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Serving the students and the University community since 1893
Chapel HIII, North Carolina, Tuesday, February 3, 1976
Vol. C3, No. CD
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Members of black
University system desegregation
External restraints pace efforts
by Cole C. Campbell
Editor
Seond of a three-part series
As its Chapel Hill campus faced increasing
internal pressures from its black student
population for greater black participation
and black-oriented resources, the 16-campiis
University of North Carolina system entered
the 1970's confronted by growing external
pressures for desegregation.
The U.S. Department of Health,
Education and Welfare began demanding
larper efforts at H
populations and eliminating vestiges of the
former black-white dual system of higher
education.
The American Bar Association threatened
to withdraw accreditation of the scantily
funded," predominantly black N. C, Central
University law school. Most recently, the
N AACP Legal Defense Fund has begun
litigation against HEW to quicken that
department's actions supervising
I INir.-r.H- hlnr.k studies
recruitment
by Mary Smith
DTH Contributor
Some of the greatest concern to campus
DiacKS over tne past lew years nas centered
around black enrollment, financial aid, the
black studies program and black faculty.
In response to these concerns, black
enrollment has increased, aid to blacks
accounts for a large proportion of available
funds, two black studies curricula have been
started and Affirmative Action has
attempted to increase the number of black
faculty members.
The rising trend in black undergraduate
enrollment has seen an increase from 6.01
per cent in 1974-75 to 6.6 per cent in fall
1975.
"Though there have been no changes in
the basic administrative (admission)
requirements due to HEW (the Department
of Health, Education and Welfare), there has
been an increased interest on the part of
black students in coming here," said Richard
Cashwell, director of undergraduate
admissions. "More have enrolled over the
last four or five years."
But Black Student Movement
Chairperson Gloria Carney said recently
that there are not enough blacks at UNC in
proportion to the state's black population.
"In terms of what they (the admissions
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campus sorority prepare for part of
desegregation at UNC and seven other state
systems.
As the decade unfolded, the University
system passed from an era in which ending
segregation was legally sufficient to one in
which positive steps to overcome past
segregation effects became legally
mandated.
During the last six years, HEW's priorities
have shifted from enrollment and hiring
ratios to enhancement of minority
institutions and opportunities for minorities
within predominantly white institutions.
In 1970, HEW initiated efforts to force the
University system to increase black
enrollment on predominantly white
campuses.
Three years later, in May, 1973, further
communications between HEW and the
University : system resulted in the state's
revised plan for desegregation. Twice
rejected by federal officials, the plan was
finally approved by HEW June 21, 1974.
The plan, close to 700 pages long, with
main issues
office) have to work with, they are doing an
adequate job," she said, "but more
manpower is needed to do a better job.
"No strong effort is being made to reach
that proportion (of unrecruited blacks)
anytime soon. Increased money for
recruitment, expansion of Project Uplift and
National Achievement and establishment of
a summer orientation program" should be
included in the program, she added.
Project Uplift and National Achievement
are weekend programs for recruiting
minority students. The programs are
handled through the student affairs office,
but the BSM aids in providing manpower
and programming, Carney said.
Former BSM Chairperson Algenon
Marbley said the admissions office is "lax in
recruiting blacks from high schools."
But Collin Rustin, assistant director of
undergraduate admissions who oversees
minority applications said, "We are planning
a type of program that can reach high school
sophomores and give them information on
what courses they should be taking. We are
also trying to make present recruitment
programs more effective. But talking to.
blacks and other minority students doesn't
increase the number of students on campus,"
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Alan Murray, a junior English major from
Chattajiopga, Tenn., announced Monday
that he is a candidate for editor of the Daily
Tar Heel.
"I'm running for this office because I feel
the Daily Tar Heel needs a broader
perspective," Murray said. "The real issues
of concern to students are being ignored,
while a group of aspiring Woodwards and
Bemsteins search for their own personal
Watergate in the antics of Student
Government. My knowledge of the workings
of the Tar Heel and my experience with other
publications will enable me to effectively
provide a better, broader perspective on the
news."
A former Daily Tar Heel features editor
and co-editor and business manager of the
New Carolinian. Murray has also worked as
a book critic for the Chattanooga Times.
Murray said he would end "the obsession
with Student Government on the front page.
There are bigger issues on campus than M ike
O'Neal."
He also stressed that he will work to ease
the financial problems that have plagued the
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initiation in the Pit.
complete appendices, addresses
desegregation of both the University and the
state's community college system. It sets
forth anticipated enrollment projections
with racial mix delineated, and includes
minority student recruitment and counseling
programs, faculty exchange and recruitment
programs and information about individual
institutional resources.
While refining the desegregation plan,
HEW moved away from insisting upon
enrollment ratios between whites and blacks '
on campus, John Sanders, vice president for
planning for the University system said.
HEW first demanded a 33 per cent
minority presence on each campus as its
desegregation goal, but later accepted an 1 1
per cent goal set forth by the University,
Sanders said.
"HEW's first goal is that all schools be open,
toall races," he added. Next, it wants
improvement in black institutions, "rriaking
them better schools than they are now."
The recent NAACP suit against the HEW
would require each campus to reflect the
current black-white composite ratio of
North Carolina high school classes. This
would mean an approximately 20 per cent
black enrollment at each school.
"I think it would be strongly opposed by
HEW and will certainly be objected to by the
chancellors of and others concerned with
black institutions," Sanders said.
The shift from insisting upon strict ratios
to insisting upon enhancement of
predominantly black institutions has
resulted in some apparent confusion.
In a year-long controversy over the
location of a proposed school of veterinary
medicine, the University and HEW stressed
different indicators of racial impact in
support of their claims about the school's
impact on desegregation.
The University wanted to locate the school
at predominantly white North Carolina
State University, while HEW favored
placement at predominantly biack North
Carolina A.&T. N.C. State outscored
A.&T. 1,051 to 499 on an evaluation by two
Ohio professors contracted by the University
to assess the alternative locations.
The University maintained that, because
total vet school enrollment would be small
compared' to each school's entire student
population, impact on desegregation as
measured by racial percentages of students
would be negligible.
"In terms of numbers, when it comes down
to racial matters, the impact is not large,"
Sanders said during the controversy.
Backers of the A.&T. location argued
that the vet school would enhance the
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Tar Heel. "1 believe my experience as
business manager of the New Carolinian will
enable me to work effectively with the DTH
business staff and to negotiate with Student
Government to alleviate the present
financial crisis," Murray said.
In his platform statement, Murray said he
would provide more coverage for prominent
national and international news stories. He
also said he would establish a new editorial
position for soliciting in-depth features and
freelance stories.
Murray added he would appoint a
distribution manager to improve circulation
of the DTH and that he would publish
intramural box scores in the paper.
He also suggested establishing a consumer
beat for the paper that would provide
consumer information pertinent to students
such as product price comparisons.
He said he wants to include "things that
are of real value to students" in the
newspaper.
Merton Vance
by Chris Fuller
Staff Writer
The Black Student Movement's
Gospel Choir may have its entire
Student Government allocation
unfrozen tonight if Campus Governing
Council follows the recommendations
' of its Finance Committee.
If CGC approves the committee's
recommendations, $300 in the choir's
account that has remained frozen since
last summer will be released, but the
organization will be put on financial
probation. In addition, $220 found in an
allegedly illegal checking account which
provoked the original freeze will be kept
by CGC as a fine.
Last week the council released the
first half of the choir's $600 allocation
pending completion of the Finance
Committee's investigation.
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Professor John Gulick
says faculty salaries have not kept
pace with inflation in recent years.
Mattox up
by Dan Fesperman
Staff Writer
Student Body President Bill Bates has
nominated Nancy Mattox, a freshman
English major from Fayetteville, to be the
new Elections Board chairperson, but the
nomination is expected to encounter
opposition in the Campus Governing
Council tonight.
The nominatimn was approved by the
CGC Administration Committeeee without
prejudice Sunday. A majority of CGC must
approve the nomination tonight before
Mattox can be sworn in as chairperson.
Mattox, who has covered Student
Government for the Daily Tar Heel since
coming to UNC in August, recently,
completed a critical analysis of the campus'
election laws for the paper.
Ben Steelman, chairperson of the CGC
Rules and J udiciary Committee, is one ol the
major opponents. Steelman said his
reasoning stems from a combination of
several things."
"She is a freshman, and even though she
has counted ballots before and researched
election laws, she has never had experience
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funds toman!
The funds were initially frozen last
summer, when then-Student Body
Treasurer Mike O'Neal discovered that
an allegedly illegal checking account
was being maintained by the Gospel
Choir at North Carolina Central Bank.
According to Student Government
treasury laws it is illegal for any
organization receiving Student
Government funds to maintain a
commercial checking account.
Rep. Sheri Parks, a Finance
Committee member, was asked to
investigate the choir's bank records and
report her findings to the Finance
Committee.
Parks, who related the results of the
investigation to the committee in
executive session, said she obtained all
information available concerning the
choir's bank account.
"I really can't discuss what I found,"
Faculty payment scale
may hinder recruiting
by Laura Seism
Staff Writer
Despite the 0.9 per cent salary increase
awarded UNC professors by the 1975
General Assembly, some faculty members
have expressed concern over their economic
situations and the University's ability to
attract and retain outstanding personnel.
John Gulick, president of the Chapel Hill
-chapter of the American Association of
University Professors (AAUP), said recently
that faculty members are more concerned
about inflation than their basic salary.
. . ."On the whole, that (the basic, salary) is
"pretty good," Gulick said. "The question is,
can we keep our heads above water given
inflation?"
He noted than when the faculty received
the 0.9 per cent increase last year, the rate of
inflation was 12 per cent.
Claiborne Jones, vice chancellor in charge
of business and finance, agreed that inflation
was cutting into faculty salaries and noted
that salary increases in the academic
for elections chair
with a major spring election. 1 am also upset
that she tends to be a mite partisan."
He said Mattox is partisan because she is
friends with several of the candidates for
both student body president and Daily Tar
Heel editor.
Mattox admitted being friends with
several of the candidates, saying, "personal
preference is just a right. Every student has
that right."
She said she signed petitions of support
for candidates of both offices a week before
her nomination, and also made a
contribution to one candidate's presidential
campaign. She said she will now withdraw
that contribution.
Steelman called these actions "above and
beyond merely expressing personal
preference."
Mattox responded to Steelman's charge
by saying, "The job keeps you too busy to
worry about things like that."
Bates said he agreed with Mattox, adding,
"Nancy is hard working and efficient, and
I'm convinced she can do the best possible
job."
Steelman also complained of the lateness
of the appointment with the elections being
Jim Roberts, a former news writer, news
editor and public affairs editor of the Daily
Tar Heel, announced his candidacy for DTH
editor Monday. He is a junior journalism
major from Richmond, Va.
Roberts said he wants to "institute and
maintain the practice of responsible and
responsive journalism" on the DTH. He said
his background with the Tar Heelhas given
me the news-oriented perspective necessary
to provide editorial guidance to the paper"
and the experience needed to run a
professional paper.
Roberts outlined his proposals to help
solve many of the problems he said he
observed while working on the DTH.
Improving the method of distributing
the DTH. Roberts said he would like to hire
a distribution manager who would hold
office hours to hear and answer student
complaints;
Eliminate the rigidity between the
departments of the newspaper. "The editor
should assume a more managerial role" in
deciding how space should be allocated and
"he should have overall much closer contact
Parks said. She added that she was
happy with the investigation but that
she wondered about the council's right
to keep the S220 found in the account.
Parks said the money in the account
was not Student Government money
but was money raised by the choir
through awards and donations.
She said the Gospel Choir would
hereafter be financially dependent on
the BSM, addingthatan initial question
raised during the committee's
investigation was whether the choir was
financially dependent on the BSM at the
time of the infraction.-
Parks said she was glad the choir got
its money because she "was worried the
choir might have to have fewer
performances." She explained that the
members of the choir had been paying
production expenses themselves since
the funds had been frozen.
profession lag behind those of other
professions.
"If you compare salary increases with
inflation over the years, academics has not
kept pace," Jones said. "But I wouldn't single
out the Chapel Hill campus. It's a national
trend."
The AAUP's 1974-75 faculty
compensation survey reported that although
faculty salaries, including fringe benefits,
increased by 6.4 per cent nationwide, in real
terms faculty salaries were down by four per
cent due to the increased cost of living.
According to the report, non-academic
salaries were only down by 3.6 per cent in
real terms.
Approximately 74 percent of the nation's
accredited colleges and universities were
surveyed.
The average nine-month faculty salary at
UNC is approximately 518,000-18,500,
based on figures compiled by the
University's registrar's office for the AAUP.
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less than a month away. "Sev eral of us (in the
CGC) are a little peeved in that it is sort of a
midnight appointment," he said. "We are put
in the position that we have to accept or we
screw everything up."
Bates said, "1 made a good faith effort to
find people. I would have been more than
willing to accept suggestions for
nominations from Ben Steelman."
Steelman admitted that he had no
personal preferences for the position, but
added, "I just feel there probably could have
been a belter selection."
He also charged that Bates had
insufficiently reviewed applications for the
position from Chip Cox and Lloyd Scher.
Bates said, "Neither one of them were as
efficient as Nancy. (Former Student
Consumer Action Union Chairperson) Janie
Clark was actually my first choice, but she
didn't have time for the job."
"I also feel that Nancy will have the
support of the Election Board, which is
certainly important," Bates said. He added
that Mattox was recommended to him by
Bynum and board member Lisa Bradley,
who will both remain on the board.
with all the sections of the newspaper,"
Roberts said;
Present more investigative and in-depth
news. Roberts said he would continue to put
national news on the inside pages, except for
"wire news of great enough import." and
some of the 1976 election coverage;
In sports, he proposed presenting more
cov erage of other Atlantic Coast Conference
teams and "investigative pieces concerning
such topics as sports budgets, sexual
discrimination and facilities for students
outside the athletic department;
Limiting spaces devoted to art, theater,
music and film reviews in the features section
in favor of more creative articles, both
humorous and informative;
"Provide more variety and spice on the
editorial page, by hiring at least one editorial
writer to supplement the efforts of the
editor."
He said he would also like to eliminate
long-winded rhetorical editorials and run
two or three concise editorials every day
written by different people.
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