The
Charlotte Collegian
VOL. 20, NUMBER 8
CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA
MARCH 2, 1965
Charlotte College Bill Lacks Only
House Approval For Passage
By NINA CASTLES
The reporc on the measure to
make Charlotte College part of
UNC was favorable on Wednesday,
Feb. 17. The Senate Higher Edu
cation Committee, with only one
dissenting vote, supported Char
lotte College’s bid for UNC status.
The report on Thursday, Feb. 18,
was also favorable. A request for
Senate action on the bill has been
granted. The action was scheduled
for the following Tuesday. How
ever, the action should have taken
place on Thursday’s (the 18th) cal
endar. It seems that several sena
tors had requested a delay of ac
tion.
The report on Friday, Feb. 19,
was anxious. Charlotte’s Mayor
Stan R. Brookshire rose to defend
the bill against a troublesome de
lay, sending a telegram to Gover
nor Moore, Lt. Governor Scott, and
House Speaker Taylor. He sertt the
telegram after learning of the grow
ing opposition among the legisla
tors through newspaper reports
from Raleigh. It was true. Tension
was building, questions were being
asked about appropriations, and
passage was no longer guaranteed.
After a troubled weekend, the re
port on Monday, Feb. 22, was spec
ulative. The bill would go before
the Senate on Tuesday. It was now
considered to be in its “home
stretch", but it was facing strong,
pointed opposition from men such
as Senator Tom White of Lenoir,
who had been the lone dissenter
when the Senate Higher Education
Committee voted on the bill. Mon
ey was the big problem. White re
quested that the bill go before the
Senate Appropriations Committee,
saying there was no urgent need
for an immediate passing on the
bill.
The report on Wednesday, Feb.
24, was, again, favorable. The Sen
ate had passed the bill on Tuesday,
turning down Senator White's bid
for a delay. Only one more reading
was left, and the odds were that
the Senate would pass the bill since
only two or three senators had
joined White. Senator Irwin Belk
calmed the appropriation fears,
saying, “We can operate on the
money that is in the present budg
et.’’ There was still, however,
grumblings about the absence of re
ports on the future co.sts of the pro
posed UNC branch. A delay was
hovering over the bill yet, be
cause White and his supporters
wanted more information.
Then came the report on Thurs
day, Feb. 25, that the Senate had
passed on the bill for the final
time: had passed favorably and
again overwhelmingly to make a
new UNC campus at CharlOitte. The
bill was then sent to the House.
In the House, Representative R.
Iviser, of Scotland and others had
already prepared speeches of oppo-
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Andrew Dawes
Engineers' Club
Needs Members
The newly formed Charlotte Col
lege Engineers’ Club is interested
in bringing in as many members
as possible from the students now
enrolled at Charlotte College in the
engineering program.
The Engineers’ Club held its first
night meeting on February 24, 1965.
The after dinner speaker was Dr.
Charles Jones of the Bell Tele
phone Company. Dr. Jones gave a
demonstration of the “ gas laser.
For information about member
ship contact any club member or
Dr. Wayne.
No Farmers’ Daughters
The reason Switzerland has a
poor agriculture program is that it
is next to impossible to find girls to
stay on farms, therefore all the
young farmers go to the cities.
No. It didn’t take a United Na
tions committee ten years to fig
ure that one out. It took Lars T.
Carlson only one dish drying ses
sion when he was living with his
“family” in Switzerland.
Lars Carlson is now the Eastern
Field Representative for Experi
ment in International Living, a pri
vate, non-profit organization that
originated the now very common
"student abroad’’ programs. He
spoke on Charlotte College campus
Tuesday, Feb. 23.
Mr. Carlson explained the pur
pose of Experiment "to expose
America” in its best form — the
family unit. The Experiment places
students from foreign countries in
American families and American
students in foreign families. It also
works outside the United States be
tween countries like Poland and
Pakistan. Last summer there was a
German group in Charlotte; this
summer a group from Japan is ex
pected.
The program involves a period of
seven to eight weeks during the
summer. This time is broken down
into several parts. Orientation lasts
approximately four days and is us
ually held at Sandanona, the Ex
periment’s training center near
Brattleboro, Vt. During orientation
approximately nine members of a
group acquaint themselves with the
culture, customs, politics, and lan
guage of the host country. If the
group plans to travel by plane the
orientation is held prior to the
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Andrew Dawes
To Perform
At Woman's Club
By ELLISON CLARY
Two of Canada's outstanding
young instrumentalists will make
an appearance at Charlotte Wom
an’s Club Tuesday, March 9, at
8:15 p.m. Andrew Dawes, violinist,
and his assistant, Claude Savard,
at the piano, are being sponsored
by Charlotte College.
The appearance in Charlotte of
these two artists was arranged as
part of their United States tour by
Carnegie Hall-Jeunesses Musicales,
Inc. The principal objective of the
Carnegie Hall-Jeunesses Musicales,
Inc. is to foster good music among
youth and young adults through
concerts, discussion, publications,
and the encouragement of music-
inaking on all levels of proficiency.
This objective is accomplished
through its international artists ex
change program, of which these
two young men are a part.
Andrew Dawes began s.tudying
the violin at the age of eight in his
home in Midnapore, Alberta. As a
young boy, he showed unusual ap
titude by winning a number of
medals and scholarships. At the
age of eighteen, he was already
touring Canada as a soloist and,
two years later, received a Cana
da Council scholarship which en
abled him to study at the Geneva
conservatoire in Switzerland.
Upon his graduation in 1962,
Dawes returned to tour his native
land after winning first prize in
the Jeunesses Musicales du Can
ada. Last year, he revisited Ge
neva and won the "Concours de
Virtuosite” by unanimous vote.
Now, at the age of 24, Andrew
Dawes has already achieved inter
national stature.
Claude Savard, Dawes’ accom
panist, is a native of Montreal.
Like his co-artist, he is an inter
national prize-winner. This young
artist is being heard increasingly
in Canada as he forges a distin
guished career of his own.
Winnipeg critics speak of Dawes
as "... a strong, born talent, pas
sionately determined to be master
of the art for which he is fitted by
nature.” He and Savard are ex
pected to provide an exciting con
cert for Charlotte College students.
Charlotte College won these trophies at the end of the
DIAC tournament. They are (from left to right) the run
ner-up trophy for the tournament and the first place tro
phy for regular season play. See tournament story on
page 4 for details.
CC Stydents Attend
Model UN Assembly
By RASMI S. SHALABI nual Middle South Model U.N. As-
A delegation of four Charlotte Feb 10-13 at Chapel Hill.
College students—Jay Currin, Tha-
mir Al-Husseini, from Baghdad,
Iraq, Issa Mahmoud and Rasmi
Shalabi, both from Jordan—and Dr.
Witherspoon, acting as advisor,
represented Iraq at the Seventh An-
College Receives
$10,000 Work Grant
Charlotte College has received a
grant of $10,000 for aid to students
who need to work in order to at
tend college. The federal money
was made available under terms
of the Economic Opportunity Act.
There are approximately 36 open
ings on campus for this semester.
These are in the library, registra’s
office, and the College Union. Stu
dents may work a maximum of 15
hours a week at $1 an hour. Addi
tional jobs may become available
in the Charlotte public libraries.
In order to qualify for a position
under this program students must
be U.S. nationals, must prove a
need for work, must be capable of
maintaining good scholastic stand
ing, and must be full-time students.
Interested persons should obtain an
application from the office of Stu
dent Personnel and make an ap
pointment with Miss Mildred Eng
lish for an interview.
CC will apply for additional funds
under the program. If these are
granted, full-time work will be
available for this summer.
Rasmi
Shalabi
Over 500 students from 60 col
leges in mid and southern United
States attended the four-day meet
ings to represent over a hundred
nations. Every participating college
sent at least one delegation of four
students and possibly an alternate.
Each delegation was acompanied
by a professor acting as advisor
Each one of the four delegates rep
resented his country in one of the
four committees: Economic, Polit
ical, Social, and Administrative and
Budgetary. Jay Currin served on
Administrative and Budgetary,
Thamir on Political, Issa on Social,
and Rasmi on Economic in addi
tion to being chairman of the dele
gation.
The first policy statement was
delivered by the United Arab Re
public, repre-sented by a delegation
from UNC, calling for the unseat
ing of Israel “because of its unjus
tified aggression on Palestine” that
led to the expelling of about a mil
lion Arabs out of their country. The
Israelis, the misplaced vagabonds
that call themselves Israel, “have
been able to push others out of their
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