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Vol. IV
Wednesday, December 4,1968
No. 10
'^Take Birth Control Out of
Bedroom and Into Dining Room—”
Mary Smith Entertains
Coffee House Brings
Miss Mary Smith
Who is Mary Smith? She is the
winner of the Grand Prize in the
1968 National Finals of the
Sound of Youth, U.S.A., and the
Green Garter Coffee House is
presenting her for this year’s
second opening.
Although she has a common
name, Mary Ellen Smith is a very
uncommon girl. At age 18 she has
been performing folk music
ranging widely from madrigals and
baroque songs to American and
modern folk music for five years.
To quote the Sound of Youth,
U.S.A. “She has a wit and gift for
mimicry and she has a natural
singing talent that is an
impressario’s dream.”
A new setting for the Green
Garter Coffee House has been
planned. The Coffee House will be
held in the northwest lounge of
the Union. Says Richard Dedmon,
Coffee House Chairman, “Our
idea of having it in the lounge is
to provide an attractive and
comfortable place for the students
to come and enjoy themselves. We
are stressing the casualness of the
affair.”
Having the coffee House in the
lounge instead of in the
gymnasium is an attempt to draw
a larger crowd. The turn-out for
the previous coffee houses have
been very small; therefore, the
committee is stressing the comfort
and warm atmosphere of the
lounge. The committee is also
expecting more enthusiasm for
the coffee house because it will be
held the last week before
Christmas holidays and there is
not going to be a Christmas dance
this year.
The Coffee House will be held
from December 11th to the 14th.
Admission will be 50c per person.
Coffee and cokes will be served.
Several U.N.C.-C. students have
seen Mary Smith perform at
Phiffer and at State and have
nothing but praise for her
entertaining. Not only is she a
musical artist, but she has an
unusual and entertaining wit. One
of the students said that he had
planned to stay at her show only a
few minutes, but after hearing
her, stayed for the entire
performance.
Yes, this is Mary Smith. See her
at the second Green Garter Coffee
House December 11th to the
14th. As the Sound of Youth,
U.S.A. say’s— “A star is born.”
University
Governance
Committee
Is Formed
I
A University Governance
Committee is being formed that
will study the possibility and
advisability of establishing a
University Governance system.
University Governance would
involve direct interrelation of
students, faculty, and
administrators in developing and
governing the University of North
Carolina at Charlotte.
the importance of this
committee is not to be taken
lightly. Because its influence is
unlimited in providing a workable
framework for our campus, we as
students should act responsibly in
our opportunity to select
members to serve on this
committee.
The committee will begin its
work in January of 1969, and will
be at work for about a year.
Therefore, the students chosen
should be juniors, sophomores, or
freshmen. Furthermore, there will
be much time and work involved,
and the students who are elected
should not be overloaded with
other duties and responsibilities.
The divisional meetings will be
held at 11:30 a.m. on December
4, 1968. Each student is requested
to attend the meeting of the
division which included his major.
The meetings are as follows:
Business Administration and
Economics, Parquet Room;
Education, E102; Engineering,
C-102;
Humanities, (English, Fine
Arts, Foreign Languages, History,
Philosophy, Religion), C-122;
Mathematics and Natural
Sciences, (Biology, Chemistry,
Physics, Mathematics), C-120;
Nursing, C-111;
Social and Behavioral Sciences
(Geography, Geology, Health,
Physical Education, Political
Science, Psychology, Sociology),
C-200
Students who have not declared
majors should attend the meeting
of the major department in which
they are most interested.
Talk Out Problems...Build
Community on Campus.”— Dr. Miller
BY GAYLE WATTS
Will UNC-C become a
University that cares? Or will it
follow the traditions of ten
centuries and become an isolated
body of specialists with little
concern or contact with the
surrounding region?
“The key thing to watch is that
we do not become so busy with
the mechanics of buildings,
registrations, and such that -we
won’t take the time to build
discussions, to talk out problems,
to build a community here on
campus.”
The speaker is Dr. Paul A.
Miller, former assistant secretary
for Education in HEW, who
joined the administrative staff
here this fall as Distinguished
Professor of Education and
Director of Office of University
Planning Studies.
He feels that the freshness of
this University branch offers “the
best time to create new things, to
build a distinctive institution.”
Dr. Miller points out that in the
development of UNC-C there has
been the hope that a significant
relationship can be found between
this campus and the community
and that the community can have
just as significant a relationship to
the University.
“Society now is thriving on
knowledge and talent,” he says,
“and in this production the
University plays a major role.”
“A part of the student
uneasiness today springs from
concern over what is to be the job
of the University in our world,”
Dr. Miller says. “Students want it
to be more relative to the
community and to society at
large.”
“What is special on our
campus,” he continues, “is that
we are in the midst of a great and
growing region and we have a
chance to do something unique.”
An important phase of the
planning studies is creating a
responsible sense toward the
community. “Never has our
compulsion to find a community
to belong to ever been greater.
Yet, whether father or son,
teacher and student, or one
generation and another, we grope
toward the other, each partially
blinded to the other. We do not
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“I’m going to begin at the
beginning...I’ve thought a great
deal about what you want to
hear...” So began Dr. Elizabeth
Corkey’s lecture on birth control.
She structured her talk into four
major sections: 1) population, 2)
family, 3) methods of birth
control, old and new, and 4) how
some families have made use of
birth control methods.
At the time of the birth of
Christ, the world population has
been estimated at 3 million, but
'even then they used a form of birth
control-abortion and infanticide.
Notwithstanding the development
of sanitary methods of birth
control in the 19th century, the
world population doubled
between 1900 and 1967, and this
in spite of two world wars. And
now it looks as though it will
double again by the end of this
century.
Dr. Corkey believes it is quite
evident that something must be
done to prevent such an increase
in population, for as she said,
“where will we stand when tlie
sand is gone?”
In answering her own question,
“Why the population explosion?”
she said “because death control
has proceeded much faster than
birth control.” And it isn’t only
the old who have benefited from
this change,, for the young have
gained the most. Until recently, a
mother had to bear two children
for every one that survived and
reached adulthood. In 1900, 200
of every 1000 children died
before they were a year old.
Wlien speaking of the family
itself and the benefits of birth
control. Dr. Corkey stated that
the normal fertile couple could
probably have eleven children
while the wife is between the ages
of 18 and 45. The average income
in the United States is $6,000, but
special studies have shown that a
$6,000 budget is a tight one for a
family with two children. How
could parents of eleven children
hope to provide for their family
on that or less?
Dr. Corkey then gave a
physiological explanation of the
male and female reproductive
systems as an aid in understanding
the methods of birth control. She
believes that the methods used
before the advent of the pill-the
rhythm methods, the diaphragm,
and the condont-were basically
inefficient because “they were
directly related to the sex
act...and at that time people have
less sense about making use of
them...” Special education and
special discipline were needed to
make their use successful, and
many users lacked both, _
The pill is the most reliable
method developed thus far, being
effective in 99.5%. There is a
certain irony is this use of the pill,
for it was originally developed as
an aid to those who wanted to
have children. The pill has taken
the “prevention of conception out
of the bedroom and made birth
control a respectable topic.”
Research in birth control
devices has declined in the last
several years, though doctors have
conscientiously tried to improve
those in use. Limited funds, $3
million allocated for birth control
research as opposed to $3 billion
for space research, have hampered
their efforts. Researchers are,
however, currently working upon
a male birth control pill that
would relieve the female of much
of the burden and sometimes
unpleasant side-effects that have
accompanied their use.
Dr. Corkey closed by saying,
“every family needs birth control,
either to plan their family or to
space their children.” A short
question and answer period
followed the talk.
Legislature Discusses
Spring Holidays
Stewart Auten, S.G.A.
Vice-President called the
November 25 meeting of the
Student Government to order at
7:45 p.in.
The first order of business was
the President’s Report. Mr. Billups
presented the 69-70 school
calendar to the Legislature. The
only contention concerning the
next year’s calendar came when
Gus Psomadakis, Night Rep.
questioned Doug Bradford, a
member of the calendar
committee, about the necessity of
having such a short Spring
holiday. The Spring break next
year will only be three school
days and a weekend, and Mr.
Psomadakis pointed out that most
schools have at least five school
days between two weekends. Mr.
Bradford replied that the semester
has been shortened by three days.
Mr. Billups announced that
there will be a Divisional meeting
for the election of members of the
Student Governance Committee
on Dec. 4th at 11:30 a.m. Each
student will receive a letter
explaining these meetings and a
list of rooms in which each
division will hold their election.
Mr. Billups also stated that on
Friday, Dec. 6, at 11:30 a.m. in
the Parquet Room, the
Chancellor, the Vice-Chancellors
and the Dean of Students will be
available to discuss anything of
interest with students on campus.
They’re hoping that this meeting
will develop a better
understanding between students
and the administration. It is
hoped that this session can
become a regular feature on
campus each semester.
Mr. Billups then reported that
the administration is looking into
some of the complaints brought
forward at the “Bitch-In” several
weeks ago. An instructor at
Johnson C. Smith has been
contacted about teaching Black
History course next fall. Final
arrangements have not been made,
however.
Homer Gaddis, Chairman of the
Ways and Means Committee read
a list of names that his committee
had nominated for the Student
Governance Committee. They
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