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No surplus of grad degrees
Grad program
soars
Late applications are causing headaches for the University of North
Carolina at Charlotte’s new director of graduate studies and
disappointment for many would-be graduate students.
Dr Daymond Turner said, “We had to run down a substantial
number ot students because of late applications this fall.”
• number is expected to be larger for the spring semester, he
indicated, particularly because some programs are already filled. It may
be necessary to restrict enrollment in other programs, he said.
Dr. Turner said that persons who wish to enroll for the spring
semester should complete applications by mid-December.
The director pointed to an enrollment of 125 graduate students
1968. The actual enrollment is 414.
There is apparently no surplus of graduate degrees in this area such
as exists in some parts of the country,” Dr. Turner said. “From the
number of inquiries we receive daily, there will be no slackening in our
graduate growth.” ®
P''- graduate program could be doubled in the
spring if the financial resources and faculty were available.
^ requests are pouring in for graduate study in areas
which have not been authorized at UNCC and may not be authorized
for some time to come.
UNCC now offers graduate study in business, English, mathematics,
history, and education. ’
THE CAROLINA JOURNAL
November 19, 1970
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Susie Sutton called for a roll
call in order that the legislators
could identify the nominees and
ask any questions that they might
have concerning the nominees’
qualifications. Other legislators,
led by Ed Wayson and Stan
Patterson disputed this move
saying that it was not the
legislature’s job to screen the
applicants.
Then senior representative Bill
Guinn expressed fds desire to limit
the number of candidates in order
that the election might not be
quite so cumbersome with
twenty-one people on the ballot.
Wayson stron^y opposed this
idea, contending that it was
everyone’s right to run in this
election regardless of whether he
received the legislature’s approval.
Hickok observed that if the
legislature could not screen
candidates then their place in the
entire, election was void. At this
point in the conflict many
members of the body were at a
loss to determine just what their
position was in relation to the
new Senate. Evidently, however,
they felt that it was indeed any
students right to campaign for
Senate seats since all 21 nominees
were accepted.
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a vote of 6 to 2, Sigmon voting in
favor of it. The hew proposal
provides that the two statistic
courses, research method and
research measurement, will be
added to the curriculum on an
optional basis and later they will
vote again on whether to require
them.
Another question discussed was
whether or not interested
non-delegate students could sit in
on the meetings. It was decided
^at such a student could attend
in place of the regular alternate
and speak to the group, but not
vote.
Bill Sigmon expressed
enthusiasm about the new system.
He said, “We’re not concerned
with dominating the department
but with merely making our voice
heard. It’s our responsibility as
students to take this opportunity
to involve ourselves. I hope that
other departments will see merit
in the idea.”
He added that on behalf of
Foster and himself he “wanted to
congratulate the political science
department for its far-seeing
initiative and we hope that it’s
part of a broader movement of
student involvement in the
making of substantive decisions.”
by Stephen dreyfus
Everybody loves to raise hell.
Yet sooner or later one is
compelled to surrender to the
cold unavoidable task dictated by
aspirations of not flunking:
Studying! If it could be avoided,
great. But unlike former days of
high school when the duty was
forced down our throats by both
parents and teachers, here the
responsibility is left with the
student to submit to the
inescapable ennui of scholastic
concentration.
Now there are those who can
study anywhere and need not
seclude themselves to some
obscure location of silence.
Perhaps you have watched with
envy as they complete their math
while raising a poker bet and
holding a strai^t flush. Or
perhaps you have noticed them
completing an English essay at
Gus’s between bites of pizza and
gulps of beer. There are even
those who manage to read
Shakespeare while engaging in a
panty raid. Meanwhile, the rest of
us must miss out on all the action
and instead search in vain for a
place to get away from it all.
Unfortunately such a place
does not exist on campus. The
dorms provide two desks in each
room, lounges and seminar study
rooms. The quietest is usually as
noisy as Grand Central Station.
Stereos blasting
“In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida”; transistor
radios blaring “I’m Superbad”;
portable TVs emitting “I Love
Lucy” reruns; tape players at full
volume beckoning, “Celebrate,
celebrate, dance to the music...”;
firecrackers periodically exploding
outside the dorm windows;
students laughing and yelling up
to 95 decibels. Shaving creme
fights, water battles, panty raids,
the screeching of wheels from the
horseshoe, telephones no one
bothers to answer. One is seldom
disturbed, however, by cries of.
“Maid in the hall!” or “The lunch
is great!” or “1 got monty in the
Saturday mail!”
The total lack of consideration
for other students is by no means
the only culprit. For even is the
impossible did occur and no one
contributed excessively to the
general pandemonium one would
still have to cope with less human
irritations.
Seminar rooms with such great
accoustics that when a pen falls to
the floor the impact sounds like a
firecracker; air vents which
whistle incessantly; plumbing
designed to let everyone in the
house hear the water gurgle each
time a toilet is flushed; lights
refrigerators, vending machines
and other electrical objects that
never cease buzzing; garbage
trucks that can be heard dumping
its cargo from two miles away.
The worst offense of all,
however, cannot be blamed on
either man nor machine. It is none
other than the aggravating
constant moaning, groaning,
whisthng, howling, and screeching
wail, as the wind endlessly whips
around the dorms. It’s enough to
drive one insane.
Relief cannot be found simply
by escaping to the library. Tile'
floors and lousy accoustics permit
a typewriter on one side of the
building to be heard on the other.
There is one room set aside for
“Quiet Study Only’’.
Unfortunately, the liglit fixtures
don’t know how to read. In fact
the library is often so noisy, it
seems like there is an entire
construction site adjacent to it.
Neither can relief be found by
altering one’s study habits, and
studying while everyone else is
asleep. (Presuming one could
actually sleep while everyone else
was awake!) A few have tried this
formula. They study all night and
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HUGE
OPEN SIX DA YS *
riL 9:30 PM. J
Scott hired by admissions
Mr. Scott was just recently hired in the Admissions's Department as a
Uansfers counselor. He graduated from Johnson C. Smith, and was a
former high school teacher in Roberson County before taking on his
new position.
Before I walked into Mr. Scott's office I knew he was Black because
• concerned only with one question about his
job: Was he hired mainly to get more Black students on campus? He
told me outright that his job was to talk to all students about UNCC.
He was hired not because of the push to get more students but simply
because of a vacancy in the admission's department that had to be
filled. There is no doubt that Mr. Scott is very serious about his job.
Nevertheless, Mr. Scott is able to communicate with a Black student
who may be interested in attending UNCC because of a certain
“mmon identi^. I'm sure then that when the administration hired him
*ey considered this fact. Other qualities Mr. Scott has make him more
factor admissions department, but a determining
factor of the quality of our students as well.
information that was both beneficial and
honesty will be very important in
recruiting new students. Although transfer students have to meet
Mrtain requirements, there is not that much difference in screening
^ application. The transfer
J Rm? i^atake the S.A.T. over again. If his score
S.A.T., he is accepted on that score. This is
just one of the differences between UNCC and another college that
relates to transfer students.
he is doing a considerable
amount of traveling. Mr. Scott believes that approximately 1000
Uansfer students will be coming in the spring semester. Most of these
will be commuters living in the
^arlotte-Mecklenburg vicinity, because there is a lack of space in the
dormitories. Mr. Scott will help the very best students come to UNCC.