Page 2 The Carolina Journal September 18, 1968
UNC-C Receives
$85000 Grant
CHARLOTTE--TWO
foundations have given the
University of North Carolina at
Charlotte $85,000 for a major
planning effort to help the
instution become an innovative
and urban-service oriented
university.
The Mary Reynolds Babcock
Foundation is providing $50,000
and the Z. Smith Reynolds
Foundation, $35,000.
They stood in line....
John Scott Receives
Silver Star
In making his proposal to the
foundations, UNC-C Chancellor
D. W. Colvard said, “The need is
for a major planning effort, one
which will guarantee maximum
results from the state’s
commitment. The mood of the
faculty is to be innovative, to take
some risks, and to establish the
institution on the basis of
contemporary needs and
contemporary thought.”
★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★
Navy Lt. (JG) John D. Scott,
25, son of Mr. and Mrs. George R.
Scott of 2511 Cornell Ave., has
been awarded the Silver Star
medal for “heroic achievement”
while aboard the USS Liberty on
June 8, 1967.
Scott graduated with a Bachelor
of Arts degree in Political Science
May 19, 1966 from the University
of North Carolina at Charlotte.
His ship was attacked by Israeli
aircraft and torpedo boats which
had mistaken the ship for an
enemy in the eastern
Mediterranean. In the citation for
the nation’s fourth highest award,
Lt. Scott was credited with
emergency repair action that
prevented severe flooding of the
ship’s interior during the intense
attack.
Lt. Scott, at his station in
damage control central,
coordinated firefighting and repair
efforts throughout the ship.
Disregarding his own safety, he
remained at his starboard side
post after being warned to “stand
by for torpedo attack, starboard
side.” Moments later a torpedo
exploded below the waterline, a
scant 15 feet away from his
smoke-filled control station. Lt.
Scott continued to direct repair
and fire parties to counter heavy
rocket and shell damage on deck.
He then personally supervised the
shoring and patching of the
ruptured deck above the torpedo
explosion point.
With the funds provided, the
University plans to bring to the
campus from four to six leaders in
each of several areas of the
developing institution; to send
members of the faculty to centers
of innovative planning around the
nation; and to bring a top
educator to the campus to direct
the planning program. It is
expected that the results of the
studies will be published so that
other new institutions may
benefit.
Hypocrite
if the shoe fits
Mr. Loren Haus, cafeteria
manager, has requested that
students clean their tables and
return their dirty trays to the
kitchen counter. The reason for
this request is simple-the
enrollment is unexpectedly high.
and the cafeteria is not equipped
or staffed to handle such a large
crowd at one time. The food
service is, in short, understaffed.
Only with student assistance can
the eating area be kept clean.
Journal
Changes
Publishers
Dr. Colvard said that
professional planners have already
been at work on the physical
plant and that there has been
internal planning in academic and
administrative areas. “However,
we want to broaden this planning
and bring in the impact of ideas
from innovative centers,” he said.
The 1968-1969 Carolina
Journal will be published by
Mullen Publications, Inc. of
Charlotte. Mullen has contracted
to print the Journal on the basis
of 2,500 copies weekly for the
entire academic year. The editor
explains the change to a local
printer: “We feel that it is
necessary to bring the make-up
and printing of the Journal back
to Charlotte in order to insure a
better quality of final copy. While
the paper was being pased up out
of town, there was no way for a
Journal representative to be close
at hand to avoid the simple little
mistakes that can easily destroy
the quality of a newspaper.
Misspellings on names that are
familiar to all our readers, like
Colvard (Last year the
Chancellor’s name was spelled
‘Calvard’ on a front page banner ),
must not be allowed to occur if
we are to have a first rate
newspaper. We also believe that
our agreement with Mullen is the
most economically sound contract
that the Journal has ever had. We
hope to do a better job for the
students at a lower cost. If the
Student Legislature appropriates
the money we need, we can, and
will, give the students a newspaper
of which the University of North
Carolina at Charlotte can be
proud.”
Gatlin To
Ad vise Journal
Dr. H. Leon Gatlin of the
University of North Carolina at
Charlotte English Department has
been appointed to the position of
advisor to THE CAROLINA
JOURNAL for the 1968-1969
academic year. Chancellor D. W.
Colvard announced the
appointment, made upon
recommendation of the Student
Publications Board, on August 27.
Mr. Kenneth Sanford resigned the
position in order to devote more
time to his other duties. Dr.
Gatlin will serve as an “ex officio”
member of the Pub Board and will
advise both the business and
journalistic departments of the
newspaper.
Dr. H. Leon Gatlin
Dr. De Felice Honored
All persons interested in serving
on the SGA Elections Committee
for the 1968-1969 school year are
asked to place their names on the
list made available on campus or
to contact Jerrold Burks. A
meeting will be announced at a
later date.
CHARLOTTE — A University
of North Carolina at Charlotte
professor has been recognized for
his letter writing ability and has
had an article published in an
Italian journal.
A letter by Dr. Frank DeFelice,
assistant professor of economics
and business administration, to
the editor of the Wall Street
Journal is cited as an example of
reasoned argumentation in a book
titled “Reason in Controversy.”
In the letter Dr. DeFelice takes
issue with the Wall Street Journal
position on government debt.
Dr. DeFelice is also a frequent
writer of letters to the editors of
the Charlotte newspapers.
An article by Dr. DeFelice
appears in an issue of the
International Review of Economic
and Commercial Science, an
Italian publication.
The article deals with the
Russian system of distributing
goods to consumers.
The Blackfriars, UNC-C’s own
“magicians of the stage”, will hold
their first meeting on Thursday,
September 19, at 2:30 in C-206.
Ail perspective members are
cordially invited to attend. This
includes anyone who is interested
in participating in any phase of
the theatrical productions.
Some of the areas to be studied
may include urban affairs, fine
arts, international education
engineering, business
administration, physical
education, computer
programming and use, learning
resources, training leaders and
teachers for community colleges
a school of education and impact
on public schools, adult or
continuing education,
administration and management,
nursing, and others.
In the area of urban affairs,
UNC-C has a faculty committee
which has been developing for the
past year a proposal to go to the
1969 General Assembly. Basically
an urban affairs institute is being
requested.
Members of the engineering
department have been working on
an innovative proposal in
engineering education. Dr.
Colvard says that the department
has now reached the point in its
studies that it needs to bring in
consultants to determine whether
the program is the best that can
be devised.
The University has its own IBM
360-30 Computer and teletype
connections with the computer
center^ in the Research Triangle.
Consultants have already been
brought-, in to evaluate this
program, but the Chancellor
expects to have a long-range need
for consultation as additional
areas of the campus make use of
computer assistance.
Another committee which has
been deeply involved in innovative
planning is one in the area of
learning resources. Here the
Chancellor indicated the
institution hopes to make use of
the latest developments in
electronic teaching aids.
Beacuse of its background as a
former community college,
UNC-C is expected to have a
significant role to play in
providing leadership for the state’s
community colleges. Already the
institution provides an annual
training conference for top
administrators.
In his proposal. Dr. Colvard
placed a great deal of emphasis
upon UNC-C’s responsibilities
because of its emergence in an
urban setting. He said, “The
institution is emerging at a place
which typifies the movement
toward the urban society...in a
complex of cities hungering for
cultural and educational
interaction with a university; in a
state which has invested
extensively in public colleges and
in specialized programs to serve
rural people; and one which is
only beginning to sense its needs
and opportunities as an urbanizing
state.”
“Because it is coming into
existence at a time, at a place, and
in a context which favors
innovation for better service to
the contemporary needs of
society and because of its great
potential for good influences
upon the primary and secondary
schools, the community colleges,
and the whole field of higher
education, its faculty and
administration are taking seriously
tlieir opportunity and
responsibility to plan well.”
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