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WESTERN CAROLINIAN NOVEMBER 7, 1985 PAGE 3 SPIES ON CAMPUS: THE PLOT THICKENS Agents of the South African government have been observing South African students attending Michigan State U. According to officials at the university, the agents have been using fear tactics to discourage the students from participating in anti- apartheid protests. Sources also say the agents are disrupting meetings of MSU's South African Liberation Committee. While the offices of the president and vice- president, and MSU's Department of Public Safety, say they are unaware of any South African agents on campus, the surveillance is confirmed by faculty and administrators from MSU's African Studies Center, and by the MSU intramural sports director. "I suppose you could call them spies," says the sports director. "Sympathizers may be more accurate." African Studies officials tell of a South African student who, after returning to his country, was confronted by government officials with pictures of his East Lansing apartment decorated with a poster of jailed black leader Nelson Mandela. South Africa then denied the student the research opportunity needed to finish his doctoral dissertation. "We don't know how it occurs,"one official says, speculating that the surveillance may have been carried out by fellow South African students at MSU, South African agents, or "the FBI or some other U.S. security agency." Artie Miller, a member of the student South African Liberation Committee, says South African agents gather information on student anti-apartheid groups and try to "subvert their efforts." Miller says that although the MSU group is certain it has a "subversive" in its midst, and the members "...don't want South African students to be afraid to attend committee meetings,"thegroup has no plan to expose the South African agents. "The committee is involved in education," he says. "We're not going to waste our time finding spies." Student Senate News * Meal Plan * Trafffic and Security * Speed Bump Safety * Illuminating news for Helder ROTC AND SPEECH AND HEARING CENTER AID COMMUNITY MEMBER The cadets in Western Carolina University's ROTC program recently teamed with WCU's Speech and Hearing Center to help a handicapped member of the community regain his hearing. The approximately 25 cadets in the senior class donated $235 to help pay for a special hearing aid for Buddy Leonard of Sylva. Leonard, 43, suffered a stroke in 1981 that resulted in the loss of speech, hearing and use of his arms and legs. Progress in his rehabilitation has been slowed by the lack of a suitable hearing aid, said Nancy Reighley, audiologistin WCU's Speech and Hearing Center. A new type of hearing aid, which requires little adjustment of controls, became available this year, Reighley said. "I suggested that Mr. Leonard try it because being able to hear would reduce his feelings of isolation," she said. Reighley asked the cadets if they would be interested in helping with expenses. "They gave their time and money," said Lt. Col. Kenneth E. Mostella, professor of military science at WCU, "and it was a selfless act for college students who have demands on their time and abilities." The same day cadets Lt. Col. John Gardner and Maj. Renee Fields presented the check for the hearing aid, Leonard was fitted to begin wearing it . Leonard and his wife, Mollie Jive in Sylva with theirsons, Buddy Leonard Jr., 15 and A.C. Leonard, 13. Leonard had worked at the Cannon Brothers Gasoline and Oil Co. in Dillsboro. He served in the U.S. Navy six years, completing tours of duty on aire raft carriers the U.S.S. Saratoga and the U.S.S. Constitution. Mrs. Leonard is studying paralegal technology at Southwestern Technical College. The Western Carolina University Student Senate met October 30, 1985. Three of four resolutions were passed at this meeting. Senate Resolution 1112 is that the WCU Student Senate recommend to the Department of Academic Affairs that two additional microfilm copy machines be installed in Hunter Library. S.R. 1113 - The Auxiliary Services Director should announce any public cafeteria-related meetings at least one week before the meeting. S.R.1114 was tabled indefinitely. This resolution would allow students living on campus the option of buying the ten meal plan. This resolutioin would allow the student body the opportunity to voice its opinion on the meal plan matter in the form of a university-wide referendum. S.R. 1115 is that the WCU Studdent Senate recommend to the Traffic and Security the Article VII, Section C, Number 3, be abolished. The students who own cars on the campus pay for their permits. When these students accumulate $50.00 of fines in parking tickets or ten citations, these students have their parking permits revoked. Ther were three resolutions presented at this meeting. Two of the resolutions were passed. S.R. $$$6, which was referred to the University Services Committee, states: "Be it resolved that Western Carolina University's administration investigate the possibility that speed bumps, which slow the movement of cars, be installed at strategic points around the campus to make it easier for students to walk to and from classes "without fear of being hit by a car or cars." senate Resolution 1117 recommends that some sort of more efficient lighting be installed at the entrance of Helder Dorm. S.R. 1118 recommends that the Student Financial Association be eligible for funding by the Student Governmnet Association. Thje Student is diligentlyworking top meet the needs of the students of Western Carolina University. Commuters have no way o f getting ideas to senators; therfore, this list of senators who are commuters is being given. These senators are: Todd Dixon, Tracy Gasperini, Mike Gillespie, Tim Gillespie, Chad Gimbert, JackGuffey, Del Jennings, Lance Morris and Stan Murrow. FRATERNITY EXECUTIVES AGAINST LITTLE SISTERS A resolution from the Fraternity Executives Association regarding "little sister" groups has been distributed to all Vanderbilt fraternity and sorority presidents. The national organization believes that the groups have a negative effect on the Greek system. Sandy Stahl, associate director of sororities and fraternities, supports the resolution because the groups are "socially limiting and misleading." She feels that there are rare instances in which the function has a positive influence on the fraternity chapters. The resolution states that the little sister groups "are not desirable adjuncts" to the college fraternity system and that they "inhibit the accomplishment of SFA OFFICERS RESIGN IN PROTEST Two officers resigned in protest from the U. of North Carolina chapter of the conservative students for America when the national board of directors removed the chapter's vice president and expelled him from SFA over his support of funding for a gay and lesbian student group. The resigning officers said the power to remove officers belongs to the local chapter members, not the national board of directors. chapter goals." It further states that the groups "divert resources of time, effort, and money," and that they "weaken the bonds of brotherhood" while serving to "undermine the entire Greek system." Although Stahl is not requesting the Vanderbilt fraternity chapters to conform to the memo, she "wouldn't mind seeing it (little sister groups) abolished." She states that the groups, which involve many freshmen women, are influenced by the fraternity brothers during sorority rush and that their purpose has very little educational value. She also believes that the little sister programs have a negative influence on the fraternity rush program. "They (freshmen) should be joining (fraternities) for the brothers, not the sisters." Stahl hopes that the students will consider the issue. Nashville, Tenn. (I.P.) DEBATE FROM PAGE ONE champion of the principles we believe in so deeply" by President Reagan, received New York University School of Law's Dintinguished Citizen Award "in recognition of his able articulation of the conservative viewpoint." Publisher of William F. Buckley's "The National Review" since 1957, Rusher also has been on television and radio programs. He was the conservative spokesman on the Public Broadcasting System's "The Advocates," a regularon "FaceOff" in ABC-TV's "Good Morning, America" show, and a commentator on the Associated Press Radio Network. Rusher's syndicated column "The Conservative Advocate" appears twice a week in some 200 newspapers, and he has written numerous magazine articles and five books, including "The Making of the New Majority Party" in 1975, "How To Win Arguments" in 1981, and "The Rise of the Right" in 1984. He was one of three men who in 1961 launched the draft of Barry Goldwaterforthe 1964 Republican nomination. He also was an associate counsel to the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee in 1956-57 that investigated communism. A graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School, Rusher was an associate in a Wall Street law firm before joining "The National Review." He served from 1966 to 1970 as vice chairman of the American Conservative Union. Andrew Cockburn was born in London in 1947, grew up in Ireland and waseducated in Scotland and at Worcester College Oxford, graduating in 1969. He began specializing in defense matters in 1974 while working for Granada TV. He produced numerous programs on defense, including "How to Sell an Air Force," "F-16, Sale of the Century" and "The Plane Makers," which drewtheantipathyof the Pentagon and British Ministry of Defense. He emigrated to the United States in 1979 with his American-born wife and daughter and produced defense-oriented programs for ABC News, including "Tank Off the Track, "the first expose of the M-l tank. He left ABC in 1981 to write and produce "The Red Army," a one-hourdocumentarythat won the George Foster Peabody Award for documentary television in 1982. It became a book, "The Threat: Inside the Soviet Military Machine" which has been a cause celebre in military and political circles since its publication in 1983. 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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 Carolinian in 1933.

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• Date
  • Date original: 1985-11-07
  • Date digitized: 2019-02-28
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  • Dimension: 22.75" x 15"
  • 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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  • Cullowhee (N.C.)
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  • Western Carolina University
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  • HL_WesternCarolinian_1985-11-07_Vol50_No12
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