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VOLUME 10. NUMBER 6
UNCC Plans
For Future
The UNCC Master Campus
Plan was released Friday, by
David Thorman, vice president
of the planning firm of Caudill,
Rowlette, and Scott, a Texas
-based planning firm. The plan
called for the preservation of
the rural settings on the
1000-acre UNCC campus.
At present, 100 acres are
being used for university
buildings and parking areas.
Only about 25 additional acres
are to be built up, leaving
around 80 percent of the
campus woodland.
The Master Plan called for
the filling in of the main campus
with academic and housing
buildings. Pedestrian walkways
Will be built between the
existing buildings as well as
those planned for in the future.
Parking will be cut off from the
main campus under the new
plan.
The area around the campus
will be left in trees. None will be
cleared for buildings in the
future. It is hoped the
preservation of the rural setting
will save in landscaping costs as
well as provide a pleasant
atmosphere for an urban
university.
Parking will increase only
slightly in the Master Plan. The
current 30 acres of parking will
increase to about 85 acres, with
plans for parking which will not
be visible to individuals passing
UNCC from Highway 49.
The plans also calls for the
formation of people places
where faculty and students may
intermix. Thorman noted the
vast differences between
members of the student body,
commuter, residence, married,
unmarried, and suggested more
areas be constructed such as
cafeterias, snackbars, and
athletic fields where intermixing
of the student body would be
more accessible. The closely
constructed buildings will aid in
the intermixing of faculty and
students.
The possibility of a new
15-story library tower to be
built behind the current
10-story Dalton Library Tower
was also proposed by the firm.
The actual construction will not
occur however until it is deemed
necessary by a rise in
enrollment.
Currently, UNCC's student
population is 6,550. The plan
will remain valid until a student
enrollmen of 20,000 is met, the
projected enrollment figure for
the future..
UNCC campus anticipates changes.
journal photo by dean hubbard
Deckert Speaks On
Transactional Analysis
Dr. Gordon Deckert,
professor and chairman of the
Department of Psychiatry and
Behavioral Sciences at the
University of Oklahoma College
.of Medicine spoke on campus
Tuesday, October 1 in the Rowe
Recital Hall. During the past
two years. Dr. Deckert has been
traveling all over the country in
conjunction with the American
Academy of Family Practice
using the Transactional Analysis
Model.
Dr. Deckert's lecture topic
was entitled "Transactional
Analysis—Who Teaches and Who
Learns?' Dr. Deckert dealt with
the phenomenonology of
Transactional analysis which
simply means the skills in
sending and receiving messages.
He stated that the facial
expression of emotions is free of
culture. All nations, races, rren.
women and children display the
seven primary emotions. Dr.
Deckert gave vivid illustrations
of these emotions both with
verbal and nonverbal signs. The
emotion of acceptance is
reflected in i ncorporative
behavior, such as when someone
puts the back of their forefinger
to their lips, they are accepting
what is being expressed to them.
Disgust promotes rejection
which you can pick up when
someone wrinkles up their nose
or rubs their nose with the side
of their finger. Dr. Deckert
transformed himself into several
dramatic characterizations of a
pouting child, a self-righteous
parent, a computer-like adult, a
baby refusing to swallow his
food, etc. Dr. Deckert was a
mobile speaker, as he moved all
over the stage, in the audience
aisles, and stood on the front
row looking into the audience's
faces, watching their expressions
and gestures.
Dr. Deckert went on to
expound on ego states. He
defined an ego state as a
particular set of ways of
thinking and feeling and
reacting that go together. He
stressed this statement several
times using various pitches and
tones to express the different
ego states that he could come
from. He named the three ego
states as Child, Parent, and
Computer. When you're in your
Child, you think, feel, and act as
once you did as a child. The
words you may use are 'I'll try,'
'I can't', 'I won't', 'I'm only 272
years old', and 'you don't really
expect me to do that'. When
you're in the Parent ego state
you are teaching or transferring
attitudes, beliefs, and opinions.
Parent state occurs when once a
person perceives their parent or
people parenting them and then
internalizing this. The trinity of
the Parent ego state is punitive,
critical, and nurturing. The
verbal cues are 'Don't' 'Stop'
'Right' 'Wrong' 'All men' 'all
Catholics' 'should' 'we never do
things like that'. There are also
"Professional Parents" who are
those people who always feel
like they have to take care of
someone. The third ego state.
Dr. Deckert called the
Computer which is
characterized by thinking,
gathering facts, and asking
questions. In the books I'm OK,
You're OK and Born to Win, the
Computer ego state is referred
to as Adult, but Dr. Deckert
elaborates on this by saying that
by using the term Adult, people
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tend to generalize this state as
the ideal ego state for them as
adults, but actually there is no
such animal. Whatever ego state
is the most adaptive in each
situation is what matters.
To qualify this statement,
he gave an example of a man
frozen in his parent, in relation
to going to bed with his wife,
"It's my family duty". While
when someone is frozen in the
Computer state they respond
"We have sex 3.5 times a week".
When the man comes out with
the comment "Let's stay in bed
forever", he is frozen in his
child. Also, any individual can
have a parent-contaminated
Computer, a child-contaminated
Corrputer or contamination by
all three states. This simply
means a particular ego state
predominates.