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  • Western Carolinian June 4, 1981 Voice of the Students Volume XLV Issue 20 Traffic & Security Director Arrested By Royce Smith Traffic and Security Director Pritchard Smith was arrested May 15, 1981 and charged with shoplifting. The incident occurred at Ingle's in Waynesville when Smith allegedly tried to leave the store concealing a package of chicken and a package of ground beef in his pants pocket and under his coat. The value of the items were placed at $5.83, according to Waynesville Police. Smith, who had a flawless career as a 28 year veteran of the North Carolina Highway Patrol, was appointed Director of Traffic and Security at Western upon his retirement from the NCHP in 1968. Smith was in charge of the Haywood office of the NCHP for several years before being promoted to lieutenant and reassigned to the Fayette- ville office in 1967. Prior to the incident Smith had requested a retirement date of September 1, 1981 and the search was already underway for a replacement. He was on annual leave when the incident occurred and remains on leave now. According to Dr. Glenn Stillion, Vice Chancellor for Student Development, Smith has enough annual and sick leave accrued to carry him over until his retirement date. He does not plan to return to WCU as T&S Director. It is reported that Chuck Taylor, Department Head of the Criminal Justice Dept., will serve as Interim Director until a permanent position can be filled. Smith has reportedly been ill for some time and was admitted to St. Joseph's Hospital in Asheville after his arrest. He is now at home under his doctor's care. SGA Recaps . . . and so on By Jim Wrinn "It's a mighty rough road from Lynchburg to Danville" so goes the song concerning the Wreck of Old 97. The same can be said for SGA from January to May: a mighty rough road indeed — even discounting elections, but not without its moments. Breaking with tradition, SGA President Mark Williams elected not to give a year end report to the senate. His Vice-President, Bill Lauten, did give some remarks at his final senate meeting. Lauten perhaps summed up the year as honestly as any out-going SGA executive ever has: "Not the worst and not the best." What follows is a brief recount of the past semester and an over view of the year in Student Government. Strangely, the most important accomplishment by Lauten and Williams came just as the pair was packing up at the end of the semester. Kicked around for years, the idea of academic credit for SGA members has come of age. In the future executive branch members and those in the student senate and judiciary will receive three credit hours per semester for Political Science 483 or 484 (second semester), Community Development Internship Project. Each student involved in the "course" would be required to submit a paper at the end of the semester "desdribing the nature of his/her governmental experience, the contribution made, and the things learned." SGA members would also be required to attend a series of five lectures by a member of the Political Science Department. Seen as a cure to SGA's chronic case of apathy, SGA staffers were enthusiastic to say the least about obtaining credit for their successors. The concept must still pass the faculty senate before it goes into effect. One SGA official, instrumental in bargaining for the credit, said that he was without doubts as to applying credit to the executive and judicial branches but "as for the senate ... I just don't know." During the past year President Williams and.VP Lauten experimented with the concept, receiving credit for their two semesters in office. Continued on back page Just What on page 4 Wishing I Was There Lt. Gov. Jimmy Green Sunday pledged his special interest and support for Western North Carolina and declared that the mountain region is one of the best members of the state family. He said the region, Western Carolina University, and Western North Carolina Tomorrow are "setting up a splendid example" in demonstrating a "form of integration that exceeds any that is based upon race, creed, or other civil concerns, as pre-eminently important as they are." Rather, he said, "I see here the integration of a university into the lifestream of a region, and the transfusion into the university of the main current of your mountain society." Green's praise for, and pledges of continued assistance to, Western North Carolina came as he delivered the commencement address at the 89th spring commencement exercises Sunday at WCU. He singled out the leadership of Western North Carolina Tomorrow, and its relationship with WCU, for special comment. He added that some academic "purists, perhaps, would shut away the world. The world, perhaps, too long has looked upon the university as a cloister, a haven . . . but the university can help illuminate the region and the region can help the university find pragmatic and practical applications of knowledge and skill." Green said "our universities must not only be citadels but full-fledged citizen participants in the mainstream of life. Their faculties, like yours, must be willing to share their wisdom and their technical skills in full partnership with local, state, and federal agencies and governments." The commencement address held out frank assurances to Western North Carolina and Western Carolina University of special assistance. Noting that the state recently provided funding to WNC Tomorrow for employment of a regional economist on the WCU Center for Improving Mountain Living staff, Green said "efforts to Continued on page 2
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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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