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Page 8, The Carolina Journal, 1,969 Editorial (Continued from page 7) is the students; the second is the money. Next year the store will have to be much larger and stock a much wider variety of suppliers in order to serve the students adequately. Will it be ready? Miss Sherry Drake, present copy editor of THE JOURNAL, will be next year’s editor. She has already begun to organize a skeleton staff, but still needs more volunteers. If you are at all interested in journalism, see Miss Drake or call 596-7852. One Step Forward, Two Steps Back Who's Who - The System A Cold Night in the Dodge or in It s that time of the year when the Student Activities Committee goes behind its closed doors to select the students who will be nominated to Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities next year. They have discussed a point system a 1,^ .J that would insure their choices legitimacy for the past two years. They have yet to T 110 1x0ll stick to that system when the choosing comes around. We hope that they will not try to select UNC-C’s maximum number allowed just to be filling up the sheet. Better that they should select a few qualified students and leave a lot of empty spaces than for them to select thirty or forty who don’t deserve the honor. In addition, we hope that they will further consider the proposal to increase the minimum quality point average for the nominees. There’s not a student on this campus who can not accomplish a lot in student government if he decides to desert the academic side of college. It is those, who can both keep up their academic work AND achieve notoriety in extracurricular activities who deserve recognition. The following story is true. Not only has it happened reeenllij in Charlotte, but it occurs frequently all over the country. Chancellor's List Announced (Continued from Page 1) Beaty, Margaret L. Beretsky, Dale A. Berry, Thomas B. Black, Jr., Lenore Jean Blanks, John V. Boehme, Kent L. Brady, Nancy Lynn Brady, Douglas E. Brafford, George Miller Britton, Doris C. Brown. Deidra Emmons Buck, Kathleen E. Burns, Kathryn Ann Campbell, Kenneth R. Caraway, Dolores Simral Cathey, Jacqueline S. Caughman, Janice Anne Champion, Anna Louise Clement, Sophia Ann Clemmer, Vera K, Clemmer, Beverly H. Cline, William H. Clontz, James E. Cobb, Jr., Thomas D. Coggin, Melissa McSwain Collins, Linda C. Cowger, Janice E. Cranford, William J. Cranford, Worth B. Cranford, Jr., Victoria C. Crosland, William B. A. Culp, Jr., James 0. Cuthbertson, Janette M. Davis, David Ronald Douglas, Roberta Fuller Dowdy, David R. Edwards, Sandra Ann Elam, Rovert Arden Ennis, Paul Allen Ferguson, Patricia P. Fisher, Lee A, Gable, Wayne Williams Gatlin, Will E. Goodall, Jr.. Barry Lee Guy, Russell John Gulley, Alva W. Guthrie, Dona H. Haney, Gail Amato Haynes, John Leslie Henderson, Alan Paul Hickok, Lynda B. Hodges, Mack Thompson Hollis, Hugo J. Ibanez, Emily Thomas Jennings, Arthur 11. Jeske, Virginia Pritchard Johnson, Joyce Gail Jones, Michael Price Jones, Robert S. Kendrick, Catherine E. Kimball, Darrellyne Ruth Kiser, Mark Laurence Klafter, Martha Lauteen Knight, Walter Ernest Lamb, David Jay Larson. Donald R. Latham, Connie S. Lee, Robert M. Lemmond, Peggy Lee Lentz, Bernard C. Lewis, Jr., Jean Bo Loo, Ronald F. Lunsford, Robert Earl Matthews, Lynn Cochrane McAuley, Gayle Pittman McClure, Mary Linda McLain, Evelan Ann McLaughlin, R.B. Megorden, 11, Thomas L. Mellichamp, Richard Meri Mitchell, Genna C. Moose, Mary Ella Moose, Elena D. Morgan, Melanie Hovis Mullis, Johnnie C. Mumford, Jr., John Richard Munn, Delphine S. O. Donnell, Susan Huette Pearre, Pamela Gayle Pettit, Patsy L. Phipps, Olga Polyzos, Donald M. Rogers, Ronald Watkin Rogers, Mary Susan Rowe, Deborah M. Russell, Harold Dean Saylor, Linda C. Serrett, Harry M. Simpson, Jr., Martha Faye Singleton, Ruth S. Slesinger, Veronica L. Sorban, Debra Gay Spivey, Michael D. Stockton, Patsy Hansel Stokely, Jacklyn Louise Stone, Randall A. Storey, Richard W. Stowe, Jeffrey B. Swing; Cynthia Carlson Teat, Vija Teilans, Beverly Ann Thomas, Beverly Hicks Thomas, Mary Dianne Project Opportunity Often Imitated The Cellar 300 EAST MOREHEAD ST. OPIN 4:30-ll;4S M*n.-S«t. 3:30-11:45 Sun. Never Duplicated Sixty students from Irwin Avenue Junior High School got a taste of college life Friday in a program designed to encourage students from the inner city to set a college education. The day’s program was designed to present a picture of job opportunities open to educated black students, to allay fears about life in a computerized and technological society and to focus on some aspects of black culture. The activities were sponsored by the Urban Affairs Interim Planning Committee of UNC-C, with Dr. Loy Witherspoon as chairman. He said that the immediate purpose of Friday’s program was to encourage the students to participate in a Project Opportunity program at UNC-C July 21 to August 15. Thomas, Luana C. Threatte, Arthur M. Tobias, Jr., Joyce Edwards Tully, Katharine Van Sciver, Richard Jay Vong, Brenda Winall Waddell, Alice Toporof Wallace, William Davis Waters, Helena Hinson Watts, Dianne Smith Webb, James T. Webb, Lola Marlene Whitley, Albert Jerom Williams, Arthur Howard Wilson, Jeremiah B. Wolpert, Cynthis Ann Wyant, and Judith Anne Yaude. From Concord are the following: Sandra Kay Aldridge, Susan Renay Ballard, Rena K. Carriker, Jane Barringer Davis, Winston L. Ezzell, Jean Lee Furr, Patricia D. Hancock, Gay T. Hopkins, Patricia Lorbacher, Mary E. Morgan, Bobby M. Morrison, Linda O’Dell Pierce, and George R. Slaton. From Matthews are Kenneth D. Alexander, Dawn E. Privatte, Miriam Catherin Baker, and Karen Lynn Hassett; from Davidson are Richard R. Arnette, and Thomas Edward Harmon; from Mooresville are William Michae Gudger, Susan D. Linker, and Carey E. Mac Brayer; from Wingate Susan Elaine Baucom; from Kannapolis are Jerry V. Blackwelder, Allan Raye Boger, David E. Brewer, Lonnie Dale Coggins, Ronald Wayne Seabolt, and Lester W. Stocks; from Salisbury are Alice Karen Bulla, Theresa Ann Leonard, and Judith Kay Sutton; from Cherryville are Dixie Gibbs Dellinger and Glenn J. Link; from Mt. Pleasant are Shirley B. Bowers and Patty J. Shuemand from Oakboro are Terry Susan Speights and Susan Gay Thomas. Ed was a bum; he hand’t always been a bum, but he was no» His past included some good times as a semi-pro football playj'' and branch manager of a large advertising firm. It also included, chapter about the Second World War, written in blood and nev® quite concluded. Ed, it seems, received a very painful wound in tl war, and could not afford medication because he had lost his during his ‘vacation’ in Germany. So he turned to drinking a, bumming around. In the last six years, the longest he had worki at one job had been five months. Now he was out of both woiSi and money. I Ed slept in an old abandoned Dodge. He went in search of easv' odd jobs and drink during the day and returned to the gitej automobile in an old junk pile when the moon rose. Many timej, full of liquor, he would stumble into a moist ditch on the wai' back to his Dodge and spend the night in the ditch. This wintei Ed decided against his annual pilgramage to Florida via freigk train. He decided to stay here and try to find a steady job. One thing that had always stayed with Ed was his religion. It went to church (shall we say) religiously every Sunday morning a« Wednesday night. He knew that he could always fall back on fl(i mercy of God-fearing folks, if he really had to. The snows came early this year, and Ed was not yet ready. J, had finally gotten a job, but had not yet received any payment fu*. his first two weeks’ work. When the white blanket of purest snor I began to cascade down from the heavens in whirling flakes, Ed »« still sleeping in his frozen green Dodge. It snowed all day Saturd^ until the world was a poet’s dream. When night crept down, iSfi temperature dove to a stiffling sixteen degrees, and the earth w« preserved in its ivory gown. Out in the woods, among the froza pines and hidden holly, only Ed stirred. He had a threadbare bl« blanket pulled tightly about his bony shoulders and was watchin|i ■■ small flame lick the edges of a soup can. He was slowly freezing ti U death. Dr. Witherspoon said that if the program is successful it may help UNC-C to increase the number of black students attending the University. According to Dr. Witherspoon the long-rang goal at UNC-C is to: 1. Identify academically talented students 2. Support their efforts to enter college. 3. Offer programs to enrich their lives. Other students from the surrounding area who were honored are Joe Silas Keener of Lincolnton, Jerry W. Livingston of Morven, Angela H. Blackwood of Belmont, Suellen R. McDaniel of Newton, Emily N. Morrison of Monroe, James Harke Patterson of Pineville, Michael Dane Denton of Lowell, James F. Dunn of Tersville, Cynthia Gail Hatley of China Grove, Harriet Upton Hensley of Troutman, Saundra L. Hoover of Mt. Holly, Michael Eugene Hoyle of Kings Mountain. Johnny M. Hull of Bessemer City, Glenda E. Tippins of Pageland, James Edward Towery of Gastonia, George Michael Wliite of Flat Rock. Michael E. Wilborn of Huntersville, Lana Kay Wilkinson of Denver, and William E. Richter, Sr. of Atlanta. Georgia. As he thought of his past heartbreaks and joys, wishing for ju one small drink to ease the pain, Ed had an idea. He could wal, back toward Charlotte and sleep in the church tonight. He kn«^ that the church was always open. Through the slippery ice and wet snow, Ed walked the tw miles to the church in just under two hours. When he arrived, bi entered the sanctuary, offered a short prayer, and lay down to sleep in the carpeted isle. A church official had been working late that night, preparing for ' the communion that was to be served the following day. Tliis deacon put on his overcoat and headed home to a blazing fire and a cup of hot coffee about eleven o’clock. On his way through the sanctuary, he discovered Ed, and threw him out bodily. Ed began to walk. He walked for an hour before doubling back to the church. It was now locked, but he managed to get into the tool shelter out back, where he spent a very uncomfortable night. The next day, Ed met a friend from the local bar on the street. The cronie listened attentively to Ed’s story and took him home for dinner. After eating,he took Ed down to the local tavern, where he told his story once again. The boys down at the tavern took up a collection for Ed, and he spent the night on the floor behind the bar. The next day, some of the cronies from the tavern took the collection to the lumber mill, purchased some wood and I insulation, and constructed a shelter for Ed on the property of the tavern owner. Ed doesn’t live there any more. He is the foreman at a largeL vimvaw 4441J iii\,rjiv. la Hit: lUlCllUlIl at a warehouse in town and lives in an apartment on West Boulevard./ Needless to say, he doesn’t go to church any more. j This is just oire example of the way that the Christian organization in American has caused some individuals to desert the church and others to deny that a god-thing could really be behind all this. The youth of America are in the midst of a great “away from church” movement. And who can blame them? The Amber House 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 CAROLINA JOURNAL UNC-C Box 12665 Charlotte, North Carolina w o n Ji ant I
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