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VESPERS SERVICE There will be a campus-wide Vespers Service this evening at 6 o clock in Room 217 of the Student Union. All interested persons are urged to attend. Volume 76, Number 139 -Rights Marchers Here For Rally v -2 77 Years o Editorial Freedo YOUNG REPUBLICANS The campus Young Republicans Club will meet tonight at 7:30 in Room 217 of the Carolina Union. John Wilkinson will be guest speaker. m CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLJNAAVEDXESDAY, APRIL 16, 1969 Founded February 23, 1892. By BOBBY NOWELL DTH Managing Editor The "Mountains to the Valley" civil rights march which has crisscrossed North barbaric institution of capital punishment in North Carolina." The case of 17-year-old Marie Hill, a black Rocky Mount t-aroiina in an attempt to draw high schooler sentenced to attention to civil rights death for murder, is the focal problems will arrive in Chapel Hill at around 4 p.m. Jim Grant, advance publicity agent for the marchers, said between 150 and 200 "core members" of the march will be trucked in from Lumberton along route 15-501 today. The marchers will hold a 7:30 rally at the St. Joseph's CME Church, 510 West Rosemary St., at which Golden point of this demand. "We will ask Gov. (Bob) Scott to commute her sentence when we get to Rdeigh, the terminal point of our march," Grant said. "Finally we are demanding a reassessment of priority in state governmental spending. Poor people in this state don't have enough to eat or decent clothes to wear, but the state - ' i. i. i ii i mm. .ii .ii - - ui' -- t i 7 ft I II H 4 ritz I 4 muz- SALb P ALh f 1 I ! . tj ;m 1 I u -: 1 i -irnn i 1 MmwA Votes Censure Of Administration i !"' ill Mi r r inn ) Frinks, N.C. field secretary for always seems to find money to ooumern Vnnsiian build roads and highways." Leadership Conference (SCLC) will be the principal speaker. Grant related that local black leaders such as Preston Dobbins of the Black Student Movement and Chapel Hill mayorial candidate Howard Lee will also be asked to speak. After spending the night in individual homes in the community, the marchers will reassemble Thursday morning at 10 at the St. Joseph's Church for departure for Hillsborough and Oxford. On Thursday afternoon the march will have swung back to Durham, scene of recent civil rights disorders in that community and the Duke University campus. Led by Frinks, the march, began on April 4 in Asheville as a tribute to the late Dr. Martin Luther King. "But there are many other motivations for our march," explained Grant. "The major issue we're trying to dramatize is school desegregation across the state," . he declared. "The phasing out of black schools, the one-way desegregation, and the bussing of black but not white kids to schools is unsatisfactory. If we have desegregation, it must be two-way." This issue was brought to a head, Grant noted, by the bussing of black students 25 miles to school in Hyde County. The students called a boycott and have not attended classes for several months. Grant said the croup is also The Bullshead Book Sale . . . . . . was forced under shelter by the rain DTH Staff Photo By Tom Schnalwl Student Legislature, meeting in special session Monday night, passed a resolution censuring the Administration and the Faculty Committee on Student Discipline for "their response to the March 4 (double jeopardy) amendment to the constitution." The resolution protested "the process of unilateral decision-making which determined the nature of the response," and stated that the "problem is one of many. . . in the past year where the decision-making process of the University has failed." The resolution was introduced by Representative Charles. Jeffress after a special Pimckney mid nee Off By TOM GOODING DTH Staff Writer A group of students are attempting to persuade the History Department to renew the contract of Dr. Paul Pinckeny. Pinckney, an instructor of English History, has been informed by the department that for various reasons his contract will not be renewed. John Sarratt, senior political science major, said, "We first learned that he would not be rehired during the fall of 1967. Three of us went to see Dean Godfrey, Chancellor Sitterson and other members of the history department. "They told us that there was a conflict between Dr. Pinckney. and another member of the staff, who was a full professor and thus had tenure. They both were hired to teach the same course, and because of this it was felt that it would be better for Pinckeny to leave. "However we believe that Pinckney should stay since we feel he is a popular and effective teacher. Pinckney received the Tanner Award in 1966. He has been an instructor for honors in Mod Civ and was responsible for reorganizaing the course; he is for has received a grant research this summer." Stan Davis, senior history major, said, "Pinckney has a very close personal rapport with the students. Students find his courses rewarding and interesting." Concerning Pinckney's Mod Civ classes, R.W. Hutchinson, a physics major, said, "I've heard some people say that he has turned Mod Civ into one of the most interesting courses that they had had in this university. "When you consider that these were mostly honors student and had had contact with supposesdly the best the University has to offer and that his was a Mod Civ course, that is quite an accomplishment." According to Robert Mosteller, president of the Undergraduate History Association, "The controversy continued when last spring the Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Teaching and the Curriculum expressed concern about Pinckney's leaving since their concern is good teaching. They got the same response that we did." Support for Pinckney began to take a more widespread appeal last fall when, according to Ben Hawfield, "We went to the honors students who had got approximately 75 signatures on a petition in support of Dr. Pinckney. Not one of the students contacted had any reservations about helping him. "We sent these signatures to Dean Godfrey and Dean Dawson. Dawson never replied; however, Godfrey expressed an interest in talking to us." Davis added, "Dean Godfrey said he felt this was to Pinckney's better interest to leave even though Pinckney wanted to stay. He also said that he wanted to maintain harmoy in the History Department. He said Pinckney would become disenchanted within several years and would want to leave but would be reluctant to since he had tenure." The Undergraduate History Association met on the issue and unanimously passed a resolution that reads as follows: "The undergraduate History Association while recognizing that factors other than undergraduate teaching potential do and should affect Faculty compostion does not feel assured that this factor has been given the weight it merits in the case of Dr. P.J. Pinckeny." The students were also very critical of the method employed by the History Department to decide who is hired. "A committee of full professors decides who stays; they are invulnerable since they all have tenure," Hawfield said. t -There is no recourse for students to take; it all comes back to Dean Godfrey and the committee. address by Student Body President Alan Albrfght, who reported on his Monday afternoon meeting with the Chancellor. Albright received Friday a letter from Chancellor Sitterson and Chairman of the Faculty Committee on Student Discipline Howard Penegar in which the Administration said it reserved the right to try any cases not subject to adjudication in student courts because of the double jeopardy amendment In a meeting Saturday morning, student leaders outlined plans for action pending the outcome of the Monday meeting with Chancellor, Albright said. Those actions considered were mass resignation of the student judiciary and of student representatives on major faculty-administrative committees and the postponement of all cases now pending. "After my meeting with the Chancellor," Albright said, "I do not see the need for these steps to be taken now, but we must be ready in the case that the students are affronted again." Albright stated that a commission of five students, three faculty members and two administrators will be established as a result of his meeting with the Chancellor. The commission will: --review the entire judicial system and make recommendations for revisions. study the question of who has judicial authority, when and where they have authority, and how that authority will be exercised. study questions of double jeopardy, equity antf codification. make all efforts to postpone cases of double jeopardy until the study is completed. (Continued on page 5) Library Pigeons Killed; Workers Protest Action 2 Study Days Set For Spring trying to get the removal of the a faculty fellow at James and had Pinckney for courses. We r 1 r; V '" i. . 4 r- ..y vv J I I t I - 7 0;. - M t-I Shade Was Hard To Find . . . . . . this shelter collasped eventually. By NANCY STANCILL DTH Staff Writer Students will have three reading days before the beginning of spring semester exams instead of the usual one. Thre three days will include the Friday, Saturday and Sunday immediately before the exam period. Last semester, the only reading day in the schedule was the Sunday prior to the beginning of exams. The announcement, confirmed yesterday by Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson, is the result of several months study by Student Government and administrative officials. 'Students expressed dissatisfaction last semester with having only one reading day, especially since it fell on a Sunday last semester," said Mike Almond, chairman of Student Government's Calendar Reform Committee. Almond and former Student Body President Ken Day met with Provost J.C. Morrow and decided one reading day before exams is "totally inadequate, and not in the best interest of high quality academic performance," according to Almond. "A survey of department chairman and faculty proved they are also overwhelmingly in favor of extending reading days," Almond said. Rather than changing this semester's existing schedule, it was decided to eliminate the last two days of classes. The weekend of May 16-18 is designated at the reading period. Other areas of calendar reform under consideration by Almond's committee include the possibility of eventually finishing exams before Christmas. According to a survey conducted last semester on Consolidated University campuses, students are very much in favor of this proposal. However, Almond said it is "almost impossible to institute this change within the next two years. "Completing a full semester before Christmas would require that students return to school between August 14-20." He said Provost Morrow is currently setting iip an ad hoc committee to study this proposal. Student participation will be encouraged. By NANCY STANCILL DTH Staff Writer The pigeons who roost in the rafters of Wilson Library have recently become a source of concern to both bird lovers and grounds administrators. The pigeon noise and droppings are admittedly a pest, according to all. However, two student library employes, Tim Rider and Margret Poisson, contend that the grounds department has been senselessly shooting the birds. The incident in question allegedly occurred at dawn Good Friday, when some persons apparently shot and killed many of the roosting pigeons. When Margret Poisson and Tim Rider came to work, they found "blood and feathers all over the library steps." They also found several wounded pigeons, including one which Rider described as a "rare White King." They took care of the bird, but it died that night. They also found bullet holes in the capitals of the library columns. "There is absolutely no need to kill the pigeons and deface the library columns at the same time," the two said. "Additionally, the pigeons are back in full force within a week. "All the physical plant has to do is to put some sort of screen or sharp-pointed objects on the capitals," they said. Whoever was responsible for shooting the birds remains shrouded in mystery. "As far as I know, no one has asked the physical plant to shoot the pigeons lately," . said Jack Brown, library operations administrator. "I don't know if the physical plant has shot them recently or not," said Walter Hamilton, director of the physical plant. "Although the Unviersity is a bird sanctuary, this does not cover pigeons," he said. 'They have been shot in the past." "We've tried using slants, poison corn and artificial snakes, but they have not scared the birds away," he said. The director of a kindergarten called Storybrook Farm, has tentatively offered to come and catch the birds and take them to the country. Everyone concerned will doubtless be happier if the pigeons join the other "roosters" at the farm. 11 111 " n'ii mi i in ii mm ii in i ihiii iim " Him m i n i numii in iii.i im inwini nii ,0mm, nm, , m i nun. t 11-. 'I - . ... - - " ' :- ' . .-- " '" "-'-.-- ., j i- .. ' o ; a - - e " - . I If Library Assistant Holds Injured Pigeon slayers ot the birds are unknown 3 Inducted Into Golden Fleece Honorary Order The Order of the Golden Fleece tapped 23 new argonauts in a private ceremony last night. Twenty students and three honoraries were tapped. . Founded in 1903, the Golden Fleece is Carolina s highest honorary and is the second oldest of its type in the nation. Last night's ceremonies were the first private tapping in . recent years. ": New members are: 1 Charles Patrick Farris, Jr., Wilson, N.C. A tireless and uncomplaining leade e president of the Class of 1969, he has involved the entire University community in the development of the class gift scholarship and has typified the best qualities of student leadership. Douglas Willans Morgan, Canton, Ohio. Well-respected for his integrity and hard work as chairman of the Publications Board, his work as director of the International Student Center has been invaluable. John Garling Callan, Manahasset, N.Y. He is one whose significant contributions to the development and improvement of the fraternity system has served as a guiding leight Robert Paul Mosteller, Vale, N.C. Coupling his top-ranking academic average with deep concern for fellow students, he is a student spokesman for curriculum changes as chairman of the Undergraduate History Association. . William Carl Bunting, New Bern, N.C. His perseverance to attain his individual goals and his unassuming character have served to mark him with distinction. Peter Franklin Walker, Chapel Hill, N.C. (honorary). A , distinguished teacher, scholar and tireless worker for the betterment of student me on . this campus,he has participated in the Faculty Committee on Student Discipline and the Merzbacher Committee on General College reform William Bradford Courtney, Williamston, N.C. He is one whose selfless and tireless work has been a motivating force in the development of the residence college system. John Lawrence Haber, Asheville, N.C. A tireless worker and diligent scholar, his distinguished leadership in his fraternity and the Carolina Union has advanced the cultural life of the University. Joseph Blake Shedd, Leonia, N.J. A leader whose sincere concern for others is eveident by his work with the Carolina Talent Search and the YMCA, his unselfish service has improved the University and community. Elmer Liston Bishop, HI, Asheville, N.C. His academic excellence, integrity and concern for fellow students have made him a leader in the student judiciary and the resident advisor program. His unselfish service has improved the University and community. Kenneth Claiborne Royall, III, Durham, N.C. An individual whose outstanding character has exemplified the highest ideals of the University, his quiet leadership serves as an inspiration to his fellow students. Bean Edwards Smith, Cnapel Hill, N.C. (honorary). He is a gentleman and outstanding coach who has brought recognition and honor to the University. Charles Neville Jeffress, Richmond, Va. A vigorous advocate of studnt involvement in the affiars of the University, he is a spokesman for social justice and an outstanding student. Stephen Glenn Barefoot, Four Oaks, N.C. His work in the School of Journalism and the national recognition which he has achieved have brought acclaim to the University. William Charles Darrah, Mattapoisett, Mass. His leadership on the Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Residence Colleges, the Committee on Open House Policy and the Student Transportation Commission has improved the quality of life for many in UniTersity residence halls. John William McMurray, Asheville, N.C. His contributions to Student Government in the Student Legislature and work on the campus transportation system have distinguished him as a respectei member of the University community. Kelly Edward Greene, Discoe, N.C. His tireless work and dedication to the Law School, and the warmth of his character make him an inspiration to others. Howard Glenn Miller, Mountain Brook, Ala. A conscientious, fair-minded chairrrum of the Men's Honor Court, his contributions to judicial change has made the judiciary more attuned to student needs. Stuart Alan Albright, Gastonia, N.C. As special assistant to the president for judicial affairs, his efforts have brought needed changes to the student court system. A dedicated public servant, his leadership in the advancement of student interests has been recognized by his election as president of the student body. William Benjamin Hawfield, Charlotte, N.C. An outstanding student, he has made consistent contributions to the University through his work in the History Department and the student judiciary. Raymond Howard Dawson, Chapel Hill, N.C. (honorary). An outstanding member of the faculty, his excellence in (Continued on page 5)
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