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  • HL_WesternCarolinian_1971-09-30_Vol37_No07_05

Thursday, September 30, 1971 THE WESTERN CAROLINIAN 5 The Cat's Paw By The Inimitable Paw ;:::::::::;:;:;:3i> Boogie, folks, Welcome to another session of skullduggery, sentimental sadism, and soothing serenades of swell stuff. This week we'll take a look at several gripes which people liave called unknowingly to my altruistic attention. If any body has a gripe they need aired be sure and lei the original Kat Kom- mando know about it. . . , And that's nothing to laugh at. I guess it all started last week. Out of order. Can you imagine that. First I have a gripe of my own. No sense whatsoever! It made. Somebody goofed and out of paragraph and order mistake was made. My column last week made little sense (little more than usual) because bodysome mistake a made paragraphs and shuffled little a. But reassured I was that agian would it happen never. First of all. Bit, Moun - tainsville Waynesneer.. , O.K. Let's talk about your ID cards (as opposed to Alterego Cards?) I have heard a rumor that we (we, the students of Cullowhee Normal University) must have new cards made at the cost of a dollar. Uh huh. I wonder which of the Bird Guys wants to go on a vacation this year. Or maybe the money will help go for new purple and gold jock straps for the school dog squad. My old ID has lasted this long, so I reckon it wiU hold out another few days anyhow. New ID*s are about as useful as a can of feminine hygiene spray in a reptile house. I wonder how these rumors get started anyhow,, Don't believe it folks,, Go and get your dollars back. And do it today. .. C»stickers are different prices for different colors. A suggestion was made as to the effectofthe lower-priced stickers being for the overflow parking lots only. I ain't sure as to just how that works(being a nondedicated journalist), but it sure sounds good... Seems like the crcvd of weirdos is increasing by the droves, The graffiti seems to be taking a pseudo limp- wristed turn for the worse. I doubt if the intellectuals who scribble that sort of bathroom banter are serious about it, but one wonders what sort of thrill they do get, Maybe they would LIKE to indulge in that sort of n ing'-as they specify-but I guess their boasts outweigh (and ojtmeasure) their brains. Why can't you preverts come up with better stuff? Oh will... Have you heard the one about a ear tain lease offered by a certain apart • ment complex? You have to get a written statement from Twaddle Twelvetrees to hang a picture on the wall, your apartment is subject to no-knock raids by loving landlords, water and gas go off as regularly as the Postal Service ups its rates, et al, et at, et al... Sounds more like a 99 year FLEECE. MYSTERY OF THE WEEK: Who put up those seed signs? Sounds like a Johnny Cannabiseed amongst us, eh wot? Oh yeahl All you little boys don't forget to go and get your little draft deferments next week. A lot of good it will probably do. You know, since Selective Service is so selective and fig ■ ures that one's birthday is a good determiner of eligibility to military service, I think a change is in order. Birthdays must get very boring for all those poor people at the local boards, And those poor bored folks who have to do the drawings. Bless them. They shouldn't have to suffer so. I think, just for them, and just as effective a determiner of eligibility would be to have a large container of red, white, and blue jelly beans, where upon attaining age 18, the registrant guesses the number of total beans—on alternating years, registrants must guess either red one year or white the next, blue and soon... and whosomever euesses within 10 beans (either way, of course) is not eligib le for the draft, Or possibly, people with double letters in their middle names will be called one year. Or even guys with inny belly buttons (the out- eys being called the next year). Personally, I believe that the draft is as useful as a happy face sweat shirt in a fart factory. , .Happy 4-f. Guess that about warps it up for now. Keep practicing your solfeggio, folks, and stay tuned. FEUNE FELONY OF THE WEEK: the I'aw knows where there is an immense field of grass, just waiting for, , , whatever. Think on it, Sam. Is he telling the truth? NEXT WEEK: Mr. Natural heads south on the first annual Ace Slug Farm and Dude Ranch Hound Up and Broad Jump. PAW CONFIDENTIAL: Jungle Jim is really a merry-go-round with handlebars, . , ,Are we still on?. . . DiETZ . .. .FKOM Page 4 the point where they've got nothing to say to themselves or to one another. Their lives seem to be falling apart; sex, drink, pot, and material goods may be respites from the ever-encroaching void, but, ultimately, the void must be faced. And from this confrontation comes, perhaps, a kind of compromise which allows a means of getting through the day without blowing one's brains out, The thematic material nf COMPANY may seem overly harsh, and indeed in dialogue, lyric, and music COMPANY is cold, acerbic, and bitchy. It is as extreme in its unsenttmentality as,, say, THE SOUND OF MUSIC is in its sweetness and light, Certainly it is not what everyone's notion of what a musical should be, but, then, maybe it's time for a change since the Kodgers- lUmmerstein, Leruer-Loewe style of musical has just about worn Itself out, The premiere of COMPANY evidenced the evolution of the new -styled musical. And with the opening of FOLLIES a year later, the metamorphosis was complete, (The concluding part of this article will be in this column's next installment,) Write the editor P.O. Box 66 Utters to the editor should be ad- dreesod to The Editor of the CAROLINIAN, P. O. Box 66, Cullowhee, N. C. 28723. It la the policy of the WESTERN CAROLINIAN not to publish anonymous letter*, and letters that do not bmve the author's name signed in longhand so that It is readable will not be published. The CAROLINIAN does, though. withhold the author's name on occasion if the author requests it. The Western Carolinian Published twice weekly through the academic year and weekly during the •ummerbythe students of Western Carolina University. Member: Collegiate Press Service, Intercollegiate Press Service. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF W. WAT HOPKINS BUSINESS MANAGER. WM. J. BYERS News Editor .Stephanie Phillips Associate Editors Jim Rowel] Brooks Sanders Sports Editor Frank Wyatt Feature Editor Tom DeVcsto Copy Editor .Melanie Pope Photographer Tom DeVesto Editor Emeritus Ron Williamson Advisor Gerry Schwartz Offices, first floor Joyner, phone 293-7267, mailing address Box 66, Cullowhee, N.C. 28723; subscription rate, $4.00 per year. The individual who is aware only of his weaknesses becomes neurotic; the one who is aware only of his powers be~ comes overbearing and conceited, —unidentified x^XrXrXrXrXrXrxWx^XrXrXr^xtxVxrXrXr^ CAROLINIAN FORUM 6 We canforsee cutbacks9 says Lockamy By GREG LOCKAMY President, Student Government Association Each of us in SGA feel as if we represent the richest students in the State. Apparently someone, especially the NC General Assembly, feels that students all have money trees. On the State level, we encounter several new state laws, enacted this summer, which will be in effect or already are in effect which will cut into our pocketbooks. First, the out-of-state tuition increase. North Carolina's legislators enacted this law for the purpose of increasing funds to North Carolina's public education. The fact that our out-of- state students suffer, and the fact that North Carolina's students need to associate with and communicate with students from other states as well as from other countries seems to have been disregarded. This, I value, as a most important aspect of our education process. Several Student Governments in the state are now attempting to stop, through the courts, this Bill. I think all Student Governments in this state stand solidly behind the theory of objecting to this increase. Another Bill enacted requires a shift in when money must be paid. This Bill, General Statute 116-143 has been amended by having two additions stuck to the end. First, apparently stopping the idea of most students to apply to several schools, and then decide where to attend. This Bill requires that within three weeks of your notification of acceptance to any of our sixteen institutions (state owned), you must remit $100.00 or your acceptance will be dropped. This money can be refunded if you notify the university by May 1, before the Fall term you Intended to enroll. The second part of this bill is much more important to students already enrolled in a university. It requires that for continuing students, we must remit to the University during the last regular term of the academic year for which the deposit is being paid a sum of $50.00 This means that every student that we now have enrolled this year that intends to return next Fall quarter has to pay to the University during Spring Quarter the sum of $50.00 to be able to return to Western next fall. This money Is refundable if you apply for it during the first 30 days following the last day of the term in which it was payed to the university (30 days from the end of Spring quarter.) Both these refunds are also good if the student encounters any hard- ships such as illness or disability, or he gets drafted, etc. Also, both of these deposits are counted as part of your tuition, and so the student has to pay that much less when fees are paid. The inconvenience with this Bill is the time element involved in having to pay so early. There has also been much controversy during the last couple of years as to whether the university submitted a new Traffic Code to the General Assembly (Senate BUI #591). This Bill entitles the university to fine students in the amount indicated in the Bill— these fines are the same as those al= ready used, The unfortunate aspect of this bill Is that the General Assembly elected not to give the university the power to fine someone $10,00 for Driving under the Influence of Al- cohol or Drugs, an authority we had before. So now, if a student is stopped for driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol, he is taken to Sylva and handled through the regular court system. Getting caught by the WCU Security Patrol now means that the points count against your record, your insurance is increased, and in this county, you will more than likely lose your license, for these two offenses. On the local level, there are several things which dig into the pocket- book. These include such things as the increase in movie prices, the cost of the UCB activity card, the cost of an annual ID card, the $25.00 damage deposit for residence haU students, the proposed increase in car registration, and several others. Student Government is now involved in looking into these increases, their legality, and their necessity. From a legal point of view, even with the Nixon Wage-Price Freeze, it is fairly apparent that all are legal. I think that perhaps your senators and my staff have not had sufficient time to thoroughly investigate these local matters enough to make a general statement at this time. However, at the Senate meeting next Monday, Mr. Baxter Wood of the UCB is going to explain the costs involved in the ID card machine as well as the Increase ir movie prices. It is apparent that some of these increases are almost out of our realm to do anything about. But some of them are close enough to our own system, that perhaps we can foresee some cutbacks or regulations not now in existence at this institution.

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.

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  • Western Carolina University
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  • Publications (documents)
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• Date
  • Date original: 1971-09-30;
  • Date digitized: 2017-11-14
• Extent
  • Dimension: 15.75" x 11"
  • Pages: 12 pages
• Subject - Topic
  • College student newspapers and periodicals
  • Cullowhee (N.C.) -- Newspapers
  • Universities and colleges -- North Carolina -- Cullowhee -- Newspapers
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  • Jackson County (N.C.)
  • Cullowhee (N.C.)
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  • Western Carolina University
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  • WCU Students Newspapers Collection
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  • HL_WesternCarolinian_1971-09-30_Vol37_No07
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  • Western Carolina University Hunter Library