The Carolina Journal
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VOL. 2
WEDNESDAY MARCH 8, 1967
NO. 20
Colvard Installed In Regal Ceremony
Chancellor Awed By New Role
Dr. Colvard clenches his fist in a movement
symbolizing a thrust forward just a few days
before the installation.
BY GAYLE WATTS
“As I stand in your presence
on this historic occasion I am
sensitive to, and somewhat awed
by, my dual roles as a symbol
of a new institution and as an in
dividual responding to challenge,
to opportunity, and to such diverse
stimuli as pervade this happy set
ting.” Thus Dr. Dean W. Colvard
began his address as he was in
stalled as first Chancellor of this
branch of the Consolidated Uni
versity at the impressive and de
corous ceremony on Friday, March
3, at Ovens Auditorium.
Attended by political and aca
demic leaders from all over the
state, the well-planned installation
combined solemnity with an elation
for the future.
Chancellor Colvard expressed
Keeney Addresses Banquet
Dr. Barnaby Keeney, chairman
of the National Endowment for
the Humanities, spoke to a gather
ing of dignitaries at a dinner
honoring Chancellor D. W. Col
vard Thursday night, March 2.
The dinner, held in the Union
cafeteria, on the eve of Chancel
lor Colvard’s formal installation.
At the black-tie affair, Keeney
said that the fate of American
society depends on the degree
to which its scholars, thinkers,
and artists play a role in the
social and political decisions of
the nation’s leaders.
Guests who had barely finished
their dinners of cornish hen and
wild rice heard Keeney say he
believes that the ivory - tower
image of colleges and universities
has vanished tor the sciences and
social sciences, and he’s glad to
see it go.
The heavy - set Keeney, who
walks with a slight limp, spoke
of humanists — the scholars, the
thinkers, and the artists — in
their ivory tower, and decision -
makers in Washington, with no
communication between the two.
Communication between the two,
however, is all-important, he said.
This is due to the fact that the
humanists provide the meaning and
beliefs for a society without which
people lost their hopes.
Journal Is Packed
With Worthy News
We’ve really got
news this time.
There’s the installa
tion story and the For
um account as well as
the election fraud news
and Miss UNC-C, just
to name a few.
And don’t miss Point
Blank this week. Larry
Keith writes about
birt h control pills in
the column on page
seven.
America has the tools to solve
the problems of poverty, he said,
“but we have lost the way to re
move the greatest porverty of all--
the deprivation that comes from
lack of aspiration.”
The humanists and the politi
cians must meet each other hall
way to solve these problems, said
Keeney. The politicians must be
willing to look to the humanists
for the beliefs that undergird so
ciety and the humanists must be
willing to come down out of their
ivory towers and add their insights
to social andpolitlcalproblems, he
explained.
I am impressed with the atti
tudes of the congressmen I’ve
talked to,” he said. “They are
anxious to have the knowledge of
the humanists available to them.”
“And,” he continued, “the best
of American scholars are beginn
ing to think and talk this way.”
They are concerned about getting
involved in the social and poli
tical decisions that will affect our
country’s future.
what must be done at this uni
versity in these words: “We must
minister to the mind and spirit of
man and at the same time pro
vide tor his body and occupy his
hands. To do any of these with
out the others is folly, for man is
a whole being, not a fragmented
one. The real purpose of the uni
versity is to enlarge upon educa
tional opportunities tor all people,
to generate the intellectual energy
which enlivens and gives direc
tion to our economy, and to enrich
the cultural and aesthetic dimen
sions of our lives.”
“Our hope is that regardless of
total enrollment, we may treat
each person as an individual with
a mind, a spirit, and abody hungry
for involvement in life.”
The installation procession, with
all participants dressed in caps
and gowns, was dramatic and
colorful. The faculty of this cam.pus
and the presidents and represen
tatives of our North Carolina col
leges and universities wore aca
demic regalia of various colors
of blue, gold, scarlet, purple, and
orange to denote their colleges and
degrees.
President William Friday of the
Consolidated University was
master of ceremonies and intro
duced each speaker as he brought
greetings to the Chancellor from
various groups.
In extending a hearty welcome to
all present at the historic install
ation, Dr. Bonnie Cone expressed
appreciation expecially to Gov
ernor Dan Moore for his vision
and interest in this branch of the
University, and to all those who
helped to make this campus what
it is today. She said that without
the support oftheChaiTotte-Meck-
lenburg Community there would
have been no Charlotte branch of
the state university
Vice - chancellor Cone stated
laughingly that there were, of
course, no hard feelings because
Charlotte was once considered as
a location for the first branch of
the state university. “We are
Indeed happy to have become the
fourth institution,” she assured.
Tim Britton, President of the
Student Body, represented this
group in saying that the students
offer their “tieartfelt support.”
Dr. M. S. Mahaley, Jr., who is
President of the Alumni Associa
tion, mentioned the “cherished
heritage of the past” and pled
ged “enthusiasm and support for
the future” from the alumni of
this institution.
In representing the faculty,
Mrs. Edyth F. Winningham, who
has been with this institution since
it was founded in 1947, stated that
the “task of the university” is
to lead in “man’s search for
knowledge.” She praised Dr. Col
vard tor his consistent involvement
of the faculty and staff in his
plans and assured him of its “sup
port and full cooperation.”
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Sasser And Gilman Kickoff Forum
BY CAROL DURHAM
Students, faculty, administra
tion, and friends of the University
of North Carolina at Charlotte
gathered In the University Union
Parquet Room, Thursday, March 2
to attend the opening sessions of
the annual forum. This year’s
forum, entitled “The Urban Uni
versity and the Arts,” was high
lighted with speeches by Douglas
R. Sasser, president of Young
Harris College, and Richard Gil
man, drama critic for Newsweek
magazine.
The first session, beginning at
10:00 was opened by Mrs. Edyth
Winningham, Political Science
professor here, with Dr. Colvard
extending greetings on behalf of the
University at Charlotte.
Douglas Reid Sasser then gave
the opening speech, entitled, “The
Riches of the University.” Mr.
Sasser emphasized the exciting fu
ture that this campus has as a
center for the arts in North Car
olina and the surrounding states.
After noting that the plant expan
sion has already been provided for,
he then told of the progress made
toward bringing well known artists
to the campus as artists in re
sidence.
In emphasizine the idea that
the university has much influence
in bringing artistic development to
the surrounding area, Sasser cited
examples of other universities and
colleges which have begun a suc
cessful program such as those in
the Atlanta area.
Although the responsibility of the
university to enrich the cultural
aspects of the community is im
portant, Sasser said, the main
object of establishing an arts pro
gram is to educate and help all session, with Earle Gluck, Public
students, including those with a Relations Director of WSOC Radio,
promising artistic future. presiding began. Greetings were
The President of Young Harris extended by Dr. Bonnie Cone, Vice
College, added in conclusion that Chancellor.
community and university must Using the topic, “The Urban
work together, continuously University: “A View From the
searching for resources with which Arts”, Richard Gilman then gave
to developatoplevelartsprogram. the second forum speech.
After a short break, the second After first citing his qualifica
tions as a drama critic and patron
of the arts, Mr. Gilman compared
the traditional notions of the re
lationship of the university to
the arts with more modern ones.
Agreeing that basic tact learning
in the arts is important, Gilman
went on to say that the indivi
dual student’s relation to the arts
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Douglas Sasser
Forum sessions.
and Richard Gilman engage in argument between