OVERCROWDED POPULATION
THE
FAYEHEVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY
VOLUME 24 NUMBER 1 FAYETTEVILLE, N .C. SEPTEMBER 30. 1970
N.C. STATE STUDENTS
UPSHORT FINANCIALLY
FROM: NEWS & OBSERVER
North Carolina’s college students are losing millions
of dollars in financial aid because North Carolina
college administrators aren’t asking the federal
government for it.
Walter Gale, head of the National Defense Educa
tion Act, loan program, in Washington, said in an in
terview this week "Many North Carolina colleges
are not taking care of the needs of their kids - many
of them aren t asking for nearly as much student
aid as they could be getting from the federal govern
ment.”
Gale said, there are several North Carolina col
leges with enrollments of only a couple of thousand
students- many of whom come from poor homes -
which “ought to be asking for $1 million aid a year,
but are only requesting a quarter of that.”
“This year, fewer than 20,000 of North Carolina’s
college students will receive aid under federal
programs. That’s not many,” Gale said.
Other states have been asking for and receiving
significantly larger amounts of aid than North Caro
lina, he said.
SLIGHT $ RISE IN FSU
TOTAL COST
1969-70 TOTALS,
BOARDING STUDENTS
INSTATE - $976.00
OUT OFSTATE-$l,52dOO
NON BOARDING
STUDENTS
INSTATE - $307.00
OUT OF STATE - $857.00
1970-71 TOTALS
INSTATE - $1,111.00
OUT OFSTATE-$1,76LOO
NON BOARDER
IN STATE - $370.00
OUT OF STATE-$1,020.00
$8.5 MILLION ASKED FOR IMPROVEMENTS
Requests for an $8.5 million capital improvements were presented to the advisory
Budget Commission this summer by F.S.U. administrators.
F. S. U. outlined the university’s capital improvements and “B” Budget requests
for the 1971 - 73 biennium to the commission.
The capital improvements request was required to provide the physical re
sources to meet the needs of the current student body and to meet the needs of
accelerated expounded enrollment.
The request includes $2.4 million for a new academic building, $2.7 million for
a new science building, $1.7 million for a 450 student dormitory, and funds for
renovation of the J. W. Seabrook Auditorium, the Mechanical (Municipal) Arts build
ing and physical education facilities.
The budget includes $89,000 for a new residence for the university president.
The requests are necessary to meet expansion needs, including five new degree
programs and a minor program to take effect this fall.
In addition, degree programs in business administration and chemistry have
been approved for the fall of 1971.
The State Board of Higher Education has approved a joint proposal by FSU and
North Carolina State University to transfer administration of the N. C. State Ft.
Bragg branch to FSU.
N. C. Stale will continue to support the program.
DORM CONGESTION CRITICAL
At the peak of student arrivals for the first sem
ester of tiie school year 1970-71, F.S.U. was girded
with dormitory congestion.
Statistical student surveys indicate that there was
a surplus of students for every dormitory. In min
utely examining the situation it was found that the two
dorms designated for freshmen women, Joyner and
Harris Halls, and the two men’s dorms, William and
Vance Halls, were filled beyond capacity. In the
remaining women’s dorms. Smith, Bryant and Hood
Halls, there were no overcrowding problems; how
ever, all were filled to capacity either with arrivals
or reservations.
The count was as follows: William Hall, with a
capacity of 45, was housing 70 young men; Vance
Hall, having a capacity of 254, made accommodations
for 289 young men; Joyner Hall, having the original
room occupancy for 96 , made tight adjustments for
120 young ladies of which 14 were counselors; Harris
HaU, with a capacity for 98 was in a pathetic predica
ment housing 145 freshmen and 12 counselors; Hood
Hall, with rooming space for 72, had 66 arrivals and
6 reservations remaining; Smith Hall was full with
67 occupants; and Bryant Hall, which can provide
comfortable lodging for 200, had 189 arrivals and 11
reservations remaining.
Joyner and Harris Halls had students sleeping in
rooms designated for studies, television, recreation,
and trunks. Harris had more than 20 students without
rooms. In Joyner and Harris Halls, three beds were
placed in the larger rooms. The third bed was usually
a narrow army cot with a thin mattress.
As a result of this overcrowded condition, some
students have returned home; others are seeking
housing accommodations off-campus, and others are
accepting the crowded circumstances.
The super influx of students at F.S.U. for the fall
semester can be viewed in a number of ways. As
the situation stands, several of F.S.U.’s freshmen are
finding their first stay away from home slightly
unpleasant in the crowded dormitories. It is evident
that a larger percentage of young people are interest
ed in furthering their education at F.S.U., and ad
ministrators have perceptible evidence that there is
a need for the construction of a t least one new
dormitory.
Some type of action is supposedly being taken by
authoritative administrators to solve the congestion
problem. Students are hopefully looking forward to
a change for the better in rooming conditions where
clustering exists.
BEHRINGER
Future bright with
dramatic change
PRESIDENT LYONS SAID HE BELIEVES F.S.U. IS
IN THE PROCESS OF DRAMATIC CHANGE AND THAT
THE UNIVERSITY’S FUTURE HAS NEVER BEEN
BRIGHTER.
Dr. Richard L. Fields, new academic dean of the Un
iversity, huddles with Head Librarian, Mrs. Nathalene
Smith. The two make plans for the 1970-71 school year.
The chief administrator voiced this opinion in the initial faculty dinner meeting
August 26. He cited 1969-70 F.S.U. accomplishments, called unrest a part of total
national disorder, and said that the ensuing academic year will pro^bly double
the speed of last year.
DR. LYONS SAID DRAMATIC CHANGE IS INEVITABLE BECAUSE THE LAST
LEGISLATURE HAS BROADENED THE SCHOOL’S PURPOSE AND THAT IT HAS
THE RESPONSIBILITY OF PROVIDING FOR THE NEEDS OF THE AREA, INCLUDING
A GRADUATE PROGRAM.
He said in the face of change, the F.S.U. assemblage needs to be bold, daring -
dare to be different - and willing to experiment.
BRIGHT FUTURE
F.S.U.’S SECOND - YEAR PREXY CALLED PROBLEMS FACING MORE
SOCIOLOGICAL THAN ACADEMIC. THE TIMES CAUSE MORE QUESTIONS TO
BE ASKED AND IT IS F.S.U.’S TASK TO PROVIDE RIGHT ANSWERS, SINCE WRONG
ONES CRFAT CONFUSION AND STRIFE.
He added that the university has greater educational assets than most people
realize, and in future years, even greater assets and roads to brightness.
Among the 1969-70 curriculum accomplishments were: seven of eleven degree
programs presented to the Board of Education with approval, the language laboratory
is being updated, and plans for an early childhood education lab were formulated.
In other areas, an accreditation and “in depth” team visited the campus, the
self-study was brought to its final stages, the university was apprised of its role
in the N.C.S.U. Forth Bragg branch, and various academic programs including the
inauguration took place.
The top executive called campus unrest a part of national disorder and mentioned
as causes; dissatisfaction with government, loss of confidence in institutions, poli
tical synthesizing, a fear of repression and a questioning of the whole system.
RUN TWICE AS FAST
Dr. Lyons called for a renewed committment to excellence in 1970-71. He said
to advance F.S.U.’s promising intellectual enterprise, its faculty and administration
would have to run at a speed twice as fast as last year’s.
In the process, the desires in the minds of men will be the real issue; that it is
necessary to take the position that when the going gets tough, the tough get going,
for in the final analysis, it is not so much the money, the faculty or the administration,
but their service to mankind. He added, “ We mean business.”