most Senates would take years over.“"" Better still, there were few 
     
     signs ot‘PVVC versus SDU factionalism —just, as Baker said, "the 
     
     more common ones ofyouth versus age, utopianism versus cynicism, 
     
     and so on.”“‘ 
     
    

    
     Tlie relentless present was simply overwhelming the past. 
     
     Through the fall of 1969, the university busily invented its symbols 
     
     and traditions, wiping the slate clean ofold associations. dhe Senate 
     
     formed a committee expressly to develop the university motto, co— 
     
     lours, and crest. A student newspaper, the 77.76 Cadre — “Charlotte— 
     
     town’s Finest English—Language Weekly,” according to the cover of 
     
     its inaugural issue — was born. Student Vilna Louisy won $25 for 
     
     christening the new yearbook Nexus, from the Latin, “that which 
     
     joins together.”“8 And a student referendum decided that the uni— 
     
     versity’s colours would be green and white, and that henceforth they 
     
     would cheer for the Panthers. (Surely it speaks to lslanders’ native 
     
     consermtiveness that in an era of Black Panthers we adopted a green 
     
     one?) Sharing such symbols could not help but bring people together 
     
    

    
     — that is their whole purpose. 
     
    

    
     Of course, what most occupied the university community that 
     
     fall were the prosaic matters of university life. Students in residence 
     
     got up in arms about a restrictive policy on having late—night visitors, 
     
     and about the Board of Governors’ attempt to legislate the policy on 
     
     the grounds that it was responsible for the university’s physical prop— 
     
     erty. President Baker innocently noted that it was not as if having a 
     
     member of the opposite sex in your room would cause the plaster to 
     
     fall otl‘the ceiling. Rather cheeky, that!“ 
     
    
   
   
    
     In the 7798 Caz/M’s first issue, the editors interviewed the presi— 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     (m Baker to .\larita McNulty, October 30, root), Presidents Correspondence, {older 2: 
     
     Hill Collection. 
     
    

    
     ()7 Baker to l lllS. Cooke, April 17;, 1o7o, President's Correspondence, {Uldt‘i‘ 5‘ PM 
     
     Collection. By then, however, Baker was also complaining privateb' that the Sena;- 
     
     \vas actingr very slowly, and he had real doubts about students having been granteu 
     
     such a central role in the universitv's gm’crnancer 
     
    

    
     (>8 7/)" (fin/re, l‘lebruai‘y 3, 1970. i 
     
    

    
     (w Sec War (fin/re, November 21, 1909, 
     
    
   
   
    
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