December 17, 1970
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THE CAROLINA JOURNAL
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Editorial: 1970- Where is goodwill toward men?
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The 1970 holiday season is
again upon us. In the last two
weeks before the new year as we
celebrate Christmas and the
coming of 1971, the world won’t
change.
Contrasted against the glitter of
■ holiday night life and pageantry
: will rest the pain, suffering and
needless deaths brought about by
war and ignorance.
As members of the young
generation, we tend to question
the fairness of this state of affairs.
This season will be no different
from any other for those who
' struggle daily to keep body and
I soul together. It is certainly to our
i credit to be outraged by the
f shabby treatment some of the
i world’s citizens, our brothers, are
' given.
What shall determine our paths
in the world of the future is
nothing less than our attitudes
toward each other today. For
while we preach brotherhood and
peace, in the hope of building a
better world, we wrend ourselves
apart by negative attitudes and
actions.
We must work hard to get
ahead in our competitive society.
Unfortunately our goals are a
little obscure, for we work, not so
much to better ourselves, but to
discredit the other fellow. In our
battle for empty victories over
others, we are defeating ourselves.
Self-evaluation is certainly
appropriate for this time of year,
especially for those of us
connected with UNCC.
As first semester nears a close.
we should take a look at the
positive inputs into our
environment. Too often we see
ourselves struggling to play the
traditional roles our forefathers
have played. We are pigeon-holed
into the places reserved for us by
our peers.
The friends of this university
put their efforts into donating
money and watching basketball
games. The trustees try to prevent
embarassing situations from
arising on a campus they visit
once a year. The administration
dances on a tightrope - between
trustees, on the one hand, and
students and faculty on the other,
as they try to please as many of
both groups as possible.
Faculty members try to secure
as much money for each
department as the budget will
allow, while the poor dumb
students sit in classrooms,
expected to think and learn
within their professors narrow
unyielding scope. At the same
time, they cast stones at their
colleagues who dare suggest
something new and different.
Yes, Virginia, there is student
unrest.
primary interests lie outside the
academic community. Certainly,
the answer can be found in each
individual, but we must continue
to make the world a place we
would like to live in.
During our quest for a better
world, we may not have peace on
earth, but what’s wrong with
goodwill toward men?
I In our youth, we look too far
i afield. We are too quick to
j criticize an older generation, and
■ each other.
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THE
Doctor
Speaks
Dear Editor:
I first began to write
^he Doctor’s Bag”, 1 was a little
insure about where the whole
Uoject would go. It was clear that
People had a lot of questions and
Relatively few places to go for
answers. Somewhat to my
^fprise, given an opportunity to
fhe anonymously, people began
■ ? questions about a variety of
' n ^ personal matters.
During this year the College
Service of the United States
udent Press Association has
ciped place the column in a
, Umber of college newspapers
‘deluding yours. These days, much
u my enjoyment, 1 receive mail
students all across the
country and as you might predict,
® same things bother people
everywhere. Hopefully, the
en presenting a broad
ough variety of questions to
satisfy your readers.
Jiiujor purpose of this “Letter
the Editor” is to find out what
e response is to the column on
L°ur campus. In addition, if you
ave a question you would like to
^rsonally address to me, why
on t you send it to the address on
>s stationery rather than to my
number and I’ll get back to
y°u. I d jjg interested in
earing fiom you about the
^ntent of my column and
f, etner you think there are areas
not covering that I’m
College Press Service will be
ontacting you about renewing
e subscription to the column
n hope that it will have a
ance to continue to appear in
your paper.
Sincerely,
Arnold Werner, M.D.
But unrest lies in the very
nature of students. For through
expanding the knowledge of their
world they strive to expand their
knowledge of themselves. When
students get to college they try to
find their capabilities by seeking
their limits.
What happens when they try to
change the real world?
Success cannot be found in
playirtg traditional roles. Perhaps,
it lies in the positive interaction
among administrators, teachers,
students, and those whose
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dorm students
are the power
Dear Editor:
In an interview with Doctor
George Abernathy in the
December 3 issue of the ‘Carolina
Journal’, Doctor Abernathy
asserted that UNCC has become a
sectional campus comprised of
two entirely different varities of
students. These sections are
composed of the dormitory and
the commuting student.
thousand that commute The
greatest tragedy here is that this
wide and somewhat unorthodox
division in the student body has
left out the family element that is
important for a complete
university life.
Abernathy argues that it is
deplorable that 75% of the
student body has no apparent
voice and activity in the life of the
school. While this may be true
Doctor Abernathy should also
face the fact that most commuters
are content with this situation.
The University as organized
now has one thousand students in
residence and another three
thousand commuting from
Charlotte, and surrounding
communities. The thousand which
live on campus become by this
association an integral part of it.
But what about the other three
Snoopy’s ground crew writes-
cKXSKAfH
Dear Editor,
On behalf of “W” division, I
would like to relate our many
thanks for all of the letters we
have received, and hopefully, for
all the letters we shall receive in
the future.
Special congratulations go to
the Journal’s staff artist, Mike
Whorley, for that brilliant
reproduction of Snoopy in the 19
November issue.
Once again, a myriad of thanks
for “W” division.
It is right though that the 25%
that live on campus should be in
control. All governments operate
best when power is vested in those
most attuned to the problems.
And it is the problems and social
life of the university that affects
the dorm student the most. T^e
for example the situation which
arose with SAGA a few weeks
ago. The dormitory student was
the most affected by poor service
and general apathy of the food
organization. Although the
commuters use the facilities of the
SAGA-controlled Union cafeteria,
they are not actually forced by
necessity to do so since they pay
on an individual meal basis. They
can protest service by boycott.
The dorm student is in a different
situation. He pays for the food
service as part of his original fee
and therefore is largely at the
mercy of the food organization.
For protests the dorm student
must rely on the official organs of
the university Boycotts would
be possible but not practical.
Sincerely,
Tom Campbell
Yeoman 3rd class
About those bells
Dear Editor:
Hear the electronic bells-
Silly bells!
What a world of muddlement
their melody foretells!
How they jangle, jangle, jangle.
Like a Freddy Freeze delight!
Wliile the cars that intermingle
In the parking spaces^ tingle
With the amplifier’s might;
Keeping time, time, time.
In a schizophrenic rhyme.
To the tintintitillation that so
maddeningly wells
From the bells, bells, bells,
bells.
Bells, bells, bells-
From the tangling and the
mangling of the bells.
Edgar
The “Carolina Journal”, which
Doctor Abernath;^ assesses in the
power of the dormitory cliche,
mounted a massive campaign to
expose SAGA. This action
resulted in the improved service
that SAGA is now providing for
both dorm and commuter
alike Also in the case of
mailboxes in the dorm and
visitation privileges, the student
government, another of
Abernathy’s dorm power
structures, was able to act
promptly on the issues....A
newspaper and SGA in the hands
of the commuter majority would
by the nature of the commuter’s
association with the campus not
be as aware or concerned with
these problems as the dorm
student. And these are the
problems which are the everyday
life of the university.
Until the time arrives that the
UNCC campus is peopled by the
majority of its students, then the
power is concentrated where it
should be, among its elite few.
This few is where the action is
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