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‘j___.___,._,,a“M...”. ‘ Student Center: an old story comes true After enumerable holdups and Bowers emphasized that the four- A $600,000 Music Wing is also a newsstand, and snack bar. Microwave vending complex. The missed deadlines, the new Student story building, which opened June 1, part of the Student Center complex. Bowers added that the new build- basement houses a room which will be Center finally opened this summer, is “student oriented and student It houses the Music Department and ing “offers a great variety of food converted into a 1940’s style ice ending a four year wait from planning organizations were given first priority contains special practice and rehearsal service of a non-institutional type. We cream parlor complete with antique to completion. for space.” The Student Center rooms. are trying to get away from the old Coke posters, Tiffany lamps, wire Even though the new $4.5 million includes office space for student Bowers noted that the Student school cafeteria image.” stools and ice cream tables. Eventually University Student Center is not fully government, activities boards, lRC, Center will continue to operate an The Student Center’s food facilities this room will include a tavern when operational, Director Henry Bowers IFC, and student publications. annex in the old Union Building. The include everything from an old style legislation is enacted allowing the said, “We are pleased with the way the A highlight of the building is an top two floors of the old building are delicatessen parlor to an automated "(See ‘Campus,’ Page 2) building turned out. There were a lot 816 seat theatre which will be the first being renovated into space for the of problems to be worked out, but the major facility of its type on campus. Library. The ground floor of the summer provided time for a shake- It will be the center for movies, Student Center Annex will continue down cruise.” lectures and concerts as well as plays. to house a barber shop, games desk', . *echnician Volume LIII, Nun‘wber 1 Wednesday, August 30, 1972 Protest forces SSS to charge 4% tax By George Panton matter. Dr. Caldwell told the com- the Supply Store to sell an item at Senior Editor mittee that the Attorney General’s exactly retail cost. The new policy office had informed him that if the will cause prices to increase by four The Students Supply Store will case were taken to court, College percent. start charging four percent sales tax Book and News Center most likely Bob Armstrong, assistant general on all purchases October 1. would win the case. manager of the Supply Store, express- The decision to charge the tax came 'ed dissapointment that the store after Arthur Sandman, owner of D.J.’s 1935 Umstead Act would have to start charging the sales College Book and News Center, on The Students Supply Store tax. He said that by the store absorb- Hillsborough Street lodged a com- operates under the 1935 Umstead Act ing the tax into the profits “it was one plaint against the Students Supply which authorized the store to sell of the few ways to put a little of the Store with the North , Carolina books, carry academically related store’s profit back into students Attorney General. The Supply Store stock and any other commodity not hands.” Fire did extensive damage to a room in Bowen Residence Hall last Wednesday \ currently absorbs the sales tax into more than $.25. night. Damage was so great that the room will not be used for the rest of the fall the price of the purchased article. Caldwell noted that “we are Sandman’s Business Great semester. (photo by Caram) In late July Chancellor John prohibited from charging for material Caldwell met with the Campus Stores at discount prices.” The absorption of Arthur Sandman, owner of College Advisory Committee concerning the sales tax into the retail price allowed Book and News Center, had no comment to the Technician on the Fire in Bowen Hall four percent tax to be charged at the Supply Store or on any other actions Abernathy blasts DJ. ’8 he has brought against the University over Supply Store policies. claims 6th floor suite Student Body President Don Regulations are under considera- He said that his “business is great, Abernathy charged Monday that tion to provide measures against off- and I have every indication we are by Sara Sneeden Students and staff of the dorm Arthur Sandman’s D.J.’s College Book campus profit solicitations on campus. going to have a good week.” “I am Staff Writer tried to extinguish the fire, but the and News Center had violated the Durham said that the proposed regu- trying my damndest to become a smoke was so great that they had to University’s solicitation policy by dis- lations would include a written complete college store. It is what A fire originating from a faulty fan wait for the Raleigh Fire Department tributing flyers advertising the store warning from Campus Security. students want and what the University caused $2500 worth of damage to to arrive with gas masks. on campus. Durham said that no policy had been needs,” he added. suite 602 in Bowen Residence Hall The fire was first spotted by a formulated on what the University last Wednesday night. resident from Tucker Residence profit- Sandman’s store has expanded to Hall The policy states that “no would do if solicitation continued 5,500 square on two levels this University officials believe that the who saw flames in the room’s .making firm or agency outside of the after a warning. Durham added that summer and features an expanded fan, located under a desk, caught on window. He and his Head Resident University structure will be.granted violation of the State Statute is a fire after shorting out or overheating, Counselor (HRC) grabbed a fire special solicitation or sales privileges.” misdemeanor. (See ‘Abemathy,’ page 22) igniting a mattress on a nearby bed. extinguisher and rushed to Bowen. Abemathy said, “Upon hearing Besides damage to the room, the complaints from students in residence suite hall and bathroom were heavily halls that flyers from College News damaged by smoke. The other four were being placed under their doors, I rooms in the suite suffered little investigated and found according to damage except for the smell of smoke. Technician editor John Walston that Heat from the flames reached such such a flyer had been placed under his proportions that it melted the hall door advertising College News. phone. “Although the University is insured Solicitation Policy by the state, personal belongings of the students are not covered by “This flyer is in violation of NCSU insurance. Thus, the resident hall’s Solicitation Policy outlined in the house council and students are raising Student Handbook on page 42. In my money to cover the damage done to campaign for Student Body President, the two students’ clothes.” remarked I was not allowed to litter the rooms the HRC of Bowen Duty Greene. of the students of this campus in such No one will be allowed in the suite a manner. I could only distribute for approximately a week so four of flyers that I could personally hand to the suite’s occupants are living‘in students. Bowen‘s TV room. The other five “I just want the students to be students are being housed in Tucker. aware of this situation. And [hope in One of these students, freshmen the future that advocates of Sand- David Thomas, said his first man’s College News will not force impression after being told about the their advertisement on our students in fire in his suite was “Oh Hell!" such a manner.” The cost of renovation may be He added that he hoped students lowered if surplUs furniture is uséd to would take this violation in to ac- replace the damaged. count when they shopped on Hills- “The last fire on campus to reach borough Street. any sizable proportions occurred several years ago in Lee Dorm. About Ernest Durham, business service $500 worth of damage was caused officer, told the Technician that he when a mattress mysteriously caught had a policy on his desk concerning fire during the Christmas holidays,” regulations governing solicitation on said Roger Fisher, director of campus. He said that he had checked residential facilities. out the University solicitation policy Greene jokingly . concluded, ‘with the North Carolina Attorney Jim Mashburn, junior in Pulp and Paper, looks bored as he and 13,000 others waited in long lines “Having the students living in the TV General and the campus regulation Monday to I'edster. room is our dorm’s latest project in was legal. (photo by Camm) communal living.” 4.111111...an-,,_i New Music Wing offers convenience plus by Dale Johnson of the $600000 Music Wing of musical organizations the new facility“ acoustically rehearsal halls, 14 pratice tioning prospective instrumen- Staff the new University Student State,” Director of Music Acti- one of the best in the coun- rooms, and instrument storage tal or vocal. Hailing the recent opening Center as “a new day for vities .1. Perry Watson called try.” Space. Six of the practice The Music Wing is the first Watson noted that conven- rooms are equipped with customized facility that the ience and utility are the by- pianos. Totally soundproof, Music Department has used. words for the 24,000 square each practiCe room is deadened Watson recalled that when he Frye in theater tonight foot structure. He cited a need by solid walls one foot thick.

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