The Tar Heel
Thursday, July 22, 1971
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by Lynn Smith
" Staff Writer
Office and activity space for many dormitory projects will be converted to living
areas in aii effort to ease the bousing shortage this fall.
Spencer, Stacy, Parker, Conner, and Winston are among the dorms which will lose
social rooms and office space. Many of the double rooms in the main campus
dormitories will be tripled because of the overenrollment.
South campus high-rises cannot have more than two people to a room because of
sanitation regulations. However, they will be affected by the crowding.
Every available room, including space formerly used for projects such as the
Morrison counseling service and the new South Campus Student Union, will be filled
with new students.
Robert Wilson, former Governor of Morrison and now resident life advisor to the
student body president, commented on the situation in an interview Tuesday.
"We were just beginning to get some dynamic programs going. We were going to
start a co-op on South Campus where students could get things cheaper, but it's been
axed. We just haven't got room for anything."
Wilson cited existing projects which had suffered set-backs because of the crowding.
"The Morrison Student Union was going very well. ..we had a conference room, a
counseling service, study and game rooms...it was a congregating place for people who
just wanted to mess around. It's been cancelled. The counseling team has been forced
back.
"The counseling team is back where they were before the expansion last year. That
space hasn't been taken away yet."
Wilson fears that the changes will cause students to blot all the good things about
residence life out of their minds and develop a negative attitude toward student
government and the administration.
Robert F. Kepner, director of the new Department of Residence Life, said that his
office was working to alleviate the problem as. quickly as possible, but that some
tripling would continue until the spring semester.
He pointed out that tripling was not a new phenomenon at UNC. "In the past the
University has sometimes been forced to put four people in a double room," Kepner
said, "but we're not going to do anything like that."
Kepner also listed the programs that will continue. The two international projects,
Project Hinton, the new Academic Living Area in Morrison and the counseling services
of Morehead and Morrison Residence Colleges will not be adversely affected.
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It was too hot to shop, so Mrs. Lloyd and her son Johnny decided to rest and have a
cool drink. The bottle was a bit heavy for Johnny but the soda tasted fine. (Staff
photo by Johnny Lindahl)
by Norman Black
Staff Writer
Gov. Robert Scott has suggested the
creation of a special center in North
Carolina to implement reforms within the
state's 16 public universities.
Speaking at a legislative work
conference of the Southern Regional
Board, Scott said he will recommend the
center to the state Board of Higher
Education when it meets next month.
"We can only ask the colleges to
reform themselves so long. Now the time
has come that we have got to do
something," Scott said.
Scott continued by saying that the
main thrust of the center he proposes
would be in the area of revitalization.
He suggested the center could look at
such questions as:
-Cutting undergraduate instruction
from four to three years.
-A non-residential bachelor's degree
and re-examination of the concept of a
campus as the site of college instruction.
-Collaborative agreements between
public and private universities, especially
in graduate programs and international
studies.
-An expansion of the internship
programs in which academic students
spend part of their time in jobs similar to
those they are preparing for.
Consolidated University President
William C. Friday was quite familiar with
the innovations that Scott suggested.
'The Carnegie Foundation, of which I
am a member, has been studying many of
these ideas for quite a while. I have voted
for innovation along these lines," Friday
said. 'The University of North Carolina is
now in the process of implementing and
studying many, of these programs."
When considering Scott's proposal to
reduce undergraduate instruction from
four to three years, Friday said he was
very receptive.
"This seems to be what young people
want to do-they want to have travel or
work experience during their college
education. I've seen the results from
people who do this-they come back
eager to study, with a definite plan to
follow."
But Friday was quick to point out that
a large number of college students would
want to remain on the four-year
curriculum.
"What we're talking about is building
an educational opportunity for
individuals, not for everybody."
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by Norman Black
Staff Writer
The Executive Committe of the UNC
Board of Trustees has passed a motion
which would give temporary approval to
the present system of allowing the
University Trust Fund to handle student
fees.
The motion was passed, however, with
the provision that this system could be
reviewed as to its fairness and
effectiveness, and that further action
could be taken if necessary.
The controversy surrounding the
handling of student fees arose last
January, when Consolidated University
President William C. Friday instructed the
chancellors of the Consolidated
University to transfer all student fees to
the University trust fund.
At that time, Chancellor J. Carlylc
Sitterson removed the funds from the
Student Activities Office.
There were two reasons for
transferring the funds, according to
Claiborne Jones, assistant to the
chancellor.
First, the slate auditor could not
legally audit the student activities funds,
and secondly, since we could not have the
funds audited, we could not assure
anyone that we had done what wc said
wc had done with the funds," Jones said.
Student Body President Joe Stallings
was not satisfied with the subcommittee
report.
My disagreement is that they
addressed themselves to the procedural
aspects of the system rather than to the
basic philosophy dictating who should
control student fees," Stallings said.
"Their position was thai fees had to be
in the trust fund for reasons of
accountability. I still believe the
University can account for the fees if
necessary when the money is in the
Student Activities Office," he added.
"The Office lias a system of pre-auditing,
and those books are open to anyone in
the University."
Stallings concluded his argument by
saying it was illogical to indict the
Student Activities Office , because
problems may arise .in the future, when
there have never been any in the past.
The motion was made and passed
during the Executive Committee meeting
on July 9.
The committee had appointed a
subcommittee to investigate the new
system of handling student fees. The
subcommittee presented ils findings at
the meeting, and temporary approval of
the new system was given.
During the meeting, the Executive
Committee also approved in
administration recommendation that all
faculty members receive a raise in salary.