Royster a bold, brash
student while at UNC,
autobiography shows
By STUART TONKINSON
Staff Writer
Vermont Royster is known nationally as former editor of The
Wall Street Journal. But students who read his autobiography,
My Own, My Country's Time, published by Algonquin Press,
may be more interested in the passages on his life as a UNC student.
" . . .The adjustment (to college life) took the form of bringing
out my latent brashness. I set out to make myself noticed among
the faceless seven hundred. Some of the ways I chose now make
me wince.
"I was living in Old West, one of the original University
buildings which was then a dormitory, and sent my clothes to be
washed at the University laundry, a service covered by our lodging
fees. My socks kept coming back with holes in them. Finding this
outrageous, I marched myself across the square to confront Dr.
Frank Graham, the University president. Why not, 1 thought,
take the matter to the top?
'"A few minutes after giving his secretary my name I was
ushered into his office. Dr. Frank knew who I was, being an old
friend of my father. He shook hands, bade me sit in a chair beside
his desk, and said, 'I'm glad to see you, Vermont. What can I do
for you?'
"By way of answer, I bent down, took off my right shoe and
put my foot on his desk, waggling my big toe through the hole in
my sock.
"I explained this was what his laundry was doing to me.
"I don't know what Dr. Frank thought of this behavior, but he
looked at me quietly for a few moments. Then he reached into his
wallet, pulled out a dollar bill and handed it to me.
" 'Use this,' he said, 'to buy yourself some new socks.' "
"... I coasted my first two years. . . .The only annoyance was
physics because here there was required lab work for such things
as measuring the coefficient of expansion for metals. I eventually
resolved that by looking up what the figures ought to be and then
adjusting my data according.
"...The Music Department. . .had managed to appoint a
chairman who, it turned out, had none of the degrees he claimed
to have had. He was quietly fired during a summer recess, but of
course we found out about it and made it front-page news in the
Tar Heel. I accompanied this with a fierce editorial holding it up
as 'typical of the imcompetence of the administration.'
"That brought another encounter with Dr. Frank which again
proved his character. Seeing him later at some gathering I tried to
avoid him, but he sought me out, came over and put his arm
around me. 'That was apretty rough editorial, Vermont he
said. Then after a pause he added, 'But I guess we deserved it.' "
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tional Audubon Society. "It is likely that Reagan will
replace Watt with a more subtle interior secretary who
could do more damage in a shorter time."
Peterson said that Reagan "is the real James Watt."
"Watt was hired by the president to lead an
ideological crusade to weaken environmental regula
tions and to transfer public lands and .other i public
resources into private hands," Peterson said, j ;
Some environmentalists see Watt as such a political
liability to the Reagan administration that they beBeve
his remaining in the Cabinet would make it easier to
defeat anti-environmental Republican congressional
candidate in 1984.
When leaders of 10 of the environmental groups met
in Washington last week to plot strategy, there was open
debate over whether Watt should resign.
They also said recent congressional votes to slap a
moratorium on Watt's coal-leasing program and im
pose restrictions on his offshore oil and gas leasing ac
tivities showed he had been rendered ineffective.
"We, is. sitting there, ajj jwlitical liabjiry with no
power," said Rafe Pomerance, president of Friends of
the Earth. , ' ,
However, Pome'rance ' and other environmental
leaders decided they would work to get Watt out of of
fice, doing most of it quietly to prevent a backlash from
conservative supporters.
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SLS Director Dorothy Bernholz said students
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. Owens said students who find they are being
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Police department gets grant to
crack down on drunken driving
By SUSAN OAKLEY
Staff Writer
A state grant of almost $60,000,
directed toward limiting the number of
drunk drivers, has been awarded to the
Chapel Hill Police Department for a third
consecutive year, said Master Officer
Gregg Jarvies.
The grant, formally called the Selective
Traffic Enforcement Program, is available
through the N.C. Governor's Highway
Safety Program and is distributed to
North Carolina police departments that
applyTor it.
"First, we will use the grant as a means
of educating the public after the effects of
drunken driving," he said. The depart
ment will purchase audio-visual aids, pam
phlets and films with the funds for public
education programs, he said.
The grant will also be used to hire four
extra officrs, whose sole duties will be
looking for drunk drivers on weekends, he
said.
"In applying for the grant, you must
state a specific problem in your communi
ty," Jarvies said. "Because Chapel Hill is
a youthful community, DWI (driving-
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while-impaired) was our basic premise."
The police department will be awarded
approximately $59,000 this year from the
grant, he said.
These officers began their patrol in
October of last year, he said, and since
that time the number of drunken driving
arrests has increased by 76 percent.
From Oct. 1, 1982, to Sept. 30, 1983,
the total number of these arrests were 525
as compared to 296 the year before, he
said.
"When we first began this program, we
proposed a 10 percent increase in DWI ar
rests," he said. "The 76 percent increase
far exceeded our expectations."
Jarvies said he was disappointed,
however, that the need for enforcement
has not decreased. But he said only about
33 percent of the people arrested for
drunken driving last year were Chapel Hill
residents.
"Most were visitors from out-of-town,"
he said. 'As long a we reach our target
group, we will be happy.
"Overall, we are pleased with the
program," he said. "And evidently the
state is pleased as well, since the grant was
renewed for another year."
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"There was a feeling that nobody should be
required to learn anything, that people who go
through the four years deserve a diploma." '
But that trend is changing in states such as
North Carolina where students now may receive
a certificate stating that they have attended four
years of high school rather than a diploma,
Royster said.
"Some people argue that requiring fun
damentals is unfair to underprivileged students
who don't have a strong background in such
subjects," Royster said. "But that's a
backwards argument. If you come from a
background where you are surrounded by
books and where your parents stress the value of
education, you will be a good student.
"Schools are not places where disadvantages
are created; they are the only places where
disadvantages can be corrected," he said.
Others argue that students not planning to at
tend college don't need the basics but should
have a more vocation-oriented education. But
this too is wrong, since students who don't go to
college need to know the basics to succeed,
' Royster said.
"It's the people who don't have a good grasp
of grammar who end up unemployed," Royster
said. When people are laid off from their jobs
they don't have the .basic skills to learn another
trade. .
Technological developments also have con-
tributed to the growing number of unemployed,
Royster said.
"People who don't have basic skills in
English and mathematics are even more in the
cold when it comes to finding jobs today,"
thanks to the emphasis on technology, he said.
One occupation that will survive the effects of
technology is print journalism, said Royster, an
editor with The Wall Street Journal during the
years it grew to national prominence.
Television will continue to do what it does
best present stories that rely heavily on
visuals, Royster said. Examples of such stories
are wars and natural disasters, he added.
But television has problems presenting non
visual stories such as those on the economy,
Royster added. Print journalism will always be
able to do these types of stories better, he said.
Growth of national newspapers such as The
Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science
Monitor and USA Today has not had a
detrimental effect on local papers, he added.
"As communications between different parts
of the country improved, people wanted an ex
panded news coverage," Royster said. "A per
son in Portland, Ore., began to want the same
news as someone in Portland, Maine, and the
national newspapers showed up to meet those
needs."
"But there will always be a place for the
regional newspapers," Royster said.
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