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Intensified Faculty Problem
The following comments or. the Uni
versity's faculty problem art by John
A. McLeod Jr. in the Greensboro Rec
ord. They art reprinted here because
the Weekly deems them of vital interest
to many of its readers:
There art several aspects to the
crucial problem of trying to maintain
ample and qualified faculties in the
three units of the Consolidated Univer
sity of North Carolina. Put the main
one is simply doiiarg.
• *
A major manipulation of thi*- *itu
ation is the bidding for top brains—
or faculty “raiding" as it sometimes
. is called. This good old free enterprise
practice is going on not only in engi
neering and technical fields, but in the
arts, and sciences as well. It takes
money just to hold your own, let alone
get ahead, under these conditions.
Institutions and industry bid for
men in the technical fields; institutions
vie among themselves for those in the
arts and sciences, with industry stif
fening the competition for those with
scientific qualifications.
Retirement of older faculty mem
bers i- no small factor to be reckoned
with in keeping the academic ranks: up
to muster. For example about six of the
pr< -.ex.t 30 lav; fa- „:*;. m<-rr.b»-r- a* ' r*-
University unit here wi.i retire within
the next 10 years, according V, Dr < R.
Hpro...’, dean of facult.,.. '
Dr. Carlyli Sitter on, dean * 1 tl
.college of art cienc* hen V
Tne Record: ‘The be.-t p< r. ‘ . i- •
/• • nd, and it is
C.V*> • " r; 1 rinel than to hold
‘ those we havi . ■ esfx . ■ ■
tii t distj: ci d j,(-' uim*-. . . . Wh«-n
you io • a mar. y.ou Ifnov. j- good, yr *
have ,o.st a lot that .- alrno.-t imp»»p:-ible
to' replaj n’t equat< ■< ■ .. < i ~■
■Th • • ’a- ■ ■ f n’t get a
a nui.-rji, the • -
T To illustrate: A faculty member re
cently Jo.-t by the University was among
the nation’,- six top men in the field
“We can’t replace- him,” said Lean Sit
terson. “The be-t that can b< hoped for
is that a promising yoynger man will
measure up in perhaps JO years.”
Roth deans, however, emphasized
this; {/lint: “We still have a disting
uished faculty, but there is danger in
these losses. Many top men have stayed,
despite inducement? to leave, because
of deep root- at Chapel Hill, their liking
for community life here, freedom to
work finder pleasant conditions, and the
like. Rut they can’t turn down these
offers forever.”
The present situation began in the
year 1951-52 when post-war enrollment
and other pressures eased to low jsuints.
It worsened rapidly during the last year
or so. .
Seriousness of the problem in the
Greater University’s three units is
clearly indicated in numerous cases cited
by Deans .Spruill and Sitterson at the
unit here and in reports on file from
N. C. State College 51 Raleigh, Woman’s
College in Greensboro, and the Division
of Health Affairs here which embraces
the schools of medicine, dentistry, nurs
ing, pharmacy, and public health.
The following case is especially
ironic: A Duke University teacher with
a master’s degree earns more than the
Ph.D. at Chapel Hill under whom he is
working on his doctorate, thanks to a
recent Ford Foundation salary grant.
Ford grants don’t go to state-supported
institutions.
Experience of the history depart
ment here in trying to get an assistant
professor indicates the critical nature
of the personnel problem in the liberal
arts. Authorization to fill the post was
given in August, 1955. During the en
suing months the position was offered
standards at salaries ranging from H -
500 tr $5,400. maximum under the scale.
All f:ve rejected it. In two cases the
pros poets already were being paid $6,000
as assistant professors.
err. May 12. the history department
cha.rman was forced to write: “We are
back where we started with this poei-
Ti t. ' He noted that he could have filled
the post with “ar. inferior person” but
he refused to do that.
Other “chapter and verse” on the
inadequacy of the Consolidated Univer
sity s salary scales:
A new Ph.D. offered assistant pro
fess r-r.ip from two leading universi
ties at $7,000 in each case—a salary
higher than that paid to 25 full profes
sors a: Chapel Hill. (Greater University
saiarv range for assistant professors is
$4.595-$5.400.)
FT. professor g'»es from. $7,254 here
tr SII,OOO salary at another university.
(Salary range here for fui. professors
starts at $6.600 and goes to top of sll,-
I*9 f r Kenar. professors effective July
1.)
Fuh professor making $6,700 has
tw offers of SII,OOO plus ..ghter teach
mg load Another earning $7,500 here
has offer of $15,000 and nominal teach
ing duties. .Still another at $8,544 has
offer of $15,000.
A Kenan professor has offer of *
three-year appointment at $20,000 a
year plus substantial “extras.” (One
Cons- .elated University official observ
« ed that in addition to higher salary of
fers, the “extras” often accompanying
them, are assuming more importance.)
Tne list could be extended.
More money obviously is the solu
tion to the problem, but how much
more ?
Deans Spruill and Sitterson estimate
that a 15 per cent increase in the cur
rent payroll here (excluding Division of
Health Affairs.) would enable them “to
hold the line pretty well.” 77:at would
mean jumping the total for salaries from
the current $5,289,695 to $5,783,147, an
increase of $495,454.
They emphasize, however, that if
they are to hold the line with a 15 per
nereaw it houid lx -< t up so
that 5 ;m r cent wo.) go for across-the
board salary raise- while 10 per cent
reserved for use on a discretionary
has:-.
(Salar;. increase-- for the faculties
me* June 50, 1948, are: 20 per cent,
•I f< r ': v • Oct 1 )9Js; sls pi-/ month,
< ! ferti. > July J, 1951, aiid 30 j>'-r cent,
effective Juiy 3, 3 952.)
Applying the 35 per cent yard stick
to th<- otfur ir -titutions, which have
th<- -arm alary -ca!< as the university
. m re, the r> -uit.r.g figure- are:
N. 1 State College, boost faculty
payroll from >2 753.022 to $5,167,835,
an increase of $315,195.
Womar ( j ego, . ,mp from current
>1 277,805 to $1,369,376, an increase ol
$191,671.
This mean ’?< total faculty payroll
for all thr« uni*.- would rise lrorn a
current $7,522,120 to $8,320,458, an in
crease of $1,098,318 per year.
At State College Dr. John W. Shirley,
dean of faculty at the technical institu
tion, laid down what may well prove
to be a long range guiding principle'
adaptable to - various institutions. H<
tohi The Re cor'l:
“No i-'.luti'in to ’lie- college faculty
problem is possible >, long as the apread
between professional salaries in indus
try and c'Jleges is so wide. Faculty
status must be- made; to compare with
the: status (if the- industrial scientists,
both in salary and in other benefits
which are attractive to the young man
seeking a suitable career.
“Jt b difficult to over-emph&size
the chaos that may overtake our higher
education system w ithin the next decade
unless farsighted leadership is exerted
now to make teaching at all levels, and
particularly college teaching, attractive
to the best young minds of our state
and nation.”
Gordon Gray’s Slogan
(The Charlotte Newa.l
In a tow'n where- buck passing has
reached the status of high art, North
Carolina’s Gordon Gray, assistant sec
retary of defense, is setting something
of an example in reverse. At least he
has startled several Washington news
men who happened by his Pentagon
office. They report, with appropriate
awe, that he has posted the following
slogan on his wall:
“If you could kick the person re
sponsible for most of your troubles, you
wouldn’t be able to Hit down for six
months.”
We would not only suggest that
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THE CHAPEL HILL WEEKLY
IgpvJ: The Weekly Congratulates. . .
Although it’s a little la:e. the Weekly would like
to congiatulate Bob Cox or having been elected Presi
dent of the North Carolina Junior Chamber of Com
merce. This is a real honor to Mr. Cox and to Chapel
Hill.
The background of Bob ' x is well known to most
of our readers. He played football at the University
during the Justice-Weiner era. He was a member of
the football coaching staff for three years, and then
formed a partnership with Monk Jennings to or
ganize Town Campus, a men’s clothing store here
in Chapel Hill.
Bob and Monk have successful in business.
Bob has (and Monk too) beer, very successful also in
being a good citizen of Cha;*. Hill. He served as local
president of the Javcees anc was named Chapel Hill’s
Young Man of the Year in 1955. He has headed many
civic drives and otaer projects too numerous to men
tion here.
He is married to a forrr.-r University coed, Cathey
Carlin. They have four chilcren, all boys, and live on
Greenwood Drive.
Bob has our best interest and support in his new
undertaking.
. . . and The Weekly Asks
The Weekly asks . . .
Jack LeGrand laughed a*, this one:
A lawyer got a message one day that one of his
clients, an old man with a bao heart, had just inherited
five million dollars.
“11l have to break it V him gently,” the lawyer
told hi* secretary. “If I don’t, he’ll drop dead from
the shock, sure a- anything
He called up his client and made an appointment
for the following day.
As the old man was wheeled into the law office in
a wheelchair, the lawyer spoke of other things, and
then said:
“What would you say, Kir, if I told you that you’d
just inherited five million debars?”
“Kay?” quavered the old man. “Why I’d say half
of it goes to’ you.”
The lawyer dropped deac.
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% Newspaper# don’t usually run photo
graphs of wrecked automobiles on their
editorial pages. This is the fir t one
« v( r to appear in such a manner in the
Weekly .
The picture shows one of the cars in
volved in a wreck on the Pittsboro high
way during the University’s Commence
ment weekend. One person was killed.
Two others received multiple bruises
and fractures and spent considerable
Cabinet and nub-Cabinet officer with a
martyr complex but that some equally
refreshing, if revolutionary, slogans be
added for the guidance of bureaucrats.
Kuch as:
“Collecting more taxes than is ab
solutely necessary’ is legalized robbery.”
—Calvin Coolidge.
“The love of economy is the root of
all virtue.”—Bernard Shaw.
“Injustice is relatively easy to bear;
what stings is justice.”—H. L. Mencken.
“Yep. The United States never lost
a war or won a conference.” Will
Rogers.
“Politics is the science of how who
—gvt» —whratj-, —when arid why.”—Kidney
Hillman.
“What this country needs is a good
five-cent cigar.”—Thomas Riley Mar
shall.
Rut Why Can’t He Spell?
(New Orleans Item)
Do we get all the education we
pay for with tuition and taxes? Does
the nation get a reasonable number of
true scholars from its school system?
The pros and cons to the argument are
many. What concerns us at the moment
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Chapel Hill Chaff
(Continued from page 1)
to many of my readers, prob
ably to most of them, but
some of the newcomers in the
village may be interested in
it.
Before the Revolutionary
War there was a Church of
England chapel called New
Hope Chapel at a crossroads
near the top of the hill leading
up from Morgan creek. The
building fell into ruins and dis
appeared long ago. The site of
it is not known exactly but it
was southwest of and close to
where the Carolina Inn stands
today.
The hill was called New Hope
Chapel Hill. The words, New
Hope, were dropped and so
the name became Chape! Hill.
There are three Chapel Hills
listed in the U. S. Postal Guide:
ours, one in Tennessee, and one
in Texas. There used to be
one in Kansas and one in New
Jersey near Sandy Hook, but
nothing is left of those two
now.
Several years ago Mr. and
Mrs. F. H. Edmister came upon
a little place called Chapel Hill
in England near the Welsh bor
der. Mr. Edmister sent me a
photograph of a sign bearing
the name. When I told Miss
Georgia Faison, the University
librarian, about this and asked
her to give me what informa
tion she could about Chapel
Hill, England, she consulted her
books and telephoned me that
there were seven Chapel Hills
in England.
Whoever wants more detail
ed information about the origin
of our Chapel Hill will do well
to read Archibald Henderson's
“The Campus of the F'irst State
University.”
Any politician will tell you—
the trick is to hit the taxpayer
without hitting the voter.
Jewell (Kane.) Republican.
We are all entitled to the
pursuit of happiness—but not
at 90 miles an hour —Arnold
Glasow.
time, in Memorial Hospital. They were
the only occupants: of the two automo
biles.
News about a person dying in an auto
mobile wreck is really not news. It hap
pens every day and every hour on our
highway-. Usually, though, when you
read an account of the wreck you find
that .somebody was speeding or some
body wa- drinking or running past a
stop sign. Rut sometimes two cars are
involved in a wreck when both drivers
were trying to obey the law. Such was
the <u < in the wreck pictured here.
The investigating officer reported
that neither car was going at an exces
-ivi- -pi-ed. Driving conditions. w<r<-
good. No rain or fog. Rut a person was
kill'd and two w«-re -criously injured.
According to the driver of a car behind
the dead n*V'. ■ car, two wheel- of the
automobile slipped off the edge of the
concrete as it. rounded a curve. As the
driver jerked his vehicle back onto the
concrete it whipped across into the on
coming auto. The cars hit head-on- at
about, fifty miles an hour.
The obvious lesson here is: If you
get off the edge <,f the concrete don’t
jerk the steering wheel to get back on.
To do so may send your car hurtling
across the highway like-the one shown
above. According to the dictates of driv
ing experts, and comrnonsen.se, the safe
way is; to continue on the shoulder till
speed is reduced and a safe gradual re
turn to the highway is guaranteed.
the editorial desk the other day in the
form of a l>-tter to the Editor.
It was written by a student in a New
Orleans senior high school. The age the
writer gave indicates he is a junior or
senior. The thought behind the letter
was mature and coh* sive. Indeed, for a
high school student merely to have and
act on the idea of writing a letter to a
newspaper ori a civic issue shows intel
ligence.
The penmanship was good, too. It
was the s[selling that appalled us. There
were 20 misspellings in the 25 lines of
the letter’s one page. The writer started
off by garbling the name of his school.
Then, in addition to more forgiveable
errors he wrote “roams” for “seems,”
“and” for “an,” “Are” for “or,” and
“themselfs” for “themselves.” One word
was spelled three different ways in the
course of the letter—all wrong.
Admittedly, this is an isolated case.
The atrocious speller may be a demon at
math and a whiz at physics—perhaps a
future nuclear scientist, for all we know.
But if he never learns to rfpell any bet
ter than this, he’ll have to derive most
of his knowledge first hand. He won’t
be able to read the books thrust at him
in college and thereafter. Something
| f Like Chapel BUI m
Library Notes gives an appropriate answer to one
of its readers who did not “agree with us on the
punctuation we use in Library Notes. There may be
others of the same opinion,” the publication says, “so
we offer this handy little package
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and urge you to insert these marks wherever you
choose in your own copy.”
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Carrington Smith didn't put his car in park or
put the brakes on one day recently, and it rolled over
a three-foot wall at the Chapel Hill Country Club. He
called Pat Pope to come tow it in. Pat came, bringing
with him an anchor chain which he tried to sell Car
rington to use when he parks from now on.
* * * *
They’re telling the story about the'doctor at N. C.
Memorial Hospital advising his patient: “You’ve been
wonderful. I’m going to be on the level with you. 1
have never told this to a patient before. But you’ve
been so cooperative, I just got to tell you. You are
going to die. Before you do, is there anybody you’d
like to see?”
“Yes,” replied the patient. “I want to see another
doctor.”
* * * *
I like the gag about the Texan showing his friend
around his fancy chicken ranch. “Got 700 hens in
there, the best in Texas,” he said.
“Do they lay a lot of eggs?” asked the friend.
“With my money, they don't have to,” the Texan
replied.
* * * *
Signs in several places about town read:
“This is a non-profit institution. We didn’t intend
it that way. It just seemed to work nut that way.”
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