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Mexico Gets Third
Earthquake This Month
MEXICO CITY The second earth
quake in four days rattled Mexico City
today, causing skyscrapers to sway and
people to rush out of their offices in panic.
The shaking began at 10:55 a.m. (12:55
p.m. EDT) and lasted only a few seconds.
ApreliminaryreadingattheNationalSeis
mological Institute said the quake mea
sured 6.1 and the epicenter was near the
border between Michoacan and Colima
states on Mexico’s Pacific coast.
Bruce Presgrave of the U.S. Geological
Survey in Golden, Colo., said the prelimi
nary reading showed a magnitude of 5.5.
The quake was the 26th and strongest af
tershock of a 7.6-magnitude quake on
Monday that killed at least 54 people and
was centered 300 miles west of Mexico
City just off Colima’s coast.
The town hardest hit on Monday was
Manzanillo, 25 miles southeast of the cen
ter of today’s quake. There were no imme
diate reports of deaths from the new quake,
but the government news agency Notimex
quoted local officials as saying five work
men were hurt in Manzanillo when they
jumped from scaffolding.
“This is the second time this week, and
I’m not taking any chances, ” said Armando
Alyuso, an office worker in a high-rise
building along Mexico City’s main boule
vard, Paseo de la Reforma.
Today’s quake was the third powerful
tremor to hit Mexico in a month. A magni
tude 7.3 quake on Sept. 14killedfivepeople
in southern Mexico.
Protestant Gunman Hit
During IRA Ceasefire
BELFAST, Northern Ireland Billy
Elliott, a Protestant gunman on the run,
thought a cease-fire made it safe to return
to Northern Ireland. He was dead wrong.
He was not killed by his enemies in the
Irish Republican Army. He was shot in the
head by his fellow Protestant “loyalists,”
making it clear they will kill troublemakers
in their own ranks to protect a year-old
truce with the IRA.
“If a loyalist shot an IRA man now,
he’d be bumped off by his own within 24
hours,” said Senior Police Commander
Kevin Sheehy. “That’s what keeps the
peace the scumbags in charge threaten
ing the cretins below.”
Ulster Volunteer Force commanders
confirmed to H# - Associated Press they
sanctioned Elliott’s murder because of his
involvement in the death of 31-year-old
Margaret Wright, killed 18 months ago
when she ventured into a loyalist club and
SPEECH
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University, and their later counterparts,
pointed us through all of those crises and
changes. From that gallant past we may learn
to trust these marker-mandates, and their
modem counterparts in the present State Con
stitution, to give us the base for understanding
and fulfilling our mission in the world of the
late twentieth century. To bum them into all
our minds, let me tell you their source and give
you the very words of each charge:
■ First, from the North Carolina Constitu
tion of 1776: "... all useful learning shall be
duly encouraged and promoted in one or more
universities.”
■ Second, from the University’s Charter,
in whose opening words the General Assem
bly declared its duty: “To consult the Happi
ness of a rising generation and. endeavour to
fit them for an honourable discharge of the
social duties of life, by paying the strictest
attention to their education...”
■ Third, from the Declaration of Rights
that begins North Carolina’s present Constitu
tion: “The people have a right to the privilege
of education, and it is the duty of the State to
guard and maintain that right.”
■ Finally, from that same Constitution’s
words about the University of North Caro
lina: “The General Assembly shall provide
that the benefits of The University of North
Carolina.... as far as practicable, be extended
to the people of the State free of expense.”
Few states have matched in eloquent dedi
cation this state’s call for the education of its
people. Can there be any doubt that this edu
cation is the first, the noblest, work to which
the University is called and the most impor
tant service it can render to the people ofNorth
Carolina? For this, the University was created
and now exists. Forthis, while it does its duty,
it may rightly claim support by the General
Assembly and loyalty from the people ofNorth
Carolina. I fully understand that it receives
both, and I shall do all in my power to provide
the leadership here that will strengthen the
bonds that tie us to the people and to then
hope.
To that end, we need the very best and
strongest faculty we can muster. We are proud
of our present faculty; I am proud that some
among them educated me; and we ate clear
that means must be provided to continue to
bring here the very best colleagues to be found,
and to retain them here in the University’s
service. Recently, this institution has accepted
the challenge of the General Assembly to
increase tuition sharply so as to raise faculty
salaries and provide added support for the
libraries. Nowl call on the General Assembly,
in response, to do all in its power at its next
session, to match with a general fund appro
priation the additional resources our students
and their families will now provide. In addi
tion I urge the General Assembly to give
sympathetic and realistic support to the salary
needs ofUniversity staff as well, especially our
housekeepers. That is the best way, and the
right way, for the state ofNorth Carolina to
was mistaken for a Catholic.
Elliot, who was commander of the UVF
affiliated Red Hand Commandos, was
branded an outlaw even by his own and
fled Belfast, returning just three weeks ago.
“No one but close relatives will miss
Elliott,” said Billy Hutchinson, the leader
of the UVF-allied Progressive Unionist
Party. “The fact is, with him gone North
ern Ireland’s a wee bit safer place for all of
us to live.”
FBI Uses Experts To Find
Amtrak Train Saboteur
HYDER, Ariz. The FBI is trying to
look into the mind of the Amtrak saboteur
the way fictional agents probed the psyche
of a serial killer in “Silence of the Lambs.”
Experts are conducting a
“psycholinguistic analysis” of a bizarre
anti-govemment letter believed to have
been left by the saboteur. The FBI ac
knowledged for the first time Wednesday
thatinvestigatorsfoundseveralphotocopies
of the letter at the scene of the derailment,
which killed one person and injured 78 in
a desert gulch 55 miles southwest of Phoe-
nix.
At the crash
scene Wednesday,
90 agents, some on
their hands and
knees amid dust and
creosote bush in
100-degree heat,
crawled over an
area of desert as
large as 2 square
miles looking for
leads. The saboteur
unbolted a rail and
sent four cars of the
Miami-to-Los An-
IF*
Attorney General
JANET RENO
appealed to the public
for help in the case.
geles Sunset Limited hurtling off a 30-foot
high bridge and into a dry stream bed
before dawn Monday.
Agents peered under rail cars held aloft
by cranes and took plaster casts of wheel
tracks and footprints.
Today, the FBI began winding down its
effort, sending some of the 90 agents on the
case home and others fanning out into the
tiny towns in the area looking for anyone
who might know something. Agents also
checked out another set of wheel tracks
spotted a few miles from the crash site.
“This investigation is like any other,”
Tubbs said. “It’s a neighborhood. It’s just
a very large neighborhood.”
Barring a big discovery, agents are likely
to return to the scene for part of the day
Friday and then end their investigation at
the scene, said Robert Walsh, who heads
the investigation.
Attorney General Janet Reno used her
weekly news conference today to appeal
for public help calling in tips to the FBI hot
line. She refiised to discuss what evidence
had been uncovered and said it would be
premature to guess the motive for the sabo
tage.
“Those who perpetrate such incidents
just be told loud arid dear,” Reno said,
“that every federal resource will be put to
the effort to find and punish them to the full
extent of the law.”
FROM WIRE REPORTS
fulfill its constitutional mandate.
Before I turn to some of the many ways in
which the University performs its duty to
educate, and thus to serve North Carolina, let
me summarily identify some forces of late
20th century American life that will impel
deep-rooted changes in our University, our
sodety and our world and will profoundly
influence how we perform—and should per
form our task:
■ In ways not yet imagined, technology
will change the way humanity orders life on
this planet. It will move us toward a different
kind of economy and much modified ways of
living. The change from an energy-based
economy to a knowledge-based economy will
change the rules of international economic
competition and will thrust universities in
roles they have not traditionally played.
■ Research and discovery of new knowl
edge are vital to the well-being of humankind,
as is the development of the practical implica
tions of that research into useful technology.
These labors will enable us to respond to the
hope of all people for useful work as rapid
change from downsizing-for-efficiency and the
increasing use of sophisticated technology and
machines become substitutes for many cat
egories of human labor.
■ The University, responding to the hope
of the people ofNorth Carolina, has a partner
ship role to play with industry and govern
ment. Together, we must light the way to a
more productive society, a society in which
continued economic growth will make it pos
sible for all people to have hope of useful,
productive work beneficial to the whole of
society. Here, let me be plain: I mean all of the
people ofNorth Carolina, for, surely, we need
to find ways to tap our great pools of under
trained, under-educated and therefore under
utilized citizens, both members of minority
and of majority groups. Surely, this goal, not
met in all ofNorth Carolina’s history, the goal
of bringing everyone fully and productively
into the economic stream of life, is both our
toughest challenge and, potentially, the most
rewarding goal we could help to achieve for us
all. The encouragement “of all useful learn
ing" and the obligation to fit our graduates for
“an honourable discharge of the social duties
of life” take on whole new depths of meaning
in light of these aspirations.
That said, let me turn to undergraduate
education. In the University’s recent
reaccreditation process, the external Reaffir
mation Committee that scrutinized us praised
us for the excellence of our required self-study,
commenting: “We hope other institutions may
look to this Self Study for guidance in framing
their own approaches to assessment.” I quote
that sentence about the University’s conscien
tious and standard-setting address to the issue
of accountability to indicate the adherence to
quality that characterizes Carolina at her best,
and I now quote a few more lines from that
report: “Though the university is renowned
and acclaimed for many qualities, it chose to
focus the current Self Study on the quality of
undergraduate learning and the undergradu
ate experience of its students. While the study
STATE & NATIONAL
40 Arrested in Calif. Affirmative Action Rally
BYDAVTOGERLACH
STAFF WRITER
In response to the University of
California’s Board of Regents decision to
eliminate affirmative action in the state’s
public universities last summer, thousands
of students held protest rallies at UC sys
tem schools Thursday.
Nikolai Garcia, a UCLA student, par
ticipated in the protests at UCLA. “It was
successful. Three thousand students
marched,” he said.
Garcia said participants in the protests
included students of all races. Protesters
included members of campus ethnic asso
ciations, members of the UCLA student
government and UCLA faculty.
The rally at UCLA was indicative of
rallies held throughout the state. There
Hunt Kicks Off Year Two of N.C. AmeriCorps Program
BY ANDREW PARK
STAFF WRITER
Gov. Jim Hunt kicked off North
Carolina’s second year of AmeriCorps ser
vice in Raleigh Thursday by swearing in
hundreds of volunteers, including eight of
the 10 UNC students who are new mem
bers of the Student Coalition for Action in
Literacy Education.
Hunt pledged his support for the em
battled federal program which grants edu
cational stipends to young people who
devote one year to service projects in their
community. The House and Senate have
both voted to cut funding for next year’s
AmeriCorps. President Clinton has vowed
to veto the bill.
“I want our members of Congress to see
that we need to build on AmeriCorps, not
tear it down,” Hunt said. “If they don’t
State Legal Aid Corporation Fights Federal Funding Threats
BYAMYCOOK
AND EMMA FLACK
STAFF WRITERS
If proposed cuts in legal aid funding are
approved by Congress, as many as 1.2
million North Carolinians with low in
comes may be denied access to legal aid.
Congress recently considered eliminat
ing the Legal Services Corporation, which
provides legal aid to the needy. The LSC
was established inl974sopoor Americans
could receive adequate legal services. It
funds 323 programs operating more than
1,200 neighborhood law offices and em
ploying 11,000 people.
Carol Honsa, media adviser for the
National Legal Aid and Defender Asso
ciation said if the proposed cuts were
passed, students and Chapel Hill residents
might be affected.
detailed compliance with essential conditions
and criteria, its particular emphasis came at a
time of renewed interest and concern for un
dergraduate education at major research uni
versities. In this as in many other sectors,
leadership from North Carolina seems fit
ting.”
I cite both comments so that you may know
that this University has been keenly attuned to
its obligation to provide for the people of
North Carolina front-rank undergraduate edu
cation rooted in teaching of the highest order.
The legislature’s recent mission statement
about the importance of teaching reflects our
conviction and practice; it reinforces what we
have always perceived as our first obligation
—an obligation we will continue to discharge.
In this connection, I note that all except one of
my predecessors as chancellor, upon stepping
down from that post, remained in Chapel Hill
and took up classroom teaching. All earned
their students’ acclaim. Indeed, three of our
former Chancellors have won teaching awards.
We cannot begin to meet our full commit
ment to our undergraduates, however, if we
do not bring into their undergraduate experi
ence and training what they will need to un
derstand and function maturely in the chang
ing world that I have described. Among other
things, we shall have to invest heavily in this
new information technology. Our laying of
the fiber optic cable now under way indicates
that the University has not been blind to this
opportunity. It has not, however, had suffi
cient means to make the full investment neces
sary to give our students what they need and
deserve. It will be a primary obligation and
privilege for me as chancellor to lead the
further implementation of our long and his
toric commitment to excellent undergraduate
education, bringing all useful, current learn
ing to the ken of our students.
We recognize also that subtle educational
issues will underlie the increasing use of ma
chines and technology. A university is a
“people place,” a kind of cottage industry of
“talking heads.” We must educate young men
and women for an age of swiftly developing,
sophisticated technology. Yet the strength of a
university education lies in the constant ex
change between teacher and student, between
student and student and between learning stu
dents and the world of persons into which we
will send them. Indeed, this exchange is one of
the reasons that Carolina’s tradition of student
self-government is so significant a part of the
University’s educational program. We may
not shirk our obligation to “educate the whole
person. ’’For that task, machines alone cannot
suffice. Moreover, we shall need to keep be
fore us as we revise the curriculum a keen
sense of the role and vital importance of the
arts and humanities —a role whose signifi
cance will grow and not lessen as we prepare
students for the challenge ofli ving meaningful
and productive lives in the 21st century.
It is graduate and professional education,
however, that make us a university and not a
college only. For leaders in the professions
doctors, dentists, lawyers, nurses, pharma
cists, social workers and public health profes
was a boycott of
classes, a march and
a rally highlighted
by student speeches,
Garcia said. Partici
pants in the march
blocked traffic on a
busy intersection in
West Los Angeles
for a half hour.
Forty students were
arrested, he said.
Thursday’s affir
mative action rallies
were organized
through the Califor
nia Students’ Civil
Rights Coalition.
JACKSON spoke to
students protesting the
abolition of affirmative
action policies in
California.
This organization formed after students
from throughout the UC system began
want AmeriCorps to deal with community
problems, then let them come back from
Washington, take off their coats, roll up
their sleeves and do it themselves.”
Hunt then led the group in reciting the
AmeriCorps pledge, which begins, “I will
get things done for America—to m ake our
people safer, smarter and healthier.”
AmeriCorps gave $2.2 million to 14
programs in North Carolina this year, in
cluding $50,000 to SCALE. Malcolm
Coles, director of field operations for the
Corporation for Public Service, the organi
zation that runs the AmeriCorps program,
told volunteers that their funding was as
sured. “You will be able to complete your
year in national service, ” regardless of con
gressional action, he said.
SCALE employs 47 college students at
four state campuses in developing and
maintaining literacy programs to meet com
“Law students interested in public in
terest law do internships in poverty law,”
Honsa said. “With a decrease in funds,
these internships would not be available.”
The N.C. Bar Association saw the need
to give the needy equal access to legal
services and to give them the opportunity
to have equal justice in the courts. Asa
result of these needs, the Legal Services
Corporation of North Carolina was cre
ated in 1976. Last year alone, LSCNC
helped more than 40,000 clients.
Honsa said the LSC had always been
controversial.
“It gives poor people access to the courts
and sometimes collides against other pow
erful interests,” Honsa said.
Some congressmen wanted to elimi
nate the program and disperse block grants
to the states in replacement of the LSC.
Block grants are set amounts of funding
sionals among them—for the next generation
of teachers, senior scientists and scholars, it is
to the graduate and professional schools of the
University that the people of the state are
accustomed to look. Not so many years ago,
North Carolina suffered with its sister states in
the region from a severe brain drain: many of
our brightest people left to make useful fives
elsewhere. Now, our graduate and profes
sional schools attract some of the brightest
students in the United States. Graduate edu
cation is an engine for intellectual growth
for graduate students themselves, but not least
for our undergraduate students. Graduate stu
dents who are engaged with their faculty men
tors in the discovery of new scholarly and
scientific knowledge help to provide the richly
challenging atmosphere in which undergradu
ate education takes place at Carolina. We do
not send teachers into public school class
rooms without experience in teaching. Nor
would you want us to send holders of graduate
degrees onto college and university faculties
without being carefully supervised by their
faculty mentors and the University’s Center
for Teaching and Learning.
Graduate education is also an engine for
economic growth. Three out of five of our
graduate students remain here to strengthen
the social and economic fabric of this state.
What they found attractive here to begin with
attracts them to stay; their staying makes us
more attractive still to industry, to the
professions, to the humanities, to science, and,
above all, to ourselves. The state and its people
profit by keeping our own people and by
drawing talented others here to join us.
But the attrition of funding available to the
University has had its effect. I should be remiss
if I did not draw to the fact that UNC has
suffered from this attrition. A few weeks ago a
national commission of distinguished educa
tors reported the results of a 1992-93 study of
doctoral degree-granting graduate programs
in American universities. We have made a
comparative analysis of the current report and
the next most recent one done in 1982. The
vice chancellor for research and graduate stud
ies recently summed it up well when he ob
served that: “We were on the rise in 1982 and
the study showed it. We are in decline in the
1990 sand the current study shows that.”
This study is not the only measure of our
worth, but it is an indication that slippage in
funding, like failure to maintain a fine build
ing, inevitably will have its effect. We absorb
it at first. Later we try not to notice too much.
But sooner or later the truth becomes plain.
My predecessors drew attention to this prob
lem as it was developing. The national com
mission has reported it and drawn it to
everyone’s attention. Now we must hope that
the moment has come when we shall all re
solve, together, to reverse the direction of
change and set our graduate and professional
programs on a course for continued improve
ment in quality. Withcontinuedsupportofthe
ablest people to lead them, we may then give
the people ofNorth Carolina what they have
a right to expect from their University in Chapel
Hill. The state can make no investment in its
meeting in opposition to the Regents’ affir
mative action stance, said Kimi Lee, coor
dinator of the University of California Stu
dents Association. Her office coordinates
all campuses in the UC system.
The coalition developed strategies to
protest the board’s actions. Thursday’s
events were part of a year-long campaign,
shesaid. “The goal of today was to educate
the public on affirmative action,” she said.
“When people learn about what it (affir
mative action) actually is, they tend to
change their views.” A main component
of the protest was a voting drive to educate
and register voters, she said. “The UC
regents won’trescind their vote unless there
is a strong force behind them,” Lee said. If
enough voters reject California’s Civil
Rights Initiative, which seeks to eliminate
all affirmative action, the Board ofßegents
munity needs. The volunteers work prima
rily with at-risk students in local schools
and after-school programs. Ten UNC stu
dents have joined this year’s group, which
got started with a statewide training ses
sion Sept. 29-Oct. 1.
Unlike other AmeriCorps programs,
SCALE asks its volunteers to devote them
selves part-time during the academic year.
They work 10-15 hours per week. Some
students work as many as 20 hours per
week, according to Ed Chaney, the
program’s director.
The volunteers don’t seem to mind.
“When you’re trying to help people learn
howtoread.it’sgoingtotakealotoftime,”
said Teresa Graves, a junior from Greens
boro. Graves said she saw the need for
literacy programs while working in an
other community service group.
Graves and others cited a long-time
that would be given annually to each state.
The types oflegal services provided through
block grant funds would be very restricted.
James Lamb, press representative of the
national office of the LSC, said the it pro
vided all manners of civil legal services, but
also said there were several reasons why
many people opposed it.
“One of the reasons that is stated is that
the conservative Christian Coalition wants
legal services cut because it provides di
vorces,” Lamb said.
Although the Senate Appropriations
Committee approved a $2lO million block
grant, the Domenici Bill, named after its
founder Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., was
passed, restoring the LSC. The Domenici
Bill also focused on the increase of funding
for the LSC.
The Domenici Bill was successful in
restoring the LSC, but it still prohibits the
future that is likely to yield a greater return or
more likely to fulfill the hope of its people.
It is just this kind of needed support, justi
fied only by the quality of the programs it
makes possible and the excellence of the gradu
ates it enables the University to educate, that
will brighten the future for all of the people of
North Carolina.
If until now I seem to have spoken of the
University ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill as
an entity standing alone, I have not conveyed
to you my deep conviction that all of the
constituent institutions of the the University
system, the University General Administra
tion, the legislature, the governor and the
executive branch and the people of North
Carolina have an ongoing interdependency;
that all contribute to each other; and that all
flourish best when each flourishes. The entire
University is an integral force in the economy
ofNorth Carolina —benefactor to the state by
the resources it brings to the state; beneficiary
of the state by the support the people ofNorth
Carolina give it.
Carolina’s role in public service was well
stated by President Edward Kidder Graham
80 years ago: “We hope to make the campus
co-extensive with the boundaries of the state,
and while keeping the standards of university
instruction and scholarly research on the high
est plane, to put the University ... in warm,
sensitive touch with every problem in North
Carolina life, small and great.”
In this connection, the University at Chapel
Hill has long had a vital interconnection with
the public schools ofNorth Carolina. We have
acted in the conviction that we are engaged at
different stages of a common enterprise, in
which we all rise or fall together. It is, there
fore, entirely proper and wise to reassert that
common enterprise and common fate and to
say that it will be our business to share in full
the resources of the University with North
Carolina’s public schools, to the end that they
be maintained and strengthened. In the knowl
edge-based economy of the 21st century, the
only competitive economic advantage any state
can enjoy will be provided by the way it
nurtures and cultivates its brain power.
No more complex and generous example
ofUniversity outreach and public service ex
ists than that provided by the five schools in
the Division of Health Affairs, working in
partnership with UNC Hospitals and the Area
Health Education Centers. Because of their
collaboration, citizens in all 100 counties of
the state benefit from their public service.
Moreover, this collaboration embraces work
with the great private educational institutions,
Duke and Wake Forest, and with East Caro
lina University, its School ofMedicine and the
hospital with which it is associated.
Our health related schools dentistry,
medicine, nursing,pharmacy and publichealth
stand at the crossroads of society where
health care and education meet.lnotetheshift
of heal th care toward a managed care environ
ment, together with massive changes forth
coming in Medicare and Medicaid and their
part in funding the training of health care
professionals. All of these trends and more yet
Friday, October 13,1995
will have no choice but to reverse their
affirmative action stance, Lee said.
Lee said the Board ofßegents, which is
composed of 26 members, 25 of whom are
chosen by the governor, made their deci
sion because of politics and did not take
student sentiments into account. At UC-
Berkeley, approximately 5,000 students
took part in the rally, Lee said.
Aaron Butler, chief of staff of the stu
dent advocate office at Berkeley, also par
ticipated in the rally. “Today’s rally went
really well,” he said.
Berkeley’s demonstrations were high
lighted by several speakers, including stu
dent leaders and the Rev. Jesse Jackson.
“He (Jackson) was an incredible speaker,
the crowd reacted intensely,” Butler said.
“His points revolved around the need for
solidarity and forpeople to stick together.”
commitment to volunteerism as a motiva
tion for joining AmeriCorps. “I have al
ways believed that in order to help your
self, you have to help others, ” said Jenique
Thompkins, a UNC graduate student who
has been active in community service since
high school.
Hunt described the two years he spent
in Nepal in the 1960s as a volunteer teach
ing fanning techniques to rural villages. “It
wasn’t glamorous, and it wasn’t easy. It
taught me that all of us can help others
build a better life.”
In a video presented during the ceremo
nies, AmeriCorps members stressed the
large contribution that volunteers make to
their communities, not just to their own
lives. According to one study cited in the
video, each dollar invested into service
programs nets a $2.60 return in the local
economy.
use oflegal services for certain activities.
The LSC cannot be used to represent cases
such as abortion representation, class ac
tion suits against government agencies and
welfare reform representation.
Lamb also said others did not like the
program because of class-action suits
against the government. “The two bills
that are in Congress ban class-action alto
gether,” Lamb said.
Sen. Lauch Faircloth, R-N.C., voted to
abolish the LSC, saying it was nothing
more than an entitlement program for ac
tivist lawyers. One ofthe most vocal oppo
nents of the LSC is Sen. Phil Gramm, R-
Texas. Gramm, a presidential candidate,
was a member of the subcommittee of the
Senate Appropriations Committee where
the proposed bill to eliminate LSC origi
nated. He left the committee after the Sen
ate voted to keep the LSC in a 60-39 vote.
to come pose challenges to the schools in our
academic health center challenges whose
dimensions so far it is only possible to guess.
Ha vingbeen innovative from their beginnings,
our Health Affairs schools, facing these new
challenges, will need a continuing ability to
innovate and a resolve to respond well to the
coming changes in education and health care.
We all have a way to go before the path of
necessary action will become dear. But of this
you may be sure: This University knows the
worth of its Division of Health Affairs to the
University and to the people of North Caro
lina. It will be our mission to strengthen it in
the interests of us all.
Of the many other forms of outreach and
public service in which the University engages
the work of the Institute of Government
with offidals at every level of government in
North Carolina, the work of the Extension
Division and of Continuing Education, the
public educational and entertainment func
tions of the University’s Public Broadcasting
radio station and on through a list to which all
ofyou could add from your own experience—
I do not here speak in detail. I could not
overstate their importance to us all. But I have
confined myself to two examples, and I hope
to say more of others on other occasions.
I recognize also that I have spoken of this
University and its duty to the people of this
state —the duty prescribedby North Carolina’s
Constitution. But we should deceive ourselves
if we thought it possible that an institution
concerned with all the great thoughts, all the
enlivening discoveries, all the pioneering quests
for knowledge, all the aspects of srience, all
the beauties of art and music and imagination,
an institution whose task embraces the study
of everything about humankind and our uni
verse we should deceive ourselves if we
thought such an institution could have its
effect only within this state. We are, in fact, an
institution of national and international sig
nificance and meanfijg. Chapel Hill, having
begun as a crossroads at the heart of this state,
has become a crossroads of the world. I think
of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, com
posed in towns in 18th century Germany,
largely unknown for a century after his death
until Mendelssohn conducted his great choral
works and championed his music: Bach, who
ever since has spoken to the whole world and
shed grace upon die human spirit in every
dime.
The University of North Carolina is like
that. Like Bach, it has a local place. Like
Bach's, its work was at first only locally recog
nized. Like Bach’s, its work is now every
where esteemed. Like Bach’s, the work ofthe
University enlivens the human spirit. Its fac
ulty and its graduates moderate life, not only
in North Carolina, but around the globe. Its
destiny is to be free, to follow truth and to shed
light. For all of us today and for all who come
after us, I pledge to you, the dtizens of this
great state, that I will do all within the power
that God has given me to continue the full
flowering of that destiny and to serve and care
for this wonderful University with the love of
an alumnus. Thank you!
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