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! 1 f :TTr,C. LIbf-ary Serials Dipt, Bex 8?0 Chapel mil, N.C. ANALYSIS: A NVE- BUDGET REQUESTS HAZE LOPES .... Commentary by Jim Cloifelier i An all-enveloping smoke screen has been generated by the State Board of Higher Education's cutting the budget requests of the Consolidated University. Governor Luther Hodges, Governor-Elect Terry Sanford, University officials, and Board members have been exchanging verbal blasts which blur, not clarify, the real issues: Should the University be granted the money to raise faculty salaries, build a UNC student union, and generally improve itself, and should the Board have the power to pass on the University's monetary requests? This battle on two fronts was begun three weeks ago when the Board announced its recommendations on 1961-63 Con solidated University budget requests. The University's three million dollar "A" -budget which provides for maintenance of facilities at the present level for the next two years was approved in full. This budget allowed for the entrance of 2,171 new students at Chapel Hill, Raleigh, and Greensboro. It receives an almost automatic approval every biennium. The "B" budget whose purpose is to improve and expand current activities, institute new programs, and generally raise educational quality was slashed radically. In an attempt to lower the student-to-teacher ratio, the University asked for two and a half million dollars for new faculty positions. The entire request was denied. The amount requested for new library books was slashed between 70 and 75 per cent. What most angered University officials was the Board's action on requests for faculty salary increases over the next two years. Two million dollars was recommended for this pur pose 40 to 50 per cent Jess that what was asked for. In total, 67.5 per cent and 76.6 per cent of "B" requests for the next two years respectively were advised against by the Board. Included in separate capital improvements requests was 2.6 million dollars for a combination undergraduate library student union at Chapel Hill. One million dollars was cut from that amount. Governor-Elect Sanford entered the clouded situation with a recommendation that a bond issue be circu lated for additional capital improvement funds. "A: it Carolina students were dissatisfied with Sanford's "solu tion": this week was designated by the State Affairs Commit tee as "Undergraduate Library-Student Union Week." Wednesday night one thousand students gathered for a 30-minute rally in support of the student union and higher faculty salaries. The Board's budget requests will go into effect if approved by the Advisory Budget Commission and then by the 1961 State Legislature. The question which has been receiving most attention is, Does the University need the entire budget amount to keep Pace with other schools? Consolidated University President William Friday answer ed emphatically, "These several reductions . . . will seriously jeopardize our faculties . . . (and) do severe damage to the University." The budget requests "represent our honest and best judgment as to the increased appropriations essential to maintain and to improve the quality of the University." UNC Chancellor William Aycock called the budget re quests "sound and worthy. Anything less than what we are seeking will not allow us to serve the best interests of this state." UNC's delegation to the State Student Legislature in Raleigh presented a resolution supporting the budget requests. The Raleigh News and Observer stated the majority opin ion of the state's newspapers when it said, "The state can and must spend more for higher education than the Board is will ing to recommend." Dr. J. Harris Purks, staff director for the Board, in an attempt to justify the Board's action, said that the recom mendations tended "to put a floor on (funds to be appropri ated), not a ceiling. . . . The University has a perfect right to go before the Assembly on its own" to get more money. The other major question is, Does the Board have the authority to pass on the University's monetary requests? Governor Hodges defended the Board's right to appraise the budget requests. He said, "I was very happy to see the Board have the courage to do what it did." North Carolina's newspapers were split on this question. The Raleigh Times said that the Budget Bureau was more capable of making budget recommendations than the Board, which is now "hurting the cause of all education." Another paper advised that the University trustees be given the present duties of the Board. The Charlotte Observer declared that the Board "is per forming a useful function in North Carolina. . . ." The battle has now been carried to the trustees of the University. Soon the battle ground will switch to the floor of the Legislature. It appears that the fight will not be greatly influenced by the technical question of whether the Board has the right to rule upon University monetary matters, but by the actual need for the money. To reinstate the budget cuts it seems that the Legislature must be convinced (1) that the University urgently needs the requested funds and (2) that the State can afford to appropri ate the money. If (1) is proved conclusively enough, then the Legislature under the urgings of pro-education Terry Sanford, will probably approve the budget requests. Weather Generally fair and colder. 1) (S ' K OO ' 68 years of dedicated serv ice to a better University, a better state and a better nation by one of America's great college papers, whose motto states, freedom of expression is the backbone of an academic community." Volume LXIX, No. 70 Complete (UPI) Wire Service CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1960 Offices in Graham Memorial Four Pages This Issue tfr f n i ' r ii in i iiiiiiii iiuimiiwui mmm IWWKafTOWWWJMffl ( I -i imam World News In Brief By United Press International Kail Sclaui ' ' i ' GS . !! ii nil i rn Spellman Sends Cuban Refugee Gift AUGUSTA, Ga. President Eisenhower Friday accepted a -contribution of $10,000 from Francis Cardinal Spellman of New York to aid Cuban refugees who have sought asylum in the United States. Cardinal Spellman said he was forwarding a check drawn on church funds to aid in what he termed a "mission of mercy." " . ' " ,,.. " ; -. '-" ' ' Selassie Meets With Ghanaian Head ROBERTSFIELD, . Liberia Ethiopion Emperor Haile Se lassie left Friday after a three-day state visit and denied re ports he had agreed with Ghanaian Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah on an African military high command: Nkrumah recently called for African nations to join to gether in the command, one of the steps in his plan for a unified Africa. . - . ' " Student Mobs Act In Ecuador QUITO, Ecuador The United States and Peruvian em bassies were stoned Friday by student mobs. Army troops were called out. The demonstrators were supporting Ecuador's position in a boundary dispute with Peru. The . dispute stems from Ecu ador's abrogation of a 1952 agreement which gave Peru some land along the Ecuadorean frontier. The United States is one of four countries which guar anteed the agreement. The others are Argentina, Brazil and Chile. Thursday, the four guaranteeing powers ruled that Ecuador acted illegally in unilaterally abrogating the 1952 agreement. ; ; UN Acts On Lumumba Threat United Nations, N.Y. Prompt United Nations reaction to the threat of Patrice Lumumba's supporters to behead Bel gian hostages at Stanleyville was expected at an urgent Congo session of the Security Council Friday night. Ml lwl VahaJ Vat-ia VtM in Cn O O fnTnn rnrninnnrnifrP 87 J fj;j Human Relations Conference Here tSt it it E. P. Morgan, News Analyst, Key notes Meet Edward P. Morgan, keynoter for the N. C. Human Relations Seminar, has been a news com mentator for more than 25 years.. The recipient of the 1956 Peabody Award for the out standing radio news broadcast, Morgan has his own nightly radio show for the American Broadcasting Co. and is a panel member of ABC's "Open Hear ing" on television. Morgan describes his aim in news broadcasting and analysis as an effort to let the listener identify with the world's events. "I work, for a sense of partici pation among the audience, a sense that 'this news relates to me," he explains. He has worked all over the world as a war and peacetime correspondent for radio, tele vision, newspapers, wire service and magazines. V 4? -' Hz k Rare Seminar Includes Both Group mm titiiSriffl1V Ik'? 9 '", ', Edward P. Morgan Carolina Gentlemen: in in 9 dingers jracing Musy Holiday Four of Carolina's most tal ented gentlemen have been having a busy time of it late ly, with no sign -of relief from their furious pace expected in the near future. "The Carolina Gentlemen," Carolina's answer to everything from the Mills Brothers to Tex Ritter, have a grand total of seven performances slated for today and tomorrow which leaves little time for the' four gents to do much more than tighten a banjo string between performances. While you read this around 9 a.m. the frenzied four have brushed their respective teeth and instruments, only to hustle to those abominable Saturday morning classes just in time to get the lyrics of "Four Jolly Coachmen" confused with "The r- f Season Miller's Tale." After this brush with the ac ademic world, the pupular quar tet will begin their race with the clock. Sigma Phi Epsilon is first on the list. There the gentlemen will entertain at the fraternity's annual Christmas Party. Then they skitter to the Beta House for an appearance. They round off today's itinerary with their regular performance at The Castle Supper Club in Durham. Tomorrow will find them faced with four more engage ments for another day of run ning. The four will crowd in record auditions sometime in the near future with three major re cording companies. -J The Carolina Gentlemen GM Schedule be 17, Graham Memorial will closed from 1 n.m.. Dec. until 2:00 p.m. January 2. The Graham Memorial Barbershop vill close Saturday, Dec. 17, 1960, at 12:00 noon and reopen at 8:30 a.m., January 3, 1961. EqualityBill Passes State Legislature Bills for equality in the use of public facilities and to pro vide guidance services in sec ondary schools passed the State Student Legislature Friday in Raleigh. The group is meeting in the chambers of the North Carolina State Legislature. UNC introduced a resolution Thursday backing the budgets of all state-supported schools. It passed both the house and senate the same day. Introduces Bill The Shaw University delega tion introduced a resolution Friday which ; Bill Whichard, UNC delegate, said "would not have the legislature meet again with segregated housing facili ties." A compromise resolution of fered by Duke's William Y. Manson was accepted which also rejected racial segregation but softened the Shaw resolu tion. . "Be it resolved that this body believing in racial equality, goes on record as being against (Continued on Page 3) Students from 23 North Caro lina colleges and universities will arrive on campus today for an all-student human relations seminar sponsored today and Sunday by the UNC student government and the YM-YWCA. This is a unique seminar for bcth North Carolina and the South in that it is directed to student leaders and includes both races. The theme of' the seminar, which will meet in Howell Hall, i "Problems and Promises in a Changing South." Grigg Cites Need Student body President David Grigg cited the need of the seminar early in November when he said, "Before concern ed students can assume a lead ership role, there is a great need, to study and discuss to gether the complexities and problems that the South now faces and will continue to face in the coming years." Edward P. Morgan of the American Broadcasting Co. will deliver the keynote address 2:30 p.m. today. The five work shops will have a student lead er and a resource person. Ronald Koonts of UNC will lead The Role of the Church in a Changing South with the Rev. Vance Barron of the Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church as the resource person. UNC's Tom Efrid will lead political itesponsiomty in a Changing South with Dr. Gor den Cleveland of Carolina's political science department. Mark Thiland of UNC will lead The Meaning of Higher Education in a New South with Dr. Warren Ashby, professor of ethics of Woman's College. Keynoter Morgan will assist Thai Elliott of UNC with The South's . Obligation in a Changing World, and Bob Alex ander of Duke University will lead The South's Response to (Continued on Page 3) xaxes u tow! ii, .in. Attorney General Says Not Legal Registration Block Local Authority Charges 'Fraud' In Recent Voting Procedures Wade Bruton, attorney general of North Carolina, told the "Daily Tar Heel" yesterday that personal property taxes are required by law to be listed, but that the "pres ence or absence of the listing does not legally hinder vot ing registration." The statement grew out of a charge Thursday of frau dulent voting registration leveled against students of the University of North Carolina by Orange County Elections Board Secretary Clyde C. Carter. Carter has proposed a check of the list of student votes against the Orange County tax Lecture Postponed This year's second Las Lecture, scheduled for Tues day night, has been post poned until after Christmas due to other activities set for the same night. Dr. Earl Wallace will deliver the Last Lecture at a dale to be an nounced later. lists. Registrars in the last elec tions asked a number of stu dents for a statement concern ing personal property taxes in order to ascertain the residence of a person. Carter emphasized that the plan is not designed to block all students from voting, but only those who . were tempo rary residents. He "hopes" that names of these "temporary" residents can be removed from the books before February's school bond election. Secretary Claims The secretary claims that "many student applicants have induced registration by making (Continued on Page 3) Free Flick JV. Y. Mystery Game Televised The Carolina-Kentucky bas ketball game will be televised live over Durham's WTVD-TV Channel 11 and Greensboro's WFMY-TV Channel 2 at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, December 13. WUNC-TV will not televise the game. Other cities carrying the game are Charlotte and Greensville 'Laura' Tonight; 'Adult Fairy Tale' Saturday's Movie A wpll-rnntrivprl anr? Hcvrl- -' ""s. ;.tiopea muraer mysiery ana a S, "fairy tale for adults" will com- Jplete this weekend's Free Flick Gene Tierney Clifton Webb Carolina Hosts Region College Stores' Meet UNC plays hosts this week end to a three-day Southeastern Regional Convention of the Na tional Association of College Stores (NACS). Approximately 130-140 repre sentatives from college stores in 10 southern states are ex pected to attend the meeting which will review stores oper ating problems and merchandis ing controls in college book stores. Dr. Virgil I. Mann, associate professor of the Department 'of Geology and Geography, will speak on "Adventure and In spiration for the Bookseller." schedule. Tonight's film is "Laura," the tense, exciting story of a de tective who invades the plush settings of N. Y. society to in vestigate the brutal murder of of the protege of a socialite col umnist. As he retraces the past, he falls in love with the dead girl, only to find a big surprise in store for him. The cast is headed by Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, and Clifton Webb. Otto Premincr is the director. "Miracle in Milan" is tomor row night's Sunday Cinema feature. Directed by Vittorio De Sica, this Italian film centers around a simple boy who comes by a magic dove that can work miracles. This fantasy is a departure from the stark realism of Italy's postwar films. All showings are at 7:30 and 9; 30 p.m. in Carroll Hall
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