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Second Spring Election Results
Second Spring elections'
were held April 9&10. As a
result, 21 persons were, elected
to seats on Student Legislature
and the University Program
Board. Additionally, a runoff is
scheduled to be held for one
Legislature seat for a
representative to the College of
Social and Behavioral Sciences.
In the runoff are C. W. Mclver
and Robert Roberts.The runoff
should be held sometime this]
week.
Selected as At-Large
Members to the University
-Program Board were Ian Larlee
and Bob Williams.
Commuter representatives
to Student Legislature are Kat
Braswell, Mike Hewat, Wendy
Mole, and Becky Wackerhagen.
The following students were
elected as college reoresentatives
next year: Jim Guess
(Architecture), Bill Keith
(Economics and Business
Administration), Perry Myers'
(Economics and Business^
Administration), Roy Washam
(Engineering), Cleve H. Cox
'Humanities), Greg Davis
-by terry fulbrightj I
(Humanities), Tim Luckadoo
(Humanities), Elizabeth!
Edwards (Science and
Mathematics), Rick Martinez
(Science and Mathematics),
Rickey Pharr (Social and
Behavioral Sciences), Jerry
Proctor (Social and Behavioral
Sciences), and Carolyn Annette
Walker (Social and Behavioral
Sciences).
Next year's class Presidents,
are: Senior, David Holloway:^
Junior, Debbie Springs; and
Sophomore, Scott Simmons.
Doctors Davis &
Bryan write book
-by queenie mackey
journal photo by dean hubbard
“I feel very excited!”
"It's a very UNCC book,"
smiled Dr. Boyd Davis, the
co-author of Writing ' About
Literature and Film. The
excitement was more over the
new book than the disaster
struck array of books in her
office. Only the previous
evening, Thursday, April 10, did
she miss possible injury from
the metal bookcase which
collapsed atop her desk seat.
The book, published by
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,
Inc., is a first for Dr. Margaret
B. Bryan and Dr. Davis, both
UNCC English professors.
Speaking also for Dr. Bryan,
who is on leave of absence, Dr.
Davis said the book grew out of
their classroom experiences
here. It offers to help students
over that "numbing moment"
when they must write their
responses after reading a work
of literature or viewing a film.
Speaking of literature and film,
one might ask "will a close
analysis of ail the parts ruin
your appreciation of the play,
the film, the story, the poem?"
"No more than a careful
study of Jack Nicklaus' drive or
Chris Evert's backhand will
prevent you from enjoying the
U. S. Open or the Wimbledon
Finals," say Bryan and Davis in
their preface.
The design of the book
consists of ten to eleven
"analytic steps" for each genre:
Poetry, short fiction, drama and
film. The steps are presented to
make the process of writing an
analysis easier.
Included In the book are
eight excerpts from Charlotte
students' theme papers. The
theme papers illustrate the
analytic steps. Six UNCC
(cont. on page two)
Attorney
General
resigns
-by terry fulbright
The Student Legislature
meeting of April 8 recognized
several students for outstanding
achievements, saw the swearing
in of next year's Student Body
President and Vice-President,
and considered the
impeachment hearing of
Attorney General David Sturgis.
In an abbreviated business
meeting, Jamie Stemple was
sworn in as the next Student
Body President by outgoing
President E. D; Hendricks. The
new Vice-President, Davis
Trotter, was sworn into office
by the outgoing Vice-President,
D. J. Hall.
The Legislature also
announced winners of several
awards. Pamela Jean Kidder
received the Hugh McEniry
Award, which recognized the
graduating senior who attended
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UNCC’s Concrete Canoe
winner of Engineering Award
-by susan sfuss
What is lighter than water,
holds two people and wins
UNCC their first technical
competition with other major
schools in the Southeast? It's
the UNCC's Engineering
department's concrete canoe.
Racing on April 5 at
McGregor Downs in Raleigh,
UNCC won the Engineering
Design award given by the
American concrete Institute
which is the award for overall
engineering excellence in design
and construction, and the
American Society of Testing
Materials Award which awarded
them the Team Trophy
inscribed with "Southeastern
Regional Concrete Canoe Race
Team Champion".
Competing against such
schools as North Carolina State
University, Georgia Tech,
Clemson, VMI, and UPl, UNCC
entered one boat in three races.
In the first competition
which was a sprint race, UNCC
entered two heats. In the first
heat, David Grey and Johnny
Graham had problems and
didn't place. In the second heat.
Bill Crowder and Ricky Deece
placed third in the heat.
In the second race, which
was the faculty race. Dr. David
Bayer and Mr. Richard Pinkney
were again rammed and sunk by
Clemson, causing extensive
damage to the boat. Repairs
were made in time for the third
race.
The third race a Iso
consisted of two boats and was
a slalom race. Racing against the
clock, Ricky Deece and Bill
Crowder came in first in the
heat and first in the best time
and David Grey and Johnny
Graham came in first in the heat
and third in the time.
Being awarded points in
every race, UNCC acquired
more points than any other
school, thus having the highest
overall point count.
Dr. David Bayer, advisor for
the club said, "I'm excited
about our winning. Entering a
competition against reputable
engineering schools and winning
has raised our status as a good
school of engineer i ng
considerably". Bill Crowder,
one of the winning participants
said, "It’s the very first boat
ever engineered here and for
that reason, we didn't feel we
could win the race itself, but
felt we had a good chance for
the Design Award".
The boat is made of a
special lightweight concrete mix
that the students themselves,
developed. It is about 1/3 the
weight of normal concrete.
The total cost of
construction was about $200.
The Student Government
allotted $100 to go for
construction and a lot of the
materials were donated.
Those participating were
Bill Crowder, Johnny Graham,
David Grey, Mike Clark, John
Williams, Ricky Deese, Byron
Barley, Barry Christopher, Dr.
David Bayer and Richard
Pinkney.
IEEE host of
Southeastcon conference
On April 7-8, 1975 the
Student Branch of the IEEE was
the host school for the annual
Student Conference at
Southeastcon '75, held this year
at the Sheraton Hotel in
Charlotte. The attendance was
149 students from 29 different
colleges and universities. The
activities included a
presentation of technical papers.
First prize and a cash award of
$200 went to Tom Guy and Bill
Keyes from Christian Brothers
University for their paper
"The Design and Construction
of a Digital Wattmeter". Second
place and a cash award of $100
went to Theodore Spangenberg,
Jr. of Auburn for his paper "A
Review of Fundamental
Hysteresis Loop Theory". Third
place and a cash award of $50
went to Dan Stancil from
Tennessee Technological
University for his paper
"Reception and Processing of
Weather Satellite Picture Data".
A cash award of $50 went to
Florida Atlantic University for
the man-mile competition. On
Monday April 7 a "Casino
party" was held in the basement
of Dorm '73 which was
attended by approximately 120
people.
The student Conference was
a part of Southeastcon '75, an
annual conference held in
Region 3 covering an area of
nine states in conjunction with,
for this year, the Charlotte
Section of The Institute of
Electrical and Electronics
Engineers, Inc. Next year
Southeastcon '76 will be held at
Clemson University.
"The Student Newspaper of the University of Nortli Carolina at Charlotte. ^ —
the Journal
volume X, number 28
charlotte, north Carolina
april 15, 1975