February 24, 1978

James Madison university Libra r* Hanlsonburg, Va. 22801 e ^Btteze Vol. LV James Madison University Friday, February 24. 1978 No. 37 Funds for library addition rejected by legislature Planning money given, building money refused By TOM DULAN around." DeWitt hopes are Full Tilt Haircutters, Hopes for a Madison students "will continue Whitesel Music, Leonard's Memorial Library addition in to lobby next year" for the Bedding, The University the near future were tem- library addition. Square and Ace Electric porarily laid to rest last week The SGA unanimously Company. when the Virginia House of passed a resolution Tuesday The SGA will probably try Delegates failed to fund the offering a $200 reward for to begin distribution this proposed project. information leading to the week, DeWitt said, through According to Student conviction of the person or dorm senators and hall Government • Association persons involved in tearing councils for on-campus President Mike ,/)eWitt, JMU out the stall partition in the students and the commuter was allocated, "planning men's room on the mezzanine student office for off-campus money" for the pi ^ject but not level of the Warren Campus students. building funasV [ "They Center. The SGA communications responded favorab y to us and Information will be dealt and public relations com- to our concern," DflVitt said, with in strict confidence, said mittee announced indefinite "but they felt theylfen't have Terry Downing SGA chair- plans to organize a basketball the resources neeVed right man protem. Doug Wessen, game between the JMU now" to build. \\ SGA second vice-president, cheerleaders and the DeWitt, SGA Sei, Alvin voiced concern about the Harrisonburg Jaycees, with Walker (SpotswoolV and effect of the threat of van- proceeds going to the local IT LOOKS ALMOST LIKE SPRING as the sun silhouettes a plant students Kim Cross&t and dalism to proposedchanges in (Continued on Page 12) at Silver Lake in Dayton. p*,* ^ L^,,**, tmwi)H, Alan Peterson went to Rich- campus alcohol policy. mond Feb. 15 to lobby fy, the Although the problem library addition. Among the exists only with a small By Student Service* Commission: delegates they spoke v ith minority, Wessen said, "some were House Speaker Jo\n people on this campus can't Warren Cooke, House Ap- handle their alcohol." propriations Committee The Student Buying Power Chapel recommended chairman Richard Bagley and cards have arrived, DeWitt In addition, the student other members of that By PATTY SMITH The recommendation for a announced at Tuesday. The relations committee felt that a chapel building will be for- committee, DeWitt said. cards will be distributed to the The Commission on Student small, centrally located "I felt when I left (Rich- Services Tuesday recom- warded by Hall to Planning student body and will allow chapel building would be more and Development Com- mond) that they would give the bearer discounts of up to mended that a chapel building appropriate than a chapel our needs here proper con- mission Chairman Dr. John 10 percent at the five local be considered in conjunction room, according to a com- Mundy. sideration," he said, and businesses listed on the back. with and as a possible alter- mission member. "high priority the next time , In other business, the Participating merchants native to a previous recom- The space for a chapel constitutions of two campus mendation for a chapel room. room has been located in organizations, the James The recommendation was Chandler Hall, said Dr. the result of a letter written to Madison University Chapter William Hall, Student Ser- of the Navigators and the Student Government vices Commission chairman. JMU Army Cadet Association Association treasurer Darrell However, he added, the non- were tabled by the com- Pile which stated that a list of central location of this area mission. 250 names had been compiled made this an undesirable The constitution of the in favor of a chapel building. choice. Navigators, an in- terdenominational Christian group, tabled pending sub- Desegregation meetings committee recommendations concerning new criteria for 9 the Charter for Recognition of result in 'no specifics Student Organizations. The new criteria will be By KAREN HOBBS Desegregation plans for examined in the light of the Conferences between state Arkansas, Oklahoma and Navigator's constitution and federal officials on Florida were accepted Feb. 3, which did not stipulate a Virginia's college having met HEW's definite, numerical desegregation policies have requirements to increase organizational membership. thus far resulted only in black enrollments at Ques (ions were also raised "hopeful generalities, but no predominantly white because the Navigator's specifics." universities, bolster black constitution did not allow the Gov. John Dalton said last institutions and take other organization's membership to week he is ready to negotiate steps to "eliminate the nominate and elect officers. with the Department of vestiges of discrimination in Instead, the constitution Health, Education and higher education." stated that the organization's Welfare, which is threatening At the same time, HEW paid campus representative, to cut off $100 million or more rejected desegregation plans who is also a full-time student, in federal funds for the state's from Virginia, Georgia and will nominate and choose the higher education, although North Carolina. However, officers. This is not allowed admittedly little progress has North Carolina's proposals for by the present criteria for been made. its 57 community colleges Recognition of Student Last April, U.S. District were accepted. Organizations. Judge John Pratt ordered six HEW Secretary Joseph The JMU Army Cadet states to submit Califano Jr. expressed con- Association'sconstitution was desegregation plans to HEW fidence that agreements could tabled due to the lack of a by Feb. 3, 1978. Each of the be reached with the three cohesive organizational focus six states-Arkansas, states within 45 days of the or purpose. Oklahoma, Florida, Georgia, deadline. If not, HEW may The commission questioned North Carolina and Virginia- cut funds for higher education the existence of the still has one or more in these states, as well as association's executive predominantly black colleges withholding approval of new committee because their DAPHYNE SAUNDERS. admissions counselor here, speaks to and, according to HEW, funds for state universities. major purpose appeared to be students. Saunders said JMU must be more competitive with disproportionately small Meeting with Dalton last the coliectionandutilizationof other schools in financial aid to minorities. She spoke Tuesday as numbers of blacks in week, David Tatetfdirector of membership dues. part of the BSA's observance of National Negro History Week. "flagship" university bran- HEW's Office of Civil Rights, This appears to be a See story, page 9. Photo by D«VW ■«•••) ches. (Continued on Page 6) (Continued on Page I2T Page 2, THE BREEZE. Friday, February 24, 1978 hounded l»22 "Freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but bv despot irk governments." — James Madison HMINNHMNNMNMHIMOllf Oil ike MarginmiUlumUMttHUttm HEW: ignorance is not an excuse it mmmmnmmmmnBy DwayUP Yanceymmmmmm,num The-U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare has found Virginia in "non-compliance" with the Civil Rights Act Guestspot: because its college admissions policies discriminate against persons with low intelligence levels. HEW charged that, by using grades as the sole criteria for acceptance, admissions procedures at Virginia colleges and Black studies are needed universities discriminate against persons with low high school grades and lbw SAT scores. HEW issued guidelines for Virginia to draw up a new ad- By ALVIN WALKER groups that make up America today, other The black's role in American history brings than the Indian. Blacks have always been a missions plan for its colleges and universities by setting up thoughts of slavery, cotton, discrimination, major part of American history, but blacks as numerical goals for the enrollment of persons with low in- poverty, roaches and Dr. Martin Luther King. a group were not given five million dollars to telligence. Blacks are mentioned in history books with hold conferences to discuss racial problems Governor John Dalton, in a statement issued in Richmond, reference to the thought that blacks as a group and what should be done to combat those charged that the goals were actually "quotas" and vowed to take "deviate from the norm" according to problems. the issue to the U.S. Supreme Court. historian Benjamin Quarles. Because From the colonial period to this day, blacks If the case were lost there, Dalton mentioned secession as a Americn history omits the positive con- have demanded monetary and territorial possible alternative. A spokesman denied rumors that the tributions of blacks to society, a distorted or compensation for past injustices, yet he does Virginia National Guard had been mobilized. undesirable picture of blacks in America not have any treaties to support his claim, but An HEW spokesman denied Dalton's claim that the goals are emerges. the irrefutable evidence of his scars exist. really quotas. The editors of "Ebony" have stated that the Even though physical attacks against blacks "Quotas are when you set a certain figure for the number of story of the black man in America is relevant have all but ceased in the U.S., mental attacks people you have to admit," he said. "Goals are when you set a, to the lives of all men because his story is not on his humanity continues. The notion held well, trust me, there's a difference." only "the creative negation of all the placid "racism is simply irrelevant to the con- The HEW ruling results from a complaint filed by parents who myths about American history, (but the temporary civil rights movement" is charged that their son was denied admission to five Virginia black's story is) also the story of human faith, preposterous, and implies stupidity.

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