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by Lou Bonds
Staff Writer
The student body vice president
should not serve as speaker of the student
legislature, said the present holder of the
office Tuesday.
Bill Blue, student body vice president,
suggested that the speaker be elected by
the legislature. Such a move would limit
the speaker's "enormous powers," Blue
said.
Blue said he has asked Rules
Committee Chairman Susan Case to
investigate other campuses' student
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VisiltaMoe
by Terry Cheek
Staff Writer
Consolidated University President
William C. Friday said Tuesday he favors
having the visitation issue brought before
the Trustee Consultative Committee.
Student Body President Tom Bello
petitioned the university administration
Monday to let the Trustee Consultative
Committee study the visitation policy.
If the proposal is approved by Dean of
Student Affairs CO. Cathey and
Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson, "I will
consult with (the Trustee Consultative
Committee) Chairman William A. Dees
and recommend that the committee meet
with and hear ths president of the
student body," said Friday.
Friday said he hopes he will be able to
talk with Dees about the petition today.
Cathey said Monday he was "pleased"
with Bello's suggestion and would seek to
have the matter brought before the
consultative committee.
Friday said he was "confident"
Sitterson would recommend the
committee meeting.
The greatest problem will be finding a
time when "at least a majority of the
committee" can meet, according to
Friday.
"The people on the committee are
very busy people," he said.
Friday said he hopes the committee
can meet before the end of next week.
The president's advisory Trustees
Consultative Committee is composed of
student body presidents and faculty
members from the six consolidated
university campuses and university
trustees.
Friday said a committee meeting on
visitation is "appropriate."
Today Last Day
To Get Yacks
Today is the last day Yackety Yacks
will be distributed to students.
Final distribution will be from noon
until 5 p.m. in front of the Carolina
Union.
The Yack staff, unless notified, will
not be responsible for yearbooks not
picked up.
UNC
by Greg Lloyd
Staff Writer
The University Library has hit new
milestones in growth and improvement
this year and is now only three years
from the two rnillion volume mark,
according to University Librarian Dr.
Jerrold Orne.
Orne said the library (which includes
Wilson Library, the undergraduate
library, seven departmental libraries and
eight divisional libraries) collected over
100,000 new books in 1969-70 which, if
stacked side by side, would stretch for
one and one-half miles and require the
space of two-thirds of an entire stack
level.
This year's addition of books has
increased the library's total collection to
1,722,768 bound volumes, which does
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governments and offer suggestions on
delegating the speaker's responsibilities.
Blue said the move would create three
independent branches of student
government-legislative, judiciary and
executive.
The speaker's powers now include
making committee appointments, calling
special sessibns, setting the legislative
agenda and swearing in members of the
legislature.
"The speaker has many other powers
that, if he exercised them, he could grind
legislature to a halt," Blue said.
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"We used that mechanism late this
summer and it worked," he said. "This is
a proper body because more than one
campus is involved."
Friday said he will be seeing Dees
today when the Visiting Committee of
the Board of Trustees comes to Friday's
office "for a regular meeting dealing with
the budget."
The dispute began when several
residence units established
seven-day-a-week, 24-hour-a-day
visitation. The administration said
visitation had to be limited to the
following hours: noon to 1 a.m. Sunday
through Thursday and noon to 2 a.m.
Friday and Saturday.
- ..Thursday., night, student legislature
voted to allow residence units to establish
their policy, even if it violated
administration limits.
Cathey sent Bello a letter Friday
expressing regret for student legislature's
affirmation of their stand concerning the
Open House Agreement.
"By this action, the legislature has
deliberately chosen to pursue a course of
action directly in opposition to university
policy," said Cathey in the letter.
"I must advise you," he continued,
"that the action of the student legislature
in this instance cannot be accepted as
binding in any way. Neither the
legislature nor any other branch of
student government may speak for the
entire University community, determine
policy unilaterally or modify policies
made at other levels of University
administration."
Monday, in his reply, Bello said, "The
message they (the legislators) are trying
to impart is that any visitation agreement
short of a self-determined policy is
unacceptable to them and that the
principle of self-determination is more
important than the loss of
self-adjudication."
Bello charged that there were no
students present in the final stages of
formulation of the administration's
policy.
In requesting the advisory committee
meeting, Bello said although the
committee might not be any more
"understanding" than previous
administrative channels, "perhaps these
individuals, not having the vested interest
to administer for administration's sake,
will realize the futility of a restriction
that in many students' eyes is like the
apple to Adam, a fruit that will not be
disdained until one has the freedom to
bite it."
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not include some 386,680 volumes which
have been converted to microfilm.
Also, expenditures for library
materials have passed the million dollar a
year mark for the first time in the
University's history, reported Orne.
One of the major features of physical
improvement within the library is the
Undergraduate Library, which has finally
been organized and classified and is now
settling in to become a permanent
University function.
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Its attendance record of five thousand
readers daily, its extended hours (8 ajn.
to 2 a.m.) and the genuine respect with
which its users regard it have marked the
Robert B. House Library as an
outstanding success.
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As an example, Blue said the speaker
can hold legislators in session until they
pass a bill he favors. Also, he said, the
speaker can appoint committee members
who would pass policies which the
executive office advocated.
"I believe the Vice President should
hold only an ex-officio relationship with
legislature," he said. "Student legislature
should elect their own principle officers."
Blue said the vice president is busy
enough without the additional duties of
speaker. He mentioned such
responsibilities as conferring with
administration officials and aiding the
student body president as some of the
time-consuming duties he has.
The vice president should represent
the student body at large," Blue said. "It
isn't fair for the vice president to come
out of Suite C and be as close to the
legislature as he is."
Blue said the reforms would take a
great deal of time to work out but he
does not want to "hand the vice
presidency over next spring in a
patch-work kind of deal."
Reforming the office would require
massive re-writing of the Student
Legislature By-Laws, but Rules Chairman
Susan Case said a bill of reforms will be
available for legislature consideration "as
soon as possible."
Miss Case said the vice president would
still have the power to appoint special
committees, such as last year's committee
to propose an alternative funding method
for The Daily Tar Heel, but would
maintain only an ex-officio position with
the legislature.
She said a possible motivation for
Blue's motion was that "he feels the vice
president should play a more active role
in student legislature than arbitrator."
Former vice president Rafael Perez
said he agreed with Blue's suggestions and
felt it was an "admirable thing for him to
do."
"I also feel the vice president has too
much power over legislature," Perez said.
"His duties should be delegated to other
members' of the body."
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by Harry Smith
Staff Writer
The deadline for registering to vote in
the November general elections for
Chapel Hill residents is Monday, October
5.
Registration books will be open in
Chapel Hill this Thursday and Saturday at
the Town Hall from 8:30 a.m. to 12 noon
and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Registration will
also be held Thursday evening from 6
p.m. to 9 p.m.
To be eligible to vote in Orange
County, a person must be 21 years old by
November 3, must have lived in North
Carolina for one year and must have lived
in his precinct for 30 days prior to the
election.
In order to be classified a Chapel Hill
resident, students must consider Chapel
Hill their home and declare their
intention to live in Chapel Hill for an
indefinite period of time.
Alex Brock of the North Carolina
State Board of Elections said the
guidelines to local registrars "presumes
A new computer-assisted charging
system, which requires only an I.D. and
no card to fill out, has become routine
and has accelerated the check-out
procedure, Orne added.
Also, the undergraduate librarianship
has changed hands. The new librarian, D.
W. Schneider, was promoted from the
Business Administration Social Sciences
Division of the main library and begins
his first year this year.
Schneider said the undergraduate
library's main function is to serve
undergraduates and that the library's staff
of 47 full-time workers and students are
there to help students find books and
other library materials.
Commenting on the purpose of the
undergraduate library as separate from
that of the main library, Schneider said,
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Placement Service Aid
Job
Seekers
by Bill Pope
Staff Writer
More than 2,000 persons registered
with the Placement Service last year and
more than 500 employers were brought
on campus.
These figures are included in the
recently-released annual report of the
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students to be residents of the county or
state from which they came or intend to
return and further presumes that their
temporary residence in Orange County is
limited to that time when they complete
their creative pursuits."
"Students who are eligible to vote and
who feel that Chapel Hill is their home
are not discouraged from registering,"
said Roger Foushee, Chairman of the
Orange County Democratic Party.
Registered Orange County voters who
will be away on election day in November
should make an application for an
absentee ballot immediatley. Applications
should be sent to the chairman, Orange
County Board of Elections, Hillsborough,
N.C. 27278, and should state the
applicant's name, address, precinct and
reason for being out-of-town.
The YM-YWCA will maintain a voter
information booth today through Friday
from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Y-Court.
According to Pat Wood, YWCA
president, facts about registration in
Orange County and absentee voting in all
states will be available at the booth.
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sources for classroom work, whereas the
main library is suited more to research
and comprehensive study."
The way the library is designed,
Schneider continued, is to surround
students with books so there is a better
chance for the two to mix.
The undergraduate library, which has a
seating capacity of 1,758 and a book
capacity of 150,000, was planned by
Orne.
Wilson Library may only have one
entrance, but it does allow anybody in
the University community to browse
through its stacks and check out books,
Orne commented. This is quite a change
from only two years ago when the main
library was reserved for graduate students
and faculty members.
With a monthly circulation of 40,000
books, the main- library plans to convert
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Placement Service which covers the time
period from June 1, 1969 to May 15,
1970.
The Placement Service is sponsoring a
seminar Thursday for seniors and
graduate students to discuss their careers.
The seminar will explain how the
Placement Service can aid students in
finding jobs.
L.J. Smith, Jr., director of salaried
employment of Burlington Industries,
will be guest speaker at the seminar, to be
held at 7:30 p.m. in Memorial Hall.
A total of 2,137 persons registered last
year with the service. The 527 employers
who came on campus represented a
decrease of 128 from the previous year's
total of 655.
This reflects the "tightening" of the
job market for college graduates
nationwide due to the slowdown in the
economy, says Joe Galloway, director of
the Placement Service.
Falloway said it was the "tightest"
market for graduates in 1 5 years.
"It is too early to tell whether it will
be better this year," said Mrs. Deanna
Moss, assistant director. "There are
indications that in the late fall and spring,
job opportunities may pick up compared
to last year."
"We had a lot of sad faces in here last
spring among seniors who were looking
for jobs," said Mrs. Moss, who added that
the Placement Service is still attempting
to locate jobs for "numerous"
graduates.
"Many of those who did find jobs had
limited choices," she said, "while many
who had not found jobs were having a
hard time finding them."
Of the 961 seniors who registered with
the Placement Service last year, 346 had
found jobs as of the. middle of May whil
372 were still looking for jobs or were
planning to graduate in January, 1971 .
An additional 67 were planning to
enter military service, 59 were going to
graduate school and 117 failed to report
procedure similar to the one in the
undergraduate library in the near future,
he added.
He said the conversion from the
Dewey Decimal System to the Library of
Congress System of classifying books has
also added to the efficiency of the
library.
Located in Wilson Library are many
special services including
photoreproduction machines which are
open to everyone, interlibrary services
which make hard-to-find books available
for graduate students and faculty
members, and 450 open study carrels
which are assigned to graduate students
and faculty who are working on various
research subjects.
Also located in Wilson are the North
Carolina Collection,, an extensive
collection of material about North
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their employment or were not presently
seeking employment.
"I urge all seniors to get registered as
soon as possible," said Mrs. Moss, "to
enable them to get in as many job
interviews as possible."
A student must be registered in order
to be interviewed. Last year 4,488
student-employer interviews were held, a
decrease of about 700 from the year
before.
Interviews with companies across the
state and country will begin in about
three weeks.
Last year most students were caught
unprepared, Mrs. Moss said, with many
waiting until late spring to begin looking
for a job. "Even we didn't know that it
would be this bad," she said.
She told of one senior with a 3.8
average in economics who ended up a
shoe salesman in Boston.
"The interview is one of the
convenient and free ways the student can
get in touch with more employers," Mrs.
Moss commented.
"Companies hiring individuals look at
several things: the student's grades,
faculty recommendations, previous
experience and the interview."
Many employers, she explained, are
anxious to see a student, regardless of his
military status.
A student anticipating military service
may utilize the Placement Service prior to
release from active duty.
"If he waits until he is released from
the service to register," said Mrs. Moss,
"he may find it difficult to find former
professors for job recommendations."
The greatest number of job requests
by employers for 1970 UNC graduates
was in accounting, with 224, followed by
general administration, 215, sales, 194,
chemistry, 98, electronic date processing,
93 and personnel, 74.
Carolina and by North Carolinians, and a
Rare Book Collection, composed of
about 30,000 volumes including the first
collected editions of books by Ben
Jonson, Chaucer and John Milton.
Besides the undergraduate and m3in
libraries, there are eight departmental
libraries located in various building on
campus and seven division and related,
libraries associated with the University of
North Carolina Library.
The present librarian, Orne, has been
in the library business for about thirty
years.
Besides contributing some of his own
literary work to the library, he also
planned and designed the present
undergraduate library and is at least
partially responsible for the rapidly
accelerating growth of the consolidated
libraries.
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