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VIEWPOINT
An Ink editorial
Student input necessary in chancellor selection
DONNA D. WHITAKER
AsaocUte Editor
The term of another chancellor Is
about to end. Ferebee Taylor will
leave office Jan. 31,1980.
He will no longer make pertinent
decisions that govern your and my
education, social life, and well-being
here, nor will he control the UNC-CH
faculty and administration.
If he will not do these things, then
who will?
For those of us who are ignorant of
the fact, there exists a Chancellor
Selection Committee designed to
nominate the next leader of this
university (although the final decision
rests with UNC system president
William Friday).
The committee consists of five
trustees, two alumni, two faculty
members, and one student.
The only student memt>er of the
committee just happens to be the Stu
dent Body President, J.B. Kelly. I
suppose J.B. is our token represen
tative to the committee, and his
presence there is suppose to make us
happy. However, how can we be hap
py when his presence is not signifi
cant? His one vote probably cannot
determine a decision.
Students should have a significant
voice in making decisions at the
university because, after all, it exists
for us (well, it is suppose to).
However, so many times we are ig
nored.
The sophomore class of the North
Carolina Fellows Program, a group of
student leaders, would not be ignored.
The group organized a draft of
credentials for the new chancellor
which they presented to the
Chancellor Selection Committee Oct.
25.
The group presented a first draft to
the leaders of various major student
organizations on campus the week of
Oct. 8.
By the end of the week, the group
took suggestions from the various
organizations contacted and from any
organization interested in supporting
the draft.
From the suggestions the group for
mulated the final draft that was en
dorsed by several student organiza
tions and presented it to the selection
committee.
The sophomore Fellows asked
students to suggest personal
qualifications pertaining specifically
to the job of chancellor as well as per
sonal attributes a chancellor should
NEWS FOCUS:
The Black C.ampus C.abinet
JAMES ALEXANDER JR.
Co-Editor
The Black Campus Cabinet, formed last year as a consolidation of all the
Black organizations at UNC, has already began meeting and it certainly has
a monstrous task ahead of itself this year.
With the semester half gone, fraternities, sororities and other Black
groups have constantly "bumped heads” with each other during weekend
events subsequently hurting themselves at the gate.
The cabinet was started to alleviate the problem of conflicting schedules
among Black organizations and to increase harmony among the groups.
Not only will the cabinet solve event scheduling problems, but it will make
other important decisions concerning Black organization representation in
campus-wide affairs, such as the selection of a queen by the cabinet for this
year’s homecoming celebration.
Our present cutthroat methods of survival by which we rub salt in our
wounds with too many projects going on at once, will only gradually
eliminate the effecUveness (and possibly the very existence) of the group as
8 whol6«
Support of the cabinet from the organizations represented and from Black
students will lead to creating a more harmonious and respectable at
mosphere among the university’s Black population.
The cabinet should not and has not taken the place of the BSM. Whereas
the BSM deals strictly with Black student policy and acts as a student voice
for representaUon to the UNC administraUon, the cabinet will deal only with
promoting harmony, cooperation and unity among the Black organization
generally not represented on the BSM.
If anything at all is going to come out of the Black Campus Cabine'.,
there’s going to be a need for an effective communication between all in
volved. . . .u .
An effective communication that will emphasize to all groups that
sacrifice and consideraUon will be the only feasible means of achieving sue-
The efforts and the results of the Black Campus Cabinet will be a signifi
cant factor on where many of our Black organizations are headed at UNC.
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possess.
To prompt ideas, students were ask
ed the following question: What issues
do you see arising in the next 10 years
that the new chancellor must face and
be able to handle?
Although the final draft may not
have the suggestions of every student
organization, all student organiza
tions should have been concerned
enough to examine the draft and en
dorse it if it complied with its ideas.
If it did not comply, organizations
had a chance to present their own pro
posal to the committee Oct. 25.
The final draft was presented
before J.B. Kelly so that he could be
familiar with students’ stand in order
for him to defend or project it.
This was a worthwhile project.
Students took the initiative and
became involved in making a decision
that will effect them and future UNC-
CH students.
Were you a part of the project? Did
you voice your opinion? The project
was publicized in the DTH and
through various Fellows.
If you were not part of this student
initiative, you should consider being
part of future student projects.
Better yet, start now. Go to J.B.
Kelly and tell him what kind of person
you want to be your leader. The
nominations will not begin until after
Nov. 1.
You have the chance to voice your
opinion. You must let the administra
tion know that students cannot be ig
nored much longer or suffer the con
sequences.
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