Slavic Club
Students who have visited
the Soviet Union will discuss
their experiences at the
meeting of the Slavic Club
tonight at 7:30 in the Dey H?"
Facultv Lounge.
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Christian Fellowship
Carolina Christian
Fellowship will hold three
simultaneous discussions at
9:15 tonight in Granville West,
Ehringhaus, and James Dorms.
Refreshments will be served.
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Vol ume 77, Number 31
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A fire causing $25,000 damage to Peabody Hall Sunday may have begun in this
basement utility room
To Achieve Wider Viewpoints On Issues
By BILL MILLER
DTH Staff Writer
Chancellor J. Carlyle
Sitterson has created a special
60-memher consultative forum
"to achieve wider expression of
viewpoints in the consideration
of important (campus) issues,
Dr. Claiborne Jones, assistant
to the Chancellor, reported
Monday.
"To bring a broader range of
opinion to bear on
cam pus-wide issues and to
promote a greater
understanding and a
heightened sense of
community among all elements
within this institution,"
Sitterson has outlined a
membership including: Fifteen
students including
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:: Carolina beauties will have the opportunity to enter two ::j:
:: contests this week the annual Homecoming Queen contest
::; and the Maid of Cotton contest. g
i The Homecoming Queen and her court of six finalists :$
i will reign over weekend festivities Nov. 8. The contest is g
. sponsored by the Carolina Athletic Association. g
Deadline for entries is 4 p.m., Oct. 27, according to CAA fg
President Ken McAllister. g
"Any residence hall, organization or individual wishing g
:: to sponsor a candidate may pick up an entrance form at the g
& information desk," said McAllister. g
He noted there is a fee of $7.50 for each entry and there g
g is no limit on the number of entries. g
A committee of judges will select seven finalists at a g
A queen's tea to be held for all nominees Oct. 30. The tea will g
y- be held at Kenan's Ram's Qub Room, according to g
McAllister. g
A student election will be held Nov. 5 to select the queen g
::: from seven finalists. The queen and court will be presented g
at the UNC-VMI football game. g
A representative of the National Cotton Council will be g:
g on campus Thursday, Oct. 23, to meet with coeds g
jx interested in the Maid of Cotton competition. g
g Interested students should sign up and receive g
g applications from Assistant Dean of Women Mrs. Lynne g
g Armstrong in Steele building.
"The Maid of Cotton has the demanding yet extremely g:
:: rewarding job of travelling throughout the U.S. and other g
g countries as the American cotton industry's fashion and g
g goodwill emissary," said Mrs. Armstrong. g
g She noted that Wylene Commander and Linda Beazley g
g represented UNC in the contest last year and former UNC g
student Peach Pierce was a winner several years ago. g
g Some qualifications for the contest include birth or $:
jij: residence in one of the 19 cotton-producing states, g
g minimum height of 5 feet 5 inches and age between 19-23. g
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The Student Party affirmed
resolutions concerning student
rights at its regular meeting
Sunday night.
"The party condemned the
University's practice of
searching a student's room
without his knowledge," Mark
Evens, SP legislative leader,
said Monday.
"We also resolved that a
student should be able to lock
his door during visitation,"
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undergraduate, graduate, and
professional school students;
15 faculty members drawn
from all ranks and including
members from the professional
schools as well as from the
departments in the College of
Arts and Sciences; 15
representatives of the
administration and the
non-academic staff; eight
members of the Board of
Trustees and seven alumni '
representatives."
The consultative forum will
be chaired by Sitterson.
Provisions have been made for
Alan Albright, president of the
student body, and Professor
Fred Cleaveland, chairman of
the faculty, to serve as
ex-officio members.
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Evens continued. "A student
should have the same rights in
his dorm room as those
students who rent rooms off
campus."
In other action, the SP
elected Peter K. Howard
chairman of the party.
It also endorsed the Alan
Hirsch bill to abolish student
judicial functions if the
administration violates the
double jeopardy amendment.
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forum is planned for sometime
in November.
According to a prepared
release announcing the
formation of the forum, "the
initial objective will be one of
self-education, to seek to
understand in some depth how
the University operates, how
decisions are made and
implemented, how essential
information bearing on policy
ma ki ng " is gathered and
disseminted, and soon.
''Following this
self -education, I (Sitterson)
hope the consultative forum
can turn to an exploration of
ways to improve processes of,
information exchange and
consulation which are
indispensable to sound policy
making and effective policy
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Three Discussions
By KEN RIPLEY
DTH Staff Writer
Three simultaneous dorm
discussions are being presented
tonight at 9:15 by Carolina
Christian Fellowship in
Granville West, James and
Ehringhaus dorms on the topic,
"The Way, the Truth, the
Life."
Among the three speakers
will be Dr. John Alexander,
national president of
Inter-Varsity Christian
Fellowship, who will give a
short talk and lead a discussion
of Christianity in Granville
West.
Black staff member Carl
Ellis, associated with Tom
Skinner Crusades, will present
a similiar program in
Ehringhaus. Inter-Varsity Area
Director Bill York, who works
Compulsory Qmmpus Limimg
By CAM WEST
DTH Staff Writer
Residence colleges have reached a critical stage
in their development, according to Larry Passar,
assistant on residence colleges to the student
body president.
"It's reaching the point in the residence
college system where the Uniersity may have to
make campus living compulsory,' Passar said
Monday.
Referring to a rumor that the University may
soon require sophomore men to live in
dormitories, Passar said, "Most college governors
feel this would be treating the sympton instead
of the cause. We are hoping that students will be
more able in the future to make use of their
individual environment to make dorm living
attractive."
He emphasized lack of funds prevented many
residence college activities from getting off the
ground, using the faculty fellows program as an
example.
Passar noted encouraging developments within
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implementation."
Jones said, "This body will
in no way replace any
presently existing body or
responsibilities."
Albright said Monday he did
forsee the possibility of the
forum becoming a legislative
body.
"This is one of the items
they will be considering," the
student president said.
The body could supercede
the powers of the legislature
and other existing bodies,
according to Albright.
"In a campus this size," he
said, "it is necessary to have a
body of this type to bring in
the opinions of a larger range
of the student body as well as
the non-academic employees."
The ; forum concept was
on campuses in Virginia, will
speak in James dorm.
The three-dorm "meeting" is
the largest activity presented in
the last two years by Carolina
Christian Fellowship, the UNC
chapter of Inter-Varsity. It is
the first time in several years
that Dr. Alexander has visited
the campus.
During the afternoon, Dr.
Alexander will speak to a
gathering of I-V chapter leaders
from UNC, Duke, N.C. State
and Greensboro in Howell Hall.
This evening, before the dorm
discussions, he will attend a
dinner and speak to Christian
faculty members.
Inter-Varsity is a national
Christian organization of
autonomous student chapters
on several hundred college
campuses.
By AL THOMAS
DTH Staff Writer
J Campus security was
tightened Monday as the search
for an arson who set fire to
three, and possibly four,
classroom buildings Sunday
morning continues.
Arthur Beaumont, head of
dorm security on campus, said
extra campus police, town
police and several agents from
the State Bureau of
Investigation are aiding in the
increased security.
The fires slightly damaged
three classroom buildings and
did extensive damage to a
fourth.
The first fire discovered also
did the largest amount of
damage. Peabody Hall, home
of the School of Education and
the University Testing Service,
may have rece ive d
approximately $25,000
damage, according to Chapel
Hill Police Chief W. D. Blake.
He declined to make the
estimate official, however.
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introduced on this cimpus by
Joel Fleishman, vice provost of
Urban Studies at Yale
University, in v. program
sponsored jointly by the
Richardson Fellows and the
American Studies Program last
February. A similar forum is in
operation at Yale.
The idea evolved from
discussions between Albright,
Cleaveland, John Graham,
acting as chairman of the
Faculty Committee on
University Government and
Chancellor Sitterson.
The decision to implement a
consultative forum for UNC
was reached last week by
Chancellor Sitterson, according
to Jones, who issued the
statement to the press Monday.
Tonight
The dorm discussions are the
first of several campus
activities planned by the CCF.
Last week the chapter
sponsored an all-campus
meeting for freshmen and
transfer students. Dr. Fred
Books, chairman of the
Department of Computer and
Information Science, presented
the question, "Jesus
Christ-Who Needs Him??'
Next week Carolina
Christian Fellowship willf
present small group Bible
studies for anyone interested in
examining the Bible as a source
document e.f Christianity.
Information on these studies
will be provided at the dorm
discussions tonight.
All interested students are
invited to attend any one of
the three meetings tonight.
the system, however. The liberalized visitation
policy and the coed living experiment, Project
Hinton, have bolstered the residence college
image, he said.
"Originally residence colleges were nothing
but a group of dormitories. In the near future
they will increase their activities, adding projects
with both sophistication and variety," he
commented.
Passar pointed to campus radio stations as a
valuable contribution to the system and said that
one college is hoping to start a little theatre.
Turning to individual residence colleges, Passar
said Granville is probably the most successful
college because of the active coed environment.
Joint recreation facilities and the dining hall help
bring Granville residents closer together, Passar
noted, and the college Senate has taken an active
role in major campus issues.
Granville South, the recently opened third
wing of the living complex, may feature an
alternating male-female suite arrangement next
year, according to Passar. South was scheduled to
open as a coed dorm this year, but there were
The Peabody fire Is the only
one investigators haven't
officially blamed on arson.
Damage was so extensive
within the five-room fire area,
Blake said, that evidence of
arson has probably been
destroyed.
The three other classroom
buildings damaged by fire
include Bingham, Murphey and
Gardner Halls.
Damage in these buildings
was confined to several desks
and trash cans.
Pete Ivey, director of the
University News Bureau, said
firemen discovered a test tube
at the fire in Gardner which, he
added, may indicate a chemical
was used.
No complete estimates on
total damages were available
Monday.
Blake noted Monday he
believes the fires were not the
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ILO Gets Peace
OSLO (UPI)-The 1969
Nobel Peace Prize was awarded
today to the International
Labor Organization (ILO),
which was formed at the end
of the World War I to help
peace by improving working
and social conditions
throughout the world.
The ILO and the
International Court of Justice
are the only two organs of the
defunct League of Nations to
survive. The ILO is now one of
the special organizations of the
United Nations with
headquarters in Geneva.
Since 1948 it has been
headed by an American, David
A. Morse.
not enough female applicants to make that
possible, he said.
Scott College (Parker, Teague and Avery) also
feature a women's residence hall, Parker,
adjacent to two men's dorms. Although Scott
was the first college to be residentially united, it
has not developed as well as expected, according
to several Student Govern me mt officials. One
reason, they suggest, is that the residents do not
share a common dining hall.
There has also been considerable political
infighting in Scott between college officials and
individual dormitories over allocation of funds.
The South Campus residence colleges are
attempting to establish coed living. James College
has a head start on the others with Project
Hinton, the coed project on the ninth and tenth
have been problems keeping Project
Hinton in the residence college. But Tommy
Bello, governor of James and a Project Hinton
resident, has been working to allow the coed
experiment to pursue its activities while making
it an integral part of the system, according to
work of a vandal but
of a
pyromaniac.
"There was no real pattern
to the fires," Blake said.
"These just happened to be the
classroom buildings that were
open at the time.
"We can't find anybody
with a grudge against these
particular structures," he
continued. '
The four classroom
buildings were open for classes
Monday but the areas of the
fires were sealed off for
investigation.
The smell of smoke was
evident throughout the four
buildings Monday and was
noticed within a block in all
directions around Peabody.
Agents from the S3I and
the State Department of
Insurance combed the fire
areas all day Monday but no
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As usual, the Nobel
Committee of the Swedish
Parliament gave no reasons for
its decision and made it clear
there will be no comments. It
said only that the $75,000
prize would go to the ILO.
Informed sources in Oslo
said one of the reasons for the
choice was the valuable work
done by ILO in developing
countries where it has given
valuable technical assistance.
An ILO spokesman in
Geneva said the group received
the newrs "with great delight."
"We received the news with
great delight and can only say
that it is a great honor," said
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new leads were revealed.
Beaumont warned Monday
afternoon against any kind of
panic, saying all precautions
are being taken. He said
classroom buildings that ?re
officially supposed to be
locked at night but have been
left open will now be closed.
That, along with increased
manpower, should be enough
right now, he added.
Blake said the only other
experience the University has
had w'th arson was about 11
years ago. Swain Hall received
well over $100,000 damage in
that fire, he continued, with
the Carolina Inn receiving
slight damage.
The person convicted of
setting those fires, Blake
added, was a student here.
'Kopechne
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WILKES BARRE, Pa.
(UPI)-Dr. Donald R. Mills,
associate medical examiner of
Dukes County, Mass., testified
Monday the death of Mary Jo
Kopechne was "a clear case of
drowning."
Dr. Mills, the fourth witness
called at the first formal
hearing in the death of Miss
Kopechne on Chappaquiddick
Island, Mass., last July 18,
testified "there was water in
her bronchail trachea and her
nose and mouth" when, he
examined her body the day it
was removed from Sen.
Edward M. Kennedy's
submerged automobile.
The hearing was presided
over by Luzerne County Judge
Bernard C. Brominski. The
judge indicated that he may
order night sessions to expedite
the proceedings which may last
three to five days. Fourteen
witnesses were scheduled to
testify.
Under questioning by a
Kopechne attorney, Joseph F.
Flanagan, Dr. Mills said there
was no evidence of "foul play"
and no evidence of "criminal
conduct" in the death of the
attractive
secretary.
28-year-old
Prize
ILO Public Affairs Director
John Weston.
' "WTe had been hoping but
we had no idea that we would
be awarded the prize."
Morse, the ILO director
general, was visiting the
organization's branch office in
New York when the news came
from Oslo.
The ILO was formed in
1919 to bring governments,
employers and trade unions
together for united actions in
the cause of social justice.
It functioned as part of the
League of Nations during two
world wars before it became
associated with the U.N.
Passar.
Morrison College Governor Johnson Harris has
been working to bring Nurses Dorm residents
into Morrison next year. As of now, all nurses are
tentatively scheduled to move into Morrison in
the fall of 1970.
Ehringhaus College, presently combining
Ehringhaus men with North Campus women
residents, has also worked to become coed. The
main roadblock, said Passar, will involve a
reshuffling of athletic living quarters.
As the bulk of attention is focused on South
Campus, governors of King (Upper Quad) and
Morehead (Lower Quad) Colleges are worried
about being forgotten: They express concern
about improving the hall arrangements in the
older quad dorms, noting that living
improvements are continually being made in the
suite system on South Campus.
Residence college officials believe the system
is improving. But until there are increased funds
made available and an improvement in coed
living arrangements, residence colleges will face
many problems, they contend.