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THE CHARLOTTE JOURNAL
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Self-Study Serves As
Formal Accredition Bid
An institutional self-study re
port which will serve as UNC-
C’s foimal application for ac
creditation by the Southern As
sociation of Colleges and Schools
published by the University
eariy last month.
The Univrsity expects to be
accredited by the fall of 1967.
The accreditation will be retro
active to the first graduating
class of 1965 since UNC-C re
tained its accreditation as a
;unjlor college when it became a
senior institution in 1963.
Every member of the faculty
and the administration took part
in the self study which found
s'cme faults with the 'academic
program here. The report took
almost two and a half years
to be completed.
A need to begin gradu
ate work on the Charlotte
campus was found by twelve
of the thirteen depaitments
of instructional areas replying
to a questionnaire. Charlotte
trea firms and institutions
backed up the impressions of
the department with 32 from a
sample of 80 indicating their
needs for graduate work. Great
est demand for graduate work
was in engineering and the sec
ond greatest demand w'as in bus
iness.
All departments agreed that
the single most pressing need'
is foi' graduate work related
CoTny-Flakes
Learn Bridge, Watch Terms,
Lose Pink Card And Fake It
Welcome Frosh. Welcome to the hallowed halls of UKC-C (but
! better referred to b> some of us as Flunky-Outy-U). We veterans
\ are glad you’re here—that means more suckers in pool games and
' the ever popular bridge games.
I Oh, by the way, now that you're a big college lad or lass, you
1 must learn the “in” game—bridge. It’s called the “in” game be-
' cause the only ones who play it in the student lounge are those who
know they won’t be in for very long. (School that is).
Now that -you’re really here, you’ve got to memorize a few im-
' portant terms or you may be stampeded by your fellow upperclass
men.
Number one: drag. Now in most colleges this means date. But
i listen females—don’t be led astray when some he-man asks you
if you have a “drag”.
Honey, he’s wanting a puff from your stoogie, fag, or what use
to be known as, weed. Don’t, whatever you do, don’t make the
j reply that I made. “No, I’m quite free Saturday night.” You’ll
be free every Saturday night!
Number two: going steady. This one seems to be easy enough.
If you’re going steady, you’re attached to one mate. Right? Wrong!
Babe, you’re going steady in order to attract dates around here.
But don’t dig out your brother’s class ring and wear it on your
hand—quickest way I know of to let everyone know you’re a fresh
man.
Now don’t misunderstand me. To get dates isn’t the only reas
on you’re here. We have known a few who cracked a book now
and then. But it’s not too, too fashionable to let everyone know
you’re doing it. Do you want everyone to think you are an upper
classman? Heck no! That is one way you can tell the new ones
from the old one. The older ones brag about how little they study
—although they may dash home a night and pile their noses in
their books for hours, you nor I either one will know about it.
Pretty soon classes will begin. You’ll get a pink card just like
everyone only you’ll probably be the only o,ne who uses it to tell
what class you have and where it is. Upperclassmen want you to
think they’re so orientated that they don’t need a reminder.
Don’t be fooled! Watch for the fellows who stand in the halls
and roll their eyes trying to spot someone holding the same text
book that they have. Then they follow this guy (as if he knows
where he’s goin.gl!) and pray that it’s to the same class. They may
miss a few classes this way, but it’s better than walking around
with one of those stupid little pink cards.
Actually, everything that I’ve said has to be read with a grain
of salt. In fact, if my editor lets me write my column, you’ll find
all ray colutmn.s have to be read that way.
UN'C-C needs you and you’ll probably find that around here
it doesn’t matter whether you’re a freshman or a senior. The only
advice I can give you is to study, study, and study some more,
Nursing Program Accredited
to teacher preparation for ele
mentary, secondary, and commu
nity college teacher's.
The report also strongly
sti-essed a need to upgrade the
Adkins Library. The library
holdings are genei'ally consid-
red to be up to minimum accept
able standards, but the commit
tee felt that expanded holdings
would be needed to recruit fac
ulty and increase their effec
tiveness.
Several times the report indi
cated that dormitoi-ies are need
ed' on this campus. It was as
serted that dormitories would
iniprove the intellectual atmos
phere by encouraging students
to attend cultural events here.
The committee said that dor
mitories would also improve the
educational program by facilitat
ing an increased give-take of in
formal discussion outside the
classroom and an increased con
tact of individuals from other ge
ographical areas.
Apparently the committee felt
strongly that the salaries of fac
ulty membei's at the rank of pro
fessor and associate professor
must be increasd. Dissatisfaction
with fringe benefits was express
ed and the state retirement plan
came under fire.
Although students evaluated!
their courses and faculty as gen
erally satisfactory, they com
plained of a lack of recognized
procedure for airing complaints
on academic matters.
Faculty praised the early ef
forts to build a 4-year institu
tion and individual faculty mem
bers stated their belief that the
faculty as a w^hole is of high
quality.
Other random recommenda
tions made by the self study
were that majors in German,
Philosophy, and Physics be be
gun, that the English depart
ment begin an “English Clinic”
for remedial work by advanced
students who are still deficient
in reading and writing, that a
junior-senior year abroad be be
gun for foreign language stu
dents and that an honors pro
gram be created.
The four-year, BS degree
nursing program here was ac
credited by the North Carolina
Board of Nursing this summer.
This means that nurses who
graduate here can take the state
examination for license.
Mrs. Edith Brocker, Nursing
Department Chariman, said that
the accreditation was a provi
sional one which involved ap
proval to begin 'the program.
Mrs. Brocker said she iS'
pleased with the granting of the
accreditation. She said it is a
Teeogntion that the institution
is fulfilling he requirements of
the State Nurse Act.
According to Mrs. Brocker,
the department had made certain
com'mitments to nursing educa
tion and has now been found! to
be meeting those commitments.
The next goal of the depart
ment is national accreditation by
the National League of Nursing.
This will be applied for when
the first nurses graduate in
1968.
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An addition to tlie Atkins Library, pictured here, was included in
the pre-planning.
Pre-Planning For
4 Buildings OKed
Director Displays
Bunyon Energy
The name Branton Steele
brmgs to mind such legendary
names as Joe Margarac, Paul
Bunyon, and John Henry. And
although new Union program di
rector Brenton H. Steele may
not be up to performing the
physical feats of these figures
out of folklore, he certainly
seems to exhibit as much en-
ei'gy and' enthusiasm for his job.
The young, black-haired Buf
falo, New York, native bad a
head full of ideas when inter
viewed recently. He spoke of
many plans and cautioned the
writer, “Don’t say anything
The Building Commiittee boi-o
approved architects to preplan
four building projects estimated
to cost a total of $12,775,000
thus summer.
about this yet.”
Officially, Mr. Steele’s job is
to help expand the educational,
social, and recreational pro
grams of the Union, to super
vise student attendants in the
service areas of the building,
such the game room, and to
schedule and supervise the pre
paration of facilities for groups
meetiirg in the Union Building.
His dai'k eyes sparkled as he
related some of the things he
hopes the Union oan do this
year. A “Winter Weekend” of
activities, a “Monte Ca r 1 o
Night,” a pool instructor to im
part billiard knowledge to both
male and female enthusists;
these are a few of Mr. Steele’s
ideas.
“I'm impressed with this
school and I’m impressed by the
strrdents here. I’m eager to
meet more students and to have
a good year. I like it here,”
■ said Steele.
“My main function,” he con
tinued, “Will be to act as an
advisor and a resource for those
who are planning the Union
program.”
Mr. Steele received his BS in
business and finance at the
University of Buffalo and his
MA degr-ee in guidance and per
sonnel, -with specialization in
college union management, from
New York University.
Prc-pliirrning was approved be
cause officials eorrsider' the need
for the pr'ojeets so urgent that
as trurch load time as posstlrle is
r-eiiuifcd. Pre-planning makes it
ixrssiblo to liegin drawings on
the structiues before money is
appropi'iated sometime iir the
spring of V967.
The actual construction of
the pr'oieets detrends rtpon the
a.npronriation of n e c e s sary
funds bv the Ixrgislatuie.
Architects were authorized to
design two of the projects to
completion while preliminary
plans were authorized for the
other two.
The two projects to he com-
plet'elv designed are an addition
to the Library atrd a Health
and Physical Education Facil
ity. The size of the former will
he 155.000 square feet; the lat
ter 150,000 square feet.
A Science Building, 100,000
square feet in size, and a Fine
Ar-ts Building of 70,000 square
feet are the tw» structures au
thorized for preliminary plan
ning.
A building to complete the
Uheral Atts Complex is also
contemplated as soon as funds
beco'me available.
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