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The Carolina Journal
i Eleven
questions
about i
Water i
Beds I
r—The scuba club-
Thursday, March 11, 1971
The Journal explores
How much water does it
hold?
About 200 gallons. You
can adjust the firmness hy
adding or removing a little
water.
How many people can it
hold?
As many as you usually
take to hed with you.
Does it give good support?
This is probably the most
orthopedically sound bed
ever developed.
What keeps the water warm?
With the economy kit a
foam pad is used for
induslation. The delux kit has
a water proff heating element
that can be set to keep you as
warm as you like. In summer
you can turn it off and the
bed will cool you.
Dd you sleep well on it?
Because the bed does not
crush the small capillaries in
your skin, you don't toss and
turn at night, your dreams are
uninterrupted and you sleep
more deeply and need less
sleep each night.
How is it for sex?
Indescribable.
Can it be punctured?
The heavy gauge is
virtually impossible to
puncture by accident. You
might be able to slash it-but
how often do you slash your
mattress?
Suppose I do puncture it?
The frame is lined with a
vinyl sheet to hold any water
that might spill.
How much does it cost?
Kits start at $69.95.
Deluxe kits with heaters
$129.95. You can own a
complete water bed for less
than a king size standard bed.
/Vhy sleep on a water bed?
Come up to our
environment and find out.
^ow available at Carolina
water bed company.
212 North Independence
Blvd.
Charlotte, N.C. 28204
377-2936
VIon.-Fri. 11 a.m.-8 p.m.
Sat. 8i Sun. noon-6 p.m.
Lloyd Bridges style
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by marcia walker
and susie sutton
What is it?
The water bed is a clear
durable vinyl mattress filled
with water and surrounded
by a handsome kingsize wood
frame.
require a QP, or elections, or
anything but your interest and
time.
I So there’s nothing to do. You Sliades of Lloyd Bridges-every
j only watch TV and study. You Thursday night the Scuba Club
, don’t meet new people. You don’t has its own SeaHunt across the
> I go anywhere. There’s a lot of bottom of the UNCC pool.
: lactivities if you know what Marcia Walker and Susie
:[to expect?_ Fear now more Sutton joined the Scuba Club one
These articles are the first of a
series of the goings-on that don’t
Thursday evening to find out how
it works.
About fifteen people sat in the
bleachers at the pool as Ron
Lynch went through the business
portion of the meeting. We had
been swimming an hour before
and sat there wringing water from
our hair as Ron explained that the
scuba club wanted to offer a
course in diving.
Certification for divers allows
them to dive anywhere, and
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JOURNAL editor Marcia Walker is all wet. But it’s in the line of duty. Ron Lynch, back to the
camera is instructing her on how to use the oxygen equipment at the Scuba Club, (photo by steve
wilcox)
UNCC Wildlife Refuge
Physician donates 30 acre tract
A Stanly County pliysician and
liis wife have given tlie University
of NortI) Carolina at Charlotte a
30-acre tract to help students
become more aware of tlie
environment and their role in
preserving it.
Dr. George M. Leiby and his
wife, Louise Wilkins Leiby, are
the donors of the site along the
Rocky River 20 miles east of
Charlotte on the Stanly-Union
County border.
The tract is part of their larger
CAN YOU BE INDIFFERENT?
Th« baby seal in the photo was one of 50,000 killed in the
Gulf of St. Lawrence, one of over half a million seals
clubbed, speared, shot, gaffed during the 1970 Canadian-
Nonvegian slaughter in the Atlantic.
Don't believe furriers who would persuade you that
Friends of Animals has been "misleading" you, that any
slaughter anywhere is done for the benefit of the seals.
I, Alice Herrington, testify that on March 21, 1970-the
second day of the Canadian season on seals-l saw the
same brutal massacre against which Friends of Animals,
of which I am president, has been protesting for years.
As the bubble-domed helicopter flew tow over the first day's
kill, I saw mother seals nuzzling the skinless corpses of
their babies. Standing ten feet away from the killers on the
ice floes, twenty miles out in the Gulf, I saw baby seals,
clubbed twice, raise their heads as they were sliced open,
Other babies were battered as many as fourteen times
while the mothers watched m terror and stress.
intends to pound on the world's conscience until sentient
men and women everywhere are made aware of the
unnecessary cruelty and destruction being inflicted upon
animals. Your contribution will be used to plead for those
creatures who cannot speak for themselves but who dumbly
implore your pity.
If You Are One Who Cannot Be Indifferent to the Suffering
of Other Creatures
YOU CAN HELP
first-by refusing to garb yourself in the agony of another,
by refusing to buy the skins of wildlife.
Friends of Animals, Inc.
11 WEST 60TH STREET
NEW YORK, N.Y. 10023
□ Enclosed it my lai dtduclible
contribution to help stop the slaughter
of merine mammals. Please add
my name to your mailing list.
Q Send me a mat of this advertisement to
that I can place this advertisement in
my local paper at my own expense
(also tex-deductiblc).
lV'>
Second-by causing this advertisement to be inserted In
your local newspaper. (A mat will be sent upon your request
to Friends of Animats. See coupon.)
Third-by sending e tax-deductible contribution to
Friends of Animals, irtc.. a non-profit organization that
Help stop the slaughter of marine animals
Rocky River Friendship Farm.
The site, with a half-mile frontage
on the river, slopes down from a
ridge. It includes a creek, which
the Leibys are damming up for a
wildlife lake after consultations
with wildlife and soil conservation
representatives.
Mostly wooded, the UNCC
procure air for tanks. The course
will cost $20 a semester, bu
cannot be offered unless twenty
people sign up. The dues for scub
club are S3.(X) per semester, wit
contributions to replenish oxygen
supplies.
The quest for new member
and course participants must enc
of March 11, to insur
competition before the end of th
semester.
Ron then took the eigh
beginners, including the two
“observers” from the JOURNAl
and explained. We were to get ou
equipment as he prepared to
instruct us on its use.
We raced across the pool, as a
Susie clamored up the side of the
pool, Marcia got enougl
equipment for both of us. She ha(
used a ladder.
We new scuba divers were
herded to the “shallow” end of
the pool (four-and-a-half feet
deep) where we put on our masks
first and proceeded to try out our
snorkels.
Marcia’s mask had a big black
disc over the nose area that made
her look like a koala bear in
glasses, but she traded it in soon
after for a mask that didn’t leak
when she went under water. In
the meantime Susie spit in her
mask to keep it from fogging up-
Ron explained that the saliva
insulated the madk from the cold
water and kept the warmer breath
from condensing. Bllech! But h
worked.
Members demonstrating
^ snorkeling, explained how it was
Impossible to breath under water
without drowning. Then, like
ducklings, we were supposed to
follow their example. Marcia had
to overcome her fear of complete
immersion with her nose and
mouth covered-after that she did
fine. Susie wasn’t scared, in fact
she just kept breathing ri^t along
and swallowed about a gallon of
water.
Marcia swam the length of the
pool flutter kicking, making ^
surface dive, then dolphin kicking
her way back. Susie got to the
surface dive, forgot to breath at
the right time and swallowed
more water. As Ron Lynch swam
Wildlife Refuge, as it will be
called, contains remains of early* / .• . -
settlements and is adjacent to a ““"(continued on page 8)--**
adjacent
fault-line which served as a natural
ford across the Rocky River for
an early major trail.
Dr. James Clay and Dr.
Douglas M. Orr, Jr. of the UNCC
Geography Department have been
working witli Doctor and Mrs.
Leiby on tlie transfer of the
property.
Dr. Clay is primarily interested
in the tract for environmental
programs. “It will allow water
sampling of the small lake, the
river, and its tributaries for
comparison,” he said. “It will be a
good site for a small weatlier
station, for small-lake studies, and
for geological studies. In short, it
holds tlie potential to support a
good outdoor environmental
quality laboratory,” Dr. Clay said.
Dr. Orr is interested in the
tract for an Outward Bound-type
project under which students
expand their awareness of their
physical and mental capabilities
and their role in the environment.
He said it would provide for
canoe trips, rope training and
hiking. His proposed program is
being called, “Venture.” If
approved by the University, the
course will last three weeks in the
summer. Tlie first week would be
spent at a base camp on the
UNCC Wildlife Refuge.
(continued on page 8)
Evening
courses
expand
th«
The evening division of
University of North Carolina
Charlotte, which has bee*’
expanding its offerings, no'^
serves 15.3 per cent of the stude**
body.
Dr. Seth Ellis, director of
evening program, said that biN
students are enrolled exclusive^
in evening courses. Of
number, 258 are undergraduate^
and 342 are graduate students.
The large number of gradual®
students in the evening progm”)
had been anticipated, and ma*’J
new courses added in the spr*'’^
semester were designed to sefV®
them, Dr. Ellis said.
Di^. Ellis indicated that m
large demand coming from ju*’’*’
and senior students and gradual
reflects the University’s bi?j;
percentage of students who '''9'!,
either part or ftll-time wh*
part
continuing
UNCC.
their education
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