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Western Carolinian Volume 34 Number 31

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  • FEATURES AND SPORTS. . . . Last of the Cherokee, p.4. WCU signs top gridder,p.7. Cat Tracks says WCU still has chance at tourney,p.6. TheWESTERN CAROLINIAN INSIDE THE CAROLINIAN . . . LCBW comments on campus robberies, p.3. wcugets its own flag, p.1. Counselors get cash, p.l. VOICE OF THE STUDENTS VOL. XXXIV, NO. 31 Thursday, February 13, 1969 CULLOWHEE, N.C. Counselors May Get Spring Pay S/ionde/ls WiLL-Appear Feb. 20 IFC Elects New Officers For 69-70 School Year Who's Who Pictures, Last make-up next Thursday. A program for toe payment of dormitory counselors is tentatively scheduled to begin spring quarter. The plan awaits final approval by either the faculty senate or the board of trustees, or both, says Doug Davis, Dean of Men. This program will also institute a new concept in counseling at WCU. Under this new system counselors will be called floor advisors. They will be paid the equivalent of a quarter's room rent per quarter's work. These floor advisors will be used only in freshman and sophomore dorms. Besides paid advisors there will also be an equal number of unpaid floor advisors-in- Girls Ask Men Out To Dinner The University Women have decided to include Men for a Friday evening dinner rather than our usual quarterly Satur- day luncheon. Since this dinner is to be held February 14, we felt this would be appropriate. We hope all of you can come-- with or without your Valentine. The dinner is to be In the Gold Room of toe University Center at 6:00 o'clock. The chef is planning a special roast beef dinner for $1.80 (pay as you leave) so please RSVP to Midge Bisson by February 10. (phone 293-3332). training (FAITs). After this new system has gotten underway, one of the main require- "merits of a paid counselor will be two quarters as a trainee. Tbe proposed distribution for spring; will be Helder — 16 paid and 16 FAITs; Leather- wood ■» 16 paid and 16 FATTs, Moore — eight paid and eight FAITs,; Robertson -- three paid and six FAITs; Buchanan, seven paid and seven FAITs; and Madison —» one paid and one FAIT. This distribution will depend upon the number of applications. Freshman dormitories will have priority. Advisors will be selected on the basis of their applications by the boards of Men's and Women's House Government. The requirements for the position will include a training period of two quarters, a 2.00 QPR, and the exclusion of all Greeks and pledges. The responsibilities for floor advisors include checking rooms and halls, enforcing Handbook and House Government regulations, and acting in an advisory capacity. Advisors must all be in their dormitories from 7:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday. On weekends one advisor, on a rotation basis, will be on duty from 11:00 p.m. on both Friday and Saturday nights. David Pettyjohn, a junior business major from High Point was elected president of the Inter-Fraternity Council in that group's Tuesday meeting. Pettyjohn, who takes over the office from Jerry Norman, graduating senior from Greens- DAVTD PETTYJOHN boro, has been a representative for Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity to IFC for the past year. Other officers elected were Wilson Boyd, vice president; Mike Trull, secretary; and Richard Lipinsky, treasurer. Inter-Fraternity Council is the governing body for all of the social fraternities on campus, setting policies in such areas as rush rules, conduct of men in the name of the fraternities, and areas of improving the fraternity system. 28 Nominated For May Court At class elections held Tuesday, Feb. 11, twenty-eight girls were nominated for the 1969 May Court. Nominated from toe Senior Class were Linda Allen,Sharon Glance, Linda Davis, Candy Gibson, Kathy Mitchell, Joan Howard, Susan Bradley, Cyndee Hefner, Becky Ledford, and Pat Campbell. The Juniors nominated Betty Poole, Carol McRae, Gail Rat- ledge, Trisha Warner, Jackie Rhinehart, Suzanne Jones, Phyllis Royal, and Pam Barnes. From the Sophomore class Rita Russel, Carolyn Mund- henke, Jackie Tinnin, DeeDee Armstrong, Shirley Andrews, and Pam Isley. Freshmen nominated Donna Harris, Jeannette Norman, Cindy Leonard, and Julie Wood. CONTINUED PAGE 8. . . University Adopts Flag Design Western Carolina University has its own flag, and soon will be proudly flying it on the campus. The approved flag design contains a field of purple surrounded by a gold edge, with a band of gold running horizontally through the purple NEW FLAG FOR WCU Action of the Board of Trustees approving a design for the flag culminates a two-year project of Alpha Phi Omega service fraternity. field The 8eal ot me uni" versity appears In the upper left center of the field where the band of gold broadens into a large circle to encompass it Alpha Phi Omega began its effort in 1967 to present to the university a flag suitable for public display. The final design was selected by a committee of faculty and students from entries submitted by students. The design approved by the committee and toe Student Senate was submitted by Larry E. Smith last year. Smith, now serving in the U.S. Army at Arlington, Va., graduated from Western Carolina in 1968. The flag wUl be flown under the United States and North Carolina flags when displayed with them in public. It will be used in university parades, and for other public occasions. The APO fraternity was headed last year by Tony Johnson of North Wilkesboro. The project this year was completed under President Jack Painter of Maiden, with Norman Dudley of Barco, first vice president, serving as projects chairman. CONTINUED PAGE 8
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