CHflRLOIIE
COLUGIfln
Vol. 4, No. 6
Charlotte College, Charlotte, N. C.
April 22, 1953
Independent Party Sweeps Student Council Elections
JC State Aid Bill Gets House Committee Hearing
A bill that would grant approxi
mately thousand to the support
of the two junior colleges now op
erated by the City of Charlotte has
been through a hearing in the State
House Appropriations Committee.
Introduced by Mr. Ed O’Hara,
representative from this district,
the bill would give Charlotte Col
lege about $47 thousand and Carver
College the balance of $60 thou
sand.
Introduction of the bill came in
the wake of a meeting in Char
lotte recently, at which time it was
decided that Charlotte and Meck
lenburg County should break away
from other junior colleges in the
state and go ahead on their own.
Until then, a number of junior col
leges — Asheville-Biltmore, Wil-
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The Independent Parly, under the leadershi]) of Jerry
Martin, .swept to an early victory in the April 9th Student
Council election. It is the fir.st time in a number of year.s that
a single party ha.s copped all of the prizes, and much longer
since an election that didn’t require a run-off ballot. Last year
two run-offs were required before the winners were decided.
Running with Martin on the In- Treasurer.
dependent ticket were Marilyn
Daly, for Vice-President; Martha
Stoj^ner. for Seci'etaiy; and James
Gunnells, for Treasurer. Opposing*
them in the (’onfederate Party were
William Burris, for President;
Garry A. Lanjjhorst, w’ho was a
write-in for Vice-President; Bar
bara Morris, for Secretary; and
Rudy Thompson, for Treasurer. In
addition, a slate of candidates
chosen by the Nominatinji; Com
mittee was in the race. Glenn
Keever headed this group, Richard
Stafford ran as the Vice-Presiden
tial candidate, Marjorie Lotshaw
ran as the Secretarial candi(iate,
and Margaret Caldwell ran as
The final tally on the election
gave the Independent Party ap-
pi oximately 70'^ of the total votes
cast. Final tally for each office
was as follows: For President:
Jerry Martin, 47; William Bun-is,
11; and Glenn Keever, 9. For Vice-
President: Marilyn Daly, 41; (iarry
Langhorst, 8; and Richard Stafford,
18. For Secretary: Martha Stog-
ner, 48; Barbara Morris, 11; and
Marjorie Lotshaw, 7. For Treas
urer: James Gunnells, 41; Rudy
Thompson, 20; and Margaret Cald
well, 4.
These officer w’ill be installed at
the last regular meeting of the
Student Council.
Student Council Considers
Far Reaching Amendments
The April 13th Student Council
meeting discussed many and varied
amendments to the student consti
tution. These considerations fol
lowed a study made by an Amend
ments Committee, appointed at the
previous Student Council meeting,
and headed by Bill Palmer.
Serving on the committee with
Palmer w'ere Charles Vess, past
Vice-President of the Student
Council; Wallace Ford, President of
the Freshman Class; Janies Gun
nells, recently elected Treasurer of
the Student Council; Charles Brice;
and Venoy Bryant.
Proposed amendments included:
voiding the requirements that an
officer of the Student Council must
maintain at least two subjects dur
ing his tenure in office; reducing
the required number of candidates
for each office in a General Elec
tion from three to two; placing the
selection of superlatives under the
jurisdiction of the Elections Com
mittee; kicking out the Honor
System; and making the Associate
Editor of the newspaper an elective
office.
The stiffest opposition to any
proposed amendment came on the
proposal that the Honor System
be booted out. This amendment
pr0i)0sal had received wide-spread
disapproval even before the Stu
dent Council received the recom
mended amendments.
In order for the constitution to
be amended, these proposals must
be approved in a genei-al election,
and it was proposed that the elec
tion be held between now and the
end of April.
Fourteen Students
Make Dean's List
A total of fourteen students made
the Dean’s List at Charlotte Col
lege during the Winter Quarter. In
order to appear on the Dean’s List
a student must maintain a full load
of three subjects, twelve quarter
hours of work, and maintain at
least a “B” average.
Students who accomplished this
feat were: William H. Bass, III;
Charles B. Brice, Jr.; William A.
Burris; William W. Davis, Jr.; Kay
Jeanne Dermody; Sula Floros;
James K. Gunnells; Robert W.
Hickey.
Mary Wellene Hodge; John N.
Isenhour; Mary L. Moses; Thomas
N. Owen, Jr.; Martha Stogner; and
Kenneth Wilson.