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This is the first in a series of articles to
cppear occasionally throughout the semester
which, will poke into some of the musty
comers of the campus and recount intriguing
stories of the University's past.
John "Buck" Taylor was UNC first
Servomation.
Not only that, he simultaneously served as
a one-man Physical Plant and could have
given Roberts Associates a pointer or two. .
In January 1795, the portly Taylor "at
present of the City of Raleigh" contracted
with the UNC Board of Trustees to act as
University Steward for five years.
It was no easy job. According to the
description of duties included in Taylor's
bond of office (now in the Southern
Historical Collection in Wilson Library), the
Vol. 83, No. 18
by (Clay F. Richards
United Press International
WASHINGTON Nelson A.
Rockefeller revealed today that his
family controls more than $325 million
in oil stocks, and volunteered to put his
own holdings in blind trust if he is
confirmed as the 41st Vice President of
the United States.
In a statement prepared for the opening of
Senate Rules Committee hearings on his
nomination, Rockefeller made public a
number of fascinating long-secret details of
his family's vast wealth but only hinted at the
true magnitude of the Rockefeller empire.
Rockefeller, who said he has paid nearly
, $70 million in taxes during his lifetime, put
his personal fortune at $178.5 million, the
largest part of it in two trusts left him by his
father.
He said he would put the trusts, and his
own securities worth about $13 million, into
a blind trust "for the duration should
Congress request."
The Rockefeller hearings are expected to
continue into next week, and the full Senate
is expected to vote on his nomination before
the Oct. 1 1 adjournment date. The House is
not scheduled to take up the nomination
until after election day.
Senate Rules chairman Howard Cannon,
D-Nev., said Sunday the panel must
consider a potential conflict of interest raised
by Rockefeller's immense financial holdings. t
He said however, he did not believe it would
be practical to require that Rockefeller put :
his holdings in trust because it would be
impossible to insulate him completely from
such vast holdings.
In the candid, and frequently highly
personal 72 page statement, Rockefeller
detailed the history of the Rockefeller
family, his own strict Baptist upbringing,
how his grandfather and father together gave
away more than $ 1 billion, and a biography
of his own public and business life.
The statement included the revelation that
he paid no federal income taxes in 1970
because he was forced to pay $7 million in
capital gains taxes that year.
His average annual income taxes for each
of the past 10 years was about $2 million.
A long section on his 15-year record as
governor of New York State included 10
pages of his accomplishments and a list of
five events "that 1 shall always deeply
regret." .
Two were minor scandals in his
administration that did not touch
Rockefeller directly, and two were political
disputes.
"The most agonizing of all related to the
events at the Attica prison uprising that led
to the loss of 43 lives," Rockefeller said.
Rockefeller's largest asset is two trusts left
by his father worth $116 million. They are
composed heavily of state and municipal
bonds, plus common stocks including $20
million in Realty Growth Investers
Beneficial, $15 million in IBM and $25
million in Rockefeller Center stock.
His personal stock holdings outside the
trusts total $13 million. He has estimated the
value of his art collection at $33 million and
his rear estate at $11 million. Like most
Americans Rockefeller is in debt more
than $1.5 million in notes payable.
He said that by putting all his stock in
blind trust "The only remaining assets which '
I would then have under my control would
be real estate in this country and art."
Cool
Today will be partly cloudy and cool.
Highs today will be In the upper 60s, lows
tonight in the 40s.
Chance of rain is near zero today and
tonight Winds are NE at 10 to 15 miles
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steward was expected to "furnish each
student and other person living at commons"
(Le., on campus) three meals a day, every day
of the year.
Breakfast was to consist of "a sufficient
quantity of good milk, or good coffee and
tea, or chocolate and tea, together with a
warm roll or loaf of wheat or corn flour . . .
and a sufficient quantity of butter."
Dinner was a dish or cover of bacon and ;
greens, or beef and turnips, together with a
sufficient quantity of fresh meats or fowls, or
puddings and tarts," again with a choice of
wheat loaf or cornbread.
Supper included a bread course, coffee,
,tea or milk "and all other kinds of vegetable
'food usually served up in Carolina in
(sufficient quantities."
Taylor was expected to change tablecloths
every other day and to carry fresh water up
to campus from a nearby spring four times ;
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...is worth two in the air. Quarterback Billy Paschall hands
off to wingback Jimmy Jerome in North Carolina's 31-0
victory over Atlantic Coast Conference opponent Wake
Forest last Saturday. Even though Paschall and Chris Kupec
passed for 250 yards during the game, and Jerome caught
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by Meredith Buel Jr.
Staff Writer
UNC fraternities and sororities rriay soon
be forced to go coed.
If the U.S. Department of Health,
Education and Welfare (HEW) approves a
set of new regulations in its present form,
campus Greeks will have the choice of
admitting members of the opposite sex or
losing about 30 University services now
provided. They include use of the land on
which many fraternity houses stand,
intramural participation, use oi incoming
student lists, office space, Student ' Stores
discounts and clerical work.
The tentative regulations, which deal with
Title IX of the Educational Amendments of
1972, were issued June 20, 1974. University
and campus organizations may comment on
the proposals until Oct. 15.
The regulations will be reissued after Jan.
1, and will become law 30 days thereafter.
"ffor the University to come in and tell us
howr to run our private organization
counters-our right to run our fraternity as we
see fit, Inter-Fraternity Council President
Joe Husted said. "Part of the fraternal bond
is a group of guys being together."
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daily.
In addition, he had to hire somebody to
sweep the dormitory rooms and hallways of
every building on campus every two weeks,
or else do it by himself.
For all this, he received the munificent
sum of 15 pounds (about $30) per year per
enrolled student During this period,
enrollment averaged between 40 and 60
students a year.
From the start, students complained
'Taylor-was cutting comers on the menu.
"The meat generally stinks and has
maggots in it," Ebcnezer Pettigrew wrote
home in 1796. Young Pettigrew also made
some pointed remarks concerning the
quality of the flour Taylor was buying.
Nor was food the only gripe against
Taylor. As usual, there was not enough space
in the University's only dorm. Old East, to
accommodate the whole student body.
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Husted said he would rather see
fraternities go independent of the University
than coed.
"We could not rely on University
assistance during rush " if the new
regulations are implemented, Phi Beta Phi
sorority president Priscilla Burt said.
"Sororities would rather go independent
than go against established tradition," she
said.
Until recently, Greeks on campus have
made no organized attempt to deal with the
possible ramifications of the HEW
proposals. In a meeting last week of
fraternity and sorority presidents, Husted
urged all Greeks on campus to inform their
national organizations of the potential
problems that might occur. He also
suggested that many fraternities may be
especially affected by these proposals
because in some national charters there is a
mandatory requirement that local chapters
be recognized by the University.
Last August, Chancellor Ferebee Taylor
appointed a committee to discuss the
proposed Title IX regulations, submit
comments to UNC President William Friday
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Many students had to rent rooms from the
local citizenry, and Taylor's house, located
in the middle of present-day Cameron
Avenue near the Playmakers Theatre, was
the most convenient, if not most popular,
boarding house around.
To quote young Pettigrew again: "Mr.
Taylor has hired to several students, and his
price is twelve pounds a year; that is, full as
much as the beds are worth; but, I do not
suppose this would be near as much, as we
(Ebenczer and his brother John) shall have
.'nothing but the bed."
How many such complaints reached
Taylor directly, though, is conjectural.
In his history of the University, President
Kemp P. Battle commented: "John Taylor
was a fine specimen of the bold, frank,
rough, honest Revolutionary veteran, a
good citizen, but perhaps too ready to assert
his rights and resent his injuries by fist law."
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seven passes for 149 yards, all four Tar Heel touchdowns
were made on the ground. Tailbacks James Betterson, Mike
Voight, Mel Collins and Charlie Williams had one score
apiece. See game story, page 5.
coed.
change
and develop a set
implementation of
of guidelines for the
the regulations. The
committee has already
forwarded its
comments to Friday.
Susan McDonald, assistant to the
chancellor and chairman of the Special
Committee on the Proposed Regulations
under Title IX, thinks HEW has been too
vague in the areas dealing with single sex
organizations.
"They have been coy with this specific
issue," she said.
The committee is now preparing to
propose procedures implementing the HEW
guidelines at UNC, and has tentative plans to
meet this week to decide what form student
input to the committee will take.
, According to the Office of Civil Rights in
Washington, D.C., the basic idea of Title IX
is that no person shall be discriminated
against in a federally assisted institution.
In Section 86.31 of the tentative rules,
HEW states, "... a recipient (of federal
money, i.e. UNC) shall not on the basis of
sex . , .aid any organization... which
discriminates on the basis of sex in providing
any aid, benefit or service to students ..."
WUNC-FM gets funds '
WUNC-FM may begin broadcasting again after a four-year absence from
the air waves.
The state advisory budget commission granted the station $50,000 Sept. 20.
The funds for the University-operated station will be combined with a
federal grant to purchase new equipment, vice chancellor Dr. William F.
Little said Sunday.
WUNC was founded as an educational station in 1952. It operated until
1970, when the station's antenna was destroyed by lightning. Because there
was no money to replace the antenna or to fix other damaged and worn
equipment, the University decided to discontinue broadcasting until funds for
new equipment were made available.
The station was previously run by the Department of Radio, Television and
Motion Pictures (RTVMP), but Little said,The station will no longer be a
facility of that department. It will operate in a University-wide public service
capacity. However, they (RTVMP) will still make considerable use of the
station."
W U NC-FM's student staff is in the process of being established, Little said,,
and a program director will be chosen soon.
Battle was a Victorian and a mzstcr of
euphemism. What he meant was, if anyone
complained. Buck smashed his face inside
out. On a frontier campus, where pistol
whippings, eye gougings, knifings and duels
were commonplace occurrences, Taylor
could take care of himself, and, in 1S01,
actually managed to get his contract
renewed.
By 1805, however, Taylor had received
enough subtle hints from the student body
i.e. being burned in effigy, having his
outhouse regularly pushed over to seek
other employment.
He became overseer on a nearby farm,
where he remained for the rest of his life.
According to tradition, he was buried
standing up, partly to save valuable
farmland, partly to better keep an eye on his
former slaves.
For over a century, students remembered
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by Clay F. Richards
United Press International
WASHINGTON The Senate Rules
Committee opens hearings today on the
confirmation of Nelson A. Rockefeller
as 4 1st Vice President of the United
States.
If confirmed by the . House and
Senate, the 66-year-old Rockefeller will
become the richest man ever to hold so
high a United States public office.
The Rockefeller hearings mark the second
time in less than a year that Congress
rather than the American voter has sat in
"judgment M advice; presidential candidate.
The other time was last November, when
Gerald R. Ford was confirmed to succeed
Spiro T. Agnew in the vice presidency.
While the Senate will most likely complete
its role in confirming Rockefeller in the next
two and a half weeks, House Democrats
have said they will not take up the
nomination until after election day.
Weeks of investigation by the FBI, which
assigned 400 agents to the case, have
reportedly turned up no evidence that would
hinder Rockefeller's confirmation. A team
of 20 government auditors poring over the
Rockefeller financial empire's files in New
York City will not make their report to
Congress until next month. ':
While congressional leaders say they see
nothing yet which would block Rockefeller's
confirmation, he is expected to draw fire for
a number of the policies and actions he
pursued during a decade and a half as
governor of New York.
Foremost among these are his handling of
the bloody Attica prison riot, in which 43
guards and inmates were slain, and
Rockefeller's signature of what was then the
most liberal abortion law in the country.
In addition, Rockefeller has been
criticized for his stiff law against drug
pushers, massive spending in New York and
presidential election campaigns, and the $1
billion office building complex in Albany
begun during his administration and still
under construction.
Rockefeller pledged to make a complete
statement at the opening of the Senate
hearings. "I shall give a frank and open
statement of my background, my career, my
associations, my purposes, my finances, and
anything else the committee and the
Congress quite properly want to know," he
said.
The major question asked by many
lawmakers was whether the confirmation
hearings would reveal the full extent of the
Rockefeller family fortune. Nearly a decade
Taylor with rancor if they remembered him
at all. Lately, though, a revisionist school
seems to have arisen.
In 1555, a mysterious religious sect, calling
itself "The. Society for the Preservation of
Buck Taylor's Mutton and Shoats" (New
Jersey natives note: shoat is to pig as lamb is
to sheep) arose.
Composed of exactly 15 members and
including officers like Chief Chitterling,
Sow's Ear, and Silk Purser, each spring the
society would ride down Franklin Street in a
mule cart, singing the Mutton and Shoats
hymn ("Stand up, stand up for Taylor, He's
standing up for you . . ."), then cap off the
evening with a black tie dinner and secret
rituals around the Taylor gravesite.
How the class of 2245 will commemorate
Servomation, is not easily imagined.
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ago, business magazines estimated that the
six Rockefellers who then shared one of
America's largest fortunes controlled assets
of over $ 1 billion.
Rockefeller has given the two
congressional committees a complete
financial statement including his net worth,
his trusts and his income tax returns for the
past seven years.
Rockefeller, who resigned as governor late
last year, was believed to have been
mounting a fourth campaign for the
presidency in 1976 when Watergate thrust
Gerald Ford into the job. On Aug. 20, less
than two weeks after succeeding President
Nixon, Ford named Rockefeller as his vice
presidential choice.
Ford said Rockefeller would be "a good
partner or me and I think a good partner for
the country and the world."
Rockefeller has spent the ensuing month
meeting with foreign leaders vbiting
Washington and with congressional leaders,
especially those who are responsible for
handling his nomination.
'Sounds'
back on
the air?
WC AR's Black Sounds program, which
station manager Gary Rendsburg
announced last week would be phased off the
air, may not be phased out at all, Rendsburg
said Sunday.
Rendsburg said he is consulting with the
black disk jockeys and will make a statement
about the program's future within a few
days.
He is under pressure from the Campus
Governing Council (CGC) and other student
groups which are in favor of giving Black
Sounds the air time it had last year. The
program's air time has been reduced from
five nights to one night a week.
Rendsburg said CGC action hasn't
affected his editorial policies in any way.
"The intentions of CGC are good, but its
members were obviously not aware of the
matters that were included in my decision,"
he said. "They were not in touch with my
motives. Even the United States Congress
asks before they act."
Rendsburg said only direct requests from
.students influence his editorial policies.
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