Poge 4 THE CHARLOTTE COLLEGIAN Morch 11, 1959
HEY! BRING ON THE SHOW
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Tommy Helms. Wayne Christenbury, A1 !*almer, Tony Harris and Mike Marquette at the coffee hour.
HAL IDWARDS- JUST THE FACTS, MAM
EXCHANGE DEPT.
MAD, MAN, MAD!
RY SAM BELL
Collegian ExchanRe Editor
In the comiriK issues of the COL
LEGIAN, we are goins to try to
bring you the best of the lighter
side of some of our neighboring
colleges’ papers. We are still in
the process of securing these pub
lications. But don’t despair;
through tremendous effort on our
part, we are able to bring you sev
eral tid-bits stolen from books,
magazines, and off bus station
walls.
Ever go to sleep on the second
floor and wake up in the basement?
Strange feeling, isn’t it? This
might be the reason;
THE TERMITE
Some perimal termite knocked on
wood
And tasted it and found it good,
And that is why your Cousin May
Fell through the parlor floor today.
—^Ogden Nash.
Here is something for the his
tory lover from the pages of MAD;
an Ernie Kovack “Strangely Be
lieve It.”
In 1300, King Zootski of Low
er Slabovia led an army of only
1800 men against the combined
forces of France and Spain which
numbered over 220,000 soldiers.
, He was soundly defeated.
All is not lost! Can’t remember
the months of the year? Your trou
bles are over. Just remember this
little gem:
Thirty days hath Septober,
April, June and no wonder
All the rest eat peanut butter
Except grandma—
And she drives a Buick.
—Author Unknown
(And I know why.)
Don’t say it. It will get better.
It can’t get any worse, Hope to see
you again next issue.
- SUMMER SCHOOL -
Students who wish to attend both
terms of the summer session can
earn twenty of the forty-five quar
ter hours of credit required for
first year college work. Those in-
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and Rome, used two extreme forms
of knowledge to obtain greatness.
The Greeks used a form of “sta
tic” knowledge. This was the basis
of the discoveries of Socrates,
Plato, and Aristotle. This was orig
inal thinking at its highest peak,
but it had one fault. While per
fectly willing to sit and argue for
hours on end over how many teeth
a horse had, the Greeks lacked the
“kinetic” knowledge and felt it
senseless to go and get the answer,
as it were, straight from the horse’s
mouth. The lack of “kinetic” know
ledge proved to be Greece’s down
fall; for along came the Romans,
history’s greatest doers, who, while
lacking somewhat in original think
ing, beat Greece with the applica
tion of her own theories. Italy was
not the only country to use know
ledge to gain supremacy over an
other. Down to the present day,
knowledge has represented power.
Even now the U. S. and Russia are
pitting their wits against each oth
er for world domination.
Knowledge is a dangerous tool.
When it was first theorized that
an atom could be split when hit by
other fast moving particles, no one
realized its potential. Next came
This is the city—Charlotte, North
Carolina. There are many facts
hidden in Charlotte, many things
to be learned. My job—learn ’em.
I’m a student.
I was working the night and day
shift on the research detail. My
name’s Freshman, Joe Freshman.
I had received a hot tip from an
English teacher that the hangout
for my subject was a little dive
called the public library.
It was 9; 14 A.M., when I arrived
at the place. It was innocent look
ing enough, but I did not allow
this to fool me. I noticed about
half a dozen shady-looking charac
ters hanging around the outside
and suspected that they must have
been lookouts. Pulling my hat down
the idea of the possibility of a self-
sustaining chain reaction. Then
Einstein resolved his theory E-MC^.
Finally, in 1942, the U. S. built
the first reactor, and man-made
atomic fission became a reality.
The United States didn’t hold a
monopoly on knowledge or brain
power, and soon other countries,
Russia among them, learned our
secret. Today the whole world lives
in fear that someone will lack the
ability to know how to do the right
thing, push a button in panic, and
destroy the world. Supposedly to
prevent this, the United States and
Russia are running a race—each
trying desperately, through the ap
plication of learned knowledge and
the development of new ideas, to
win while the rest of the world
looks helplessly on as we rush
headlong into mass suicide.
Knowledge can work for man or
against him; it can become his
master or his slave. It is up to us
to see that we choose the answers,
for if we do, what has passed in
history has been merely a prelude
to the future.
A.R.W.
over my eyes, I casually strolled
in.
The baby-faced clerk at the desk
pointed out a small shelf at the
rear of the dark room. I nodded
and walked over to it, checking my
lead pencil as I went.
- SUMMER SCHOOL -
dividuals desiring to remove any
entrance requirement deficiencies
in mathematics or foreign lan
guages can do so by taking the
prescribed courses.
Entrance examinations for new
students will be given on June 5
at 5 p.m. Satisfactory scores on
these or comparable examinations
are one of the requirements for
admission to Charlotte College.
Registration of students for the
first summer term will take place
Tuesday, June 9, from 9 a.m. until
7 p.m. in the Charlotte College
offices.
Regular classes in the summer
session will begin on June 10. Both
day and evening classes are to be
held in the Central High School
building.
COLLEGIAN
CARTOON
“Oh. How I hate these Nightly
Pin-L^ps.”
Sure enough, there was my sub
ject. He was jammed between an
encyclopedia and a stack of maga
zines, but he was still alive.
Carefully, I carried him to the
nearest tables and laid him down.
I say that his name was “Funda
mentals of Lyric Poetry.” No won
der he was barely alive. Who would
ever want to find him ? I was in
terested in what he had to offer.
After almost two hours of sweat-
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Just wondering: Do day students
have assemblies?
Hope you have more luck than I
have with carrying a notebook, four
textbooks, a coat, an umbrella, and
a pocketbook (plus something to
eat) to three different classrooms
without losing something, (Any
solutions ?)
Can you imagine a Charlotte Col
lege without Frances and her to
bacco, or snuff, or whatsoever?
The catalog says that English II
is “essentially a course in compo
sition and rhetoric.” What about
Miss Baker and this mythology
stuff?
Al.so, a quote from Miss B.;
“Some teachers have had fifteen
years of experience; others have
had one year of experience fif
teen times.”
Pop Norman's students’ wish this
last month w'as that he would get
better, get well, and get back to
class quick! Why? One teacher
fussed at us for trying to work
and go to school at the same time.
Another teacher thought we were
Geology Croup Takes
Quarterly Field Trip
BY BOB ROBERTSON
Collegian News Editor
Dr. Heckenbleikner’s Geology 41
class took its quarterly field trip
over the week-end of February 21.
The class drove from Charlotte to
Abingdon, Virginia. There Dr. Heck
conducted a tour through one of
the many limestone caves in the
region. He pointed out many of
the interesting formations already
studied in the classroom such as
stalactites, stalagmites, rimstone,
dripstone, and columns. After its
subterranean exploration, the group
returned to its motel in Abingc^on
for Saturday night.
On Sunday morning the budding
geologists took Highway 58 west
and drove to the Derby coal mine,
just outside of Big Stone Gap. The
mining engineer in charge of the
mine was on hand to explain the
operations of the Derby. The mine
runs six miles into the mountain
and has numerous shafts of 500
feet running off at right angles
from the main shaft. The engineer
stated that the coal vein was of
good grade bituminus and was
about forty inches high.
In a large area covered with
mine detritus, a number of fossil
remains were discovered. Max Pet
ty seemed to be exceptionally adroit
at ferreting out fossils and inter
esting conglomerates. Sunday din
ner was eaten at Riley’s, famous
for its Kosher cuisine, in Big Stone
Gap. The caravan then motored to
Kingsport, Johnson City, and Eliz-
abethton, Tennessee, eyeballing all
the hard rocks on the way. Dr.
Heck pointed out some fossil mud
cracks beside the highway.
The group traveled through Lin-
ville and Morganton, arriving in
Charlotte at 8:45 p.m. Class mem
bers taking the trip are Gay Hin-
Susan Thomas,
Tony Clark, Max Petty, James Ma-
haffee. Bill Collier, David Wilson,
Charles Boyd, and Bob Robertson.
lazy good-for-nothings if we
weren’t working our way through
college. Why?
Poor Mr. Ploger had a hard time
making himself heard over squeak
ing chairs, knocking pipes, and
sneezing me.
Must say this before he puts it
in his “sophomore Sandhouse”:
James Mahaffee says he can’t en
joy a good western movie anymore
for looking at the rocks in the
background. Dr. Heck really has
him going.
Have you noticed Diane McAllis
ter’s new glamour streaks?
I.s it established form or some
thing that all the C.C. dances come
on the same night as the Air Na
tional Guard meetings ?
Wouldn’t it be grand if I could
write a column with all the an
swers in it instead of all the ques
tions ?
If you could give me some an
swers, some argument, or some wit,
address them to me, care the Char
lotte Collegian, and put them in
the box at the office.
- KNOWLEDGE -
however, and began to “drill” him. son, Patty Hill,
Deanna MerreM's
FRESHMAN GAB - -
Everybody is happy! Harry Golden spoke to us.
Research theme.s, ugh! I have three note cards for three hours at
the library one Sunday afternoon. Out of twenty-eight possible books, I
found ten and could use three. If any of you have checked out books
on Elizabethan Life, how about returning them? (There is a note of
threat in that sentence.)