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By LORRY WILLIAMS
Staff Writer
When UNC President William C. Friday made the
official announcement of his retirement, University
administrators and educators statewide began talking
about how difficult it would be to find his replacement.
The difficulty does not appear to be finding
someone qualified, rather it appears to be a problem
created, unknowingly, by Friday himself. The problem
is finding someone qualified enough to take the reigns
of a University system that has grown and developed
under Friday's leadership.
When Friday was chosen UNC president by the
Board of Trustees, the UNC system was made up
of three campuses: the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill, N.C. State University and the
University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since
then the system has grown from 15,000 students to
more than 100,000, and the system now includes 16
campuses.
Friday was named the 17th president of the UNC
system when he was 36 years old. As he approaches
his 65th birthday, Friday says he has been at his job
too long.
"It's been a very interesting 29 years," Friday said
in a recent interview. "The work has changed, but
the work has never grown dull."
Dull? Friday has headed two presidential task
forces, advised four presidents and refused a potential
job offer as he'ad of the department of Health,
Education and Welfare under former President
Carter.
He has also met the King and Queen of England
and all the U.S. presidents, except Ronald Reagan,
who have been in office during his 29 years as UNC
president.
"Being president (of the UNC system) opens doors
to anywhere you wish to go," Friday said.
Friday said he thought the doors opened to the
University system and its prestige rather than to him
and his accomplishments. He said it was the worldwide
reputation of the system that generated respect for
the institution.
This year the University is a billion dollar industry
operating in more than 40 locations, and Friday is
unselfish in giving credit for that success. Friday
worked with former Democratic gubernatorial
candidate Frank Porter Graham in the 1950s. He also
worked as an assistant to former UNC president
Gordon Gray for four years.
"1 inherited a marvelous relationship established
by Graham and Gray (when I was named president,)"
Friday said, adding that he tried to carry forward
the ideas established by those men.
To have a good University system, it is also
important to have first rate people to work with, he
said. Friday tries to stay in touch with students by
meeting with the student body president once every
quarter. He also works closely with the chancellors
of the 16 campuses in the system and the UNC Board
of Governors.
The job requires a lot of time, Friday said. "It's
a lonely life and a demanding life," he said.
The question of time is one of the negative aspects
Friday cited about his job. "There's too much
overwork," he said, adding that the heavy workload
could be dangerous because a person may become
tired and make bad decisions.
"So much depends on the decisions made," he said.
Therefore, it is important that the president not be
a person who carries things home with him, he said.
And home plays an important role. "No president
can really do what a position like this requires without
a good wife," Friday said. Friday and his wife, Ida,
have been married 42 years. Friday said his wife was
one of the best unpaid employees the University ever
received.
Although Friday doesn't go unpaid, one might say
he is overworked. Friday has not had a vacation from
work since he was named president in 1956.
Friday said he had been able to initiate plans of
his own while in office. Although he is considered
a leading figure in the field of education, Friday said
all of his decisions were not accepted with open arms
and without question.
"IVe made a few mistakes and they're sometimes
painful," he said.
"IVe made some whoppers," he added. "A person
has to accept that he cannot know it all."
One of Friday's decisions that generated heated
debate came in 1961 when Friday terminated the then
popular Dixie Classic basketball tournament.
"Abolishing the Dixie Classic really got me in hot
water," Friday said.
But he still stood by his decision, he said, because
the the incident involved a direct threat to human
life and it was his duty to protect the lives of the
people involved.
Another incident in which Friday received much
criticism was wanting to change N.C. State College
to the University of North Carolina at Raleigh.
Students, alumni and legislators protested the change
until a compromise was reached and the name N.C.
State University was adopted.
Battles with the N.C. General Assembly or the N.C.
Legislature are not new to Friday. In 1963, Friday
had a head-on confrontation with the General
Assembly when it passed a law prohibiting commu
nists from speaking on state-supported campuses.
"Legislators just didn't want those people speaking
at the University," Friday said.
He disagreed with the legislators because free speech
was an important way to find out about things that
were new or unexplored.
"That's how you learn," he said.
Within the past year, Friday has also been before
legislators protesting bills requiring minimum
Scholastic Aptitude Test scores for college applicants
and hikes in college tuition.
Despite frequent disagreements with legislators
Friday said he had a good relationship with them.
None of the legislators who disagreed with Friday's
stands were bitter, he said.
"The legislation has been generous with the
University," Friday said, adding that the University
was encouraged to do new things through research
and studies.
Friday himself did not need much encouragement
when he was asked to name some of the most
important events he had seen take place during his
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Dave Fazio, president of Students for America, speaks out in favor of U.S. Contra aid during a demonstration in the Pit Monday.
By GENIE LINDBERG
Staff Writer
A heated debate broke out in the Pit Monday
at noon when about 30 demonstrators turned out
to present different views on U.S. aid to Contra
rebels in Nicaragua.
Members of Students for America, UNC College
Republicans and Young Americans for Freedom
carried signs referring to the Contras as "freedom
fighters," while Carolina Committee on Central
America members showed signs calling them
"terrorists."
"I think that it's very important that with what's
going on in Nicaragua right now, it is essential
that we support the Reagan administration's
package of $14 million of aid to the Contras," said
Dave Fazio, chairman of Students for America.
He said Nicaragua could become another
Marxist government under the influence of the
Soviet Union and Cuba.
Fazio said there were currently about 2,000
Cuban advisers in Nicaragua, and most countries
Latin America agreed that Cuba was serving as
a proxy government for the Soviet Union.
"I admit that Nicaragua has done a lot in the
areas of education and health. But so has Cuba,
and you see what kind of totalitarian regime that
is today," Fazio said.
Most of Nicaragua initially supported the
overthrow of Anastosio Somoza, Fazio said, but
the Sandinista government is no longer living up
to the promises it first made during their takeover
of that government. . ,
"If you look at the last elections, if you consider
them fair, only about 63 percent of the people
supported the Sandinista party," Fazio said.
"That's a big decline in the five year time."
The Sandinistas have denied basic rights such
as freedoms of speech, religion, press and due
process of law, Fazio said.
"We should not confuse rights with wishes and
goals as the Sandinista government would have
us believe," he said.
Ashley Osment, co-chair of the Carolina
Committee on Central America, said Nicaragua
was a dynamic, pluralistic society where everyone
was participating in the goal of economic progress.
"The Reagan administration isn't after peace in
Nicaragua," Osment said. "The Reagan adminis
tration from day one has supported the terrorists.
. . . TheyVe supported the Contras."
She said Reagan first supported the Contras with
the idea that they would intercept weapons going
from Nicaragua to rebels in El Salvador.
"But Nicaragua is a very poor country, and it
had plenty of ideas about national liberation, and
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'86 chairmen plan
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varied programs
By RACHEL STROUD
Staff Writer
Plans are under way for next year's
Carolina Symposium, "Technology,
Society and the Individual.
Exploring the effects of technolog
ical change on society and the
individual, the symposium will be
held after Spring Break and extend
over a three-week period. Topics will
include ethical implications of
genetic engineering, the future of
robotics in American industry and
the way our attitudes about technol
ogy shape national defense policy.
Chairmen of the symposium are
juniors Michael Deimler and John
Taylor from Gastonia, and James
Fox from Richmond, Ky.
Events planned for the symposium
include a variety of guest speakers
and programs. "We are making plans
this summer to try to get big guest
speakers like (Chrysler President)
Lee Iacocca, Alvin Toffler, (author
of Future Shock), John Nesbitt,
(author of Megatrends), and William
DeVries (heart transplant surgeon),
as well as other programs and
speakers less well-known," Deimler
said.
Deimler aid that he hoped to get
a musical group such as Herbie
Hancock or Laurie Anderson as an
example of a performer who uses
computer technology in arranging
music.
To help prepare for the sympo
sium, the chairmen have been devel
oping a faculty advisory board to
facilitate better communications
between academic departments and
the symposium organizing
committee.
"We plan to use the advisory
board as a sounding board," Deimler
said. "We hope to periodically get
ideas for speakers, debates and
events from the board. If the board
works well enough, we might be able
to co-sponsor events between the
departments and symposium."
Advisory board members are
UNC President William Friday,
serving as an honorary member; Dr.
Stuart Bondurant, dean of the
School of Medicine; Lawrence Slif
kin, physics professor; E.M. Adams,
philosophy professor; and James
Leutze, chairman of the peace, war
and defense curriculum.
There, will also be a big need for
student participation because there
is so much involved in organizing
the symposium, Deimler said.
Students interested in working for
the 1986 Carolina Symposium
should attend the organizational
meeting today at 4 p.m. in room 218
of the Student Union. Applicants for
secretary and treasurer also will be
screened at this time. Those unable
to attend should contact one of the
symposium chairmen.
Professors to protest Mush at IDavis Library dedication
By DARLENE CAMPBELL
Staff Writer
The Books-Not-Bombs Committee
will hold a silent protest Friday against
Vice President George Bush's dedica
tion of Davis Library.
History professor Nell Painter, a co
chair of the Books-Not-Bombs faculty
steering committee, said the committee
was formed exclusively for the Bush
protest because "the vice president
represents the most anti-education and
anti-intellectual freedom administration
in recent American history."
Painter continued during a news
conference Monday, "We are appalled
by the symbolism inherent in the
selection of Vice President George Bush
to lead the library dedication
ceremonies."
Leon Fink, history professor and a
committee co-chair, said the committee
welcomed the vice president but won
dered if there hadn't been some mistake,
some misunderstanding of the agenda.
The committee sees Bush's invitation
as ironic because many young people
will be denied the opportunity to use
the library because of massive cuts in
educational aid by the Reagan admin
istration, a committee press release
stated.
"At the library dedication Friday, we
plan to listen respectively to the vice
president's oratorical to libraries, but we
want it to be clear that members of this
community are not fooled," Fink said.
"Reagan and Bush say yes to every
new weapons system eyed by the
Pentagon but no to funds for libraries,
no to student loans, no to affirmative
action in public institutions, no to
freedom of information and access to
public records and no to federal
research money," Painter said.
"What we want to say with Books-
Not-Bombs is simply in the area of
education, in the area of information
that there is very much for the public
to be disturbed about. Without money,
we can't buy new books or restore rare
books."
Painter said that without student
loans, many students would have to
leave school or have their studies
interrupted.
"Our agenda is clearly focused on
education and the priorities of educa
tion," she said. "That's what we're
focusing on, the priorities of the
Reagan-Bush administration. The
priorities of an administration that says
yes to new weapons and no to libraries."
Commmittee member Daniel Pollitt,
a law professor, presented the Reagan-
Bush budget requests for college librar
ies at the news conference and termed
it "A Zero Budget for Books."
"I think it is entirely inappropriate
to have Bush dedicate the library,"
Pollitt said. "Is there irony in inviting
the No. 2 person in this 'Zero for Books
administration to dedicate our library?"
Committee member Peter Neenan,
an associate professor of library science,
agreed. "It would be stretching the
bounds of imagination to think of
someone more inappropriate to dedi
cate the library," Neenan said. "Our
protest is a witness to the positive values
of freedom to information."
Fink said a substantial number of
people would be expected at the protest.
"We're looking to make clear that the
University is a lively place of academic
freedom," Fink said.
"We hope to attract many people of
different views to the silent protest,"
Painter said. "We hope that employees,
other faculty and students will join us."
Other members of the Books-Not-Bombs
Committee include Kenneth
Wing, associate professor of health
policy administration; Mary Turner
Lane, associate professor of education;
Campbell McMillan, professor of
pediatrics; Richard Uhlig, associate
professor in the School of Social Work;
Edward Bergman, associate professor
of city and regional planning; Lewis
Lipsitz, political science professor; and
J. Robert Cox, associate speech
professor.
Caimpnis Chest auction to feature FarMes
By DAWN BRAZELL
Staff Writer
A glass case in the Student Union displays a strange
assortment of objects - records signed by Lionel Richie, Anne
Murray and Eddie Murphy; books inscribed by Sen. Barry
Goldwater and Geraldine Ferraro; and a signature basketball
from the Los Angeles Lakers.
These items are not the start of a celebrity hall of fame,
but rather a sampling of the items up for bid in the Campus
Chest Auction on April 24 at 7 p.m. in the Great Hall of
the Student Union.
Todd Harrell, Campus Chest chairman, said this annual
event was one of the main fundraisers for the 13 local charities
that are in this year's Campus Chest. The event is sponsored
by Alpha Phi Omega, which sent out letters last fall to
celebrities, sports persons and local merchants, asking for
donations to the auction.
The donations have been flowing in.
Harrell said many of the items donated were related to
political events and that several of the items were donated
by Phyllis Diller.
The most popular item, Harrell said, would probably be
the signature Lakers or UNC basketball. When UNC won
the championship, Harrell said, the bidding went up to $650
for the basketball. Last year it sold for $330.
A dinner at Hotel Europa with UNC basketball coach
Dean Smith is also a popular item, he added.
Topping the list of unusual items, is a pound of wheat
contributed by Sen. Mark Andrews from North Dakota.
For those interested, it is package 50 called "Brian Gates,
American" that also includes a U.S. flag flown over the
Capitol, pecan pie, an autographed pass to the 1985
inauguration from Sen. Richard Lugar and an autographed
photograph of Kenny Rogers.
There are 78 packages of items to be auctioned off by
Steve Smith of G105 and Gary Phillips of Weaver Street
Realty and Auction Company.
Harrell said he hoped the auction would raise $3,000 to
$4,000.
AH money raised will go to local charities such as the
Associated for Retarded Citizens, Orange County Rape Crisis
Center and the Campus Y.
"It's (the Campus Chest) is a good mix of student and
community organizations that would not make it if it weren't
for donations such as this." Harrell said.
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