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The Student Newspaper of the University of North Carolina
at Charlotte
I Volume XI, Number 27
Charlotte, North Carolina
April 13, 1976
New Cone Center Extension Opens
By Johnny Williams
On Monday, April 5, UNCC ■
celebrated perhaps its greatest moment in
architectural achievement. This
achievement presented itself in the form
of the immense new Bonnie E. Cone
University Center Extension.
This new addition more than doubles
the meeting, lounge and recreational
space for the university community.
Included Is the large C.A. McKnight
Lecture Hall where dedication
ceremonies were held Monday morning
ai 10:00 am. Presiding over the
ceremonies was University Chancellor
D.W. Colvard. -After an invocation by
the Reverend Joseph L. Kellerman, Dr.
Colvard Introduced Mr. Addison Reese,
chairman of the Board of Trustees, who
gave a touching speech dedicating the
Lecture Hall. In his speech, Mr, Reese
praised C.A. McKnight, “for his diligent
work in striving to help make UNCC a
great university.”
After the dedication, McKnight, who
is the editor of the Charlotte Observer,
stepped forward and thanked “the entire
university community for the great
honor of having my name attached to
such a great palace for learning.” In his
closing remarks, McKnight made mention
of the UNCC basketball team. He
remarked it was, “truly amazing that a
group of slender young men who can
run, shoot and jump could grab more
national publicity in eight days than our
newspaper could give it in 30 years.”
The McKnight Lecture Hall has a
seating capacity of 623 and can be used
for multi-media presentations, films,
lectures, debates, small concerts and
theatrical presentations. A distinctive
elevated seating arrangement highlights
the large spacious lounge. An adjacent art
gallery offers an opportunity for visual
art shows.
The Music Listening Lounge offers a
unique setting for casual relaxation and
music listening equipment. Three
conference rooms offer a great deal of
flexibility for meetings, social gatherings,
luncheons and receptions. The new
games and recreational facilities will be
the site of many tournaments and is a
badly needed expansion to our
recreational components on campus.
The large outside plaza serves as a
gathering place for informal socializing
for all members of the university
community; also concerts, cabarets and
art shows can enhance the plaza. All in
all, the University Center Extension is
composed of more than 48,500 square
feet at a total cost exceeding $2,500,000.
The director and coordinator of the
Extension is Vern Parrish. Under him is a
staff of very qualified personnel.
Included in this staff are a large number
Carolina Journal photo by Lisa Laney
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P . pUiza area of the new Bonnie E. Cone University
^ /oremos? ''people place''' on campus. Ken
information^ /los compared the plaza to a
lor area in San Francisco where spontaneous art exhibitions,
concerts and lectures occur.
of UNCC students.
Students at UNCC should be very
proud of the new Bonnie E. Cone
University Center Extension. It has a
multitude of things to offer to everyone.
Not only does it enhance the beauty of
the campus, but it might not be too far
off to state that the Extension is the
most outstanding addition to the campus
to date.
Carolina Journal photo by Lisa Laney
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Lounge area of new Cone Center Extension
Political Science offers
Human Survival course
By Steve Bass
and Brad Rich
The political science department of
UNCC, in cooperation with various
departments in the university, is offering
a course entitled “Global Development:
Investment in Human Survival.” Dr. Nish
Jamgotch, of the political science
department, writes regarding the course,
"Whether humanity merely survives or
whether it survives by designing for itself
a better quality of life is the topic of a
semester long interdisciplinary course
(three credits) fail 1976. Its purpose will
be to explore a range of man’s most
pressing problems.
The following professors and themes
will be used during the course:
1. “A New Ethical Structure for
Global Peace” by Stephen Fishman,
philosophy. This section of the course
will deal with the assumption that for
world peace to exist on Earth, a new
world morality structure must be
devised.
2. “Comparative Demographic
Trends in 1976: The Malthusian
Dilemma in a 200 year Perspective” by
George Rent, sociology. The various
degrees of success and failure in the field
of family planning through out the world
will be the topic of focus in this section
of the course.
3. “Man’s Most Important Resource:
Food” by John Catau, geography. The
emphasis for this part of the course will
be in the range of the food crisis, its long
and short range implications and possible
solutions.
4. “Comparative Social Organization,
Law and Human Violence” by Ray
Michalowski, sociology. How does man’s
propensity for violence affect his life on
Earth? Also stressed will be the types of
personality most prone to violence.
5. “Are Synthetics a Reasonable
Substitute for Current Resource
Scarcities?” by James Clay, geography.
An emphasis on the current dangerous
shortage of natural resources and possible
solutions.
6. ■' I n t e r n a t io nal Defense
Expenditures and Ihiman Survival: Tiie
Great Human Paratlox” by Nish
Jamgolcli. polilcal .science. The question
for discussion in this segment of tlie
course will be: Do wcapotis now being
manufactured protect man or make Iris
survival less likely, and is it true that man
will experience thermonuclear war by the
year 2000?
The course will be for three credits
and meet Monday, Wednesday and
Friday from 2:00-2:50 in Ihe fall
semester.
Dr. Jamgotch, who is heading up Ihe
course said. “1 feel this course gives
students a rich diet inlellcclually. The six
instructors bring to the ctrurse many
years of experience and I feel they are ail
high-powered instructors,”
Jamgotch said, “It is scary to read
Ihe pessimistic views of many of today’s
books.” He felt one of Ihe most
important questions asked is “Do we
have a right to ask unborn generations to
forego Ihe^chance to be born and enjoy
civilized life.”
Last tall, at a gathering of Harvard
arid MIT iritellectuals, the coriclusiori was
reached “that by Ihe year 2000, if the
current trend continues, man will have
experienced a thermonuclear war.”
Jamgotch’s question was “How are going
to save ourselves?”
The course will be the result of
summer research by the six professors.
Jamgotch has asked Washington for
money for the research, but said, “1 will
offer the course regardless of whether we
receive the money or not.”
The course is interdisciplinary,
because, as Jamgotch said, “Our
preliminary study indicated that the
course is not easily susceptible to
disciplinary compartmentalization. There
are no rigid barriers.”
Jamgotch said he is “pessimistic that
Americans today are willing to make the
hard sacrifices and live lifes ol self-denial
so that the grandchildren of current
Americans will have a world to live in.”