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Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Friday, September 15, 1972
Founded February 23, 1833
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United Press International
WASHINGTON The Senate approved
a Soviet-American agreement to slow the
arms race Thursday, but served notice
that the five-year pact would be
unacceptable as the basis for a permanent
treaty.
The agreement, setting limits for the
first time on the number of offensive
missiles deployed by the two
superpowers, won overwhelming approval
in a resolution that now goes to a
Senate-House conference committee for
final approval
The interim agreement was approved
87 to 2, with Sens. James B. Allen,
D-Ala., and Ernest F. Hollings, D-S.C,
voting no. Hollings said "I cannot be a
party to approving Soviet military
superiority over the United States."
Prior to approval, the Senate attached
a White House-backed amendment
demanding strict, numerical "equality" in
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'Grievous error
BsM
by William March
Staff Writer
The central committee of the Black
Student Movement (BSM) has charged in
an open letter to the Office of Student
Affairs and the University Administration
that the Student Affairs Office
committed a "grievous error" in
appointing Elliott Stephenson as assistant
in the Department of Student Life
without prior consultation with and
notification of the BSM.
Much of Stephenson's new job will
involve recruiting new black and other
minority students and advising minority
freshmen and transfers.
"We want to make it clear," said
Warren Carson, chairman of the BSM
Central Committee, "that we have no
objection to Elliott Stephenson himself.
We only object to his being appointed
without consultation of the BSM."
The letter, dated Sept. 12, charges
"the arrogance of the Office of Student
Affairs is outdated, unwarranted and
'insulting" in that the office "has seen fit
to continue to try to pick at its discretion
a black student to administer its program
without prior consultation and
notification of the Black Student
Movement on this campus."
The letter charges the University is
continuing an error it has made before.
"All through last year at meetings held
with Deans (James O.) Cansler and (Fred)
Schroeder, Robert Kepner and other
administrative officials, the point was
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avoid even the strain
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intercontinental missiles as the basis for a
treaty to replace the interim agreement.
The amendment was sponsored by
Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D-Wash.), a
long-time skeptic of Soviet military
intentions who has a close alliance with
the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Its passage was a
blow to arms control advocates, who
charged that it would sour the Strategic
Arms Limitation Talks (SALT and
weaken the doctrine of strategic
"sufficiency" that the United - States
needs oniy enough nuclear weapons to
assure the destruction of the Soviets in
lf like Santa
by Cathey Bracken
Staff Writer
"It's like Santa Claus," said UNC Vice
Chancellor for Business Joe Eagles,
commenting upon the numerous
suggestions . that have been offered
concerning the use of proceeds from the
sale of the University utilities.
Eagles declined to issue any official
statement relating to the channeling of
the money received from the sale of the
utilities, citing the prematurity of such
speculations.
The UNC Board of Governors decided
at its meeting last Friday to sell the
University-owned utilities electric,
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made quite clearly that the University
had erred when it appointed Harry Jones
as special advisor to black freshmen
withput prior consultation ..."
Cansler is associate dean of student
affairs, and Schroeder is newly-appointed
associate dean for student life.
"My initial response to the letter,"
said Cansler, "is regret that it is addressed
to no specific person and bears no
personal signature simply the BSM
Central Committee. This makes it
difficult to deal with. We would be happy
to consult any student who wanted to
come in and talk to us about this
appointment, and we would, at the time
of the appointment, have talked to any
student who wanted to make his wishes
known," he said.
At the time of Harry Jones'
appointment, he was a member of the
central committee of the BSM, though I
will admit we did not specifically confer
with the BSM itself before appointing
him. Stephenson was appointed late in
August, and to my knowledge, there was
no representative of the BSM on campus
at that time." -
Cansler said he had consulted Richard
Epps, president of the student body,
various black students and administrative
officials, and other&tudent. Government
officials, before the appointment was
made.
"We will always try to get student
input before -making such an
appointment, and particularly advice
dog provide the drive.
(Staff Photo by Cliff Kolovson)
pact
case of a nuclear attack.
The new agreement, which Nixon
signed in Moscow when he was there in
May, would limit the number and size of
land-based missile launchers and
submarine-launched missiles. It is a
companion to a treaty that has already
been ratified by the Senate limiting
defensive antiballistic missile systems to
twn installations by each side.
The SALT talks are to resume this fall
in Geneva, with the aim of drafting a
more comprehensive, permanent treaty to
succeed the offensive pact.
water, sewer and telephone following
tne recommendation of the State Utilities
Study Commission.
However, the question still remains as
to whether the utilities will be sold to
private corporations or public authorities.
In- addition, the Utilities Study
Commission, specially appointed by Gov.
Bob Scott in 1971, has been retained by
the governors for the continued study of
and specific proposals concerning the
disposal of the utilities.
The study commission will also be in
charge of negotiating with the prospective
buyers, although the actual sale will be
officially concluded by the UNC Board of
Trustees. State statutes require that the
to appointment
from black studenis and faculty
members. But as far as consulting any
group of students, we feel the elected
Student Government officials are
representative, and they are the
appropriate ones to consult, though we
would speak to any representative of a
group who wished to come in and make
his views known. I regret," Cansler
continued, "that whoci. wrote this
letter did not come see us."
Donald A. Boulton, newly-appointed
dean of Student Affairs, who also figured
in the appointment, said, "I can barely
comment on a letter with no specific
addressee and no personal signature. We
did seek student input on this matter, but
from no specific group. My authority in
these matters is not mine to give away,
and I can't give it away to any one
group."
"When Jones was appointed last-year,"
said BSM chairman Carson, "we said we
should have some say in the appointment.
We made this point, and the
administration agreed, though they made
no specific promises. We feel that as a
group the BSM is a viable representative
of the minority students on campus, 98
per cent of whom are black. And we feel
we should be consulted."
" ""Cansler "said "he had talked "witffpeople
who were at the meetings referred to in
the letter, and he had no recollection of
this point being made, or of the
administration agreeing to prior
notification of the BSM.
caiiiieca
by David Eskridge
Staff Writer
UNC is not hiring enough blacks for
acuity and administrative positions,
iccording to the Faculty Council's
Committee on the Recruitment of Black
7aculty.
Last spring, the Faculty Council
ipproved a resolution that the number of
ilack faculty members should be raised in
lirect proportion to the rising number of
)lack undergraduates.
jThe council encouraged each
lepartment and school of the University
o make a thorough search for a qualified
)lacks to fill any open positions on its
eaching staff.
'At that time, the council appointed
he committee to study the problem and
e commend acceptable means to increase
.he number of black faculty.
In the report, to be given to the
council today for approval at the faculty
meeting at 4:30 p.m. in Hamilton Hall,
the committee describes UNCs record of
hiring black faculty members as
"embarassing."
The report cites that in a state where
25 per cent of the population is black,
only five per cent of the student body of
nearly 20,000 are black. Furthermore,
there are some 10 or 12 blacks on the
teaching faculty, a proportion of about
one half of one per cent.
The report states it is the University's
obligation to the people of the state to
insure the equal representation in and full
access to the resources and contributions
of both the black and white communities.
"Thus we are not proposing simply the
adoption of new techniques, although
these are very much required. We are
proposing no less than a basic
commitment to be affirmed."
The report continues, "It is highly
unlikely that any department or school of
the University would jeopardize its work
by appointing an unqualified person to its
faculty or that any committee such as
Clans
proceeds be spent only for capital
improvements.
Eagles indicated these processes may
require as much as two years to complete.
The University has owned and
operated its utilities since the turn of the
century, when no other facilities existed
which were capable of providing service
to the University. Service soon branched
out from the campus and adjacent
business and residential areas to
encompass Chapel Hill and Carrboro.
Awareness of the necessity for
significant and costly capital
improvements for the utilities led to the
reconsideration of the University's
ownership status and the formation of
the state Utilities Study Commission.
The letter rrom the BSM Central
Committee says "in the future we of the
Central Committee will NOT allow this to
happen again. We will NOT support any
black student appointed to this office in
this manner. This applies to any office set
up primarily for and about black students
on this campus. We demand to be
notified, consulted and heard."
Stephenson's duties officially began
Sept. 1, though according to Schroeder,
his work in the office began earlier,
toward the end of the summer. "We are
very happy to have him working with
us," said Schroeder. "Our expectations
concerning Elliott and his work here are
very optimistic."
Stephenson is a science education
major from Murfreesboro. He has served
as legislator and governor for James
Residence College. Last year he edited
the pamphlet "Black Notes," used in
recruiting and advising new black
students here. He is not now a member of
the BSM Central Committee.
This is the third year a student has
been appointed as an advisor to black
students for the Division of Student
Affairs. The first occupant of the post
was Kelly Alexander Jr.
"This is the third year this
appointment has been made and we have
not been consulted," said Carson. "We
did not object the first year, simply
because it was the first year of the
appointment. But we objected last year
and we will continue to object."
this one could be legitimately understood
as offering such a proposal, however
worthy the social cause."
The report blamed the problem of the
scarcity of qualified blacks on the
universities.
"The institutions have created the
problem by denying blacks an equal access
to education; if we cannot find enough
qualified blacks to furnish an appropriate
number of appointments, we should
begin immediately to train them."
The committee also said the present
system which the University uses to hire
its faculty must contain a racial factor
since the faculty is overwhelmingly white.
It said, " it is perfectly evident
that a racial factor is already present in
our appointive process and the present
Protest hampers
radio license bid
by Mike Fogler
Staff Writer
After experiencing two years of
inoperable conditions, radio station
WUNC-FM has requested a renewal of its
license only to be confronted fcy a one
man campaign mounted by Terry A.
Henderson.
Henderson, a former student of the
Department of Radio, Television and
Motion Pictures (RTVMP), opposed the
license renewal "unless and until a
minimum continuing commitment of 10
years is made in operating and capital
funds, staffing and supervision."
According to George Baer, director of
University Educational .Television and
professor of RTVMP, the station had to
apply to the Federal Communications
Commission (FCC) for the renewal of its
three-year license by Sept. 5 and then
find ways of raising the necessary funds
for operation.
The alternative to this would be to
wait another three years to apply for
license renewal.
The station initially needs $20,000 to
obtain matching funds for new
equipment including a new transmitter.
In addition WUNC-FM needs about
$90,000 as annual operating expenses.
Baer believes if the money for
operating expenses could be raised, then
the funds needed for new equipment
would become easilv available.
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Carolina Union near Raleigh Road. (Staff Photo by Cliff Kolovson)
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injustice can be rectified only by
consciously injecting a different racial
factor for as long as it is necessary to
bring the situation more nearly into
balance."
The report concluded, "Blacks must
have, in justice, equal access to the
institutions and equal opportunity to see
people like themselves in all ranges of
institutional and administrative offices.
But also the University must have equal
access to its black community for the
resources it can provide."
Along with the report, the committee
issued a preliminary manual on recruiting
black faculty members to each
department head. This manual contained
suggestions on finding qualified blacks to
fill faculty positions.
Henderson has written to both Gov.
Bob Scott and the FCC in Washington,
D.C., explaining why he opposed the
license renewal for the former
"50,000-watt Voice of the University."
He wrote to Gov. Scott that the
chairman of the RTVMP department has
filed for a renewal of the station's right to
broadcast "with no firm ideas as to how
the station can finance its expensive
equipment repairs, establish operating
capital or provide for proper staffing."
In writing to the FCC, Henderson said
if the commission granted the license to
WUNC-FM, it "will be a disservice to our
community."
: Baer told the DTH if the station
delayed in applying for license renewal,
not only would it have to wait another
three years but also the action would
increase the chances of another
organization obtaining the license instead.
The RTVMP department has organized
a committee to talk with Chancellor N.
Ferebee Taylor about how to raise the
money the station needs.
In applying for the renewal of the
license and then investigating the means
for funding the station, RTVMP
department chairman Wesley H. Wallace
explained, "We are simply proceeding
normally."
Wallace declined to make any further
comment concerning the University's or
the RTVMP department's stand on the
situation.
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