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' I ; .M ■ 1; I. '■.-i vt ' i Page 6 The Carolina Journal North Africa colony planned by student (Editor's note: This article appeared in the Daily Tar Heel of UNC-CH but was meant to reach all branches of the University of North Carolina.) A unique educational experience is being set up for this summer by UNC student John Resnick. His plan is for a group of eight to 12 students to spend two months in North Africa learning to live in the wilderness and attempting to establish a colony somewhere along the Mediterranean coast. The experiment will be conducted from mid-June to mid-August and will consist of travels across the northern portion of Africa by bicycle and land rover. Resnlck has set up an organization called The University Experiment in Foreign Exploration (Unefex) to back the trip. Advertisements urging students to apply for the program have been sent to a wide range of universities including the University of Wisconsin, Harvard and the University of California at Berkeley. The cost of the trip per person will be $700-$ 1,000, according to the Woodbridge, Conn., resident. — by alan hickok' 3^ 3^3^]! \ .Traffic and parking. (Just one of a series) The traffic and parking policies of this University have been a series of monumental blunders. For a history of some of the “better” ones, I shall start with the original decisions concerning dormatory parking space. UNCC not being a university for tradition, the campus planners decided to depart from the traditional plan of locating parking lots beside residence halls, and instead, located the dorm parking several blocks away. One reason for locating the lot away from the dorms, according to the planners, was so that the parking lot would least inhibit the beauty of the campus. (Any traveler on Highway 49 can attest the rousing success of this plan.) For the purposes of loading and unloading, a temporary parking lot was constructed beside the two residence halls. (Now you have ugliness in two places instead of one.) In the planning of these parking lots, the administration forgot one consideration-the students. Students do not want to park in one lot, unload their luggage, carry it up to their room, come back to the lot, drive to another lot several blocks away, and then walk back to the dorms. Woman students do not like to make this journey alone at night. The problem is only accentuated when it is raining, snowing, etc. TOW, TOW, TOW YOUR CAR... So much for the general philosphy even with the present plan, the administration did not provide enough temporary parking places. The administration now admits this, and promises to cut into the dorm lot median to provide additional parking spaces. In the meantime, however, the administration has given instructions to tow away all cars not parked in marked spaces. And tow they have, over fourty cars since this policy went into effect (including the Housing Director’s car and a resident manager’s car). It may be hard for you to understand how the administration can, on one hand admit that there are not enough parking spaces, and, on the other hand, tow away all cars not parked in marked spaces. But don’t underestimate our administration. George Abernathy, Silas Vaughn & Co. have managed to do it without so much as batting an eyelash. Actually, there is a very good reason for towing cars that are double parked in the dorm “U” lot. State law requires a fifteen foot clearance in the lot for the passage of emergency vehicles. But what is the justification for towing cars parked on the curb past the “U” lot? There is a greater clearance from a car parked here to the curb than from a car properly parked in the dorm lot to the curb. And what about behind the residence halls. There are a number of spaces there that are very conducive for parking spaces. Why tow away the cars here? One gets the idea that the administration enjoys this sort of thing. Well the students have had enough. We are tired of being walked on. As the offical representative of the Student Body I demand the following from the administration; effective until the additional “U” parking spaces have been constructed: 1. That the towing of cars parked on the curb beyond the residence parking lot be immediately stopped. (This, of course does not apply to cars parked sufficently away from the curb to block traffic.) 2. That the towing of cars parked off the road behind the residence halls be immediately stopped. (This does not apply to cars blocking other cars or access to the dumpster.) If this, or similiar action, is not taken by the administration, I shall address the Student Body as to what counter measures shall be taken. Thursday, March 18, 1971 “What the students are going to get out of this is an education. We’ll learn about building a colony and about trying to understand ourselves,” Resnick said. Resnick said that, if the trip is successful, there will be two major results: the making of a documentary of the trip and the establishment of more Unefex teams. Other Unefex teams, if this first trip is successful, might visit other parts of Africa, South Africa or maybe even Greenland, according to the Unefex director. Resnick said he hopes to have 150-200 applications for the trip. He also said that some of the members of the group need to have varied interests such as medicine or anthropology. Resnik said he had served as a National director for the International Volunteer Service, a division of UNESCO, and had come up with the plan for Unefex from his experiences with this volunteer group in Europe. Students interested in making the trip may get in touch with Resnick'in Stacy dormitory. Shaw Univ. presents Black play On March 23, at 8:15 p.m. in C200, the Shaw University Players will present IN WHITE AMERICA. IN WhItE AMERICA draws its depth of perspective from actual historical fact; the long struggle of the American Negro from Africa and slavery to the present. Written as a documentary in order to achieve the magnitude of injustices endured and suffered by Black people, scene upon scene dissolves into the evolutionary episode imprinted indelibly upon the conscience of Americans. Because of expenses, a fee of $1.00 will be charged. Then on March 25, Dr. Stephen Henderson, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of the Black World in Atlanta, Georgia, will speak. Dr. Henderson has published numerous articles on jazz, blues, and their relationships with Negro poetry and folk art. Besides being a poet, short story writer, and essayist, he is the authority of the MILITANT BLACK WRITER. Leave this white school! by brenda glenn Howard Fuller, an outspoken Black Revolutionist, spoke to over two hundred people on Tuesday March 9. His first appearance that day was before the Black Culture course here at UNCC. To many close-minded whites and colored people it would appear that he was only jiving and bull shitting. However, to the Blacks he was their key to their inner depth feelings. He spoke on such subjects as Pan-Africanism. He traced the theory at its most basic beginning-Black Power, which Howard Fuller felt was only an out growth of Pan-Africanism. Howard Fuller stated that "land was necessary for the beginning of a Black Nation." That a Black nation, stated Howard, "must be irr Africa." To Howard Fuller there is only one way out for Black peopi® in America to become fully liberated and that is to leave the USA and develop their own nation of Black people (for full liberation in America will never become a reality) with no white blood in our veins. He then dropped the bomb that most Blacks on this campus had anticipated. He looked into our faces and simply told us that we had no business here on this white campus. He said that he understood why they came but they would only become institutionalized into the white society^ "Leave this white school", demanded Howard Fuller. Such subjects as sociology, psychology, and English cannot be used to help Black people. Then he branched out into the world of drugs. However, he madei’ quite plain that every white that took drugs could die. He was onlV concern with Black people using drugs and the deterioration of their bodies. He denounced Black Revolutionary advocates who wear big Afru^ and use drugs to obtain a high so that they'll be able to preack revolution, and made it clear that this was a method of destruction bV the whites. He then asked Black men how they could turn their backs on tb® Black women for white women. There were plentyof Black men, I '" sure, who could only turn the other cheek. It is obvious that Howard Fuller did not come here to speak to ® white audience or a mixed audience. He spoke to and for the liberatio® of his people, I cannot write this story on such a great speech and m®® without stating that he was definitely preaching revolution! NaturallV' some school administrations will not want him back. However, I doub very much if Howard Fuller desires to come back. As one Black stud®® stated, "he didn't bite his tongue for no one." If the Black student on this campus heeds Howard Fuller's word*' well who knows? ‘^Tick-tock’ by kenneth foster Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock.. . .black-white, white-bla® ' black-white Howard Fuller, Howard Fuller, Howard Full®' Howard Fuller? A vision has appeared to the black students at UNCC; dope is b® ‘ classes and courses which taught are irrelevant. Uproar, fla®^' arguments, facts, and statements, tick tock, tick tock, tick tock. • • •' "Where are the blacks" said a couple of my friends. "When arrived here we couldn't even find a brother." "Where do you keep your self hid" Hid, why hide we're here unseen, unfelt, so small in number now, and much smaller in nunu the coming years.. .tick tock, tick tock, tick tock tock tick to' Sound: "Who's gonna take tb® weight? I don't know, I doi* n'l th® know. Who gonna take ‘ weight? I won, I thanks honey for winning ( poll It's the real devil, horns and all, cause here coi®: that funky man tick to® ' tick tock, tick tock ^ Stranded marooned far f®®^ the city, no way to make i* where it's happening, pop. • ■P*’’, pOr' pop. . . KUK- • ■ ,'S pop.. .oh so good Wb® j pop. . .pop. I e ,C^i happening peop U. . .N. .C.. .C...? Tick, ‘O' tick, tock, tick tock bl®® ^ white, white--bl a ® black-white Howard Fu' ^ Howard Fuller, Howard Ful (where are you? THINK about it MAN. 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