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Volume XII, Number 7
The Student Newspaper of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Charlotte, North Carolina
October 5, 1976
What the future holds for 49er athletics
By Ron Green
Most people think of Lee Rose
as the man who, in his first year at
UNCC, led his basketball team to a
runnerup finish in the National
Invitational Tournament (NIT) and
placed- the school in the national
spotlight.
Certainly that is his most
outstanding achievement in the 16
months since he came to UNCC,
but Rose has also made great
progress for the school as athletic
director. The biggest of these
accomplishments is aligning UNCC
with the newly formed Sun Belt
Athletic Conference.
Speaking about the conference,
which includes Jacksonville, New
Orleans, South Florida, Georgia
Southern, South Alabama and
UNCC, Rose said, “It’s been a 14
month operation. We’re trying to
build a program. We don’t have a
solid one yet. We’re experiencing
growing pains in all areas. To me,
the conference is another step in
the right direction.
“There are many reasons we
aligned with the institutions
selected for the conference. They
are all urban, state supported
schools. They are all in major cities.
They are all primarily basketball
institutions; there is no football.
Basketball is the dominant sport.
“Coupled with that,” the silver
haired Rose continued, “they all
have certain financial limitations.
All 'the teams had good basketball
records and as independents were
unable ’to establish a full
complement of strong schedules.
When conference teams get into
conference play, they won’t play
independents. We understand this.
It meant our schedule was not as
desirable as we wanted.
“If we wanted to establish a
basketball conference, we would
pick Indiana, UCLA, North
Carolina, Kentucky, Hawaii, Notre
Dame and a few others. But we
don’t have that option.
“We have the option to stay
where we are and play teams that
we have to write historical novels
ibout to tell the fans who they are.
“The conference gives us an
dentity and cohesiveness. It gives
as a chance to get in the NCAA
tournament. There is no way for us
;o get in like we were. The
Carolina Journal photo
by Lisa Laney
it hie tic Director and Head
basketball Coach Lee Rose is
ntering his second season with
he 49ers.
If we wanted to establish a basketball conference, we would pick
Indiana, UCLA, North Carolina, Kentucky...But we don’t have that
option.” — Head Basketball Coach Lee Rose.
bureaucracy of the NCAA will not
permit it. It’s not a great
conference now but I think it will
be.”
Although basketball is the
dominant sport in the new
conference, it certainly is not the
only one. There will be competition
in several sports in the next year,
such as soccer, golf and volleyball.
In addition to the ten varsity
programs currently in existence at
UNCC, plans are being made for the
addition of more.
According to a timetable drawn
up by Rose, the school should have
17 varsity sports by 1981. Among
these are softball, volleyball,
gymnastics, wrestling and baseball.
Rose stresses that they are only
targetted dates for the new sports.
Rose said, “We’ve got to have four
things to stay on the timetable.
One, student interest. Two, there
must be personnel available that
want to get involved. Three, we
must have the financing. Four, we
must have the facilities.
“You must remember we’re
still in the infancy of our program.
When the time comes for these
things, I hope we can do it.”
To illustrate the problem at
UNCC, Rose gave this example.
“We have three varsity programs
that need to use the gym, plus the
PE classes and the intramural
programs. We don’t have enough
room for them. You talk about
adding programs, where can we put
them?”
While most of the public
attention is centered on the men’s
programs, the women’s program at
UNCC has increased at a
tremendous rate. “The women’s
program has moved forward with
tremendous improvement,” Rose
said. “We initiated a women’s
coordinator, Judy Wilkins, and
hired an additional women’s coach,
Donna Freisen.
“We want to develop a total
program. One that has depth and
breadth. When we inherited it,
there was very little consideration
given for the women’s programs.”
Rose feels the school has made
large gains in all areas, not just
athletics. He said, “One really
major accomplishment has been to
dilute or dissolve some this implied
inferiority which manifests itself in
the minds of so many who attend
other institutions. I don’t mean just
from an athletic standpoint. We
have some great educational and
cultural programs here.
“We’re bridging the gap
between the community and the
university. It has t^en on a new
direction in two ways. The students
to the community and the
community to the university . It is a
two way street. I’ve seen a much
greater, response both ways in the
time I’ve been here.
“The leadership role in the
community will be filled one day
by UNCC grads. It takes time for
young graduates to become solidly
entrenched in a position of
authority but it will happen.
“When that happens you’ll see
a complete change in the total
scope of the university.”
October 7
Congressional debate to be on campus
By Brad Rich
The upcoming debate between
Ninth District Congressional
candidates Arthur Goodman
(Democrat), Jim Martin
(Republican) and Harley Schlanger
(Labor) “probably won’t have any
effect on the outcome of the
election,” said Dr. Bill McCoy of
the political science department.
“However,” he continued, “It may
cause some students who hadn’t
planned to vote to think, and get
interested in this and other races.”
McCoy said the debates were
set up by Attorney General Doug
Lerner as an event that would
interest student government and
the student body as a whole. Since
about 85 per cent of UNCC’s
students come from the Ninth
Congressional District, the debate
should spur interest in the election.
The debate format will be
similar to that of the first
Ford-Carter debate. A panel of
three students, Jim Hill, Steve
Kiser, and Cheryl F-urr,- have been
chosen to ask the candidates
questions during the first part of
the debate. The questions, which
will have been reviewed for
r^undancy and bias, will be
directed not at one particular
candidate, but to all of them. Each
candidate will be allowed a three
minute response to the question,
then the panelist may ask one
followup question. The answer to
the followup question will be
limited to two minutes.
McCoy said, “The questions
will address three main issues:
domestic and economic policy,
foreign policy and energy versus the
environment.” After the first half
of the debate is completed,
members of the audience will be
allowed to ask questions of the
candidates. “Pages (like the
panelists, members of the North
Carolina Student Legislature) will
take the questions from the
audience and review them before
Carolina Journal photo
by Susan Cole
Dr. Bill McCoy is the moderator
for the debate.
handing them to the student
panelists. The panelists will then
ask the questions, which may be
directed to any or all of the
candidates,” McCoy said.
McCoy cited a recent Charlotte
Observer article as saying Martin
had spent over five times as much
money in the campaign as
Goodman, arid Schlanger had spent
only a very minimal amount.
McCoy said, “Though I haven’t
seen a poll, it is pretty common
knowledge that Martin, being an in
cumbent, has a comfortable lead.”
McCoy feels Martin’s strategy
in the debate will be, as President
Ford did, to simply stand on his
record. “Though there’s not as
much of an aura surrounding a
North Carolina representative as
there is around the President of the
United States,” McCoy said,
“everyone knows he has served for
some time and is an intelligent,
bright person who is very
articulate.”
“Goodman,” McCoy feels,
“will need to pick out what he feels
are some weak points of Martin’s,
such as his economic policy, or his
support of Nixon down to the last
straw.”
Schlanger, on the other hand,
will try to show that the other two
candidates are traditional
politicians, with traditional views.
McCoy expects him to take a more
national or international
perspective, while Martin and
Goodman will probably try to
correlate issues to events in the
Ninth Congressional District.
McCoy said some media
coverage of the debate is planned.
“Doug Lerner has been working
with Ken Sanford, Director of
Information, on that, and I think
the only complete coverage will be
by WSOC radio, who will tape it in
its entirety and play it on the air.
Others may cover the debate, but
not completely. The only possible
full coverage by television would be
the educational station, but I
haven’t heard anything one way or
the other,” McCoy concluded.
Photo courtesy of
Goodman campaign
Arthur Goodman — Democratic
candidate for the Ninth District
Congressional seat.