2 the journal uncc athuisday, april 29,1971
ESP Parapsychologist Dr. J. B. Rhine delivered a lecture on his
speciality in the UC Parquet Room last Thursday night. Journal
photographer Bill Ranson superimposed Rhine over Charlotte
for the eerie effect due the strange science.
Drug Education
Fed Funds Asked
by marcia finfrock
On April 14, a proposal
prepared by UNCC students and
Dr. Steven Bondy, Counseling
Center, was sent to Washington
requesting funds for drug
education. The proposal included
requests for funding for programs
at UNCC, Johnson C. Smith
University and Central Piedmont
Community College, with a
treatment facility at UNCC.
The program would include
courses examining the
counter-culture movement, a
booklet containing pertinent
information regarding the various
drugs, an acute treatment facility
on the UNCC campus, symposia,
and research.
The requested Federal funding
for 1971-72 is $29,150.
Twenty-five campuses and
universities are to be awarded
Federal funding under the Drug
Abuse Education Act of 1970.
Notification for site approval of
each campus submitting a
proposal is May 4.
If UNCC’s proposal is
accepted, the period from July 1,
1971 to September, 1971 will be
used to plan and develop
information to be distributed to
the students during the fall
semester, contact speakers for the
symposia, and train students and
faculty for the acute treatment
facility which will open in the fall.
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There will be a meeting of all persons who plan to do student
teaching at UNCC during both the Fall and Spring semesters of
academic year 1971-72 in Room C-220at 11:30 a.m., Monday, May 3.
Attendance is imperative for those expected to student teach.
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The Oratorio Singers of Charlotte, celebrating their twentieth year
this season, will present the “Requiem Mass” by Anton Dvorak
Saturday, May 1, 8:15 p.m., at Ovens Auditorium. Director Donald
Plott, Chmrman of the Music Department at Davidson, will conduct the
155-voice chorus accompanied by full orchestra and four outstanding
soloists in the field of Oratorio.
Tickets for the performance can be secured through the Oratorio
Office, 827 E. ^ulevard, telephone 375-7512. Orchestra and
Mezzanine seats are $3.75. First five rows in the orchestra are $3.00.
Balcony and ade Orchestra are $2.50 with a special student rate of
$1.50 in the Balcony.
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Sanskrit, UNCC’s literary magazine has been awarded a grant of
$300 by the North Carolina Arts Council. The purpose of the allocation
is “to aid in the recognition of North Carolina writers.”
The Council encourages recipients of the grant to utilize the money
to make cash payments to authors for original manuscripts and to
award cada prizes for literary contests, and it is expected that Sanskrit
will offer awards for the best work received.
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Alpha Delta Pi is holding a SLAVE AUCTION on Wednesday, May
5, in both the Dorm and the University Center Cafeterias at 12 noon.
Sisters and pledges will be auctioned off to do chores for the highest
bidder.
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Mother’s Day, May 9, a day when millions will follow the American
tradition of giving Mom something special, is also a day in which half of
the world’s population will go to bed hungry. On Mother’s Day half of
the 200 human beings bom each minute are destined to die before age
one.
But American students can pay tribute to their mothers in unique
form. CARE, says Bee H. Brown, Atlanta Regional Director, has a gift
plan through which students can give their mothers a special gift and, at
the same time help the world’s needy. The plan: simply make a
contribution of one dollar or more to CARE in the mother’s name.
That mother will then receive a special Mother’s Day card notifying
her that needy people overseas have been aided in her name. Students
should remember to include their mother’s name and address with all
contributions. Write to CARE, 615 Forsyth Building, Atlanta, Georgia
30303.
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The Charlotte Opera Association will present three operas during the
1971-72 season. Included will be LaBoheme, Oct. 25, The Barber of
Seville, Feb. 1, and tales of Hoffmann, April 24.
Student season tickets, for $3.50, are on sale now. Phone Mr. Renfro
at 334-0787 or 525-1642.
f Interview:
The Loving
Book Author
by Charlie peek
During the Population
Workshop held here last week.
The Journal had the opportunity
to interview James Trussell,
Davidson Senior and author of
The Loving Book, a somewhat
controversial publication dealing
with birth control and abortion.
The book explains all methods
of contraception in simple direct
terms and gives a regional guide to
abortion referral agencies along
with general facts about abortion
procedures.
It has been distributed, free of
charge, on the UNCC campus and
a limited number of copies are on
sale at local bookshops.
Trussell talked of The Loving
Book, his future plans, and on the
politics of abortion.
JOURNAL: First of all, we were
wondering what kind of response
or feedback you have received
since publication of The Loving
Book.
Trussell: Well, I haven’t had any
formal feedback as yet, but I have
had many informal conversations
with students in the Charlotte
area and am now beginning to get
some response from students in
the Atlanta area. The feedback
has mostly been positive. A lot of
people are concerned about the
title; I just have to say I’m sorry if
they’re offended. It’s no
make-it-or-break-it thing with me.
Journal: I have heard that there
have been some comments from
the Women’s Lib. and Gay Lib
movements about the title. Can
you comment on this?
Trussell: 1 really haven’t had
many comments from Women’s
Lib since my editor, Charleen
Whisnant, mentioned some
comments she had received. The
title of The Loving Book is not
meant to say that all love takes
place in heterosexual
relationships. That wasn’t the
intent at all. It was probably just a
poor choice of title’s as far as
accurately indicating what is
inside. I do apologize to any
Women’s Lib or Gay Lib people
who are offended by the title.
Journal: Has The Loving Book
been distributed on any other
college campuses?
Trussell: It was distributed in the
Charlotte area on the five major
college campus: UNCC, Davidson,
Johnson C. Smith, Queens, and
Central Piedmont, free of charge,
for as many as we could give out.
It’s also on sale in almost every
bookstore in Charlotte for fifty
cents, which is not a huge price.
It was also given out at Florida
Presbyterian College in St.
Petersburg, Florida and now an
Atlanta edition has come out.
Journal: Are you planning any
more publications or books of this
type?
Trussell: I’m working on a book
right now with the Director of the
Emory University Family
Planning program. Dr. Robert
Hatcher, on general family
planning in the U.S.; what services
are being delivered, how we
should think as citizens about sex
education, contraception,
sterilization, abortion and
population. It’s sort of a
handbook for the citizen to use.
It’s not so much of a methods
book like The Loving Book.
Journal: We understand that
you’ve received some type of
study grant for further work. Can
you tell us about that?
Trussell; The Thomas J. Watson
Gay Student President
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. (CPS)—Jack Baker, a local Gay activist,
won the student body presidential elections last week at the University
of Minnesota, the nations' largest university.
The new Minnesota Student Association leader is currently engaged
in a court battle to marry his male roommate. Baker is a second-year
law student who was rated "far superior" in an editorial endorsement in
the Minnesota Daily. He outpolled two other candidates, one a noted
conservative, in the April 8 election.
Baker's campaign was for "student dignity," and he says his first
effort will be to demand student representation on the university's
Board of Regents committees.
A past president of the campus Gay Liberation called FREE (Fight
Repression of Erotic Expression) Baker says he would not be a
spokesman for Gay Liberation, and he "wouldn't try to impose it on
the campus."
He received considerable publicity last May when he was refused a
marriage license to marry his apartment-mate, James M. McConnell, and
they have taken the case to the state supreme court. McConnell lost a
university library job he had been promised after the marriage license
story broke. He then sued the university in a federal court, and won a
landmark decision that homosexuality alone could not be grounds for
refusing public employment.
The University of Minnesota has appealed and the federal judge
stayed the order requiring the university to put McConnell on the
payroll.
Baker also has pending a petition to adopt McConnell.
Eco-Pornography
Senator William B. Spong, Jr. of Virginia has introduced a bill to po*
the purveyors of eco-pornography behind bars for six months or to fio«
them $10,0(X).
Senator Spong says his bill, S. 927, was prompted by the flood o*
advertising praising industrial pollution control that followed hard o’'
the heels of the nation's new environmental awareness. As Spong put if
"Many industries apparently are placing more emphasis on advertisinS
their abatement activities than they are on abatement itself. And th®
advertisements in some cases are worse than misleading-they are no*
even truthful."
The bill ammends the air and water control laws "to prevent fah®
and deceptive advertising with respective to products and serviced t®
prevent and control air and water pollution." Co-sponsors indluc*
Senators Howard Baker of Tenn., Birch Bayh of Indiana, Robert Dol«
of Kansas, Edmund Muskie of Maine and Jennings Randolph of We**
Virginia. All except Spong are members of the Public Works Committed
to which the legislation was referred, virtually assuring its passage on*®
the Senate Floor. (Reprinted from Vol 36, No. 6, April 1, Conservation
News.)
D.C. Guard Alerted
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Wash Post/New York Times j
Service)—The District of Columbia Army National Guard has be®” |
ordered to training status for next week, when militant anti'N®' '
protesters have said they will try to disrupt traffic and shut down so)®® ^
government operations here. '
Maj. Gen. Charles L. Southward, Guard commander, said Monday i
ordered his men to training at nearby Ft. Meade, Md., because j
thought it was prudent." The Guard normally takes three weeks ;
training in June.
Col. C.C. Bryant, Guard Adjutant General, said he expected abo**' ;
1,300 men to participate in the training. They received the order I®* I
weekend, he said. , '
Defense Department spokesman Daniel Z. Henkin said he belie't^ j
the order came at the request of Justice Department officials, aoti^
after talks with the D.C. government. A Justice spokesman said Mon*)®' j
night he knew nothing of it. ^
Henkin said the Pentagon had made no spedfic plans of its own 1° >
next week's demonstrations.
Meanwhile, roving groups of antiwar demonstrators
hit-and-run protest actions ranging from grotesque guerrilla theate' * ^
quiet "rap sessions" with congressmen on Capital Hill Monday. j
appealed to the Supreme Co*)
and there is sotrre hope that t**
court may strike these down.
The other way, of coutsO’
throu^ legislative reform-
Foundatiorr has awarded me
$6,000 to study delivery of
abortion services around the
world in any place that 1 might
choose. I originally chose Eastern
Europe and Japan, but with China
opening up, it appears that this is
where \ really want to do my Jones and the people who
study. For the next two years 1 really working for this feel tha
will be at Oxford, England, and will come about in 1973. ^
three years from now I expect
China to be opened up enough for
me to do my study.
Journal: One more opinion
question concerning the Abortion
Reform Bill that was just struck
down in the N.C. Legislature.
What do you think the future is
for abortion reform in North
Carolina?
Trusselll: There
which it may come. You recall the wanted the law repealed,
case of Corkey, Jones, Burts and ont and working for it.
Hendricks against the state of fmled because one, the -3*^
North Carolina, which resulted in Church put on about ten
the District Court here striking much pressure this time ‘ j|
down the residency requirement *J'*J m 1967 when the ;
but upholding the three teform law was passed. U tVjjl
conditions under which abortions became a sort of pt>'
may be performed. This is being lobbying phenomena.
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appears that nothing more is
to happen in this session, and
1 was very disappointed by i
(the bill). I was hoping very
that it would come about.
Journal: Do you feel that
success that the reform
experience could be attribute^’^^
least partly, to public petitio”
and support? . u I
Trussell: The extent to which ^ j
bill did as well as it did !
are two routes tesult of the people, who
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