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I VARKS page four/the journal/december li 1971 o o O (Urgent Note: In the steaming press docket of a contemporary news office Uketj of the Journal, big stories fry up all the time like hotcakes. Editors scurry about w’y hints and leads in their pockets, sticking out of their hats, stuffing their shoes anE takes all the savvy they can muster to direct such hints and leads to the proper reporter^ Different stories deserve different treatments. This week, the Journal stumbled onto a biggie that literally has the whole st ft holding it breath. When this hint (or ‘lead’) came in over the wire, everybody said “oi God, when this hits campus...." News Editor Susan Sluss was immediately faced with th dilemma of assigning such a blockbuster. TYPO FUNNIES is happy to announce thatd’i to the nature of the story, this particular news has been assigned to the TF slot Th Typesetter is overjoyed at this opportunity to put on his press derby, his sloppy overcoat, and pick up his grimy stub of a pencil to bring you some Straight News... ) Applause Sign Update WHY IN HELL SHOULD RETURN?/" GtENERAL MACA'\RD\i\RK News Shorts The Library will be open until midnight, Sunday through Friday up until December 19. For anyone interested in helping with the spring orientation program, please contact Betty Chafin in the Dean of Students office. The Community School of the Arts will present a Christmas recital in the Parquet Room of the Cone University Center on Wednesday night, December 11. The program will begin promptly at 7:30 p.m. and will be followed by a short reception in the same room. The Pi Kappa Phi fraternity, sponsors for the event, cordially invites the entire UNCC community to attend this program to see and hear young children from Charlotte exhibiting the true Christmas spirit. The admission is free, so we hope you will join with us in observing the Christmas season with the young children from the Charlotte Community School of the Arts. TF Newsline -■ The Applause Sign of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte Gymnasium is not glowing in response to audience enthusiasm, inforrred sources revealed here late last week. The sign, a major technological advance designed by the UNCC Engineering Club, was projected to have been in operation by the start of the University's 49er Basketball season. The purpose of the sign was to "encourage school spirit" according to one Engineering Club member who only recently graduated from high school. It would accomplish this end by becoming illuminated at appropriate times during basketball games, encouraging the spectators to applaud and otherwise make noise. A unique feature of the sign was to be its ability to respond to such noise, by glowing brighter and brighter as the fans made more and more noise. It was not known at press time whether the sign would reach a limit of brightness or would have no limit, therefore having the potential to replace Court Decision In an o p i nion dated November 25, 1974, the University Court recommended to Chancellor Colvard that disciplinary sanctions be imposed against three students found to have been involved in a shooting incident in Dorm '72 on October 31. The Court, composed of four faculty members and a student, reco m me n d e d suspension from the University for two semesters for the student who owned the .22 pistol and who in fact shot another student. The Chancellor upheld the Court's opinion. One of the other two students involved was suspended from the residence halls for two semesters, beginning with the spring semester 1975, and. was also, put on disciplinary probation for one semester. The , third student was sentenced to disciplinary probation until the end of the spring semester 1975. The Court's opinion quoted the North Carolina General Statute 14-269.. which states in effect that it is unlawful for any person to possess any type of firearm or weapon on a University campus unless approved for ceremonial use by the administration. This action was brought on i behalf of the student body by the Attorney General. ^ Time to wait just a little bit longer.... for the publication of CAT TALES .seven true stories about the mystic RAA and the adventurous ADDISON, those two widely-respected cats who live with Patrick Miller and Winfred Minter, the ones who have set down the words o,/'CAT TALES A . is just a little bit later being published than planned, because Addison had some trouble disentangling herself from a fraudulent stock de^, and when Raa licked the judge " ' • •* u . ---,"7 —' V—p- V..1 the face to make this certain point he got cited for contempt of court...so they haven’t had time to kick ass, which they needed to do to Win and Pat if ths. t ass, which they needed to do to Wiri’and Pat if the stories were -going to be fimshed by Christmas, which they’re not. .VO keep an eye open for CAT TALES, available at UNCC immediately after Christmas holidays Embroidery front and back suede leather jackets short and shirt lengths. Regular - $75, 00 With Coupon - $49. 00 Elephant Bell Denim Jeans Regular - $1Z. 00 With Coupon - $9. 99 D0M£&’S Telephone: 394-8378 3ffer Expires December 26, 1974 3205 Freedom Drive - CHARLOTTE, Freedom Drive Mall the Sun as the light source of our Solar System. The present controversy concerns the tardiness of the Engineering Club in completing installation of the sign. The UNCC basketball season is already well begun and a number of fans have noticed the absence of the well-publicized Applause Sign. An interview with members of the construction crew revealed only that their problems are at this time "hush-hush", which may have something to do with the sound-sensitivity of the sign itself. A major feature of the community concern surrounding the sign is apparently economic. Some time ago the Student Legislature voted to appropriate nearly $400 to the Engineering Club for construction of the sign. Since that time some constituents of the Legislature have mildly suggested that the money might have been better spent, and it is apparently these same students who now feel 77 7'" 7"'"^= shortchanged. An unidentifiej vice-president of the Student Legislature guardedly summed up the feelings of the majority of the legislators in answer to a question about the 4.bi|| appropriation, "We pissed away a lot of dough without thinking and the students have been on our asses ever since". The VP refused to elaborate. One commuting student who admitted that she despised basketball was questioned concerning her feelings on the use of student money for the Applause Sign. "What are yon talking about?" she cormented, and upon being informed of the entire situation, she gazed upat f the Belk Bell Tower and added | quietly, "Goddamn this school". Further developments will be reported in the Journal as they become apparent. Eat your heart out, Bob Farquhar. FLY HIGH WITH AN Ag^eC € AGL€. Montes^mo® Tequila Corombo 11^ Monre.4ymQ Tequila 3 Grapefruit juice 1 Tablespoon sugar Club sodo Shoke with crocked ice, odd club soda. Serve in hrighboll glass. CUAUHTLI (THE EaGLE) Symbol for rhe 15rh doy of the oncienf Aztec week. © 1974. 80 Proof. Tepuilo Dorron Disiillers Import Co., New York. New York.
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