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Vol. 73
Fall Enrollment
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THE SNOW isn't far off once we've reach
ed this time of the year. The stores are doing a
booming business in winter clothes, bringing
Budget Commission
The state's six-member Ad
visory Budget Commission will
visit UNC Tuesday for a look
at and a listen to the Univer
sity's building needs for the
next two years.
The commission will hear
university officials, including
Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitter
son, ask for more than $84
million for construction during
the 1967-69 biennium.
Although only a little more
than half of the funds request
ed would come from state cof
fers, all of the expenditures
must be approved by the Gen
eral Assembly. The portion of
the request not furnished by
the state will come from pri
vate and federal sources.
Details of the request will
not be made public until after
the commission's three - hour
visit, but the request will al
most certainly include new
dormitories, new classrooms
and a new infirmary.
The commission is charged
with evaluating the requests
for construction from all state
agencies and reporting back to
the 1967 General Assembly,
On The Inside
A Visit To The Dentist
W evil's Uncle
Carolina Style
News Review
Way Cleared In Ban Case
Possibility Of KKK Prosecution
CHAPEL HILL,
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wistful memories
snow.
due to convene in February.
The commission's visit is
the first in a series of hurdles
the University's requests will
have to clear before the mon
ey is allotted.
Carolina's request is part of
a whopping $189 million being
requested by all four branch
es of the Consolidated Univer
sity. Last session, the Consoli
dated University received
about $125 million, $78 million
of which came from federal
and private grants.
The requests for the coming
session are expected to contin
ue a program of "orderly ex
pansion" designed to meet a
flood of 10,000 more students
at the four campuses by 1970.
Officials estimate that if
present enrollment trends con
tinue, the four branches can
expect a total of 50,000 stu
dents in 1976.
The Commission will visit
the Greensboro campus of the ""
Consolidated University Mon
day, Chapel Hill Tuesday and
North Carolina State Univer
sity in Raleigh Wednesday.
The members visited UNC at
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of last winterand cool, cool
Meet Here
Charlotte in July.
The visit will open at 2 p.m.
with a tour of Gravley Sana
torium near Memorial Hospit
al. Then the commission will
move to Morehead Planetari
um at 2:30 for the University's
three-hour presentation.
The six members of the com
mission are Sen. Thomas
White of Lenoir County, chair
man of the Senate Appropria
tions Committee; Rep. A. A.
Jenkins
The question of university
status for East Carolina Col
lege should be taken to the
General Assembly so that the
representatives of the people
can decide the answer, Dr. Leo
Jenkins, ECC president said
Monday night.
Appearing on WUNC-TVs
North Carolina News Confer
ence, Jenkins expressed pref
erence for a legislative decis
ion regardless of recommend
ations by the committee of out-of-state
educators, to be ap
pointed to study the advisabili
ty of university status for ECC.
"We must be careful with
outside experts," he said, "I
think we should let the people
decide, the people who pay the
bill."
Asked if he would seek po
litical support if the commit
tee turns down his request,
Jenkins said, "The solution is
up to our Board of Trustees.
I would b? guided by them."
Jenkins was asked why con
solidation would not serve
ECC. "The consolidation idea
has lost its rationale," he said.
He explained by saying that
when consolidation was first
established, the theory under
lying it was the need for spe
cialized curricula at the dif
ferent branches of the Con
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A record - breaking enroll
ment of 13,200 is expected for
Carolina this fall. This is about
800 more than last year's en
rollment. The exact figure cannot be
ascertained until after regis
tration in the fall, Dean of Stu
dent Affairs C. O. Cathey said.
"Students who have dropped
out in good standing may re
turn at any time and we never
know just how many to expect
back at the start of a semes
ter," he explained. "The total
enrollment could be pushed up
if we have a great many of
these students returning."
There has been a slight in
crease in the number of stu
dents applying for entrance to
the University, according to
Assistant Director of Admis
sions Richard Cashwell. Rejec
tion of qualified students is
about at the same rate as last
year.
Tuesday
Zollicoffer of Vance County,
chairman of the House Appro
priations Committee; Sen.
Frank Forsyth of Cherokee
County, Chairman of the Sen
ate Finance Committee; Rep.
Clarence Leatherman of Lin
coln County, chairman of the
the House Finance Commit
tee; J. C. Eagles of Wilson;
and Ed O'Herron of Charlotte.
Eagles and O'Herron were ap
pointed by the Governor.
Wants ECC In Assembl
I
Hits Consolidation
solidated University through
out the state.
Now, he said, a wide rang
ing curriculum is being plan
ned for each campus. "For
this reason, we feel that by
bing independent, we would
be doing the state a good cause
by giving different viewpoints
of higher education."
He cited the need for com
petition in the state, "not only
in athletics, but also in re
search, etc."
"Not being a university
hurts us in getting federal
aid," he added.
- Asked wasn't it true that
ECC has a history of by
Klan Chief
Ku Klux Klan Grand Drag
on J. Robert Jones will ap
pear on North Carolina News
Conference this Monday.
Jones' appearance before
th3 panel of Tar Heel news
men will be televised on
WUNC-TV and WUNB-TV at
7 p.m., then rebroadcast Tues
day at 11 a.m.
Jones, a resid nt of Gran
ite Quarry, is official head of
North Carolina's Ku Klux
Klan. A former awning sales
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13,000
The freshman class this fall
be almost the same as last
year, about 2,300, with the in
crease in enrollment coming
in the upper classes and grad
uate and professional schools.
There are several reasons
for an expanding enrollment
according to Cashwell. For one
thing, the number of students
who remain eligible to stay in
school is increasing while the
number who become ineligible
is decreasing. "I suppose the
world situation and threat of
the draft is at least partly re
sponsible for creating pressure
of a sort on students to keep
their grades up," Cashwell
said.
Secondly, few freshmen are
being lost for academic rea
sons. Two years ago the Uni
versity lost 177 out of about
2,000 freshmen, because of
poor grades. Last year only 148
or more than 2,300 freshmen
were lost for that reason.
Housing is not the limiting
factor in Carolina's expanding
enrollment, Cashwell said.
"The big problem is getting
enough classroom space and
enough money for professors."
Enrollment for the coming
fall has already been closed
out, for all practical purposes.
Only a very few exceptions
will be made to accept more
applications, Cashwell said.
He advised students to apply
early in the fall of their senior
year in high school and not to
be overly concerned with the
scores they make on standard
ized tests.
Summer school enrollment
this year totaled 10,767.
passing the State Board of
Higher Education and going
directly to the legislature, Jen
kins replied. "Yes, we have in
the questions of Nursing
Schools and Medical Schools."
He defended their action in
the case of the Nursing School,
noting that the school now has
over 300 nursing students.
"North Carolina benefited be
cause the legislature acted in
this case.
"East Carolina as a univer
sity will benefit not only the
Eastern part of the state, but
the whole state as well," he
said.
Next Guest
man, he skyrocketed to fame
about three years ago with
the rebirth of the Klan in
the state.
At present, North Carolina's
KKK is acknowledged as the
largest and most active state
organization in the nation.
John Young, director of tele
vision at the Chapel Hill sta
tion, is executive producer of
the 30 - minute program. Boh
Morse is the moderator.