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Page 5 The Carolina Journal September 25, 1968
letters To The Editor
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Dear Mr. Editor:
How many times during a
student’s four or so years on a
college campus is he met with
frustration? 1 dare say the times
are probably more numerous than
rve would begin ,to want to count.
So far, this year seems to be no
exception. Since my freshman
year on this campus. I’ve stood in
lines to register, thinking that
each year registration could be
completed a little more rapidly.
I’ve also stood in long lines
preparing to check out with a load
of books under each arm and
being met with a smile and a
receipt totaling fifty, sixty, or
seventy dollars from the clerk in
the bookstore. I’ve spent a great
deal of time in lunch lines in the
cafeteria waiting to satisfy one of
the most basic needs of life —
hunger. I’ve waited in a line of
traffic on Highway 49 that looked
as if it extended for miles, just
waiting for a chance to dodge my
way through oncoming
automobiles and enter this
can^rus. Line after line after line -
it seems to me that by the time
one is a senior on a college
campus, he should fine lines a
little shorter or moving a little
faster or perhaps a combination of
both due to past experience and
current expansion.
This year, however, it seems we
have taken a step backwards on
this campus in regards to lines and
mounting frustration among
students. For instance, students
took one week out of their busy
schedules last year in order to
pre-register and hopefully
complete registration in a matter
of minutes and not hours. As it
turned out, it took me two hours
just to pick up a packet of five or
six cards, fill them out, return
them and write one check, a
procedure which should have
taken thirty minutes at the most.
The additional time it took to
register was due to the long line I
had to stand in.
But what is perhaps the most
frustrating activity the students
are experiencing is the purchasing
of books from our university
meant 1 would have to wait
another hour. At 1:50, 1 again
returned and found an even larger
group of students than before
waiting to buy books and
materials. At 2:03 the door was
finally opened. 1 quickly picked
up the one book 1 needed and got
into an already long line waiting
to check out. But my waiting was
not over because just as 1 came up
to the cash register, it ran out of
tape. This required someone to
get a new roll of tape and install it
in the machine which meant 1 was
still standing in line waiting to
check out. 1 finally made my
purchase but it took me almost
three hours to buy the one book 1
needed.
Some things cannot be helped
due to our rapid expansion, but
when a bookstore closes for two
hours during one of the two
busiest times of the year, it leaves
a lot to be desired. In past years
students have waited in lines to
check their books out, but 1 can’t
ever remember the bookstore
closing during the middle of the
day and especially when a
majority of the students are out
of classes and are able to buy their
books and materials. I realize the
bookstore staff needs to eat
lunch, stock shelves, and perhaps
make sure that there is enough
tape in the cash registers, but I
feel this could be done without
closing down for one or two hours
- it has been accomplished in
years past. No business can
succeed by keeping its doors
closed to prospective customers.
Danny W. Phillips
Dear Editor,
1 would like to thank all of the
people who helped build the new
cross-country course this summer,
and who will continue to help
build a better athletic program at
UNC-C.
Many thanks to:
Coach Paul Fleming
Bill Lynch
Eddie Frias
Ed Echeverra
Mike Ridge
Larry McAfee
Intramural football is back
Dates for Freshman-class and
Night-school representative
elections will be announced in
next week’s CAROLINA
JOURNAL.
David Halberstam, winner of a
1964 Pulitizer Prize, will be on
campus Oct. 2. to speak on
Vietnam in a lecture entitled
“Vietnam: The Making of a
Quagmire.” The lecture will
outline the historical background
of the war and will attempt to
explain the present American
position in Southeast Asia.
Mr. Halberstam has been
familiar with the war since the
Kennedy administration and has
published two books on it, THE
MAKING OF A QUAGMIRE and
QNE VERY HGT DAY.
Dean Donald McKay stated that
there are many jobs available both
on and off campus for interested
students. Contact Mr. George
Michie or Miss Mildred English in
the Administrative Building for
more information.
Marlena
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Marlena Shaw has been featured
m Charlotte before. She sang in a
Bicentennial program this
summer. Also she sang in the
Festival in the Park where she and
Loonis McGlohon recieved the
only two annual awards from the
Presbyterian Churches of the
United States.
Asked if she enjoys performing
for college groups, she replied that
she does because she enjoys
entertaining people with good
minds. “Besides,” she added
laughingly, “most of my dialogues
are usually considered a little
risque by the middle-aged!"
A general concensus of the
audience Friday night results in
commending the Union for
providing a unique and
entertaining evening at the Club
University with the talented and
vivacious Marlena Shaw!
Frats Discussed
Dear Editor:
Thanks for the spread on the
Union. Your interest is
appreciated. 1 wish more people
would realize, as you indicated in
your editorial column, that WE
ARE ALL IN THIS TQGETHER
and we all have to contribute as
well as criticize. Donna Raley’s
article was encouraging, however 1
fear she only contacted those
“hard core Union users” who have
a sincere association with this
school, and realize that four, five,
or six extra hours a day on
campus can be worthwhile as well
as fun...
Enjoyed the paper. (But I do
miss “Little Man on Campus.”)
Sincerely,
Bobbe Berry
Enrollment Up
Enrollment for the fall semester
at UNC-C is up 17 per cent from
last fall. The total enrollment
released from the admissions
office of the University last week
was just over 2,350, including 469
freshmen and 325 transfers. The
school officials reported that,
despite contradictory evidence
during registration, the number
was approximately that which had
been predicted. The long lines
were reportedly due to the great
number of unexpected late
registrants.
Nearly seventy-five per cent of
the student body are from
Mecklenburg County.
bookstore. From the hours it
keeps, one would conclude that it
is managed by the president off Key Largo Restaurant Home
one of our local banks. Evidently ? Sandwiches name
it opens sometime after 8:30 a.m..
There is presently under discuss
ion before the Student Activities
Committee a proposal to have
social fraternities and sororities on
the campus. In order to permit an
expression of student and faculty
willingness or non-willingness to
have these social organization this
on campus there will be open
meetings on Monday, September
30, -11:30 Qctober 2, 2:30 and
Thursday Qctober 3, at 11:30 in
rooms- U 209 and U 209 and U
210. These meetings are not for
debate, but rather for
presentation of views to the
sub-committee of the SAC so that
it might gain an adequate
appraisal of student and faculty
feelings toward social fraternities
and sororities on this campis.
Those members of the student
body and the faculty who feci
there should or should not be
social fraternities and sororities on
this campus are asked to attend
one of these meetings to express
their views. Again, it is
emphasized that this is not a
debate of the pros and cons of
social organization. It is an
opportunity to express your ideas.
Often
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because it is never open before
first class which starts at that
time. Since it is closed before
8:30 and perhaps before 9:00, 1
returned the other day to buy a
book which I needed right away
for a course. I pushed on the front
door of the bookstore at 11:45
only to find it locked and labeled
with a sign stating that the
bookstore would be closed from
12:(X) to 1:00. Being patient, I
waited until 12:45 and returned
to the bookstore to find about
forty to forty-five fellow students
waiting to enter. The time is now
1:05 and door is still locked. A
knock is applied to the door by
one of the waiting students only
to result in the lights being turned
out and someone inside saying
that bookstore wouldn’t open
until 2:(X). My patience was
growing thin now because this
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