Tuesday, September 16, 1970
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by Rick Cray
Associate Editor
If any one person in the University
power structure is caught in the middle, it
si the chancellor.
In 1966 when Michael Paull was
suspended from his duties as an English
instructor because he assigned his class a
theme on the poem, 'To His Coy
Mistress," the Trustees demanded that
Paull be relieved of his duties.
The students and faculty demanded
that Paull not be disciplined in any
way. It wasn't his fault, they said,
that the class interpreted the poem to
be a study in seduction.
For weeks Chancellor J. Carlyle
Sitterson was the mediator between
the two enraged groups. The
controversy arose in March, and
Sitterson had been named Acting
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by Bob Chapman
Staff Writer
Looking after the needs of all women
students is a big task, but Dean Katherine
K. Carmichael has devoted a professional
lifetime to it.
Dean Carmichael said the mam
concern of the office of the Dean of
Women is that of counselinf on a personal
level.
"Of course we cannot solve everyone s
problems, but we try to help and we do a
great deal of referring," she said.
Beginning her twenty-fourth year at
UNC, Dean Carmichael said she does not
think of UNC as a big university since
students live and work in small units.
"I am a great believer in the University
of North Carolina-the excellent teachers
and the excellent scholars," she said.
Helping Dean Carmichael are two
assistant deans of women, Julie Jones and
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Chancellor in February.
Since that spring Sitterson has
continued to be the man caught in
the middle between the students and
faculty and the Board of Trustees.
This year will be Sitterson's last in
the middle. Next fall he will return
to his duties as a Kenan Professor of
History.
But in spite of nearly five years in
the middle, Sitterson has not felt the
isolation that usually comes from
being in the middle.
I haven't felt isolated," he said
last week in his office, leaning his
head on the forefinger, thumand
knuckles -of his right hand and resting
his elbow on the arm of his chair.
The pose i s characteristic of
Sitterson. He leans back, rests his
right ankle on his left knee and leans
his head on his hand, looking directly
at the questioner.
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wall on Polk Place.
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Marianne Hitchcock. Miss Jones heads
orientation for women and works with
the Panhellenic Council. Miss Hitchcock
works with the Association of Women
Students, women's court and the
women's attorney general.
Dean Carmichael was graduated cum
laude form Southern College. She
received her masters and Ph.D. degrees
from Vanderbilt University.
She began her teaching career in the
elementary and secondary schools of
Birmingham and Jefferson county,
quickly moving into the field of higher
education.
Dean Carmichael was a member of the
staff of the Dean of Women and
instructor of English at Texas State
College for Women. She served on the
faculties of Western Maryland College and
Hockaday Junior College, Texas, prior to
joining the University.
Miss Jones is a 1969 graduate of the
His face looks tired now, more so
than it did when he first became
acting chancellor, but then a lot has
happened on campus since then.
There have been, in addition to the
Paull case and continuing struggle with
the Speaker Ban issue, demonstrations
forcivilrightsandagainstDow
Chemical, peace protests, moratoriums
and student strikes, food service
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strikes, winning basketball teams,
losing football teams, arguments with
students and Trustees over women's
rules, visitation and academic reform.
A man in the middle of all that
hastobetired. Sitterson's hair is
thinner now, the hairline a little
further back on his forehead and the
temples snow-white instead of flecked
with gray.
But he has felt no isolation.
"I. have felt all through this," he
said, 'that the great mainstream of
students did not feel enmity to me. I
don't believe the student body ever
held the attitude that I personally had
bad motives. I may be wrong, but
I've always I've had good rapport
with the students."
Next September Sitterson will leave
his office and return to the history
department, back to what he loves
most in this University.
"I like to teach," he said. "I love
it. Teaching is happy for me. 1 .11 do
a lot more reading than I've done and
some more research and writing.
'111 be seeingstudentsina
different relationship," he said, "and
IH have more free time."
And, for those who must have a
reason for every human act, that is
why Sitterson is stepping down as
chancellor.
Seeing a desk full of papers every
morning can become very tiring, and
he just wants to teach, to talk with
the students and do what he loves
best.
Bait, ,.as jmuch , as looks , forward to
teaching ajjain Sitters on is st ill
looking f dVwara toTanotfier year as
chancellor.
"I haven't started thinking in terms
of remembering," he said. "I haven't
thought retrospectively to the degree
that I will a year from now.
"These five years have gone past
with incredible speed for me. There
have been many joysandsome
sadnesses," he continued. "I think this
year will be equally interesting and
excitingas theotheryearshave
been."
And Sitterson's years have held
University and for the past year has been
a traveling secretary for Kappa Kappa
Gamma sorority. In her senior year, she
received the Irene Lee cup as the most
outstanding senior woman of 1969.
Miss Hitchcock was graduated from
Alabama Southern College and received
her M.A. in journalism from the
University of Alabama.
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demonstrations and protests.
44 Change characterizes these five
years," he said. "In women's rules,
enrollment, visitation, academics and
even athletics.
"The Merzbacher reforms passed
last spring," he said, "are the most
far-reaching changes that have been
made in my lifetime here."
And whn one man's lifetime in a
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superlative form of an adjective means
a lot.
But more than the changes
themselves, Siitterson speaks of how
they came about.
"They've all come from community
cooperation," he said. "Most of the
policy of this University emanates
from the University's investigation of
its desires and needs.
"That's all to the good," Sitterson
says of the cooperation.
"We have come nearer," he added,
''to including all groups (in
decision-making consultation) than any
university in America."
And when Sitterson said that, he
seemed to put more importance on it
than onanythingelse he talked
about.
Including his return to teaching.
.Races
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Blacks who want a separate culture
and whites who dig their heels into the
status quo contribute to the "growing
separation between whites and Negroes in
the nation," according to UNC sociologist
Glen H. Elder Jr.
What makes a black person become a
Muslim and a wldte person reject all civil
rights organizations?
Elder worked with high school
students, in Richmond, Calif., in an effort
to learn ,why int egratibh has ho appeal' for
certain individuals. The results of his
study are reported in the latest issue of
Social Forces June, 1970, a sociology
journal published in Chapel Hill.
Elder has three objectives in his study.
He wanted to find how black and
white youth rate various civil rights
organizations, what they thought the best
plan for change was, and what were the
social and psychological sources for
Muslim sumpathy and for white rejection
of all civil rights efforts.
The organizations he used were the
NAACP, the National Urban League,
CORE, SNCC, SCLC and Black Muslims.
He found that black youths supported
all the organizations more than white
youths did, but that the NAACP was the
only organization with over 50 strong
approval. Within each racial group, the
approval went up sharply from Muslim
through CORE to the NAACP, and
Muslim support went down as both black
and white youths grew older.
The high school students, plans for
solving racial problems were categorized
into nationalist, militant, moderate and
status quo. Blacks were mostly nationalist
or militant; whites mostly militant or
status quo. Blacks tended to favor black
leadership and political unity; whites,
integration and black solidarity.
By comparing these attitudes to the
youths' ratings of civil rights,
organizations, Elder found that most
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students ranked the groups on the basis
of some knowledge of their goals and
tactics.
A sidelight of the report indicates the
people most likely to support integration
and civil rights organizations.
Negro integrationists had more
advantages in status opportunities, less
awareness of racial barriers, higher
intelligence and greater conformity with
the law than did Muslim advocates.
White youths were more likely to
-accept racial change if they came from
high-status -families, expected to go to
college, were relatively conforming in
conduct and had Negro friends.
Poor life prospects, Elder concludes,
are a source of both black nationalism
and white resistance.
Elder, associate professor of sociology
at UNC, received his B.S. from
Pennsylvania State University, his M.A.
from Kent State University and Ph.D.
from UNC in 1961. He has taught at the
University of California at Berkeley and
done research at the institute of human
development.
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