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THE CAROLINA JOURNAL
November 12, 1970
Reprinted from Daily Bruin Spectra
Tuesday, April 4, 1967
G. Farber is Associate Prof, of English at Cal State, La.
The Student
(Editor’s Note): Some of
the material in this article
may not be relevant to
UNCC; however, we do feel
that it is worthy of the space
on this editorial.)
by Gerald Farber
As Nigger
Students are niggers. When you
get that straight, our schools begin
to make sense. It’s more
important, though, to understand
why they’re niggers. If we follow
that question seriously enough, it
will lead us past the zone of
academic bullshit, where
dedicated teachers' pass their
knowledge on to a new
generation, and into the
nitty-gritty of human needs and
hang-ups. And from there, we can
go on to consider whether it
might even be possible for
students to come up from slavery.
First, let’s see what’s happening
now. Let’s look at the role
students play in what we like to
call education.
At Cal State L.A., where I
teach, the students have separate
and unequal dining facilities. If I
take them to the faculty dining
room, my colleagues get
uncomfortable, as though there
were a bad smell. If I eat in the
student cafeteria, I become
known as the educational
equivalent of a nigger lover. In at
least one building, there are even
rest rooms which students may
not use. At Cal State, also, there is
an unwritten law against
student-faculty love-making.
Fortunately, this anti
miscegenation law, like its
Southern counterpart, is not 100
per cent effective.
Students at Cal State are
politically disenfranchised. They
are in an academic Lowndes
County. Most of them can vote in
national elections — their average
age is about 26 — but they have
no voice in the decisions which
affect their academic lives. The
students are, it is true, allowed to
have a toy government of their
own. It is a government run for
the most part by Uncle Toms and
concerned principally with trivia.
The faculty and administrators
decide what courses will be
offered; the students get to
choose their own Homecoming
Queen. Occasionally, when
student leaders get uppity and
rebelhous, they’re either ignored,
put off with trivial concessions, or
maneuvered expertly out of
position.
A student at Cal State is
expected to know liis place. He
calls a faculty member “Sir,” or
“Doctor,” or “Professor” — and
he smiles and shuffles some as he
stands outside the professor’s
office waiting for permission to
enter. The faculty tell him what
courses to take (in my
department, English, even
electives have to be approved by a
Jaculty member); they tejl^ liim
what to read, what to write, and
frequently, they set the margins
on his typewriter. They tell him
what’s true and what isn’t. Some
teachers insist that they encourage
dissent but they’re ahnost always
jiving and every student knows it
Tell the man what he wants to
hear or he’ll fail your ass out of
the course.
Menhinick claims
firemen ruin creek
by dean duncan
Well friends, you have nothing
to worry about from air pollution
or water pollution on this campus.
The health department assures us
that the smoke from the fire
department’s training ground has
no effect on our air pollution.
On Tuesday, November third,
at one o’clock, you may have
noticed a dark grey pillar of
smoke rising from the woods due
west of the campus. Breathe
assured, this does not add any to
air pollution. A spokesman said,
“The burning of kerosene and oil
by the fire department is harmless
to the environment. This is a
necessary evil.”
vertebrate hfe. Even a few fish
who managed to swim
TESTiHQ
FTC., ETC.
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Many of the campus citizens
have been upset from time to time
about the fire department’s
quaisi-firefighting so close to the
campus. Perhaps the most
concerned is Dr. Menhinick of the
Biology department.
Not only is Menhinick
concerned about air pollution, but
he brings forth the'question of
water pollution.
“The fire’ department washes
the residue of the fires into Toby
Creek. In a recent study, we
found Toby creek to be devoid of
downstream into Mallard Creek
died. The surface of Toby creek is
covered with an oily film after a
firefighting,” says Menhinick.
The problem of the oily film
has bothered the health
department also. Another
spokesman for the department,
one that works with water
pollution, assures us that the fire
department plans to install a catch
basin to trap the oil and keep it
from entering the creek.
The only other problem the fire
department has to combat is a
Mecklenburg County ordinance
against open burning. This
problem is easily cured by a North
Carolina Statute that exempts fire
training from any laws. “Sic
semper tryanus.”
You as a citizen, can do
nothing about the fire department
practicing on its land near the
campus. It is just one of those
things Uke wool underwear and
traffic cops that you can’t do
anything about.
Just rest assured that the fires
don’t bother you. If you can’t
quite understand why they don’t
call our friends at the Health
Department, 374-2945. They will
be glad to talk to you.
When a teacher says, “jump,
students jump. I know of one
professor who refused to take up
class time for exams and required
students to show up for tests at
6:30 in the morning. And they
did, by God! Another, at exam
time, provides answer cards to be
filled out - each one enclosed in a
paper bag with a hole cut in the
top to see through. Students stick
their writing hands in the bags
while taking the test. The teacher
isn’t a provo; I wish he were. He
does it to prevent cheating.
Another colleague once caught a
student reading during one of his
lectures and threw her book
against the wall. Still another
lectures his students into stupor
and then screams at them when
they fall asleep.
“Tfic grade is a hell of a weapon
Just last week, during the first
meeting of a class, one girl got up
to leave after about ten minutes
had gone by. The teacher rushed
over, grabbed her by the arm,
saying, “This class is NOT
dismissed!” and led her back to
her seat. On the same day,
another teacher began by
informing his class that he does
not like beards, moustaches, long
hair on boys, or capri pants on
girls, and will not tolerate any of
that in his class. The class.
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When I read the article
“Defeat the System?” by
Dr. Thomas I Nonn, I
ij: could hardly believe my
•j: eyes!
Dare someone
(especially a prof!) refute
the cries of those who are
to the left of the middle?
Dare a soul speak out loud
FOR the USA?
Dr. Nonn has lived
under two forms of
government and has made
his choice. Would that we
all could do the same.
More and more people
are becoming aware of the
problems in our country.
We see that it needs HELP
now - not revolution, not
civil war, not conservative
against liberal, or minority
against majority -- but a
unified effort on
everyone’s part to get the
government back on its
original track, which is
protection of the
individual.
There can be no peace if
one does not speak in
Dear Editor:
The Carolina Journal accepts
all letters to the editor, provided
they are typed and limited to a
maximum of 300 words. All
letters must be signed and the
address and phone number of the
writer must be Included.
The paper reserves the right to
edit all letters for libelous
statements and good taste.
Address letters to
Repercussions, The Carolina
Journal, in care of University
Center. '
terms of peace. As one
quote goes, “Peace is not
the absence of conflict; it
is the ability to cope with
it.”
Often times a person
does not speak out
because he is afraid, and
he feels that he is all alone.
Then, one day, he finds
that he is not. "rhank you,
Dr. Nonn, for giving a
“silent” one the push she
needed to speak out, too.
It seems that only after an
individual has experienced
political hell can he
present an irrefutable case.
I would like this to ;j:
serve as a public thank you
to the campus
organizations which gave ji;
or pledged money to the
United Appeal. Because of
their support UNCC went
over the top of its highest
United Appeal goal. I
might add that the
contributions from the
organizations were almost
ten times the amount ever
collected from the student
body.
Since some of these
contributions were
pledged and since no
direct solicitation was
made within the student
body I would like to urge
students who would like
to support United Appeal
to attend the functions of
the organization which
will be earning their
pledges during the coming
months.
Becky Armstrong
Edward S. Perzel
Campus Chairman, UA