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VOL. 2
WEDNESDAY APRIL 5, 1967?
NO. 23
Presidential Hopefuls
Speak To Voters Today
John Gaither
Larry Garner
BY GAYLE WATTS
Campaign speeches for student
government offices will be held
today in the cafeteria at 11:30
a.m. John Gaither, a Junior from
Charlotte, and Larry Garner, a
Junior from Robbins, North Ca
rolina, are contesting each other
for the presidency.
The position of sophomore judge
is being sought by Perry Moser
and Carol Haywood.
Gaither and Moser are running
Accreditation People Visit
Chancellor Homer L. Hitt of
Louisiana State University in New
Orleans, a new urban campus of
LSU, will serve as chairman of a
Southern Association of Colleges
and Schools visiting committee
for the University of North Caro
lina at Charlotte.
The committee will visit this
campus April 9 through 12 as
part of the institution’s procedure
for gaining full accreditation from
the Southern Association. The
procedure began in the fall of
1964 with the initiation of a self
study.
The self study report was com
pleted in the summer of 1966
and forwarded to the Southern As
sociation.
In the meantime a preliminary
visit waspaid to the Charlotte cam
pus in March of 1965 by a Southern
Association Committee. That
committee was led by Dr. John
Allen, president of the University
of South Florida at Tampa, another
new urban university campus. The
committee found the institution
making satisfactory progress to
ward accreditation.
Other members of the committee
^Urge Will Become
‘‘Vncontrolable’
BY KAY WATSON
Hold on! It’s coming! That’s
right. The big event coming up
this month is the New Arts Fes
tival sponsored by the University
Union. Candy Kimbrell is planning
the vent which is to consist of
everything from an “Uncontroll
able Urge” to a performance by the
Tams.
The festival begins on Sunday,
April 9, at 3:00 , when Maril^
Burris, the Singer of the Year,
will give a concert in the Parquet
Room. Following her performance,
there will be a reception in the
lounge of the University Union.
Also, on Sunday afternoon, a stu
dent art exhibit will open in the
Union, and there will be an ex
hibit of Administrator and Faculty
owned paintings in the library.
On Monday, documentary films
of the Nuremburg Trials will be
shown at 1:30 in the Parquet Room.
These films were recently given
to the school by the family of Judge
Parker.
Beginning Monday, the “Uncon
trollable Urge” will take form in
the cafeteria. Students are wel
comed to watch this happening
change, multiply, grow, beautify or
rot. . . you can talk to it, walk
in it, or view it with an aesthe
tic eye. If you want to contri
bute, contact any one of its crea
tors who will be on the scene con-
tinously.
On Tuesday, the movie Dr.
Strangelove vrill be shown in the
Parquet Room at 1:30. This movie,
a satire on “the bomb”, has been
quite successful with critics and
its viewers. It stars Peter Sel
lers.
Wednesday the French film
Breathless will be shown in the
Parquet Ri,x)m at 1:30. Time mag
azine says that its idea is that
• “life is just one damn thing after
another, and death is just another
thing after that.”
Also on Wednesday, Malcom
Dunn, a former curator of col
onial Williamsburg, will give two
lectures. The one at 10:00 in the
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to visit here next month include
President Everett Derryberry of
Tennessee Polytechnic Institute;
Dean Robert O. Lawton of the
College of Arts and Sciences at
Florida State University; Dean
Virgil Orr of Louisiana Polytech
nic Institute; Dean S. A. Moorhead
of the School of Education of the
University of Mississippi.
Officials here expect the insti
tution to gain accreditation when
the Southern Association meets
in November, 1967. Accredita
tion would be retroactive to the
institution’s first graduating class
in 1965, because Charlotte Col
lege retained its junior college
accreditation when it became a
senior college and thus was a
step ahead of brand new senior
institutions which have been built
from the ground up.
This campus is at present
accredited as a senior institution
by the North Carolina Associa
tion of Colleges and Universities.
on the University Party ticket
as are the remaining uncontested
candidates — Bill Billups for vice-
president, Earleen Mabry for se
cretary, Cindy Trexler for trea
surer, Bud Stokely and Rodney
Smith for student court positions,
and Larry McAfee and Joe Mc-
Corkle for Consolidated University
of North Carolina Student Council
representatives.
Larry Garner and Carol Hay
wood are running independently.
John Gaither, UP candidate for
president, says he is in favor of
‘‘anything to improve communi
cations between the students and
faculty-administration. Commun
ications is where we need the most
help. ”
“I would like to see students
become a part of the University
through extra-curricular actvi-
tles,” he continues. ‘‘I do not
believe that dormitories will do
it all. We must make the best
of the situation now.”
Mr. Gaither wants to get more
students before the business and
cultural community. “There are
so many civic and culturally ore-
ented organizations that could help
us as a school it they knew our
needs,” he explains.
In suggesting that a group of
student speakers be organized to
go before organizations and talk
about what we are and are not
doing, Mr. Gaither said, “we
must get the right students to
say the right things.”
Mr. Gaither says he plans to
do all he can to get jurisdiction
over academic violations for the
student judiciary. Presently, aca
Additional Quotes
From Candidates
In ‘‘Point Blank’
demic' violations are tried by a
committee of faculty and admini
stration members.
Larry Garner, independent can
didate for student body president,
stated his conviction today that
student government needs ener
getic and proven leadership at
this crucial stage of its devel
opment.
“I prefer to run as an indepen
dent,” Mr. Garner stated, “so
that I can better represent the
interests of the students who have
elected me.” While recognizing
the merits of a workable two-
party system, he believes that,
too often, a party candidate may
be excessively influenced by the
interests of his party or of indi
viduals within the party. Mr.
Garner stressed the one-party
predominance which appears to be
traditional here.
He stated that the Student Party
exists today in name only, being
unable to advance a single candi
date tor either the Executive Coun
cil or the Student Court in the
upcoming elections. He believes
that, under existing circumstan
ces, a party candidate can hardly
be representative of the student
body as a whole and that the
wishes of a small minority may
thus determine the policies which
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Ifs Back To PC For Seniors
The Senior Class will graduate in Park Center after all the Com
mencement Committee decided in a vote last Thursday, March
30. This vote reversed a decision by the Senior Class made March
15 to hold graduation in the White House Inn.
The Commencement Committee’s decision was based on a lack
of adequate funds to finance the proposed White House Inn cere
mony.
Dr. Loy Witherspoon, chairman of the committee, sent question-
aires to the members of the Senior Class asking if they would be
willing to pay extra in order to finance the White House Inn lo
cation. Just 36 of the nearly 130 Seniors indicated they would.
The Seniors voted lor the White House location with the under
standing that the normal cost there of $1000 would be cut to $500
if a stage could be provided. Several Seniors told the Journal it
was not made clear to them at the time of the vote that this $500
would have to be provided by individual members of the class.
Dr. Rhine To Discuss What To Make Of ESP
Duke Professor
Coined Term
BY KAY WATSON
Dr. Joseph Banks Rhino, the
founder of the Foundation tor Re
search on the Nature of Man, will
speak on “ESP: What Can We
Make Of It?” today at 11:30 in
the Parquet Room.
Dr. Rhine received his Ph.D.
from the depiartment of Botany at
Chicago in 1925. He and his wife
have done extensive research in
the field of parapsychology.
At Duke University, hebeganthe
branch of studies that led to his
discovery of parapsychology. He
coined the term extrasensory per
ception in his first book.
He was also instrumental in the
formation of the Journal of Par
apsychology, the leading scientific
periodical in the field of parapsy
chology. He has also written New
Frontiers of the Mind, Extrasen
sory Perception After Sixty Years,
The Reach of the .Mind, The .New
World of the Mind, Parapsycho
logy, Frontier Science of the Mind,
and Parapsychology: From Duke
to FRN.M.
After he reached retirementage,
he established the Foundation for
Research on the Nature of Man,
which has been organized as the
Institute for Parapsychology. The
Foundation and the Institute are lo
cated the University vicinity but
are independent of it.
Dr. J. B. Rhine