North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University Aggie Digital Collections and Scholarship NCAT Student Newspapers Digital Collections 11-17-1972 The Register, 1972-11-17 North Carolina Agricutural and Technical State University Follow this and additional works at: https://digital.library.ncat.edu/atregister Recommended Citation North Carolina Agricutural and Technical State University, "The Register, 1972-11-17" (1972). NCAT Student Newspapers. 452. https://digital.library.ncat.edu/atregister/452 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Digital Collections at Aggie Digital Collections and Scholarship. It has been accepted for inclusion in NCAT Student Newspapers by an authorized administrator of Aggie Digital Collections and Scholarship. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THl4«^7 REGISTER "COMPLETE AWARENESS FOR COMPLETE COMMITMENT* VOLUME XLIV, NUMBER 13 NORTH CAROUNA AGRICULTURAL AND TECHNICAL STATE UNIVERSITY. GREENSBORO NOVEMBER 17, 1972 Two Students Die At Southern Univ. BATON ROUGE, LA.- All This same report says that as that seems certain about far Sheriff Al Amiss of East Thursday's confrontation Baton Rouge knows, his men did between police and students at not fire rifles, shotguns or pistols the of Southern University only tear gas. However, Amiss located here is that two of the did say the his men heard two students are dead. pistol shots from the crowd. Police leading dogs moved In another report officers are onto the campus to oust a group quoted as saying that the two of students who had occupied had been shot. But still another the school's administration report says that the students building in protest. could have died from wounds Allegedly, when students inflicted by fragmentation refused an order ot leave the bombs. building, approximately 100 of The showdown Thursday the deputies from the East Baton was brought to a head a two Rouge Sheriff's department week old protest at the moved into clear the building predominately Black university Photo by Williams and were met by a volley of tear with students taking over the Student Body President LARRY HINTON Listens To Coed In Wednesday Rap Session In Holland Hall gas and fragmentation bombs. administration building earlier Another report says the officers the morning. were met only by a smoke bomb After the shootings (as one thrown from the building. report terms, the deaths) police One report says that the restored control of the building deputies and students "Battled" ot the administration. Lousiana Rap Sessions Cover Many Topics with students for ten minutes governor Edwin Edwards has and that shots and tear gas were called out 700 national fired. When it was over two black guardsmen to restore order to men were dead. the campus. decision is made - althought By Rita Manley restrictions of the state committee, they will be accepted we're trying very hard to have The Student Government though ranging from dormitory co-ed visitation by next Dowdy Elected Head Association held several rap to dormitory." He also semester.". sessions in dormitiorie this past commented that the Women's On the extension of curfew week. Representing the SGA council is now deciding this for hours, the women in Holland were Larry Hinton, president; all women's dormitories. Hall voiced a majority opinion Land Grant Gronp Robert Rivers, attorney general; The SGA representatives for self-limiting hours (no Bennie McMorris, vice-president; explained the rules for co - ed curfew). and Avon Morgan, treasurer. visitation as set up by the state "By getting rid of a curfew, Dr. Lewis C. Dowdy, since 1964, in 1969 became the The agenda for discussion committee. These reules provide some problems with campus cops chancellor here, has been named first black to serve as chairman included the following topics: (1) limitations for any regulations could be eliminated," implied a president-elect of the National of NASULGC's Council of Co-ed visitation, (2) Curfew decided upon by the campus student. This led to the Association of State Universities Presidents. He is a member of the hours extension, (3) Campus committee. A few of these state discussion of Campus Security. and Land - Grant Colleges, board ofj directors of the security, (4) Food service, (5) regulations mentioned are as Various complaints were heard in (NASULGC). He will be the first Association of American Colleges the Student Court System and follows: (1) Co - ed visitation regard to the policemen black to head a major higher and a menjber of the national (6) A general rap session. time limits are from noon to 12 searching rooms without being education association. advisory gfoup to the U.S. midnight on . Sunday through At the Holland Hall session escorted by a dorm counselor Dowdy's election Tuesday at Marine Corps. Thursday and from noon until Wednesday night, Larry Hinton and their lack of courtesy to the association's 68th annual Dr. Parks, who has been two a.m. from Friday to first introduced the topic of young women. convention meeting here at the president of Iowa State since Saturday. (2) Three guests will Co-ed visitation - which has been Concerning Food services, Statler Hilton Hotel, means that 1965, has also served as professor be allowed for each roommate at one of the chief concerns of the Hinton pointed out that he will assume the presidency of government, dean of a time. (3) The guests must sign Student body this year. As of "nothing can be done about when the group meets in Denver, instruction and vice president for in and out visiting one room now co-ed visitation exists in changing this system as long as it Colo, next year. academic affairs at Iowa State. only, and be escorted to the Senior Dorm only. According to is under the present contract." Dowdy succeeds Dr. W. He was also a professor of room by the person he is visiting. Hinton, even the idea of Furthermore, Hinton implied Robert Parks, the president of agricultural Extension Center for (4) The individual room doors campus-wide co-ed visitation has that a meal ticket should be Iowa State University, as Advanced Study at the may be closed at these times, but not been finalized yet. The co-ed transferrable in view of the fact NASULGC's president-elect! University of Wisconsin. not locked. that some student has paid for it, visitation committee has been Parks will serve as president for a Dr. Parks is a past president of and could lend it to a friend if he working on guidelines and year. the Mid - American State "Thursday night," stated wishes. concepts for co-ed visitation Hinton, "The Women's Council The National Association of Universities Association and has Robert Rivers informed the since August. Also, the passed a decision that for all State Universities and Land been a member of the executive women of the present dormitory councils, Women's women's dormitories, the time Grant Colleges is the nation's committee of NASULGC since effectiveness of the Student Council and other organizations limitations for vistiation in the oldest higher education 1969. He also served as Court System. He said that the have been suggesting rules and rooms are from Saturday to association, having begun co-chairman of a national Judicial Tribunal Court regulations which could be Thursday, 6 p.m. -11 p.m. and on meeting in 187 1. committee sponsored jointly by sometimes ignored the authority followed if co-ed visitation is Sunday from 3 - 11 p.m." He also The association is comprised NASULGC and the Cooperative and position of the Student granted. added that these were just their of 188 major state universities Extension Service. Court. As an example of this, Hinton encouraged each suggestions and definitely not and land grant colleges, which He received the B.A. degree Larry Hinton's trial in the city dormitory to "decide on your finalized decisions for the co-ed enroll nearly 31 percent of all of from Berea College in Kentucky, court might not have taken place own regulations for co-ed visitation committee. When the college students. The the M.A. degree from the if the Student Court System had visitation." He explained that asked about the deadline for organization functions with six University of Kentucky and the been worked like it ought to have "the personality of Holland Hall making final decisions councils, representing the major Ph. D. from the University of been. Rivers stressed the fact may be different from that of concerning visitation, Hinton areas of university life and Wisconsin. All degrees were that more student involvement High Rise, and as long as their replied, "it would probably be service. awarded in political science with (See SGA, Page 2) respective rules fall within the after Christmas before any final Dowdy, who has headed A&T a minor in economics. Page 2 The A&T Register November 17. 1972 m i i Scott Renovation Finally Underway By Joan Boykin section to eliminate the necessity students now residing in the mid of earring trash downstairs. section will be relocated in other The renovation of Scott hall The bedrooms are slated to be areas of the campus. He stated has begun. J. M. Marteena-. said improved in terms of lighting. that adequate space for ail that J. D. Summers Construction Martennas added that if enough displaced students is a certainty company has been hired to begin money is available, some rooms and added that the rooms may work on the mid section of the will be rebuilt employing built-in be reoccupied as soon as dorm immediately. Complete beds, chest-of-drawers and desks. construction is over. reno ation will be done in two Marteeneas stated that Marteena insisted that the phases.