The Register, 1996-10-16

              the country's emale sheriff barrett visits a&t to discuss safety concerns hrst black during the first sga full body meeting sga officials and students discussed the motion otmzzg the homecoming concert from corbett arena above to the greensboro coliseum by purity blake staffwriter to the greensboro coliseum the first full student body meeting in september soon after the sga decided to have the homecoming concert at the greensboro coliseum for the first time in four years although the de cision has been made for about a month there is still some who op pose the move many students at the meet ing protested the moving of the con cert which turned the full body meeting into a two hour discussion on why or why not leave corbett arena for the more spacious greens see barrett page 11 when asked why he was see homecoming age 13 not our own and we've kept fami lies that were not our own we ought to be your soul mates your friends and your lovers the solution she said could start with women themselves boro coliseum the sga is selling you out one student stood up and said we can't have aggie pride at the coliseum another student said demand respect sga wanted feedback before you ask someone to respect you demand respect for yourselves she said women you have to find your voice don't worry about the fact of being ashamed of what may have happened to you the cycle may not break until you start talk a large portion of barrett's remarks attacked the problem of crimes against women a mother of two she emphasized the need for men to respect women we are the ones who have kept family and home despite the things that are going on in the world she said our female an cestors worked in kitchens that were source that's from me and you barrett said build a web that in cludes each other you have a respon sibility towards this goal students did not escape her attention in your dorms talk to each other she said in your apart ments talk to each other reach out to your community jacquelyn h barrett a char lotte native who was elected sheriff of fulton county georgia in 1992 spoke directly to the theme of the eighth annual campus safety con ference building a legacy net working to create a safer campus and community safety can come from one america's first elected black female sheriff led the list of speakers as campus and law enforcement of ficials met to discuss safety issues oct 3 at the memorial student union ballroom gantt shares his views during rally to promote student voting by towanda leach copy editor campus briefs 2 campus news....2-3 9-13 crime report 2 editorials 4-5 r eatures 6-8 ocal/state briefs 10 rhe newsroom 5 sports 14-15 editorials/columns rchie clark 4 irian holloway 4 by parker 8 eteria harvey gantt candidate for u.s senate attended a student rally on campus last tuesday in his honor to encourage students to get in volved and vote the rally was held in the lower level of william's caf however brodie and the rest of the sga decided change of lo cation would be beneficial the decision to move the concert had not been made before the meeting brodie said we wanted to present the idea to the stu dents so we could get some feed back before we voted we knew some people were not going to be happy the stu dent government association presi dent rasheed-ali cromwell said everyone has a long term solution but nobody wants to talk about what'll we do until we get there what we wanted was for everybody to have an opportunity to go the amount of students allowed in corbett has been decreasing ever since 1990 when you count the number of complementary tickets given to the promoter and the radio stations we were going to end up with about 4,500 tickets for 8,000 stu dents ference gantt said we need a senator to fight and that is exactly what he is promising students if elected gantt said he will work on a proposal that will allow a 10,000 tax deduction for tuition and for job training programs gantt also supports job training programs for students that have already gradu ated and are having difficulty find ing a job gantt also wants to work on a plan that will allow 50 percent of tuition to be covered by pell grants the greensboro coliseum gantt discussed many of his policies on education as well as other controversial issues i will go to washington in january when you send me there poised and positioned to make a dif see gantt page 4 since 1894 volume 71 no aggie football begin season 4-0 page 8 sga decide homecoming concert will be held at greensboro coliseum some students argue controver sial move will detract from the homecoming atmosphere and is just a step closer towards a merger between north carolina a&t and unc-greensboro by brian holloway editor-in-chief ing cone vice president of external fairs toby brodie must have felt target at a firing range when rt be moved from corbett he proposed that the 1996 homecom ren