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PAGE 4 JANUARY 30, 1986 WESTERN CAROLINIAN CAMPUS BEEFS By Tracy Gasparini Well folks, I'm back on everyone's biggest gripe, food service. Very few people express satisfaction with the present system. The people who have expressed their dissatisfaction have found a wall of bureaucracy. To add to the dissatisfaction, we also find unresponsiveness and irresponsibility. The irresponsibility I am referring to concerns the management and its inability to make decisions and changes on simple subjects without the approval of a committee. Now, to top this with a cherry, the committee seems to meet quarterly (every three month or so) and without a timely public notice which would allow interested students'" to attend. This means that a gripe expressed in September doesn't get heard by anyone until December, and then, no action is taken. This campus needs a food service system that fits the needs of the students. I'd like to suggest that the individuals "in charge" of our present system take Dr. Martin's Marketing 301 class. Without even taking the first test, we know the difference between selling and marketing a service. Fortunately, we have some other folks on campus who do understand the students' needs and have done what appears to be a fine job in proposing changes in our food service. This proposal, sponsored by the executive branch of the stubent government, was submitteO to the administration for review and comment. It is hoped that the administration will find time to act on this proposal ana return it to the SGA by the end of February. This will allow a final proposal to be submitted to the Board of Trustees in March, and hopefully a new food service system next fall. This proposal will allow students to eat at the Catskeller and Top of the Stairs restaurants with the meal plan, and it will hopefully increase the standard quality of food throughout the system, not only in the fast food lines to compete with the Catskeller. It also allows dorm residents to purchase the ten meal plan or the equivalent there of. There are two options available to the administration. The first is a declining balance system, and the second is a credit system. Either system will be beneficial as long as the quality of the food also increases. The new plan will cost a little more, but the school plans on increasing the meal plan fees anyway. Either way, we pay more, so we might as well get a new system which will be more benificial to the students. A new system will cause some of you students a little problem. Those of you who are unable to compute simple addition or understand the concept of a declining balance system, will undoubtedly be making a collect call to Florida, requesting that dear old dad send more money. To most students, the implementation of a new food service system is very appealing and long over due. I would like to close on a positive note, and I do have something good to say about the food service. The employees in Dodson have been very nice lately. I don't know the reason for the change, but it is appreciated. Now, if they could only reduce the grease content and open a health food line. 1 1 * | u 1 ;! ^x;ZMMMSi!gs:: :-r-fa:; ,;,;/" v;,^m%mw^ Presidential Todd Davis The student government association would like to welcome everyone back from Christmas break. We hope that you had a joyous holiday season. The spring semester brings an enO to a few programs which were started in the fall. Firstly, the designated driver program is into effect. This program has ten participating bars in Asheville. To participate in this program, one person in a group of three or more people voluntarily declares himself or herself a designated driver. This driver is then entitled to a free soda (providing that he or she doesn't drink alcohol) for the remainder of the time spent in the establishment. Secondly, another program called the National Consumer Savings Card is also in effect and will be distributed within the next week. With this card, students, faculty and staff members can obtain discounts or specials at 11 different business establishments in the Cullowhee-Sylva area. Finally and possibly the biggest of our accomplishments thus far, is that we just sent a food service proposal to Vice-Chancellor Dr. Stillion anO eventually Chancellor Coulter. We aren't sure of what actions will take place; but, we feel that this is a very big step toward improving the program. SGA wouia also like to congratulate all the new student senators as we look forwarO to another exciting semester. andv atkin r&$*' *r«->»JtVi£) Dear Mr. Editor, I'd like to call your attention to the significance of language and the importance of the use of particular words to convey the intended meanings of one person (or group) to another. Specifically, I refer to the article about Lavender Bridges in your January 23 issue. The only quotation in the article was carefully planned and the words were carefully selected with the intention to convey clearly that this orgainzation would NOT address "specific concerns of sexual orientation" more than broader concerns affecting all ndividuals in a society regardless of one's sexuality. I am adamant that if you are to quote an individual (anO in this particular case you were able to copy from a written quote) their specific selection of words must be considered and carefully conveyed. On behalf of Lavender Bridges, I will reiterate the specific and correct quote that was Wfestern Carolinian <7M) 227 7267 Western Carolina University P.O Box 66Cullowhee. North Carolina ixm The WESTERN CAROLINIAN is published weekly by the Publication Board of Western Carolina University. It is an independent student publication that receives its funding through student activities fees and advertising. Subscriptions are available at $16.00 a year ($20.00 Canada). The WESTERN CAROLINIAN is printed at the Waynesville Mountaineer in Waynesville, N.C. Editor in Chief Randy Rosenthal Business Manager Cheryl Davis News Editor Sherra Robinson intended for the article: "While Lavender Bridges specifically addresses the concerns of lesbian and gay students, attendance is not a reflection of sexual orientation. The group wishes to extend an invitation to any individual who is interested in learning more about the issues surrounding a lesbian or gay lifestyle. In addition, sexual orientation is not the only area of one's lifestyle. We assume labels only to begin defining and clarifying for ourselves and others who it is that we really are. For gay people, this means even creating new words or using old words for newer concepts. We are no more strictly sexual beings than bisexuals or heterosexuals. What we are though, has been overshadowed by the labels which have been used to create frightening myths about us. Sincerely, Co-Chair, Lavender Bridges Sports Editor Billy Graham Design Editors Jeffery Richards and Andy Atkin Photo Editor Ken Lauber Production/Circulation Manager Danell Arnold Copy Editor Barbara Rosenthal * LET'S SEE... I'LL HAVE SOME CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE, SUNNY'SIDE; UP... TWO STRIPS OF CORONARY DISEASE, CRISP... AND AM ICE COLD 6LASS OF ARTERY HARDENER.:/ Editorial Where have all the chilOren gone?...Without a doubt many are here in Cullowhee. AssheOoes from time to time, mother nature blew icy winds into our small college town and sprinkled a layer of snow on our hills. Snow here is not usually the menace it is up North. In fact, the rare occurrence is a treat for the young who sled down hills, build snow people and angels in their front yards. Unfortunately, there are some older children, university students, who use this natural wonder as an excuse for wanton mischief and destruction. Last Sunday night, university students lined University Drive and bombarded passing cars with stone laiden snowballs. "Harmless college pranks," you say? I'm afraid not. Several windshields were broken, paint damageO, and a young woman had to seek medical attention when shattered glass sliced her when a "snowball" hit her windshield. Some of the students involved with throwing snowballs were apprehended and could face suspension from the University. However, many others fled. This is not the type of individual that should be tolerated at an institution of higher education. Not only do these people disrupt our lives by throwing stone-snowballs, but they also break into Coke machines, destroy dorm furniture and perform other varied acts of vandalism. This costs us money. A lot of money. When a piece of broken equipment, or broken windshield is replaced, we pay for it out of our stuOent fees. The majority of us are paying the price for a few twisted souls. We should not let these people get away with stealing our time and money. We should not tolerate this type of behavior in our friends. Beyond this there is not much we can do. We might just console ourselves by recognizing that acting childish does not get one very far in the real world and that one day these people will be working for the rest of us, and then we can take action. AT LARGE By Ellen Goodman The poster on the wall of the Urban League office in Detroit carries a direct message from one black generation to another: "Don't make a baby if you can't be a father." A black machinist interviewed by a Washington Post reporter says forthrightly and for publication:"We're not living up to our ideals." "We" are blacks. A black community worker talks into the television camera and into millions of homes about the breakup of black families: "If the parent is 17 and 18, uneducated and unmotivated, fooling around, wanderin' around-what's the child going to learn?...See, I'm not even talking about racism, maybe later on we'll get back to that. But I think we're destroying ourselves." The old conspiracy of silence that kept blacks from criticizing their own in public has been broken. At first tentatively, and now openly, they have begun to air their troubles, especially family troubles. Even in front of white folks. A flurry of stories-updates, series, focus pieces on black Americans-accompanied the Martin Luther King Jr. celebrations last week. The most devastating of them was a Jan. 25 "CBS Reports" on "The Vanishing Family." They were, for the most part, filled with black voices, expressing an honesty and outspokenness that was a long, long time in coming. Two decades ago, an assistant secretary of labor named Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote a report on the Negro family, warning that: "The evidence, not final, but powerfully persuasive, is that the Negro family in urban ghettos is crumbling." The report was attacked by civil-rights leaders who feared that such talk would allow whites to blame blacks for black problems. Even Martin Luther King Jr. said, "It wasn't the right time." The entire subject became taboo, and the family kept crumbling. Today, the willingnessof blacks to speak among themselves and with white others is both a measure of trust and despair, of much progress and of terrible slippage. There has been enough progress that blacks don't fear being lumped with the "underclas." There has been enough slippage to make the situation of the poorest one-third of American blacks desparate and threatening. In 1965, when Moynihan wrote his first report, one-quarter of black births were out of wedlock. Now 58 percent are born to unmarried mothers. Nearly half of all black children under 18 live with one parent. When Moynihan, now a senator, returned to the same themes last spring, he said: "Social policy must flow from social values and not from social science." It is "values" that are being talked about by black leaders as well: The values lost to a subculture of 30-year-old grandmothers and young men who are disconnected "free-lancers." The values lost in a self-perpetuating and self-destructive life cycle of poverty. First grass-roots blacks and then black clergy and academics broke the taboo. The leadership followed. In 1984, the National Urban League and the NAACP held the first "Black Family Summit Conference." Now this subject is a centerpiece for one study after another and for mass media. A delicate centerpiece, When Bill Moyers previewed the "CBS Reports" to a press preview, he admitted the concern that it would feed racism. The relentless camera eye on young mothers with no sense of future and fathers with no sense of responsibility probably did reinforce ugly stereotypes for those who hold them. For that matter many were probably eager to quote the words of the black minister in the Washington Post series: "We must start by installing new values-or, rather, old values. We must start with the young boys who think that the way to be a man is to inject semen into a woman." The troubles of the black "third world" of American urban life are not exclusively those of values, or morals. There is a relationship between racism and the economy-the enemy without-and the erosion of self-esteem and family-the enemy within. But it is a mark of security that blacks are willing to take a risk, to outline the hopelessness, violence and despair of the underclass, without retreating to defensive rhetoric. And it's also a measure of the catastrophe. Towards the end of the CBS program, Carolyn Wallace, a black woman who heads a community center in Newark.N.J., said, "If Martin Luther King were alive, he wouldn't be talking about things he was talking about...He'd be talking about the black family," Now, the time is right, (c) 1986, The Boston Globe Newspaper Company/ Washington Post Writers Group united campus ministry submitted by The Rev. Sherry Mattson, Episcopal Campus Minister mum WEEKLY COLUMN OF UNITED CAMPUS MINISTRIES United campus ministries is comprised of six student centers on WCU's campus. We represent the following denominations: Baptist, Cullowhee Covenant, Episcopal, Presbyterian, Romon Catholic, and United Methiodist. Each group offers opportunities for student fellowship at their own centers, and we work together for united programs such as PERSPECTIVE. BAPTIST STUDENT UNION - Koininia House - 293-9030 COVENANT STUDENT FELLOWSHIP - 293-5950 PRESBY CENTER - 293-5523 CANTERBURY ASSOCIATION -Eposcopal Student center - 293-9542 CATHOLIC STUDENT CENTER - Speedwell Rd. - 293- 9374 WESLEY FOUNDATION - United Methodist Stundent Center-293-9214

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 original: 1986-01-30
  • Date digitized: 2019-03-21
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  • Pages: 16 pages
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  • Cullowhee (N.C.) -- Newspapers
  • Universities and colleges -- North Carolina -- Cullowhee -- Newspapers
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  • Jackson County (N.C.)
  • Cullowhee (N.C.)
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  • Western Carolina University
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  • HL_WesternCarolinian_1986-01-30_Vol51_No02
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