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DECEMBER. 1962 THE CHARLOTTE COLLEGIAN PAGE 3 - - - Without My Glasses - - - In my own way I am fond of most students. I do not like them particularly, but I am fond of them. I am fond of tobacco, too-- after I light a match to it. That is what I mean about students. They may be a little green at first, but they can catch fire. I struck my first match for Selection Of Curricula Poses Problems Faculty and student schedules have been jamed for the past ten days with a long string of con ferences. This process of pre-registration serves as an in ventory each semester to deter mine the shape of next semes ter’s schedule. Like a growing boy the student body is always the wrong size or shape for last semester s measurements in tai loring classes and hours. For these reasons, pre-re gistration becomes an urgent operation every six months. Has the student body shot up too tall for the number of classes in Liberal Arts? Have its arms thrust out of the Science sche dule? Or do the hours sche duled around the middle of the day need taking up a little? In a commuting college, the only nCrmal quantity is variation. So students are asked to pre register for each semester. This process gives the administra tion an approximate inventory of what classes will be needed and when the students can meet them. Although a perfect sche dule never results from the pro cess, the results do come much closer to fitting the needs, and minor adjustments can be made during the actual registration. If a student doubts that his own pre-registration blank will make much difference in sche duling so many classes, he might try a simple demonstration of the problem. Let him try stuffing a bowling ball into a briefcase. There is enough space inside the caSe, but it is the wrong shape. The briefcase will not give much, and the round ball has no give at all. Pre-registration enables the administration to design a new shape for the schedule -- spheroid, trapezoid, orlopzoid-- in an earnest effort to provide what the students need when they need it. ' COLLEGIANS CO FOR... Open Kitchen PIZZA I31S W. MOREHEAO ST. PHONE 375-7449 By Professor Spill red learning an eager ten minutes before officially assuming my duties as a college teacher. I looked much younger than my years then (as I do now), and the early students did not sus pect me. We were standing, a half dozen of us in the hall, waiting for the preceding class to clear out of our room. “Wonder who we got this per iod?” one of them asked gener ally. *You know who we got?” he repeated turning directly to me. “Yes, you have me,” I re plied. ‘ ‘And the question is: Whom do we have?” He grinned and took his foot out of his mouth. It was his left foot as I recall. Within a few weeks this early student was learning to shift from “who” to “whom” with tolerable accuracy. If we ever meet again, I will recognize him by the broad rectangular shape in his forehead and the roundness of his brown eyes. His hair was thick and black then, but it looked loosely rooted. Over the years I have remained hostile toward fractured English, no matter what coursel am teach ing. Frequently I tell a student: “Before you get into your car to go home, I want you to take that ‘cain’t’ and throw it as far as you can beyond the back side of the parking lot and leave it there.” Day by day the bone pile keeps growing, and it seems destined to become an impres sive mound. I do hope that foture generations will refer to this unusual formation as Spillred’s Kitchen Midden. Our sense of values is my sterious. Recent things like the Declaiation of Independence are kept under glass. The liberty 'Bell has been brought in out of SC Plans (Continued From Page One) The first meeting in January will be on the fourteenth. New sweaters were approved for the cheerleaders. Seventy dollars will be set aside for the purchase of these sweaters. The Social Committee reported that $740 was spent on the No vember dance. The committee also requested that students be reminded that concertticketsare available free in the office. A constitutional committee, headed by Larry Lynn, discussed selecting its members. Students may volunteer to the president of their class, and final selec tion will be made by Mrs. Win- ningham and Larry Lynn. The committee wiU consist of two or three members from each class. The typewriter bought by the Student Council has arrived. It will be available for the use of all organizations. the weather. But the most price less antique of our culture--the English language— is handled roughly and rudely by all sorts of people. It gets mispronounced, rriisconstrued and misunder stood daily with no regard for its true value. Thousands of years went into the structure of our language; the very graveyards of its ear liest ancestors have been deleted by wind and weather. Centuries more_ were spent rfefining' its phrase and rounding its rhythm. The careful labor of poets and scholars added a fine patina, although here and there a deep scratch remains from careless speakers, and yet more scratches are being added. It is my profound conviction that linguistic offenders should be made to learn English tho roughly before being allowed to use it--like the sensible advice in our Nursery Rhymes about swimming. Winston cigarettes should be made to do their ad vertising in Etruscan. Lesser of fenders might be permitted to sell their wares in Potawatomi until they could be trusted with English. Come to think of it, Potawatomi would be good practice for some of my students. As I was saying before, I am fond of them. The feeling may not be mutual. It may not even do them any good, but it does add beauty to my diaracter. Margaret Ross is shown receiving her Phi Theta Kappa scholar ship from Vance Johnson, president of the college chapter. Phi Theta Kappa Grant Awarded To Miss Ross Margaret Ross, a sophomore majoring in Mathematics, has received the annual Phi Theta Kappa scholarship, it was an nounced by Vance Johnson, presi dent of the college chapter. Chartered in 1957 as the Iota Lamba chapter of Phi Theta Darkroom Equipped For Fine Pictures “If the first glimpse of the developing image is breath-tak ing the ultimate mastery of that image is a hard earned triumph, says Bruce Downes, Editor of People Photography, in an edi torial on darkroom work. He continues, “It is a triumph that comes usually of a long struggle with what sometimes seem the opposing forces oflight and chemistry. Only here in this lonely struggle can a photogra pher bring fuUy into being the image that is the fusion of what he saw and felt when he released the shutter." “To delegate the printing to a technician is to bypass the strug gle and forego the fulfillment. It is also to be an incomplete photographer.” No longer do CharlotteCollege students have to suffer the poor quality pictures that are made by photofinishers for various publi cations. The College now has a well equipped darkroom for the use of photographers of the var ious school publications. The student council paid for an enlarger and the annual paid for the rest of the necessary equip ment. All in all, the darkroom is now equipped to handle the routine tasks that the annual and newspaper wiU require. Tommy Estridge, who was the moving force behind getting the equipment and who has been placed in charge of the darkroom by the student council, put it this way: “This first year we have merely tried to get the bare minimum of equipment that we need to do the small size prints that the annual and. newspaper need.” He went on to say, “It is my understanding that when the new Student Services building is com pleted, we vriU have a larger darkroom and can equip our selves to handle larger print sizes. At present, the largest print that we can make with our own equipment is 8 x 10. I have to do larger prints in my dark room at home, where I have the equipment to handle the larger size prints.” “I hope that some day CC will have a regular photography de partment with a full-time staff photographer, . as some of the more modern and progressive schools already have. I also would like to see the school equipped to handle color print ing as well and Black and White.” For the time being, however, students can rest assured that the photos that they see in their publications will be of top quality. Kappa, the Charlotte College chapter of the national junior college honorary fraternity has donated a scholarship each suc ceeding year. Faculty advisor to the group is Miss Mary R. Denny," chairman of the Department of English. Funding an annual scholarship requires cooperation of the whole group. This year’s scholarship was earned in part by the mem bers’ labor on picnic grounds north of the drive curving around the Liberal Arts building. Fees earned were applied (vrithout de ductions) to the scholarship pro ject. Former recipients of this scholarship have usually con tinued their college education elsewhere. 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