The Carolina Joebnal
-Student Publication Of The University Of North Carolina At Charlotte
Volume 1
CHARLOTTE, N. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1966
Number 11
Flunk-Out Number
Not Unusual—Grogan
LeCiette Blythe
Mecklenburg Author
Is Resident Writer
A well-known North Carolina
writer, LeGette Blythe, has been
named writer-in-residence for our
campus.
Blythe, the author of some
University
For um Will
Be March 2
Wednesday, March 2, has been
selected as the date for a forum
On “The University and the
Development of the Modern
City.”
The discussion wili be spon
sored jointly by the University
and the surrounding communi
ty. The university will provide
facilities and several firms and
organizations have indicated
financial support for the ven
ture.
Four speakers have been an
nounced for the event which will
also commemorate the anniver
sary of the passage of the bill
making Charlotte College the
University of North Carolina at
Charlotte.
Leo Molinara, the key figure
in the redevelopment of Phila
delphia, will speak on “The
Revitalizaticn of Cities.” Dr.
Daniel Grant, professor of po
litical science at Vanderbilt
University, will speak on
“Governing the Metropolitan
Community.” President Noah
Landale of Georgia State Col
lege will speak on “The Uni
versity in an Urban Communi
ty.”
Other local, state, and Univer
sity officials will participate in
the program, particularly Wil
liam McIntyre, planning director
for Charlotte-Mecklcinburg coun
ty. Mr. McIntyre has invited city
planners of North and South
Carolina to hold their convention
in Charlotte on the eve of the
University Forum so that mem
bers can attend the sessions.
eighteen books including
“Alexandriana,” “Hear Me, Pi
late,” “Mountain Doctor,’’
“Gift from the Hills,” and
“Man on Fire,” will maintain
an office here but continue
living in Huntersville,
In addition to being a success
ful novelist Blythe has won
acclaim as a dramatist with
“Shorjt Freedom,” and “Voice in
the Wilderness.”
As a student at UNC-CH,
Blythe was a member of the
original Carolina Playmakers
along with such notables as
Thomas Wolfe, Paul Greene,
Jonathan Daniels, and George
Denny. He received his A.B.
degree in 1921 and entered
Journalism. He served as liter
ary efhtor of the Chariotte
Observer for twenty years.
Blythe’s latest literary project
is the story of the 38th Evacua
tion Hospital, a Charlotte outfit,
in World War II.
It is expected that the noted
dramatist will begin the writing
of an outdoor drama for the
celebration of Charlotte’s 200th
anniversary while in residence
here.
As writer-in-residence Blythe
will arrange office hours during
which he will talk to student
and faculty members. In addi
tion he will give occasional
lectures.
University officials have ex
pressed the hope that Blythe’s
forthcoming drama can be pre
sented in an amphitheatre which
would be constructed on campus.
Blythe envisions a theater built
with permanet sets so that
concerts and many types of
dramatic productions could be
staged there. He forests the
time when a different historical
drama could be produced on the
campus each summer using
many of the University’s stu
dents
By BARBARA JAMES
Journal Staff Writor
In spite of exaggerated rumors
about a high number of students
who will not return for spring
semester, the registrars office
has reported that only about 250
students wili not be back.
This ioss is “not an uncommon
number”, according to Robert W.
Grogan, Director of Admissions
and Registration. He said it is
the “rule rather than the excep
tion” that most coileges lose
about this percentage between
the two semesters.
However, the loss wilt be
made up for by 374 students
who were not here fall semes
ter.
“Over half of the new group is
composed of our own students
readmitted” from a former se
mester here, Grogan said. “But
we won’t know how many others
wiii be added to them untii the
first of the week (February 7).
Since students can still get into
classes until Friday of that week,
we will wait until then to give
the final count,” said Grogan.
Surprisingly tew people trans-
fered from other colleges and
universities.
All 143 students who did not
Robert
W.
Grogan
preserve the proper quality point
average with respect to the
number of hours taken for read
mittance are eligible to return
next semester.
Grhgan expressed concern
that many mten students think
the draft board influenced the
number dropped from enroll,
ment. “All we do is compute
the grades and send them into
the Selective Service; then they
follow their own specifications
as to whether or not a boy is to
be drafted,” he stated.
“I feel the majority of students
I have talked to have been
shocked when they are finally
notified they cannot come back to
school for a while. The major
difficulty lies in their unfamili
arity with the regulations as
stated in the college catalogue.”
SASC To OK Speaker Rule
CHAPE3L HILD-In an article printed by the UNC-CH Daily
Tar Heel, Dr. William C. Friday, Consolidated University
President, was quoted as saying that the Southern Association
of Schoois and Colleges will accept the visiting speaker regula
tions adopted by the executive committee of the University of
North Carolina Board of Trustees.
The regulations require that the oppmdunity be provided
at the meeting, or later, to present speakers of different
points of view. Under the regulations only recognised student,
faculty and university organizations are authorized to invite
speakers. Ail statutes of the state relating to speakers and
the use of facilities for iq>eaking must also be obeyed.
The regulations v/ill be presented to the full board of trus
tees on Feb. 24.
At Long Last!
Parking Lots Will Be Paved By May 27
Crowder Construction Company
has received a $127,000 contract
from the University to pave all
unpaved parking lots on campus.
Bids were received in January
for both the paving and for
lighting. The low bid for the
lighting was submittied by Austin
Electric Company.
Paving will be done in seg
ments so as to leave sufficient
parking space available while the
work is in process. Although no
firm date has been set for
beginning the paving operation
it is scheduled to "oe completed
on or before May 27.
Upon completion of the paved
lots the campus parking facilities
will have a total capacity of over
eleven hundred cars.
Crowder Construction Company
is the firm which paved the
existing paved lots behind the
University Union and the en
trance road to tb® campus.
Two UNC-C
M en P ublish
Articles
In a nationally published mag
azine, “The Catholic Educational
Review,” Dr. Philip D. Vairo,
associate professor of education,
wrote an article criticizing high
school counseling programs.
Dr. Vairo said that high school
counseling is geared too much
toward college-bound students.
Alva W. Stewart, reference
librarian and author of numerous
articles on local government,
published an article in “National
Civic Review.”
Stewart predicted that by 1980
one half of North Carolina’s
counties will have full-time coun
ty iVianagers.
The revised requironents are;
A student whose quality point
ratio for one semester is less
than 1.2S on all hours attempted
at the University of North Caro
lina at Charlotte will be placed
on academic probation. If his
qualify point ratio on all hours
attempt^ at the University rf
North Cardina at Charlotte is
less than 1.25 in each of two
consecutive semesters of his en-
enrollment at ttie Univo’slfy will
be suspended.
At tfie end of the semester in
which a student’s earned •semes
ter-hour total reaches 26 semes
ter hours, including transfer
credit, he must have at least a
1,9 overall quality Mint ratio on
all hours attempted at the Uni
versity of North Carolina at
Charlotte or his enrollment at the
University will be suspended.
At the end of the semester in
wUch a student’s semester-hour
total reaches 52 semester hours,
including transfer credit, he must
have at least a 1.75 overall
qualify point ratio on all hours
attempted at the University rf
North Carolina at Charlotte or
his enrollment at the University
will be suspended.
After this point, a student is
expected to make at least a 2.0
qualify point ratio for each
semester. A student at this level
who makes less than a 2.0 ratio
in any given semester will be
placed on academic probation. If
he makes less than a 2.0 ratio ta
two successive semesters, his
enrollment at the University will
be suspended.
At the end of the semester in
which a student’s semester-hour
total readies 90 semester hours,
including transfer credit, he must
have at least a 1.9 overall qualify
point ratio on all hours attempted
at the University of North Caro
lina at Charlotte. Otherwise, his
enrollment at the University will
be suspended.
No student under suspension
will be readmitted to the Uni
versity if he does not completdy
satisfy the' entrance requirements
as stated elsewhM'e in this
catalog.
Otherwise, if a student is
suspended by reason of failure to
satisfy the requirements for con^
tinned enrollment a s stated
above, he will be ineligible for
readmission until the expiration
of the full semester following his
suspension. After that time, he
will be readmitted on academic
probation. If he obtains a 2.0
quality point ratio during his next
semester of enrollment, he will
be eligible to continue his enroll
ment at the University, under
probation.
The probation will be lift^
whenever his quality point ratio
is sufficient to satisfy the re
quirements for continued enroll
ment as stated above, provided
his quality point ratio reaches
that level within two semesters
or within the satisfactory cona-
plation of 15 semester hours of
work, whichever hapi^ns last. A
student whose probation has not
been lifted by that time, will not
be eligible to continue at the
University.
If a student fails to satisfy the
conditions of his suspension, or if
having once been suspended, he
again fails t6 satisfy the require
ments for continued enrollment,
he will nof agaiii be eligible tot
admission to the Universify,