North Carolina Newspapers

THE DAILY TAR wilL5 f AGS TVYO SUNDAY, MARCH 1, VHM System la it h u.h siirslt cl in .ui ttlitoii.il licit" two cla)s ao ili.it ilit" tmtial issue fating the rnixrixitx ;i tlic present time is the issue of piiiM)se ami its iclation to a otowtli w hit li would piet liide its tleiidm its own purpose. It wn poinicd out in this editorial that the ruiveisity would change in tharatter it the l'nieisity rew larger than 10,000, and the possibility of its student population glowing l.iici than 10.000 is great. Indeed, it ": Mtiiucd out that ul.pictcm all the fu tut c-planning, even to the jxim of . the pre sent budget rt quest is done on the basis of giv th. A sMithnt tame up to the editor and said that the editor was like someone who would like the nation return to the Jellcisonian agr.uian s iety. but that society was moving txt-r fotw.nrtl audi th;.'t the trend in society x.n foi iiu leasing centralization of both tMipulation and authority. In short, the stu dent seemed somewhat convinced that the editoi a not keeping up with the times. Ilowexer. this state is in a peculiar posi tion of piesently being able to determine its own nhic.itioii.il destiny. At present the state his approimatcl a doen tolleges that arc tjte supjoit(l and sex era I more community tollrgcs ih.it aie up and coming. Obviously nitli the picscnt rniversitv consolidation, it i impossible for the I'niveisity to carxe its own destinx out. Hut if consolidation xverc spread to the other schools in the system in i ludin'i the community tolleges. it would be possible for ea1. h school to have a purpose tut out for itself. 1 It would then be possible for the l?niver siiy 10 limit cm ollment, at a lexel where the ion jxople in the stare were coming to Car olin.i i.ilher than a r pi esentat ive showing. I he rnixeisitv could requite a higher giade on (-nuance examinations than it piesently does, for the picscnt entrance ev.i'inin.itions in one gioup would onlv 1 est 1 it t the bottom two pen t ut fioin attending this I'uixersity. I he admissions standards at the -present time, although 11 percent of those who ap plied failed to meet these .stand. u ds, are ipiite low for high quality si hools of higher education, and it is time that the state sys tem was ulilied in draining off those xvho cannot inert the high standaicls that the Uni xcisitv should set up. It xvould be possible to transfer those edir . ntional cnteipiises currently on this campus that aie not tonsistent with the purpose of a Unixersiiy a community of individuals rommitted to the pursuit of truth to other t.imitiiscs in the state. Indeed, although the factual basis for bucl Hft iccpiests xvould be slightly more difficult than telling a group of legislators that the University needs so and so many more teaih ris iH-cause there are so1 and so many more undents. It xvould be a stronger case in that the rnixeisitv xvants to develop the best state institution of higher learning anywhere in the nation. I: is possible that the people of Not tli (laiolina. so long used to seeing their state tatcd best at the middle of any list of ratings, excepting basketball or football ratings, might take a great deal of pride in the lust state I'uixersity in the nation. Ilowexer. there are derisions to be made first. The most basic decision is the one as to the puiose of the University whether it will emphasize learning for the sake ot learning or learning for the sake' of a skill. The second decision mnst be made in Rar leigh xvhen legislators consider revisions of the Po.ud of Higher Kducation and the Uni veisity trustees. They can do the job right for once by eliminating the present consoli dation structure and extend it to all state supported colleges. The time for these decisions is now. In txvo years it may xvell be too late. ije fltlp tiFar ttl The official itude l publication of the Publication Board of the University of North Carolina, whore it Is published dally except Monday anJ examination periods and aummer terma. Entered ai aecond dan matter in the pert office In Chapel Hill. N. . C, under the act of March 8 1870. Subscription ratei: $4.50 per metter. $3.20 pei er .... The Daily Tar Heel If printed by the News Inc., Carrboro, N. C. 1 he Wor 1 M ews 1 s ( : Editor CURTIS CANS Managing Editor CHUNK FLINNEIt stan fisiier News Editor ANNE FTiYE Sports Editor RUSTY HAMMOND Advertliic2 Manager FRED KATZIN Ant. Adv. Manager LEE ARIJOGAST Assistant Sports Editor . ELLIOTT COOPER Josie Morris A trip to Moscow, a budget and a strike made front page news this week. Prime Minister Harold MacMil lan of Great Rritain and Nikita S. Khrushchev of Rtussia held talks on questions of "mutual interest" in the Soviet Premier's plush villa ootskie Moscow. MacMillan's ten-day visit ended in an atmosphere of bitter cold. In a talk over rights in Berlin, the British visitor warned Khrush chev that there would be grave danger if anyone interferes with the Western Powers' rights in this area. Each leader refused to budge an inch on the issue. It Is interesting to note, however, that earlier in the week the full text of a dinner speech by Mac Millan was carried in the Russian newspapers. This was the first time in years that the Soviet pic ture of "the aggressive West" has been contradicted so effective ly in the papers reaching millions of Russians. By Wednesday the atmosphere had become "fairly cool, calm and collected." Relations had been strained by Khrushchev's public attack on Western policies in his Kremlin speech the day before. From the state capitol came the protests of consolidated 'university officials concerning the recent budget cuts. The officials said Monday that recommended budget tills will mean loss of some of the university's best teachers and a general decline into mediocrity. The university officials spoke at a meeting of the full board of UNC trustees in the Hall of the House in Raleigh. Trustees responded by adopting a resolution reaffirming their faith in the university administration and seeking restoration of all bud get cuts. Criticism of the budget cuts was concentrated on failure to improve faculty pay and provide better li braries and increased research and "Did They Say This Was A Balanced Budget Or A Juggled One?" Review Visiting ReporF 8 k - "; - 1-11 " ' r r.. - inn .r- f:- -U x- VV ' 1 g. "'J .-.'.' vh-C',. . '.fill t-xnrt services. A dispute arising at the Harriet Henderson Cotton Mills in Hender on resulted in violence this week. The company's 1,200 workers walk ed out November 17 when the company refused to agree that the new contract include a provision Irom the old contract calling for arbitration in the settling of -disputes. The provision has booh in effect for the pasi 14 years. Emergency attempts to reach an agreement on a new contract failed Tuesday while workers, es corted by police, trooped in and out of the strike torn mill? From the world of missiles and satellites came the news that Ti tan 1CBM, the powerhouse of U. S. missiles, logged its second highly successful tet flight in succession Wednesday from Cape Canaveral. The bullet-shaped missile Turn ed off its pad at 2:45 p.m. It ilazed over the prescribed course minutes, winding up in the hi in . The Future Oi The Universi Business Manager WALKER BLANTON Circulation Manager BOB WALKER J. Carlyle Sitterson ' The single most important fac tor in determining the distinction of a university is the quality of its faculty. No college or university can be outstanding without a facul ty of high quality. Many factors influence a faculty member's choice of institution academic reputation of the institution, re search facilities, library, leave po licies, retirement benefits and sal aries. All are important but in a period of continuing price inflation and rising faculty salaries through out the country, adequate salaries are crucial. The University of North Carolina enjoys an enviable reputation in the university world that makes teachers want to come to Chapel Hill and when they come, they generally want to stay. But what is the University's present salary position? In the spring of ,1958, median salaries (the half-way point be tween the bottom and the top) for our faculty in academic affairs (including all privately endowed chairs) in the various rank were: Professor 8,900, Associate Pro fessor 6,060, Assistant Professor 5,670, Instructor 4,800. How does this compare with other institu tions? A survey of salaries at 23 state universities (including 8 southern state universities) was made in 1958. Fifteen of the 23 had higher median salaries for professors (the top median being 11,400); fifteen had higher median salaries for assistant professors: eleven had higher median salaries for instructors. Clearly, our competitive position Is worse at the upper rank. Note, this survey makes no ef fort to select the institutions with the highest salary scales. But lest xve forget Princeton minimum salaries effective February, 1959 $3,000 for associates; $11,000 for professors; Oregon State Board of Higher Education salary scale (July, 1958), minimum $G,700 for associates, $8,500 for professors; University of Virginia minimum (since 1957), $7,000 for associates, $8,800 for professors; Wellesley, minimum for professors $9,000; Williams, minimum for professors $9,000; Vale, minimum for associ ate professors $8,000; for profes sors $11,000. University of North Carolina minimum salaries are $6, 500 for associate professors and $7,500 for professors. How is the University faring in attracting and retaining higlucali . bre faculty members? In the past year, the University has made a number of offers to faculty mem bers at colleges and universities in all areas of the country. With , the exception of persons in the instructor and assistant professor : ranks except endowed charis, we . have for the most part failed to ' attract the persons to the Univer sity. Almost without exception, our , offers are matched and in some . cases more than matched by the professor's present institution. Our recent and current efforts indi cate that our competitive position is getting worse. What is happening to our present staff? 1. A Professor left Chapel Hill in 1953 after thirty years with us to accept appointment at a Paci fic Coast university at $4,000 more in salary. lie was at our top sal ary.) 2. A Professor left Chapel Hill in 1958 to accept appointment at a Middle Western state university at $3,500 more in salary. 3. An Associate Professor was offered a professorship at a Southern university at $4,500 more than his present salary. We were able to retain him by a promise to promote him and raise his sal ary, but he would still be consider ably under his offer. 4. A Professor hi one of our most distinguished departments is row considering an offer from a southern university at a salary in crease of more than $4,000. It will take a substantial salary increase to hold him. I 5. Another Professor is prciseptly considering an.offer"at an pastern university at $11,000.. more than $5,000 above, his present salary With a reasonable salary increase, we might hope to retain him. Cs One of our more.; highly paid Professors is now considering an offer from a Southern university at, a salary increase of $3,000. 7. One of ourcurrent Ph.D.'s (June, 1959) is now considering a position at a liberal arts college in the North at a salary as as sistant professor in the range $6. 774 - $9,500, or possibly an asso ciate professorship in the range $7,800 - $10,900 in . either case, a salary higher than many of the professors receive here who trained him. There will be many more in the months ahead. These illustrations are a "sign of the times." The University of North Carolina has many advan tages in the university world. We are an outstanding University, esteemed throughout the world of learning. We have attracted a distinguished factuly. Other col leges and universities know this. If we do not get substantial sums for faculty salary increases, the greatness of this, University could be destroyed in the matter of a few years. Should that happen, no one knows whether we could ever regain our present stature. We cannot let that happen. If ' the University is to teach more students without lowering the quality of instruction, it must have ty Th Lib additional faculty in . the next bi-ennium.- Forty- three new teaching positions were requested in the .ennium in the Division of Aca A (continuation) budget for the bi demic Affairs (includes Arts and Sciences Huiimanities, Social Sci ences, and Natural Sciences Busi ness Administration, Education, Law, Library Science, Journalism, and Social Work.) Thirty-eight teaching positions were requested in the Division of Health Affairs (includes Schools of Medicine, Pharmacy, Public Health, Nurs ing, and Dentistry.) . These are our estimate of the number of new positions we will need to teach the increased number of students without putting heavy pressure upon subject fields in which faculty members are al ready overworked. The Advisory Budget Commis sion in its reduction of new per- , sonnel in Academic Affairs from ;43 to 13 reasoned and I am sure without a full understanding of - the facts that the student-faculty . ratio could be moderately Sn- t! creased without impairing the quality of iiu.tr uction. Unfortunate ly, while plausible at first glance, a full examination of the facts demonstrates how impossible this is. First, our major anticipated in crease in student enrollment will come in fields in which the student-teacher ratio is already far higher than the general Univer sity average bf 17.2 (for actual teachers as distinguished from all faculty) as. for example, in Eng- 'i ocean some 250-300 miles from the launching site. It was the second Titan success in three weeks. A black cloud still hangs over Cyprus this week. Even though the Cypriots have regained their freedom from Bri tain, hatreds held so long between these two countries cannot be blown away in an instant. One incident was reported the road between Necosia and the huge detention camp "K." Soldiers stationed at the camp were said to have stoned many vehicles bringing the freed men into the capital. 1 . But after three years of bitter exile Archbishop Makarioe, beard ed leader of the Greek Cypriots, may return home whenever he wishes. In Lebanon pro-Nasser crowds battered and burned five street cars in downtown Beirut Sunday in an outburst of rioting that climaxed the city's celebration of the United Arab Republic's first anniversary. ', Gangs of pro and anti-Nasser youths clashed in fist fights in the heart of the capital following the trolley attacks. An ailing Secretary of State Dul les got fresh support early this week in the face of proposals by Sen. Stuart Symington and the American Veterans Committee that he be replaced. Democrats as well as Republi cans generally voiced disapproval of suggestions ' t h a t President Eisenhower appoint a new secre tary of state1 because of Dulles' illness with cancer. Symington proposed that a new secretary of state be appointed, "I don't think Dulles can run the Slate Department from a hospital," he stated. Off the coast of Newfoundland came the report late Thursday that U. S. Navy men, seeking to learn what caused breaks in four transatlantic cables, boarded a Russian fishing trowler.. Faculty lish, History, Chemistry, Math ematics, Business Administration, Psychology, and freshman Social Science. It is in such areas that we expect to use additional per sonnel. It might be appealing, for ex ample, to have a botany professor teach chemistry or a music pro fessor teach history. If we could in this fashion redistribute all fa culty personnel over all fields, it might theoretically be possible to take a few more students without any apparent additional faculty. Actually, t this would in reality be adding faculty in some critically short areas and reducing faculty in some fields of adequate supply. Should this be done and it is in fact impossible the University would have to curtail or bring to an end instruction at advanced undergraduate and graduate le vels in some areas in many cases areas in which it is the only state institution now offering adequate programs. a In the Division of Health Affairs the thirty-eight positions were based on an anticipated increase la students of 19 per cent. The Ad visory Budget Commission reduced these positions to nineteen. The facts add up to one simple alternative-on the one hand, eith er additional personnel to teach more students at our present high quality ' of instruction, or on the other hand, no additional students or more students with a substan tial reduction in the quality of instruction. rary Cbmpariect To Duk PART IV The Library at Chapel Hill has renown far be yond the borders of this state, and will continue to be a proud monument to North Carolina's de votion to the education and culture of its people. The reputation of the Library directly affects the quality of the faculty vhich can toe drawn and maintained here, and the quality ;of, the . faculty is the primary determinant of the reputation of . the University. It is our belief that the; pepple of North Carolina will want at least to maintain; if npt,. con tinuously to improve upon, the valued, services -provided through this institution.1 . . -' "v'Sj' SUMMARY r We trust that in the body of ? this Report we have pointed ou with clarity the more' crucial needs of the University at Chapel Hill. ..Relisting those needs here would seem to serve no Useful purpose; however, it is hoped that their omission here will in no manner be construed as minimizing their urgency. Problems facing this Board of Trustees are not in the quality of the Administration, nor in its lack of vision, purpose, or industry, but rather in its lack of funds. Needs at Chapel Hill parallel to a large degree those at N. C. State and The Wo man's College, other state-supported institutions of higher learning, and tha public schools of North Carolina. Our interdependence xvith and upon them was recognized by President Friday in his inaug ural address, when he described our relationship as that of "inseparable partners.". The University at Chapel Hill, mother ; rcVinpon ent of our great threefold University, anil-; Jon? recognized as the capstone of the state's educa tional system, must be kept . strong. By the pro digious efforts of a devoted administration-and faculty it remains so; however, "the night is far spent, the day is at hand" when its imperative needs must be met. We conceive it to be. the duty cf this Committee to point out these needs, and to recommend their fulfillment in the very strong est of terms. Likewise, we conceive it to be the duty of the Board of Trustees to use its individu al and collective energy and influence toward suoh a goal. By the renewed efforts cf administration, faculty, students, alumni, friends, and trustees it may w?H be that New Hope, the original name .of Chapel Hill, is prophetic of better things to come i'i Respectfully submitted, , MRS. ED M. ANDERSON ; ' West Jefferson ." ..--.' VICTOR S. BRYANT ' Durham MRS. ME BANE BURGWYN Jackson. ', ;. .. FLOYD CROUSE - Sparta . ; . ROBERT M. HANES Winston-Salem MRS. J. B. KITTRELL Greenville r JOHN D. LARKINS Trenton : 1. HAMPTON PRICE Leaksville H. L. RIDDLE, JR. Morjjanton . HILL YARBOROUGH Louisburg J. W. YORK . .Raleigh; . . .' , WILLIAM P. SAUNDERS, Chairman, Raleigh ;-r "Boy, We've Really Got 'Em Worried This Time" 1957-1958 LIBRARY COSTS DUKE UNC Book Stock 1,343,768 935,014 Volumes Added 53,860 40,127 Periodicals i 13. Received T-3 4,885 i 6,005 Books & .Binding 250.105; 220,283 r.; t. Total Library Expense Per . Student Cost 629,041 683,768 118.46 97.1S Ratio of. Library Cost, To' Institu- tional Budget 5.5 percent 4.1 percent. 1957-1958 LIBRARY PERSONNEL Staff Salaries Student Service Totat Cost' Total number of employees in ... .. foil-time equivalents Professional Non-Pro. Total DUKE UNC 322,420 366,362 29,329 351,749 J 41,008 ;H 427,370 40 50 46,38 43.5 86.38 93.5