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Carolina
Volume Six
Thursday, February 25, 1971
Number 16
S. Mathis,
College of
told the
What is UNCC
without its bell tower?
Whatever your position may be at UNCC-student,
custodian. Chancellor, secretary, or cashier-the chances are
that your daily campus life is affected in one way or another
hy that glistening, glowing, giant tower of tunes that stands
tall and erect in the middle of the sidewalk, constantly
keeping watch over the campus it adorns.
You say that this stiiicture of sound-Belk Carillon
Tower-doesn’t affect you? Without it, where would you
uieet your friends after class? How would you direct a
campus visitor to Denny Building? What would your history
professor make jokes about? What else would you think to
talk about on the way to your 8:30 class? How would you
"'ake up from your nap in the library in time for lunch?
So you see, the bell tower
has quickly become a
necessary, invaluable part of
klNCC. But many people are
not too sure that the noises it
niakes are necessary. While a
student floats to class on the
strains of “Rhapsody in
Blue,” you are likely to hear
him gripe about the song he
hears: “Why doesn’t the
carillon’s varied repertoire
include more songs? Why
doesn’t the man playing the
hells’ learn some new
Pieces?”
Dr. William
hlean of the
Humanities,
•iOURNAL that none of the
Carillon’s songs are played
nianually. The manufactured
sounds come automatically
trom rolls, three songs in
succession, in much the same
''^ay that a player piano
Operates. Also automatically, ’
Horn the controls located in
^^202, the carillon strikes the
hour at noon.
The instrument consists of
ihree different sets of bells
'^'hich may be played from
ihe automatic controls or
i^roin the three-keyboard
Console. There are no actual
hells in the tower, or
Campanile, as the structure
itself is called. A set of wires
Cast out of bell metal and
tpiied with a harmonic ratio
iike bells, is struck by a
hammer, and the sound is
^•Pplified mechanically. The
hell tower was built by the
^chulmerich Company.
Dean Mathis is the only
Person on campus who has
been instructed in the
Operation of this carillon.
The time and difficulty
Involved in playing the
!'istrument have made it
'•Ppossible for him to
practice enough to be able to
Plaster the manual operation
the carillon or to teach
Someone how to play it.
Colvard appeals to Commission Budget
CHARLOTTE—Chancellor D.
W. Colvard of the University of
North Carolina at Charlotte
emphasized his institution’s
pressing need for a $3.8 million
earth-life science building and
critical enrollment pressures at a
hearing Tuesday before the joint
Appropriations Committee of the
North Carolina General Assembly.
The Chancellor was appealing
for the restoration of items not
recommended by the Advisory
Budget Commission.
“We face a shortage of science
laboratories now, and before the
earth-Ufe science building can be
constructed, the situation will be
THE BELK CARILLON TOWER - doesn’t it affect you? Without
it, how would you direct a campus visitor? Where would you meet your
friends after class? What would your history professor make jokes
about? How would you wake up from your nap in the library m time
for lunch? (photo by mike smith)
critical,” Dr. Colvard said. “The
lack of laboratories limits the
ability of the University to offer a
balanced program.”
As to the enrollment bind.
Chancellor Colvard said, “In the
face of an increase of 31 percent
in enrollment in each of the last
two years and almost twice the
number of applications on hand
for next year as compared to this
year, it will be difficult indeed to
restrict enrollment to the level of
about 10 percent recommended,”
he said. “Even our request is for
an increase of only 15 percent the
first year and 14 percent the
second year. It is clear that we
shall have to limit enrollment even
if our request is approved.
“To limit enrollment so early
in the year would impose very
serious problems for the large
number of transfer students from
community colleges whose
applications are normally received
in the late spring and summer
months,” he said. “Because of
these transfer students UNCC is
one of the few universities having
a larger enrollment of juniors than
freshmen.”
The University’s request for
supplemental funds totaled
$2,144,054 for operations and
$4,741,000 for buildings and
other capital improvements.
The Chancellor asked that
funds be provided to allow the
enrollment of 187 additional
full-time equivalent students the
first year of the biennium and 124
the second year in addition to
increase already provided in the
“A” budget.
He asked that. $200,000 be
appropriated each year of the
biennium to bring the University’s
library collection up to 217,460
volumes by 1973, pointing out
that UNCC was one of the-few
institutions receiving no “B”
Budget recommendation for
books.
Funds were asked to put the
new gymnasium and the new fine
arts buildings to good use with
physical education and art and
music programs.
Dr. Colvard urged that a new
program in law enforcement and
administration be funded, citing
the 40 police officers now
enrolled in political science who
want the new bachelor’s degree.
This program would provide for
policemen who have had two
years of work at a community
college or technical institute.
The request urged that funds
be provided to continue the
development of the new program
in architecture, which will admit
its first students this fall.
The Chancellor said, however,
that graduate students are not
typical of many others. “As you
know,” he said, “many graduate
students today face dim prospects
of employment. Most of our
graduate students are already
employed and are enrolled after
working hours. Only five of the
four hundred are from outside the
state.”
The need for a development
officer to seek private funds for
the University was called
desperate. “Most of the
institutions have been provided
development officers,” Dr.
Colvard said.
Personnel was also requested in
continuing and adult education.
The request called for $32,000
■to provide faculty members and
student computer time through a
tie-in to the Triangle Universities
Computation Center.
Several additional capital
projects were requested in
addition to the earth-life science
building. They were:
-Planning funds for a high-rise
office, classroom, and learning
resources building, $100,000.
Need for this building is expected
to become critical by the next
Legislative session.
-Utilities, roads, and walks,
$175,000.
-Scientific, engineering and
audio visual equipment,
$150,000.
-Renovation of old library to
provide relief from faculty office
shortage, $100,000.
-Maintenance warehouse and
shop, $125,000.
--Recreation fields, a
continuation of a project begun
last biennium, $281,000.
According to him, anyone
"^ho sits down to play on the
^^rillon feels that he is
Jarniliar with it, since the
keyboards look identical to
Htose of an organ. But,
’Unlike playing an organ, one
!T*^>st work between two
keyboards with a single hand;
•Bis is quite difficult to do.
addition, the music for a
^^rillon must be written
quite differently from piano
and organ music.
In response to the many
complaints concerning the
repertoire of the tower. Dean
Mathis commented that the
music rolls are quite
expensive and that it would
not be feasible to purchase
rolls containing songs of
temporary popularity.
The carillon is a social
institution; no one within
earshot of it can turn it off;
therefore, the songs that it
plays must relate to the
widest possible audience.
Historically, the carillon is
a Christian instrument. The
Belk Tower plays in a secular
environment. Thus, taking
into consideration the
expense of the carillon music
rolls, it is quite difficult to
select the songs to by played
on this particular tower.
Remember this the next time
you feel a gripe coming on,
as you skip down the
sidewalk to the tune of
“Chim Chim Cheree!”
SGA challenges
University Senate
Immediately following the
call to order, Marlene
Whitley moved, “that the
Monday Legislature meeting
be adjourned due to the fact
that the administration failed
to consider the SGA request
for equal representation on
the University Senate. Claire
Tausch. freshman
representative seconded the
motion.
Alan Hickok, SGA
President, rose to a point of
order that a quorum had not
been established yet.
After the roll had been
called and a quorum
established. Miss Whitley
re-introduced the motion.
After Mr. Hickok rose to a
point of information about
the motion, and as Stan
Patterson asked for further
information, the motion was
withdrawn.
The controversy over
equal representation of
students on the University
sena.te has been brewing since
hearings on the constitution
last spring. Equal
representation broke the
surface recently during
nominations of student
candidates for the senate
positions.
Students on the senate .as
it is written are out ranked
2-1 by faculty. The
University Supreme Court,
which could legally declare
the SGA constitution invaled
can be composed of four
faculty justices (one of them
Chief Justice) and only one
student associate justice.
Mr. Hickok, in his
presidents report, read a
letter he had written the
chancellor about the
controversy.
In his letter, Hickok asked
that:
-The President and Vice
President of the S.G.A. and
five members of the
University Community
appointed by the President
of the SGA and approved by
the Student Legislature be
voting members of the
Senate.
--As the number of
Faculty Senators and the
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