The Student Newspaper of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Volume XIV, Number 18
Charlotte, North Carolina
January 18, 1979
Rented textbooks?
By Rick Monroe
This week most of UNCC’s
students will have stood in long lines,
killed numerous hours reading “for
sale” notices, and spent anywhere
from $50 to $150 on textbooks.
Last week most of Western
Carolina’s students stood in line for
an average of 20 minutes, and paid
anywhere from $25 to $50 for tex
tbooks.
What is the difference? Western
Carolina students rent their tex
tbooks.
According to Ron Core, manager of
Western Carolina's book and supply
store, the rental procedure is rather
painless. Core explained students pay
a flat fee of $25 per semester. “That’s
restricted to one book (per course) per
semester," Core said.
Because professors are required to
use the same books for three years,
and because these books may become
out-of-date, supplementary books are
sometimes used by the professors.
But, “professors cannot require sup
plementary books over $8," Core
said, “without permission of the dean
of students."
Core added the biggest problem
with the rental system is “professor
resistance to the restrictions," but,
other than that, the system seems to
run smoothly.
Western Carolina freshman Sara
Burgess thinks the system is
“great.” “You have to stand in line
for 20 minutes,” she said, “but you
save a lot of money.”
Cathy Landry shared Burgess’ en
thusiasm. “I loved it,” the former
Western Carolina student said. “We
saved a lot of money. That’s one thing
I hated about coming to UNCC,” she
said.
Beverly O'Brian, a Western
Carolina junior, was not quite as en
thusiastic. According to her, the
average student spends about $15 on
supplemental books, “except the nur
sing students. They have to pay as
much as people at other universities.”
O'Brian explained the nursing majors
pay more because of the type and
number of books required for their
classes.
UNCC Bookstore Manager Jim
Mecredy says he and Tom Feamster,
former director of business services,
studied the Western Carolina rental
plan in 1975 and found it to be un
satisfactory. He said the main pro
blem was some books would become
obsolete before they could be used for
the required number of years. “Can
you imagine a political science tex
tbook without the Nixon regime?"
Mecredy said. He also said that con
sidering what a student pays for tui
tion and room and board, “books are
the cheapest part of an education.”
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CHARLOTTE. N. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1966 Number »
Annual Staff
Plans Issue
Ann Hood.
and Marilyn
Journal Goes Weekly
For August
By BETTYE TRAPPS
days al a special workshop
ideas and planning layouts for
staff members Paris
not to disclose the theme of the
book or its cover design until the
annuals are distributed on cam-
Yearbook editor Judy Hardison
is being ’ hush-hush" concerning
Ihe theme and color design of
UNC-C's first annual.
manager.
Campus
week.
Since June of last year. Judy
and her staff have been busy
nuals from other schools for
picture ideas, and dreaming up
ways to make the '66 yearbook
even better than the preceding
Newspaper Will Be ‘Weekly’
Starting Spring Semester
Charlotte, has announced plans
University deserves
student publication."
The Journal is printed at the
Charlotte Observer and at the
Observer-News Enterprise in
possible by an increase in staff
members and advertising.
weekly basis starting spring se
mester.
published in January. The follow
ing number, which will be pub
lished in February, will be the
first as a weekly publication.
“This is somethng we've
wanted tn do fnr a long time."
said Pearre. "We feel that a
additional advertising if we are
printing is completed in Newton.
"The cost of printing being
Dr. Wallace, chairman of the
Fourteen years into publication of the Carolina Journal, a step has been taken
by this year's staff to publish the campus newspaper twice each week. Above,
we have reprinted the front page of the issue announcing the Carolina Journal
would step into weekly production in 1966. Progress . . . has finally come once
again.
Six new masters programs
to be studied this spring
IPhoto by Kobin Colby)
The annual struggle for textbooks is plaguing students once more.
By Rebecca Brown
Plans for six of seven of UNCC’s
proposed masters programs will be
submitted for UNCC review by the
end of spring semester. One program,
the Masters of Science in Engineer
ing, should go before statewide
Graduate Executive Council this spr
ing.
Masters programs in Metropolitan
and Environmental Planning, Special
Education, Music Education, Nurs
ing, Psychology and Law Enforce
ment and Correction have been going
through a complex series of steps that
UNCC deans and department heads
hope will led to the go-ahead for im
plementation.
According to Dr. Philip Hildreth,
vice chancellor for academic affairs,
"Each program would fulfill the
needs and desires of the Charlotte/
Mecklenburg community as well as
having statewide and national im
plications.”
All new programs will initially be
geared more toward the parttime stu
dent. Hildreth explained, “UNCC has
as its philosophy working with the
community to offer programs which
are easily accessible to individuals
who are working as well as to the
more typical fulltime student.”
The first program expected to go
through should be the Masters of
Science in Engineering. Dr. Robert D.
Snyder, dean of the College of
Engineering, said, “We would have
had a masters program going several
years ago if we had not been caught in
a transitional period in program
development.” All new programs
have to be considered by ad
ministrators at a number of UNCC
and University of North Carolina
levels and go on from these levels to
the Graduate Executive Council
which is made up of representative
from nine state universities.
The Masters in Criminal Justice
will be geared to “serve the needs of
both in-service criminal justice per
sonnel, pre-service students and those'
anticipating further study in criminal
justice,” Dr. Reed Adams, director of
the criminal justice program, said.
Another program that will serve
both parttime and fulltime students
will be the Masters in Community
and Metropolitan Planning. Dr.
Charles Hight, dean of the College of
Architecture, said this would be the
second masters program in the state,
and mentioned Chapel Hill felt it
would be a complement to their own
program.
The Masters in Human Learning
and Development, however, will be
moving from parttime only to both
fulltime and parttime. In their special
education masters, the college will of-
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