The Caroliwa Joernal
— Student Publication Of The University Of North Corollna At Charlotte —
Wednesday, October 29, 1969
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Operation Interface
By Bob Welch
Rings 'n Things, now appearing at the Green Garter
(See related story on Pe^e 5)
Operation Interface; Profile and Prospect
“Mistrust, rejection, downright hostility
these are prevailing attitudes of bright college
students toward the business world. So
soeaks a noted authority of Administrative
Sciences on the interrelationships of campuses
Sd c^orations, with, it appears, no small
Seasurf of truth. In an effort to determine
Sie real nature of this “mutual gmdge its
Stent and its causes, over fifty
SiJrentatives of our state’s businesses
campuses, churches and gwemment
orgamzations met this weekend ^ Reidsville,
N ^ C the effort being prompted by the
Cmolina Student Government Association.
Th^ banner.... “Operation Interface.
Mtendtag for UNC-C were Bud StcwMt,
Rod White, Bob Welch and Dean Dan
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Le^slature over-rides veto
. rrru;,. unusual action was b
By Joe H. McCorkle
, By a vote of 12 to 2, the Student
Legislature on Friday October 24, over-rode
S.G.a. President Bud Stewart’s veto of a
Moratorium resolution” which the
Legislature had approved on October lU.
The motion to over-ride the presidential
veto was made by Junior Representative
Barbara Brenizer, and resulted m much
discussion among the legislators.
,, The main points of argument w^
me Moratorium nor the resolution iteelf, bu
whether or not the S.G.A. President should be
flowed to veto a resolution (as opposed to a
Bill).
Earlier in the meeting, Legislative
Chairman Alan Hickok stated that the veto of
the resolution was legal according to the way
^ which the S.G.A. Constitution is^tten
(President can “veto acts of the Student
Legislature, provided that he shall exercise
such power within ten school days ^after the
bill IS placed in the executive offices; ).
. , Mr. Hickok also stated that an
“iteipretation of the Constitution is not
possible because no body of the S.G-A.
tee jurisdiction to interpret the Constitution.
Legislators opposed to the veto felt t
tee Legislature had a right to expre^ ^y
bPmion in the form of a resolution, and tney
telt such a resolution should not be subject to
presidential veto.
The minority of legislatore w
tepported President Stewart’s veto felt that
tee resolution was not representative of the
student body and that the Legislatere
Should not be allowed to express opinions of
this nature.
^Lj^4Vl^d""ex^SneytS for
that h^® S.G^.A.%resWent told the
jesolution^id'^oSg. He'^'o^teted that
onl^®Sislature had no right to express this
bpmion because he felt the student body
was not 100% behind it”. ^ c railed
and more discussion, a vote wa
Class President Charlie Brown
® roll-csdl vote. , worried
bv motion to over-ride the veto earned
eomfortable margin of 12 to 2.
Lepi^fter the vote. President Stewart t
^^slature that the motion was erroneous
wen?®® referred to the Moratorium, he
to say that the October 10
hever specifically mentioned the Mot?f
Stp«7^% Legislature then countera ^gj.
s accusation by introducing
tion to over-ride the veto. >i,,,,.atnrium
thic ?®tead of mentioning the Mo
“on ®^®vely-worded motion made mehtio i
, our resolution of October 10,1969 since
hs the only resolution of that meeting. ^
vr.+ ^fter a small amount of aeain
ote Was taken with Charlie Bro
tequesting a roll-call vote. tn 2 in
, The result of the vote was 12
favor of over-riding the veto; idenhc^ m boui
bPtnber and person to the Rmt motion.
In otLx action, the Legislature
te-approved Ed Stone as Attorney Ge
tee S.G.A.
This highly unusual action was brought
nhniit when a motion was made by Rules
Cor^mittel Chairman Robert Welch to waive
the 2.00 grade average ^®9Uirement f^
Ssistant Attorney Gener^ ®° m mi S
Williams and Greg Eckard could till tnis
positmmstions arose about Mr. Stone
since it was known that he did not have a
2.00 and that the Legislature did not know
about the 2.00 requirement for Attorney
Sneral when he had been initially approved
on October 10. • fv,,, o nn
The motion to waive the 2.00
requirement for Assistant Attorney Gener^
w^ approved unanimously and was followed
bv a Lccessful motion to re-approve Ed
Stone as Attorney General. The motion to
re-approve Mr. Stone was also approved
unanim^ on in the meeting. Senior Class
Vice-President Jerry Hammond made a
motion that the Attorney General Act ^
tended so that the 2.00 requirement could
be eliminated. His motion wiU be tabled until
the next meeting of the Legislature.
The Legislature also dealt with some
problems concerning vacant offices and
^”^For^^ tee purpose of darifying tee
ElectiS Regulkons Bill, Representatwe
Brenizer introduced a succe^ful
motion which provides a specific procedure
for elections resulting from a vacancy within
^The'proSdure will be that tee class from
ViiT'Vi the vacancy arises will hold a meeting
i^ whidl candidates wiU be nominated and
®^®‘'*Conceming run-off elections, there is no
set nrocedure so the Legislature approved a
motfon to hold a two-day election for the
Freshman Class Vice-Presidential run-off
Legislature, in maintaining its close
o„,th!v of campus clubs and organizations,
anmo^^ tee^-?hartering of the Blackfrims
SirSused to approve the constitution of the
Lnwereity^B^d^ity gand’s Constitution was
sent back to committee becau^ a question
SSL over a section in the constitution which
SSuires new members to be approved by a
2/3 majority of a voting quorum.
^e next regularly scheduled meeting of
the Student Legislature will be on Friday
NSvem^ef?. at 11:30 A.M. in U209-210.
Slavoitte and Garrett
here Nov. 4
The second reading in the UNC-C
Visiting Writers Series will be given Tuesday,
November 4, in the Paruqet Room and will
feature two novelist-poets, David Slavitt and
Gteorge Garrett. -r, a -v
Slavitt’s new volume of poetry, day
sailing, will be realsed tee next day by the
Uteversity of North Carolina Press at Chapel
Hill. It is the newest volume in their
Contemporary Poetry Series, and has received
Macl^y. conference progressed those
nresent found themselves continually
with a variety ot insigh^d
arffuements. As a sampling, the pretormea
options and ideas students had busings
were (1) that business is ruthlessly
comnetitive, (2) that it is much too
PFt oriented: (3) that its activities are
humdrum, routine, and there is little room fo
creativity, (4) that businessmen are
intellectually narrow, shy away trom
important social issues of our time, and at
times stoop to dishonesty in the pursuit ot
the “glorious buck.” The businessmen, by the
same token, found the students generally too
idealistic, expecting too much too soon when
first entering, hypercritical and unfair in their
preformed stereotypes (e.g., ulcers and
gray-flannel suits,) and far too o^fen
cornpletely un-informed as to the highly
progressive, self-accurated roles of businesses
in social activities. . +
The most surprising turn taken by most
of the small group discussions wf that ol
renewed good feelings between the different
elements As each of the points of
mis-information were laid aside, a
feeling that goals of the young and old were
. not far apart became more apparent.
In retrospect each of the naembers of tee
conference saw teat the majority of the
problems which arise between the various
circles were ones founded on poor
communications, and so the direction and
emphasis turned to determining methods by
which the problem could be solved. Keeping
in mind the fact that these problems can be of
various degrees and reach,
of Mecklenburg County vs, those of Norte
Carolina et al, the members focused their
ideas on an organization which contained
effective information inputs and outputs on
all levels, state, regional, and local.
It seems teat what has started with
Operation Interface is the first coherent effort
of ^1 factions of our communities to bote
solve and preclude the misnomers and
disgruntlements which exist between them
The exact mechanism has not been specified
yet, but suggestions have and are now being
rendered, and so it is but a matter of time
before the time, effort and money is put to
work. The dissolutionments and fears which
have so long plauged the campuses, the
industries, tee churches and the halls of
government about one another are within the
realm of correction, it appears, and so the
continued efforts of Operation Interface will
WEirrent close observation in the months to
Per tee statements of Mr. Stewm,
UNC-C can expect to assume a leading
position in this undertaking, providing its own
personnel to man the effort.
good pre-publication reviews, mcludmg one
by John Hall Wheelock, who said that
Slavitt’s “originality is the genuine expression
of his personality. It is this, combmed wth
great technical skill and accomplishment, that
makes his poetry memorable and exciting.
Slavitt is the author of two other
volumes of poetry and two novels,
ROCHELLE and FEEL FREE under his own
S^Vand two novels, THE EXHIBITIONIST
and THE VOYEUR, under the pen name of
Henry Sutton. He was bom in White Plains,
New York, in 1935, and went to Andover,
Yale and Columbia. He was formerly the
movie critic for Newsweek. He now devotes
full time to writing and has homes in Cape
Cod and Miami.
George Garrett is the director of the
writing program at Hollins College.
He first appeared in print in the POETS
OF TODAY IV, published by Scribners in
August, 1957. Among other volumes
published since then are KING OF THE
MOUNTAIN and COLD GROUND WAS MY
BED LAST NIGHT, two short story
collections, published in the U.S.; A
WREATH FOR GARIBALDI, a collection
published in England; and the novel DO
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