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Cats still atop Conference despite weekend losses — sports Pg. 6 Pick of the flicks . . . Fern Gully — Features Pg. 4 The Western Carolinian .pynranMifljffiJl WMHgjKB, M|Uj|Kai Letters to Editor 3 Student on Street 3 Counselor's Corner....4 Out of Bounds 6 Sports Scoreboard 7 Intramural Scene 7 Volume 57, Number 25 Wednesday, April 15, 1992 Cullowhee, North Carolina WEDNESDAY, April 15, 1992 Briefly Campus Watch Dancers, twirlers, flags The WCU Dancers, twirlers, and flag corps tryouts will be held on April 29 in the Music-English Bandroom on the first floor of the Music-English building. To prepare for the dance tryouts, have a 21/2 to 3 minute routine and learn a short combination for audition. Formore information, call the Music office at 227-7242. Wood fired pottery Douglass Rankin and Will Ruggles will have their wood fired pottery on display in the Chelsea Gallery, University Center, through May 7, 1992. Summer internships VMC, an international firm, has summer openings for all majors. $10.05/hour starting salary. Call the office nearest your home town: Charlotte - 704-556-6565 Raleigh-919-851-7422 Greensboro-919-333-1519 Durham - 919-549-4921 Winston-Salem - 919-631-6808 Hickory - 704-323-4665. "'Season of the Witch'" "The Season of the Witch: Symbolism, Censorship and Sin - - Reflections on the First Amendment." Andrei Codrescu, a national public radio commentator, will be a guest lecturer on Thursday, Apr. 16 at the Jubilee Community Center at 46 Wall Street in Asheville. The topic will center around the First Amendment and is free of admission charges. Robbie turns over a new leaf Robbie gets an old-fashioned butt-whippin' in the billiards tournament and provides a collage of humor in various forms. For further intrigue, See Sports pg. 6. IEEE Club meeting The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers willhold their club meeting at 5:15 p.m. on Thursday, Apr. 23 in room 253 of the Belk building. Regis & Kathie Lee contest If you are graduating in May, you are elible to enter the Graduation Makeover Contest to be held on live TV. Send name, address, ph. number, age, school name, post-grad, plans & photo. For address, call (503) 622-4811. SGA election process questioned Suzanne Kendall News Writer Jennifer Mann News Editor In the weekly SGA meeting there was much animosity concerning Resolution 1450, an act to appro ve the S pring 1992 SGA election results. The problem centered around the presidential racebased on concerns about the voting process. "The election process doesn't seem clean," says Senator Jeff Sykes. For example, senators would have liked to have seen the requirement of student IDs in or der to verify proof of voter identification. Senators claimed that one of the SGA Presidential candidates engaged in cheating while campaigning. Several senators asked if it was possible to call a re-vote because of discrepancies in the campaigning and voting processes. Nolan Davis, Chairman of the Elections Commission, responded by saying he needed individuals with concrete evidence before any actions could be taken against a candidate. "Wc need 'real' people to come in who know what happened," said Davis. Finally, the senators brought up the fact that the elec tion results were so close. The results indicated that the newly elected President, Tommy Laughter, won by two votes against his opponent Cole Wildman. Senators felt that there should be a certain percentage the candidate should win to be elected. Davis said that he is willing to hear any complaints regarding the election process. In voicing their complaints, senators stressed that it is their responsibility to represent the students' interests. "SGA represents the student body and they were not served appropriately by voting in a president who won by un- See "SGA" Pg. 2 Re-count results in same outcome Jennifer Mann News Editor A re-count of the votes from last week's SGA election was held on Friday, Apr. 10, and thcrcsults remain thesame. Presidential candidate, Cole Wildman, requested the re-count for that race only. "I requested this only because the numbers were so close," said Wildman. In the recount Laughter won 539 votes and Wildman won 537. Nolan Davis, Chairman of theElcclions Commission, was in charge of the re-count and Dr. Stillion, Vice Chancellor for Student Development, was in attendance. "I think this was a very fair election and Nolan did an excellent job," said Wildman. Wildman has decided to leave the election as it is and no one else has decided to contest the votes. "You have to give credit where credit is due," said Wildman. "Tommy had 40 of his people out there from his fraternity all day. I was proud of him although it was very frustrating." If she had to do it over Carolinian pnoto by Hunter Pape 'Judge' John Connet hears arguements in the recent mock rape trial sponsored by the Student Committee Against Acquaintance Rape (SCAAR). again, Wildman said he would have had more of her sisters out on election day to recruit votes. "I gave it my best shot. I stand by everything I've said and everything I've accomplished." Wildman will run for an SGA office again because she is planning to graduate next May. Wildman docs plan to help train the new vice-president, Shannon Elliot. "I'll help outin SGA next year, but I'll not be actively involved," said Wildman. Some people were surprised by the results of the Elliot/ Dillow vice-presidential race. Wildman was not. "That was not a surprise to me because Shannon had a lot of support out there, and he's very intelligent," said Wildman. Next year Wildman plans to be more involved in her sorority, Alpha Chi Omega, and to gain back her personal life. "It was a personal let down to me but now I need to concentrate on things I tended to neglect while in office." said Wildman. Title IX review sparks voluntary correction A Western Carolina University "voluntary corrective action plan" developed duringlhe course of a Title IX compliance review of WCU's athletic programs assures the university's compliance with federal regulations that prohibit discriminatory practices against women's athletic programs. That finding is contained in a 32-page letter to WCU Chancellor Myron L. Coulter from the Atlanta Regional Office of the U.S. Office for Civil Rights which announced a year ago it would undertake the review of WCU's athletic programs. The review covered athletic financial assistance, whether the selection of sports and levels of competition equally and effective accommodate the interests and abilities of both sexes, whether other benefits and services for male and female athletes are equivalent, and support services and recruitment of student athletes. The financial assistance program is in compliance with Title IX requirements, according to the letter from Archie B. Meyer Sr., Regional Civil Rights Director. In other areas, OCR said benefits, opportunites, and services for men and women athletes were equivalent in some areas but not equivalent in others. It said, however, that WCU's voluntary corrective plan, submitted in March by the university's legal counsel, Richard Kucharski, would correct the inequities. The OCR review, Meyer said, showed that while women are under-represented in the intercollegiate athletic programs in comparison to their numbers in the total student body and that while a "history and continuing practice" of programs expansion could not be shown, "their interests and abilities were equally and effectively accommodated by the current program and levels of competitions." Men and women benefits, opportunities and services, OCR said, were equivalent in travel and per diem allowances, opportunity to receive tutoring and the assignment and compensation of tutors, the provision of locker rooms, practice and competitive facilities, and in support services. They were not equiva- lcntinprovision and maintenance of equipmentand supplies, scheduling of games and practice times, opportunity to receive coaching and the assignment and compensation of coaches, provision of medical and training facilities and services, provision of housing and dining facilities and services, publicity, and in recruitment of student athletes. The university's seven- point plan, already begun and to be fully implemented by Sept. 15, 1993, Meyer said, "will remedy the violations" of the federal regulations implementing Title IX. Title IX is the 1972 federal legislation requiring equivalency in thebenefits,opportunities and services provided in intercollegiate athlet- See "Title IX" Pg. 2 Educational systems to be discussed Educational systems in Japan and Germany will be discussed Thursday, April 23, at the Raymond M. Ainsley Annual Lecture in Educational Administration at Western Carolina University. Hiroshi Jo, representative director at Tennessee Meiji Gakuin, the first accredited Japanese high school in the United States, and WCU professor Paul Haberlan will speak at the program in the Hospitality Room of the Ramsey Regional Activity Center. The Ainsley Lecture is free and open to the public. Jo's talk on "Leading Japanese Schools" will be at 1:45 p.m. The Sweetwater, Tenn., school enrolls 132 Japanese students, two thirds from families living in Japan and the rest from elsewhere outside the United States. The school opened in 1989 and its mission is to provide Japanese students with an international experience, specifically in an English-speaking society. Jo has worked with private schools in Japan, and more recently he has worked in Chicago as assistant to the counsul- general of Japan and as an accountant with Sun Electric Corp. Before becoming director of the Tennessee school, he was treasurer of the Japan-North American Commission on Cooperative Mission in Tokyo and New York. The program begins with registration at 1 p.m., followed by opening remarks by WCU associate professor Joe Walters and introductions by Franklin Parker, distinguished visiting professor. Parker is coauthor of the 1991 book "Education in England and Wales," and he has taught comparative and international education during his 35-year education career. Haberland will speak at 3 p.m. on "German Educational Systems." Haberland, a member of WCU's modern foreign languages faculty since 1974, has taught German language, literature and culture at the university level for 32 years. He holds a bachelor's degree from Havcrford College, master's and doctoral degrees in German from Johns Hopkins University, and he has received three Fulbright grants for study abroad. Haberland's talk will be followed by a question-and-an- swer period and a social hour that begins at 4:30 p.m. The lectures are in honor of Raymond Ainsley, WCU professor emeritus who retired in 1973 as head of the Department of Administration, Curriculum and Instruction. More information may be obtained from Casey Hurley, Department of Administration, Curriculum and Instruction, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, N.C. 28723, telephone 227-7415. Tease your tastebuds April 20 Dave McCaskill News Writer On Monday, April 20, Dr. B.J. Dunlap's Consumer Behavior class will be sponsoring a taste test competition. Pizzajcllo, and salsa arc among those foods available for sampling. The participants will be asked certain questions involving perception, attitude, and beliefs towards particular foods. "I'm sure we will have a good turn out and it will be an educational experience particularly for marketing majors," says Amanda Seal, a member of Dunlap'sclass. The taste test will be held from 12:30-1:50 on the UC lawn. The class has been broken down into approximately eight different groups; each one will be responsible for preparing food and recording participants' reactions. These students will receive a grade on this so it is important that participants be as open and honest as possible. Both faculty and students are welcome to take part. "Earlier on in the spring our Consumer Behavior class did a survey in conjunction with WLOS TV-13 and wc are pleased that we arc given another opportunity to another public survey "says Seal. "This project should also enhanceour understanding of how consumers pcrcei ve products and some commonly held beliefs."

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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