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Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Thursday, Jura 19, 1S30
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By John Royster
UNC Chancellor Christopher C.
Fordham III said Wednesday that he is
working to put together an advisory
committee to assist him in the selection of a
vice chancellor.
Fordham also announced another
selection to a search committee to
recommend candidates for a University
affirmative action officer, and said still
another member of that committee would
be named in the near future.
Fordham did not specify what
department the vice chancellorship would
be in. A vacancy currently exists in the
position of vice chancellor for health
affairs, the position Fordham held before
taking over as chancellor in March.
Named to the affirmative action search
committee was Thomas L. Isenhour,
chairman of the chemistry department.
Eight other people were named to the
committee last week. "
That committee will recommend
candidates for the position of full-time
affirmative action officer. Douglass. Hunt
currendy serves as part-time affirmative
acuon officer. The committee will be
chaired by Madeline Levine, chairman of
the department of Slavic languages.
The committee as named does not
include a student representative, but the
member still to be named is expected to be a
student.
"The chancellor and I met and agreed
that there should be a student
representative," Student Body President
Bob Saunders said. "I'll probably
recommend a choice to him by the end of
the week.
"It wasn't a deliberate omission. It
(student representation) is something the
chancellor strongly supports," Saunders
said.
A search committee is formed to search
for names, screen candidates, and submit
recommended names to the appointing
authority (Fordham), said Claiborne S.
Jones, executive assistant to the chancellor.
An advisory committee differs from a
search committee, Jones said, in that the
appointing authority submits a list of
possibilities to the committee. .
The committee then recommends policy
to the authority, Jones said.
Saunders said he expected the
affirmative action committee to begin
meeting soon. "We are actively selecting
the people (candidates for the committee),"
he said.
A public hearing on the affirmative
action officer selection will be held July 1
from 3-5 p.m. in Dey Hall. Carol Williams
of the affirmative action office said the
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public hearing was being held in an effort
to get student input into the process. i
Faculty committees must review
Trustees to receive report on
Tone y enure
By Jac Versteeg
The UNC board of trustees is expected to receive a
special faculty committee report on Sonja H. Stone's
tenure appeal Friday. However, in a move that comes as a
surprise to Stone, the trustees will take no action on the
report until it has been reviewed by two faculty
committees.
Stone, assistant professor and former director of the
African and Afro-American Studies curriculum, has been
engaged in appeals since she first was denied tenure in
1979.
The next step in the appeal process will be a seven
member committee's presentation of its report to the
trustees. The committee, headed by history professor
George V. Taylor, was appointed by then-Chancellor N.
Ferebee Taylor last December to review Stone's case.
S tone is appealing the U niversity's decision not to renew
her faculty appointment, not to grant tenure and not to
promote her to associate professor.
She is charging the University with racism, sexism,
violation of academic freedom, personal malice and
violation of due process under law and equal protection
under, the law.
. Ralph N. Strayhorn, chairman of the board of trustees,
said Tuesday that the trustees will take no action on the
report at their Friday meeting. Instead, Strayhorn said, the
Taylor committee report will be forwarded to the Faculty
Advisory Committee and the Instructional Personnel
Committee for review and comment Strayhorn said he has
seen the report, but refused to comment on its context.
Stone, who is at Ohio State University on a nine-month
research fellowship, said she was surprised the trustees did
not plan to take immediate action on the Taylor committee
report. "I was not award of the procedures which were to be
followed by the board of trustees until today." she said in a
telephone interview Tuesday.
"I would be interested in knowing when the procedures
were adopted by the board of trustees because, to my
knowledge, there were no procedures before now," Stone
said.
Strayhorn said the resolution sending the reKrt to the
faculty committees for review was adopted at a January
meeting of the board of trustees.
Because Stone's tenure appeal is a personnel matter, the
trustees will consider the Taylor committee's report in
executive session. Strayhorn said. "I doubt the report will
be made public either befc re or soon after Friday's meeting
unless the board directs otherwise," Strayhorn said.
"It is only proper that the board neither comment nor
See STONE on page 3
. Staff photo by Sharon Clarke
Pictured above is a lighthouse at
Cape Hatteras. See pages 7-9 for
related stories about the Outer
Banksj fishing at the beach, the
historic seaport of Beaufort and the
. art of surfing.
CGC appropriates funds for Friday event
By Bill Peschel
In an emergency meeting Monday, the summer Campus
Governing Council appropriated money for an all-campus
summer social event to be organized by Olde Campus and
Henderson Residence College.
The CGC action came in response to student demand for
funding to replace the defunct Summer Life program. The
full CGC killed Summer Life in April, when it allocated no
funds to it for this year.
The all-campus party to be held Friday night will be
financed with $254.61 from campus radio station WXYC
and $345.39 in unspent CGC funds.
A committee has been formed to look into alternatives for
Summer Life for the second summer session.
WXYC's money comes from an illegal checking account
set up two years ago. When present Station Manager Glenn
Mitchell discovered the account, he reported it to the CGC.
At the same time, Barbara Buonaiuto, representing the
residence halls, asked the council for money for a social
event
Mitchell objected to using WXYC's money as what he
called "beer and pretzel money." He suggested the CGC
donate the money to the W esley Wallace professorship being
established in the department of radio, television and
motion pictures. He called it a worthwhile cause that
Student Government may benefit from.
"Last week, we were very appreciative of them turning in
the money," said summer CGC Finance Committee
Chairman Tom Preston. "But we also decided not to let
them get off the hook, and I think that is what we'll do if we
follow their suggestion.
"Two hundred fifty-four dollars for a professorship is
only going to go to one person... It will not make that much
of a difference," Preston said.
"There is also no denying where the funds are coming
from. I think this is a windfall for you ( the CGC)," M itchell
said.
"I just think that $250 may not seem like much but this
campus was built on $250 donations."
Student Body President Bob Saunders suggested that
WXYC "use their legal funds" to make a donation.
"We don't have the slack in the budget to do that,"
Mitchell said.
One CGC member said Friday's social event might be held
as a benefit for the Wallace Foundation.
In other business, the CGC gave the Black Student
Movement $80 for publicity of its George Moses Horton Day
festivities. "
The July 14th celebration of the 19th century poet has
been declared a state holiday for the last three years. The
BSM celebration will feature speakers on I lorton and black
poetry.
Horton once worked in the UNCdqiartmcnt of English.
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