Dewitt Defeats Louden in SGA Election Runoff Wessen Tops Butler for Second Vice President
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MADISON MEMORIAL LIBR e ^Btteze Vol. LIV Friday. April 22, 1977 Madison College. Harrisonburg, Va. No. 49 DeWitt defeats Louden in SGA election runoff Wessen tops Butler for second vice president By ROGER WELLS r- Speculation immediately Indeed, by early afternoon, The soft-spoken son of Iris arose, however, that the move voting trends had been well H. DeWitt from Matthews was designed to allow trailing established and were never County, Va. was elected candidate Louden the op- altered. DeWitt led by about president of the Student portunity to get more of his 150 votes at 4 p.m. with more Government Association supporters to vote. than 1,500 votes counted. (SGA) in Tuesday's runoff. Louden, whose support was Wessen led Butler by about Mike DeWitt .culminating a perceived to be strongest with the same margin. tightly organized and on-campus students and In last week's general strenuous campaign, took 55 fraternities, would therefore election, Lynn White had been per cent of the vote to his have had the most easily eliminated from presidential opponent Mike Loudens 44 reached voting bloc and two contention, ^ and Steve Man per cent. additional hours to make up derfield from the second vice In the other run off, Doug the deficit. president contest. Wessen won second vice A running total of the vote Apparently White's president with 55 per cent of had been posted in the campus showing in the first election the vote to Steve Butler's 42 center lobby and was changed hurt DeWitt more than ex- per cent. hourly when new returns were pected, as he increased his The runoff elections were counted. Following the (Continued on Page 20) held for these positions decision to keep the polls because no candidates last open, the tally board was week received the necessary erased and no official results It's SCHEV 50 per cent of the vote to win. were released until DeWitt Tuesday's election was not and Wessen were declared director for without moments of conflict, winners shortly after 7 p.m. however, as the campus The only noticeable effects elections committee voted from the extended voting were graduation late in the afternoon to extend that 449 additional students the time for voting by two voted, and Butler was able to Dr. Gordon Davies, acting hours. pick up some ground on director of the State Council The decision was officially Wessen, though not enough to for Higher Education in announced at 4:30 p.m. one overtake an almost 300 vote Virginia, will be the half hour before the polls were deficit. graduation speaker at to close, but committee DeWitt won almost the Madison College this year. chairman Roger Bertholf had same percentage of votes His topic, "Values and MIKE DeWITT campaigns in front of the campus center during notified candidates of the between 5 and 7 p.m. as he had Utility," relates to the impact Tuesday's run-off election, which he won. Photo by oavc Garland decision an hour earlier. all day. of the college experience, according to college President Ronald Carrier. The speech will deal with developing values and interest in the arts and sciences and 'College can alter its alcohol policy' the utility of satisfaction. Davies notified the college By BARBARA BURCH mitory is private include sider its dormitories as not to drink in their rooms, that he would speak at There are no state laws whether the dormitory is open private buildings. Webb said. graduation last week, ac- barring Madison College from 24 hours, whether non- It is not likely that the ABC When drinking is moved cording to Dr. Ray Sonner, changing its alcohol policy to students can walk into it as will enter a dormitory to into public areas, it has a vice-president for public allow keg beer in dormitories they please, whether the in- arrest students for drinking in larger impact on other affairs. or consumption of alcohol in side of the dormitory can be hallways, Enroughty said, students, visitors and the Sonner said Patricia hallways and lounges, ac- seen from the outside, and unless licensing laws are environment. Harris, Secretary of Housing cording td college and state whether the walkways bet- broken. Locally and at the college, and Urban Development, officials. ween rooms are visible or Madison's alcohol policy is the only areas considered orginally expected to give the Keg beer can be allowed in enclosed. "the best one for this in- private in a dormitory are address, was unavailable, as a dormitory as long as it and Judging from a description stitution at this time," ac- students' rooms, Webb said. was Texas Congresswoman all alcohol is kept out of public of a Madison dormitory, cording to Mike Webb, In terms of running a Barbara Jordan. areas according to Frank Enroughty said Madison director of residence halls. residence hall, he added, it is Columnists Art Buchwald McNally, director of in- should have "no trouble" with College policies allow "the best thing." and Bill Moyers had declined formation for the Virginia the ABC if it decides to con- students to choose to drink or earlier offers. Alcoholic Beverage Control (Continued on Page 20) Board (ABC). According to college policy, keg beer is not allowed in Why tenure? dormitories, and consumption of alcohol in hallways and lounges is prohibited. The college interprets its Faculty job system under question dormitories as the ABC does hotels or motels. ABC law prohibits drinking alcohol in By LYNDA EDWARDS whose controversial political beliefs years for additional evaluation. The "Why does a college professor •>r rest-arch might offend their faculty member can submit a all areas of a hotel except for 1 statement supporting tenure. A private rooms, according to deserve tenure?" a Madison superiors. professor asked. "At Madison, a Today teachers' salaries are departmental committee makes a William Johnson, associate recommendation to the department director of student activities. teacher is required to have five comparable to those of other weekly office hours, teach a normal i professionals and some college head. However, should the class load (12 semester hours), and " administrators wonder if permanent Theoretically, each recom- college wish to change its attend faculty meetings for only job security improves teaching. mendation for tenure is justified by interpretation of the residence nine months a year. Professors "Since it's almost impossible to fire the department's increased hall as a public area to that of aren't a special breed. Why should ' a tenured teacher, you can ac- enrollment or the need for a a private area such as a home, teacher's special skills. The the ABC would allow it, ac- they, and not bankers or nurses, get cumulate a lot of intellectual dead tenure? But you better believe I weight," one department head said, department head writes an in- cording to Frank Enroughty dependent recommendation, and a of the enforcement division of want tenure." adding, "A small number of Tenure is a system by which teachers don't care to prove their teacher may appeal to the dean if the ABC. the department committee If a dormitory is open to the teachers win permanent ap-. talent once they're hired for life." pointment to a college after com- At Madison College, 39 per cent of recommends tenure and the public. Enroughty said, department head disagrees. students cannot drink in pleting a probationary period of five the faculty is tenured compared to a hallways or lounges, and if it to seven years. state average of 67 per cent. To get tenure, a teacher must is a private building, alcohol Tenure was originally created to After a six-year probation, the meet Madison College's can be consumed anywhere in compensate teachers for low department head tells the teacher he qualifications, called "Standards." the building. salaries. It also protects the in- is being considered for tenure. The department head must supply Factors considered in tellectual freedom of teachers Probation can be extended to seven (Continued on Page 2) determining whether a dor- Page 2. THE BRFKZK. Friday. April 22. 1977 'Standards not relaxed for athletes' By TAM1 RICHARDSON listings of students that coaches send about the effect of the increasing that the athlete is chosen. However, First in a series on "athletics and them when considering applications. academic standards on Madison's "first and foremost" he must meet academics at Madison College." "We a re always conscious of public athletic program. the academic qualifications. Do Madison athletes and the relations with the high schools," he For example, Smith said that Once an athlete is accepted at athletic department really get all the said, explaining that the committee football coach Challace McMillin has Madison, what kinds of academic preferential treatment and benefits doesn't want to admit students with expressed that he is "quite con- standards does he have to keep up in that they are sometimes accused of? lower qualifications than (others that cerned" about getting a football order to continue playing? As far as^ admissions are con- they had rejected. reputation like UVA. Athletes must keep the same cerned, no priority is given to students Because there is such an in- But Smith added that "it would average that is stated in the general just because they are athletes, ac- creasing number of students applying seem unfair to admit an athlete who student policy; they can be on cording to Steve Smith, assistant to Madison (there were 8100 ap- has poor academic standards." academic warning, but if they are put director of admissions. plications as of the Feb. 1 deadline), McMillin said it would really on academic probation they are not "When we review applications we the admissions committee can be concern him if it got to the point where eligible to play, according to Dean look at them in the same light." Smith more selective, Smith said.