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F PAGE 2 Some of the 150 people attending the conference on the Piedmont Crescent listen to speaker in Parquet Room. Business Club Discusses Students^ Lack Of Interest In Bus. World BY PARRY BUSS In an effort to further their goal of becoming more involved in Charlotte community affairs, seventeen representatives of the Business Club on campus met with the Charlotte Sales and Mar keting Executives at the Ramada Inn on November 15 for an in formal luncheon. The Executives invited the Business Club members to dis cuss the lack of interest on the part of college students toward the business world. Before turning the discussion over to the individual table groups, Mr. Lloyd Walker, the moderator, stated several im portant facts concerning this lack of interest. According to Mr. Goodall Chosen To Receive Scholarship Walker, today’s college gradu ates are seven years ahead of the position graduates were in fifteen years ago. He stated that this may possibly be the reason that graduates today do not want to go into a year trainee pro gram, but want to start out with challenges wd responsibilities. Mr. Walker continued by saying that some businessmen feel that there is an “intellectual dis enchantment” because graduates have foundthatthebusinessworld is mostly a hit-or-miss opera tion and is not based on theory as learned in college. He concluded by announcing the following questions for discus sion: ‘Does life in a corpora tion fail college students?’, and “Hoe can business improve Will E. (Eddie) Goodall, Vice- President of the Business Club, has received the Charlotte Sales and Marketing Executives Club Scholarship for this year. Eddie was recommended to CSME by Mr. Mark Tinkhan of the Finan cial Aid Office. To be eligible, one must have a quality point average above 3.0 and show financial need. Al though this award is not res tricted to a student in the busi ness department))usiness majors will remain the most likely reci pients. Eddie graduated from Monroe High School in 1966 with an ex cellent record. He was sports editor of the school newspaper and a member of the basketball and baseball teams. His other high school activities include: Student Council, Spanish Club, Delegate to Boys State and Little League Baseball coach. At UNC-C, Ekldie is a Junior ma jo ring in accounting. In addi- tion to being Vice-President of the Business Club, he also serves as the Club’s Atoletic Officer. Eddie was a member of the varsity basketball team last year. Duane Coggin, class of ’67, held the CSME scholarship last year. Duane is now associated with the sales department of Roadway Express. HARRISBURG BARBER SHOP 3 Miles North On 49 Newly Equipped With The Vacuum System Open Daily 8-6 Closed Wednesday "THE BOX-THE BOX-THE BOX" NOW OPEN FEATURING FRIDAY: The Chessman VI SATURDAY: The Fabulous Patents SUNDAY: The Monzas Wed. & FRI. SPECIAL — Admission 50() Dre.i Cotuol Corner Stonewoll & Colleoi Education Provides ‘Most Vital Thrust’ this condition?’. With these two questions in mind, the table discussiongroups came up with the following con clusions: (1) there is really no problem with student lack of interest, and thus the people who claim the existence of such a problem are “barking up the wrong tree.”; or (2) that there is such a pnAlem, but that the solution to the lack of interest is not readily decided on by any one group. Some of the faults voiced by the students concerning the busi ness world were that business is dull, profit-seeking, conform ist, and self-centered. In other words, the students feel that business is not considering today’s major social problems. Despite these faults pointed out by the group, the members also concluded that business is ex panding in the field of social problems, and that business is giving its collegegraduatesmore responsibility and challenge. Elducation can provide the “single most vital thrust” for development of the Kedmont Crescent of North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, Furman University President Gordon Blackwell said here Thursday, November 9. Dr. Blackwell was speaking at a conference on “Growth Pros pects of the Piedmont Crescent” held here sponsored by the Ag ricultural Policy Institute of North Carolina State University. He suggested that efforts at upgrading education be concen trated on three groups (1) mino rity people, especially Negroes, (2) rural dwellers, and (3) women. The Furman president urged increased spending for Piedmont Universities and warned that pri vate collies must not be squeezed out of the higher educa tion establishment. “It is much cheaper for the taxpayer to have thousands of college students educated in pri vate collies, even with the aid of state grants to help make up some of the tuition differen up some of the tuition differ ential between private and pub lic institutions, than it would be to educate them all in state in- . stitutions,” he said. In a speech also on Thursday, Addison H. Reese, chairman of toe board of North Carolina Nat ional Bank, declared that toe Hedmont Crescent can achieve its full potential only through unparalleled cooperation of ed ucation, government and private enterprise. “Cooperation is toe keystone to toe entire future structure ot toe Piedmont Crescent,” Reese said. “If we are to achieve the goals we have set for ourselves., it will call for a degree of co- operation and hard work on the part of private enterprise, state cational institutions not hereto fore dreamed of.” He cited toe Research Triangle and this campus as twooutstand-' ing examples of cooperation be tween government and private enterprise. AH>roximately 150 business men, educators, planners and government officials attended the conference to discuss ways helping toe Piedmont Crescent to compete with other regions of toe country, prospects for employment in toe region, and stimulants to development of the region, such as business, plan ning and education. 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