The Register, 1985-03-22

              three more prank bombs threats occurred on campus monday bringing the total number of false threats to eight this school year students and faculty in crosby and barnes halls evacuated the buildings at 10:08 a.m after university police received a call from an anonymous person according to a report by officer c.h jenkins the caller sounded like a black male who stated this is a bomb threat for crosby and barnes halls the caller said the reason the other bomb did not go off posssibly referring the the bomb threat that oc curred last wednesday was because his girlfriend was in the building dent james a burney secretary eric bernard grif fin treasurer and patty jean cyrus miss senior students running for sga president are hebrew l dix on james p tharrington jr and curtis e williams candidates for vice presi dent of external affairs are thomas b horton damon c robinson and jodi felise walston year campaign speeches for class candidates will be held mon day and for sga candidates tuesday in harrison auditorium at 7 p.m students seeking sophomore class offices and running rnoppossed are beverly elaine threatt president roslin maddox vice president ardiss colli for excellence students strive candidates for senior class offices running unopposed are craig m joseph presi dent milton shaw vice presi james hill iii treasurer and xaren branham miss sophomore the office of secretary s vacant candidates running unop posed for junior class offices are curtis lee richardson secretary kevin todd corley treasurer vacant officers are president vice president and miss junior i think students have realized that bomb threats aren't funny said williams they don't want classes in terrupted we will make a suggestion to the faculty and ask them to pass it on to students to con tinue class outside in another building or reschedule classes for another day he said the department also plans to take other actions concerning the false bomb threats report but at 10:54 a.m officer jenkins received a call from another person who sounded like a white male and stated that a bomb was set to explode volume lvi number 21 north carolina agricultural and technical state university greensboro friday march 22 1985 & mam by frances ward ' news editor brenda poole special to the register students should strive for academic excellence in order to get jobs and be competive said cardiss collins u.s representative of the seventh congressional district chicago 111 the job opportunities are limited because technology has replaced far too many jobs she told about 500 students six-term con gress woman delivered the ad dress at honors day convoca tion wednesday in harrison auditorium the united states turns out 60,000 new engineers a year and japan is graduating just as many she said many foreign students are enrolled in engineering pro grams at schools in the u.s although technology has limited job opportunties f see convocation page 2 the american industry is facing a new kind of com petiveness - foreign competi tion and students must be ready for this change said collins faculty and greensboro residents in the next decade some 15 million americans will seek jobs the rev jesse jackson and other marchers cross the historic edmund peitus bridge at the beginning of the 20th anniversary inarch from selma to montgomery ala see commentary on page 3.(photo by cameron moody wwm mm>w aiiiitia complete awareness for complete commitment is campus of three bomb threats more target see elections on page 8 university gospel choir tune up thursday night beforegmiig'lon r this weekend photo by jay hall students vie for offices in gibbs hall according to a report by officer b tucker officers evacuated and sear ched the building but did not find the alleged bomb classes resumed at 11:50 a.m in an interview thursday chief of police john o williams said the department is taking precautionary steps with the telephone company in case the pranksters call again williams said he could not release detailed information about the precautions the bomb threats are becoming a nuisance to the department faculty and students he said precau tions had to be taken thirty-eight students are vy ing for class and student government association posi tions for the 1985-86 school two a&t officers and three greensboro police evacuated and searched the buildings but did not find any incendiary devices according to the by frances ward news editor