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O if DOUBLE JEOPARDY VOTE: Proposal 1 (Student Legislature) 930 yes, 1003 noFAILED Proposal 2 (Sims) 1470 yes, 500 no-PASSED IT 1)1: 77 Yenrs o Editorial Freedom Volume 76, Number 109 CHAPEL HILL. NORTH CAROLINA; WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 19G9 Founded February 23, 1893 CU President thinr f5 for sident of 1969 7, ni0n Board fo Ha J "U be held Sunday and Mondy from 7:30-9 p.m. nm 0ni 205 of student union Applications may be picked up at the information AS V I m - . i- (Bh 'AxX A '7. .: . f 1 Jr arris Announces Senior Class Gift By EVIE STEVENSON DTH Staff Writer Charlie Farris, president of the Senior Class, announced last night at a class meeting the class gift of a perpetual scholarship based on the interest of funds collected by the Class of 1969. "We have to collect at least $5000," said Farris. "The interest on this amount is approximately $200 a year. It is not a large scholarship, but it will help a needy student who could otherwise not attend the University. The scholarship recipient will be chosen by the student Aid Office and the Senior Class adviser, Dr. Carl Blyth. "The scholarship,' said Farris, "will be the most liberal scholarship that the University Student Aid Office has. The recipient does not have to make a certain grade-point average to be able to renew the scholarship for each year. As long as the University considers the recipient a student, he may keep the scholarship.' Farris said the senior class treasury and the Order of the Grail have each contributed $1000 to the fund. The freshman honors fraternity, Phi Eta Sigma, has given $100. The Senior Class had contacted newspapers, UNC faculty members, local churches and various campus organizations for contributions. "We realize that we honestly need help,' said Farris. "No class in the past two decades has left this amount of money." Farris asked class members at the meeting for contributions to the fund. "Since this is a class gift, it is only fitting that class members be asked to give more than any other group. We hope to raise from within the senior class about $1500, said Farris. Farris requested that contributions be sent to the 1969 Scholarship Fund, P.O. Box 1080, Chapel Hill, N.C. "We urgently need the help of any individual on or off campus to reach the goal of $5000." Farris said the Senior Class has also decided to leave the school the only black walnut tree on campus. It will be planted in the Arboretum on Thursday, March 13 at 3:30 p.m. "The care of the tree will be supervised by the UNC Botany Department under the direction of Dr. Richie Bell. This tree will symbolize the living class, something to associate with when the members of the class of 1969 P olice Close r M win Di enoir urbance return Farris. to Chapel Hill, said Black Organizer Howard Fuller . . . Will Speak At 1 At Lenoir By BOBBY NOWELL DTH Staff Writer : A disturbance growing out of a "stall-in" at Lenoir Hall last night by white sympathizers of boycotting University Food Service l-workers ended with a dozen helmeted, club-carrying police closing the hall at 7 p.m. ; About 35 blacks and an equal number of white supporters marched through the hall shortly before seven, overturning every table and chair in the dining room. They then wheeled and came back up the hall, throwing chairs around again. When the black-led crowd had reached the North end of the hall again, a group of white students who had remained to watch suddenly rushed out and began ' setting the tables up .Requiests r!Y FY ill ii iviiiiioe Before Budget Advisory Commission By WAYNE HURDER DTH Editor RALEIGH Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson presented his requests for an additional $20, 599, 508 to be appropriated to UNC-CH at a meeting of the Joint Appropriations Committee of the General Assembly. The request for over $20 million is in addition to the $46 million that the Advisory Budget Commission had recommended the UNC-CH receive for the biennium 1969-71. All four campuses of UNC were represented at the committee meeting and requested $49.1 million in addition to the amount budgeted by the Advisory Budget Commission. Sitterson told the legislators that if "high level of service size of its entering class from and excellence of instruction is 55 to 75. to grow and evlolve in an In the question-and-answer orderly way to meet the urgent period neither the Chancellor. Grm If - mates To Di 4" -.. scuss Walkout, Pay Increase The Graduate Student Association (GSA) wiU hold a general meeting tonight to discuss what action it will take on the walkout by the non-academic workers and on the efforts to increase teaching stipends. The meeting is scheduled for 7:30 in rooms 213 and 215 of the Student Union. Tom Cabarga, a member of the Steering Committee of GSA, said, "We want to find out what graduate students in general feel can and should be done concerning the walkout of the non-academic workers." The GSA plans to devote the bulk of the meeting to an open forum on the issue. "The committee on increasing the stipends has done a great deal of work. TThey are now circulating a petitionasking for a proposed $1,250 minimum salary for the first course taught and $1000 for each additional course," said Cabarga. The petition has been circulated in the English Department and has been signed by about 200 English graduate students. "We would like to get a representative from departments that haven't received a copy of the petition to pick one up," Cabarga said. The petition also requests that graduate instructor salaries be increased automatically when other teaching salaries are increased. The group that has been investigating housing problems will make a report on their progress at tonight's meeting also. "We are trying to receive complaints from students whose landlords aren't repairing their apartments. We are trying to get an ordinance passed by the Board of Aldermen to let us take action against a landlord who doesn't maintain the property," Cabarga said. The foreign language requirement for graduate students and student fees are other topics planned d i scussion, according Cabarga. for to Two Given Grants For Foreign Study Two UNC students, Charles A. Schumacher and Henry H. Sink, Jr., have been awarded scholarships for study in Goettingen, Germany, for next year. The scholarships are valued at approximately $1,600 a year and include travel allowances, tuition, fees and $100 per month for room, board and spending money. The two students were selected through a process of written applications and personal interviews which were held this past week. Schumacher, 19, is a sophomore math major from South Haven, Mich. He is a Morehead Scholar, an honor student, a member of the attorney general's staff, Delta Upsilon fraternity, the varsity fencing team and is a resident (Continued on page 6) demands of a dynamic state -coummunity, greatly needed financial requests must be restored." University President William Friday reiterated at the meeting a warning that he had presented at the Board of Trustees meeting last week: that if some funds aren't restored, " the " University will not be able to increase its projected 5,700 enrollment by 1971. Sitterson's request called for $9,593,133 to be appropriated to the Academic Affairs Division of UNC-CH and $11,002,375 to be appropriated to the Health Affairs Dvision. Of the Academic Affairs request the biggest sum was for capital improvements: $2,890,000 for a Dramatic Arts Building and $2,085,000 for an Art Department Building. The Dramatic Arts Building request is an item that has' been requested by the University at the last three legislative sessions. The rest of the money was faculty salary increases of eight per cent for each year, for a total of 16 per cent by 1971, for clerical salaries, for Marine Sciences, for Urban Problems program, library acquisitions, and Center for International Studies, the Institute of Government, and computers. The Health Affairs request was made to enable the University to expand the enrollments in the School of Medicine and Dentistry and to increase the emphasis on medical care in the communities of the state. If the University gets money the Med School increase the size of its entering class from 75 to 100 and the Dental School will increase the Nor Friday was grilled particularly hard by the members of the committee as some persons had expected they would be. Former UNC track great Jim Beatty, now a legislator from Mecklenbury County, asked about the parking situation at all the campuses. """ Sitterson told him that the" Chapel Hill campus had not implemented some of the proposals that came out of a traffic and parking survey of two years ago because of a lack of money. Sitterson said that Chapel Hill "will probably try to meet the needs of those coming into the health facilities from out of town by building a high-rise parking facility South of the Health Center." He added that he had been advised against building a high-rise parking lot on the central campus. Such a facility, he said, would probably necessitate a parking fee of $150-$200 in order to pay the cost. He also explained that the South Campus bus system had helped the problem somewhat. President Friday, in an answer to a question, explained the need of the University to switch from the state retirement fund system to the Teachers' Insurance and Annuitites Association in order to bolster the University's recruiting of faculty. again. After completing this task, they began cheering as the blacks moved out of Lenoir to nearby Manning Hall. Almost immediately several car loads of Chapel Hill police arrived and moved inside the dining hall to insure that it would meet its closing hour. Groups of students standing outside the buildings yelled insults at the police as they occupied Lenoir. There were no further incidents. The incident was triggered by a "stall-in" by white sympathizers of boycotting workers at the evening meal at Lenoir. Shortly after five o'clock about 40 students who had gathered to participate in the stall-in split into two groups and got into the two serving lines. They moved along the line as slowly as possible, buying nothing, thereby preventing other customers from being served promptly. When each stalling student had reached the end of the line, he walked to the other line or to the rear of the line he had just come down. The strategy enraged many regular Lenoir customers who were behind the stallers, and tempers created several pushing and shoving matches and at least two fist fights. SSOC member Andy Rose took a punch from a student, and another SSOC worker, Joel Polin, received a six-inch head gash when struck by a student brandishing a sugar shaker. No arrests were made. Gradually the growing number of students that came "into - Lenoir- -broke up into several groups in which the stalling tactics and the situation of the boy cotters in general were being heatedly debated. At 6:40 p.m. BSM Co-Chairman Preston Dobbins called all the blacks into a huddle at the North end of the hall. After ten minutes of confering with them, Dobbins stood up on a table and declared to the crowd of whites looking on, "If you white people and SSOC people want out, you better come over here now because we got no way to know you." Then the blacks, many of them wielding walking canes, formed the vanguard of the crowd which began overturning tables. The "stall-in" called by SSOC was the third since Monday night. Students used the tactic at the lunch and dinner meals yesterday after its first trial Monday, but there were not enough present to stall at the breakfast meal Tuesday. Scott Bradley of the SSOC said there would be continuous picket lines at Lenoir today from 4:30 a.m. until 2 p.m., when the last shift of workers reports. About 15 Lenoir employees returned to their' jobs Monday and Tuesday after a week of the boycott. They had to be escorted by police through picket lines. Bradley announced a rally of supports for the boycotting V3 employees will be held today at 1 p.m. on the South steps of Lenoir. 0 ' - ... - ? - . I j " . - J, ... ... - . Staff Photo by Tom Schnabel When Will The Chapel Hill Police Fix Their Cars? Pi Kappa Phi Sponsors Creative Writing Contest Entries are now being accepted in the Thomas Wolfe Creative Writing Contest, according to Pi Kappa Phi Contest Chairrrm Tommy Adkinson. Students, both graduate and undergraduate attending the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, may submit entrees to 115 Bingham Hall before the April 15 deadline. Mailed manuscripts must be postmarked before midnight on the 15th. The only restrictions the contest has are that the writings not exceed 5000 words and that the writing be hitherto unpublished fiction. First prize, $100 and a trophy, will be awarded by Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity. Second prize will be a S40 gift ccr.Ticate from the Intimate Bookshop; third, a $25 gift certificate, from the Hub, Ltd.; and fourth, a $15 gift cerfiticate from Went worth and Sloan Jewelers. The winners will be announced Monday, May 12. Judges will be professors from the English Department: Dr. Daphne Athas, Dr. Wallace Kaufman, Dr. Dougald McMilln, Dr. Edwin Stirling, Dr. Thomas Stumpf, and Dr. George Lensing. The writing contest originated in 1963 to honor Thomas Wolfe, famed North Carolina novelist who was a member of Pi Kappa Phi. Wolfe was also editor of the Daily Tar Heel and graudated from UNC in 1922. this will Calendar Changes Asked By TOM SNOOK DTH Staff Writer In a letter to Provost J.C. Morrow, proposals to alter the present academic calendar to provide for three reading days before spring exams were presented. The letter, sent by Mike Almond, presidential assistant in charge of calendar reform called for moving the exam period back two days to make room for the added reading days. An alternate proposal was also presented to move exams back one and end classes on Saturday which would constitute the three day break between the end of classes and the beginning of exams. The subject of quizzes given during the last week of classes was dealt with extensively in the letter. Almond proposed the final two weeks of class be made free of exams and suggested two possible means by which it could be done. The first proposal is the adoption of a new University policy pertianing to the fall semester stating no exam-type quizzes shall be given after and including the first day of classes after Christmas brea. The period would include all days up to and including the last day of classes before final exams. The second proposal calls for re-interpretation of the present University policy calling for no exams to be given during the last six days of class. The present ruling would be interpreted to mean the last six days on which a particular course meets. Since most classes meet three times a week, this would constitute the two weeks called for in the letter. Almond said the request is necessary to allow the student to prepare fully for his exams. "If the student is not faced with the situation of facing quizzes for the remainder of the semester," he said, "I feel this would solve many of the problems which led to the proposal to end exams before Christmas break." Concerning the proposal to end the fall semester before Christmas break, Almond pointed out that no major change in the academic calendar could come about for at least two and a half years because this academic year is the first in which all four branches of the Consolidated University have been on the same calendar. A change in the present calendar wouldnot take effect then until the 1971-72 academic year. Almond mentioned several proposals for a change in the academic calendar to provide for exams before Christmas break. Among them were the "4-1-4" proposal and a change to the quarter system. A recommendation was not made, however, because Almond stated he did not have enough information about the advantages and disadvantages of each proposal to both students and faculty. f :. -" ,. i 2 .... ' f ' A. o -p ' xv, A f n- j. W1 " i ' B lack Acauitted JL In BSM Trial When Will-It Happen Department Brenda Heath In Fayette ville The Black Student Movement (BSM) held a trial Monday night in response to the University's failure to meet their demand for a change in the judicial system. The student on trial was charged with copying another student's exam. After a vote by the five-man jury, the student was found innocent. His case is still pending in the student courts. According to BSM spokesman Jack McLean, the court was set up when the University failed to act on a BSM demand that black representatives be placed on the present courts or else the BSM would set up its own court. McLean said the faculty board was approached on this demand, but after the initial meeting, no further discussions took place. The BSM then established its own court. The court is composed of a judge, prosecutor, defender, and a five-man jury. Concerning the trial, McLean said that anj' action taken by the student courts in this case, and any other case which comes before the BSM court, will be regarded as invalid. "In addition, the BSM will not stand for any type of reprisal for our actions," he said. Several other cases are pending before the BSM courts. UP University Party nominees: President: Alan Albright V. Pres.: Rafael Perez Secretary: Carol Spruill NSA Delegates: Richie Leonard Paul King Bill Russo Dan Killian Jim Hornstein 4, i 1
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