East Carolina University - Buccaneer Tecoan Yearbook (Greenville, NC)

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TITLE IX CAUSES NUMEROUS POLICY CHANGES ADMINISTRATION Editor: Susan Bittner Title IX, the portion of the Educa- tion amendments of 1972 forbidd- ing discrimination on the basis of sex, resulted in a flurry of activity at ECU this year as Women ad- ministra-officials worked to evaluate school programs, activi- ties, and policies. Twelve campus subcommittees worked with the Committee on the Status of Women to bring ECU into compliance with the 1975 amend- ment guidelines by July 21, 1976. Only Athletics was exempt from the 1976 deadline. In order to eliminate sex-dis- criminatory practices at ECU, of- ficials re-examined policies in the areas of admissions, financial aid, housing, employment, counseling, dormitory curfews, and atheletics. One notable change resulting from Title IX was made when cam- pus officials declared that all clubs which meet on campus and receive funds and faculty help must be open to membership to both male and female students. This stipula- tion caused particular problems for such organizations as Phi Sigma Pi, ECU ' S all-male honorary frater- nity. Athletics was perhaps most af- fected by Title IX provisions. Ac- cording to Dick Farris, assistant di- rector of ECU personnel. Title IX did not require that the university establish a female football team, nor did it require girls to be allowed on athletic teams where physical contact was involved. Instead, the law demanded that there be com- parable sports for women students. The law did not demand equal fund- ing for male sports, but it did stipu- late that the funds be sufficient for the operation of all sports. Residence hall policies for male and female students were under examination for possible discrepan- cies. One difference found was that the women ' s dormitories had more full-time counselors and adminis- trators than the men ' s. Another item receiving attention was dormi- tory curfews. In order to bring uni- formity to campus housing regula- tions, ECU officials may establish a campus-wide curfew and allow dorms to vote for their own cur- fews. Title IX legislation was also re- sponsible for changing the abortion loan to an emergency loan so that it could be used by members of both sexes.

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. 3 y: Tpep JccksPaxkini; ' ■ ° . )op .n, Hrusr . LOT I I P HMNC ml FIFTK •cnnVC GATHERED ALPNG ORDER TP DISPERSE ST7 ET5,p,jj jpj f :vn■ n p.- given here N FllTTP STREE- MAP OF DOmTCW GREENVILLE WHERE RIOT rCCUREC CM HALLOtEEM NIGHT 1975. • INDICATES USE CF TEAR CAS BT POLICE X X SHOWS WHERE SOME PEOPLE WERE ARRESTE J fr City Council members agreed that there was much confusion between the police and the crowd and that in the future steps would by taken to prevent such incidents from occuring. A suggestion was made by Mayor Percy Cox that a town common should be organized for festivities so crowds would not block the streets. The council re- fused to accept the recommenda- tion regarding Police Chief Cannon and asked the SGA to withdraw it. The council also felt that an ECU student on the council as a non- voting member would increase communication from the campus and the city. The SGA called for a boycott of the downtown merchants to begin Dec. 9, 1975, however all charges against persons, both students and non-students were dropped and the boycott was not held. For weeks after the riot, letters poured into the Fountainhead com- menting about the riot. Merchants felt that the police overreacted. Some alumni commented on the incident and they too felt that the police overreacted. One student. Bob Tyndall, felt that the riot was a disgrace to ECU students. Tyn- dall ' s letter was met with much op- position, as was a letter printed in the University of North Carolina ' s Daily Tar Heel declaring that ECU has no class . There was also a letter from the policemen involved supporting the actions of Police Chief Cannon. Some letters criti- cized the treatment of the incident in the paper. Although only half the persons involved had been ECU students, the Fountainhead, with the SGA, conducted an in-depth in- vestigation, much more thorough than the Greenville Reflector. After it was all over, and all the cases were dropped, the incident was still not forgotten. Much of the sentiment on campus was that the police had instigated the riot and had overreacted with the tear gas. Downtown the opinions were mixed, some people praising the police for their actions, other condoning and others condeming the actions. There was one feeling which was predominant everywhere and that was that such an incident never happens again. Halloween Riot it

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Opposite Page, Left: ECU Chancellor Leo Jenkins Right: Robert Holt, vice ctnancellor and dean of the university. Below: Administrators confer with Board of Trustees- Left: Chancellor Jenkins mingles with guests at a showing of his paintings at Menden- hall Student Center. Below: Col. Charles Ritchie Blake, assistant to the chancellor.