November 12, 1970
THE CAROLINA JOURNAL
summer internships
Page 7
Serve, learn, and profit too!
The Internship Program in
Community Education and
Service presents a fresh and
exciting approach to the methods
of serving and learning, as it offers
to student participants a chance
to gain meaningful experience and
increased insight into the
problems of the urban
community.
JOURNAL interviews, with the
UNCC community.
Students desiring additional
information on the internship
project should contact Mr. Larry
Owen, UNCC Director of
Institutional Research.
Applications for the 1971 summer
program will be available soon.
There are material profits, too.
In exchange for about forty hours
of work and participation in a
seminar each week during the
twelve-week summer session, the
intern earns approximately
$1,000 stipend and six hours
academic credit.
UNCC works with various
government and service agencies
in the Charlotte area to establish
jobs for the interns.
The emphasis of the internship
project is on a new style of
learning. The student takes the
facts and theories of the
classroom away from the campus
and puts them into practice in the
modern urban area.
Thus, as a liaison between the
campus and the city, the intern
sliould ultimately effect a closer
relationship between the two
communities, vastly
supplementing his own academic
experience with a practical type.
In the pilot program of the
summer of 1969, eight interns
worked with various community
agencies. The service-learning
project was fully developed last
summer, within the framework of
UNCC’s Institute for Urban
Studies and Community Service,
as forty students from four area
colleges and universities
participated in the 1970 edition
of the program.
In an effort to further explain
the purpose of the internships and
to promote interest in next
summer’s program, some of the
interns will share their
experiences, through a series of
I
Students on campus
interested in finding answers
on their own to some of our
social and ecological
problems might be interested
in a new program sponsored
by the National Science
To Hilda t ion. Entitled
“Student Originated
Studies,” the program offers
financial support to student '
projects dealing with
problems of the physical,
biological, and/or social
environment, fhese projects
must be originated, planned,
and directed by students and I
endorsed by the host college i
or university. '
1 he NSE's deadline for j
receiving proposals is i
November .'0. 1970; so you I
had better start planning j
now. The North Carolina
Internship Office will provide |
to interested students a
additional information and f
technical assistance in |
developing a proposal. They J
can be reached at (919) I
S29..U47. or write Robert »
Lee Sigmon. Director; 130 E. f
Morgan St.; Raleigh. N.C.
If you deal in drugs, don’t
approach Mike Gupton. After
spending a large part of last
summer in the Charlotte Police
Department Crime Laboratory,
working on the analyses of
numerous.' drugs, Gupton has
become quite familiar with drugs.
He realizes all too clearly the
seriousness and enormity of the
drug problem in Charlotte.
A senior Chemistry major from
Salisbury, Gupton worked in the
chemistry lab at the Law
Enforcement Center as a member
of the 1970 Internship Program.
When a confiscated drug was
brought to Gupton in the lab, he
analyzed it to identify the type of
drug. Then, if the possessor was in
violation of the law, the solicitor
would know with what to charge
him.
Gupton’s work was not
confined to drug problems but
included investigations in cases of
homicide, car accidents, arson
attempts, or any crimes that
required analyses.
Several investigations were
made in the crime lab on the Carla
Underwood case, involving the
Although Gupton’s
investigations included the
evidencing of numerous types of
crimes, he estimates that about
eighty per-cent of his work toad
involved drugs.
Amazed with the ease with
which one may obtain drugs in
Charlotte, Gupton relates the
story of a police officer who came
to the lab to get drug samples to
show the new recruits. When the
lab lacked some of the samples,
the officer left, returning some
forty minutes later with the
desired drugs. He told the
chemists that he could obtain
“anything but heroin, at the
nearest high school.”
Adults are often as guilty as
young people in increasing the
danger of drugs, Gupton feels.
Drugs used at “pill - parties” of
junior and senior high school
students often come from parents’
medicine cabinets.
Delta Delta wins
United Appeal Award
The United Appeal Campaign
for 1970 ended November 4.
Heading this year’s campaign for
the university was Dr. Edward S.
Perzel. The Student chairman was
Joan McClure. Delta Zeta Sorority
sponsored a contest awarding a
trophy, donated by First Union
National Bank, to the group
pledging the most money. Tire
trophy will be used annually by
United Appeal and will remain on
display in the University Center.
This year the trophy is to be
awarded to Delta Delta Sorority.
The other contributing
organizations were Rotaract, Chi
Phi, Alpha Delta Pi, Kappa Sigma,
Delta Zeta, and Civinettes.
United Appeal donations are
collected from all business
organizations. Forty-two agencies
depend on the voluntary
contributions of United Appeal.
Among them are Girl Scouts of
America, YMCA, YWCA, and the
Florence Crittenton Homes for
unwed mothers.
Caldwell
kidnapping and murder of a
teen-age girl in Charlotte. The
chemists examined clothing
samples for clues and analyzed the
remains of Miss Underwood’s
burned car, the latter to pinpoint
a cause of the fire.
In the lab, Gupton also studied
Ae morphology of hair and
identified several hairs from crime
scenes. He learned to determine
the kinds of cars involved in
hit-and-run accidents by matching
the paint samples on a victim’s
clothing with those in the lab’s
file of samples.
The teen-agers put all the pills
in a bowl and, in a deadly game he
believes, try to determine which
combination of drugs will produce
the biggest high.
According to Gupton, the drug
confiscated most frequently in
Charlotte is LSD, followed by
heroin and marijuana.
Gupton’s summer experience
instilled in him a strong desire to
implant in others an awareness of
the enormity of the drug problem
in Charlotte, a feeling which
Gupton himself continually
expresses.
Few people realize the
consequences of violating drug
laws, Gupton says. The results of
an arrest and conviction for the
possession of one gram of
marijuana include; loss of one’s
right to vote for life; loss of the
right to own a gun; loss of the
right to run for public office; loss
of the right to become a licensed
doctor, dentist, CPA, attorney,
architect, realtor, private
detective, pharmacist, teacher,
barber, or certain other licensed
professionals; no choice of which
branch of service to enter.
The possessor, he added, also
may be forbidden from working
for the city, state, or national
government. “After all these
deprivations are added to the
effects on one’s relationships with
his family and friends, the price is
quite a Iriglr one to pay for selling
or even holding grass,” Gupton
said.
This was only a portion of the
vast insight that Mike Gupton
gained as a summer intern. He
feels that he also benefitted
greatly from the weekly seminars
in which the forty interns
exchanged ideas relevant to their
individual jobs and to the urban
community.
Gupton said that it is especially
helpful to be exposed to a
different side of life while one is
still in school.
Thus, Gupton fully endorses
the internship project and, after
appearing on a television show
with participants from several
similar service-learning projects,
he feels that the 1970 Charlotte
program was definitely the best in
the state.
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Homecoming
UNCC’s annual Homecoming
festivities have been set for
Saturday, January 9, according to
Gary Baucom, president of the
alumni association.
Plans for the event include an
early afternoon registration,
followed by entertainment by a
big-name group and a session at
Gus’s Original 49er prior to the
6:00 tipoff of the UNCC
Frosh-Isothermal Community
College basketball game.
Feature attraction of the evening
will find Coach Bill Foster’s 49er
varsity squad pitted against the
tougli Aggies of Texas A&M at 8:00
in the university’s new gymnasium.
A dance is planned following the
varsity contest.
Look ahead
for the
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