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  • Western Carolina University
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  • HL_WesternCarolinian_1967-01-24_Vol32_No25_01

FEATURES, SPORTS . ..... Shook's second installment of campus opinion concerning university status is featured in today's issue. Miss Wise deals strongly with local business in 'Viewpoint' The sports section carries Wittman and Logan, latest Cat activity, and the old standby- intramural results. TheWESTERN CAROLINIAN INSIDE THE CAROLINIAN . . . This week's discussion topic in editorials, columns is a toss- up between Barber Assaults/ Local Business Attitudes Held Liable and the off-campus housing evaluation. ECC reported not ready for university status—what can we expect for Western? See story on page 1. VOICE OF THE STUDENTS VOL. XXXIT, NO. 25 Tuesday, January 24, 1967 CULLOWHEE, N. C. E. Carolina "Not Ready For U. Status" A 10-member team of educators will reportedly announce that East Carolina College is not ready for independent university status, said a Charlotte Observer news story last Wednesday. Both ECC president Leo Jenkins and Dr. Robert W. Mac Vicar, head of the study committee, expressed surprise over the anounce- ment, but neither said that there was anything in error in the story. The report itself has not yet been made public, and Observer reporter Dwayne Hall would not reveal his sources. Hall's story said that the committee would announce that the Greenville, N.C. college "is not ready to become a university but ought to be encouraged in that direction." The committee had visited ECC last month at the request of the State Board of Higher Education in order "to describe what exists." Their report, according to the Observer story, was to be used to guide ECC, the state board and the state legislature in assessingthe college's drive to become a university independent of the Consolidated University of North Carolina. The Observer, in saying that the report contained findings such as "the college is weak in several key academic disciplines, especially the sciences, and does not have, the over-all quality in either faculty or curriculum to offer university-level works," caused MacVicar to comment, "the information contained in the news story would suggest it does not come from anyone having seen the document" MacVicar said, in a reported conversation with ECC president Jenkins, that he had no idea where the story came from and added that the report itself would not be ready for about three more weeks. Jenkins said that he could not comment on the report without having seen it The article in the Observer went on to say that "team members were impressed with the spirit and drive that pervades the campus—from President Leo Jenkins' office down through the faculty, student body and community served by the institution. "The team members, all selected for their expertise as well as their impartiality, felt that ECC is several years away from the quality desired in a university worth the name*. "At the same time they felt that the state's education and legislative leadership should capitalize on the extraordinary spirit at ECC by pushing it along toward university status." Last year, the report of a three-man team of educators studying the school's readiness to support a two-year medical program pointed out a weakness in science offerings. In November, the college reported that it had added 12 PtuD's in this area. ECC's request for independent university status is expected to be a contrversial issue in the legislature, which convenes Feb. 8. Barber Charged With Assault Here KILLIAN EDUCATION AND PSYCHOLOGY BUILDING NEW STUDENT UNION BUILDING These are two of the buildings either under construction or soon to be constructed with funds allocated by the 1963 and 1965 General Assemblies. Construction Progresses At WCC; More Is Planned By TOM DILLARD The physical growth of Western Carolina College at the present time is progressing and no end for new construction is in sight With two major buildings now rising on campus and two more scheduled to begin in the spring, Western's physical complex is quickly approaching university proportion. A mild winter has aided in the construction of two major projects now rising behind McKee building. The Killian Education and Psychology building near the rear wing of the Stillwell building now resembles the classroom facility it is intended to be. Exterior masonry has been all but completed and metal window frames are presently being installed. The $800,000 structure is far from completion at this time, but should easily be ready for occupance by the fall quarter of 1967. The new student union, in front of Reid Gymnasium, is only a skeleton of red steel bones at present Construction is progressing reasonably well and warmer weather in the Spring is expected to speed up progress dramatically. Also to be in use by next fall, the $1, 200,000 student union will be a welcome addition for a growing student body. The $583,000 addition to Hunter Library is progressing slowly but steadily. When completed, the 25,000 square foot addition will be used for office, study and stack space. A new boiler is now being installed and the steam plant is being expanded and converted to oil at a cost of $402,000. Phases of this work have been finished, and the remainder is nearing completion. Spring will see further physical growth with the construction of two major new buildings. The construction of a nine- story high-rise dormitory housing 800 women will begin in the spring. Slated for construction near the two new women's dorms, Helder and Leatherwood, this mammoth building will cost $2,400,000 and will be ready for occupancy by fall quarter of 1968. The new dorm will join its two sister dorms, Helder and Leatherwood, and probably won't be the last dorm to be constructed on the WCC campus in the near future. Western's capital improvements request to the 1967 General Assembly included two 400-student dormitories. A business administration building will be constructed in the area behind McKee. Costing $840,000, this unit will be used to provide in-service degree programs in business administration and will also be used as a computer center. While funds for this structure have already been approved, a request for the addition of a third floor awaits the decision of the General Assembly. Further construction and improvements will be centered in several different areas. CONTINUED, Page 8 Student Attacked In Downtown Cullowhee Thomas R. (Rex) Moore, Cullowhee barber, was served last week with warrants charging him with assault with a deadly weapon and damage to personal property. Plaintiffs were David Chain Letters Are Ruled Illegal Western Carolina students are warned of the illegality of the current chain letter fad in a January 16 news release from the Post Office Department in Asheville. J. O. Thomas, postal inspector, relayed the message through. the office of college vice-president Frank Brown, and said that participation in chain letters is a violation of Title 18 - United States code, Section 1302. Conviction, said Thomas, carries a fine not exceeding $1000 and imprisonment of not more than two years. The relr - stated: "United States Cou. , have ruled that chain letters are both frauds and lotteries. It makes no difference whether the solicitation is for money, bonds, or anything else of value. Whether the chain is broken is a matter of chance, which makes it a lottery, and whether the participant will get nothing or a small amount, or be lucky and receive a substantial a- mount depends upon chance. "One prominent version of the chain letter idea reportedly used in the past is a scheme in which U.S. Savings Bonds were used, and in which the 'list* is not send by maU but exchanged by hand. This particular version of the chain letter at that time was the object of a warning by postal authorities. Neither the fact that savings bonds were used to give an aura of respectibility to the schemes, nor the fact that the lists of the participants were not circulated in the mails altered the illegality of these operations. "Other possible chain letter operations reported relate to purchase of a $5 money order, cashier's check, or payment by personal check and cash. The Postal Service is directly concerned with the illegal aspects of such schemes, and it is also anxious to caution people that they may lose their money if they are lured into such schemes. ■Chain letter schemes always turn out so that the few who start them may get back a little more than their investment—at the risk of possible prosecution—while practically all others lose their money. Such an outcome is inevitable, inasmuch as the supply of interested persons is soon exhausted." M. Rayburn and Clevie C. Luckadoo, both students at Western Carolina College, who filed charges after Rayburn was accosted by the barber last Wednesday afternoon. The chain of events surrounding the incident are reproduced here from information gathered by Carolinian reporters. Rayburn parked hi s car in front of Moore's Twin Barber Shop at 8:00 a.m., Wednesday, Jan. 18. At about noon Rayburn was advised to move his car by campus security officer Carl Hopkins, and so went to the car and unlocked it preparatory to getting in. (The following is an eyewitness report by Phil Shook, Carolinian staff writer who was on the scene.) At 12:05 p.m„ when Rayburn was getting into his car, Moore looked out of his shop door and said, "I've told you not to park your g— d— car there! If you don't move it I'll call the f wrecker." (Rayburn's earlier conversation with Hopkins was, according to him, the first indication that he was not supposed to park there.) Rayburn answered Moore, saying, 'I've got as much right to park here as anyone else.", at which Moore said, "I'll show you how much right you've got" He then went back into his shop and came back out carrying a heavy broom handle which he brandished like a baseball bat, cursing Rayburn at the same time. Rayburn asked, "What's the matter with you, old man. Are you crazy?" Then Moore began swinging the stick at Rayburn's head; it may have been at this time that Rayburn received sever e bruises on the hand and forearm when he held up a hand to ward off the blows. Rayburn, in a self-defensive move, grasped Moore around the waist and lowered his head away from the swinging broom handle. Together they moved between Rayburn's car and a 1963 Valiant owned by Luckadoo away from the barber shop. Still swinging the broomstick, Moore struck the top of Luck- adoo's car, causing a nine-inch dent and chipping the paint Then Rayburn reached up, pushing Moore's head back in an attempt to make him stop swinging, and in the process pushed his glasses off, causing Moore to say, "You break those g— d— glasses ..." Moore stopped swinging long enough at this point for Shook to take hold of the other end of the broom handle and jerk It away from Moore. They discontinued struggling shortly thereafter, when Rayburn asked Moore, "What's the matter with you? You must be crazy." Moore, walking back into his shop, replied, I'll see Frank Brown." Rayburn said that he would, too, and added, 'The next CONTINUED, page 8

The Western Carolinian is Western Carolina University’s student-run newspaper. The paper was published as the Cullowhee Yodel from 1924 to 1931 before changing its name to The Western Carolinian in 1933.

• Creator
  • Western Carolina College
• Format
  • Publications (documents)
• Type
  • Text
• Date
  • Date original: 1967-01-24;
  • Date digitized: 2017-10-23
• Extent
  • Dimension: 15.75" x 11"
  • Pages: 8 pages
• Subject - Topic
  • College student newspapers and periodicals
  • Cullowhee (N.C.) -- Newspapers
  • Universities and colleges -- North Carolina -- Cullowhee -- Newspapers
• Location
  • Jackson County (N.C.)
  • Cullowhee (N.C.)
• Source institution
  • Western Carolina University
• Source Collection
  • WCU Students Newspapers Collection
• Identifier
  • HL_WesternCarolinian_1967-01-24_Vol32_No25
• Repository
  • Western Carolina University Hunter Library