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•THE VOICE FAYETTEVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY TO BE OR NOT TO BE The Library Is Disappearing VOL. 23 NO. 6 Fayetteville, N. C. FEBRUARY 25, 1970 Cataloguer Mrs. Marie Kennedy (seated) and library assistants II, Mrs. W.K. Hall (left) and I, Mrs. V. C. Williams (right) tackle the tremendous task of trac ing walking books. They seem to be pondering whether the library is “to be or not to be.” CAROLINA AREA COLLEGES MAY MAKE MERGERS A federal government drive for greater racial mixing on college camp uses is likely to have a profound effect in North Carolina, perhaps even eventually bringing mer gers of some schools. Exactly what will come is not teown, since the Department of HEW's first set of recommenda tions for the state were made public only a few weeks ago. They call for recruitment of more Blacks at three campuses of the University of North Carolina. But officials of the North Carolina Board been pointing out for months that mergers were recommended in other states under circum stances similar to some in North Carolina. The mergers else where were recommend ed for areas in which a predominantly white school and a predom inantly black school stood close together. North Carolina has four areas which fit that de scription: Greensboro, Elizabeth City, Fayette ville and Durham-Chapel Hill. The recommenda tions affected the UNC branches at Greensboro, Raleigh and Chapel Hill. They were told to step up their recruiting of Blacks to get a greater racial mix within a year. As in public school in tegration matters handl ed by HEW, at stake e- ventually could be federal funds, of which North Ca rolina’s state-supported universities now get about $20 million a year. The recommendations involving UNC at Greens boro did not mention a merger. But a spokesman at predominantly Black A&T in Greensboro said it had been commend ed by HEW for an inte gration plan which in cludes closer cooperation with the UNC branches. The spokesman said A&T in Greensboro said it had been commended by HEW for an integra tion plan which includes closer cooperation with the UNC branches. The' spokesman said A&T‘s president, Dr. L. C. Dowdy, had sub mitted the plan to HEW and had got back a letter praising his “commend able effort.” A&T’s en rollment is about 1% white. Dowdy’s plan involved primarily increased re cruiting efforts similar to those recommended by HEW for the UNC branch es. There was no mention of possible merger either in HEW’s recommenda tions for UNC at Chapel Hill, which has the pre dominantly Black NCCU close by at Durham. No report has been made public on the HEW team’s visit to NCC. The dual facilities at Fayetteville are predominantly black Fayetteville State Uni versity and a military center operated at Ft. Bragg by North Carolina State University. At Elizabeth City there is the predominantly black Elizabeth City State University and the tra ditionally white College of Albemarle. Recommend ations for other North Ca rolina universities are expected soon, perhaps within a few days. Cameron West, direct or of the Board of High er Education, said he was sticking by his previous ly stated prediction— that HEW will call on the state to “dismantle the dual system of higher ed ucation.” UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND NEW YORK, N.Y.,-An appeal for support on be half of the United Negro College Fund is being made again to college and university students a- cross the country, it was announced by Martha B. Lucas Pate, chairman of the Fund’s College and School Division. Citing the latest cen sus bureau statistics, which show a marked in crease in black student enrollment, Mrs. Pate said, “because of this important development, much of the burden of educating these students will be on black colleges. In order to help allevi ate this burden I’m call ing upon students of the nation to help make this trend a success by sup porting the College Fund and its 36 member schools.” This year’s appeal is being made to more than 4,000 colleges, universi- (Continued on page 3) By Mrs. Marie Kennedy Circulation Librarian The Administration and the Chestnutt Library Staff have taken a seri ous look at a pro gressively bad situation, the dimishing book col lection and library mate rials. They all wonder if the present bad situation will require nothing less than a Security Officer of a checking device. Mrs. Kennedy told THE VOICE that the open book stacks and open refer ence sections for some reference books are ex periencing near disaster for library materials. She said if the library cannot rely on its patrons to use stack privileges hon estly and correctly, the library would have to re sort to a means of making sure the library ma terials are charged out properly. A Security Officer would have the right to check each patron who leaves the library to see that no materials are car ried out that are not pro perly checked To date are missing the following: 1. Current periodicals. 2. Back issues of peri odicals from the periodi cal’s storage bins. 3. Two (2) Volumes from a set of reference books valued at $55 per volume. 4. Volumes from sev eral sets of encyclopedi as. DORM BURNS On Saturday, January 11, The Brothers' Dorm itory at Malcolm X Uni versity burned. Fire de stroyed all the clothing and books within the structure. The fire is believed to have been caused by a coal stove that had over heated. There were four teen brothers in the dorm at the time, but none were injured; however all their belongings were destroy ed. 5. An ever-increasing number of books of all types from the library collection that have NOT been properly charged out. She said it takes the time of the Circulation Librarian to have to col lect an unimaginable a- mount of money for over due books and lost books. This time could be spent in enhancing the circula tion service, and the large portion of the library bud get now used for replac ing missing books could well be used to add to the book collection. She asks that each student and all student organizations, please help keep the book collection in the library. ELDRIDGE PRESENTS PAPER AT MEET San Antonio, Texas— Fayetteville State Uni versity’s Dr. H. M. Eldridge presented a paper at the annual meet ing of the Mathematics Society and Mathematics Association of America in San Antonio, Texas, Jan uary 22-26. ‘ Strengthening the College Undergraduate Program in Geometry and the use of Topogical Co ordinates” was the sub ject of Dr. Eldridge’s pa per which was presented during a seminar featur ing representatives from universities and colleges In the United States and personnel from IndustiT'. Dr. Eldridge, profes sor - chairman, mathe matics department at Fayetteville State Uni versity is a consultant in mathematics to the North Carolina Depart ment of Public Instruc tion. He is the author of “Impact of Modern Math”. Dr. Kuchibhatla V. Sur- yanaroyona, FSU associ ate professor of math ematics, also attended the meeting. New Programs Receive Approval North Carolina’s Board of Higher Education has ap proved bachelor degree programs for French and black studies at Fayetteville State University. The edict means that Fayetteville State students can commence majors in these areas at the beginning of the academic year 1970-71. Also, approved was a laboratory school for the in stitution’s Teacher Education program. Included in this package are facilities and staff. In addition, language laboratory improvements re ceived approval. This will augment facilities in the foreign language area. Other programs presented by Fayetteville State Uni versity were deferred for additional information. The board will make a final decision on them prior to August 1, 1970. The FSU faculty, on the recommendation of the Educational Policies and Curriculum Committee, ap proved two electives for the English department. These are Journalism and Theatre — Stage Craft and Scenic Design. This is the university’s first course in journalism and it will be a news workshop dealing with style, make - up, reporting, administration, design and writing. The Theatre course will deal with theory and prac tice of stage production and design; physical theatre and equipment, problems and practice In scene con struction and paint.
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