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VOL. IV
Wednesday, October 30, 1968
No. 6
N. C. Writers Discuss ‘‘‘Hot Topics”
Writer’s Forum
Here November 1
George Gorrett
SylvVo Wilkinson
Sam Ragan, A^oderofor
Journal Initiates
Investigation Into
Student Fees
On Wednesday, October 2,
1968, the Publications Board
voted unanimously to send a
recommendation to the
Vice-Chancellor asking for a study
of the collection and a dispersal of
the General Fee which is paid by
each student.
The JOURNAL then embarked
upon an independent study. We
would like to clarify the
JOURNAL position by stating
that this action was not
completely a result of the
controversy concerning the
allocation of the Student Activity
Fee by the Student Legislature.
The $10 Student Activity fee is
but one line item of the $125
collected from students yearly as
the General Fee. We felt that the
students of the University should
have a more complete
understanding of where their
money is spent. And, perhaps,
with more knowledge will come
more student participation in the
expenditure of all of these funds.
This first article in a series will
attempt to explain the collection
and dispersal of the General Fee.
The amounts collected as the
General Fee are determined by
the Board of Trustees and can
only be altered with the approval
of the Board. Because of this,
even though some areas may build
up excesses and other areas show
deficits, the funds can not be
interchanged. The present system
has been used since the
1966-1967 school term.
The $125 (which is collected as
$62.50 each semester) is divided
as follows:
Fall & Spring Semesters:
Registration $20.00
Student Activities Fee 20.00
Union Building Fee 20.00
Union Operation Fee 22.00
Infirmary Fee 6.00
Athletics and Intramurals 16.00
General Fee 21.00
(in lieu of lab fees)
SI 25.00
Summer School (since 1967)
Registration
Union Building Fee
Activity Fee
Union Building
Operational Fee
Intramural Activities
$5.00
5.00
1.50
3.00
1.00
$15.50
It should be explained that the
State Legislature will not
appropriate money for either a
Union Building or for the
activities with which it is
concerned, including the Union
Director’s salary because the
Union and its activities are
non-academic. But the University
must go to the Legislature to ask
for authority to borrow the
money for such activities.
Although the Dean of Students
has his office in the Union
Building, his salary is paid by a
state appropriation rather than
from the General Fee; however,
the secretaries, the janitor, and
the student help is paid from the
general Fee.
Dear Dr. Cone:
The Board of Student
Publications at its meeting
October 2, 1968, passed a
resolution requesting that an
investigation and study of the
collection, assignment, and
dispersal of student fees be
undertaken by an AD HOC
committee; appointed by the Vice
Chancellor for Student Affairs or
the Chancellor, or by the Student
Activities Committee, with the
purpose of presenting
recommendations for the proper,
efficient, and equitable use of the
fees. As an important part of this
investigation the Board requests a
study be made of the
independence and relationship of
the Student Government and
Legislature, the Union Governing
Board, and the Board of Student
Publications.
Sincerely,
Darryl McCall, Chairman
Board of Student Publications.
Burns Speaks
On Mid —East
Conflict
In one of the most informative
lectures on campus this year,
former U.S. Ambassador to
Jordan, Findley Burns, Jr. spoke
to a large audience of visitors,
faculty, and students on the
complexities of the
“Jordan-lsraeli Conflict.”
Presently Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Management,
Bureau of Inter-American Affairs
in Washington, Mr. Burns has been
with the State Department since
1941, having served at posts in
Madrid, Brussels, Warsaw, Vienna,
and London.
In his talk, Mr. Burns discussed
the religious, cultural and military
histories that led to the current
truce, and gave his analysis of
hopes for peace in the future. In
the question and answer period
following the talk, several Arab
students, among others, heatedly
voiced their views of the conflict,
views differing not so much in
content as in presentation from
those of Mr. Burns. With every
defeat the Arabs, he stated, have
been further humiliated and
driven to the hopes of vindication
in another war, a contention that
was perhaps demonstrated in a
muted form in the lecture hall. “1
never thought I’d find myself
defending the Israeli position,”
grinned Mr. Burns in response to
some of the more emotional
questions and statements.
At his best under fire, Mr.
Burns was in command
throughout, showing that a
measure of humor as well as
expertise is among the tools of the
working diplomat. Asked whether
he saw any possibility of Arab
unification and counter-attack
within the next few years, Mr.
Burns replied to the
contrary-rather than having been
brought closer together by the
recent conflict, the Arab states
were more at odds than ever
before. The only hope for the
Arabs, if indeed it is a hope, is for
the appearance of a Bismarck
after the European example to
unite the Arab states by force.
(Continued on page 7)
“The Writer and Hot Topics"
will be the subject of the sixth
annual North Carolina Writers
Forum. Helen Copeland, George
Garrett, Bynum Shaw, and Sylvia
Wilkinson will be the appearing
panelist. Sam Ragan will narrate
the discussion groups which will
be held at 8:15 P.M, Friday,
November 1, in the Parquet Room
here at the University.
Each of the four panelist has a
varied and unusual background
upon which to draw both for this
discussion and for their works in
general.
Sylvia Wilkinson is a versitile
young woman. Not only have
both her novels (MOSS ON THE
NORTH SIDE and A KILLING
FROST) been nationally
acclaimed, but her art work has
been good enough for her to
display it in one man shows. She
is also active in drama, athletics,
and sports car racing, a hobby she
has followed both here and
abroad.
The Durham native drew on her
Eastern North Carolina
background for both of her
novels. Her third book, probably
to be called BROKEN PEOPLE, is
concerned with race. Her two vear
pressures on writers."
She was born in Rochester.
Minnesota, but now lives in
Charlotte. She is a graduate of
Wheaton College in Massachusetts,
has worked at several prominent
summer writing conferences, and
is a past-president of the Charlotte
W'liters Club. Her four children,
ranging in age from the junior
high to the college level, made her
elligible for the title, which she
won, Charlotte Mother of the
Year.
Bynum Shaw, a native of
Burlington who is currently
residing in Winston Salem, has
drawn on his journalism
background (fourteen years with
the BALTIMORE SUN) for his
two novels. While heading the
SUN’S German Bureau, he was
arrested three times in Iron
Curtain Countries for alleged
espionage activities.
The Wake Forest Graduate has
returned to teach on the
journalism faculty there. He is
married to the former Louise
Noell Brantly of Durham. The
couple has two daughters.
His espionage backgrounded
novels arc 'l l IE SOUND OF
SMALL HAMMERS AND THE
Helen Copeland
association with the young writers
in the Creative Writing program at
Chapel Hill has probably
sharpened her convictions on this
and other current topics.
Miss Wilkinson attended
UNC-G, Hollins College, and
Stanford University. She studied
under Randall Jarrell, Louis D.
Rubin, and Wallace Stegner.
Children’s author Helen
Copeland is especially interested
in the area of unexamined
predjudice. In her new book,
THIS SNAKE IS GOOD, the little
boy is overcoming a predjuice,
overcoming hate. She “is also
interested in the subject of
freedom to write and the various
Bynum Shaw
NAZI HUNTER.
George Garrett, most prolific
writer and editor of the four
panelist, who heads the creative
writing program at Hollins College
in Virginia, is deeply interested in
young writers and keeps an eye on
what is going on in several varied
divisions of the writing field. For
example, he works with the
presses at Louisiana State
University and the University of
North Carolina as well as with
writing seminars and conferences.
He is also i n terested i n
experimental movies.
Tickets are necessary for
admittance and may be obtained
from the Charlotte Observer.
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