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Staff Writer
UNC President William Friday
recommended the expansion of the East
Carolina University medical school to a
four-year, degree-granting institution during
a joint planning and budget meeting Friday.
Of the 15 joint committee members
present, only one, Victor Bryant of Durham,
disapproved." He asked the committees to
face up to the fact that the general assembly
gave them very specific instructions.
"It is hardly proper that you advise the
general assembly. I do not feel it is advisable
that they adopt a course to cripple our school
at Chapel Hill,? Bryant said. "That is a
decision we must analyze."
Friday answered Bryant's opposition by
saying the board has the legislative mandate
to face the issue. "If we do not move forward,
we are not carrying out the legislative intent
of the 1974 general assembly."
East Carolina Chancellor Leo Jenkins was
pleased by the joint committee's decision. He
noted it is a big responsibility but said he
thinks East Carolina is ready to handle the
responsibility.
"Had we done this 10 years ago," Jenkins
said, "we would have had these men out
serving the public now. But the basic thing is
that there is a great need and a great desire on
the part of young people to enter this
profession and the state has the money to do
if."
A breakdown of the budget report showed
that $26 million will be used to build a basic
sciences building, $20 million for a teaching
hospital, and over $3 million for library and
clinical facilities, ambulatory care and
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by George Bacso
Staff Writer
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"I'm willing to say that we are at the beginning of a new age
of journalism," Tom Wicker said Saturday night at the
Carolina Inn.. . ;
Associate editor and columnist of the New York Times
and author of several novels, Wicker spoke during the UNC
School of Journalism's 50th birthday banquet.
The dinner highlighted the day's festivities, which
included alumni panel discussions on "Journalism and the
Real World" and "Back When 1 Was in J-School
Speaking before over 200 journalism school graduates,
Wicker cited several reasons for journalism's new age.
One prime reason for change is that there has been ah
influx of young people in the field and journalism schools in
the last few years and there is no end in sight, Wicker said.
"People like Woodward and Bernstein are the new
heroes ...
"Another reason is that journalism is, seen today to have a
new relevance in American life," Wicker said, "not merely as
a neutral conveyor belt, but an active part of the social
process."
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in the reporting of the Vietnam war and later realized in
Watergate.
He theorized that since most people get their news first
from television and radio, "it is safe to say that broadcast
journalism has taken away the front-page function of
newspapers.1
"This will leave papers with a necessity to report
more . . : what happens before and after a news event .
and to develop depth, analysis and. new sources.
"Journalism will take a more socially oriented role not
advocacy journalism but we'll see reporters move away
from institutional sources . . . into a journalism much
more conscious of what it is doing."
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renovation of an ECU dormitory. There are
now $15 million available for med school
construction, leaving the budget committee
with the $35 million figure.
Friday's report said plans for the medical
sciences building could be submitted by late
fall 1975. The building could be finished by
1979. For the hospital, plans could be
completed by mid-1976, with building
completion ;
J Friday's repoesttmated that '$5 million
would be the difference between the cost of
operating a two-year school for 100 students
and a four-year med school for 195 students.
If the plan is approved by the board of
governors this Friday, the board could
proceed to approve accreditation for the
ECU' School of Medicine.
Earlier this fall, Dean Christopher
Fordham of the UNC med school devised a
plan to expand the ECU school to an
undergraduate studies program,, adding a
fourth-year : medical school. The original
plan called for ECU students to attend UNC
for their second and third years, and then
return to Greenville for the fourth year and
residency.
When this plan was judged unacceptable,
UNC officials- worked for a traditional
second year of. school, as proposed by the
ECU medical faculty. Problems later
cropped up when negotiations for clinical
facilities at Pitt County Memorial Hospital
dragged to an impasse.
Under j-eport guidelines, 30 students
would enter next fall with second, third,and
fourth years following through 1979. The
1978 entering class would rise to 50, and the
school would reach an enrollment of 200 in
1981.
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The present turbulence in this country, which could cause
a collapse in politics, will create changes in the role of the
press, he said.
"We ask too much of our political system and have gone
past the point where politics can deal with all our problems,
Wicker said.
"This political turbulence may lead to authoritarianism if
government cannot accomplish what it would
democratically."
All this makes new demands on the press, Wicker said,
and requires less reliance on covering the government as if
one were covering society.
Wicker said there is a natural aggression between
government and the press and this, aggression on
government's part is revealed in its deceit and claims of
confidentiality and executive privilege. .
This has led to an impulse to self-censor on the part of the
press, to play it safe and avoid confrontation, he said
The press is naturally challenging, Wicker said, because
we have no provision for a parliamentary-type questioning
force in our government Congress is too fractional, too
diverse. .
"If we're going to remain relevant and challenging, we
have to develop an intellectual tradition rather than the
present, falsely objective tradition.
Wicker's speech was preceded by two discussions held in
Howell Hall.
Earlier in the day, journalism school graduates discussed
the differences between a journalism graduate's conception
and the actualities of journalism in the real world.
The panel concluded that too many newspapers spoil the
image of young people coming out of college by not being
aggressive and independent.
A nostalgia panel was held at 2 p.m. in which ex-students
representing every decade since the school's inception in
1927 reminisced about their days in UNC's School of
Journalism.
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by Charles E. FHnner
United Press International
WASHINGTON Hope dimmed
Sunday that negotiators for coal operators
and the United Mine Workers(UM W) could
iron out differences on key money issues and
other problems before 120,000 soft coal
miners in 25 states went on strike at midnight
' Monday.
The mines were in effect already shut
down. Sunday was a normal day off and
most of the miners were to celebrate
Veterans Day Monday, meaning they would
get triple pay if they work. A coal spokesman
said few if any mines would open on the
holiday.
In the coal fields, miners stocked up on
food and some remembering how their
strike in 1971 dragged on into the Christmas
season with no pay coming in bought toys
early to make sure their children would get a
visit from Santa Claus this time.
As contract talks got under way Sunday
morning, , a top industry representative
expressed hope it might be the next-to-last
day of negotiations. But late in the day.
officials close to the talks said chances of
agreement on a new pact before Tuesday
appeared slim.
Any agreement would come too late to
head off a coal strike. UMW contract
ratification procedures are expected to take
up to 10 days, and the union has a "no
contract, no work" tradition.
The longer the talks drag on without
agreement, however,, the more likely are the
chances that a nationwide strike could have
disastrous effects on at least part of the
United States. The miners involved in the
contract talks dig out 70 per cent of the
nation's soft coal.
Although there already have been strikes
at a few mines, which local officials blamed
on the lack of progress in Washington,
spokesmen for both Tjidesr-irHhe jnational
negotiations said the numbeFof minere vo"
walked out early was negligible and blamed
the'early walkouts on local disputes.
Sources said the key unresolved national
issues included wages, streamlined grievance
procedures to head off wildcat strikes and
safety rules that would allow a miner to walk
off the job if he feared for his life without
worrying about being fired.
Negotiators met early Sunday and
continued their talks until mid-afternoon,
when they adjourned for a two-hour lunch .
break. The break was extended an extra
two hours at the last minute without
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explanation, but throughout the talks such
adjournments have been used by both sides
for working on position papers.
Guy Farmer, chief negotiator for the
Bituminous Coal Operators Association,
said a final agreement was more likely to be
reached Monday than Sunday. He said this
was "not because we're really hung up on
anything, but because we have much to do
and it takes time to complete."
UMW President Arnold Miller said as he
arrived for Sunday's talks that "we're
making progress," but that he had not yet
called the union's 38-member bargaining
Board of
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by Meredith S. BuelJr.
and Don Baer
Staff Writers
The UNC Board of Governors will vote on
a recommendation Friday to locate a school
of veterinary medicine at North Carolina
"State University. N.C. A&T originally
requested the school.
UNC President William Friday's proposal
to place the school at N.C. State was
approved unanimously by the board's
educational planning and budget
committees last Friday.
The board normally follows the
recommendations of its committees, said
John Sanders, UNC vice-president for
planning. Sanders has said that since the two
committees comprise about half the full
board, . the recommendation should pass
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In its request for the school of veterinary
medicine, N.C. A&T pointed to the
University's recent desegregation plan that
calls for historically all-black universities to
"have an opportunity through selected new
programs to broaden their appeals to a more
racially diverse student body and faculty."
However, a study which did not consider
racial implications indicated N.C. State was
bested suited in terms of facilities and land to
house the school.
The study, directed by Dr. Clarence R.
Cale, former director of veterinary medicine
at Ohio State University, stated the
legislative climate is supportive of
establishing a school of veterinary medicine
at NCSU." The report also noted there is no
indication of legislative support for the A&T
proposal.
The study numerically rated the two
universities on the basis of location, existing
facilities and prior studies by the individual
schools concerning the veterinary school.
N.C. State scored 1,051; N.C. A&T, 499.
Sanders said A&Ts proposal was
supported by the one per cent of the 500
veterinarians in North Carolina who are
black. However, the executive committee of
the North Carolina Veterinary Medical
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council back to Washington. The council
must approve any new contract before it is
submitted to the rank-and-file membership.
"We're moving," Miller said. "We still
have the economic package and one or two
other serious items."
"We're still not hovering on the brink of
settlement, but we're making progress," a
union spokesman said. "We're not yet
drafting language on the nitty-gritty."
Neither Miller nor Farmer anticipated any
breakoff in the talks.
Farmer said the negotiators had reached
tentative agreement on a number of issues.
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veterinary school
Association has approved a resolution
favoring the school at N.C. State.
Several board members were concerned
that the statement included no information
dealing with the possible racial impact of
building the school in Raleigh. At their
request, Friday included in his
recommendations that the "board of
governors find the establishment of a school
of veterinary medicine at NCSU would not
impede the elimination of the dual system of
higher education in North Carolina."
UNC Student Body President Marcus
Williams said the decision to locate the
school in Raleigh, "entrenches the intrinsic
inequities of facilities and programs in the
consolidated system." Williams plans to
make a statement about his dissatisfaction
with the proposal to the full board of
gowroors next Friday. :
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by Greg Porter
Staff Writer
When Hugh Scott came to Chapel Hill
Sunday as a speaker in the Colloquium on
Individual Rights and Liberties, he sensed he
was stepping onto foreign turf.
"I feel like a visiting savage," he said as he
lit his pipe and strolled into the press
conference. "I'm the only person oh this
campus in a square costume."
Even the colloquium's propaganda
headlined Scott as a "surprise" speaker. The
surprise was that the National Black Salute
had honored Scott for voting in favor of all
civil rights proposals in his 32-year
Congressional career. Even more surprising
was Hugh Scott's name sandwiched in with
Angela Davis, Julian Bond, William
Kunstler, Ralph Abernathy and Bernadette
- Devlin the colloquium's other speakers.
, The only uncertainty Scott revealed,
however, was about his dress. He answered
questions briskly and willingly, never
missing an opportunity for one of his
venomous attacks at the Democratic party.
"The Republican party is suffering from
an image of a demanding parent while the
Democrats are profiting from an image of a
permissive grandparent of course some
Democrats are acting more like drunken
uncles ..." he said, referring to Wilbur
Mills.
Scott said the Democrats have made
thundering manifestos, but have no plan to
fight inflation.
"Albert and Byrd," he said, "called on the
President for an economic plan in other
. words, they are saying 'lead us, tell us what to
do, Mr. President.' That's not what a
majority is elected for a majority is
supposed to have a platform, a program.
"People did not vote because the
Democrats have a program. They took out
economic discomfort on the Republicans.
They don't have a very high impression of
Congress."
Inevitably the subject of Watergate
surfaced. Scott said Watergate set a mood
for the election, but was not the primary
cause of the Republican debacle.
Scott, the man who had supported Nixon
faithfully, holding that the tapes would
exonerate him, was later asked how he felt
about Nixon's resignation in the wake of
Watergate.
Suddenly somber and deliberate, Scott
answered, Nixon brought it on himself. He
lied to the press. He lied to the American
people . . ."
Scott paused, looked to the floor
momentarily, and gravely continued," ...
and he lied to- Mr. Rhodes and myself. As .
soon as we found out, we went straight to the
White House and told him the game was
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including a cost of living clause, but added
"we have a long way to go to complete a
contract."
He said that details of an escalator caluse,
one of the major union demands, have not
yet been worked out.
While the negotiators met Saturday,
several hundred demonstrators from a group
called Workers Action Movement,
demonstrating for a 30-hour work week,
marched a block away chanting: "Smash the
bosses and their greed, coal miners take the
lead." The group did not include UMW
miners.
The recommendations call for
appropriations of almost $3.5 million to
finance planning and development.
Estimated construction cost is $20 million
and estimated operating cost is $5 million
annually. "
If approved, the school at Raleigh will
begin operation in the fall of 1977.
The committees also heard from Dr.
Cameron West, president of the North
Carolina Association of Independent
Colleges and Universities. Thanking the
board for its past assistance to private higher
education, he said "North Carolina has long
enjoyed the capabilities of a system of public
and private education, and this must
continue to be nurtured."
The board recently turned down a request
from the . independent - colleges and
universities recommending an increase in
funds to private state institutions. '
portrayed.
over.
Asked exactly what he had told Nixon,
Scott was unable to surpress the wry smile
that crossed his lips.
"I really can't tell you that. I'll leave that to
history"
Returning to the present economic
discontent, Scott assessed Ford's economic
program.
"It's a good appeal," good plan, birt-it
doesn't go far enough. The American people
are prepared to make greater sacrifices and
will have to. In the State of the Union
address. Ford must ask for more drastic
action."
Scott said inflation can be halved if
"Congress is willing to do the unpopular
things it has to do.
"That means correcting tax inequities and
passing bills that really conserve energy."
Wage and price controls, according to .
Scott, are not the answer. He thinks they will
only work for 90 days.
"1 don't know why Sen. Mansfield thinks
wage and price controls will work he's the
only one left. The only one left in Congress,
that is."
Scott said the nation is suffering a saucer
like recession rather than the depths of
depression. He feels too many safeguards
have been instituted since 1930 to allow a
real depression.
"Depression is when you can't budget 10
cents for a chocolate bar. We won't have a
depression. Demand will naturally fall off
and inflation should fall from 1 1 and XA per
cent to 8 and A percent in the next quarter."
Asked about voter apathy in last week's
election, Scott said people refuse to vote
because they see little or no difference in the
two parties.
"The great paradox is that the people give
the two parties low ratings like TV
commentators and garbage men but are
usually relatively pleased with their own
Congressman.
"Charisma doesn't get things
accomplished," Scott replied quickly.
"Things change for the better when
Congressmen hammer out the necessary
legislation, and when government gets things
done."
ailey to speak
Socialist party worker Nan Bailey will
speak 4 p.m. today in Memorial Hall as
part of student government's Colloquium
on Individual Rights and Liberties. The
former candidate for District cf
Columbia mayor will speak on the
Boston busing situation.
. Angela Davis his been rescheduled for
Nov. 19.
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