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Durham, North Carolina, Friday, May 26, 1967
William Jones, Chairman of the NCC Interim Committee, speaks for the
committee concerning the recent series of student disturbances.
Students Honored On Awards Day
College Officials Issue Strong Policy Statement
Approximately 373 N or t h
Carolina College students and
one faculty member received
citations and awards May 5 at
NCC’s eighteenth annual
Awards Day Convocation.
The awards, in recognition of
excellence in sch!)larship, ath
letics, and significAnt participa
tion in departmental and other
campu.V acitvitiea,- ^and signifi
cant participation ' in depart
mental and other campus activi
ties, included trophies, certifi
cates, assistaiitshlps, scholar
ships, and plaques.
Mrs. Esther R. LaMarr, spe
cial assistant to the administra
tor, Veterans Administration,
Washington, D. C., delivered the
principal address on the subject,
“Lift Up Mine Eyes.”
Among the special awards
were the coveted James E. Shep
ard Hamilton Watch Award to
the outstanding teacher and stu
dent of the year at NCC. William
Puffer of the Hamilton Watch
Co. presented these to Dr.
Ernst M. Manasse, chairman of
the Department of German.
Latham Receives
National Office
Dean Louise M. Latham, Dean
of Women at North Carolina
College and newly elected re
cording secretary of the Nation
al Association of Women Deans
and Counselors was recently in
stalled into her new position at
a ceremony in Dallas, Texas.
Dean Latham, who is at pres
ent also recording secretary of
North Carolina Association of
Women Deans and Counselors,
will serve in her newly elected
office for one year.
Before becoming Dean at
North Carolina College, Dean
Latham served as Dean of Girls
at Washington High School in
Raleigh; Assistant and Acting
Dean of Women at Howard Uni
versity in Washington, D. C.;
and Counselor of Youth of the
United States Employment Serv
ice in Durham.
Dean Latham is a graduate of
Shaw University where she re
ceived her A.B. degree and Bos
ton University where she re
ceived her A.M. degree. She is
a native of Raleigh, North Car
olina.
Latin, and Philosophy, who was
chosen by faculty vote as the
faculty recipient, and to Samuel
V. Thomas, a senior political
science major, who was chosen
the student recipient by student
vote.
Other special awards were the
following: the Proctor and Gam
ble Crisco Award for outstand
ing work in the area of home
economics, to Betty Arp, Pem
broke; the Stokely-Van Camp
Award to the top ranking stu
dent in all areas of food prepa
ration plus other phases of
home economics, to Bobby Carr,
Chadbourn; Time Magazine cer
tificates of excellence and merit
to James S. Williams, St. Peters
burg, Fla., Paul E. Bennett,
Wadesboro, and Joel Maxwell,
Charlotte; and the Columbia
University Annual Literary
Award to Alfreda Wright, Gas
tonia.
Among the special athletic
awards in football were the J.
S. Stewart 1966 Captain Trophy,
Herman Byrd, Newport News,
Va.; the W. J. Kennedy, Jr. Most
Outstanding Back Trophy, Stan
ley Gibbs, Waynesville; The J.
H. Wheeler Most Outstanding
Lineman Trophy, Louis Bell,
Bronx, N. Y.; The A. T. Spauld
ing Sportsmanship Trophy, Sam
Singletary, Washington, D. C.;
The I. O. Funder burg Most Val
uable Player Trophy, Herman
Matthews, Tampa Fla.; and the
C. J. Ingram Trophy for Aca
demic Achievement, Edwin
Jones, Kinston.
Additional awards were the
following:
Scholastic Awards (seniors
who have maintained a 2.00 av
erage over four years) Delores
Bonaparte, Deloris E. Boone,
Mollie J. Brinkley, Bobbie D.
Carr, Edna E. Clegg, Judy M.
Dugger, Carolyn D. Edge, Gloria
A. Evans, Elizabeth Galbreath,
Betty M. Harmon, Floyd W.
Hayes, Annie R. Isaac, Barbara
J. Johnson, Leonard King, War
ren D. Leggett, Mary J. McNeil,
Natalie E. Marshall, Carolyn J.
Mumford, Robert D. Sanders,
Gloria J. Snipes, Ella E. Tyson,
Kathryn L. Wallace, Georgia M.
Williams, John T. Williams, and
Sandra R. Wray.
The W. G. Pearson Prize for
Excellency in Mathematics, Av-
■ erage for four years, Natalie E.
See Awards Day, page 3
North Carolina College officials
issued April 28 a strong state
ment summarizing the incidence
of a series of student distur
bances on campus the last week
in April and stating the ad-
minstration’s position ' in the
matter.
William Jones, chairman of
the interim committee, said the
administration will “take all
necessary steps to preserve ord
er and protect property” on the
state-supported campus and stat
ed that persons who “‘initiate,
participate in, and abet the
creation of disruptive incidents’’
will be subject to disciplinary
action by the college.
The disturbances began when
a group of sophomore women
students demonstrated in protest
against the housing pwlicy of
the college. They had petitioned
that upperclass women be given
preferential treatment in as
signment of rooms in the col
lege’s new high-rise dormitory.
According" to the interim com
mittee’s statement, the adminis
tration, after four sessions with
sophomore women, decided to
maintain the present housing
policy, proposing that a forth
coming new dormitory, sched
uled for occupancy on Sept. 1,
1968, be designated for upper-
class wc^men.
The first demonstration, the
committee felt, grew out of the
sophomore -women’s rejection of
NCC Begins Self-
Study Program
A self-study program will
begin at North Carolina College
in September, 1967. It was an
nounced recently by Under
graduate Dean Steward B. Ful-
bright.
The program, recommended
by the Southern Association of
Colleges and Universities, will
go on for an entire school ses
sion, ending in the spring of
1968. It will include research,
surveys and evaluations of the
performance and conditions of
the college.
Every facet of the college will
be involved. The library will
be studied to determine the
actual number of volumes and
publications and the adequacy
of other facilities. Administra
tive problems will also be scru
tinized there will be a probing
of overall personnel problems.
This is part of the Associations’
method of determining the
quality and standards of its
members. North Carolina Col
lege was accredited by the As
sociation in 1937 and gained
membership in 1957.
\
Organizing itself into an over
all committee, the college will
select a director of the self-study
program. The job of the director
will be to supervise and coordi
nate, the study survey and re
search activities as they are con
ducted at the various depart
mental levels. At the end of the
program, evaluations will be
made and a repOrt will be
handed in to the Association.
Fulbright said, “as Under
graduate Dean I am not sure of
just what my role will be, but
I can certainly see the purpose
and benefit of such an under
taking.”
this solution. During the demon
stration, several college officials
were burned in effigy, a statue
Dr. James E. Shepard, founder
of the college, was defaced, and
a faculty talent show was in
terrupted.
On Tuesday, April 24, a group
of women again demonstrated in
the early part - of the evening
and returned to their dormito
ries. This was followed by “pan-
ty raids” in which officials as
certained that several men went
beyond the reception areas of
the women’s dormitories and on
to the upper floors.
“Some of the male students
said they did not participate in
the unseemly side of this affair
and that young non-college men
from the city were associated
with the event,’’ the committee’s
statement said. “Be that as it
may, our male students were in
Psi Chi Holds
Installation Rites
On Thursday evening, April
27, the members of the North
Carolina College at Durham
Chapter of Psi Chi, national
honor society in psychology,
held its spring installation cere
mony.
The four probates intiated at
this time were: Sherle Leon
Boone, Gloria Floree McLaugh
lin I,ois Elizabeth Parker, and
Joyce Anita Townsend.
Persons who are psychology
majors or minors, who have
had at least 6 credit hours in
psychology and are registered
for nine additional credit hours
in psychology are eligible for
membership. These persons must
have a cumulative average of 2.0
and an average of 2.3 in psy
chology. These averages are cal
culated on the three point sys
tem.
The members of the North
Carolina College at Durham
Chapter of Psi Chi, the Nation
al Honor Society in Psychology,
publicly express their apprecia
tion to the Alumni Association
and the Student Government for
their support in making it pos
sible for Miss Gloria Evans and
Miss Mavis Best to represent
North Carolina College at the
Southeastern Regional Psycho
logical Association Convention.
The convention was held in At
lanta, Georgia April 13-15.
evident abundance in front of
and around the women’s resi
dence halls.”
The female students held a
third demonstration from ap
proximately 4 to 6 p.m.,—this
time a sit-in on the first floor of
the Administration ByjJding—>
Wednesday, “at a time,” the
committee statement said,
“when the Administration was
examining the total problems of
disorder in an effort to determ
ine proper steps to prevent re
currences.”
“While the administration
respects the rights of dissent
and encourages freedom of
speech and student self-direc
tion, we are deeply concerned
about the obvious role played
by the top leadership of the Stu
dent Government Association,”
officials said.
They charged that the Student
Government Association’s offi
cial publication, the Bulletin,
“has repeatedly created a cli
mate of unrest among students.
“From information available
to the administration, the points
of view reflected in these Bulle
tins do not represent the think
ing of a majority of our stu
dents,” the committee said. “We
believe that the majority of our
students are sober-minded,
rational, and dedicated persons
who deeply love North Caro-
olina Col’ege.”
The administration also stated
that “the few alleged ‘Black
Power’ enthusiasts reported to
be on our campus, whether in
side or outside organized groups,
will not be the decision makers
for 3,100 students at North Car
olina College.”
“The administration will not
tolerate young men entering
women’s dormitories beyond the
reception areas for any such
purposes as panty raids or other
unauthorized purposes. Nor will
the adminstration tolerate van
dalism of personal proi)erty or
destruction of state property.
“We are determined to see
that women student housed in
our facilities are adequately pro
tected at all times. Persons who
initiate, participate in, and abet
the creation of disruptive inci
dents will be subject to disci
plinary action by the college,”
the statement added.
AWARDS DAY TALK—Three North Carolina College students chat with
William Puffer, second from left, representative of the Hamilton Watch Com
pany and a participant in North Carolina College’s annual Awards Day
activities Friday, May 5 . Shown, left to right, are Charles Jackson, Jersey
City, N. J.; Puffer; Perry Massey, Dunn, N. C.; and Clarence Cross, Gates-
ville, N. C. The three students, members of Alpha Phi Omega service fra
ternity, served as ushers for the event.