the high-rise dams and the dams beside the mall. I n addition to correcting faulty ighting and installing lighting near the women's dams, Warren said lighting should be installed in other dark areas on campus. "Many people have night classes said Warren. "It's dangerous fa wanen to walk at night alone. "I'll push fa this project until we see positive action said Warren. "I don't believe this is some- thing the administration can ignae Economics pro f returns from research trip ECU NEWS BUREAU Dr. Oscar K. Moae, eco- nomics professa at ECU, has returned fron a tour of Europe, where he did research fa a report on wald coffee production and pricing to be given to the Atlantic Eoonomic Society in Washington D.C. this fall. In Geneva, Switzerland, Dr. Moore consulted with United Nations officials Frederick Clair- moite and Alexander Bohrisch at the offices of the UN Conferenoe on Wald Trade and Develop- ment. Dr. Moae was a guest of the University of Geneva fa Inter- national Studies and addressed a gathering of UN economists on trends in wald trade in the Palace of Nations in Geneva. He also visited London, where he met with John Louden, director of the International Coffee Agreement, an agani- zatioi of maja coffee-producing and coffee-consuming nations. Befae leaving Loidon, Dr. Moore consulted with Alan Jefferies, directa of the L.M. Rothschild Sons Bank. Moae and Jefferies discussed causes of the recent uptrend on the price of gold, the subject of a future Moore report now in preparation. Jefferies, as directa of the London Rothschild bank, plays a primary role in gold pricing. Among the factas in influencing the rise in gold prices, he said, are heavy purchases of gold by the oil-producing Arab nations, increase in gold coinage sold by the Union of South Africa to coin collectors, new worldwide in- dustrial uses fa gold, and an increase in the gold marketed by the Soviet Union. Befae joining the ECU faculty in 1963, Dr. Mcore taught at the University of Flaida and was a staff econonist fa the U.S. Office of Faeigh Agricultural Relations, the U.S. Faeign Service and the Hearst Cap. ECU receives dietetics grant A grant of $17,486 has been awarded ECU by the U.S. Public Health Service's Health Re- sources Administration to further develop a coordinated under- graduate program option in dietetics. The program is a joint venture of the ECU School of Home Eoonomics and the ECU School of Allied Health and Social Pro- fessions. The funds will enable ECU to strengthen the clinical component of its general dietetics program, coordinated by Marjaie Chused of the ECU Department of Food, Nutrition and Institution Manage- ment. According to Miriam B. Moae, dean of the School of Home Economics, agreements have been negotiated with several area hospitals, institutions and agencies to initiate and expand clinical learning experience fa students preparing for the dietetics profession. "Continuation of the current program effat is sound and will work toward improving effats to reduce the aitical shatage of dietetic personr0' in North Carolina she said. "At present there is no approved coordinated under- graduate program, no internship program and very few opportun- ities for traineeships in this state Dr. Moae said ECU will oontinue to develop alternatives to the ooadinated program in dietetics by strengthening areas of general dietetics to include community dietetics and food- service managements. Page 2 FOUNTAINHEAD 13 July 1977 Do children have constitutional rights? A 15-year-old girl in Wash- ington asks a juvenile court to declare her "incorrigible" and place her in a foster home of her choice. She and her parents have been fueding-over whom she dates, whether or not she may smoke-and she oonsidersi these differences irreconcilable. The judge, apparently con- cerned that she might otherwise run away from home, grants her request. His decision, appealed by the parents, is upheld by the State Supreme Court. In Massachusetts, a number of pregnant teenagers join as unnamed plaintiffs in a suit attacking the constitutionality of a state statute, which requires a minor desiring an abortion to gain the oonsent of both parents or a oourt order. The case will be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court in the fall. And in California-in a case that will scon come before the state Supreme Court-a 14-year- old youth challenges the law that allows a parent to commit a child to a mental hospital without any hearing. The inevitable contest has begun. Across the country, youth advocates are declaring that children, too, have their inalien- able rights, which cannot be infringed upon-whether by state, school system, or even their own parents. This last claim, however, raises the most difficult and unique issue thus far in children's rights, and underscores how this movement differs significantly from earlier liberation move- ments. "We're not saying that an 8-year-old should be able to determine his or her own destiny said attorney Pauline Tessler, of the Youth Law Center in San Francisco. "But what goes on between parent and child should not be a power relationship but one of benevolent nurturance, where kids are given as many choices as they can handle. Now that's the ideal, and there's no way to legislate it?but the most blatant kinds of abuses must be dealt with The key question, of course, is what constitutes an abuse of parental authority. Parents have their rights, too, and their Derogative to raise their children as they see fit has always been protected, the family's autonomy zealously guarded against intrusion by the state. "People who are against children's rights always invoke this outrageous, absolutely in- corrigible spoiled brat who just says to hell with you whenever his parents ask him to do anything- and they' re afraid that this sort of individual is now going to have Flashes Bowling Baha'i All tropies for fall and spring quarter bowling leages are avail- able to be picked up at the Mendenhall Student Center Bowling Center. Bowling Center hours are from 1 p.m. until 5 p.m Monday through Friday. The first meeting of the Baha' i Association will be in Mendenhall room 238 at 4 flOWed. Come find the answers to your questions concerning the newest and fastest growing faith, the Baha'i association. Mass Guitarists, singers, musicians of all sorts needed for campus Mass (Sunday 12:30). Practice at 1030 in Biology Auditorium on Sunday. For further information call 752-4043. You don't have to be Catholic to love good music! power says Peter Bull, attorney at Legal Services for Children in San Francisco. "But the fact is that it's very unusual for a child to want to oonfront a parent-children mature gradually, and until a certain point, they want to be de- pendent "A child is always told, 'Do this 'dothat nobody says 'I'm your agent, you're the principal, what you want I will do. Articu- late your grievance, and I'll try to make it work through the sys- tem Consider for example, the case of Alice, who was thirteen when her parents decided to divorce, about two years ago. Alice's natural mother had died when she was four, and her father remarried two years later; but his new wife never bothered to go through formal adoption proceedings. Alice desperately wanted to go live with the woman who had been mother to her fa almost as long as she oould remember; but the court ruled that neither natural nor adoptive mother, she had no legal standing in the case, and awarded custody to the natural father. Alice confided her troubles to her teacher, who in turn told the story to a lawyer friend, Liz Cole, then practicing in San Jose, Calif. "It really made me mad Cole recalled, "so I mouthed off about how the kid should have some rights - it just wasn't fair. "I said that while I oould see how the mother had no standing, I thought the child ought to. Next thing I know, I get a call from Alice-wanting to hire me as her lawyer "I do have a lot of guilt Alice says quietly. "That's what I was afraid of, and it happened Which is why, say many divorce attorneys, most kids do not want to make their voice audible, their preference explicit. The outright rejection of one parent is too hard. "Until now Alice declares, you just took what you got if you were a kid-it's been like that forever, I guess.