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Letters
Aquarian Hope
ED STONE
Dear Editor,
I hope that you do not find this
unsolicited outburst inconvenient,
but I just thought I’d drop you a
line just to be the mean old nasty
that I’m thought to be. As there ^e
several items I would like to point
out, I shall delay no longer.
(1) Mr. Cuthbertson needs to
benefit from something learned by
a former journalist at UNC-C. A
flag worth waving does not need to
be waved. His article of December
10 waved the flags of the B. S. U.,
Rotaract, and several other
organizations. Do you see my
point?
(2) If you have sought originality
of format and content in your
“magazine,” then you have
succeeded. Your success here may
be of major significance in area
“journalism.” ^at you are doing
seems somehow important. Your
new concept has made your
newspaper daring this past
Kmester. I hope that next semester
it can be both daring and good.
(3) One finds little difficulty in
drawing a sharp contrast between
this year’s CAROLINA JOURNAL
and last year’s CAROLINA
JOURNAL. If this year’s paper has
met with more success as a
worthwhile publication than did
last year’s, then I was dreadfully
mist^en about the character of the
UNCC student body. I was of the
opinion that they wanted to see in
their school newspaper the things
that could not be found in other
publications-- such as THE
VILLAGE VOICE.
(4) In your campaign to stamp
out all resemblances between the
paper and a bulletin board, you
nave failed miserably.
(5) If your tenure as editor can
be counted a success, then I wish
lor all to know that you have done
it aU on your own. I would have
never predicted such results as have
, occurred. As a matter of fact, I
personally, feel that I just
®ight--might, I said-- have
committed a terrible error.
Thank you for publishing this
note. If your staff has any real guts,
they will employ these comments
about their editor and publication
as a rallying point around which to
build a better and more interesting
newspaper, such as is needed for a
great and growing university.
Editors Note:
Today's AQUARIAN HOPE will be the last. Mr. Stone will
not be returning to school next semester. We feel that Mr.
Stone has contributed a ^eat deal to our publication. We
regret the termination of his column.
Yours constructively,
R. T. Smith
former editor, THE JOURNAL
Dear Editor:
Several weeks ago, I listened as
the University Band practiced its
renditions of various numbers.
They had just formed “a first” in
UNCC history-a band; and they
were groping their way through a
rough rehearsal. But the point is:
they never gave up; they worked
hard and continued to practice.
Last Monday, at the UNCC vs.
Roanoke basketball game, the Band
made its first appearance. They
were not only ^eat; they were
tremendously professional! And it
made us seem like a whole
University with OUR Band playing
fight songs, along with the
ever-favorite “Aquarius-Let the
Sunshine In” medley.
Dr. Dailey should reaUy be
commended for a job well done!
But let’s not foi^et those students
and outside volunteers who gave up
their time so that UNCC could have
a band to carry forth its name.
Thank you. University Bsmd!! If
everyone had yovir spirit, this place
woidd really be something!
-Marlene Whitley
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Another year...time to, make a new attempt, time to love,
time to invest in hope, time to be happy. Also, for some, a
time to criticize what happened in the past, time to hate,
time to waste, time to watch passing and despise. What can
one man do with the years he has? Is he a puppet to be
pushed and shoved by time’s passing, or can he hold a dream
and shape his own destiny to that end? That dream is the
essence of human hope and its unit is the individual and his
God-given free will. His dream becomes the force that guides
him to his own future and his challenge is to preserve his free
will and have the courage to use it.
In 1970 we will see much that we have seen before: Love,
sacrifice, hope, hate, war, despair. But there can be
something new. We can work for reason and trust among
those that reason says can be trusted. We can work for the
freedom of each man and move closer to the day when a man
can stand as an individual. We can work for an end to “our
war” in a manner that may protect our children from a war
in their time. We can keep our dream strong and build on the
success of our freedom. Each of us can love, and build on
that love. And while we work and hope, we can be thankful
that we live in the United States of America, where a person
can worship Buddha or Christ, work in a st^l mill or a
discoteque, march in a peace parade or a Shriner’s parade,
spend his dollars as he pleases, and participate in determining
the future of his country, while remaining secure in the right
to determine his own future.
1970 will see more visits to the moon, increasing
technology that can be applied on earth as well as space,
development of the first disarmanment plans, a phase-out of
American ground troops in Vietnam, reform where it is badly
needed. But it will also bring us the urgency of population
control in two-thirds of the world, impending starvation as
the number of humans becomes greater than the land can
support, suffocating pollution of the air, water, and land,
probably another war in Thailand or Cambodia or the
Mid-east, continuing inflation, increasing taxes, violence in
the cities, and all the other maladies of the 20th century
world. Still, it is possible for a man to have his dream, and to
live and work for it.
There will be those who speak of liberation; they may
enslave. Some will speak of the plight of the downtrodden;
they may make us all downtrodden. Othersmay speak of a
new life, a different life. Wear different clothes and beads and
speak of peace; they will only speak. Some will talk of using
guns to begin a people’s revolution; they will win nothing.
Some will speak of the past and the glory of the old ways;
they will only sit and remember. But some will live and love
and work and hope; they will be heard above the shouts in
the street. They v^l overcome, they will do the many things
tiiat so desparately need to be done.
DUE TO EXAMS AND SEMESTER BREAK,
THE NEXT ISSUE OF THE CAROLINA
JOURNAL WILL NOT APPEAR UNTIL
FEBRUARY II.
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Faculty expands
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The University of North Carolina at
Charlotte appointed four new faculty
nrembers on Friday, January 9. Two of
the new appointments are in the
Department of History.
The appointments were approved by
the Executive Committee of the
University of North Carolina Board of
Trustees.
Dr. John Eveleth Wrigley was
appointed associate professor of history
effective September, 1970. A native of
Philadelphia, he holds the A.B. and M.A.
degrees from St. Charles Seminary, and
the M.A, and Ph.D. degrees from the
University of Pennsylvania. For the past
four years, he has served as chairman of
the Department of History at Lasalle
College in Philadelphia.
Dr. Wrigley's speciality is Medieval and
Byzantine History. He has published a
substantial number of articles and
currently has two books under way.
Dr. Harold Josephson was appointed
assistant professor of history effective
February 1, 1970. He is a native of
Brooklyn, New York, and received the
B.A. and M.A. degrees from Brooklyn
College and the Ph.D. degree from the
University of Wisconsin. During the past
two years he has served as an instructor at
Ohio State University. Dr. Josephson's
speciality is American Diplomatic
History.
Appointed to assistant professor of
business administration way Dr. Robert
Ballard Conrad. He holds the B.S. and
Ph.D. degrees from the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has a
background both in teaching and
industry, having been an instructor at
UNC-Chapel Hill and N. C. State
University and served in industrial
engineering and management positions
with Collins and Aikman Corporation and
Owens-Illinois Glass Co. His appointment
is effective in September, 1970.
Dr. David Martin Bayer was appointed
assistant professor of structural
engineering effective February 1, 1970.
He received the B.C.E. degree from
Georgia Institute of Technology and the
M.S.C.E. and Ph.D. degrees from
Vanderbilt University. While at
Vanderbilt, he served as a part-time
instructor.
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INTRAMURAL POOL TOURNAMENT
Participants in the Intramural Pool Tournament must register by
January 15, 1970. This will be done by signing the list on the bulletin
board in the Union. Players must register as independents or may
represent a team involved in the intramural point standing. To be
eligible to represent a team the players name must already be on that
team's overall roster.
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January 14,1970
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