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WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 2. 1966 THE CAROLINA JOURNAL PAGE 2 Irregularity By the time this editorial is published, we will either know the results of the freshman election or the freshmen will be voting all over again. At this writing, we haven’t the faintest idea which it will be. The reason we don’t know is because some very irregular actions were taken Friday after noon. First of all, the JOURNAL reporter assigned to the freshman election story was refused ad mittance to the room in which the ballots were being counted by Election Committee members Dwayne Spitzer and Cirina McLaurin and ob servers Leslie Smith, Sally Hagood, BudStokely, Bill Billups, and Mr. Sanford. There is no Election Committee regulation excluding news paper representatives from ballot - counting sessions and th e banning of the JOURNAL was uncalled for. Then, halfway through the vote tallying, com mittee chairman Cirina McLaurin swore all those present to secrecy regarding the out come of the election until 1:00 p.m. on Mon day, October 31. She said this was done be cause of rumors of irregularities at the polls. The results should be kept secret, she main tained , to give any candidate who might wish to contest the election a chance to do so. She has the power to do this legally. Ele ction Committee regulations state “Official notification of the elections’ results, signed by the chairman or chairmen and the advisor or alternates, shall be posted within three days.” However, we wonder if the situation could have been handled in a better way. We are doubtful as to advisibility of making decisions on the basis of rumor alone. No one had formally contested the election when the sec recy decision was made and, for all the com mittee knew, no one had any intention of doing so. We feel that, in the absence of any formal appeals, the committee should have followed normal proceedure. If we are correct, pub licizing results immediately after they have been discerned is normal proceedure. If the committee felt it could not ignor the rumors of irregularities, we suggest it should have waited until Monday to count the votes. This way, not even the seven people present at the counting session would have known the out come. Finally, if irregularities of the type which th remors describe actually did take place, we arb forced to question the Election Committee as to why it allowed them. Its members are supposed to supervise elections. Effective supervision should eliminate situations which cold con ceivably cause an electkon to be contested. Any irregularities which may be found in the freshman election cannot be blamed upon those who participated in it, for their actions must be regulated by some authority. That authority is the Election Committee and any irregularities must be charged to it. The Carolina Journal WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1966 ELUSON CLARY, .Editoi Jim Cunning ..Business Manager Frank Crooks Asst. Bus. Mgr. Robert Pliner Chief Photographer Libby Holsliouser ....Feature Editor Donna Hughes.... .Sports Editor Geraldine Ledford. ..Art Editor Staff; Sally Hagood, Mary Morgan, Paul Boswell, Connie rlippo, Elarleen Mabry, Corny Stilwell, Frank Caton, Jan BaUard, Patrick McNeely, Ronald Watts, Bobbe Berry, John Moore, Carol Haywood, Sandy Caudle, Rosemary Lands, J(*n Lafferty, Gayle Watts, Kay Watson, and Carol Durham. People Watcher’s Primer Is Basic, Bask, BasicI BY PATRICK MCNEELY A very dear friend of mine once said “People fascinate me”. At first glance this stateitient does n’t seem to tell us much but after a second reading we can see that it tells us absolutely nothing. Be that as it may, this little phrase started me on the road to a very enjoyable hobby, PEOPLE - WATCHING (you’d better read that one again too). As I walked around our campus I happened upon many fine spec imens. In order to present these finds to you I have decided to use a very familiar literary form, the primer. I hope it will make understanding as simple and clear as possible for you. Yes, here is The People - Watcher’s Primer, College Edition. Look at Dick. He is a romeo. See Dick wink at Jane. See Dick Dick wink at Sally. See Dick wink at Mary. Wink, wink, wink. See the girls swoon. Swoon, swoon, swoon. See the boys vomit. Vo mit, vomit, vomit. Look at Sue. Sue won a beauty contest. See Sue strut. Strut, strut, strut. She can stop strutting now, the contest is over. Over, over, over. All the boys and girls have forgotten, but Sue. Sue will never forget it. Forget it, forget it. forget it. Oh! Here comes Bill. Bill is a pool-shark. He brings his own cue stick. Bill is cool. Bill plays for real money and also lays his weed on the table edge. Watch the table burn. Watch Mr. Steele bum. Burn, burn, burn. Look, look ! Look at Jill. Jill is a flirt. She has nothing to say to everyone. Jill talks at all the boys and girls. Jill knows none of the boys and girls. Jill is con fused. I am confused. Confused, confused, confused. See the professor. He is a poly- sci. professor. How do I know that he is a poly-sci. professor? Because politics make me think of Abe Lincoln. Abe Lincoln had hair on his face too, but Abe Lincoln was a nice man. Nice, nice, nice. He never flunked a single boy or girl. Never, never, never. If I take a poly-sci. course next semester, I will need some help. Help, help, help! All the characters mentioned above are real people; only the names have been changed to pro tect the writer (that’s me). I hope this elementary intro duction to people-watching has a- roused your interest in the sport. It is a useful and enjoyable pas time. The S.P.C.P. (the Society for the Prevention of Curelty to People) urges you once more not to kill, cage, nor scare these sp ecimens for they are a very sen sitive breed. Many Problems Need Solving (Continued From Page 1) education facilities, the committee asked that $19.6 million be do nated to the Charlotte branch. President of the consolidated university. Dr. William Friday, though acknowledging the fact that UNC-C needed special consider ation, warned against neglect of the other branches fearing the possible loss of their high stand ing nationally. The Spring session of the Gen eral Assembly will be the impor tant, crucial one concerning the propositions of the committee. Distaff Exhibit Of Stitchery (Continued From Page 1) abstract nature. In contrast, Mr. Fumero’s works feature bold and sweeping strokes which relay a sense of power. He specializes in houses, trees, bridges, and architectural struc tures. Letters To The Editor Wife Sees Tranquility In Lake Mr. Editor: My clan and I drove by the campus last Sunday afternoon. We stopped by the lake to let the youn gsters see the swans. (See water, daddy). The swans seemed to glide over the lake in slow motion. The grace ful flow of the neckline as they dipped into the lake for food or drink was disquieting in its quiet ness. The autumn leaves seemed unreal in their soft shades of brown, orange, yellow and green. The weeping willow gave an im pression of meditation. The boul ders by the lake lent an element of roughness that we might asso ciate with the strength of the rocks of ages or with the majestic per manence of the rock of Gibral tar. My wife was impressed by the tranquility of the lake scene. Even the young members of the clan seemed quieter in their eternal warring. public temples to the tranquility of meditation as hydro-electric dam watchman. It is the nature of man the in quisitive, I believe, to seek goals that subject him to great stress and yet he also seeks his own lake of tranquility in that sea of strife to ease the strain. I con gratulate the architects of the UNC-C campus for creating or lea ving a small sea of tranquility amid an ocean of academic turmoil. My wife asked that we drive to the lake again before the leaves have fallen. I wonder if the lake will still be so tranquil. Kermit C. Ashley. LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS remember few places that osmose tranquility. An Englishman in Arabia observed that the pro phets of several major religions found a tranquility, a communion with a supreme truth in the de sert. One man’s uncle seemed to draw strength from hours of lake side fishing. A Samoan seemed to have drawn inner tranquility from a life at sea, A Frenchman, at foor ot Mt, Fuji after soldiering in Algeria three years, wanted to escape the worldly clamor of the I "T HOPE YOU FELLA$ HAVE ALL $TUDIEP HARP RpR THl^ -lEeT-—THE^e GENTLEMEN ARE HEReTOSRADETH RAPEP.^.'
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