The Caroliiva Journal
— Student Publication Of The University Of North Carolino At Charlotte —
VOL. IV
Wednesday, March 26, 1969
No. 21
The Jim Lackey Trio warms up for today's concert.
Union Arts Festival Presents
A Look at the New Look
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The Jim Lackey Too featuring
Willie Gillon will give a jazz
concert today at 11:30 in the
Parquet Room. The group is
sponsored by the Union Arts
Committee and is part of Fine
Arts Week. Complimenting the
theme “a Look at the New
Look”, the trio will present the
newest sounds, and most
contemporary forms of modern
jazz. Lackey is a nationally well
known figure in the music field.
Not only will his concert be
enjoyable, and enlightening, but it
will be an experience for any who
want to participate in it.
And that is what Arts Week is
all about, participation and
experimentation. Designed to
emphasize the “New Look” in
Arts, Arts Week will feature local
artists and their production,
supplimehted with the “New
Look” in movies. “Kiss Excerpt”
and “Nikki and the Velvet
Underground”, will be shown
today at 2:00 in the Parquet
Room. The first show is 15
minutes of nothing but kissing. A
study of the art.
In the second movie, police
raid a far out session of hard rock
Fred Nance and Friend
jamming. Both are of Warhol’s
finest underground movies.
Thursday at 11:30 in the
Parquet Room, and expose’ under
Ray born Exits, Goes
To Tallahassee
the direction of the newest in
woman’.s fasions will be given.
Miss Lucille Dress Shop will
sponsor this expose’ under the
direction of Miss Joan Meekins, a
local coordinator. Women’s
fashions of most contemporary
design will be shown with UNC-C
coeds modeling and commentary
by Jackie Haney and Nancy
Bailey.
Fred Nance is a classical
guitarist and teacher of guitar. He
has studied privately with Andrea
Segovia, well known concert
guitarist, and has attended his
Master Class at University of
California at Berkeley and N.C.
School of Arts. A nationally
known musician himself, he is a
member of the International
Classic Guitar Society of New
York and correspondent for
Guittarra Magazine of Chicago.
Nance will give a lecture and
concert at 11:30 Friday in the
Parquet Room.
Steve Rayborn, the newly
elected vice-chairman of the
University Union, reportedly
withdrew fiom the University on
the Friday that voting was
completed. Rayborn won the
election by nearly forty votes.
Howard Winniman contacted Mr.
Rayborn’s relatives Monday
morning and was told that Steve
had gone to Florida and asked if
Mr. Rayborn would be returning
to school. Wlien Mr. Rayborn
disclosed that he did not plan to
return to school, Mr. Winniman
asked that a letter be mailed to
the University Union Director
informing him of Mr. Rayborn’s
intentions.
Since Mr. Rayborn had not
withdrawn officially at the time
of the close of the elections on
March 14, he is officially the
University Union vice-chairman
elect. It was decided by the
University Union that Mr.
Rayborn will be able to hold that
position tentatively to March 31.
At that time the installation of
the new Union officers will take
place. Should Mr. Rayborn return
to school by that time he will be
installed as the vice-chairman of
the Union. If he fails to return to
the University Miss Carolyn
Bobbit, the only other candidate
for the office, will be installed as
the new University Union
Vice-chairman.
In a telegram which Steve sent
to the Union, he reportedly said
that “It just isn’t my bag.”
Supposedly Steve withdrew from
the University because of personal
reasons. In the phone
conversation Steve had with Mr.
Winniman, Steve said tliat he was
sorry and stated that he had
planned to write a long letter
to the CAROLINA JOURNAL
and to Mr. Winniman.
Steve Rayborn relaxes before
his campaign speech.
Miss Mildred English verified that
Steve had indicated his
withdrawal. The Record Office
has no record of his withdrawal.
Senator Michael Yeats
About His Father
William Butler Yeats is well
known in America for his
nationalistic and lyric poetry and
eccentric literary tastes and
behavior. He is not known for his
political activism in Ireland, Mr.
Yeatsj however, was one of the
most ardent Irish nationals of the
late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries, according to
his son Michael. Senator Michael
Yeats addressed a group of fifty
people in the Union Parquet
Room last Wednesday night on
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I’ve Been Clini cally Dead Twice” - Ford
Every person alive, according
to well-known medium and
pyschical researcher Arthur Ford,
has a capacity for experiencing
the unseen world. Ford, who
spoke to an audience of nearly a
hundred UNC-C students and
Charlotteans on campus at 11:30
on Monday the seventeenth, went
on to say that a medium is “one
who recognizes his gifts and uses
them.”
Arthur Ford is a short, stocky,
balding man of middle-age who
wore a red tie and said that he had
been clinically dead twice. This
famous minister of the Disciples
of Christ Church gave a
twenty-five minute introduction
into the field of psychic
phenomena as an historical fact.
The Spiritualist — Medium Spoke
Here About the Unknown Realm
After warning his “dear student
friends” to avoid the inhibiting
atmosphere of modern scientific
dogma. Ford gave a briet
catalogue of spiritual experiences
in the major religions of ^e
world. He defined “psychic” as
“the breath of God and
addressed himself to the
Christian orgin of experiences
concerning the “other world.”
He constantly alluded to the
scientific basis of
experimentation in his field,
specifically pointing to the work
of Duke’s Dr. Rhyne (who
spoke at UNC-C two years ago).
Ford believes that the answers
to the new kinds of questions
being asked today by psychical
researchers can be found in
“outer space and inner man.”
A member of the Spiritual
Frontiers Fellowship and recent
author of UNKNOWN BUT
KNOWN, Ford defined
Christianity’s “only
unique contribution to religion”
as the doctrine of survival beyond
physical death of a complete
personality. As he switched from
one pair of glasses to another.
Ford explained the place of
miracles in the new, progressive
age that we live in: “Miracles are a
release of your own divine nature.
not reversals in the law of the
universe.” “There isn’t one of you
here that couldn’t develop the
potential to have a mystical
experience,” he continued, “not
through drugs. I’ve had the LSD
experience. 1 know what it is. I
had it under the right conditions.
I’ve had that same experience
through meditation” Mr. Ford
later added that LSD “is only bad
if you take too much of it or use
it in the wrong way.” He did not
say which way was “wrong.” He
did, however, cite a team of
researchers who are doing “some
wonderful things with LSD” with
a government grant. One of these
was the discovery of a method to
give cancer patients a “noble and
painless” death.
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the topic of Yeats: "The Public
Man."
Dr. Wallace of the UNC-C
English department introduced
Senator Yeats, a member of the
Government Party, Yeats
explained that, though the name
of his party is presently the same
of the party that his father served
with, their politics were not along
the same lines.
The s ix-1 e e t-1 wo-i n c h
statesman began by pointing out
the fallacy in the belief that all
poets must dwell in ivory towers
or country cottages. W. B. Yeats
was a devout propagandist and
politician from a very early age.
He was raised in the Unionist
atmosphere of Sligo when it was
popular to support the British
crown. It was at school in London
that the great poet and Nobel
Prize winner first recognized a
racial polarization between
himself and the other boys. His
images and patriotic symbols
differed from the norm in an
obvious fashion; he was often
called upon to defend his nation
and self physically against the
English boys. When he returned to
Ireland, Yeats came under the
influence of O’Leary, with whom
he was later to begin the Irish
Literary Renaissance.
Senator Yeats pointed out that
most people thought his father to
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