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THE CHARLOTTE CULLEQAN
FEBRUARY. rJC3
A Sincere Welcome
With the start of a new semester, one notices the
addition of naw faces and the loss of old ones. Mott
new students have transferred from other collogues,
but some have waited until the spring semester to be
gin their studies. Certainly all CO students extend a
welcome hand to their new classmates — v/e hope you
enjoy your ti’,ne spent here.
Give your support to the four-year college plan.
Back up the Student Council, and give suggestions to
its present committees. Get in with the spirit of CC!
And don’t forget to study hard! Let’s all, both the old
and the new stxrdents, be a credit to CC!
Curb The Clutter
As you leave school today, look at the ground and
grass beside the walks. Do you see snow? Or per
haps snowball.';? Nope, it is only bits of cigarettes,
candy wrappers!, crumpled notebook paper and other
similar trash.
Have you noticed the young trees planted along
the walks? Did you realize that we have grass? Or
is it just a vast trashland? New fence wires have
been put up in hopes that v/e may have more grass and
less mud at the corners of the sidewalks.
We hope that ?.U of ths students that joined u.s at
the beginning of the spring semester will realize that
CC students will do better in the future! The “snow
balls” will disappear from the lawns and grass will
spring up at the comers of the sidewalks. CC’s gTowth
will be insure! wit’.: the growth of maturing students.
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McCoys Continue
Coffee Hours
CHAOS ON THE HALF SHELL
Once again the battered-but
-unbowed students of Charlotte
College can look back upon that
twice-yearly trip to Milton’s
Pandemonium that seems to be
an indispensable adjunct to the
pursuit of a successful college
career.
With the relief of a survivor,
I felt obligated to bestow the
sort of brotherly compliments
that those who live through such
a calamity voice to each other
on the deck of the rescue ship.
Then on the morning of January
29, 1963, the following dire events
occurred:
(1) Approximately 900 students
of Charlotte College, who thought
they were being wise to have
pre-registered, were kept out
in freezing weather for approxi
mately one and one-half hours,
in a long and somewhat unruly
line that got more unruly as the
time wore on. During this period
some twenty pounds of trash was
deposited upon our small, but
erstwhile pretty, campus.
(2) Some fifty to one hundred
of these individuals succeeded
in getting in through the rear
doors of the Kennedy Building
and jumping the line, effectively
destroying any pretence at order.
I don’t blame them one bit; I was
one of them.
(3) About two hours after^the
doors first opened, the course
lines were virtually vacant. Now
it was the check-out table that
was getting the rush--through no
fault of the checkers, of course.
(4) Nearly fifty dollars of
damage was done when an over
anxious student slammed open the
plate-glass door of the Liberal
Arts Building, shattering it.
No one person is to blame for
all these events. No one group is
to blame for them either. The
registrees were unruly simply
because they were cold. The door
got shattered simply because
someone was in a hurry.
The blame lies with the psy
chology that accepts this farce
as a permanent fixture in college
life, as if long, long lines were
a basic necessity for getting into
an institution of higher learning.
Now perhaps they are for new
students and for those who were
our for more than the normal
semester break, but for returning
students who have already made
known their course desires and
been approved by their faculty
advisors?
It is my most earnest sugges
tion that the administration study
the procedure of registering
returning students at the Univer
sity of J^orth Carolina at Chapel
Hill and at least make an attempt
to adapt it to our needs. We
already liave the basis for such
a system — access to a com-
putor -- so that it really should
not be hard to adapt.
Perhaps the Student Council
could be of aid in this enterprise
TOMMY WINSTEAD
Book BiXchange
Grosses $1,000
Charlotte College’s busy
Circle-K Club has been busier
than ever recently running its
used book store. Making trans
actions amid the loud humn-n-n
of C. C.’s boilers in room 316
in the Kennedy Building, the
club members put in many hours
of work 'to help students
sell text books which they no
longer needed and acquire se
cond -hand books at low prices.
The idea of providing C. C.
with a used book store was sug
gested by Dr. HerbertHecken-
bleikner, advisor to the club.
Dr. Heckenbleikner said that he
has long felt the need for such a
book exchange and had brought
the matter to the attention of
the student council last year. No
action was taken, however, until
this semester.
Book sales through the Cir-
cle-K Exchange totaled $1,107.
Students who sold their books
through the store received $990,
and Circle-K earned $U7 for four
busy weeks of work. Since the
club is a non-profit making or
ganization, some of the money
from the recent business ven
ture will be donated to the Scho
larship Fund.
The success of its first attempt
at running a book store has
raised Circle K’s hopes of esta
blishing a full-time student book
exchange in the Student Union
Building when it is finished this
spring.
Faculty News
By Mrs. Ethel Pbippi
Last Friday three faculty
members from Charlotte College
appeared on the Project 60 radio
program on American Democra
cy. Following a dramatization
based on the work of Alexis de
Tocqueville, Mrs. Edyth F. Win-
ningham and Mr. Irving Edle-
nnan, regular participants on the
radio program, were joined by
Dr. Robert W. Rieke in a dis
cussion of political questions.
Later in the month Dr. Rieke
will appear on the Charlotte Col
lege Television program, which
is scheduled for 9:30 A.M.,
February 24. For this program
his subject will be the three
hundredth anniversary of the
granting of the Carolina Charter.
Miss Martha Lawrence, of the
Mathematics Department, re
ports that a teacher’s lot is not
a happy one. Miss I.awrence
slipped on the ice behind the
Kennedy Building and fractured
her left wrist during the evening
of January 29. Rumors that Mr.
Hutchison and Bob Gray had
sprayed the walks with water
just prior to Miss Lawrence’s
fall are entirely unfounded.
Dr. Herbert Hechenbleikner
will soon conduct two field trips
for his new class in Botany 141.
Early in April the group will
go to Eastern North Carolina.
A month later they will visit the
western region of the state. The
two trips are timed to give the
students an apportunity to see
both areas at the peak of their
spring beauty.
by sending a representative, with
the approval of the administrative
branches concerned. uptoChapel
Hill to study the system and
bring back a detailed report.
If the idea takes hold, consi
der me a volunteer. Something
must be done, even if it means
extra work for everyone con
cerned. Farces like this are not
necessary, and they wear out
all parties concerned for no good
reason.
Samuel O. Lindeman
By Susan Proctor
At the McCoy’s, Thursday
afternoon will again be a very
popular time with many Char
lotte College ^students. Mrs.
S. J. McCoy, wife of Dean Mc
Coy and a faculty member her
self, will continue the coffee
hour every Thursday afternoon
at her home on 3621 Providence
Road.
These informal discussion
groups, which run from a quar
ter after four until a quarter of
six, are not limited to Mrs.
McCoy’s English students. All
Charlotte College students are
cordially invited to attend.
“Although there has been no
set procedure,” Mrs. McCoy
tells us, “the usual, informal
pattern has been for the students
to drop in. help themselves to
coffee, cake, or apples, sit around
an open fire and talk.’’ Mrs. Me -
Coy admits, however, that the
activity has been known to vary
from basketball on the front lawn
to piano and even hi-fi playing, but
generally the time is spent on
books.
Any student is aware of how
easy it is to wander from sub
ject to subject in an open dis-
cusion where opinions are freely
expressed. These discussions di
rected by Mrs. McCoy are no
different. They have, inthepast,
covered subjects ranging from
modern poetry, Nobel Prize Win
ners. contemporary novelists
such as William Golding, and the
personal lives of writers, to
status- seeking and television
programs.
The main objectives, neverthe
less. has remained to be reading
and writing, especially con
temporary writing. At the first
meeting of the new semester the
group embarked on "Journal
Browsing,’’ emphasizing the in
formation and pleasure to be
found in reading interesting peo
ple’s journals, and also turned
some reading time to recent
North Carolina writers of impor
tance. such as Reynolds Price,
of Duke University, whose recent
novel. The Happy Life, received
the William Faulkner prize.
Mrs. McCoy began these liter
ary coffee hours for Winthrop
and Converse girls while she was
teaching at Winthrop College in
Rock Hill, South Carolina.
She is eager to continue this
practice now for interested Char
lotte College students -- despite
the distance from the college to
her home.
The meetings usually take
place on Thursday; however,
occasionally there is a change of
day. A notice in the bulletin
board will remind students of
the meeting.
Botany Study
Is Started
The geology laboratory in
Room 312 of the Kennedy Build
ing had turned into a biology
laboratory as veterans of
Dr. Herbert Hechenbleikner’s
Botany in courses start work in
the first Botany 141.
Adapting the geology labora
tory required some home-made
ingenuity to provide individual
lighting. Hardware fixtures were
screwed to two-by-six inch slabs
of wood, and satisfactory lights
(“stolen” from downstairs) were
fitted to them.
In spite of a two-week delay
in getting textbooks, the course
is already off the ground, and
the eight students are making
conscious scientific advance
ment.
Engineers Club
Invites Members
By Joyce foessley
The Charlotte College Engi
neers Club keeps an open roll
for new students who are inter
ested in engineering, according to
Bob Alexander, president of the
club.
Established in 1960, this club
seeks to give future engineers
a greater interest and a more
practical understanding of their
profession. Meetings are held
every second Wednesday at se
ven-thirty in Room 107 of the
Liberal Arts Building, refresh
ments being managed out of dues
of a dollar per semester.
Approximately twenty-five
members enjoy well planned pro
grams. which include speakers
and movies on the various pha
ses of engineering.
A special feature of the club
is the field trips, open to all
members. In the past, trips have
been made to Charlotte Pipe
and Foundry and to the new Co
wan’s Ford Dam.
December, 1962
SUSAN WEBER
Acting Editor
BERT ALLEN
Business Manager
JERRY SHIELDS
Advertising Manager
Sports Editor
TOMMY ESTRIDGE
BILL NEWMAN
Photographers
Reporters
MANUEL KENNEDY MRS. ETHEL PHIPPS
PENNY MILLER JOYCE PRESSLEY
SUSAN PROCTOR
Faculty Advisor
SIDNEY T. STOVALL