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Western Carolinian Volume 43 Number 18

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  • The^fester n Carolinian Committee is challenged by audience PVA hearing controversial A public hearing was held by the committee "Promote Voter Awareness" Tuesday night in the Cherokee room of the UC. The meeting centered around an explanation of what the committee has done thus far and then opened the floor for questions and comments. In the presentation given by Director of Legal Affairs Luther Hollingsworth, a chart was shown that referred to the questions given to college students in Jackson County who try to register to vote. The chart showed there was no consistency to the acceptance or denial of students who attempt to register to vote. Hollingsworth said the pattern was so inconsistent that, "for all we know, they (Jackson County Board of Elections) could be accepting all those who apply in the morning and deny all those who apply in the afternoon." Upon opening the floor to discussion, Larry Harden, a student at WCU and a resident of Jackson County, told the committee he was against the entire voting block of WCU going to the polls in Jackson County. Harden admitted the fact that he felt the county was afraid of the students being able to vote, because someone who is going to be in the county for only four years could make decisions detrimental to the area. He said he did think that those students who were planning to make this area their home and have "made an honest attempt to show residency here, these students should be allowed to vote." The county is rather wary of the students, according Turn to Page 13, please. Linda Street reports during the public hearing Tuesday DAVID LEES PHOTO Nicholas files for commissioner Veronica Nicholas filed Tuesday, January 24, as a candidate for election as part-time commissioner of Jackson County, subject to the May 2 Democratic Primary Election. A resident of Jackson County for seven years, Mrs. Nicholas has been active in community affairs, serving as chairman of the Jackson County Recycling Project and as leader of Junior Girl Scout Troup 274. She has served as president of the Jackson County League of Women Voters and as the League's State Board chairman for Voter Services and Citizen Information. She has also worked in the Meals on Wheels project and helped to establish Hawthorn Heights, and is secretary of its Board of Directors. She is also a member of the. Agricultural Extension Service Advisory council, the Community Service Council and of the Jackson County United Fund Board of Directors. As a recipient of two grants from the North Carolina Council for the Humanities, Mrs. Nicholas has organized two local workshops, one dealing with problems of land use planning, and the other focusing on the changing roles of women in Appalachia. She has recently completed a six month fellowship in the Southern Appalachian Leadership Training Program. No stranger to local politics, Mrs. Nicholas has attended scheduled meetings of the Jackson County Board of Commissioners for the last three years and initiated legal injunctions against the local board on two occasions: the Citizens Against the Airport's move to halt the Jackson County Airport project, and more recently, the successful suit to insure open meetings. She was a delegate to last summer's Democratic County Convention. Mrs. Nicholas is married to Karl Nicholas, a member Turn to page 14, please. WCU students to fight for rights Five Western Carolina University students will travel to the Governor's office in Raleigh Friday to fight for their right to vote. The five will present the results of a three-month study by WCU students which uncovered possible violations of state law by the Jackson County Board of Elections. Last October, a WCU Student Government Association committee was formed to study complaints from students who said they had been treated unfairly and suspiciously when registering to vote. Many were denied voting rights altogether lackson county, like several other counties in North Carolina, requires all students at WCU and nearby Southwestern Technical Institute (STI) to fill out a long questionnaire during the voter registration procedure. The form asks many questions of a personal nature, such as "Why did you leave your parents?" and is only required of students attempting to register. No one else is required to complete any similar form in Jackson county. The use of this form is but one issue at stake when the five WCU students present their findings to State Board of Elections Director Alex Brock and Senior Deputy Attorney General Jim Bullock at 1:30 Friday. The students include Phillip Cates, head of the original committee to study voter registration and presently head of the current group, Promote Voter Awareness (PVA); Luther Hollingsworth, WCU Director of Legal Assistance for SGA; Patrick Murphy, SGA President; Gary Brown, SGA Vice-President; and David Jackson, editor of The Western Carolinian. When the student committee first began operations, they were repeatedly resisted by local Board of Elections members, were denied access to records they claimed were public information, and were told to keep out Jackson county politics. Things reached a heated peak on the night of November 28th, when Phillip Cates received a threat on his life by telephone at his dorm room, an incident some county officials claim was entirely unrelated and coincidental to the voter registration investigation. County officials were warned by Brock that all elections records and requirements must be open for public inspection under Government n the Sunshine laws.
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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 Carolin...

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