Volume Six
Thursday, March 4, 1971
Number 17
Davis at Davidson
What’s your game kid?
Dien Bien Phu
“If you take the number of
bombs that have been dropped in
Vietnam since Richard Nixon
went into the White House, up
until 214 months ago when the
heaviest bombardment in the
history of warfare began,
including the saturation bombing
against Dresdin and Hamburg, and
you just add up the number of
explosives that have been dropped
in that period, it averages out to
2‘4 Hiroshima’s a week. A week,”
said Rennie Davis Monday night.
Davis began his speech at
Davidson by tlianking several
people in the Community. Among
them was Chip DuRant, a campus
conservative who had waged a
campaign to keep Davis from
speaking. Davis referred to
DuRant as his “promotion
Manager”.
“1 am here tonight as people
from the anti-war movement are
speaking in places like this all over
the country and will be during the
next 60 days; to try to put us in
touch with what is happening in
Indo-China so that we can get
^rious again about how serious it
is, and mount an offensive that
this time around will be so strong,
so broad, so forceful, so
international, that there is no way
that Richard Nixon can stop it,”
by dean duncan
Davis said.
“The people of this country
are going to get themselves
together this spring with people in
Saigon, in Europe, in Latin
America, in Japan, for an
offensive to end this bloody war
in Viet Nam,” he continued.
Davis told of his trip to Hanoi
last year, and of an experience he
had with several youngsters.
“These kids in the middle of
the street had made out of mud
this gigantic mountain terrain. In
the center was what looked like a
kind of valley. Right in the center
of this valley was this small fort
made out of mud.
“The kids had made what
looked like trucks and one land
cannon and were pushing these
instruments up the mountain,
down toward the fort below.
“So I said to one of the kids,
‘You look just Uke a soldier. What
are you playing?’ To which he
replied ‘a game’.
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Faculty endorses more
Students on senate
Nominations
Solicited for
Who’s Who
Nominations will be
solicited for WHO’s WHO
during the week of March
8-11.
An effort is being made so
every student has the
opportunity to nominate
persons for WHO’s WHO.
If you do not get a copy
of the nomination form
through your classes, they
may be obtained from the
dean of your college or at the
Information Desk at the
University Center.
Wednesday, February 24, the
Student Legislature sent a
resolution to the Chancellor
asking for a meeting with the
Executive Committee of the
Faculty. The subject of the
meeting was student
representation on the University
Senate.
The meeting, with Chancellor
Colvard acting as chairman, took
place the following afternoon.
There was no confrontation
between students, administrators
and faculty. Alan Hickok
presented the case of the students
as that of wanting more student
representation.
Dr. Newton Barnette, dean of
the College of Engineering,
defended the UNCC Constitution
which was designed to give
students and faculty more say in
University affairs.
“1 think that the students can
easily see almost half of the
Senate membership as student
oriented,” he said. Students vote
not only for their own
representatives but for faculty
four Senators as well.
Under the Senate Constitution
the students elect 10 Senators and
by some students, count there are
20 Senators from the faculty.
The student court is composed
of 5 justices, only one of whom is
SGA Senate
nominees approved
Nominations after a week’s
deliberation were approved
Monday by the student
*®8islature.
Legislature nominees arc: Bill
mgmon, Kristi Harl, Ed Wayson,
^I'il Nesbit, Chip Golding,
Humphrey Cummings, Barbara
“est, Ed Bernson, Tom Phillips,
^andy Russell, Reginald Smith,
^on Foster, Larry Marshall, and
Dean Duncan.
Voting is to take place on
MOnday, Marcli 8. Polls will be
^cated in the University Center,
Monday morning, and between
Garinger (B) and Denny (C)
buildings that evening.
Dorm students will only be
allowed to vote in the dorm
cafeteria.
In discussion of the Senate,
Alan Hickok said that he was
virtually assured that the
president of the student body
would be appointed to the
University Senate next year by
the chancellor.
Susie Sutton added in
discussion that “the Faculty
Executive Committee could not
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a student. Barnette said that,
“President Friday’s office would
certainly turn down a court
composed of more than one
student.”
“Conflicts of interest would
have to be dealt with on this court
whenever a Faculty case is being
heard with great tradition and
great feeling that the faculty
evaluates itself, too,” said
Barnette. “And you might
anticipate certain justices stepping
aside in certain cases and letting
an alternate justice come in.”
Barnette proceeded to cover
the rest of the SGA resolution,
explaining his position on their
suggestions and criticisms.
The Faculty Executive
Committee proposed to pass a
resolution asking the Chancellor
to make student representation
the first order of business on the
agenda of the new Senate as a
gesture of good faith.
New SGA
is on
the way
The new SGA Constitution is
ready. It will be presented to the
student body at Legislature by
Alan Hickok on Wednesday,
March 10 at 12:00 in the Parquet
Room.
Outstanding features of the
new constitution are: (1) Student
Legislature representatives elected
from the academic colleges,
residence halls, commuter
students and four class president.
(2) Student Department Chairman
that will (with the cooperation of
the’ departments’ faculty) be a
voting member of their respective
departments. (3) Student control
of all Student Activities Fees. (4)
A student controlled Union Board
that will plan and control student
entertainment sponsored by
Student Activities Fees.
A week of open hearings about
the Constitution will follow its
introduction on March 10.
After Davis thanked his Davidson branch “promotion manager,”
Chip DuRant, a campus conservative who waged a campaign to keep
him from speaking, Davis then proceeded to attack the corruption in
the “Thieu-Key-Diem regiem.” He told of inhumane treatment of
political prisoners in South Vietnam, (photo by dean duncan)
An Interview with Fuller
Mans tools are an
extension of himself
by dean duncan
“I didn’t know that I was going
to be an inventor or a predictor,”
said R. Buckminister Fuller in an
interview Tuesday afternoon.
Fuller, a mathematician,
visionary, and designer of the
geodesic dome, will be speaking
today at UNCC.
“The geodesic dome was far
from my first invention. I made
several inventions when I was
quite a young boy. The patent on
the dome came along in 1951,
when I was 56 years of age,”
Fuller said.
“The dome came about
because of my preoccupation of
how to arrive with the most
volume, with the least surface,”
continued Fuller.
“My studies show that by 1985
man could possibly reach a state
where war was not a necessity,
and I’d say if we could not reach
it by the year 2000, we’re
probably all through on the
planet,” said Fuller.
Fuller was making predictions
30 to 40 years ago that are now
coming true. He predicted the
environmental problem, among
other things.
On pollution. Fuller said that
man does not face any major
problem. “Man is finding his way
by trial and error...and he tries to
separate things to make useful
material. The things that he
separates from is dumped, and we
call that pollution.”
“That chemistry that he dumps
out turns out in 30 to 40 years to
be equally important chemistry.”
“All of our tools are an
extension of ourselves. The cup is
an extension of my hand. We
develop an extraordinary
interchangeability,” he added.
“My heroes are those who go
along with the truth even though
it is contradictory to what
everybody is saying.”
“I would say it is very touch
and go as to whether we get into a
nuclear war. Whether man will
make good or not, I haven’t the
slightest idea,” said Fuller.
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