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State ABC Board Approves Permit
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Front page cover of February 7th, 1969 Davidsonian issue.
Date
07-02-1969
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The News And Editorial Voice Of Davidson College Students
DAVIDSON COLLEGE, DAVIDSO N. N. C. 28036. FRlllAY. FEBRUARY 7, 19G9
NUMBER FIPTEEN
State
ABC Board
Approves Permit
Town Goes Wet
After 131 Years
(Staff Photo by Weems)
"I DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR ..• "
SGA President Peter Hobbie._take~· oath.
By NORWOOD POLAND
Staff Writer
After 131 dry years. the
Town of Davidson has rinal-
ly gone wet.
Beer and wine, which were
banned within fi\•c miles or
the campus by ttie collcge·s
1837 charter. can now be
bought and consumed legal -
ly within the town limits.
Mrs. Colleen Norkct, own.
er of the Davidson Grocery
on Deport Street, was in-
formed Tuesday that her
long.sought beer permit had
been granted by the Stllte
Board or Alcoholic Control in
Raleigh.
Mrs. Norket said her per-
President Hobbie: The SGA
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i\Vill Not Be A ;Failure, If ...
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Br DANNY WHITE
These are the words of the
will
"be to get things done,
Staff Writer
recently inaugurated presi-
and we won't worry about
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dent or the SGA. Peter Hob-
the , minor -technicalities or
~
MU thin~s continue _ to go
bie, who gave THE DAVID-
. student government _suc"h as
ear hke they ha ve, then
SONIAN· a forcast of his ad-
balance or power or other
t government will not
minis tration in an inter\'iew
legalis ms that some worry
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this wee~
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"As I said. Mu~ hy and
mit allows the sale or bever-
ages of up to
20 percent
alcoholic content.
"We hope to stay open lat-
er in the evenings now.'
Mrs. Norket said, "and to
open Sunday afternoon after
l
p.m.""
Opposition to ;\lrs. Nor.
ket's permit cnme from the
Davidson
Town
Council,
which passed a resolution
against beer and wine sales
las t November.
At
that time,
Mayor F. L. J ackson offered
to reimburse Mrs. Norket's
$25 fee
if
she would with-
draw her application for the
permit.
Mrs. Norket refused his of-
fer, nnd said then that she
indended to "see the pro-
cess through.•·
In December, when the
ABC board turned down the
grocet-'s request. Enrorce.
ment Directo_r Lee
H.
Phil-
lips said, "·The establish -
ment cannot be · considered
.i.
suitable place alld/ or lo-
cation for the sale of beer
and wine.··
.Mrs. Norket the1;1 hired J .
Melville · Broughton Jr. to
present her appeal of . the
board's decisi~n.
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··,Rusk~~its
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T~d~YJ;r,,,·
' Former Secretary of State Dc:111 Husk. '31,
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fit
will
be back on cam_{)US today and tomon ow- but
gtf·
only as
11
private citizen on vacation,"
no~
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SGA
Ratifies
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official college guest
t
Rusk
will
make no public statements, the
President's Office announced this week, b~t. he
is expected to meet "with a couple of pohttcal
science classes."
Rusk served as Secretary of State from 1961
until last month under Presidents John F. Ken-
nedy and Lyndon
8.
Johnson.
He and former colJege · President D. Gr!er
Martin have been longtime friends, and the maJ_or
purpose of his visit is to visit Dr. and Mrs. Martm,.
Martin and Rusk, who were a class apart,
were basketball teammates, and recently the two
have met yearly when Davidson played basket-
ball near Washington.
Rusk's vacation is said to be the first since
he assumed the State Department post eight
years ago. The last time he was in David~on w~s
1962, a brief visit highlighted by a surpnse tnp
to Johnston Gymnasium, where the ex-cager sank
several set shots.
RUSK AND MARTIN
. old frie-nds
lly a narrow m·argin, the
s t11dC'nt hody ratified y est er -
da y
an amendment to the
SG A
Conl';titution mnking the
Senate Executive Comm ittC'C
.-,ppointive rathe-r than elect-
ed by the- Senate. The \·otc
was
about
490-30.
Although the vote
w ,H
overwhellTilngly in favor
o f
the change, only
a bare
rlw j .
orlty of the SGA \·oted . f-~o r
an amendment to pa ss,
at
least a majorily of the SCA
must vote, and of t hose vot -
ing. at lea s t two.thirds mus t
vote in fa vor .
The amendm ent was a p-
proved by the constitutiona l
convention in written ballot-
ing late Wednesday night and
in the early hours of Thurs-
day morning after the con-
vention had adjourned for
la ck or
a
quorum.
Appeals Court Bans Campusing,
Censures Senate Election L,aws
By
PAUL ROWLAND
Slaff
Writer
An advisory writ limiting
room
searching,
banning
campusing. and limiting col.
·le~e jurisdiction to on-cam-
pus activities, and a writ
cenSuring the Senate for cer•
tain procedures and calling
for reform have been re -
leased by the Court of Ap-
p~als.
The writs, which filled fi\'e
legal-sized pages, we re de-
li\·ered Wednesday to the
ca mpus judiciary, the Senate
and Denn of Sttidents Rich-
ard
C.
Burts Jr. ·
The main provisions of th e
writ of order to the Senate
included the critici sms that
election bylaws are "an un-
godly mess" and that SGA
record keeping is "incom.
prehensible at bes t and . a
farce a t worst."
The writ also ordered the
Senate
to ·
obey the cons titu -
tion with respect to appoint -
ment. which the court says
is an executive. not a legisla-
tive power except
in
appoint-
ment of
a
cons titutional con-
\:ention and of Sen~te omcerS
a nd committees.
Another · ma in provision
ordered reapportionment or
th~,.,Se~~te so that represen-
by 20 percent.
as
opposed to
the present varillnce of up
to 62
percent. By provision
or the writ.
the
Class or
'69.
married,
and
off-campus
students are
to
be represent-
ed.
Concerning
Article
IV,
Section 6b,
the
court said,
".:ni,'i
clause means that no
student possessions or
re-
sidences may be searched