The Hot Line
No Rag, That Journal
By ELLISON CLARY JR.
Scene: Three students standing around a newspaper rack
m campus.
Sophomore (picking up an old Charlotte Collegian).
Hummm. I see the old rag’s out again. Hasn’t changed much.
It looks just like last year’s.
Yours Truly (disguised as a normal student). ’That is
last year’s paper.
Soph, (slowly shaking his head). Not much has happened
lately, huh?
Freshman (eagerly trying to make a joke). Maybe they’re
going to print the best of last year’s papers.
Soph, (ponderously). N-N-Naw. They wouldn’t have much
to print.
Me (persuasively). C’mon now. The paper was really
pretty good. Anyway, here’s a stack of new ones.
Freshman (eagerly). Let me see one of those!
Soph, (warningly). Take it easy, Man. It’s not the New
York Times, you know. No, I guess you don’t know, but you
will. (He takes a paper for himself and passes one to the
Freshman.)
Me (wittily). It’s not the Times, but it’s not the Collegian
either. See, it’s known as The Carolina Journal now that we’re
UNC-C.
Soph, (enthusiastically). Hey, that’s all right. Now if they
could use white print on Carolina blue paper...
Freshman (eagerly). I’ll even let ’em print one issue on
my new light blue blazer. Of course, they’ll have to supply the
ink. You can’t say I don’t have school spirit, though.
Soph, (nastily). Yes I can. You don’t have school spirit.
Freshman (self-righteously). That’s alright, wise guy. I
know you’re alway full of spirit but it’s not the school type.
Me (slyly). I wonder if that guy who wrote an amusing
humor column last year is going to do it again? (Knowing all
the time that I am.)
Freshman (eagerly). Do what again?
Soph, (puzzled). I don’t remember any amusing humor
column.
Me (worriedly). Sure you do. What was that guy’s name?
(I pretend to think very hard. I really know my name without
thinking about it.) Oh yeh. Ellison Clary, that’s his name.
Soph, (seeing the light). Oh, that idiot! So that was a
humor column he wrote, huh? 1 always wondered... (He
opens the paper and sees my column.) Clary is still writing
his column. 1 hope it’s better than it was last year but then 1
guess it couldn’t get any worse.
Passing Junior (cynically). Ha! You should have read it
two years ago, like I did.
Soph, (reverently). I’m sorry. I know it must have been a
terrible ordeal for you. (He places his hand upon his heart
and bows his head for a moment.)
THOUGHT FOR FOOD
I hope you enjoyed this little introductory column. 1
promise to be more entertaining next time. Until then,
remember the Peace Corpsman in South America who told a
poverty stricken family, “I don’t know how to install indoor
plumbing but I’ll help you clear a path to the outhouse.”
Just One
Big Happy
Family
Color Vs Vncolored...
All of us, at one time or
anoti’-.er needs a shoulder to cry
on or a sympathetic ear to hear
our problems. With this thought
in mind, the Freshman Advisory
Council will assign a big brother
or big sister to each freshman
who will enter the University of
North Carolina at Charlotte this
fall.
•A number of colleges assign
big brothers and sisters to their
freshmen before the students
arrive for the fall semester. Here
at UNC-C, however, freshmen
and transfer students are ad
mitted as late as September;
therefore, student counselors
cannot be assigned until the
beginning of orientation.
To give the freshman a fellow
student and peer with whom he
can talk over his problems is the
main purpose behind the “big
brother idea.” The aim of the big
brother further is to help the new
student adjust to college life by
offering him information, advice,
and friendship. The feeling is
that new students with this
“friend-in-need” will be more at
ease and will feel more a part of
the UNC-C family.
When a girl grows up, she
changes her dress and her man
ners. It is likewise true when a
college grows into a university.
The University of North Caro
lina at Charlotte has and will
experience many changes be
cause of her growing to universi
ty status and becoming a link in
the University of North Carolina
chain.
mascot. The “49’ers” was chosen
because the college began on its
own in 1949 and is located on
Highway 49.
displayed a dark green sweat
shirt with UNC-C written
across the front in white let
ters; few students liked it.
UNC-C has encountered sev-
e r a 1 transitional problems;
some major, many less impor
tant, and some in-between.
One of the “in-between” prob
lems has yet to be solved—the
problem of changing the school’s
colors and mascot.
When the University of North
Carolina at Charlotte was Char
lotte College, blue and white
were the school’s colors with a
gold digging forty-niner as the
Now, things must be changed;
the school’s colors at least.
The tradition behind the Uni
versity’s “49’ers” justifies our
retaining this mascot if a ma
jority of the studennts agree,
blue and white colors is proving
to be more controversial than
the changing of the mascot.
Freshman (eagerly). He calls his column The Hot Line.
I’ve got a pretty hot line or two; maybe I should write for the
paper.
Soph, (irritatedly). The only time you ever had a hot line
was when your rod and reel caught fire. Besides, just because
he calls his column The Hot Line, that doesn’t mean that he
has one.
Passing Campus Beauty (passionately). Let me tell you.
Honey! That Ellie Baby is simply too hot to handle. (She leans
over and whispers in my ear.) Don’t get any big ideas,
Frankenstein. I saw through your disguise and felt sorry for
you. (She slinks off to the parking lot.)
Freshman (eagerly). I gotta meet this Clary guy. Maybe I
could learn a thing or two.
Soph, (unbelievingly). Aw man, she was probably lying.
Of course, I couldn’t see that she had anything crossed.
Me (impatiently). Let’s get back to the column.
Soph, (irritatedly). Why do you always keep bringing up
Clary’s column?
Me (revealingly). Because I’m a columnist for the Journal.
Soph, (inquisitively). Well, is Clary going to ruin every
issue, just like always?
Me (clarifyingly). You mean is he going to write his
column every time?
Soph, (matter-of-factly). That’s what I said, is he going to
ruin every issue?
Me (patiently). His column will appear in every other
issue.
Soph, (excitedly). Man, what a break!
Freshman (who has been reading my column eagerly)
Wait a minute. I like this column and I think it’s funny.
Me (happily). I’m with you- all the way!
Soph, (grudgingly). I guess it’s ok if Clary only writes
every other time.
Me (still patiently). Ellison will be alternating with an
Esquire Magazine scribe who will be writing a men’s fashion
column.
Freshman (eagerly). Will the paper carry a fold-out pin
up on the Esquire days?
Soph, (cuttingly). If it does, it’ll probably be a picture of
Clary wearing a barrel. That guy will do anything to make the
paper.
Me (to myself). That’s not a bad idea. (Out loud) I’ve got
to be going. I’ve got to get a dark suntan and find a sexy
looking barrel.
Soph, (ponderously). I don’t know. He said he was a
columfnist for the newspaper. He must be Martin Richek.
At least my disguise was good.
City Buses
ToUNC-C
Sept. 13
Beginning this Fall, UNC-C
students will commute to and
from school for the first time on
public buses. Yes, finally, city
bus transportation to and from
the university will be a reality
after tour long years of waiting,
hoping and hitchhiking.
When Charlotte College moved
from the old Central High School
residence to her new and perma
nent site on Highway 49, access
to the school became somewhat a
problem to students without cars.
To master this problem, bi
cycles, motorcycles, and car
pools became the standards in
transportation. Even with these,
however, there were still draw
backs. The car pools, for exam
ple, were at times, most incon
venient. Riders were obliged to
follow the driver’s schedule even
if it meant coming to school
hours before their classes and
waiting hours after classes to
return home.
Students of the college and the
administration became more
aware of the transportation prob
lem as the enrollment of the
college grew.
It was just this past Spring
that a group composed of mem
bers of the administration and
members of the student body
once more conferred with the
City Coach Lines Bus Company
and this time achieved results.
We will now have bus service to
begin September 13, the first day
of classes.
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tion” to report honor code infrac
tions committed either by himself
or another student should be
omitted because it is “meaning
less and might mislead stu
dents.”
Another ambition of Burgess is
to “outlaw apathy” on this
campus. He believes that this can
be done only by a consorted
effort on the part of every
individual student to take a more
active part in school activities.
The argument against blue and
white is due to the fact that these
are the colors of our sister school
in Chapel Hill. Woman’s College
at Greensboro wears green and
white; therefore, these colors are
also out of the question. The
same holds true for North Caro
lina State’s red and white.
Gus Psmadakis, president of
the student body called special
meetings of the legislature to
discuss our predicament, but no
solution was reached.
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