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VOL. 3
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1967
NO. 9
ACTION Symposium Today
Vietnam, China,
Cnba Are Topics
A “Symposium on Peace” will be
presented today by the UNC-C
Students for ACTION.
In conjunction with the Sym
posium. the ACTION group has
invited representatives from the
Southern Student Organizing Com
mittee (SSOC). SSOC is currently
presenting a Peace Tour which is
scheduied to visit 18 college cam
puses in North Carolina.
Foreign students talk about college in America at a dinner held on
campus Friday, November 3.
U.N, Dinner For Area
Topics will be: “Why
Vietnam?”, “The Myth of Chinese
Agression”, and “Cuba; Today.”
SSOC, which began as a student
civil rights group in 1964, initiated
the Tour to spark debate about U.S.
foreign policy and the draft. Ap
pearing with the Tour will be Tom
Gardner, Chairman of SSOC, who
has just returned from a meeting
where he and other American peace
workers met representatives of
North Vietnam and the National
Liberation Front; Nancy Hodes,
who lived in Peking, China from
1955-1960 and who studied Far
Western Affairs at Radcliffe Col
lege: and Bruce Smith, graduate
of the Upland Institute who has just
returned from a month trip to
Cuba. SSOC will show newsreel
and documentary films.
Also participatin g in the
symposium will be Mr. Jesse Riley
and the Reverend Tom Edge,
leaders of the Charlotte Citizens
for PeaceinVietnamfPeaceVigil.)
Mr. Riley holds a Masters Degree
in chemistry from the University
of Chicago and has worked in the
research department of Universal
Oil Products and Shell Oil. For
the last 24 years Mr. Riley has
been associated in research with
the Celanese Corporation.
Reverend Tom Edge was or
dained in 1960 by the Lutheran
Church after completing his stu
dies at Concordia College in Fort
Wayne, Indiana and Concordia
Theological Seminary at St. Louis.
Pastor Edge was mission deve
loper for the Lutheran Church
in the Philadelphia area. At that
time he did post-graduate work at
the LutheranSeminary in Philadel
phia. Early this year he became
Pastor for the All Saints Lutheran
Church in Charlotte.
In addition, ACTION is expect
ing participation in its Smyposium
by members of the Charlotte chap
ter of theLeagueof Women Voters.
The Symposium will be from
11:30 a.m.-8 or 9 p.m. in room
C200 at this campus.
Participation is open to students,
faculty , administration, and any
intere.sted citizens.
Foreign Students Held Amphitheatre
By SHERRY ADAMS
College students are basically
the same all over the world. This
statement was proven at a dinner
given by the old Collegiate Coun
cil of the United Nations of UNC-C
for the foreign students attending
colleges in the Charlotte area.
_ Last Friday night students from
I Davidson, Queens, Belmont Abbey,
I Sacred Heart, Johnson C. Smith,
I Wingate, Catawba, and UNC-C met
I on this campus to enjoy an in-
I ternational dinner and to meet
■ other students in this area who
I are from other countries. Also
invited to the dinner were foreign
I language and political science ma
jors from UNC-C who would be in-
I terested in meeting these students
' from other countries. Chancellor
and Mrs. Colvard served as offi
cial hosts for the dinner which
was highlighted by a group sing-
along of such favorites as Beatle
I songs and folksongs. The student
; were then invited to stay for the
i UNC-C dance featuring the Cata-
’ linas.
j During the dinner and later at
the dance several of the foreign
j exchange students were willing
j to discuss their views of life here
j in the United States as well as
give some insight into to the pat
tern of life in their own coun
tries.
Eduardo Tobiasson, a first se
mester senior at Belmont Abbey
from Peru said that the only major
I problem he had run into in studying
j in a foreign country and language
■ was the problem of trying to under-
I stand his professors in class. The
: fact that here in the United States
I unchaperoned dates were allowed
I seemed to make up for all the
j other problems, however.
I Another student who seemed
very pleased with the dating situa
tion in the U. S. was Joaquin Lago
from Puerto Rico and also a student
at Belmont Abbey. Joaquin said
that besides the North Carolina
girls, he liked steak and music
by the Association.
The friendliness of the people
here was the most outstanding
characteristic of the U. S. cited
by Luis Rodriquez who has come
from Cuba to study at Belmont
Abbey. He went on to say that
in his travels he has discovered
that kids are the same every
where, and proved his point by
saying that he enjoys going to the
Cellar, a popular teenage spot here
in Charlotte.
George Berner, a Finland
student on a one-year foreign ex
change program to Davidson, was
among the students who felt that the
young people in the United States
were not given as much freedom
as those in the European coun
tries. He was surprised to find
that private parties given by teen
agers here were usually cha
peroned by at least one parent. He
also expressed the complaint that
here girls expected to be called
and asked for a date in advance
while in Finland girls were more
willing to go out with boys after
meeting them at a cate or dance.
George then said that he had found
the fraternity parties at Davidson
a good means of meeting girls
and having a good time.
Alfonso Carrillo, a student from
Ecuador studying at Davidson, said
that he had found the young people
in the U.S. to be more happy-go-
lucky than those in his own country
where politics and world affairs
were a major to the college stu
dents. He also said that American
teenagers were far more liberal
in their views than those of his
country.
Although some of these students
said that they could notice dif
ferences between young people
here in the U. S. and those of
their own countries in matters
of school and political attitudes,
most of the students at this in
ternational dinner seemed to have
the same gripes, problems, and
desires as those students who at
tend UNC-C every day.
The boys liked to talk about the
girls, and the girls liked to talk
about the boys. Even the fact
that girls in the U. S. and in
South America use the same tricks
to catch boys was noted by one
observant foreign exchange stu
dent from Cuba.
Any differences among the stu
dents present at the dinner Friday
night were certainly minor and
unnoticeable as students from all
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Is Started
Constructio n has begun on the
University of North Carolina at
Charlotte’s amphitheater which
will be the site of Charlotte’s
bicentennial drama. The drama
is being written by LeGette Blythe,
writer-in-residence at UNC-C.
The site of the amphitheater is
North of a campus rhododendron
garden and east of the Mary Alex
ander Boulevard which cuts
through the campus to connect
Highway 49 with Mallard Creek
Church Road.
The amphitheater was designed
by Cameron, Little and Associates
with construction being done by
Blythe Brothers Company. The
amphitheater will have a seating
capacity of 4,000 with additional
space for3,000personsonagrassy
slope surrounding the main seating
area. It was designed so that it
can be partially covered later and
so that a band shell could be
erected. For a scenic effect, the
stage will be separated from the
seating area by a water mote.
(Continued on page 8)
Homer Gaddis closely observes a County Policeman as he keeps a watchful eye on the people who
found the stricter enforcement of the school drinking policy hard to cope with, at the Union dance
Friday night.
Photo by Fred Jordan