Page 2 THE CAROLINA JOURNAL March 4, 1970
editorial
Of Monday Night Dances
Saga Tries Again
One of the major sources of contention on campus this
year has been Saga Food Service, and we must agree that
there have been facets of the service which were less than
we had expected.
However, Saga has now replaced its Director of Food
Service and seems genuinely concerned with improving the
quality of service which we are receiving.
Saga was chosen in the first place because it- promised
the best program for the available money.
The company admits that the University has not been
receiving the "complete Saga plan." (i.e., only one "festive
meal" during the first semester).
A second difficulty Saga had to overcome was the
strong personal feelings many students had for former
Cafeteria Manager Loren Haus. Students were quite
satisfied with his service and many became more than a
little upset when he had to leave.
A third source of ill will concerning the company is the
fact that Saga is a business with an inherent business- like
attitude for clearing profits, where as the previous
University operated food service had not been operated in
this exact manner.
Still there are some aspects of the service which are
commendable. In comparison with most institutional food,
the food here is attractive and appetizing. Saga has gone
more than half way to meet schedule difficulties. They
have tried to act on complaints. Reserve judgement on the
company a little longer. But in all fairness, we must admit
that Saga too has had its problems. First, it inherited a
food service which had sadly outgrown its facilities. Give
Bill Ernest, the new Director of Food Service, a chance to
show that Saga can produce the program which the
University expected of it when the contract which brought
Saga here was signed.
Think About The
New Constitution
On page 4 of this week's JOURNAL the proposed
University Constitution is reprinted. After two years in
committee, the document was recently released. If this
constitution is adopted it should have far reaching results
for the campus. Take time to study and discuss it before
the issue is brought to a vote. Participate in the
discussions. Your opinion is needed.
THE CAROLINA JOURNAL
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SHERRY DRAKE
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By Howard Pearre
Hail! Hail! Hail! Miss UNCC 1970 Miss
Cindy Teal.
She was radiant. She was beautiful. She
was crowned Monday night at the ball.
And it was a beautiful thing.
But only a few folks were there. And
the primary excuse-reason, of course, was
this foremost social happening of our
time came on a Monday night.
Monday night? Nobody has dances on
Monday nights. Why, how come, and the
related jazz...forth with.
Primary blame must lie on the Union.
According to Union Chairman Mary Lou
Ingram, it was a lack of coordination of
several Union committees.
About three weeks ago, it became clear
that a Miss UNCC Dance would have to
be scheduled. On a right-away basis.
When the Union people went to
arrange booking of the Parquet Room
they found it booked up for all Saturdays
for quite a while, with the one exception
being this coming Saturday, March 7.
The thinking here was how would a
dance draw a crowd, the same night that
the ACC finals are at Charlotte Coliseum
and on television, and the same day many
students are participating in a
student-faculty retreat near Reidsville, on
top of a solar eclipse during the
weekend.
It would be the worst possible time to
throw in a dance.
Other Saturday possibilities were
negated because of prior Union-sponsored
activities. With the exception of next
weekend, March 14.
March 14, the American Productions
Inventory Control Society, sponsored by
the Business Administration department,
will present a workshop for business
students. The Parquet Room was
confirmed for this activity in November.
The Union, realizing that Saturday
nights were out, chose Monday night for
their dance. It wasn't a traditional
Black Viewpoint
Saturday night but, at least, Monday was
Founders' Day, the primary reason for a
Miss UNCC Dance in the first place.
About then I went to see Bill Billups,
former president of the SGA here,
presently administrative assistant to Dean
of Students Don MacKay. Billups' job is
saying yea or nea to requests f®^
meeting-holding space in the Union
building. .
It seemed to me that Union sponsored
activities, such as Miss UNCC Dances,
should have precedence over non-Union
sponsored activities like the business
admin gig March 14.
If Saturday nights are for dances a^
the Union is for Union-sponsored
activities, what was the American
Productions Inventory Control Society
doing in the Parquet Room when the
Union wanted a dance?
Billups outlined two primary problems
in this particular case.
First, he pointed out that the Busing
Administration department had requests
the date and Parquet Room late in
October and that the request had be^
confirmed in November. Tlie Union jusj
waited until the last minute, tmd got le"
out.
He stressed that this was the first tinw
the Union had been neglegent and that
the chairmanship of the two committee*
concerned - Special Activities Committed
and Social Activities Committee
changed hands at the end of last semester,
which would also add confusion.
He added that the Union is by far the
most considerate student organization ofl ^
campus when it comes to early
Secondly, he pointed out that ^
administration is now invoking a
of discouraging the use of Union facilih^
by non-Union activities, such as th
APICS. He added that it was only be^es®
of the shortage of space that this policy'
being invoked.
So much for Monday night dances.
James Cuthebertson
The Bridge Over
Troubled Waters
There is one entity that has been with
the world during its entire existence. This
entity is hope and it remains with us like
a bridge over troubled water.
This bridge exists in Viet Nam where
our policy of extinguishing unwanted
communism is getting us bogged deeper
and deeper into inflation. How do we
know that the people of Viet Nam don't
want communism? We really don't. We
only know what we are told; and in
reality, the South Vietnamese
government's system of rigging elections
is just as bad as our conception of
communism. However, we tend to see
everything that agrees with our system as
fair and we tend to condemn other
systems as unjust.
According to our Christian heritage,
instead of fighting in Viet Nam, we
should be fighting in South Africa to free
the many blacks there who are enslaved
by that nation's apartheid policy. All over
the world, people have got to be free.
People have got to be free in the
United States of America where from
Selma, Alabama, to Rochester, New
York, racism has prevailed. The black
man is hated by many of his supposedly
superior white brethen. The atmosphere
which produced the unjust grandfather
clauses, poll taxes, and Jim Crow
legistation that existed until recently to
keep the blacks from voting is still with
us. Racism is still evident in such places as
Charlotte, North Carolina, where all
schools are supposed to be equal. Why
then do white parents freeze when they
learn that their kid is going to be bused to
a formerly all-black school? Separate, but
equal? Separate they are, but they are a
long way from equal. Racism is in the
troubled waters under the bridge of
and it will take the strong^
possible to span it.
Under the bridge over the
waters, we have nuclear armarneiJJ
poison gas, mace, and all the ot
weapons that may one day desd®
mankind. We have George Wallace, L®*^
Maddox, John Eastland, Mendel
Clement Haynesworth, H. G.
Governor Claude Kirk and others wh®
claim to fame is oppression of the bri^j
that spans the troubled waters of maoV
the nation's blacks.
The bridge spans inflation, unfair 1®^
practices such as extermination of 1^,
unions, the Boss Tweed Monopolies^.,
still exist and the oppression of the
by the rich. Like a bridge uo
construction over our trouW^
these people will rise against
oppressors.
Over our college campuses the bri^
spans Berkely, Chapel Hill,
Columbia, Harvard, M.I.T., Yale,
our own little U.N.C.C. The
waters that have people like Tom
having influence on the lives o1 ^
students and faculty at our ^
state-supported institutions whore *al^^
are well below the national avera^ %|
on the decline as comparative studie*
show year after year. \i
Education in North Carolif*® ^
something that used to be done
cotton and tobacco season when tl^
had nothing else to do. Educatiofl^^
North Carolina Is sorrtething that
as political rewards. Education in
Carolina is to most people
compared to Industry, Agarianism# ^
cont»nu#d oo psfl*