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volume 10, number 5
charlotte, north Carolina
Oct. 2, 1974
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Student Reps
Asked To Leave
Creative Arts Meeting
- by david w. ledbetter
journal photo by dean hubbard
Food Prices Go Up
An increase in food prices
by Servomation will be effective
October 1, 1974. This increase
will affect the University Center
Cafeteria only.
Rises in food prices, the
cost of utilities, and labor, are
cited as the chief reasons for the
increase, which is the first
substantial increase during a
semester in the school's history.
The rise in the price of some
foods will result in infrequent
serving of them.
Breakfast items are
expected to be hardest hit of
tne increase, borne may go as
high as 16% over the price they
cost now. Meat will cost more
also. Servomation officials warn
however that wise shoppers will
be able to purchase the same
foods for what they cost now, if
thrift is recognized. Most
increases in food prices will fall
in the 6% to 10% range.
Many prices in the Cone
University Cafeteria have been
lowered under the cost of what
they were this spring, in hopes
that food prices would remain
the same for the semester.
A food price increase in the
Residence Hall Cafeteria will
not occur during this academic
year. Dave Dorries, Director of
the Residence Hall cafeteria,
said the food is contracted for,
an entire year and the prices are
not as negotiable as the'
University Center Cafeteria
where food is purchased. There
is a possibility that-food prices
will rise for dorm students by
fall semester next year.
What could have possibly
materialized into a grave
problem In the Bachelor of
Creative Arts Department is
now apparently reconciled.
The problem began
Wednesday when during a
meeting to form a
"departmental status review
committee", the student
representatives were asked to
leave. Dr. Luca DiCecco, during
an interview, made clear that
the request was not made as an
insult to the students or as an
attempt to refute student power
in the department, but that
under the circumstances he felt
it would be better for the
student representatives if they
were not present. The problem,
related DiCecco, was one of
"internal origin" and student
representation absence at that
time was apparently in the
better interest of all concerned.,
A BCA student, not to be
identified at this time, related
that he believed Dr. DiCecco's
position was a well taken one
for he sees it as an "effort to
keep from exposing how some
-faculty members become
political instead of
administrative". The student
said that Dr. DiCecco wanted to
"spare us from an exhibition of
the staff and faculty that would
possibly lower the opinion of
the student representatives of
these staff-faculty members".
This attempt was made to avoid
a possible breakdown in unity
and cooperation..
In this meeting there was a
high concentration of music
representatives while art and
theatre had only moderate to
relatively low representation..
This would obviously tend to
bring about a state of
"unbalanced power" which
again could be damaging to the
BCA program.
Those interviewed related
that this imbalance needs to be
worked out at its origin: the
staff and faculty. Therefore at
the time of that meeting the
student representatives would
be in ah awkward situation.
Because of the situation the
student representatives did not
know the circumstances,
therefore needed not be present.
This problem is now
reconciled, for although at times
student were not informed of
the meetings, they now will be
informed and will have full
attendance and voting privileges
with the right to abstain as a
whole or singly when they feel
the need..
Cone University Center
Is Expanding
An addition is in the
planning stages for the Cone
University Center. The
estimated expense for the
structure will be $2,620,000’.
The funds for the addition will
come from revenue bonds to be
paid off by student fees.
Construction is set to begin in
mid-October..
Louis W. Moelchert, Jr.,
Vice Chancellor of Business
Affairs, was interviewed by the
Journal as to exactly what
student fees would be used and
if there will be an eventual
increase in student fees as a
result. Moelchert was quoted as
saying "There is an existing
student fee which is $10 per
semester— $20 per year. This
will be used to pay off the debt
when a university-type building
is constructed. It has to be
constructed with student fee
monies. The State just doesn't
built that kind of facility like it
would a classroom building. It
does not provide an
appropriationfor that type of
building so revenue bonds have
to be sold. These revenue bonds
are paid with student fees."
Mr. Moelchert continued by
saying that in order to pay off
the debt service portion of the
bonds, the present student fee
may be adequate but in the case
that it is not, there may have to
be an additional $5 per year
tacked on so as to pay off the
debt completely. The Vice
Chancellor went on to say that
looking at this from a future
standpoint, student fees may
well increase as a result of
operating the additional space
to the Center. These incurred
expenses would include
custodial services, utilities, and
additional personnel for
extension of the Center's
program.
Mr. Moelchert was then
asked specifically which 150
parking spaces will be lost due
to the Center's expansion. In
Moelchert's words, "If you take
a look at the existing University
Center lot as you go down to
the lot and walk down to the
fourth light down, the fourth
light in the lot, you could draw
a straight line up from the road
to the University Center up to
behind the existing University
Center. That will be in essence
the area where the construction
will take place. That will include
the actual space where the
building is going to be
constructed plus space for the
contractors for storage of
construction materials." He
elaborated further by stating
that the bulk of the parking
spaces to be eliminated will be E
(Student parking} spaces. This
will leave a remainder of 400
spaces in which half or more
than half will, be in E.
Vern Parrish, Director of
the University Center, was next
consulted concerning plans for
increased space for the media
within the new addition to the
Cone University Center. Parrish
said, "It was not specified as to
whether that would belong to
the Media or other
organizations. By the time we
get into this new building, other
organizations are going to need
that space, and the Media
offices downstairs may through
refurbishing or renovation of
that area be able to expand their
space".
A Building Committee was
formed for proposing and
setting up priorities for the
Center addition. This
18-member panel, made up of 9
students and 9 faculty and staff
members, recontmended that
space would be vacated as a
result of the Cone expansion.
This vacated space would be the
games and television area which
Parrish said could be used as a
student activity area for
organizations on campus which
needed such space. He named
several campus organizations
which are requesting space for
file storage, work space, and
by donna hoover
storage space. These include
some of the sororities; the
Scuba Club, the Sailing Club,
and the Panhellenic Council,
coordinating body for the
sororities.
Parrish informed the
Journal that there would be
three levels composing the new
addition to Cone. Recreational
facilities would be located on
the ground floor, consisting of
an arcade for about twenty
pinball machines plus a variety
of other games; billiard tables,
foosball, table tennis and some
vending machines. Three
conference rooms will be
housed on the second level, the
largest being able to
accommodate 200 people. The
third level will hold a 650-seat
lecture hall equipped to show
16-mm movies with the capacity
of switching to 35-mm movies.
Also included on the last level
will be a fairly large lounge
complete with an art gallery and
a music listening area.