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  • McKinney wins it! The^stern Carolinian The Voice of the Students 20 PAGES THURSDAY APR. 19,1979 Vol. XLIV, No. 29 CULLOWHEE, N.C. Lagano takes over Carolinian helm by LANE GARDNER Staff Writer Roger McKinney defeated Frank Carlton for president of SGA in Tuesday's run-off election. McKinney won by a margin of 247 votes. In other election returns, Ken Nifong and Ken Roberts were selected president and vice-president of the UCB, respectively. Both ran unopposed. In the race for editor of The Western Carolinian, Al Lagano triumphed over Mark Wilkins, 392 votes to 302 votes. Other winners, all of whom ran uncontested, were Mike Wix, general manager of WWCU; Robert D. Gathings, business manager of The Western Carolinian; and Vincent M. Gentry, editor of the Catamount Yearbook. No one ran for business manager of the Catamount Yearbook. Three at-large senator seats were determined in Tuesday's election. Winners are Rebecca Nelson, Bonnie Blalock and Scott Justus. Eight commuter senator seats were also decided. Winners are Richard Wagoner, Mike McKinney, Scott Craig, Bill Wise, Luther Hollingsworth, Tim McBride, •Tum to Page 10, Please Students, faculty honored at awards night WCU honored its top students and faculty members last evening at its annual Awards and Honors Night ceremonies held in the Grandroom of Hinds University Center. Dr. H.F. Robinson, WCU chancellor, presented the Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award—the university's highest honor in recognition of superior teaching—to three WCU faculty members. Winners are Dr. J. Roger Bacon, associate professor of chemistry; Dr. William D. Kane, assistant professor of marketing- management; and Dr. Judy H. Dowell, associate professor of home economics. The awards consist of a $250 cash award, a $250 Patrons of Quality scholarship given in the name of the honoree, and a $500 allowance to be used by the honoree to increase teaching effectiveness. Five projects specifically designed to improve the quality of instruction in a course or series of courses were presented Vice Chancellor's Instructional Improvement Grants by Dr. Robert E. Stoltz, vice chancellor for academic affairs. Winning projects and their sponsors are "Introductory Chemistry," Dr. David A. Mathewes, professor of chemistry; "Graphics-Based Micro-Computer System," Dr. William McGowan, professor of physics; "Interdisciplinary Instructional Design Team," Dr. Robert Waddell, assistant professor of market-management. Also, "Application of Theory to Practical Investment Experience in the Stock Market by Students," Dr. Kilman Shin, associate professor of economics and finance; and "Seminar in International Understanding: The Caribbean," a team effort involving Dr. Lewis Cloud, Dr. Marilyn Jody, Dr. Jeffrey Neff, Dr. Tom O'Toole, and Dr. Patricia Umfress. In Student Government Association awards, Dr. Myron Leonard was named outstanding university male citizen and Susie Ray outstanding female citizen. Leonard is associate professor of marketing-manage- ent, and Mrs. Ray is coordinator of WCU's cooperative education program. Roger McKinney and Rebecca Nelson were named outstanding male and female students of the year. The WCU chapter of the North Carolina Association of Educational Office Personnel presented its scholarship award to Marcus Young of Fletcher. The Alpha Kappa Psi scholarship award went to Janet Marie Kinsland of Franklin, and Phi Kappa Phi presented its Highest Scholastic Average Award to Gina Brown Triplett of Lenoir. Lambda Chi Alpha received the President's Council Fraternity Scholarship Trophy, and Sigma Kappa won the Panhellenic Council Scholarship Trophy. Laura West of Easley, S.C, was named outstanding Greek woman. Kim Beam of Smithfield received the outstanding senior award of the WCU Home Economics Association, and Dr. Sandra L. Mankins, assistant professor of psychology, was presented a certificate of appreciation as faculty advisor to Psi Chi, the psychology organization. Helder Hall was named outstanding academic residence hall, and the Outstanding Resident Award was presented to Katie Cunningham of Salisbury. Departmental and school awards and their recipients are as follows: Administrative services department, National Business Education Association Award of Merit, Dianne Mills of Waynesville. Art department, senior with highest quality point ratio, Terrance Painter of Waynesville; art service award, Teresa Anderson of Anderson, S.C; distin - guished art students, Joseph Holmes of Cullowhee and Gretchen Sedaris of Raleigh. Biology department, C.F. Dodson Merit Award, Sharon Sue Carpenter of Lenoir, Donald Yopp of Fayetteville, and Allen Bishop and Richard Wall, botn of Cullowhee. rTurn t0 Page 10) please Reformed Panther speaks tonight Bobby Seale, who received world-wide attention in the late Sixties as co-founder of the Black Panther Party and co-defendant in the Chicago Seven trial, will speak at WCU April 19. Sponsored by the Student Association for Government and Legal Affairs, Seale will speak in the auditorium of Forsyth Building at 7:30 p.m. Born in Dallas, Texas, in 1936, Seale grew up in Oakland Calif., where he worked as a draftsman, carpenter, mechanic, jazz drummer, and sheet metal worker. In 1963, Seale became a member of the Revolutionary Action Movement and his career as a community organizer began. He was organizer of one of the first Black Student Unions at Merritt College in Oakland in 1965. He and Huey P. Newton met and together formed the Black Panther Party in 1966. In 1969, as a defendant in the Chicago Seven conspiracy, Seale was ordered gagged and chained after repeated courtroom outbursts. Seale ran for mayor unsuccessfully in Oakland in 1973 and has been working on an autobiography since 1974. Seale is now director of Advocates Scene, a national lobby group representing poor, black and minority people in the U.S., a non-profit educational research organization to reduce violent assaults and homocides. Admission is free to the public.
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