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Serving the students and the University community since 1893
Friday, December 3, 1976, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Volume No. 84, Issue No. 70
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Space shortage
Disabled students cite
need for Union office
by Mark Lazenby
Staff,Writer
The Carolina Association of Disabled
Students is unhappy with their office space
in the Carolina Union because it does not
provide adequate counseling conditions and
lacks privacy, Coordinator of Disabled
Student Services Susan Chesler said
Tuesday.
Chesler, a graduate student who is
coordinator and counselor of the 3-year-old
group, said the space given to the
organization at the beginning of the semester
in the entrance of Suite C in the Union does
not meet her counseling needs and is totally
inadequate.
"Everyone is nice, and everyone is
concerned, but nothing gets done," Chesler
said. MIt took me a year to get my desk up
there. I'm disgusted with the whole thing.
. "I need privacy so that I can counsel
students there," Chesler said. "You can't set
up appointments without a definite space."
She explained that Student Government
(SG) had offered to let her borrow offices for
counseling, but she said that doesn't
guarantee her space when planning
appointments days in advance.
"Students need a place they can go, a place
to work on things that have to do with the
organization," Chesler said. She added that
they shouldn't have to borrow or reserve
other rooms to do this.
The 20-member organization, originally
located in the YMCA-building, requested
Union office space this semester because the
Union's elevator would make the space
accessible for all disabled students. With the
help of Student Body President Billy
Richardson the organization moved to the
Union, but Richardson said space
limitations required that the organization be
located at the entrance of Suite C, sharing
the office with SG.
When the organization moved to the
Union, Chesler said she thought private
space would be provided. She said she is
unhappy jith the slowness of SG in
improving the situation.
"We have a very severe space shortage up
here," Richardson said. "It's slow because we
have limited resources."
- Richardson stressed that SG is placing the
space needs of the organization and the
space needs of Student Legal Services as top
priorities.
Bomb threat
cannot foil
UNC exams
by Karen Millers
Staff Writer
On the morning of a particularly hard
exam, more than one edgy student has
frantically searched for a way to avoid
the inevitable. He may have almost
considered reporting a fictitious bomb
threat.
It would have helped him little.
Before each exam period, the Office
of Records and Registration compiles a
list of all available classrooms at any
given exam hour, according to Emmett
Cheek, assistant director of the Records
and Registration Office.
Cheek said a copy of the list is given to
the Campus Police, who can quickly
direct a class to an empty room of the
proper size in the event of a bomb scare.
"A bomb threat doesn't put off an
exam," Cheek said. "We just move the
students over to another room and let
them put down what they know."
Raymond Strong, Director of
Records and Registration, said the
examinations are still given.
"We have not cancelled any
examination because of a bomb scare,"
he said.
Strong said the alternate classroom
list was first drawn up in the late '60s,
when protests of various types were
common on the campus.
"We had two or three or four (bomb
scares) each exam period," Strong said.
He noted that after the early 70s the
frequency of bomb threats declined.
"We've been very lucky," Cheek said.
"We haven't had to use it (the alternate
room system) in the last couple of
years."
Cheek and Strong agreed that the
bomb threat in Phillips Hall is evidence
that there is a possibility of bomb
threats during this exam period.
"We have to have it (the system) ready
whether or not we need it," Cheek said.
"I can't throw another group out of their
office to move them in," Richardson said. "It
wouldn't be fair."
In September Richardson proposed that
the organization's allocated space be walled
off to provide adequate privacy, but an
estimate in October placed building costs
between $800 and $1,200 money
Richardson said SG doesn't have.
"Student Government can't afford to wall
that area," Richardson said, adding he
hoped the Office of Student Affairs would
give the organization funding to build the
walls.
"Until Student Affairs can get them the
money, or until we can raise it ourselves, 1
offered them the use of the RHA (Residence
Housing Association) office, ECOS office,
CGC (Campus Governing Council) offices
and the executive offices for counseling
purposes," Richardson said.
"She can use these offices any time she
wants to. I think everybody has bent over
backwards to accommodate them."
Richardson said the problem would be
solved if student affairs provides funds for
the construction of the wall. However, with
or without the construction funds,
Richardson said the organization would get
private office space, although he couldn't say
when.
Harold Wallace, associate dean of special
programs, said if SG cannot provide
alternative space for the group, then he
would seriously discuss the matter with
Richardson, although Richardson had not
yet approached him seriously about it, he
added.
Garter eyeing Tar Heels for jobs?
Friday,Scott,Kreps won't speculate
by Chuck Alston -
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William C. Friday, president of the consolidated
University system, said Thursday that he has not been
contacted about a job in the Carter administration. But he
left open the possibility that if asked, he would consider
doing more short-term work for the president-elect.
Friday served as chairperson of the Carter education task
force organized last May. and advised Carter on matters
concerning education until the election.
The Chapel Hill Newspaper reported Wednesday that
Stuart Eizenstat, Carter's director of policy development
and agency liaison, said former Gov. Robert W. Scott and
Friday are among those being considered for top posts in the
Carter administration.
I have not talked with anyone about a job," Friday said.
"I think that being associated with the University is very
important work." .
Jane Wales, a press officer with Carter's transition staff in
Washington, would not say Thursday whether Scott and
Friday are being considered for jobs.
"Mr. Carter is handling all of that himself now," Wales
said. "There is 3 list of names, but they are not available at
this time."
According to Wales, not everyone being considered for a
job in the Carter administration has been contacted.
Throng honors centenarian librarian Louis Wilson
by Karen Millers
Staff Writer
Three national awards were presented to
Louis Round Wilson, UNC's oldest living
alumnus, at a banquet and awards ceremony
Thursday night. The evening concluded the
Louis Round Wilson Centennial Festival, a
celebration of Wilson's 100th birthday Dec.
27.
The American Association for State and
Local History gave Wilson an Award of
Merit for a distinguished career in
Pro testers drop picket,
channel e ffort into vigil
by Will Jones
Staff Writer
Residents of Rosemary Street's Amity
Court have called off the picketing of the
Western Sizzlin Steakhouse because they say
they have made their point.
The pickets were urging prospective:
patrons to boycott the steakhouse because of
its environmental impact on the area.
"We stopped picketing before
Thanksgiving because many of us were
leaving for the holidays. We felt at that time
that we had made our point, and our
intention was not to run Sizzlin out of
business, anyway," Amity Court resident
David Kleinbaum said Thursday.
"The Board of Aldermen is meeting next
week, and we hope they will consider the
issue of ordinance changes for town
development," Kleinbaum said.
Oscar Cantrell, manager of the restaurant.
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Prof. David M. Stewart of the UNC Department of Geology continues his work after
the recent decision by his colleagues to deny him tenure.
librarianship and in the promotion of state
and local history."
Another tribute, the Distinguished
Service Award, was given by the American
Association of University Presses. It
honored Wilson's service to "higher
education and the scholarly community in
the United States and to the university
presses that serve them."
The third national award was the Melvil
Dewey Medal, given by the American
Library Associaton (ALA). The ALA
commended Wilson for his leadership of
said he was notified Tuesday that the
picketing had stopped. "It's hard to say if the
picketing had any effect on business,"
Cantrell said. "But those people meant well."
Kleinbaum said that the area residents are
considering holding a vigil once a week in
front of the Franklin Street post office
during lunch time.
"We want to keep the issue alive on how
the town plans its growth and not lose the
beauty we have here," Kleinbaum said. "We
do not want to focus on any particular
business but get the town to change its
ordinances."
The residents of the area are upset because
several 100-year-old trees were felled during
the restaurant's construction this summer.
They also are concerned about traffic
problems generated by the business and
what 'they call an insufficient buffer zone
between the steakhouse and their homes.
Friday said that he has not been a candidate for a federal
job. "The work I did for Mr. Carter from June to Election
Day was strictly in education. I was in no way involved with
his election," he said.
Friday left open the possibility that if called upon he
would do more short-term work for Carter. ,
"What I have done has been short task work on a project
that can be done in a short time. I would do that again. I
think it is very important that the University involve itself in
this kind of work," Friday said.
Former Gov. Scott said that he has not had any contact
with anyone about a job. "It's just speculation, and I don't
know where it's coming from," Scott said.
Scott said that if he is contacted, his decision to take a job
would depend on what position he is offered.
"It would have to be meaningful, and a job where I would
have input," Scott said. "It would have to be at least a policy
making position to get me to consider. I don't want to be part
of the bureaucracy."
Duke University Vice President Juanita M. Kreps has also
been the subject of speculation for a job in the Carter
administration. Kreps, who has been serving as an economic
adviser to Carter, met with the President-elect and other
economic advisers Wednesday in Georgia.
Kreps said that she has not been approached about a job.
When asked whether she would accept a post if offered
one, she said, "I'd rather not speculate. It's just too iffy."
Chicago's Graduate Library School and for
his launching of the first doctoral program in
librarianship.
In addition, Wilson was made one of
Carolina's Priceless Gems by the UNC-CH
General Alumni Association. He was also
given a bound volume of more than 100
letters from friends, colleagues, former
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by Tony Gunn
Staff Writer
David M. Stewart, controversial
assistant professor of geology who was
denied tenure last week, will present his
appeal to Dean of the College of Arts
and Sciences James R. Gaskin at 11:30
a.m. today.
Stewart provoked criticism in
January for scientifically predicting an
earthquake within a decade in the
Wilmington area. Stewart invited a
California psychic Clarisa Bernhardt to
the state, and . she also predicted an
earthquake.
Reasons given for Stewart's denial,
according to Roy L. Ingram,
chairperson of the Department of
Geology, were unfavorable comments
by his colleagues, only a fair quality of
scientific achievement and an
insufficient potential for future
contributions to geophysics and
geology.
In an interview Thursday, Ingram
said that, to the best of his knowledge,
Stewart is the first assistant professor
not granted tenure in the history of the
department, which was formed in 1910.
Stewart said earlier that his
prediction of an earthquake "had
everything in the world to do with the
denial." He said that academic freedom
was not honored in the
department, adding that if a professor
exercised freedom during his five years
of probation, he would not be granted
tenure.
freedom is very much present heretttth
department. A person is responsible for
what he says," he added.
In determining tenure, Ingram said,
"We look at the person's entire career."
He mentioned teaching, performance
as a scholar and service to society as
areas considered.
"Certain things stand out," he said,
but he added that there is no formal
method involved in making the
decision.
"We make the best value decision.
There is no harder decision to make
than on a colleague and a friend."
Nancy L. Eichenberger, a second
year graduate student in geology,
termed the amount of academic
freedom in the department
considerable.
"Professors and students are free to
pursue whatever study they want to
within the limits of the resources of the
department. I don't think anyone is
students and state officials.
Another tribute to Wilson will be made in
May, when a bronze bust of him will be
unveiled during Commencement and placed
in Wilson Library.
Wilson, professor emeritus of library
science, served as University Librarian from
1901 to 1932. He was dean of the Graduate
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stopped from doing something. To my
knowledge, nobody has been denied
academic freedom except for lack of
equipment, and I don't consider that a
lack of academic freedom." she said.
Eichenberger said she believed it was
not fair for her to comment on Stewart's
tenure decision because she did not
know what the reasons were. "I cannot
say that Dr. Stewart's freedom has been
impinged upon."
Professors and others in the
department cannot comment either, she
said, because they do not have a choice.
"It is not only for their sake but also for
Stewart's.
"The only people who can give you
the other side cannot comment. All the
evidence cannot be presented now, as
long as it remains an open issue."
Several other geology graduate
students agreed that academic freedom
is present in the department. "It's not
stifled at all," Bill Goff, one graduate
student, said.
At the time of the earthquake
predictions, Stewart was criticized by
members of his department, including
Prof. David E. Dunn, who said then,
"This exercise belongs in the realm of
public entertainment rather than
scientific investigation. Until additional
information is availablenot prophecy
but scientific data I am no more or less
concerned than I was one year ago."
Dunn said Wednesday he supported
the, department's decision to deny
tenure, but he declined to comment
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UNC Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor,
in a statement to the Daily Tar Heel,
said, "Since there is a possibility that the
matter may ultimately come to me by
way of an appeal, I will make no
comment at this time."
According to the 1975-1976 annual
report of the Department of Geology,
Stewart has published more works than
any other professor in the department
from April 1, 1975 to April 1, 1976,.Of
the other 14 professors in the
department, 12 had published less than
four works.
Stewart has been awarded almost
$200,000 in grants, part of which have
been cut by the N.C. General Assembly.
About $70,000 has actually come to the
department.
Stewart also publishes works on
childbirth and breastfeeding, subjects
that he feels the geology department
frowns upon.
Library School at the University of Chicago
for 10 years and then returned to UNC as
professor of library administration until
1959. During his time here he founded the
School of Library Science, Extension
Division, UNC Press, the Alumni Review
and N.C. Library Association. He is known
as the "dean of american libraries."
Staff photo by House Wilon
Thursday night.
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