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THE CAROLINA JOURNAL
Editorial:
December 10, 1970
A funeral of minds and insomniacs
Among the swampy quagmire
of courses offered at UNCC, there
are a few stalwart oaks that
survive the tug of banal
quicksand. Not surprisingly,
where these rare beacons of
education rear their heads, a
knight-of-academia oftimes
appears in a suit of scholarly mail
to feel the fire-breathing dragon.
A professor braves
departmental castration, or
perhaps a type of condescending
censure at best, to reach out
through the mechanized maze of
programmed education and touch
young eager minds. He may exist
in a limbo-state in his battle for
the freedom to alter the
traditional input-output teaching
system. The reward of a peaceful
conscience within should help
ease the pressures of combating
that-which-is-and-always-has-been.
Grades, abhorrent indicator
they are of your individual
intellectual achievement, will be
commensurate with the learning
environment and creative
experience provided by the
professor. If, as with many UNCC
professors, they fail to give life to
the message, to relate it to those
who seek to learn, grades reflect
their failure.
Conversely, students’ grades in
the stimulating and exciting
atmosphere a professor MAY
create will morror his efforts. It is
demanding of a professional
educator; the presentation of
ideas and concepts in a vibrant
way so that learning becomes
desired. It is necessary. It is
missing from most UNCC
classrooms.
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students’ minds. And there is the
possibility that the professor
recalls HIS classroom days too
well, unable to escape the
“easy-way out” of continuing
what’s been done for years.
Any professor that recognizes
himself should consider
re-thinking his profession, for
decidely neither he nor the
students are better for his
presence.
When department chairmen
establish inviolate rules for their
underlings, the inherent result is
limitation of idea presentation.
No two courses, no two
professors, no set of students ever
present the same learning
situation. Why not permit the
experiential freedom to use these
variables to AID education?'
When department chairmen
impose mandatory classroom
environments on professors, the
loss of creativity and originality
that results is undeniable.
Why? Perhaps the professor
doesn’t give a damn whether
students learn or not. Or maybe
the professor’s outside interests
mean more to him than his
SOL III
A new magazine designed
especially tor the social-action
oriented individual will begin
publication in January. ‘71. SOL
III, as Its name Implies, will be a
world affairs publication with a
heavy emphasis on social
problems and their solutions.
To encourage reader
participation, SOL 111 Is holding a
$1000 magazine contest with
prizes in writing poetry, art,
photography, and humor. Entries
from university students and
faculty members are especially
wanted. Contest rules may be
obtained by writing: SOL III
Contest, 1909 Green Street, Phila.
Penn. 19130.
Student Court:
A useless agency
Editor:
There is a wide spread belief
that the operations of the student
government are irrelevant to
students. Each year elections are
held and virtual boycott occurrs.
Many students are convinced that
since student government doesn’t
really amount to anything there is
no use to really vote or participate
in the campaigns. All too often
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Students will more willingly
schedule those courses that
remain free, exciting, stimulating;
they will enjoy the course and
recommend it to others. There
cannot be implied a negative
correlation with student’s
enjoyment of a course and its
“academic value.” Cannot
learning be enjoyable? Cannot the
professor and students “create” in
the classroom?
Today, if the answers are not
“yes,” we lose tomorrow.
There are those at UNCC
instilled with a belief in creating
education as a self-stimulating
challenge. We hail them and carry
their banners.
There are those at UNCC
enclosed with the opinion that
mass education is mass production
is inherently one-and-only-one-
way. We hail the sunset of their
archaic sun.
It cannot be denied, that
students exploit some situations
of learning freedom. It can neither
be denied that professors often do
try but fail to create that '
self-stimulation.
Both realities cannot alter the
validity or necessity of the.
educational goal. Both should
serve to further highlight the need
for continual work, continual
striving for complementary
education.
The dim light many UNCC
professors shine will not brighten
the darkness but serve to further
dim it. You would think one
could not sleep well at night
knowing they had buried a
potential mind.
A funeral of minds and
insomniacs.
Isn’t there more to UNCC than
this?
Editorial
policy
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page. All editorials are
the opinions of the
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Repercussions, The Carolina
Journal, in care of University
Center.
the “concerned” people of the
Journal Staff and the SGA dismiss
this as “apathy” and forget the
matter 1 believe that this lack of
concern is well founded. There are
agencies of the SGA that simply
don’t do anything. The student
judiciary is a prime example of an
agency that does very close to
nothing.
The judiciary was established in
the “belief that members will have
a high respect for the student
court and abide by its decisions.”
This hope has not been fulfilled.
On paper the Student Judiciary
has a structure that is both
representative and functional. Its
function is equally valid: “judge
violation of the rules and
regulations of the University and
the SGA and administer.” Despite
the structure and function the
Student Judiciary does very little
at all. With something like five
weeks of classes until the semester
ends the Student Court has not
yet sat as a body. Justices were
sworn in during early July in the
event that something might
happen which would require a
court session. Nothing did- not
yet anyway. There was the case of
the overzealous PA in the
residence halls but the Attorney
General recommended that no
action be taken-Surprise.
There are reasons that the
judiciary is so inactive. The
procedure for instituting action
are overly involved. Some major
classes of actions are removed
from the jurisdiction of the court.
Perhaps the most serious reason
for the courts inactivity has been
the failure of the Honor Code to
be effective. The Code was passed,
by a student referendum back in
1965. Since then it has been part
of the “Gold Digger” and little
else. Unlike Codes at other
schools the UNCC Honor Code
has not established a tradition of
ethical norms for students. Until
there is a serious attempt made at
promoting the Honor Code the
student judiciary lacks any
substantial base. The judicial
committee of the Student
Legislature is presently rewriting
the judicial act so as to make the
process for instituting court
actions easier. It is a much needed
first step. However unless there is
an attempt made at establishing
the Honor Code as an important
part of the students conduct here
such attempts are likely to
succeed only on paper. Unless
needed reforms take place the
Dear Editor:
Editorial Response to: “A radio
station is a good idea. But”
But what? I would like to state
but what? I feel the following
should be clarified, and inform
concerned parties of such items.
First of all it is stated that
students willing to serve on the
Radio Staff will not be paid. This
is true, for in Part II of the
By-laws of the Student
Broadcasting Association, it is
stated, “At this time no Officers
shall receive a salary from any
service performed as a member of
the SBA.”
Then it was stated in the
editorial that, “these
people....more than likely.... will
not be trained.” This is seemed to
be a lack of notice and
premeditated judgement on the
part of the author. For several
weeks training sessions have been
planned and the first session was
held last Thursday, December 3,
the day the above noted editorial
was circulated.
Let it also be known that our
own staff are well qualified to
train persons involved, and by no
means are they receiving a salary
for their services, but are doing it
on a completely voluntary basis
on their own, due to personal
interest.
Several members of our staff
have attended various schools
pertaining to all fields of
broadcast industry. We feel that
this, plus many years of
experience, qualifies them to train
such personnel.
Steve Garrett, our Station
Manager, has had a sincere desire
to establish the station on UNCC
for three years and during that
time has done much research in
not only the technical
requirements, but the business
and financial requirements to
form a campus radio station. As
well, he holds a third-class
radiotelephone license and is an
amateur radio operator. Steve has
also worked with educational
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student judiciary is likely to
continue as an organization
impressive only on paper. Too
often students ideas of the SGA
operations come from such
examples as a non functioning
organization such as the student
judiciary.
Bill Sigmon
809 Lexington Avenue