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PAGE 6 Restroom Secrets This University has one of the finest libraries possible for a school of its tender size and age. There are over 75,000 volumes presently in the collection plus many periodical subscrip tions, a relatively strong U. S. government document collection, a budding audio-visual de partment, and especially strong history col lection. The list of assets could go,on. But the point is this--the library staff is doing its best with available funds to create for UNC-C students excellence in library facilities, and as soon as possible. All of the work is to no avail, if students continue their past policy of socializing in the library. It is a safe assumption that at least 98% of the college students in the world today learned the whys of library quietness in grammer school. And again in junior high school. And again in high school. So why the persistence in noise-making?? The most racket and disturbance in the study area are the footfalls of people clumping up and down the library stairs. Ladies in the rest room seem to be under the impression that once the door has closed behind them, they are home free. But no. The chatter and laughter carries through the single door partition with ease and adds to the disturbances outside as well as delivering to anyone in proximity some time quite private conversations. Many students look to the library as the only place to go in order to study without distrac tions. So, if you want to socialize, avoid the place where quiet must reign and fellow students are reading, studying, or working calculus pro blems. Everyone’s grades should improve!! Annual Makes It Yes. Rogues ‘n Rascals, volume 1, has ar rived. And it tells the story of 1967 in the medium of photography--much of it excellent. Editor Sandra Brantley made good use of the fine photography brought to her by Dean Privette and Bob Alexander. The saying goes “A picture is worth a thou sand words”. Miss Brantley has captured us rogues and us rascals on film in virtually every endeavor that took place in ‘66 - ‘67. Beautiful color shots highlight the book -- especially a double-page spread in what must be the beauty section that would have been lovely if the color had printed correctly. Somehow the annual photographers got flat tering shots of practically everybody con cerned -- no little accomplishment. The book is packed with interesting and some times fascinating pictures--enough for several sittings of sometimes browsing, sometimes pouring over the eye-catching photography. There are exciting shots of campus life from the extremely effective front cover to the back. And please don’t overlook the ad section. It’s worth investigating. THE CAROLINA JOURNAL • •• GAYLE WATTS Editor’s Special Consultant .Ellison Clary, Jr. ® Frank Crooks Lafferly Photo Editor cartoonist Geraldine Ledford STAFF: Patrick McNeely, Kay Watson, Rodney Smith, Carol Haywood, Parry Bliss, Monte Zepeda, Joe Davidson, Steve Jones, Arthur Gentile, Linda Craven, Tommy Harmon, Sandy Griffin, David Staley. weekly on Wednesdays by the students of the University of Korth Carolina at Charlotte. ^ REPRESENTED FOR NATIONAL. ADVERTISING BY National Educational Advertising Services "jt: A DIVISION OF T. y ^ READER'S DIGEST SALES & SERVICES. INC. M I I 360 Lexington Ave., New York, N.Y. 1QQ17 \ j ir Hear McCall Lecture B\ KOI) SMITH Dr. Darryl McCall, whose Ph.D. from the University of Florida qualifies him as Associate Pro fessor of English, will deliver the first in a series of “Last Lec tures” from faculty members today at 11:30 in the Parquet Room. According to Dr. McCall, this series is designed to give retir ing, popular, or controversial pro fessors a chance to speak what’s on their mind, reveal their personal beliefs, or start trouble. Dr. McCall’s lecture is entitled “The Care and Feeding of Students”. Would you believe mod eled on Dr. Spock? No.? Dr. McCall believes that pro fessors can use this series to re veal a part of themselves that is not shown in class. There is really no sense in faculty members ali enating themselves from the stu dents are immediately under close scrutinization by their colleagues. Although this is the prevalent at titude here. Dr. McEniiy is a man who has the influence, and appar ently the inclination, to change this. The most ideal learning situation is the small, informal group dis cussion. Dr, McCall stated, “The most enlightening learning situa tion 1 have been in contact with was a class with Ants Oras, the Milton scholar. When we met we adjourned to the beer hall across the street where the discussion and argument often lasted long into the night. Now, this was real learning, a true intellectual give- and-take situation. Here the pro fessor’s personality becomes an integral part of the content of the learned material.” The whole thing is a business of interaction, of expression, “This is the purpose of the NEA,” stated Dr. McCall, who believes that students wish to assert opinion and be expressive rather than to be involved in pol icy making. “The students out here really want to transform UNC-C into a community in place of a commut ing situation,” quoth Dr. McCall. But this cannot be done without faculty assistance. “Some of the faculty would drop dead rather than have students in their home, but a socio - intellectual rela tionship gives the professor far more academic freedom than does a classroom situation. The semi- formal ‘line’ between professors and students must always be in existence in class, but no one can reaUy get to know somecme else under these conditions. The real communication in a university has to be between faculty and students, not faculty and faculty. Milton is my principal interest, but who else on the faculty is either in terested or qualified for a lunch room conversation about Milton. The other English professors have their specialized fields, be they Donne or Shakespeare, and the only other people who wish to talk Milton are the ones taking the course at that time. So why not carry interest and intellectual ex change over to lunch time and after-hours sessions. Of course, much of the fault lies with the students, who are often too timid to associate with their professors outside of classrooms, but the students will change if the faculty will alter their behavioral patt erns. There needs to be total in volvement among students andfac- ulty, not just the surface involve ment that declares that there will be one student on every standing faculty committee, but true inti mate involvement. I hope that the students will not be satisfied with l-M « Dr. Darryl McCall New Seminars Held NEW YORK, N. Y. - (l.P.) — In a move to enrich the freshman- year experience, Barnard College has introduced eight seminars or colloquia, each examining topics which relate literature and the study of the English language to other diciplines. Themes of the individual sem inars include literature and psy cho-analysis, the literature of pro test, utopias and anti-utopias, mathematics and the poetic imag ination, the literature of violence, literatue and anti-literature, and the art (rf biography. In another of the seminars each student will study the work of a single author. A further curriculum innovation is a Senior Scholar Program slat ed for this fall. This program will enable a selected group of seniors, ultimately expected to include no more than 2 - 3% of the senior class (six - ten students), to de vote an entire academic year to a single project. Senior Scholars are to be exempt from all courses and major requirements, although they will have the privilege of audit ing regular classes. a surface relationship, and 1 don’!’ think that they wiU. There mu^C be an intermingling of persona^, lities and ideas, and this is par of what education is. The student) seem to be striving for this alti teration of mores and change ii„ habits, but before it comes aboil^ there must be a change in atti.y tude on the part of the faculty,s 1 overheard one faculty membeip say, ‘The students! What the hef can they offer you?’ But, damng it, they offer everything. Therep are times when I am quite suref! that we learn more from there^ than they do from us. A mai’’ formulates his ideas while he is in his early twenties, and, though th# proof may not be evident for sev eral years, there are some finti thinkers out here—students witk productive, creative, and active*^ minds. They are ‘what’s happen-^! ing.’ ” y The students’ images of pro, fessors are indeed strange, buttha*^ stereotyped classes that profes,? sors place students in are eveiin narrower and less accurate. There*^ are professors who can be brown- ied, and some who can be begged,C and some who cannot be approach-„ ed; but students do not faU into“ introverted intellectual, extro-^ verted non - academic clowns,d BMOC, and super - jock types,„ at least not all students. Bothj professors and students are in-d dlviduals, people to be known, who have something to say. For God’sA sake don’t avoid social intercourse ” with somebody just because he isy a faculty member — or a student,*] A man is a man is a man. . .L You know, a university is the only place in the world you can g-o for one week and be two months behind. “
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