The Carolina Jolrnal
Siudtni Publication Of The Univeriity Of North Carolina At Charlotte
VOL. 1
CHARLOTTE, N. C. , WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1966
NO. 3
Low Enrollment Causes
Money Shortage Ordeal
Hj- ',-4,
The picture shows Uic new passage-way through the parking lot
behind the Liberal .Arts Complex. Arrows lead the driver around
die perimeter of Uie lot, Robert Lliner got Uie photo.
Parking Lot Gets
Confusion-Calmer
BY LIBBY IIOLSIIOUSEK
A year ago, tlie parking lot was
not paved. In the fall and early
winter when the rains came, so did
muddy tires and cars. Even shoes
got muddy walking from the car
to the school. Then the nice, new
floors in the school got muddy.
In the later winter, the snows
came and the parking lot became
an accident trap. Cars skidded on
the paved road, true; but, tliey
stuck in tlie slush of an unpaved
parking lot, too. Backs were
sprained lifing cars out of that
slush.
In tlie early spring the winds
came and dried up tlie parkmg
loL Cars got dusty. Shoes got
dusty—hard rocks in the lot tore
into shoe soles.
In tlie late spring and summer.
the hot sun came, and so did the
heavy, noisy machines to pave the
parking lot. Wet tar got on shoes
and school floors and rugs, and
furniture. Noise from machines
pounded out tlie seconds of time to
tests being given in C Building.
Today, the parking lot is not
only paved, but marked with dis
tinct parking lines, as well as
arrows which denote a perimeter
lane. New rules have been estab
lished reguarding methods for
parking a car. These rules are
expected to keep traffic congestion
and confusion to a minimum and
also provide for a safer walk from
tlie parking lot to the classroom
buildings.
The area at tlie first lane serves
as a traffic and parking lane. All
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BY SALLY HAGOOD
The student Legislature is again
faced with the ordeal of approving
the budgets for the various organ
izations on campus. When the
budgets were first approved last
summer, the University expected
an enrollment of 1,850. Now that
the first tallies are in, we find
ourselves with 1,678 students.
This means that the Student
Goverment Association is short
about $4,000 in Student Activities
Fees. Each organization has been
asked by Larry Garner, Finance
Committee Chairman, to submit
minimum budgets for the 1966-
67 year. These budgets will be dis
cussed at the September 19
meeting.
Mr. Britton notified the Legis-
latui'e of the dates for the Fresh
man Elections. Nominations will
be taken from October 12 through
the 18th and the campaigning will
run from the 19th to the 25th.
An assembly is scheduled for
October 26 in the Union Ballroom
to hear campaign speeches by the
Freshmen running for Class Of
ficers. The voting for Day Stu
dents will be on the 26th, 27th
and the 28th. Night Students vote
separately for eight Represen
tatives on the nights of the 26th
and 27th.
Students who wish to run for
Night Representatives must have a
2.0 overall, be presently taking
3 hours and have already completed
3 hours at UNC-C. Those qual
ified to vote must be taking tlie
majority of their classes after
6:00.
It was mentioned at the Aug
ust 15 meeting that the Night
Students were concerned over the
lack of higher level courses offered
at night. The President reported
that this situation had been
brought to the attention of Dr.
Cone.
Larry Garner was officially re
cognized for his fine job of run
ning FAC this year. He in turn
thanked all the students, faculty
and Administration helped to make
registration so successful.
The next Student Legislature
meeting will be held on September
19 at 7:45 and all students are
welcome to attend.
Buses Travel To
And From
Crosscountry
Pictures On
Page Four
Public bus transportation to and
from campus is again available to
students with transportation pro
blems, the office of student affairs
has announced.
The route to and from campus
is as follows:
From the Intersection of Trade
and Tryon Streets along East Trade
Street and Elizabeth Avenue to the
intersection of Elizabeth Avenue
Youth Poetry
Meeting Held
BY MARY MORGAN
The Nortli Carolina Poetry So
ciety Youth Division met on campus
in the University Union, September
17. Main event of the meeting was
a panel discussion on tlie compos
ition of poetry and on porms sub
mitted to the panel.
Panel members included Dr.
Howard Hanson, Mrs. Sallie Nixon,
President of the N. C. Poetry So
ciety, Mrs, Emily Councilman of
Burlington, and Professor Paul
Newman of Queens College. Dr.
Hanson also served as speaker
for the event.
Following the morning meeting,
a luncheon was served in the Union
cafeteria.
The Youth Division is a section
of the N. C. Poetry Society de
signed for interested students on
the senior high school and college
lines.
Camp
us
and Hawthorne Lane at Presby
terian Hospital; then over Haw
thorne Lane to Central Avenue
up Central Avenue to The Plaza
then on The Plaza to 36th Street
from 36th Street lo Highway 29
Highway 29 to N. C. Highway 49
and from Highway 49 to the campus.
The fare from Independence Sq
uare to the city limits is 20 cents
and from the city limits to the
campus it is an additional 10
cents. Thus the total cost from tlie
square to the campus, one way, is
30 cents.
The charge forpersons boarding
a University bus between the city
limits and tlie campus is 20 cents.
The bus schedule follows:
Buses will leave tlie square for
the campus, Monday through Fri
day at 7:45 a.m. and 12:15 p.m.
Monday through Thursday add
itional buses will depart from the
same point at 3:45 p.m., 5:20p.m,,
and at 6:50 p.m. In addition to
these buses, on Fridays only there
will be an extra departure at
3:15 p.m.
All buses will arrive on campus
30 minutes after the original de
parture from the square.
Buses will leave the campus for
Independence Square, Monday
through Friday, at 8:25 p.m. and
1:10 p.m. Additional buses on
Monday through Thursday will
leave the campus at 4:20 p.m.,
6:10 p.m., and 7:35 p.m. The
extra bus on Fridays will leave
the campus at 4:05 p.m.
Journal Promotes '^^Name The Swans” Contest
During the recent “Open House”
for freshmen and tlieir relatives,
somebody's sweet little sister
gained command of tlie attention of
the FAC member, who wishes to
remain annonymous, by jumping up
and down on his toes and jerking
his tie until his face turned crim
son.
“Hey Mr. Fac,” she exclaimed,
“You know tliose two big ol’ swans
down in tliat lake?”
The FAC man had to admit tliat
he know tlicm when lie saw them,
altliough he had never met tliem.
“Well,” she asked, “What’s
their names?”
The FAC member was stumped.
Naturally, he gave her the famous
Toniglit-Show-shrug and mumbled,
“I dunno.”
He felt terrible about tliis. You
luiovv, here he was supposed to be
helpful and answer all t^pes of
contrived questions tliat tlie snealiy
tourers might ask, such as “How
many square feet of spiice in tlie
rest rooms?” and die like, and he
wasn't even able to answer a little
girl's innocent inquiry.
He felt so bad that he vowed he
would punish liimseK by not attend
ing the FAC party.
The JOURNAL heard of this
and figured tliat was too much
punishment for any man. We didn’t
linow the names of tlie swans
either, so we cheeked around and
found out that they, indeed, do not
Name tliese swans and win two tickets to see tlie Bitter End Singers. Phota by Robert Pliner.
have names as yet.
The FAC man felt alot better
about the whole thing when he was
told this fact. Just ask anybody at
the party how much better he felt.
The JOURNAL decided not to
let matters stand as they were,
however. No sir, we’re going to
have a contestto name those swans.
Anj- student may enter the
“Name The Swans” contest by
filling out an official entry blank
at tlie Union information desk and
dropping it into the box which will
be nearby. A student may enter as
many times as he or she wishes.
According to reliable sources,
tlie swans are supposed to be
mates. That means that one is a
male and one is a female, right?
So keep tliat in mind when think
ing of names.
The prize to be awarded to the
winner of tlie “Name The Swans”
contest is two tree tickets to see
die Bitter End Singers in Ovens
Auditorium on Sunday, October 2.
Mr. Brenton Steele, Program
Director of the Union will judge
die contest since he is making the
tickets available to the JOURNAL.
Besides, he knows as much about
the web-footed-friends as anybody.