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THE CAROLINA JOURNAL
WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 7, 1966
A Team Named Desire
A few days after the basketball team lost
its opening game of the season by more than
40 points in front of a home crowd, a state
ment was distributed in the cafeteria. It
was not passed out for very long, though,
for some unknown reason, and not many people
saw it. It read as follows:;
We, the members of the UNC—C basketball
team, wish to publish our thanks to you, the
members of the student body, for your un
daunted and unceasing support in the stands
during Saturday night’s game against Kings
College of Bristol, Tennessee.
The results of the game in terms'of score
are known to everyone; but the results of
that same game in terms of the spirit shown
by you in the stands cannot be recorded on
any sr jreboard. Even when we trailed by
over forty points in the closing minutes of the
game, the support and encouragement coming
from the stands did not subside, but kept coming
on as strong as if the score were tied.
For this support and encouragement we want
to thank you; there are not many teams who
can feel such unconditional backing as we
were given Saturday night. We will work as
hard as we can to correct Saturday’s mistakes,
to smooth out the rough edges, and to clean
up the loose ends, until the forty-point margins
appear on the “Charlotte” side of the score-
board, and we will be working to build a record
and reputation to match the intensity of the
support given to us from the stands on Saturday
night. Thanks.
The Team
Since that time the team has tried to do what
it said it would. But complications have set
in. Team membership has dwindled to eight
and these eight have been racked with injuries.
The Forty-Niners have been in four more
games since that statement was written and all
of them have been on the road. All four of those
games have been losses and in none of them
was Charlotte within 20 points of the victors
when the final buzzer sounded.
Yet the Forty-Niners played their hearts out
every minute.
Many other teams would have completely
folded under this type pressure and lost all
desire to win. Not the Forty-Niners. During
the last five minutes of the last game (with
Washington and Bee) they were forced to play
with just four men on the court due to fouls
and injuries, yet they hung on and grittily
traded baskets jvith their opponents on an
almost even basis.
This year you spell Forty-Niners
D-E-S-I-R-E.
Don’t you think a team like this one deserves
tremendous support when it returns to the home
court tonight? The JOURNAL/ does. And the
JOURNAL/ expects to see both sides of the
Garinger gym full of UNC—C students scream
ing like hell for the Forty-Niners.
The Carolina Journal
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1966
ELLISON CLARY, JR ..Eriitor
Jim Cunning Business Manager
Frank Crooks Asst. Bus. Mgr.
Robert Pliner Chief Photographer
Libby Holshouser Feature Editor
Donna Hughes .Sports Editor
Geraldine Ledford. Art Editor
Staff; Sally Hagood, Mary Morgan, Paul Boswell, Connie Flippo,
Earleen Mabry, Corny Stilwell, Frank Caton, Jan Ballard, Patrick
McNeely, Ronald Watts, Bobbe Berry, John Moore, Carol Haywood,
Sandy Caudle, Rosemary Lands, John Lafferty, Gayle Watts, Kay
Watson, and Carol Durham.
'Out Of Mess Hall, Solger'
Editor’s note; This is the second
tn a series erf articles by former
JOURNAL editor turned soldier,
Howard Pearre.
BY PVT. HOWARD PEARRE
FT. BRAGG Zero Week
doesn’t count.
You get received at the Recep
tion Center and about a week
later ( in fatigues and etc., etc.,
etc., and carrying 90 pounds or
more etc.) you board a military
bus with this 90-pound item sitting
xi your lap and you go to the
place where you are to become a
solger,
(“I am an American Fighting
man.”) For four or five days you
scrape paint erff windows, haul
sandbags (“double time, young
man!”); dig out big rocks (Get
trff your —^—. young man!), and
a lot erf etc.
(“Get out of that mess haU,
solger!”) Nevertheless, it comes
(as all good things must) to an
Campus Political
Parties Tangle
SP Blamed For Election Mess
end.
Basic finally beings.
(Forget scraping windows. Now
you do P.T.)
P. T. stands forPhysicalTrain-
ing.
7:30 a. m. ( on large football-
like field).
Drill Sergent; “Good morning,
men!”
Men: “God morning, Drill Ser
geant.”
D. S.: “I cannot hear you.”
Men: “GOOD MORNING, DRILL
SERGEANT.”
D. S. : “Army Drill One, ex-
ercies one is what, men?”
Men: “The high Jumper!”
D. S.: “Sounds mighty weak,
Mighty weak, indeed. Whatis Army;
Drill One, exercise one?!!” ■
Men: “THE HIGH JUMPER!!!” |
You progress through this (do-;
ing an exercise five repetitions
During the last few weeks Mr.
Gamer . (1), Mr. McAfee(UP), Mr.
Si)itzer (UP), and Mr. Stokely(UP)
have been Instrumental in calling
for a complete investigation of the
Publicity and Election Committ
ees. This calling to account was
deemed necessary due to the dis-
oderly conduct of these two Stu
dent Party dominated committees
duing the recent Freshman elec
tions. The UP supports these in
vestigations and hopes that they
will result in a more efficient
means of conducting future elec
tions.
On the brighter side, one of the
planks in the UP platform calls
for the formation of a fourth stand
ing legislative committee whose
purpose will be to investigate stu
dent recommendations and com
plaints. Such a bill was introduced
by the UP at the last Legislature
meeting. In brief the bill calls
for open hearings once ammthfor
day students and once a Quarter
for night students. The committee
will hear and investigate recomm
endations and complaints by the
students and report its findings to
the Legislature.
As of now the Legislature has
almost no effective means of find
ing out the mood, individually and
as a whole, of the Student Body.
The UP believes that this fourth
committee wiE not only make the
Legislature a more responsive
body, but wEl also provide a healthy
ouUet for student initiative and
dissatisfactiem. We hope that this
innovation wUl meet with your ap
proval and that this innovation
wiE meet with your approval and
ihat you wiE urge your represen
tative to work for its passage.
Army DriE One,:
SP Says Charge Is Ridiculous
It was my understanding that
leaders from the Student Party and
the University Party would write
opposing columns commenting or
giving their views on a current
issue at UNC-C. My opponent,
Mr. Bud Stdiely, would like two
neat columns clearly divided in
content. He wiE not get this at
UNC-C. There is no clear-cut
party division presently. A study
of ^A voting would substantiate
this statement.
Mr. Stokely has decided to attack
the incompetence rf the Electirais
Committee in the last election.
This can hardly be caEed an issue
in the first place, and El were gen
erous enough to caE it an issue, I
could not take an opposing position;
I agree wholeheartedly. I do not
draw the lines when my opponent
blames the SP for the committee’s
incompetence. The chairman is not
an SP member but merely an ap
pointee of the Student Bo^ Pre
sident, who is an SP member. Mr.
Stokely is, in fact, saying that the
SP erredinnominatingTimBritton
for President last spring and that
this mistake carries over into his
appointments. This is absurb.
So, I would ask Mr. Stokely to
please refrain from “blowing up”
trivial incidents or fabricating is
sues, because I wEl not play his
game. Maybe
issue next time
BiE Shuford
Chairman, SP
I can get a real
each) through
exercise 12.
D. S.: “Army DriE One, exer-1
else six: Our favorite, right men?”!
Men: “RIGHT, DRILL SER-'
GEANT.” '
D. S: “What is it, men?”
Men: “THE PUSH UP!” !
D. S.: Starting position, hoghch! |
One, two, three,....” i
Men: “One!” !
D. S.: “One, two, three, ” j
Men: “Two.” '
Men: “Tweeeeenimty” I
D. S.: “That wasn’t fast enough, i
Pump me out 20 more good ones.” I
(This occurs many times during |
a mornings one-hour exercise per- :
iod.)
(One Army push - up equals
two civilian push-ups.)
That’s P. T.
Then comes DrEl and Ceremony;
class ( Right face, right flank,
column left). 1
And classes on V. D. (“Don’t
touch!”)
And brushing your teeth. (“Do
touch!”)
Etc,
The Journal
Welcomes
Letters To
The Editor
“Don’t feel too bad about those test grades.
The answer sheet got mixed up with your pap
ers and it got only a ‘C’.”