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I Wednesday June 9 1965 THE CHAPEL TULL WEEKLY Page Governor Moore Commencement Address 6I Felt It My Duty Not To On The Gag Law of the people of North Carolina In the midst of a controversy such this we must recognize that all of are mump and have a tendency to blame almost everyone except ourselves In ancient times men often sought to blame the Gods or Fate or Destiny or whatever power wu supposed to govern the universe In this connection all of us might consider these words of Shakespeare: "The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars but in ourselves" I am confident that if all tfose concerned in the future development and greatness of this University and our other institutions of higher learning will approach the issues that have divided our people with humility and with tolerance we will find a way out of this bitter controversy which will be consistent with the welfare of North Carolina and this eat institution that we all In view of misunderstandings that had arisen and in view of the emotions and passions that had been deeply stirred on all sides I felt that it mould be wise to ask the General Assembly to create a commission to study this entire matter and report back to me I stated "the purpose of this commission is to find if possible a common ground for all those who are devoted to freedom and who desire to do what is best for North Carolina and her institutions of higher learning" One of the frequently expressed objections to this law is that it was passed without an opportunity for a public hearing With the Commission this objection will be cured all can be heard before a fair and impartial group in a calm and judicial manner Since I proposed the creation of a commission to consider the Speaker Ban Law I feel it would be presumptuous for me to tell these commission members in advance what give my own recommendations at that time I Intend to appoint to this commission North Carolinians of the very highest integrity who will command the respect and confidence at all our people I have always believed that reasonable men can reach a reasonable solution to any problem I have called upon all North Carolinians of good will to cooperate with this commission in every way May I express my gratitude to the members of the University faculty fra their offer of cooperation made through your Chancellor and your President' I have confidence in them and in you 1 believe we all have the same objectives to do what is best for North Carolina It is important that we each realize the part which we are playing in the decision to be reached We have a responsibility and allegiance to the University and to the people we serve Above all the University must not lose the confidence and the loyal support they should do It would be as though a Judge told a Jury what verdict to render before all the evidence wu in The very purpose of the commission is to hear evidence from all sides define the issues and then render an independent and Impartial decision Unleu this is done the findings of this commission will carry no weight with the members of the General Assembly with the people of the State or the University community So at a recent news conference I felt it my duty not to comment further on the Speaker Ban Law until the Commission hu made its report Let me emphasize that in my best judgment the study commission offers the surest and most direct solution to this problem At this same news conference I further said that I would if necessary call the Legislature into an extra session to consider the recommendations of this commission and based on its findings to Remark by Governor Daa Moan at the Cammeaeeneit pragma of the Uaivmity at Chapel Hill ea Monday June 7 INS I am grateful to be a part of this ceremony It fa a great day for all who have assembled here especially the members of the graduating class It is a day to look back on the years of hard work that have earned you the right to be here at this moment You will remember them as good years But we live in an age that allows all too little time for looking back For that reason this day is indeed a commencement a beginning a point of departure for a generation of young men and women entering the most exciting and challenging age in the history of man It is an honor to share this moment with you Well over seven decades have passed since my father came to this campus as a student Over four decades have passed since my two brothers came Thirty seven years have passed since my own commencement My two children are comparatively recent graduates We are proud to be a Carolina family We are proud of this University and its heritage In 1793 a year before the cornerstone for Old East was laid a writer of that day described the site on which this University would be established He wrote "The seat of the University is on the summit of a very Ugh ridge The country spreads out below like the ocean giving an immense hemisphere in which the eye seems lost In the extent of space" 1 think this writer even then three years before the University would open its doors fdt the spirit of this Elace and sensed the role this diversity would play in the building of a great state A high summit of knowledge dedication and leadership reaching out in all directions to lift and inspire a proud and independent people Clearly this was the responsibility assigned to this University by its founders It is responsibility that has been reaffirmed many times down representatives in these institutions White some oppose the Speaker Ban Law as an abridgement of academic freedom many North Carolinians support the law as a symbol of resistance to Communism and therefore as a protection of this freedom Because this controversy has grown in volume and intensity I have decided President Friday and Chancellor Sharp that it is proper for me to discuss certain aspects of this controversy briefly in the presence of the faculty the trustees the students and all other friends of the University who may be present First may I point out that we must deal with the issues here as they are today not what they were in the General Assembly of 1963 or in the two years that followed On June 1 1 issued a statement reviewing the development of this controversy and stating that it was my belief that it would be impossible to secure any modification much less repeal of this law during the present session of the eral Assembly This statement was made after careful and deliberate study of the situation as it exists The Lieutenant Governor the Speaker and other leaders of the Legislature agreed with my conclusion It was our collective opinion that any effort to amend or repeal this law at this session would be futile Fishing And Politics And Overheards through the years And most importantly it is a responsibility this University has met The people of North Carolina owe a great deal to this University The University also owes a great deal to the people of North Carolina Our people have supported the University through good times and bad tunes This campus wu established by the people and it hu grown not independently or remotely bid in close concert with the life of our State We have moved forward together the people the University the State There hu been one goal the frill development of our vast potential This University must continue it hu done so nobly in the past to lead and inspire But always it must know understand and reflect their sentiments well their hopes and ambitions A great oak does not separate itself from its roots in order to grow taller Rather it sinks thou roots deeper in the soil that provides its strength So (foes a great University cling tightly to the heritage that gave it birth and the people that give it strength May I say to the graduates here today that your responsibility to this Umversity does not end with this ceremony You will carry that responsibility with you always You will never repay the debt you have incurred here but you will always have an obligation and many opportunities to try Make that effort by exercising the leadership ability you have gained here Make that effort in business and industry in your homes and churches in your civic activities in local state and national government In other words you can pay back part of the debt by using frilly your energy your intellect and your talents to build a better community a better state and a better nation My friends we are now involved in a controversy that concerns this great institution as well as our other institutions of higher learning I refer of course to the so-called Speaker Ban Law The coin of settlement of this dispute has two sides We desire on the one hand to retain the scholarly prestige that goes with the accreditation of our institutions of higher teaming On the other hand we seek to preserve and maintain the confidence of the people of North Carolina and their duly elected Around The Old Well Bud Perry dropped by on beautiful last Thursday morning and 1 inquired why he wasn't sitting on a creek bank fishing Til tell he replied "Toni Hood hasn't got here That was the truth Tom was delayed en route from Dunn and was keeping Bud's pole dry lie recalled having read that I hud been over to the State House in Raleigh to try out my lungs and vocal chords on the Assemblymen "You enjoyed it I he observed and then added words that prove Bud has an astute knowledge of politicians: 'They enjoyed you too Well I'll bet they said they did anyway" The accusations back and forth between the KKK leader in North Carolina and a Klan defendant in the New Bern bombing case reminds -me of the story about the father of an arrested hoodlum asking a political leader for influence Jo keep his son out of jail The Overheard in the private clinic at Memorial Hospital: been waiting here so long caught three other diseases" The reason June is the month for brides is that it takes Dad that long to recover from April 15 Nowadays every beach is advertising itself as the sandbox and bathtub of North Carolina Governor Moore and the Legislature ought to know that appointing a commission to study the speaker ban law is like sex You got to do something more than talk about it Every Sunday evening Ed Sullivan parades a group of young men on TV and it's amazing what they can do with a guitar bad grammar and a sinus condition Four and a half years ago Mrs A A Williams was given a parakeet by her children It was promptly named Pete because they had asked In Chapel Where To Save By CHARLES CLAY Probably every literate person in North Carolina has heard about the enrollment crisis faced by colleges and universities as more and more qualified youngsters have to be turned away because of a shortage of buildings Less well known Is another developing crisis in American higher education a scarcity of qualified college and university teachers Dr David Brown professor of economics in the University here who recently won a $1000 Tanner Award for excellent undergraduate teaching treats the professor shortage in a book Just published by the UNC Press Entitled 'The Market for College Teachers" the book is a scientific study of career patterns among college teachers in the Southeast A basic proposition of the book is stated in this way: "The demand for college professors is derived from desires for college educations: more college students require proportionally more professors A reduction in the ratio of faculty to students is generally believed to result in a deterioration in the quality of education Just as a reduction in the ratio of clerks to customers almost certainly leads to poorer sendee in a department store" Impact of World War II College teachers have been scarce Dr Brown's study shows since the early when large numbers of World War II veterans who pursued graduate work alter the war flooded the market "Numerically the opportunities in college teaching have been expanding more rapidly than the pools of persons qualified to take advantage of them" Dr Brown writes "Schools and universities have been experiencing difficulty in filling their positions with even minimally qualified personnel Newly qualified college teachers have found many Jobs to choose among the end of World War II the opportunities for persons trained as college professors have been soaring Between 1948 and 1963 the number of degree credit students with Christian Science Meeting In Boston The Christian Science Board of Directors urged its church members to find the of which exist with other denominations "rather than think of ourselves as entirely different or exclusive" From the church's earliest beginnings said the Directors it has been deeply involved in "the search for the real source of unity" The message was presented Monday before several thousand members at the annual meeting of The Mother Church The First Church of Christ Scientist in Boston Mass Chapel Hillhins who attended the meeting included Mr and Mrs Robert Miller Mrs Endie Cannon Mrs Lillian MacNearncy and James Kay Kyser Six Awarded Degrees Al Stale Six Chapel Hill students at State were candidates for degrees at the school's 76Ui commencement exercises last Saturday William Jefferson received a professional degree in engineering Carey Tilson Jr was awarded a degree in architecture Ralph Warren electrical engineering Zan Smith mechanical engineering Remsen Voorhis II liberal arts and Jerry Kilpatrick mechanical engineering Dr John Caldwell Chancellor of State conferred 1570 PhD and bachelor's degrees Chancellor Caldwell also gave the Commencement address Student Awarded Two Scholarships Melanie A Ripperton of Chapel Hill a sophomore at the University here hu been awarded two scholarships to attend the University of California at Davis next year She hu been awarded the La Verne Noyes and Little May Richards scholarships and will major in pre-veterinary medicine at Davis She is a graduate of Chapel Hill High School and the daughter of Mr and Mrs A Ripperton of Piney Mountain Road in Chapel Hill for a mate of the species And for the past 4 1-3 years Pete has been acting like any mate should That Is until a week ago when Mrs Williams heard John call out: quick Ole Pete has laid an egg!" Mrs Williams looked "Sure enough there wu a darling little egg in the corner of the cage" she said "I called the veterinarian here but he deal in birds So I called someone in Durham and he said to build a nest of pine straw pick the egg up with a silver spoon not touching it and put in in the nest I did But Pete wouldn't get on the nest and the egg got back in the corner of the cage The next day we found another egg and we put both of them in the nest Now the parakeet is sitting on them cute everything When one of the eggs accidentally gets out of the nest built Pege seems to get back somehow Now sitting en two eggs And had to change his or her name We now call Pete: Hill? Promoting Thrift and Home Ownership Since 1919 jk MAIL IN Billy Arthur politician said "Don't worry with my influence be okay" A week later the father rushed into the politician's office waving a newspaper and yelling "You and your influence! You promised to help me Look at that picture of my boy with a gallery number right on the front And the politician said "Yeah but did you notice the nice low number I got him?" Overheard at the 1940 Class Reunion: "We got married right after they developed the H-bomb At the time I figured what the hell we'll all be wiped out in a few months anyway" Parking USE seeking college educations has more than doubled from Just over two million to over four million Enrollments in graduate level curricula where the demands for qualified faculty are the greatest have more than tripled" Criteria One chapter of Professor book deals with why college professors choose one Job and reject another From this aspect of the study he writes a picture of the Job selecting professor: a casual but rational decisionmaker with fairly good idea of what features make Jobs more or leu desirable He knows the Job characteristics that are important to him and chooses among competitive Job offers accordingly "Some of these characteristics are so important that he never considers Jobs that do not have them the so called minimum factors Academic freedom and independence are demanded in all Jobs Job offers that would require a reduction in salary are unacceptable "If he is inclined toward institutions with a research emphasis and relatively good-prestige rating Job offers from small liberal arts colleges are categorically unacceptable and vice vena He is likely to have specified in his own mind an area of the country or type of community in which he will not accept Jobs For the sake of practicality he rejects without further investigation all Jobs that do not meet these minimum criteria" Motorbike Fad Ambrose Dudley an Associated Press writer out of Raleigh wu on campus a day or so ago gathering material for a stray on the motorcycle fad on campus One of the people Dudley wanted to talk to wu Dean of Men William Long in whose bailiwick falls the tangled problem of trying to regulate traffic and parting oo the campus Dean Long said be more than happy to talk with the AP correspondent But the Dean suggested that the best people to talk to' would be those who run the infirmary where Jthe victims ate DeBwriu should be sod by 8:10 on Smwamgjs Ujmm MARGARET SLOANE Margaret Sloane Welledey Graduate Min Margaret Merrill Sloane WHERE MORE PEOPLE OF THE CHAPEL HILL CARRBORO AREA SAVE AND FINANCE THEIR HOMES THAN ANY OTHER FINANCIAL INSTITUTION Orange is the only locally directed (and fastest growing) financial institution The Chapel Hill Weekly Published every Sunday and Wednesday by the Chapel HOI Publishing Company Ine 501 West Franklin Street Chapel Hill CL PO Box 271 Telephone 967-7045 Circulation Manager: David Impastato Home Telephone: 942-8380 of Morgan Creek Road in Chapel Hill wu graduated from Wellesley College on Monday receiving the Bachelor of Arts degree with Special Honors In English Min Margaret Clapp President of the College conferred degrees on 390 students Miss Sloane wu one of the winners of the Judith Brown Cook Prise in English Earlier in the academic year she had been elected to Phi Beta Kappa and chosen an Alternate Trustee Scholar for advanced work in educational television In both her Junior and senior years she wu named a Durant Scholar an honor awarded in recognition of est academic achievement She also received Freshman Honors for high attainment during her first year of college She has been a Campus Guide official escort fra prospective students and their families who visit Wellesley and wu sophomore clau representative in her dormitory This she directed the Chapel and took part in it Miu Sloane is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Joseph ty recogiitfon of high- ic achievement She ihaalvaMoi I HH torn year $U6 i i i I 101 EAST ROSEMARY Phone 942-3138 COME IN -Free Chapel Hillian Gets Scholarship 1 Sanford Dawsey of Chapel Hill a senior at Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter was presented the Warren Williams Jr Memorial Scholarship on Sunday fra the freshman year at Harvard The scholarship wu presented at 184th Commencement New Hampshire Governor John King wu the speaker Ten Exeter graduates will attend the University here next 1 jt Notice to Chapel HDI borne i enmptetod by 1:30 ea Wednesday -V DRIVE UP WINDOW please call The Weekly (9674MB) between 8:39 and 7J0 pm en Wednesday and between 1:99 and 9:99 aA a Sundays and -Ay-? jfejr.