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Parking Fee Frets
The recent addition of a parking fee to the necessary costs of
each semester has produced some discontent among student body
members. Even more antagonism has been aroused throughout the
faculty and staff, who, as employees of the University, feel that
the fee is ill-placed.
Perhaps the opposition on the part of the protesting students is
just a spontaneous reaction to a requirement to pay for something
one has gotten for free in the past. New and improved parking
lots are a must on this campus, but the state legislature has an
nounced that we will get no more funds for these lots. Viewed in
this respect, the parking fee is not only reasonable for students,
but obviously the next step to obtain the necessary revenue. On
most other campuses, a parking fee is charged. The funds accumu
lating from this fee will be used solely for the development of new
parking lots.
We would like to get some more information delivered to the
student body concerning this fee.
Will dorm students pay more for parking than commuting students
since their cars will be parked day and night? Will the money being
collected now from commuting students be used to build parking
lots tor the dorms first?
As tar as the faculty is concerned, it appears to us that an ex
cellent opportunity tor creating extra good will between faculty
and administration has been overlooked. Is the approximately $1,000
which will be collected from the faculty parking tee worth the
hostility it has stirred up among faculty members because of the
principle of “fringe benefits” involved?
Return To Alphabet
There is no other way to describe registration this time than
as a confused, crowded, and unnecessarily time-consuming mess! I
What happened to the alphabetical order procedure which was
used in the past? The discouragingly long lines during the peak
hours of registration (peak because many students had plans to
work after dropping by school in the early morning and afternoon
hours to register) were enough to increase tte drop-outs of America
noticeably.
There HAS to be a better way—more pleasant for the regis
trars, student employees and volunteers, and students involved.
We suggest that the alphabetical method, by which each letter
Interval has a certain time span in which to register, is, at the
least, a step in the right direction.
Snow Confusion
The advent of much snow and treacherous ice caused no small
change in planned schedules for the end of fall semester here, and
we would like to commend Chancellor Colvard and his associates
for the decisions made during that period.
The decision to schedule Friday and Monday exams on Monday
and Tuesday of the following week did cause some confusion and
no little panic for some students. It is our considered opinion,
however, that much of this confusion was the result of adminis
tration being forced to use mass communication media in order
to inform the 2,000 students here of the schedule changes. Often
the announcements of the changes were sketchy and brief—not
the clear statement of date changes submitted to these media by
our public relations department.
200th Year Celebration
A display of items relating to
the observance of Charlotte’s bi
centennial this year has been
erected in the Carolina Room of the
J. Murrey Atkins Library.
The display Includes a photo
copy of an article from the Novem
ber 14, 1967, issue of the “Char
lotte Observer,” prints of the
Hezekiah Alexander home and
First Presbyterian Church, a com
memorative coin showing the bi
centennial emblem, copy of the
seal of Charlotte and Mecklen
burg County, a sheet providing his-
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Growing Pains Here Hail
Coming Of Age For UNC-C
BY ROmEY T. SMITH
I
The Charlotte branch of the
University of North Carolina is
about to come of age. With the
addition of domitories anda sym-
nasium (or so Pve been told), the
heretofore unpleasant connotations
connected with adding “at
Charlotte” when saing, “I attend
UNC,” will be forever eliminated.
This branch is expected to ac
company the City of Charlotte in
her inevitable climb towards the
label of “first class” (I have it
on the best authority!) If the ad
ministrative branch coneinutes to
follow its present course, we are
surely destined to eventually ob
tain an irrefutable reputation as
a hallowed “citadel of knowledge,
arsenal of truth, and instrument
of progress.”
hinting at is that accounting or
psychology students should not be
required to take that superficial
fifth semester of a foreign lan
guage. It is a very strange re
quirement indeed, and an out
dated one. It has been proven that
practice in rote memoriza
tion does not improve the ability
to think. Transfer of training is
not aHilicable from Spanish to
cost accounting!
However, if we are to approach
Ivy League fame, we must adopt
Ivy League standards and leave
bush league tactics in the bushes.
If we plan to establish a tradition
(rf pride, we must now examine
closely what it is that we’re to
be proud of. As E. F. Ware stated
in “Ironquill”: Human hopes and
And it’s quite true that our
present society is ultra-high on
the technology scale and we are
becoming more and more science-
oriented daily. Still, after a philo
sophy student, for instance, has had
a semester of physics and one
of psychology, any other four-hour
lab course is merely an ordeal to
be endured, another book to buy,
another C.
KNOW entered the administration |
building and left the campus in i
a state car. Sure, they were ques. |
tioned. They were asked if they j
wouldn’t like to join the guard |
for a cup of coffee. Tsk, tsk, i
Another matter of concern is I
that students guilty of violating ,
a student legislated honor code ‘
are deprived of their right to be ;
tried by their peers. They must
face a faculty academic discip.
Unary committee. Whythenbother ■
to elect a Student Court? The
Student Court here is only a toy,
a new game to be tried once or ■
twice and then put on the bottom
of the toy chest. The University
of Virginia has a plan that might I
serve as a model for a revamp
ing of the system presently in
effect at the Charlotte branch.
And why, why are seminars only
for third and fourth year students?
AU present seminar courses have
more prerequisites than a sopho
more can possibly hope to have
completed. We shouldn’t be afraid
human creeds. Have their roots
in human needs.” Not being Wil
liam F.Buckley,thiswriterwishes
to immediately acknowledge the
falUbility of the ensuing criticism
erf present school policies and to
invite correction of mistaken ob
servations. After all, two and a half
years on campus hardly qualifies
one as an expert on school policy.
practices, and plans; never
theless, it should equip one to
make, at least, a near-valid cri
tique of these facets of the Uni
versity. It is hoped that this criti
cism will encourage students to
scrutinize “what’s happening” a
little closer and to exercise their
right to question how their money
is spent.
to hold a freshman seminar once
a week for three hours and a
credit hour or two. It could be
geared to attempt to tie together
the other courses on the fresh
men schedules. Or a humanities
seminar for sophomores. They’s
eat it up.
Anyone who had to stand in line
for two hours last week knows
that there is something lacking in
the organization of registration.
Perhaps the problem lay in the
inexperienced helpers or the lack
of exacting procedure atthe check
ing desk. At any rate, we can
all hope that the Office of the Reg
istrar profitted from the mistakes
made this semester and can cor
rect them before next fall.
The library must be built up,
the faculty must be improved, and
the students must be forced to
drop this inferiority complex that
often results in what 1 call
a “transfer neurosis.” The stu
dents here think that they’re mis
sing out on a part of college life,
and perhaps that’s so. But those
who are freshmen will be able
to get the “Sunday afternoon dor
mitory blues” soon enough. And
they’ll be able to reap the thrills
of big time spectator sports. And
they’ll be able to get away from
mama and papa and sister and
brother. And they’ll be able to
enjoy all the triumphs and suf
fer all the heartbreaks experi
enced by college students all over '
the world. The time interval be
tween now and then is indirectly
proportional to the effoit they
put out.
Foreign languages are very
“nice.” They’re especially help
ful if you are abroad and would
like a place to stay and some
thing to eat. However, it is not
Another place where we must
grow up is the security force that
guards these hallowed halls during
nocturnal quiescence. Many are
the times that student government
torical data concerning Charlotte,
a recent Chamber of Commerce
data sheet, a copy of the bicen
tennial prayer written by Dr. John
R. Cunningham, and pamphlets
describing the history of law en
forcement in Charlotte and the
seventy-five years of the “Char
lotte Observer”.
The display will be changed
to reflect up-to-date developments
in the bicentennial observance
throughout the year. Students and
faculty members are invited to
examine the display at their con
venience.
necessary to study the literature
of a culture in order to be able
to converse. The point that I’m
officials have been turned away
from their offices on the basis that
they had no business there. On the
other hand, there was a recent
case where two maintenance men
that the on-duty guard DID NOT
Many of the above criticisms
can be answered quickly by the
stock reply, “Well, we’d do it,
but we have only so much money.”
This is true enough. And this
criticism is directed not only to
administrators and faculty mem
bers, but also in the direction
of patrons, alumni, and friends of
the University, including the State
Legislature. The University of
North Carolina at Charlotte is
destined for greatness, but words
won’t realize this potential. It will
take work.
Published weekly on Wednesdays by the students of the University
of North Carolina at Charlotte.
“That does it Clark—go get a drop card.”