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iSV Wars Of Editorial Freedom
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Thursday, September 6, 1973
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Perhaps you've noticed this mysterious bespeckled man
whizzing about campus on this spiffy Honda. The mystery man
is none other than Fred Schroeder, an assistant dean of
No major house-cleaning
student affairs here. You can almost hear the "yippee" as he
goes by.
(Staff photo by Gary Lobraico)
WCU chief takes office
by Janet Langston
Staff Writer
No major faculty shakeups .are. planned .
by acting Chancellor W. BugJTMcEhiry
when he takes office at Western Carolina
University Sept. 10.
McEniry (and his permanent
successor) received authorization from
the UNC Board of Governors to replace
any "deans, division chairmen and
department heads" he believes have,
demonstrated such "incompetence,
neglect of duty or misconduct" to render
them unfit for employment at WCU. A
special Commrtte of Inquiry made the
recommendation after its month-long
study during July and August of WCU's
earlier student and faculty unrest.
"I'm " not going to WCU to clean
house," Mc Eniry said. "I'm going to try
to help them become the University they
want to be, and to get them ready for a
permanent chancellor."
"On the other hand, if in carrying out
my duties, I should become convinced
that someone wouldn't want to
cooperate, then it would be my duty as
chancellor to let him go."
McEniry said he has no "laundry list"
in mind as he goes to WCU.
Citizens aid planners
by Marty Shore
Staff Writer
Chapel Hill citizens will help plan the
location of new state roads in Chapel Hill
as a result of action taken by the town's
Planning Board Tuesday night.
The board voted to allow citizens to
work with the town's planning staff
which is currently making revisions to the
department of transportation's state
thoroughfare plan for the Chapel
Hill-Carrboro area.
The plan, adopted in 1965 and revised
in 1968, will be revised again this year by
the transportation department. The
Planning Board has the privilege of
suggesting revisions to the department.
The 440 citizens who petitioned the
board want to make sure the revisions
include citizens' objections. The specific
complaints concern proposed roads which
would go through Battle Park and along
the edge of Bolin Creek. Other citizens
oppose a road which would run through
the Colony Woods section of Chapel Hill
south of Ephesus Road.
In other action, the Planning Board
voted to encourage the Board of
Aldermen to prohibit development on'
land where flooding has occurred in the
past.
The board is concerned that increased
development in flood plain areas will
cause Chapel Hill to have situations like
that last spring in Raleigh when stores at
Crabtree Valley Mall were flooded.
McEniry follows former Chancellor
Jack K. Carlton who will accept a post as
an assistant to Consolidated University
President William Friday's staff. Carlton's
resignation came after 12 months of
unrest at WCU.
Carlton faced difficulties from the
outset when he came to ECU as
chancellor in August, 1972, the
Committe reported. All the material
blame cannot be placed on Carlton, it
stated, because the reasons for the
"present controversy are diverse and
complex."
The report contended that past events
and the conduct of many individuals had
contributed to the current situation.
Some unnamed faculty members were
accused in the report of engaging in
actions which instigated, aggravated or
prolonged the controversy at WCU. To
facilitate its efforts to restore the campus
to "normalcy," the committee called for
an "acting" job status for faculty and
staff at WCU until either McEniry or his
successor changes it to "permanent."
No action has been taken against the
faculty yet, but President Friday warned,
"There could be further changes."
"It's up to McEniry," Friday said in a
press conference Aug. 30.
Procedures concerning academic
tenure for the Consolidated University
were approved last spring in chapter six
of the University Code. Each campus,
however, must submit its owrt specific
tenure policies and regulations to the
president and Board of Governors not
later than Dec. 1, 1973.
Interest in judicial ways
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by United Press International
PARIS-Three armed Palestinian
guerillas seized the Saudi Arabian
embassy and an undetermined number of
hostages today, threatening to blow up
the building unless they were granted free
passage out of France.
The guerillas also said they were
demanding the release of a leading
Palestinian guerrilla serving a life sentence
in Jordan.
The guerrillas initially gave police a
5 p.m. noon (EDT) deadline to provide
them a car to the airport and a plane out
of France, but extended the deadline
twice.
"We do not want another Munich,"
they declared at 6p.m. 1p.m. EDT,
referring to the Munich Olympic massacre
one year ago today.
Hundreds of police wearing helmets
and bullet-proof vests and including a .
team of sharpshooters surrounded the
greystone building in the swank 16th
district not far from the Arc de Triomph.
But police Inspector Jean Espinasse
said: "We will not attack the embassy
without a written request from the Saudi
Arabian ambassador because this is
extraterritorial property. If the guerrillas
take a diplomatic car to the airport, we
will not attack them either."
The Saudi ambassador was in Algiers
today attending the summit conference
of non-aligned nations.
An Arab journalist who transmitted a
threat from the guerrillas to blow up the
Super box sells
'research aids9
by Nancy Kochok
Staff Writer
No more Superboxes will be sold in
UNC's Student Stores, General Manager
Thomas Shetle said. It was brought to his
attention on Monday that included in
each Superbox was an ad for the National
Research Bank of California.
The ad encourages students "who are
tired of 'all nighters for term papers and
exams" to invest $1 for a catalogue that
lists the titles and describes the content
of their available "reasearch aids.
The faculty of the English Department
brought the enclosure to the attention of
Shetley. Doris Betts, director of freshman
and sophomore English, said she first saw
the ad when a graduate student brought
her a copy.
She said the company was advocating
"an extremely dishonest and bad act,"
and that the Student Store, as an arm of
the University, was dispensing material
that would lead to obvious violations of
the honor code.
Betts said she has alerted the freshman
English faculty to the possibility of a
student attempting to hand in a
professional terra paper as his own work.
'This would defeat the whole purpose
of the freshman English, she said.
"English 1 and 2 are useless if not a
learning experience for the student."
Weather
TODAY: Partly cloudy with a good
chance of thundershowers this
afternoon or tonight. High Is
expected to reach the 90 s and the low
tonight Is expected In the 70's. There
Is thirty percent chance of
precipitation. Outlook: cloudy.
Shetley withdrew Superbox from sale
as soon as he was notified of the term
paper company's ad.
"We believe the commercial traffic in
term papers and dissertations to be a
threat to honest work and we would have
no part in sanctioning such conduct," he
said.
The store ran into a similar problem a
few years ago, Shetley said, when
material was inserted in Superbox th3t
give information cir.ccntnccptivts-Th
boxes were constructed so that the
offensive material could be removed and
the product remained on the shelves.
The present construction of Superbox,
however, makes it impossible to remove
the term paper ad without destroying the
box itself. Shetley said the box is made so
that the store is prevented from
thoroughly investigating the contents of
Superbox before it is put up for sale.
Between 1,000 and. 15,000
Superboxes have already been sold.
Shetley said Superbox has agreed to take
back the remaining products. He said the
company will be paid for those already
sold.
"I am considering writing a letter to
the National Research Bank,' Shetley
said, "requesting that if any Carolina
student responds to their ad, that they
send the student back his dollar.
building said the guerrillas told him there
were three women among the hostages,
two of them French secretaries.
An unidentified Arab ambassador was
quoted by Radio One, an independent
station, as saying five Saudi Arabian
diplomats were also among the hostages.
He said they included the consul, the
cultural counsellor, his deputy, a
secretary and one othet diplomat.
Shortly before the 6p.m. deadline, the
ambassadors of Lebanon and Kuwait held
new talks with the guerrillas, using a
megaphone and shouting through an
embassy window.
An Arabic speaker quoted the
guerrillas as saying: "We do not want
another Munich."
The guerrillas said: "We are waiting.
We want a bus to take us to the airport
and we want the Kuwaiti ambassador to
go with us."
The ambassadors replied that no Arab
plane was ready. The guerrillas said a
French one would do, but were told this
was not acceptable.
A police spokesman said: " One of the
hostages tried to commit suicide by
slitting the veins on his wrist with a piece
of the broken window.
"There was a shot-possibly fired by a
panicked gueirilla. Then the guerrillas
threw the man possibly a Saudi diplomat,
out of the window and an ambulance
rushed him to a hospital."
The dramatic development came 1 1
hours after three Palestinians invaded the
embassy and took the hostages-including
three women and five Saudi Arabian
diplomats-demanding a plane to take
them out of France.
RA's to have
single rooms
The problems of dorm room
overcrowding have been eased to some
extent. The Residence Advisors (RA)
who have roommates are in a minority.
According to Hugh Stohler,
coordinator of residence hall programs
for the Department of Housing, "Most
RA's don't have roommates now. It is
difficult to have accurate figures on the
number of RA's who still have
roommates."
Stohler said, "RA roommates are
almost eliminated. There should be very
few RA's who still have roommates."
According to Stohler, part of the
housing crunch was caused by the
unusual number of freshmen who
reported to campus.
"Fewer students dropped out than we
expected. The majority of freshman
turned up," Stohler said.
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by David Klinger
Staff Writer
Encouraged that the Senate investigation of the
Watergate affair has heightened people's interest in the
judicial process, the North Carolina Law Center is
helping to insure that this interest becomes more than
just a passing fad.
Initially organized as the Institute of Civic Education,
the Law Center was first officially funded by the
General Assembly in 1969 to encourage legal education
among North Carolina attorneys and the general public
through research grants and legal publications.
Projects undertaken by the Law Center have'met with
enough success that officials are expanding the services
of the center to state departments and agencies.
In outlining the purposes of the funding organization.
Director Robert A. Melett said, 'The center is receptive
to suggestions from anybody on projects that might be
studied. We want to get the students involved more in
the center's work.
"We hope to engage undergraduates and high school
students more in discussions of problems related to the
law, such as Constitutional rights and limitations and
voting rights."
Consumer rights and responsibilities under present
North Carolina law are the focus of one project
sponsored by Law Center funds. Young attorneys are
acquainting high school students in several public school
systems with their rights as consumers.
Projects on ecology have also received the support of
the center.
"We have .a very good project being developed in the
area of the environment and coastal zoning. The project
is essentially a monograph for legislators and landowners
in the coastal area," Melott said.
Although-Melott is optimistic about the success the
center has had, he is cautious. "The only experience
we have had is with very small pilot projects last year.
The report we have is that they were received very well.
That was such a small sample, however, that few
conclusions can be drawn. We're really waiting for this
year to get a critical analysis of the program."
Some reexamination of the Law Center's projects in
public school systems is being conducted, according to
Melott, to decide whether law-related material can best
be taught by young attorneys or under the supervision
of public School teachers.
"There are a lot of possibilities, and we're not sure of
the best way to do it," Melott said. He suggested
prepackaging teaching materials and using video tape as
two areas that may be explored for future integration
into public school projects.
Ideas for projects are reviewed by the Law Center
board before being approved for funding. Chaired by
Melott, the board consists of six law school faculty
members, the editor of theLaw Review and the director
of the Institute of Government.
The General Assembly appropriates $50,000 annually
to the Law Center, and most of the money is distributed
to students and faculty in the form of $1,000 to $3,000
grants.
The center promotes a system of continuing
education among North Carolina attorneys by
distributing law publications and organizing and
sponsoring learning institutes for law school alumni. It
also maintains a clearinghouse of information about
research in progress by faculty members and students.
The Law Teaching Clinic, a project sponsored by the
Association of American Law. Schools with the UNC
Law School providing the administrative leadership was
held this summer in Boulder. Colo.
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The football stadium can look downright weird If you gaze at it from the right angles.
If you stagger up the brick sidewalk drunk one night, you might even be frightened by
the massive heap of concrete.
(Staff photo by Tom Randolph)