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UNO Library Ssrials Dept. Bpx 870 4 11 'res Flictz 97 51 A Band Uniforms Due A3 band uniforms. pp band blazers, mask tad school In struments must he turned in at 4:15 today. Tonight's free flick will be Duel m the Sua." Showing f r 2t I, p m' aQd :30 p.m. in Carroll Hall. 1 JH L L r v k v The South' s Largest College Xeivspcr-er CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA .FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1967 Founded Febnrarv 23. 1833 (Lre' (jjIT mdei nin 7 Z T Mm t rron 71 O MMii SI W7I Develop 'Center For Excellence By DON CAMPBELL DTH Now Jttftor f A $5 million grant , for science development was giv en to the University Thursday by the National Science Foun dation. The grant will be used in mathematics, physical and so cial sciences to develop a "scientific center of excel lence." Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitter son said the grant would make this University a "pioneer in fusng the mathematical and social sciences." Voting Age Study Bill Introduced RALEIGH A resolution was introduced in the North Carolina House Thursday calling on the Legis lative Research Commission to study and make recommendations on a proposed constitutional amend ment to lower the state's minimum voting age. Rep. Sam Johnson, D-Wake sponsored the meas ure that calls for a report of the commission to the 1969 General Assembly. A bill which would have been the first step to ward lowering the voting age from 21 to 18 was killed in the House Wednesday. Soviet Destroyer Hits U. S. Ship Again WASHINGTON The United States announced Thursday that for the second day in a row a Soviet destroyer sideswiped the U. S. destroyer Walker in the Sea of Japan. Washington delivered tough-worded protests calling on the Kremlin to promptly "halt such harassments." The surprise news of the second naval collision apparently shifted the matter from the status of acci dent to serious incident marking further worsening of U.S. -Soviet relations already strained over the Viet nam war. Although no formal response to the U. S. protests has yet come from Moscow, it was understood that the Soviets here rejected out of hand the.U. S. accusa tion of deliberate harassment. ' Riots Bring Call For National Guard JACKSON, Miss. Mayor Allen Thompson asked Gov. Paul Johnson Thursday to call out the National Guard to restore order at Jackson State College, where 1,500 Negro students drove out police with rocks and garbage in the pre-dawn hours. "I think it's very explosive," Thompson told newsmen after hearing demands to close Lynch Street as a main thoroughfare through the campus. "Lynch Street is a city street and will be left open. We are going to maintain law and order in this city." Triggered by efforts of two Negro policemen to arrest a Negro motorist on Lynch Street for speeding Wednesday night, the melee turned into a protest against using the street gang, roughfare. Students threw a barricade across the street and littered it with garbage, cans and bottles during the height of the turbulence. They broke into a drug store, fired a few shots into, the air and wrecked telephone booths. Romney Warns Against Involvement LANSING, Mich. Gov. George Romney said to day he thinks the United States may be on the brink Of a "tragic error" of getting involved in the non military side of the Vietnam war. He made clear his comments were prompted by the announcement that Gen. William C. Westmore land, commander of military operations in Vietnam, also has been placed in charge of the Vietnamese pacification program . Romney said "The shooting war" already has been "Americanized" despite earlier assurances by U. S. military personnel that their role was only to give advice and some support to troops of the govern ment of South Vietnam. . The Michigan governor, frequently mentioned as a possible Republican candidate for president, added: ."It would be a tragic error to ask the U. S. troops to take over the other war, as some have pro posed." m . , "I have no direct comment on it (Westmoreland s appointment) because I don't know if it will do these things," he said. 4. "But I call attention to it because there is a chance that it will result in things which we should not be doing in Vietnam.' The grant, the second larg est ever made by NSF for science development, will be used over a three-year period. As part of the University Science Development Program, the NSF grants are designed to "help a limited number of already good institutions to advance rapidly to a higher level of quality in an appre ciable segment of their sew ence activities," according to DSF Director Dr. Leland J. Haworth. If the money is put to most effective use, the university ihi Batljj Ear ?rrl World News BRIEFS By The Associated Press may get more money for a fourth and fifth year. Vice Chancellor and Kenan Professor of Physics E. D., Palmatier said Thursday, "If we bring in quality people, it will help us get more money." Palmatier said the grant would also greatly strengthen the graduate program in the three fields to be affected. Four other grants were awarded to universities by NSF yesterday. Carolina's was the largest, and the only one in which the Social "Sciences received money. The NSF specifies how much money goes to each discipline and how it will be spent, as follows: 41,134,000 goes to the com puter and statistically-oriented mathematics. Of that, the computer statistics de partment will receive $660,000 and Information Sciences, $238,000 for the broadening of Morrison Off With By STEVE KNOWLTON DTH Associate Editor Morrison College, for the second! year running, walked off with all the top honors Wednesday night at the an nual MRC awards banquet. Morrison was awarded the Most Outstanding Residence College trophy; John Ellis, immediate past governor of Morrison was voted most Outstanding Governor; and Morrison's paper,' the M3ghty Mo, was named Most Out standing Residence College Newspaper. Scott College, led last year by Governor Bob Farris, won the trophy for 1st Runnerup College and took the Best; Service Project award for its work with the arthritis foun dation. Granville College, new this year, was named Most Im proved College. Chuck Longino was award ed the Roger A. Davis Me morial Award for his out standing contribution to resi dence colleges. Longino, a graduate stu dent in sociology expecting his Ph.D. in June, was in strumental in setting up the Amherst Conference on Resi dence Colleges last fall. Longino is also immediate past chairman of the Resi dence College Commission, serves on the Chancellor's f-f-V- 'I Z --, m tig i , e . 1 JX x the science base of research The psychometric laboratory in the Psychology Department will receive $234,000 for fur ther development. i $1,581,000 goes to the phy sical sciences. In chemistry, $1,057,000 will be used for re search in chemical dynamics, excited state chemistry and theoretical and quantum che mistry. In physicis, $524,000 will be used in the further development of the materials sciences program. Also the nuclear physics program will be expanded in cooperation ; with the regional nuclear la-' boratory at Duke. $2,282,000 goes to the so cial and political sciences for study in extension of quanti tative methods in fields of city and regional planning, mathematical economics, non traditional approaches to in ternational economics and de velopment of statistical me Walks Awards Advisory Committee on Resi dence Colleges, and was col-r lege master of Morrison in 1965-66. Morrison was selected for the Most Outstanding College trophy, said outgoing MRC president Lew Brown, 'for; the vision and foresight shown by its leaders, for showing others how to do it." John Ellis was voted Most Outstanding Governor f o r providing the leadership and"" drive necessary to make a residence college a going concern as evidenced in the many academic and social programs instituted in Morri son this year, among them WMO radio, 'college class rooms, faculty meal tickets, and numerous social func tions with Mo's 'sister', the Nurses Dorm. The Mighty Mo was select ed for its frequency and qua lity of publication. It was edited variously by Joe Ritok, Jim Len, and Steve Knowl ton. Guest speaker Dean of Men William G. Long spoke opti mistically about the future of the college concept at Caro lina. "The residence college system is the real way for UNC to remain relevant," he said. Long stressed the need for furtherance of the academic See MRC page 4 DTH Staff PkU bw JOCK LAUTE&SB Chugga-lug Seniors whoop it up at Senior Day thodology in sociology and po litical sciences. City and re gional planning will get $558, 000, economics $484,000, and the social and political sciences $1,239,000. Though the grant is slated to be used entirely for re search, that will include a lot " of things. Not only will new equipment be purchased, many new professors of national re cognition will be attracted to the University. Chancellor Sitterson com mented on the importance of Bulletin Student Legislature Tbars day night voted not to hold the Vietnam referendum. On a roll-call vote, 28 legislators voted to abandon the referenh dum with nine voting for it and two others abstaining. ;- teaching: "There is no dicho tomy between research and teaching. Good research is teaching." ' Sitterson called the grant "first of all a tribute to the strength of the University in those fields and also to the high standing of the Univer sity in those fields and also to the high standing of the University in Chapel Hill among the outstanding univer- sities." -' j, v Palmatier saidl, "This NSF program. . .is the complete antithesis of the popular trend, for it is specifically aimed at increasing the number of uni versities which can be rated as excellent. . This is a vital necessity if we are to provide a larger proportion of the younger generation with the in tellectual equipment necessary to solve many of the serious problems , which our society faces." Trustees To Meet Today When the trustees of the Consolidated University meet in Raleigh today in special session, they will be debating several issues crucial to the University. First on the list is the ECC question now that its drive for independent university sta-' tus has been halted, will it be admitted as a branch of the Consolidated University? This bill is now before legis lature. Another bill before legisla ture that will be debated by the trustees is whether to cut the size of the board from 100 members to 42 members by 1971, and whether to re apportion the board to make representation more equitable. In local matters, the ques tion of whether Battle-Vance-Pettigrew will be closed next year to provide more office space on the Chapel Hill cam pus will be decided. i Interviews For Greek Paper Set Interviews for the Greek newspaper staff begin today in the Grail Room of Gra ham , Memorial. They will continue through next Wednesday, with inter views next week set for Ro land Parker I from 3 to 5. Any fraternity, sorority or professional fraternity mem ber interested in working on any phase of the eight page paper should come by. Salaries are being offered in several posts. Anyone unable to interview should contact John Callan, 968-9086. ; fcATfri"fg''V Ti rWfc 'ii'' Tin"i"" " .fgig - - Chancellor Sitterson Announces- NSF Grant . For almost five million dollars to UNC Levy Says Student Leaders W ant 'Confidence By KAREN FREEMAN DTH Staff Writ After being one of the first, to advocate the Vietnam ref erendum, Dick Levy now charges that a "careful plot by certain campus leaders" to distort the outcome of the ref erendum is underway. Levy has therefore formed a group of about 10 students to encourage students to vote Thursday, and to vote without bias. Levy named Bob Powell, im mediate past president of the student body; Jed Dietz, vice president of the student body; and Bill Amlong, DTH Editor, specifically as among those leaders who he claims are seeking to transform the Viet nam referendum into a "per j ' f - r 1 " '''""'-' '' imriiMi Yr-mr c- - , , tl - , , mn iimjj t . " " A" A -"34av, ; ,-,.iv;. 5s? .... '-- - - -" ,: - T 'ef . "'y;3 ? ",,"t-"-- - v " - 1 " t-e -w-v ' .. , . . . .., ? , ' ' 'v - v - - -:m-r " x.- , : ; W' 4 Here's Zulfi Rahim of Clemson, tennis tournament now underway at seeded No. 1 in the ACC Conference Duke. For today's detail, see page 5. sonal confidence vote." His original intention in sup porting the referendum. Levy stated, was "to arouse and in form the student body." If the doves come through with a victory Thursday, Levy said, it will be a "misleading" result, and it will antagonize the state of North Carolina. Levy further charged that '"emotionalism has replaced objectivity," and that campus leaders are trying to use Al Lowenstein's debate victory as a justification for their dove positions on the war. He said that little real at tempts are being made on the part of these campus leaders to inform students about the Vietnam war. Levy reported that the num DTH - "j C . Q . DTH Staff Phot bv JOCK LAVTERSS Vote' ber of students interested in the group is still growing. The group is going to attempt to reach every student on cam pus between now and Thurs day. The choices that will be Cpen to students Thursday are whether they think the U.S. should fight an all-out war to win a military victory, wheth er the U.S. should continue its present policy in Vietnam, whether the U.S. should de escalate and seriously attempt to bring the matter to the ne gotiation table, or whether the U.S. should pull out of Viet nam completely. Levy's group will attempt to combat the efforts of the dis senters, so that the "real" views of the students will be revealed. Staff Photo bv JOCK LAUTERE'R
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