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volume X, number 22
‘The Student newspaper of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.’
charlotte, north Carolina
BCA program faces
first evaluation
february 25, 1975
The BCA (Bachelor of
I Creative Arts) program is being
I evaluated for the first time since
lit became a reality. It began in
■ the fall of 1972 as a department
[under the College of Humanities
land Dr. Lucca Dicecco became
I Chairman.
Dr. Dicecco says BCA is
I "unique to the North Carolina
[state system...(and) originally
[conceived as an innovative
[program in the arts." Originally
jit was planned during the
I program development, that BCA
I would be evaluated after years.
However, the program was
"not evaluated last year,"
jDicecco said during an
I interview. It was when BCA
[faculty passed a resolution
[seeking college status (College
[ of Creative Arts) for BCA, that
[ the time seemed appropriate to
I evaluate the program.
The final decision to
j evaluate the program resulted
I among conversations by Dr.
iDicecco, Dean Matpis,
Vice-Chancellor Phillip Hildreth,
I Provost Frank Dickey and
I Chancellor D.W. Colvard. By
January 24, 1975 the following
I committees had been formed
I and given the responsibility of
I evaluating BCA:
1 . Academic
iQuality-Robert Rieke,
] Chairman.
2. Admissions, Registration
[ and Counseling-Harold Clarke,
1 Chairman.
3. Public Service &
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Information-Loy Witherspoon,
Chairman.
4. Cost Ana lysis—Barry
Lesley, Chairman.
5 . B u i Iding Use and
Ma i nt ena nee-Ed Ayers,
Chairman.
6. Administrative
Analysis —Sherman Burson,
Chairman.
The committees are
comprised of persons both
within and without the BCA
department. No chairpersons are
BCA faculty or staff members.
No students are on the
committees, but student input
will come from interviews with
past and present BCA majors
and non-majors.
Dr. Dicecco said
information from the
committees will be compiled in
a report that will be helpful to
Creative Arts faculty and
students. It will give a review to
the administration and
University as a whole and may
"ultimately be appraised by
outside consultants." The report
will be compiled possibly by
March 1 5, 1975, Presently,
there are no withstanding results
of the evaluation to guarantee
that BCA will become a college.
For Dicecco, evaluation is a
"bomb." He says, "you need to
stop and take a look at where
you've been. It's the kind of
thing I would like to see every
college or department take
every three years or so."
Entertainment
at
the
Rathskellar
this past
weekend
Kennedy, victim of conspiracy?
The theory that John F.
I Kennedy was the victim of a
j political conspiracy was offered
jhere last Triesday night,
■ February 18, by Bob Katz, a
■ lecturer out of a Boston group
■ called the Assasination
I Information Bureau.
Speaking before over 600
■ people in the crowded Lucas
■ Room of the Cone Universtiy
■ Center, Katz, a small man with
■ wire-rimmed glasses and hair in
■ a pony-tail, presented slides and
■ amateur movies while he gave a
■ 90-minute lecture on the
jassassination.
Katz said his group wants to
■ investigate "factual holes" in
■the Warren Commission report,
■which attributes the killing
■ solely to Lee Harvey Oswald.
■ Although the speaker did not
■ clearly indicate who he thought
[the conspirators were,
[throughout the talk he
[I'epeatedly threw verbal daits at
[the CIA, the FBI, the Justice
[ Department, the Secret Service,
[the Dallas Police Department,
[the national news media and
[Geiald Ford, former member of
^he Warren Commission. Katz
implied that the Commission's
report — which says the
assassination was the work of
one "isolated, crazed man" — is
actually a cover-up.
The American public, said
the lecturer, should be curious
about certain unanswered
questions about the November
22, 1963 incident. For starters,
Katz threw out the following
observations, among others:
*While he was being kept
pi. .oner, Lee Harvey Oswald
kept saying "I'm a patsy, I'm a
patsy."
"“The Dallas police kept no
records or tapes of
interrogations of Oswald.
*Jack Ruby showed up at
precisely the right time to kill
Oswald, even though the
transfer to another jail was an
hour off schedule. This
elimination of Oswald, said
Katz, "was the most significant
act in the whole cover-up.”
^Kennedy, according to
medical evidence, was shot from
the front as well as from the
back, said Katz. In addition, he
said, 58 out of 80 eye-witnesses
believed that the gunshots came
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from a grassy area in front of
the presidential motorcade. The
Warren report claims that all
shots were fired from the sixth
floor of the Texas Scholl Book
Depository. In reality, though,
according to Katz, "a crossfire
killed John F. Kennedy."
*Although Kennedy died at
Parkland Memorial Hospital in
Dallas, he was transferred to
Bethseda Naval Hospital in
Maryland for an autopsy. Three
military surgeons performed the
procedure although, according
to Katz, none of them had ever
done an autopsy before. The
notes from the autopsy were
burned that night, said Katz.
*D LI ring the six-second
shooting, both Kennedy and
Governor John Conally suffered
multiole wounds. The Italian
bolt action rifle attributed to
Oswald could shoot only three
bullets in six seconds if no time
was used for aiming.
^Although the Warren
report claims that both the
governor and the president were
hit by a single bullet, a movie
taken by a near-by spectator
shows no reaction in Connally
journal photos by ben barnes
until two-thirds of a second
after Kennedy is hit, an
abnormally long time for a
bullet to travel from the back
seat to the front seat, said Katz.
*The bullet belonging to
Oswald's rifle was found "under
suspicious circumstances" by an
orderly at the hospital, said
Katz. It was found smooth and
not at all misshappen, although
ballistics experts, according to
Katz, expect a bullet that has
gone through the body's tough
bony areas to be badly bent.
The Secret Servicemen
accompanying the president did
not move as instantly to help
him and Jackie as the men did
who were guarding
Vice-President Johnson, said
Katz.
'Many FBI
documents on the case have
been classified - until the year
2038, according to Katz.
Drawing parallells with
Watergate, Katz told the
audience to "keep the
curiosity" regarding the
assassination. "Something went
wrong that day and I think
something is still wrong," he
said.
During
question-and-answer session,
Katz urged members of the
audience to sign a petition
asking the government to
re-open the JFK case. He also
denied being funded by the
Kennedy family, adding that he
thought their responses to the
killing and the Warren
Commission's report have been
"mystifying."