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volume XI, number 3
The Student Newspaper of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte
charlotte, north Carolina
Lifestyles enhanced by Cone Center addition
Because of the growing
population of UNCC and the
lack of space in the present
Cone University Center, a new
addition to the Center is being
built.
s A committee comprised of
students, faculty and staff
started planning the center in
1969. The committee set up a
system containing four basic
priorities for the new addition.
The first priority was the need
for lecture space. Second came
the need for students and
campus organizations to have
meeting space. The third
priority dealt with the idea that
commuters and dorm students
needed to have a place to
become better acquainted'with
each other. The last was the
need for student recreation
space.
The center will be three
levels with McKnight lecture
hall as the top level. The lecture
hall seats 623 people and will be
used for movies, three screen
multi-media slides, lectures,
small skits and other
presentations. With the
exception of the gym McKnight
lecture hall has the largest
seating capacity on campus.
Under the McKnight lecture
hall will be arts and crafts. Here,
students can come and learn
pottery, macrame, leather
working, wood working and
other crafts. Here, one may also
purchase finished products of
UNCC students and a few of the
works of other artists. The Arts
and Crafts part of the new
addition will be open in the
summer of 1976, and the
remaining addition will open
around March of 1976.
Moving on around the new
building you will find a section
that has three floors. The
ground floor contains pinball
machines, table games, eight
billiard tables, vending and
snack machines, and tables for
chess, checkers and cards.
On the first floor of this
section you will find the
conference rooms and the
student organizational meeting
rooms. These three rooms are
carpeted and each room will
seat approximately 90 people. If
more room is needed, a portable
wall can be removed to allow
the three rooms to become two.
The two rooms will seat
approximately 200 people.
Also on this floor is a
kitchenette. This room does not
have the appliances of a kitchen,
but it has plug in slots for coffee
machines, small ovens, and
anything else you may need.
This room will basically be used
for storing refreshments while
the meetings are being held.
The 2nd floor contains the
main lounge. This is designed
basically for the commuters, so
the designers wanted to make
the room comfortable, warm
and personalized. To do this
interior designers were hired.
The main lounge is square
and in the center of the room is
an upraised platform with chairs
around the wall. The tables on
this platform will have lights
shining out from under them
Also in this room will be an
S shaped seating arrangement
and in other corners will be high
backed sofas and chairs. In a
corner of the room will be an
art gallery. The art gallery will
have local and student shows
which will rotate about every 3
or 4 weeks. There will also be a
few national shows. Also on the
main floor will be a music
listening lounge. In this lounge
you will go to the card catalog
and select a tape number. You
take this tape number to an
photo courtesy of upb
Madeline Brown
Madeline Brown
coming
To quote Molly Bloom in
“Ulysses,” her voice falls “all
over you like a warm shower
bath.” Someone upon first
hearing Madeline Brown sing
was reminded of that sensual
description for it so well
captures the uncapturable
quality of her musical powers.
As rich a voice as it is, it is
strangely transparent in that the
instruments behind it come
through totally to create a true
ensemble effect. Her layered
and textured voice becomes
enmeshed with the sounds of
the fine musicians who
accompany her, creating a
specially self-contained unit of
pure music...then Madeline,
herself, reaches out beyond it to
touch the audience directly,
which is the art of the best of
the pop singers. At once then,
Madeline Brown has her roots in
the best of jazz and pop music
and her soul into moving an
audience and exchanging
energies with it.
Her vocal power and agility
allow her the freedom to choose
from a wide range of material,
thus categorizing her is
fortunately impossible. Whether
a particualr song demands a
gutsy, belting delivery or
requires delicate handling, Ms.
Brown instills in each a special
earthy sensuality which, more
than anything else, can be said
to characterize her style.
Her career includes
extensive club work, tours on
The Coffee House Circuit,
college concerts, a world tour of
special bases of the Armed
Services, band work with the
Stan Rubin Orchestra and a
month’s appearance at New
York’s newest and most
attractive performing room, The
Ballroom...spanning a period of
six years of prefessionai
appearances.
To complete the picture:
The lady is beautiful.
What people are saying:
“This act undergirds our
faith in the future of The
Circuit. When we move into our
new club, we’d like to have a
return date.”-C. Shaw Smith,
Dir.,Student Activities,
Davidson College.
The Madeline Brown Group
will appear on campus
September 5th and 6th, at 9:00
pm.
attendent’s desk and she will get
the tape and plug it in for you.
You then get earphones and go
into a room where you plug
your earphones in, and then you
sit in foam chairs which will
conform to your body. Tapes
can also be made of lectures and
other speeches. A tape
collection has already been
started. The first tape in the
collection is of Dick Gregory.
This new addition to the
Cone University Center is
capable of piping the sound
from McKnight lecture hall out
— by susan sluss and lynne blythe
to the main lounge. The center
also has a plaza which connects
the buildings. The plaza is
10,500 square feet and will be
used for concerts, sidewalk
shows, festivals, small
coffeehouse entertainment and
possibly outside movies. Sound
can also be piped out to the
plaza if necessary.
The new center will have
many bright colors and designs.
Spring and Fall murals have
been selected and orange, red,
green and brown are the basic
colors.
Who's spending
your money?
The Student Fees Commission is responsible for distributing
student fees among the three branches of the Student Association -
the University Program Board, the Student Media Board and the
Student Legislature. For the 1975-76 academic year, the base figure
which the Student Fees Commission is working with is
$177,711.00. This amount is a projection of total student fees to be
used for student activities. At the end of the academic year, tire
amount could be lower or higher than this estimate, but the
Commission feels the projection is rather conservative.
The Student Fees Commission is composed of two members
from each of the three branches along with tliree at-large members.
This year, the Commission is chaired by Pat Rose, one of the
at-large members. Ms. Rose says she would like to see the
Commission exercise more control over the student monies after
they have been allocated than has been the case in the past. A
number of incidents of mismanagement of funds in all three
branches of the Student Association during the past five years have
caused the Commission to consider alternatives for the handling of
student monies.
To aid in coping with this management problem, a student
bookkeeper/clerk is going to be hired at the salary of $1000.00 per
year to keep a running record of the Business Office accounts of
each of the three branches. The bookkeeper/clerk will also be
responsible for solving any financial problems which might arise in
any of the three branches or the organizations under the major
branches.
Both the University Program Board and the Student Media
Board presented the Commission with proposed budgets before the
actual distribution of the student fees took place. The University
Program Board requested $85,000.00 or 45.5% of the total student
fees. The total Student Media Board request came to $93,955.23.
Neither realized their projected amounts, but the final breakdown is
as follows:
Base Figure - $177,711.00
Bookkeeper/Clerk - $1000.00
University Program Board - $79,873.37 or 45.2%
Student Media Board - $70,330.98 or 39.8%
Student Legislature - $26,506.65 or 15.0%
The Commission included In their decision on distribution that
any money received in excess of $177,711.00 would be given to the
Student Legislature, with the only stipulation being first priority
consideration must be given to the University Program Board and
the Student Media Board for allocation of the extra funds. Ron
Whitley, UNCC’s Internal Auditor, says the Commission could
receive as much as $15-20,000 more than the projected figure due to
the increase in overall enrollment figures.
The University Program Board Board received a smaller
percentage of the total amount than was the case last year, but a
larger sum of money was received as this year’s base figure is greater.
Their allocation for 1974-75 was 45.5% of the student fees.
The 39.8% received by the Student Media Board represents a
4.3% increase over 1974-75 which totals close to a $10,000 fiscal
increase. The Student Media Board submitted the largest budget
proposal this year due to the possibility of obtaining an FM radio
station.
Student Legislature received 4% less than last year. However, of
the $32,000 plus the Student Legislature was given last year, $3500
was not spent. Adding the $3500 to the 15% received this year.
Student Legislature has the same amount to work with this year as
they spent during the 1974-75 academic year.
(This column is intended to give students the opportunity of
seeing how their money is being spent. Each full-time student pays a
student activity fee of $15.50, and the Carolina Journal believes
that every student has the right to know exactly where this money
goes. Next week, the Student Media Board’s breakdown among its
five branches will be discussed.)
michael evans \