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THS CHARLOTTE C0LLEGI4W
APRIL, 1963
Paint The Barn Red
“Find a need and fill it!”—Henry J. Kaiser.
Charlotte College needs a Fine Arts Building and
an auditorium, but new classrooms and laboratories
will have to come first. For ten years, perhaps, we’ll
be building more classrooms and laboratories.
There is a growing interest at 0. C. in the drama.
Must it wait ten years? The usual procedure, jn such
cases, is to make do with what is available. And
what is available? Well, there is the new cafeteria
or the library or a large classroom. . .
Doesn’t sound very hopeful, does it?
And then there’s the barn. The barn? Think
about it. The barn is a solid, tight building. So it
has to be moved. Why not put it adjacent to the silo
—oops!—observatory? There it could hook up with
the main heating plant. And to pacify those who
gripe about aesthetics, it would be away from campus
center.
Converting it from a barn to a 300-seat theater,
with vital storage and work space downstairs, would
cost less than $2,500 in addition to moving costs. All
told, everything further we might do over a period of
years to improve the barn TVould not push, the total
expenditure beyond $10,000.
Sounds like a lot? Spread it over ten years.
Then consider that a new auditorium and Fine Arts
Building would cost about $100,000. Not so much
now, is it?
Surely the students have more need for this
building than the peacocks — or the salvage yards.
Surely the Board of Trustees will become excited a-
bout a proud dramatic tradition starting with “Red
Barn Players.”
Sports Need Support
With the pushtowards more and more activities at C. C. athletically
inclined students are at last taking notice. Perhaps spring is to blame
for the sudden interest.
During the fall semester a handful of hard-working ball-bouncers
and spirit-leaders started CCfs basketball team. They dug out a
coach and signed him on their side. Although the distance to other
colleges and the late starting date made it &ficult, a schedule was
pieced together. As the team practiced hard and long, announcements
urged students to back their venture into sports. But guess what—
no advocates arrived! After all the talk--after all the “Yes, it is
certainly a good thing” -- there were still very few spectators.
Now a petition is posted on the wall of the Student Lounge. This
petition is for tennis. Several of the boys have expressed interest
also in track-- “Why can’t we have track? It’s so inexpensive!
Cross-country would be exactly the thing!”
At the last Student Council meeting, a group of students were
pushing for a football team. The cost is not the main factor-- a
team is! The Inter-Club-Council, finally a strong organization, is
working on spring sports such as softball, horsehoes, and volleyball.
It hopes to have some of them going after spring vacation.
Can anyone think of a major sport that is feasible at C. C. which
is not mentioned above? Cost is the small side, and space is endless
at present. What then are the drawbacks?
Of the hundreds of signatures on the petitions, how many will
actually play tennis? Will they take the time? Do they know how
to play? Who will take the responsibility for equipment? WUl the
non-athletic students take the part of an interest^ public? Many
C.C, students come to class early in the morning and leave at
noon -- but they have families, they have jobs, they have home
work! This is the problem of a commuting college. Should we
expect their support?
If you want sports — or, for that matter, any successful activi
ties at C. C. -- are you willing to support them? Will you sports-
minded individuals speak to the new Athletic Committee? Go to
your representative committee on the Student CouncD -- or,
better yet, go directly to the Student Council or the Administra
tion youself.
Clbarlntte Olclbstatt
April, 1963
SUSAN WEBER
Editor
BERT ALLEN
Business Manager
JERRY SHIELDS
Advertising Manager
MANUEL KENNEDY
SAM O. UNDEMAN
PENNY MILLER
Reporters
TOMMY WINSTEAD
Sports Editor
TOMMY ESTRIDGE
BILL NEWMAN
Photographers
MRS. ETHEL PHIPPS
JOYCE PRESSLEY
SUSAN PROCTOR
Faculty Advisor
SIDNEY T. STOVALL
Road, Dam Are Underway
A bulldozer moves fill for a
bend in the causeway, which will
also form the dam for a campus
lake at Charlotte College. Below
a diagram shows the S-curve in
the new dual-lane entrance to the
College.
Starting at the link of the pre
sent drive with Highway 49, the
two-lane roadway under con
struction will bend around the
campus lake and lead to the cen
ter of the completed campus—
just west of the present wing of
the library.
When completed, the approach
to the College will exceed a
hundred feet in width. The 25-
foot lanes will be separated by
a 25-foot median, which will mark
the seasons of the year with suc
cessive blossoms and berries.
Outside the two lanes, lawn and
shrubs wUl extend another fif
teen feet.
The dirt road (“Existing Road
way” at top of diagram) will
remain as a short cut between
the present parking lot and more
parking space around the Student
Services Center. The diagram
shows only half the space
between Highway 49 and the pre
sent buildings. New buildings will
be constructed on the open cam
pus extending toward the lake.
Professors
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holds the position of associate-
professor of Mathematics at Lou
isiana State University, but has
been on leave of absence this
year as a visiting professor at
Randolph Macon Woman’s Coll
ege.
Mrs. Perel is the former Miss
Eugenie M. Garlc.
Dean McCoy stated that a dozen
or so other negotiations have been
completed for few faculty mem
bers, but names cannot be
released untU the BoardofTrus-
tees makes the formal appoint
ments.
Inter-Club
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chairman: and Susan Weber, se-
cretary-treasurer.
For its first project, ICC has
approved the establishment of a
volleyball court and a softball
field, appointing a committee to
study locations and costs. A ten
nis court may be considered if
there are enough interested stu
dents. And a baseball field has
been discussed as, a future pos
sibility.
TO THOSE YOU lOVE
niSTING IMMOWAY
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Letters To Editor
There has in recent times
appeared a phenomenon at C.C,
that disturbs me greatly. Cer
tain anonymous leaflets have ap
peared on our walls an4 windows
during and following the recent
elections. I am not referring, of
course, to the legitimate cam
paign posters put up during the
elections or those which have
been placed for the runoff, but
to a collection of “broadsides”
placed with tape and glued, and
normally not signed, even anon
ymously.
Now this sort of goings-on is
quite appropriate for elemenary-
school children, but it seems,
to me at least, to be singularly
out of place in a college, where
it is presumed that adults have
the intestinal fortitude to bring up
an issue for honest debate and
back their contentions with their
names, if with nothing else.
The Collegian provides a forum
for any and all who might want
to debate before the student body,
and this forum should be used
more often and to a greater ex
tent that it is. The posting of
anonymous statements should be
discouraged by Student Council
and Administration alike. Such
activities only serve to reduce
morale and morals, both for the
posters of such statements and
for many of their readers.
S.O. LINDEMAN
Faculty News
By Hrs. Ethel Phipps
Miss Ruth Blackwelder’s new
book, The Age of Orange, is now
in the Charlotte College library.
This interesting study of Orange
county’s share in the development
of North Carolina has been well
received by many of the state’s
educators. Professor S. H. Hobbs
has written, “Miss Blackwel
der’s story . . . sets a high stan
dard for those who will be writing
histories of other North Carolina
counties. It ranks among the best
of the county histories that have
already been published.”
Miss Blaclwelder is planning
a course in North Carolina his-1
tory to begin in the fall semester.
This course will cover the
colonial and the ante-bellum per
iods of the state’s history.
Mr. Raymond Pulley, also of
the Charlotte College history de
partment, has completed work
for his Master’s degree, which
wUl be awarded by Emory Uni
versity during March. Mr.
Pulley, who is new to Charlotte,
attended high schools in South
Norfolk, Virginia. He received
his B. A. degree from William
and Mary Collepe in June, 19fil.
Now that his graduate work is
finished at Emory, he plans to
begin work on his doctorate at
the University of Virginia in
September, 1963. The school year
of 1962-63 is Mr. Pulley’s first
year of teaching.
Miss Mary Denny of the English
department will moderate a panel
discussion at the AprU meeting of
the student N.E.A, This meeting
has been tentatively set for AprU
10, 1963. Other members of the
panel will be drawn from Char
lotte College alumnae who are
now teaching in the public schools
of Charlotte and Mecklenburg
COUJXV.
Recently a few faculty mem
bers were asked, “What do you
think of the curent situation in
Cuba?” Here are some of the
printable answers which were
received:
Dr. Pierre Macy: “Cuba is a
loaded Russian pistol pointed at
the heart of America.”
Miss Ruth Blackwelder:
“We’ve just got to get Russia
out of there,”