The Caroliiva Journal VOL. 2 StiKteni Paklitatitn Of The Univershf Of North Coniiim At Chorlotto WEDNESDAY MARCH 22, 1967 NO. 22 BY GAYLE WATTS After a full week of soliciting votes, the candidates for the Uni versity Union Executive Com mittee positions will deliver their campaign speeches today at 11:30 a. m. in the Parquet Room of the Union. The candidates for the chair manship of the Union, Dwayne Spit- zer and Nick Stavrakas, will have five minutes each to speak, and ■ the candidates for the other offices are allotted three minutes each. John Lafferty, candidate for vice-chairman, and Kay Watson, candidate for secretary, are run ning uncontested. Bobbe Berry, who is seeking theposition of trea surer, has been challenged for that position by Ronnie Russell. Mr. Russell feels that the Union is the “ceenter of the social life of our school” and he “does not see why the Union can’t sponsor entertainment every weekend so students don’t have to go else where. ” “I would like to see more week end activities which will bring the students closer together,” he ex plains. Court Convicts Student Of 2 Honor Violations Ronnie Russell The Student Court, in a four- hour session lad Friday, convicted a student here of two violations of the Honor Code. The student, William C. Pilker, a Junior, was found guilty of both lying and cheating. The charges grew out of a recent student election to decide the nick name of this campus. Dwayne Spit- zer, election committee chairman, accused Pilker of giving election committee workers a false name and of ‘voting more than once. Spitzer was a main witness for Bud Stokely, prosecuting attorney. He testified that he saw Pilker vote more than once and said he was reasonably sure Pilkei' gave a name other than his own. Frank Caton,’ defense lawyer, placed Pilker on the stand. Pilker testified he had the permission of another student to cast a ballot for him. He said there was a misunderstanding at the polling place of the name which he gave the election workers. Capacity Crowd Greets Rock Russell says, "1 would like to see our money spent so that it benefits more people than it has in the past,” and he adds, “that means active students getting the most for their money.” ‘T am for more entertainment that we have had in the past,” says Mr. Russell, “in short, for anything that makes our school livelier.” “I am in favor of some sort of poll to see how the students feel about entertainment. We should find out early what the student body wants so that the time to schedule the events will be avail able.” Voting days, as of this writing, are the 21, 22, 23 of March be tween the hours of 8:30 a.m. -- 4:30 p. m. and 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p. m. BY PAUL BOSWELL Last Wednesday in the Union Ballroom, Dr. John Rock, a pri mary developer and proponent of the birth control pill, spoke to a near-capacity audience of stu dents, faculty, and guests. After being introduced by Union Chairman Frank Jones, Dr. Rock, looking every inch the distinguish ed doctor that he is, approached the mike unable to suppress a blush at the applause. Speaking of an introduction he received at a former speaking en gagement, he quipped, “I was once introduced as a man who could well discuss sex, since both of my names are four letter words.” He then turned to Larry Keith’s recent article on the “Sin Now, Pay Later” plan. He commented, “The general atmosphere of the article was not wholly unpolluted.” The doctor pointed out that China has moved up its legal marriage age range to 20-30 years tor men and 18-25 years for women in an effort to control population. “Notice they are keeping the range in adolescence,” He gibed. Discussing the tact that the women who get abortions (legal in China) get four weeks paid vacation and become heroins, he said, “Let’s not come to that. ” However, he added that “any body who doesn’t pay attention to the welfare of society is reaction ary.” Both Parties Hold Nomination Conventions For Elections BY LOUISE NAPOLITANO Both the University Party and the Student Party held their nomination conventions last Wednesday,March 15, in the Union. For theexecutivepositlonsofthe student body, the UP has nominated John Gaither for president. Bill Billups for vice-president, Earl- een Mabry for secretary, and Cindy Trexler for treasurer. Nominees from the UP for Student Court positions are Bud Stokely, Rodney Smith, and Patty Moser. Running for Consolidated Un iversity of North Caroiina Student Council representative are Larry McAfee and Joe McCorkle. The University Party also en dorsed candidates for the Positions of editor of the school publications. Endorsed for Union offices are Dwayne Spitzer for chairman, John Lafferty for vice chairman, Kay Watson for secretary, and Ronnie Russell for treasurer. The UP backs Paul Boswell lor editor of the Carolina Journal and Candy Kimbrell tor editor of the annual. Nominees for positions on the Publications Board are Patsy Han sel and Phil Wilson. Bill Shuford, chairman of the Student Party stated that the SP’s nominations for legislative posi tions will be made known at a la ter date. He remarked that “as for the president and vice president of the student body, SP, placing stu dent government before party com petition for competition’s sake, and recognizing the outstanding quali ties exhibited by John Gaither and Bill Billups, endorse these two candidates, regardless of party affiliations.” Concerning the Union and pub lications positions, Mr. Shuford pointed out that the SP “made no endorsements because that is supposed to be completely non- partisan. He conceded that one battle has been won; birth control is here to stay. Other battles must be won in laboratories and in the minds of people. “You must accept that you as an American are not entitled to have more than two and one-half children,” he added. “The sex Instinct is loaned in interest of our kind, not for our own enjoyment. Man has reason, free will, and spirituality and therefore has something else to do than merely propagate.” “Sex, however pleasurable, is inseparably integrated with love. We must never tail to realize love is a prime aspect of human in stinct.” He pointed out that the human sex instinct is controlled by the cortex of the brain which sifts out proper and improper impluses. The signi ficance of sex action is here; there fore, the cortex needs example and education. “There are getting to be tar too many of us,” he said. “Too much togetherness is not conducive to healthy mentality.” “It took us 1840 years after Christ to make our first billion. Ninety years later the second came, the third in thirty years alter that, the fourth in ten years more, and the fifth, sixth, and seventh will come before the year 2000.” Overpopulation will lead , he added, to neglect of young, des troying of the family, and the doom ing of the whole structure of so ciety. Now the question arises, how to accomplish birth control? “It’s simple,” he said. “Just be sure that naughty little sper- matozoan doesn’t find the little egg.” Dr. Rock explained that the ovu lation cycle of women is not very dependable, and that conventional contraceptive methods are mech anical and generally unsatisfac tory. “The pill is the most physiolo gical of all,” he expounded. “The hormones in the pill function exac tly as the female’s hormones func tion in pregnancy. ” His remarks were interrupted periodically as he stopped to dig notes. Expressing his opinion on giving (Continued on Page 3) Dr. John Rock addresses students in the Parquet room on the interesting and contro versial subject of birth control. Picture by Journal photographer Frank Coley. The court, composed of seven judges, deliberated tor approxi mately one hour after hearing the closing summations. Chief Justice Holm Gaither de livered the verdict of the Court. It reads as follows: “In order for this court to pro perly consider the guilt or inno- cense of the accused, we found it necessary to reach a unanimous opinion as to what actions consti tute lying and cheating. It is our opinion that the following are valid working definitions. “Lying-mistatement or misre presentation of facts by the indivi dual which are known by him to be otherwise than stated. “Cheating—actions taken by the individual which take unfair advan tage of the rights of his peers in cases where custom that each in dividual is to have equal rights. “The court has viewed the ac tions of the accused in the light of these definitions, and has de cided that he is guilty upon both counts. “The right to vote is an in herent one—a privilege which, al though not specivied by the res ponsibility to exercise that right in a manner befitting the sanctity of that privilege. When a member of any society so belittles that right it indicates tha t he does not appreciate it; then the society which granted him that privilege has also the right to deprive the individual of that right. (Continued on Page 3) Colvard Asks $1.5 Addition Chancellor D, W, Colvard add ressed the joint appropriations committee of the State Legislature last Thursday and asked that $1.5 million of the requests made by this campus f°r newundertakinsbe restored for the next two years. Dr. Colvard told the committee the funds are desperately needed for library books, research, top- levei faculty members, and in creased salaries. He said the re quested restoration is designed to develop the foundations in per sonnel in books and in equipment for a core university program. Funds for the acquisition of addi tional volumes tor the Atkins lib rary made up a major portion of the restoration requests. A request of .$600,000 tor books for the next two years was cut to $177,000 by the advisory budget commission. Dr. Colvard explained to the committee that there are just 75,- 000 volumes in the library at this time and that most new univer sities .start with at least 100,000 volumes and have large budgets for future acquisitions. “Adequate iibrary re.source.s, services, and facilities are the basic core of any institution of higher education. Without a library v/hich will support instructional and research programs, all the top faculty personnel and fine class room facilities available cannot result in academic excellence. (Continued on Page 5)

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