aFolina
Volume Six
Thursday, February 18, 1971
Number 15
•••This is the dead land^ This is a cactus land. Here the stone images
^*■6 raised here they receive the supplication of a dead man’s hand. O
^eet spontaneous earth the doting finger of purient philosophers have
^nched & poked the naughty thumb of science has prodded thy
*’®3uty... (photo by mike smith)
What
IS an
arcologist?
Futuristic architect Paolo
^oleri is coming to Charlotte
Friday, February 19 for a
^Peech at the University of
^ortli Carolina at Charlotte.
Soleri will speak at 11:30
^•ni. in room 102 of the
^^ith Engineering Building,
•he address is sponsored by
Student Activities Board.
The Italian-born architect
currently has an exhibit of
I’ls designs for future cities
traveling to major cities and
Universities. One of his
geometric structures would
^rand on less than a lialf
^uare mile of land and
yould house a city of about
'0,000 people.
The architect’s concepts
Ut towns and cities has been
Compiled into a
Comprehensive book,
'^rcology: The City in the
Im
3ge of Man,” publislied by
^ TT. Press in the fall of
1969.
„ In Scottsdale, Arizona,
oleri has established the
osanti Foundation, a
On-profit educational
uundation, a center of
constnicting town that will
eventually have a population
of about 3,000, mainly
occupied with urban
problems.
Soleri was born in 1919 in
Torino, Italy where he was
educated and received his
degree as doctor of
architecture.
He came to the United
States in 1947 to work on a
Frank Lloyd Wright
Fellowship. He returned to
Italy for five years and has
lived since 1955 in Arizona
with his wife and two
daughters.
He has held Guggenheim
grants for research in the
field of architecture as
human ecology.
His topic will be on the
theme of this year's
University Forum, “The
Coming Years: Framework
for Speculation.”
Bucky Fuller joins Kahn
in the Forum, March 3rd
One of America’s
foremost thinkers will speak
at the 1971 University
Forum--R. Buckminster
Fuller.
Fuller, author of I SEEM
TO BE A VERB, is also a
noted architect. The creator
of 5,000 geodesic domes has
befen issued 150 patents in 58
countries for the design of
these buildings.
“The Ambassador of
Tomorrow’’ as he was
dubbed by Reader’s Digest,
studies human problems and
University Senate
Colvard certifies
voting register
In accordance with the Constitution of the University of
North Carolina at Charlotte, Chancellor D. W. Colvard has
certified and announced the issuance of the registers of
faculty and students who are eligible to vote in the University
Senate elections to be held this spring. According to the
University Constitution, a faculty member is defined as a
full-time employee who holds academic rank and a student is
defined as any person enrolled in a course or courses offered
by UNCC.
On or before February 24 the Executive Committee of the
Faculty will nominate and advise the Chancellor of twelve or
more nominees from the Faculty Register; and the Student
Government Association will act in like fashion, nominating
from the Student Register. From these lists of nominees, the
faculty and students shall each elect six representatives from
among their respective ranks. •
potentials as well.
Fuller will address the
Forum on “The Coming
Years; Framework for
Speculation.”
Hiis works include
“Operating Manuel for
Spaceship Earth,” “The
Untitled Epic Poem on the
History of Industrialization,”
and, “The Buckminster
Fuller Reader.”
In his mid-70’s. Fuller
travels 250,000 miles a year
to deliver lectures, and
consults with various
societies and organizations.
Fuller is an alumnus of
Harvard University and the
U.S. Naval Academy. At
Southern Illinois University
he was a distinguished
university professor.
Disruption policy
Everybody
got one
Petitions nominating candidates for the at-large seats shall
be filed in the Chancellor’s Office between March 5 and
March 19. Voting for these representatives shall take place on
March 31.
On or before April 25 the faculty from each major
academic unit shall elect one representative and communicate
the results of this election to the Chancellor.
The last step toward constituting the University Senate
will be the Chancellor’s appointment of seven representatives
to the Senate on or before May 1.
Kate iMillet speaks at Queens
learning and training for
architects, fine arts students,
craftsmen and instnictors.
Out of the foundation has
grown a project called
“ Arcosanti,’’ a self-
‘The power is still
controlled by men’
During semester break the
school spent $240 mailing
copies of the Uniform
Disruption Policy to each of
4000 students enrolled in
UNCC for the Fall semester
of 1970.
The $240 only covered
the mailing cost (in a plain
brown wrapper), but added
to this was the printing cost,
stationery costs, the name
stickers, and the man hours
spent in assembling the
packet to be mailed. A total
of more than $300.
Consolidated University
President, Bill Friday, asked
that administrators of the six
branches of UNC notify the
students of .the policy
change.
by mike mcculley
Speaking to a
packed-house Queens College
Symposium audience on
February 10 the author of
“Sexual Politics,” Kate
Millett, decried the
“patriarchical” system in
America and offered some
thoughts on changing it.
Ms. Millett, at-ease and
surprisingly non-militant in
delivery, spoke of a true
sexual revolution, one she
feels we are “too close to for
truly noticing it.” She feels
that “PLAYBOY, skin flicks,
and flesh advertising do not
really reflect the profound
and radical changes in the
status of the sexes as they
relate to each other.”
The main point, Millett
emphasized, to any sexual
revolution today in America
is “to abolish male rule, male
supremacy.” “The power,”
she stated, “is still controlled
by men in virtually every
institution in this country.”
Ms. Millett believed the
feminism movement was
heading towards establishing
“egalitarian sharing,” i.e..
The policy change,
approved by the trustees in
their meeting at UNCC in
October, was written by a
committee of students,
faculty, administrators, and
trustees.
power in all positions equally
distributed among the sexes.
She believed the major
blockade to this sharing is
(continued on page 2)
During the mailing of the
policy, a box of the old
policies was mixed up with
the new ones, and mailed
before the error was
discovered.
WVFN is on the air
UNCC’s long awaited
radio station goes on the air
officially Monday February
22.
But in the meantime, if
you tune in to 710 AM you
may hear the sounds of our
new media. From 7 to 9:30
a.m., 11:30 a.m. to 1:30
p.m., and from 4:30 p.m. to
midnight.
Once they are on the air,
during hours when WVFN is
not broadcasting live, they
will rebroadcast WSOC-FM.
By the way, the call
letters are appropriate for
UNCC’s first radio
station-they stand for the
Voice of the forty niners.