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Page 3, The Carolina Journal, 1969
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Yeah?
Additional Appointments
Announced
by F.N. Stewart|
The Art of Coal Fires
Many years from now it will be funny as hell. In fact, it is
almost funny now. You see, I live in a huge fourteen-room house.
Now a house like that is really fun to live in; because, it provides a
completely new world of experiences just about every week. This
week is has been a new and unfamiliar disgust with the principle of
heating a room with a fireplace in which is burning coal.
The oil ran out agaiUj again on a Wednesday, and again when the
i temperature was playing somewhere in the teen’s. Something there is
I about an oil-burner furnace which does not like heating on
Wednesdays. Now we hve used up better than seven hundred gallons
I of oil in a couple of months. That’s right, seven hundred gallons of
I oil in a couple of months. A gallon of oil is not expensive, only
! about seventeen cents a gallon. But seven hundred gallons of oil is
I expensive; and rather than have the oil man really hate us for not
' paying the bill or retire very young when we pay the bill we decided
I to change to another form of heating. If we don’t use anymore oil,
I we won’t owe the oil man any more money. He has been very
understanding so far, but, I don’t really want to know how far his
understanding will go.
, So we decided to change to electric heating because, all in oil,
I heating is expensive, as 1 have Just said. But not having enough
I money to buy electric heaters, because we paid the oil man part of
I what we owed him, we had to have another means of heating until
I we got together enough money to pay for electric heaters. Now the
I house has five fireplaces in it. The trouble is that the fireplaces are
I little ones designed to burn coal (which was probably the way a
I house was heated when this one was built.) 1 have heard my mother
I talk of having to carry in wood and coal when she was a little girl.
But (and not to tell how my mother is) Mom’s age would give only a
I little change from a half-century mark. So heating a room with coal
I is a new idea for me. 1 had always thought of fireplaces as being
I something completely ornamental to a house and having no practical
purposes whatsoever. Now after using them for a while, 1 am
I convinced that fireplaces are only ornamental and have no practical
, purposes whatsoever. Electric heating will probably be best, if we
I ever get any.
Cold Coal
and
for
'Ugh
ome
ski”
The first noticable thing about coal is that it turns anything it
touches, or that touches it, completely black. Hands, shirts, pants,
rugs, shoes, walls, floors, and noses seem to be favorites for coal
smears. Coal does not ignite easily. You have to build a wood fire
first to create enough heat to light the coal. And as everyone knows,
wood fires have to have wood. Wood is a common item, but wood to
I burn in a fireplace to start a coal fire is not so common. We have
Hound, thru experience, that old crates are excellent for starting
wood fires. We gather enough old CHARLOTTE OBSERVER’S and
I another newspaper and start the pieces of crates burning. Once the
I wood catches and begins to burn well, we pour on the coal.
When cold coal is poured onto a hot fire the result is a mess. Coal
I soot fills the room and settles on everything in the room. It has a
clinging way of going into noses, ears, and hair. This undelightful
I process will continue as long as the coal is producing a flame.
Incidentally, it is not the flames from burnin coal that heat a room;
litis the coal’s coals, when glowing red hot, that heat a room. The
iheat from the flames goes right up the chimney, doing nothing in the
; meantime but drawing cold air into the room as the hot air rises.
After a long while the coal will settle into glowing embers of heat.
But, sadly, this time of glowing does not extend over a long period
Jof time, so fresh cold coal must be put onto the fire thus beginning
|the whole mess once again.
lays
Gold Coal
I Coal becomes a precious thing. We actually begin to steal coal
I from one another. There may be honor among thieves, but on a cold
night when there are three different fireplaces burning coal there is
] no honor among friends, at least not as far as coal is concerned.
“Who got my coal?” says the-first.
“Must have been the girl you dated last weekend, I haven’t been
that close to you.” says the second.
“Don’t look at me, I got a flu.” says the third.
‘ph yeah, and I bet your flue is burning my coal.” says the first.
“Well get yourself a couple of aspirin.” says the third.
“You can’t burn aspirins.” says the first.
“Sure you can,” says the second, “throw them on the coal.’’
Coal fires will eventually heat a room...eventually. You usually
don’t care by then, because you have gone to so much trouble to get
afire started and have suffered so much from the soot and smell that
you are almost content to sit around and study your stoic
philosophy with a heavy coat on (plus sweaters, scarfs, gloves, two
paits of pants, and a hat). '
If you are romantic, the open fire in the room causes fire-gazing
and daydreaming. There is something nice about an open fire in a
chilly room, except when the fire is on the rug. That happens
wcasionally also. You cannot study by firelight, leastwise not study
hooks by firelight. Because the side next to the fire is always too hot
and the other side of your body is too cold. Anyway, you can’t see
•he words on the page.
Cold fires, which is what coal fires are, are nice for teaching
humility, tolerance, and patience; but I wouldn’t want to heat a
loom with one. If I have seemed to describe coal fires as bad, they
[are not...they are worse!
• On Friday. January 10, the
: University appointed two new
• faculty members, - Ernest Carter
• Grant as assistant professor of
: engineering and Dr. Robert Milnor
: Cleaves as assistant professor of
• Spanish, Both appointments were
! effective September. 1969.
Mr. Grant, a native of Windsor,
holds a BS, BSEE, and MS from
N. C. State. In the past he has
worked as a computer systems
engineer for the Naval Electronics
Systems Command, has served as
an electronics engineer for the
Naval Ordnance Laboratory, and
as a teaching fellow and assistant
research engineer at the University
of Michigan. He holds one patent
and has another which is pending.
Mr. Cleaves holds the BA
degree from David Lipscomb
College and the MA and PH.D.
degrees from Vanderbilt
University. He was an assistant
professor at the University of
South Florida before coming here.
He also served as a teaching
assistant while at Vanderbilt. He
has published one article and has
several on which he is presently
working.
The University also announced
two new promotions which will
be effective July 1. Susan Smythe
Crane was promoted from
instructor to assistant professor.
She is assistant head of the
technical services division in the
UNC-C Library.
William A. Smith was promoted
from instructor to assistant
professor of electrical engineering.
Bulletins
Snow
Parking
rive
The University of North
Carolina at Charlotte has named
Neal K. Cheek to the position of
assistant director of
admissions. Mr. Cheek will be
responsible for freshman
admissions and recruiting,
working particularly with high
school counselors.
He has just completed an
internship program in the
admissions office of the
University of South C’arolina
where he received his M.A degree.
He is a cum laude graduate of
Wake Forest University.
A graduate of Myers Park High
School, he has been a resident of
Charlotte for 16 years.
Film Contest Scheduled
Unless otherwise specifically
communicated over T.V. and
radio, classes will be held. An
attempt will be made to have the
switchboard open on such days so
that students may call the school
in order to receive information
concerning class cancellation.
Creative students on campus
will finally have a chance to
demonstrate their talents. Bill
Osborne, Chairman of the
Committee of The Arts of The
Association of College Unions
International, has announced the
newest project of his committee;
they are sponsoring the "First
Annual Association of College
Unions International Independent
Film Makers Competition."
The project is designed to
provide an outlet for the
creativity of the young film
makers of today. Competition is
open to anyone who is regularly
served by a University Union;
however, each entry must be
endorsed by the Union Director.
All entries will be viewed by a
Union committee before they can
be submitted.
Each contestant must pay a
$4.00 registration fee to cover
handling, return postage, and
insurance.
Entries may he in 8mm, 16mni,
black and white, color, sound, or
silent. All entries must arrive in
Gainesville, Florida no later than
February 15, 1969.
Judging of the films will be at
the J. Wayne Reitz Union at the
University of I'lorida from
February ?1 to February 23,with
the judging to be conducted by
film professionals. Entrants may
sit in on screenings.
The actual presentation of
awards is planned for March 25, at
the Denver Conference. Priz.es and
awards are to include $2000 in
cash awards, plus merchandise
prizes and trophies. ■'
Top winning films will be
compiled into one show which
will be viewed at the award
presentations; it will also be
available for rental to member
institutions after March 25.
Interested stiidetits should see
Mr. Winniman in U-266 for entry
blanks. Come on, film makers;
here’s your golden opportunity.
OONDOLA
Ht’sluiiro III
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YOU
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LASAGNA?
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A good University like UNC-C deserves good food, and that’s
what we serve from six in the morning ‘til I 1:30 at night.
5625 North Tryon Street
The Traffic and Parking
Committee has been extremely
lenient over the past semester
with regard to parking violations.
This policy was necessary because
many parking areas were not
properly marked. At this time
parking lots ARE properly
marked and students are advised
to avoid parking in prohibited
spaces (such as yellow lanes, and
the through road in the main lot
at C building) because violations
will no longer be dealt with
leniently.
Emergency permits are
available in the Business office at
no cost when an unregistered car
must be parked on Campus due to
unusual circumstances.
HERLOCKER’S
PARK DRIVE-IN
1 1/2
Miles
Behind
UNC-C
on
Route 29
The Drive to help Vietnamese
orphans will continue into Second
Semester - Have you contributed.
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