The Charlotte Colleqion
Voice of the Students
Volume XIII Friday, November 4, 1960 No. 2
Richard Nixon Wins CC Presidential Poll
By JERRY LEONARD
Richard M. Nixon has defeated
John F. Kennedy by a resounding
316 to 229, in a poll of 547 Char
lotte College students and faculty
members.
Vice President Nixon received
57.8 per cent and Senator Ken
nedy 41.9 per cent of the “votes”
cast to determine the student pre
ference in the coming election.
Only two “voters”—.3 per cent—
were undecided.
Five hundred forty-seven of the
696 students and 60 faculty mem
bers of Charlotte College partici
pated in the poll.
Is this straw ballot indicative
of Charlotte public opinion? We
merely list the results and leave
the analysis up to you.
Let’s take a look at the composi
tion of our student group.
Eighteen per cent of the student
population are co-eds, giving males
a ratio of better than 4 to 1.
About 40 per cent live in Char
lotte, 20.3 per cent live outside the
city but within Mecklenburg Coun
ty, 27.6 per cent are from outside
Mecklenburg but within North
Carolina and 13 per cent are out
of state students.
The average educational level
of these students is most likely
higher than the average for Char
lotte. They are influenced by fac
tors other than knowledge of the
candidates and their stands on the
issues. Environment and emotions
influence the opinions of some,
however, the student is as well in
formed as his age-group counter
part in Charlotte outside of th«
college.
The average student participat
ing in this poll is about 23 years
old and will be eligible to vote,
assuming he or she is registered.
This student group is probably
from the middle-income average
family classification. It includes
students who work and many who
are married.
BUILDING CONTRACT DUE
Auditorium
Program
Announced
The auditorium program for the
1960-61 school year has been com
pleted. The arts and lectures com
mittee is pleased to announce the
following schedule.
Charles Rosen, Pianist
Wednesday, December 7, 1960,
7:15 p.m.
The Charlotte College Chorus,
Christmas program,
Friday, December 9, 1960.
Dr. J. B. Rhine, professor from
Duke University will speak on
“Parapsychology, Frontier of the
Mind,” January 16, 1961,
7:15 p.m.
The Davidson Male Chorus,
Monday, April 24, 1961,
7:15 p.m.
Dr. Charles Rosen, the first per
sonality scheduled to entertain our
student body, has presented pro
grams in the major music capitals
of Europe and in many cities
throughout the United States.
Reviews of his performances
have been excellent. Time Maga
zine said:
Charles Rosen is a Ph. D. in
French Literature (Princeton)
who also plays the piano. Last
week, after listening to a Rosen
concert in Manhattan’s Town Hall,
the critics told him in effect, to
quit the literature business and
concentrate on the recital business.
His performance of Brahm’s vir
tuoso Variations on a Theme of
Paganini swept along like a fresh
breeze in a musty corridor, slam
ming doors on heavy-hand tradi
tions and uncovering the fine old
structure. Listeners heard more de
tails than they believed possible,
played in tones of pastel shading.
Then the pianist flashed through
Schoenberg’s tortuous Suite, Op. 25,
and surprised even hardened music
lovers, its improbable burblings
came through almost as easily as a
Viennese waltz. After that came
Beethoven’s Sonata, Op. 110, and,
for a dazzling change of pace, Ra
vel’s Gaspard de La Nuit. When
it was over, the audience demanded
four encores.
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CC’s First Phase Building
Contract To Be Awarded
November 14
By NANCY JANE BENNETT
building. They will contain a to-
The contract for the first build- tal of 66,000 square feet of space
ings of Charlotte College’s new and will cost $900,000. An addi-
campus is scheduled to be awarded itonal $300,000 for water, sewage,
on November 14th. Bids have been electricity, grounds, and architec-
solicited during the past month for tural fees will bring the total cost
the construction of the two build- to $1,200,000.
ings that will constitute the first
phase of the building program. acre site was purchased
Bids for this phase must be sub- 1958 for $186,200.
mitted on November 10th. The Originally the plan called for
board will hold a special meeting the construction of only one build
ing with others to be added as
funds were obtained. However, the
State of North Carolina reversed
an earlier law and agreed to match
any funds provided by Mecklen
burg County. The building com
mittee then decided that it would
be more economical to ask for bids
on the two buildings in the first
. Charlotte College Director, Miss phase.
Bonnie Cone, said she received the
“biggest thrill of my life” when she Ofi November 8, Mecklenburg
visited the campus site on Highway County voters will be asked to ap-
49 recently and saw the building Pi'ove another bond issue of $975,-
stakes. She says the stakes which ^00 for the second phase of the
mark building corners are the first building plan. This amount will
“baby steps.” again be matched by state funds
and will provide for an adrainistra-
The two buildings that are sche- tive building, a student center, a
duled to be completed in this phase fine arts building, a library, a
of the program are a three-story maintenance building as well as
engineering building and a two- landscaping, roads and parking
story academic and liberal artsareas.
on November 14th to award the
contract.
The contractor will have only ten
months to complete the two build
ings for the September, 1961,
school session; but, according to
architect A. G. Odell, Jr., this will
be enough time.
Architect A. G. Odell, Jr., stands at the marker where CC’s first
building will rise.
Old News Is Sometimes
Good News
Cecil Prince
Foundation
Mrs. Cecil Prince, wife of the
late Associate Editor of The Char
lotte News, has announced the
establishment of the Cecil Prince
Student Foundation. The founda
tion has approved a $210 scholar
ship for a CC student and made
the grant available for this school
year.
The spring quarter Dean’s list
is not exactly current information,
but everyone will agree that every
Dean’s list should be published.
In order to be named to the
Dean’s list, a student must take a
full load of three subjects, four
teen quarter hours of work, and
must maintain at least a “B” aver
age.
The director’s office announced
in June that the following stu
dents had been named to the
Dean’s list for the spring quarter;
Keith Morgan Arrowood, Ro
bert Boyd Barbee, John Samuel
Bell, Jr., Trula Sutton Booth,
Daniel Curtis Collins, Oscar Wat
son Connell, Jr., Kenneth Franklin
Corbett, James Fraser Cornell, Jr.,
Catherine McArthur Currie.
Patricia Ann Daniel, Richard
Maurice Earnhardt, Thomas Guy
Eason, Jr., Archie Hal Edwards,
James William Grant, Wyatt Price
Hargett, Jr., Frank Ervin Harkey,
Jr., Linda Lecte Harris, Clinton
Wilson Hoover.
Leonard Maxwell Howell, Frank
August Kretschmer, Charles An
thony Marwitz, Gail Deanna Mer-
rell, Bobby Gene Mills, Martha
Louise Moore, Jesse Rountree
Moye, III, Kenneth Wayne Mullis,
James Lee Parnell, Dorce Howard
Payne, Jr.
Lyman Ray Reynolds, David Ed
ward Russell, Elizabeth Ann Set-
tlemyre, James Harvey Sexton,
Paul Alexander Shinn, Edward
Joseph Silber, Charles Douglas
Simpson, Larry Benford Teffe-
teller, Howard Wayne Therrell,
Jere Manly Thomas, Jr., Frank
W. C. Timson, Jr., Lloyd Clifford
Torrence and Jerry Charles Wil
son.
Scholarship
Increased
Reprinted from the
Charlotte Observer
The Charlotte chapter of the
National Association of Account
ants will increase its scholarship
fund at Charlotte College by
$1,000.
This will provide a total fund
of $2,000.
The local chapter recently
voted to have the additional
,000 invested for the college.
Annual returns from the total
$2,000 investment are expected to
offer one full $210 scholarship and
a prize each year.
The annual yield from the ac
countants’ present fund is $130.50.
The scholarship fund mas set
i(p in 1957 in honor of the late
Herbert Connsr, a charter rdcm-
ber of the Chartotte chapter.
When the fund was established,
the accountants suggested that a
business administration student
in need of financial support be
given particular consideration.
However, the present scholar
ship holder, Joe Lee Starnes, is
a chemical engineering student.
Honor Society
Holds Meeting
The CC chapter of Sigma Tau
Sigma, national social science
honor society, has held its first
business meeting of the school
year. Rosen Ewin, Alpha Chapter
president, officiated.
The society made plans for a
schedule of 1960-61 business mest-
ings and social events.
It was proposed that the Alpha
Chapter undertake a project for
the school year. Several worthy
projects were suggested and dis
cussed.
Sigma Tau Sigma is composed
of the faculty and honor students
of the Social Science Department
of Charlotte College. The society
recognizes academic excellence in
the social sciences by extending
invitations to membership, by au
thorizing honor members to wear
the Sigma Tau Sigma gold key,
and by presentation of the Summa
Cum Laude citations.
“SAFETY FIRST! Always watch
the car behind the one ahead of
you.”