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editorial
What choices does a
fifteen-year-old have in the
educational system?"
"Do we have any choice,... but to
be sentenced to 16 years of school’"
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journal focus
"A future for gay lib?’
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"Interested in contact football?^
"49ers open against Tennessee
Tech.
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VOLUME SIX
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1970
Divisions become colleges
he Univeristv of North
now
The Univeristy of
r Carolina at Charlotte is
comprised of eight colleges.
The Executive Committee of
the University of North Carolina
Board of Trustees Friday
approved the change in
designation of the institution’s
eight divisions into colleges.
The colleges are: the College of
Business Administration, the
College of Human Development
and Learning (formerly the
Division of Education), the
College of Humanities, the College
of Engineering, the College of
Nursing, the College of Sciences
and Mathematics, the College of
Social and Behavorial Sciences,
and the College of Architecture.
The heads of the colleges will
now be known as deans. They are
Dr. Allan Palmer, Business
Administration; Dr. John B.
Chase, Jr., Human Development
and Learning; Dr. William S.
Mathis, Humanities; Dr. Newton
H. Barnette, Engineering; Mrs.
Edith Brocker, Nursing; Dr. Philip
E. Hildreth, Science and
Mathmatics; Dr. Norman W.
Schul, Social and Behavorial
Sciences; and Robert Anderson,
Architecture.
Chancellor D.W. Colvard said
■that the designation of colleges
represents another step in the
development of the University.
The designation of divisons was
an interim stage, he said. A
divisional chairman had no
counterpart in the academic
world. They were neither
■ department chairman nor deans,
the usual designations.
“We now have the frame work
for the continuing development of
a full blown university,” Dr.
Colvard said. “This point marks a
stage of maturity for us.”
In addition to education, the
College of Human Development
and Learning includes the
Department of Health and
Physical Education. The College
of Humanities includes the
Departments of English, Creative
Arts, Foreign Languages, History,
and Philosophy and Religion.
The College of Engineering
includes the Department of
Engineering Technology in
addition to Engineering. The
College of Science and
Mathematics includes the
departments of Biology,
Chemistry, Mathematics and
Physics.
The College of Social and
Behavioral Science includes the
departments of Geography and
Geology, Political Science,
Psychology and Sociology'.
A change in the name of the
Department of Fine Arts to the
Department of Creative Arts was
announced Friday also.
Rash takes
over as dean
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A young Charlotte attorney has been appointed Dean of Students at
the Umversity of North Carolina at Charlotte.
He is James Dennis Rash of the firm of Moore and Van Allen. Beside
the position of dean. Rash will also hold the position of instructor in
the College of Business Administration at UNCC.
XT 30-year-old Rash was an outstanding student at the University of
North Carohna at Chapel Hill. A Morehead scholar, he also was a
member of the Order of the Golden Fleece, Order of the Grail, and
Order ot the Old Well, top recognition societies at UNC-CH.
In addition to the B.A. degree from UNC-CH, Rash holds the LL.B
degree from the University of Virginia Law School.
Before joining the Charlotte law firm. Rash was administrative intern
and legal assistant to the Director of Prisons of the North Carolina
Department of Prisons in the summer of 1963.
His community activities include serving as youth advisor to senior
high school students at First Presbyterian Church, on the Mecklenburg
County Selection Committee for the Morehead Award Program as
executive committee of’the
Democratic Party Campaign Organization in 1968.
RaiUating from a central hub, UNCC grows outward with eight
^parate colleges of study, as announced recently by The Board of
Trustees, (photo by tom alsop)
Legislature
nominates senators
by Charlie peek
A lengthy debate concerning
the legislature’s role in
nominations for the new student
Senate consumed most of the
time in their open session last
Monday. Also the constitution for
the newly organized UNCC
Writer’s Club was passed and
several backwash items of the
budget were rehashed.
Gary Lane was appointed by
Chairman Rick Norton to be the
Parlimentarian for future SGA
meetings. President Hickok
announced that consideration of
the Housing Act previously passed
by the legislature was now in the
hands of the House presidents.
The Writer’s Club was then
chartered by the SGA. This club,
open to all UNCC students has as
its purpose to promote study and
appreciation of the art and craft
of writing. They hope, in the
future, to bring prominent
authors on campus to speak.
The Baptist Student Union
received $175 of the budget in
order to present several
inter-denominational programs
this year. On the other end of the
economic stick, David Thomas,
chairman of the Finance
Committee, recommended that
the Young Democrat’s Club not
be given any funds for the coming
year. The legislature was also
informed that the cheerleaders
have abandoned one trip
(Tennessee) on their itinerary
thereby saving $320 from their
proposed expenses.
The floor was then open for
nominations for the University
Senate. Marlene Whitley,
chairman of the Ways and Means
Committee presented them. Those
people “approved” by the
committee were Barbara Best,
Charles Kelly, Barbara Ann Smith,
Humphrey Cummings, Charles
Spriggs, Charles Peek, Stan
Patterson, Lloyd Rose, Ellen
Whitter, Phil Nesbitt, Bill Sigmon,
and Phil Deberry.
Other nominees, also accepted
by the legislature were Sammie
McGriff, Ed Bernson, Dean
Duncan, Vickie Hinson, La Vera
Farnsworth, Sally Garr, Steve
Ritch, Chip Golding, and Reginald
Smith.
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Rash, who grew up in Lenoir, is
married to Marsha Ray Rash, and
they have a two-year-old
daughter.
The new dean replaces Donald
M. MacKay who will take over the
direction of the University’s
auxiliary enterprises which
include the bookstore and the
food catering service.
The appointment of the new
dean was approved Friday by the
Executive Committee of the
University of North Carolina
Trustees.
Former Dean of Students,
Donald M. McKay
In other personnel action,
Walter John Roth was promoted
from instructor to assistant
professor of mathematics upon
completion of his Ph.D. degree at
the University of New Mexico.
Poly Sci department
Majors get vbte
Dorms get mailboxes
students, listen
Dorm
good.
You got mail boxes.
Yeali, in the dorms. A mail
chute, painted blue that
empties into a box in the
mail room.
That’s riglit, and those
boxes will be emptied
daily by the UNCC post
man.
All this means is no
more trips in the cold,
windy, wet night time to
mail a letter. Just drop in
the chute, and leave the
mailing to the post office.
by Undo mccarley
A new twist in student-facultv
relations at UNCC has turned up
in the political science
department. That department has
just adopted a policy whereby
representatives of the political
science majors will sit in on and
vote at departmental meetings.
Dr. Schley Lyons, head of the
political science department,
presented the idea at the first
departmental meeting and it was
unanimously decided to have the
students organize themselves.
Letters were sent out to all 102
majors to invite them to a meeting
on November 4. About half
showed up and they were
enthusiastic about the idea. The
plan was presented that the
students select a delegate and
alternate delegate to participate in
discussions on curriculum. The
delegate has one vote, equal to
that of each of the faculty
members’ votes. The alternate
doesn’t vote unless the regular
delegate is absent.
After presenting the plan and
taking care of other business the
faculty left and the students got
to work. Bill Sigmon, a junior,
was selected as the delegate and
senior Ken Foster as alternate,
^udents brought up the issues
that they wanted a voice in.
In an interview. Dr. Lyons said
that these positions are not
honorary and that the students
would have to work hard to
educate themselves in order to
nuke the necessary decisions.
The department is often divided
on important curriculum issues
and you might say that the
students now hold the balance of
power in the voting.”
The first department meeting
under the new system on
November 13 bore out the
prophetic words of Dr. Lyons.
The faculty was divided 4 to 3 in
favor of requiring statistic courses
tor majors. Representing the
Wishes of the students, delegate
Bill Sigmon, who felt that this
would limit their freedom in
choosing courses, voted against
the proposal. A substitute
proposal was then agreed upon by
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