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Vol. 74 k ii - i s $ There will be no day, Jw? director of summer school $ announced Monday, However classes are still scheduled I or Jtty 8. teps By MIKE McGEE The Chapel Hill Board of Al dermen last Wednesday draft ed, after a heated debate a re solution supporting the right of an individual to enjoy "equal opportunity in the acquisition of adequate housing in any area of the community without re gard to race' The resolution was drafted as a result of a petition present ed to the Board of Aldermen by the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Fair Housing Council request ing such action. The petition, containing near ly two hundred signatures, re quested that the board state "That it is necessary to assure all inhabitants of the commun ity of their right to acquire housing in any area of the com munity" and "That it is neces sary to encourage all inhabi tants of the city to recognize that traditions and practices of segregation and exclusion in housing are disruptive to the. . . CHAPEL ! I: tT;tiiiil""1 n 4 V-t-l-xa Holy Sfcy Hooks! Tar Heel Staff Photo by George DeWolfe classes this Satur general welfare of all the in habitants of the community and should not be allowed to contin ue." The resolution will come up for further debate and a final vote at the Board's next meet ing on June 26. It affirms the town of Chapel Hill's "opposi tion to racial discrimination in any form and it's support of equal opportunity for all citi zens," and her support of equal opportunity in the acquisition of housing. Mayor Sandy McClamroch, chairman of the Board of Al dermen, feels that the resolu tion will be passed substantial ly as it is now written. The Fair Housing Council was first formed about a year ago as an ad hoc committee to look into questions of discrimination in housing in Chapel Hill. Last summer they attempted to talk to the Board of Realtors, to no effect. . "Now we want to get an offi Begun HILL, N. C, TUESDAY, JUNE 20, 1967 Sen. .Regional Universities "We are changing their nam es, we aren't changing their abi lities much." Senator John T. Henley, au thor of the regional university bill now before the N. C. General Assembly, told newsmen last night that would be the effect of bis legislation. Appearing on the N. C. News Conference, Henley said making the colleges regional universi ties would give them the chance "to prove themselves." The Senate Higher Education Committee last week reacted favorably to a proposal to make East Carolina College, Western Carolina College and Appalach ian State Teachers College reg ional universities. Henley said the regional uni versity system would "lessen the burden on the Consolidated University." The Cumberland Democrat noted that he had voted against separate University status for ECC, and had introduced a bill at the beginning of the legisla tive session to make ECC a part of the Consolidated University. Asked what the parentage of his regional bill was, Henley said it was his idea in the main, but that he had consulted form er governor Terry Sanford, ECC President Leo Jenkins and Lt. Gov. Bob Scott. He said CU President William Friday had not been consulted as far as he knew. Henley was then asked about the effect of several amend ments to his bill: In the bill, the Board of Higher Education, the Board of Trustees of the Consolidated Un iversity and the boards of trus tees of the proposed regional To End cial Fair Housing Council in Chapel Hill," says acting chair man Rev. Buie Seawell. An or ganizational meeting is plan ned for later this month, to adopt a constitution and work toward official status for the grouDs an informal community-wide agency to deal with various housing matters. The council will have no af filiation with the town govern ment. Representatives of the Chapel Hill Ministerial Associa tion, the Human Relations Coun cil, the Inter-Church Council and the American Association of Un iversity Professors will partici pate. One service the council is now performing involves receiv ing complaints from individuals who feel that they have been discriminated against in hous ing, and working to resolve the problems. Five complaints have been received to date, says Seawell. "Two have been turn ed over to the Inter-Church Council for action, and we are .enley Defends universities would appoint con sultants in 1971 to study the academic progress of the "nam ed" regional universities. Why did an amendment transfer this appointive power to the gover nor? "The people we consulted," Henley said, "thought that there was too many people in volved on all those boards to make the consultant's appoint ments." What about the exclusion of A & T College, a Negro school in Greensboro, from the list ap proved for regional university status? Henley said that under the present bill, "A & T is not qual ified because it is not a six year school." He said that N. C. College of Durham was eligible, however, but had not applied for region al university status. Asked what had been the poli tical effects of his bill, Henley said "If there have been any. political effects, I don't know it." He said he was pleased that his bill was amended to bring in schools from both the east and west. Henley's original bill was designed to make ECC the only regional university. "However," Henley said, "If we hadn't reached a conclusion on the University question, we would have had politicans across the state running on this issue." - Henley was asked what the governor and the Board of High er Education was doing in re gards to his bill. "I don't know what the governor has been doing," he said, "but I respect his (Moore's) decis ion. He wanted to wait for the Housi: working on the others." One complaint which has al ready been settled involved a graduate student at the Univer sity whose wife teaches high school in Hillsborough. She in vited several of her students, mostly college-bound seniors, to supper at the couple's apart ment. The next day the realtor called to the apartment and ask ed that they not have any more "guests". At the end of the month the realtor refused to accept their next month's rent. A council re presentative talked to the real tor, and advised him that the section of the lease under which the realtor wished to expel the tenants was not valid for evic tion in this case. The realtor backed off. The council repre sentative talked to the proper ty owner who expressed re gret that the incident had hap pened. Seawell says that he feels the resolution drafted by the Board of Aldermen is a step for No. 3 1968 report of the Board of Higher Education on the readi ness of university status among the colleges concerned." Henley said that during the five year trial program, the re gional universities would have the chance to expand their Mas ter's programs and to attract additional grants and fellow ships. Nine Named To Run SG A nine-member board has been named to run student gov ernmentment this summer in the absence of Student Body President Bob Travis. The board, appointed by the president, includes Vice Presi dent Jed Dietz, Attorney Gen eral David LaBarre, Women's Attorney General Laura Owens, Sally Hough, Don Wilson, Mark Lindsay, Don Duskie, Andy Ringle and John Greenbacker. Travis had originally planned to be in school this summer, but learned last week that his membership on a special presi dential committee would take more time than he anticipated. The committee, appointed by President Johnson in April, is considering "ways of providing support for certain overseas ac tivities of private American vol untary organizations that de serve and require public sup port in the national interest." The committee's study was (Continued on Pare 8) Bias ward, and "will have our sup port." Phil Rominger, president of the Chapel Hill Board of Real tors, feels that the drafted reso lution was a "responsible, move by the Board of Aldermen." Also included in the resolu tion drafted by the Aldermen was a phrase supporting the principle of "the right of indivi duals to determine the disposi tion of property." Several real tors reiterated this statement as their basic position on the ques tion. "If a man comes to me with a rental property," one realtor says, "and states that he only wants to rent to certain types of people, then I feel obligated to carry out his instructions, as a matter of business. I have no ob jection to renting or selling a piece of property to a Negro, and will do so if such an indi vidual wishes to do so and the landlord has no objections."
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