Weather Partners! Tonight, expect a chilling bite to grab you on your way out Technician tonight. Doesn't matter, anyway, y0u probably won't feel it Newspaper Since 1920 on your way back home In 405 North Carolina State University’s Student today, 905 tonight. Volume LXVII. Number42 Friday. December6. 1985 Raleigh. North Carolina Phone 737-241 1/2412 Everette pushes for compromise of suspension decision John Price brunt of a problem that really lies Staff Writer more with the university.“ The enrollment figure which the Students may get a chance to university must reduce is calculated appeal academic suspension before assuming an average full-time stu- next fall if Student Body President dent takes 12 credit hours of courses Jay Everette succeeds in convincing each semester. the administration to compromise its Everette said a possible com- recent decision. promise that would reduce this In the past. students have been enrollment figure would~be to allow able to appeal suspension at the- suspended students to r’é-enter beginning of each semester. but school but take only six credit hours. Provost Nash Winstead announced Sen. Perry Woods agreed with this week that appeals won't be Everette and said the university heard until the fall of 1986. reacted incorrectly to UNC's man- Winstead said the change in policy date to reduce enrollment. is in response to the Board of Governors‘ order to eliminate “I‘m not so sure that when (UNC overenrollment at State. President William) Friday's office In the Student/Senate meeting mandated that enrollment levels be Wednesday night. Everette an- met. this is the recourse he meant nounced his plans to organize a the university to take." Woods said. meeting with administrative officials Everette suggested a set of and faculty members to lobby for criteria should be established to reinstating the appeals process next allow appeals to be heard on the semester. basis of urgency. ‘ Everette said the change in policy According to Alternate Sen. Mary is unfair to students who had Leonard. a student could be suspend- assumed all semester they would be ed because his school dean disallowed able to appeal suspension. his medical drop. Leonard said even "With the short notice that stu- drops approved by Student Health dents are faced with. I don't see how Services are sometimes not allowed we can sit idly by." he said. by the university. ,,,,,,,, Everette said the university is “Because of this lack of com- responsible for overenrollment and munication. people with the illness students shouldn't be made to suffer . factor should be taken into special the consequences. consideration." Leonard said “I respect the situation that the Everette said he hoped to meet Staff photoby Fred Wooiard university is in. but the university with the appropriate people in ad- WKNC assistant program director Matt Kelley and staff will continue to student-run station, located on 88.1-FM, appeals with new wave. pop hits, put itself there." he said. “It's not ministration and members of the broadcast 24 hours a day during exams and Christmas break. State's rock ‘n’ roll and rhythm and blues music. fair that certain students bear the Faculty Senate sometime this week. State legislator Repeat policy attacks aSBrtion Mark Bungardner University's law school. said pro- could raise GPA Staff Writer lifers would fare better. strategically. if they sat down and reasoned with, Rep. Frank Sizemore. a state their opponents. John Price automatically because students are legislator from Greensboro. talked at “We need to open up the dialogue Staff Writer allowed to repeat up to 12 hours of a pro-life presentation Wednesday and say, ‘If you're for abortion. let's course work and may want to select night about his fight against state- sit down and talk about it without all Provost Nash Winstead announced the grades that are dropped them- funded abortions. the emotion.’ " he said. Thursday a change in the course selves. The program. sponsored by Stu- “If it's emotion designed to, ag- repeat policy which could raise the The implication is that some dents For America. featured the gravate. I don't think it’s going to grade point averages of many State students may already be eligible to movie Silent Scream. followed by carry the day.” he added.- students. drop grades and must apply through comments from pro-life activists and Debbie Pope. education chairman . The policy allows a student to drop their adviser to do so. a lively. ideological question-and- of Wake County Right To Life. said a D or NC earned in their first try at Downs said that Student Senate answer session. abortion occasionally hurts the a 100- or ZOO-level course if the Psesident Gary Mauney notified the Sizemore, who will accept any woman physically but more often Staff photoby Fred Woolard student repeats the course with a provost's office this semester of how invitation to speak on abortion. said affects her mentally. higher grade within 12 months. students misunderstood the policy. although the fight to halt state- The mental stress is due to poor Rep. Frank Sizemore speaks during pro-life presentation Wednesday night. Until yesterday. the policy stipu- “A lot of students had enrolled in funding of abortion was not suc- counseling, often the fault of Planned lated that only grades from courses classes, repeating courses thinking cessful, some inroads were made. Parenthood. she said. which suggested abortion is murder right to life movement's concern for taken in the spring of 1985 or later they would be able to get their “For the first time. the facts of the “Abortion is just not the solution." and is becoming epidemic. Both felt a the unborn is contradictory to their could be replaced. grades dropped." Mauney said. fund were debated." he said. she said. "It creates a whole different biblical and moral imperative to stance on many social programs The new provision allows students Mauney said he was impressed Sizemore challenged the audience set ofproblems." speak out against abortion. designed to aid the impoverished. to repeat courses taken in the fall of with how the provost's office had to investigate the real motives of But Pope said more consideration “I believe there are some moral "I think I'd like to see the right to 1984 and gives students until the fall listened to students' concerns. those for and against state-funded should be given to the woman's point absolutes in this world." Pope said. life movement address the mother of 1986 to repeat classes taken in the “The administration saw a pro- abortions. of view. “Just as real as the physical laws who has two kids and is on welfare." fall of 1984. blem students were having and took ”What they (the fund's supporters) One area of the right to life are moral laws." she said. comparing said McCann. a Lifelong Education According to Associate Provost steps to alleviate it with a very fair are really saying is ‘We have a movement that is lacking is caring the laws of gravity to what she feels student. Murray Downs. the change Was made decision." he said. population problem and abortion is a for the woman. she said. is a moral law prohibiting premarital Sizemore said some have volun- because students misunderstood the Mauney said the problem arose 1‘25"-.. way to solve it."' he said. “That's Pope said women in the audience sex. teered to help pregnant poor women. intent of the original policy and because of the repeat policy's recent their hidden agenda." who might have had abortions should VeStal said God would punish but these programs need to be thought they were eligible to repeat implementation and that the provost He also accused the bill's support- not feel like they were being criti- those who break these moral laws. developed further. courses they were not actually made a change favorable to students. ers of trying to control poverty cized or attacked. “There is. and will be. the judg- About 75 people watched Silent eligible to repeat. “Inevitably with a new policy through abortion. “It was the doctor who killed the ment of God upon any nation. .that Scream. 3 film that features an Students must apply through their there's going to be some problems." “We (the Legislature) have decided baby," she said. takes the life of the unborn." Vestal abortion filmed using ultra-sound adviser to get a grade dropped; he said. “In this instance. the we would rather not pay for food She and Tom Vestal, the pastor of said. techniques. Approximately 30 stu- grades are not dropped automatically administration made an adjustment stamps." he said. Mt. Olive Baptist Church. gave Debbie McCann. in discussion fol— dents stayed for the discussions that when a student repeats a course. that's going to be very good for Sizemore. a graduate of Duke accounts of abortions and statistics lowing the presentation. said the followed. Downs said grades aren't dropped students." Inside Suicide second leading cause of teen deaths Raleigh astrologers can point you Surfer ready to become Raleigh TV Joe Galarneau creased 11 percent. 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