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  • The^festern Carolinian The Voice of the Students 20 PAGES THURSDAY DEC. 7,1978 Vol.XLIVNo. 15 CULLOWHEE, NC The Western Carolinian, Traffic and Security, and the Catamount yearbook all call Joyner building "home." Now the oldest building on campus may be included In the National Register of Historic Places. Joyner becoming historic site by J.M. TRINKS Staff Writer Joyner Building, the oldest standing structure on campus, was nominated for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places, it was announced last month. The National Register of Historic Places is a federal list of distinctive properties worthy of preservation because of their historical or cultural value. Joyner once housed all of the early school's administrative offices, the first library, and it provided the space where the first basketball game was played. Construction of the building began in 1912 and it was completed the following year. The bricks for the three-story structure were made on the site and the entire erection was under the supervision of John Leach, a builder from Franklin, and Professor Robert Madison, founder of the university and one of the signers of the loan that financed Joyner's construction. The building now houses offices for the Office of Traffic and Security, The Western Carolinian, the Catamount Yearbook, Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship, ECKANKAR, Circle K, Organization of Ebony Students, North Carolina Student Legislature, and the Catamount Republicans. The building was named in honor of State .Turn to Page 16. Please inside today The North Carolina Black Student Coalition will look into charges of racial discrimination at WCU, see story on page 3. Mike Creason and "Floopball" may go a long way together... See the story of this man's solution to an intramural problem on page 14. Gerald Harp shares Southern Conference Player of the Year honors, see his story and that of the five other Cats who made All-Southern Conference on page 6. Freshmen basketball recruits featured on page 4. Now I lay me down to study. I pray the Lord I won't go nutty, If I should fail to learn this junk, I pray the Lord I will not flunk. But if I do, don't pity meat all, Just lay my bones down in the study hall; Tell my teacher I did my best. Then pile my books upon my chest, Now I lay me down to rest And pray I'll pass tomorrow's test If I should die before I wake. That "s one less test I 'II have to take. Women in ROTC are featured this week on page 15. $100,000 suit by county rejected A $100,000 claim by Jackson County's outgoing Board of Commissioners against WCU for sewage treatment eharges was turned down last week by the university. The claim, filed 10 days earlier, was rejected by Chancellor H.F. Robinson in letters delivered to countv officials on the last day of the period in which the university was required to respond. The commissioners who directed the claim be lodged and who said service to.the university would be terminated if the bill is not paid, go out of office Monday when a new board, elected in November, takes over. The university said il does not owe the additional charges claimed by county officials. It said it has paid for sewage treatment services at rates agreed to by the county under the terms of a contract between the institution and the county. A report on the university action and position in the dispute was made to WCU trustees at their quarterly meeting Thursday morning by Robinson and Dr. C.J. Carter, vice chancellor for business affairs. In brief, this is what the trustees were told: •When Jackson County began planning a county sewage treatment system several years ago, the state, by agreement, shifted to the county project $315,000 appropriated for expansion of the WCU sewage treatment plant. Also shifted to the county were off-campus university-owned sewage lines. The university, in effect, went out of the sewage treatment business. •The university campus sewer lines were connected to the county system. The university contracted with the county to provide sewage treatment services. It was agreed the county would set rates for the service, but in no case would charge the university more than such funds as the State Legislature would provide to WCU to pay for service. •Under this arrangement, the university had to obtain a rate figure from the county as a basis for requesting funds from the state. In the summer of 1976, as it prepared its request to the state for fiscal 1977-78, the university asked for the county rate and was notified that it would be 83 cents per thousand gallons. In turn, the state funded the university at that rate. •Later, after the state allocation was made, the county .Turn to Page 3, Please Castro toasts Cotton in Cuba WCU Chancellor H.F. Robinson is in Cuba this week, one of the 20 American educators invited by the Castro regime to engage in talks on education and agriculture. He is representing the American Association of State Colleges and Universities in the talks. Other delegates in the mission arc from state colleges and universities from Chicago to Oregon. The group is in Cuba at the invitation of the Cuban Ministry of Superior Education. Rene Mugica, second secretary at the Cuban Interest Section, said the Cuban government wants to establish exchange links between the two countries in several agricultural and technical fields. Robinson built an international reputation in genetics and agriculture at N.C. State University during a 25-vcar stint there. President Johnson picked him to direct the nation's world food study in the 19b0's and currentlv Robinson is chairman of the Committee on Agriculture of the association of state colleges and universities.
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