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September 15, 1970
University Reorganizes
tadeelts Affairs Office
by Bob Chapman
Staff Writer
The Office of Student Affairs was
reorganized .bythe. University.
Administration this summer and a new
department was created within the
office to supervise residence hall
operations and residential life.
The administrative reorganization
formed a D e partment of Residence
Life which is to be headed by Robert
F. Kepner.
James O. Cansler, former dean of
men, was appointed to the newly
created post of Associate Dean of
Student Affairs.
In his new position, Cansler
oversees the offices of the dean of
women, dean of menand the director
of residence life in relation to staff,
budget, job descriptions, space
allocations and routine operations.
The new dean of men will be Fred
Schroeder, who served as assistant
dean of men last year.
The program has brought four
Ueiversitty OKs
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by Mike Parnell
News Editor
Professors may refrain from giving
exams during the week prior to the
November elections or may permit; such
exams to be taken later without penalty,
according to a decision by the Faculty
Advisory Committee to the chancellor in
July.
Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson sent a
memorandum to all faculty members July
20 in which he said, "I concur fully with
the resolution" of the - advisory
committee.
In August Gov. Robert Scott said he
was "opposed to the idea of declaring a
holiday ...the suspension of classes or any
other form of a holiday for solely
political purposes.'
Consolidated University President
William C. Friday clarified the position of
the University the 'next week by
explaining there would be no suspension
of classes.
"What the UNC Faculty Council has
recently done is to arrange not to
schedule tests or 'papers in the week
before the elections are held,' said
Friday.
"There is nothing unusual in this
procedure: the same arrangements have
been made in the past to facilitate
student participation' in the Ecology
Symposium and the Fine Arts Festival,
for example." ...
The Advisory Committee said in its
statement to the chancellor, "We think
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different areas of responsibility
together that were formerly handled
by several different offices,' Kepner
said.
Kepner explained the office will
have four basic functions:
residence hall counseling through
the resident adviser and handling the
resident assistant program;
deciding housing assignments
through the office of the Housing
Assignments Officer;
conducting programs and activities
including Project Hinton and other
special projects in residence colleges;
governing the residence hall
maintenance and the care and
maintenance of the physical plant.
"We are emphasizing a blending of
responsibilities," Kepner said. He cited
the example of a single resident
advisor orientation for men and
women instead of two separate
programs.
University officials agree the new
office ties together decision-making
Flams
the faculty can be helpful in assisting the
students to discharge their political
responsibilities by adopting the same
procedures as those practiced when
special practices are held on campus, or
when special groups (e.g. athletes, band
members, dramatic groups, debate teams,
choral groups) find it necessary to be off
campus for a limited period of time."
The Committee also suggested that
Dean Raymond Dawson, dean of the
College of Arts and Sciences, "develop a
series of appropriate speakers, fora,
workshops and colloquia on political
topics on campus this fall."
Scott said he did not believe the
University should suspend classes during
the fall because "I don't want to see our
universities, our schools, our institutions
of higher learning becoming places for
political activity in the sense that Latin
American universities are.
"I don't want them to become refuges
for political activists," the governor said.
"I don't think this is the function of a
university. I may be somewhat old
fashioned, but I hold very strongly to the
belief that a student is at the university to
learn, the faculty is there to teach, and
the administrator is there to operate that
institution.
"I think these functions should be
kept clear. They should be separate. This
is a very important factor as far as I am
concerned," Scott said.
Friday's explanation the following
week made it clear that it would be the
See Elections, page seven
students at freshman convocation.
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processes formerly dividedunder
several roofs.
Kepner described the formation of
the office as "an awfully big step,"
but he admitted "interrelationships
have notbeenworkedout."He
added, however, that such relationships
will be smoothed out in the next few
See Cansler, page eight
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by Lana Starnes
Staff Writer
A student-operated print shop has
been set up in the basement of the
Carolina Union by Student Government.
The shop, named Carolina Graphics, is
designed to meet the printing needs of
University students and faculty, the
Carolina Union and The Daily Tar Heel.
The Student Legislature, which
appropriated $20,000 this summer to
establish the facility, will consider a bill
this fall to create a Communications
Board. The board would replace the
present Publications Board,
Profits from the print shop, according
to the proposed organizational structure,
would be divided between the
Communications Board (20 percent), a
student scholarship fund (50 percent) and
the General Surplus (10 percent).
John Buie, who was appointed general
Friday Says University Growing
by Bob Chapman
Staff Writer
Growth seems to be the keyword in
the Consolidated University system.
President William C. Friday said that
in the six branches of the University
(Chapel Hill, Raleigh, Greensboro,
Asheville, and Wilmington) there has been
an increase of about 2,000 students. He
added that some 2,000 to 2,500 new
students are expected each September for
the next four years.
The president said the rapid growth
has been reflected in increased budget
proposals made to the Advisory budget
Commission which will present
recommendations to the N.C. General
Assembly in January.
Long range plans, Friday said, include
having complete undergraduate programs
in each branch. Presnetly four branches
have graduate programs to give masters
degrees.
On the doctorate level there is more
specialization. Friday said the University
by Lana S tames
Staff Writer
"The time has come for us to realise
that if we continue to concentrate our
energies solely on destruction, ultimately
we will destroy only ourselves.
- Student Body President Tom Bello
Friday night spoke those words to 2,900
freshmen and 1,100 transfer students
gathered in Memorial Hall as he and
Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson issued
their traditional challenges to incoming
students.
"Instead of destroying," Bello
continued, "the time has come to build,
for it is in building, in creating, that life is
generated and regenerated within us."
Bello used the phrase "The time has
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manager of the shop by the Publications
Board, said the shop also will provide
students and faculty with a quick copy
service and will catch some of the
overflow of work from the University
printing service.
Jeff Boak, business manager of the
shop, said a great need has been found on
campus for design-oriented quality
printing. He feels the shop is located
where it can best serve the whole
University community.
The shop is equipped with an IBM
magnetic tape selectric composer system,
two offset presses, a direct image
photomat processer, a headline machine
and layout and design equipment.
The shop will be doing the type-setting
and ad layout and design for The Daily
Tar Heel. The Chapel Hill Weekly has
been contracted to do the printing.
Buie said the shop will have a
complete darkroom, copy cameras and
tries to "avoid unnecessary duplication"
on the Ph.D level Presnetly only the
Chapel Hill, Raleigh and Greensboro
branches have granted doctorate degrees.
Friday said it is hoped the Chapel Hill
campus will peak at about 18,500 to
19,000 students. He added that the
administration must review many factors
each year before setting a limit.
For the first time in the history of the
University, students, were involved in
high-level policy making throughout in
drafting of the Disruptions Policy.
The new policy has been under careful
consideration since May 25, he said, by a
committee of students, faculty,
administration officials and trustees.
The committee has met seven or eight
times during the summer, according to
Friday, and presented the policy to the
Executive Committee of the Consolidated
University in July.
Going before the Trustees in October,
the policy "carries the support of every
member."
The old Disruptions Policy came under
come" several times in fcis short speech,
putting stress on the words which hare
evolved into the by-word for his
administration this year.
Greeting the students as "burns, effete
snobs and rotten apples," Bello told them
those words were mild "compared to
what the hardhats in the streets of New
York, to what a governor on the west
coast and to what a television
commentator thirty miles away in
Raleigh have said about the student
generation on the nation's campuses."
Education, Bello told the students, is
not all classes and texts.
For Bello, education has been the
1967 riots in the streets of Newark and
Detroit, the 1967 March on the Pentagon,
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bindery equipment sometime in the
future. ,
According to a cost-analysis prepared
with assistance from Dr. James Littlefield
of the School of Business Administration,
there is no place in Chapel Hill that
specializes in photography or binding.
Also there are no facilities in the
Durham-Chapel Hill area for commercial
design work.
Supporters of the shop say profits can
bring about establishment of a
student-financed scholarship fund, an
independent Daily Tar Heel and a student
government independent of student fees.
The print shop, as pointed out in the
cost-analysis, will enable the Daily Tar
Heel to push back its deadlines and work
with greater efficiency.
Tom Bello, student body president,
said he is hopeful the print shop will
enable Student Government to increase
student services. and decrease student fees
within the next few years.
fire last spring when many students
signed petitions claiming that the policy
contained too many ambiguities. Friday
said student members of the committee
pointed out the unclear statements.
"Most of these if not all have been
removed," Friday said.
The task of finding a new chancellor
to replace J. Carlyle Sitterson, who has
decided to resign after this year, has been
placed in the hands of a committee
headed by Rep. Ike F. Andrews of Siler
City. The committee met for the first
time Saturday.
Serving on the 14-member committee
are faculty, Student Body President
Tommy Bello, Trustees and the president
of the Alumni Association. ,
"I expect them to move right in and
get to work," Friday commented. He said
about 12 nominations have already been
received, but several hundred are
expected before the search is complete.
Friday said that anyone, including
students, can make suggestions for a new
the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther
and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, the bloody
battles in the street! of Chicago in 196S,
Woodstock in 1969, the escalation of the
Indochina War which came with the
invasion of Cambodia and the deaths of
students at Kent State and Jackson State
last spring.
These are experiences students are not
told to expect, Bello said, and the one
thing they teach is that the destruction
must end.
The University is the one place to stop
destroying and to begin building, he told
the students.
Together," he said, using a phrase he
spoke often last spring, "we can generate
a community founded not on hatred but
on love, not on war but on peace, not on
selfishness but on mutual recognition that
we are all equals, all brothers and sisters.
Together," he continued, "we can set
an example that might save a dying
nation."
Sitterson, addressing his last freshman
convocation as Chancellor, spoke also of
the problems facing today's world-the
population explosion, increasing
pollution of the air, water and natural
environment, poverty, national rivalries,
racial tensions and war.
"In a world of such travail, there is an
understandable tendency in your
generation to regard itself as the specially
damned," he said.
"But take no comfort in self-pity. The
times call not for despair, but for
courage," he continued.
Speaking on the role of the University
in society, Sitterson said, "It is not the
primary function of the University as an
institution to correct the ills of society.
"It is the function of the University,"
he continued, "to educate and send forth
into society graduates who are
determined to improve society.
"The time has come to recognize the
difference between the two
f unc turnsThe University best aids
society by doing what it is best able to
do."
And what the University does best,
Sitterson said, is educate.
The University, Sitterson said, must be
a place where freedom flourishes, where
knowledge is revered, where dissent is
tolerated and where the highest goal is
wisdom.
Friday's convocation was Sitterson's
last as chancellor. Next fall he will return
to his duties as a Kenan Professor of
history.
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Sitterson the man. The profile
is, by Associate Editor Rick
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count of the events here in the
aftermath of the Cambodian
offensive and the deaths at
Kent State. Pages 4 & 5.
The University administration
underwent a major overhaul
this summer with the creation
of several new positions within
the Office of Student Affairs.
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chancellor. Anyone .wanting to make a
recommendation can submit it to Bello.
A native of Raphine, Va., Friday is a
graduate of N.C. State University. After
serving in World War I Pas a Naval ensigh,
Friday entered law school at UNC-Chapcl
Hill.
He served as assistant dean of students
at UNC from 1948-1951. He became
administrative assistant to President
Gordon Gray in 1951 and was give the
title of secretary of the University.
When Gray resigned in 1955, and
when his temporary successor, J. Harris
Parks, also resigned, Friday was named
acting president.
Friday became president in 1956 at
the age of 36. Since he assumed office,
the University has expanded from three
to six campuses, adopted a code of
academic freedom, developed an
educational television network, expanded
facilities, transformed the Research
Triangle area and experienced growth in
service to the state.
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