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  • CAROLINIAN EDITORIALS Not $5 But $10 With additional monies going to the Programs and Athletics Committees this year, it is painfully obvious that the Student Activity Fee must be increased not $5 but $10 if student organizations are to function properly in the future. Drastic cut-backs in appropriations to student organizations this year have resulted in complex problems for many of the organizations involved. Examples are many, but a few of the more acute ones include: ___WWOO radio which asked for $24,000 and received about one tenth of that amount —The Little Theatre in Cullowhee - lack of funds created the lack of the annual Spring Quarter Musical, —The Western Carolinian which ran up a tremendous deficit but through the graces of the Appropriations Committee will be able to publish on regular schedule for the remainder of the year. —The Catamount also has built up a considerable deficit in the area of $3,000 which must be paid- somehow„ We don't like the idea of paying an additional $10 a quarter in Student Activity Fees, Nobody does. And, if a referendum were held, we doubt the results would be as positive or as promising as those from the Athletic Poll. However, if students wish to have campus organizations continue, in working order the money must come from somewhere. The preverbial scraping of the barrel bottom can only be done so^often. Next year's additional enrollment will not meet the needs of campus organizations in their request for money. Organizations will need the same if not more funds to operate. With the ahtletic and programs committees sapping the strength of available student monies, it is imperative that the Student Activity Fee be raised. Otherwise, campus organizations will have to limit their operations considerably. As stated previously, the additional $10 a quarter is not appealing. Yet, students must consider that Western Carolina is still one of the least expensive state schools of its size in the Southeasetern states. The assets of the addional fee far outweigh the liablities. We urge students to consider this proposal, for it is only through you that the fee can be raised. Let us hear your suggestions concerning this matter. What are your opinions about hiking the Student Activity Fee by $10? Do you feel that student organizations are as vital as the Programs Commitee? Remember there will be more organizations next vear. Should organizations be satisfied with what they can acquire without a raise in the fee? We don't believe so, but let us hear your opinions. ThcWESTERN CAROLINIAN VOICl 01 THE STIDkNTS Published semi-weekly by the students of Western Carci'na 1'nlversit.v Cullowhee, N. C. Member of: Associated Collegiate Press; Collegiate Press Service-, Cirollnas Collegiate Press Association; United States Student Press Association. EDITOR >'l SINESS MANAGER CHARLOTTE A. WISE JAMFS S. CHAPPELL Managing if tir, News Editor David Watson Feature Editor Jay Gertz Sports Editors Gary Tyler, Ken Ball Copy Editors I Inda Norwood, Sue Turney Cirr'ilation Manager Ed Cook* St etary Vickl Jackson Columnists David Watson, reeman D. Jones, Rill Riggers, Steve Gulmond, Jerry Conner, The Paw 11, Jay Gertz. Writers Janice Monteith, Patti Jew son, (..-,ry Tyler, Ken Ball Jane Burrow, Patsy Warren, Patrick Boykin, Doug Set -ing, Jerry Conner, Sharon F.llerbe, Jay Gertz. Cartoonist Lj, rj C. B. Whiteside Photographer i. . . . T. c. Fender Typists Ann Disbrow, Leslie Joy charon Shook, Patti Johnson, Judi Del arln Sponsor Steven P. BecW Fditor Emeritus J. Nicholas Taylor National advertising by National Advertising Service, Inc. Local advertising rates available upon request. Phone 293-7267 Monday or Wednesday nights. Offices, second floor Joyner; Phone, 293-7267; Mailing Address, P. O. Box 317, Cullowhee N. C 2S723: Sbuscriotion rate. ,H4.nfl i»r ve»r. _ ° ST0DcNT r0 I A ) AP?K£>?R\r\T\CMS <3 v-..■... aJ etu( K"rS U»ihV -7' <M BW Student Government? *x*ew8«« Feedback Dear Editor, Student what? Student Government? Ha Ha Ha Ha. Some of the people can be suckering all of the time. Perhaps you think I am being a bit harsh, but stop for a minute if you will, and thing. Now that you're thinking, think about all the remarkable changes that have come about through our student government. The student government pushed for later hours for women. Well and good. The administration gave in and granted later hours. Our student government also pushed for more liberal dress regulations for women (an interesting note here would be that Mars Hill College— a Baptist school allows women students to wear slacks nd or shorts on campus and off campus though not to class)Check out your list oi acs ana aon'ts women. At any rate our administration revised our then archaic code of dress for women to the present archaic code of dress for women. Another resounding victory for student government, The point of all this is that the administration is granting small favors to placate the student government while exercising strict control over e= very facet of their IBM card student body. To deny this one would have to be blind or foolish. The easiest way to govern any group of people is to let them think they govern themselves. Also of the dozen or so people I've talked to from a random sample, not one had any real interest in student government if hehad even bothered to vote in the recent elections or plan to vote in the upcoming ones. Very few people on campus know or care to know who is president or vice- who is president or vice-president, who their senator is and what THEIR representatives are trying to accomplish. This is not to say that there is no interest in the positions of office, the fraternities for example show a great deal of interest. But out of a student body of over 4,000 a total balloting of little more than 1,000 is sort of a poor showing. This is no attempt to reform anything else. It is merely a statement of fact. The student government is a tool of the administration and as such , anything accomplished will be for the greater glory of they establishment. Be not decieved. Yours fondly, Freeman D. Jones HowardStudentsTookOver By RICHARD ANTHONY College Press Service WASHINGTON (CPS) — The students at Howard University did what student radicals around the country have been suggesting for year: they took over their school. Yet the five day occupation of the administration by the Howard students had none of the rancor, and none of the dema- goguery that often attend student protests. In fact, the occupation was almost painfully sedate., Committees of students went busily about their appointed tasks, which included guarding the doors to buildings, keeping order in its crowded hallways, obtaining and serving food (some of which was donated oy local restaurants), and delivering messages. Some of the organization looked like window-dressing for the benefit of the press. The long, cream-colored Lincoln in which students conveyed huge pots full of steaming food to the campus was identified by several sides that said "food car," a title that could not have much meaning except for by-standers at the scene. In general, though, most of die regimentation made sense. When a large group of students—the number in and a- round the administration building frequently rose to more than 1,000—is thrown on its own resources, organization is obviously an acute need. The protest's leadership met that need to such an extent that one faculty member said, "Look at these kids—they are running this more organized than the administrationl" Yet if the orderly nature of the occupation kept the situation well in hand, it also gave expression to the motives of the students in taking this method to show their dissatisfaction. In fact they were not out to "bring Howard to a grinding halt," nor even to turn it into a center of Black Power operations, although many of them would argue that Howard should be contributing to the Black Power operations. But basically what most of the protesting students seemed to be looking for was an admission by the administration that they are human beings,and that their ideas should at least be heard in higher councils of the university. It's clear enough that the students haven't gotten such an admission from the administration in the past In fact, under the bumbling, highhanded policies of University President James Nabrit, the students have taken the protest route again and again, because they have no other recourse. Nabrit at 68 is too old and too frightened of losing his support from the Federal Government (which provides more than half of Howard's annual budget) to accept the reality of the students' needs. He has not even acted on suggestions from Go- ernment education officials on ways to upgrade the quality of education at Howard. Instead he has continued on with the notion that if he can only increase the percentage of white students at the school it will gain a new pre-eminence, not as the "Harvard of Negro America," but as one of the country's outstanding private universities. But this notion is not only a dream, it is a bitter insult to the students at Howard, Many of them are first-rate students who chose Howard, quite simply, because they didn't want to put up with white prejudices. At Howard, the search for this identity is intimately tied to demands for better education and more student say in campus affiars. The implication of the administration's overall stance is that students should toe the mark there, because they'll be obliged to keep on doing so in the white world outside. For increasing numbers of students, though, that's what they've been hearing too long. In many ways, the occupation of the administration building was also an expression of the part of the bake identity quest CONTINUED Page 3
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