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Action On Go
A Guest Editorial By Ron Foster
Recently ACTION sponsored a forum on Open
Housing which was open to all members of the
student body. Participants in the forum included
Curt Hartog, Instructor in English at UNC-C
and W. H. Carstarphe of the Charlotte City
Mg. Office. It was pointed out that there is an
apparent lack of community leadership as well
as inadequate police protection for those people
breaking the social barriers along the lines of
Open Housing.
Open Housing is an issue that has drawn much
national as well as local attention.
The Journal Staff wishes to commend ACTION
and its members for a job that is being well
done in hopes they will continue to be a wheel
of progress for our campus. Many clubs and
organizations should take a page out of ACTION’S
book by coming alive and making more con
tributions to our campus.
THE CAROLINA JOURNAL
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Letters To Editor
Green Garter Was
“We are serious minded, active, divergent,
idealistic but yet realistic people who are in
terested in getting at truth.’’ This comment came
from the then acting president of ACTION,
Gene Herman, who has helped to found one
of this campuses most astutely critical or
ganizations.
AC riON, which stands for Active Committee
for Truth Individualism, Opportunity Now, could
not be a better name for this group. They have
exhibited the ability to seek out issues of current
interest to the entire student body.
A Merchandizing Coni
Dear Editor:
Wtfen a project fails, the fav
orite role of those reporting the
event is to blast the students for
not supporting it. Such was the case
with Sonia Mizell’s article on the
Green Garter (The Carolina Jour
nal, October 25). The same sort
of postlude followed last year’s
fiasco with the Dulses of Dixie
land. In the future, before we
blast the students for non-support,
let’s look for ways to improve and
promote the project.
they wanted it. This is evidence^;::
by the “large and satisfing att.ii-
endance on Friday and Saturdaji’'
nights.’’ '
Any of Dr. Wubben’s Market
ing students will tell you that the
Green Garter appeared to be a
Merchandising success. It gave the
students what tliey wanted when
In my opinion, the overall pro. |
Gentlemen Should
Bear Conduct
motion by these students was ex.
cellent. The advertising was ade.'
qute, however, the follow-up wasi ■
almost non-existant a major mar.
keting mistake. These studentsi '
could have borrowed an idea thei
SCL used last year. When the
SCL set out to sell tickets fotl
their Roman Banquet, they put ^
their ticket stand near the Bell!.
Tower. The ticket sellers stood ii ^'
Mr. Borden,
I thank you for your letter last
week and wish to alter my ori
ginal statement concerning conduct
to make it compatible with your
valid criticism. A gentleman
should never allow his conduct to
be de-elevated by exposure to more
gross companions. He should al
ways act AT LEAST as mannerly
and courteous as his companions.
This allows him to gear his con
duct above the standards of otliers
if need be.
You are to be congratuk ted on
your close reading and thought on
an article the contents of which
whould be in our thoughts at all
times.
Rod Smith
front of the booth approachiogP
EVERY student that came by. In
otlier words, these students should iii
have BEAT THE BUSHES forticl(.|tl
et sells. “Complete success’ sel-lp
dom comes to those who sit and|
wait.
As for the fate of the Coffeei.i
House, the students will in Uielli
final analysis make the decision.!ci
If they choose not to support it,
then there is no question about
what should happen. The project
should be allowed to fold.
Dave Herman
It is commendable that this group has made
available to this campus an opportunity to par
ticipate as well as to be informed on this issue.
The “Symposium On Peace’’ which will feature
such topics as “Why Vietnam?’’, “The Myth
of Chinese Agression’’, and “Cuba Today’’
will once again feature topics of current in
terest to the entire student body.
Whole World’s Gone To Pot
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Later this month they will sponsor a debate
on “Federal Approachment on Civil Rights’’
featuring Dr. Robbins of the History Department
and Garrett Allen of radio station WIST.
ACTION also encourages the investigation by
the legislature of certain critical areas on our
campus. These areas include bookstore prices,
traffic light at school intersection, cafeteria
prices, and overnite check-outs.
Dear Editor:
Over the past several months
I’ve had countless opportunities to
discuss the various merits of Mar
ijuana with the enlightened few.
Normally, my intellectual posture
is not unlike the defense posture
of a turtle: 1 am content to re
main within my shell and let the
whole world go to pot. Yet upon
reading tlie Nov, 1 Journal and Rod
Smith’s obviously erudite article
(count the four-syllable words!)
I found my normal state of aparthy
shaken and now feel compelled to
add my confusion to the contro
versy.
ACTION has sought out and brought to light
many issues that should be of interest and con
cern to the entire student body.
It is indeed most refreshing to observe the
progress that this organization has made in such
a short period.
Campus
Activities
This Week
Dr. Gabriel, along with students
from the German classes will con
duct a forum Wed. November 8,
at 11:30 in U-234. Dr. Gabriel,
who was born just fifty miles from
Salzburg, Germany will lecture
about his native land and will show
personal slides.
Dr. Gabriel taught English and
German to the reknown Vienna
Boy’s Choir before coming to
America on a Fulbright scholar
ship. Everyone is please asked to
attend what promises to be a most
stimulating and enjoyable meeting.
Admittedly, my first - hand ex
perience (and claim to the title
of “expert”) is limited, in fact
non-existent; this can be attrib
uted to my being of tlie less ad
venturesome breed. To those who
would say, “don’t condemn it ‘til
you’ve tried it”, I would also ad
mit to having not tried sky-div
ing, sword-swallowing, glass-eat
ing, or suicide, all of which, I’m
sure, have obvious cathartic values
within the context of modern
society.
It would seem that the strong
est arguement in support of Pot
is that when smoked (not eaten—
its very hatib-forming that way...)
It causes no ill-effects. That is
to say Pot-users feel no physi
cal compulsion to light one up,
and state that they develop no psy
chological need for the drug.
No doubt unknown to you, several
people within your circle of fri
ends have used Pot for a number
of years discretely, with no overt
change in their performance within
society. Some of my friends have,
and they’re very rational about the
frequency with which they “turn
on”.
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The Business Club will meet
today at 11:30, room C-120. The
fifteen members to represent the
Club at the Shirtsleeve Luncheon
of the Charlotte Sales and Mar
keting Executives Club will be
choosen.
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The newly organized chapter of
the Childhood Education Associa
tion International will hold a meet
ing on Wednesday, November 15
at 11:30 a. m. in C203 to elect
officers. Membership is open to
anyone considering working with
children in any capacity.
It’s not what you do, but how
you do it, that makes your life
a real success.
1 must acknowledge having known
only a few Pot-users, less than 20
in all; and to make generaliza
tions from this limited sample
would be scientifically incorrect,
I, however, make no claims as to
the objectivity or scientific astu
teness of my assumptions. That
these people were, generally
speaking, as human and sane as
the typical member of our society
(for what that’s worth) goes without
saying; if little brighter than most.
Now don’t rush out to buy a joint
just to prove your intellectuality
— that isn’t my contention; there
were some experimenting with Pot
who might’ve better spent their
time peeling bananas for their
peers in the San Francisco Zoo
(not to be confused with Haight -
Ashbury, where the inmates claim
other than nutritional values for
bananas, perhaps jokingly), but I’d
like to think that they weren’t
representative.
That nearly all of these people
were alienated by their society
would also go without saying, yet
I considered this their most en
dearing quality: contrary to some
contemporary philosophical ar-
guements (particularly as ex
pounded by Dr. George Crane,
Norman Vincent Peale, -.Art Link-
letter and Lawrence Welk) this is
not the best of all possible
worlds, and their disenchantment
reflected their great perceptive
ness. A few, it seemed, were in
the process of escaping a foul
world, and a few more were look
ing for something better. Some had
more basic motives for using Pot,
but my Calvinist upbrining forces
me to ignore this particular as
pect of the Marijuana experience.,
The qualitative experience these k
people had, varied of course, with lp
the individual; yet most of themiol
felt that they had found some-|k
thing truer and more intense than F
the world they sought to leave be-
hind. I wouldn’t be so naive as to •>*
assume that the “reality” these T
people found with Pot was anj
less rstl than the one they dis-N
liked — I know better; yet they If!
seemed to ignore a most impor-H'
tant factor in the scheme of ex
perience: we live HERE in an un- K
pleasant world, emd leaving it does- M
n’t change it. . . permanently,
Perhaps it is their “thing” this**!
life to escape—if, so, they’d find to
some other way to cop-out, evenif
Marijuana didn’t exist.
To those of you who have yetfS
to indulge, 1 address a simple “
question, “why?”. If it is simply I
to try a new experience, have atH
it. But be honest with yourself P
— don’t rationalize or assume
an obscure mantle of intellectu
ality. If you seek an escape or
hope to find something better, re-
cognize that your awareness of the
world around you comes from the _
reaches of your ovm mind and the IF
world around you comes from the ’
reaches of your own mind and the
richness of your “self” — and
start your search there. If you-^
find the world unpleasant, it may
just be that you’re seeking a way to ^
live with yourself and the world
around you, and aren’t fully aware
of it. Besides, running only caus-U'
es blisters. fj
Walt Sherrill '
Novelist
To Lecture
A prominent novelist currently ;
writing will be at UNC-C to speak ‘
to all interested students and fa-1
culty members on Monday, No
vember 13, at 11:30 A.M. in room I
C - 2 2 0 . Elizabeth Boatwright p
coker will lecture on “Research-I
ing the Historical Novel.”
Mrs. Coker’s knowledge of this [
subject is extensive. She has ,
written several historical novels, I
a few of which are THE BIG |
DRUM, DAUGHTER OF STRAN
GERS. 1