The Student Newspaper of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Volume XVI, Number 59
Record Numbers
Attend Jam-Up ’81
By David Griffith
Carolina Journal Entertainment Editor
At UNCC’s annual Jam-up festival
Saturday, a 15-foot-high inflated
replica of a Miller Lite can swayed at
the far end of the stage. More than
anything else, this item represented
this year’s Jam-up.
UNCC campus police and University
Program Board officials said 75 kegs
were provided through Southern
Wholesalers. Miller Beer represen
tative Connie Woolpert said her com
pany donated the beer because “the
college market is very important to
us.” Woolpert would not reveal on the
cost of the beer.
Long lines of students dominated the
area surrounding the beer trucks for
most of the afternoon, but the distribu
tion of the beverage was well-
organized. Lines were roped off in
front of the beer trucks. To receive free
beer, the students presented plastic
wrist ticket. Anyone not having a wrist
ticket was not given beer. One campus
police officer was stationed on each
side of the beer truck in case someone
decided to argue with the policy.
The UNCC police force was very
much in evidence during the afternoon.
“You always expect trouble in a crowd
like this,” supervising officer William
Harper said. UPB chair-person Mac
Ritchie gave a “conservative”
estimate of 10,000 people in atten
dance.
at 1 p.m. with Pegasus Rox, a pro
gressive rock band from Winston-
Salem. Guitarist Grant Blair said the
group had been together for five mon
ths, and two of the members (keyboar
dist Mike Jenkins and guitarist Grant
Blair) are students at the North
Carolina School of the Arts. “This is
our first Charlotte appearance,” Blair
said. The band specializes in covers of
adult-oriented progressive rock, but
they do perform one original song call
ed “Pre-funk Punk”.
Student reception of Pegasus Rox
was generally approving. As female
lead singer Barbara Massood screamed
“How ’bout some Rush, this is going to
give you a rush,” Jeff Davis, a student
who said he liked Rush, said, “Their
Rush song was alright, but that Kan
sas song was hurting. We’re waiting to
see Nantucket and George Hatcher
anyway.”
Another student, Joe Hord, said the
band is alright, “but they don’t play
enough Southern Rock.”
Staff member Robert Cureton, said,
“I like them, but it’s hard to dislike
anything, with all of these people hav
ing a good to me.”
David Higgins said, “ I thought the
girl (Barbara Massood, who strutted
the stage in blac high heels and a skin-
tight black outfit) was sexually obnox
ious, but the band played a nice variety
of stuff.”
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Monday, April 13, 1981
Admissions dp
Fretwell Cites Progress
By Teresa Skipper
In his State of the University ad
dress, Chancellor E.K. Fretwell said
the state of UNCC is good, outlined
ways to make it better, and didn’t dis
count that things could get worse.
The chancellor cited three indica
tors of progress. The first, he said,
was the quality and number of stu
dents who wish to enroll here. “We
have positive and encouraging evi
dence in that freshmen admits (1,831
of them so far) are 10 percent beyond
last year at this time. Demand is
notably high in such fields as biology,
business, engineering, mathematics
and nursing. And the results aren’t
all in yet.”
Secondly, Fretwell said he was
“moderately optimistic about this
year’s budget situation.” He cited
North Carolina’s proven support of
higher education and the projected
enrollment increases in stating his an
ticipation. Though he said he could
not measure his third observation in a
quantitative manner, Fretwell spoke
of UNCC’s institutional performance.
“Numbers of students and mem
bers of their families tell me of their
satisfaction with the quality of in
struction students receive,” he said.
“Our customers are often quite speci
fic in praising particular departments
and individual professors.” Fretwell,
in addition to his three points includ
ing the formation of the new chapter
of the national honorary societys, Phi
Kappa Phi, said, “I am proud of them
and their teachers. Even beyond this
group. However, we must do all that
we can to enhance every aspect of
self-motivated intellectual curiosity.”
“Other straws in the wind,” the
chancellor spoke of were student at
tendance at the past university forum
on Soviet-US relations. He also cited
the larger than usual turnout for stu
dent elections. Though, he said,
“Total voting was not all that great.”
The chancellor also said, “The quality
of student applicants for our Colvard
scholarships is reported to be quite
high.”