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I CATS Take Third ON THE AIR WITHP0WER9VS JAMES SARDONE AND GENE HARRIS nn ° Entertainment - Page 6 THE SECOND FRONT EXAMS. EXAMS!! Consecutive Baseball Title Sports - Page 11 TIM BARTON LOOKS AT PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFULS JESSIE JACKSON AND JACK KEMP Hfli^L \ v^X^ M^y iTB^ Sffl I I I f\ I n VOICE OF THE STUDENTS Volume Fifty-two Number Twenty-five Monday, May 4,1987 (704) 227-7267 P.O. Box 66, Cullowhee, N.C. 28723' ■■■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ! — «!■■■ !■■■■ ■■■■■.^■■.■■H IIH !!■ ~ COLLEGES ON TAP The Competitive Edge Starts Early. Some masters of business students at U. of Pennsylvania's Wharton business school have been crossing out names and inserting their own on coporate interview schedules this spring. They've also ripped outaualification lists in orderto make it harder for other students to prepare for the interviews. As a result, students can no longer schedule their interviews. What About instant Pretzels? A food scientist at the U. of Georgia claims to have created flakes that, when added to water, turn into beer about 36 hours later. It rivals any imported brew, he says, and could save beer companies and retailers millions each year in shipping and storage costs. The Problems Continue At Southern Methodist U., as rumors of a prostitution, cheating, and grade-fixing scheme for athletes surface. The school has hired an investigator to look into allegations that SMU boosters, with the help of students, set up the scheme. According to one official, a SMU student said she was paid $400 per weekend to sleep with a football player. The Protection Connection, a condom delivery service at Texas Tech U., is back in business. The business ran into zoning problems when its owner- a Tech student- ^rafed out of his home. But city officials granted him special permission, allowing the delivery service to be considered a "customary home occupation." Whose Car Do They Ride Home In? A "Suicide Row" contest, held every Wednesday in a New Orleans bar, is drawing students from far and wide. For $7.50, customers try to consume 19 drinks in three hours. The rules: no eating and no throwing up. The prize: bragging rights. Swaying To The Music has taken on a new meaning at the U. of Wisconsin. During aerobics classes in the new sports facility, the building seems to be moving with the beat. Engineers are studying the problem, which occurs when up to 300 people jump and twist in unison. Follow That Water col or. Brigham Young U. officials are searching for 950 valuable pieces of missing art that may have been inadvertently removed form campus. So far, they've traced 100 pieces of missing art in museums and galleries around the country. BYU has hired private investigators to coordinate the search. Godzilla Vs. Crack," a parody contrasting the dark crime drama of the '40s and '50s with a spoof of the modern drug scene, made its film debut at the U. of Kentucky. Created by a UK student, the 50- minute film shows Godzilla terrorizing the campus and subsequently developing a chemical abuse problem. Sow Sweet It Is. The sounds emanating from a pigpen are music to the ears of a Virginia Commonwealth U. professor. He records his hogs' hollerings and transforms them into music. Some of the songs he's written include: "Swine Lake," "Thou Swill," and "Roadhog." Searching Backpacks And Purses to find a missing test is legal and within U. of Texas rules, says a UT inquiry. Two students filed complaints after a professor asked a teaching assistant to search students' backpacks and purses after a test was discovered missing. Officials say the professor's actions were "within the scope of his obligations" concerning scholastic dishonesty. Graduate Students who work as teaching assistant at ihe U. of Califomia- Berkely are employees and have the right to unionize, a judge has ruled. But research assistants, who're paid a salary to work their own studies, aren't employees. The decision, if it survives an appeal, could reach the California Supreme Court. Manning the TOW — Mark Haskert Photo Western Carolina University cadets (from left) Eric Cook, Mark Miller and Greg Webb look over a tube-launched, optically-tracked, wire-guided (TOW) missile launcher during last Saturday's ROTC Day activities at WCU. The launcher was one of several pieces of military equipment on display. Top Students Honored Western Carolina University presented awards to Its top students Wednesday, April 29, at Its annual Awards and Honors Night program In the Grandroom of Hinds University Center. Chancellor Myron Coulter made opening remarks, and Dr. James E. Dooley, vice chancellor for development and special services, presided. Academic awards, listed by school and department, are as follows: School of Arts and Sciences Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation certificates - Sheila Ann Davidson of Kinston, a sophomore environmental health major; Richard G. Griffin of Ashevilie, a sophomore natural resource management major; and Douglas M. Eye of Cullowhee, a political science major. Art department - Outstanding Service Award: Thomas J. Kerr of High Point; Senior with Highest QPR: Betsy Waters; and $500 scholarship awards; J. Kevin Kirkpatrlck of Clyde, senior; Susan Shippey of Cullowhee, Junior; R. Christopher Hunter of Brevard, sophomore; Gary Todd Lavender of Ellenboro, freshman. Biology department-Clinton F. Dodson Award: Stephen Swanger of Waynesville; Don L. Yopp Merit Awards: Jeffrey Strawn of Marshvllle, Jay Strum of Franklin and Susan Lee Strum of Franklin. Chemistry department-American Chemical Society Award: Richard Rogers of Fort Walton Beach, Fta.; American Institute of Chemists Award and FA Hodges Award: Daniel Lorey II of Cullowhee; Outstanding Freshman Chemistry Award: Myron Lewis of Hurricane, W.Va.; High Achievement Freshman Chemistry Award: Michael Brent Parker of Hayesvllle and Melanie Danette Sparks of Mount Airy; Outstanding Student in Physics Award: Roger Clark Hunt of Canton. Earth Sciences and Anthropology department-Outstanding Anthropology Graduate: Cynthia S.L. Mcintosh of Hayesvllle and John Timothy Barton of Cedar Mountain; Rand McNally Award for Outstanding Geography Major: Gallya T. Glawson of Sylva; and Estwlng Award for 500 STUDENTS HONORED Page Four SGA Supreme Court Rules President- Elect Colby Ineligible VP-Elect Sizemore to assume duties as student body president; new elections slated for fall By ERIN MILLNER NEWS EDITOR A hastily assembled SGA Supreme Court convened on April 30 at 5:15 p.m. to determine if the candidate elected to the post of SGA president by the student body of WCU was actually eligible to run for the office. A week prior to this meeting, and only three hours before Everett Colby was to assume the office of SGA president, Chris Geis, Colby's opponent in the election, filed an official injunction to prevent Colby from taking the oath of his new office. Geis based his appeal on candidacy requirements found in the original copy of the Student Government Constitution. Geis, who served as SGA's 1986-87 vice-president, and who suffered a turn-around in voter opinion in the 1987 election, said he stumbled upon the original constitution, dated 1971, while performing duties in his capacity as vice-president. The candidacy requirements which were uncovered by Geis appeared in Subsection 4, Section 2, Article 4, of the governing document and stated in effect that candidates for SGA president must have completed two semesters, not including summer school, before their election, to be an eligible candidate. However, this stipulation regarding the length of enrollment for presidential hopefuls does not appear in the copy of the 1981 Constitution, the constitution the association now refers to for its procedural guidelines. Since Colby had only been enrolled at WCU since June 1,1986, he did not meet all the requirements for candidacy as outlined in the 1971 Constitution. The court was faced with determining whether these requirements should prevent Colby from taking his elected office. The justices who served on the Supreme Court were picked by Cliff Clark - the 1986-87 SGA president, Matt Barden, SGA Public Defender and counsel for Everett Colby, and Bill Ritter, SGA Attorney General and counsel for Chris Geis. Nine names were presented to SGA senators for selection of the seven persons who would serve on the court. Each of the nine potential justices presented their credentials atthespecial meeting held April 28, and were questioned by the senators present to ascertain their objectiveness. The seven persons selected were: Bill Blanton, who would serve as the court's Chief Justice, Ashley Wright, Ed Jaggar, Tracy Gasparini, Paul Buckner, Jimmy Black and Belinda Parker. At the hearing itself, evidence was presented by the Attorney General, Bill Ritter, to uphold Geis' claim that Colby was ineligible to serve as president in spite of his victory at the polls. The base of the See COLBY INELIGIBLE Page Four Bell to speak to '87 graduates Terrel H. Bell, former U.S. McCreary will present 195 handicaps should use the Secretary of Education, will be candidates from the School of northeast upper entrance the speaker Saturday, May 9, at Business, Dean Gurney E. (adjacent to the stands of E.J. Western Carolina University's Chambers will present 157 Whitmire Stadium). 1987 spring commencement candidates from the School of Degree candidates will exercises. " Education and Psychology, assemble for the processional The exercises will begin at 2 Dean Thomas F. Connelly Jr. will on the west side of the building, p.m. in the Uston B Ramsey present 98 candidates from the facing Highway 107, to enter on Regional Activity Center. School of Nursing and Health the lower level. Rehearsal will The pre-commencement Sciences, Dean J. Dale Pounds be from 9 until 10:30 a.m. concert, featuring WCU's will present 127 candidates Saturday, beginning on the Symphony Band directed by from the School of Technology arena floor. Candidates should John T. West, will begin at 1:40 and Applied Science, and enter through the west p.m. Dean Anthony A Hickey will entrance. More than 900 students present 164 candidates from Dr. and Mrs. Coulter will were candidates for graduation the Graduate School. host a reception for the as of April 24, pending final The exercises are open to graduates and their families at examinations and review. anyone, a release from the the Chancellor's Residence Chancellor Myron L. Office of Public Information from 4 until 6 p.m. after the Coulter will preside at the stated. There are no admission exercises. ceremonies and John H. Tickets, the release went on to Faculty marshals for the Wakeley, vice chancellor for say. exercises are Stephen Owens academic affairs, will preside at Those attending the (chief), Barbara Bennett the presentation of degree exercises, except for (deputy chief), Duane Davis, candidates. participants, should enter at Don Livingston and John Interim Dean John L.Bell will one of four upper concourse McFadden.and professors present 163 candidates for level doors, according to emeritus Quinn Constantz, I degrees from the School of Arts directives issued by the Gerald Eller, Patsy Scott and and Sciences, Dean John F. organizers. Persons with William Scott. ^6 M IK _M ^Ht mW Terrel H. Bell The Western Carolinian Striving to he the best we can be. W< ords, once they're printed, have a life of their own. — Carol Burnett

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: 1987-05-04
  • Date digitized: 2019-04-09
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