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The Carolina Journal Reporters ‘Vacuum Cleaner Mind’
RICKY R. DANCY. Editor I-
Finally Runs Out Of Creative Dust
RICKY R. DANCY. Editor
HOWARD PEAKRE. Associate Editor BARBARA JAMES. Feature Editor
DON SPRIGGS. News Editor JIMMY PRICE, Sports Editor
PHOTOGRAPHERS; Chief, Tommy Estrldge, Parris Hastings
STAFF; Hugh J. Horsley, Ellison Clary, Erlene Mabrey, Gloria Roberts, Mary Morgan,
Ava Newman, Sally Hagood, Kearney Smith, Betty Craig
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 1966
Legislative Action
Lacks Uniformity
The Student Legislature is on another “kick.” Now
they want to remove all qualifications for candidates for
student offices. They want to remove the qualifications for
all of the positions—except for their own.
The University Union has been asked by the legislature
to waive the qualifications for all four of the elective
positions.
The Journal has been asked to waive the qualifications
for editor.
The Union asks that the candidates for the positions of
chairman, vice-chairman, secretary, and treasurer have
served as the chairman of a Union Committee prior to their
election.
The Journal asks that a candidate for the position of
editor have served one semester in any capacity on the
staff.
We can’t speak for the Union, but we think our
requirement is a valid one.
Because our campus does not offer journalism, we have
to learn by trial and error. To reduce the probabilities of
error we think that the editor should have been associated
with the paper, even if for only one semester, so that he
can learn from the mistakes of others.
According to those legislators who advocated this
measure, if the qualifications were waived, a whole flock of
interested and qualified persons would come forward. This
may be true, but we doubt it. If these unidentified students
are so interested, why haven’t they answered the Journal’s
repeated pleas for additional staff members. It is our belief
that someone who isn’t interested enough to join the staff
wouldn’t be interested enough to put forth the needed
effort to insure that there would be a Carolina Journal.
Even so, we are carefully weighing the Legislature’s
recommendations.
We are considering the recommendations because we
realize that there is always room for improvement. For
example, the possibility of co-editors needs someone’s
attention. Also of the area of compensation for the editor
and his executive staff needs study.
Because we realize that there is room for improvement,
the Journal has solidly backed the establishment of a
publications board. There is a meeting scheduled for today
which should bring such a board closer to a reality. There
will, however, be some complications to deal with
concerning this board. One major one will be whether or
not the board should be made up entirely, or mostly, of
students or whether the faculty and administration should
have the larger representation. The Journal hopes that the
larger representation will be faculty members whose
assistance would be of great help to the campus
publications.
The Journal thanks the legislature for the interest
shown by that body toward the newspaper. But we think
we’ll wait for the publications board. This board will be
freer from politics and personal animosities than the
legislature could ever be, and we feel that they will have
only the best interest of the newspaper in mind. At least we
hope they will.
Luck Was On Our Side
It sure was nice to see some people at one of the UNC-
C dances. For a change, there were more dancers than band
members.
But one thing botheredi us.
In order to assure a large turnout, the Union voted to
open the dance to the general public. The motive was two
fold.
First, the sponsoring organization paid a very large
sum to bring the two popular groups here. It simply didn’t
want to go into the red. Secondly, the Union didn’t want to
have an embarrassing situation on its hands by having just
a few people out for this very expensive entertainment. The
simple solution to these worries was to open the dance to
the public.
As things turned out, the solution did not backfire. But
it could have.
’iVe don’t want to see this policy set up permanently.
The editorial page cartoon at right, we believe, makes our
point.
General consensus has it that
the average mild-mannered re
porter not only zips in and out of
phone booths, but that he plum
mets himself before a souped-up
typewriter complete with candel
abra and simply cuts loose with
creation. Well, statistics lie. You
can’t even accept the Kinsey
Reports at face value any more.
In reference ta the original
hypothesis, unless you have the
gift of gab like an Ed Freak-
ley, you sit at the typewriter
till “beads of blood” break out
on your forehead.” And that
quote comes from a pro. His
name was Damon Runyon.
The usual series of events, if
you’ve ever been a reporter or
any kind of writer, is something
like this;
Brimming over with good in
tent, you hasten to your machine.
Better write a rough draft first.
You crank up your pencil and
notice it could use a little
sharpening before you empty out
the contents of your vacuum
cleaner of a mind on paper.
Some oil would help that rasping
noise in the sharpener though. If
you only had some oil.
So it’s over the river and
throu^ the woods to the wiggley
piggley store to buy some.
“No, sir, I don’t want WessMi
oil, sun tan oU, sunflower oil,
or mineral oil,” you explain to
the cashier.” “Quite simply I
need a can of oil for my pencil
sharpener.”
All this is done with utmost
urgency because y'on know if
too much time is wasted be
forehand, all your ideas might
go in one mind and out the
other.
Rushing home from the wigg
ley piggley with your purchase,
you dash back to your notebook
to scribble down some portion of
your treasury of snappy anec
dotes. ’There wasn’t any oil for
your pencil sharpener at the
store, so you settled for one of
those Blick pens. You know the
kind — it operates at peak
performance on the bottom of a
skate, or after it’s plunged
through a concrete wall by way
of an electric drill. But on
ordinary paper it turns frigid.
Maybe if it’s held over a
cigarette lighter it’ll flow
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LIKE LETS OS BOOZE UP AND MOTOR.
OVER AN' TAKE OVER DA LlYu RED SKPOL HOUSV
—Letters To The Editor—
Reader Asks How Student
Legislature Seats Divided
Mr. Editor:
With the elections coming up in
April and a great deal of time
and effort being expended toward
future campaigns, one question
has been bothering me. What is
the standard of apportionment in
the Student Legislature? I as
sume that there must be some
legal basis for its construction
and I would like to know this as
well as its logical basis. In short,
how is it apportioned, what law
governs it, and why was this law
instituted?
I am sure that there is
someone on campus who can
answer me and I would like to
see this answer in print.
HUGH J. HORSLEY
Mr. Editor,
I am writing this explanation
in answer to Hugh Horsley’s
letter. Before actually answering
his questions, I would like to
thank Hugh for his interest in
student government and encour
age other interested and inquisi
tive students to follow his exam
ple. Only when the needs and
wishes of the student body are
fulfilled has the Student Govern
ment accomplished its purpose,
met its obligation, and truly
served the Student Body.
How is the Student Legislature
apportioned? The Student Legis
lature consists of the president
and vice-president of each class,
five representatives from each
class, and eight representatives
from the night school. The Stu
dent Legislature is chaired by the
vicci-president of the Student
Body.
What law governs this? The
membership laws appear in the
Constitution of the Student Gov
ernment of UNC-C which can be
found in The Goldigger.
Why was this law instituted?
By this I assume you mean why
was 1 egislature membership
handled on class lines. In order
to answer this, we need to look
at the way it’s done at other
colleges.
At UNC-CH, the legislative
body is composed of fifty mem
bers apportioned among four
groups: men students living in
dormitories, men students living
elsewhere, women students living
in dormitories, and women stu
dents living elsewhere. In other
words, legislature membership is
based on student housing facili
ties. At NCSU, legislature mem
bership consists of senators (rep
resentatives) from the different
schools, such as the School of
Engineering, School of Design,
etc.
Here we have no student
housing facilities or schools with-
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Would You
Believe?
By LEE WASSON
1. What North Carolina col
lege’s basketball team choked in
the NCAA Eastern Regional's?
2. Who is Herbert Rudley?
3. Who played Jingles P. Jones
on the “Wild Bill Hickok” TV
show?
4. What was even better than
Bromo Seltzer for indigestion?
5. What was “Wild Bill” Hick-
ok’s real name?
6. What was “Bat” Masterson’s
real name?
7. What was the name of
Buster Brown’s dog?
8. Who owns the Los Angeles
Dodgers?
9. Who is coach of the Boston
C6ltics?
10. Who plays Capt. Kangaroo?
11. Who is R. Wesley Cotten?
12. Who was Richard the Lion-
Hearted’s mother?
13. Who is known as FOAM.M
(FAT OLD ANCIENT MARRIED
MAN)?
14. Where is “Sing-Sing” pris
on?
15. Who starred (?) in the
movie, “I Was a Teen-Age
Werewolf?”
16. Who wrote the novel Frank
enstein?
17. Who played the title role in
the movie, “The ’Thing?”
18. Who wrote the novel Dracu-
la?
19. According to Robert Welch,
head of the John Birch Society,
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