Page 2 The Carolina Journal, February 12, 1969
Fall Approaches
SGA President Bill Billups has put the wheels in motion for next
fall’s orientation program. We certainly hope that his efforts to begin
early will be rewarded with favorable response from some concerned
students. The handbook needs a staff and FAC needs a chairman. Last
year’s handbook suffered from lack of interest on the part of most
students, and FAC was one of the worst the school has ever witnessed.
This can be improved upon only if more students take an active part in
orienting next year’s neophytes; the usual handful cannot handle the
task alone, and many of the usual handful are going to graduate.
We would make only a few preferatory suggestions concerning the
management of the fall program. Both the editor of the handbook and
the FAC Chairman should receive financial stipends. A $50 grant for
both of these is not beyond the executive council’s means. We must
remember that, in our capitalist-oriented society, one gets what one
pays for. The handbook should be for, by, and about students and
student life. We sincerely hope that student fees will not be used again
this year to print information that rightly belongs in the catalogue. To
the administration: either pay up or get out of our book!
Coming Home
The Homecoming festival might not have been the best idea in the
world, but that was no reason for the campus organizations to boycott
it. The Homecoming Committee sent a notice to all organizations
requesting nominees for the Queen. Three organizations replied. What
can we say?
Senior Gift
Still No Answer
Untitled
Legislatnre Meets,
Be There!
Glory to My Beard
This year’s Senior Class Gift is to be a mace to be carried at the head
of processions. It will cost about $1000. Isn’t that just a little bit silly?
Still, perhaps it’s not out of place here.
The faculty just didn’t get around to voting on social fraternities at
their February meeting. To some,‘‘Social Fraterniries” may be just a
phrase or meaningless term. We assure the faculty that it is much more
than that for many students on campus. We just thought we’d let you
know. That’s all.
Walking down the sidewalk Friday, one might have spied a curious
looking black flag fluttering proudly in the breeze. Closer examination
would have failed to reveal a skull-and-crossed-bones design. Vigils are
often quite appropriate, but the degree to which they are effective
depends on the way in which they are carried out. It is hard to convert
casualties into martyrs without altering the facts just a little. We are in
complete sympathy with the STATED motive of last Friday’s “vigil”,
but the means of mourning are not quite so laudable. We were of the
impression that there were some sort of guidelines governing the
placement of flags on state property. Perhaps we are mistaken
Staff Meeting
Draft Bears Down-
With School’s Help
By Tim Britton
To really jam up the
machinery, to study human
reaction to a startling situation,
why else would 1 grow a beard?
Well first of all, contrary to
popular belief, I have not turned
hippie, even though sometimes I
wish I could. Hippieland
supposedly is free of all hangups
found in everyday life. Well, for
me, hippieland is a hangup, no
better or no worse than crass
commercialism. just another
hangup.
Speaking of hangups, that’s
what I did, I hung everything up;
took a look at it, quit my $10,000
plus expenses job, moved back to
Charlotte, hung up my salesmen’s
makeup kit, with -masks;
semi-rejected the business world,
and resumed my never ending
battle for a diploma.
Much deeper than the battle for
The Student Legislature will meet at 11:30 a.m. next Monday.
This will afford an excellent opportunity for students to attend,
kibbitz, make suggestions, observe, or air grievances, depending on their
particular prejudices and problems. We should certainly hope that there
will be a large turnout of students. This body makes decisions that
affect you every day; you forfeit your right to complain if you absent
yourself from this meeting. The regular meeting time has been
ammended in order that you, the student, can get first hand
information about the SGA. Be there.
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a diploma, the search for identity
was to continue. Wlio am 1, what
am 1 goint to do? Well. I've been
introduced as a “scrubbed
hippie”, "a confused young man”,
and have been through barrages of
MMPFs, Kuder Preference Tests,
and various “measurements of
personality”. So now 1 am sure
that 1 don’t know who 1 am or
where Fm going. The tests have
told me so.
One tiling the tests didn’t say, 1
have an adversion to accepting
anything without thinking it out.
And after consideration, 1 have
rejected that part of our culture
which demands that 1 be clean
shaven, wear a coat and tie, smile
for everybody, and conform to
the idealistic image of a twenty
eight year old cog in the wheel of
commerce.
Instead, I grew a beard, much
to the horror of 276,000 of the
278.000 residents of Charlotte,
N.C.. our thriving, progressive,
cultural desert. 1 am protesting. 1
think that I’m protesting the
injustices perpetrated on mankind
by mankind, or the
dehumanization of man, or the
demise of the whooping crane;
anyway, whenever 1 receive an
IBM card in the mail, 1 fold it,
spindle it, and then bite the
corner off. Maybe this is why 1
grew my beard.
Bookstore and Speeders
Dear Editor:
Somewhere on this campus
there must be someone, some
brave fighting soul or group, who
will take on the bookstore. After
attending U.N.C-C for three
semesters, I have become
accustomed to the outrageous
prices, but now they’ve gone too
far. Monday morning I was on
campus by 9:30 in order to have
enough time to buy a few books
and still make a 10:30 class, hen 1
arrived at the bookstore, there
was a line at the door.
Questioning several people, 1
discovered that not only wouldn’t
they let us in, but that once we
got in, they wouldn’t even allow
us to look for our own books. We
told the assistants the books we
needed and they got them, their
reason being that this would save
time. I was 15 minutes late for my
class.
Also, they didn’t have the book
1 had stood in line nearly an hour
for. I think 1 could have accepted
this with a weary smile if there
had been more than one class
using this certain book. But only
one class was offered for this
certain subject and approximately
20 people signed up for it. Surely,
the bookstore could have ordered
enough books for one class with
20 students. But after standing
outside in line for nearly an hour
and then discovering they had ran
out of the one book 1 had wanted,
1 found my patience withering at
a rapid pace. Would it have hurt
them to post a list of the books
they did not have? 1 ask you, how
long must we put up with this?
Students of U.N.C-C unite! We
have nothing to lose but the worst
bookstore in the state of North
Carolina. Mary Arnett
EDITOR,
It was cold dreary Friday
morning, the final day of Fall
semester exams. The small car
wheeled out of the parking lot,
and hurried towards home. It was
too much of a hurry. No one
knew his name, and there wasn’t
any driver’s license on the person,
or in the car. The campus police
dint’t have very much to go on,
but it was enough.
Exactly 65!4 hours later, the
police were at the student driver’s
door, demanding entry. It was
3:00 a.m., Monday morning. The
charges were stated quite matter
of factly, and the offender was
hustled off to the waiting patrol
car and taken to jail. After seven
hours of typical southern jail
hospitality, he was -able to secure
bond, and was released, to return
later for his day in court.
We, at the University of North
Carolina at Charlotte, are subject
to all laws governing the operation
of motor vehicles on the roads of
Mecklenburg County. N.C. State.
Any violation of these laws on
campus is no different from the
same act, off campus. The laws
are the same, only the means of
enforcement will differ. Our
means of enforcement is our
Campus Police Force, an
experienced, capable group of
officers.
It is regrettable that the jailing
of a student was necessary.
Perhaps this incident will allow all
involved to reappraise the
U.N.C.-C. official approach to
traffic violations. It isn’t too late
to form a Student-Administra
tion-Faculty Traffic Committee,
to hear ideas, formulate and
clarify policy, and most
important, publish the outcome,
stressing student responsibility.
Let’s do it NOW. Tim Britton
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contributors are requested to attend.
Uncle Sam, in the figure of General Hershey (or Ruth Skidmore) is
crouching at the doors of American universities and colleges; there, he
waits. He is anxiously waiting for students to make their exit from the
“Halls of truth and knowledge.” Male students are his particular
pleasure. He likes nothing better than to throw them to the small
sharptoothed orientals as sacrifices. He hopes that the cult of
democracy will be saved from the God of Vengeance. It won’t work.
Now that’s bad; it’s really bad. But it could be worse. The University,
our hope and protection, could be helping Uncle Sam out. Ridiculous?
No. As a matter of fact, we are being betrayed to the militaristic
mechanism of democracy by the administration of our much loved
institution. They are sending our grades to the local draft board. And
that’s bad.