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by Linda Livengood
Staff Writer
At present there is no significant
appropriation of funds for student
financial assistance for this summer and
for the coming academic year.
The Nixon Administration proposals
for financial assistance would provide
$622 million for the new Basic
Opportunity Grants (BOG) for 1973-74.
$250 million has been proposed for the
College Work-Study Program (CWSP).
These combined programs would
Henderson
goes co-ed
for the fall
by Carol Wilson , ,
Staff Writer '
All three dorms constituting
Henderson Residence College (HRC) will
be coed next fall, presenting a variety of
living alternatives to HRC residents.
Specific plans for converting the dorms
were adopted Tuesday night at a meeting
between Robert Kepner, director of
Residence Life, and the Henderson
Living-Learning Steering Committee.
Full implementation of the plans will
depend on the responses of Connor,
Winston and Alexander residents on their
room preference sheets to be distributed
today. Each dorm member will be asked
where he would most like to live next
year, given the present plan. Kepner said
that Henderson students must show a
willingness to change rooms within the
residence college as well as interest in all
four forms of coed living offered..
The arrangement which will go up for
approval is as follows:
Winston: first floor all male
second floor room-by-room coed
third floor all male
fourth floor half male, half female
Connor: first floor all male
second, third and fourth floors all
female
Alexander: section by section coed
five sections male, four female
This specific plan was first brought up
at Tuesday night's meeting by Richard
Stevens, assistant residence director of
Henderson. Stevens told the DTH it was
agreed upon because it "met the needs of
the .most students while displacing the
fewest number."
Input from the students themselves
was an important part of the final
decision. A survey taken Sunday night of
all Henderson residents who plan to
return next year measured the relative
popularity of the different forms of
coeducation as well as each student's
willingness to change rooms or dorms in
order to achieve any coed arrangement.
The survey showed that a majority of
the students living in each dorm wanted
coeducation in some form. It also
indicated the break-down floor-by-floor
of which type section by section,
floor-by-floor, or room-by-room the
present residents most prefer. The final
plan was set up to best accommodate
each individual floor.
Sign-up for any of the three dorms in
the living-learning center will be open to
Henderson residents first. "For the
purpose of sign-up," Stevens said, "we
will consider all of Henderson as one unit
that is to switch rooms within the
college won't require drawing a lottery
number." Once Henderson residents have
been accommodated, other students may
sign up through the campus-wide lottery.
Campus referendum April 18
CGC sets constitutional changes
by Bill Welch
S.aff Writer
Five amendments to the Student
Constitution, including one which would
make it easier to recall elected officers.'
were approved by the Campus Governing
Council (CGC) Tuesday night.
The council set April 18 as the date for
a campus-wide special election to vote on
the approved amendments.
Action was postponed on another
amendment that would make the
presidency of the Carolina Union an
elected office.
If the recall procedure amendment is
approved in the referendum, the number
apparently make more money available to
assist needy students than is presently
appropriated.
"The pioblems with these proposals
result from the President's budget.
Congressional controversy and delay,"
stated William M. Geer, director of
student aid.
"According to the Education
Amendments of 1972, the BOG program
has pre-conditions for funding. The
existing federal programs must be funded
at $130.1 million for Supplementary
Educational Opportunity Grants (SEOG),
$237.4 million for College Work-Study
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Phylis Howard and Ken Bagan met under a stop sign.
It was the stop sign outside Chase Cafeteria, to be exact, and they were conducting
a psychology experiment researching the tendency of some people to run stop signs.
They've been dating ever since. '
Just over a month ago, Ken, now a senior, realized that Phylis's birthday was
coming up on March 1 st. and he decided that he woud like to give her the stop sign.
He wrote a number of letters to a number of people with no response. He even
considered digging it up himself.
Finally, though, he wrote to Governor Jim Holshouser, to see if he could help. And
what should arrive, postmarked March 1st, (Phylis's birthday) but a letter from
Governor Jim saying he'd passed the matter into the hands of Bruce Lentz, secretary
of transportation.
Lentz put Henry Clegg, assistant administrator of the Highway Department, onto
the case, and Clegg dispatched a Mr. Rollins, Seventh District engineer'ng supervisor,
to Chapel Hill.
And so it was that, yesterday morning, a solemn group gathered round the Chase
Cafeteria stop sign.
"Mr. Bagan, is this the sign?""Yes. Mr. Rollins, it is.""Dig it up, boys."
So Phylis got her stop sign, and all Ken had to do was donate $10 to the Highway
Department.
of signatures needed on a petition to
recall CGC members and the student
body president will be set at 15 percent
of the qualified voters.
Another constitutional amendment
that received approval allows the
Graduate and Professional Student
Federation (GPSF) to appoint judges for
the graduate student courts. The student
body president currently ha the power
to appoint the judges.
An amendment to set the Carolina
Union's portion of individual student fees
at one-third for both graduate and
undergraduate students instead of a
specified amount also was approved and
will be voted on in the April referendum.
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Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Thursday, April 5. 1973
Aid.
jobs (CWSP) and S286 million for
National Direct Student Loans (NDSL)
for the academic year 1973-74," stated
Geer.
The President's budget eliminated the
SEOG and the NDSL programs for next
year. The only programs included in the
budget are the CWSP and the BOG
program.
According to Geer, "by definition
BOG meets only one-half or less of the
educational cost of a poverty-stricken
student. The BOG funds are not
sufficient for any student. The only other
program currently considered is the
small package?
A sign
that he
loves her
The amendment- requiring the
president of the Union to be elected was
introduced "to make the Union more
n-sponsive to the students." council
n. ember Jim Becker said.
A constitutional amendment is not
specifically required to make' ' such, a
ihange in the office. Becker said, but
added that the change is so important an
amendment is needed.
Union President Gary Phillips spoke
against the amendment at the meeting. "I
don't think this will open up the Union,
but will make it more inefficient. I would
hate to see it dissolve into a political
office." he said.
inadequate CWSP appropriation."
The only option a needy student has is
to borrow money from the Federally
Insured Student Loan (FISL) program.
This is a bank loan repaid at seven and
one half percent rate of interest. The
NDSL are repaid at a three percent
interest rate.
Money loaned on the NDSL program is
repaid to the University and loaned to
oth -.-ciy students. FISL money is
repaid to the bank making the loan.
In 1972 the subsidy cost the
government $196 million. The cost was
S245 million in 1973. The President
recommended $310 million for the 1974
fiscal year.
"This will increase uncontrollably if
this program continues and expands to
match the BOG program." stated Geer.
Geer recommended that the programs
presently funded by the federal
government be continued at this year's
levels. This would fund the NDSL
program at $286 million, CWSP at $270
million and SEOG at $2 1 0 million.
"We went to Washington to urge that
Cameron West offered,
too Illinois school BOt
by William March
Staff Writer
Dr. Cameron P. West, UNC's vice
president for planning and a central figure
in the reorganization of North Carolina
higher education, has been offered the
post of executive director of the Board of
Higher Education in Illinois. :
West told the DTH he has not yet
decided whether to'takeUru? job;- but -he -has
expressed interest, according to Don
Prince, chairman of the Illinois board.
West and his wife will go to Illinois this
weekend to discuss the offer.
"It's an exciting possibility," West said.
"The state of Illinois has one of the most
outstanding higher education systems in
the country. Their annual budget is
three-quarters of a billion dollars and
they have long been a leader in higher
education."
West also said the post "holds a
tremendous potential for leadership."
Unofficial comments from UNC
officials indicate a strong possibility that
West will take the job in Illinois.
West indicated that his decision would
come after he consulted with officials in
Illinois this weekend.
He said that the salary in the new
position would be higher than the
$38,500 per year he earns in his present
post, but would not specify the offer he
was made. The previous holder of the
Illinois post, James Holderman, received
$43,000.
During the controversial General
Assembly session on the restructuring of
higher education, West was the chief
advisor to Gov. Robert Scott, and a chief
spokesman for unification of North
Carolina higher education into the
present University system.
"More than any other individual, he
impressed upon me the need for some
action to be taken," Scott said of West.
UNC President William Friday, as a
representative of the UNC Board of
Trustees, was a spokesman for retaining
the system as it was.
Scott's allies in the controversy
succeeded in including in the
Today's weather
Decreasing cloudiness and cool with
an expected high in the 50's and a low
tonight expected in the low 30's. Near
zero chance of precipitation.
The council will consider the
amendment again at its next meeting.
In other action, the CGC passed a bill
to move the poll in the Naval ROTC
building to Whitehead Dormitory for all
campus elections. The site is for
off-campus and Whitehead residents.
The council also passed a bill
establishing an additional category for
social expenses in the 1972-73 budgets
for graduate and professional
departments and schools.
The nominations of Reid James for
attorney general and Steve Jones for
student treasurer were confirmed by the
council at the meeting without debate.
some kind of appropriations be made as
soon as possible. At the present we have
no way of making financial awards
because we don't know how much money
we will have," stated Geer.
Geer recommended that the BOG
program be implemented during the
1974-75 fiscal year. Geer recommended
the postponement because the "exact
amount of a BOG for any student can't
be determined until Congress
appropriates and the student applications
are printed, distributed nationally,
returned by individual students and
processed nationally. With no experience
to go on, it seems unlikely that all of this
can be done even by late summer."
Even if and when all of these
uncertainties are settled, almost every
student eligible for BOG must have other
funds.
The BOG program allows a maximum
of SI, 400 to be awarded to a needy
student. This is tempered by the
stipulation that it only pay half the
amount r f a year's costs. The total cost
for an academic year at UNC is $2,100.
restructuring proposal the post of senior
vice president of UNC. This post has
never been filled. According to unofficial
comments made at the time, the post was
designed for West.
West', a native of eastern North
Carolina and a former professor and
academic dean at Pfeiffer College, began
urging Scott to push for a strong system
to control the growth of higher education
soon after .Scott's, inauguration ial 969.
West was at that time director of the N.C:
Board of Higher Education, which was
merged with the Board of Governors of
UNC after restructuring.
"I regret the possibility of losing West
because of his keen interest and great
knowledge of higher education in North
Carolina," said Scott. "But this offer
recognizes the broad abilities and
contributions he could make. He's well
known as an expert all over the country."
Prince announced in a meeting of the
Illinois board Tuesday that West was his
choice. At that meeting, the board voted
to offer West the job. Prince was head of
a search committee to choose a successor
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Chapel Hill's mayor launches another of Alpha Phi Omega's Campus Chest charity
events. This drive will be held downtown April 7. With Mayor Lee are (from left)
project co-chairmen Hamp Howell and Rick Leinwand and ZBT sweetheart Virginia
Stewart. (Photo by Richard Berkowitz)
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William Geer
This would make UNC students eligible
for $1,050 when the funds are disbursed.
According to Geer, the cost of
providing each needy student with the
amount to which he is entitled would be
$1.2 billion. The Nixon proposal for the
BOG program is S622 million or
approximately half of what is needed.
This would reduce the amount given to
individual UNC students to $575. Of the
possible $1,400 available under the BOG
law only S575 will actually be made
available to individual UNC studc.ts if
and when the funds are disbursed.
for Holderman.
"He is my choice because of his ability
to run an efficient administration, and his
ability to communicate with a wide
constituency of students, faculty and
citizens," Prince said.
The Illinois board coordinates the
activities of four multicampus systems
and the state's system of junior colleges.
The Illinois higher education system
-spends about three times as much money
as the N.C. system.
The executive director is the chief
administrator for the board and generally
has wide influence on the state's colleges
and universities. Holderman, appointed to
the post by former Illinois Governor
Richard Ogilvie, was considered one of
the most powerful men in Illinois higher
education.
West has been offered the post
effective May I .
While West headed the state board
here, it was active in attempts to raise
teachers' salaries, upgrade libraries and
increase expenditures for predominantly
black campuses.