Repercussions
Dear Editor
Since I will not be returning to the
University next year, I would like to take this
opportunity to say "thank you" to the student
body and especially to the residence hall
students for your many kindnesses during this
past year. Your understanding, leadership,
cooperation, and advice during the fall months
when Moore and Sanford Halls were opened
was personally rewarding to me. Without your
assistance this year my job would have been
impossible.
Many thanks and my best wishes to you and
to the University.
G. John Simmons, Jr.
Assistant Dean
Dear Editor,
I would like to announce that we have signed
up a new major, a 36-24-36, five-foot-two
ninety-eight pounder.
From Roundhills, Georgia, she has set a
school record for rebounds in one semester; her
percentage of accuracy in the field is ninety;
and her free throw score one hundred percent.
She has great forward potential, and should
shape up well.
We are presently interested in several more
prospects, and will keep you informed of future
success in our recruiting program.
Joseph Slechta
French Professor
Editor's Note:
The JOURNAL is proud to acknowledge
Dr. Slechta's growing interest in UNCC's
recruiting program by printing this letter.
Dear Editor, ,0 i ■>»
After having such a grand time at (Greek.)
Jam-Up this past week-end, I was looking
forward to this week's Carolina Journal. I may
someday like to look back and see how, we
somewhat regular UNCC students, use to spend
our time. I wanted to be able to remember this
past week-end as UNCC's Jam-Up, you know, a
big week-end dedicated to all the students of
UNCC. But, what do I find in the paper. I
didn't realize that, what was at one time
Jam-Up at UNCC, is now called Greek Jam-Up.
I felt like as did many of my friends who are
not in a fraternity or sorority, that I had
become a foreigner to what I at one time
thought was a school dedicated to all the
students and not just to the Greeks.
A non-apathetic; non Greek student.
Name withheld by request
Editorial note: The JOURNAL regrets that
Jam-Up coverage was inadequate. This is
accredited to technical difficulties in the
photography department. Without the proper
flash equipment, the photos covering the two
Jam-Up dances lacked printability because the
cafeteria lighting was beyond the range of our
cameras.
Unless a past social event is especially
noteworthy, the JOURNAL will not cover it in
an article due to shortage of space.
Dear Editor,
In dozens of American cities massive
emergency demonstrations have been called in
immediate response by the American people to
the new escalation of the war in Indo-China.
The American people voice their outrage over
the crimes being committed in their name by
the Nixon-Agnew party. Before Nixon went on
television to spew forth his double talk about
"war is peace" and "escalation is withdrawal",
almost every campus and city across the U. S.
staged immediate demonstrations against the
expansion policies of Nixon.
The mood of the American people, their
overwhelming revulsion at the action ordered in
their name, has also been reflected in the public
response to Nixon's speech. It was greeted with
scathing denunciations by the dissenting sectors
of our political leaders and their spokesmen,
such as the New York Times and dozens of
Senators.
The importance of the decision of the Nixon
administration should not be underestimated.
He will send substantial numbers of American
troops and material into Cambodia to "clean
out" what he described as the central
headquarters of the Vietnamese revolutionary
forces. But now, the Top Brass doubt if there is
such a place.
It reveals the Nixon Vietnamization in its
true light-not desengagement, but deepening
and spreading war. Nixon's move is a calculated
one, a repetition of the step-by-step escalation
pattern followed by the Johnson
administration.
What we must do is just as complex as
Nixon's escalation plan. I, myself, feel we
should vote for all three referendums that will
be presented to the student body this Thursday
and Friday. These referendums are first calling
for immediate withdrawal from Southeast Asia,
second condemning the Ohio National Guard
and third, a call for a immediate boycott of
classes. The third point is most important
because it shows a peaceful, but forceful way of
protesting this terrible war. I think we must act
with Chapel Hill and N. C. State in boycotting
classes immediately.
Nixon must be shown that he has seriously
miscalculated the mood of the American people
that they will not permit him to expand the
war in our name!
Peace
Ed Wayson
Dear Editor,
Next year, substitute a little practicality and
pragmatism for these liberal, leftist whinings
that have appeared in the Journal this past year.
Be a little more fair in your judgements of
politics, etc.; and don't allow yourself to be
maneuvered by the PPU, etc.
BE MORE REPRESENTATIVE!
Gehrig M. Wiles
Frosh
Editor's note: This is the only reply that the
JOURNAL received from the suggestion box
that was printed in the April 29 issue.
BK; BIfOI'HERS and SISTERS” necderl by
SAC—Be A Part of the World
Are you interested in changing the status of
UNCC from that of "Charlotte High School" to
that of an every-growing University, ^with
innumerable opportunities for its students;
If so, in order to accomplish this goal, you
need to beco:ne involved, working with others
who care as you do. You will find these people
who care on the Student Advisory Committee.
If you want to become involved, plan to
attend the next SAC meeting, on Monday, May
18, at 7:30 P.M., in U-209-210. Attendance at
the meeting is mandatory for all members.
In addition, the SAC will hold a summer
picnic and planning party at UNCC on Sunday
afternoon, July 12, beginning at 2:00 P.M.
Please plan to attend.
The primary way to improve our University
is through the pride of its members. One of the
purposes of the SAC is to instill in the incoming
freshman a pride in his University. This pride
shiould be a contagious feeling which will
quickly spread throughout the freshmen and
the upperclassmen as well.
'Vi/hile promoting spirit among the freshmen,
thb SAC wants to orient them in ways that will
make their adjustment to college life an easy,
enjoyable one.
The SAC is not all talk. Already several
concrete plans have been made. They include
the possibilities of putting a branch bank on the
UNCC campus; the matching of "Big Brothers"
and "Big Sisters" with incoming freshmen; an
organizations' "Merry-Go-Round ; a freshmen
retreat; and many others.
If you are interested in becoming a Big
Brother" or "Big Sister", but will not be able to
join the SAC, please sign one of the SAC
posters on campus or give your name to the
SAC member who will be visiting all dorm
mv mbers soon.
Page 4 THE CAROLINA JOURNAL May 13.1970
Times, They Are A’
Changing....
by mike mcculley
Whereasthe Presidentoftheunitedstates hasconcludedthat the
timehascomefor action . . . tocleanout enemy sanctuaries onthe
cambodian-vietnamborder ... and ordered tonight americansand
southvietnamese to attack.... . „ . .
Meanwhilelateron atasmall Ohio university effetesnobs demonstrated
and acouple ofnobodys thatwere somebodys sonsand daughters and
nowwillnevermore grow up and have childrenand . . . andsomefaceless
young men began to attack ... and the bloodranintotheground and..„
Aboutthesametime bombers flewover intowheretheenemy \ms and
pounded thebrainsand gutsoutofthem bad guys and L^rdsaid a
fewwent but ahundred went and youdon't believewhatyouare
toldanymore and... ^
Downonthefarmathome some facultybecomehuman and voteto
beagainst Himandhisdecision and a few wanttostopteacMng and
lookatthecrisis but most don'tthinkthatwouldbe wise so they just
listenawhile and afterwards.... . , j
Concurrently afatherofadeadgirl cries onnationaltv and peoplesayit n
tragedy but afewormaybemany say theyshouldn t
havebeentherethrowingrocks but they areansweredthatthe students
weren'tthrowing rocks butwerejust walking by
toclassesandtryintobeamericans but theywerekilledanyway and....
Itjustsohappens the Presidentoftheunited^tes swsalotoj
angryyoungpeople but callsthem bums and laterwishes hehadn t and
decides totalktosome leaders atuniversities and find outviAy
studentsaresoupset and heissaidtobe an attentive listener ^t t^
dead-now-alive Peacepoeplewanttomarch and plansare made and
athome a few begintothinkdifferently and getinvolv^ and....
Atthesametime soldiers pushonwardinto cambodia and a lot ofthem
die from bulletsandrockets and gettossedinto plastic sacks and.».
Inachurchthey pray fortheslainkids who werejust there rt
schoolandwalkingalong and arabbisays givepeaceachanre and that s
beensaid before andnobodylistened buy maybenowitmight be good to
On Saturday they march inwashington wherejeffersonandlincoln
havememorials and peacenow is shouted and thepresidentoftheunited
states can't sleep and wandersoutamongthe youth and listens and
thenightbefore he talkedonnationaltv and lookedworried and he
saidhewanted peace andsaidtokillthe enemy would help and....
Athomesome225humans walk throughcharlottetoaparkcall^
freedom and theyspeakout and maybesomebodylistens and mayte
fourdeadistoomany, fourtoomany and alotofpeople according to
Gallupthinkcambodia isokay but theywantsomeresults and you wonder
to yourselfif anybody reallygivesa shit about peace or ifwarhelps
anybody and theanswerdon'tcome
And they took the bodies to funeral homes
and laid them out neat in nice coffins
and took them to God's Country in a hearse
and buried them in the cemeteries near home and school
and Old Glory was nearby flying
and buglers played taps
and the preacher prayed to God and the diplomats and
the generals and the admirals and the politicians
and the handsomely dressed ladies out of society
columns stood somewhere but not close enough
And the bodies were students and soldiers
and they were bom young
and the old people helped kill them
indirectly
and tlie speeches rattle on and for the
soldier
where his chest ought to have been they pinned
a Purple Heart
and yet the students didn't get a medal or
citation or anything but death
And the Presidentoftheunitedstates held a press
conference and the restofus watch mervgriffin and
johnnycarson and drinkalotofbeer and wonderifthe
weathertomorrow willbeokayfor golf
And iremember thewords somebodywrote in 1926
"why talk of beauty what could be more beaut
iful than these heroic happy dead
who rushed like lions to the roaring slaughter
they did not stop to think they died instead
then shall the voice of liberty be mute?"
-—apologies to John Dos Passos
and E. E. Cummings
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U- 209 - 210
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