North Carolina Newspapers

WEATHER TODAY Cloudy and varmer: high, mid 60's, low, 10's; No chance of rain. SUNDAY var iable cloudiness. On Tin Inside Carolina unbeaten lacrosse tram p.ays powerful Vtr;;r.:.j todav at C p.m. en Fet.vr - ft I f 1 )fU li i ""v Fie! d. See st cry px? 3. . jf d :r 711 Years Of Editorial Freedom v Volume 78, Number 16, CHAPHL HILL NORTH CAROLINA. SATURDAY. APRIL 4. 1970 Founded February 23. 1893 V" hi;. n 0 rnrpiT0 J U 7 I i! U , iUi U UrniU , iUl 7 1; M M M M M r Q atasn-- ff 1--1-iLUT f ff1 f t I A' t t F I i i I t i TFT) r JiUiivLjAii Curriculum Reform Strongly Praised lib Wheeler. The Faculty Council's decision to make the Merzbacher Committee reforms retroactive marked the climax of work for many people. Freshman Class President Joe Wheeler, presented the Councils Friday with a petition signed by 3000 students who favored making the reforms retroactive. He spoke to the council for about three minutes, expressing the wishes of those who signed the petition. "A group of industrious freshmen circulated the petition," he said, "and I hope the Faculty. Council will see fit to accept their proposals." Dr. Eugene Merzbacher, head of the reform committee, commented after the meeting, "It was always intended that they be made retroactive. "The modifications made -Week Feature By Lenox Rawlings Staff Writer A coffee house address by the first secretary of Nepal highlights today's International Week activities. First Secretary Secretary Bishwa Pradhan will discuss English Major Places In Literary Contest By Lou Bonds Staff Writer UNC junior Peter Brown was awarded third place in a literature contest sponsored by the Atlantic Christian College "Crucible," a literary and art journal. Brown prize for entitled took the $50 cash his fictional work "Lindsay's Last Blanket." Brown, an English major, was among 108 writers from 32 towns, cities and communities in North Carolina who submitted works. " 'Lindsay's Last Blanket is the story of a southern student's trip through Boston, Mass.," said Brown. "It tells of his encounter with a girl at a northern university." Brown was one of the few entrants who has never had a piece of work published, except for articles which Undents By Mike Parnell Staff Writer Ballots are now available in the Student Union for students to nominate the faculty members they believe have shown "excellence in undergraduate teaching." The Student-Faculty Committee on Teaching and the Curriculm will consider the students nominations and recommend to the Chancellor eight choices to receive the faculty awards. The Chancellor will make the final decision on who will receive the awards, each of which is worth at least $1000. Students nominate professors they feel have shown excellence in teaching for the Tanner Awards, the Wm euo by the Faculty Council our original proposals minor and very good. from were "I sincerely hope it wall work out as well as we think it will." Student Body President Tom Bello said Friday following the meeting he was gratified at the display of faith by the faculty in the students, that he faculty realizes "that students can get an education without being forced to take certain courses. "We pretty well realize," he continued, "the reforms implemented are not as extensive as we have hoped. "The academic process is still too structured to allow individual priority in expression. "Nevertheless, I feel gratified that the faculty unanimously voted to enact the Merzbacher Committee reforms." "Nepal: Role of Small Powers in World Affairs" at 8 p.m. in the Student Union's south lounge. A 10 p.m. speech by Dr. Joel Schwartz of the UNC political science department on "Prospects of a Permanent Student .Revolution" will V l l i . r Peter Brown appeared in the DTH this year. The New York City native . studied literature under Max Steele, a UNC English S3 LJSs Can Vote Facu Nicholas Salgo Distinguished Teacher Award and the Standard Oil of Indiana Foundation Good Teaching Award. The ballots must be marked and returned to Mrs. Brenda Surles, 202A Swain Hall by April 7. For Tanner Awards will be presented to any full-time member of the faculty who are engaged primarily in undergraduate teaching. The awards are valued at $1000 each. The basis for the award is excellence in teaching; of undergraduate students, especially first and second year students. One Nicholas Salgo Award .will be presented to a full-time member of the faculty who is I J f - r I) Joe Wheeler presents follow. . , , . The film "Hunger in America" will folIowr the two coffee house "addresses. Two additional flicks, "The Widening Gap" and "The Secret Hunger," will also be shown. International music will end today's program. professor, but he prefers a law career. says he "Writing fiction is more or less my hobby," Brown said. "It's something I do for pleasure." First place in the fiction division went to Pat Outlaw Cooper of Wilson. The 1946 ACC graduate is a book reviewer for "The News and Observer" and has contributed many works in both poetry and fiction. Other cash winners in the contest were Thomas N. Walters of Raleigh, first place poetry, and Paul Baker Newman, second place poetry. Walters is a former UNC graduate on the North Carolina State University faculty. Newman teaches at Queens College in Charlotte. All winning pieces will be published in the spring issue of the "Crucible" on sale May 1. engaged in teaching on the junior-senior level. This award is worth $1500. The basis for the Salgo Award is teaching excellence as evidenced by classroom effectiveness and ability to motivate and inspire students. Three Standard Oil Awards will be presented. Each of these is worth $1000 and is given to full-time faculty members engaged primarily in undergraduate teaching. The basis for this award is superior teaching in undergraduate schools. The Committee on Teaching and the Curriculum is chaired by Dr. Wesley Wallace of the radio, television, and motion picture department. Wallace said the recipients of these awards will be made lty Awaras ( Faculty Council . . . ... with petition TTTT oiiee n v , The day's activities begin at 1 p.m. with a picnic and soccer match, on Ehringhaus field. An Arab dinner prepared by the students at the International Student Center will be served at 6 p.m. in the Presbyterian Student Center. Sunday's program features an African dinner at 6 p.m. at the Wesley Foundation. Also scheduled are volleyball, and cricket matches and a coffee house address by Professor John Dixon, a UNC art history professor. His speech, entitled "Art as it Reflects World Views," will be supplement by slides. Two flicks, "Orient--Occident: Aspects of an Exhibition" and "Buddhism, Man and Nature," plus folk singing and a Spanish organ concert will follow Dixon's speech. Monday's highlight will be a Chinese film, "The East is Red," to be shown at 8 p.m. in Memorial Hall. The flick, produced in Red China, depicts the Chinese government's conception of the people's revolution. Remaining I Week activities include Fat Eastern, European and Indian dinners; flicks on India and Greece; coffee house sessions with UNC political science professors; badminton, basketball and volleyball; and two flicks on current world affairs. public by the Chancellor at the spring meeting oMhe General Faculty. Wallace reminded students the nominations are "not a popularity contest, but the emphasis is on excellence in undergraduate teaching." The eight winners of the 1969 awards were: Tanner H. Lawrence Slifkin of the physics department, Peter Filene of the history department, James Devereux of the English department and. J. Frank McCormack of the botany department: Salgo Lewis Lipsitz of the political science department; Standard Oil-William Peck of the religion department, Jerry L. Mills of the English department and James Godfrey of the history department. r 1 (Staff Photo by Cliff Kolovson) to; make reforms retroactive. liOMSe: Tickets for all activities are available kt the Student Union desk. W7eekend visitors include 54 American and 22 foreign high school students, 21 college students from Iraq and 22 additional foreign, college students. Each student is sponsored by a hpme town club or organization. Additional I Week information can be obtained by calling John Simmons at 968-9195 or at the 1-Week .booth in the Student Union. DU's Help With Fix-Up Sixty brothers of Delta Upsilon fraternity will be participating in the Carrboro "Clean Up, Fix Up, Paint Up Month" today. The service project is part of the town's campaign to improve its appearance. The brothers will help townspeople remove heavy unwanted items from their homes. Some will help remove abandoned cars from the area while others will pick up discarded material placed along the roadside. According to Bill Posten, fraternity member, the project is "part of our function as a fraternity to work on campus and off to get involved in the community. It is a part of the broader meaning of fraternity." Wanna Be A Queen? The North Carolina' Rhododendron Festival is currently receiving applications from North Carolina girls ages 18 to 24 to compete for queen of the 1970 pageant to be held the third week in June. The contest winner will be. furnished with a new automobile for personal appearances and travel dates. She will receive a $1,000 scholarship, a new wardrobe and other prizes. UNC girls interested in competing for the Rhododendron title should write: Ben Johnson, Queen Chairman, N.C. Rhododendron Festival, Bakersvil!e,N.C. 4 ByMIkeRimdl ' Staff Writer The Faculty Council unanimously passed a proposal Friday to make the General College curriculum reforms passed in December applicable to all presently enrolled students. Students will have the choice of whether to follow the new curriculum, which alters General College requirements, or to continue under the new curriculum. The reforms are effective June 1. The major changes in the curriculum include the elimination of English 21, one natural science course, both modern civilization courses and sophomore physical education as required courses. Students will also have a choice of taking either math or language to satisfy General College requirements. The present method of General College advising will also be revised. Joe Wheeler, president of the Freshman Class, presented a petition yesterday to the council containing 3,000 signatures expressing a desire for the extension of the reforms. Following his presentation, the council voted to accept the proposal with no dissenting discussion. The proposal states: "The Administrative Boards of the General College and the College of Arts and Sciences recommend that the revised curriculum of the General College be made effective for all undergraduates who enter the. University after June 1, 1970; and that undergraduates previously enrolled in the University may elect whether to follow the new curriculum or to continue under the old." In the new curriculum the required courses will be English composition (two courses); physical education (two semesters); social sciences (three courses to be chosen from the following departments: anthropology, economics, geography, history, political science and World rmr v hsoim By Rod Waldorf Managing Editor For a short time yesterday, we were sure Chapel' Hill was all there was left of the world. The teletype machines that bring us the news of the world began printing a mad succession of meaningless letters, - ampersands, question marks and numbers while all phone lines in and out of town were completely dead. The phone company's first explanation: all the lines in Chapel Hill were out and they didn't know how long they would be out because they didn't know what was wrong. Later, a spokesman for the phone company said they had been contacted by Southern Bell (by carrier pigeon, maybe?) and they reported the main cable between Chapel Hill and Greensboro was cut. (All long distance calls from Chapel Hill are handled through Greensboro.) The spokesman said they didn't know how the cable had been cut because they couldn't reach Southern Bell. Maybe they could revive smoke signals? But the spokesman, O.S. Hunt, assistant plant manager, just couldn't find out anything. i U kJJ & (Lis sociology); natural sciences (two courses, one a lab course). Also, foreign language or math (foreign language requirements will remain the same. If math is choen, the new requirements are two courses in math plus two courses in foreign language, which may be eliminated by placement tests); humanities and fine arts (three courses to be chosen from art, classics, comparitive lit, dramatic art, English, music, RTV.MP, philosophy, religion or language). In other Faculty Council action, a progress report was presented from the Committee on Continuation of Food Service which has been studying the prospect of a University run food service for next year. Campns News Briefs Armageddon Is Coming Armageddon is coming, but it's not the end of the world. The singing group, sponsored by College Life, will present a two-hour concert of contemporary music tonight at 8 in Memorial Hall. Armageddon has toured over 20 campuses this year as part of an international movement, Campus Crusade for Christ. Among the selections the group will sing ir.rUde songs from the Beatles, Jimmy Webb, Brazil 66, Blood, Sweat and Tears, the Youngbloods and a number of arrangements by Armageddon's own writer and arranger, Michael Omartian. Tickets have been on sale on campus throughout the week for $1.50 and may be purchased at the door tonight. Winston Receives Award . Chi Omega sorority has presented the annual North Carolina Distinguished Service Award for Women to Dr. Ellen Winston. The sorority recognized Dr. Winston for her social services on the community, state and national levels at a dinner Wednesday. Dr. Winston was the first U.S. commissioner on welfare in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. She was also the N.C. commissioner of public health. She is presently secretary of the U.S. Committee of the International Council on Social Welfare. NRCTC Goes To Wilmington NROTC students from UNC will participate in the annual Azalea Festival parade Saturday, in Wilmington. The NROTC Drum and Bugle Team, Drill Team and Color Guard, under the direction of Major Robert Reed, U3MC, and Sgt. Oscar Schraml, USMC, will perform. Quiz Bowl Schedules Quiz Bowl schedules are available at union desk. Fiail rounds start Monday in Room 202-204, Union building, 2t 7 p.m. Wasn 't There trwr Of 77 7? Wo .rn.B.H.(Pw. u ovn.w. Neither could we. We tried to make several local phone calls. Some we completed. But usually we got a vicious "fshzzzzz" instead of a dial tone. Long distance calls were totally impossible. We were isolated. Panic The wire machines were still swearing at us an hour later when we got Raleigh on the Telepak line. At least one other place on earth still existed. Our i ; f i '. r ' I . Tin tt'lrphnnt' system hail its problems die Fits Dr. Morris Gelblun. chairman of the committee, said "There ouht to be a mxd for a food sen ice but whether there is a nevd is the question." There are several problems to be considered in stUtin up a food service, said Ge!blum. Some of the problems are the tendency of students to prefer "snacks in lieu of regular meals," the decline of food service profits, the number of eating places within walking distance, the money which would be needed to renovate Lenoir and the number of refrigerators in the residence halls. The committee is expected to present the final report on the food service at the council's May meeting. 77 fx faith returned. Slowly, Southern Bell must be fixing whatever it was that was wrong. Now local calls are possible but the wire service still can't spell. So phone service returns to Chapel Hill after so brief a vacation. Eut the phone company doesn't answer now. Back to carrier pigeons. See Warning, page 2. i )