The Carolina Joernal
—Student Publication Ot The Univenity 01 Narih Caralina At ChmrteHc
Volume 1
CHARLOTTE, N. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1966
Number 18
Exec. Council, Union, Journal
Scheduled Officers To Be Elected Today
Religious
Music Is
New church music is being
written in the Carolinas and
some of the best of this spiritual
music will be presented by the
Chorus of the University of North
Carolina at Charlotte in associa
tion with the Cleveland County
Choral Society.
The music of 17 Carolinas
composers will be sung by the
groups under the direction of
conductor Harvey L. Woodruff.
The concerts will be present
ed as follows; At 3 p.m., April
24 at Lawndale Methodist
Church; at 3 p.m., May 1 at
Shelby First Baptist; at 7:30
p.m.. May 3 at Pleasant Ridge
Baptist Church at Swainsville;
at 8 p.m.. May 17 at Myers
Park Presbyterian Church in
Charlotte; and at 11:30 a.m..
May 18 in the Library Auditori
um at the University of North
Carolina at Charlotte.
Composers who will be repre
sented are Kenneth Pool, organ
ist at First Baptist Church at
See RELIGIOUS, Pg. 2, Col. 1
Students Win NDEA,
Fulbright Awards
Computer’s Role
To Be Discussed
Putting the computer to work
in business will be discussed at a
workshop for Charlotte area
businessmen at the University of
North Carolina at Charlotte April
13-14. The event is sponsored by
the Business Club of UNC-C.
The sessions, titled, “The
Computer in Modem Business
Decision,” will be led by
members of the Economic and
Business Administration and
Mathematics Departments of
the University.
They include Dr. William D.
Wubben, chairman of the Eco
nomics and Business Administra
tion Department; Dr. William L.
Blachman, assistant professor of
economics and business adminis
tration, specializing in econm-
ics and finance; Lloyd Dale Da-
vis instructor in the Mathema
tics’ Department, who special
izes in statistics and probability,
instructor in the Mathematics
Department, who specializes in
the computer; and Dr. David
Nixon, assistant professor of
mathematics, who sp^ializes m
statistics and probability.
Some 150 representatives of
100 business firms are expected
to attend. Cost of the program
will be $15 per participant.
Also, graduating seniors in
mathematics and business ad
ministration will participate.
Dr. Blachman said that the
event will both provide busi
nessmen with information and
also allow an ojHiortunity to
recruit the seniors in the two
departments.
Sessions will begin at 2 p.m.,
April 13 and continue through the
afternoon of the 14ih. Topics
include. “The Computer,” ‘Em
ployment Problems and Effects
of Office Automation,” “Opera
tions Research,” “The Computer
in Financial Management and
Control,” and “Risk Analysis.
A member ot the senior class
has received a National Defense
Education Act (NDEA) Fellow
ship for three years of graduate
study toward a Ph.D. degree.
Robert D. Thomas, 25, of 2513
Vail Avenue, Charlotte, will
work toward a doctorate in
political science at the Univer
sity of Arizona at Tucson. He
plans to graduate from here in
August with a BA degree.
The son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl
H. Thomas of 5521 Carmel Road,
he is married and a veteran.
Last year Thomas was narned
an intern in the North Carolina
General Assembly and served as
an assistant to Senator Ralph
Scott, chairman of the Senate
Higher Education Committee. He
worked with the committee while
it was considering the bill to
make Charlotte College the
fourth campus of the University.
Mrs. Doris Clinard Weddington,
the University of North Carolina
at Charlotte’s top senior aca
demically, has won the first
Fulbright grant ever received by
a student at tbe institution.
Mrs. Weddington, who began
her college career at 35, hopes to
prove that life begins at 40—she
will observe her 40th birthday
this month.
Her age isn’t the only un
usual feature about the winner
of the coveted Fulbright. For
her entire college career she
has made only straight As, the
only senior to do so.
She says her career spans
three institutions on the same
campus. When she began college
in 1962, the institution was Char
lotte CoUege, a community col
lege; a year later it was a senior
college, and she will be graduat
ing this May 29 from the
University of North Carolina at
Charlotte.
An English major, Mrs. Wed
dington, will use her Fulbright to
study English Renaissance Dra
ma at University College ot the
University of London.
The winner is walking on air
about winning, except for one
so-far disappointing aspect. She
has a daughter, Elizabeth,
eight, and a son, David, 16,
Enough money is in hand to
take Elizabeth with her and
enroll her in a public school in
England. However, Mrs. Wed
dington needs about $500 more
to take her son David.
David is a promising student of
drama, with emphasis o n
Shakespeare, at the North Caro
lina School ot Arts at Winston-
Salem. Mrs. Weddington feels
that it would be a shame for
David not to get to Shakespeare’s
homeland to continue drama
studies.
Of course, her husband, Walter
D. Weddington, who has the
The polls for student body
executive positions. University
Union officers, and Editor of the
Carolina Journal will open today
at 12; 15 p.m. and remain open
until 7; 30 p.m. to allow the night
school voters to cast their bal
lots. The Polls will open for
voters tomorrow at k:30 a.m. and
remain open until 7; 30 p.m.
Electioo speeches will be
given today during the 11:30
break in the Library Audi
torium.
The Student Party’s candidate
for President of the Student
Body, Tim Britton, is running
unopposed. Britton expressed his
opinion that “in order for our
University to reach true Uni
versity status, we are all going to
have to evaluate what we have
done to help reach this goal, and
act accordingly. It is only
DORIS WEDDINGTON
watch repair concession at W. T.
Grant Company in downtown
Charlotte, will have to remain
with his business. The Weddihg-
tons are residents of 2450 Elk-
wood Circle, Charlotte.
Mrs. Weddington’s hometown is
Mooresville. She is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Clinard of
the Prospect Community at
Mooresville.
She said that Dr. Bonnie
Cone was really responsible for
her beginning college later in
life. For years Mrs. Wedding
ton had wanted to attend
college. Then she saw state
ments in the newspapers by
Dr. Cone, plugging college
educations for adults. She
clipped the articles, placed
them heside her telephone and
“finally got courage to call the
college.” She enrolled at Char
lotte College when daughter
Elizabeth was in kindergarten.
Mrs. Weddington plans to be a
See STUDENTS, Pg. 2. Col. 5
NOTICE
Becatise of spring va
cation, The Journal will
not published next
week. Check The Jour
nal news racks the fol
lowing Wednesday.
(April 20) for your copy
of the newspaper.
SlechtaNew
AAUP Pres.
Dr. Joseph Slechta, associate
professor of French at the Uni
versity of North Carolina at
Charlotte, has been elected to the
vice presidency of the North
Carolina Conference of the Amer
ican Association of University
Professors to fill an unexpired
term.
He has served during this
academic year as president of
the UNC-C Chapter of AAUP.
The State Conference includes
all institutions’ chapters plus
independent members on cam
puses which do not have chap
ters.
through hard work in this direc
tion that we can approach the
concept of a true University.
“We need the help of each
and every student at UNC-C.
Let'a make the academic
year 1966-67, the year in which
UNC-C reaches University sta
tus without a doubt from any
angle. I’U be working for you,
but I need your help and
support.”
Monday morning brought a
new candidate in the race for
President of the Student Body.
Wayne Furr, a rising senior, is
running for the office as an in
dependent.
When asked what he thought
his chances for election were be
cause of his late start, Furr says
he thinks he has a chance Md
“I wouldn’t be in it if I didn’t.”
Furr entered the race “pri
marily (because) I thought I
could do the job and I hate to
see Britton go unopposed.” He
set three major goals for his
administration if he is elected:
(1) conduct an investigation to
insure that student funds are
properly spent; (2) separate stu
dent publications from the Stu
dent Government; (3) publish
student evaluation of professors.
The two candidates are Bud
Stokely, a rising senior, and Sam
Scott, a rising junior.
Stokely stated his primary
objective as “the realization of a
conscientious two party system
that will be responsive to the
needs of our student body. We
intend to help give the students
at UNC-C the kind of student
government that they deserv,e.
Now that we have join^ the
consolidated University it is tiine
for a mature approach. This is
what (I am) offering.” Stokely is
See STUDENT, Pg. 3. Col. 3
'PACE’ Offers Summer Employment
Students who need employrr,"nt
in order to attend college should
investigate a new program called
PACE. This advice comes from
Miss Mildred English, Director of
Student Personnel.
Students can also obtain sum
mer employment under this pro
gram.
PACE, which stands for Plan
Assuring College Education,
has been formed t« take advan
tage of the funds available for
college students under the work-
study provisions of the Higher
Education Act of 1965 accord
ing to Dean Donald MacKay.
Under the provisions of the
Act, any public or non-profit
agency which needs extra sum-
m.-'r help may request a college
student to work. The government
will then pay 90 per cent of the
students wages and the agency
will pay the other 10 per cent.
Miss English listed law en
forcement agencies, local welfare
departments, libraries, health de
partments, local poverty fighting
agencies, schools, and similar
institutions as possible areas oi
employment for needy students.
Twenty-four colleges and uni
versities (including UNC-C) in
North Carolina have expressed
an interest in handling the neces
sary applications for funds for
their students.
The program will be co
ordinated by Mr. T. A. Gu (on
who says that “Students suc
cessful in getting PACE work-
study assignments can make
money this summer while per
forming meaningful tasks in
their home communities. The
student benefits; the commu
nity benefits; and the ability of
the college to render aid can be
suppl^menteil.**
^ents can work up to 15
hours per week during school
under the PACE program and up
to 40 hours per wedt during the
summer.
Any student who can not attend
college because of financial limi
tations is encourage 1 to make an
.application to PACE through
Miss English’s office. Freemen
entering next fall are eligible as
well as students already m
college.