The Student Newspaper of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Volume XVI, Number 14
Charlotte, North Carolina
Thursday, September 18, 1980
$80,000 Received In. Grants
By Kathy Merritt
Carolina Journal Staff Writer
Three UNCC professors received
grants worth a total of $80,337 last
month, to be used by them and stu
dents for the development of the
university and the community.
Dr. Earl Backman, Director of the
Center for International Studies, got
the largest grant, worth $56,991,
from the International Communica
tions Agency. The grant is for “A
Statewide, Community Based World
Affairs Program.”
The program sponsors a series of
lectures on American foreign policy
that will be given in 13 regions
throughout the state. Backman said
most of the money will go towards
paying the speakers and also for of
fice work to support the project. The
grant is good for one year, but
Backman said he will work for re-
WBT Report
funding.
According to Backman, the pro
gram is part of a “community
outreach” with a goal of “educating
the community about other
countries” and American policy
towards those countries. The pro
gram has been in the works for the
past year and will build on the Great
Decisions program. Dr. Harold
Josephson will help administer the
project.
A conference will be held on Oct. 17
for the regional coordinators to
organize their efforts. Backman said
he hopes the program will continue to
grow and perhaps use radio in the
future to reach more people.
The Water Resources Research In
stitute awarded Dr. Nelson Nunnally,
Professor of Geography and Earth
Sciences, a $18,346 grant for “A
Rapid, Low Cost Technique for Esti
mating Peak Flows for Selected Flood
Events.” Nunnally said the program
is working to “try to develop a
statistical model for predicting
stream flow events” in streams in the
southeast.
The project will help in planning
flood plains and engineering projects.
Almost all the money, Nunnally said
will go to two graduate students
working with him. They will assemble
available information about streams
and then work with those streams in
the research. Most streams research
ed will be in Virginia and the Caro
linas. Nunnally said the one year pro
gram must use past records of
streams because of 50-year and
10-year floods that his research could
not document.
Professor Joseph Frizado of Geo
graphy and Earth Science received a
$5,000 grant from Mecklenburg
County for “Harrisburg Park
Sanitary Landfill Water Pollution
Monitoring.” Frizado said there is a
need for monitoring the quality of
water near sanitary landfills.
The money will go to two under
graduates who will take samples and
do analyses in the one-year project.
Frizado said the experience the
students gain will help further their
education and make it easier for them
to get jobs.
Frizado said grants are important
to UNCC and to any university. “The
more research opportunities there are
for students, the more we can broaden
their background,” he said. Students
will gain a “better set of knowledge
and training.”
Local Lawyer Smokes Over Pot
Friday, September 5, WBTV in
Charlotte ran a story concerning the
sale of rolling papers on the UNCC
campus.
“Life in the dorms at UNCC,” the
story began, “loud music, booze, and
for some marijuana.” WBTV report
er, Marc Garrison, went on the note
that the bookstore on campus had
“the best buy in town” on rollings
papers.
Lawrence Cobb, Charlotte attorney
and member of the State Board of
Governors, was quoted as saying he
would look into the matter and con
tact UNCC‘s Board of Trustees. Cobb
said later he felt the sale of papers did
not concern the Board of Governors
and he did not intend to pursue it.
Inside
A review of
Reagan’s films
Page 2
A comic Review
. .Page 5
Leo Ells, Vice-Chancellor of Busi
ness Affairs for the University, was
also quoted in the report. He later
echoed his statements, saying,
“Students at UNCC are adults for the
most part and it is not the respon
sibility of the university to act as
absentee parents.”
The manager of the bookstore, Jim
Mecreedy, noted the report had been
good advertising. The bookstore was
sold out of papers within a few days.
One of WBTV’s photographers ori
ginated the story when he spotted
rollings papers in the bookstore. Gar
rison then brought a camera crew into
a dorm and filmed students smoking
marijuana in their rooms.