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Western Carolinian Volume 60 Number 04

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  • ' mr#T¥T> The Voice of the Catamounts Volume 60 Issue 4 Lettermen "Kicked Off" Football Team Anthony Quinn Blake Frizzell Editor-in-Chief Monday, August 29, WCU students Anthony Quinn, Criminal Justice major, and Shawn McNeill, Environmental Health major, were charged with felonies on counts of Breaking and Entering a Motor Vehicle, according to the Jackson County Clerk of Court office. Warrants were served to McNeill, a Senior from Fayetteville, NC, and Quinn, a Junior, also from Fayetteville, NC, Tuesday the 30th. Both went to jail with a $2,000 bond posted. McNeill and Quinn each hired a bondsman for $300, and were released. After their arrests, McNeill and Quinn, linebackers for the Catamount football team were both "dismissed" , from the team. They are also "no longer associated with the football program," according to Steve White, Sports Information Director. Head Coach Steve Hodgin spoke of the situation as "embarrasing to WCU," and claimed the two former players gave a "bad image" to the team. "They crossed a line you just can't cross," Hodgin said. Shawn McNeill Student Takes On Cherokee Government Gary Leigh Contributing Writer She stands at just over five feet with silver and black hair, which is usually tied in a pony tail. Her speech is at times candid, yet tame, with a subtleness accompanied by a Northeastern accent, rlowever, gathered together with a handful of associates, this tiny woman has taken on the entire Cherokee Tribal Government. WCU student Virginia Sexton is not new to the Cherokee political scene. In 1993, she helped stop the Department of Energy from putting a nuclear waste dump on the Cherokee Reservation by constantly petitioning the Cherokee Tribal Council. In July of 1994, Sexton won the Dr. Marketta Laurilla Free Speech Award for her outstanding accomplishments in fighting for First Amendment rights. "I just wondered how the Tribal Council could openly defy the laws," says Sexton with a sarcastic chuckle. At age fifty- one, Sexton is not even close to running out of steam. After obtaining her BS in Political Science, Sexton plans to pursue a law degree. As far as long range plans, Sexton says she would like to "return to the Reservation and represent the people as a lawyer." As a young adult Virginia took some classes at The University of Buffalo, but never obtained a degree. She met Mike Sexton, and they married in 1971. Mike was injured in a car Virginia Sexton accident in 1973, unable to work. When they could not afford a conventional home, the Sextons began to explore their alternatives. After thumbing through a magazine, Virginia found a solution to their housing problems. In the magazine was instructions for making a teepee from inexpensive materials. Out of economic necessity and a taste for adventure, Virginia and Mike constructed a teepee and lived in it for five years in western New York. In 1978, they moved to Alaska because, in the words of Virginia, "It seemed like the last frontier." After a brief stay in the same teepee in Alaska, they moved back to the Cherokee Reservation in 1979. They continued to live in the teepee for two years until the Cherokee Tribe built them a house. Virginia says the tribe built them a house, because "... people in Washington (D.C.) wondered why an old indian lady was forced to live in a teepee after all the money the Cherokee Tribe had been given." Virginia's ultimate goal is to revitalize the 1896 Charter. The 1896 Charter offers the Cherokee people the right to a Grand Council, which can only be called by the Chief. In a traditional Grand Council all of the adult members of the tribe gather at a specified place and vote, by a show of hands, on the issue being debated. Virginia would like to see a Grand Council be called in order to decide on the issue of Cherokee Gaming. September 8# 1994 Looking for great music, best prices? Try In Your Ear. • See Page 9 Cross country team begins season, looking good. • See Page 19 Enjoymelodies of the Bell Tower? You're not alone. • See Page 11 Students ticked off at Top of the Stairs... •See Page 6
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