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TJie Student Newspaper of the Unhersity of North Cart>liiia at Qiarlotte
Charlotte, North Caroliiu
February 14, 1978
Colby New ^Rogues N Rascals ’ Editor
By Brad Rich
Robin Colby, a graduate student and
wife of UNCC Residence Life Assistant
Director Chuck Colby, has taken over the
editorship of Rogues ’n Rascals, the
school’s yearbook.
The Rogues ’n Rascals position came
open at the beginning of this semester,
when Pete Meuser, who was elected in last
year’s spring elections, flunked out of
school. Colby said, “He (Meuser) just came
in one day and informed Jennie (Cernosia,
assistant to the dean of students) that he
was no longer in school. Jennie told me...l
assumed we’d see or hear from him
sometime, but we haven’t.’’
.According to Colby, Meuser left the
yearbook in somewhat less than perfect
condition. “Nothing had been done,” she
said. “Nothing at all as far as ! could tell. I
guess he had done something, though,
because he had me taking pictures. I don’t
know, maybe he had people lined up to do
things later on.”
The result is Colby is left with the task
of putting out a yearbook in one semester.
Although she admits it will not be easy, she
is happy that she has put together a staff of
about 10 people she considers “good,
enthusiastic and energetic.” About five of
these people came to Colby and
volunteered to help, the rest she recruited.
She also has restructured the staff,
creating several new positions. Whereas
Meuser had only listed three positions;
editor, layout editor and business manager;
Colby has created two jobs she calls
assistant editors. These jobs are held by
Mike Connor, a volunteer who had worked
on a high school yearbook and Jeri Ingram,
who had worked with Colby before in the
Cone University Center.
Importantly, Ingram will be in
Charlotte and able to work over the
summer. Colby said this is crucial, because'
the book needs to go to press by July 15 in
order for it to come out by the middle of
next September.
Plans call for the book to be about 250
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Robin Colby, a graduate student, has been named to replace Pete Meuser as
editor o/Rogues ‘N Rascals, UNCC’s yearbook, (photo by Frank Alexander)
Doug Collins Wins Architecture Prize
By Steve Bass
Senior architecture major Doug Collins
has been awarded the UNCC Reynolds
Aluminum Student Prize for architectural
design. The prize wins Collins $300 as
UNCC’s winner, and qualifies him for a
national competition in which first prize is
$5,000 and second prizes are $1,000 each.
Collins design features a dome shaped
home with half of the dome constructed
out of aluminum and half glass.
“The design is based on solar
research,” said Collins. “During the
summer when the heat is so intense, the
aluminum panels will move over the glass
panels cutting down heat intake. In the
winter the glass panels will be exposed to
allow maximum solar heating.
“We were given one week to complete
our design, although I understand that in
other schools across the country tne design .
was a semester long project so I expect the
national competition will be pretty tight.
The project was a totally Independent one.
The students could receive no outside aid
from instructors.
“I was aided a great deal by being in a
Solar Design Studio. It’s becoming my
specialty, I’ve spent three semesters
studying solar energy here at UNCC, and I
plan to go on to Georgia Tech to study it
further.”
The national competition will be held
in Washington, D.C., and will be judged in
closed session by prominent architects
from across the country. Should Collins
win the award he would receive one half
the $5,000, and the college of architecture
the remainder.
pages long and include 16 pages of colort
photography. Presently, Colby and her
staff' are working towards an April 1st
deadline for all color photography and
completion of the book’s cover. She said.
“I’m giving out assignments...one of my
assistant editors and I sat down and
brainstormed one day and came up with a
list of things on campus we knew had to be
covered.” In addition, Colby posts a
weekly list of events on campus that should
be included in the yearbook. Staff
members come in and look at the list and
volunteer for the events they want to
cover.
“They’re doing a real fine job,” Colby
said, “but I’m having to teach a lot of them
how to process the fQm. It’s real easy to get
them to take the pictures, but a little
harder to get them to do the hard stuff.”
Colby also praised the publisher,
Walsworth Publishers, for their assistance
so far. “Their representative even brought a
slide show to our staff meeting, which was
very helpful,” she said.
One important aspect of the yearbook
situation that has been shaky in the past is
financing. Colby said, “We have a budget of
about $15,000 (close to two dollars per
student) and we are having to spend about
$14,000 just on printing. $15,000...this
means we just can’t put out more than
1,500 books. This is because we give the
books out free...I’ve never seen another
college or even a high school where the,
yearbooks were free. Next year, the book
after this one, the students will be paying
for the book. The quality will get better,
plus the choice will be theirs. They can pay
the money and be assured of getting the
book rather than getting it free and having
to fight to get a copy.
“In a few years, if it is run right, the
yearbook could become self supporting. In
fact, if it is run right, that could happen in
two years. We’re in a transition period right
now where the yearbook could become a
tradition and not a mess.”
Black Studies Week
February 15-23
By Nancy Davis
Since February of
1926, there has been a
Black History Celebration
every February.
The month is set aside
to promote and recognize
the culture and history of
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blacks in America.
The Afro-American
studies department and the
Black Student Union at
UNCC are observing Black
Studies We.ek February 15
through February 23.
The week will include a
host of guest speakers and
special programs on the
campus in conjunction with
activities going on in the
community.
UNCC students Irrire
Newkirk, Delcia Harper,
Negleatha Jones and others
will also participate in a
program on “Black Cultural
Expressions" on February
21 at 12;30 p.m. in the
lohn Paul Lucas Room.
Senior architecture major Doug Collins won UNCC’s
Reynolds Aluminum Student Prize for architectural design.
Collins reciered three hundred dollars and the chance to
compete nationallv for as much as five thousand dollars.
(photo by Steve Bass)
Festival Of Faith
Febraary 27-March 3
By Nancy Davis
The United Religious
Ministry (URM) is
sponsoring a week long
Festival of Faith on campus.
URM member Diana
Williams said the festival
wasn’t being held to try and
convert people, but to have
people “celebrating their
own faith in their own
way.”
There will be lectures,
films, guest singers and
exhibits. On February 27
through March 3, art
exhibits will be in McKnight
Lecture Hall, the Cone
University Center
bree/eway arid Rowe
Gallery. These include a
photographic exhibit of the
Holy Land from the
Chrisdan Science Monitor
and an interpretation oi
“Faith”, in drawings and
paintings by UNCC creative
arts students.
An 18 minute film
featuring the work of
Gordon Converse, chief
photographer for the
Christian Science Monitor
will be shown continuously
from 9;30 a.m. until 3;30
p.m. in the Cone University
Center’s Northeast .Lounge.
Another short film, “Man’s
Search for Happiness,” will
be shown from'February 28
through March 2.
The university
community is invited to join
the URM in the “Festival of
Faith” week of activities.