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Vol. 74 FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 1967 No. 6 .Budget Cut By General Assembly The University's budget was cut very sharply this week in the General Assembly's Appro priations Committees. Requests for capital improve ment and new program funds were practically wiped out, al though the University did re ceive most of what it asked for to continue existing programs. Requests for new faculty pos itions were turned down for the most part, as were plans for student health services and a dormitory counseling program here. Te University had asked for Tickets For 4th Tickets for the fried chicken box picnic dinner at next Tues day's community-wide Old Fas hioned Fourth of July Celebra tion are on sale in various lo cal business firms. The afternoon and evening program the 10th annual ev ent for the benefit of the Am erican Field Service's local par ticipation in the international high school student exchange will be staged on the Universi ty's Fetzer Field. Ticket Sales Chairman Miss Claudia Cannady appealed for everybody planning to attend to purchase their tickets in ad vance, since the dinners must be ordered on Monday morning. She noted that several hundred persons were disappointed last year when they showed up to Holiday The Tar Heel will observe the July 4 holiday even though the University will not. Next edi tion will be Friday, July 7. Housing Resolution Adopted By 4-2 A fair housing resolution was passed by the Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen Monday night. By a vote of 4-2, the resolu tion drafted two weeks ago by the Board was approved. The resolution was created after the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Fair Hou sing Council had presented a petition and a draft to the Board. Alderman Gordon Kage and Robert Varley opposed the mea sure. The resolution reads as fol lows: The Town of Chapel Hill, both in its municipal administration and personnel policies, has at various and appropriate times in the past officially stated its opposition to racial discrimina tion in any form and its sup port of equal opportunity for all citizens regardless of race, re ligion or nationality. for more than $14 million to begin new programs "and ex pand old ones. It received less than $4 million. For capital improvements, $33 million had been requested, on ly $9 million was granted. Among the casualties in the budget cutting was a new dra matic arts building and an addi tion to the Ackland Art Center. Among the capital improve ments requests rejected were: air-conditioning of Carmichael Auditorium, air - conditioning and renovation of Memorial Hall and a new student health ser- On Sale Dinner find the picnic line sold out. Adult tickets are $1.50 and chil dren through the age of 12, $1.25. Admission to the celebration itself is free, and the entire com munity especially University students and their guests and members of their families are encouraged to attend, ac cording to Roland Giduz, coor dinator for the event. The pro gram will be capped off with a free half-hour fireworks display, presented by the Kiwanis Club, at dusk. The tickets are on sale at Graham Memorial and down town at Ledbetter-Pickard, Rob bins, in the Glen Lennox Phar macy, Billy Arthur's in East gate, and White-Oaks Store in Carrboro. In addition they will be on sale from sidewalk tables manned by Y-Teens downtown and in Eastgate in the after noons beginning Thursday. Group or mail ticket purchases may be arranged through tele phoning 929-5292 during office hours. The Board of Aldermen is con scious of the progress made to this end, and concerned that effort be constructively contin ued. As the official body of the Town of Chapel Hill this Board re-affirms its stand on this mat ter and urges local residents to join in bringing the rights of full citizenship to everybody. To this end we support the principles of equal opportunity in the acquisition and enjoy ment of adequate housing in any area of the community with out regard to race, and the right of individuals to determine the disposition of that property. These principles do not and should not establish special pri vileges for any particular group. Government should not deny, directly or indirectly, the fund amental right of every per son to sell, or buy, lease or rent such real property. vice building. The Committee also rejected; a $220,000 request for com puter research services for the faculty. a $300,000 budget for the new Development of Informa tion Science. a $51,000 budget for opera tion and development of the Virginians Set Concert The Virginians, one of Caro lina best-known vocal groups, will give a free concert Thurs day, July 6 at 8 p.m. The per formance will be held at Me morial Hall and is sponsored by Graham Memorial. The grouo has given shows with Bob Hope. Gene Pitney and The Jim Crisp Combo which was scheduled for Monday (July 3) has been cancelled. the Beach Bovs and has per formed at colleges and univer sities and on TV. Thev plav a wid range of music, their first record, "A Long Walk Back to Paradise", being folk-rock in style. The group's lead singer and guitarist is Bill Swofford. who also writes some of their mater- ial. Danny Shepherd arranges the group's harmony, and Bob Hin-. kle plays guitar and mandolin. All three of the Virginians sing. The Virginians pool their ta lents to attain an individual sound and extreme versatility. SG Forms The Summer School Student Government Board met in ex ecutive session Wednesday and formulated a program of activi ties for the coming weeks. Student Body Vice President Jed Dietz and board member John Greenbacker are planning a Student Government reception for summer students. It is hoped that students from other cam puses will attend and exchange ideas at the meeting. Student Body President Bob Travis will return to Chapel Hill briefly today to report on the National Leadership Conference he has been attending in Bethel, Maine. Travis will discuss plans for judicial reform with Student Body Attorney General David LaBarre before traveling to Washington, D.C., to work with President Johnson's special committee studying the federal, government's role in education. Board member Don Wilson said he expected results soon from the university administra tion on their studies of the cam pus parking problem and a Stu dent Government proposal to in N. C. Botanical Garden. The University got only half its $120,000 request for establish ing a new office of Vice Chan cellor, Both Chancellor J. Carlyle Sit terson and Consolidated Univer sity President William Friday were disappointed with the bud get cuts. 0 ft y uu (I I The Virginians ... In Concert Thursday Summer stall washing machines in Ay cock Hall. Another proposal to allow refrigerators in Univer sity residence hall rooms is also in the hands of the administra tion. The board is also studying the possibility of reallocating Stu dent funds to provide for an ex SG Board Announced A permanent summer school governing board was announced Wednesday by board member John Greenbacker. Greenbacker pointed out that the board members are anxious to serve the student body and urged students with complaints or suggestions to contact the board members at the following ad dresses: Mark Lindsey 3 Lebet Apts., Carrboro (929-1858) Don T. Wilson 3 Lebet Apts., Carrboro (929-1858) Don Duskie 128 Teague (968-9180) Bill Tate Chapel of the Cross (942-2955) Andy Ringle 206 Mangum (968-9110) Sally Hough Tri-Delt House (968-9023) David LaBarre 108-A Todd St., Carrboro (929-1830) Laura Ownes 621 Granville Towers East (929-1894) John Greenbacker Carolina Avenue (942-4598) John E. Dietz Carolina Avenue (942-4598) Sitterson said the new budget "would not enable us to enrich and extend the services as we would like to, and that we be lieve the State needs." - Friday expressed special dis appointment in the cut in re quested faculty positions and the rejection of student health services funds. Programs panded summer social schedule. Dietz said that he has sent let ters to next fall's new More head Scholars and recipients of National Merit Scholarships about the workings of Student Government and programs for education reform which these students might be interested in.
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