The Carolina Joernal
Student Pohlitvii^n Of TK« (/n^ersHy 0^ NoftI) CpfUiui At Charhiip
VOL. 2
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1967
NO. 17
NigMs Friday Will Install Dr. Colvard
Decision
Coming
A student referendum will be
held starting today on a proposed
amendment to the Student Govern
ment Constitution which would
limit night student representation
in that body to a maximum of
seven seats.
The amendment, sponsored by
the Judicial Committee, was in
troduced by Bin Billups, sopho
more UP, who is chairman of the
committee. It states that one re
presentative shall be elected for
every 75 night students and not
more than seven shall be elected.
The proposed amendment reads
as follows:
Section 1. Amendment I and
Amendment III of the Constitution
of the Student Government of the
University of North Carolina at
Charlotte are hereby amended.
Section 2. One representative shall
be elected for every seventy - five
night students, or a fraction there-
of, of the University of North Car
olina at Charlotte. The number
of night students will be deter
mined by the enrollment of night
students, as defined in Section 5b,
at the beginning of each fall seme
ster. The limit to the number
of representatives shall be seven.
Section 3. The Night Represen
tatives shall be voting members
of the Student Legislature.
Section 4. A candidate for the
office ofNightRepresentativemust
be carrying a minimum course
load of three semester hours and
must have and maintain at least
an overall 2.0 average during his
term of office.
Section 5. a. The Night Repre
sentatives shall be elected during
the latter half of October and shall
assume office at the next sche
duled meeting of the Student Leg
islature.
b. For the purposes of this Con
stitution, a member of the Student
Government shall be classified as
a day student, unless he is carry
ing the majority of his courses
at night in which case he shall
be classified as a night studenL
c. Day students may not vote
tor night representatives.
Section 6. Should an office of
Night Representative filled in Oct
ober election become vacant, an
election to fill that specific va
cancy will be held within ten school
days.
Section 7. This amendment shall
be inoperative as an amendment
to this Constitution unless it has
been ratified by a two-thirds (2/3)
majority of the votes cast in a re
ferendum election.
Students Invited To Attend
Oven's Installation Ceremony
William C. Friday
Dr. D.W. Colvard
william C. Friday, president of
the Consolidated University of
North Carolina, will install Dr,
D. W. Colvard as the first chan
cellor of the University of North
Carolina at Charlotte on March 3.
The installation will come near
the end of Dr. Colvard’s first
year of service here. He assumed
his position on April 1, 1966.
All students here are invited to
attend the installation ceremony to
be held in Oven’s Auditorium at
11 a. m.
At a pre-installation event on
the evening of March 2, Dr. Barn-
aby Keeney, chairman of the Nat
ional Endowmen for the Humani-
Jolo To Lead Musk Seminar
American composer Norman
Dello Joio, winner of the Puli
tzer Prize, will be a distinguish
ed participant in the second annual
University Forum to be held on
campus on March 2.
The topic of this year’s Forum
is “The Urban University and the
Arts.” Mr. Joio will lead a sem
inar on music at 1:30 p.m., March
2, in C building of the Liberal
Arts Complex. Other featured
guests will be Richard Gilman,
drama critic for Newsweek
magazine. Dr. Douglas Sasser,
president of YoungHarrisCollege,
Dean Robert Corrigan of the School
of Fine Arts of New York Uni
versity, and James Johnson
Sweeney, director of the Houston
Museum of Fine Arts and past
director of the Guggenheim
Museum in New York.
Presently, composer Dello Joio
Norman Dello Joio
is chairman of the Policy Commi
ttee of the Contemporary Music
Project of the Ford Foundation.
For some years he was a member
of the faculty of Sarah Lawrence
College and later, professor of
music at Mannes College of Music.
Joio studied at JuiUiard and in
the course of his study there be-
came highly interestedinthe crea
tive aspect of music. After three
years of composition in the Juill-
iard Graduate School, he studied
under Paul Hindemith at the
Yale School of Music,
His compositions occur inprac-
ticaUy all forms: symphonic,
shoral, chamber, modem dance
and ballet, and opera. He has also
done extensive work for dramatic
television shows — among this
work are the scores of “Air
Power,” “Here is NewYork,”and
“The Saintmakers Christmas
Eve.”
The Talent Associates comm
issioned him to write the score
for former President Harry S.
Truman’s “Hour of Decision,”
His Putlizer Prize for Music,
in 1957, was awarded for his
“Meditations on Ecclesiastes” for
string orchestra. He has also re
ceived two Guggenheim Fellow
ships, a grant from the Academy
of Arts and Letters, and honorary
degrees from various coUeges.
Twice he has won the New York
Music Critics Circle Award —
once in 1948 for his “Variations,
Chaconne, and Finale,” and in
1960 for his opera, “The Triumph
of SL Joan.
Heather Miller Heads Literary Series
Heather Ross Miller will kick
off the spring series of literary
lectures here next Wednesday
which wiU feature appearances by
four North Carolina writers.
New Mascot
Name Is
Kay Watson, chairman of the
Lectures Committee, announced
that Miss Miller will read from
her works and discuss her writ
ing during the 11:30 break in room
C-220 of the Liberal Arts Com
plex.
A resident of Singletary Lake
State Park, she has just published
a new volume of poetry, “The
Wind Southerly”, and is also the
author of two novels.
The three other programs in
this series will be:
March 22, Professor Richmond
P. Bond. He is a semi-retired
professor of English at the Uni
versity of North Carolina atChap-
el Hill. A specialist in 18th cen
tury periodicals, he reportedly
has the best collection ofthismat-
erial in the world except for the
Harvard Library, He will discuss
the Bickerstaff - Partridge Pa
pers.
ties, will speak. Other major
events are being planned for the
week and will be announced.
The 1967 General Assembly has
been invited to come to Charlotte
for the historic occasion, which
will also mark the second anni
versary of the ratification by the
Legislature of the act to convert
Charlotte College into UNC-C. Lt.
Gov. Robert Scott and Rep. David
Britt; who will become speaker of
the House, have indicated thatthey
will recommend acceptance of the
invitation to the Legislature.
The convocation will be preceded
by an academic procession. The
University has invited official re
presentatives of North Carolina’s
institutions of higher education to
march in the procession in aca
demic regalia. Others in academic
regalia will be the faculty, admin
istration and members of the sen
ior class here.
Others to be invited will be
North Carolina’s school super
intendents and principals of high
schools, the UNC Trustees, the
UNC-C Patrons of Excellence,
members of the board of UNC-C’s
Foundation, former trustees of
Charlotte College, and govern
ment, education, civic, and bus
iness leaders of North Carolina,
Dr. Colvard came here from the
presidency of Mississippi State
University where he served five
years. Before that he was Dean
of Agriculture at North Carolina
State University and had served
as professor and head of the De
partment of Animal Science at
State.
Provost Here
Sunday For
French Club
The French Club and the De
partment of Foreign Lang
uages will present “An Afternoon
With Jeanne Provost” of the Co-
medie Francaise, Sunday February
19 at three p. m. in the Parquet
Room off the University Union.
No admission will be charged
and all students and faculty mem
bers are invited.
A native of Paris, Madame Pro
vost experienced her greatest suc
cess between the two world wars.
She has been known to the stage,
radio, and the movies.
Weather Snows OiitRavenetts
The area’s first snow of the win
ter forced cancellation of the
Friday night portion of Schwing-
fest which was to have featured
the Ravenetts of Atlanta in the
Union cafeteria. The Dukes of
Dixieland concert was held as
scheduled on Saturday night, how-
The Ravenetts, who travel with
their own five-piece back-up band,
were faced with the task of dri
ving here from Atlanta snowbound
icy roads. They were relieved when
notified the dance was off.
They have agreed to appear here
on another date sometime this
semester.
Jeanne Provost