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The Carolina Joerxal
Of Uni¥9ftiif Of North Cmroiimm At Chmffotto
Vol. 3
Wednesday, NovemOer 29, 1967
No. 11
Basketball Season Opened Nov. 28
Lettermen Return
Park Center was the scene of
the University of North Carolina
at Charlotte basketball opener
on Tuesday, November 28, at
8:00 p.m. TTie opponenet
8:00 p.m. The opponent was
mighty District 26 NAIA champ
ion Guilford.
The Forty-Niners of UNC-C
return four lettermen including
1966-67 co-captains Jerry An
thony and Bobbie Snipes. Anthony,
who missed eight games because
of injury last season, hit on 53%
of his field goal attempts and
averaged 11.5 points per game.
The 6’ 3” Junior was the team’s
second leading rebounder with
7.0 per game. Snipes averaged
9.4 points per game and as the
only Senior on the squad should
help give stability to the team.
Bob Lemmond, a 6’7” Junior
letterman, led the Forty-Niner
scoring with 384 points and 13.7
points per game. He was also
the team’s leading rebounder with
10.9 per game. Coach Harvey
Murphy says, “Bob has much
potential. It he becomes aggres
sive enough, he has the raw power
to be an outstanding rebounder.
His overall improvement has
been pleasing.’’ Ben Basinger is
a Sophomore letterman, who at
6’5” and 200 pounds with good
speed, is learning fast and may
be a key performer before the
season is over. Gary Cress and
Pete Donahue are Freshmen who
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Judging
Dec. 6
ROD SMITH
Pub Board Alters First Decision
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Editors Have Final Say On Ads
Amid the turmoil of student-
faculty reaction to a November 2
decision of the Publications
Board of the University to refrain
from accepting beer and liquor
advertisements in student publi
cations, the Board met on Novem
ber 16 at which time it re-ex
amined its position on this
matter, and issued a final policy
that the type of advertisements
which will appear in these pub
lications is solely the decision
of the editor involved.
The motion, passed unani
mously by the Board, is worded
as follows:
responsibility, not to be taken
lightly, and is one which leaves
them vrith both the freedom and
obligation to decide either yes
or no in any given instance after
appropriate consideration of as
many facets of the issues and im
plications involved as they can
possibly determine, these to be
considered as much as is pos
sible in a context absent of un
due pressures, whatever their
sources.” The motion was made
by Dr. Julian Mason.
“I move that it be clear that
the decisions as to what adver
tisements are to appear in the
student publications at the Uni
versity of North Carolina at
Charlotte are to be the decisions
of the editors of those publica
tions, and that they also be re
minded that this is a significant
The issue created such interest
on this campus and in the com
munity that extensive television
and newspaper coverage was
given to the development of the
controversy. Members of the
press were asked to remain out
side the meeting room until ad
journment had taken place.
Several interested parties had
Gibbons-World Faces
Famine In Next Decade
requested an invitation to be
present atthe meeting. The Board
voted to allow these speakers to
present their statements indivi
dually, answer any questions
from the Board, and then retire.
John Gaither, student body pre
sident, reminded the student
members of the Publications
Board that, “We are all repre
sentatives of the student body
as a whole and for gosh sakes
let’s keep that in mind.” Gaither
also added that he hoped this
statement wasn’t necessary.
Speaking to the opinion of some
elements on campus thatthe Pub
lications Board is not necessary.
Professor Leon Gatlin of the
English Department stated that
his experience in radio and news
paper work at Wake Forest indi
cated that a board such as the
Publications Board is “a good
bit more important than we may
realize.”
He continued, “The Board cre
ates a place to exist for the pub
lications that is safer than it
would be otherwise.”
The chairman of the Univer
sity Party, David Guy, (who is
also parliamentarian of the Stu
dent Legislature), said, “In my
opinion, the majority of the stu
dent body is against running beer
advertisements because of les
sened quality of the publications
involved.”
He stated that if the evaluation
of the publications by national
organizations would suffer, then
the ads should be excluded.
Candy Kimbrell, annual editor,
pointed out to Guy that, “We
do submit the book for evaluation
each year, but we do not put
much stock in these evaluations
as the rules for judging are
archaic. The books we submit
for evaluation are a little more
modern than that.”
A faculty leader in the re
sistance to the Publications
Board decision. Dr. John Robbins
of the History Department, began
his statement by clarifying the
position of the petitioners. He
stated, “This protest is not a
movement against the Publica
tions Board or the administra
tion. It is a movement for stu
dent responsible freedom.”
“We would like to see the
editorial and advertisement
policy in the hands of the stu
dents involved. We feel that this
responsibility is an integral part
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The judging of the 49’er beard
contest will take place at 11:30
a.m. on Wednesday, December 6
in the Union cafeteria. The Caro
lina Journal and the Rogues ‘n’
Rascals encourage “maximum
feasible participation” by the male
students.
The contestants are asked to
wear 49’er outfits and bring any
other paraphenalia relating to the
Gold Rush theme. Consideration
will be given to costumes, as well
as beards, so drop by the Salva
tion Army Discount Store on the
way to class Wednesday and buy
some rags.
Interested
Students See
Witherspoon
Dr. Loy H. Witherspoon, chair
man of the Philosophy and Reli
gion Department, would like for
all students who are interested
in church related work to please
contact him. Many church-related
conferences are held during the
year in North Carolina, other
states in this area, and through
out the United States. Many times
delegates are needed from this
campus, and Dr. Witherspoon
would like to have a complete
list of all interested students.
BY: WENDY KLEINFIELD
Dr. John H. Gibbons of the
Oak Ridge National Institute spoke
here last Wednesday on a topic
which directly concerns all Am-
, ericans. In his talk, “World Pop
ulation: Where Do We Go From
Here,” Dr. Gibbons states that
in the span of the next decade
the world faces severe famine
and people will no longer be able
to look the other way in this
crisis.
From a physicist’s point of view,
there have been many fluctuations
in the balance of birth rate and
death rate throughout history.
These fluctuations resulted from
among other things, disease, or
ganizing agriculture, immigration,
and the decisive enroes of indus
trialization.
But wealthier nations, especially
America through its mercy to the
under-developed nations (which
make up three-fourths of the
world’s nations), have created a
basic problem according to Dr.
Gibbons.
“They have spread Christiaraty
and improved medical techniques
to these countries, and have thus
succeeded in controlling the death
rate, but not the birth rate of
these nations. The result is im
balance, and fantastic population
growth,” points out Dr. Gibbons.
In answer to the natural ques
tion “Where do we go from here?”
Dr, Gibbons offers three possible
alternatives: (1) increase the death
rate; (2) decrease the birth rate;
(3) increase food supply and make
better use of other resources to
maintain pace with the growth
rate. As a physicist. Dr. Gibbons
advocates the third solution. He
feels that technology can offer a
period of grace by further utili
zing the earth’s resources until
a better solution can be worked
out. , ,
“In the next decade, we must
decide if our fellow man is worth
our affluence for a problem we
helped create by removing ‘death
devices’,” warns Dr. Gibbons.
SREB Holds Southern Colleges Conference
On Educational Innovations For Campuses
BY ROD SMITH
The Southern Regional Education
Board held a conference on Educa
tional Innovations in Atlanta on
November 5-8 under a grant from
the U. S. Office of Education, Bur
eau of Research.
The conference, underthe direc
tion of William O’Connell of SREB
and Charles Seashore of NEA.was
attended by students, faculty mem
bers, and administrators from
twenty-seven predominantly colo
red colleges in the South.
The conference, attended by this
writer, was opened by Dr. Herman
Branson ofHarvardUniversity who
set the trend for the entire work
shop by expressing his concern tor
motivation in education and the
problems of dealing with the new
“explosion of knowledge.”
To quote Dr. Branson, “We
have much knowledge, but mere
accumulation is not sufficient. We
must know the nature of knowledge
in order to facilitate more effi
cient teaching.”
The first evening of the con
ference was spent primarily in
defining the current problems in
the modern university. -Some of
the major problems which seem
to relate to this branch of the
University of North Carolina are
the following: classroom theory
unrelated to situations in the “real
world,” stiff lectures in class
room as opposed to open dis
cussion, the absence of honors
courses, curricula organization,
the off-campus image of a uni
versity, the lack of an overall
intellectual climate, the motiva
tion of students, faculty recruit
ment, and the rewarding of ef
ficient teaching.
During the course of the con
ference, many innovations were
suggested as attempts to solve
the above problems and elevate
the level of higher education. The
new system in which students re
ceived pass or fail marks, the in
dependent study programs, the co
op program (as demonstrated by
Georgia Tech in engineering and
Antioch College in social sci
ences), and the travel-study semi
nars in which students (sociol
ogy majors, for instance) travel
abroad to study the problems of
the day in their disciplines, all
received much attention from the
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