Technician Volume LII, Number 32 Wednesday, November 1-0, 1971 Queen contestant j to charity dance ‘ Barbara Marmor, second runner-up across the nation will participate and Housing for the contestants will be in the Miss Wolfpack contest, will try State may be the only school from the furnished by fraternities and sororities to stay on her feet 52 hours in a South in the event.” at Maryland, and food will be donated national Muscular Dystrophy dance The idea for the dance marathon by a local restaurant. marathon at the University of caught fire and grew to national Maryland Friday afternoon to Sunday proportions after students at the Gusler said students will begin night as students in Raleigh try to University of Maryland raised more collecting money locally for the. collect $10,000. than $15,000 for the Muscular Muscular Dystrophy tomorrow Marmor and her partner, Alan M. Dystrophy Fund last year with a morning. “We are getting coverage in Chambers, replaced Homecoming similar event. the local media and will have people Queen Jamye York who had a prior Each school will be represented by out collecting money. Anyone wishing commitment and could not one couple. The 80 contestants will be to give a donation or volunteer to participate in the charity event. allowed a 30-minute break every four collect money should call the Student Student Body President Gus Gusler hours during the 52-hour marathon. Government office at 755-2797. We ’said “some 40 colleges and universities They will sleep from 3 to 6 am. can accept donations and pledges up to 7 pm. Sunday.” PIR G decides on outline He said any checks donated should be written to Muscular Dystrophy and sent to the Student Government for rest of semester office in the Union. “As a result of a revaluation of our ~Distribution of PIRG bumper The school which has collected the situation, the State group for PlRG stickers and buttons. most money among those represented has decided to slow down the petition —A complaint box in the Union for on the dance floor late Sunday until the beginning of next semester,” public interest issues. afternoon will win a $5,000 said Gary Hinson, coordinating com- —Assignments for research on scholarship, and the winning couple mittee cochairman for the new formed specific issues. will be given a one-week paid vacation Barbara Marmor and Alan M. Chambers will attempt to dance North Carolina Public Interest Re- Setting up permanent office to a place of their choice in the 52 hours in the' Muscular Dystrophy dance marathon at the search Group. space. United States. University of Maryland this weekend. (photo by Cain) Hinson said last week his group would initiate a petition campaign on campus this week asking the Board of government Directors of the Consolidated .Uni- Sterling gives views on model versity of North Carolina to increase student fees by $1.50 per semester. by John Hester describe the present method as needs and opinions of the people accountable for bad classroom The fee increase would fund a Staff Writer vertical power structure where within the University,” she stated. instruction and unfair grading. fulltime group of professionals to re- “Have our structures of governance authority is delegated downward “The primary concept of university Accountability up a chain of search and advocate solutions to pub- on campus developed without from the Trustees to the chancellor. governance should always be the command as Miss Sterling described it, lic interest problems throughout the purpose?” questioned Cathy Sterling, “Within this campus, policies are principles of democracy. “Does not comply with the state. past Student Body President, speaking made and then passed downward to “Who should have the power? All democratic tradition or the rights of In a meeting Monday night, the before the University Governance faculty and students. Appeals and of the members of the university the individual as long as the people organization outlined its plans for the Commission. advice on these policies must struggle should share it. In this way we will being governed cannot hold a decision rest of the semester, as follows: Miss Sterling had been asked to upward in the chain of command, if insure an environment of freedom and maker accountable. ' «Promotion of a low key publicity present her ideas or concepts involved they make it at all,” she said. trust which -will . be above any “A means of holding people campaign with radio spots, newspaper in a model of university governance Historical Parallel structure.” accountable and at the same time articles and student information for State which would best meet the She went on to say, “Decisions and assuring the democratic process would packets and flyers. needs of the entire campus. She paralleled the historic policies must- reflect the feelings of be a horizontal governemnt structure. —Setting up a table in Peele Hall “First of all, let me say that l have development of American democracy the people affected, if decisions are to A structure which would be closer to during preregistration to distribute in- rejected the present methods of and the present insistence on the be adhered to at all. Freedoms and the people and involve them to a formation about PlRG. campus governance with only an campus by students. and faculty that democracy must become a way of life greater degree." --An information table in the stu- advisory capacity to the chancellor,” they be a part of decision making. or they will not last. Student Committees dent union. said Miss Sterling. She went on to “University policy must reflect the “With the present system of government on this campus being Miss Sterling then described a anti-democratic, how can a university system of campus committees given ever fully develop good citizens?” she broad based authority by the Trustees questioned. She further described for a specific campus concern. These citizenship development as one of the campus committees would have essential roles of the university, then Trustee guaranteed student, faculty examined the present status of and staff elected membership students on this campus. determining policy within their governing area. “Who’s Responsible?” Cathy later cited athletics as an Miss Sterling then discussed the example where a Board of Directors issue of accountability, or “Who must established by the Trustees would be responsible for what in the have elected students and faculty university,” as she put it. “Are the members determining athletics administration and faculty held policies and being responsible to the accountable, as some people believe? people of the campus. In a showdown they are not When these elected members of the accountable or either they are committees fail to comply with the selective in their assumption of feelings of their constituents, there accountability.” will be a means to remove them from Later Cathy clarified this by office, such as a no confidence vote of the people. ' questioning who would be (see ‘Govemment, ' Page 8) State gets voice in city affairs. As a result of bill recently passed appear at the Senate meeting tonight by the Student Senate, State students at 9 in the Union. will now have a voice in Raleigh “He will go in and watch and listen affairs. at all the Raleigh City Council The bill, introduced by Senator meetings. He will voice student lvan Mothershead, calls for a opinions and represent State there," representative from State to be at all stated Harris. ' meetings of the Raleigh City Council. According to Student Senate Harris emphasized that the President Rick Harris, the representative will be completely representative will be elected tonight unofficial and will not have any kind by the Senate. Any student is eligible of voting power. ‘ as long as he is not an elected Student “I will send a letter to Mayor Government official. Bradshaw informing him of what we Anyone who is interested should have done,” concluded‘Harris. Reflections create their own illusions for the observer’s eye as aged Tompkins Hall is mirrored in the get in touch with Harris at the SG The City Council meets every first massive front windows of Education’s Poe Hall. (photo by Rice) office, fill out an application and and third Monday at City Hall. r Technician A paper that is entirely the of the student body becomes at once the official organ through which the thoughts, the activity, and in fact the very life of the campus, is registered. It is the mouthpiece through which the students themselves talk. College life without its journal is blank. ~the Technician, vol. 1, no. 1, February 1, 1920 EDITORIALS OPINIONS L Pandora’s box North Carolina Public Interest as a vehicle for raising the necessary Research Group, the brainchild of funds is the proper approach. Somehow consumer advocate Ralph Nader and his one senses that the idea smells too much staff, is still struggling to get off the like dangerous politicization of ground at State. According to a report in educational institutions which should be Monday’s Technician, about 15 students concerned with, but independent of, the are currently preparing information machinery of governmental and legal packets in preparation for a campus-wide institutions. / All/1W8"”"1 petition for a $1.50 increase in If students want to form an ,r/fll/flff/ Viemm , HELL! non-academic fees. independent, non-profit corporation, the /' According to the proposal—as outlined notion seems sound enough.There i§,after flr/(K / { n'< ‘: by Nader associate Brent English—college all. something to be said for channeling " iii th: WAR End and university students throughout the the energies of restlessness into l» m state would seek the fee increase from constructive activities.