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The Student Newspaper Ot The’University Of North Carolina At Charlotte
)lume Xfi; Number 20
March 7, 1978
Jam-Up:
Bands Aren’t Booked,
But Beer Will Be Here
An unexpevted but welcome visitor appeared for the UNCC-UNC- Wilmington game,
which the 49ers won 89-62 last Thursday.
Cedric Maxwell, now of the Boston Celtics, witnessed what turned out to be the last
collegiate game of Jeff Gruber and Lew Massey. (photo by Debbie Miner)
By Brad Rich
Remember last year when there was no
beer at the Jam-Up Festival...and it rained
all day, and the concert had to be held at
Charlotte’s Merchandise Mart?
Hopefully, UNCC’s annual rites of
spring will not face such awesome problems
this year. According to both Jennie
Cernosia, Assistant Dean of Students, and
Robbie Cohen, chairperson of the Jam-Up
Festival, the University can’t promise good
weather, but i t can promise 75 kegs of
free beer at Sunday’s festival.
“The beer is being financed by an
outside source,” Cohen said, “and 3,000
hot dogs are being paid for by the
University Program Board (UPB). Also,
there will be thousands of prizes donated
by Charlotte businessmen to be given
away...”
Cohen said that commuter groups,
dorm groups and clubs and organizations
can set up booths to give away prizes at the
festival. “The UPB will set up the. prizes for
the groups to give away,” Cohen said. All
they have to do is set up the booths and
man them.”
Groups interested in running a booth
at the festival should contact Cohen by
March 31.
“The bands for the April 15 Jam-Up
concert have not been booked,” Cernosia
said last Friday. “Last year the bands
weren’t booked until two weeks before the
date...the show will be in the amphitheatre
— unless it rains.”
If it does rain, Cernosia said tentative
plans call for the concert to be held in the
lower level of the parking deck behind the
Cone University Center. “Nobody off
campus wanted us,” Cernosia said. “We
make too much of a mess. The Merchandise
Mart, where we held it last year said no,
and so did Park Center...Of course, holding
it on campus does mean we won’t have any
problem with the beer permit.”
Though there will be no free beer at
Saturday’s concert, Cernosia stressed that
people can bring their own. But Sunday,
the taps will flow...and after a year of
prohibition, at least one day of the Jam-Up
Festival will return to normal.
LJNCC Denied Bid From NCAA, NIT
By James Braswell
At 4 p.m. Sunday UNCC’s athletic
nice was a scene of slight disappointment;
NCC was not getting an NCAA bid.
That news was somewhat expected,
tough many still had liopes’ for a
tturn trip after last year’s Mideast Regional
'hampionship.
The hours passed and those
ntidpating a call from the NIT grew
npatient.
Hvery possible lead was followed in an
itempt to find out if the 49ers would have
shot at postseason play. The Associated
less in New York was called; Wake Forest,
likely candidate-but one that was also
ventually snubbed-was called, but by
wen...no word.
Finally, the call. Bray Cary, Sun Belt •
ublicity Director, broke the news.
UNCC was staying home.
On a quiet note UNCC’s 1977-78
isketball season had ended, as had the
rreers of Lew Massey and Jeff Gruber.
A season with many ups and a few
*wns had ended with a 20-7 record.
In the athletic olTicc. comments ranged
om "How can they do that?" trr “That
inks!” to ‘Fairfield'.’”
No toilet paper r)n campus trees, no
'trolls beer for celebration. Nothing.
And it hurt.
Head coach Lee Rose was obviously
disappointed.
“Such is, life,” Was his first comment as
he broke the news to those who had waited
in the office all afternoon.
“But the people I feel sorriest for are
the players,” said Rose as he slumped in his
office chair. “I feel like they worked and
they deserved a shot to defend their
Mideast Regional Championship, or at least
a chance to go to the NIT” (The National
Invitational Tournament in New York
City.)
Why the 49eTS were not picked above
some of the 48 teams chosen by the twO
tournaments was the thing that baffled
Rose the most.
“I think it’s hard to justify us not
being in one or the other. We beat LaSalle
and Florida State, who will both be in the
NCAA...Having gone to the NCAA and the
NIT the past two years, it’s for, me as
Athletic Director to see where we have
gone wrong...We felt like we had a shot at
the NCAA and certainly a good shot at the
NIT.”
Explainable or not, UNCC isn’t going.
And next year? “We’ll just have to start
with what we’ve got and work hard.That’s
what we’ve done the last three years,” said
Rose.
Such is life.
Meal Card To Cost More Next Fall
By Becky Caldwell
As the cost of living and labor has
increased, so has the cost of the UNCC
'^ueal plan. As a result, dorm students will
see an increase in the cost of their food
service next fall.
The amount of money obtained for the
1977-78 year will not meet next year’s
budget.
Professional Food Management (PFM)
Manager Stove Yeager says an increase of
seven to eight percent will be asked for
from the University. The students’
payment will be larger. Yeager says,
however, "I don't know if the school will
fake that much {seven to eight percent) or
not,” from each student. The exact price is
not set at this time.”
Several factors will affect future
increases in the cost of meal plans. One is
the larger amount of students on the
system. Presently, approximately 2,060
students are on the plan and the number
will increase next fall as more people from
the apartment dorms and from the
community request it.
Energy, having gone up 185 percent in
cost is another factor. Much energy is used
in the Residence Hall Cafeteria, and that
cost will be reflected in the meal plan's
cost.
Yeager, who says he feels the success
of the system depends on the quality of the
management, says he tries to accomodate
students' needs.
Tr) allow more space in the center
section of the cafeteria, the deli bar was
moved into the serving line. Also, an
additional 100 tables and chaiis are to be
added by the fall semester.
Yeager feels this will be ati
improvement; even though he says no one
has complained of the present situation.
Future plans include providing
different food service units around campus.
A combination deli bar/ice cream
parlor in the Bookstore building is being
planned; other improvements being
considered are a buffet room, special
dinners with waitress service, and a “steak
of the month club” in which a small price
would cover the extra cost of the meal.
Yeager feels the existing food service
system is best for this campus. He says
ideas and procedures from other schools
are constantly studied and added onto the
UNCC system if they are deemed helpful.
When asked to rate the UNCC cafeteria
in relation to other college cafeterias,
Yeager "said, “I would never say we’re
number one, but that we're number two,
trying to be nuiiiber one.”