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Tlie Student Newspaper of the University of North Carolina at Ciiarlotte
I Volume XI, Number
Charlotte, North Caroliii
September 30, 197
antpus rally emphasizes Child Care needs and parking
By Les Bowen
What was described as “a general
J purpose pep rally” was held at the Belk
■ Tower on Sept. 25. Tire rally began at 12:30
Ip.M. and lasted for approximately 45
■minutes. A crowd estimated at around
1250 students witnessed the event, which
I was emceed by Student Body President
jjamie Stemple. The presentation
lincluded remarks , by Athletic Director
ILee Rose, Student House of
I Representatives Speaker Pro-Tern Sam
I Wilson, Superior Court Chief Justice
I Doug Lerner, and several other faculty
Imembers and students.
I The rally was billed as a chance to
I discuss the issues of child care and
■ parking, and also as a promotion of
I intercollegiate athletics.
I Stemple noted that he was
Idissappointed with the size of the crowd
las he tried to invigorate the audience
I prior to the rally. The beginning was
Idelayed somewhat as the Pep Band
■couldn’t find their drummer, and
IStemple ad-libbed for several minutes
Ibcfore introducing a promised “special
■mystery guest” who turned out to be
|Athletic Director Rose.
Rose talked about the University’s
jintercollegiate athletic program. He
poted that UNCC now offers five sports
Ifor women whereas only one was offered
Bast year. Rose also spoke briefly
fconcerning the four intercollegiate sports
fectivities available for men on the UNCC
fcampus. Rose concluded his talk and
liaiided the microphone back to Stemple,
pwho was immediately beset by a barrage
■Carolina Journal photo by Russell Long
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lof marshmallows from Speaker Pro-Tern
|Sam Wilson. The attack was a spoof on
le much—discussed marshmallow
[incident that occured when the Indian
iAmbassador spoke on campus a few
pteeks ago. After weathering the farcical
.attack, Stemple introduced Wilson to the
•crowd.
The atmosphere of frivolty
•■surrounding the event suddenly
I isappeared as Wilson spoke on the need
-'^or a child-care facility at UNCC. He
Fited a report prepared in July 1974 by
hie Child Care Center Development
committee which advocated the
e tablishinent of a child-care facility on
reri^'!^' blamed “bureaucratic
Ifaii,, administration’s
f on the committee’s
requests. He asked the Chancellor to
PPOint a committee to deal with the
Care Center
ift’iknn’’T"‘ Committee’s suggestions,
the a personal involvement in
visiti.i'' oare battle, and mentioned
Chancellor and getting
arodlf'f proposed committee as
wduuive courses of action for
interested individuals.
Mrs. Fran Fury, a UNCC student,
spoke after Wilson concluded his
remarks. Mrs. Eury held her tliiee year old
son in her arms as she spoke on the need
for on-campus child care. She
mentioned that she now had to leave her
son eight miles away from UNCC, and
she concluded that “eight miles is a ionv
way should he get-sick. Mr. Josh
Haskett, a UNCC psychology professor,
spoke following Mrs. Eury’s remarks. He
reminded the audience that faculty
membeis need day care laciiities just as
badly as students with children do.
Haskett asked the audience if it had
ever heard “the story about the donkey.”
He said: “You kind of have to bash it
over the head to get its attention.”
Haskett recommended that the students
Jhreat the administration as the animal it
seems to be.” Haskett said that
administration officials were worried
about the esthetic affects of an on
campus day-care center. He said that the
administration was “reversing that good
old North Carolina motto ‘to be, rather
than to seem,' They’ve changed it to ‘to
seem, rather than to be,” said Haskett.
The last comment on the child care
situation came from Stenrple, who
announced that he was establishing “A
Presidential Committee to deal with the
child care situation.” Stemple said that
the committee would try to have public
hearings for greater citizen involvement.
Sam Wilson and Betty Wackenhagen were
appointed as eo--chairpeople of the
committee.
The Pep Band and the cheerleading
squad performed before the discussion
moved into the UNCC commuter parking
situation. Wilson spoke briefly on the
parking problem. He asked the audience
“How many of you had to walk here
from Harrisburg this morning?” He
received an enthusiastic response. Wilson
acknowledged that the parking situation
“probably isn’t going to get any better”
but lie told the students “we can’t just sit
on our ass and take it.”
Student Superior Court Chief Justice
Doug Lerner also spoke regarding the
parking situation. Lerner attacked the
policies ol the Security Division of the
Department of Public Safety with regard
to parking violations. Ho is presently
circulating a petition advocating a change
ill policy that would give the Student
Superior Court jurisdiction in parking
cases. Lerner said: “The only time
someone should be given a parking ticket
is wlieii they are disrupting tire traffic
llow. Lerner also attacked the Security
Division lor using parking citations as a
source of revenue.
Carolina Journal photo by Russell Lonu
Members of the Pep Band performing at the Rally.
Petition to commute death sentences
By David Ledbetter
Recently the Criminal Justice Task
Force of the Pilgrim United Methodist
Church in Durham, North Carolina wrote
up a petition with the purpose of urging
North Carolina Governor James E.
Holshouser to commute the death
sentences of the people on death row in
North Carolina to a life sentence. There
were 81 on death row in this state on
July 7th, 1975.
Today there are approximately 88
people on death row in this state, which
contstitutes over 31% of all the people
on death row throughout the United
Slates.
The United Religious Ministry at the
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
was contacted and asked to support
circulation of the petition at this
university and agreed to do so. Members
of the Christian Fellowship, the Baptist
Student Union, the Black Student Union
and various churches in the Charlotte
area volunteered to help acquire
signatures for the petition.
The governor has the power to
commute the sentences to life. There is
reason to believe the governor is against
capital punishment for while he was in
legislature, he favored legislation to
abolish the death penally.
Presently the death penalty is
mandatory for first degree murder and
first degree rape in North Carolina.
There have been numerous attempts
to do away with' the death penally
through legislation but all attempts have
failed. According to Paul Larsen, a UNCC
chaplain, the only hope at this time
seems to be the governor.
Larsen said about the petition, “I
would hope there would be enough
signatures to force his (the governor’s)
attention.” In reference to the possibility
of the governor commuting the
sentences, Larsen said he is “hopeful
about it.”
At this time the governor has not
taken an official stand on the death
penalty issue.
362 persons have been executed in
Central Prison Death Chamber in Raleigh
since the state took over execution from
the counties in 1910 with the last
execution in this state occuring on
October 27, 1961.
In 1974 there were 22 people on
death row. Today there are over 80 with
...a chance for Life?
65% being black and by the court's
delniltion, 62% are poor.
A United Nations study on capital
punishment stated that 1) comparison of
the murder rates (in countries which are
geographically, economically, and
culturally similar) fails to demonstrate
that capital punishment has a deterant
effect superior to that of lengthy
punishment, and 2) that removal of the
death penalty has never been followed by
a notable rise iji the incidence of llie
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UNCC ranked fourth
in North Carolina in SATs
By Brad Rich
Many people seem to think that
UNCC is a crip school,” a haven or
refuge for second-class students who
cannotmeet the requirements at the other
schools in the North Carolina system.
This, however, just is not the case.
Though statistics for this year are
not available, last years’ new freshmen
had an average SAT score of 958 (460 on
the verbal test and 498 on the math test)
and the school as a whole ranked fourth
in the sixteen school state system.
Entry to UNCC is ttol easy either A
minimum SAT score of 800 is required,
with no less than 350 on either portion
of the test. Since the average score of
958 is much higher than required, many
of our students could have easily gotten
in anywhere in the system. J'his clearly
relutes the idea of U\C C as a “haven for
second-class students.”
According to Bob (iwaltney, UNCC
registrar, exceptions are made
occasionally, but this 800 rule is
generally lollowed. If, for example, a
student has low SAT .scores but ranked
high in his high school class he may be
allowed to enter. “Also,” says (iwaltney,
grades become important in admission
to the various colleges within the
University. A student with D’s in high
school science and math classes would
probably run into trouble if he declared
Ins major as Engineering, for example.”
A study began with last years’
ireshman class to determine what
percentage ol our students receive
degrees. Figures lor the past years arc not
available, but (jwallney cited the fact
that oui giadualing class has iticreased
Lorn 7,3 Jii 1965 to 1273 last year.
Overall,” ^aid (iwaltney, “We have a
good student body and have very few
academic suspensions each year.