All In Vain!
Letters To The Editor
“To create a wholesome school spirit;
To support the best traditions of the institution it re
presents;
To encourage worthy school activities;
To promote scholarship;
To publish and record the history of the school;
To act as an outlet for the expression of opinion on the
part of any recognized student organizations and/or individ
uals.”
Above are premises laid down in the Charter of The Col
legian under the heading “Purposes.” This is all fine and good.
We don’t mind it in the slightest, and, in fact, are quite proud
of having all this responsibility.
However, there is a flaw. The Collegian can go about its
purposed duties to an infinite degree, but if the newspaper
is not read it will all be in vain. We can (at least try to) create
all the school spirit in the world; we can support all the best
traditions with all our might; we can do all these things called
for in our charter. But if you, the students, don’t ever take
time to see if there’s a new paper out, how can we be expected
to accomplish anything.
Here’s another light. Remember last fall when you paid
that 13 dollar activity fee? Well, among a few other things you
bought yourself twelve copies of this newspaper. Each student
was billed approximately five cents each issue that comes out,
WHETHER HE READS IT OR NOT.
The Collegian published itself at the very convenient rate
of 1,500 copies per issue. There are approximately 1,500 stu
dents enrolled in this school at present count. It follows then
by very complicated modern mathematics that each student
should receive one (and only one) copy of The Collegian every
time it is published. But wait. It so happens that we see Char
lotte Collegians everywhere, in the library, in the liberal arts
building, in the Kennedy Building, and about a ton of them
way over in the College Union Building. Trouble is, they stay
there. Nobody picks them up, except maybe the janitor, who
obviouly has better things to do than to go around picking up
old Charlotte Collegians.
Now obviously this particular Charlotte Collegian got
picked up. But look around. Chances are some of those other
1,499 Charlotte Collegians didn’t get picked up. Here is where
you, the student, can really help us. Say something about us
to somebody. Say, “Pretty good paper they did this time,” or
“Stinkinest, damn paper I ever saw.” Just make them inter
ested enough to take a look themselves. You see, we want
people to notice us. We want those who obviously didn’t pick
up a copy to pick one up and say something. Then maybe we
can start living up to those purposes in our constitution a
whole lot better.
Even Fantastic Chef Like Jim
Can Do Little With Food
The Collegian welcomes
letters for its “Letters To
V The Editor” column. All
letters should be legible
and written on only one
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' ters must be signed. (How-
' ever, the signature will
be withheld on request.)
Editor, The Collegian:
This fall I was pleased to find
the cafeteria food much superior
to that of the preceeding spring.
But soon I discovered that even a
fantastic chef like Jim could do
little or nothing with the cuts of
meat we are expected to eat in
the lunch room.
With Charlotte College being as
far out of town as it is, it is al
most a necessity for the majority
of the ifaculty, administration, and
students to eat their noon day meal
in the school cafeteria. This cafe
teria is Jike any other cafeteria:
It is here to serve us and serve
us food which is enjoyable. It is
not as though we are being given
something. We are actually paying
for the meals we get.
I realize it is difficult to run a
cafeteria with all its varied prob
lems; but if we cannot get well
balanced meals, why have any
thing? I had much rather put 25c
in a machine and get a cold sand
wich and know what to expect
than to be so darned surprised
(and not pleasantly, I may add) b”
what we are (or are not) having
in the luneh room.
I have trou-t»le understanding
also how one day we can have a
hot dog with no slaw because they
are out of slaw, and the next day
we can have slaw with no hot dog
because there are no more hot
dogs. Sure, I know every once in
a while one runs out of some
thing, but this is a little ridiculous!
We are always out of something;
bacon, slaw, hot dogs, pickles,
dressing for salads, salads, toma
toes, etc., etc., etc.
I think, by George, when we
spend our money, we should re
ceive quality in return: even if
it means our cranking up our cars
to spend it!
Of course, even if we had the
best food i'n the world, it would
be hard to enjoy it in a cafeteria
where people do not care enough
to clean up after themselves.
ANN McMILLAN
Yearbook
Editors, The Collegian
It is most important that all
club presidents present the amount
of pages they wish to use in the
yearbook, and if they plan to have
them*. The prices are as follows:
$ 5 half page
$10 full page (1st full page)
$20 every additional page
For organization under the Stu
dent Government Association there
will be mo charge for the first
page. These organizations include:
Honor Court
SGA Executive Council
Legislature
New Year's Resolutions
Well, here it is time to make New Year’s resolutions
again, and we’d like to suggest a couple for the student body
of Charlotte College.
1. We promise to go to every basketball game we can pos
sibly get to. Furthermore, we promise to cheer when the cheer
leaders cheer, stomp when the cheerleaders stomp, clap when
the cheerleaders clap, and yell like hell when CC scores a point.
2. We promise to take all dishes we use in the cafeteria
to the counter and not leave any mess where we have been
eating. We also promise not to try to get by the cash register
without paying the correct amount due.
3. We promise not to throw trash and especially cigarette
butts on the floors and sidewalks. We promise, instead to
throw trash and cigarette butts in trash cans and cigarette
butt cans.
4. We promise to study hard and get all As on our report
cards. We will do this by studying a minimum of two hours of
outside study for each hour in class.
5. We promise to read the Collegian every time it is
published and to contribute articles to whenever we can.
CHARLOTTE COLLEGIAN
Official Student Newspaper of Charlotte College. Published
Bi-weekly.
Editor Howard Pearre
Sports Editor Robby Snipes
Photographers Tommy Estridge, Dick Raley
Staff E. Clary, Dave Nannev, Jim Cunning,
Bettye Trapps, Nina Castles, Sharon Daily
Dave's Raves
Philosophy Broadens Minds
In a matter of days w-e will
begin a different schedule of
courses, and I’m trying to plug
philosophy as a means of broad
ening some narrow minds I find
myself convers.inig with on the
campus particularly in' the science
and math departmen'ts. Philoso
phy’s major concern is with theory
and criticism, and the following is
a summary of a view of life. I
am not suggesting that it is my
philosophy or that it should be
yours; I am suggesting that it is
worthy of consideratiom.
One of the first questions in
Ethics is—Why ought I to sacri
fice myself for the sake of some
body else? If someone shows me
that an action wiU have bad con
sequences for me, then obviously
that is reason why I should not
do it. If, however, somebody shows
me that I should not further my
interest because it is detrimental
to others, then it is not so obvious
a reason for me not to further my
interest. It is impossible to com
pletely synthesize the interest of
the individual and that of so
ciety. Yet every system of ethics
has prescribed duties to others
a well as to onesel'f, aind no good
man is uninfluenced by the pros
pects of his action having bad ef
fects on others. Confronted with
tjhis situation one might reply
that toi fulfill my duties to others
helps me in the long run. Then I
might conclude that if I direct my
life toward my own happiness,
then that fulfills my obligation to
society simultaneously. Thus my
pursuit is personal pleasure, and
by pleasure I mean all satisfac
tions including the joy of selfless
and spirtual love, the satisfaction
of the righteous in furthering the
public good, the satisfaction of the
religious mystic in communion
with God, as well as the simple
pleasure of eating a piece of pie.
Thus I pursue the path to pleasure
by actually sacrificing a present
pileasure for a future one which.
I might add, is a poinit of division
of man from animal.
This philosophy is not extremely
popular today among intellectuals;
however, a large number of phil
anthropists use it as a basis of
action. It’s called egoistic hedo
nism. As for the studies involved
in philosophy, I think they stretch
and broaden the mind more than
any other subject one could un
dertake. Please consider the cours
es in philosophy offered at C. C.
and perhaps you’ll stop asking
“What’s it all about?”
This information must be in
my hands by January 20.
SHARRON HACKER,
Editor, Si Si
Open Bars In Charlotte?
Editors, The Collegian
There is a great deal of con
troversy at this time on the issue
of open bars in Charlotte. Many
people are against this issue be
cause of ithe connotation which is
often associated with bars. I per
sonally believe that we would be
better off with open bars.
Most of the churches in Char
lotte are against this issue be
cause they feel that open bars
would bring an increase in crime
and immorality. Yet, we already
have a very high crime rate. There-
foire even with open bars the
crime -rate wouldn’t increase that
much if any. As for immorality,
Charlotte already has a problem
with prostitution, adultery, drunk
enness, and rape. It seems that
we already have the problems
which more people associate with
bars without the'm. At least if we
had the bars some ladies organi
zation could picket one of them
and feel that they had helped the
cause of morality.
Mot having open bars is in many
wnys a detrimon.t to the growtli
C'f Oha-rlO'tte. The increasie in nigh:
li'^e which open bars will bring to
Chanlotte will be an underlying
factor in helping Charlotte grow.
Sooner or later Charlotte will have
open bars if it continues to grow
at its present rate.
One of the advantages of open
bars will be the increase in reve
nue for both the city and the
state. This will be obtained, not
so much from increase in liquor
consumption but from the sales
tax of each drink sold.
If no one or only a few drank
then we would not have any prob
lem, but the amount of people
carrying paper bags under their
arms into clubs and lounges is
increasing. It does seem rather
odd that grown people should have
to ihide the fact that they drink.
Another fact which shows itself
is that we are making alcoholics
out of the people who do drink.
This comes from the fact that
you cannot carry an open bottle
in your car. Therefore you must
either leave a partially filled bot
tle ait the lounge or finish the
bottle, which most people do. If
there were bars in Charlotte, you
could go into a bar and one or two
drinks without having to worry
too much about becoming an al
coholic.
The question of whiether or not
Charlotte should have open bars
should be left up to the people.
I personally do not feel that there
is -anything immoral about drink
ing if it is done in- a reasonable
manner. We must also realize that
we cannot legislate morality,
especially drinking. If you are still
against this bill to have open bars
ask yourself this ques.tion: “Are
the laws against open bars helping
to prevent drinking, crime, and
immorality?” If you feel they are
not then open bars must not be
a factor in this area, and we may
be -doing more harm than good by
not having -them.
JIM CUNNING